Chapter 1,141 The Shipyard Is Completed!

September 7th will be a day worth celebrating for the Future People Group and even the entire Earth Defense Alliance.

After more than a month of hard work, the Future Heavy Industries Shipyard was finally completed, just like the satellite city of Star Ring City, floating quietly in the synchronous orbit. Looking from a distance, the entire space station looks like two capital letters "U".

The entire space station will accommodate 10,000 workers, 20,000 construction robots, and thousands of small shuttles. With the support of giant robotic arms on both sides of the shipyard, it will specialize in the production of ships of more than 500,000 tons.

With the completion of this shipyard, construction of the Earth Fleet's first million-ton warship can finally begin.

The groundbreaking ceremony for the first battleship of the Earth Fleet will be held at the same time as the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the shipyard.

At this moment, in the middle of the shipyard, invited guests from all the Earth Defense Alliance member states were crowded, forming a semi-arc human wall. In the center of the crowd, an old man wearing strange clothes stepped forward and stood in front of a steel plate.

"...May God bless us with glory and grant us victory..."

The bishop holding the cross in his hand spoke with a compassionate tone, recited unknown scriptures in a hymn-like tone, and stretched out his old fingers to make the sign of the cross on the cold steel.

This "blessed" steel plate will be installed on the warship that is about to start construction.

When the blessing was over, applause broke out from all around.

The steel plate was then transported away by a trailer, and a second old man in a robe came forward, holding a three-bar cross, and repeated the previous ceremony...

Religious figures are invited to attend the ribbon-cutting at the shipyard to bless the first battleship of the Earth Fleet, mainly to satisfy the requirements of certain countries. It was Germany who first raised the issue, claiming that it was a public petition requesting a Catholic priest to bless the warship.

Russia was a little unhappy when he heard this. Why do you Catholics come to bless the Earth Fleet? Our Orthodox Church hasn't even spoken yet! The Communist Party has said that without the Orthodox Church, there would be no Russia. How will history be written then? With the blessing of the God in the west, the Earth fleet defeated the powerful extraterrestrial civilization?

You won’t be able to boast about this for a hundred years!

Hua Guo said it doesn't matter, it comes with convenience and puts an end to extravagance and waste...

Seeing that there was a conflict between the two major member states, Jiang Chen quickly stood up to mediate, saying that there were so many steel plates in a warship.

You don’t need to grab that piece! Since everyone wants to chant sutras for this battleship, why don’t we just recite sutras together and be done with it!

Fortunately, everyone has become secular and is relatively easy to talk to. In the end, we just recited sutras together.

So the Earth Defense Alliance Committee voted to pass a rule that as long as the member states apply, they can send magic sticks to chant on the first battleship that has not yet started construction. As for how history will be written at that time, everyone can write it however they want according to their own national conditions...

It is precisely because of this that a large group of people joined the ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Except for the Green Cult who often explodes on the spot.

As for why the Green Teachers were not invited, it was not because no one invited them, but mainly because of their own reasons. There are almost no devout green believers who are willing to board the space elevator, even if they are killed!

Standing on the rotating Star Ring City will make them confused about the direction of worship. Maybe just when you are about to kneel down, the sun will go under your butt...

Jiang Chen didn't care about these magicians who chanted scriptures to bless them. As long as he didn't engrave "Visit Here" on his shipyard, he could do whatever he wanted. While the new country implements the system of freedom of belief, it also advocates atheism, and he himself is a complete atheist, with neither piety nor awe.

Jiang Chen clapped his hands perfunctorily and thought to himself.

God can’t save earth’s civilization, but I can. You might as well worship me more than you worship God...

The ribbon-cutting ceremony soon came to an end.

As the executive officer of the Earth Defense Alliance, Jiang Chen stood in front of everyone and read out the executive's speech and the program of the Earth Fleet, which was a perfect conclusion to the entire groundbreaking ceremony.

Amid thunderous applause, Jiang Chen nodded to the camera with a smile, walked off the makeshift podium, and breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

It’s really done!

…

"The crew would like to remind you that Seagull will enter a full moon orbit in five minutes. Friends who are walking around in the cabin should return to their seats as soon as possible..."

Opening his eyes, turning his face sideways, Jiang Chen met his eyes with a pair of bright eyes.

"you're awake?"

Looking at Jiang Chen who woke up from a deep sleep, a smile that melted like ice and snow bloomed on his cold and pretty face. Xia Shiyu woke up half an hour ago. Since she had nothing to do, she stared blankly at Jiang Chen who was sleeping next to her. She didn't expect that half an hour would pass by in an instant.

After rubbing his sleepy eyes, Jiang Chen yawned, sat up, stretched, and looked out the window.

"Arrived already?"

"The crew said there are still ten minutes..." Looking at the nearby moon outside the window, Xia Shiyu felt girlish for a moment and couldn't help but sigh, "This is the first time I have been so close to the moon."

"You will be closer in a while, and you will stand on top." Jiang Chen smiled and joked.

Because it was a stateroom, there were only two of them sitting in this compartment. Not only was it decorated to light cigarettes, but it also had the scenery outside the window to admire. However, the entire passenger cabin was loaded with two thousand passengers, especially the ordinary cabin, which was still a bit crowded.

Yesterday, after attending the party after the ribbon-cutting ceremony, he and Xia Shiyu boarded the flight to the moon without stopping.

Star Ring Trading now has a total of four Seagull-class transport ships, one of which is returning from Mars, and another one is serving in the aerospace defense force. There are only two flights a day between Star Ring City and Guanghan City. If you miss it, you have to wait another twelve hours.

It took a total of ten hours, and the Seagull underwent two orbit changes and finally entered a circular orbit around the moon.

Standing here and looking towards the moon, the entire Guanghan City is like a bright silver medal embedded in the center of a large crater. Although this is not the first time Jiang Chen has overlooked the entire Guanghan City, this is the first time he has overlooked this incredible city directly through his own eyes.

If you sit in the ordinary cabin, you will definitely hear the exclamations from the passengers.

Of course, the premise is that he himself will not be regarded as a giant panda...

Looking at the scenery outside the window, Xia Shiyu's eyes were also filled with wonder.

Her eyes gradually moved from the colony to space, and she suddenly spoke.

"Why don't we build a space elevator on the moon?"

"Because the moon does not have a synchronous orbit," Jiang Chen curled his lips as he looked at the colony getting closer and closer, "but, we can study building an elevator to a circular orbit around the moon. At an altitude of 200 kilometers, only the earth One hundred and eighty times the size of the synchronized orbit, the amount of work will not be very large."

The moon's gravity is only one-sixth that of the earth, and the "lunar elevator"'s cable strength requirements are far less than those of the "space elevator" that extends from the earth's surface to synchronous orbit. Not to mention the high-strength graphene material currently mastered by the Future Man Group, even the high-strength, high-heat-resistant composite fiber called "Chailong" developed by Japan can be used as a material for the lunar elevator.

Japanese companies have encouraged Star Ring trade more than once, wanting to contract the lunar elevator project for the lunar colony, but Jiang Chen ignored them at all.

Even if this elevator is to be built, it will be built by the people of the future. What does it have to do with you?

Xia Shiyu's words gave him a wake-up call. Jiang Chen silently thought to himself that when he arrived in Guanghan City, he must carefully examine the port's cargo throughput and floating population. If necessary, just ask Kerwin to set up a project for a lunar elevator after returning.

The moon itself has very little gravity and no atmosphere, so even without a synchronous orbit, it is not too troublesome for a spacecraft to travel to and from the lunar surface from outer space. An aircraft of less than 100,000 tons can land directly on the lunar surface, while a transport ship of more than 100,000 tons can directly drop the cargo warehouse.

That's right, just throw it down.

After the rectangular cargo warehouse separated from the Seagull, two clusters of thin blue flames spurted out from the bottom and landed in the direction of Guanghan City. There were four cargo warehouses thrown down together, of which there was only one passenger cabin and the other three were cargo warehouses.

The passenger cabin landed steadily on the flat airport. A closed escalator more than ten meters long and two people wide stretched out from the cabin door and connected to the rectangular transfer station next to the airport. As the signal lights came on, passengers one after another got on the escalator and moved towards the transfer station.

There is an underground passage under the transfer station, and you can take the light rail directly to Guanghan City, which is two kilometers away.

Many people came to the moon for the first time. When passing the escalator, they looked around excitedly from time to time, took out their mobile phones and cameras to take pictures, and shouted at the crater. The tour guides of each tour group calmly held up flags to remind everyone to wear their magnetic belts and follow the group so as not to get separated.

The floors in Guanghan City are paved with alloy steel. When getting off the spaceship, everyone can receive a magnetic belt. For rookies who are not yet proficient in the essence of moon walking, the best way is to stay on the ground. The wisest choice.

After all the passengers had finished leaving, Jiang Chen took Xia Shiyu's hand and led her towards the Yuezhong transfer station.

As the owner of the entire city, he certainly would not squeeze into the light rail with ordinary travelers. As early as when he took the Seagull, a lunar rover had already parked at the transfer station, waiting for his arrival. .

On this lunar rover, which was about the same size as an armored vehicle, Jiang Chen met Tang Weijie, the former lunar colony administrator and current mayor of Guanghan City, as well as several other high-level administrative personnel in Guanghan City.

"Welcome Director Jiang and Mr. Xia to the Lunar Colony..."

Tang Weijie bowed politely to Jiang Chen and Xia Shiyu, and said respectfully. (To be continued.)