Chapter 317: Geography of the Solar System State (Extra for everyone's recommendation tickets)_1

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Jiang Yu chatted with Logic for over two hours, during which they only had a little drink and didn't indulge.

After all, Logic's mission was too important to allow even the slightest chance of error.

After leaving the Intimidation Center, Jiang Yu rested for a few days before embarking on his journey to the next stop: Guanghan City.

Guanghan City is now recognized as a "museum-grade" colony, where one can find everything from the earliest extraterrestrial human colony systems to the most advanced ones.

Regions built before the Great Rift Valley are referred to as the "old town," especially the original Moon City structures that had a lifespan of only two hundred years due to the limited technology at the time.

Today, these areas have reached their service life, and although they can still be used for thirty more years after inspection, some of the facilities are seriously aged and small faults occur frequently, so Guanghan City is preparing to demolish and rebuild these areas.

The location of the original structures is crucial as it is still a major thoroughfare to this day, and a mishap there could have unimaginable consequences.

Meanwhile, Guanghan City started to expand over a decade ago, initially due to an influx of residents, necessitating the expansion.

Later, it was because Jiang Yu had made the city an important industrial base of the Earth Civilization Circle, that the industrial population increased and further expansion was required.

Desert North Farm mainly produces agricultural and pastoral products, while half of the industrial products exported by the Solar System State to PDC come from Guanghan City.

Another part comes from the industrial cities that were previously purchased near Earth's orbit at a bargain price; these industrial cities are now also managed by Guanghan City.

A large number of immigrants stayed in Guanghan City and became part of the industrial population, and there even emerged a phenomenon of migration from the Jupiter Civilization Circle to Guanghan City.

One must know that ever since Jupiter became the center of the Solar System State, Guanghan City had been marginalized, with previous Governing Councils considering it a "frontier."

For more than a century, migration had been from Guanghan City to Jupiter.

Now Guanghan City is so rich that the cost of rebuilding and new construction is negligible for the city government.

At the same time, Guanghan City and Yinghuo City have undertaken a national key project of the Solar System State: the development of Mercury.

Before the Intimidation Era, in order to defend against the Trisolarans, human development in the Solar System was mainly concentrated on the outer planets of Earth.

Rediaz once proposed the development of Venus and Mercury as a last line of defense, but after he went into hibernation, the proposal was never mentioned again.

Humanity, with its burgeoning confidence bolstered by a massive fleet, once considered the development of Venus and Mercury.

However, all attempts to explore Venus ended in failure, and without significant findings from the research on Venus, the idea of developing the inner planets was once again abandoned.

Currently, Mercury only hosts a small base built by PDC, which is a research base that houses several hundred astronomers and physicists studying the sun, along with other personnel.

Mercury seems to have been forgotten by humanity, and to date, it hasn't been extensively developed.

For the Solar System State, Mercury possesses abundant metal resources, and its distance from the Moon is only one-third to one-sixth of the distance from the Main Asteroid Belt to the Moon.

The resources supporting the vast industrial system of Guanghan City, about one quarter come from the development of the Moon's resources, while three quarters come from the Main Asteroid Belt.

It's not that the Moon's resources are difficult to exploit or scarce in metals, but the Solar System State has limited territory on the Moon.

Essentially, the Moon was divided up among the important PDC countries over a century ago.

At the time, the Solar System State was relatively weak, only able to purchase some land through Beck, but compared to division, the cost of purchasing was too high.

Most of the resources used by Guanghan City used to be imported from PDC.

But the nature of capital never changes, always controlling the prices of raw materials as a means to control the economy of the Solar System State.

Moreover, it has also repeatedly used this control as a form of intimidation, forcing the Solar System State to compromise by restricting the export of raw materials.

Burton, back in the day, developed the Main Asteroid Belt and built Zao Shen City and Ceres City precisely to break free from PDC's control over resources.

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This strategy has continued to this day, and over the years, with the rapid industrial development of Guanghan City, the proportion of its own production and the raw materials imported from PDC countries has finally increased.

In the past, over 90% of the resources were transported from the Main Asteroid Belt.

Now, as the Solar System State is in the midst of major construction, resources are tight everywhere, which led to the idea of developing Mercury.

The strategy to limit imports of raw materials from PDC will continue, and once Mercury has been developed, the resources needed by Guanghan City can come from the mines on Mercury.

Another reason for developing Mercury is that it offers a close-up opportunity to study the Sun.

Up to this day, humanity's exploitation of solar energy has only been at a very rudimentary level. Jiang Yu's Strategic Department believes that stars are the largest energy entities in the universe and that the scope of applications for stars should be broader in the future.

To open up an additional path for the future, Jiang Yu is preparing to establish a "Stellar Research" group comprising over a thousand scholars.

Once Mercury's development reaches a certain stage, a research base will be built for this group.

As for Venus, Jiang Yu had repeatedly emphasized that it is not yet time to develop Venus.

Jiang Yu plans to thoroughly research "Black Square" before it's too late to develop Venus.

Otherwise, who knows what dangers might be unleashed?

After all, Venus is right next to Earth, and taking such a risk is not an option.

There's a saying, "Who would be at ease with a stranger sleeping by their bedside?" but right now, Jiang Yu isn't confident enough to drive the stranger away. If it wants to sleep, let it keep sleeping; ideally, it won't wake up until its secrets are known!

After spending a few days in Guanghan City, Jiang Yu set off again, and his third destination was Ceres City.

Mars was on the other side of the Sun at the time, making a direct trip there inconvenient, so Jiang Yu's itinerary had Ceres City first.

Then he would visit Yinghuo City and Zao Shen City on the other side of the sun, as Jupiter was also on that side, allowing for a direct return to Jupiter.

Ceres City was somewhat unfamiliar to Jiang Yu; he had only come across the name in reports and documents, but his understanding of this industrial city was limited.

Until now, Ceres City and Zao Shen City have still been responsible for over half of the metal resource output of the Solar System State.

Around Jupiter, Saturn, and other areas, there's no shortage of metal resources, but with numerous space cities there, development must be undertaken with extra caution.

For example, when developing asteroids in the Jupiter Civilization Circle, after mining the metal resources, the waste can't just be discarded recklessly; it must be dealt with properly.

Such as sending it into Jupiter's "not so big" rings or throwing it into Jupiter itself.

Although this waste poses little threat to space cities, flying meteorites everywhere can significantly undermine one's sense of security.

This set of mining waste disposal procedures represents the collective will of the people of the Jupiter Civilization Circle and must be adhered to.

Moreover, on various moons of Jupiter, where some colonies exist, numerous regulations are in place for mining companies.

For example, exploration guidelines stipulate that mining should not be conducted at fragile parts of the crust to avoid triggering earthquakes affecting the colonies.

Additionally, dust created during mining operations must be evacuated to avoid polluting the environments of the colonial planets and creating safety hazards for shuttle takeoffs and landings.

Although on many colonial planets with low gravity, once dust is kicked up, it might not settle for hundreds of years.

However, mining dust is not considered much of an environmental issue for a planet.

Yet everyone firmly believes that these issues must be addressed from the outset.

But in the Main Asteroid Belt, things are much more brutal: mine however you like!

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