Although the total number of clones has exceeded 100 million at this moment, because there are always clones resting at any time of the day, the number of consciousness connections maintained by Li Qingsong at the same time is still only maintained at around 80 million.
After the comprehensive agricultural base and the clone breeding factory were completed, Li Qingsong did not hesitate at all and directly manipulated the 80 million clones to participate in the construction of many other factories.
Almost every type of factory will need to be expanded five to six times its current level. Correspondingly, the number of trains, railway lines, passenger cars, spacecraft, etc. will also need to be expanded five to six times to meet the various needs of the population explosion.
As a result, the clone breeding factory became the busiest place in the entire Jupiter system.
This is the result of Li Qingsong deliberately adjusting the clone breeding batches in order to avoid the large-scale emergence of clones in a short period of time, which would have an impact on existing transportation, supply, and energy lines.
The current breeding method is to no longer produce 15 million clones every six months, but to evenly distribute the birth of these 15 million clones every day.
In this way, about 83,000 clones will emerge from the breeding factory every day, and they will always remain stable without any sudden fluctuations.
In this way, the corresponding resources can be allocated more easily.
At the clone breeding factory, Li Qingsong specially opened a material storage warehouse, storing a large amount of clothes, food, shoes, hats, towels and other personal items, and also mobilized a large amount of transportation capacity here.
Just after midnight every day, about 3,500 clones appear and are carried to the lounge by robots and clones.
After a fixed rest period of more than half a day, the newly born clones lined up and moved forward quickly in silence and solemnity. They first came to the clothing collection area to get their clothes, and then went to the cafeteria next to it like an assembly line to eat the first meal of their lives.
Every day, the clothing factory produces tens of thousands of sets of clothing, which are then transported to clothing collection points by roaring trains.
Food bases and central kitchens also produce huge amounts of raw materials and semi-finished foods, so much so that they also need to be transported by train. They are sent one train after another to the canteen of the clone breeding factory and into the stomachs of the clones.
But no matter how much clothes and food are shipped in, the warehouse here will never be full, like a bottomless pit.
No matter how much supplies arrive, they will be consumed by the large number of newly born clones.
After finishing their meal, the clones stood up again in an orderly manner to collect their remaining personal belongings. Finally, they took the internal shuttle bus and gathered at the gate of the clone breeding factory.
Li Qingsong left dozens of such doorways. But even so, there were always a bunch of clones waiting at each doorway.
The bus drove over quickly, and a bunch of clones got on in an orderly manner. The bus left quickly, and then the next bus came and took away another bunch of clones. This happened 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, without interruption.
Because as many clones as are taken away as will be born from the factory, without stopping for a moment.
The clones will be transported to Ganymede Central Station.
Here, according to the different tasks Li Qingsong planned for each clone, they began to go their separate ways.
Some boarded a train bound for another base, and from there entered a factory, a construction site, or a base, laboratory, or something like that;
Some clones boarded the train to the space elevator, from where they ascended into space and took spacecraft to another planet, or to a space base, a base in Jupiter's rings, and so on.
Some clones will also join in the transportation work and become part of the transport clone work.
Under such circumstances, the total number of clones under Li Qingsong finally increased to about 150 million.
Therefore, in addition to ensuring that each clone had sufficient rest time and was not overworked, Li Qingsong was finally able to maintain the number of his consciousness links at 100 million at all times.
His production capacity finally reached its peak.
But at this time, the cultivation of clones has not stopped.
In addition to these standing clones, Li Qingsong also needed some clones as a reserve. In case of an accident or war that caused the death of a large number of clones, he could immediately fill in.
In fact, even if the number of clones under Li Qingsong reaches the planned number of 200 million, the production of clones will not stop. The production speed will only be reduced to maintain an annual output of about 10 million clones, and reserves will be increased at all times.
After a period of busy construction, with 150 million clones taking turns to rest and Li Qingsong's full efforts, the scale of Li Qingsong's base cluster and industrial system in the entire Jupiter system finally expanded to five times its original size, finally adapting to the existing population.
At this time, 40 years had passed since Li Qingsong arrived in the Jupiter system.
All bases began to enter a stable operation state, and the large-scale construction finally came to an end.
As a result, a large number of clones were temporarily idle.
But it doesn't matter.
Li Qingsong has pushed it to a higher stage now and has extremely high complexity. A major discipline can be divided into hundreds or thousands of small branches, and a small branch has hundreds or thousands of topics. Each topic requires dozens or even thousands of clones to study with all their strength. The scientific research system is now in urgent need of sufficient manpower and brainpower.
So, of the approximately 70 million clones that were temporarily idle, except for about 50 million that were added to the operation of the newly built factories and bases, the remaining 20 million clones were like a huge water tower, flowing along the water pipes throughout the city, becoming smaller and smaller, and finally spreading to every household, flowing to every tiny branch of science.
The addition of this huge number of clones produced an impact visible to the naked eye almost instantly.
On the first day of full-scale work, Li Qingsong saw that the number of various subtle technological advances had skyrocketed to the millions, almost equivalent to the past month!
Li Qingsong's scientific system is like a huge and heavy train, and these small breakthroughs and progress are like pairs of arms.
At this moment, pushed by these large numbers of arms, it finally began to move forward slowly.
It was under such circumstances that there was finally great news from the Nuclear Fission Propulsion Laboratory.
The secondary pressurization thruster, which is powered by both nuclear fission and chemical fuel, has finally achieved initial miniaturization!
Its mass was reduced from the original 3,000 tons to only 260 tons.
But its efficiency has been greatly improved. Calculated by the average propulsion power per unit of fuel, it has increased to about twice the original!
The update time will need to be changed in the future. It will no longer be the case that all the chapters to be updated for the day are released at 12 noon every day. Today's update will be posted when it is finished. I will try to keep it on schedule tomorrow, with one chapter each at 8:00 am, 12:00 pm, 6:00 pm, 8:00 pm, and 10:00 pm.
