Chapter 258 Stargate Procurement Discussion
Jin Qiaoying did not have a speech in her hand. As the Minister and member of the Ministry of Finance and Trade, she knew these data easily.
Fan Ren looked at this woman who had helped him for many years without complaint and was extremely capable at work, with undisguised admiration in his eyes.
As if she felt the gaze of the man in the main seat fixed on her, Jin Qiaoying's cheeks faintly flushed. She paused for a moment, quietly suppressed her inexplicable emotions and said again:
"At present, our total income from various types of ores, calculated using the star coin exchange rate, has reached 5000 million star coins per year. However, so far, due to the large number of ship construction projects before, the ores we have produced still have a huge gap in our industrial development projects."
When Jin Qiaoying said this, she glanced at Fan Ren there with some resentment in her eyes.
I don’t know if it was because of this guy’s never-shifting gaze, or because of some of his decisions that caused her dissatisfaction.
"In order to meet the needs of our industrial projects, the various metals produced by mines must be tilted more towards them in the next five years.
Let me give you an example. Currently, our space hub has two core areas: the Blue Star Hub and the Fire Wood Hub.
But other than that, we have no other hub construction projects except for the space station cluster construction above Jupiter's rings.
In fact, in the earlier plan of the Ministry of Industry, in order to further optimize the industrial structure and reduce unnecessary transportation costs, the Ministry of Industry actually planned to build two small hubs for targeted metal processing and related industries at Mars and the rings of Jupiter.
However, due to the shortage of construction materials, these projects were shelved.
Moreover, the planetary infrastructure buildings brought back by the peace envoys this time are equipment that can be used to transform the environment of Mercury, Venus, which is extremely rich in mineral resources, and satellites such as Io.
Through the development of the mineral resources of these planets, we can fully achieve the expected goal of doubling the overall mineral resources within the next five years.
Therefore, I think that maybe in 100 years, maybe not 50 years, we will be able to fully repay this debt.”
Jin Qiaoying did not seem to be stage-frightened. After she finished her speech, she calmly nodded slightly to everyone in the room, then turned her gaze to Fan Ren who was sitting in the main seat.
Fan Ren responded with a smile, then turned his gaze to Ke Fengyun standing beside him.
"Minister Ke, please tell me what you think."
After he finished speaking, all the committee members and executives in the room shook their heads and sighed.
One of these two ministers was the general manager of Xinghai Technology Company under Fan Ren for many years, and the other was a minister whose governing philosophy was extremely similar to his, who also had an engineering background and had been helped by Fan Ren with high-voltage radio technology.
They both didn't follow Chairman Fanren's lead, but they were more or less obedient.
If he is made the second spokesperson, the chairman's attitude will become very clear.
Ke Fengyun looked around at the senior officials who were older than him, and then spoke in a serious tone:
“After the ore is produced from our solar system, the refined and compressed metal needs to be transported to the far side of the moon and then delivered by the Conqueror.
After arriving at the Ross 154 system, these cargo ships, the Colossi, need to travel 20 days before reaching the transfer stargate of the Ross 154 system.
Then, the journey from the corresponding star gate in the Alpha Centauri system to the hub star gate will take another 30 days."
He made an introduction and continued in a serious tone:
“This process will undoubtedly lengthen our overall transportation cycle.
Similarly, as Minister Jin just said, excessive use of the Conqueror will involve correspondingly huge risks.
In the future development of our civilization, building a stargate in the solar system to the Alpha Centauri system is undoubtedly a necessary step. Rather than wasting a lot of time on unnecessary operation cycles and causing huge dangers, I think it is better to take out a loan in advance to purchase a stargate to build in our system.
Similarly, it is not just necessary for cargo ships to travel back and forth. As we develop, contacts with the Galactic Alliance and even surrounding civilizations must also be carried out simultaneously.
I can't rely on the Conqueror to deliver every time I go out. This would undoubtedly be a huge waste of resources and greatly increase the risk of exposure.
Once we have a star gate, as trade proceeds, our entire industry and trade will be able to enjoy more convenient exchanges in the star market.
And the Ministry of External Affairs, they should also understand the importance of the Stargate to us."
Ke Fengyun didn't say much and passed the conversation to Xu Hongwei who was sitting behind him.
Over there, regardless of everyone's surprised attitude at the moment, Xu Hongwei stood up and said:
"That's right. After the trip to Sirius Prime, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has gained a general understanding of the civilizations around us.
Obviously, the current level lies in the technological level, because of the dreadnought design drawings handed over by Fox and the strong molecular metal processing technology.
At the same time, we have our self-developed hybrid engine system, superior strength in nanomaterials and so on.
At present, we have surpassed these civilizations whose main industry is mining in most scientific and technological fields.
Here, I want to talk about a piece of data. "
If it is said that Xu Hongwei was a little nervous because of his age and the fact that he had been neglected by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for a long time.
But after this trip to Sirius Prime, this young and handsome foreign affairs minister has already acquired some of the style of the old minister, Zhao Bo.
During the meeting, perhaps because of Fan Ren's calmness, no one raised any objections to the change in the speaking order. They all concentrated on waiting for his data.
Xu Hongwei said softly: "The silver-like supermetal required for a battleship of our civilization is worth about 20 star coins when converted into star coins.
But in the star domain market, the average selling price of battleships is between 1 million and 10 billion.
Obviously, this huge price difference is the added value of mineral metals brought about by technological advancement.
However, there should be some technological gap between the battleships currently built by our civilization and similar products from advanced civilizations on the star market.
I think this is why most battleships of second-level civilizations adopt the development path of independent construction and equipment procurement.
And what I want to say is that in the last blocking battle, our civilization's battleships have already played their good value."
When he said this, his gaze turned to Liu Shengzhan, who had been silent beside Fan Ren.
"Liu Shuai, you should have read the various public documents we brought back this time. You should understand what I mean by this."
(End of this chapter)
