Once, the vast desert was desolate.
Nothing but chaotic rocks and scattered weeds and shrubs.
Nowadays, this place has been occupied by numerous heavy machinery and construction workers.
Above the sky, one after another heavy transport helicopter continuously delivers heavy machinery to the required locations.
On the ground, there are countless construction workers, driving heavy-duty trucks or other engineering machinery, constantly operating around the site.
The barren terrain is changing at a visible rate...
And at the four corners of this desert, on top of four iron towers that were built at an unknown time.
Four "decoy" signal interference devices are quietly running, shading all foreign unknown signals.
Whether it's in the sky or on the ground...
From the satellite imagery, this area still appears as a sparsely populated desert with almost no signs of vegetation, a place rarely visited by humans...
Except for a few people in Long Village, no one knows that this place will soon become the first production base for air-space warships in Blue Star.
And no one knows that human space travel will begin from here...
"Xiao Su, you're here..."
In no time, an elderly man in loose training clothes, with white hair, came to stand by Su Heng's side.
A closer look revealed that the newcomer was none other than Qian Zhizhong, the head of this production base!
A month ago, after receiving an affirmative response from Su Heng, Qian Zhizhong and others returned to the capital with the materials provided by Su Heng.
Then they promptly submitted the materials to their superiors.
Just a week later, the relevant review procedures were approved directly.
Then Long Village demonstrated its remarkable ability to take action.
After communicating with Su Heng, about half a month ago, Long Village finalized the production base of the air-space warships in this sparsely populated desert area.
Which led to the current scene...
Actually, Su Heng originally intended to place the production base of the [Yanhuang] project in the previously established Hanzhong No.010 Super Industrial Park.
After all, there are relatively complete transportation and various energy conditions there.
Moreover, the complete industrial chain there can also reduce the construction costs of the [Yanhuang] production base to a great extent.
However, considering the need for secrecy, Su Heng and Qian Zhizhong and others eventually abandoned this idea.
Although the population in Hanzhong is not as large as that in coastal cities, it is not a completely deserted area either.
Given the scale of the Yanhuang air-space warship project, it's impossible to keep this place completely hidden from prying eyes.
After all, even the previous No.010 Super Industrial Park, with an entire divisional mechanized infantry brigade guarding it and numerous guards posted in the open and in the shadows, still fell under the surveillance of outsiders!
Although the absurdly strong defenses made it impossible for outsiders to approach the site and even know what was going on inside the 010 Super Industrial Park, it didn't mean they didn't try.
But the fact remains that the 010 Super Industrial Park was indeed being coveted by others.
Even the 010 Super Industrial Park couldn't be concealed from those with malicious intent, let alone the even larger Yanhuang base to come.
Under such circumstances, the Yanhuang base can only seek to keep secrets in another place...
And there is another factor to consider: while the 010 Super Industrial Park is indeed vast, it is relatively less beneficial for producing Yanhuang, as Yanhuang is just too advanced for this industrial park.
Even if there are components in Yanhuang that require production from the 010 Super Industrial Park, such as power armor, plasma stealth shield generators, and other equipment and weapons, they can all be produced here and then transported to the Yanhuang production base by transport planes!
Although the transportation and energy supply at the Yanhuang production base are currently very inconvenient and insufficient, these are all temporary issues.
According to the plan of Su Heng and Long Village, a nuclear fusion power plant will be built here next, which will be used to maintain the energy supply of the Yanhuang production base!
As for transportation, Su Heng's maglev flying vehicles have begun to be produced in increasing quantities, along with the various heavy-duty transport helicopters and transport planes that have already been mass-produced.
Transportation is not a problem at all.
Without the concerns of energy and transportation, the remaining choices become more natural and easier to make...
"Old Qian, how's the progress here now?"
Looking at Qian Zhizhong, who had just come to stand by his side, Su Heng greeted him and then directly asked, "How's the progress now?"
"Everything is proceeding as planned. The foundation of the Yanhuang base is almost levelled, and we can start building on top of it in three days at the latest. If everything goes normally, it will take no more than six months to complete the base infrastructure..."
Faced with the inquiry, Qian Zhizhong did not beat around the bush and replied directly.
Six months is not a short amount of time.
But Su Heng did not feel too surprised.
Although Long Village had mobilized an entire 300,000-person engineering team for this large-scale infrastructure project!
Looking out, the vast sea of people was endless.
With so many people and tens of thousands of machinery working in tandem, no matter what is being built, the speed will undoubtedly be awe-inspiring.
However, the planned scale of the Yanhuang base is an entire 10,000 square kilometers!!
An entire 10,000 square kilometers, which is a square park with sides measuring 100 kilometers long!
The total area of the previous No.010 Super Industrial Park was only 100 square kilometers!
The Yanhuang base is a hundred times the size of the No.010 Super Industrial Park!
One of the fundamental reasons why the Yanhuang base is not located in areas like Hanzhong or any other central or eastern region is because its scale is too enormous!
Such a massive base, even with an engineering team of 300,000 people, is not something that can be constructed in just a few days.
Even with a workforce of 300,000, they are currently only handling the core area of this 10,000-square-kilometer base.
Otherwise, if they were to attempt to construct the entire 10,000-square-kilometer area all at once, even with 600,000 people working on it, it still wouldn't be enough...
Under these circumstances, the completion of the Yanhuang base within six months is already a very rapid pace!
After hearing Qian Zhizhong's words, Su Heng nodded slightly.
At this time, Qian Zhizhong asked again, "Xiao Su, what about your side? How are the equipment production conditions?"
Hearing this, Su Heng replied, "Everything is going smoothly. I have arranged sixteen subsidiaries, including Xingyu Technology, Xinghe Technology, Hengyu Energy, Xianfeng Technology, Huhe Mining, Xingyuan Technology, etc., to produce the relevant equipment. I have also made arrangements at the No.010 Super Industrial Park. Before the infrastructure of this place is completed, all the equipment from my side will be in place..."
To build a production base for space battleships, of course, it requires more than just basic materials like reinforced concrete.
And there are countless other types of equipment required!
The sixteen subsidiaries are just part of the directly controlled subsidiaries or the ones directly affiliated with Nine Star Group or Su Heng.
In fact, under these sixteen subsidiaries, there are nearly six hundred branch enterprises and affiliated companies of various sizes.
These enterprises, some as small as the previously little-known Tai Gong Fishing Tackle Co., Ltd., are obscure and unremarkable in appearance, with some even having market values reaching hundreds of billions!
They are already the leading companies in the industry!
For the needs of the Yanhuang base, Su Heng can say that he has mobilized most of the high-tech enterprises under his command.
Due to this massive mobilization, many unfamiliar faces have been seen in Long Village recently.
Fortunately, due to the cooperation with villages like the Polar Bear, Iron Tower, and Camel, there is already a large-scale movement of manpower and resources in various places of Long Village.
Therefore, this large-scale industrial mobilization has not caused any unnecessary troubles...
With Su Heng's affirmative response, Qian Zhizhong couldn't help but have a flash of admiration in his eyes again.
Although they had known about the vast scale of Su Heng's industries long ago.
They also knew about many enterprises that, although not directly owned by Su Heng, were actually completely under his control.
For example, Xianfeng Technology.
Such enterprises are not just a couple!
According to Su Heng, over the past years, he has sown the net for at least a thousand kinds of various technologies.
Some of these technologies fell into the wrong hands, into the hands of greedy people, and were cut off by Su Heng. The technologies sank into obscurity, and as for the people...
Although Su Heng wouldn't engage in illegal or disciplinary acts, putting someone in jail for tea, which was something that Su Heng wasn't afraid of.
After all, Su Heng is not a saint. He won't just give out technologies to others without any precautions...
For Su Heng, it's incredibly easy to get hold of someone's weak spot.
Just like a high-dimensional organism crushing a low-dimensional one, don't try to challenge a person who is cheating. You'll never know how many cheats a cheater has!
And those who know when to advance and retreat, and understand gratitude, are now basically making a fortune under Su Heng's guidance, with their status and position secured.
Such people are not many, but over these years, hundreds of them have accumulated!
After excluding those that were aborted for various reasons, the remaining enterprises that have made it to this point are also more than ten!
While these dozens of enterprises vary in size and few are as large as the ones Su Heng directly oversees now,
But even the smallest of them have a market value of hundreds of millions!
With all the subsidiaries under these enterprises, Su Heng alone controls assets worth at least tens of billions and tens of thousands of people's livelihoods!
This is just within Long Village!
Whenever they think about these, Qian Zhizhong and others can't help but feel amazed.
At the same time, they are also grateful that it is Su Heng who holds these, instead of a person with ambition.
Otherwise, the consequences would be unimaginable...
It's predictable that if Su Heng didn't suppress them, allowing these enterprises to grow wild like weeds, it wouldn't be just tens of billions, it could even reach ten times that amount!
For example, before the Star River Technology, how much was the market value of Star River Technology on the surface?
In their previous investigation, the market valuation of Star River Technology on the surface was only over 100 billion.
And actually?
Now, even excluding those military technologies, just the civilian technologies of Star River Technology, once listed, could easily see its market value increase by tens of times or even hundreds of times!
And there are other companies like Xingyu Technology and Hengyu Energy.
Xingyu Technology is a company under Su Heng's supervision that is responsible for artificial intelligence.
In addition to artificial intelligence, computer terminals, chips, and intelligent robots are all products of this company!
The Qiankun series of computers and the Shichen series of smartphones released by the Jiuding Group are all products of the subsidiary Time Technology of this company.
The value of this company is self-explanatory.
Hengyu Energy is a subsidiary of Jiuding Group responsible for energy.
The Tengyun series of batteries, nuclear fission power stations, nuclear fusion power stations, and magnetic levitation propulsion systems in Su Heng's hand are all products of this company.
The new energy vehicles and magnetic levitation aircraft that are being prepared for release in the near future are products of subsidiaries of Hengyu Technology.
The value, needless to say.
The remaining enterprises like Galaxy Mining and Star Resource Technology are also quite similar.
Just take any one of them out, and once their real strength is revealed, they will be a trillion-dollar unicorn without a doubt!
So much wealth, all belonging to one person, can be imagined how terrifying it is.
Of course, if Su Heng were to allow these enterprises to grow wild, then these enterprises might not truly belong to Su Heng.
After all, although the laws in Long Village are well-established, there will always be some evil spirits...
Here, the ins and outs are clear to Qian Zhizhong. Once wealth reaches a certain level, it will inevitably attract the attention of various demons and spirits.
By then, wanting to live in peace by oneself is nothing but a fantasy.
This is true for any village in the world, whether it be Long Village or not.
As long as people have seven emotions and six desires, especially "greed," this kind of thing cannot be avoided.
Before Su Heng had the backing of their military, if all the things in his hands were exposed, Su Heng would probably be instantly targeted by countless gluttons.
At that time, bones and residues might not even be left. The best result for Su Heng might be to compromise or go all out with an enemy to destroy each other...
However, regardless of what, Su Heng's terror is a fact.
"Alas..."
For a long time, Qian Zhizhong sighed softly.
Of course, it's not about being sorry that these technologies were held by Su Heng, but being sorry that Su Heng was beaten by his old buddy.
Qiao Zhenhai, that old man, acted too quickly, directly introducing his granddaughter to Su Heng.
Now that they are engaged, their old cronies have no chance to interfere.
If they had taken the lead earlier, they might have become Su Heng's elders...
...
Later on, Qian Zhizhong led Su Heng towards the interior of the Yanhuang Base.
And Qian Zhizhong discussed in detail with Su Heng the progress of Yanhuang and its current specific situation.
At the same time, they made further plans and arrangements for future development.
For nearly half a year, Su Heng had to travel back and forth between the Yanhuang Base and the East Province almost every week.
Half a year later——
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
With the sound of fireworks exploding one after another.
The entire Yanhuang Base was in a state of ecstasy!
Inside a factory brimming with a sense of science fiction, Qian Zhizhong took a deep breath and then turned his gaze to Su Heng, his eyes filled with passion.
Not only Qian Zhizhong, but also other people who had arrived here to participate in the completion ceremony of the Yanhuang Base and the launch ceremony of the Yanhuang Sky-Sea Battle Ship, such as Qiao Zhenhai and Qin Shan, had their eyes aglow.
After half a year, the Yanhuang Base has finally been completed!
And now, the production of the Yanhuang Sky-Sea Battle Ship will officially begin here!!
"Mm!"
Facing the attention of Qian Zhizhong and others, watching the aseptic and intelligent production factory behind the glass, Su Heng took a deep breath.
Then, he pressed the button on his palm.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Along with Su Heng's action, outside the Yanhuang Base, one after another salvo of fireworks had already been prepared and exploded outside the base again!
At the same time, in the intelligent production factory, a primary iron ore that had only undergone initial ore dressing and even had not been smelted into pig iron was directly thrown into the giant furnace by a mechanical arm!
With the movement of the mechanical arm, the entire Yanhuang Base began to operate as a massive machine!
At the same time, throughout the various places in Long Village, the hundreds of companies under Su Heng's command responsible for the core technologies of the Yanhuang Sky-Sea Battle Ship, as well as tens of thousands of Long Village military contractors or companies with cooperation with Long Village military, began to operate!
The Yanhuang Sky-Sea Battle Ship officially set sail!!
