Chapter 142 Money Power

Mercury is not like Earth.

On Earth, every nook and cranny has an environment that is sufficient to sustain life. But on Mercury, leaving the base built by the Itars means death.

The members of the organization can only hide in various corners of the Itar base, such as equipment rooms, factory warehouses, underground passages, slums, etc., and live like rats.

And an arsenal, even one that can only produce gunpowder and firearms, requires a stable area of ​​at least several hundred square meters. Moreover, the arsenal needs sufficient supplies to start operation.

Building an arsenal in the Itar base? The difficulty is unimaginable.

Ma Qingnan did not have any hope for this.

In fact, long before he led the soldiers to rebel, he had already despaired of the ultimate ideal of restoring the earth.

The reason why he still wanted to rise up and resist was nothing more than not wanting to die in a cowardly way.

Now, it was just a matter of living one day at a time.

But he buried all the despair and heaviness deep in his heart and concealed it well.

If his despair was noticed by the members of the organization, the entire organization would fall apart immediately.

"Hey, if Pangu could support us with a batch of weapons, that would be great..."

Ma Qingnan couldn't help thinking secretly in his heart. But then he shook his head.

"Impossible... Pangu can't do it. Besides, to support us with so much money, Pangu must have taken a big risk. We can't expect more."

Fuxing Industrial Park, underground base.

Thousands of robots are busy researching a chip production line here.

This is a nano-scale chip production line. After Han Yang has thoroughly understood all its technical details and thoroughly mastered its principles, Han Yang will be able to use it to continuously manufacture chips with a process of 512 nanometers. After assembling them into supercomputers, they will have computing power far beyond the current level.

However, there are too many technical details of nano-scale chips and they are too complicated. And the more advanced the chip manufacturing technology, the higher the demand for chip design.

At this level, chip design will even be completely divided into two disciplines from chip manufacturing, which shows the importance of chip design.

It will take some time to complete the manufacturing of nano-scale chips, and it cannot be completed in a short time. However, Han Yang is not in a hurry now, because the computing power is still sufficient at the moment, and he still has time to take his time.

But there is another thing that Han Yang must solve in a short time.

Weapons.

Through the many information feedbacks from the Fuxing Mall during this period, after refining, Han Yang realized that the huge financial support he provided some time ago actually only solved the crisis of the destruction of those resistance organizations.

In other words, it only allows them to hold on, and they will not be destroyed before the enemy attacks due to the shortage of funds and resources.

If they want them to do something else and bring some pressure to the Itar people, financial support alone is far from enough.

At this moment, what they need most is weapons.

"Living in the Itar base, how can we have our own space to make weapons? The little we buy from the black market alone will not be of much use. Not only are they outdated and worn out, but once we buy too much, it will easily attract the attention of the guards and they will be easily wiped out.

But it doesn't matter, I will do it.

I will make whatever the rebels need."

Han Yang made up his mind.

The Jade Star Base is rapidly iterating and climbing the technology tree at this moment. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a critical moment for development. But no matter how critical it is, Han Yang still decided to take out some computing power and industrial capacity to make a batch of firearms.

"With the existing industrial strength of the Jade Star Base, it should not be a problem to make a batch of gunpowder guns."

Han Yang thought secretly.

Although it is already the interstellar era, the Itars already have mature electromagnetic gun technology, but on Earth, in the guards, gunpowder guns have been used until now, and they are nothing more than becoming more and more sophisticated, more reliable, and more accurate.

But as for guns, electromagnetic guns can kill people, and old-fashioned matchlock guns can also kill people.

If we can't produce too advanced ones, at most we can produce some backward ones, so that the rebels can use them first, so that they don't have to fight with guards and security guards with kitchen knives and daggers.

With a decision in mind, Han Yang immediately operated the computer to search for information related to guns. This search immediately found a mountain of information.

The structure, performance, size, screenshots and even drawings of old-fashioned guns are not lacking on the Internet, and they are everywhere.

Han Yang picked and chose, combined with his current engineering ability, and finally selected a gun.

"You are it."

After figuring out its structure and parameters, Han Yang's heart moved, and hundreds of robots immediately began to move in the Grand Canyon of Yushenxing, hundreds of billions of kilometers away.

At the steel plant, after the steelmaking blast furnace completed the smelting of this batch of molten steel, the next batch of smelting immediately adjusted the formula and began to produce the specific steel required for manufacturing this kind of gun.

After a series of complicated processes, solid steel pipes were produced one by one.

They were sent to the cutting machine in a line and cut directly into lengths of about half a meter. Then they were sent to the drilling machine and drilled directly into hollow steel pipes.

After the final processing was completed, it entered the testing stage.

Here, Han Yang controlled the robot to test its various properties. High temperature resistance, impact resistance, bending resistance, etc.

After a test, the steel pipe used as a test product actually burst directly, and even broke a robot next to it.

"Performance does not meet the standard? What's the matter? I followed the standard."

Han Yang was a little confused and had to take out some samples and take them to the slightly simple metallurgical laboratory for inspection.

After a check, Han Yang felt helpless.

"The smelting process is not up to standard. There are too many impurities, which leads to the performance of the steel pipe. If you use this kind of steel pipe to make a gun, I'm afraid it will explode before firing a hundred shots."

But...

At this moment, Han Yang's technology tree, especially metallurgical technology, has not yet reached the point where it can make higher performance steel pipes.

According to the current progress, it is estimated that it will take about two years.

"No, it takes too long. I can't wait. We must find a way to make steel pipes that meet the performance standards under the current technical level."

This is difficult, but it is not absolutely impossible. It's nothing more than adjusting the formula and process, and maneuvering under the existing technical level.

But the key problem is that with the metallurgical technology that Han Yang has mastered at the moment, it is not enough to solve this problem.

"Then, we can only use money."