Gao Kaiden was speechless: "I said Ye Han, do you have to stare at this little profit in front of you?" Can't you take a long-term view? ”

Ye Han was stunned: "What's wrong with my vision?" ”

"What's the matter, you can't be a little strategic? Do you think that grabbing asteroids is just to separate from aliens? Gao Kai's gaze was surprised, "You haven't thought about it, what is the most important thing in the Great Voyage?" ”

Ye Han was inexplicable: "Why did you have anything to do with the Great Voyage again...... Speaking of this, he slapped his forehead suddenly, and suddenly realized that he had overlooked something, "Understood, supply base!" ”

Some people may say that the most important thing in the great voyage is the ship, but is this actually the case?

Of course not, ships are important, but the most important thing about the Great Voyage is the port, the ubiquitous supply point! Only with the support of supply lines can the routes on the ocean continue to extend into the distance!

Gao Kai finally breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, you didn't come to the fleet, just like that, my IQ has dropped for a while, and it's okay after a long time?" ”

Ye Han's face twitched: "As long as you're smart, don't I just want to fork in?" ”

"Where do you want to go?" Gao Kai asked curiously.

"What else can it be, the cost." Ye Han said as a matter of course, "How did we build Beiyuezhou in the first place?" You know better than me how many resources have been invested before and after, this is still on the moon, and if it is replaced by an asteroid belt, how much will it cost to build a base? And that's not even counting the maintenance costs! ”

Both of them have experienced the hardships of Beiyuezhou's start-up, and they know very well how much investment it takes to build a space base.

But this is not the point, the point is that the base is not built and can be left alone, but must invest a lot of manpower and material resources to maintain it.

Take Beiyuezhou as an example, with the continuous expansion of the scale of the base, the maintenance cost of the base has risen year by year, and the maintenance cost of the base alone last year was tens of billions.

It's just that the situation in Beiyuezhou is that there is more consumption and more output, and after the two are offset, the maintenance cost becomes very inconspicuous, and no one pays attention to it at all.

This model of sustainable development will also be applied to Nanyuezhou in the future.

But the asteroid belt is different, there are many small celestial bodies and few celestial bodies, the largest Ceres is less than 1,000 kilometers in diameter, and the resources that can be used are very limited.

"That's not how the accounts are calculated." Gao Kai shook his head disapprovingly, "The space base does burn money, but compared to the safety of human beings, what is money?" You don't want to think about it, before the completion of Beiyuezhou, what did we look like passively, and what would it look like after Beiyuezhou was built? ”

Beidu is determined to develop the moon, not only because the moon has a very important strategic position, but also because the moon contains a huge amount of strategic resources!

Before the formation of the lunar base, the global supply of materials was very tight, in order to fight against aliens, human beings were forced to put limited resources into the bottomless pit of space engineering, almost all countries were drained, and the warships against aliens were actually changed with space shuttles, and now it is like a joke to think about it.

If it weren't for the fact that the aliens themselves had some unsolved problems, I am afraid that humanity would have been extinct for many years.

What about after the completion of the Beiyuezhou base? The massive resources on the moon have been applied, and the launch cost is much lower than that of the earth, and in a few years, the space city and the space fleet have been saved, and the military strength of mankind has risen upward, and the fleet has even made expeditions to Jupiter one after another, directly hitting the aliens' lair!

Before the completion of the North Moon Continent, the expedition to Jupiter was simply a pipe dream that I couldn't even think of!

Gao Kai's snatching made Ye Han roll his eyes, and said angrily: "I said I wanted to fork, did you stuff donkey hair in your ears?" ”

Gao Kai was stunned for a moment: "Okay, let's not talk about the cost, let's talk about strategy, from the construction of Beiyuezhou to the present, the fleet is a supply base on the moon, no matter what you do, you have to go back here to replenish, you are also a person who has participated in several expeditions, you haven't thought about the significance of having a supply base on an asteroid?" ”

Ye Han shook his head: "I really haven't thought about it, but I can think of it." "He's not kidding, he can really think of the meaning.

At its largest, the human fleet had hundreds of warships, large and small, but the fleet's supply base was only the moon.

Whether it is an expedition to Ganyus or a blockade of alien fleets, the starting point of all warships is the moon, and after the battle, the fleet finally returns to the moon.

At first glance, there is nothing wrong with this, but in reality?

For example, in the recent expedition, when the fleet returned, the Earth had turned to the side of the sun, and the warships had to hang behind the Earth and chase after reaching the Earth's orbit until they caught up with the Earth.

If you don't chase it, you can only wait in place for more than half a year, wait for the earth to circle around the sun for most of the time, and then join the earth.

Not to mention anything else, months of wasted time along the way.

What if there were several human military bases in the asteroid belt?

It doesn't take much, as long as there is a space base in the southeast, northwest, and northwest, the fleet can be docked nearby, replenish supplies and ammunition and repair warships, and it won't take long to sail back to Jupiter and play with aliens again.

In the past, expeditions took a whole year or even more than a year, but with a space base, the expedition period can be shortened to half a year or even three to four months!

At that time, the strategic situation facing mankind will undergo a qualitative change, which will greatly ease the pressure on mankind.

Gao Kai deliberately raised his eyebrows: "Can you really do it?" ”

"Believe it or not!" Ye Han wanted to flip the table, "You are so verbose, why didn't I find out before?" ”

"It means you don't know me well enough!"

"I'd rather not know!" Ye Han looked very disgusted.

"It's late!" Gao Kai laughed, "Do you still want to go down on the thief ship?" ”

"If I can come up, I can go down!" Ye Han pushed back unconvinced.

The two of them didn't let each other go, you went back and forth a few words, and Ye Han finally brought the conversation back to the topic: "How many things did you send over?" Chose Ceres, right? ”

The role of the base is all kinds of support, too small to work at all, Ceres is the only dwarf planet in the asteroid belt, with a diameter of nearly 1,000 kilometers, and there are some resources on it, which is of great significance for the construction of space bases and reducing maintenance costs.

Gao Kai shook his head and said, "I guessed wrong!" ”

"Not Ceres?" Ye Han's eyes were full of suspicion when he looked at Gao Kai, "You didn't slander me, did you?" Such a good place, don't hurry up and occupy it, don't let the aliens snatch it again. ”

Forty percent of Ceres is water, it is not very far from the sun, and there is likely to be a liquid ocean under the ice, these are all very favorable construction conditions, Ye Han can't think of any reason why the military should not choose it.