President Brand returned to North America via a bi-weekly flight.
Accompanying him back were mainly several elderly people, as well as his assistants and some confidants, such as former NASA Administrator Jody.
This person is one of the few in the North America Branch who understands politics.
If Brand goes back to negotiate, this person will definitely be missing.
However, his daughter Amelia stayed behind as a researcher.
This is because Brand also knows that his daughter is a hothouse flower and there is no need to expose her to the Typhoon. Moreover, she is a biologist, which is exactly the kind of talent that New Star exploration urgently needs. So, he only needs to do his research well.
Also staying with Yuan Heguang were Cooper and several other astronauts in training.
Although Brand himself has left, the space cooperation projects he previously reached with the country are still in place.
Cooper and his group will continue to train with the Mutual Aid Society under the guise of cooperation.
They will still be useful when we go to explore Planet No. 2 and bring back Dr. Mann.
After finishing this task, Zhang Tianyuan breathed a sigh of relief.
Then, Cheng Wanli in the Snowpiercer Spacetime was informed of this.
They were instructed to prepare to relocate a portion of their population to North America in Interstellar Spacetime.
Also, the citizens from Matthew's side can be resettled in North America.
In addition, President Brand will also agree to accept these people.
Because his return this time is to integrate the national population and then begin preparations for the migration of New Star. Promoting the pioneering spirit of the Western cowboy tradition and bravely becoming the vanguard of the New Star colonization is the best choice for North America at present.
With Cheng Wanli and Matthew's people around, they can help him in this regard.
Upon receiving this news, Cheng Wanli immediately responded with his approval.
He had already discussed this matter with President Zhang beforehand.
Although arriving in North America meant cleaning up a mess with Brand, and the industrial base wasn't great, there were advantages to this place too.
That's because of a strong agricultural foundation.
North America in the Interstellar Spacetime is one of the few regions in the entire spacetime that still maintains mechanized farming. Its continuous plains and underground water reserves have formed contiguous corn-producing areas.
Cooper knew this best.
His home was located in the agricultural area of Great Plains.
With such a large area, the pressure on food supply for people migrating from the Snowpiercer Spacetime will be greatly reduced.
But if they were all sent domestically...
There were already 1.2 billion people, who couldn't be relocated for the time being. Now, with the addition of 1.3 billion from the Snowpiercer Spacetime, plus the Blight and sandstorms...
Having high emotional intelligence is called having great perseverance.
Having low emotional intelligence is called being foolish.
If 2.5 billion people are crammed into one place, just the thought of having enough to eat could drive people to their deaths.
Zhang Tianyuan had originally planned to use newly harvested food from other timelines to cover their needs, but now that there are better options, he naturally has to change his plans.
In contrast, even though North America can only grow corn due to Blight, the population it can support is definitely not just a few hundred million.
With the various mechanized equipment brought by Snowpiercer Spacetime, the advantages of mechanized farms can be maximized.
At that time, Zhang Tianyuan also plans to set up two Interstellar Spacetime Tunnel between North America and China for transit, so that people can quickly return to China from North America.
After all, Cheng Wanli had previously stated that he would undertake aid projects in China, so sufficient communication between the two regions was essential.
Therefore, in the future, people from the Snowpiercer Spacetime will most likely work in Yuan Heguang's area, but settle down in Brand's area, with the two Spacetime Tunnel serving as a bridge connecting the two places.
It is worth mentioning that after the last meeting with the visiting delegations from various countries, Yuan Heguang, in his capacity as the head of the No. 7 Branch, submitted a proposal to obtain loans from other branches through the channels of the Parallel Spacetime Economic and Trade Organization, and to transfer a batch of grain to these countries.
The first batch of grain totaled 20 million tons, primarily intended to alleviate famine in China and other countries.
The grain used for Yuan Heguang's purposes was reserve grain.
The relief food was used for other countries, because the people in those countries would die if they didn't eat.
If this amount of food had been produced earlier, other branches wouldn't have been able to produce it. Fortunately, the food planted in the Legend Spacetime had already been harvested in its first round.
Moreover, after a round of harvest in the Pacific Rim Spacetime, everyone finally had some surplus food.
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Zhang Tianyuan calculated that the food shortage problem within the Mutual Aid Society was still very serious.
2012, Legend, the Wandering Earth, Pacific Rim, Finch, the Day After Tomorrow, Interstellar, Snowpiercer... Xxs-2
Of these eight timelines, only 2012, Legend, and the Pacific Rim Spacetime have the ability to produce content.
In addition, the Wandering Earth, Finch, and the Interstellar Spacetime possess some food production capabilities, but their food production is currently insufficient to feed the population within their own spacetimes, and they still need to import food.
The Day After Tomorrow Spacetime will have essentially lost its ability to produce food. Although the equator and the Southern Hemisphere still exist, the current weather conditions are too harsh and the uncertainties are too great. For a considerable period of time to come, we will be destined to import large quantities of food.
The situation is even worse in the Snowpiercer Spacetime, where the ability to produce food has been completely lost.
With an average temperature of -12 degrees Celsius across all time and space, it is impossible to grow any mainstream crops.
Based on this calculation, with approximately six billion people in the Day After Tomorrow Spacetime alone, plus approximately seven billion people in the Snowpiercer Spacetime, the Mutual Aid Society Association faces a food shortage of 13 billion people...
If we also include those semi-grain-producing time periods, and calculate it piecemeal, a food shortage for 16 billion people is certain, and may even be more.
Because living standards differ across different time periods, it's inevitable that some time periods will have more food and better food.
Even Mutual Aid Society has no right to demand that billions of people in other timelines become saints, reduce their daily consumption, and save food to support strangers in other timelines.
Furthermore, now that the 2012 timeline is at a critical juncture of migration, the produced food needs to be used as ballast to ensure a peaceful passage through the Legend Spacetime.
Therefore, the Mutual Aid Society can only utilize the food produced in the Legend Spacetime, as well as some of the food exported from the Pacific Rim Spacetime.
You wouldn't believe it until you calculated it; the results were shocking.
The food supplies from these two timelines alone are needed to feed 16 billion people...
This is no easy task.
Moreover, a year later, it will be 2012 there. By then, the grain-producing areas will be gone, and everything will have to be rebuilt from scratch, which will create seven billion more mouths to feed.
The food shortage will continue to exist in the foreseeable future.
However, there was some good news as well.
That is, the technology for artificially synthesizing starch has already achieved a breakthrough some time ago.
This technical threshold is not particularly high for any given timeline, especially since some timelines had already accumulated experience along this path before, and progress was made quickly after the project was restarted.
However, this thing has only completed the first step and can only be operated in the laboratory.
There is still a long way to go before it can quickly and perfectly complete all processes, prepare for industrialization, and establish an industrial production system.
Even if every timeline treats this as a top priority, it's estimated that the first production line won't be established for at least three to five years.
If the first production line has taken so long, then waiting for this technology to solve the food problem across all time and space is even more of a distant prospect.
Nobody knows how long that will take.
"So we still need to focus on reality."
Zhang Tianyuan rubbed his temples, and could only continue discussing with Yuan Heguang how to make the most of the New Star.
Now, in addition to basic construction, the more important thing is to find plains there, reclaim them, build farm areas, and grow various grains there.
To achieve this goal, Zhang Tianyuan also said that it didn't matter if the road construction couldn't be completed in time.
First, plant the seeds.
We'll farm and repair the land at the same time.
If the land is planted but the road is not yet completed, he can directly use the Spacetime Tunnel to have the farm transfer the grain there on-site.
Even the supplies needed by each farm during the farming process can be transferred using Spacetime Tunnel.
Everything is for the sake of food production.
Yuan Heguang did not refuse and presented a detailed plan the next day.
With the help of satellites, modern colonization no longer requires sending real people to survey the land bit by bit, as was done in the past.
Using satellite images and data, Yuan Heguang had already determined the basic resource distribution in most areas of this New Star.
He knew all the shallow mineral deposits on the entire planet, let alone places suitable for agricultural development.
So he immediately circled twenty areas that might be suitable to become major agricultural production areas.
"These areas haven't been explored yet, but they're all plains with water. Spectral analysis suggests there shouldn't be any unusual substances, and the climate is warm and humid..."
Upon hearing the introduction, Zhang Tianyuan immediately
The decision was made to use the Spacetime Tunnel to send one small team from each side to the other for further exploration and pioneering work.
Shortly after the exploration team set off.
News also came from the Snowpiercer Spacetime.
The Morgan gang has been completely apprehended!
At the same time, Cheng Wanli decided to organize countries around the world to sign a global relocation agreement, then put Morgan and his associates to a public trial, reveal the truth to the world, and then send them on their way.
So Zhang Tianyuan returned to the Snowpiercer Spacetime after half a month.
The average temperature in the Snowpiercer Spacetime has now dropped to minus fifteen degrees Celsius, and a major storm also struck deep in the Middle East desert just a few days ago.
The original desert turned into a snow desert after this storm; the yellow turned into white, so bright it hurt the eyes.
However, the locals were not excited about the heavy snowfall.
Instead, they felt only endless fear.
Other countries as well were terrified.
The reason is simple: cryogenic storms are occurring too frequently.
There were three storms in just one month, two of which caused serious casualties. The aftermath of those two storms in North America and South America is still not over.
Although the desert battle did not cause too many casualties, it still broke down everyone's psychological defenses.
No one knows where the next cold snap will appear or how many people it will take.
Therefore, everyone's desire to relocate has become even more urgent.
Naturally, it was easier to catch the people Cheng Wanli specifically named and wanted.
Besides Morgan and Wilford, there were a total of 32 ringleaders in Morgan's gang, along with 440 accomplices.
As planned, these individuals and their families all had tickets on the Snowpiercer, and there were no obvious signs of coercion in their participation.
With Zhang Tianyuan and other members of the Mutual Aid Society as witnesses, and under the global gaze, the relocation agreement was successfully signed.
In three days at most, the railway in the Snowpiercer Spacetime will be connected to Yuan Heguang's side.
If things go smoothly, the railway can be connected to Professor Brand's place within half a month.
With the help of these two railways, a large-scale population transfer can be achieved.
Unlike other timelines, the Snowpiercer Spacetime doesn't require any gatherings. All you need to do is sign an agreement, arrive at the train station according to the plan, and then board the migration train.
On The World Island, most places are accessible by rail.
Of course, the Australia continent, isolated overseas, is less fortunate.
Neither domestic heavy-duty bus routes nor Wilford's global tour routes pass through that area.
Therefore, he has to follow the experience from the "2012" timeline and use ships or vehicles to transfer.
In addition, there was the public trial of the Morgan gang.
The international court, broadcast live globally, held its hearings for five days and five nights before finally going through the motions for all these individuals, ultimately delivering the same verdict in each case.
death penalty!
Morgan was not at all surprised when he was carried to court on a stretcher. From the day his son and grandson froze to death, he had already foreseen his own end.
Most of the other ringleaders resigned themselves to their fate and all lowered their heads.
On the contrary, the accomplices were dumbfounded.
They had previously thought that with so many people on their side, the court wouldn't sentence too many to death...
I never expected it would be the death penalty for everyone!
The accomplices were nearly driven mad upon hearing the verdict, with many shouting in court that it was a massacre.
After the court hearing, these people were stripped down to their bare clothes and taken away, shivering from the cold throughout the process.
Nearly five hundred people were all executed.
Moreover, I heard that the execution chambers at the execution site had inexplicably broken down, so in order to get rid of these people before the relocation work officially began, they had no choice but to use firing squad instead...
This incident has attracted some attention even within the Mutual Aid Society.
Such a large-scale execution, and the fact that these people will be executed in such a concentrated manner, is unprecedented in all time and space.
However, no one expressed any objection. In fact, many people felt a sense of satisfaction. Some even thought that executing them was too lenient and that they should be thrown into the freezing cold so that they could experience the feeling of freezing to death.
Four hundred and seventy-two gunshots rang out, and four hundred and seventy-two large watermelons exploded.
None of this has anything to do with Zhang Tianyuan.
He is currently looking at the system page.
The screen displayed a message, one he had already seen eight times.
The new world has been discovered.
Mad Max: Rampage Road
An unexpected result.
Zhang Tianyuan raised an eyebrow, his lips twitching slightly.