How A Ride-Hailing Driver Comes To Dominate The World? [EN]: Chapter 718

## Preparing to Launch Space Station Stardust-1

Even with a thousand reasons to be reluctant, Ying Zheng couldn’t persuade Yang Chen to stay.

Yang Chen had no interest in living in this era; he much preferred the era of technological explosion.

The system task was complete, and it was uncertain whether he could return to this era after returning to modern times.

Yang Chen had received a hundred thousand years of life from the soldiers of Great Qin, so giving Ying Zheng 2,300 years was just a small fraction.

“System, allocate 2,300 years of life to Ying Zheng!”

“Received master’s command, allocating 2,300 years of life to Ying Zheng, allocation complete.”

Although Ying Zheng couldn’t verify whether Yang Chen had truly given him 2,300 years of life, he could clearly feel his body suddenly becoming more comfortable, as if he were in his teens again, and the pain in his body instantly disappeared.

At that moment, Ying Zheng believed that Yang Chen had truly given him 2,300 years of life.

“Sir, thank you, thank you. I will always remember your grace. If there is a chance to meet you again in the future, I will definitely express my gratitude,” Ying Zheng said, weeping.

Yang Chen said with a smile, “Alright, alright, don’t cry! You’ve read the history I showed you, right? You know what major events will happen next, right?”

Ying Zheng nodded and said, “I know! Sir, rest assured, I will definitely protect Great Qin and conquer all the land and sea on the globe! I promise you, sir, that all that the sun and moon shine upon shall be the territory of Great Qin.”

Yang Chen nodded, stepped forward and hugged Ying Zheng, then turned and got into the car.

“Farewell, sir, I hope we can meet again in two thousand years!” Ying Zheng said, bowing to Yang Chen in farewell.

Yang Chen waved to Ying Zheng with a smile, stepped on the gas, and returned to modern times.

“Congratulations to the master for completing the task. The system rewards the master with all the technology of the Nantianmen Project [Heaven’s Gate Project, a hypothetical space program], effective immediately.”

Numerous characters, words, images, etc., appeared in Yang Chen’s mind, and everything returned to normal after a few seconds.

Technological ascension was just around the corner.

Ying Zheng looked in the direction Yang Chen left for a long time, reluctant to leave until it was dark.

Ying Zheng called Meng Tian over and instructed, “Minister Meng, make a terracotta figure of the Prime Minister and place it in the imperial tomb. If I die unexpectedly one day, I hope to see him every day.”

Meng Tian immediately said, “Your humble servant obeys! Your Majesty, has the Prime Minister returned again?”

Ying Zheng nodded and replied, “Yes, he has left again… and after leaving this time, he may never return. The Prime Minister said that his mission was to help me complete the unification and save hundreds of thousands of Qin soldiers. Now that his mission is complete, he may not be able to return. However, before leaving, the Prime Minister gifted me 2,300 years of life. I have plenty of time to recuperate and then conquer all the land on that globe.”

“Two thousand three hundred years? That’s great! If Your Majesty can live so long, you will definitely lead the soldiers of Great Qin to conquer the barbarians. Your Majesty is the chosen one and will surely reign for thousands of generations!” Meng Tian said happily.

Ying Zheng nodded with a smile and said, “The Prime Minister’s last instruction to me before leaving was to conquer all the land on this globe, and I will certainly not disappoint him. I will adopt a policy of recuperation and encourage the people of Great Qin to have children. People are the foundation of combat power. Every household will be rewarded for having a second child, and the reward will be doubled for each additional child!”

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On the other side, after returning to the Gong Wang Mansion [Prince Gong’s Mansion, a historical site in Beijing], Yang Chen tried to find Ying Zheng through the time-space gate again, but found that he couldn’t go through.

The time-space gate was like that; it could only be used for time travel when there was a mission, and it lost its time travel function once the mission was completed.

Yang Chen packed some clothes and returned to Hai City.

The entire industrial system of the Star Group was in Hai City and its surrounding cities, and the Star Scientific Research Base was also in Hai City. Yang Chen’s Nantianmen Project naturally had to be implemented in Hai City.

The Nantianmen Project involved too many advanced technologies. Yang Chen needed to teach the researchers little by little, and after teaching them, they would develop the physical objects.

The “Force Field Drive Array” alone took them a month to study, and they barely understood it, still far from fully grasping it.

Late at night, Yang Chen returned to the lakeside island villa.

Yu Shishi ran out to greet him with surprise.

“Honey, I have good news for you. Do you want to hear it?” Yu Shishi asked, her face beaming.

Yang Chen nodded with a smile and said, “Yes, I want to hear it. What’s the good news? Tell me.”

“My period is over 10 days late this month and hasn’t come yet. It used to be very punctual, this is the first time it’s been late,” Yu Shishi said happily.

Yang Chen immediately picked up Yu Shishi and said with a smile, “Really! It seems I’m quite good, a one-shot wonder. Come, let me take your pulse.”

“Hehe… okay,” Yu Shishi said happily, extending her right hand.

Yang Chen took Yu Shishi’s pulse and quickly diagnosed that it was a pregnancy pulse, and with twin sons.

Yang Chen excitedly hugged Yu Shishi and kissed her, saying, “You’re amazing, twins, sons.”

“Ah? Really? Can you tell if it’s a boy or a girl by taking the pulse?” Yu Shishi asked.

Yang Chen replied with a smile, “Of course. Experienced doctors can tell whether it’s a boy or a girl based on experience. Oh dear, it would have been nice to have one boy and one girl. Two sons mean I have to buy two houses and prepare two betrothal gifts.”

Yu Shishi covered her mouth and laughed, saying, “Our family can afford two houses and two betrothal gifts, right? If you still want a daughter, we can have a second or third child. Besides, there’s also Miss Xue, maybe she will give you a daughter.”

Speak of Cao Cao, and Cao Cao arrives [idiom meaning ‘speak of the devil’].

Xue Yinong walked over with a smile.

“What are you talking about? You’re so happy,” Xue Yinong asked with a smile.

Yu Shishi stepped forward and pulled Xue Yinong over, saying with a smile, “Didn’t I go to Beijing for a few days last month? Then my period is over ten days late this month.”

Xue Yinong instantly understood what she meant and immediately jumped up excitedly, saying, “Really! Congratulations, congratulations. You should have told me, I would have gone to the hospital with you to get it checked.” Yu Shishi shyly glanced at Yang Chen, then said with a smile, “Yang Chen took my pulse just now, he said it’s twin sons.”

“Really! That’s great, that’s great. Your belly is so promising, twins at once,” Xue Yinong said excitedly.

Yang Chen flicked his hair and said smugly, “It’s mainly because I’m good.”

Xue Yinong laughed and said, “Yes, yes, you’re good. Then why haven’t you been performing all this time? Did you have to wait until we were all old before you got anxious?”

Yang Chen said with a smile, “I have to earn money to support the family, raising children is expensive. Let’s go inside and talk.”

The three happily walked inside.

Xue Yinong waved her hand to Yang Chen and said, “You go do your own thing, I want to chat with Shishi alone.”

Yang Chen nodded and went upstairs.

Xue Yinong immediately pulled Yu Shishi aside and whispered, “Hey, tell me, what positions did you use…”

Xue Yinong earnestly asked Yu Shishi for advice, hoping that she could also conceive twins.

Chang’e 6 [Chinese lunar mission] finally returned with lunar soil.

Yang Chen immediately called Hu Ming and asked him for some lunar soil to study.

Hu Ming was also very generous and immediately reported to his superiors and applied for 20 grams of lunar soil for Yang Chen.

Yang Chen handed the lunar soil over to the researchers at Xingchen Technology to study, to find out the composition of the lunar soil, whether it contained moisture, and a series of other issues. Finally, they would use these 20 grams of lunar soil to make bricks for performance testing, to prepare data and theory for building a lunar base in the future.

The research results came out quickly. The lunar soil did not contain organic components and could not be used to grow plants.

This result not only made Yang Chen feel frustrated, but also disappointed the people of the whole country.

The Chinese people went to the moon but couldn’t farm, wasn’t this a matter of life and death?

However, the bricks made of lunar soil were very good, and their various properties met the requirements for building houses.

But now there was a problem. These data were obtained from tests conducted in the Earth’s environment. The environment on the moon was very different from the environment on Earth. It was hard to say whether these bricks would still meet the needs for building houses on the moon.

Therefore, Yang Chen urgently needed to send the bricks made of lunar soil into space for exposure testing to see if the bricks could still meet the requirements for building houses in the space environment.

With the efforts of all the researchers at the aerospace division of Xingchen Technology, the Xingchen-1 space station was ready for launch.

Yang Chen had promised netizens that he would launch the space station by the spring of this year at the latest, and now he was going to fulfill his promise.

Yang Chen posted a Weibo [Chinese microblogging website].

“Sharing a piece of good news with everyone, the Xingchen-1 space station is scheduled to launch on March 8th. We will broadcast the entire launch process live. This launch will have 4 astronauts going into space together. Their mission this time is to experience space travel and conduct lunar soil brick exposure tests. If all goes well, we will soon provide space station tourism services. Interested friends remember to pay attention.”

Soon Yang Chen’s Weibo spread all over the Internet, and excited netizens came to leave comments.

“Boss Yang really keeps his word. He said he would launch in the spring of this year, and he really launched in the spring.”

“How much does it cost? If it’s within a million, I’ll sell my house to experience it.”

“Oh my god, science fiction has really come into reality. Are we really entering the era of space tourism?”

“Dad, I won’t go on space tourism, but you must take me with you when you ascend to the moon.”

……

When Hu Ming saw Yang Chen’s Weibo, he immediately called him.

“President Yang, congratulations on your upcoming launch of the space station. We can be space neighbors then. Haha…” Hu Ming said with a smile.

Yang Chen also laughed and said, “Space is so big, it’s still reassuring to have our own people.”

“That’s right, that’s right. I saw that President Yang said he was going to conduct lunar soil brick exposure experiments. Can you also take a few bricks up for us to test?” Hu Ming asked.

Yang Chen said with a smile, “Of course, no problem. We don’t have any special tasks anyway, mainly to collect various data about living in space. Send your lunar soil bricks over, and I’ll have them take them up together for exposure experiments.”

“Okay, okay. I’ll personally send them to your launch base. Are you at the Wenchang base [launch facility in Hainan] now?” Hu Ming asked.

Yang Chen replied with a smile, “I’m not in Wenchang, I’m in Sanya [city in Hainan]. However, I’ll go to Wenchang the day before the launch. Why don’t you come to Sanya, and I’ll take you for a stroll on the sea?”

“Haha… thank you, thank you. I’m too embarrassed to go for a stroll. Seeing that your progress is so fast, I have to hurry up on my side, otherwise you’ll be the first to establish a base on the moon,” Hu Ming said with a smile.

Yang Chen had already solved all the technical research and development problems and was only waiting to test and calculate some key data before he could start building a lunar base.

The Aerospace Bureau still lacked a lot of technical reserves, and it would take at least 20 years before it could try to build a base on the moon.

Therefore, this competition was destined for Yang Chen to win.

Yang Chen was now going to carry out the lunar base plan and the Nantianmen plan at the same time. After he ascended to the moon, he needed a fleet of interstellar ships to protect his safety.

Even if he didn’t encounter aliens, he had to have security forces to defend against meteorites and other dangers.

“Haha… okay, you’re busy, I have to go to the deck to bask in the sun,” Yang Chen said with a smile.

Hanging up the phone, Yang Chen went to the deck to bask in the sun with Yu Shishi, Xue Yinong, Wang Jiayi, and a group of other confidantes.