#78 - Chapter 78 2055 Ark Project
Tian Huamao nodded and stopped talking.
"There is also a question of whether we should make this emergency plan public? According to the current plan, the underground base has a full capacity of 1.2 million people. And our Hua country currently conservatively estimates that there are still about 600 million people. If we want to accommodate the entire population, we need to build at least 500 such underground bases." Shang Yangping of the Ministry of Civil Affairs paused and continued:
"Assuming that all the technical plans are made public, do the local authorities have the ability to build underground bases? Moreover, the public panic caused by the disclosure of information may lead to riots and wars in various resettlement camps."
"If it is not made public, how many such bases can we build in a year or two relying on ourselves? One or two? Then where will the rest of the people go?"
This is a very sharp question.
Given the current situation, it is still possible for the parliament to concentrate its forces to build one or two survival bases in a year or two, but it is unrealistic to build hundreds. If the parliament has difficulty completing the work, the local authorities have almost no ability to complete it. In this way, almost all resettlement camps will be wiped out within two or three years after the outbreak of the ecological crisis.
The congressmen did not speak.
Hu Qingying, the director of the Ministry of Health, said:
"I think it is necessary to make the technical plan and construction technology public, at least there is still hope of survival. Otherwise, within 2 years, almost all the people of Hua country will die of starvation. But in order to avoid public panic, I think the news should be passed on to the highest-level managers of each resettlement camp. And promise that if they have not built an underground base after the crisis breaks out, the managers will be allowed to bring their families into our underground base. In this way, the news can be spread out, and the stability of the resettlement camp can be maintained as much as possible. As for how many people will survive in the end, we can only leave it to fate."
"What I need to emphasize is that the focus of our consideration is no longer on guaranteeing how many people will survive. But to ensure that human civilization is not cut off. So who can enter the base? Who should survive? It should be those experts and scholars from all walks of life, as well as young people. They are the future."
The congressmen frowned, and it was obvious that they did not quite agree.
Hu Qingying's proposal was too naive, and its implementation would inevitably encounter heavy resistance.
Once the news is released, it will not be controlled by the parliament. An open secret will no longer be a secret. Furthermore, who will determine this list? Who should die? Who should live? And what are the criteria? You say you are an expert, and I also say I am.
In the face of survival, no one will be humble, and in the end, it will still be chaos.
Although Hu Qingying's proposal is too naive, the angle is right, and the inheritance of civilization is higher than survival.
"How about this, let's release some of the news. The parliament will announce all the technical plans for building underground bases, and suggest that resettlement camps with conditions should start construction as soon as possible. Those without the conditions can jointly build with multiple resettlement camps. And inform each resettlement camp to use this method to deal with possible crises in the future. But let's keep the outbreak of the ecological crisis a secret for the time being," Yan Zhengping said.
The congressmen nodded in agreement.
In this way, the parliament and the local authorities have formed a kind of complementarity.
The two goals of the inheritance of civilization and the survival of mankind have achieved coexistence.
The emergency plan was eventually named the "2055 Ark Plan". For security reasons, the complete plan was only known to the 19 congressmen who participated in the meeting.
Subsequently, as part of the "2055 Ark Plan", the "2055 Human Survival White Paper", which was formulated with the goal of guiding human survival, was printed and distributed to various resettlement camps two months after the end of the parliamentary meeting.
This white paper disclosed the technical standards for the construction of underground bases, as well as a simplified version of the human life support system.
At the same time, the military also began a series of intensive mobilizations.
The entire Southeast Military Region withdrew north and took over the peacekeeping mission in the northern part of the Central Military Region along the Yangtze River.
The Southwest Military Region retained Shuchuan and abandoned the three provinces of Nanjiang, Huguang, and Beihai. The troops were transferred to Lazang in the Northwest region for rest.
Subsequently, the Southwest Military Region, the Northwest Military Region, and the Northeast Military Region each transferred two divisions, a total of 60,000 people, to cooperate with the Central Military Region to start construction of the country's first large-scale underground human survival base, the Mosang Ark Base, in the uninhabited area of Mosang Gobi in western Xinjiang.
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March 18, 2055 AD.
Hushan Province, Haizhou City, Matang Resettlement Camp.
21:30 in the evening.
It was late at night, and everyone should have rested at this time. But tonight, no one is sleeping.
Matang Resettlement Camp is located on an isolated island at the mouth of the Yangtze River.
The only connection to this isolated island is a 2-kilometer-long bridge across the river, the Ma'an Bridge.
Due to the lack of electricity, both the bridge and the island are pitch black.
But even in such a night, looking along the night light, you can clearly see people moving on the bridge.
To be precise, those are not people, but walking zombies.
They walk very slowly, crowding the bridge.
"Have you contacted the military region?" Zuo Wenshan, the mayor of Haizhou City, asked.
