At this moment, although the total number of clones had exceeded 100 million, Tom still maintained his conscious connection at around 80 million, as there were always clones resting at any given time of the day.

After the agricultural comprehensive base and the clone cultivation factory were all completed, Tom did not hesitate, directly controlling these 80 million clones to be fully invested in the construction of numerous other factories.

Almost every type of factory needed to be expanded five to six times beyond their current level.

Correspondingly, the number of trains, railway lines, passenger cars, spaceships, and so on, also needed to be expanded to five to six times their current number to meet the various demands after the population surge.

Thus, the clone cultivation factory became the busiest place in the entire Jupiter system.

This was still the result of Tom specifically adjusting the clone cultivation batches to avoid a large-scale appearance of clones in a short period, which would impact existing transportation, supply, and energy lines.

The current cultivation method is no longer to have 15 million clones born concentrated every six months, but to distribute these 15 million clones evenly for birth every day.

In this way, approximately 41,000 clones will appear from the cultivation factory every day, and this will remain stable, no longer fluctuating wildly.

This makes it easier to allocate corresponding resources.

At the clone cultivation factory, Tom specifically set up material reserve warehouses, storing a large number of personal items such as clothes, food, shoes, hats, and towels, and also mobilized a large amount of transport capacity here.

Just after midnight every day, about 41,000 clones appear and are moved to the lounge by robots and clones.

After resting for more than half a day, these newly born clones line up and move quickly in a quiet and solemn manner, first arriving at the clothing distribution point to receive their clothes, then flowing like an assembly line to the nearby cafeteria to eat their first meal in life.

Every day, the clothing factory produces tens of thousands of sets of clothes, which are then transported by roaring trains and dispersed to various clothing collection points.

The food base and central kitchen also produce massive amounts of raw materials and semi-finished food, so much that trains are also needed to transport them, train after train, into the cafeterias of the clone cultivation factory, and into the stomachs of the clones.

But no matter how many clothes and how much food are transported in, the warehouses here never fill up, like a bottomless pit.

No matter how many supplies are brought in, they are all consumed by the large number of newly born clones.

After eating, the clones orderly get up again to collect other personal items, and finally, they gather at the main entrance of the clone cultivation factory by taking internal shuttle buses.

Tom had left dozens of such entrances.

But even so, at every entrance, there was always a crowd of clones waiting.

Buses quickly drove up, a group of clones orderly boarded, the bus quickly left, and then, the next bus arrived, again pulling away a group of clones, 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, always like this, without interruption.

Because as many clones are taken away, so many clones are born from the factory, never stopping for a moment.

These clones will be transported to the Ganymede Central Station.

Here, according to the different work Tom planned for each clone, they began to go their separate ways.

Some boarded trains bound for another base, and there entered a certain factory, a certain construction site, or a certain base, laboratory, and so on.

Some clones boarded trains bound for the space elevator, where they ascended into space, taking spaceships to other planets, or space bases, Jupiter ring bases, and so on.

Some clones would also join the transportation work, becoming a part of this clone transfer work.

Under these circumstances, the total number of clones under Tom finally increased to about 150 million.

Thus, while ensuring that every clone had sufficient rest time and was not overly tired, Tom was finally able to maintain his consciousness link at 100 million at all times.

His production capacity finally reached its peak.

But at this time, clone cultivation had not stopped.

In addition to these regular clones, Tom also needed some clones as reserves.

In case of accidents or war, resulting in a large number of clones dying, he could immediately replenish them.

In fact, even if the number of clones under Tom reached the predetermined number of 200 million, clone production would not stop; it would only slow down, maintaining a level of about 10 million clones produced annually, constantly increasing reserves.

After another period of busy construction, with 150 million clones resting in shifts, and under Tom's full effort, the scale of Tom's base clusters and industrial system throughout the Jupiter system finally expanded to five times its original size, finally matching the current population.

At this time, 40 years had passed since Tom arrived in the Jupiter system.

The various bases began to enter a stable operational state, and large-scale construction finally came to an end.

Thus, a large number of clones became temporarily idle.

But it didn't matter.

The scientific research system, which Tom had already advanced to a relatively high stage, possessed extreme complexity, where a large academic discipline could be divided into hundreds or thousands of small branches, and a small branch could have hundreds or thousands of topics, with each topic requiring anywhere from dozens to tens of thousands of clones to research with full effort, now urgently needed sufficient human and brainpower supplementation.

Thus, the approximately 70 million clones who were temporarily idle, with about 50 million supplementing the operation of those newly built factories and bases, the remaining 20 million clones were like a giant water tower, flowing through pipes that spread throughout the city, dividing more and more finely, and finally extending to every household, flowing into every minute scientific branch.

The addition of this huge number of clones had an almost instantaneous and visible impact.

On the first day of full work, Tom saw that the number of various subtle technological advancements directly surged to the millions, almost comparable to an entire month in the past!

Tom's scientific system was like a massive, heavy train, and these numerous small breakthroughs and advancements were like pairs of arms.

At this moment, propelled by these numerous arms, it finally began to move forward slowly.

Under these circumstances, there was finally a great piece of news from the Nuclear Fission Propulsion Laboratory.

The secondary pressurized thruster, powered by both nuclear fission and chemical fuel, finally completed its initial miniaturization!

Its mass was directly reduced from the initial 3,000 tons to only 260 tons.

But its efficiency was greatly improved.

Calculated by average propulsion power per unit of fuel, it actually increased to about twice the original!

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