The unprecedentedly massive construction finally began.
Tom invested as many as 50,000 Clones into this construction task.
In addition, Tom was simultaneously carrying out hundreds of other construction tasks.
With the surge in population, industrial capacity, and technological research and development capabilities, the existing hundreds of mining bases were clearly no longer sufficient.
In the next phase, Tom needed to extract more minerals.
Thus, from the remaining 10,000 Clones, Tom dispatched 5,000 Clones, who, riding trains, trucks, excavators, bulldozers, crushers, etc., formed a mighty construction army and set off for the larger, more distant locations that had already been prospected in advance to build new mines there.
Of course, it was just to build the mines; there was no need to start mining yet, as there weren't enough personnel at the moment.
