Resurrection Empire

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Ren Zhong had no choice but to comfort him in turn: "You took my order to do this. What's wrong with you? Is it because you carried out my order to the letter? Don't be sad, be down-to-earth Really come back, everything is under my control. You have been away from great achievements for 15 years. Go to sleep peacefully, and wake up when you arrive at Chifeng Star, then you will naturally know what happened."

After the trio was settled down again, Ren Zhong received a communication from Marvell Louis again.

Marvell cut to the chase: "Brother Ren Zhong, I already know about the situation in your clan. Now many people are waiting for the Chifeng clan to collapse, what are your plans?"

Ren Zhong pondered that he had to act a little bit more, and he only sighed and said, "Come and cover the water with soil. For the time being, we can only take one step and see one step at a time."

Chapter 582 Domineering and dictatorial Marvell, never tire of deceit

Marvell Louis had a deep understanding of Ren Zhong, and when he heard his behavior, he became nervous first.

In Marvell's eyes, his good brother who hit it off at first sight was a true hero who never changed his face before the stars collapsed, but now he also looks extremely depressed.

His situation is really not easy.

This economic matter is really powerful, and three contribution points can really beat a hero.

Marvell thought for a moment, and then said affectionately: "There is a heavy responsibility, things have already happened, and we have to think of ways to deal with them. How can we take one step at a time. Didn't you say that the war is coming soon? If it is still a time of peace, The stagnation of development also stagnates, and it can always recover slowly. But from time to time, and now, every day of stagnation in production and development, there will be less force when it comes to war. The so-called war, although on the surface it is just a confrontation between two armies It is a decisive battle, but behind it is the logistics and productivity of the competition, as well as whether the preparation work is good or not."

Ren Zhong is still playing, nodded and said yes, "Yes. The only good news is that my people are loyal, and there is no need to worry about rebellion due to the economic crisis. I will sell some properties and release some of my own. The results of technological research, if you sell some galaxies and reduce the scale, you can always get through it slowly. It's a pity that a large number of military industries that I have managed to build over the past few decades have to be either stopped or sold. I am training half of the new fighters , and had to be temporarily repatriated to allow them to engage in basic work again. The education standards of those children who have not yet grown up have to be continuously reduced. In the long run, when the war starts, I can probably only maintain a peace The combat power of the fleet under the command of the Earl of Nanxiang is similar. Sigh."

"Absolutely not!" Marvell's emotions became agitated, "If the preparation of the sublimator is really so comprehensive and on such a large scale as you said, it is absolutely impossible to resist it with the existing power of the three star fields. , may even be defeated like a mountain. In case many star gates are also occupied by the enemy in one fell swoop, the rescue from the center will be beyond our reach, and what awaits us is a catastrophe. At that time, let alone counterattack the homeland, we are afraid Even escaping is a luxury.”

Ren Zhong sighed again, "But there is no way."

"Well, let me think about it." In the video communication, Marvell stood up and wandered back and forth, as if making a difficult decision.

His brows were tightly furrowed, as if he was at war with heaven and man in his heart, and the expression on his face was sometimes determined and sometimes struggling, showing extreme embarrassment.

Seeing Marvel like this, Ren Zhong felt a little embarrassed, thinking to himself, am I acting too much?Anyway, the answer to the mystery is about to be revealed, otherwise tell him the truth.

Cough cough, but just sold out badly, made this good brother uneasy, and immediately slapped himself in the face, a little embarrassed.Also, the information flow communication of this empire supernet has ears after all, and it is not safe enough.

On the opposite side, after tens of seconds, Marvel seemed to have finally made up his mind, and slapped the table next to him heavily, "I've decided!"

Ren Zhong: "Ah? What?"

"Although the current funds of the Marquis Mansion are also very tight, there can always be some turnover. I will give you a batch of interest-free loans first, and the loan amount should be able to cover the five-year mortgage for you at the Duke Wenle Mansion. I will order the transportation team to bring the energy battery across the star gate, and help you solve the urgent need first. In any case, the production of invisible paint cannot be stopped, and if it stops, it will be over." Marvell Louie seemed to be gnashing his teeth said.

Ren was shocked, "The interest-free loan is not bad. I can use it to purchase more energy batteries, and it can also be used to pay the mortgage loan owed to Duke Wenle. However, the loss of energy batteries is huge when they pass through the star gate." .The three-month voyage from the area where the Marquis Mansion is located to the Nanxiang Star Cluster is 50.00 light years, and the battery drain rate exceeds [-]%, which is not worth it."

Marvell said with emotion: "There is no way, no choice. The bottom line of the matter is that you have neglected the construction of the Dyson megastructure these years, resulting in insufficient energy self-sufficiency. However, your Chifeng tribe has another in the Nanxiang star cluster. The industrial production capacity is second to none, and the energy consumption is the highest. But now is not the time to seek fault. The real problem is, if I don’t give you energy batteries, then other forces in the Nanxiang star cluster who hold energy batteries, especially Nanxiang Bo Liu An will definitely take the opportunity to raise the price again until it reaches your limit and squeezes out every penny of your funds. At that time, I will either turn a blind eye to your situation, or just If you can end up with me, Duke Wen Le and Nanxiang Bo will not release the blood of your family, but the blood of our two families."

Speaking of later, Marvell's tone already had some determination of a strong man breaking his wrist.

It's really embarrassing to make the responsibility heavy.

It seems that after being an otaku for so many years, not only has my acting skills not regressed, but she has quietly improved too much, acting too much.

He was about to have a showdown with Marvell Louis, but he didn't think that the Marvell brothers on the other side seemed to be in a hurry. They only told Ren Zhong to wait for him for 10 minutes at ease, then hung up the communication in a hurry, leaving Ren Zhong stunned on the spot.

Ren Zhong was about to dial again, but a new communication request came, from Wen Yuanbo, Earl of the branch of the royal family.

The former Viscount Wen Yuanbo, after suffering for many years, relied on the tolls provided by the large number of ships that shuttled from the Broken Star Ring to create a large amount of profits. It can be regarded as a daughter-in-law who has become a mother-in-law for many years and was successfully promoted to Earl.

Behind this incident, in all likelihood, there is the efforts of Wen Zaiyin, the chief executive of the Nanxiang military and political hub.

Although Wen Zaiyin and Wen Yuanbo do not come from the same bloodline, and the blood relationship between them is extremely far apart, after all, they have a surname on their heads, so they will not be like Liu An in the past, not only not helping, but even suppressing Wen Yuanbo in turn.

Wen Yuanbo gave Ren Zhong good news.

He actually told Ren Zhong that although there were many difficulties, he still persuaded the elders of his family to give a low-interest loan to Chifeng Earl's Mansion.Its interest rate is lower than the loan of the Duke of Wenle, and the total amount can cover about one year's mortgage payment.

Although the money is not much, it is considered a timely gift.

Money is such a heavy responsibility, of course, it is not too much, but I am very grateful to accept it.

It is said that true friendship is seen in times of adversity, and Marvell and Wen Yuanbo's righteous actions made the "in trouble" feel a little warmth.

Others don't know the inside story. In fact, these two people brought money here at this time, not only risking offending Duke Wen Le's mansion, but also risking losing everything.

On the other hand, Marvell Louis is showing his authoritarian side.

It is his personal decision to fully rescue Chifeng Bo, and it has not been discussed in Zhenjiang Marquis Mansion.

This is clearly a waste of money.

Although everyone in the Marquis' mansion knew that Lord Marquis loved Uncle Chi Feng very much, and also knew that Uncle Chi Feng had amazing potential, but potential was potential after all, and they had to be responsible for Lord Marquis' property.

You know, Zhenjiang Marquis Mansion is different from other marquises, and has always had an obsession with counterattacking the countryside.

Ever since, Marvell encountered great resistance in this small meeting with only a dozen or so people, and some people even proposed to invite the Marquis to make a decision.

At this time, it was Marvell who grasped the key to the matter, and asked everyone: "Since ancient times, has the Lord Marquis ever tidied anyone's clothes with his own hands? Lord Marquis once entrusted his assistant Qi Qi to think I want to practice reproduction with Uncle Chi Feng. If she really decides, what do you think will happen? Seeing Uncle Chi Feng's current situation, will she double the standard I proposed?"

The audience was dumbfounded.

Everyone recalled Uncle Chi Feng's extraordinary canonization ceremony in their minds.

Back then, the scene where Lord Marquis personally put on the purple robe for Uncle Chi Feng was just horrifying.

Many senior officials in the Zhenjiang Marquis' Mansion suddenly realized that with the Marquis' personality, the scene that Uncle Zhan Feng said was entirely possible!

After a while, Marvell Louie finally suppressed all the voices, and first issued the order to quickly form a transport team immediately, and must set off within a week.

Then Marvell knocked on Ren Zhong's communication and told Ren Zhong the good news.

Marvell first briefly introduced the situation at the small meeting, and then said: "It is a heavy responsibility, I have tried my best. I can only help you so much for the time being. As I said, if conditions permit, I really want to invite the Marquis My lord. But you also know that she is in a special situation, and she must not wake up easily. With my authority, I can only do so much."

Seeing Marvell's tired face, Ren Zhong's face still blushed secretly caused by arguing with others in agitation. He obviously helped a lot, but he said something slightly apologetic, and finally couldn't help it. Said: "Marville, I really can't hold it anymore. I really don't need energy."

"Huh? Why?"

"It's not convenient for me to say it at the moment, but the energy issue is really nothing to worry about. You will know after a while."

"This……"

"As for the battery, I really don't need it here. But since the fleet has already been built, it's better to replace the goods with these things. I have an urgent need here, and I also buy it at the market price. I will wait for the product to come out later. My side It will also be sold back at the best price. The army under the Marquis Mansion will definitely use it."

After finishing speaking, Ren Zhong actually sent Marvell a list of goods, most of which are some rare specialties in the Far Frontier Star Field, which are used in many new weapons, and are indeed in short supply.

Marvell only took a cursory look, and immediately knew that he had come prepared for heavy responsibilities. He was taken aback and asked, "Not only do you not plan to shrink the scale, but you want to increase production capacity instead?"

"Of course!"

"This..." Marvell pondered for a long time, but he didn't know how to describe the madness of the heavy responsibility.

He hesitated to speak several times, but seeing Ren Zhong's confident face again, and thinking about Ren Zhong's resourcefulness all along, he finally stopped persuading him and said, "Well, I'll wait for your good news. Sigh , Speaking of it, it has been more than ten years, you haven't changed much, but I am getting older day by day. Time is not forgiving. "

Ren Zhong also sighed: "Yes."

……

In the eyes of countless people, nearly a month passed.

Whether it is the Nanxiang Star Cluster or the Far Frontier Star Field, or even the Tianxuanwei, the center of the empire, or many people in the Duke Wenle's mansion, they all stared at the territory of the Chifeng Earl's Mansion with wide eyes.

Everyone is waiting for the day when the Chi Feng tribe will completely run out of food.

But at this time, almost within the same day, one after another large rectangular transport ship with the characteristics of the Chifeng clan drilled out of the warp subspace passage, and rushed to the transit space stations built in many galaxies one after another. .

Then, one after another, the standardized containers were dragged by small and medium-sized transport ships, and rushed to the high-altitude orbit of the planet under the rule of the Chifeng Earl's Mansion.

Immediately afterwards, these containers were sent to space shipbuilding space stations, space factories, or transported to the surface of the planet by space elevators, and then quickly sent to various cities and factories through the orbital transportation network intertwined on the surface of the planet. .

Although there are anti-gravity aircraft, after cost calculation, people still find that it is more cost-effective to use a relatively slower rail transit network.Although the energy saved per unit of transport capacity is not much, when the scale of civilization becomes larger and the cargo throughput is greater, the cost advantage brought about by this accumulation is also amazing.

Looking at the Nanxiang star cluster, and even looking at the distant star field and the entire empire, there are not many nobles like the Chifeng clan who are clearly developed and powerful, but still know how to live and save transportation costs. .

……

A full 30 days later, weird things started happening.

The Chifeng tribe did not fall into a major stagnation due to lack of energy as many people expected. Not only that, many large projects that were only in planning before, but were not implemented on the ground, unexpectedly started to be comprehensive at almost the same time. start work.

I saw that on one planet after another, one huge construction site after another was rapidly enclosing land.

The scale of these construction sites is so large that they can be seen clearly even if they are observed at high altitudes in the universe tens of light seconds apart using optical telescopes.

What's even more exaggerated is that the Chi Feng clan actually began to gradually hollow out some planets with high metal content.

Some knowledgeable people recognize this trick, which is clearly to use the planet as the original skeleton to build a super-large starry sky fortress.

The most exaggerated, but it has to be what is happening in the Liaoyuan galaxy full of garbage stars.A gigantic space project composed of countless modular parts is being rapidly formed above the garbage star ring.

All the onlookers were shocked.

People don't understand what's going on.

Chifeng Earl's Mansion did not purchase an energy battery at all during this month.

The aid fleet of Zhenjiang Marquis Mansion is still on the way.

Where did Uncle Chi Feng conjure up so many new energy sources?

It was also at this time that Ren Zhong and Yang Misi, who had disappeared from the perspective of ordinary people for a long time, appeared at the scene of a press conference at the same time.

Facing the reporters with question marks all over their foreheads, Ren Zhong and Yang Misi, a former scholar who is well-known in the empire, announced two brand new patented technologies at the same time.

One, it is possible to add an iteration cycle of scrap metal utilization cycle, and add more than ten cycles of new scrap metal recycling technology on the basis of the empire's existing cutting-edge metal recycling technology.

Second, new dark matter capture development and utilization technology.

This move shocked the empire.

Chapter 583 Mingxiu plank road secretly hides Chen Cang, despicable and shameless Uncle Chifeng

Yang Misi has been in Nanxiang Star Cluster for more than ten years.

Although Sun Ai concealed some information, the Chifeng tribe is a big fan after all, so it is still necessary to selectively release some reasonable things to fool the "Imperial Supernet".

Therefore, whether it is Duke Wenle's Mansion or Tianxuanwei, many people know that Yang Misi has resumed his old business in the Nanxiang star cluster, thinking about dark matter development technology.

But people don't take it seriously.

It's really not that others look down on Yang Misi.

But since many years, this dark matter development technology has already fallen into a bottleneck.

In the General Academy of the Royal Academy of Sciences, a large amount of money and a huge amount of manpower and material resources are still invested in this project every year, but there is no effect for a long time, but it is impossible to give up such an important project.

Therefore, even a little bit of reading, anyone with a little brain knows how difficult it is to innovate the technology of dark matter utilization.

Even if the person in charge of the project is Yang Misi, who is more likely to break the barrier than others, he should not achieve anything in just a dozen years. For this matter, the timeline must be extended to tens of thousands of years. calculate.

Now Misi Yang is only joining a small-scale private research and development institution under the Earl's Mansion, so there is no reason why it can produce any results.

But by chance, he did it.

According to the technical parameters announced by Yang Misi, the new dark matter development technology can at least improve the efficiency by at least a hundred times on the basis of existing technologies.

Yes, a hundred times, or at least.

For many human technologies, let alone a hundred times, even a 50% increase in efficiency is enough to trigger a qualitative change, let alone a hundred times.

The biggest change brought about by the new technology with a hundred times efficiency is to revolutionize the Dyson megastructure project.

The Dyson megastructure project is based on the radiant energy of stars. The advantage is that once it is built, it can be effective until the stars die out. It can be said to be once and for all.

As long as one is built, it is enough to support an earl's hereditary succession.

But its shortcomings are also obvious, that is, it is too large, the construction cost is too high, too much resources are consumed, the maintenance cost is not low, and it is extremely difficult to dismantle and transfer after completion.

The resources needed to manufacture a complete Dyson megastructure are enough to arm a medium-level earl-class fleet.

This is the fundamental reason that even in the Nanxiang star cluster, except for a few earls such as Nanxiang Bo Liu An who have a small number of complete Dyson megastructures, no one else can get this thing.

The vast majority of nobles, even if many viscounts unite, can only build some incomplete small-scale Dyson projects.

The dark matter development technology is different, with the characteristics of miniaturization, discretization, and high mobility.

The reason why the previous dark matter development technology cannot completely replace the Dyson megastructure project lies in its high equipment manufacturing cost, low collection efficiency, high equipment maintenance cost, and fast consumption of consumables, etc. , causing it to be used only on a small scale in some regions lacking stars, and it has not been fully expanded.

But now, the hundredfold efficiency and lower maintenance cost brought by Yang Misi's new dark matter technology have made this technology complete a complete qualitative change.

If it can be fully promoted, in time, it can even completely replace the Dyson megastructure project and become the next generation of core energy supply means for mankind.

This technology alone is enough to shock the whole machine empire.

Besides, the new scrap metal recycling technology is also revolutionary.