Resurrection Empire

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Not only that, but also during these five years, the enterprises under the Duke of Wenle's Mansion have been quietly raising the prices of their products one after another.

Although the products after the price increase are still more cost-effective than self-produced products, a slight increase in the price of each product will collectively leverage a huge amount of funds.

After careful calculation, that is to say, in the past five years, the per capita living standard of the Chifeng clan has not improved compared to the past, but has even declined slightly.

Of course, no one will complain. After all, the Chifeng tribe has only established the flag for a short time. The core people still remember the hardships of the ancestors who came from the source star, and also remember the miserable days of the ancestors on the source star. However, the non-staff people who were once pirates have not forgotten the precariousness of the past.

But in any case, the situation is already very dangerous.

Tang Tu said anxiously: "It's a big trouble, and now the material reserves are complete. With the Earl's plan, I guess we will be able to find a way to reuse these scrap metals, and we will make a big fuss and start a big industry. But Expansion of industry means a huge demand for energy. Things like energy batteries, unlike ordinary commodities, will suffer a lot of loss when traveling through the star gate, so they are basically provided by the local Nanxiang star cluster. So when our demand When it rises, the price of energy in the Nanxiang star cluster will definitely rise. The economy of the clan is only adequate now, if the price of energy increases again, it will not be able to make ends meet.”

"That's right." Mao Jin nodded in a muffled voice.

On the contrary, Wu You seemed very confident, "Don't worry, Mr. Earl is as wise as the sea, how could he not consider this situation."

At this moment, the secretary of the three people suddenly walked into the conference room, and said in panic, "Something happened."

"what's up?"

The three asked in unison.

The secretary did not answer, but only forwarded an official document that had just been sent from Duke Wenle's mansion.

When the three of them saw it, they were all silent.

They were "backstabbed".

Over the years, they have established a very good personal relationship with many merchants, marquises, earls, viscounts and other nobles in the star field under the Duke of Wenle's mansion.

But just now, these "good brothers" of them actually sent a joint signed notice, stating that they have completed the ship renovation work and will immediately stop the purchase of Chifeng paint.

At the same time, they also announced that they would not renew their respective sales agency contracts with Chifeng Paint.

Not only that, they also told the trio that His Excellency the Duke woke up not long ago, thinking that the zero-tariff treatment he provided to Uncle Chifeng had effectively helped the Chifeng clan achieve substantial development.Now, it's time to withdraw this benefit and return to the 20% tariff rate common in the empire.

What is particularly terrifying is that this 20% tariff is a bilateral tax on imports and exports.

This means that from now on, the prices of the goods delivered from Duke Wenle's mansion will increase by 20% on the spot.

The house leak coincided with the continuous night rain, and the Chifeng Commerce Department also received bad news almost at the same time. Almost all the agents located in the center of the empire sent emails in a short period of time, expressing that they would not renew their agency contracts.

This must be the work of Duke Wenle's mansion.

God knows what kind of price the Duke of Wen Le used to bring about a drastic situation for the Chi Feng clan.

After repeated attacks, the Chifeng Commerce Department soon discovered that even if the garbage star transformation project was put down first, there would be problems with the normal energy supply of the Chifeng clan.

The more serious situation is that due to the long-term dependence on the Wenle Duke Mansion in various industries, a large number of conventional material production enterprises in the Chifeng clan have shrunk significantly.

Even if the technology is still there, it is no longer realistic to quickly rebuild to restore production capacity.

On the other side, Liu An, a scumbag, also had a change.

Nanxiang Earl's Mansion announced that due to the continuous high energy consumption of the Chifeng people for more than ten years, they purchased a large number of energy batteries from Nanxiang Earl's Mansion, which led to an energy shortage in Nanxiang Earl's Mansion itself.

Therefore, the energy company under the Earl's Mansion of Nanxiang announced a 50% price increase on the spot, effective immediately.

The 43-year "national policy" of "whatever it takes" to prepare for war has finally been hit hard after more than ten years of steady progress.

Chapter 581 I Thank You

The Chi Feng tribe started their fortune on Yuanxing, and along the way, they have experienced countless battles, large and small, and they are often invincible.

Although the history of the Chifeng clan is still short, but Chifeng Bo himself, who is recognized as the strongest individual soldier in the empire, is an example. When it comes to military conquest capabilities, Ren Zhong and the army under his tent are known to everyone. People are afraid.

In the entire Far Frontier Starfield, there is now a public opinion.

People think that the actual combat power of the Earl's Mansion of Chifeng may be comparable to the army accumulated by the Earl's Mansion of Nanxiang for more than 10,000 years, but it just lacks a chance to prove itself in a big battle.

But now, what the Chi Feng clan is facing is an unprecedented economic war.

Obviously, the Chi Feng tribe was not prepared to deal with it, and it was impossible to do well.

Ren Zhong has made the whole clan carry out the military strategy for more than ten years, but anyone with a brain can see the fragility of the Chifeng clan's economic system.

Inside the Earl's Mansion of Chifeng, people often warn that such a situation is very dangerous.

But Jin Simin took the "sword of Shangfang" given by Ren Zhong, and withstood the pressure of public opinion from the bottom up.

Before the incident broke out, no one said much gradually. After all, the Chifeng tribe also got the "friendship" of Duke Wenle, Marquis of Zhenjiang, and Uncle Nanxiang at the same time. As long as the sales of invisible paint If there is no problem, the capital chain can barely maintain it.

So even if the smuggling trio's crazy behavior in Duke Wenle's mansion, Chifeng Earl's mansion also followed up.

But no one thought that Duke Wen Le and Uncle Nanxiang would turn against each other as soon as they said they would, without any warning.

In the past, in order to paralyze Ren Zhong, Liu An and Ren Zhong not only called each other brothers, but also made a lot of concessions.

But now, as the days go by, the risk of war given by the Imperial Intelligence Agency is getting higher and higher. Liu An is thinking that as soon as the war starts, he will be able to see the poor on his side and take away the burdensome people one by one. Xiao Ming, it's time to follow the pace of Duke Wenle's mansion and take a sip of soup by the way.

Liu An is very confident.

Because no matter how the price of the energy battery on Nanxiang Earl's Mansion increases, Chifeng Earl's Mansion can only recognize it with its nose.

Looking at the entire star cluster, only the energy companies in the Earl's Mansion of Nanxiang can possibly supply the needs of the Chifeng clan.

In addition, although the Nanxiang Earl's Mansion has shrunk in a large area in recent years, the Liu family's remaining prestige is still there.

Liu An had already made arrangements in advance, focusing on taking care of dozens of forces in the Nanxiang star cluster with the energy industry as the core.

When communicating with the Chief of Internal Affairs, Liu Anlue said proudly: "After this battle, the Chifeng clan will definitely be hit hard."

The head of internal affairs was a little puzzled, and asked: "My lord, since we have grasped the lifeblood of the Chifeng clan, why don't we continue to increase the price to more than 80%?"

Liu An shook his head, "That's fishing out of water. The transportation loss of energy batteries in the star gate is exactly 50%. If we double or nearly double the price, given the relationship between Uncle Chifeng and Marquis of Zhenjiang, he will definitely look far away. We can’t earn this money anymore. Now that it’s controlled to 50%, it only makes him uncomfortable, but he has to choose us. This money will not flow out of the Nanxiang Star Cluster.”

"Now the Duke of Wenle's mansion has cut off their main source of funds and cut off their way to buy cheap goods. Next, if the Chifeng people want to restore productivity, they will still have to spend a lot of money and consume a lot of energy to rebuild the enterprise. To You know, the pigs in the Chifeng tribe have been very productive these years, adding billions of people every month. There are still many underage children waiting to be fed. The children of the Chifeng tribe are not like ordinary nobles. The proportion of military training is extremely high, and the per capita expenditure is huge. Not only that, Uncle Chi Feng also made every pig-like civilian under his command study and study. Enlightenment education is nothing more than that, but to learn deeply, you need to contact A lot of experiments, all kinds of things, are huge costs. Presumably, the heavy responsibility is to let the Chifeng clan catch up with my Liu clan's more than [-] years of accumulation. I have to say, he really has ideas. Really ambitious."

"Based on what I know about Ren Zhong, he is self-willed and extremely stubborn. Once he makes a national policy, he will never waver. Even if the situation takes a turn for the worse, he will not change course easily. However, how can he make up for such a large expenditure? Gap? There is absolutely no other possibility except to transfer population and resell galaxies and industries."

"At this time, it is a great opportunity for us outside to stretch our tentacles in. Do you want to say that he can be rescued by the Zhenjiang Marquis Mansion? Hahaha, don't worry too much. As far as I know, over the years, there has been no Knowing that Uncle Zhanfeng took the wrong medicine, he also followed Uncle Chifeng's example to carry out military reforms, comprehensive equipment renovations, advanced training of personnel, and replacement of ships. The expenditure of the Marquis of Zhenjiang's mansion is also huge. It is absolutely impossible to easily spend a lot of money to rescue the Chifeng clan."

Hearing the words, the head of internal affairs hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "Your Earl really has no plans left."

Liu An said proudly again: "In short, the Duke of Wenle's mansion will definitely get the biggest profit, but I can only drink some soup and regain some lost ground. That's all, all right, I told you earlier You just need to take care of things, I have to go and comfort my good brother."

After speaking, Liu An dismissed the head of internal affairs.

After the manager left, Liu An slowly connected to the communication.

It was none other than Uncle Chi Feng who had just woken up from the cryogenic slumber and was devastated by the terrible news in front of him.

"Brother Liu An, you can't add insult to injury!"

Ren Zhong no longer had the high popularity he once had, nor was he at all reserved, and he spoke in an almost pleading tone.

Hearing this, Liu An took a deep breath, feeling so refreshed as if filled with honey.

He thought to himself, even if you have a heavy responsibility, you still have today?

So what if you are the number one warrior in the empire?

No matter how good you are at beating people, can you beat all the people in the world by yourself and get all the money back?

I can't.

Also, have you ever fought this economic battle?

When things come to an end, don't you still have to humbly beg me?

Although he was contemptuous in his heart, Liu An still seemed very reserved, "Brother Ren Zhong, you can't say that, I also have my own difficulties..."

Finally, after nearly 10 minutes of repeated arguing between the two, the aggrieved Ren Zhong hung up the communication without saying hello.

Liu An didn't feel that the other party offended him either.

Thinking in another way, if he is the one who is unlucky, he can be worse than Ren Zhong's attitude.

Immediately afterwards, Liu An opened the star map again, and then listed many technology research and development industries under the Earl of Chifeng's Mansion. Liu An began to select them like Han Xin ordered soldiers, muttering in his mouth: "This Chifeng clan is really terrible. In just a few years, so many fiefdoms have been expanded. And those pirates who are like dogs can produce so many talents. It seems that the proportion of artificial genes injected at the beginning is still too low. Then, when I What do you want..."

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Under the leadership of the awakened Ren Zhong, the Chifeng Commerce Department struggled hard for a whole week, with little success.

It is sad to say that when looking back at the contracts, the Ministry of Commerce discovered that as early as a few years ago, many big agents no longer signed contracts for several years, but changed them to one-year contracts.

In an era when there is cryogenic slumber and the absolute life expectancy exceeds a thousand years, this is abnormal.

It shows that the Duke of Wenle's mansion was under planning at that time.

But on the side of the Chifeng Commerce Department, they only consider that invisible paint is a unique business, and they don’t worry about selling it. They also think that the agency right can also be released through auction bidding. Good trading terms, so I ignored this risk, so that I was caught off guard by the sudden launch of others when the situation was imminent.

So much so that the contract was interrupted by many big agents, but there was no way to make up for the loss by suing for compensation.Now that the situation has deteriorated, it is not so easy to rebuild the market.

In the final analysis, it is really the lack of experience of the Ministry of Commerce, or it may be a major mistake made by the top decision-makers, but who dares to hold Uncle Chi Feng responsible?

Lessons have been learned here, but the more objective status quo still has to be resolved.

The Ministry of Commerce pointed out that the current liquidity of the Earl's Mansion is extremely scarce, but the mortgage loan owed to the Duke of Wenle's Mansion still has to be paid once a month, otherwise the overdue compensation is not a joke.

Therefore, no matter how difficult it is, the money must be squeezed out first.

But with liquidity drained again, another problem looms.

In addition to the enough energy for navigation on the ship, the energy batteries under the earl's mansion are about to run out.

Now that the price of energy has risen and the cash flow has been cut off, it means that the development of the whole family will stagnate on the spot.

Many scientific research institutions have run out of food, but once the production factories of invisible paint are shut down, it means that there is no redemption, and the economic collapse is only in the near future.

"The only good news at the moment is that the Earl's prestige is high enough. Even if the living standard drops sharply, it will not affect the security and stability of many fiefdoms and cities. However, the military power development plan you made at the beginning, Mr. Earl, I'm afraid we have to stop all of them. We have to find a way to sell some assets and adjust the industrial structure with pains, so that we can overcome this difficulty."

The person in charge of the Ministry of Commerce reported in this way.

After listening to Ren Zhong, he was neither happy nor sad, he just said: "Keep the original route unwavering, I will figure out a solution for the energy issue."

After working on these scenes, Ren Zhong finally had a rare free time.

He went back to the private office of the Earl's Mansion and asked Sun Ai to open the stereoscopic projection star map.

The scale of this star map is relatively large, including the entire Nanxiang star cluster.

In the star map, there are tens of thousands of transport fleet arrays that are not connected to the Imperial Supernet, but use silicon chip computers, flying in the three-dimensional network-like warping subspace channel.

Four years or a year ago, these transport ships had already set off from the Broken Star Ring, entered the entrance of the nearest warping subspace passage, and then went to hundreds of fiefdom galaxies.

Nearly half of the transport fleets are converging towards one point from all directions. It is a large planetary system that is full of garbage stars and has been renamed the Liaoyuan galaxy by Ren Zhong.

One month later, the energy reserves of the Chifeng Earl's Mansion will be exhausted, and these fleets arrived the day before the energy is completely exhausted. The perfect connection is a thrilling second.

At that time, Ren Zhong will give Duke Wen Le, Liu An, and all those who took the opportunity to make trouble.

After confirming that the plan was going well, Ren Zhong zoomed the star map to the Liaoyuan Galaxy.

Looking at the huge ring of garbage stars surrounding the outermost asteroid belt of the Liaoyuan galaxy, even with a heavy responsibility, he couldn't help grinning and laughing.

"I got rich, I really got rich this time. This amount of metal is enough for me to quickly expand the size of the fleet by a thousand times! As long as the firepower is fully activated, I can build a fleet five times the size of the Marquis of Zhenjiang when the war comes." Chifeng Army!"

"When Zhenjiang Hou Jinshi wakes up from the frozen slumber, and sees this scene again, I'm afraid I'll be scared stupid."

"It took her 50 years of accumulation to build a family property, and I managed it in 40 years. Five times! As expected of the Duke of Real Power, there is so much garbage piled up."

"Ivan Romanov, Duke of Wenle, is a very good man. Good man! I thank you!"

Ren Zhong looked at the population status of the Chifeng tribe's regular and non-staff members.

Well, fine, 1.1 trillion.

According to the current population growth rate, when the war comes, the total population will reach at least [-] trillion, of which the adults will exceed [-] trillion.

On the premise that all the people will receive basic military training, the Chi Feng tribe, who will be all soldiers at that time, will become a decisive force in the super-large-scale interstellar war involving three star fields.

Even if things really come to the worst situation, the Yuanjiang Starfield, Changhe Starfield, and Yupan Starfield all fall, and the Chifeng Clan can advance and retreat as well as defend.

A long sigh of relief.

Ten years of hard work and planning.

The smuggling trio of Tang Tu Maojin and Wu You risked their lives and risked their lives, and it was all worth it.

Afterwards, Ren Zhong sent a message to the trio who were still in the Liaoyuan Galaxy, telling the trio to immediately enter a frozen slumber and return to Chifeng Star.

In the video communication, Ren Zhong looked at the trio who used to be middle-aged in his memory, but now have either white hair, Mediterranean baldness, or wrinkled faces, and he was filled with emotion, "You have worked hard. "

The three of Tang Tu Maojin and Wu You have not yet recovered from the huge blow that the Chifeng tribe was in trouble because of themselves. Seeing Ren Zhong's considerate appearance in the video, they burst into tears and felt guilty. .