Resurrection Empire

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When it comes to money and wealth, who lacks this?

In terms of power, who can compare to the Earl himself?

So life is already close to being perfect, and now that you have the opportunity to represent the Chifeng clan to do business in the central star field of the empire, then if you wait to see the world for a lifetime, why not do it!

Therefore, Tang Tu, Mao Jin and Wu You set off with a mighty fleet full of invisible paint.

As early as eight years ago, they had already arrived at the prosperous star field under the command of Duke Wen Le.

Afterwards, the sales of the invisible paint were completed at a very fast speed, and under the matchmaking of Senna Romanov, a planetary system was rented near the star gate of the first star field of Wenle as a trading hub.

Since then, a steady stream of commercial ships began to shuttle between the Nanxiang star cluster and Wenle's first star field, pulling the invisible paint over, and then bringing back the cheap and high-quality products produced by the enterprises under the Duke of Wenle's command. Nanxiang star cluster.

Of course, in addition to commodities, these three people also show some personal hobbies from time to time, that is, public power and private use, collecting some really useless garbage.

This made the analysts under Duke Wenle's mansion feel ridiculous, but they didn't pay much attention.

Everything is as Senna said at the beginning.

The Chi Feng clan could not resist the large-scale dumping of goods from Duke Wenle's mansion at all.

These cheap goods produced by adopting a higher level of imperial core technology have caused heavy damage to the local industries in the Chifeng tribe.

As a result, many enterprises under the Earl's Mansion of Chifeng, which were originally on the rise, had to shrink their scale, or change their business types, from self-reliance to comprador enterprises that were not as good as buying.

All this happened in just a few years.

Many senior officials of the Earl's Mansion were deeply worried about this, and they spoke to Jin Simin many times, hoping that the Earl could maintain some tariffs more or less.

As it is now, if things go on like this, there will be endless troubles.

Although the Chifeng tribe is now relying on the sales of invisible paint, the capital has become more and more abundant, but the patent right for invisible paint is only 1000 years.

Once the patent protection period is over, it will be in big trouble. The Chifeng family cannot only have invisible paint as an industry.

Jin Simin somehow became short-sighted and ignorant.

He only asked, over the past few years, has the quality of life of the grassroots people in the clan declined?

Everyone can't refute.

After all, no one can deny that after a large number of cheap goods from Duke Wenle's Mansion became widely available, the quality of life of ordinary Chifeng people has indeed been greatly improved. a rich life.

Jin Simin asked again, has the number of planetary systems controlled by the Chifeng Clan decreased?

Everyone couldn't refute it.

Still in the past few years, relying on its extremely strong capital background, the Earl's Mansion can be said to have conquered the city, and quickly recruited many other galaxies in the Nanxiang star cluster.It's absurd to say that it's not even just the Chi Feng clan's industry that has been hit the hardest by the dumping of cheap goods.

The other middle and lower nobles in the Nanxiang Star Cluster suffered even more severe losses.

The goods first entered the Nanxiang star cluster through Chifeng trade, and then spread rapidly, and no one was spared.

However, these middle and lower nobles did not dare to rashly increase the trade tariffs with the Chifeng tribe, so they could only accept it.

Unemployment rate is high, small and medium-sized enterprises go bankrupt everywhere, and many middle and low-level nobles have to sell off some non-core industries in order to maintain cash flow, which is cheaper for the Chifeng clan.

Afterwards, Jin Simin asked again, have our resources decreased?

Although many products lack competitiveness and have been defeated in commercial competition, our resource mining companies have not stopped operating, but have only hoarded a large number of deeply developed resources.

Jin Simin went on to ask, are there any turmoil in many key projects in our Academy of Sciences?

Everyone was powerless to refute.

Now that the Earl's Mansion is rich, it can use the profits from invisible paint to cover all investment in industries and scientific research. There is still a lot of surplus. What's the problem?

Jin Simin asked again, is our fleet still getting stronger and stronger?

This is also an objective fact.

At the level of daily life, food and clothing are fully imported, so the saved resources are used in the military field in large quantities.

The size of the earl's mansion's own fleet is becoming larger and larger, and its technological content is also getting higher and higher.

The overall combat power of the Red Front Legion is catching up with the Nanxiang Earl's Mansion, which has a history of more than [-] years. Isn't this in line with the tone set by the Earl?

Finally, Jin Simin threw out the most important argument.

"With the support of cheap goods, we have also made great progress in the population reproduction in 150 original fief galaxies and nearly [-] newly acquired sovereign galaxies. In just a few years, the total population of the direct descendants of the ethnic group The scale has reached the level of hundreds of billions. Although most of them are children, after another ten years, these children will gradually grow up. On the Broken Star Ring, the number of non-staff people has exceeded one trillion."

"The larger the fleet, the more combatants and technicians it needs. You know, there are still many newly built warships docked in the space dock, and no one is stationed at all. The size of the fleet is still expanding. Yes The demand for personnel has been increasing. For now, importing cheap goods is beneficial and harmless. As for what to do when the patent expires after a thousand years, we will talk about it at that time. These are the original words of the Earl, you understand Is it?"

In the end, those who came to speak had to walk away in despair.

No one objected anymore, Jin Simin's last words of Lord Earl shocked people.

No matter how unreasonable things seem, as long as it is the earl's decision, there will be nothing wrong.

As for the smuggling trio, in addition to promoting conventional commercial trade, they have also used the past ten years to travel to nearly ten star fields under the Duke of Wenle, and have also established a large number of star fields under the Duke's mansion. In terms of personal connections, she has a hot fight with Senna Romanov.

But on this day, they finally got the latest order from the Chifeng Earl's Mansion.

"Purchase a large number of non-renewable scrap metals in the star field under the Duke of Wenle. Take away all the garbage stars before the Duke's mansion stops."

On the other side, Marville Louis, who was much older, also received a descendant of the Gao family from the Chifeng tribe.

The Gao descendant also made a similar statement.

"Please Zhan Fengbo approve us to purchase all the garbage stars made of non-renewable scrap metal in the Far Frontier Star Field."

Chapter 580

Now Zhenjiang Houjue's Mansion and Chifeng Earl's Mansion are separated by a narrow strip of water, and they are like a family.

Although Marvell Louis was skeptical about the sudden plea made by the descendants of the Gao family, he would not set up checkpoints for the Chifeng Earl's Mansion after all. After a little thought, he personally agreed to the matter.

However, the two families are close, but the brothers still have to settle accounts. Marvell himself is old and doesn't know when he will die.

Now that he has accepted Ren Zhong's proposal, he is ready to prepare for the battle with all his strength, and the expenses in the Marquis's mansion are also increasing day by day.

Marvel also had to leave more capital for his younger brother Bourbon, lest he die one day, and Bourbon would only be left with an empty shell when he took over.

Therefore, the two parties conducted rigorous discussions on the selling price of the garbage star, who would bear the transportation costs, and the expenses for occupying the waterway during the transportation process.

After the negotiation between the two parties was over, and the terms of the final contract were submitted to Marvell, he was even more puzzled, and he frowned and said to his brother Bourbon next to him: "It's not right. Everyone knows that this non-renewable metal has been completely destroyed. The waste products of the Yuanjiang Branch Institute have already had a public opinion, and the technology has already reached the bottleneck, and they can't make any progress. They are even willing to offer a price based on one-tenth of the brand-new mineral. In addition, the transportation cost will be borne by the Chifeng Earl's Mansion It should be justified, but the occupation of the waterway can be offset by the cleaning fee for clearing the garbage star field. The treatment they give is too generous."

Bourbon was also puzzled: "I asked the negotiators to try to make an offer for a while, but I didn't expect them to agree easily without much objection."

Marvell Louis became more and more puzzled, but it was a pity that Uncle Chi Feng himself was "sleeping" at this time, otherwise he would have wanted to ask this good brother.

"Forget it, let's just leave it at that. Maybe it's because Chifeng Earl's Mansion has made a lot of money over the years. After all, Brother Ren Zhong's galaxy is limited in scale. He understands the difficulty of our side's huge preparation expenses, so he deliberately gave us some benefits."

Bourbon pondered for a while, "It makes sense."

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On the other hand, the acquisition work of the smuggling trio under the command of Duke Wenle's Mansion also had minor twists and turns, but in the end it was smooth sailing.

It took eight years for Tang Tumaojin and Wuyou to create their own trash guy character set. This concept has already been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Now that they have suddenly increased their scale, they are no longer satisfied with just buying some low-quality metal products that have been discarded in many recycling processes from the prosperous planets that are inhabited. The archon regards it as a cancerous metal trash star.

The higher the intensity of human activities, the more energy is consumed and the more waste is produced.This point has never changed since ancient times.

Even the central area of ​​the empire with a highly developed technological level has not been able to escape such a pattern.

Not only that, in the center of the empire, there are higher technology and stronger productivity resources. Human beings are no longer satisfied with the development of planetary resources. There are a large number of stellar wind catchers orbiting many stars in high latitudes to collect Capture the plasma in the stellar wind, especially the hydrogen isotope, and there are also elements from low to high atomic weight, and there are also a complete range, but the content may be more or less.

Such a technology of capturing stellar winds almost provided the empire humans with inexhaustible material resources.

As long as the stars are immortal, resources will not be exhausted.

In the long process of iterative utilization of resources, these elements from the stellar wind eventually turned into metals and their isotopes with higher atomic weights one after another, and then became real waste products in repeated recycling.

As early as millions of years ago, imperial humans found the idea of ​​dumping waste in space.

Since then, the garbage stars will naturally pile up more and more, and the size is getting bigger and bigger.

Later, with the continuous improvement of metal recycling technology, garbage stars composed of scrap metal have also been recycled many times.

But in the last million years, due to the bottleneck of metal recycling technology, there has been no progress, and there are more and more garbage stars piled up around star fields, around star clusters, in the gaps of star clusters, and outside planetary systems. .

The ever-increasing number of garbage stars has brought about a more complex gravitational environment, and has also caused troubles to the stability of the star's gravitational force in the central area of ​​the empire. There are even occasional disasters brewing, which require a lot of resources to prevent and rectify.

This phenomenon is often more serious in the more prosperous areas.

Duke Wenle's fief star fields are basically in the central area of ​​the empire. The number and size of garbage stars in his star fields are far more than those of the remote star fields with relatively scattered galaxies, low population density, and underdeveloped economy and technology.

For example, the total mass of junk stars in Wenle First Starfield is nearly fifty times that of the entire Far Frontier Starfield.

If it is transported away, it seems that the cost is not cost-effective, but if it stays here, it will be an unsightly sight and a potential disaster.

It would be a pity if they were all gathered together to form a huge physical planet and made into a pure neutron star. After all, what if the metal recycling technology is advanced again one day?

In short, these things are tasteless, tasteless to eat, and a pity to discard, which makes people distressed.

The people in Duke Wenle's mansion were worrying about this matter from time to time, but they finally waited for the smuggling trio to take advantage of them.

They are actually willing to bear the sky-high transportation costs at their own expense, and are even willing to offer a purchase price based on one-tenth of the unit quality of the brand-new minerals. They are really good people.

What is the favorite thing that "developed countries" like to dump on "underdeveloped countries"?

Of course it's rubbish!

Ever since, relying on their extensive connections, the smuggling trio signed a large number of contracts in a very short period of time before the head of Duke Wenle's mansion realized it, eating up more than 50% of the garbage stars in one bite.

This is nearly ten prosperous star fields, 50% of the total accumulated by people in dozens of star clusters in millions of years.

Even if this price is very generous, it almost squeezed out all the working capital of the Chi Feng clan.

It was at this time that Duke Wenle's mansion finally responded.

The development of the situation did not go beyond Ren Zhong's expectations.

Although still no one can understand Ren Zhong's real purpose, but when things go wrong, there must be demons, so it's always right to stop it quickly.

Sena Romanov, who had fallen out of favor in front of the Duke, had to be pushed out again to be responsible for checking the matter.

After looking at the report for a while, she found that the Chifeng tribe had swallowed half of the garbage galaxies under the tent of Duke Wenle's mansion like a giant whale siphon in a short period of time, and she was also shocked.

But then, Senna Romanov quickly turned from worry to joy.

Because according to the information provided by the Imperial Supernet and the economic intelligence department, Senna discovered that Uncle Chi Feng had actually fallen into a short-term financial crisis.

This is a great thing.

In this day and age, with the widespread popularization of artificially synthesized food, the financial crisis will definitely not lead to famine and chaos. In addition to relying heavily on the cheap goods provided by the Duke of Wenle's Mansion for daily living, the dependence on foreign energy in the field of energy is even more serious.

Although the Chifeng tribe tried to build a Dyson giant device to capture the radiation energy of the stars, they have been too "military" over the years, and a large amount of production has been invested in the military field, so that the Chifeng tribe's own Dyson The progress of the Mori megastructure device is slow, and it is not enough to meet its daily expenses.

If it weren't for the huge income from invisible paint, the Chifeng Earl's Mansion would have collapsed long ago.

Senna immediately summoned the staff and began to carefully dismantle the current situation and analyze and deduce the situation.

In the end, Senna came to a conclusion that although Ren Zhong would be killed sooner or later, it seemed that there was a chance to cause heavy damage to his property and people right now, and even make Ren Zhong grateful to Dade, and extend his tentacles into the world ahead of time. Within the forces of the iron-walled Chifeng tribe.

Hours later, the smuggling trio found, as expected, that Trash Star's acquisitions were back in business.

Not only that, but the Duke of Wenle’s Mansion is more open-minded, saying that considering the long-term good cooperative relationship between the two parties, they allow the Chifeng tribe to use their assets as collateral to sell on credit, and they can even borrow money to cover transportation costs, and then only need to pay meager interest Regular repayments are sufficient.

The scope of this mortgage asset includes the sovereign galaxy of the Chifeng clan, patent knowledge rights, and fixed assets.

There was nothing to say, the smuggling trio was reckless on the spot.

Nearly five years later, the vast garbage stars finally crossed the star gate and appeared in the Nanxiang star cluster under the chain drag of large tugboats.

Today, there is also a sovereign galaxy of the Chifeng clan around the star gate of the Nanxiang star cluster.

This huge array of junk stars was dragged over, and together with the junk stars in the distant star field that had already arrived ahead of schedule, they formed a huge planetary system ultra-distant orbit ring belt.

From a distance, it seems that "Saturn rings" are installed on the stars, which is magnificent.

The habitable planets standing in this galaxy look up at night, and they can also see the long river of garbage stars, just like the Milky Way.

The three of Tang Tumaojin and Wu You looked down at the countless garbage stars below in the spaceship, feeling in their hearts that they didn't embarrass the Earl's old team, and it was a shame.

But they also have worries in their hearts.

The situation that Sena and her staff can understand, how could these three economic and trade leaders in the Chifeng clan not understand.

Five years ago, they exhausted the working capital of the Chi Feng clan and owed a large amount of loans.

Up to now, although the invisible paint factory has been working overtime and at full power, it is far from restoring the working capital to the previous state, and the monthly loan repayment has to be exhausted.