Chapter 27: Making money by running a business
After hanging up the communication, Li Qing immediately controlled the warship to turn around, spent another three million stars, and queued up again to return to Jinmen.
I never thought that running a business from the transit base to the outpost would be so profitable, with profits as high as 40%.
Of course, the outpost base was mainly built by the Yu family in Jinmen. Yu Yuefei could get 40% of the profits by relying on her family relationship. Outsiders should not be able to get it, but no matter how little, she could still get about 30%.
A mere 30% profit is nothing, but if you can get 30% for a large transaction, the profit will be considerable.
30% of 10,000 and 30% of 100 million are two different things, and another 30% of 1 trillion is another world.
He can't scrape together one trillion yuan in capital now, but he can scrape together tens of billions of capital to make a trip, and one trip can make a profit of three billion, which is quite profitable.
He now only has about 2 billion in funds left, but he plans to trade all the materials for building warships that he purchased before. These are also needed over there, and they are one of the most in demand materials.
Among them, the frigate has 6 billion light materials, the destroyer has 4.5 billion light materials, and the two cruisers have a total of 1.2 billion.
In addition, the transport ships, industrial ships, large mining ships, etc. he purchased can actually be traded, and he will take them as long as he brings them safely.
After this calculation, the capital is not only 10 billion, but more than 30 billion, and one trip can earn nearly 10 billion.
"Hiss!"
Li Qing's eyes suddenly lit up.
Returning to Tianjin, he kept only 500 million of the 2 billion on hand as spare, and the remaining 1.5 billion was used to purchase supplies and ship them.
The goods arrived on the third day, and he went through the star gate again to the transit base.
It's a pity that there is not enough time, otherwise he can transfer supplies back and forth between Jinmen and the transit base through the Star Gate.
Although the price difference between Tianjin and the transfer base is not big, you can still make a profit. The price difference between the two places for some special supplies can even reach about 5%. Anyway, his ticket to take the frigate back and forth only costs 2 million, which is worth tens of billions. Even a 1% price difference for bulk goods is a profit of hundreds of millions.
It’s not much once, but if you do it more often, you can earn quite a lot.
However, there is a risk in doing so, because the two places are connected by a star gate, and the price fluctuations in the two places will never be too large. Once a certain price fluctuates greatly, the market will intervene to stabilize the price.
He must sell the goods before prices stabilize. If he misses the opportunity and prices stabilize again, then his efforts will be in vain, and he may even lose money.
Of course, the time to directly pass through the star gate is very short, so the probability of this happening is low. Overall, the probability of making money is high, but it is very troublesome and tiring.
What's more important is that he keeps doing this and makes people jealous easily.
"I have to find a stable supplier of raw materials!"
All the goods he buys now are bought from the market, and they are sold at market prices, not wholesale prices.
If you can find a stable large-scale raw material supplier, or find a stable supply channel and lower the purchase price, you will definitely make more money.
Li Qing decided to wait until this trip was over and find time to learn more about the upstream raw material suppliers to see if he could find a suitable one.
Returning to the transit base galaxy, he left the transit base according to the coordinates given by Li Lie and came to the galaxy next door. He came out of the wormhole and flew in one direction at sublight speed for more than three hours before arriving at a frozen planet. , I saw a huge fleet of ships parked on the surface of the planet from a distance, with large cargo ships in the center.
To the left and right of the fleet, there are a large number of warships moored, belonging to different fleets and parked at different angles.
What attracted his attention the most was a large fleet of more than 600 battleships including 14 battleships located in front of the fleet.
For the pioneers, being able to form a large fleet with more than 600 battleships and maintain 14 battleships is already quite powerful. You must know that even the Burning Ghost team is entrenched in Jinmen. After so long, it seems that there is no such a powerful fleet now.
In addition to this fleet, there are three powerful fleets with battleships around them, each with one, two, seven, and ten battleships in total.
Adding them all together, the total number of warships has exceeded 3,000, but the total number is not as many as transport ships.
Li Qing contacted Li Lie first. At this time, the fleet of him, Li Qi and others was in the escort fleet. When the communication was connected, he was surprised to find that he directly entered the fleet channel, and was then pulled into the channel of Li Lie and his team. Inside, Li Qi and others were there.
I guess Li Lie had said before that Li Qi and others were not surprised when they saw him coming, and even said hello to him.
He waved in response, and Li Lie said to him:
"I will incorporate you into my team first, and then you can just follow us."
"Okay."
Li Lie's team has a total of eleven people. In addition to him and Li Qi, there are also several people from the Li family in Tongqinghe who were recruited by Li Lie. If he can be recruited by him, they are basically getting along well, but Not too bad either.
In other words, there are two factions within his small team of eleven.
But now they seem to be getting along quite harmoniously, and there is no conflict between different factions.
After a simple welcome, Li Qing was assigned two warships to follow the team. The frigate was temporarily under the command of the team, and he commanded the destroyer alone.
This allocation is mainly due to the fact that the destroyers he commands are fast and suitable for reconnaissance.
I heard from Li Lie that although this trip is probably just a soy sauce, and it is unlikely that anything will happen with the size of this escort fleet, they will still arrange some tasks after they get on the road, such as patrol or reconnaissance. One ship is more convenient and flexible. .
There were still three days before departure. Li Qing saw that it was still early, so he opened a personal passage in the battleship to enter the palm universe, and came to the warehouse area of the high-dimensional fortress. At this time, most of the goods were piled in the warehouse area.
The huge warehouse area is a thousand kilometers long, wide and high. It is divided into ten floors, each floor is 100 kilometers long, and is subdivided into different levels. His goods worth tens of billions are placed in it, and not even 1% of the first floor is included. Not stuffed.
These goods were placed on the first floor of the warehouse in categories. The batch of 500 clones and 500 robot commando army were placed in one section. When Li Qing came in again, the commanders of the two teams were building a simple temporary warehouse under their command. base.
Li Qing glanced at it and held his chin in thought.
He snapped his fingers a little and made a decision in his heart.
Considering the upcoming journey and the estimated time he would be staying in Zutar for a long time, he felt it was necessary to first establish a simple and self-sufficient base in the palm universe, and then place three laboratories here. .
The base construction location is easy to choose. It will be built in the warehouse area and choose the tenth floor.
The length and width are one thousand kilometers each, and the height is one hundred kilometers. The height of one hundred kilometers can be subdivided into different levels. He can adjust the layered partitions at will to increase the height of the partitions.
Such a large area has exceeded the total area of the average asteroid. To be honest, it would be no problem to fully develop it to accommodate a population of hundreds of millions.
There are ten floors in the warehouse area, which together can theoretically accommodate tens of billions of people.
But in fact, this is just a thought. Although the actual operation is feasible, if this is done, the materials and money required to maintain such a large closed community will be beyond his imagination.
You must know that this is in the palm of your hand universe. It is just a warehouse area, surrounded by thick compartments of unknown materials. There is no food, no water, not even the most valuable stones and soil. If you want to build a world in it, All materials must be obtained from outside.
This consumption is much more expensive than completely transforming a planet into a livable planet from scratch and developing it. If this ten-story warehouse area is fully developed, it can transform almost seven or eight desolate planets, and The subsequent maintenance is also astronomical.
Even if he had enough time to grow hairy eggs, he would not do such a thing. With the money and materials, wouldn't it be good to build a dreadnought? Wouldn't it be nice to form a powerful fleet to capture a living planet?
Therefore, the best he can do is to build a temporary base here first and only build some infrastructure without large investment.
For the time being, it will only support a few clone soldiers, construction engineers at the shipyard, apprentices and scientists in the three laboratories, and also train a group of management talents.
Of course, in the early stage, only some clone soldiers and shipyard construction engineers were raised.
As for apprentices, scientists, and management talents, they will have to wait until they make more business trips to earn more money before they can start implementing it.
The main reason is that scientific research is too expensive, the investment is bottomless, and the output is hard to say, but in most cases there is nothing.
At the very least, if there are no talented scientists to run the laboratory, no matter how much money is invested, there will be no good output.
But for any force, the three basic laboratories of biology, physics and engineering are necessary, because they are related to the acquisition of higher-level ships and weapons.
In the universe, the upper limit of conventional weapons that players can obtain is fifth-generation technology. After the fifth-generation, there are sixth-generation technology and seventh-generation technology, which are super-conventional and powerful weapons.
Compared with conventional fifth-generation technology, starting with sixth-generation technology, the power of weapons and ships will become exponentially more powerful.
But normally, it is difficult for players to obtain technology of more than five generations on their own, and they must rely on their own research.
For example, the major armies of the United Empire of Humanity have specialized top-level laboratories, and invest huge amounts of money every year to research and develop super-fifth-generation technology, but the results are mediocre.
Most of the time, huge amounts of money are invested, but the result is that they can only develop a super-fifth-generation version of a certain weapon, five and a half generations, not the sixth generation.
The fifth-and-a-half-generation technology is stronger than the fifth-generation technology, but its strength is limited. It is equivalent to an enhanced version of the fifth-generation technology, rather than the qualitatively improved sixth generation they expected.
Of course, even if it is only five and a half generations, all the fleets have been updated, and their overall combat effectiveness is much stronger than that of the fifth generation. However, this is only a strength on paper, not what they want. What they want is a Sixth generation technology including all weapons and ships. Only in this way can the military leader take a step closer to becoming a lord.
This is because in the new universe, only those with a complete system of sixth-generation technology can be promoted to Star Sea Lords, become the emperor-electing family of the United Empire of Mankind, the true ruler, and have the qualifications to compete for the emperor of the United Empire of Mankind.
At the same time, after becoming the Star Sea Lord, you will also cross a certain boundary that cannot be described in words.
In layman's terms, when you are promoted to Lord of the Star Sea, in an instant, your name will be recognized by the entire universe, and all space civilizations in the entire universe that go out of this galaxy will know of your existence.
Similar to the apotheosis in DND novels, when you ignite the divine fire and hold the throne high to anoint the god, all the powerful people in the entire multiverse will instantly know of your existence.
This means that in the United Empire of Humanity, there are a total of fourteen powerful star sea lords with six generations of technology.
It is worth mentioning that sixth-generation technology does not mean finding new ways to utilize energy, but a breakthrough in technology. Of course, using new energy to break through sixth-generation technology is also a way, but this road is basically invisible. .
In addition, it does not mean that ordinary players cannot use sixth-generation technology ship weapons. If they have the opportunity to obtain advanced weapons left behind by powerful ancient civilizations, or directly purchase the blueprints in this regard from the fourteenth star sea lord family, after manufacturing Can be used as well.
This means that for ordinary players, there is actually no need to research any technology. Only those large and ambitious teams or legions will pursue these.
They thought that they would have the opportunity to become a military lord in the future. At this time, stronger technology would come in handy. If they had the opportunity to break through the shackles of technology, their future would be limitless.
Li Qing had this idea. He also wanted to become a military leader, or even a star sea lord.
Of course, these are too far away from him at this stage. It has not been tens of thousands of years since the United Empire of Man entered the new universe. There are only fourteen star sea lords now, which shows how difficult it is.
But although everything is difficult at the beginning, we have to start with this. First, build the laboratory and set up the framework. The rest is all kinds of accumulation. Slowly expand the scale of the three major laboratories. When they reach a certain level, they can be dispatched. Useful.
It took two days to adjust the location of the military camp and move the supplies. When he came out of the palm of his hand, the team was ready to set off.
At a certain moment, Li Qing was chatting with Li Lie, and suddenly a light curtain in front of the bridge opened automatically, revealing a woman in a light green military uniform with a very delicate and beautiful face.
The moment he saw this beautiful face, Li Qing suddenly felt a strong sense of surprise.
The woman smiled and said crisply:
"Everyone, the caravan has been integrated. All the goods are on board and are about to set off. This journey is long and dangerous. I would like to ask you, brothers and sisters, to be patient."
He clasped his hands together in a salute, and with his beautiful face and slim figure, he suddenly felt a fresh and heroic aura rushing towards his face.
The light curtain automatically disconnected, and Li Lie chuckled on the other side of the light curtain:
"How's it going? Isn't it pretty?"
Li Qing came back to his senses and replied in silence:
“Beautiful!”
"Are you excited?"
He put his hand on his chest and nodded seriously:
"It's really exciting."
Li Lie laughed loudly:
"It's right to be moved. Ninety-nine percent of the men in this fleet are moved." (End of Chapter)