Chapter 36 The last business trip and preparation
Although it is just a team and not a legion, the Jialan team is on par with the legion in this regard.
Peripheral members did not report losses, ordinary members reported losses at a rate of 10%, elite members reported losses at a rate of 15%, core members reported losses at a rate of 25%, and group leaders and deputy leaders reported losses at a rate of 30%.
This so-called loss report refers to the loss of the warship due to team actions. The loss is reimbursed according to a percentage of the total price of the warship.
For example, the total price of Li Qing's fully equipped frigate is 150 million, and the core members report a loss rate of 25%. If the warship sinks due to team fighting, the team will reimburse him for 25% of the total price of 150 million, for a total of 37.5 million.
If you add in the insurance's maximum loss report of 25%, the maximum reimbursement is 50%.
Note that the premise of this loss report is due to team behavior, such as team activities, or being sunk by invading enemies in the territory of the team-controlled galaxy, etc. If it is a private behavior, such as driving a battleship to take risks in dangerous galaxies and sinking, or digging The tomb was accidentally sunk, etc. By the way, Li Lie's previous business trip was a private act, so the team of six destroyers that sank would not be reported, and only insurance could reimburse part of it.
Li Qing didn't stay in the Canaan Galaxy for long. After getting a general understanding of the team's situation and getting to know each other about many of the core and important middle-level members of the team, he left the Canaan Galaxy and returned to the outpost.
In fact, most of the team members are not in the Canaan galaxy now. They are either running business between Tianjin and the outpost to make money, or they are mining in the team-controlled star area. Some who are in the war style receive tasks at the outpost and enter the war zone with the alien desert. The combined fleets of the Tower tribes battled and so on.
There are many team activities, but most of them are small activities jointly organized by team members. For example, the previous business activities to collect two trillion star yuan of goods are actually very rare, usually only once a year.
Back at the outpost, Li Lie and others already knew that he had joined Jialan and had become one of the core members of Jialan.
In the communication channel, Li Lie had a complicated expression and sighed:
"I joined Jialan earlier than you and now I'm just a middle-level person. Once you join, you become a high-level person. It's really annoying to compare people to each other."
Li Qing shrugged and said nothing.
However, Li Lie just sighed. He was in a very good mood. After struggling for less than a minute, he enthusiastically talked to him about the information he had learned at the outpost in the past few days.
"In the past few days, the price of food at the outpost has dropped a bit. After four months of our return, the price will be even lower and the profit will not be much. I have checked the information in the past few days and found that in the outpost The most profitable and durable things here at the base are various finished warships.”
"A bare frigate can be sold for 20 million in Tianjin and 25 million here, making a profit of about 5 million."
"The key point is that the demand for this thing is high. There are wars and battle losses every day in the joint war area with the Shatta tribe here at the outpost. There is as much of this thing as you need. Unlike food, which will be saturated, this one will not be saturated, even if It will be lacking in a hundred years, but it can be done for a long time.”
At this time, Li Qi, who had been silent, said:
"But the threshold for meeting this demand is too high. Where can we find so many warships?"
"This is the most troublesome part."
Li Lie sighed and said:
"In addition to the official shipyards in Tianmen, most of the channels for selling warships in Jinmen are private shipyards of some players. Although the output of the official shipyards is high, there are too many people ordering them. It is impossible for us to make money by reselling the ships. We can only Find some private shipyards.”
"But the output of private shipyards is not high, and the price is still about 10% higher than the market price. Unless we can find a few private shipyards to contract out all the warships they produce, we can make some profit."
Li Qi shook his head and said:
"That's impossible. The private shipyards in Tianjin have long since united to form a chamber of commerce to jointly manipulate prices. We can't get involved in this little fight."
"That's a shame."
"Is shipbuilding so profitable?"
Li Qing muttered to himself.
What he thought of was that if a frigate here at the outpost could be sold for 25 million star yuan, buying it directly from Tianjin would cost about 21 million to 22 million, and one could only earn about 3 million.
But he has a super dock on hand. The cost of a ship is only about 16 million, and he can earn as much as 9 million by selling it to the outpost.
One ship can earn 9 million, ten ships can earn 90 million, one hundred ships can earn 900 million, and one thousand ships can earn 9 billion star yuan.
"Well, the frigate still earns too little."
But even though he said that, Li Qing was already moved.
There is no other reason than that I don’t want to be in business all the time.
One trip lasts four months, three times a year, and all the time is spent running back and forth, unable to do anything else.
It's different when it comes to shipbuilding. The shipyard is in the Palm Universe. As long as he prepares enough ship blueprints and materials, he can build a ship, and it doesn't affect him from doing other things.
Key shipbuilding can also improve his shipbuilding level. Now he can only build frigates, and the efficiency of making money is limited. When he can build destroyers, cruisers, and even battleships, then the big profits will begin.
"Okay, that's it!"
Li Qing made up his mind and looked up at Li Lie and Li Qi in the communication channel. They were the only two in the channel, representing their respective small teams. He carefully composed his speech and said:
"I'm going to take you on one more run to make another round, and then I'm going to find a star system near the team's control star area to establish a mining base at the outpost."
Li Lie and Li Qi were both a little surprised, but not too surprised. They expected this, but they didn't expect him to quit so soon.
Li Lie thought for a moment and said:
"Since it's the last time, it's better to do something big and help the team build a super caravan like before."
Li Qi also said:
"And by doing this, you can also enhance your reputation and status in the team."
After hearing this, Li Qing shook his head and said:
"No."
"Why not? Moreover, we have to pay 100 billion in tolls every time. It is better to earn this money for others than for you."
Li Qing smiled and said:
"Do you think that 100 billion is just tolls?"
He used to think it was just tolls, but since he became a core member of Jialan, he also learned some inside stories that only core members knew.
For example, they paid 100 billion before to ask the Blue Fish clan among the 16 clans of the Lester Pirate Group to escort them through the star territory controlled by the Lester Pirate Group. Outsiders thought they spent 100 billion stars to buy the way, but in fact It's not just about buying money for traveling, the focus is on supporting the Blue Fish clan in a reasonable and reasonable way.
The reason is very simple. The establishment of the Blue Fish Clan has a certain relationship with the Jinmen Yu Clan.
To put it bluntly, the Lester Pirate Group originally had only thirteen clans. Since humans established an outpost in the Zutar star field and launched a war with the Shatta Tribe United Civilization, players can join the Lester Pirate Group camp. The Jinmen Yu family decisively invested a large amount of human resources in building a reputation in the Lester Pirate Group and formed a new pirate clan.
There is a force of its own in the pirate group that is not inferior to the United Civilization of the Shatta Tribes, and they have a good relationship with this force, which can play a huge role at certain critical times.
Therefore, this money cannot be saved, and he cannot earn it.
Of course, he couldn't tell this kind of secret directly, but Li Lie and Li Qi were both smart people. He just gave them a little hint and they understood it without insisting on it.
However, the team cannot make money, other people's money can be made. When you return to Tianmen, you can find a large caravan to cooperate with and make money once.
Two months later, a medium-sized fleet sailed into the Jinmen system.
The fleet was anchored at the starport, and everyone went their separate ways to prepare.
Li Qing directly accessed the regional channel, connected to the Internet, and searched for what he wanted directly on the trading platform.
First, 5.2 billion star yuan was spent to purchase 10 small transport ships, 10 medium transport ships, 5 Mammoth-class large transport ships, and 1 Dushen-class ultra-large transport ship.
And a total of 6 billion star dollars were spent to purchase 5 small industrial ships, 2 medium-sized industrial ships, 2 large-scale industrial ships, and 1 super-large industrial ship.
Then there are 30 large mining ships, costing a total of 24 billion star dollars.
Three sets of large-scale crushing, screening and refining ore equipment, with a unit price of 1.1 billion, a total of 3.3 billion.
Taken together, a total of 38.5 billion star dollars were spent, leaving 67 billion star dollars.
Then, 5 billion stars were reserved for wages and emergency purposes, and all the remaining funds were used to purchase blueprints and construction materials for frigates and destroyers. A total of 2,000 frigate blueprints and materials were purchased, spending 4 billion + 24 billion stars respectively. Yuan.
In addition to the 500 complete sets of frigates purchased previously, many have been built these days, and now there are 400 sets left, leaving a total of 2,400 sets and 100 finished frigates parked in the dock of Palm Universe.
As well as the blueprints and materials for 200 destroyers, they cost 3 billion + 18 billion star dollars respectively, for a total of 21 billion star dollars.
Then, five extra-large cold storages were ordered, as well as various foods with a total value of nearly 500 million, and daily necessities with a total value of 1 billion.
Then, through the relationship of the Jialan team, he spent 750 million star yuan per ship to obtain four top-of-the-line Tornado-class destroyers directly from the Yushi Shipyard. The weapon configuration was the same as the Hurricane-class destroyer he had. Mainly kinetic weapons.
Then he spent 130 million star yuan at a lower than market price to equip a complete set of Haiyan frigate configurations. He bought 20 sets in total, which could be directly installed on the bare frigate he already owned later.
The four destroyers cost 3 billion, and the full configuration of the 20 frigates totaled 2.6 billion.
Then, he purchased 100 base L-slot kinetic energy main gun shells, spending a total of 200 million stars.
A total of 240 million star dollars were spent on the 300-base L-slot large-scale moving cannon.
1,000 base M medium kinetic energy shells cost a total of 300 million stars.
The 5,000-base S small mobile cannon shell costs a total of 750 million star dollars.
1,000 base machine gun shells cost a total of 750 million star dollars.
A 200-base P-slot anti-sabot bullet costs a total of 200 million stars.
In total, the total amount is 2.44 billion star dollars.
Then he bought 50,000 energy blocks containing 100,000 standard energy. In addition to quickly charging the energy shield, this thing can also be used in many ways. One hundred thousand star yuan, 50,000 star yuan in total, 5 billion star yuan.
Taken together, a total of 24 billion + 21 billion + 500 million + 1 billion + 3 billion + 2.6 billion + 2.44 billion + 5 billion was spent, a total of 59.54 billion star dollars.
Most of the remaining 67 billion star dollars were spent at once, leaving only 7.46 billion star dollars.
Then, they spent 1 billion star dollars to order a medium-sized steel refining furnace and 1.5 billion star dollars to order a medium-sized alloy furnace.
The steel refining furnace can further refine the refined ore into steel, and the alloy furnace can smelt steel and other elements into stronger alloys. It can also remelt the collected battleship wreckage into alloys.
From collecting raw ore, to crushing and refining into refined ore, then to refining into steel, then smelting into alloy, and finally sent to the arsenal in the high-dimensional shipyard in the palm of the hand universe, where it is directly processed into various artillery shells.
In one step, you can save a lot of money on buying ammunition back and forth.
Soon Li Qing discovered that the remaining 4.9 billion star yuan might not be saved, and he had to recruit a group of shipbuilding engineers.
2,400 sets of frigate blueprints and materials have been prepared, and the scale must be expanded. Otherwise, only ten ships can be built in one round. 2,400 ships require 240 rounds, which is 240 months. This will take until the year of the monkey and the month of the horse.
"Expansion, must be expanded!"
It was through the relationship with the Jialan team that a large number of crew members were directly recruited in the Jinmen Academy area.
Among them are ten groups of destroyer shipbuilding engineers, including 1 chief engineer with a monthly salary of 2 million, and 40 senior destroyer-building engineers with a monthly salary of 300,000, for a total monthly salary of 12 million.
The frigate shipbuilding team has also expanded significantly, from the original ten teams to one hundred teams in one go.
Recruited 9 chief engineers with a monthly salary of 1.2 million, a total of 10.8 million, and 200 frigate senior engineers, with a monthly salary of 200,000, a total of 40 million. The ordinary crew members are common to all ship types, regardless of frigates or battleships. The two together recruited a total of 3,600 name, with a total monthly salary of 144 million.
It is worth mentioning that the salary of the ordinary shipbuilding engineers he originally recruited was 50,000 yuan a month, but through the Yu family's relationship, he recruited them directly from the academy city. Not only did he recruit them all in one go, but even the salary was reduced by 10,000 yuan. Directly saved a lot of money.
After recruiting all of them, his monthly salary alone would be as high as 208.8 million star dollars.
The buyout price for the 1,550 clone crew members is 310 million. In addition, the crew wages of the 5 destroyers and 21 frigates plus maintenance fees are 11.25 million + 21 million respectively, a total of 32.25 million. The total salary is 241.05 million star dollars.
"A salary of 240 million star dollars per month"
Li Qing took stock of his current net worth and found that he would have no money after only two years.
No wonder war is a waste of money. When a cannon fires, it costs thousands of taels of gold. A single shell can wipe out a month's salary of an ordinary person. It is really difficult to maintain a fleet.
He only has 26 ships, and there is no big ship yet. It costs 32.25 million star yuan every month to maintain the fleet.
For those teams with hundreds of large and small warships, the cost of maintaining the fleet every month is probably more than a billion or even billions, which is simply terrifying.
The more we grow, the more we feel that money is not enough.
Fortunately, although it cost a lot, it also earned a lot. All 2,400 frigates and 200 destroyers were built and sold, and they made a lot of money immediately.
If you don’t sell it in Tianjin, just sell it in the outpost. One frigate can earn nearly 10 million yuan, and 2,400 ships can earn 24 billion yuan.
Destroyers are even more profitable. Without shipyard usage fees and various channel fees, a destroyer can earn about 30 million, and an additional 30%, or 45 million, can be earned when shipped to the outpost. A total of about 75 million can be earned for 200 ships. Destroyers can make 15 billion. (End of chapter)