Chapter 49 Yu Yuefei’s crazy idea
Two days later, the fleets gathered in Jialan Star Castle gradually left for the outpost. The fleets gathered in the galaxy gradually decreased, especially the main fleets of the major shareholders set off one after another, and the entire galaxy suddenly became empty.
Li Qing and the others had left on the third day, and four days later arrived at the galaxy next to the outpost galaxy.
The outpost is now inaccessible. All player fleets are parked in several surrounding systems, and only one frigate can enter.
Jialan rented a piece of starry sky here early specifically to accommodate the fleet of team members, and it was also the gathering place for the team.
Li Qing anchored the fleet here and drove a frigate into the outpost.
After passing through the wormhole, I saw that the other side of the wormhole was surrounded by frigates lined up. The regional channel was noisy, and most of them were talking about the large-scale military operation in more than half a month.
This military operation is the first large-scale military operation against the United Civilization of the Shatta Tribes since the establishment of the outpost. Not only will most of the top twenty large teams near the outpost take part, but even more small and medium-sized teams and individuals will participate. .
In such a large-scale event for all people, both those with demands and ordinary people will participate.
But now comes the problem. Large-scale military operations require too much preparation. Many large and small teams will try their best to accumulate various materials. As a result, the price of goods in the outpost has skyrocketed. The original price sold to players is 150 over Tianjin. %.
That is to say, when it is shipped from Tianjin and sold to the outpost, the price is about 120%-130%, and when the outpost is sold to the player, the price is 150%.
But now a large number of players are stocking up on goods, resulting in fewer goods and naturally higher prices. By the time Li Qing and his men arrived, the prices here had reached about 180%, and some popular supplies were already twice the original price, such as those in Jinmen. 200% of the average edge price.
But I still have to buy many things that I should buy, and I can only bear to buy them at double the price.
"Hell, if we could get a batch of freight from Tianjin at this time, wouldn't it be crazy money?"
Li Lie was filled with emotion while checking the prices on the trading website that were rising almost every few minutes.
After speaking, he looked up at Li Qing and raised his eyebrows.
Li Qing silently spread his hands and said:
"You think I don't want to, but there are only half a month until the large-scale military operation. It will take at least four months to come back. By the time we come back, the military operation may be over."
Li Lie let out a long sigh after hearing this:
"It's a pity that we have nothing to do with each other. If I had known this news earlier and returned to Tianjin earlier, I would have made at least hundreds of billions by now."
Li Qing was silent.
I am still not sharp enough and have no financial acumen.
In fact, if you return to the outpost immediately when you first receive the group message, you will barely have enough time to make a business trip.
That was three months ago. If we rush back to Tianjin immediately and then return for four months, it will only take one month. It is estimated that the military operation is not over yet and there is still time to participate.
But he was not sensitive enough in this regard and did not realize this at all at the time.
By the time I realized this, it was too late and I could only act in hindsight.
At this time, Li Qing already had an idea in his mind. He should also need to recruit several other talents.
For example, administrative talents, economic talents, etc. If you have a subordinate who is responsive to this aspect, you will not miss an opportunity to make a lot of money this time.
Although the price is twice as expensive, you still have to buy it when it's time to buy it, especially since many metal elements that can be alloyed with steel are necessary.
He has now collected a large number of ancient battleship wreckage and resmelted them. Now he needs other metal elements to smelt them into an alloy that meets the technological level of human civilization.
A total of about 4 billion star yuan was spent to purchase a large amount of precious metals and elements, as well as some things that may be needed in the subsequent military operations.
Then open the official website of the expeditionary force, log in, and register as a team. Their team will be treated as a whole for the next military operation.
Although the large-scale military operation will officially start in half a month, the expeditionary force has officially opened the collection of various missions at this time. Players can now receive some reconnaissance and confrontation missions to prepare for the official operation.
Li Qing took a look at the many missions and randomly picked up a few repeatable reconnaissance missions, then shared them with the team.
Then click on it one by one to view the tasks marked with purple stars among the many tasks. Those are excellent level tasks and are also tasks that can reward battleship blueprints.
There are not many tasks, only four in total. They are all tasks that can be completed repeatedly by multiple teams. All teams can be allowed to receive them, but whether they can be completed is another matter.
"Combat Mission - Kill the Enemy (Excellent): Each destroying a frigate of the Shatta Tribe United Civilization will reward you with 1 combat point, destroyer with 2 points, cruiser with 5 combat points, battleship with 50 combat points, and you can accumulate 5,000 combat points. Exchange for one standard battleship blueprint, maximum two.”
"Combat Mission - Destroy (Excellent): Destroy a large military base of the Shatta Tribe United Civilization by yourself, and reward standard battleship blueprints, with a maximum of three."
"Combat Mission - Capture (Excellent): Capture a space settlement station of the United Sand Tower Tribe Civilization. For every million people captured from the Sand Tower United Civilization, a standard battleship blueprint will be awarded, with a maximum of two."
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"Combat mission - Go deep behind enemy lines (Excellent): Go deep into the territory of the Shatta Tribe United Civilization, disrupt the enemy's supply lines and plunder the supply fleet, and rewards will be determined based on the degree of damage."
Of course, these are only four for the time being. When the military operation officially begins, there will definitely be more missions that can reward battleship blueprints depending on the form of the war.
These tasks can be collected, and Li Qing doesn’t care whether they are completed or not, he will collect them first.
It is worth mentioning that the rewards currently seen in these tasks are only the best rewards, and there are actually subdivided rewards.
For example, when capturing a population, every time a population is captured and brought back, it can be sold directly to the outpost. Each population can be sold for at least four to five thousand. If it is a foreign population with a green name or blue name talent, it will be sold more expensively.
Although there are clone cannon fodder, it does not mean that there are no slaves.
In a civilized war like this, the loser will either be exterminated or the entire clan will become slaves and never be able to stand up again.
Well, in most cases, you are not allowed to turn over, not absolutely.
If the overall ideological trends of advanced civilizations tend to be peaceful, pro-foreign, or egalitarian, the fate of conquered alien civilizations will be relatively better.
If the ideological trend of higher civilizations is xenophobic or militaristic, the end of the conquered alien civilization is generally not good. Being a slave is actually not bad, but what is even worse is being raised as a pig and slaughtered regularly to make canned meat.
Especially the indigenous civilizations that have not flown into the sky are no different from livestock in the eyes of the xenophobic higher civilizations.
They will use genetic modification technology to adjust their genes to make them more in line with the tastes of their own race, and then raise them on the planet like poultry. In fact, they are raised like poultry and slaughtered regularly to make meat.
The ideological trend of human civilization is extremely militaristic and xenophobic, and other egalitarian and pro-foreign ideological trends also have many people. Most of the alien civilizations conquered by human civilization end up as slaves.
The premise is that the appearance conforms to human aesthetic standards. If the appearance is too ugly, the consequences are unpredictable.
After receiving the mission and waiting for everyone to be ready, the fleet sailed away from the outpost, mixed in with many player fleets, and sailed towards the territory of the United Civilization of the Sand Tower Tribes.
Halfway through, Li Qing once again took out a document about the Shata Tribe United Civilization to check. This one was more detailed than the one Li Lie had given before. It also included most of the non-hidden military bases within the Shata Tribe United Civilization. , space station, space habitation station, and basic information on the capital of the southern province, a living planet called Reef Nest.
"Too ugly!"
The Shatta Tribe Union is composed of eight large alien races, all of which evolved from arthropods. Their appearance is extremely inconsistent with human aesthetic standards.
What are arthropods?
Referring to the age of the earth, there are various insects such as shrimps, crabs, bees, ants, butterflies, spiders, centipedes, locusts, sunnyflies, praying mantises, etc.
These things themselves are not good-looking, but when they are magnified thousands of times and evolved into intelligent life, the level of nausea skyrockets, making them perfect monster templates in movies.
Such a foreign race that is extremely inconsistent with human aesthetic standards, once conquered, would be treated as slaves, and would most likely be fed as food.
After all, one of the eight alien races evolved from shrimps.
Using genetic technology to re-adjust its genes to make its meat more delicious should become a very popular delicacy.
The outpost is actually not far from the United Civilization of the Shatta Tribes. When the outpost was first established, it was for conquest. The site was not far from the southern province of the United Civilization of the Shatta Tribes, or in other words, the outpost. The base itself is in front of the expansion of the Shatta Tribe United Civilization, blocking their expansion.
At this time, five hops away from the outpost is the battlefield that the two sides are competing for. The expeditionary force has a fleet stationed on the battlefield all year round and is stalemate and fighting with the fleet of the Shata Tribe United Civilization.
A steady stream of player fleets poured into the outpost of the outpost. The battlefield that usually consisted of small fleets clashed suddenly with a large number of player fleets, catching the Sand Tower Civilization fleet by surprise. When Li Qing, Li Lie and others led the fleet over, , I traveled through more than a dozen galaxies and still didn’t see a battleship from the Shata Civilization.
The fleet found the meeting point set by the Jialan team in the outpost galaxy and docked there. After waiting for a long time, Li Qing received a communication request from Yu Yuefei, entered a channel, and found that all the core members of the team were present.
Yu Yuefei's bright and delicate face appeared on the channel and said to everyone:
"I have selected two large-scale tasks. Let's take a look and decide to choose one of them as the main direction of our team's strategy."
Then Li Qing received a message from Yu Yuefei, which was two tasks.
"By the way, don't let the news out for now."
Li Qing made an OK gesture and checked.
Then he frowned the next second.
"Playing so big?"
The first option is crazy. He actually wants to enter the United Civilization of the Shatta Tribes to attack the Sixth Space Station of the Shatta Tribe, destroy a giant alloy casting factory in the Sixth Space Station galaxy, and then plunder hundreds of millions of people.
However, when he saw the second option, he immediately knew that he had underestimated her. The second option was even crazier. She actually wanted to lead the fleet deeper into the United Civilization of the Shatta Tribes and attack the southern route of the United Civilizations of the Shatta Tribes. Provincial capital, reef lair planet.
Let's not talk about whether it is possible to hide the whereabouts of such a huge fleet deep in the enemy's hinterland. The key reef nest is a living planet. There are tens of billions of aliens in that galaxy. Just like the Jinmen Province, there is a huge fleet stationed all year round. , Yu Yuefei's current behavior is equivalent to them running to sneak attack on the Jinmen Galaxy.
"This is so"
At this time, all the core members in the channel had basically finished reading the message sent by Yu Yuefei and were silent for a while. Luo Taiyuan, the third largest shareholder of the team, was the first to say:
"I think the risks of both options are very high. Let's not talk about the latter one. The former one is not easy to do. We can't guarantee to defeat the enemy's garrison fleet, let alone the enemy's hinterland deep there. Support can arrive. Once the war drags on for a long time and the enemy's support is in place, we won't even be able to run."
Li Qing said nothing, Luo Taiyuan said what he thought.
The other core members did not answer. They all had similar ideas and felt that this option was too difficult.
No one cared about the latter option, that one was too outrageous, and everyone believed that it was Yu Yuefei's choice for comparison with the first one.
After all, when you see the second outrageous option, the first one is not so outrageous, but is easier to accept. It's a simple psychological effect.
Yu Yuefei seemed to have anticipated everyone's reaction and replied:
"Normally, it is difficult to do it with our strength. I didn't consider this at first, but one of the benefits offered by the expeditionary force in this military operation is really hard for me to refuse."
"I learned through family channels that this time the expeditionary force will allocate a helicopter corps quota. If we can successfully attack the target space residential station, destroy the heavy industrial base of the Shatta Tribe United Civilization in the southern province, and plunder more than 100 million population, our team will receive an elite team medal issued by the Imperial Expeditionary Force, and be directly promoted to the legion without all prerequisites for promotion to the official legion.”
"Promoted to the Legion?"
Everyone's attention was attracted by this sentence, even Li Qing was no exception.
The legion is a regular force recognized by the empire. It has legion BUFFs recognized by the new universe, as well as many super benefits.
For example, the authority to cultivate and sell clones, the authority to enter certain special commodity markets, etc., as well as the most critical right to allocate provincial tax revenue.
According to the regulations of the empire, 10% of each province's annual tax revenue will be allocated to the legions within the province, and will be divided equally among all legions within the province.
What is the annual tithe tax of a province?
This depends on the situation of different provinces, but we can take Jinmen Province as an example. The total annual tax revenue is estimated to be tens of trillions, and one-tenth is several trillions.
There are only three regular legions in the entire Jinmen Province, and on average they can get over one trillion yuan each year. (End of chapter)