Chapter 188 The Northern Territory of the Empire
Without looking, he could feel the curious glances from the surrounding spaceships.
Feeling the strange looks from everyone and the incompatible style of the spaceship around him, Li Qing felt inexplicably like a country bumpkin entering the city.
Li Qing regretted not taking most of the ships into the universe first. If there was only one ship, the target would be much smaller.
A wolf burrowed into the flock, and the fleet flew to a berth somewhere in the galaxy under the guidance of the dispatch tower. In the words of the dispatch tower, military warships cannot be parked in the same location as civilian spacecraft.
After finally parking the fleet in an empty starry sky, Li Qing reported a Black Hawk frigate and drove the ship back to Star City. The Galaxy Trade Center is within Star City.
This is a galaxy similar to Jinmen, with only one living planet, but a total of eleven modified planets, including five large planets, six satellites, and a large number of residential stations.
Data shows that this galaxy is the core of the Yunfu Ye family, and a total of more than 50 billion people live in this galaxy.
The Yunfu Ye family has been a military leader longer than the Qinghe Li family and the Jinmen Yu family. They have a history of more than two thousand years in total. They are a senior military leader, but they have been in peace for many years, and their strength is not necessarily as strong as that of the Qinghe Li family. He deserves to be compared with the Yu family of Jinmen who are rich in martial arts.
After the warship approaches Star City, the local trading network can be opened. He first checked the prices.
The refined steel that costs 390 yuan per square in Jinmen only costs 388.2 yuan per square here, which is about two yuan cheaper.
It's not much alone. If you have one trillion yuan in inventory, you can make 1800 billion yuan for nothing.
Similarly, the standard alloy sold for 820 star yuan per side in Jinmen costs only 817.7 star yuan here, which is more than two yuan cheaper.
I looked at other basic supplies and found that the prices were cheaper than those in Jinmen.
It is worth mentioning that most of the prices in Tianjin are round numbers. Here, the prices are determined by the large market of the United Empire of Humanity, so there will be various decimal places.
Within the United Empire of Humanity, prices will depend on the output of each place. Wherever the output of basic materials in this area decreases, the price will rise, but it usually rises in a short period of time. Because the star gate is connected, it can be adjusted from other places at any time. Once the goods arrive, the increase or decrease will not last long.
However, there are still many big businessmen who travel back and forth between various places with their huge financial resources, or directly manipulate prices in the stock market to make profits.
Of course, Li Qing had no interest in making a profit by reselling it. After understanding the local market, he began to check the blueprint prices of various local warships and weapon accessories. He found that they were not much different from those in Jinmen. It seemed that the prices in this area were related to the entire human union. Prices are uniform across the empire.
It is estimated that there is no major war here, and the demand for this aspect is not high. There are a large number of frigate and destroyer blueprints on the market. There are much fewer cruisers and the least battleships. After searching the entire market, there are only more than 200 blueprints for sale.
Excluding those that were too expensive, there were 118 ships in total, and he took them all in one go, totaling 124 billion star dollars.
Then I searched for 118+369=487 sets of battleship supporting systems, each set cost 6 billion, and a total of 2.922 billion star dollars was spent.
In this way, he has a total of 2,500+487 battleship blueprints on hand, all of which are equipped with weapons and accessories. They can be directly built and equipped with weapons when the time comes, and they can be put into service immediately as long as they are equipped with crews.
He didn't need the cruiser blueprint, he had it himself, but he didn't have the cruiser weapon accessories blueprint. A set of this thing cost about 320 million yuan. He bought 7,000 sets in one go, spending 2.24 trillion star yuan, and almost wiped out the local inventory.
Maybe he bought too many goods at once and soon attracted a visit from a chamber of commerce called Yunfu, but Li Qing guessed that they were members of the Yunfu Ye family. Only they had so many redundant blueprints.
He purchased 13,000 sets of cruiser weapon accessories at the same price, spending another 4.16 trillion star dollars.
Then, a total of 100,000 sets of destroyer blueprints and matching destroyer weapon accessories were purchased directly from them, a set of 70 million, and a total cost of 7 trillion star yuan.
As well as a full 1 million sets of frigate-related weapon accessories, half of the escort modules and half of the sentinel modules, with a unit price of 9 million sets, a total cost of 9 trillion stars.
Although there are many blueprints, they are nothing to a military leader that has existed for more than two thousand years. They don't need to go to several places to get them all together locally.
This trip cost 124 billion + 2922 billion + 2240 billion + 4160 billion + 7000 billion + 9000 billion respectively, for a total of 25446 billion star dollars.
Of course he doesn't have so much cash, but such large transactions can be bartered, as long as the goods recognized by both parties can be worth each other.
Li Qing paid for this batch of blueprints with refined steel of the same value, which happened to be the goods from the large caravan he encountered before.
First, leave the Yunfu Galaxy, find an unmanned galaxy at random and enter the Palm Universe, transfer the goods from the merchant ship to your own transport ship in the Palm Universe, and then drive it out, so as not to be recognized by others.
All the refined steel worth a total of 59 trillion was pulled out, returned to the Yunfu Galaxy, and sold directly to the Yunfu Chamber of Commerce at market prices.
Not afraid of being spotted, he directly jumped thousands of light years to Zhennan Province in one breath. Even if Sanhua Trading Group reacted at that time, the news was probably still on the way.
59 trillion yuan of refined steel is the market price of Tianjin. According to the local market, it is only worth about 58 trillion yuan. After deducting the payment, there are still 32554 billion star yuan. Add in his original capital of 17 trillion yuan, and his assets suddenly reach 49654 billion star yuan. .
As soon as the blueprint was obtained, Li Qing immediately started construction of the shipyard in Gaowei Fortress.
So many blueprints have to be built, and whether they are used for personal use or sold, they will make a lot of money.
With so many blueprints, it can be said that they will be enough for a long time. Then Li Qing left the Yunfu Galaxy directly and flew into the United Human Empire through the local star gate.
His destination is the Tianya Galaxy, the capital of the Tianya Province, one of the largest provinces in the southern part of the United Empire of Humanity. He heard that there are some large and small auctions there every month, and he plans to go there to see if he can buy some weapons or weapons. The mother chip of the accessory.
Buying them all the time is not an option, it is better to produce them yourself and get more weapon mother chips to upgrade them.
This time, I learned from the previous lesson and left while transiting the galaxy. I took the entire fleet into the palm of my hand and set off on the road again with only one frigate.
In fact, the largest province in the southern part of the empire is not the Tianya Province, but the Nantian Province. The Nantian Ye family where Ye Xiao and his son are located is more prosperous.
But Li Qing had a grudge against the Ye family, and it was not convenient for him to go to his home planet.
Although they are unlikely to engage in petty stunts, it is always inconvenient to be recognized.
Although Tianya Province is slightly worse, it is also the top economic center in the south of the empire, not much different.
Besides, if it really doesn’t exist, you can definitely change it somewhere else.
Anyway, there are star gates everywhere in the hinterland of the United Empire of Mankind. As long as you have money, you can quickly travel between places.
It is worth mentioning that wherever Li Qing went, he would visit the local market and buy all the locally priced battleship blueprints.
He has mother chips for other battleships, and the destroyer mother chips have been upgraded to level four. They are only one step away from level five and there is no need to buy them. Now they are only missing battleships.
There are not many battleship blueprints in most places, only two to three hundred at most, and only more than a hundred at least. Many of them are expensive and not cost-effective to buy. I transferred back and forth to seven star gates and bought a total of 785 battleship blueprints. Including accessories, a total of 5,495 billion star dollars was spent
One and a half months after leaving home, Li Qing finally arrived at the Tianya Galaxy, the capital of Tianya Province.
Coming out of the star gate, the first thing you see is a huge mobile fortress slowly passing through the star gate, surrounded by a huge fleet and hundreds of large and small flagships, like a god.
From the comments of players in the regional channel, we know that such a grand event happens when the local garrison fleet changes defense.
Although it is just a conventional mobile fortress with a diameter of only more than 300 kilometers, its combat effectiveness is still very fierce. With this fleet, it can basically sweep across the Shata Tribe Alliance at this time.
Well, the premise is that the Shata United Empire does not have any hidden trump cards, such as some kind of artifact that can subdue the country.
Generally speaking, civilizations developed with luck will not be simple. Powerful relics are not exclusive to players. All intelligent life can actually use them, but they don't have so many.
There are three star cities in the entire Tianya galaxy, two ordinary star cities and one super star city.
The so-called Super Star City is an upgraded version of Star City. It has thicker armor shields, can be equipped with a larger number of Star City Doomsday Arcs, and is extremely powerful in combat.
The three star cities are in the shape of a pin, less than 10,000 kilometers apart, and countless spaceships shuttle back and forth between them.
After Li Qing came out of the Star Gate, he found a local consulting company and spent 100,000 stars to inquire about the auction. He also spent about 4 million to buy tickets for seven auctions.
These seven auctions vary in size, belong to different chambers of commerce or consortiums, and are held roughly within a week.
There was an auction that day. He took out his ticket, looked at the auction location, and flew straight to the auction location.
Compared to the crude black market auction at the outpost, the auction in the hinterland of the United Empire of Mankind was much more high-end. It was an ordinary auction held once a month. After downloading the auction items, Li Qing fell silent.
The first item to be auctioned is a painting from an art master five thousand years ago. The starting price is 100 billion, and each increase in price must not be less than 1 billion.
It’s hard to say the value of something, but a painting is auctioned at the auction
To be honest, Li Qing was not very adaptable for a while.
Suddenly running from a war zone to a peaceful country, I didn't realize it for a while.
Looking at the other auction items, most of them had nothing to do with the war. He knew that this situation was normal in the heart of the United Empire of Man, especially in the southern provinces that were far away from the war.
The northern province is a little better. After all, it is close to the Brunwan United Civilization in the north, and the atmosphere of war is relatively strong.
The southern province has not had a war for thousands of years, and its economy is prosperous, but it has nothing to do with war.
From the fact that there are not many warships in a galaxy with such a large flow of people, it can be seen that peace is the mainstream here.
Far away from the Tianya Galaxy, you will at most encounter some pirates or criminal groups, and their combat effectiveness is limited. There is really no big war.
Li Qing looked back and forth among the lots, but there were really few that he wanted. He was completely disappointed when he saw the last lot.
The fourth of the four finales: a 7.8-square-kilometer piece of land on Tianya Star, the capital of Tianya Province. It is located in a prosperous metropolitan area of this living planet and contains three skyscrapers with hundreds of floors. The annual rent is as high as 5 billion+.
The auction base price is 5 trillion star dollars, and each bid increase must not be less than 10 billion.
Sitting speechlessly, he watched the auctioneer enthusiastically introduce the lots and auction them one by one. At this time, Li Qing's mind was no longer in the auction house, but in other places.
Not surprisingly, the items in the other auctions are likely to be similar, but the tickets are all bought, so if you don’t go, you won’t go in vain.
But after it was over, he was going to leave here and go to the northern border of the United Empire of Humanity, which was close to the Bruwan Union. Two powerful civilizations of equal strength were at war in the star field at the junction of the two civilizations all year round. The atmosphere of war was very strong.
In the past thousands of years, the military focus of the United Empire of Mankind has been placed there, which has resulted in the average strength of the military leaders in the north being stronger than that in the south. At the same time, more military-related things can be purchased there, such as flagship blueprints. They appear there from time to time.
As long as you have money, you can buy it.
This is not a violation, as long as you can get the money for the purchase in compliance with the rules, it is not a problem.
It took him a week to attend all the auctions where he bought tickets. As he expected, they were basically auctions that had nothing to do with the military. Occasionally, there were a few related ones, but they were not very relevant. Compared to him, they were slightly different. It was a bit tasteless and I didn’t buy it.
After the auction, he was not in the mood to listen to the information consulting company saying that there would be a big auction every six months. He left the Tianya Galaxy that day and jumped directly without going through the star gate.
After only two jumps, nearly 3,000 light years across several provinces in one go, when passing through an active galaxy and stopping, I received a message from the military headquarters of the five provinces I passed. Ask about communications.
The meaning of the communication is the same. He jumped directly across provinces without reporting in advance, which violated the regulations.
I was confused at first, but later I learned that this was one of the many basic laws of the United Empire of Mankind. Its main purpose was to prevent people from wandering around between different provinces at will, thereby causing unnecessary misunderstandings.
You must know that although the United Empire of Mankind is a whole, the military lords and lords within it are independent from each other, and many military lords are hostile to each other. Therefore, arbitrarily jumping across provinces is not allowed when it is not a full-scale war.
This provision may sound cumbersome, but it is necessary.
Fortunately, this was Li Qing's first offense, and he was still within the ten-year development period, so he was fine with just a verbal lesson.
So next, he can't jump so casually, he can only jump through the star gate honestly.
Although it was a bit slow, I just took the time to buy battleship blueprints in the systems I was passing through. I had to pass through more than twenty provinces along the way, and I estimated that I could collect two to three thousand sets of battleship blueprints.
Hurrying slowly all the way, it took more than half a month to finally arrive at the Shanhaiguan Fortress System, one of the three core fortress systems in the northern border of the empire. (End of chapter)