Resurrection Empire

Marvell Louis knew Ren Zhong very well, so when he heard his behavior, he became nervous at first.

In Marvel's eyes, his good brother who fell in love with him at first sight was a true hero who remained calm despite the collapse of his star, but now he seemed extremely depressed.

His situation is really not easy.

This economic thing is really powerful. Three contribution points can really stump a hero.

Marvel thought for a moment, and then said affectionately: "The task is heavy, things have happened, and we have to think of ways to deal with it. How can we take it one step at a time? Didn't you yourself say that a war is imminent? If it is still peacetime, When development stagnates, it stagnates, and it can always recover slowly. But one moment after another, every day the production and development stagnates, there will be one less force when it comes to war. The so-called war, although on the surface it is just a confrontation between two armies. It’s a showdown, but behind it is the logistics and productivity of the competition, as well as the good or bad preparations.”

Ren Zhong was still acting, nodding in agreement, "Yes. The only good news is that my people are loyal, and there is no need to worry about rebellion due to the economic crisis. The worst I can do is sell off some properties and release some of the retained ones to the outside world. With the results of technical research, I can get through it slowly by selling some star systems and reducing the scale. It’s a pity that the large number of military industries I have built with great difficulty over decades must either be stopped or sold off. The new soldiers under my command are half-way through training. , they have to be temporarily repatriated and allowed to return to basic work. The education standards of those children who have not yet grown up will also have to continue to be reduced. In the long run, when the war begins, I will probably only be able to maintain an army and The fleet under the Nanxiang Earl's Mansion has similar combat power. Alas."

"Absolutely not!" Marvel became excited. "If the preparations of the Ascended Ones are really as thorough as you said, and on such a large scale, it would be impossible to resist them with the existing power of the three star regions alone. , and may even be defeated like a mountain. If many star gates are occupied by enemy forces at one stroke, the rescue from the center will be beyond our reach, and what awaits us is catastrophe. By then, let alone counterattack the homeland, I am afraid that we Even escape is a luxury."

Ren Zhong sighed again, "But there's nothing we can do."

"Well, let me think about it." During the video communication, Marvell stood up and wandered back and forth, as if making a difficult decision.

His brows were furrowed tightly, and he seemed to be at war with heaven and man in his heart. The expression on his face alternated between determination and struggle, making him look extremely embarrassed.

Seeing Marvel like this, Ren Zhong felt a little embarrassed and thought to himself, did I overact? Anyway, the mystery is about to be revealed, otherwise I have to tell him the truth.

Ahem, but I just suffered a terrible loss and made this good brother uneasy. Now I am immediately slapping myself in the face, which is a bit embarrassing. Also, the information flow communication of this imperial super network has ears after all, and it is not safe enough.

On the opposite side, after dozens of seconds, Marvel finally seemed to make up his mind, slamming the table next to him, "I've decided!"

Ren Zhong: "Ah? What?"

"Although the funds of the Marquis Mansion are also very tight at the moment, they can always make some money. I will first provide you with a batch of interest-free loans. The loan amount should be able to help you cover the mortgage of the Duke Wenle Mansion for five years. Payment. I will order the transportation team to cross the star gate with energy batteries to help you solve your urgent needs first. No matter what, the production of invisible coating cannot be stopped. Once it stops, it will be all over." Marvell Louis seemed to be gritting his teeth. said.

Ren Zhong was shocked, "The interest-free loan is okay. I can use it to purchase more energy batteries, and it can also be used to pay off the mortgage loan I owe Duke Wenle. But the loss of energy batteries after passing through the star gate is huge. . Based on the three-month voyage of 500 light years from the area where the Marquis Mansion is located to the Nanxiang Star Cluster, the battery loss rate exceeds 50%, which is not cost-effective."

Marvel sighed: "There is no way, no choice. The bottom line of the matter is that you have been too neglectful of the construction of the Dyson megastructure project in recent years, resulting in insufficient energy self-sufficiency. However, your Chifeng tribe has many people in the Nanxiang star cluster. The industrial production capacity is second to none, and the energy consumption is the highest. But now is not the time to pursue fault. The real problem is that if I don’t issue energy batteries to you, then other forces in the Nanxiang Star Cluster that hold energy batteries, especially Nanxiang Uncle Liu An will definitely take the opportunity to raise the price again until it reaches your limit of endurance and squeezes out every penny of your funds. At that time, I will either have to turn a blind eye to your situation, or I will just If you can accompany me, the blood that Duke Wenle and Uncle Nanxiang will shed will not be your family's blood, but the blood of our two families."

When it came to the end, Marvell's tone had the determination of a strong man cutting off his arms.

It makes Ren Zhong feel particularly embarrassed.

It seems that after being an otaku for so many years, my acting skills have not deteriorated, but have quietly improved too much, and I have overacted.

He was about to have a showdown with Marvell Louis, but he never thought that the Marvell brothers on the opposite side seemed to be in a hurry. He only told Ren Zhong to wait for him for ten minutes, and then hung up the communication in a hurry, leaving Ren Zhong stunned on the spot.

Ren Zhongzheng was about to dial again, but a new communication request came in, from Count Wen Yuanbo, a branch of the royal family.

After many years of hard work, the former Viscount Wen Yuanbo made a lot of profits by relying on the tolls provided by the large number of ships traveling back and forth from the Shattered Star Ring. After many years of being a wife, he became a mother-in-law and was successfully promoted to earl.

Behind this incident, there is most likely the effort of Wen Zaiyin, the current chief military and political officer of Nanxiang.

Although Wen Zaiyin and Wen Yuanbo were not from the same lineage, and their blood relationship was very far apart, they had the same surname on their heads after all, so they would not be like Liu An who not only did not help, but even suppressed Wen Yuanbo.

Wen Yuanbo gave Ren Zhong good news.

He actually told Ren Zhong that despite the difficulties, he still convinced the elders of his family and was willing to provide low-interest loans to the Earl of Chifeng Mansion. The interest rate is lower than the loan at the Duke of Wenle Palace, and the total amount can approximately cover one year's mortgage payment.

Although the money is not much, it is still a timely help.

When it comes to things like money, there's no such thing as too much, so I accepted it with great gratitude.

It is said that true love emerges in times of need, and Marvell and Wen Yuanbo's generous actions made Ren Zhong, who was "in trouble", feel a little warmth.

Others don't know the inside story. In fact, if these two people bring money at this time, they will not only risk offending Duke Wenle's palace, but also risk losing everything.

On the other side, Marvell Louis is showing his dictatorial side.

It was his personal decision to fully rescue Uncle Chi Feng, and it was not discussed in the Marquis of Zhenjiang Mansion.

This is clearly a waste of money.

Although everyone in the Marquis's residence knew that the Marquis favored Uncle Chi Feng, and also knew that Uncle Chi Feng had amazing potential, potential was potential after all, and they had to be responsible for the Marquis's property.

You know, the Marquis of Zhenjiang is different from other marquises in that they have always been obsessed with counterattacking the countryside.

As a result, Marvell encountered great resistance in this small meeting attended by only a dozen people, and some even suggested that the Marquis should be invited to make the decision.

At this time, it was Marvell who grasped the key to the matter and asked everyone: "Since ancient times, has the Marquis ever arranged anyone's clothes with his own hands? The Marquis once leaned on his assistant Qiqi, and thought about it more than once We need to practice reproduction with Uncle Chi Feng. What do you think will happen if she really makes the decision? Seeing Uncle Chi Feng’s current situation, will she double the standard I proposed?”

The whole audience was silent.

Everyone recalled the unique canonization ceremony of Uncle Chi Feng in their minds.

The scene when the Marquis put the purple robe on Uncle Chi Feng with his own hands was just horrifying.

Many senior officials in the Marquis of Zhenjiang's Mansion suddenly realized that with the Marquis' temperament, the scene mentioned by Uncle Zhan Feng was entirely possible!

After a while, Marvell Louis finally suppressed all the voices, and first issued the order to quickly form a transport team and must set off within a week.

Then Marvell called Ren Zhong's communication and told him the good news.

Marvel first briefly introduced the situation at the small meeting, and then said: "The task is heavy, and I have tried my best. I can only help you so much for the time being. As I said, if conditions permit, I really want to invite the Marquis. Sir. But you also know that she is in a special situation and cannot be easily revived. With my authority, I can only do this."

Ren Zhong saw that Marvel looked tired, and his face was still flushed secretly due to his emotional argument with others. He was obviously a big help, but he said slightly apologetic words, and finally couldn't help it. Said: "Marvel, I really can't hold it in anymore. I really don't need energy."

"Ah? Why?"

"It's not convenient for me to say right now, but the energy issue is really nothing to worry about. You'll know after a while."

"this……"

"As for the batteries, I really don't need them here. But now that the fleet has been built, it's better to replace the goods with these things. I have urgent needs here, and I will buy them at the market price. I will wait for the products to come out. It will also be sold back at the most favorable price. The army under the Marquis Mansion will definitely use it."

After saying that, Ren Zhong actually sent Marvel a list of goods. Most of them were some rare specialties from the Far Frontier Star Territory, which were used in many new weapons. There was indeed a bit of a shortage.

Marvell only took a cursory look and immediately knew that he was prepared for a heavy task. He was shocked and asked: "Not only do you not plan to shrink the scale, but you also want to increase production capacity?"

"certainly!"

"This..." Marvel pondered for a long time, not knowing how to describe Ren Zhong's madness.

He hesitated to speak several times, but when he saw Ren Zhong's confident face, and thought of Ren Zhong's wisdom all the time, he finally stopped trying to persuade him and just said: "Well, I'll wait for your good news. Alas. , speaking of it, these ten years have passed and you haven’t changed much, but I am getting older day by day. Time is not forgiving. "

Ren Zhong also sighed: "Yes."

…

Under the attention of countless people, nearly a month has passed.

Whether it was the Nanxiang Star Cluster or the Far Frontier Star Region, or even the central Tianxuan Guards of the empire or many people in Duke Wenle's Mansion, they all stared at the territory of Earl of Chifeng's Mansion with wide eyes.

Everyone is waiting for the day when the Chifeng tribe will completely run out of food.

But at this moment, almost on the same day, one after another, large rectangular transport ships with the characteristics of the Chifeng tribe emerged from the subspace passage and rushed to the transit space stations built in many galaxies one after another. .

Then, one after another, standardized containers were dragged by small and medium-sized transport ships and rushed to the high-altitude orbit of the planet under the rule of the Earl of Chifeng.

Then, these containers are sent to the space shipbuilding space station, space factory, or transported to the surface of the planet through the space elevator, and then quickly sent to various cities and factories through the orbital transportation network intertwined on the surface of the planet. .

Although there are anti-gravity aircraft, after cost accounting, people still find that it is more cost-effective to use the relatively slower rail transit network. Although the energy saved per unit of transportation capacity is not much, when the scale of civilization becomes larger and the cargo throughput is larger, the cost advantage brought by the accumulation of small amounts is also amazing.

Looking at the Nanxiang Star Cluster, and even looking at the Far Frontier Star Region and the entire empire, there are really not many nobles like the Chifeng Clan who are already very developed and powerful, but are still so good at living and saving transportation costs. .

…

Thirty days passed, and strange things began to happen.

The Chifeng people did not fall into stagnation due to lack of energy as many people expected. Not only that, many large projects that were only planned before but not implemented on the ground actually started to be fully completed at almost the same time. Start construction.

I saw that on one planet after another, huge construction sites were rapidly enclosing land.

The scale of these construction sites is so large that even using optical telescopes to observe high in the sky tens of light seconds away, they can be seen clearly.

What's even more exaggerated is that the Chifeng tribe has begun to gradually hollow out some planets with high metal content.

Some knowledgeable people will recognize this trick, which is clearly to use the planet as the original skeleton to build a super large starry sky fortress.

The most exaggerated thing is what is happening in the prairie prairie galaxy filled with junk stars. A giant space project composed of countless modular parts is rapidly taking shape above the ring of junk stars.

Everyone watching this incident was shocked.

People don't understand what's going on.

Chifeng Earl's Mansion did not purchase a single energy battery from outside this month.

The aid fleet from Zhenjiang Marquis Mansion is still on the way.

Where did Chi Fengbo conjure so much new energy like magic?

It was at this opportunity that Ren Zhong and Yang Misi, who had long disappeared from ordinary people's perspective, appeared at a press conference at the same time.

Facing the reporters in the audience with question marks written all over their foreheads, Ren Zhong and Yang Misi, a former academic leader who was well-known in the empire, announced two brand-new patented technologies at the same time.

First, it is possible to increase the iteration cycle of scrap metal utilization and add more than ten cycles of new scrap metal recycling technology based on the empire's existing cutting-edge metal recycling technology.

2. New dark matter capture, development and utilization technology.

This move shocked the empire.