Interstellar Energy Tycoon

Food area.

"These rice, flour, grains and oils are so cheap. I want to buy one million stones. Can your Wanbao Building supply it? Can the price be slightly cheaper?"

Empress Wu Qingqiu said to Li Lefan beside her.

Cheap.

I saw that the prices of staple food commodities such as rice, flour, vermicelli, beans, and soy oil were only half or even one-third of the prices of similar products in the capital.

Shocked.

Empress Wu Qingqiu was very surprised, with disbelief on her face.

Then she placed an order, and instead of just buying a small amount, she wanted to buy in large quantities. After all, she had no shortage of money now. Li Lefan had donated a lot of property to her. Originally, the money had to be spent on various expenses. In the palace alone, countless rice, flour, grains and oils are eaten every year, and millions of taels of silver are consumed. But now if we purchase these cheap grains and food, we can save hundreds of thousands of expenses, and we can use Going in other directions, a lot more things have been accomplished.

The question is whether there is sufficient supply?

"Your Majesty, millions of stones are not a problem. We have ready stocks now. You don't need to wait too long. All prices are 50% off. As long as you pay the price, they will be delivered to your door soon. The quality is guaranteed to be consistent. Your Majesty will definitely be satisfied." Peace of mind.”

Li Lefan made a statement and said.

That's right.

The supply system of the Azure Chamber of Commerce is very powerful. From the moment it arrived in this beautiful galaxy, it began to expand the agricultural field and engage in vertical stratified agriculture in space. The yield is very high, even if the actual size of the farm is not large. But there is no problem in supplying tens of millions of tons of various types of food every year.

Coupled with the extremely abundant reserves in the warehouse.

It is fully able to cope with the special situation of sudden increase in market demand.

"good!"

Empress Wu Qingqiu nodded with satisfaction: "Xue Yan, I want to buy 10,000 stones and transport them to the soldiers on the border for use. One million jin of high-quality iron will be made into high-quality swords and armor to equip 50,000 soldiers." We have an elite army, as well as solar flashlights, 100,000 pieces of cloth, and we need to purchase thousands of water pumps for use in my imperial village to increase production. We also need to purchase some supporting high-yielding seeds, pesticides and fertilizers... I don’t know. Can we supply ready goods?”

After only moving one or two levels, Empress Wu Qingqiu's orders exceeded one million taels of silver, and she purchased more than a thousand items.

Chop your hands.

All in all, she was frantically shopping, and repeatedly asked if the supply could be guaranteed and would not waste her time.

"No problem. As long as it is a product in Wanbao Tower, no matter how much the order is, sufficient supply will be guaranteed and your Majesty's time will not be wasted." Li Lefan assured.

"In that case, there is another item, I wonder if you can sell it?"

Empress Wu Qingqiu spoke again.

"Your Majesty, please tell me, what else do you want to buy?"

"When the construction of your Wanbao Building started, could you sell me a few hundred of those tall and destructive armored giants? They are very powerful and may be able to restrain the barbarian cavalry. If they are sent to the north, The border will definitely have a magical effect and defeat the elite cavalry army of the barbarians. Over the years, my great age has been repeatedly bullied by the barbarians and unable to resist. We fought many times and suffered heavy losses. If we can get a hundred of them, we can attack the barbarians. The cavalry are like giant war elephants. If they can obey the orders and attack in a unified manner, they may be able to bring unprecedented victory without wasting much effort."

Empress Wu Qingqiu said.

Hear this.

Li Lefan was very surprised at the difference. He did not expect that the empress had such good vision. She immediately saw the huge potential of the engineering mecha and the role it could play on the battlefield. She would be like a king and let the barbarians The cavalry instantly fell in love with and learned to sing and dance, and became very peace-loving, and no longer dared to think of going south to rob.

Now the empress saw the potential and wanted to buy it.

"Your Majesty, as for engineering mechas, the principle is that we are willing to sell them. It can greatly improve the efficiency of infrastructure. The function of going to the grasslands to fight has not been developed yet, so it may not be very suitable. In fact, we also have a batch of relatively backward ones that can be displayed and sold. We sell hot weapons to His Majesty. I believe that as long as we can have three to five thousand or tens of thousands of such weapons, and after a relatively short period of queue and discipline training, we can rush to the battlefield and use the weapons in our hands to tell the barbarians that they belong to them. The era is over, from now on they can only study how to dance well and sing well, and they will no longer pose any threat to the Epoch Empire."

Li Lefan introduced.

"What kind of weapon is it that is so powerful?"

"The gun is a relatively advanced breech-loading gunpowder rifle. The shooter can fire ten rounds per minute at the fastest. The maximum killing range is 250 meters. As long as one hundred guns are equipped, some effects can be conquered. As long as one thousand or ten thousand guns are equipped, , then there will be no threatening opponents. As long as they are disliked, this army can be sent to quell them. Bandits, rebels and other thieves within the empire can also be efficiently destroyed and destroyed. If you destroy it, you won’t suffer much loss.”

Li Lefan introduced.

"Is there really such a powerful weapon?"

Empress Wu Qingqiu was a little disbelieving, her eyes suddenly widened, and she immediately asked: "How much money would it cost to create such an elite force?"

"Not much. A traditional rifle costs 300 taels at most, and a bullet costs 50 or 6 taels. To build a firearm-based 1,000-person battalion, it only costs 200,000 taels at most, but it's comparable to millions." traditional army." Li Lefan introduced.

Then he took out his smart wrist, projected a high-definition screen on the wall, and played some video images.

There are images of people queuing up to be shot in the age of firearms.

Scenes of positional warfare.

A scene of intensive firepower harvesting.

Especially the last scene where aircraft, tanks and artillery all came into battle, and the rumble could blow up a mountain to pieces. Empress Wu Qingqiu stood there for a long time, feeling a huge impact.

"I buy it! And a thousand guns are not enough. I want to buy 10,000 guns and form ten firearms battalions so that they can go to any crisis-prone place in the Daji Empire and eliminate those rebels and enemies in a timely manner."

Empress Wu Qingqiu suddenly said confidently.

powerful.

Those equipment called thermal weapons are indeed too powerful and exaggerated. Under the overwhelming firepower, not to mention millions of troops, even tens of millions of imperial troops will be quickly cut down.

So Li Lefan went shopping with the empress Wu Qingqiu in the mall, and while they were talking, they actually talked about arms transactions, and soon sold orders worth millions of taels, all of which were done by the empress alone, plus A total of five to six million was spent on other expenses. It was hard to fill up the internal funds, but before they were warmed up, they suddenly shrank again.

After some crazy shopping.

All delivered quickly.

The voices of opposition in the capital had also subsided a lot at this time.

Those who took violent resistance actions have basically died down, and the voices of opposition have become smaller and smaller, and even gradually disappeared.

On the one hand, the Wanbao Building of the Azure Chamber of Commerce is too powerful. No matter what kind of violent methods are used, it will not cause much damage. On the contrary, the attackers will have to pay a very high price, which proves that this path of confrontation cannot go on, but A dead end.

On the other hand, most of the businessmen in the capital chose the option of 'join if you can't beat them', and gave up the traditional business model. They then purchased a large amount of various commodities in Wanbao Building, and then moved to other places outside the capital. After all, there is only one Wanbao Building and there are no branches throughout the empire, so they seized this opportunity and became second-hand or even third-hand traders, selling a large number of cheap products in Wanbao Building outside the capital. Earn at least two or three times the price difference.

For example, high-quality snow salt can be said to be in short supply, and the price is so cheap. No matter how much quantity is wholesaled from Wanbao Tower, you can easily sell it at a good price without going far from the capital. Almost Just lie down and make money.

For example, high-yielding seeds and aluminum alloy farm tools are lightweight and easy to use. When farmers use these farm tools, their work efficiency will increase by several percent, and they can open up several minutes more land a day, allowing them to decisively give up their original iron farm tools. New farm tools have been used one after another. After all, the prices are not very expensive.

But the most sensational thing is the super artifact 'water pump'. Its powerful pumping capacity can irrigate the dry land on the hillside and increase the amount of water irrigated by the river several times, which can irrigate the usual large areas. The year of drought will turn into the year of minor drought, and the grain output will not be less than 70%, so that the year of medium drought and minor drought can still get a bumper harvest, which is comparable to the good weather, allowing many places to have a small famine once every three years and a major famine once every ten years. The natural law of the country has turned into a minor famine once every ten years and a major famine every thirty years. The stability of agriculture has been greatly improved.

There are also new solar power stoves that can generate electricity during the day, store it in batteries, and then use it to boil water, cook, and cook. As long as each household lays 20 square meters of super photovoltaic panels on the roof, an entire The problems of lighting, cooking, and boiling water at home can all be solved. There is no need to go to the mountains to collect firewood. This solves the most important fuel problem in ancient rural areas and saves a lot of labor. Moreover, such a solar power generation system only costs 5 yuan. Ten taels of silver is not very expensive, but for an ordinary rural family, it costs about ten taels a year to cut firewood and buy charcoal. That is, the money can be paid back in the fastest five years, and a lot of physical labor is avoided, allowing people to In order to get better maintenance, as long as the middle-class families with a little wealth at home have spent money to buy solar power stoves.

certainly.

Facing the tide of new products from Wanbaolou.

Many traditional industries in the Daji Empire suddenly fell into recession or even closed down. Because they could not compete with Wanbaolou, they had no competitiveness and could only end up in bankruptcy, or simply put down the business at hand and join the ranks of destroying Wanbaolou's products. .

Therefore, the unemployment rate in the capital increased significantly at first, and then dropped rapidly. It became a population of millions in the capital, all living around the Wanbao Tower, forming a huge dumping and comprador cooperation structure with constant influence. It spread outside the capital city until it radiated to the entire Epoch Empire.

And later on, Wanbaolou will also sell some brick-making equipment and industrial processing equipment, teach the technology step by step, cultivate a large number of supplier companies, produce massive amounts of bricks, and bake cement, plus Wanbaolou Its own huge steel production capacity and a rudimentary industrial system are gradually being built. The scale is getting bigger and bigger, the business is getting better and better, and the production capacity is very exaggerated.

This industrial system naturally brought a lot of competition, but it was no match for Wanbaolou and was quickly eliminated.

Naturally, the rapid development of industry has brought about a rapid increase in energy consumption. In order to meet the growing demand for power generation, Li Lefan sent several team members to be responsible for the construction of space energy facilities. First, he built a large-capacity energy The main route is to launch a large number of light energy collection converters and energy relay satellites to arrive closer to the star, and then continue to increase the number and increase the power of power generation.

Ten million kilowatts.

One hundred million kilowatts.

One billion kilowatts.

In a very short period of time, the total power generated in space has increased to the order of one billion kilowatts.

Then, by pulling out extra-long cables, a large amount of power is sent to the ground to meet all aspects of power demand.

The power supply problem is thus solved.

Therefore, there are countless electrical equipment in Wanbao Building, such as LCD panel TVs, very fun game consoles, electric two-wheelers, three-wheelers, electric flying devices, as well as refrigerators and air conditioners for home use. , electric lamps and other power-consuming products have entered the homes of wealthy families in the capital. Even the empress Wu Qingqiu in the palace also experienced an extremely convenient modern life after the palace was electrified. She had to lament that those Foreign businessmen are very good at enjoying themselves. All kinds of novelties opened her eyes and stunned her. She could only suppress her curiosity to avoid being underestimated by those businessmen, so she could only enjoy the convenience in private. Secretly say "it smells so good".

And then later.

Empress Wu Qingqiu was in a state of disbelief, swelling rapidly, and even prepared to do something big, to become an eternal wise king, to do something that would go down in history and be admired and admired by future generations.

For example, send a large army to sweep across the grasslands of the north, completely eliminating the hidden danger of the barbarians, so that they can never turn around and can only surrender permanently. From then on, there will only be peace and peace in the north, and there will no longer be any threats. Solve the problem once and for all .

That's right.

Last time she purchased a batch of firearms from Wanbao Tower and built a firearms army of 10,000 people. Now this 'Shenji Battalion' is killing and killing on the grasslands of the north. Ten battles and ten victories have been eliminated. The number of barbarians has exceeded 100,000, and they have chopped off more heads than the Epoch Empire in the past fifty years combined. They can only be described as killing people like crazy, and they have become an invincible existence on the grassland.

On the other side, Wanbao Tower has made a lot of money today. Although it can only provide one-tenth of the profits to the royal family, it still has as much as two to three million taels per month. Now that Wu Qingqiu is not short of money, she can Now that she can let go of her hands and feet, she can fully display her talents. (End of chapter)