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Chapter 950: Trade Bottleneck

.Herina joins Tianxi and currys over Ananda, isn’t it just for the benefit? But she is the first time. Is it appropriate to make a request? But she is also a meticulous person. Seeing Ananda doesn’t like to say anything, since she says she wants to give a heavy reward, it’s not beautiful to say polite words. I thought that the elixir was not needed. I just said that she would stay here to practice. Since Adelaide needs to do business, I don’t think it’s lacking for his and his daughter’s elixirs. The real-time communication device is now delivered at will, and it doesn’t seem too expensive. What should I do? She suddenly remembered something.

"Madam, I wonder if there is any space prop for storing and accessing items? In addition, can you also give Adelaide a communication device to facilitate communication between us."

Ananda asked with a smile: "What? That kind of space prop is of great value?"

"Great!" Helina said: "There are not many space props produced in the Wuji Empire, and even fewer flow into the Federation every year. However, space props have great effect. There are many saints in the Holy Land dedicated to research in this area, but they have never made any breakthroughs."

Ananda learned the space formation and knew that the metal spiritual materials synthesized by the crystallization of the mind power cannot be made of space rings. The metal spiritual materials produced by Randybos have high spiritual damage and poor spiritual power. Some of them are even less than the wooden spiritual materials in the Artifact God Continent. If you want to arrange the space formation, the second thing you have to use jade spiritual materials, and the yield rate is extremely low, the internal space is small, and the service life is not long.

In addition to the personal use of space rings, the Saint Lomalen people are all big eaters because of their practice of "Nine Profound Body Firm", and the interstellar navigation time is long, so they cannot install a complete ecosystem on each transport ship. Therefore, when Saint Lomalen's merchant group uses a large number of biochemical people or costly intelligent robots during trafficking, and at the same time, they have to prepare enough food for a small number of natural people, which occupies a large amount of freight space and increases freight costs.

If the distance is close, it is okay to have supplies along the way, but the three level 6 civilizations are not on the same spiral arm, and the center of the galactic center is connected but cannot get close. The trade between Saint Lomalen and the Wuji Empire has to pass through a long-distance blank area. At the speed of warships jumping six light years each time, the merchant group travels back and forth between the two countries. Including the stocking time, it takes about three years! Not to mention the dangers that may occur at any time in the universe, just where can the merchant group go to replenish energy when sailing in the blank area of ​​the Milky Way? Where can they go to replenish food?

With St. Lomalen's warship technology, if the ship jumps a short time, it is necessary to make the ship's volume smaller. If the ship is small in size, the cargo space will be less and the storage space will be less. If the ship is larger, the jumping interval will be longer, and the time will be passed through the blank area between the spiral arms will be longer, and the same natural person crew will need large food supplies.

Only when the ship is large enough to have a small ecosystem built-in and can carry out agricultural production within the ship can long-distance interstellar trade. The initial investment of such trade groups is not something ordinary people can afford. Most of the super consortiums of Landibos are based on the study of how to use their mind power to crystallize the roots, but the super consortium of St. Lomalen takes the standard of whether they can engage in interstellar foreign trade. So far, only eight major consortiums of St. Lomalen can go to the Wuji Empire, and the nouveau riche Adelaide is still working in this regard.

According to Helina, the reason why Saint Lomalen is now fighting with the Lotus Empire is related to interstellar foreign trade.

Among the three sixth-level civilizations in the Milky Way, the Wuji Empire is the first and the second spiral arm. Due to historical reasons, the Wuji Empire is the strongest, so strong that Saint Lomalen and the Liantai Empire are far from being an opponent!

There are many ancient sects and inherited families in the Wuji Empire. These sects and families are above the imperial power of the empire. Their disciples and clan members have the origin of the bloodline. They can not abide by the laws of the Wuji Empire and only abide by the common rules agreed between the sects and families. They even kill a person who is not origin of the bloodline for no reason. They only need to pay a sufficient fine to avoid punishment!

But these sects and families are not united, and they often fight each other secretly. Of course, the struggle between them has nothing to do with ordinary people in the empire. It is precisely because of the struggle between sects and families that the Wuji Empire has suffered a lot of internal friction, and they are not interested in expanding the territory of the empire. Saint Lomalen and the Liantai Empire survived.

Saint Lomalen occupies the third spiral arm, and there are two attached level five civilization countries on the fourth spiral arm. The Lotus Empire occupies the remaining star domain of the fourth spiral arm.

These two countries have weak strengths, similar technological levels, and serious homogeneity. Some of the special products of the two countries also have markets in the Wuji Empire, but the Wuji Empire has too many things that both countries covet, so most of the two countries are conducting interstellar foreign trade with the Wuji Empire.

In addition to jumping and using the Starry Gate, ships can also travel natural and long-distance wormholes. In the past, Saint Lomalen had two ultra-long-distance natural wormholes, one directly through the fourth spiral arm and the other leading to the middle between the third spiral arm and the second spiral arm. Due to the existence of the second natural wormhole, the space distance between Saint Lomalen and the Wuji Empire was shortened by half. The Lotus Empire had to borrow from Saint Lomalen, so it drew two attached level five civilizations to the Wuji Empire.

Because of the cosmic string changes in the Milky Way forty years ago, not only did the natural wormhole that directly penetrated Turmantale on the edge of the Dirksala province in Landibos, but also the wormhole that leads to the second and third spiral arms disappear.

At the same time, a new wormhole that the Lotus Empire assigned to Saint Lomalen's fifth-level civilization was created in the territory of the second and third-rotating arms. However, this wormhole is closer to the third-rotating arms. It turned out that the two countries only had to go half of the blank distance to the Wuji Empire, but now it has to go two-thirds, which increases the difficulty of interstellar foreign trade and is not a good thing for both countries.

The changes in the cosmic string are things that no one can stop or affect. Needless to say, the economic impact of this change on the two countries can be adjusted and balanced internally. However, it is difficult to reach a new balance between countries. In the past, the Liantai Empire drew two attached five-level civilizations in order to borrow from the Wuji Empire. Now the new wormhole is in the territory of the fifth-level civilization that was separated, and the Wuji Empire has to go to the local land of the Liantai Empire first to borrow from the Liantai Empire. The basic conditions of the peace agreement have changed, and friction and war between the two sides are inevitable.

The war between level 6 civilizations is different from level 5 civilizations. Even commercial navigation is difficult between spiral arms, let alone the war that uses many "big eaters" jihadists? That is, there is a wormhole between St. Lomalen and the Lotus Empire to fight. After nearly forty years of friction and negotiations, the two sides have not reached an agreement. St. Lomalen has been secretly preparing and finally launched an expedition the previous year. St. Lomalen walked through the wormhole that appeared in the attached level 5 civilization, and caught the Lotus Empire off guard.

So far, Helina has seen federal military news reports that Saint Lomalen has an absolute advantage, but due to the war, the trade between the two countries and the Wuji Empire has been temporarily interrupted. The war between the sixth-level civilizations has been delayed for a long time. Major consortiums are also actively trying to find ways to resume trade, but they have never seen any consortium claiming to have an economic and secure solution.

Some consortiums proposed to use intelligent brain to control transport ships to automatically follow the merchant group to cross the blank area. However, although this method saves a lot of food storage space, the increase in navigation distance has led to a fierce competition in energy reserve space. Because the intelligent brain system is not as good as the human brain, it has poor ability to respond to emergencies. If you encounter calculations between consortiums and pirates rob, you may have just left your spin arm and be robbed! If you unfortunately encounter such a big loss, even the super consortium will be damaged!

Some people also proposed that the federal consortium work together to build a permanent space fortress in the blank area of ​​the spiral arm, using the space fortress as a supply point. However, this plan has three major disadvantages: one is that the investment is huge and the future operation and maintenance costs are also high; the other is that the consortium will lose its trade monopoly position, and the federal merchant groups can go to the Wuji Empire to trade, which is a situation that the consortium does not want to see.

The third most important thing is that it is difficult for the people of Saint Lomalen to go to the Wuji Empire, and it is not easy for the people of the Wuji Empire to come here. For example, if the Federation really repairs a route, it will make the transportation between the two places convenient. With the strong strength of the Wuji Empire, will the backhand send troops to destroy the Federation?

There are many plans to restore trade, but none of them can be used unless the consortium gets a large number of space props! If space props are available to store supplies or goods, it can greatly reduce the burden on the ship in the blank area between the spiral arms. The size of the ship can also speed up the warships and shorten the trade cycle. These benefits are self-evident. Helina asked about space props, but it was actually for trade.

Through Helina's introduction, Ananda's understanding of Saint Lomalen has deepened a little. Only by knowing oneself and knowing others can you win a hundred battles. Although Ananda woke up and had a lot of work waiting for her to make a decision, she still chatted with Helina for a whole day. Later, Chu Yi also participated, but Zhang Ziqiang once again entered the "digested" energy state and finally decided that Chu Yi had it.

Chu Yi has gained many soul bodies, with a wide range of knowledge and rich experience. When Zhang Ziqiang did not attach much importance to her in the past, she never made suggestions easily, but whenever she made suggestions, Zhang Ziqiang usually just made some changes according to her own ideas and promulgated them. Now Chu Yi has saved Zhang Ziqiang and Ananda, and Chu Yi has integrated with Zhang Ziqiang's Yin Dan, and is no longer the tenant of the past, but a symbiotic relationship with Zhang Ziqiang. With Ananda's stupid loyalty and paranoidness, it is not surprising that he takes the initiative to shorten Chu Yi.

Chu Yi believes that Adelaide does not need to engage in interstellar foreign trade at present. Adelaide mistakenly believes that Tianxi is a member of the Wuji Empire, and knows that there is ultra-long-distance teleportation technology, and he can clearly reach the Wuji Empire directly, so why do you have to drive a boat and run on your own?

According to Chu Yi, Zhang Ziqiang's power now has two major advantages compared to the sixth-level civilization...

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