"Isn't one thousand and fifty a little too little? Can you give me more?"
"Sorry, boss, this system has no right to change the final reward calculated by the administration."
Yang Tianyi, who returned to the New Baghdad Group Building in the Paradise World, stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, overlooking the headquarters base that had begun to take shape. He sighed in his heart that the group's development speed was indeed changing with each passing day. He had only left for more than two months, and originally planned to take another half a year. The completed headquarters and surrounding supporting facilities are almost completed.
But these are small things, the rewards given by the system are the key point.
As a reward for separating the Lord of War world from the Mission Cold War world, the system awarded him fifteen hundred origin points as a reward.
For him who is used to earning tens of thousands of ordinary points, a mere 1,500 points does give people a feeling that it is nothing more than that, so he was just trying to bargain with the system to get more.
Judging from the system's subsequent responses, I'm afraid it won't work.
"Okay, so if I want to use Origin Points now, how should I use them?"
"The usage of origin points is very simple. You only need to give the number of use, such as five hundred points or one thousand points. The system will then use the origin points to build a passage to the parallel world. The more points used, the better the passage will be. Stable. But you cannot use the passage to go directly to other worlds. Instead, you can obtain any item in the parallel world in a random way."
"That's it..."
Yang Tianyi frowned slightly, and after thinking for a moment, he suddenly felt that using this method was like reaching into an opaque lottery box to win the prize. Whatever you touched depends on luck. The origin point is his hand that reaches into the box. The more points he invests, the bigger his hand can reach into the box, and the better prizes he can grab will naturally be better.
He considered himself not a gambler, but after much hesitation, he chose to keep these origin points for emergencies.
Nowadays, the vigorous development of the group is based on the premise of sufficient resources. If the funds or resources cannot make ends meet, the group's development will stagnate. It is precisely because Yang Tianyi has seen through this that he cares about the resources at hand instead of pouring them all out like water in exchange for short-term explosive development.
Temporary prosperity is unstable and false, just like Fenhabenis in the world of stars. It is so glorious when it is glorious, and hundreds of races and civilizations live on it.
The giant cities that covered the entire surface of the earth and penetrated deep into the earth's crust once allowed the permanent population of Fenhabenis to reach hundreds of billions. The spaceports and passenger terminals scattered in high and low orbits handled countless resources and floating populations every day.
However, in order to support such a brilliant urban planet, the resources required are simply not what one galaxy or ten galaxies can provide. During the heyday of the First Alliance, tens of thousands of transport ships came from all over the galaxy every day, dumping shiploads of common and rare cargo into the abyssal mouth of Fenhabennis.
The consequence of the alliance's split was that all transport ships and convoys used to transport food and living supplies were deployed for war. The entire urban planet fell into endless hunger and chaos, and eventually became a paradise for warlords and criminal organizations.
Until they also died due to endless wars and internal strife, leaving only an empty and dead planet as the tombstone of the First Alliance, warning those who came after them not to make the same mistakes as them.
"Forget it, don't think about this anymore."
Looking at the clouds on the horizon, Yang Tianyi, who felt that he was getting further and further away from his thoughts, retracted his thoughts and began to deal with the backlog of affairs accumulated by the group during his absence for more than two months.
Soon, the holographic projection of Garno, the Rachi Ratman who had not been seen for a long time, appeared in the center of the office. After bowing to Yang Tianyi, he confirmed that the other party could see him. Garno twirled his beard and had a long discussion about the new engineering ship. A half-hour report.
“This engineering ship was designed and built by the Huanyu Group branch shipyard on Fenhabennis. Considering that the group will mass-build the ship based on the design of the ship, I specifically requested that the shipyard not need to use too advanced equipment. technology, and spend as much money as possible on the functionality of the engineering vessel.”
Garno's holographic projection shimmered, and even his beard was clearly visible under the high-definition projection. With a few pulls in the air with his small hands, the appearance and functional data introduction of the engineering ship that had been completed and moored at the Star World Group branch was sent to Yang Tianyi.
"You must still remember that I applied for 200 million Universal Credit Points for shipbuilding funds from you before, and now I still have 40 million left. I have returned it to the account of the group branch."
"So, this engineering ship cost the group 160 million credit points, which is almost the cost of two Javelin-class frigates."
Yang Tianyi swiped his fingers on the screen on his desk and found that the engineering ship was barely half the size of the Javelin class in terms of size, but the price was twice as expensive as the Javelin class. Although he knew that the value of a ship could not be measured by volume, if all these expenses were spent on the ship, then the profits of Huanyu Group's shipbuilding would be quite astonishing.
However, Garneau quickly answered his doubts - of the 160 million shipbuilding expenses, about 120 million was given to the shipyard, and the remaining 40 million was used to bribe senior executives of the Huanyu Group and The person in charge of the shipyard.
After all, countless mining or interstellar shipping companies come to the shipyard to place orders every day with a lot of credits. If they don't give bribes, the orders from Qunxing Group may be delayed for several months or even a year.
This is of course no problem for those customers with limited funds or ample time, but Yang Tianyi's order was to be completed within two months, so Gano had to spend tens of millions of credit points to build relationships and seek to jump in line.
"Well, there is really nothing we can do about it. Who said we don't have our own shipyard and design drawings?"
Although he was a little heartbroken over the sky-high bribe for half a Javelin-class ship, Yang Tianyi also knew that it was a forced expense. And after obtaining the design drawings of the engineering ship, the group will soon be able to recover the cost from the Elysian Space World and Edward's Hughes System.
"About this, Mr. Harland and I have talked about where this engineering ship should be sent."
So they were talking, and Harland, who got the news of Yang Tianyi's return, walked into the office. First, he came up and gave Yang Tianyi a warm hug. After knowing that Garneau was discussing the whereabouts of the engineering ship with him, Harland threw out the plan he had already prepared.
"For the group's first deep space base, I know where it should be built."
I saw him smiling confidently and then projecting the solar system star map of the Elysian Space World into the center of the office. He zoomed in on the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter called the "Main Belt" and pointed at an area where asteroids are densely packed. , made a key note on one of the asteroids with a diameter of about 200 kilometers.
"Everyone, please take a look at this asteroid named 'Spirit Star'. Its main components are iron, nickel and some rare metals, such as silver, platinum, gold, etc. Its weight reaches an astonishing 2.72 trillion 100 million tons, accounting for about six thousandths of the mass of the entire main belt, and 82% of the components of the entire Spirit Star are metals that can be harvested and used immediately."
"After having an engineering ship that can sail at sub-light speed, the distance of 370 million kilometers between the group and the main belt is no longer far away, and can even be called close! When millions of tons of rare metals are mined, The plan of the Engineering Department and I is to build factories and space docks directly on site, and use more and more industrial robots and engineering ships to turn the entire asteroid area into an inexhaustible resource treasure house for the group."
"When the Lingshen Industrial Base has a certain number of ships, we can even try to drag the entire asteroid away from the main belt and bring it closer to the earth for mining."
"By then, facing a group whose economic strength, war potential and military force will far exceed theirs, I believe that the countries on Earth in the Elysian Space World will know how to choose their future."
"This is the general content of the 'Lingshen Star Project'. Are you satisfied with it?"
After hearing this grand plan, Yang Tianyi took a deep breath, stood up from his seat, and looked at the setting sun in the distance with Harland and Garneau who were accompanying him.
"How can I be dissatisfied?"
"After all, when the sun sets, it's time for the stars to appear."
