Chapter 2517 Wanxing Internet

When the most fertile core world of the True Human Empire was immersed in the unnecessary consumption of court infighting and power officials usurping the throne, the seemingly insignificant, gentle and harmless Ten Thousand Realms Business Alliance also quietly emerged in the poor mountains and bad waters of the outer world of the empire.

The pattern of the Pangu universe at this moment is completely different from that of the previous hundred thousand years.

In the first 100,000 years from the birth to the growth of human civilization, each great world basically met the conditions of self-sufficiency and independent operation. Any habitable planet has enough water, air, mineral resources and a stable ecological cycle. The system, even if it does not trade with the outside world, can maintain a minimum internal circulation.

But from the end of the Guxiu world, the Guxiu war that swept across the three thousand worlds, to the rise and fall of the monster race, and the "Doomsday War" between the emperor and the blood god son, for tens of thousands of years, the war in the Pangu universe has never really off.

The war destroyed the self-circulation system of many great worlds, the atmosphere disappeared, the mines were hollowed out, the groundwater was polluted, and all kinds of mild and domesticated spirit beasts mutated into vicious monsters.

Not to mention, with the advancement of technology, humans can conquer resource planets and colonize planets that were previously unconquerable, and build large-scale settlements that can accommodate millions of people or more in places that are absolutely unsuitable for human survival.

As a result, most of the inhabitable planets in the resource-poor star fields on the outskirts of the empire have lost the ability to be completely self-sufficient, or have no such ability from the beginning, and must rely on the continuous flow of intergalactic trade to bring them the necessary resources for survival. resources to survive.

As a result, the importance of Xinghai trade has been raised to an incomparable level. Many experts have even pointed out that the future is not only the era of Lingnet, but also the era of logistics network and the era of "Internet of Stars". Who will control it? Whoever controls the trade between habitable planets will firmly control the entire universe!

In the traditional elite area of ​​the empire, the trade routes are firmly controlled by the four major families and traditional officials and businessmen.

However, in the outer world where resources are poor, distances are far away, and there is not much oil and water to be squeezed out, it is very time-consuming, energy-consuming and patient to build a complete logistics system from scratch and cultivate the local market to a profitable level. water mill work.

The four big families, who have long been accustomed to relying on monopoly and taxation to obtain excess profits, are too lazy to spend hundreds of years dealing with bumpkins and bumpkins in the outer world. Various small-scale trading groups and logistics sects that are born and bred grow in a barbaric way and fend for themselves. The posture came into being, and after hundreds of years of silently taking root and sprouting, weaved a seemingly inconspicuous, but actually impenetrable trade, logistics and even financial network in the peripheral world of the empire. After that, these stragglers gathered together , under the name of "Ten Thousand Realms Business Alliance", surfaced.

As the saying goes, the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, and the outer world of the empire is a lawless and chaotic star field. The so-called star robbers, merchants, privateering fleets, and regular troops are all the same thing. Can the Ten Thousand Realms Merchant Alliance kill a monster in such a bloody jungle? Blood Road naturally has the most daring sailors and captains, the most treacherous and cunning black-hearted businessmen, and the most ruthless star thief talents.

They have monopolized countless capillary-like business routes, which can not only bring a steady stream of resources and talents to a planet, so that the planet can prosper in a short period of time; All the channels of a planet leading to the outside world make this planet obediently succumb to their despotic power.

Among other things, as long as the warships under the command of the Wanjie Business Alliance blow up all the Juling Towers and remote communication base stations around a planet, completely "disconnecting" the planet from the outside world, it will lead to a decline in the level of civilization on the planet. , Within a year and a half, it has degenerated for several decades.

With such strength, the Ten Thousand Realms Business Alliance is naturally unwilling to just wander around the periphery of the empire, being a supplier for bumpkins and bumpkins.

What's more, the leaders of the Wanjie Business Alliance are also very clear that in the eyes of the nobles in charge of life and death at the top of the empire, these merchants are just pigs and dogs waiting to be slaughtered. The fatter they are, the more time they have to be slaughtered.

In the past, the four major families hadn't seen the profits from trade in the outer world of the empire, so they didn't bother to pay attention to them, but now they have worked so hard to cultivate this market, and it seems to be profitable. What is it called a cultivator?

To strike first is to be strong, and then to suffer disaster. The Wanjie Business Alliance, which was just born, realized with its survival instinct that if it wants to survive, it can only compete with the dignitaries, chaebols, and wealthy families in the center of Xinghai. Those who rely on traditional methods, simple and rude Squeezing ordinary people, the "old immortal cultivators" who have no technical content will fight endlessly!

Free Star Coin is the sharpest weapon they choose.

They want to start a war, a currency war that doesn't use crystal suits, starships and giant soldiers to fight directly, but uses money to fight, killing people without blood!

Taking advantage of the later stage of the "War of Black Wind", the empire was facing huge military pressure from the Holy League, with soaring prices, hyperinflation, panic, and no time to care about others. The road to "monetization".

In the beginning, naturally, no one would treat Liberty Star Coins as real money. No matter how inflation is, Empire Crystal Coins are "real money" after all. It's not the time for the empire to really change its dynasty. Who will take real gold? Silver to exchange for these... what the hell is the free ghost coin?

Of course, the Ten Thousand Worlds Business Alliance has no way to force the citizens of the empire in the outer world to use free star coins. At the beginning, they did not intend to completely replace the imperial crystal coins with free star coins. Star Coins will be given certain discounts when trading, and some of the most in-demand goods will be given priority to buyers who use Free Star Coins.

This measure finally produced the first small splash.

But the real killer feature is credit sales and small loans.

The Wanjie Business Alliance is best at catching big fish with a long line. Huo Dongling's hometown "Nanling Star" is the best example.

First, use strong financial resources and unfathomable connections to buy potential asteroids for preliminary development, and then use half-selling and half-giving methods to attract a large number of colonists to settle. When the settlements are almost built, colonize Those who have also dropped their coffin books, regard the asteroid as their new hometown, and when they cannot turn back, they will use various consumables to slowly make money back.

In order to cultivate these "old hens that can lay eggs", during the entire colonization process, the Wanjie Business Alliance will provide the colonists with a lot of technical support, magic weapons for credit sales and even small loans. The conditions are very attractive. There is only one thing - the future must be free. Star coins to pay off.

Repaying the money with free star coins can get a discount on the interest rate, and repaying the money with imperial crystal coins will charge a punitive handling fee. The fluctuation of the exchange rate will never be too large.

During the most depreciated period of the imperial crystal coin, the Ten Thousand Realms Business Alliance even linked the free star coin to essential supplies such as compressed air, water purification tablets, and synthetic food, and stipulated that a free star coin can be exchanged for a constant amount of water and food , Known as "air currency", "water purification currency" and even "canned meat currency".

"Canned meat currency", what a rustic name, if it is heard by those economists at the top of the empire who are well-educated and have a set of theories, they will definitely laugh out loud.

However, to ordinary people with little culture in the outer world of the empire, this is an appropriate and easy-to-understand name-these free star coins are real money, which can be exchanged for air, water and canned meat, bringing Hope for survival!

These measures have won the first batch of real users and believers besides Star Thief for Freedom Starcoin, and also injected real credit into Freedom Starcoin.

Since then, the rise of Liberty Star Coins has grown bigger and bigger like a snowball, and it has been uncontrollable like a flood; when the empire finally recovered from the economic crisis caused by the defeat of Black Wind, Liberty Star Coins have already spread around the periphery of the empire. Spread like a prairie fire, it cannot be extinguished at all.

What's more, even after surviving the economic crisis, the battle between the Empire and the Holy League is still not over. The frontline army led by Lei Chenghu actively defended in the first fifty years, but in the next fifty years, they were gnashing their teeth to fight a "war of revenge" ", the war machine "rumbles" non-stop, and all kinds of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes are also rising.

The special war tax that the higher-ups want to collect one yuan, after increasing the price layer by layer, dare to collect more than ten or twenty yuan at the bottom, no matter the original person or the low-level immortal cultivator, it is hard to escape--in this ghost year, ordinary people can't escape. If you evade taxes, you don't want to live a good life. If you don't evade taxes, you don't want to complete primitive accumulation and accumulate enough resources to upgrade. The only way to evade taxes is to use free star coins.

The exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes provided a "divine assist" for Freedom Star Coins, which simply fueled the flames and added fuel to the fire.

Of course, it is impossible not to use imperial crystal coins at all. Most of the transactions in daily life are still completed by legal tender, but some ulterior key transactions have become the field of penetration and erosion of free star coins.

For a whole hundred years, Free Star Coins are like the "plague of kindness" that most people and low-level cultivators love to see, eroding the body of the empire. From the very beginning, it was only circulated in a small area around the outer world of the empire, and gradually penetrated into the traditional core of the empire. In the region, in the end, even the four major elector families have many immortal cultivators who use free star coins in secret-everyone comes out to cultivate immortals, how can anyone not kill people to seize treasures? Could it be that after killing people and seizing treasures, they sold them on the black market and traded them with imperial crystal coins? That's not throwing yourself into a trap!

Use free star coins to trade, whether you kill people to seize treasures, act as an assassin to get bounties, secretly purchase a large amount of resources to hit a new level, and after the preparation is successful, kill the deadly enemies in the family... all will not leave traces, it is simply not too convenient oh!