From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 135: Raising investment is essentially telling stories

Ellenita's doubts are actually also the doubts of other members of the evaluation team.

It's just that they didn't expect their boss to raise the problem so early.

"According to your description, Mr. Amber, you and your companions should be more focused on running a private military company. In this case, why do you still hope to establish a mining company?"

The rich elf woman emphasized her question, then looked at Amber seriously, waiting for his answer.

As for her question, Amber had actually considered it before today's evaluation meeting.

After all, it is still an angel round. The investor is Ellenita Yuge personally, and her private treasury is used. All losses and profits are borne by herself, not the VC (professional venture capital institution) of the family behind her.

So she has to consider the risk.

When it comes to investment-related matters, it is useless for Isabel to eat more face-saving fruits.

Moreover, investing in a PMC is a relatively novel thing for the elves of the Thousand Star Empire.

People like Ellenita have no experience investing in PMC.

Because of the elves' behavior style of 'harmony brings wealth' as ​​mentioned before, and the strategic foundation of the Thousand Stars Empire.

Therefore, although this country has powerful military force in the eyes of humans, it has no intention of external expansion, and it stays away from war.

You fight yours, I earn mine.

This also leads to the fact that when elves invest in their own country or human society, companies like PMC are basically placed in the last echelon.

Based on all the above reasons, Ellenita couldn't help but be a little confused when she saw that the plan submitted by Amber also included the establishment of a mining company.

And Amber, who was well prepared, also started telling stories.

After all, investing in angel rounds and A rounds is basically burning investors’ money, and investors themselves know it well.

All they need is a 'story'.

A story that makes you willing to pay for it to be burned by investors.

And Amber is a master storyteller.

As he spoke, Ellenita and the members of the evaluation team were stunned.

Can PMC still play like this?

Amber's story is divided into two parts.

The first half introduces a brand-new PMC gameplay. It is also a routine that appeared in the game plot almost after the Star Dragon Empire split, civil strife broke out in the Federation, and frequent wars caused PMCs to become more and more active.

That is to establish a mining company, and then in addition to the necessary mining ships and cargo ships, some of the combat ships and personnel transport ships needed by the PMC will be affiliated to the mining company as 'armed merchant ships' and 'employee transport ships'.

After all, warships can install several large cargo warehouses on the hull through external slide rails. There is nothing wrong with calling it an 'armed merchant ship'.

Moreover, the asteroid belts where mining is carried out are often far away from civilization and inaccessible, and are very vulnerable to attacks by pirates. Therefore, mining companies originally need a certain amount of force to protect themselves.

Facing an asteroid with a diameter of more than ten kilometers, the warship can also switch the heavy particle cannon to a low-power irradiation mode to assist the mining ship in cutting and improve work efficiency.

'My heavy particle cannon is for civilian use.jpg', everything is very reasonable, right.

On this basis, compared with the warships owned by PMC, these 'armed merchant ships' and 'employee transport ships' affiliated to mining companies can enter and exit major human spheres of influence more conveniently.

It is also more convenient for these PMCs to receive orders and go to the destination to complete the task.

Especially if you bring a few cargo ships full of rough-processed ore, the flow will be even smoother.

The second half of this story is mainly to take care of investors' emotions and tell them how mining companies make money in the future.

Amber did not tell the story of the subsequent civil war in the Empire, the split, and then the civil strife in the Federation.

He only made a prediction based on the current full-scale war between the Federation and the Empire. Every fleet battle that breaks out between these two forces means that both sides consume countless superconducting metals to bombard each other with heavy particle cannons.

It also means that millions or even tens of millions of tons of warships will be sunk, and both sides also need to replenish the lost ships.

Neither the Federation's military-industrial complex nor the empire's shipbuilding giants will let go of this opportunity to make a lot of money.

With their encouragement, the battleships towed back to the dock for repairs accounted for only a small portion, while the construction of new ships accounted for the bulk.

Against this background, the demand for industrial metals and superconducting metals such as bismuth, lithium, and neodymium began to soar.

Correspondingly, the prices of both crude ore and refined ore have also risen.

The prices of mining ships and ore refining equipment have also risen.

Standing on the wind, pigs can reach the sky.

Amber not only came to the forefront in advance, but also prepared to build herself a pair of wings.

So far, 'Establish a PMC to make money in the coming war' - 'Establish a mining company to anchor some warships' - 'Mining companies can also make money during the war' - 'The mining process is risky, but it can be protected through PMC' A closed business loop is formed.

The most important point is that Amber gave his investigation of the Yuge family's industrial composition.

Although the Yuge family currently claims to have a great business, its main industries are actually biological ship manufacturing, biomedicine, psychic weapon manufacturing, financial loan services, etc. It is a relatively traditional elf industry chain.

In the future, relying on these mature and even partially monopolized industries, the Yuge family can indeed stabilize its position.

But if you want to go further, you must open up a new battlefield.

The one-stop industrial chain consisting of asteroid mining, ore rough processing, ore refining, and smelting of finished alloys is the new field that Amber suggested Ellenita get involved in.

And Amber hopes to attract investment and establish a mining company, which can be used as her touchstone.

Of course, this analysis and suggestion is just a retelling of how the Yuge family became the largest family in the Thousand Stars Empire in the original game timeline.

In the original timeline, the Yuge family started mining at the suggestion of Ellenita on the eve of the outbreak of the civil war in the empire.

Relying on their strong capital, they built a super-giant mining fleet that swept through a large number of asteroid belts like locusts.

And ultimately make a lot of money in the human civil war.

After listening to Amber's story, Ellenita and the members of the evaluation team fell into silence.

Because they discovered that what was originally a small-scale investment seemed to have become some kind of strategic plan after Amber finished speaking?

"Mr. Amber, you really impressed me again."

The way Ellenita looks at Amber has changed now. If she thought of Amber before, she was the partner of her best friend.

So now, she found that Amber seemed to be a suitable investment target, and there was even the possibility of becoming a partner in the future.

"I'm curious, why is Mr. Amber so familiar with business investment and the mining industry?"

Ellenita asked one final question, having no doubts about Amber's angel investment.

And she really plans to find the family's analysts after the evaluation meeting to analyze the possibility and profitability of entering the mining industry.

"I studied it all in my spare time, so I understand a little bit."

Amber replied with a smile.

Naturally, it was impossible for him to tell Ellenita that when he first started playing "Star Sky OL", he actually planned to become a businessman and make money from the game.

Although in the end he turned into a krypton gold sow while playing around, at least in the early stage of the game, he did travel to and from the Guitar Sea 4 space station and the asteroid belt every day, dumping ores and finished products before he obtained the initial funds.

(End of this chapter)