cosmic hegemony

Chapter 310, Interstellar Trade

In the outer space of Yanhuang Star in the Centaurus galaxy, in a huge space port, spaceships are parked quietly one after another. The smallest of these spaceships is at the same level as the Dumbo spaceship. As for the big flying elephant Spaceships and somersault cloud spaceships are also very common.

Among them is an elliptical flying saucer-shaped universe that is very attractive. This elliptical flying saucer-shaped spaceship is tens of thousands of meters long, more than 4000 meters wide, nearly 500 meters high, and has a mass of 10 billion tons. , is a huge spaceship of the same weight class as the "Huashan".

On this huge spaceship, the two huge characters "Kunlun" are telling the world its name, "Kunlun" spaceship, it is not a space battleship, and there are no powerful attack weapons installed on it, because from the design In the beginning, its role was to carry out interstellar trade.

The "Kunlun" spacecraft belongs to the Imperial Fuyun Group. In the early stage, only the giants of the Fuyun Group have the ability and capital to build such a huge spaceship for interstellar trade.

You must know that although the empire now has a larger "Yellow Emperor" space battleship, there are not many space battleships at the same level as the "Kunlun".

Divided by tonnage, spacecraft and space battleships of less than 1 million tons can be regarded as small spacecraft, those of 1-10 billion tons can be regarded as medium-sized spacecraft, and those of 10 billion-100 billion tons can be regarded as large spacecraft. As for those like private spaceships and space fighters, these can be called miniature space vehicles.

Spaceships of the Big Flying Elephant, Dumbo, and Somersault Cloud systems, although the quality varies, are all small spacecraft. The quality of "Huashan", "Alps", and "Kunlun" has reached 10. Those of the billion-ton class can be called medium-sized spacecraft, and the "Huangdi" space battleship has a mass of more than 100 billion tons, which can be called a large-scale spacecraft.

The empire has the "Yellow Emperor" space battleship in command, so there is no need to worry too much about the safety of the empire, so the empire builds very few medium-sized space battleships, and because the empire's current national strength is not too strong, there is no need to waste too much resources on military power above.

On the contrary, it is about interstellar trade. With the official establishment of diplomatic relations with the Earth Federation, the Earth side continues to absorb immigrants to the empire, and the normal trade and economic exchanges between the two sides are even more urgent.

The "Kunlun" spacecraft was also born. Such a huge spacecraft was not for war from the beginning, but for interstellar trade, interstellar immigration, etc., so naturally many changes were made in the design.

At this time, the huge "Kunlun" spaceship is here, above its huge body, the doors of huge warehouses are wide open at this time, the mechanical arms in the space port are constantly busy, and standard interstellar freight containers are continuously transported to the spaceship. in the warehouse above.

Spaceships in the interstellar era are getting bigger and bigger, and the specifications of this interstellar freight container are also much larger. A standard interstellar freight container is 50 meters long, 20 meters wide, and ten meters high. It is like a huge building. Pack a lot of freight.

"Humph!"

The mechanical arm of the space port is constantly busy, and each container is easily transported to each warehouse, and neatly stacked. Every time a warehouse is installed, there will be corresponding equipment in the warehouse to fix these containers. , to prevent inertial scatter when the spacecraft accelerates and accelerates.

This is the first formal economic and trade exchange between the Empire and the Earth Federation. The huge warehouses are filled with super-large plasma engines, small plasma engines, small spaceships, and private anti-gravity universes produced by the Empire. Spaceships, virtual machines, biotech medicines, etc. are things that people on earth dream of.

At the same time, there are also things like local products from Yanhuang Star, such as giant pearls and sea mussels from Yanhuang Star's ocean, even a flower, a tree, etc. that are very common on Yanhuang Star, As long as it is made into a potted plant, there are people on this side of the earth who will wave their banknotes to buy it.

Of course, the most popular ones are the fruits from Kyushu Star, but it is obvious that they have to park at Kyushu Star before loading. It is impossible to transport them to Yanhuang Star for loading.

High-tech products and local specialties make up the product list for the first interstellar trade. One can imagine how huge the trade surplus with the Earth Federation will be by then.

Inside the "Kunlun" spaceship, Fang Zheng is accompanying Li Fu to inspect the spaceship. After all, it is the first time to formally conduct interstellar trade with the Earth Federation, which is also a big event for the entire empire. Li Fu Fuhe Fangzheng also attaches great importance to this.

The development of interstellar trade can greatly promote the development of the empire's economy. Compared with the poor population of the empire, the population of billions on the earth is a huge market. If this huge market is used to promote the development of the empire's economy , this is a question that both the imperial government and the imperial emperor are currently discussing.

"Old Fang, judging from the current situation, we will definitely have a huge trade surplus with the Earth Federation at that time, and we currently do not accept the Earth Federation's use of their Earth currency for settlement. We have to deal with this issue. Think carefully about entering."

"We should have thought about it beforehand. What we want to get from the Earth Federation must be exchanged with things of equal value."

Li Fu looked at the huge warehouses and the mountains of materials, and thought of a problem. The Earth Federation has a huge demand for the products of the Empire, but the Empire does not have much demand for the products of the Earth Federation. .

In terms of technological products, the empire does not need any products from the earth at all. As for food and other products, the empire has plenty of them, and there are large areas of land on the two planets for the empire to grow food, not to mention that the empire is now using space. Farmland, there is no food grown on the interstellar at all.

Therefore, it can be said that there are very few products that the Earth Federation can export to the empire, and it is estimated that only special products such as ceramics, wine, silk, etc. have a market.

It can’t be said to export cars and ships to the empire, right? The empire has slowly popularized private anti-gravity spaceships. The properly eliminated products such as cars and ships can only be used as collections when they are shipped over, because There are strict regulations on the roads of the empire, and such gasoline-burning things cannot be used on the road.

"We have also discussed this issue for a long time, and we have not come up with a good solution all the time."

Hearing Li Fu's words, Fangzheng frowned with a headache. He and other cabinet ministers had long been aware of this problem, but they still couldn't come up with a good solution.

"We will definitely not accept the currency from the Earth Federation. Their currency is depreciating every year. If we hold it in our hands and cannot spend it, our wealth will continue to evaporate. It is tantamount to blood transfusion for the Earth Federation. "

"However, this economic and trade exchange cannot be stopped. The huge market on the Earth Federation side can greatly promote the economic development of our empire. It is impossible to say that we will stop eating because of choking."

"I also discussed with Zhong Yun for a long time, and finally felt that if there is no other way for the time being, we can only accept gold and other precious metals as payment from the Earth Federation. Otherwise, the Earth Federation can use it to balance the trade balance. It's too little."

"That's the only way to go. Who told us that our own market is still too small."

Li Fu also nodded slightly after hearing this. Although with the rapid development of the interstellar mining industry, the output of gold has greatly increased, and the price of gold has also continued to decline, but it is still a precious metal with extremely high value, and gold has an important role in the industry. It is also a very important raw material, which is widely used in the industrial field, and has a wide range of uses and great effects.

And all along, before the establishment of the Earth Federation, the countries of the world on the earth conducted economic and trade exchanges. In addition to using international currencies such as the US dollar for settlement, sometimes gold was also used for trade settlement.

Especially in the case of wars, the currencies issued by countries around the world simply cannot leave the country. If you want to conduct international trade, you must use gold for settlement.

The world’s largest gold reserves in the hands of Uncle Sam came from the massive sales of arms and weapons between the warring parties during World War I and World War II. Uncle's hand.

Especially the United Kingdom and France, the two old colonial empires, were beaten all over the place by Germany at that time, and they were under great pressure. They could only use gold to buy arms continuously, which made Uncle Sam rise rapidly in World War II.

The amount of gold reserves represents a country's ability to settle international currencies and balance trade deficits. On this side of the earth, whether it is up to the national level or down to ordinary people, it is also the habit of collecting gold.

All kinds of gold and silver jewelry made of gold are very popular, and small yellow croakers made of pure gold are also bought by countless people, and they are regarded as an important means of asset preservation and appreciation.

Therefore, whether it is from the national level, the industrial use level, or the private level, gold is still acceptable, and it is one of the few things that can be used to balance the trade deficit on the Earth Federation.

There are many things that need to be paid attention to in the trade between countries, especially the interstellar trade. Li Fu, Fang Zheng and others also have to think about it.

(End of this chapter)