Interstellar Farmer

It took more than two years to get from West to the Mengcon headquarters. Along the way, we passed dozens of countries and passed through many space passages. Only when we got here did we know what it means to have convenient transportation in all directions.

A long space channel line can have multiple entry and exit points along the way. Well, for example, the space channel here is like a bus. Multiple stops can be set up along the way. As long as you follow the line map, you can stop wherever you want. However, the space channel seen in West and along the way does not work. It is a direct train. After entering the channel, there will only be one end point. Don't underestimate this small difference. It is a technology that can only be mastered by countries with a technological level of seven or above. In terms of cost, Han Zhen can be considered a wealthy owner, but so far, there are not even fixed space passages in the territory. We haven't built one yet, and the biggest reason is that it's too expensive, not to mention a space channel with multiple entrances and exits, which is more than ten times the cost of a fixed type. After learning about this kind of passage from Ergo, he learned that there are actually twenty-one of them in Mengkong headquarters! Han Zhen was speechless.

The convenient and fast transportation allowed the fleet to reach the cargo registration office in only three hours. Han Zhen left some people to tidy up the poor place, and the fleet set off again. Turning off the communicator with Ergo, Han Zhen thought quietly for a while and managed to calm down.

Angman, notify Fan Yunjie and Liu Zhaoqin to go to the No. 1 planting site immediately. Han Zhen stood up and said something before going out with Zhou Jinzhe.

Fan Yunjie and Liu Zhaoqin, one serving as chief and the other as deputy, followed the fleet here after relinquishing their duties in the territory to serve as liaison officers for the yet-to-be-established Han family headquarters in Mengkong. The platform of Meng Kong is so important that Han Zhen cannot help but attach great importance to it.

After boarding the ship-based boat and waiting for a while, Angman rushed over after the notification. Han Zhen opened the fleet command panel and issued an order for the entire fleet to slow down. After the speed reached the requirements of the carrier-based craft, the battleship's rear hatch opened, the carrier-based craft slid out, and quickly entered the ship next to it that had just opened Inside the battleship, the rear hatch was closed. After closing the hatch, the speed of the entire fleet began to increase again.

It has been Han Zhen's long-standing tradition to establish a set of departments and research institutes in the battleship that are the same as those in the territory. However, the research institutes and departments are very large and there are many in number. It is impossible to put them all on the flagship. They must be carried out Split, so those in the flagship are the central institutions of departments and institutes. Han Zhen took Zhou Jinzhe and Angman to the nearby battleship through the carrier boat. It was not for inspection. If the inspection was done, it would be better to do it in the command room. It was more convenient there. After all, the center was also the final place for gathering. Han Zhen I came here because I wanted to see the situation of the plantation for myself. This battleship is where the No. 1 plantation is located.

In the more than a year before coming to the Mengkong headquarters, Han Zhen had renovated a total of about 500 warships. Of course, departments, research institutes and other institutions could not use so many. A few dozen ships were enough, and the other 500 ships were all needed. , were transformed into on-ship plantations.

Building a plantation inside a battleship is nothing new. It can be said that any battleship that is slightly larger and travels long distances will set aside a space to build an artificial plantation. Firstly, it provides fresh food to the officers and soldiers of the battleship. Secondly, It allows officers and soldiers to see some green and change the environment during long-term voyages, which has a magical effect of soothing people's hearts.

For these five hundred battleships, Han Zhen spent a lot of money to carry out comprehensive renovations, which also made the specifications of the five hundred on-ship plantations much higher than those of plantations with a single function. In terms of area, not only the open space in the battleship was used, but also more than half of the warehouse area was used, these areas were connected to form a whole, and the layout was arranged according to West's highest agricultural standards. This is on the surface, but the most important thing is the spirit gathering array, which uses crystal stones and energy blocks as its base to meet the large amount of spiritual energy needed for planting broken jade fruits!

Han Zhen waited for a while, and Fan Yunjie and his two men came over in a carrier-based boat. A group of five people must first pass through five strict guards, and then Han Zhen opens the isolation door before they can enter this isolated plantation.

Planting Field No. 1 has four floors, each floor is fifty meters high, long and wide, and each floor is different. However, each floor can plant hundreds of jade fruit plants, and they are not small no matter how you look at them. The plant of Shattered Jade Fruit is very tall. This is an improved variety of the N generation. The plant is stronger, the fruit bearing rate is higher, and the growth period is shorter... Han Zhen and the other five stopped in front of a plant. This plant has already entered the mature stage, and the plant is covered with five kilograms of fruits, which are so heavy that the branches are pressed into an arc.

Angman, remember, notify all planting sites to pick them all within six hours. Remember, there are only six hours! Han Zhen narrowed his eyes slightly and sensed the broken jade fruit in front of him. Very good, more than 80% of it is mature, and the rest, just waste it, it’s not a big deal.

The cost of setting up a plantation on the ship to grow broken jade fruits is high, especially compared with growing them on the planet. I won’t talk much about agricultural equipment. Although the price is extremely high and difficult to buy, what is the relationship between Han Zhen and William and Ziegler? Even if all the debts are owed, the goods can be obtained within the required time; what costs the most is the high-quality crystal stones and energy blocks!

Setting up the spirit gathering array requires crystal stones. If it is on a planet and has the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to supplement it, it will take a lot longer. But it is a different matter on a battleship. All broken jade fruits rely on gathering energy from the beginning. The spirit array continuously provides all the spiritual energy. A spirit gathering array arranged with the best crystal stones Han Zhen has on hand can only make hundreds of fruit trees on a battleship ripen once.

Even a nouveau riche like Han Zhen, who has been clamoring all day long for his wealth and willingness to invest, has to honestly admit that he can't bear such a cost. Fortunately, Han Zhen has been able to obtain the spirit gathering array for decades, so he can use it according to his own free time. Some changes were made to the idea. Originally, the Spirit Gathering Array was a cheap way to use inferior crystals as the base of the formation. The improved Spirit Gathering Array has added two new functions. The first is to use energy blocks to replace the crystals.

The energy blocks are made from raw stones, which are a kind of spar, but they are just things that can barely be regarded as spar mines. They are definitely not good goods. Even when Yunyangzi changed the layout conditions of the spirit gathering array, The lowest-required inferior crystals are much better than this type of crystal mine. Han Zhen has been researching this substitution method since he obtained the Spirit Gathering Array, and he has never stopped researching it. The hard work pays off. The current Spirit Gathering Array can fully use energy blocks to form the base.

Because energy blocks are obtained from garbage crystal mines after being refined through various processes. If you want to reach the top grade, ah no, the spirit gathering array level of the middle grade crystal stone, the size and volume required are extremely large. This also caused Han Zhen's demand for energy blocks to rise linearly!

Energy plays an important role in the universe. Although its price is not as good as that of good crystals, it is still very expensive. Han Zhen was not aware of this problem before - the number of battleships was small, and they were also small in size. Inferior warships naturally do not require both quantity and quality as they do now, but things are different now. There are more than 300,000 fourth-level warships at home, including warships and transport ships of various specifications. There are millions of ships, and the amount of energy consumed by each item is astronomical! And this Spirit Gathering Array is definitely a tiger that eats energy blocks, and it more than doubles the annual demand!

Fortunately, energy blocks are much easier to buy than blocks of crystals. Han Zhen has also figured it out. If the spirit gathering array replaced by energy blocks is used to plant broken jade fruits in the battleship, although the cost is higher. The increase would be dozens or hundreds of times, but there would definitely be no loss. After all, his previous investment was too little.

The second new function of the Spirit Gathering Array is a new formation method creatively developed by Han Zhen based on the original Spirit Gathering Array. For the sake of distinction, the old formation is called a solid formation, and the new formation is called a living formation!

After all the crystals or energy blocks used as the base of the solid formation are exhausted, a new one needs to be arranged. If any one is moved midway, the entire formation will become invalid, and even the crystals and energy blocks will become waste; while in the live formation, The difference is that, except for the central formation eye, all the formations have a backup body. It is like the two formations are connected together on the basis of the formation eye. The advantage of this arrangement is that when the energy of the formation is exhausted, the responsibility of serving as the formation will automatically be transferred to the spare crystal or energy block. At this time, the consumed waste products can be removed and replaced. To put it simply, As long as the spiritual energy of the formation eye crystals is not exhausted, the formation will not stop. The spiritual energy consumption of the formation eyes is very small, so good crystals are used to make it, which can at least ensure that the entire formation can be maintained for several years! As for the work of maintaining the operation of the formation, an ordinary person who does not understand the formation at all and has no Yuan Power can do it.

A battleship's planting field requires at least eight spirit gathering arrays, and five hundred battleships require more than 4,000. With the replacement of energy blocks, the materials have been greatly improved; and with the living array, Han Zhen can conceive It has become possible to lay the formation on the ship. It must be understood that there are no more than twenty people in the entire family who know how to set up the formation. Except for Han Zhen, who can arrange the formation quickly and can complete hundreds of them in one day, the others can set up two in one day. Three is considered good! So once the living formation came out, Han Zhen was free, and he could handle all the work with just a few people below. This innovation really made Han Zhen proud for a long time.

As soon as the picking is finished, pack it up and put it in boxes immediately, and then let all the broken jade fruit plants enter the dormant period. While Angman was taking notes, Han Zhen walked forward for a while. In addition to the tall plants of broken jade fruit in the planting area, there are oolong grasses that are about thirty meters high that cover the entire area; oolong grasses are not the only thing here. You can clearly see when you look up, there are several grasses in the grass. Hundreds of large energy blocks that are several meters high and wide and serve as the base of the formation are so large that they are now exposed directly when they should have been buried underground. From here, you can imagine how much energy the Spirit Gathering Array consumes. huge. Han Zhen kicked twice with his feet, and dense grass blades slid across his feet. He turned around and continued: You also heard what Erg said. The rules here are that the fleet and the station are separated, and we don't know yet. How does Meng Kong take care of our battleships, so we can’t let people here discover anything, we must be careful in everything!”

Han Zhen dismissed Angman first and looked at Fan Yunjie: How much cloud rice and broken jade fruit do we have so far?

When he came here, Han Zhen brought a large amount of cloud rice and broken jade fruits. The total amount did not remain unchanged along the way.

The benefits of the Han family's army are beyond the imagination of outsiders: Han Zhen uses Yunmi as military rations! From the general to the lowest-ranking soldiers, there is a rationing; as for the broken jade fruit, because the quantity is still too small, except as a reward when receiving awards for meritorious service, rationing is only implemented for officers above the general level. Even so, it consumes a lot. ; When passing many foreign stores from various countries along the way, if he came across materials and instruments that he was extremely interested in, and he didn't want to owe Henry and the others too much, Han Zhen would also sell part of the cloud rice and jade fruit. Naturally, Yunmi is getting less and less along the way, and due to the existence of planting farms, the amount of Yunmi harvested each time is not a small amount, causing its total quantity to change from time to time.

Lord, there are still more than 19 million tons of Yunmi and broken jade fruit. Fan Yunjie couldn't help but curled up the corners of his mouth and said with excitement: With the production in the past two years, it is already full. Six hundred boxes, that’s a total of 120 million pieces! This number does not include the batch that is about to be harvested!”

This number is really quite a lot!

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Starting from the establishment of the Sun Territory and the opening of some scattered small bases in the wilderness, Han Zhen increased the planting area of ​​these two crops. The proportion of products sold externally is at most one-third. After maintaining a storage base, the rest will be digested through self-production and sales. After discovering places such as Pojun Lianxing and Taici Territory, Han Zhen became bolder. Especially in those years in Taiwei Territory, the two plants ushered in real rapid development, making the self-marketed The products have increased tenfold, and the storage base has also increased tenfold.

In terms of storage, Yunmi is okay. Ordinary storage equipment can easily store it for ten years or even longer. Crushed jade fruit is not good. After all, it is fruit. If you want to achieve the effect of preservation, you must use Wester. The highest level of static pressure isolation and preservation equipment is required for storage, otherwise, it will all be scrapped within two years at most. The technology of this kind of fresh-keeping instrument cannot be developed by a fourth-level country like West on its own. Han Zhen has no way of knowing where the William family got it from, but with William's permission and Ziegler's consent, Han Zhen I really got the right to buy this kind of equipment and spent a lot of money to buy 500 sets! In order to facilitate transportation and organization, the appearance of this instrument is exactly the same as a standard container. In fact, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is an expensive container. It is precisely with it that Han Zhen can preserve the broken jade fruits after mass production.

The cloud rice and broken jade fruits brought were the entire production in these years. Speaking of which, Yunmi seems to be a little less, only nearly 20 million tons, but you must understand that its output is much higher than that of broken jade fruit. This situation occurred because Han Zhen specially made industrial adjustments. , after all, it really has no advantage compared to the broken jade fruit. Why waste so much effort? It would be more cost-effective to plant more broken jade fruits that are more expensive and better marketed.

There are a lot more broken jade fruits. You know, even with static pressure isolation containers, the broken jade fruit only has a validity period of five years at most. The output in five years can be 120 million pieces. Not to mention a family, even a big country that specializes in broken jade fruit. At most it’s a fraction! For example, West, after obtaining Han Zhen's upgraded technology, its total output was only 20 million pieces.

Han Zhen's face softened a lot, Okay! Very good. Let's sell all the Yunmi. It's not much anyway. As for the broken jade fruit, Lao Fan, how much do you think is more appropriate to take out first?

Fan Yunjie and Liu Zhaoqin will be responsible for all the work here. Han Zhen has already handed over everything he should give, and the rest is up to them.

Lord, I don't think you can take too much at one time. We are not familiar with the trading operations here. To be on the safe side, let's release 10 million first and have a look! Fan Yunjie said conservatively after thinking for a while.

Ten million? Han Zhen walked back and forth a few times, Okay! That old guy Henry has already said that we will stay here for about half a year. If we want to sell in the future, there will be opportunities. Han Zhen nodded in agreement. .

On the way to the cargo registration office, Han Zhen had already understood the simple operating procedures of the Merchant Alliance: registered goods will be managed and collected by the Merchant Alliance. Once the transaction is successful, 1% will be deducted from the total sales amount. -2% - You can't escape this money, but it's not just this amount, there are many places to charge it! For example, if the transaction does not succeed in getting the goods back, the handling fee will be deducted; the registration of goods is half a month, and the storage of this half month is not a free lunch. There are also charges; it can be extended after half a month, but it will be charged separately. Payment, Mingmu is the cost of extended storage.

The numerous charges may not be high individually, but they cannot support many. The charging standard is to deduct percentage points from the estimated amount of the goods. Then, each item will only be charged one thousandth or one ten thousandth. Over time, It’s also a huge number! Thinking about it this way, each member family will have a stationed planet, and the rental amount will be so ridiculously high, which makes sense!

With such numerous charges, the only people who can be deceived are newcomers, but Han Zhen has already investigated clearly and will not be fooled by this. Han Zhen has also analyzed it and feels that the Merchant Alliance charges such fees not because they want to make a lot of money. This method is very infuriating. The biggest purpose is to push the member families to keep their own goods!

You can make money by renting planets, even the poorest planets can be rented out for sky-high prices; you can also make money by building planets and selling transport ships, not only at sky-high prices but also by monopolizing the business;...Although doing this is hated by people, it is much better than exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes - —If you use harsh conditions to set off a relatively relaxed environment, even if you are angry, you will be much less angry. There are many locations in the Merchant Alliance, and this place is also a front, much like an embassy. As long as it is not a poor family or country, they will be willing to invest some money. Another thing I have to admit is that for most families or countries, It is said that it is much safer to put some important materials and documents here than in your own territory and country! It is also a preparation for leaving a way out in the future!

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