The Age of Giant Ships and Cannons

Although it is only a team and not a legion, the Jialan team is on par with the legion in this respect.

Peripheral members did not report loss, ordinary members reported loss rate of 10%, elite members reported loss rate of 15%, core members reported loss rate of 25%, team leader and deputy team leader reported loss rate of 30%.

The so-called loss report refers to the loss of the battleship due to team behavior, and the loss will be reimbursed according to the percentage of the total price of the battleship.

For example, Li Qing has a fully equipped frigate with a total price of 150 million, and the loss rate of core members is 25%. If the warship sinks due to team combat, the team will reimburse him 25% of the total price of 150 million, a total of 37.5 million.

If you add the insurance with a maximum of 25% of the reported loss, the maximum reimbursement can be 50%.

Note that the premise of this loss report is due to team actions, such as team activities, or being sunk by invading enemies in the team-controlled galaxy site, etc. When the grave was accidentally sunk, etc., by the way, Li Lie's running a business was a private act, so Shen's six destroyer team would not report it, only the insurance can reimburse part of it.

Li Qing didn't stay in the Canaan galaxy for a long time. After getting a general understanding of the team's situation and getting to know many core and important middle-level members of the team, he left the Canaan galaxy and returned to the outpost.

In fact, most of the members of the team are not in the Canaan galaxy. They either travel to and from Jinmen and the outpost base to make money, or they control the star field for mining in the team. The combined fleets of the Ta tribes fought and so on.

There are quite a lot of team activities, but most of them are small activities jointly organized by team members. In fact, there are very few business running activities to collect two trillion star goods before, usually once a year.

Back at the outpost, Li Lie and others already knew that he had joined Jialan and had become one of Jialan's core members.

In the communication channel, Li Lie had a complicated expression and sighed:

"I joined Jialan earlier than you, and now I am only a middle-level person. Once you enter, you will be a high-level person. It is really annoying to compare people."

Li Qing shrugged and did not speak.

But Li Lie just sighed, he was in a very good mood, and within a minute of struggling, he talked with him enthusiastically about the information he had learned at the outpost these days.

"In the past few days, the price of food in the outpost has dropped a bit. When we go back and forth for four months, it is estimated that the price will be lower and the profit will not be much. The most profitable and most durable products on the base are all kinds of finished warships."

"A bare frigate can sell for 20 million in Jinmen, and 25 million here, with a profit of about 5 million."

"The key thing is that there is a huge demand for this thing. There are wars every day in the joint battle area between the outpost base and the Shata tribe, and there are battle losses every day. This thing needs as much as there is. Unlike food that will be saturated, this will not be saturated, even if It will be lacking in a hundred years, so it can be done for a long time.”

At this time, Li Qi, who had been silent all this time, opened his mouth and said:

"But the threshold for this demand is too high. Where can we find so many warships?"

"This is the most troublesome place."

Li Lie sighed and said:

"Now the channels for selling warships in Jinmen are mostly the private shipyards of some players, except for the official Jinmen shipyard. Although the output of the official shipyard is high, there are too many people ordering it. It is impossible for us to resell the ships to make money. Find some private shipyards."

"However, the output of private shipyards is not high, and the price is about 10% higher than the market price. Unless we can find a few private shipyards to contract all the warships they produce, we can make some money."

Li Qi shook his head and said:

"That's impossible. The private shipyards in Jinmen have united to form a chamber of commerce long ago to jointly manipulate prices. We can't get involved in this small fight."

"It's a pity."

"Is shipbuilding so profitable?"

Li Qing muttered to himself.

What he thought of was that if a frigate at the outpost base could be sold for 25 million star dollars, it would cost about 21 million to 22 million star dollars to buy directly from Jinmen, and one frigate could only earn about 3 million.

But he has a super dock on hand. The cost of a ship is only about 16 million, and he can earn as much as 9 million by selling it to the outpost.

One can earn 9 million, ten can earn 90 million, one hundred can earn 900 million, and one thousand can earn 9 billion.

"Well, the frigate earns too little."

But having said that, Li Qing was already moved.

No other reason, just don't want to run business all the time.

One trip lasts four months, three times a year, and all the time is spent running back and forth, with nothing else to do.

Changing to shipbuilding is different, the shipyard is in the palm universe, as long as you prepare enough ship blueprints and materials, you can build a ship, and it doesn't affect him to do other things.

The key shipbuilding can also improve his shipbuilding level. Now he can only build frigates, and the efficiency of making money is limited. When he can build destroyers, cruisers, and even battleships, it will be the beginning of big profits.

"Okay, that's it!"

Li Qing made up his mind and looked up at Li Lie and Li Qi in the communication channel. They were the only two in the channel, representing their respective small teams. He thought carefully about his rhetoric and said:

"I'm going to take you to run again, make another wave, and then I'm going to find a galaxy near the star field controlled by the team to build a mining base on the outpost side."

Both Li Lie and Li Qi were a little surprised, but not too surprised. This was what they expected, but they didn't expect him to quit so soon.

Li Lie thought for a while and said:

"Since it's the last time, it's better to make a big wave and help the team build a super caravan like before."

Li Qi also said:

"And by doing so, you can also improve your prestige and status in the team."

After hearing this, Li Qing shook his head and said:

"no."

"Why not? Besides, we have to pay 100 billion tolls every time. Earning this money for others is better than earning it for you."

Li Qing said with a smile:

"Do you think that 100 billion is just tolls?"

In the past, he also thought it was tolls, but since he became a core member of Jialan, he also knew some inside stories that only the core members knew.

For example, before they paid 100 billion to ask the Blue Fish Clan among the 16 clans of the Lester Pirate Group to escort them through the star field controlled by the Lester Pirate Group. It's not just about buying road money, the focus is on supporting the Blue Fish Clan in a reasonable way.

The reason is very simple. The establishment of the Blue Fish Clan has something to do with the Jinmen Yu Clan.

To put it bluntly, the Lester Pirate Group used to have only thirteen clans. Since humans established an outpost in the Zutar star field and launched a war with the Shata Tribal United Civilization, players can join the Lester Pirate Group camp. The Jinmen Yu clan decisively invested a large amount of human resources to gain prestige in the Lester Pirate Group and formed a new pirate clan.

There is a force of its own in the pirate group that is not inferior to the United Civilization of the Shata Tribe, and it has a good relationship with this force, which can play a huge role in certain critical moments.

So this money cannot be saved, nor can he earn it.

Of course, he couldn't tell this kind of secret directly, but Li Lie and Li Qi are both smart people, he just mentioned them a little bit and they understood it, and didn't insist anymore.

But the team can't make money from this, but other people's money can be made. When they return to Jinmen, they can find a large caravan to cooperate with once, and make money once.

Two months later, a medium-sized fleet sailed into the Jinmen galaxy.

The fleet was moored at the star port, and everyone went their separate ways to prepare.

Li Qing directly connected to the regional channel, connected to the Internet, and directly searched for what he wanted on the trading platform.

First, 5.2 billion star dollars were spent to purchase 10 small transport ships, 10 medium transport ships, 5 mammoth class large transport ships, and 1 ferry god class super large transport ship.

And a total of 6 billion star dollars purchased 5 small industrial ships, 2 medium industrial ships, 2 large industrial ships, and 1 super large industrial ship.

Then there are 30 large mining ships for a total of 24 billion star dollars.

Three sets of large-scale crushing, screening and refining ore equipment, with a unit price of 1.1 billion, a total of 3.3 billion.

All together, a total of 38.5 billion stars was spent, leaving 67 billion stars.

Then, set aside 5 billion star dollars for salary and emergency use, and use all the remaining funds to purchase blueprints and construction materials for frigates and destroyers. A total of 2,000 frigate blueprints and materials were purchased, which cost 4 billion + 24 billion stars respectively. Yuan.

In addition to the full set of 500 frigates purchased before, a lot has been built these days, and now there are 400 sets left, a total of 2,400 sets and 100 finished frigates are moored in the dock of Palm Universe.

And the blueprints and materials of 200 destroyers cost 3 billion + 18 billion star dollars respectively, a total of 21 billion star dollars.

Then, five super-large cold storages were ordered, as well as various foods with a total value of nearly 500 million, and living supplies with a total value of 1 billion.

Then, through the relationship of the Jialan team, at a price of 750 million stars, he directly obtained four top-equipped hurricane-class destroyers from Yu's shipyard. The weapon configuration was the same as the hurricane-class destroyer he had. Mainly kinetic weapons.

Then he spent 130 million star yuan below the market price to equip a complete set of Haiyan frigate configuration, and took a total of 20 sets, which can be directly added to the naked frigate he already has later.

The four destroyers cost 3 billion, and the 20 frigates are fully equipped with a total of 2.6 billion stars.

Then, I bought 100 base L-slot kinetic energy main gun shells, and spent a total of 200 million star dollars.

A total of 240 million stars were spent on 300 base L-slot large-scale moving shells.

1,000 base M medium-sized kinetic energy shells cost a total of 300 million star dollars.

The 5,000 base S small-sized moving shells cost a total of 750 million star dollars.

A total of 750 million star yuan was spent on 1,000 radix cannon shells.

A total of 200 million stars are spent on 200 base P-slot anti-dismantling bullets.

Combined, a total of 2.44 billion stars.

Then I bought 50,000 energy blocks containing 100,000 standard energy. In addition to quickly recharging the energy shield, this thing can also be used in many ways. One hundred thousand star yuan, 50,000 star yuan, a total of 5 billion star yuan.

Taken together, a total of 24 billion + 21 billion + 500 million + 1 billion + 3 billion + 2.6 billion + 2.44 billion + 5 billion was spent, a total of 59.54 billion stars.

Most of the remaining 67 billion star dollars were spent at once, leaving only 7.46 billion star dollars.

Then, they spent 1 billion star yuan to order a medium-sized steel refining furnace, and 1.5 billion star yuan to order a medium-sized alloy melting furnace.

The steel refining furnace can further refine refined ore into steel, and the alloy melting furnace can smelt steel and other elements into stronger alloys, and can also melt the collected warship wreckage into alloys.

From collecting raw ore, crushing and refining it into refined ore, then refining it into steel, then melting it into alloy, and finally sending it to the arsenal in the high-dimensional shipyard in the palm universe, and directly processing it into various shells.

One step in place, saving a lot of money to buy ammunition back and forth.

Soon Li Qing discovered that the remaining 4.9 billion star dollars might not be able to survive, and he had to recruit a group of shipbuilding engineers.

2,400 sets of frigate blueprints and materials have been prepared, and the scale must be expanded, otherwise only ten ships can be built in one round, and 2,400 ships will need 240 rounds, which means 240 months, which will take until the year of the monkey.

"Expand, must expand!"

Still through the relationship of the Jialan team, a large number of crew members were directly recruited in the Jinmen Academy area.

Among them are ten groups of destroyer shipbuilding engineers, including 1 chief engineer with a monthly salary of 2 million, and 40 senior engineers who build destroyers with a monthly salary of 300,000, a total of 12 million monthly salary.

The frigate shipbuilding team has also been greatly expanded, from the original ten teams to one hundred teams at one go.

Recruited 9 chief engineers with a monthly salary of 1.2 million, a total of 10.8 million, 200 frigate senior engineers with a monthly salary of 200,000, a total of 40 million, common crew members for all types of ships, regardless of frigate or battleship, a total of 3,600 were recruited name, with a total monthly salary of 144 million.

It is worth mentioning that the salary of the ordinary shipbuilding engineers he recruited was 50,000 a month, but he recruited directly from the academy city through the relationship of the Yu family. Saved a lot of money straight away.

After all the recruits, his monthly salary alone is as high as 208.8 million stars.

The buyout price of 1,550 clone crew members is 310 million, plus the crew salaries and maintenance costs of 5 destroyers and 21 frigates are 11.25 million + 21 million for a total of 32.25 million. The total salary is 241.05 million stars.

"Salary of 240 million stars per month"

Li Qing counted his current net worth, and insisted that he would be out of money after two years.

No wonder it is said that war burns money. When a cannon fires, you get ten thousand taels of gold. One cannonball destroys the salary of an ordinary person for a month. It is really difficult to raise a fleet.

He only has 26 ships, and he doesn't have any big ships yet. He needs to spend 32.25 million star dollars to maintain the fleet every month.

For those teams with hundreds of large and small warships, the monthly cost of maintaining the fleet may be as much as one billion or even billions, which is simply terrifying.

The more we develop and grow, the more we feel that money is not enough.

Fortunately, although the cost is high, the profit is also good. The 2,400 frigates and 200 destroyers are all built and sold, and the profit is immediately huge.

If you don't sell the Jinmen side, you can sell the outpost. A frigate can earn nearly 10 million, and 2400 ships can earn 24 billion.

The destroyer is even more profitable, saving the use fee of the shipyard and various channel fees. A destroyer can earn about 30 million, and an additional 30% or 45 million can be earned when transported to the outpost. The total can earn about 75 million, 200 ships Destroyers earn 15 billion.