Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1375: Chapter 519: A Single Battle to Decide the World (Part 3)

"Understanding one core principle that lets you infer a hundred more is far more valuable than reading a hundred different battle cases. So I also want to do something that can save the precious time of teachers and students in the Red Blade Military Academy. If I leave this book behind, it will definitely shorten their study time by a huge margin and let them grow into talent sooner. In the long run, the merit of this book will be sung for ages. In the future, when the Red Blade Clan compiles its official history, Brother Ren, your name will, without question, rank first, and at the very least I hope my name can make it into the top five. So don’t try to talk me out of it."

Listening to Zheng Tian calmly lay out her "ambition," Ren Zhong fully understood her intention.

She had already realized that at her age, she probably couldn’t do much more for herself; compared to insisting on meeting Chen Hanyu once to soothe her regret, it was better to use her final stretch of time to pour out her life’s work and cultivate more successors for the Red Peak Army.

Ren Zhong replied slowly, "I get it."

Zheng Tian said, "I think that when Chen Hanyu sees this book, she definitely won’t blame me for not waiting for her. By then, meeting her through my words will be enough."

Ren Zhong’s lips trembled. His first instinct was to correct Zheng Tian’s use of the idiom—that’s not what "meeting through words" means—but in the end he didn’t say it, only answered simply, "Then do your best."

"Got it."

With that, Zheng Tian actually threw Ren Zhong a flirtatious wink, then made a light flying-kiss gesture and cut the call.

Ren Zhong couldn’t calm down for a long time.

Although her hair was now completely white and there were quite a few wrinkles on her face, that fleeting, slightly seductive glance of an old enchantress just now had, for some reason, struck him as stunning.

Just then, Huo Donghua and Gao Ya appeared one after the other at the door of his office and knocked at the same time.

Ren Zhong let the two of them come in together.

Huo Donghua was the first to report a very good piece of news.

Previously, because of the total blockade by Nanxiang’s Earldom, nearly half of the Red Blade Clan immigrants who had gone out were forced to return, while most of the rest were expelled by the clan and left to drift outside.

A large number of diplomatic missions that were about to be fully established also had to shut down, moving all contact into the shadows.

Information could still be exchanged, but material and economic interactions had been completely cut off.

And just now, a large number of external powers had begun contacting Huo Donghua one after another, proposing to restore the structure of formal diplomatic missions.

Gao Ya, who was in charge of external trade, was talking about the same thing: many powers had increased their orders on the spot, saying they hoped to recruit more personnel from the Red Blade Clan, and had also laid out new trade lists for Red Blade Star, putting a variety of their own specialty products on the shelf with clear prices, and further marking these as their most favorable trade prices, warmly welcoming Red Blade Star to purchase. At the same time, these powers, based on the many technologies revealed by Zheng Tian’s Expeditionary Army in the Shattered Star Ring, had issued purchase lists, hoping to buy certain special instruments from Red Blade Star and even share in its technology, and had proactively invited Red Blade Star to build factories in their territories. On the last line of the trade lists provided by the vast majority of powers, however, they had all highlighted in bold, most earnestly expressing their desire to purchase Red Blade Star’s specialty—stealth coating.

Some of the stronger Viscount powers and joint enterprises had even clearly stated that they hoped to become Star Cluster Level distributors for stealth coating.

Back then, Ren Zhong had told Zheng Tian that the Expeditionary Army was a living advertisement for Red Blade Star out in the open.

Now, with the Expeditionary Army having fully made its stance public in the final battle and then winning that war, the effect of this living advertisement had reached its peak.

The total blockade imposed by Nanxiang’s Earldom on Red Blade Star had, in an instant, become an empty shell.

While Huo Donghua and Gao Ya were in the middle of their briefing, it wasn’t long before Ma Shengfu, Zheng Dafa, Liang Qifa, Tessis Alson, Andra Locke, and other heads of departments came in one after another, reporting in detail the sudden contacts their respective departments had established with outside forces.

Ren Zhong first asked Ma Shengfu, "What’s our current stockpile of stealth coating?"

For decades, this cousin of Ma Xiaoling, younger cousin of Ma Dafu, and former First Deputy Governor of Yangsheng City had been fully in charge of the production and storage of stealth coating.

Ma Shengfu stepped forward. "Reporting to you, my Earl, our reserves have reached one billion tons! Enough to refit a million large Space Ships!"

Ren Zhong nodded in satisfaction. "Keep ten million tons for our own use and sell off the rest gradually. At the same time, further expand the production lines. A huge wave of raw materials from all over the Nanxiang Star Cluster will soon pour in. It’s time to unleash our full production capacity."

Then Ren Zhong swept his gaze around the room, a confident smile on his face. "Everyone, our century of hibernation has reached its deadline. The so-called comprehensive blockade by that petty Viscount Nan Jiu and the Nanxiang Marquis has been broken. It’s time to carry out a comprehensive transformation of Red Blade Star, fully display our productivity, and let the edge of the Red Blade Clan truly shine."

"Pass the word down: from this moment on, Red Blade Star is to switch into Great Production Mode. Within the next fifteen years, we will completely secure our seat among the powers in the Shattered Star Ring, and in economic terms, we will thoroughly surpass the forces of Viscount Nan Jiu and reach the level of a top-tier Viscount."

"I intend to become the first quasi-Earl in the history of the Mechanical Empire whose power, relying on his homeworld alone, rivals that of a fabulously wealthy Viscount. When that time comes, I really want to see what conclusion the Royal Family will reach when they review my case."