Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1544: Chapter 579: Recycling Old Appliances and Surplus Military Goods..._3

Thereafter, a continuous stream of merchant ships began to shuttle back and forth between the Nanxiang Star Cluster and the Wenle First Star Domain, bringing invisible coatings over and taking back the affordable and excellent products produced under Duke Wenle’s enterprises to the Nanxiang Star Cluster.

Of course, besides commodities, these three occasionally indulged a personal hobby, which was to abuse their public authority to collect some truly useless trash, humorously naming it as "terrified of poverty from childhood, hence liking to dig for treasures in junk piles".

This was found somewhat amusing and ridiculous by the analysts under Duke Wenle’s mansion, yet they did not pay too much attention to it.

Everything was just as Sena initially stated.

The Red Blade Clan utterly could not resist the avalanche of products coming from Duke Wenle’s mansion.

These low-cost products, largely manufactured with higher-level technology from the Empire Core, inflicted severe damage on the local industries within the Red Blade Clan.

So much so that numerous enterprises initially on the rise under the Red Peak Earl Mansion had to scale down or change enterprise types, transitioning from self-reliance to comprador companies, believing in buying over making.

All of these happened within just a few short years.

Numerous high-level officials within the Earl Mansion felt deeply worried about this, repeatedly advising Jin Simin to persuade the Earl to maintain some tariffs.

If things continue like this for long, it would cause endless troubles.

Though the Red Blade Clan is now prospering through the broadening sales of invisible coatings, accumulating increasingly abundant capital, the patent protection for invisible coatings is only a thousand years.

Once the patent protection period expires, things will become troublesome; the Red Blade Clan cannot rely solely on the invisible coatings industry.

However, Jin Simin inexplicably became shortsighted and ignorant.

He merely retorted, asking if the quality of life among the grassroots populace within the clan had declined over these years?

The crowd had no rebuttal.

After all, no one could deny that after the widespread dissemination of numerous affordable products from Duke Wenle’s mansion, the standard of living for ordinary Red Blade Clan people was indeed largely improved, to the extent that even the former lower-tier pirates in the Shattered Star Ring were now living affluent lives.

Jin Simin asked again, has the number of planet systems controlled by the Red Blade Clan decreased?

The crowd again had nothing to counter.

Also, within these few years, relying on the extraordinarily abundant capital, the Earl Mansion has conquered territories rapidly, claiming numerous star systems within the Nanxiang Star Cluster. Ironically, among those most devastated by the influx of these affordable products were not only enterprises within the Red Blade Clan.

Other mid and low-tier nobility within the Nanxiang Star Cluster suffered even more severely.

Products initially entered the Nanxiang Star Cluster through Red Blade trade and then quickly spread, leaving almost no one untouched.

Ironically, these mid and low-tier nobles dared not rashly increase trade tariffs with the Red Blade Clan, having no choice but to concede.

Unemployment rates soared, and bankruptcy among small and medium-sized enterprises was rampant; numerous mid and low-tier nobles had no choice but to sell off non-core asset star systems to maintain cash flow, inadvertently benefiting the Red Blade Clan.

Afterward, Jin Simin queried again, have our resources diminished?

Though many products lacked competitiveness and failed in commercial competition, our resource mining enterprises have not stopped operating, merely stockpiling tremendous deeply-developed resources.

Jin Simin continued to ask, have any key projects within our Academy of Sciences experienced turmoil?

The crowd again found nothing to refute.

Now the Earl Mansion is wealthy enough to cover all industrial and scientific research investments with profits from the invisible coatings, with plenty of surplus. What issues exist?

Jin Simin queried again, is our fleet continuing to grow stronger?

This too, was a factual statement.

At the level of daily life, with import goods overwhelmingly covering all essentials, the resources thus saved were massively reallocated to the military sector.

The spatial scale of the Earl Mansion’s own fleet was expanding increasingly large, and technical content was climbing as well.

The collective combat power of the Red Blade Army was approaching that of the Nanxiang Earl Mansion, which boasts a history of over hundreds of thousands of years, perfectly aligning with the path initially set by the Earl.

In the end, Jin Simin brought forth the most crucial argument.

"With support from these affordable products, we have made significant advancements in population growth within the 150 original feudal star systems and nearly 200 newly acquired sovereign star systems. In just a few short years, the total population of our clan’s main lineage has reached the tens of billions level. Although most of them are children, in another decade, these children will be of age. In the Shattered Star Ring, the number of non-mainline citizens has surpassed the trillions."

"The larger the fleet, the more combat and technical personnel are needed. It’s imperative to understand that there are still plenty of new warships docked in space docks awaiting personnel. The fleet is still expanding, continuously increasing demand for personnel. Currently, importing affordable products is immensely beneficial and causes no harm whatsoever. As for what happens a thousand years later when the patent expires, we’ll address it then. These are the Earl’s own words; do you understand?"

Ultimately, those who came to advise had no choice but to leave dejectedly.

No one else raised objections; Jin Simin’s last mention of the Earl’s words struck fear into people.

No matter how unreasonable things appear, as long as it is the Earl’s decision, it cannot be wrong.

As for the smuggling trio, besides promoting conventional commercial trade, they also spent nearly ten years traveling across nearly ten star domains under Duke Wenle, establishing extensive connections under the Duke Mansion, and even forging a close relationship with Sena Romanov.

Then one day, they finally received the latest order from the Red Peak Earl Mansion.

"Make large purchases of non-renewable scrap metals within the star domains under Duke Wenle’s control. Remove all the waste stars before the Duke Mansion intervenes."

Elsewhere, an older Marvell Louis also received a descendant of the Gao family from the Red Blade Clan.

This Gao family descendant made a similar statement.

"Please request the Wind Earl’s approval to acquire all waste stars composed of non-renewable scrap metals within the Far Border Star Domain."