Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1546: Chapter 580: Long River of Trash Planets, When It Rains It Pours (Part 2)

This phenomenon is often more severe in more prosperous areas.

Most of Duke Wenle’s star domain territories are located in the Empire Core, where the number and size of waste planets in his controlled star domains far exceed those in the relatively scattered, low-density, economically and technologically underdeveloped Far Border Star Domain.

For example, the total mass of waste planets in just the Wenle First Star Domain is nearly fifty times that of the entire Far Border Star Domain.

If transported away, the cost seems impractical, but leaving them here is unsightly and poses disaster risks.

If all of it is gathered to form a gigantic solid planet, transformed into a pure neutronized star, it seems a waste, because what if metal recycling technology advances someday?

In summary, these things are like chicken ribs, tasteless to consume, wasteful to discard, causing headaches for people.

People at the Duke Wenle Mansion were occasionally troubled by this matter, but finally awaited the arrival of the smuggling trio as their unlikely benefactors.

They were willing to self-fund the astronomical transportation fees and even offer a purchase price at one-tenth of the unit mass price of brand new minerals. Truly good people.

What do "developed countries" love to dump on "underdeveloped countries"?

Of course, it’s waste!

And so, the smuggling trio, leveraging their extensive network, signed numerous contracts in a very short time before the key figures at the Duke Wenle Mansion realized it, gobbling up over 50% of the waste planets.

This comprises 50% of the total accumulated over millions of years by people from nearly ten prosperous star domains and dozens of star clusters.

Even though the price is very favorable, it almost drained all the Red Blade Clan’s liquid funds.

It was at this point that Duke Wenle Mansion finally reacted.

The development of the situation was entirely within Ren Zhong’s expectations.

Although no one could yet understand Ren Zhong’s true purpose, unusual events are bound to be troublesome, so it was right to stop it quickly.

Sena Romanov, who had fallen out of favor with the Duke, was pushed forward to verify the matter.

A quick look at the reports revealed that the Red Blade Clan had, in a short period, swallowed half of the waste star systems under Duke Wenle Mansion’s account like a giant whale absorbing water, causing her quite a shock.

But then, Sena Romanov quickly turned from worry to joy.

According to information provided by the Empire Super Network and the economic intelligence department, Sena discovered that Earl Red Blade had actually plunged into a temporary fiscal crisis.

This was indeed great news.

In today’s era, with the widespread availability of artificial food, a fiscal crisis surely would not lead to famine and chaos, but analyzing the economic structure of Red Peak Earl Mansion reveals that in the past ten years, the Red Blade Clan has severely relied on Duke Wenle Mansion’s provision of cheap commodities for daily life, with even more serious external dependency in the energy sector.

Although the Red Blade Clan tried early on to build Dyson Giant Structure devices to capture stellar radiation energy, over the years, they were too "warmongering," pouring vast productive power into the military sector, leading to slow progress in the Dyson Giant Structure devices, insufficient to meet their daily needs.

If not for the huge income from stealth coatings, Red Peak Earl Mansion would have faced economic collapse long ago.

Sena immediately summoned her advisory team to meticulously analyze the situation and strategize.

Ultimately, Sena concluded that although Ren Zhong’s demise would eventually come, there seemed to be an opportunity now to deal a heavy blow to his assets and population, and even make him grateful, extending influence into the Iron Wall-like strength of the Red Blade Clan’s power ahead of time.

Hours later, the smuggling trio unsurprisingly found that waste planet acquisition business could resume.

Not only that, but the Duke Wenle Mansion became even more accommodating, expressing that considering the long-standing good cooperation between them, the Red Blade Clan was allowed to use assets as collateral for credit sales, and could even take loans to cover transportation costs, with subsequent payments only requiring thin interest and regular installments.

The scope of asset collateral included the Red Blade Clan’s Sovereign Star System, patent intellectual property rights, and fixed assets.

No choice was needed; the smuggling trio lunged at the offer right there.

Nearly five years later, the vast amounts of waste planets finally crossed the Star Gate under the chain pull of large towing ships, appearing in the Nanxiang Star Cluster.

Now, around the Star Gate of the Nanxiang Star Cluster, a Sovereign Star System of the Red Blade Clan has emerged.