Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1553: Chapter 582: Marvill’s Autocratic Rule and Legendary Deception (Part 3)

"This..."

"As for the batteries, I really don’t need them on my side. However, since the fleet is already being assembled, it’s better to exchange the goods for these things. I have urgent use for them, and I will buy them at market price. When the products are ready, I’ll sell them back at the best price. The Marquis Mansion’s army will certainly use them."

After speaking, Ren Zhong actually sent Marvill a cargo list, mostly containing some rare specialties within the Far Border Star Domain, which are needed in many new weapons and are indeed somewhat scarce.

Marvill, at a glance, knew Ren Zhong was well-prepared and was stunned, asking, "You’re not only not planning to shrink the scale, but you want to increase productivity?"

"Of course!"

"This..." Marvill pondered for a long time, not knowing how to describe Ren Zhong’s madness.

He hesitated several times but saw Ren Zhong’s confident face again, recalling Ren Zhong’s consistent display of wisdom, and ultimately chose not to persuade. He only said, "Alright, I’ll wait for your good news. Alas, speaking of which, it’s been over ten years, you’ve hardly changed, while I grow older day by day. Time spares no one."

Ren Zhong also sighed, "Indeed."

...

In the eyes of countless people, nearly a month has passed.

Whether in the Nanxiang Star Cluster or the Far Border Star Domain, even the Empire Core’s chosen guards or the many people in the Wenle Duke Mansion are all staring at the Red Peak Earl Mansion’s territory.

Everyone is waiting for the day the Red Blade Clan completely runs out of food.

But at this moment, almost within the same day, one after another, large rectangular transport ships distinctive of the Red Blade Clan emerged from the Fold Jump Subspace Channel, heading towards various transit space stations built in numerous star systems.

Then, one standard container after another is towed by small and medium transport ships to the high-altitude orbit of the planets under the governance of the Red Peak Earl Mansion.

Next, these containers are sent into space shipbuilding stations, space factories, or transported via the Space Elevator to the planet surface, then rapidly distributed to various cities and factories through the planet surface’s network-like rail transportation system.

Although there are anti-gravity flying devices, cost calculations revealed that using the relatively slower rail transportation network is more cost-effective. Although the energy saved per unit tonnage is not much, the overwhelming cost advantage due to accumulation becomes astonishing as the scale of civilization grows more massive and cargo throughput increases.

Looking at the Nanxiang Star Cluster, and even further at the Far Border Star Domain and the entire Empire, there are not many nobles like the Red Blade Clan, who are already very developed and powerful, yet still so economical in transportation costs.

...

Thirty days passed, and strange things began to occur.

The Red Blade Clan did not fall into a major stagnation due to the energy shortage as many predicted. Not only that, many large-scale projects previously only planned but not implemented, nearly simultaneously began extensive construction.

On one planet after another, gigantic construction sites rapidly demarcated areas.

These construction sites are so large that they can be clearly seen even with optical telescopes from tens of light seconds away in outer space.

Even more extravagant, the Red Blade Clan began gradually hollowing out some metal-rich planets.

Those in the know recognize this maneuver: it’s clearly to use the planet as a primitive skeleton for building super-large space fortresses.

Most remarkable, however, is what’s happening in the Liao Yuan Star System filled with garbage planets. A massive space project comprised of countless modular components is rapidly taking shape over the garbage planet’s star ring.

All those witnessing this event were shocked.

People do not understand what exactly happened.

The Red Peak Earl Mansion hasn’t purchased any energy batteries from outside this entire month.

The support fleet from Marquis Zhenjiang Mansion is still on its way.

Where did Earl Red Blade conjure up so much new energy?

Exactly at this moment, Ren Zhong and Yang Misi, who had long disappeared from the ordinary person’s perspective, appeared simultaneously at a news conference.

Facing reporters with countless questions in their minds, Ren Zhong and the once illustrious academic figure, Yang Misi, simultaneously announced two brand new patent technologies.

One, a new type of waste metal recycling technology that can increase the cycle iteration period by more than ten rounds based on the Empire’s existing cutting-edge metal recycling technology.

Two, new technology for capturing and exploiting dark matter.

This move shocked the Empire.