When the richest core world of the real human empire was immersed in the unnecessary consumption of court internal struggles and powerful ministers usurping the throne, the seemingly insignificant and mild and harmless merchant alliance of all worlds also quietly emerged in the poor mountains and rivers of the outer world of the empire.

The pattern of Pangu's universe at this moment is completely different from the previous 100,000 years.

In the first 100,000 years from the birth to growth of human civilization, every world basically meets the conditions of self-sufficiency and independent operation. Any habitable planet has sufficient water, air, mineral resources and a stable ecological circulation system. Even if it does not trade with the outside world, it can maintain the minimum internal circulation.

However, from the end of the ancient cultivator world, the war of ancient cultivator that swept across the three thousand worlds, to the rise and decline of the demon clan, and the "doomsday battle" between the emperor and the blood god son, for tens of thousands of years, the war in the Pangu universe has never really been extinguished.

The war destroyed many self-circulation systems in the world, the atmosphere disappeared, the minerals were hollowed out, the groundwater was polluted, and various mildly tamed spirit beasts mutated into extremely vicious monsters.

Not to mention, with the advancement of technology, humans can conquer resource planets and colonized planets that were originally unconquered, and build large settlements that are sufficient to accommodate millions of people or even more in places that are absolutely not suitable for human survival.

The result is that in the star domains outside the empire, most habitable planets have lost their ability to be completely self-sufficient, or have not had such ability from the beginning. They must rely on the endless stream of star sea trade to bring all the resources necessary for survival in order to survive.

As a result, the importance of star-sea trade has been raised to an unparalleled level. Many experts even pointed out that the future is not only the era of spiritual networks, but also the era of logistics networks, and the era of "Internet of Ten Thousand Stars". Whoever controls the trade between habitable planets will firmly control the entire universe!

In the elite area of ​​the empire tradition, the trade channel is firmly controlled by the four major families and traditional officials and businessmen.

However, in the peripheral world where resources are poor, distances are far away, and cannot squeeze out too much oil and water, it is a very time-consuming, energy and patience-intensive work to build a complete logistics system from scratch and cultivate the local market to a profitable level.

The four major families, which have long been accustomed to relying on monopoly and taxes to obtain excess profits, are too lazy to spend hundreds of years dealing with the country bumpkins and local buns in the peripheral world. Various small trade groups and logistics sects that are born wildly and self-destructive. After hundreds of years of silent roots and sprouting, a seemingly inconspicuous but actually impenetrable trade, logistics and even financial network was weaved in the outer world of the empire. After that, these straitors gathered together and surfaced in the name of the "Wanjie Business Alliance".

As the saying goes, the mountains are high and the emperor is far away. The world of the empire is a lawless and chaotic star field. The so-called star pirates, merchants, privateers and regular troops are completely the same thing. If the Wanjie Merchant Alliance can make a bloody path in such a bloody jungle, it will naturally have the most courageous sailors and captains, the most treacherous and cunning black-hearted merchants, and the most cruel and ruthless star pirate talents.

They monopolized countless capillary-like trade routes, which could not only bring a continuous stream of resources and talents to a planet, so that the planet would flourish in a short period of time; they could also transform into star pirates, completely blocking all the waterways leading to the outside world, and let the planet succumb to their tyranny.

Not to mention anything else, as long as the warships under the Wanjie Shang Alliance blow up all the spirit gathering towers and long-range communication base stations around a planet, causing the planet to completely "disconnect" from the outside world, it will lead to the level of civilization on the planet to degrade for decades within a year and a half.

With such strength, Wanjie Business Alliance is naturally unwilling to just wander around the empire and become a supplier of country bumpkins and local buns.

What's more, the leaders of the Wanjie Business Alliance were also very clear that in the eyes of the nobles who held the power of life and death at the top of the empire, these merchants were just pigs and dogs to be slaughtered. The more fat they were, the more time they were about to be slaughtered.

In the past, the four major families had not seen the profits of world trade outside the empire, so they were too lazy to pay attention to them. But now they have worked hard to cultivate this market. It is profitable. If the four major families do not come to pick peaches, then what are they called immortal cultivators?

The first move is the best, and then the move is the disaster. The Wanjie Business Alliance, which was just born, realized with the instinct of survival that if you want to survive, you can only fight against the powerful people, chaebols and wealthy families in the center of the Star Sea, those "old immortal cultivators" who rely on traditional methods to simply and roughly exploit ordinary people, and have no technical content, and will never stop fighting!

Free Star Coin is the sharpest weapon they choose.

They want to launch a war, a currency war without using crystal armor, starships and giant gods, but instead use money to confront each other, killing people without blood!

Taking advantage of the late stage of the "Black Wind War", the Empire faced huge military pressure from the Holy Alliance, with soaring prices, vicious inflation, panic, and having no time to take care of others, the Wanjie Merchant Alliance quietly opened the "monetization" path of free star coins in the outer world of the empire.

At the beginning, naturally no one would treat the Free Star Coins as real money. No matter how inflation is, the Empire crystal coins are ultimately "real money". The Empire is not really about to change its dynasty, who would exchange real money and silver for these... What kind of ghosts are the Liberal Star Coins?

Of course, the Wanjie Merchant Alliance cannot force the imperial citizens of the peripheral world to use the Free Star Coins. At the beginning, they did not want to completely replace the Imperial Crystal Coins. They only stipulate that each of their businesses can accept two transaction methods at the same time. However, using Free Star Coins to trade will give certain discounts, and some of the most in short supply will be given priority to buyers who use Free Star Coins.

This measure finally made the first small splash of water.

But the real killer is credit sales and micro loans.

The Wanjie Business Alliance is best at fishing big fish with long lines, and Huo Dongling's hometown "Nan Lingxing" is the best example.

First, use strong financial resources and unfathomable connections to buy potential asteroids for initial development, and then attract a large number of colonists to settle down by selling and half-giving. When the settlement is almost built, colonists also smashed the coffin book and regarded the asteroid as a new hometown. When they cannot turn back, they use various consumables to slowly make money back.

In order to cultivate these "old hens who can lay eggs", during the entire colonization process, Wanjie Shangmeng provided a lot of technical support to colonizers, selling magic weapons and even micro-loans, with very attractive conditions, only one thing - in the future, the debt must be paid with free star coins.

You can get a discount on interest rates by using the Free Star Coin to repay money. You will have to charge a punitive handling fee when using the Empire Crystal Coin to repay money. Of course, the Wanjie Merchant Alliance will also solemnly ensure that the currency value of the Free Star Coin is stable, and the exchange rate of the Empire Crystal Coin will never fluctuate too much.

During the period when the Empire's crystal currency depreciated most, the Wanjie Merchants League even linked the free star coins to essential materials such as compressed air, water purification tablets, synthetic food, etc., and stipulated that a piece of free star coins can be exchanged for constant water and food, known as "air coin", "water purification coin" and even "canned meat coins".

"Can Meat Coin", what a rustic name, if it is heard by economists with rich knowledge and theory sets, they will definitely laugh out loud.

However, what an apt name is this that is easy to understand in the world outside the empire - these free star coins are real money that can be exchanged for air, water and canned meat, bringing hope for survival!

These measures have won the first batch of true users and believers in addition to star pirates, and have also injected real credit into the Free Star Coin.

From then on, the rise of the Free Star Coin became bigger and bigger like a snowball, and it was like a flood. When the empire finally breathed out from the economic crisis caused by the defeat of the Black Wind, the Free Star Coin had already spread out on the periphery of the empire with a prairie fire and could not be extinguished at all.

What's more, even after surviving the economic crisis, the battle between the Empire and the Holy Alliance was not over. In the first fifty years, the front-line army actively defended under the leadership of Lei Chenghu, but in the next fifty years, they gritted their teeth and wanted to fight a "battle of revenge". The war machines "rumbled" and continued, and all kinds of tyrants and miscellaneous taxes also increased.

The war special tax that is above wants to collect a dollar, after layer by layer, they dare to collect more than ten or twenty yuan at the bottom. Whether the original person or the low-level cultivator is unable to escape - in this ghost year, ordinary people do not want to survive if they do not evade taxes, and low-level cultivators do not want to complete the original accumulation if they do not evade taxes, and accumulate enough resources to upgrade. The only way to evade taxes is to use the Free Star Coin.

The numerous and overdue taxes provided a "god assist" for the Free Star Coin, which was simply a boost and added fuel to the fire.

Of course, it is impossible not to use the Imperial Crystal Coins at all. Most transactions in daily life still need to be completed by legal currency, but some ulterior key transactions have become areas for the penetration and erosion of free star coins.

For a hundred years, the Free Star Coins are like the "good plague" that most people and low-level cultivators like to watch, eroding the body of the empire. From the beginning, it was only circulated in a small scale in the world outside the empire, gradually deepening into the traditional core area of ​​the empire. In the end, even the four electoral families had many immortal cultivators who secretly used Free Star Coins - when everyone came out to cultivate immortals, how could they not kill people to seize treasures? After killing people to seize treasures, they were sold on the black market and used imperial crystal coins to trade? That was not a self-invested net!
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