That is a trump card. If too many people know about it and everyone is on guard, it will be difficult to use it again in the future.

Before using Luo Zhen, they had no idea that now this ultimate weapon is still kept secret. Li Qing will not use it casually. He will use it at a suitable opportunity in the future, relying on the terrifying power of the ultimate weapon to determine the cauldron or the world in one fell swoop.

Turn the situation around.

To put it bluntly, you must do something big for your first appearance.

Two hours later, a huge fleet consisting of two dreadnoughts, two flagship aircraft carriers, 750 battleships, 3,000 cruisers, 10,000 destroyers, 20,000 frigates, and 500 transport ships appeared in the galaxy. After a while,

, Li Qing mobilized another 2,000 escort ships to mix into the fleet, preparing to use them as an assault fleet, then slowly adjusted the direction and sailed towards the galaxy channel.

There is no urgent matter, no need to jump and rush.

The fleet soon arrived at the regular waterway. Such a large fleet was extremely rare even in Shanhaiguan. As soon as it entered the waterway, it received several unfamiliar communications.

Li Qing was sitting in the middle of the bridge of the dreadnought, chatting with a few strangers with great interest.

Anyway, there is no goal. If you communicate more with these locals, you may be able to get some useful information.

These people are all players who hang out near Shanhaiguan. Two of them are individual players. One player named Wu Yingqing takes the merchant route and organizes a small caravan. Every six months, he will prepare a batch of goods to go to a fixed area.

Star Territory trades with players over there.

Li Qing asked with interest:

"What's the most in-demand product here?"

Wu Yingqing immediately replied:

"The most in-demand commodities here are various warships, followed by various foods and industrial consumables. The demand for these three types is very high, and it can be said that the supply exceeds the supply."

"What's the price of food? Is it the same as here in Shanhaiguan?"

Wu Yingqing smiled and shook his head:

"Of course it can't be the same. How can it be that the market price is still the same after we worked so hard to transport the goods? In the past, the price of shipping a kilogram of rice was between 1.3 and 1.5 stars. Now that the Buluan joint raids are underway, the price of shipping is

If you take a huge risk, the price will be at least 2 or more. The deeper you go, the higher the price will be. The deepest price can be as high as 3-5 stars per kilogram.”

"Well, it's so expensive!"

"of course."

Li Qing had a doubt in his heart and asked:

"But when I was at Zutar before, why was the price so stable? It was always one star yuan per kilogram?"

Wu Yingqing smiled and said:

"I have heard that it is a new development area over there. Generally speaking, such new development areas will be protected and have a market economy. Large companies and consortiums are not allowed to disrupt the market. Prices will be very stable. But in Shanhaiguan and even the entire United Human Empire

Other places implement a market economy and it is determined by the market. If you have to transport goods over long distances, it will be difficult and the price will definitely be very expensive."

"oh!"

Li Qing suddenly remembered that several of his super livable areas that had been transformed into agricultural and animal husbandry areas had been producing grain on a large scale in recent years. The current output could already meet the needs of the entire territory and there was still excess.

It's not much, and it's estimated that in another year or so, there will be a lot of excess production. At that time, maybe some of it can be used to let Li Qi form a caravan for trade.

It's not a problem to ask him to convert alloys and sell them all the time. He can't always stay in Shanhaiguan and trade with other places. He is just free at this stage. When he is ready in a year or two, he will start the strategy of attacking the Shata United Empire.

How could he have the time to do this at that time?

Therefore, the territory still needs to have some stable income.

For example, only one batch of grain is sold every year, and one batch of ore and alloy is sold every year, which is basically enough to fund the construction of the territory.

Anyway, for other lords, the construction of warships, which has the biggest funding gap, is completely financed by himself, as long as there is enough income to maintain the daily consumption of the territory.

The two didn't chat for too long. After crossing the junction of high-security and low-security areas in Shanhaiguan, Wu Yingqing wanted to go northeast, while Li Jingtun's legion territory continued to go north.

As soon as he crossed the junction of high-security and low-security areas and emerged from the wormhole, he saw two fleets fighting at a distance of more than 100,000 kilometers from the wormhole. Li Qing immediately became energetic when he saw it.

There are two fleets, one is a caravan, with a size of about 400 ships, 1,780 escort fleets, and only five battleships.

The other is a player pirate fleet, with a total of about 500, and about 20 battleships.

This familiar scene had not been seen for a long time. Li Qing did not leave immediately, but ordered the fleet to approach with great interest.

The trade in Shanhaiguan is developed, and pirates are naturally rampant. A large number of players turn into pirates and rob player caravans at various waterway intersections, but there are still very few who dare to rob on the edge of high security.

However, as soon as he approached, or his huge fleet just had a tendency to pass, the pirates who were besieging the caravan escort fleet suddenly became nervous. The pirate captain commanding the fleet hurriedly shouted in the command channel:

"Fuck, that fleet is coming, the fifth squadron is at the rear, the others should retreat quickly!"

"Damn it, what kind of boss is meddling in such nosy matters!"

"I don't know, the fleet didn't see any identification marks."

"No matter who he is, you still want to take revenge and come back."

"Stop being so nagging, retreat quickly. If you get caught, you'll be doomed."

By the time Li Qing arrived, the pirate fleet had left behind the rear fleet, and the main force had already distanced itself and jumped away.

After a round of main gun bombardment, the remaining pirate squads all turned into fireballs and sank.

The leader of the caravan sent a thank you message with great gratitude. Li Qing smiled and waved his hand, not taking away a single cloud.

The following journey allowed him to see the chaos outside Shanhaiguan. The number of pirates was staggering, and they were all player pirates, which meant that these players did not follow the right path and became professional pirates.

With so many numbers and strength, many of the caravans seen along the way seemed impossible to defeat.

He was very curious about how there were so many pirates and how those small caravans got together, and the star field they were in was still within the radiation range of Shanhaiguan. He asked his second uncle directly, and then asked the caravan players who passed by, and the results he got made him feel

surprise.

The reason is very simple. Most small caravans have paid protection fees to some large pirate groups nearby. As long as they get a pass after paying the protection fees, any pirates in the area where this pirate group operates will be allowed to pass.

Most small caravans with insufficient strength will pay protection fees. For example, the caravan he saved before was obviously attacked without paying protection fees.

Even some large-scale chambers of commerce cannot avoid paying protection fees. Although the large caravans are powerful and the escort fleets are also strong, there are also big pirates among the pirates, and there are also pirate groups. One or two companies cannot afford it, so they unite more than a dozen companies to join the big business.

The Chamber of Commerce could not withstand the siege.

The information obtained from Erbo shows that in the star field north of Shanhaiguan, which stretches from the eastern end of the spiral arm in the east to the western end of the spiral arm in the west, with a span of tens of thousands of light years and thousands of light years from north to south,

There are a total of thirty-three large pirate groups. The weakest one has thousands of battleships and hundreds of thousands of large and small battleships, and the powerful one has tens of thousands of battleships and more than one flagship.

Among them, the top ones have a comprehensive strength that is not inferior to that of some military leaders and are very powerful.

These large pirate groups are all controlled by players and are powerful. They have been entrenched on the border between the northern border of the empire and the Brunwan United Civilization for a long time. Some senior ones have lasted for thousands of years and have been passed down for dozens of generations.

To put it bluntly, they are actually an alternative territory, but they are unorthodox and cannot join the Imperial Senate.

Such a huge pirate group is entrenched in this area and plunders other players. It is a big disaster. It should have been surrounded and suppressed by the military. But in fact, they have been able to exist and grow to such an extent. Not surprisingly, there should be a military

Indulge.

The reason is very simple, they are used to check and suppress some pirates derived from the powerful civilization of Bruwan United.

This touches on a star sea rule. On the edge of any civilized force, there will be corresponding pirate forces or rebel forces, which are also commonly known as NPCs and wild monsters.

Just like there is a huge pirate force called Lester Pirate Group at the junction of the Shatta Tribe United Civilization and the Expeditionary Force. There are more than a dozen clans in it, most of them are people from the Shatta Tribe United, and a small part are people from the other two foreign tribes.

Non-player civilizations such as the Bruwan United Civilization will also touch this rule. In the star field at the junction of the two civilizations, normally a large number of pirate forces will definitely be derived.

With the size of the Bruwan United Civilization, the pirates or rebels derived from it will often be very powerful.

Correspondingly, human civilization will also give rise to a large-scale pirate force.

This time involves the level of civilization strategy. By defaulting to the existence of pirates, the player pirates are allowed to replace the derived pirate forces, and then the human player pirates are used to suppress the pirates derived from the Bruwan civilization in the border star field.

This is the so-called use of barbarians to control barbarians.

By now, the pirates derived from the Bruwan civilization on the border between the two civilizations have long been wiped out, and humans have occupied an absolute dominant position in this star field.

Of course, this does not mean that the player's piracy is legal. The Senate just acquiesces that you exist, but it is illegal. After all, pirate robbery is illegal and should be suppressed when it should be suppressed.

It's just that all large-scale pirates have internal connections. The military's move to mobilize the fleet is so big that it can't be concealed. When you advance, I retreat, and when you retreat, I return. It is difficult to have much suppressive effect.

As the scale of pirates becomes larger and larger, some of the strongest pirate groups have already reached some tacit unspoken rules - paying protection fees to the military, and constraining all small and medium-sized pirates to formulate protection fee rules in exchange for the military

It exists by default.

"It's quite interesting."

The second uncle is now the major general of the army, and the information he gave includes a lot of inside information that outsiders do not know, such as which army lieutenant general the thirty-three super large pirate groups are related to, or which army leader they are related to, etc.

wait.

It is worth mentioning that the Qinghe Li Family also invested in a pirate group in this star field, but the scale was not very large, far from the scale of the thirty-three super large pirate groups.

The journey that followed was not without many twists and turns. After all, he had tens of thousands of large and small warships including four flagships, and no pirate in his right mind would dare to cause trouble for him.

We have not encountered the Bruwan joint sweep fleet. It is just the beginning of the sweep. Li Jingtun's legion headquarters is north of Shanhaiguan, about 2,100 light-years northeast, and about 600 light-years below the horizon. It is located between two

To the south of the civilized center line, the sweep fleet has not yet swept over.

This so-called horizontal plane sinking refers to the downward direction of the centerline of the spiral arm plane.

As we all know, the entire river system is a flat plate. The Perseus spiral arm is about 13,000 to 4,000 light-years wide and about 3,000 light-years thick. It is divided into upper and lower layers in the middle, each about 1,500 light-years thick.

Among them, Shanhaiguan is located in the middle, and Li Jingtun's legion headquarters has sunk about 600 light years.
To be continued...