Chapter 796 Black Swan

Accompanied by officials from the Great Xia Empire, Lin Jie briefly visited the space port.

However, it is difficult to tell the level of technology simply from the environment of the space port.

Because from some aspects, the living standards of the people do not meet expectations.

But from other details, it shows strange advancement.

For example, some metal materials and mechanical properties are all higher than the level of the Blue Star Federation.

In the end, Lin Jie can only simply think that this is the particularity of the imperial system.

Exploitation, he knows this.

The Blue Star Federation also has exploitation. Anyway, all kinds of mental brainwashing, and then various mental drugs are used to control, and finally achieve the effect of secret exploitation.

Visiting is just a routine activity, and you can't see anything under the escort.

However, the Great Xia Empire quickly showed its sincerity. First, the captured mining mothership was returned to Maple Leaf Mining.

Then Michelle told him a good news on behalf of the Governor's Office.

"The Governor's Office has decided to grant you the mining rights of the ninth planet without charging any additional fees as a witness to the friendship between the two sides."

Of course, normal taxes, accompanied by some infrastructure tasks, these are what Maple Leaf Mining cannot escape.

But compared to the Blue Star Federation, they certainly don't have this treatment.

The Blue Star Federation has eleven life planets, plus more dead galaxies, and there are actually a lot of minerals that can be mined.

But there are not many that are cost-effective, just this... Maple Leaf Mining has never obtained the mining rights of a single planet.

Even if the transportation costs and time costs are deducted, they still make money.

If they directly invest in a smelting plant locally, the profit may be higher.

Even taking the opportunity to enter the upstream and downstream industries is not a dream.

For Maple Leaf Mining, this is almost the best opportunity.

Lin Jie immediately said excitedly: "Thank you very much for the Governor's Office and your trust. Maple Leaf Mining must be the most sincere friend of the Great Xia Empire."

If anyone can give Maple Leaf Mining an entire mining planet, they are their best friends.

Even if Michelle slaps him now, he will find countless reasons to prove the correctness of this slap.

Specific details, mining rights time, tax deduction methods, and operational details, all need to be discussed in detail.

However, if both parties are willing to cooperate, it is entirely possible to start the project while negotiating.

According to the general intention, Maple Leaf Mining will use finished products to deduct taxes in the short term.

The remaining Hercules mining mothership finally played a role and drove directly to the planet numbered 09.

After professional and rapid detection, the Hercules mining motherships were deployed in areas rich in mineral resources.

Then some large base templates were deployed on the spot, and various robots came out one after another.

With the mining mothership as the core, it has simple machine manufacturing, ore smelting, mechanical maintenance and other functions.

A mothership is a comprehensive base that can fully complete primary collection and processing.

At the same time, a modified Mad Lion-class cruiser was used as a command ship and was located in the synchronous orbit of Planet 009.

The Great Xia Empire was not idle either, and sent a small fleet to start building a space port around Planet 009.

Of course, this scale is not large, and Lin Jie did not think it was abnormal.

In his opinion, this was the local government behavior of the Governor's Office, and it was good to be able to mobilize so many forces.

The first batch of ore from Maple Leaf Mining came out and soon filled the transport ship.

Through the round-trip transportation of small transport ships, the large ore transport ship staying in space was filled, leaving enough ore for the deduction, and began to set off for the return journey.

At the entrance of the interstellar channel, a small fleet was already guarding it.

Accompanied by the frigate, the transport ship of Maple Leaf Mining went through the last inspection and officially began its return journey.

At the same time, the headquarters of Maple Leaf Mining dispatched the second and third transport fleets to try not to delay production capacity and exchange it for money as soon as possible.

For the Great Xia Empire, the deducted ore was just used for various infrastructure construction.

Of course, the most important thing is the warship production area in the lunar space port.

After simple modifications, the White Swan class cruiser completed the localization transformation of the Great Xia.

Researchers piled up various extraordinary technologies, including the production line, which underwent a wave of magic changes.

The battleship operating system also underwent extraordinary nervous system transformation. Except for the minor changes in the appearance, the upgrade plan was basically completed.

Of course, the paint abandoned the original white paint and replaced it with the black paint that Great Xia liked the most.

Perhaps it is more appropriate to call it the Black Swan.

In fact, warship production is definitely a huge industry.

Various supporting factories were first built on the moon.

Then the assembly line was built directly in the space port.

The first production line directly occupied the same volume as the entire space port now.

So much so that the expansion of the space port has been completely stopped, and a large number of beckoning extraordinary people have joined the Black Swan production line.

It took more than half a year to build this production line alone.

When experimental production began, the speed was not fast.

It is considered highly efficient for a production line to complete the production of a cruiser in half a year.

This is under the premise that a large number of extraordinary craftsmen work together and overcome some technical difficulties.

In fact, if it were not for the extraordinary power, they would not be able to replicate this production line.

The production of various basic materials requires overcoming difficulties bit by bit, and this is still with the technical description.

Later, the entire production system needs to be gradually improved and transformed, which is inevitable, otherwise the cost will remain high and it will not be cost-effective at all.

Of course, the problem of whether there is one or not must be solved first.

According to current calculations, the production cost of the Black Swan is three to five times higher than that of the White Swan. On the one hand, it is because of the extraordinary transformation, and on the other hand, it is simply the cost of basic materials.

The same battleship uses armor, and small batches are made, which costs more than the Blue Star Federation.

But for the Great Xia Empire, everything is worth it.

It took eight months to barely roll off the production line for the first Black Swan battleship.

At this time, the production line has increased from one per month to one per half a month, with a total of three completed production lines and seven unfinished production lines.

And according to the problems encountered in the first production, the production line has been fine-tuned.

On the production line, the second and third Black Swan are also being produced. If everything goes well, the second Black Swan cruiser will be successfully rolled off the production line soon.