When the richest core world of the real human empire was immersed in the useless consumption of fighting in the court and usurping the throne, the seemingly insignificant, mild and harmless Wanjie business alliance also quietly rose in the poor mountains and evil waters of the outer world of the Empire.
The pattern of Pangu universe at this moment is quite different from that of 100000 years ago.
In the first 100000 years of human civilization from birth to growth, each world basically met the conditions of self-sufficiency and independent operation. On any habitable planet, there were enough water, air, mineral resources and stable ecological circulation system. Even if it did not trade with the outside world, it could maintain the lowest degree of internal circulation.
However, from the end of the world of Guxiu, the war of Guxiu that swept three thousand worlds, to the rise and decline of the demon clan, and the "doomsday war" between the emperor and the blood god son, the war of Pangu universe never really went out.
The war destroyed many of the world''s self circulation system, the atmosphere disappeared, the mineral resources were hollowed out, the groundwater was polluted, and all kinds of gentle and domesticated spirit beasts changed into extremely vicious monsters.
Not to mention, with the progress of technology, human beings can conquer the previously unconquerable resource planet and colonization planet, and build large settlements that can accommodate millions of people or even more in places that are not suitable for human survival.
As a result, the vast majority of habitable planets lost the ability to be completely self-sufficient in the resource deficient star regions outside the Empire, or they did not have such ability from the beginning. They had to rely on the endless stream of star sea trade to bring the necessary resources to survive.
As a result, the importance of Xinghai trade has been greatly enhanced. Many experts even point out that the future is not only the era of Lingwang, but also the era of logistics network and "Wanxing Internet". Whoever controls the trade between habitable planets will firmly control the whole universe!
In the elite area of imperial tradition, trade routes are firmly controlled by the four big families and traditional officials and merchants.
However, in the peripheral world where resources are poor, distance is far away, and there is not much oil and water to be squeezed out, it is a waste of time, energy and patience to build a complete logistics system from scratch and cultivate the local market to a profitable level.
The four big families, which have long been accustomed to relying on monopoly and tax revenue to obtain excess profits, are too lazy to spend hundreds of years dealing with the bumpkins and local bumpkins in the outside world. All kinds of small trading groups and logistics sects, which are born and bred in a barbaric and self defeating manner, have emerged at the historic moment, and after hundreds of years of silent rooting and sprouting, In the outer world of the Empire, a seemingly unimportant but actually impermeable trade, logistics and even financial network was woven. Later, these scattered soldiers gathered together and came to the surface in the name of "Wanjie business alliance".
As the saying goes, the mountains are high and the emperor is far away. The outer world of the empire is a chaotic and lawless star territory. The so-called star robbers, merchants, privatized fleet and regular army are all the same thing. If Wanjie business alliance can fight a bloody road in such a bloody jungle, it naturally has the most daring Waterman and captain, the most cunning and crafty businessman, and the most ruthless star robbers.
They monopolize numerous capillary like business routes, which can bring a steady stream of resources and talents to a planet and make it prosperous in a short time; You can also turn into a star robber, completely block all the channels of a planet to the outside world, and let the planet yield to their power.
Apart from other things, as long as the warships under the Wanjie business alliance blow up all the julingta and remote communication base stations around a planet and completely "disconnect" the planet from the outside world, the civilization level on the planet will degenerate for decades in a year and a half.
With such strength, Wanjie business alliance naturally is not willing to just wander around the periphery of the Empire and become the supplier of the country bumpkins and local bumpkins.
What''s more, the leaders of the Wanjie Business League were also very clear that in the eyes of the aristocrats who were in charge of the power of life and death in the high level of the Empire, these businessmen were just pigs and dogs to be slaughtered. The fatter they were, the more time they had to slaughter.
In the past, the four families had not seen the profits of the world trade outside the Empire, so they were too lazy to pay any attention to them. But now they have worked hard to cultivate this market, and it seems to be profitable. If the four families don''t come to pick peaches, what kind of immortal are they?
The Wanjie business alliance, which was just born, realized by virtue of its survival instinct that if it wanted to survive, it had to fight with the powerful, plutocrats and powerful families in Xinghai central government, those "old cultivators" who simply and brutally oppressed ordinary people and had no technical content by relying on traditional methods!
Free star coin is the sharpest weapon they choose.
They want to launch a war, a currency war without crystal armor, star ships and giant soldiers, but with money to fight, killing people without blood!
At the end of the "black wind war", when the Empire was faced with huge military pressure from the holy alliance, with soaring prices, hyperinflation and panic, Wanjie business alliance quietly launched the "monetization" road of free star currency in the outer world of the Empire.
At the beginning, naturally, no one would treat the free star coin as real money. No matter how inflation, the imperial crystal coin is "real money" after all. When the Empire does not really want to change its Dynasty, who will exchange real gold and silver for these... What kind of free star coin?
Of course, the Wanjie business alliance could not force the imperial citizens in the outside world to use the free star coin. At the beginning, they did not want to replace the imperial crystal coin with the free star coin. They only stipulated that all their business firms could accept two kinds of trading methods at the same time, but using the free star coin to trade would give them some preferential treatment, and some of them would be in the most popular goods, Priority will be given to buyers using free star coins.
This measure, finally smashed the first small spray.
But the real killer is credit sales and small loans.
Wanjie Business League is good at fishing for big fish on a long line. Huo Dongling''s hometown "nanlingxing" is the best example.
First, with abundant financial resources and unfathomable contacts, we will buy potential asteroids for preliminary development. Then, we will attract a large number of colonizers to settle down in the way of half selling and half giving. When the settlement is almost completed, the colonizers will take the asteroid as their new hometown. When they can''t go back, they will use all kinds of consumable parts to earn money slowly.
In order to cultivate these "laying hens", during the whole process of colonization, Wanjie business alliance will provide a lot of technical support, credit magic weapon and even small loans to the colonizers. The conditions are very attractive. The only thing is that in the future, they must pay off with free star currency.
You can get a discount on interest rate if you use free star currency to repay money, but you have to charge a punitive handling fee if you use imperial crystal currency to repay money. Of course, Wanjie business alliance will solemnly guarantee that the value of free star currency will be stable and the exchange rate of imperial crystal currency will never fluctuate too much.
During the period when the imperial crystal currency was devalued the most severely, the Wanjie business alliance even linked the free star currency with essential materials such as compressed air, water purification tablets and synthetic food, stipulating that a piece of free star currency could be exchanged for constant water and food, known as "air currency", "water purification currency" and even "canned meat currency".
What a rustic name "can of meat coin". If it is heard by the rich and well-educated economists at the top of the Empire, they will surely laugh.
However, in the outer world of the Empire, ordinary people with little culture heard what a proper and easy to understand name these free star coins are real money, which can be used to exchange for air, water and canned meat, bringing hope for survival!
These measures not only won the first group of real users and believers, but also injected real credit into the free star coin.
Since then, the rise of the free star coin, like a snowball rolling bigger and bigger, like a flood out of control; When the empire finally took a breath from the economic crisis caused by the defeat of the black wind, the free star coin had spread in the periphery of the Empire and could not be extinguished.
What''s more, even after the economic crisis, the war between the Empire and the holy alliance is still not over. In the first 50 years, the front-line troops under the leadership of Lei Chenghu actively defended, but in the latter 50 years, they were gnashing their teeth to fight a "war of revenge". The war machine "rumbled" continuously, and all kinds of exorbitant taxes and levies were also rising.
The war special tax, which wants to charge one yuan at the top, will be increased at every level, and the bottom will dare to charge more than ten or twenty yuan. No matter the original person or the low-level cultivator, they can''t escape. In these ghost years, ordinary people don''t want to live well if they don''t evade taxes. If the low-level cultivator doesn''t evade taxes, they don''t want to complete the original accumulation and accumulate enough resources to upgrade, and the only way to evade taxes, That is to use the free star coin.
Numerous exorbitant taxes and levies have provided a "God assist" for the free star coin, which is simply to add fuel to the fire.
Of course, it is impossible not to use imperial crystal coins at all. Most of the transactions in daily life still rely on legal tender. However, some secret key transactions have become the areas of penetration and erosion of free star coins.
For a whole hundred years, the free star coin was like a "plague of kindness" loved by the vast majority of the people and low-level cultivators, which eroded the body of the Empire. From the beginning, it only circulated in a small area outside the Empire, and gradually penetrated into the traditional core area of the Empire. Finally, even the four election emperors had many cultivators, Use the free star coin in the dark - if you come out to cultivate immortals, how can you not kill people and grab treasure? After killing people and seizing treasure, they sell it on the black market and trade it with imperial crystal coins? That''s not a trap!
Use the free star coin to trade, no matter killing people to grab treasure, acting as an assassin to get a reward, secretly purchasing a lot of resources to attack a new realm, and preparing to kill the enemy in the family after success... All will not leave traces, not too convenient!