Time passed quickly, and 1957 passed in a wave of construction, and in a blink of an eye it was the end of 1958.

For more than a year, the construction of the empire was in full swing.

In terms of internal construction, the capital of the empire, Star Earth, has basically completed the transformation of public transportation.

With the sharp decline in production costs, artificial flying cars have begun to be popularized in every municipal city, and the cost of using super batteries is much lower than that of the fuel era.

This is thanks to the fact that large, advanced super-nuclear power plants are operating around the world, and this cheap and safe nuclear power is beginning to be used by individuals, industries and public use.

Long-distance passenger/cargo spacecraft have also been put into use, such long-distance passenger spacecraft hundreds of meters long, with a capacity of dozens of trains at a time.

As the empire realized the self-production of this kind of small intraplanetary spaceship, the cost has been reduced, the freight turnover cost and human transportation cost in various places in the capital star have been greatly reduced, and the efficiency has been greatly improved.

In the former Europe or the Americas, public flying cars and transoceanic passenger/cargo spacecraft were also put into use. At the same time, construction of super nuclear power plants has begun in various regions.

In addition to the renovation of public transport, health and education are the first to complete the first phase of the target.

The mainland has achieved that all school students are enrolled in the genetic modification program and the advanced nutrition program, as well as the Yanhuang martial arts program.

These three major plans have achieved amazing results after investing huge financial costs, and even other regions are starting to implement them.

In addition to public transportation, education, health and culture, a number of high-tech factories have also sprung up in the mainland, more than 40% of which are factories under the Shusheng Company.

On the basis of the previous decades, the empire began to gradually establish a complete set of industrial system, relying on the super machinery manufacturing center, Zhang Shusheng used a snowball attitude to develop the empire's advanced industry step by step.

At the same time, the construction of a slightly smaller second robot factory and a super machine manufacturing center has also begun, and unlike the last outsourcing, most of the machinery and equipment will be manufactured by itself.

The empire now has no shortage of people, no shortage of technology, what it lacks is money, a lack of cosmic currency, and a lack of convenient foreign trade.

In addition to these step-by-step developments, the empire also developed well in specialty cultivation.

The special planting and breeding work of the three planets of Capital Star, Changqing Star and Avatar Star has achieved great results.

On the capital star, the barren areas of the native continent, the North Sea (Siberia), the Far East, Europe, the Americas, and even Africa have begun to be planted.

Most of these high-grade cash crops or animals are not annual, and it often takes several years, in order to meet the processing conditions, Shusheng Company and the empire have invested in the construction If these can't make the people completely crazy, then the first Shenlong-class battleship started construction, and finally the mood of the people of the empire was lifted to the highest point.

...... "Your Majesty, now our project is going very well. Although many problems were encountered after the keel was laid, they were overcome one by one. ”

Hatton accompanied Zhang Shusheng to stand on the bridge of the Zhonghua Viewing Ship, looking at the huge warship manufacturing center in space below.

This huge battleship manufacturing center, in addition to the most core battleship factory, also has a floating energy factory, and some accessories work, and the entire scale is already equivalent to a small city.

It took the empire nearly three years to complete the entire manufacturing center alone.

The manufacture of warships involves a large number of spare parts, and in addition to the super machine manufacturing center that can process some parts, there are also some parts that need to be processed in space.

Space machining, gravity can be adjusted, and some special parts can be machined to the best quality level in a vacuum environment.

Therefore, in three years, in addition to installing all the equipment of Hatton's original factory, Zhang Shusheng also exchanged a large amount of equipment and purchased equipment twice, and finally built the battleship manufacturing center in front of him.

Zhang Shusheng has hardly dared to waste even a little bit of points in the past three years, and all of them have been exchanged for these mechanical equipment, materials, and technologies that cannot be bought.

In the past three years, the empire has not exchanged another battleship, nor has it exchanged for a set of space gate systems.

There is also that amazing loan, the first two years are fine, his own savings, plus a large amount of money extorted from Young Master Gema, plus the monthly tax dividends of the two young masters, it is barely even.

However, in the third year, he ran into trouble, not only did the cosmic coins in his account be spent, but he almost didn't make up enough for the third year's repayment.

Fortunately, at that time, several alien races wandering on the earth begged for help, hoping that Zhang Shusheng would help provide a batch of genetic drugs, and the unjust head was sent to the door, Zhang Shusheng of course refused to let go, the drug that cost less than 1 million cosmic coins asked for 10 million cosmic coins, covering genetic modification and therapeutic drugs, and finally solved the loan problem in the third year.

If it weren't for them begging to come to the door, according to the original plan, Zhang Shusheng would have already loaded the refined energy block on the ship and sold it.

"The loan in 1959 was going to count on these big guys in front of you."

Zhang Shusheng looked at the two huge battleships under construction with emotion, a Shenlong-class battleship and a Tianlong-class battleship.

The current maximum capacity of the battleship factory is to start two warships at the same time, which is still inferior to the scale of some warship factories to start several or even several warships at the same time.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty. Our current material reserves are enough to build 3 Shenlong-class battleships and 2 Tianlong-class battleships, and according to the current manufacturing progress, we will work overtime to build them in the second half of next year. ”

Hatton said that in today's highly automated and highly integrated world, the production of warships no longer takes extremely long years. Battleship parts that are broken down into countless parts are manufactured simultaneously in hundreds of factories, especially in giant factories such as the Super Machinery Manufacturing Center, as long as the energy and materials are sufficient, and the machines do not go down, it is completely possible to produce five ships a year.

In low-level civilizations, the production rate of warships is not slow, and the Longshan Empire has a total of battleship-level warships, tens of thousands, and hundreds of warships are updated every year, not counting war damage. If it takes several years or even ten years for a battleship to be produced, production will definitely not be able to keep up with the pace of consumption.

"Let's postpone the manufacture of the Shenlong-class first, and make one out to be the flagship first, and the other materials should just make five Tianlong-class battleships."

The loan of 30 million in the third year, if you don't get some warships to sell back and forth, then what awaits you is likely to be bankrupt.

If it's just a 3 million loan, it is estimated that you will have it with the fleet to go out and grab a circle, but the huge amount of 30 million universe coins is not enough to grab it several times.

The taxes of Quinn and Gemma are up to 10 million cosmic coins a year.

In addition, Zhang Shusheng is also ready to run two foreign trade trips.

The three planets, including the capital star earth, will usher in the first wave of high-grade crops/animal harvest next year, and the empire will first settle with the new yuan, and then transport it to the alien planet to sell it into cosmic currency, Zhang Shusheng estimated that as long as someone can eat such a large sum of goods, he will be able to enter at least 10 million cosmic coins.

The three living planets, all the gains from the hard work of several years, is already a very large number. After all, Zhang Shusheng has no shortage of technology, no shortage of seeds, the three life planets are all A-level life planets, and many things planted and cultivated are very sought-after in the second-level civilization.

This income is also one of the biggest dependencies for Zhang Shusheng's repayment next year.

The battleship factory that was moved back with more than 200 million cosmic coins took another three years of painstaking efforts to transform, and all the points for three years were used to exchange materials and equipment, such a battleship manufacturing base built with all Zhang Shusheng's efforts, if he didn't build a few warships to make money and pay off his debts, Zhang Shusheng himself would not be able to think about it.

Those equipment that were loaded into the ship at the beginning, those that could have been exchanged for countless machines and equipment, and then exchanged for half a fleet's points, were concentrated on smashing into the battleship manufacturing base and other supporting factories with all their strength, just to be able to have a chicken that lays golden eggs.

It can be said that Zhang Shusheng used three years and a loan of 300 million, as well as three years of points, to carry out a major upgrade of the empire's industrial capacity around the battleship manufacturing base, and the battleships that can be sold are a review of this major upgrade.

"If you only build one Shenlong-class battleship, then the remaining materials are barely enough for five Tianlong-class battleships, well, it must be no problem."

Hatton was stunned for a moment, and then he understood that the empire was in a financial crisis, and the cosmic coin loan with a total of 300 million principal and interest was poured by his own hands.

Although it all ended up in the bags of those creditors, the battleship factory at least remained.

If His Majesty can sell five Draco-class battleships, the problem of financial constraints will be alleviated, and with money, the empire will be able to increase investment, expand factories, and produce more Shenlong-class and Draco-class battleships.

"Well, that's it, let's concentrate on the production of the Tianlong-class battleships first, and the Shenlong-class battleships we use ourselves will be put off for a while, and the Feilong-class battleships are sold as cannon fodder battleships, and the profits are relatively low, so let's talk about it the year after tomorrow."

Zhang Shusheng thought about it, the Shenlong-class battleships were for their own use and could not be sold, while the Tianlong-class battleships could be sold externally and had large profit margins, so they naturally gave priority to production.

However, less than a month after he made this decision, an urgent piece of information was transmitted back to the capital star.

It was early one morning, Zhang Shusheng had just finished drinking morning tea and was about to start a busy day's work, when a hurried knock on the door sounded.

Mao Yunxian and Su Yuren walked in quickly, and the latter reported a little nervously, "Your Majesty, our patrol ship has just sent back the news that an unknown spaceship has been found in the M33N25P69 star field. ”

(To be continued)