In the outer space of the Centauri galaxy, in a huge space port, spaceships are quietly moored, the smallest of these spaceships are the same level as the Dumbo spaceship, as for the Dumbo spaceship and the somersault cloud spaceship, it is also very common.

Among them, there is an elliptical flying saucer-shaped universe that is very particularly eye-catching, this elliptical flying saucer-shaped spaceship, the length is tens of thousands of meters, the width is more than 4,000 meters, the height is nearly 500 meters, the mass has reached 1 billion tons, and it is a huge spaceship of a weight class with the "Huashan".

On this huge spaceship, the two huge words "Kunlun" tell the world its name, the "Kunlun" spaceship, it is not a space warship, and there is no powerful attack weapon installed on it, because from the beginning of its design, its role is to carry out interstellar trade.

The "Kunlun" spaceship belonged to the Imperial Fuyun Group, and in the early stage, only the huge things of the Fuyun Group could have the ability and capital to build such a huge spaceship specifically for interstellar trade.

You must know that although the empire now has a larger "Yellow Emperor" space battleship, there are not many space warships of the same level as the "Kunlun".

According to the tonnage, spaceships and space warships below the 100 million ton level can be regarded as small spacecraft, 1-1 billion tons can be regarded as medium-sized spacecraft, 1 billion tons to 10 billion tons can be regarded as large spacecraft, and as for those like private spaceships and space fighters, these can be called miniature spacecraft.

The "Huashan", "Alps", and "Kunlun" spacecraft with a mass of 1 billion tons can be called medium-sized spacecraft, and the "Yellow Emperor" space battleship has a mass of more than 10 billion tons, which can be called large spacecraft.

The empire has the "Yellow Emperor" space battleship in charge, and there is no need to worry too much about the security of the empire, so there are very few empires of this level of medium-sized space warships, and it is also because the empire's current national strength is not too strong, and there is no need to waste resources on military power.

On the contrary, in the area of interstellar trade, with the formal establishment of diplomatic relations with the Earth Federation, the Earth side continues to absorb immigrants to the empire, and the normal trade and economic exchanges between the two sides are even more urgent.

The "Kunlun" spaceship was born, and such a huge spaceship was not for war from the beginning, but for interstellar trade, interstellar immigration, etc., so many changes were naturally made in the design.

At this time, the huge "Kunlun" spaceship, on its huge body, the doors of the huge warehouses were wide open at this time, the mechanical arms in the space port were busy, and the standard interstellar cargo containers were constantly transported to the warehouses on the spaceship.

A standard interstellar cargo container is 50 meters long, 20 meters wide, and 10 meters high, like a huge building, which can carry a lot of cargo.

"Humph!"

The mechanical arm of the space port is busy, and the containers are easily transported to the warehouses one by one, neatly stacked, and each warehouse is loaded, and the corresponding equipment in the warehouse is used to fix these containers, so as to prevent the spacecraft from accelerating and accelerating to cause inertia to scatter.

This was the first time that the Empire and the Earth Federation had conducted formal economic and trade exchanges, and the huge warehouses were filled with the Empire's super-large plasma engines, small plasma engines, small spaceships, private anti-gravity spaceships, virtual machines, biotechnology drugs, and other things that earthlings could only dream of.

At the same time, it is naturally indispensable to have local products and other things on the side of Yan Huang Xing, such as giant pearls and sea mussels from the ocean of Yan Huang Xing, even if it is a very common flower, a tree, etc., as long as it is made into a potted plant, there are people on this side of the earth who will wave the money in their hands to buy.

Of course, the most popular is the fruit of Kyushu Star, but it is obviously necessary to dock and load the goods on the side of Kyushu Star, and it is impossible to say that it will be transported to Yanhuangxing to load.

High-tech products and local products together make up the list of products of the first interstellar trade, and you can imagine how huge the trade surplus with the Earth Federation will be at that time.

In the "Kunlun" spaceship, Fang Zheng was accompanying Li Fu to inspect the spaceship at this time, after all, it was the first time to officially conduct interstellar trade with the Earth Federation, and it was also a major event for the entire empire, and Li Fu and Fang Zheng also attached great importance to it.

The development of interstellar trade can greatly promote the development of the empire's economy, compared to the poor population of the empire, the billions of people on this side of the earth is a huge market, if this huge market is used to promote the development of the empire's economy, this is a problem that the imperial government and the emperor are currently discussing.

"Old Fang, judging from the current situation, the trade surplus between us and the Earth Federation will definitely be very huge at that time, and we currently do not accept the Earth Federation to use their Earth Coins for settlement, we have to consider this issue carefully."

"We should have thought about it beforehand, and if we want to get those things from the Earth Federation, we must exchange them for things of equal value."

Li Fu looked at the huge warehouses and the mountains of massive materials, and thought of a question, the Earth Federation has a huge demand for the products of the Empire, but the Empire does not have much demand for the products of the Earth Federation.

In terms of scientific and technological products, the empire does not need any products from the earth at all, as for food and other products, the empire has it, and there is a large area of land on the two planets for the empire to grow food, not to mention that the empire is now using space farmland, and there is no food growing on the planet at all.

Therefore, it can be said that there are very few products that can be exported to the empire by the Earth Federation, and it is estimated that only products with characteristics such as ceramics, wine, silk, etc. will have a market.

It can't be said that cars and ships are exported to the Empire, the Empire has been slowly popularizing private anti-gravity spaceships, and these cars and ships and other proper obsolete products are estimated to be only used as collections when they are shipped, because there are strict regulations on the roads of the Empire, and this kind of gasoline-burning thing cannot be used on the road.

"We have been discussing this issue for a long time, and we have not come up with a good plan."

Hearing Li Fu's words, Fang Zheng also frowned with a headache, he and other cabinet ministers had already realized this problem, but they had never been able to come up with a good solution.

"We definitely don't accept the currency of the Earth Federation, their currency is depreciating every year, if we can't spend it in our hands, our wealth will continue to evaporate, which is equivalent to transfusing blood for the Earth Federation in vain."

"But this economic and trade exchange cannot be stopped, the huge market here of the Earth Federation can greatly promote the development of our empire's economy, it is impossible to say that we are choking on food."

"Zhong Yun and I have also discussed for a long time, and finally felt that if there is no way for the time being, we can only accept the Earth Federation to pay for gold and other precious metals, otherwise, the means that the Earth Federation can use to balance the trade balance are too few."

"That's all it takes, who calls our own market too small."

Li Fu also nodded slightly, although with the rapid development of the interstellar mining industry, the output of gold has increased greatly, and the price of gold is also declining, but it is still a precious metal with high value, and gold is also a very important raw material in industry, widely used in the industrial field, with a wide range of uses and a great effect.

Moreover, before the establishment of the Earth Federation, countries around the world on the earth carried out economic and trade transactions, and in addition to using international currencies such as American knives for settlement, sometimes gold was also used for trade settlement.

Especially in the event of war, the currencies issued by the countries of the world cannot go out of the country at all, and if they want to trade internationally, they must use gold to settle their accounts.

Uncle Sam's world's largest gold reserves were obtained by selling arms and weapons on both sides during World War I and World War II, when the countries of Western Europe had to transfer the gold they had plundered from time to place for hundreds of years to Uncle Sam.

In particular, Britain and France, two old colonial empires, were beaten all over the ground by Germany at that time, and the pressure was huge, so they could only continue to buy arms with gold, so that Uncle Sam rose rapidly in World War II.

The amount of gold reserves represents a country's ability to settle international currencies and balance its trade deficit.

All kinds of gold and silver jewelry made of gold are very popular, and the small yellow croaker of pure gold is also being purchased by countless people, and it is regarded as an important means of asset preservation and appreciation.

Therefore, whether it is from the national level, the industrial use level, and the civil level, gold is still acceptable, and it is also one of the few things that can be used to balance the trade deficit on the side of the Earth Federation.

Trade between countries, but there are many things that need to be noted, and this interstellar trade is even more so, Li Fu, Fang Zheng and others also have to think about it a lot.