A month later, Liu Yi and the officers of the fleet returned to the Aqiu system. However, instead of returning directly to Yaqiu, Willow Wing let the ship continue its previous voyage and head directly towards the Ice Peak base.

The reason why Liu Yi is so anxious is because now Yaqiu has lost the fleet, and the officers and men of the tens of thousands of fleets are in a state of idleness.

The soldiers were idle and caused a lot of problems, and without the fleet to defend them, Aqiu was always in danger.

Therefore, Liu Yi wanted to know right away how long it would take for the warships produced by the Ice Peak Base to equip the army.

As soon as he arrived at the Bingfeng base, Liu Yi immediately called the main management personnel of the base together for a meeting, and asked everyone to report the current work progress.

"At the moment the first new warship we are producing will be rolled off the assembly line, and then tests will begin, and if all goes well, the first will be ready for service in about four to five months......"

Listening to the reports of the management personnel one by one, Liu Yi's heart was a little anxious, according to the current speed, when the fleet is reorganized, I am afraid it will be two years later.

For two whole years, Yaqiu was left in a state of no soldiers, no matter how he thought about it, he felt that it was too dangerous, which was completely unacceptable to Liu Yi.

After everyone finished speaking, Liu Yi asked: "At this rate, it will take us at least two years to barely get together half a fleet, the speed is still too slow, can we find a way to increase this speed a little more?" ”

Tang Jie replied: "With the current production capacity of the Bingfeng base, it can only be done like this at the earliest, unless it ......"

"Unless what?" Liu Yi asked.

"Unless we have other ship factories, and they have to be the largest of them, several factories produce together, so that the speed of production can be increased." Tang Jie said.

Liu Yi thought for a moment and asked, "Where is there such a factory?" ”

"The Star Alliance has it, and if the Star Alliance can help produce new warships, then the speed can be increased many times." Tang Jie said helplessly.

Liu Yi felt very helpless after hearing this, the current new warship is top secret, and it must not be known to other manufacturers, otherwise others will immediately learn the technical details of the new warship.

However, the production capacity of the Bingfeng base is only so large, and it is completely impossible to speed it up.

Liu Yi smiled bitterly: "Isn't there a better way to increase the speed of production?" ”

"Actually, I have come up with a solution, which is that it takes a lot of money to make it happen." Mo Hang, who is in charge of production management, said.

Mo Hang is an old employee recruited by Tang Jie from Starlink, who has worked in the military industry all his life, has rich management experience, and has many acquaintances in this industry.

Liu Yi hurriedly asked, "What is the way?" Money is not an issue, the key is that it must be reliable. ”

Mo Hang replied: "Now that many factories have closed down, especially those places that have suffered from war, if you are willing to spend money, you can buy them and produce new warships for us." ”

Liu Yi was not familiar with these things, so he didn't know whether the method Mo Hang said was feasible, so he turned his head to look at Tang Jie.

Tang Jie thought for a moment and said: "It is feasible but feasible, but the risk is a bit big, these factories are far away from Yaqiu, we can't guarantee the safety of the factory, in case something happens, we are afraid that the bamboo basket will be empty." ”

"It's a problem, if you can buy it and move the factory here...... That's a good idea. Liu Yi said thoughtfully.

At this time, Mo Hang said: "Actually, we can change our thinking, we don't have to hand over the entire battleship to one factory for production, we can divide the battleship into many parts, the core components are still produced here, and those ordinary parts are made by other factories, and then transported back to the Bingfeng base for assembly, so that the production efficiency can be improved a lot." ”

Tang Jie was the first to agree: "This method is really good!" Even if we hand over the production of conventional parts to other factories, it is not a big problem, it can improve production efficiency without leaking our core technology, but then it will definitely cost a lot more money, not only to buy factories, but also to build a fleet of transport ships. ”

Liu Yi doesn't care about spending money now, the taxes brought by several overseas colonies, coupled with the rapid economic development of Yaqiu in recent years, make Yaqiu's books very rich now.

"Money is not an issue!" Liu Yi slapped the table and said: "Get the plan out as soon as possible, and then start implementing it as soon as possible, whether it is the acquisition of factories or the purchase of transport fleets, these are not problems!" ”

With Liu Yi's strong support, things were much easier, and a few days later, Tang Jie and Mo Hang came up with a preliminary plan. Liu Yi doesn't care about the technical problems, he only cares about the big aspects, Liu Yi looks at this plan, there is no problem on the whole, the budget needs about four or five hundred billion, and the initial investment is about two billion.

Liu Yi didn't care about the money, signed the plan with a stroke of the pen, and then notified the Yaqiu government to ask the person in charge of finance to prepare the funds.

In order to make things progress as soon as possible, Liu Yi set up a special department, which will promote this matter, and gave a time limit, and this matter must be put on a normal track within half a year.

As the saying goes, money is easy to do, and with Liu Yi's full support and supervision, the matter of acquiring the factory quickly progressed, faster than expected.

In the end, it is because many factories are currently on the verge of closure, especially those that produce civilian ships, and the war has greatly reduced the volume of trade, and the sales of civilian ships have also been dismal.

These factories that produce civilian ships, although they do not have the capacity to produce full-fledged warships, can still do it by manufacturing some of their components.

After the investigation of Mo Hang and others, ten factories were finally identified as acquisition targets, and dozens more factories were entrusted to help produce certain components.

The price of buying these factories is relatively low compared to expectations, and many factories do not look like raising prices at all, as long as someone is sure to take over, they are very satisfied.

After the successful acquisition of these companies, Liu Yi immediately asked these factories to start producing the required parts, which brought the entire project forward by a lot.

In addition to acquiring factories, Liu Yi also formed a fleet of transport ships to transport the parts produced by each factory back to the Bingfeng base, where the assembly of warships was completed.

After reducing the production of other components, the Ice Peak base began to concentrate on the production of the main body and core components of the battleship, and the efficiency of the entire project was many times higher than before.

In fact, these things should have been done before, but because Liu Yi has been staying in the Sea Eagle Galaxy, everyone is in charge of the entire project, so that many things that should be promoted have been shelved.

As various things gradually became normal, there was no need to worry about everything, so Liu Yi returned to Yaqiu and began to work on Yaqiu's government affairs.

As soon as Liu Yi returned to Yaqiu, he immediately proposed a series of reform plans, the purpose of which was to push Yaqiu towards an independent and complete colony, simply put, to turn Yaqiu into a place that no longer relied on the Colonization and Security Union.

Just when Liu Yi was busy preparing for a comeback, the war between Li Xingqi and the rebels had already begun, and the attention of this war was no less than the war in which the rebels attacked the imperial capital a few years ago.

In order to be able to capture the rebels' Liberty Alliance, Li Xingqi dispatched a total of four fleets, and another fleet as a reserve army, stationed in a nearby galaxy not far from the Lion King system.

This war was already known to everyone long before it began, and the rebels naturally heard the rumors and prepared for war early.

Over the past few years, the Liberty Alliance has been developing behind closed doors, and has recovered a lot economically, but it has not fully recovered from the damage caused by the attack on the imperial capital.

Now the rebels have a total of four fleets, stationed in two star systems, which allows Li Xingqi to occupy the initiative to a certain extent.

The rebels need to defend two systems, while Li Xingqi can attack one of them with all his might, and strategically has more options than the rebels.

However, the rebels are not vegetarians, and they were able to defeat the strongest fleets of the empire in such backward conditions, not to mention that they have been developing hard for several years, and their strength has improved a lot compared to before.

If you simply compare the strength of the fleet, Li Xingqi still has a certain advantage, although the rebels have developed behind closed doors in recent years, but it has also limited their technical exchanges to a certain extent, and the number of people is also a problem.

Of course, Li Xingqi hoped that the rebels could have a duel between the fleets with him, but the rebels were not stupid, and they knew what their weaknesses were from the beginning, so the fleet hid inside the galaxy, cooperated with various defense facilities, and prepared to use the iron bucket array to deal with Li Xingqi's attack.

In the face of this kind of tactic that can't be retracted, Li Xingqi doesn't have a good way, if it is an ordinary colonial galaxy, as long as the fleet is placed at the door, it can cause a lot of pressure on the other party.

However, over the years, the Free Leader Alliance has long been accustomed to this state of blockade, even if Li Xingqi's army is in the city, the local residents can still live as they want, and they will not be affected in the slightest.

Li Xingqi saw that this kind of psychological oppression trick did not work, so he had to change his approach and began to attack tentatively.

The rebel fleet basically abandoned the outer part of the galaxy and retreated to a deeper place in the galaxy, in order to leave enough depth for itself to deal with Li Xingqi in the place where he was most familiar.

Li Xingqi didn't dare to go too deep, and attacked tentatively a few times, and the two sides had some small wins and losses for each other, and no one took much advantage.

Seeing that the other party's defense was so cautious, Li Xingqi was at a loss, this time his purpose was to take down two galaxies, if he attacked in the Lion King Galaxy, even if he could capture the galaxy, the loss would be too great.

However, Li Xingqi can't just go home, he has made a big bet in this war, once he returns, the military alliance of the Colony and Anli League may be difficult to maintain.