Chapter 224: A Powerful Pirate Group
That's the killer trick of hole cards, and if too many people know that everyone is on guard, it will be difficult to play miracles in the future.
They didn't know about using Luo Zhen before, but now this final-level weapon is still in a state of secrecy, and Li Qing will not use it casually in the future, he will use it at a suitable opportunity in the future, relying on the terrifying power of the terminal-level weapon to determine or reverse the situation in one fell swoop.
To put it bluntly, the first appearance must be a big thing.
Two hours later, two dreadnoughts and two flagship aircraft carriers, 750 battleships, 3,000 cruisers, 10,000 destroyers and 20,000 frigates, and 500 transports appeared in the galaxy.
There is no urgency, no need to jump and rush.
The fleet soon came to the conventional waterway, such a large fleet is extremely rare even on the Shanhaiguan side, and as soon as it entered the waterway, it received several strange communications.
Li Qing sat in the middle of the bridge of the dreadnought, chatting with a few strangers with great interest.
Anyway, there is no goal, and by communicating more with these locals, you may be able to get some useful information.
These people are all players who are mixed in the vicinity of Shanhaiguan, two are individual players, and a player named Wu Yingqing takes the merchant route and organizes a small caravan, and every half a year he will prepare a batch of goods to go to a fixed star field to trade with players over there.
Li Qing asked with interest:
"What's the most in-demand item here?"
Wu Yingqing immediately replied:
"The most sought-after commodities here are all kinds of warships, and the second is all kinds of foodstuffs, as well as industrial consumables, these three kinds of demand are very large, and it can be said that they are in short supply."
"What is the price of food? Is it the same as this side of Shanhaiguan? ”
Wu Yingqing shook his head with a smile and said:
"Of course it can't be the same, we have worked hard to transport the goods in the past, how can it still be the market price, in the past, the price of a kilogram of rice was between 1.3 and 1.5 star yuan, and now Bruwan United Sweep, the transportation of the past has to take great risks, the price is at least 2 or more, the deeper the price, the higher the price, the deepest price can be as high as 3-5 star yuan a kilogram."
"Well, it's so expensive!"
"Of course."
Li Qing had a doubt in his heart and asked:
"But I was on Zutar's side, how could the price be so stable? One star yuan a kilogram all the time? ”
Wu Yingqing said with a smile:
"I've heard over there, it's a new development zone, generally speaking, that kind of new development zone will be protected, it's a market economy, and large companies and consortia are not allowed to disrupt the market, and the price will be very stable, but in Shanhaiguan and even in other places of the entire United Empire of Mankind, it is a market economy that is implemented, and it is determined by the market, and you are far away and difficult to transport, and the price must be very expensive."
"Oh!"
Li Qing suddenly remembered that several of his super habitable areas that had been transformed into agriculture and animal husbandry areas had been producing grain on a large scale over the years, and the current output had already been able to meet the needs of the entire territory and there was still a surplus, but there was not much left, it was estimated that in another year or so, there would be a lot of surplus, and then perhaps a part of it could be taken out for Li Qi to form a caravan to trade. ....It's not a matter to keep him converting alloys to sell, and he can't stay in Shanhaiguan to trade with other places all the time, but he is just free at this stage, and when he is ready to start the attack on the Shata United Empire in another year or two, how can he have the time to do this.
So the territory still has to have some stable income.
For example, only a batch of grain is sold every year, and a batch of ores and alloys are sold every year, which is basically enough for the funds needed for the construction of the territory.
Anyway, for the other lords, the construction of the warship with the biggest funding gap, he completely pays for it himself, as long as there is enough income to maintain the daily consumption of the territory.
The two didn't talk for long, after crossing the junction of the Gao'an and Low-An areas of Shanhaiguan, Wu Yingqing was going to the northeast, while Li Whale's legion territory was going to continue north.
As soon as he crossed the junction of the two areas of Gao'an and Low'an, and came out of the wormhole, he saw that there were two fleets fighting more than 100,000 kilometers away from the wormhole.
One of the two fleets was a caravan, with a size of about four hundred, a fleet of one hundred and seventy or eighty frigates, and only five battleships.
The other is a fleet of player pirates, with a total of about five hundred, and battleships of about twenty.
This familiar picture has not been seen for a long time, Li Qing did not leave immediately, and ordered the fleet to come over with great interest.
The trade in Shanhaiguan is developed, and pirates are naturally rampant, and a large number of players incarnate as pirates to rob player caravans at various wayway crossings, but there are still very few who dare to rob at the edge of Gao'an.
However, as soon as he approached, or rather his huge fleet had just begun to pass, the pirates who were besieging the caravan escort fleet suddenly became nervous, and the pirate commander who commanded the fleet hurriedly shouted in the command channel:
"Damn, that fleet is coming, the fifth squadron is over, the others are retreating!"
"Mah, which big guy is this who still cares about this kind of idle business!"
"I don't know, the fleet doesn't see any identifying signs."
"It doesn't matter who he is, you still want to get revenge and come back."
"Don't be verbose, get out of the way, if you get caught, it's over."
When Li Qing rushed over, the pirate fleet left behind the palace fleet, and the main force had already pulled away and jumped away.
After a round of main artillery bombardment, the remaining pirate squads all turned into fireballs and sank.
The leader of the caravan sent a message of thanks, and Li Qing smiled and waved his hand, not taking away a single cloud.
The rest of the journey led him to see the chaos beyond Shanhaiguan, where the number of pirates was staggering, and all of them were player pirates, meaning that these players did not follow the right path and ran to become professional pirates.
The number and strength are so strong, and many of the caravans I saw along the way seem to be unable to defeat them at all.
He was very curious about how so many pirates mixed up with those small caravans, and it happened that the star field where they were located was still within the radiation range of Shanhaiguan, so he asked the second uncle directly, and then asked the caravan players who passed by, and the results he got surprised him.
The reason is simple, most small caravans pay protection money to some of the big pirate groups nearby, and as long as they get a pass after paying the protection fee, then any pirate in the area where the pirate group operates. Most of the small caravans with insufficient strength will pay protection money, like the one he saved before was obviously attacked without paying protection money.
Even some large chambers of commerce can't avoid paying protection fees, although the big caravans are strong and the escort fleet is also strong, but there are also big pirates among the pirates, and there are also pirate groups, one or two can't eat, and the big chamber of commerce can't withstand the siege if they unite more than a dozen together.
According to the information learned from Erberna, in the star field north of Shanhaiguan, from the east to the east end of the spiral arm and the west end of the spiral arm, between tens of thousands of light years wide and thousands of light years from north to south, there are a total of thirty-three large pirate groups, the weakest one has thousands of battleships, hundreds of thousands of large and small warships, and the powerful has tens of thousands of battleships and more than one flagship.
Among them, the top ones are not inferior in comprehensive strength to some military lords, and they are very powerful.
These large pirate groups are all player-driven, powerful, and have long been entrenched on the border between the northern frontier of the empire and the United Civilization of Bruwan, and some of the veteran ones have lasted for thousands of years, and have been passed down for dozens of generations.
To put it bluntly, in fact, they are also an alternative territory, but they are not orthodox and cannot join the Imperial Senate.
Such a large group of pirates entrenched in this area, plundering other players internally, is a big disaster, should be surrounded by the military, but in fact, they have been able to exist and grow to such a point, it is not surprising that the military should connive.
The reason is simple, use them as a counterweight to suppress some of the pirates derived from the powerful civilization of the Bruwan Alliance.
This touches a rule of the Star Sea, and the edge of any civilization will spawn the corresponding pirate force or rebel force, which is commonly known as NPC, wild monsters.
It's like the Shata tribe uniting civilization and the expeditionary force at the junction of a huge pirate force called the Lester Pirate Group, which has more than a dozen clans, most of which are people from the Shata tribe, and a small part are people from the other two different races.
For example, the United Civilization of Bruwan and the non-player civilization will also touch this rule, and in the border star field of the two civilizations, a large number of pirate forces will definitely be derived normally.
With the size of the Bruwan United, the forces such as pirates or rebels derived from it tend to be very powerful.
Correspondingly, human civilization will also give rise to a large-scale pirate force.
At this time, it involves the strategic level of civilization, by acquiescing to the existence of pirates, allowing player pirates to replace the derived pirate forces, and then using human player pirates to suppress the pirates derived from the Bruwan civilization in the border star field.
It is also known as razing against razing.
By now, the pirates derived from the Bruwan civilization on the border of the two civilizations have long been wiped out, and the human race has an absolute dominant position in this star field.
Of course, this does not mean that the player is legal for pirates, the Senate just acquiesces that you exist, but it is not legal, after all, pirate robbery is illegal, and it should be suppressed as well.
It's just that all the big pirates have a relationship with the inside, and the military can't hide the movement of the fleet so much, if you advance, I will retreat, and if you retreat, I will return, and it is difficult to have much suppressive effect.
As the scale of pirates has become larger, some of the strongest pirate groups have already reached some tacit rules - pay protection money to the military, and restrict all small and medium-sized pirates to make rules for protection fees, in exchange for the military's acquiescence to their existence. "It's interesting." ”
The second uncle is now the military lord and major general, and the news he gave includes a lot of inside information that outsiders don't know, such as which general the thirty-three super-large pirate groups have a relationship with, or which military master they have a relationship with, and so on.
It is worth mentioning that their Qinghe Li clan has also invested in a pirate group in this star field, but the scale is not very large, far from reaching the scale level of the thirty-three super-large pirate groups.
The next road did not have many waves, after all, there were tens of thousands of large and small warships, including four flagships, but any pirate with a normal mind would not dare to trouble him.
It is only the beginning of the sweep that Li Jingtun's legion headquarters is north of Shanhaiguan, about 2100 light years northeast, and about 600 light years below the water level, located in the south of the middle line of the two civilizations, and the sweeping fleet has not yet swept over.
This so-called horizontal plane subsidence refers to the midline of the spiral arm plane downward.
As we all know, the whole river system is a flat plate, the width of the Yingxian spiral arm is about 13,400 light years, the thickness is about 3,000 light years, and it is divided into two layers with the middle as the boundary, each with a thickness of about 1,500 light years, of which Shanhaiguan is located in the middle, and Li Whale's regiment headquarters is about 600 light years down.
The distance of about two thousand light years can be reached in the next jump of Li Qing's talent amplification, and the fact is that he jumped to the boundary star field of Li Whale Swallow's Angry Thunder Legion's sphere of influence in one jump, and then found a planet edge and stopped, and then sent a message to Li Whale Swallow and asked him to come and receive it.
He can't jump directly to the headquarters, his four flagships plus 750 battleships, and more than 30,000 warships of all sizes are enough to pose a huge threat to the Angry Thunder Legion, how can people let him jump directly to the headquarters.
You must know that although the regular warships of the Thunder Legion far surpass him, they only have one flagship.
Even borrowing the road can't pass through the star field near the headquarters, so you can only make a detour.
The next thing is to wait, waiting for Li Whale to swallow and receive it.
However, his large fleet is too eye-catching, and he doesn't hide in any corner, just stop not far from the fairway, and occasionally the player will find him if he deviates a little from the fairway, so .....
Li Whale Swallow didn't wait, but waited for a patrol fleet of the Angry Thunder Legion.
A fleet of about 100 large and small warships, led by two battleships, and marked with the logo of the Angry Thunder Legion, stopped 100,000 kilometers away to send a message.
Li Qing connected, and a young man in a light green uniform withdrew his envious gaze from the dreadnought shown on the projection of another light screen on the side, and asked very politely:
"I'm here for the Angry Thunder Legion patrol, and I take the liberty of asking, I wonder if Your Excellency is waiting for someone here? This is my Thunder Legion's direct control of the Star Field, and I'm familiar with this place, so I might be able to help you. ”
Li Qing glanced at him and asked:
"Do you know Li Whale Swallow?"
Shi Weining was stunned for a moment, nodded and said:
"He's the chief of industry of our legion, I recognize, you and Chief Li are?"
"I'm his cousin, I'm here to deliver something to him."
Shi Weining showed a surprised expression on his face, and he could clearly see the relaxation of his expression, and immediately said:
"It turned out to be Chief Li's brother, that is his own person, have you contacted him, I will help you use the internal channel of the legion to contact?"
Li Qing waved his hand and said:
"No, I've already contacted him, he's coming."
As soon as the words fell, he received a communication from Li Whale Swallow, turned on the projection to reveal Li Whale Swallow, and asked excitedly:
"Brother, where are you, I'm already in the Boundary Galaxy."
Li Qing sent a coordinate to the past, and Li Whale swallowed excitedly said:
"I'll be there soon!"
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