It is worth mentioning that both arsenals and hydroponic farms, like shipyards, are staffed with a large number of employees and need to pay salaries.

Among them, the arsenal has 1 chief engineer with a monthly salary of 1.5 million.

20 senior engineers, with a monthly salary of 100,000 yuan, a total of 2 million.

200 cloned employees, monthly living expenses of 3,000 yuan, a total of 600,000 yuan.

The comprehensive monthly salary is 4.1 million, and the bonus is 15 salaries a year, with a total expenditure of 61.5 million.

The hydroponic farm has 1 supervisor with a monthly salary of 1 million.

50 agricultural experts, with a monthly salary of up to 150,000 yuan, a total of 7.5 million.

500 cloned farmers, 3,000 yuan per month, and 1.5 million yuan a month.

The overall monthly expenditure is 10 million, plus a bonus of 15 salaries a year, a total of 150 million expenditures.

The hydroponic farm plus the arsenal, and then the shipyard, the combined annual expenditure is about 250 million.

If you add the maintenance fee of the battleship, there will be more ships in the future, and the salary plus maintenance fee alone will be nearly 300 million per year.

Of course, ordinary players don't have such a big expense, they don't have to open a shipyard, they don't have to open an arsenal, they don't have to build such a large hydroponic farm, only the team with the pursuit will do this.

If you want to get ahead in these chaotic times, you must have your own foundation.

Fang Chen held the universe in his hand, it was destined to be impossible to mess around like an ordinary player, these expenditures must be had, and as his strength grew, the expenses continued to increase, and when there were warships in the future, the annual expenditures would be tens of billions.

However, if the expenditure is large, the income will also be high.

When you have a certain strength at hand, you will make money faster, and the expenditure of two or three hundred million yuan a year seems exaggerated, but it is nothing to a powerful team.

Just like now, one opportunity can earn more than 5 billion.

Of course, it's hard to say that luck like this is not guaranteed, and it can't be guaranteed to happen every year.

But if you have enough strength, you can directly occupy a galaxy to open a mine, or occupy a fixed mine, and the energy source will continue to generate income, which is enough to support all expenditures and surpluses.

Then Fang Chen took the blueprint and entered the inner circle of the universe in his palm, and came to the super intelligent brain.

The core of the universe in his palm appeared in front of him in the form of a ball of light that glowed softly, like a star in the center of a galaxy.

Before he raised the ball of light, he shouted loudly:

"Sophia."

Soon a soft woman's voice sounded in his ears:

"Honorable Lord!"

He took out five sets of blueprints for T1-class frigates, handed them over, and asked:

"How long will it take you to get to T5?"

The soft voice quickly responded:

"It takes 5 days to get one."

Fang Chen's eyes lit up and asked:

"Those five only take 25 days?"

"Yes."

"What if we extrapolate to T6?"

"It takes an extra 5 days to get to T6, 10 days to T7, 30 days to T8, 90 days to T9, and an extra year to T10."

"Shhh

To be honest, Fang Chen was really shocked.

I used to know that I could derive it, but I haven't tried it yet, so I don't know that it can be deduced like this and can be deduced so quickly.

It only takes a year to get a blueprint for a T10-class frigate.

What is this concept?

Whether it is the Danxia Fang Clan, or the Fang Clan's superior, the master of the Jade Legion, one of the six great warlords of the Sun Federation, its main fleet is T5-level technology, and T6-level technology only has some of its core ace fleet, and it will definitely not be much.

The higher the technology level, the more powerful it is.

Especially above T5, starting from T6, each time you increase a technology level, the increasing power is much greater than below T5 level.

What does this mean?

This means......

Fang Chen suddenly paused, and the joy on his face slowly disappeared.

He suddenly reacted, it seemed that it would take a year to derive a T10-class frigate.

It's only one a year, which is a bit embarrassing.

And....

He asked again:

"And what if it's a destroyer, a cruiser or a battleship?"

"A destroyer needs to consume twice as long as a frigate, four times as long as a cruiser, and ten times as long as a battleship."

"Okay!"

Fang Chen had nothing to say.

This efficiency is still too low at this stage, unless you can find a way to fix this thing, you can only form an ace fleet on a small scale, and you can't equip it on a large scale.

However, it is not a big problem, he needs a small number of elites at this stage, and he will think of other ways when he needs a large fleet in the future.

The boat will naturally go straight to the bridge, and there will always be a way to solve it.

Not to mention anything else, Fang Chen issued an order to first extend these five frigate blueprints to the T5 level.

Coming out of the universe in the palm of his hand, he opened the trading platform with the frigate material list and began to buy shipbuilding materials.

The blueprint is available, the material is not expensive, and the most important material is T5 grade titanium steel alloy, which is a titanium steel composite alloy, which is the main material of T5 class warships, and is in the most demand.

The unit price of T5-level titanium steel alloy is 13,200 star yuan a ton, and he bought 150,000 tons in one go, and the materials for the five T5-class frigates cost a total of 1.98 billion star yuan, and the remaining 870 million star yuan.

Then it cost a full 600 million to buy a medium-sized industrial ship.

The medium-sized industrial ship contains 2,500 cargo holds, with a total capacity of 2.5 million square meters, and also has functions such as salvage and combat supply.

After the preparation was completed, the shipbuilding engineer who packed the package came over a few days, Fang Chen checked it, it was indeed a skilled old employee, the professional skills of the clone employees were hovering between LV3 and LV6, and the skills of the chief shipbuilding engineer also had LV3, which could reduce material loss by 3%.

The only pity is that these clones are all first-class clones, with an upper lifespan of only 40 years, and they have been serving in the shipyard for twenty to thirty years, and the oldest group is more than thirty years old, and they will die in a few years.

It can only be said that it will be improvised, and it will be used for a few more years, or it will be replaced by a group of new people when its life expires.

Or spend a lot of money to concoct genes for them, improve the genetic level, and thus increase their lifespan.

But this is a matter for the future, and now it is difficult for him to say whether to replace it or not.

Get ready, Fang Chen didn't wait, the blueprint was derived quickly, it only took five days, but it took two months to build a frigate, so it was impossible to wait here.

However, he has no plans to continue to find a galaxy to mine, of course, not not to mine, but not to do it alone.

Now that the dock is there, the workers are there, the materials are there, and the drawings are available, in a few months there will be several T5-class frigates in hand, and this combat effectiveness is already quite good, and it is impossible to still stay in the mining area to mine, it would be too much of a waste of time.

He was going to change places and leave the Zhong'an area and enter the low-security area.

Low-amperance areas are more challenging and have more opportunities.

Not to mention the others, there are basically no NPC forces in the Zhong'an area, and all of them have been officially cleared, which makes it difficult for unofficial forces to obtain battleship blueprints through NPC forces.

This is also one of the ways in which the Danxia Fang clan and all the warlords suppress the civilian forces, minimizing the channels for them to increase their strength.

Fang Chen didn't sign a contract with the family, so he couldn't get the high-level blueprint from the family, so he had to find another way.