While the most fertile core world of the true human empire was immersed in the unnecessary consumption of palace infighting and power officials usurping the throne, the seemingly insignificant, gentle and harmless merchant alliance of all realms also quietly emerged in the barren mountains and harsh waters of the empire's peripheral world.
The pattern of Pangu's universe at this moment is completely different from that of the previous hundred thousand years.
In the first 100,000 years from the birth to the growth of human civilization, every world basically met the conditions for self-sufficiency and independent operation.
On any habitable planet, there were enough water, air, mineral resources and stable ecological cycles.
The system, even if it does not trade with the outside world, can maintain a minimum level of internal circulation.
But starting from the end of the ancient cultivator world, the ancient cultivator war that swept through the three thousand worlds, to the rise and decline of the demon clan, and the "doomsday war" between the emperor and the son of the blood god, for tens of thousands of years, the war in the Pangu universe has never really begun. extinguished.
The war destroyed the self-circulation systems of many worlds.
The atmosphere disappeared, the mineral deposits were hollowed out, the groundwater was polluted, and various gentle and domesticated spiritual beasts mutated into vicious monsters.
Not to mention, with the advancement of technology, humans can conquer previously unconquerable resource planets and colonize planets, and build large-scale settlements that can accommodate millions of people or even more in places that are absolutely unsuitable for human survival.
As a result, in the resource-poor star fields on the periphery of the empire, most habitable planets have lost the ability to be completely self-sufficient, or have never had such ability from the beginning, and must rely on the endless flow of interstellar trade to bring the necessary supplies for survival.
All resources are needed to survive.
As a result, the importance of Xinghai trade has been elevated to an unprecedented level.
Many experts have even pointed out that the future will not only be an era of spiritual networks, but also an era of logistics networks.
It will be an era of "Internet of Ten Thousand Stars".
Who will control it?
Whoever controls the trade between habitable planets will firmly control the entire universe!
In the traditional elite areas of the empire, trade routes were firmly controlled by the four major families and traditional officials and merchants.
However, in the peripheral world with poor resources, long distances, and little oil and water, it takes a lot of time, energy and patience to build a complete logistics system from scratch and cultivate the local market to a profitable level.
The water grinding work.
The four major families, who have long been accustomed to relying on monopoly and taxation to obtain excess profits, are too lazy to spend hundreds of years dealing with the country bumpkins and bumpkins in the outer world.
Various small indigenous trading groups and logistics sects have grown barbarically and fend for themselves.
Attitude comes into being , and after hundreds of years of silently taking root, weaving a seemingly inconspicuous but actually airtight trade, logistics and even financial network in the outer world of the empire.
After that, these stragglers gathered together to "thousands" The name "Jie Business Alliance" has surfaced.
As the saying goes, the mountains are high and the emperor is far away.
The outer world of the empire is a lawless and chaotic star field.
The so-called star thieves, merchants, privateer fleets and regular armies are all the same thing.
How can the merchant alliance of all realms fight its way through such a bloody jungle?
Blood Road naturally has the most daring sailors and captains, the most cunning and cunning businessmen, and the most ruthless star thief talents.
They monopolize countless capillary-like trade routes, which can not only bring a steady stream of resources and talents to a planet, making the planet prosperous in a short period of time; they can also transform into star thieves and completely block it All the channels from a planet to the outside world make this planet obediently succumb to their lustful power.
Not to mention anything else, as long as the warships under the Ten Thousand Worlds Merchant Alliance blow up all the spirit gathering towers and communication base stations around a planet, completely "cutting off" the planet from the outside world, the level of civilization on the planet can be reduced. , within a year and a half, it has degraded for decades.
With such strength, the Ten Thousand Realms Merchant Alliance is naturally not willing to just hang around the periphery of the empire and serve as suppliers to country bumpkins and bumpkins.
What's more, the leaders of the Ten Thousand Realms Business Alliance also know very well that in the eyes of the nobles at the top of the empire who hold the power of life and death, businessmen like them are just pigs and dogs waiting to be slaughtered.
The fatter they are, the more time they have to be slaughtered.
In the past, the four major families had not yet seen the profits from world trade outside the empire, so they were too lazy to pay attention to them.
But now they have worked hard to cultivate this market, and it is now profitable.
If the four major families do not come to pick peaches, then why not?
What is a cultivator called?
Strike first to gain strength, strike later and suffer disaster.
The newly born Ten Thousand Realms Business Alliance relied on its survival instinct to realize that if it wanted to survive, it could only fight with the powerful, wealthy and wealthy families in the center of the star sea.
Those who relied on traditional methods, simple and crude The "old immortal cultivators" who exploit ordinary people and have no technical content will fight to the death!
Freedom Star Coin is the sharpest weapon they choose.
They want to launch a war, a currency war that does not involve direct confrontation with crystal armor, starships and giant soldiers, but uses money to fight and kill without blood!
Taking advantage of the late "Black Wind War", when the empire was facing huge military pressure from the Holy Alliance, with soaring prices, hyperinflation, and panic, and with no time to think about anything else, the Ten Thousand Worlds Merchant Alliance quietly rolled out the Free Star Coin in the outer world of the empire.
The road to “monetization”.
In the beginning, naturally no one would treat Liberty Star Coins as real money.
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No matter how much inflation occurs, Empire Crystal Coins are "real money" after all.
The Empire has not yet really changed its dynasty, so who would take real gold?
Exchange the silver for these... what the hell is this Free Ghost Star Coin thing?
Of course, the Ten Thousand Worlds Commercial Alliance cannot force the citizens of the empire in the outer world to use freedom star coins.
At the beginning, they did not intend to use freedom star coins to completely replace the empire crystal coins.
They only stipulated that each of their shops can accept two transaction methods at the same time, but the freedom of use When trading with free star coins, certain discounts will be given, and some of the most in-demand goods will be given priority to buyers who use free star coins.
This measure finally produced the first small splash.
But the real trump card is credit sales and small loans.
The Ten Thousand Realms Business Alliance is best at taking a long-term view to catch big fish, and Huo Dongling's hometown "Nanling Star" is the best example.
First, use their strong financial resources and unfathomable connections to buy potential asteroids for preliminary development, and then use half-sale and half-free methods to attract a large number of colonists to settle there.
When the settlements are almost built, colonization The author also smashed the coffin book and regarded the asteroid as his new hometown.
When he couldn't turn back, he used various consumable parts to slowly earn back his money.
In order to cultivate these "old hens that can lay eggs", during the entire colonization process, the Wanjie Commercial Alliance will provide the colonists with a large amount of technical support, credit sales magic weapons and even small loans.
The conditions are very attractive, but there is only one thing - the future must be based on freedom Star coins to pay off the debt.
If you use Liberty Star Coins to repay the money, you can get a discount on the interest rate.
If you use Empire Crystal Coins to repay the money, you will be charged a punitive handling fee.
Of course, the Ten Thousand Realms Merchant Alliance will also solemnly guarantee the stability of the currency value of the Liberty Star Coin, and the Empire Crystal Coin.
The exchange rate will never fluctuate too much.
During the period when the empire's crystal coins were depreciating the most, the Merchant Alliance of All Realms even linked the freedom star coins to essential supplies such as compressed air, water purification tablets, synthetic food, etc., stipulating that a freedom star coin could be exchanged for a constant supply of water and food. , known as "air currency", "purifying water currency" and even "canned meat currency".
"Meat Can Coin", such a rustic name, if the economists at the top of the empire who are well-educated and have a lot of theories hear it, they will definitely laugh out loud.
However, to the ears of ordinary people with little culture in the outer world of the empire, this is an appropriate and easy-to-understand name - these freedom star coins are real money, which can be exchanged for air, clean water and canned meat, bringing Hope of survival!
These measures have won the first batch of real users and believers for the Liberty Star Coin in addition to Star Thieves, and also injected real credibility into the Liberty Star Coin.
From then on, the rise of the Liberty Star Coin became bigger and bigger like a snowball, and out of control like a flood; when the Empire finally recovered from the economic crisis caused by the defeat of Black Wind, the Liberty Star Coin was already on the periphery of the Empire.
It spreads like a prairie fire and cannot be extinguished.
What's more, even after surviving the economic crisis, the war between the Empire and the Holy Alliance is still not over.
In the first fifty years, the frontline troops actively defended under the leadership of Lei Chenghu, but in the next fifty years, they gritted their teeth to fight a "battle of revenge" ", the war machine is "rumbling", and all kinds of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes are also rising.
The higher-ups wanted to charge one dollar for the special war tax, but after increasing the amount, the lowest level dared to charge more than ten or twenty dollars.
No matter the original person or the low-level immortal cultivator, it was hard to escape - in this hellish age, ordinary people can't escape.
If you evade taxes, you can't live a good life.
If you don't evade taxes, low-level immortal cultivators can't even think of completing primitive accumulation and accumulating enough resources to upgrade.
The only way to evade taxes is to use free star coins.
The numerous exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes provided a "divine assist" for the Liberty Star Coin, which simply added fuel to the flames.
Of course, it is impossible not to use imperial crystal coins at all.
Most transactions in daily life still have to be completed with legal currency.
However, some ulterior and key transactions have become areas where free star coins can penetrate and erode.
For a hundred years, Liberty Star Coins were like a "good plague" that most people and low-level immortal cultivators loved to see, eroding the body of the empire.
From the beginning, they only circulated in a small area on the periphery of the empire, and gradually penetrated into the traditional core of the empire.
In the area, in the end, even the four Electoral Prince families had many immortal cultivators who secretly used freedom star coins - everyone came out to cultivate immortality, how could anyone not kill people and seize treasures?
Could it be that after killing people and seizing the treasure, they sold it on the black market and traded it with imperial crystal coins?
That’s not throwing yourself into a trap!
Use Freedom Star Coins to trade, whether you are killing people to seize treasures, acting as assassins to collect bounties, secretly purchasing a large amount of resources to enter a new realm, and killing the family's rivals after the preparation is successful...it will not leave any traces, it is not too convenient. oh!