Di Feiwen half-truthfully complained to Li Yao, but he actually made Li Yao listen to the business experience of the "small traders" within the real human empire. .fastest update According to Di Feiwen, the reselling of precious cultivation resources among the various worlds within the empire is theoretically a very profitable business.
However, because 99% of the people are "original people", no better than slaves, it is extremely difficult to generate effective demand, leading to long-term sluggishness in this market.
Even though some "original people" are free citizens of the empire, they are often physically attached to the powerful and wealthy families.
In this way, the cultivation resources they need are purchased and sold by the powerful and wealthy families, and most of the resources they need are low-cost and low-quality.
It is difficult to obtain high profits with bulk goods, and it is even more difficult to develop a diverse and colorful upstream and downstream industrial chain and emerging frontier fields like the Federation.
And the 1% of "real people" naturally have extremely strong demands for cultivation resources, and they are all willing to pay high prices for magic weapons, crystal armor, elixirs, or starships.
But they often have intricate business networks and long-term partners.
Many fields are monopolized by wealthy families with a long history such as the "Four Electoral Families".
The emerging business groups that have slowly emerged in the past few hundred years simply cannot compete with these old brands.
Nobles and even "imperial merchants" competed. "99% of the people at the bottom have no need for cultivation, and 1% of the nobles have a need for cultivation, but the entire market has been monopolized by themselves for a long time.
Newcomers can't squeeze in even if they squeeze their heads.
If they don't knock the bones and suck out the marrow, then they will squeeze it out.
That’s pretty good!”
Di Feiwen said quite angrily.
Li Yao listened over and over again, and he finally understood.
The empire was in disarray, but there were still two major interest groups.
The first is the "Conglong Minister" who helped the Black Star Emperor Wu Yingqi to usurp the throne when the True Human Empire was established, that is, the royal family plus the "four electorate families" and other established nobles.
In the first one or two hundred years since the empire was established, they almost occupied the elite area in the center of the star sea, monopolized all lucrative areas, and became the makers and maintainers of the rules of the game.
Then there are the new worlds the empire discovers as it expands.
Some of these new worlds are ruled by strong natives who have surrendered to the empire; others, like the Black Wind Fleet, are governed by exiles who failed in the power game in the center of the star sea.
Although their strength is slightly weaker, they are better in number.
In nearly a thousand years, they have been able to accumulate a certain amount of strength and dare to express some dissatisfaction with the game rules formulated by the center of the star sea.
The so-called "traveling merchants" by Di Feiwen were in a worse situation.
Most of them were bereft dogs who had failed in various struggles in the past thousand years, lost their old nest, failed to conquer the new world, and had to wander among the stars.
The so-called "Business Alliance of All Realms" is an organization where losers huddle together to keep each other warm and lick each other's wounds.
This was true at least a hundred years ago.
With the keen sense of businessmen, they were vaguely aware of a series of rigid and decadent problems in the empire's current system.
But if they are asked to "rise up", overthrow the old system, and build a new world, they have neither the courage, interest, nor strength.
What they can do is to travel around the periphery of the empire, where the emperor and the great nobles are not very powerful, looking for strong people who can cooperate or even join them, hoping to gain protection, expand cooperation, and slowly establish a similar...
"free market" something.
The Black Wind Realm was originally a very good partner of the Ten Thousand Realms Business Alliance.
Because the Black Wind Realm is in the land of the Fourth War, it has a great interest in cultivation resources and almost all comers are rejected.
The "original people" in the Black Wind Realm, under the pressure of survival crisis, also have more opportunities to practice than the "original people" in the interior of the empire.
After all, even if it is a small "slave soldier", it is always a good thing to be a little stronger.
Furthermore, the black wind monks are notoriously unruly and will not buy anyone's fault when they go crazy.
Neither the emperor nor the four electorate families like these lawless savages.
This gives Wanjie merchants The alliance can take advantage of this opportunity.
The Wanjie Business Alliance has started infiltrating the Black Wind World a long time ago.
The two parties have cooperated very happily.
Even Di Feiwen, the head of the "Di Family", a very prestigious family in the Black Wind World, has become a member of the Wanjie World.
The senior deacon of the Merchant Alliance.
Unfortunately, before the cooperation between the two parties could further develop, Black Wind and other five major worlds were conquered by the Holy Alliance.
After a series of changes, Di Feiwen hibernated in confusion for nearly a hundred years and came to the border of the Star Sea.
This is called "there is no way out after mountains and rivers, and there is a village with bright willows and flowers."
Di Feiwen did not expect that there would be a country like "Xingyao Federation" on the border of Xinghai where "the whole people practice great practice"!
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Di Feiwen's Taoist heart has long been stuffed full of shiny imperial crystal coins.
He doesn't care about the vague truth of cultivation or immortality, but the current business system of the Federation effectively stimulates people's "cultivation needs" , and the scale of the entire "cultivation market and upstream and downstream industrial chains" formed after stimulation, made his heart beat wildly and he was so excited that he couldn't help himself.
Only seven or eight barren worlds on the border of the Star Sea can have such a market.
If this model can be copied to the center of the Star Sea, what is the concept?
This is the most important reason why Di Feiwen is willing to restrain the remaining soldiers of the Black Wind Fleet and "uprising on the battlefield".
After the "battlefield uprising", he spent another three years quietly observing and researching, studying the operating model of the federation's "cultivation industry" until he had a firm understanding in his heart, so he didn't panic.
Don't rush to tell the whole story about the "Business Alliance of All Realms".
"I didn't expect that such an organization still exists within the empire!"
Li Yao was also quite happy, "So, there is some possibility of cooperation between the Ten Thousand Realms Business Alliance and the Star Federation?"
"Yes, there is, but the risk is also very high."
Di Feiwen still introduced it seemingly honestly and honestly.
Yes, as a senior deacon of the Ten Thousand Realms Business Alliance, he has several confidential intelligence channels and can speak to all aspects.
He also knows the world outside the empire.
Dozens of weak points for easy penetration.
But in the final analysis, the "All Worlds Business Alliance" is just a loose business organization, not a well-organized "revolutionary party" with lofty ideals.
As a businessman, if you have breasts, you are a mother.
It is a required course.
Today, for the sake of profit, Di Feiwen, the number two figure in the Black Wind Realm, can be recruited as a senior deacon; tomorrow, for the sake of profit, it is unknown whether they will all join the four electorate families.
Yes, if the Federation people took his secret message, they could sneak into a secret stronghold of the Ten Thousand Realms Business Alliance within the empire and obtain a large amount of information.
But how valuable is this information?
Will the other party sell the Federation visitors to others?
Who knows!
"As long as the price is right, even my parents can buy one and get one free."
Di Feiwen said, "How many copper coins is a senior deacon who has disappeared for a hundred years worth?"
Therefore, in the "Sky Eye Project", several secret strongholds of the Ten Thousand Realms Business Alliance provided by Di Feiwen, as well as the contact information of some famous merchants, etc., were kept for later use.
Unless absolutely necessary, it is more reliable and safer for the Federation people to collect intelligence themselves first.
"If you want to collect intelligence yourself, then I suggest setting the first jumping point near the 'Scorpion Star Cluster'."
Di Feiwen dropped another ambiguous but significant news.
The so-called "Scorpion Star Cluster" is located on the periphery of the empire, far away from the Holy Alliance and relatively close to the Federation.
It roughly covers seven or eight great worlds.
It is named because there is a shining scorpion-shaped nebula in the center.
The reason why I chose to set the "first jumping point" here is because there is very likely to be... a cultivator here!
Seeing Li Yao raising his eyebrows with great interest, Di Feiwen said quickly: "This is just a mythical legend.
I only heard it mentioned by someone more than a hundred years ago.
It is said that there is something deep in the Scorpion Star Cluster.
There is a cultivator organization called 'Starlight', and there is an ancient cultivator who has been fighting against the empire since the end of the Star Sea Republic, and his cultivation is unfathomable, and so on."
"From the end of the Star Sea Republic, you have been resisting the empire until today?"
Li Yao couldn't help but be astonished.
If this is true, the youngest of this "ancient cultivator" is more than a thousand years old.
Wouldn't he live longer than the famous longevity star "Gui Suanshou" in the Federation?
Although Gui Shou can survive for nearly a thousand years by constantly hibernating, if it is a cultivator resistance organization deep in the empire, it will definitely face the brutal encirclement and suppression of the empire.
It is almost impossible to hibernate for a long time.
How can it be possible to survive in the midst of fierce fighting all day long?
How about a thousand years?
"The so-called 'ancient cultivators from the Star Sea Republic era' are mostly just following what others say and spreading rumors."
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Jin Xinyue said, "Ordinary people who are brutally oppressed within the empire place their hopes on a 'savior'.
This is also a very normal psychological state, but this cultivator resistance organization named 'Starlight' may indeed have What happened, at least, did it happen before?
"If such a resistance organization really exists, even if we only find one or two 'Imperial Cultivators' who persist in resisting, it would be of great significance to us."
Li Yao nodded heavily, but then asked doubtfully: "Is it possible that a cultivator resistance organization has been dormant deep in the empire for a whole thousand years and has not been wiped out?"
"It's unlikely, but it's still a very interesting rumor.
It's worth spending some time to find out.
If it's true, we'll make a lot of money."
Jin Xinyue said, “The astronomical environment of the Scorpion Star Cluster is very complex, with star sea storms and desolate worlds everywhere.
It is indeed a very good place for hiding and guerrilla warfare.
"One more thing, I wonder if it is a coincidence that there is a world in the Scorpion Star Cluster that was once called the 'Wuying Realm'.
Master should know that that is the hometown of the Black Star Emperor Wu Yingqi!"