Year 150 of the Federation Calendar.
The three-year war had ended, and the Empire was once again unified and renamed as the Rose Empire.
The new Rose Empire banned the royal family, the nobles, and all the privileged classes, and rewarded them with a new system that was very similar to the parliamentary system.
Under this system, the entire Empire was quickly recovering.
And during this process of recovery, a new profession suddenly emerged in the Empire …
Erlo Metal Mining Officer!
To put it simply, the four of them would buy a few mining robots, and then mine Erlo Metal themselves and sell it to the Empire.
As for why it was private mining?
This was because of the uniqueness of the Weiss Star System.
As mentioned before, Erlo Metal was only found in the Weiss Star System among the star systems around the Federation.
Not only was it found, but its reserves were also terrifying!
In the Weiss Star System, almost every planet, whether it was a planet with life or a planet with resources, was filled with Erlo Metal mines.
It was not hard to imagine that any random citizen of the Imperium could find a mother lode in their home on any planet when they dug into the ground casually. What would it be like?
Well, it was not a big deal at first. After all, Erlo Metal had existed for much longer than the Empire.
But it could not stop the policies announced by the Empire Council.
First, from the day the Rose Empire was established, Erlo Metal would be treated as a strategic resource, and any unauthorized use would be prohibited!
Second, the Empire would establish a new department called the Erlo Metal Management Bureau.
Third, any citizen of the Empire who mined Erlo Metal must hand it over to the Erlo Metal Management Bureau. Of course, the Erlo Metal Management Bureau would purchase it at a reasonable price.
Fourth, …
All in all, once the dozens of policies were announced, all the citizens of the Empire went crazy.
It was not because the Empire did not allow citizens to use Erlo Metal, but …
After all, Erlo Metal was too common, so common that it was almost worthless.
To the citizens of the Empire, Erlo Metal was only used to build houses. If they were not allowed to use it, then so be it. After all, there were many alternative materials to build a house, and it would not affect the lives of the citizens of the Empire much.
However, some of the clauses at the back made everyone somewhat confused.
On one hand, the Empire had established a department for this useless ore, and on the other hand, they encouraged the citizens of the Empire to mine Erlo Metal privately and sell it to the new department.
Of course, if that was all, there wouldn't be so many people going crazy.
Erot Metal was not worth much in the Rose Empire. Even if it was given away for free, no one would want it!
However, when the Erlo Metal Authority announced the official purchase price …
Everyone's eyes turned red.
The price was so high that it blinded everyone's eyes. Ero metal, which had been worthless in the Empire, suddenly became a slightly valuable metal.
Although it was only worth a small amount of money, the amount of Erlo metal stored was astonishing. Obtaining Erlo metal was as easy as picking up rocks for the Federation.
After some calculations, if they were to specialize in mining Erlo metal, their income would surpass most jobs in the Empire.
As a result, the occupation of Ero Metal Mining Officer instantly became popular in the empire.
And this also solved Lance's urgent problem …
After all, Lance still owed the Federation 20 billion battleships, and according to the agreement between both parties, this portion of the payment had to be paid using Erot.
Moreover, according to the agreement, although the Federation would not take it for free, the Rose Empire had to sell at least 3,000 trillion standard units of Erlo metal to the Federation every year according to the agreed price.
If it was just the Empire Council alone, it would obviously be quite difficult.
However, with the participation of the entire civilian population, things became a lot simpler.
As for whether or not this would cause financial problems for the Empire?
Lance was obviously not worried about these problems.
After all, other than paying back the debt in installments, most of the mining income was traded to the Federation.
Although the Federation only gave the Rose Empire subsidiary civilization points after collecting Erlo metal, these points were very valuable.
However, these points were very valuable. They could be used to exchange for almost everything the Empire needed!
Taking the battleships as an example, the Empire would no longer need to spend a lot of money and manpower to build battleships. Wouldn't it be better to use the points to buy the Federation's battleships?
Just the money saved from this would be enough to pay for the annual purchase of Erlo metal from the people. Not to mention, other than the battleships, it could also be used to exchange for other things that could be used to create or save wealth.
Unknowingly, the Rose Empire had fallen into the Federation's trap. In other words, it was better to buy than to build …
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Federation Calendar Year 150.
As the Rose Empire's situation was completely stabilized, the Federation received an endless supply of Erlo metal.
Lin Fan looked at the other galaxy groups.
Humans … did not have much time.
Therefore, since the supply of Erlo metal was guaranteed, it was time to fully launch the war against the Virgo Supercluster!
And in order to unify the entire Virgo Supercluster, the first thing to do was to connect the Federation's territory.
Then, with the complete Federation's territory as the foundation, the second round of expansion would be carried out.
For this, in the first round of expansion, there were still 26 galaxy groups that needed to be conquered!
However, this was not a problem. It had been mentioned in the previous meeting that most of the civilizations in these 26 Star Groups were level-5 civilizations at most. They were completely in a state where rookies were fighting for hegemony.
The Federation did not even need to do anything personally. They only needed to send the allied forces over.
And the Federation's target was only the six galaxy groups that were already unified and had level 6 civilizations.
As for which one to attack first?
Looking at the three-dimensional star map in front of him, Lin Fan looked at the three neighboring galaxy groups …
Speaking of which, humans were really lucky.
If it was not for Lin Fan's appearance, the Federation might have been destroyed by the Ochs civilization a hundred years ago. Even if they were lucky enough to survive, looking at the three neighboring galaxy groups …
They were all unified and had level 6 civilizations. As long as they took another step forward in ultra-long distance teleportation technology, the local galaxy group where the Milky Way was located would not be spared.
This was simply hell level difficulty, alright?!
It was simply unreliable. If he hadn't cheated, this plan wouldn't have been able to succeed at all!
Thinking of this, Lin Fan could not help but complain about the Alfate civilization's plan.