Collapse of Iron: The Immortal Boat Life of the Envoy of the Order of Fertility

The celestial generals, who had not held a small meeting for decades, once again started a meeting using the Huangzhong system in just a few days. This meeting was chaired by Marshal Hua himself.

[Hua: After a brief discussion, we have confirmed the feasibility of the Abundant Portal Plan that Elder Yan uploaded on behalf of Lu Qing. However, once the portal is established, it will bring about major social changes, especially devastating blows to some merchant groups specializing in internal transportation within the Immortal Ship.]

[Hua: Everyone, what are your thoughts?]

Jing Yuan: I'm familiar with Lu Qing's abilities. They allow for instantaneous, fixed-point teleportation with almost no side effects. If this is truly established within the Xianzhou Alliance, the Xianzhou Alliance will undoubtedly become a truly unified entity, and the Xianzhou Alliance's "isolated" situation will be completely resolved... In the long term, Xianzhou may no longer be an alliance, but a complete entity.

Yaoguang: What truly determines whether the Immortal Ship Alliance is unified is never the spatial separation, but the temporal separation. The time intervals created by spatial separation are never consistent. With technological advancements, the time intervals represented by the same spatial separation will become increasingly shorter. On this point, I agree with Jingyuan. Even if the establishment of transmission nodes doesn't lock the distance between the Immortal Ships, the significant reduction in time means that distance has disappeared.

[Yao Guang: Once the nodes are established, the distance between the nodes of the two immortal ships will be shorter than the distance within the immortal ships...]

[Feixiao: I understand the principle of building roads first to get rich, but no matter how huge the long-term benefits are, they can't mask the immense chaos it will cause in the short term... First of all, let me make it clear. The establishment of the node will undoubtedly have the greatest impact and benefit on Yaoqing in the short term, so I support its establishment... However, this still can't mask the fact that it will immediately cause a large number of Xianzhou people working in the merchant group to lose their jobs, potentially causing enormous chaos in the short term.]

[Xuan Quan: Social progress inevitably brings about growing pains. It's natural for those who fail to adapt to social change to be eliminated. Besides, even if you don't join a merchant group, there are still plenty of industries within the Immortal Ship that you can work in...]

Yaoguang: My apologies, General Fubo, I beg to differ. Aside from the Fanghu, the majority of industries on Xianzhou are currently saturated, with no shortage of labor... Merchant groups can naturally transform, but the market will eventually become saturated. Regardless of how the merchant groups engaged in Xianzhou's foreign trade change, their overall number won't fluctuate significantly.

[Xuan Quan: ...] Damn it, she forgot that Fang Hu was severely damaged and is now in a state of disrepair. Naturally, there is a shortage of labor, but other immortal boats are different... In addition, now that the Yunqi Army is no longer expanding its recruitment, some young people on other immortal boats will indeed have difficulty finding jobs.

The sharp decline in the number of wars is naturally beneficial. The economy of the Xianzhou Alliance is developing rapidly, but the social problems that were previously solved by relying on large-scale conscription are gradually emerging. Of course, this phenomenon is not serious for the time being, but if it continues to be allowed to continue like this, the problem will definitely erupt in a few decades.

Hua: Luqing proposed a 70% split of net profit, with Luqing taking 70% and Xianzhou taking 30%. What are your thoughts?

[Huai Yan: The costs and technology for building the space node will be borne entirely by Lu Qing. Excessive use of Xianzhou's social resources will not be made. Future maintenance and operating costs will also be borne entirely by Lu Qing. Xianzhou's 30% comes from providing the land and operating authorization.]

Jing Yuan: No comment.

The other generals also nodded. Although they could indeed be more shameless and propose a 50-50 split, or a 30-70 split, but considering Qingqing's personal battle, they still needed to obey the other party. In fact, they could accept the immortal boat without money. The small amount of money for transportation was completely incomparable to the development of the immortal boat in the eyes of the generals.

After a long discussion

[Hua: Fellow Heavenly Generals, regarding the establishment of a massive space teleportation node on the Immortal Boat, no one objects.]

[Jingyuan: The meeting is over? 】

[Yaoguang:...]

【Feixiao:……】

[Xuan Quan: ...] The three young people kept reminding themselves that this was an old senior, a senior who was several times their age. He had some ideas that were difficult to understand, so they had to be more tolerant.

[Huai Yan: Jing Yuan, why are you starting to act inappropriately?]

Jing Yuan: Ahem, Marshal, please continue. Jing Yuan felt a little embarrassed. After spending so much time with Lu Qing, he felt like he had been assimilated into Lu Qing.

Hua: Nothing. There's another equally important matter. Lu Qing is planning to build a fairy boat, and he's stated that he'll be solely responsible for all the credit points needed... Lu Qing is not only Luofu's Ding, but also the Envoy of Abundance, who controls the entire Buli World. He's also a strategic ally of the fairy boat... As long as it doesn't endanger the fairy boat, the fairy boat won't stop him from doing anything.

[What needs to be discussed this time is the impact that will be brought about after the construction of the Immortal Boat is truly completed.]

Yaoguang: Marshal, with all due respect, can the "Immortal Boat" built by Luqing truly be called an Immortal Boat?

[Hua: There's no doubt about that. As long as Lu Qing completes construction and signs an alliance contract with the Immortal Boat again, that Immortal Boat will be the Immortal Boat.]

Yao Guang: Everyone, I know what you are thinking... However, those who cannot be divined are the gods and the heavens. Whether Emperor Gong Siming will respond to this, we do not know.

Jing Yuan: While Di Gong Siming's response is certainly valuable, this doesn't detract from the fact that Lu Qing is a Commander, one with a deep rapport with the Immortal Ship... A brand new Immortal Ship, identical in specifications to the original, will bring endless vitality to the Alliance, and some existing social problems will be easily resolved.

Jing Yuan: What is bound to happen, there is no point in stopping or hindering it. All we can do is obey and then find the path that is most beneficial to us.

[Jing Yuan: Yaoguang, you're too impatient. The prototype of a fairy boat takes several years to build, and perfecting it will take decades, or even longer...]

Yaoguang: No, Jingyuan, you don't know. According to my divination, it only took three months (in terms of immortal boat time) for Luqing to build the immortal boat from scratch. And these three months were basically spent on finding manpower...

Question marks popped up in the heads of all the generals, including the marshal.

???

Jingyuan: I have a question, but I'm not sure if I should ask it.

【Hua: The meeting is over.】

[Jingyuan: Where did Qingqing get so much money?] Jingyuan understood the Marshal's hint.

[……] The generals were silent. They really didn’t know where Hanqing got so many credit points. The only way they made a lot of money was probably when Hanqing cooperated with Diamond to defeat the Lord of Extinction.

Tsk, how many diamonds did the company give?