Stellaris from the Automata Era

I have a feeling the humanoid figure may have misunderstood the meaning of this sentence, but the commander’s words… Yan Luo still remembers her cooking skills clearly.

All I can say is that considering the human physique, it should be fine.

"One of us will be left to help you, so Popola gladly accepted the invitation." Then a look of relief appeared on Divara's face.

Noticing the change in her expression, Yan Luo's curiosity was immediately piqued.

"How does everything taste? Or has the Commander's 'appreciation' not started yet?"

"No, it's been over for a while." Divara once again displayed her perfect facial expression, this time a little embarrassed, and seemed to be starting to compose and polish it again. "I remember Bobo La told me that she could feel the food exploding on her taste buds."

"It doesn't sound good. Does it taste bad?"

"Well...why not ask her yourself when she and the commander return from the repair station? Anyway, I remember half her face was gone."

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Oh my goodness...it turns out that the explosive impact was literal. Yan Luo finally understood who was the culprit of the previous kitchen explosion.

ps: How can I quickly grow my economy?

Victoria player: The GDP of the land next door is 5m. If I take it away, it will be more than what I would get from building ten factories!

Chapter 284: Earth Transport Ship Hijacked

Things related to the country will be done slowly and gradually. Of course, based on the flexible moral bottom line, the prefix word will also become stealing the country. As for whether it will become robbing, it depends on whether the soft mud side will take care of itself.

But no matter what, the initial planning steps should not change too much.

As for the focus of the entire plan, the Republican Slime is now in a state of panic.

After negotiating a friendly loan, their former employer responded quickly. In the first cycle alone, the factory worked overtime to produce enough precision mining equipment for about an entire planet (an area).

This sounds a bit exaggerated in terms of efficiency. However, judging from the rusty goods when unpacking, they should be some piled up old products, and the subsequent delivery may not be so fast.

But after the first batch of free deliveries arrived, these capital slimes suddenly realized that something seemed to be wrong.

It seems...the money was not received?

Although the two parties had negotiated a loan agreement at the beginning, in the eyes of Capital Slime, their first batch of goods had already been delivered, even though the quality was not very good.

But they have fulfilled their contractual obligations, so does the other party have to pay them?

Of course, since this is the first cooperation between the two parties, the price of this batch of goods is not very high compared to their internal prices, only 20 energy coins.

Hiss... 20 energy coins in exchange for regional construction on a planet, isn't that a bit too cheap?

Upon hearing the news, Yan Luo was still a little shocked by the productivity of the slime.

If you know the cost of planet construction, you will understand that the value simplified to one unit is expanded by hundreds or thousands of tons compared to the old era of Earth.

Often, building a region on a planet may require 300 to 500 units of minerals.

Even if energy coins are used as the main currency, settlement requires at least twice, which is one thousand energy coins.

But 20 to 500...what kind of deficit is this?

Yan Luo's original determination was almost shattered, and he really wanted to do business with Slime fairly and justly.

But on second thought, it seems that the slime is richer than originally thought and more worth stealing, so I decided to go ahead with the plan.

Therefore, when the Republican Slime was being harassed by its compatriots for debt repayment and wanted to flee to Earth for refuge, Yan Luo generously approved a hundred units of energy coins.

Then he turned around and began to study the situation of the slime again.

The fact that things can be so cheap and affordable is entirely due to the difference in technological lines.

Perhaps Yan Luo was not very aware of the richness of the earth in energy technology, and the mud was also unaware of its own advantages in mineral collection.

Moreover, the two sides have different needs and concepts.

There has never been a high-tech production line in the era of slime. It’s not that they can’t make it, but that they don’t need to make it and don’t dare to make it.

The huge population that needs to be supported undoubtedly gives them an inexhaustible supply of manpower.

But the price of this is that if they don't maintain the bottom layer more intelligently, there might be a slime version of "fox howling".

Or perhaps they have already experienced the kind of "Ning You You Are" riots that allowed them to maintain their policies at a delicate balance.

This also means that if we say that the industrial revolution on Earth was the replacement of human labor by machines, it would lead to a huge explosion in productivity.

The industrial revolution of the slime, then, is that better single-person tools have sped up their production efficiency.

This influence even spread to their later technological trends, with advanced manpower completely replacing old and low-quality machinery. After all, the concepts were different from the beginning.

As for the future era when we touch the sky and soar into the universe and energy coins flourish, how much energy can a new civilization store at the beginning?

It’s good enough that I don’t let you down.

This further exacerbates the theoretical nature of the advanced concept of human labor. After all, the maintenance and use of machinery has always been a major source of energy. Once capitalists have tried it, they will immediately understand how much money low labor costs can save.

Otherwise, the highly automated advanced countries in the old era of the Earth would not have always been thinking about building factories in populous countries.

Similarly, the use of machines requires a certain level of knowledge, and the education and subsequent wage costs are even higher. Would a truly capitalist country suffer such a loss?

Even if there are, they will definitely put you in debt and you will owe a lot of money during the learning process.

Let's turn the topic to the Republic Slime. Compared with its own owner, its population is too small and it is no longer able to maintain production using the original model.

Therefore, they must pursue the power of machines again, remembering that their cargo is precision mining equipment, which can be understood as excavators and other machinery, which are not in high demand in the mud market itself.

If they are able to gather all the equipment for an area, they will probably just send over the piles of items that they had previously tried but found to be uneconomical and then dismantled.

The two sides were not on an equal starting line from the very beginning.

However, as people get to know each other better, the price may go up.

But now... the capital slime can only laugh at the Earth for being stupid and having too much money. As for whether they will come quickly in the end, it depends on whether the payment can be settled this time.

With the inflow of funds, the Republic Slime finally breathed a sigh of relief. At the instruction of the Earth, it settled the payment with a wave of its hand.

He also said that he wanted ten more of these regional devices, so he used 80 energy coins as a deposit.

Admittedly, the price is not much, but this attitude instantly gave the capitalists great confidence.

Just look at the attitude of the vassal states towards the use of energy coins, and you will understand that the market of the suzerain state will definitely be huge.

While squandering precious energy on others like this, the capital slime said it must make a lot of money!

So after several such transactions, the peaceful, harmonious and happy daily life of both parties was finally broken.

In the second month after the founding of the Slime Republic, the businessman chairman on the capital side received information from the Republic.

"What? Your main company's (Earth's) cargo ship transporting energy coins was hijacked by pirates?"

"Yes, the amount of goods being transported this time is quite large, approximately 500 units. The main company is very angry and has said they will conduct a thorough investigation. Therefore, I will decline the offer to pay you for this matter. After all, I don't have the money to pay you right now."

The attitude of the Republic Slime is very sincere, at least that's what it seems like from the capital side.

Considering the credit of the other party or the credit of the earth behind it, Capital Slime still expressed its goodwill.

"Don't worry, the goods can be shipped first and the money can be paid later. If you have nothing else to do, I'll hang up first."

After hastily ending the communication, the businessman chairman fell into deep thought.

Pirates? Where did these pirates come from?

Oh no, it can’t be one of ours, right?

Chapter 285: Pirates? Whose Pirates?

"Chairman, you know our company. We are the main force in trading with our neighbors. We can't send pirates."

"Chairman, you know us well. We are in the upper market, and it is impossible for us to cut off our own source of income."

"Chairman...we don't have any private soldiers at all."

"Oh no, who is that?"

Pirates? What pirates?

It is undeniable that pirates are a must-try feature of the interstellar age. From organic organisms to robots with unified thoughts, these magical creations can all be found.

However, when it comes to the slime, we should at least look at the soil for survival, right?

As time went on, the so-called pirates had long since abandoned fragile cedar planks and wind direction sailing, relying instead on more advanced chemical fuels.

But because of the progress of the times, they have gradually been eliminated.

To be honest, the more technology advances, the more difficult it is for this ancient traditional craft to survive.

After all, it is a high-risk industry, and most people who enter the industry are those who cannot make a living.

Since they can no longer make a living, this group of people must have not received formal education.

You have to know that operating cannons and giant ships requires extremely high professional education, and the number of people involved is quite large.

Especially after the interstellar era, if you have not received higher education, you may not even be able to drive an ordinary civilian ship.

So the pirates in the interstellar age are no longer ordinary pirates.

This is different from the rebels. If the rebels use the remaining funds from corruption to cultivate a group of talents through hard work and perseverance.

So pirates without any resources in the early stage would never be able to make a difference.

Even in a political system where the power of education is firmly in the hands of the upper class, there is no soil for pirates to survive.

Even so, pirates are still rampant inside the slime.

But the question is, what kind of people are the pirates in such difficult conditions?

Orthodox pirates...it's better to say they are orthodox navy, formed by private armies of companies from all over the country, who use force to gain benefits when their interests cannot be achieved.

This is also the unspoken rule of the fierce competition within the slime.

In short, just understand that the pirates on the slime side are regular troops.

But this is the most terrifying thing!

The capital slime has just experienced a geo-soft war and was beaten by the earth's fist and fled in panic. In the short term, it does not have the courage to provoke the earth.

However, in the face of the earth's powerful financial resources, it is difficult to guarantee that some individuals will not have ulterior motives.

If you can't defeat the enemy's regular army, wouldn't it be easy to attack the unprotected transport ship?

To be honest, the businessman chairman himself was very tempted by the profits from the trip.

After all, how can normal trade be as quick as robbing money?

"It's neither you nor him? It can't be that the Earth robbed itself, right?"

The trade between the two sides has gradually normalized and has even begun to expand. Putting himself in the other's shoes, Slime sees the Earth's sincerity in doing business.

At least that's what it looks like on the surface.

Putting aside the question of what the Earth's motive is for robbing itself, just comparing the economies of both sides, they should not look down on the "bitter and cold land" of the slime, and should not... find a reason to attack itself again, right?

And even though everyone on the slime side said they had no reason, their confident expressions made him believe it.

But after thinking about it, if the businessman chairman believed these nonsense, he would probably receive a call tomorrow from someone claiming to be the Earth Emperor Yan Luo asking for money.

"Anyway, keep your tentacles under control!"

Then I am afraid its warning will not be of much use.

Because later the Earth's transport ship was hijacked again.

...

"This time we've really been robbed, sir!"

If the previous robbery could have been a self-directed show by Yan Luo, the subsequent development of events was somewhat beyond his expectations.

I don’t know if it flipped a switch for the slime, expanding the door to ideas and new worlds.

Pirates actually spawned on the trade routes between Earth and Republic Ooze.

Some people are really bold to a certain extent.

Because there were only a small number of humanoid troops stationed there and they were unable to effectively chase and attack the pirates, Yan Luo's steps were disrupted from the very beginning of his plan.