"The Nok Merchant Alliance is worthy of being the top of the second-level civilization, and together with the Longshan Empire, it is known as the country most likely to be promoted to the third-level civilization within two hundred years."

Zhang Shusheng flipped through the information about the Nok Merchant Alliance and was filled with emotion.

Nok Merchant Alliance is located on the side of the Lost Star Territory. The territory of the Star Territory is extremely vast. It has 91 life planets, only a few less than the Longshan Empire. It has countless resource stars, and all the resources needed for the second-level civilization.

Can be basically self-sufficient.

Like the Longshan Empire, the Nok Merchant Alliance also has many vassals and followers, including two second-level civilizations and as many as first-level civilizations.

For a long time, the Nok Merchant Alliance has been fighting against the Longshan Empire with the support of the Kuluo Federation.[

If the two giants in the southwest star field of the Milky Way are the Silver Moon Empire and the Kuluo Federation, the two major groups in the Lost Star Field are the Longshan Empire Group and the Nok Merchant Alliance Group.

The two major groups have been facing each other for thousands of years. Both sides have strong backing. The two third-level civilizations are always paying attention and providing technology, money and even equipment when necessary. This has prevented both sides from starting a full-scale war for thousands of years.

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Now, the entire galaxy is turbulent, and the Silver Moon Empire and the Guluo Federation are also fully mobilizing their troops. However, the Longshan Empire and the Nok Merchant Alliance have mobilized their elites to fight in the Kana Fortress, and they have basically figured out the methods of both sides.

In Zhang Shusheng's view, the Battle of Kana Fortress meant that the Longshan Empire and the Nok Merchant Alliance had officially entered the stage of all-out war. It was no longer possible for the two sides to stop and negotiate, especially since the surrounding countries were at war, and the Principality of Lank was a huge trigger.

It's like a dynamite barrel that wants to suck everyone in.

"Boss, you have the Dream Machine, and with my help, as long as you stay in the Lost Star Territory and develop steadily for a few years, when the time comes for a full-scale war, you will definitely be able to beat them and run away."

Ever since Zhang Bing learned idioms, he would say a few sentences from time to time. After staying with Zhang Shusheng for a long time, he became more and more humane, which means that his human-like intelligence has been upgraded.

Zhang Shusheng turned off the virtual information in front of him, walked to the side of the ship, looked at the starry sky outside and said: "Heroes emerge from troubled times, and the empire needs such troubled times.

If it develops peacefully, even with the help of the Dream Machine, it will take thousands of years for the empire to rise.

War can not only destroy countless civilizations, but also provide opportunities for other civilizations to rise. Compared with making money from interstellar wars, other interstellar trade is nothing to mention."

"Boss, let's sell them third-rate battleships. We'll make a big splash, and then we'll deal with them after our first-rate or even super-first-rate battleships are produced."

In Zhang Bing's view, the Tianlong-class battleship can only be regarded as a third-rate battleship, and the Shenlong-class battleship can barely be regarded as a second-rate battleship.

"I also want to build a first-class battleship, but it's expensive.

The Zhonghua is a first-class battleship, but how many can we afford to build? Three or five? It’s okay to use them as flagships. Large-scale construction will not be possible for at least ten years.”

Zhang Shusheng is also right. The Shenlong-class battleship is already a very difficult battleship. The empire earns astronomical amounts of cosmic coins by selling the Tianlong-class so that it can continuously upgrade its equipment and increase the manufacturing speed of the Shenlong-class battleship.

Even a third-level civilization cannot build a super battleship like the China. If the empire insists on building it, 70% of the parts will have to be exchanged from the Dream Machine.

After all, many of the technologies on the Zhonghua used the technologies of the fifth-level civilization, and Zhang Shusheng did not have the confidence to play them by himself.

"We can definitely build it. As long as the system is upgraded again, we can spend a lot of money to upgrade the factory, upgrade the affiliated factories, improve the overall warship manufacturing capacity, and improve our cutting-edge technology. In this way, even if some parts are obtained through exchange,

We can also make most of the components.”

Zhang Bing was quite confident, but his words reminded Zhang Shusheng.

"You're right. It would be great if the system could be upgraded again. Unfortunately, I don't know what the conditions are that trigger the system to be upgraded again."[

Zhang Shusheng sighed. The dream system is still in the global system, which is the planetary system stage. The next stage, the star field system, has not yet been opened.

He originally thought that if the Empire could occupy the Lost Star Territory and defeat the invasion of the Principality of Rank, it would be considered as completing the conditions for opening the Star Territory System.

Who would have known that the Great Navigation System, a subsystem of the Dream System, has been activated, but the Star Domain System has not been activated for a long time.

Below the star field system is the galaxy system, which is even more distant.

Zhang Shusheng's biggest wish now is to be able to open the star field system of the Dream Machine as soon as possible. By then, it will definitely help the empire greatly improve its strength and shorten the time to advance to the second level civilization.

"Boss, as long as we hold our breath and develop, we will definitely reach the triggering conditions."

Zhang Bing really didn't know that his understanding of the Dream Machine system was not as good as Zhang Shusheng's, and his authority could only query ordinary databases. He was regarded as the steward of the Dream Machine for Zhang Shusheng, but he also had no core power.

This is also the reason why he is willing to follow Zhang Shusheng forever. In his opinion, the master and the dream system are integrated, and the master is actually a god-like existence. It's just that this god is very humane, which makes him like it very much and feels very comfortable.

"I hope so."

Zhang Shusheng also firmly believed that he would be able to open the star field system, and that would be the time for the empire to show its full potential.

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Ten days passed in the blink of an eye, and the small spacecraft headed all the way to the Nok Merchant Alliance. In order not to attract attention, the spacecraft had always turned on the stealth system and flew at high speed at its designed speed. The speed of this special spacecraft was as high as 10 times the speed of light.

In critical moments, you can even jump freely.

Not only is it fast, has strong defense, and can jump freely, but the weapon system it is equipped with comes from the top level five civilization. Regardless of the small caliber of the main gun, one shot is as powerful as the main gun of the China HMS.

It has two shortcomings. It consumes too much energy. The main gun can only fire a few shots. It cannot be used without a large amount of standard energy blocks. After firing a few shots, you have to escape.

It was also one of the prizes that Zhang Shusheng received when the Great Navigation Subsystem was opened. It can be said to be an indispensable weapon for killing people, stealing goods, and escaping at home.

"Boss, there is a jump gate ahead."

Zhang Shusheng was playing chess with He Ning. This ancient way of leisure is still very popular among earthly women. When he heard Zhang Bing's report, He Ning accidentally killed him.

"Haha, Your Majesty is going to lose."

"I'll go take a look and come back to continue."

Zhang Shusheng squeezed her hand, then stood up and came to the captain's podium.

"Is there a public jump gate ahead?"

"Yes, boss."[

The virtual screen in front of the command podium suddenly lit up, and in the starry sky, a very grand space jump gate was built right in front of them.

The Nok Merchant Alliance has a vast territory. Compared with some garbage second-level civilizations which are only a few light-years in diameter, its territory has a diameter of 25 light-years and its sphere of influence is close to 50 light-years.

If there is no space jump gate, and all the battleships of the Nok Merchant Alliance cannot jump freely, then if there is a rebellion within the Merchant Alliance, and battleships with a speed of only a few tenths of a light-year are used to quell the rebellion, it is estimated that wherever the fleet moves, the other party will treat it as

He has been emperor for more than ten years.

Therefore, space gates began to appear in large numbers in the third-level civilization, and also began to appear in the second-level civilization. However, the construction cost was too high. Except for the third-level civilization, which would build a large number of secret space jump gates for free, the second-level civilization could only count them on their fingers.

Build special needs.

The building in front of me was used by the Nok military during the war. In the direction that Zhang Shusheng came from, although it is not the border of the Nok Merchant Alliance, there is a first-level civilization. This first-level civilization is not weak and has three living planets.

, this jump gate is to protect this star field, and also to guard against the Ranks.

After all, the way Zhang Shusheng came here was at the junction of Lanke and Nok.

It is used by the military during wartime, but in peacetime, in order to reduce costs, senior military officials and wealthy people can still use it.

"Get ready to jump, otherwise it will take a whole year to travel from here to the capital star of the Nok Merchant Alliance."

Zhang Shu said helplessly that big countries are just like that, with vast territories. Even though this spaceship can travel ten times the speed of light, it is still too far away.

He couldn't help but think of a problem. It was only so far to go to Nok Merchant Alliance now, but it would be even more troublesome to go to the seat of the federal government of the Galaxy Metahuman Alliance in the future.

The reason is very simple. The diameter of the Milky Way is close to 100,000 light-years. If we fly it by spacecraft, it is simply a fantasy.

Soon, Zhang Bing initiated a jump request to the jump gate management station, and a jump station investigator accessed the communication.

"Hello sir, we will conduct a routine inspection on you and your spaceship. Please cooperate."

"Please feel free to do so."

Zhang Shusheng smiled and motioned for the other party to start.

This kind of inspection is routine. After all, if the enemy flies a spaceship and blows up the jump gate, the loss will be huge. Even though the spacecraft is 20,000 kilometers away from the jump gate, there are actually at least a hundred

The powerful defensive main gun was aimed at it. Of course, Zhang Shusheng also turned on the monitoring radar. As long as the opponent made any changes, the spacecraft named Su Wu could escape in advance.

The inspection went very smoothly. The main gun system of the spacecraft is all molded. The power supply system of the main gun is even hidden in the power system. It is impossible to detect it at ordinary times. Some small weapon systems are also well hidden. Nok military equipment has been used several times.

No abnormalities were found in the whole body scan.

The investigator asked Zhang Shusheng several questions, including where he came from and where he was going. Zhang Bing easily deceived him by fabricating the identity of an adventuring noble from the Nok Merchant Alliance.

"Honorable Mr. Viscount, your spaceship is ready for jump."

After collecting the jump fee of 200,000 cosmic coins, the jump station was finally released. After Zhang Shusheng thanked the other party, he ordered the spacecraft to enter the jump gate.
Chapter completed!