Lu Ping'an and his team chose the no-man's land in the data, or to put it another way, the wasteland where no one cares.
This was a choice to avoid causing trouble as much as possible. The group had long been prepared to fight hard, but when they arrived, they discovered that this was an overly wealthy world.
"Delicious fruits the size of footballs are hanging all over the branches, fat herbivorous beasts can't even hide from people, and the stream is full of delicious aquatic creatures. This place may not be used for shooting wilderness survival, but is more suitable for a wilderness kitchen...
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As the logistics team of the life system, Lu Ping An is actually ready to shape the ecosystem from scratch.
They brought a large number of animal species, seeds, fertilizers, and veterinary drugs. They originally planned a farming plan starting from breeding. They first set up a botanical garden and a greenhouse area to produce and sell various grains themselves.
This is also a common practice. Food and grass from the same world will mutate to some extent in foreign lands, but as long as suitable high-quality breeding is selected, at least a few edible grains can be produced.
It may not taste good, but it can fill you up and keep you from dying.
The next step is mass production, giving latecomers a guaranteed ration choice.
Of course, this is only limited to extraordinary people. Even a zero-level rookie can crush mortals in terms of survival adaptability.
Several hundred pigs, cattle and sheep were bred, and they were originally planned to be raised locally, but it seemed that they were no longer needed.
"It's delicious. The meat is chewier than beef and more fragrant than pork when grilled."
Although it looks like a huge beast, the meat tastes surprisingly good. With a little salt and seasonings, it makes your mouth full of oil.
Natural resources, including the supply of wild meat, are too abundant. In such an environment, it seems that the process of breeding livestock can be completely omitted.
Although it is good news for the entire foreign development, it may be bad news for the Ping An team...
"You can get food anywhere in the local area. Whoever buys our products will buy our animal species..."
The animal trainer team suffered some blows and felt that their existence value had been challenged... But soon, more blows came to them,
"The local beasts are not low in strength and are relatively easy to tame. In fact, the locals have tamed many war beasts. We may not be as good as them in this regard. I suggest that instead of doing blind research here, it is better to learn directly.
Local techniques and spells are used to improve upon their achievements..."
Just like that time on Green Planet, for foreign visitors who are short of manpower, easy-to-mass-produced animal taming is a very useful helper.
Lu Pingping and his party were not in a hurry to explore because that was not their main job.
A large amount of materials and manpower have been invested in the construction of the new city, and a medium-sized city expected to accommodate a population of over one million is under construction.
In the same war and strategy, some play action-driven games, some play soul games where you can die suddenly and lose one life at any time, some play logistics and strategic management, and some play strategic war chess.
, some even play espionage games or Monopoly.
When the general trend takes shape, facing the tide of the times that sweeps everyone away, everyone and every organization has its own position.
Large organizations cannot lose money when exploring foreign lands, because what they do is not an adventure RPG that seems to be enjoyable, but actually gambles on life and luck, but a super-profit scalper business that sells water and shovels to gold diggers.
"I don't know if they make money, but I will definitely make money. When I wasn't exposed to it, I really didn't expect to make so much money..."
When Lu Ping'an really got into this industry, he was heartbroken when he saw the initial investment was so smooth, but he was shocked by the expected returns.
Not to mention that it will only take half a year to get back the investment. If you are lucky, you will be able to get back the investment when the first batch of explorers come, and then you will make a pure profit.
It turns out that the outrageous customs taxes for our foreign exploration were not simply taken away by Dongguo. Each of the partners' orthodox churches took at least 40% of it, and they continued to take it.
Moreover, this income is quite stable and hidden.
Those explorers of foreign lands spent a lot of money in the early stages of arriving in foreign lands.
This includes consumption in residential areas, the purchase of local medicines and supplies, as well as the purchase of various special services, including but not limited to local divine favor, guide services, intelligence support, etc.
This is a benefit, but it is not free.
It can be said that as long as you hold the adventer and the first advent point of the explorer, it will be equivalent to allowing those ultra-rich people to continue to consume.
What kind of services can be provided to these compatriots depends entirely on the ability of the explorers in the early stage. When the number of stations increases in the later period, the higher the quality of the stations, the more explorers will come, and the more prosperity will be achieved.
Lu Ping'an didn't think much about it at first, thinking that those foreign settlements were the assets of the locals, but now looking back, aren't they all the properties of the great god churches?
These services are provided by local owners, and with commissions and taxes, there is no pressure to take away 20% of the total value. It is precisely this kind of commissions that flow so slowly that no one will notice at all.
That's not all. After the Nirvana Project was implemented in the Eastern Kingdom, the materials brought back by the explorers had to pay heavy taxes, part of which was the shipping fee... But the ships were also provided by various churches and would be sent to their partners first.
area.
When the tax is finally divided, the Exploring Zhengshen Church will also receive a portion.
"No wonder they don't do the business of beheading. It's indeed faster than robbery..."
After really clarifying all this, Lu Ping'an suddenly understood.
Not to mention, just setting up a bunch of craftsmen's shops and potion shops in this new city, purchasing the materials obtained by the explorers, and then making them into finished products and selling them will be a huge amount of profit.
No wonder the righteous churches in the new era have stopped fighting among themselves and grabbing territory in the country. Compared with the profits from the outside world, what they have internally is nothing.
That's an increment, and it's an unlimited increment.
Not to mention that if large-scale urban clusters or even civilizations are built in the long run, once it is completed, the final "tax payers" will not be limited to earth explorers. The aliens who are included in the pan-Earth system will also become part of the entire system.
"This is equivalent to outsourcing the government's responsibilities to the Orthodox Church. It's up to them to make more or less. Well, it's a bit like the governor of an immigrant planet in the era of interstellar immigration..."
Lu Ping An tried his best not to use the overly sensitive "colony" to describe it, but there is essentially no difference.
As for this income and responsibility, it was not something that individuals and small and medium-sized organizations could bear before. Only the large churches that had been granted the authority of Zhengshen by the Eastern Kingdom had this qualification.
After all, in a certain sense, they also have to represent the Eastern Kingdom and mankind, and communicate with civilizations in foreign lands, and it will not work if their level is too low.
"A bit like a privateering charter..."
Another rather subtle name, the "human governors" who obtained the franchise rights have indeed begun to manage their own territories.
This is a guaranteed profit... It is uncertain whether the brave man who conquers the devil will make a profit or not, but the owner of the weapons store who sells weapons to the brave man, the king and the village chief who sends the brave man tasks will definitely make money. After all, this
No, there's another one.
Naturally, the work on Lu Ping'an was booming, and the first scattered explorers in the local area also started their own journey.
Watching the brave man step out of the novice village, but he has not yet taken a step, the road is safe, and his mood becomes more and more complicated.