supreme deity

Chapter 658 Three years and three years

Lin Rui was very curious. Would the Changsheng Society dare to take action inside the Capital battleship?
This 'Space Home Class' battleship is very large for a battleship, measuring 90000 meters long, 16300 meters wide, and 7200 meters high.

However, compared to a city, it is very small, with an area of ​​only more than 1,400 square kilometers.

There are many masters in this small space. There are always ten to twenty honorary members of Congress living in the Capital for various reasons. It is the area with the highest density of martial artists in the Nine Realms.

Not to mention that inside the Capital, there is also the commander of the federal government headquarters base garrison, King Kou Xuan.

Although this person likes gambling, he is still conscientious and responsible in his daily work.

King Kou Xuan is a powerful god-envoy level warrior. It is said that he has approached or even reached the senior god-envoy level.

If the Changsheng Society dares to cause trouble inside the Capital battleship, they must first be prepared for the annihilation of all the manpower and material resources they have invested.

Lin Rui fell into deep thought, and after a moment he sent a message to Xue Lingxue, reminding her to be careful.

Xue Lingxue is his indispensable right-hand man. All of Lin Rui's affairs at the Security Bureau are now managed by Xue Lingxue. If anything happens to her, his work at the Security Bureau will be completely paralyzed.

However, Xue Lingxue has now also come to work at the Security Bureau headquarters base, which was converted from a star-level colonial battleship built 800 years ago. It is parked not far from the Capital and is also within the defense jurisdiction of King Kou Xuan.

Li Jianglong not only added thicker armor to this 30-kilometer-long ancient battleship, but also installed several large antimatter engines and many modern modifications. The interior is heavily guarded and full of experts.

As long as Xue Lingxue pays a little attention, there won't be any major safety issues.

However, just in case, Lin Rui used his authority in the Security Bureau to allocate two 8SS+-class Dragon Destroyers to Xue Lingxue.

Next, he specifically asked Li Jin, deputy director of the Tianjixing Trade Monitoring Center, to help keep an eye on it.

——It was Li Jin, the former director of education of the Ninth Base City. This 6SSS-level expert who was driven out by the military was officially promoted to a 7SSS not long ago.

So General 'Thunder' wielded a big hoe and dug this person over. Huo Bangguo seemed to be happy to see it happen and did not block Li Jin's transfer.

Lin Rui actually expected Changsheng to take direct action against Thunder.

But to his disappointment, the group of killers who were secretly following him did not take any action until his armored vehicle drove out of the street and entered the transportation dock area of ​​the Capital battleship.

Lin Rui guessed that Shangguan Tianyi was discovered by the other party just now, which alerted the enemy.

Next, he took a transport boat to the Security Bureau headquarters, but he switched to another ship and boarded his own interstellar yacht, the Rising Sun.

Lin Rui bought this at a huge price, and its cost was no less than that of a cruiser.

This yacht is 500 meters long, about the size of a destroyer. However, its speed and defense capabilities are comparable to those of a cruiser. Its quantum migration distance is also better than that of a real military cruiser, so even if this yacht encounters pirates, it can shake them off at super high speed.

This was originally a private yacht ordered by the CEO of an interstellar trading company at a high price. However, when the yacht was unloaded from the slipway, the CEO was in urgent need of raising funds to pay a deposit to the newly built "Star Port Office" of the Song Dynasty in order to obtain an interstellar trading license issued by the Song Dynasty. So the CEO could only sell the yacht to him at a 8% discount with tears in his eyes.

When Lin Rui returned to the Ninth City Base on a yacht, he directly docked at his private port.

His port area has also expanded from the previous 180 square kilometers to the current square kilometers, and the number of legal berths with "port operating licenses" has also increased by .

After Linghu Mingde became the chairman of the Congress Construction Committee, he approved such a large piece of land for Lin Rui with a wave of his hand, and also obtained a large number of berth permits for him. The other members of the Congress Construction Committee were very considerate, and the city council of the Ninth Base City also gave him approval.

As soon as Lin Rui's yacht entered, he found that there were construction sites everywhere around the dock and construction was going on everywhere.

He also saw a large number of ships moored at the berths that had already been built.

At this time, the Forest Freight Company had indeed begun to take shape, with a total of one battleship, five cruiser starships, fifteen destroyers, thirty escort starships, and twenty-five armed cargo ships.

Most of the battleships and cruisers were purchased secondhand from East Asia, with only one cruiser assembled from secondhand parts. Several destroyers were also purchased. The frigates and armed cargo ships were all assembled in-house.

The reason why these ships stopped here is for the opening of the star port in a few days. The specific time has not been determined, but Lin Rui expects it to be in the next few days.

Lin Hao serves as both the 'Minister of Commerce' and the 'Governor of Star Port' of the Song Dynasty. This matter is decided by him, so the Forest Freight Company learned the news in advance and is urgently preparing goods.

This is the first legal trade between the Earth Federation and the Song Dynasty. The Forest Group must demonstrate sufficient strength in this trade, otherwise it will be unworthy of the 160 armed cargo spacecraft licenses they have obtained.

There would certainly be people within the Song Dynasty court who would impeach and criticize him, saying that he was abusing public resources and using his power for personal gain - although this was not wrong.

Lin Rui decided to wait until the Forest Freight Company had finished preparing the goods, and then hand over the "license guarantee money" he had collected to the court, and then officially open the port.

In the past, Lin Rui said during the meeting in front of the God Court that after the port was opened for trade, the court's annual income was expected to double.

He has not yet achieved this, but the 'license guarantee' and 'land transfer fee' alone this time amount to 58 million taels of divine gold.

Since it was the first time to conduct legal trade, Lin Rui was very cautious and only released 16000 cargo spacecraft licenses, with a deposit of 1000 taels of divine gold for each license.

The 16 million taels of divine gold, converted into magic silver, is 16000 billion taels, or trillion federal coins, which is equivalent to one-tenth of the court's annual land tax.

There is also money from selling land, which brings in even higher income. Lin Rui has only sold a small portion of the land so far, and uses it as warehouses, berths, stores, residences, etc. for these businessmen, but his income has reached a staggering 42 million taels of divine gold!
Lin Rui planned to keep four million taels of divine gold as construction funds and hand over the rest.

Therefore, the imperial court from top to bottom paid close attention to this matter. The Divine Envoy and the Grand Astronomical Director of the Divine Palace had been eyeing his money for a long time and had been urging him to hand it over to the national treasury and to open the port as soon as possible to collect taxes.

Lin Rui also saw Wang Yinyue leading a group of magicians, working overtime to strengthen the runes on the Yinglong-class battleship.

He looked at the five smaller cruisers again and found that the surfaces of the five warships, including the Blue Sky medical cruiser, were painted with a large number of bright red mysterious runes. It looked like a special paint scheme, which was not only very distinctive but also magnificent.

The three retired cruisers that Lin Rui bought from East Asia were in very good condition. They had been strengthened with SS-level runes and only needed minor modifications on this basis, so the modification was relatively simple and the construction period was fast.

Only about 1/3 of the remaining frigates and armed merchant ships have been rune-enhanced. However, even among the top 10 trading companies, not every ship will be rune-enhanced, especially at the level of frigates and armed merchant ships, where the cost-effectiveness of rune enhancement is not high.

Just as Lin Rui's yacht docked at the berth, Lu Hanyuan, CEO and executive director of Forest Freight Company, and Zhu Youheng, director of the armed fleet of Forest Freight Company, came to the berth to greet him.

Lu Hanyuan noticed that Lin Rui had been looking around when he got off the boat, and immediately said in a serious tone, "Boss, don't worry. The vast majority of the construction workers here are workers and engineers recruited from within the 'King of Light'. They are supervised by the priests of the King of Light. We have also established strict security regulations, so there will be no problem with safety."

"The Bright King Cult is reliable, but we must not be careless!" Lin Rui nodded solemnly, "We still need to further strengthen our inspections and enhance security."

He was actually very confident in the people within the Church of the King of Light. These workers and engineers had all been screened by No. 9 and others, and were absolutely of good pedigree.

What's more, Lin Rui himself is the "Ming Wang" and he can identify the degree of these people's faith in him.

However, one should always be prepared for the worst. Lin Rui happened to know that the Immortal Society was beginning to stir again, so he naturally had to step up his defenses. Moreover, the Church of Light had just suffered a serious incident a few days ago. A group of spies of unknown origin attempted to infiltrate the Heart of Light, No. 9 and No. 7, in an attempt to steal the Heart of Light's authority and data, but Lin Rui discovered it in advance.

"I understand!" Lu Hanyuan nodded thoughtfully. "I'll work with No. 9 to sort out the security loopholes."

He then asked curiously, "Boss, are you returning to base this time because of the port opening in a few days? Are you worried about the trade fleet?"

Lu Hanyuan is fully preparing for this matter, and the supply of goods has been almost prepared.

The Forest Group's trading strategy is not to pursue extreme profits, but to try to sell things that are beneficial to people's livelihood and have a certain cost-effectiveness to Tianji Star.

Due to the relationship between Ruifang Pharmaceutical and Tianlan Group, their main cargo now is various medicines, especially those that can soothe the mind and reduce the chance of demonic transformation.

In addition, there are various crop seeds. Ruifang Pharmaceutical has acquired two agricultural chemical research institutes and a seed company under Tianlan Pharmaceutical, specializing in the research and development and production of Tianjixing's crop seeds.

In these two aspects, the Song Dynasty court had a huge demand. Their boss once proposed that the court purchase them directly and distribute them to the people, but was rejected by the Divine Envoy Supervisor.

However, this made BOSS once again popular among the people of the Song Dynasty, and he was admired and supported by the upright people in the court.

"I'm just stopping by. When have I ever worried about anything you do, Old Lu?"

Lin Rui laughed in silence and raised his hand to point in the direction of Ruifang Colonization Biology Research Institute.

Seeing that Lu Hanyuan understood, he turned to Zhu Youheng and said, "Old Zhu, I called you back this time because the Church of Light needs to take a break. I have received reliable information that a major force is ready to intervene and help the remnants of the Church of Light to fight against us. The risk of attacking is very high, so for the next period of time, it is best for us to switch from offense to defense and stabilize first.

Secondly, our company's fleet still needs a professional to manage it. You were previously the Vice Admiral of the 203rd Fleet, so you are definitely qualified for the job. I hope you can put in more effort to improve the combat effectiveness of our company's fleet."

Zhu Youheng was a little dazed.

He had recently presided over a war with the Church of Light and had captured four base dioceses for the Church of Light.

Lin Rui rewarded him according to his merits. Not only did he appoint him as the director of the armed fleet the day before yesterday, he also gave him some equity incentives.

This made Zhu Youheng a little at a loss.

The fleet under Lin Rui's command is not much smaller in size than the Third Squadron of the Second Fleet Group when he served as vice admiral.

It is said that the expansion will continue in the near future. Ruifang Pharmaceutical's tax payment is very high. With more than a dozen improved drugs of Ruifang Pharmaceutical being launched into the market one after another, Ruifang Pharmaceutical's monthly sales in the past two months first fell back to only 7000 billion federal coins after the enthusiasm of the martial arts competition subsided, and this month it climbed to 9000 billion federal coins.

Under federal law, Ruifang Pharmaceutical has the right to organize a larger National Guard fleet within the National Guard sequence to protect its own business interests.

This career prospect seems pretty good, right? It's not worse than being in the Star Navy.

Zhu Youheng also obtained shares in the Forest Freight Company, which were valued at only approximately 100 billion federal coins. However, as the company expands in the future, he will be able to own more shares if he makes more contributions to the company.

According to the contract, the boss can even allow him, the director of the armed fleet, to own up to one percent of the shares.

So Zhu Youheng was struggling. The reason he joined Lin Rui's team was to investigate the evidence of Lin Rui's crimes, but not to really be Lin Rui's subordinate and work like a slave for him.

He clearly had a heart full of patriotism, but now he felt like he was just a beast of burden, which made Zhu Youheng extremely uneasy.

However, judging from his impressions of the Forest Group over the past six months, this boss is a pretty decent person. Not only does he pay a generous salary and provide adequate equity incentives, he also does charity work on a large scale. It is said that Lin Rui's personal donations last month amounted to 200 billion federal coins, and it wasn't for tax evasion.

Zhu Youheng simply couldn't believe that this was the 'children's song killer' who had killed countless people.

In short, he has not yet obtained any evidence to incriminate Lin Rui. The legal battle over the "Children's Song Killer" is still ongoing, and the Federal Department of Justice has not been able to produce convincing evidence.

Even the war against the Church of the King of Light was a counterattack. Lin Rui even obtained permission from the government's Religious Committee and Security Committee, allowing him to cooperate with the government to eliminate the Church of the King of Light.

What makes people feel magical is that the Church of the King of Light, led by Lin Rui, actually started to pay taxes to the federal government. In addition, after the Church of the King of Light launched a religious war, nearly 400 million believers obtained legal status and became a source of tax revenue for the tax bureau.

As a result, even the Earth Federation's tax system began to favor the Church of the King of Light, giving them conveniences many times during the war, and even mobilizing tax police to provide direct assistance.

Zhu Youheng was actually happy to see this happen. The previous Church of Light was indeed considered a cult. Most of the priests were inhumane and treated believers like pigs and dogs, exploiting them to death.

Lin Rui is much better. At least he is trying to provide them with jobs, so that these believers can have enough food to eat and improve their lives.

Therefore, this "Supreme One" has a very high reputation within the Bright King Sect. Recently, some people even suspected that the new "Bright King" of the Tianjixing Bright God Sect might be a different form of the "Supreme One"?

Thinking of this, Zhu Youheng remembered a spy case that broke out within the Bright King Sect a few days ago.

It is said that their purpose is to investigate why the 'Supreme One' can be recognized by several 'Hearts of Light', and what is the connection between Lin Rui and that 'King of Light'?
These spies failed to successfully approach "Heart of Light No. 9", so the disturbance they caused was not serious, but it made Zhu Youheng quite concerned.

"Director Zhu?" Lin Rui saw that he was a little stunned and asked curiously, "Is there any problem?"

Zhu Youheng suddenly woke up and said apologetically, "Boss, I'm fine! I will do my best to lead this fleet. I just—"

Zhu Youheng hesitated for a moment, then spoke up: "I'm just a little curious about the Boss's Ruifang Colonization Biological Research Institute. I wonder what's going on inside?"

This was what the person behind him had recently instructed him to focus on.

Zhu Youheng did make a discovery. Lu Hanyuan and Gong Hengdao, Li Yuehua and Hou Yuting, who were under Lin Rui, all went to the "Ruifang Colonization Biology Research Institute" and stayed there for a day or two, and their strength would be greatly improved.

Especially Mr. Lu next to him, his cultivation and bloodline ability may have been promoted to the ninth level of the emperor, making him a half-quasi-parliamentary level master.

In order to facilitate the execution of undercover missions, Zhu Youheng deliberately implanted sensing and identification bloodline abilities, so he could clearly perceive the changes in these people. This was something that confused him and concerned him.

Upon hearing this, Lin Rui smiled at Lu Hanyuan, then patted Zhu Youheng on the shoulder and said, "Keep working hard!"

After he said this, he walked straight towards the Ruifang Colonization and Biological Research Institute.

At present, Zhu Youheng has not yet reached the qualifications to reveal the secret of the new version of the colonial suit.

Zhu Youheng was stunned.

He guessed that Lin Rui meant that his merits and rank were not enough, but if he continued to work hard, would he be able to return to the Federation's Star Navy in the future?

He has now become the fleet director with combat power equivalent to that of a squadron—

(End of this chapter)