"But we need to invest in at least five hundred T3 Gold Miners. Just building these T3 Gold Miners will cost five billion Star Credits, not even counting the time required to produce these interstellar mining ships."

After all, our starship production tasks are already quite heavy, and some production tasks have even been scheduled for a year later.

In addition, there are corresponding supporting facilities to be built. These are not technically difficult and only require an investment of 10 billion star coins. Lilith explained the investment cost to Zhao Chen.

To be honest, this investment is a sure thing, and Zhao Chen couldn't wait to produce all the T3 Gold Digger-class heavy interplanetary mining ships he needed.

All of you, get to mining!

The problem is that Zhao Chen's interstellar industrial ship production capacity is severely insufficient. Just as Lilith said, the production tasks for interstellar warships have been scheduled for a year from now.

Zhao Chen frowned slightly. While building the Morton Galaxy was important, there were more important tasks to be built at the moment.

Furthermore, it seems that Zhao Chen is not short of resources, given the windfall provided by the wealthy little princess.

Therefore, the construction of the Morton Galaxy can be put on hold for the time being. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

"In that case, the arrangements for the T3 Nuggets will be postponed for now, and are expected to be finalized within the next six months to a year."

"However, other industrial facilities can already be arranged, and funding is being gradually secured," Zhao Chen instructed.

“Okay.” Lilith remembered the commander’s words, then whispered, “Um... Commander, I have to go take care of something. Could you please let me go?”

Zhao Chen then realized that he had been grabbing Lilith's shoulders in his excitement.

"Sorry, I forgot." Zhao Chen let go of her hand.

Lilith blushed slightly and took her leave of the office.

Zhao Chen continued his work, while thinking about how to complete his quarterly tasks discreetly.

...

A month has passed in the blink of an eye.

With the injection of funds and the fact that the Xu family was originally in charge of management and had their own established system, the Morton and Eris star systems quickly returned to their original order, leaving only some reconstruction work to be done.

In addition, Li Yaqi of Beiyan Group delivered all the T2 Tibetan Mastiff-class medium-sized interstellar destroyers for the Imperial military procurement order ahead of schedule in early October, and the remaining payment of nearly 40 billion star coins for the military procurement order was received in full.

At the same time, Li Yaqi began to carry out the task assigned by Zhao Chen, and fully expanded the production of T2 Iron Hammer-class heavy interstellar industrial ships. It is expected that the production of T2 Iron Hammer ships can be expanded to three thousand by mid-December at the earliest.

When Li Yaqi received Zhao Chen's instructions, she was quite surprised.

Expanding such a massive interstellar industrial ship at once would put immense pressure on the ship.

Some equipment modules on the interstellar industrial ship are very special; once they start running, it is very difficult to stop them, and the cost of stopping and restarting them is very high.

Therefore, interstellar industrial ships generally continue to operate and engage in production and construction tasks.

However, if there are no starship construction missions, then these interstellar industrial ships will have to cease production.

Li Yaqi found it hard to believe that the production target of 3,000 T2 Iron Hammer ships could be met.

However, Commander Zhao Chen has promised that the corresponding production tasks have been arranged.

All she needs to do is expand the interstellar industrial ships.

Currently, Zhao Chen is the real controller of Beiyan Group, and Li Yaqi is just working for him, so she can only honestly complete this task.

...

A minor incident occurred in the Reef Starfield in early November.

At the time of the incident, Charlotte and Zhao Chen were having a meal in the starship restaurant on the T4 Suzaku-class medium star cruiser.

Charlotte looked at the new dish that had been served and asked in surprise, "Isn't this called Squirrel Mandarin Fish? Why isn't there a squirrel in it?"

Zhao Chen, who was sitting opposite him, almost spat out his drink.

He chuckled and said, "Your question is like asking if there's a wife in a wife cake?"

"So, why aren't there any squirrels?" Charlotte blinked at Zhao Chen.

Well, she didn't understand the teasing in Zhao Chen's words.

"The squirrel in'Squirrel Mandarin Fish' is just a metaphor. When the fried mandarin fish is served, it is immediately drizzled with hot gravy, and it squeaks and makes a sound, hence the name," Zhao Chen explained in detail.

"There weren't any squirrels." Charlotte seemed a little disappointed.

Zhao Chen couldn't help but ask, "You also like to eat rats?"

"Back when we were in the rebel army, there was a type of rodent that was relatively easy to raise, and it was one of the very few natural foods we could eat besides our nutritious meals."

However, it still doesn't taste as good as fish. It can only be ranked second! Charlotte explained.

Do you like to eat fish and mice?

Zhao Chen looked at Charlotte suspiciously. Was this guy really a member of the White Tiger clan, or just a big white cat?

Just then, an emergency contact notification window appeared in front of Charlotte.

This disappointed Charlotte, as she hated being disturbed while she was eating fish.

But seeing that it was an emergency call, she still glanced longingly at the squirrel-shaped mandarin fish on the table, which didn't have a squirrel in it, and agreed to the video call first.

Charlotte didn't try to hide it from Zhao Chen, so Zhao Chen could also see the video window that appeared in front of Charlotte, and on the other side was actually Medusa from the Reef Starfield.

"General Charlotte, I'd like to ask you, do you have twin sisters?" Medusa asked a very strange question right from the start.

"Why are you suddenly asking this?" Charlotte's expression changed.

When Medusa saw Zhao Chen in the video, she explained why she had suddenly contacted him.

Just now, an interstellar fleet suddenly entered a star system in the Reef Sector and was intercepted by Medusa's interstellar fleet. Just as the two sides were about to clash, a battle was about to break out.

Medusa suddenly halted the battle because she saw a 'familiar' figure while making video contact with this interstellar fleet.

White hair, fierce eyes, and fangs peeking out from the corner of his mouth.

That's so similar!

He's practically a carbon copy of General Charlotte from the Falcon Legion!

Therefore, Medusa urgently called a halt to the battle and contacted the Dragon Legion, specifically requesting General Charlotte to be contacted.

"It's Midale! It must be her!" Charlotte jumped up, her face beaming with surprise.

A rice bag?

Zhao Chen was taken aback. What a strange name.

Zhao Chen looked at Charlotte questioningly.

Charlotte, suppressing her slight joy, explained, "If Medusa's description is correct, this person should be my half-sister, who looks a lot like me, and her name is Midale!"

After speaking, Charlotte looked at Zhao Chen with a pleading expression.

“In that case, let’s just take the T4 Suzaku and go check it out.” Zhao Chen saw Charlotte’s idea; he also wanted to see this suddenly appearing fleet.