"Red Center".
"Wait... let me take one. Let me see... what should I play?" Chu Xuan looked at the cards in front of her with a thoughtful expression.
Finally, her hand landed on a small bird: "One bird."
"I won."
"I won."
"I won."
Shen Bing, Su Lan, and Ye Xiaotong all pushed their cards at the same time.
A triple kill?
Chu Xuan looked shocked.
At this moment, Zhao Chen and Lilith entered the small courtyard.
I scanned the area.
Soaking in hot springs, drinking alcohol, playing mahjong, and cooking delicious food.
Everyone has their own way of enjoying themselves.
It's hard to believe that these women were, not long ago, formidable female generals and commanders on the battlefield.
"You're back so early?" Charlotte asked, puzzled, when she saw Zhao Chen return.
"The New Year's Eve video is already recorded, so I'm back now," Zhao Chen said with a smile.
Today is New Year's Eve, so Zhao Chen has gathered all the top executives of Xiaolong here for a period of rest and recuperation.
I estimate that after this period of rest, I won't have many opportunities to rest next year.
Seeing the relaxed and contented expressions on everyone's faces, Zhao Chen felt a warm glow in his heart.
This is the life he's always wanted.
tap tap tap tap
At this moment, two figures, one tall and one short, darted out and rushed to the hot spring.
Elise, the Spider Queen, used her forelimbs to hook Anne, who was happily soaking in the hot spring, and lifted her up.
"Huh? Why am I floating?" As her body emerged from the hot spring, Annie felt a chill and shivered as she opened her eyes.
Then I saw my younger sister, Nana, standing in front of me.
"Didn't you just say you went to get some data? Did you take it to the hot spring?" Nana put her hands on her hips, looking like she'd caught them in the act.
Anne felt a little guilty and muttered, "I...I just slipped and fell in!"
Yes! That's exactly it.
Nana pointed at Annie's swimsuit: "Oh? Your swimsuit slipped right off when you slid?"
At this moment, Elise, the Spider Queen, also left Anne on the shore.
Nana grabbed Annie by the collar without any hesitation and led her out of the courtyard: "We agreed beforehand that we would finalize the construction schedule for those new interstellar warships before we rested!"
You keep your word!
Annie, looking utterly dejected, was dragged out by Nana.
As Annie passed by Zhao Chen, she gave him a resentful look.
The reason her workload increased this year was largely because the commander suddenly produced technical data on several T5-level interstellar warships.
This directly led to her working overtime at the end of the year!
Sudden!
thud
She felt a pain in her buttocks because they had hit the threshold during the dragging process.
Seeing this, Nana immediately had Elise, the Spider Queen, lift Anne up and suspend her in the air.
The three then went up to the second floor.
On the second floor of this resort, Nana and Elise the Spider Queen had a room set up specifically for their work.
Through the window leading to the corridor, Zhao Chen could see Annie being taken back to that room.
"Our three chief engineers are quite hardworking and conscientious," Zhao Chen praised.
Lilith couldn't help but chuckle, and then she and Zhao Chen walked to an empty seat and sat down: "I have already compiled the current data for all aspects of our situation."
Currently, excluding military procurement deals, the combined monthly output of our JF-17 Thunder fighter jet and the three empires is around ten trillion Star Coins.
This does not include the share reserved by the three major empires for civilian use and basic military purposes.
Ten trillion Star Coins in a single month is a truly remarkable figure.
After all, even at its peak, the Angel race only generated a little over 20 trillion star coins per month.
However, there is one difference: the JF-17's monthly output of 10 trillion Star Coins can be used entirely to expand its industrial, military, and other capabilities.
There is no need to consider the people's livelihood too much.
This is the benefit of the JF-17 system.
"Ten trillion star coins a month, how many interstellar warships can we produce?" Zhao Chen began to calculate his military expansion plan again.
Lilith quickly provided a series of figures: "If we don't consider the starship factory's production capacity."
The current framework for our latest JF-17 Thunder Legion is based on a standard of 30,000 ships.
The procurement cost of a single Falcon Legion is around forty trillion star coins.
Zhao Chen rubbed his chin: "In other words, relying solely on our own output value..."
"It will take four months to barely build a single JF-17 Thunder Legion?"
"Yes.
Furthermore, because we will continue to produce some auxiliary and industrial interstellar warships or buildings, the process may take even longer.
Lilith paused for a moment and continued, "Fortunately, we have now established long-term military trade relations with the Angels."
On average, military procurement orders worth 40 trillion Star Coins are completed every month.
With the two large orders we received earlier, we still have a considerable surplus.
"Meeting our needs for expanding our interstellar fleet should not be a problem at present."
Military procurement orders amount to 40 trillion Star Coins per month, not even including some temporary military procurement orders.
I don't know whether to say that the arms trade is really profitable, or that the Angel race is really a powerful and influential entity.
"Now, suppose I wanted to double the size of our current military."
"How long will it take us?" Zhao Chen asked.
"Double?" Lilith frowned slightly.
At this moment, Charlotte's voice came from the side: "Do you want to expand the fleet organization of each legion based on the current ten Dragon Legions?"
"You don't seem to agree?" Zhao Chen sensed the implication in Charlotte's words.
Charlotte frankly stated, "I've calculated it, based on our current fighting style."
The maximum number of interstellar warships a single JF-17 Legion can support is 30,000.
Unless our situation changes in the future, I suggest maintaining a fleet strength of 30,000 interstellar warships per legion.
Charlotte's words make a lot of sense. Sometimes, a legion's strength doesn't necessarily come from having more starships.
Sometimes, this can actually lead to an overly bloated fleet.
Thirty-five thousand interstellar warships are not as effective on the battlefield as thirty thousand identical interstellar warships on the actual battlefield.
Zhao Chen stated his thoughts: "Actually, I have also considered this point, so the next expansion will be to increase the size of the Xiaolong Legion."
Expand from the current ten Dragon Legions to twenty, or even thirty.
Zhao Chen shared his thoughts.
He wants the Dragon Legion to have a million interstellar warships!
In the universe right now, apart from the unknown military force of the Machine Race, there are other factions.
Zhao Chen had fought against several other interstellar giants and had basically figured out their strengths.
As long as the JF-17 has a fleet of millions of starships, no one in this universe, except for the Machine Race, can threaten it!
