Smuggling, even with state support and permission, is still sothing that cannot be openly discussed.
In fact, if Fla Country were to openly ask European governnts for what they want, in the current situation, nine tis out of ten, the governnts would just procrastinate but not outright refuse.
However, rather than wasting ti haggling with those annoying and hypocritical politicians, the high ranks of Fla Country clearly prefer to find a few interdiaries, and then use so of the relatively surplus dostic supplies to exchange for things they are interested in like high-precision machine tools and high-performance component technologies.
After all, unlike Fla Country, many of the top precision processing technologies in European countries are owned by private factories, rather than directly belonging to the state.
It might just be an unremarkable processing plant that looks like a private small workshop back in Fla Country, yet it possesses world-leading part processing technologies or holds so advanced global patents—this is both possible and quite common.
These small factories are ubiquitous in Europe, and many have items that interest Fla Country’s high ranks, but there are too many of them and the quantity of items high ranks are interested in is not large, going through official channels would turn into a logistics nightmare.
Because of the different political system, in European countries, truly cutting-edge technology is not in the hands of the governnt but in the hands of various private companies or major enterprises. The governnt can only obtain finished products of these technologies through purchasing.
So rather than going through European governnts and wasting ti negotiating, then slowly finding these manufacturers to talk about acquiring technologies, it would be better to pull a batch of interdiaries to privately find these factories directly for exchanges.
This wide-net approach is nothing new to Fla Country, as back when Suyia collapsed, Fla Country gained a lot of benefits from Suyia’s downfall and breakup through a thod similar to smuggling and reselling.
And this is not completely unrelated to Fla Country’s rapid developnt in economic, military, and technological fields over the subsequent twenty years.
Following the example, Fla Country’s high ranks quickly completed preparations in this area, and Li Yulong, who was inserted into this operation by Chen Xin, also completed relevant business training under Chen Xin’s arrangents.
As everyone was ready, Chen Xin had also prepared the cargo ship bound for Europe.
This ti, Chen Xin prepared a Land Ship equipped with anti-gravity engines again, but because it’s a cargo transport ship, this cargo ship emphasizes carrying capacity, and the hull was upgraded and modified by Chen Xin from a freighter.
Also, because it’s a freighter, the hull structure is relatively simple, and it is larger than other Land Ships.
The size of this cargo ship is not smaller than existing Mobile Bases, only slightly smaller than Land Aircraft Carriers in appearance, but in terms of tonnage, to carry more goods, when the cargo hold is fully loaded, this cargo ship can carry 30,000 tons of cargo.
This carrying capacity, compared to the pre-disaster tis when Fla Country could construct 220,000-ton container cargo ships, has a considerable gap, but considering this is a Land Ship, and one that can fly, this carrying capacity is quite impressive.
The structure of the cargo ship, naturally, isn’t as complex as regular Land Ships, nor does it need to handle aircraft take-off and landing or to carry nurous crew mbers like Mobile Bases do, most of the space on the entire cargo ship is the cargo hold; however, the cargo hold is divided into upper and lower layers, each holding different goods.
The lower cargo hold is mainly used for transporting grain, which is considered one of the major aids that the country has decided to provide to Europe after comprehensive consideration.
Although the alien invasion nearly destroyed the ecological agricultural planting zones painstakingly established by Chen Xin and others in the Dongting Lake Region, the vast Fla Country surely has more than just this single grain production area, especially since this was only established after the disaster.
Thus, the grain yield around the Dongting Lake area was indeed impacted, causing supply tensions for a ti, but this does not an that Fla Country’s overall grain output was greatly affected.
After months, grain from other regions entered the harvest stage, temporarily the country still holds a substantial amount of grain that could be used for external trading, especially considering that even filling up this cargo ship only requires 30,000 tons of grain.
Though 30,000 tons is no small amount, it’s not substantial for a country.
Thus, for Fla Country, diverting so grain to Europe to exchange for things they fancy is a beneficial move that incurs no significant loss.
The high ranks have obviously prepared more for the cargo ship than just grain; besides grain, there’s a batch of secondhand civilian Exoskeletons and so dicines and other goods considered relatively in demand by the high ranks.
These items are the bargaining chips for Li Yulong and the group of interdiaries selected by the high ranks.
They will accompany the cargo ship to Europe and, with the assistance of the European fleet workers, contact a batch of private factories to conduct trades and exchange for things that interest the high ranks.
These interdiaries are not much different from the black marketeers of over thirty years ago, only now they are working for the authorities.
They don’t have specific targets; what they can manage to acquire from Europe depends entirely on their skills and luck.
The high ranks rely sent a team of personnel to assess accompanying them, once they acquire so nice stuff, they’ll bring them back to these staff for assessnt, and once assessed, the trade can be completed.
Additionally, every completed trade allows these interdiaries to collect so points, which they can exchange for more chips and supplies, enabling them to trade for more items.
This trading thod, compared to normal diplomatic channels and exchanging with the counterpart’s national high ranks, and then proceeding to trade, is undoubtedly more efficient and satisfactory in terms of yield.
So, once they had gathered the cargo, the crew had familiarized themselves with operating the cargo ship, and the interdiaries had collected their "settling-in fees," this logistics team set off.
For safety reasons, the cargo ship will maintain its floating state throughout the entire journey, and for safety reasons, it will be accompanied by an escort ship.
Though this escort ship is also a Land Ship, it will adopt a voyage mode of maintaining floating status alongside the cargo ship throughout the journey.
On the one hand, this is to test whether the anti-gravity device can support long-term uninterrupted operation, and on the other hand, it is to familiarize the crew with this operational mode for future reference.
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