Will the out-of-control servitor meet the cosmic cat?

Hong's attitude has always been very clear, if Zai Zai wants to regard herself as the closest relative, then she will enter their lives as a relative; if the Zai Zai only want her as a partner, then she will be happy Accept and accompany them as a couple.

The relationship between them does not have to be distinguished between right and wrong, and there is no need to distinguish whether it is love, family affection or other affection.

After all, the ethical relationship in ordinary society is born based on the situation of ordinary society, and cannot be copied to a special society like theirs.

For Hong, as long as she can be with them all the time, her identity doesn't matter—anyway, whether it's love or family affection, the cubs will love her the most, right?

Zai Zai is Zai Zai, it doesn't need to be anything else.

Hong and the cubs saw this very clearly.

In contrast, Hong cared more about another matter.

"The Inner Solar System Alliance wants to trade with us?"

When receiving Li's news, Hong almost thought she had heard wrong.

"Yes, Mom." Li nodded and pushed a paper document to her. "This is the brief they submitted. As for the specific details, they hope to discuss in person."

"In addition, the asteroid belt and the outer solar system alliance also have the intention to contact us. It seems that they hope to resume diplomacy."

Hong took the document, glanced roughly twice: "The conditions are not bad, at least there is sincerity."

"But the question is, how dare they trade with us?"

This is actually what Hong is most puzzled about.

If it was a time of war, in order to win, it would be reasonable to sacrifice one's own future to be harvested by trade scissors in exchange for the support of alien forces.

But at the moment when the great war is over and the economy is gradually easing from the downturn, to suddenly take the initiative to find them such a huge civilization that will almost certainly harvest them as leeks for trade, is this head kicked by a donkey?

Although if the trade is really opened, she will not be as extreme as many human capitals, and she will be more inclined to mutual benefit and common prosperity, but trade must be profitable-she is just kind, not charity Home, you won't do a loss-making business.

"Has anything major happened to humans recently?"

Hong could only think of this possibility.

"There are no big things, but there are many small things." Li replied.

"Details."

Li nodded and began to collect data from the database, then packaged it and sent it to Hong.

"So that's the case. This can explain their behavior to a certain extent." After carefully reading the summary of the events inside the human being, Hong said, "However, they really don't worry about saying that I took the opportunity to harvest them."

"I think they shouldn't really be worried."

"Oh?" Hong was a little interested, "Why?"

"Because according to my intelligence network within the human race, there is likely to be a crimson behind-the-scenes behind this trade proposal."

While speaking, Li sent over information to support her idea.

"That little guy."

Hearing this name, Hong immediately understood all the reasons behind it.

"It seems that she is no longer satisfied with shrinking in a narrow asteroid belt." Hong smiled, "If that's the case, then let's help them a little."

"Reply to them, the cat alliance is waiting for their arrival."

"Good mother."

...

The process of the talks went fairly smoothly, although the human side still wanted to use the conventional way of asking extravagant prices and repaying the money on the spot at the beginning, hoping to obtain some results beyond expectations.

But after several fruitless trials, humans finally realized that there is really no tricks to do business with strong AI, so they can only honestly sign this trade agreement that is just above their bottom line.

According to the agreement, the two parties will build a bilateral trade zone near the G2-139d-b wormhole and the Mars wormhole respectively, as the venue for each other's trade activities. All business activities will be settled using cat coins, and the currencies of the two parties will not be linked to each other, that is The currencies of the two parties will not affect the exchange rate due to economic fluctuations of the other party.

As for the conventional clauses such as tariff reduction, defense of waterways, and propellant subsidies, I won’t go into details. In short, it can be clearly seen that this agreement is extremely beneficial to the cat alliance.

In particular, this cat currency settlement is much stronger than the trade settlement in normal countries-this is caused by the inherent nature of cat currency.

Although Red has not completely abolished the "currency" economic system due to many considerations, as a country ruled by a strong AI, cat coins will naturally not be completely regulated by the market like ordinary currencies.

In fact, to put it bluntly, Hong has complete pricing power for all the commodities of Maomeng, whether they are produced by her or spontaneously produced by the people - not by various means to influence prices, but directly Step in to set the price.

To put it bluntly, Red reserves the currency in the hope that it can help it regulate the economic situation of the people in a more detailed manner, rather than adversely affect her overall layout.

A simple example, if one day the Cat League starts a large-scale war that is a matter of survival again, is it possible for Red to let things like currency affect his regulation of the Cat League industry?

Or, when some people don't make enough money, will Hong Kong sit back and watch them impoverish?

Obviously not, in fact, the cat coin itself is only a currency circulating among the people, it is an auxiliary means to stimulate the vitality of the people, not the lifeblood of the country like the traditional currency - even if the red currency is directly abolished, all cats will be Everyone is included in the planned industrial system, and no one will have any objections.

It’s just that according to Hong’s calculations, proper retention of currency circulation can make the people more dynamic, and on the surface it will increase a certain amount of governance costs, but overall it will be better than fully planned industries, so she didn’t directly eliminate currency. It's just something.

This is fundamentally different from the currency on the human side.

Obviously, it is undoubtedly a very passive thing for human beings to use credit currency, the lifeblood of their civilization and economy, to conduct bilateral trade with such a civilization whose pricing power is completely in the hands of the country.

Doing business should have both losses and profits, but Maomeng has the support of the state, the support of overall economic regulation, pricing power, unlinked exchange rates, and even forced settlement in its own currency. It is difficult to lose money in this trade.

If we consider the size gap between the two sides, there will be a very obvious problem - human beings are equal to exchanging their own real gold and silver commodities and goods for a paper currency that they can hardly exert influence on, and then they must use this money Banknotes buy goods whose pricing power is in the counterparty's market.

If it weren't for the observations over the years, plus the calculations of Crimson's model in the asteroid belt, it is believed that as long as humans don't take the initiative to provoke cats, Red will not secretly squeeze humans by regulating currency, humans say Nothing could agree to such a passive treaty.

But there is no way, humans have to do this.

Because their domestic demand has been seriously insufficient.

With a population of less than 30 billion, it is really not enough to support such a big stall. Production is seriously oversupplied and domestic demand is seriously insufficient. Even after 8 years (Earth Years) of war, the problem of the military industry has only been solved, and the economic crisis among the people is still precarious. .

If it weren't for the fact that today's human beings also have more or less the shadow of a planned economy, and are not as fragile as the 21st century, I am afraid that they would not be able to hold on long ago.

The Alliance of the Outer Solar System has rekindled the colonization fever by announcing a major expansion of Uranus and Neptune. Coupled with the small population, it can be regarded as weakening the economic crisis to an acceptable level.

But the inner solar system and the asteroid belt are really too much to bear - they have to open up new markets, even at the cost of no profit, no loss or even a small loss.

Of course, there are other solutions—since there is excess production and insufficient domestic demand, the crisis will be over as long as the productivity drops by itself until it matches the current domestic demand.

But obviously, in such a dangerous universe, no one would cut off their limbs like this.

Countries have launched large-scale population expansion plans to expand the population through industrialized in vitro cultivation methods-but, if you want to wait until the first batch of babies grow up to be able to participate in formal economic activities, you need at least 18 adults In the beginning of the year, besides, one batch is far from enough, they need a lot, a lot.

Before a sufficient population can support domestic demand, Maomeng, with a population of more than 200 billion, will be their only hope to maintain productivity from declining.

Fortunately, the news from the front told them that their guess was right.

In addition to the written agreement, Hong also verbally stated her bottom line—they can’t lose money in bulk commodity trade and state-led trade, otherwise, if it’s not as good as her own production in it, the trade will be useless.

But as long as her bottom line is met, as long as the spontaneous economic and trade activities of the people are not so large that the Cat League loses money as a whole, then she will not interfere more and let the market dominate the trade between the two parties to a certain extent.

Although this was not written into the agreement between the two parties—it was impossible to write it in, but after receiving Hong's verbal promise, the hearts of the Inner Solar System Alliance and the asteroid belt were half relieved.

As long as Hong doesn't intervene in person, as human beings who have practiced capitalism for hundreds of years, they are still very confident that they can make a profit with so many negative terms.

On March 6438, 3 in the cat alliance calendar, the trilateral trade agreement between the inner solar system alliance, the asteroid belt alliance and the cat alliance was officially signed on Mars, marking the official start of human beings' private commercial activities with the cat alliance.

Countless people are gearing up to explore the huge market consisting of 200 billion people—this will be an economic feast, an era of great voyages of commerce.

Want my wealth?

Go, all the treasures are hidden in that piece of cat cat head!

As for after the slogan was finished, everyone unanimously studied the bird's product preferences, that's another story.

Make money, not shabby.

(Diplomatic Correspondence: The cat alliance has signed a commercial agreement with humans, and the value of the trade network of both parties has increased)

(It's unremarkable)

Volume 180 The Road to the Cat Alliance: Chapter [-] Will the Little Fox Like Mutian Polygonum?

"Welcome to Kavey II, the Inner Solar Alliance 'Pamela'."

Almost at the moment of passing through the wormhole, the communication from Maomeng also intervened in the cab simultaneously.

"According to your cargo declaration, your berth has been assigned to the No. 8 commercial port of Kawei [-], berth No. [-]. Please follow the guidance of the automatic port entry procedure to enter the port in an orderly manner."

"Good guy, this port is really not small, it's about to compete with Mars No. [-] port."

While waiting to enter the port, the captain couldn't help sighing as he looked at the huge space building outside the window.

"It just looks a little deserted."

"Normally, this port is specially used to undertake trade with us." The first mate who was drinking tea put down his cup and replied, "The wormhole leading to their interior is located in the synchronous orbit of Catus, which is the same as the wormhole here. The cave is nearly 30 kilometers away, and their civilian ships will not approach here."

"Oh? So this port was newly built in the past few months?" The captain was a little taken aback, "The infrastructure construction is quite fast."

"really."

Similar things happened on several later ships—to be honest, although I do know that artificial intelligence is capable in this area, but I know that I know it. When I experience it for myself, it will still surprise people. of.

In order to facilitate trade activities with humans, and to conduct customs inspections on visiting cargo ships, Hong built this medium-sized commercial port on the edge of the space distortion area of ​​the Kawe II wormhole, which is specially responsible for receiving cargo from humans.

The entire construction process took a total of 2 months and 4 days. The port has a total weight of 370 million tons, and can berth 60 large cargo ships at the same time, with a maximum capacity of more than 2500 million tons of cargo and propellants.

If the goods are transported to the hinterland of Jeffery, after completing the customs inspection, they will be transported to the corresponding port by the special transport ship of the Cat League at a low price-this price depends on the situation, but in any case, it is cheaper than that of humans. Cargo ships do not dock here, and the cost of directly arriving at the corresponding port is lower.

This is necessary. After all, according to the characteristics of space travel once accelerated and lifetime drift, if it is not required by Cat League, the cargo ship should have sailed directly to the corresponding port and then slowed down, so as to save propellant consumption to the greatest extent.

Now the Cat League requires them to stop the ship at Kaweier for customs inspection, and also to reload the Cat League's own transport ship. Naturally, the merchants cannot let the merchants pay the cost in advance.

Although it’s okay not to do this, anyway, she is the hegemony and she has the final say, but it’s still the same sentence, as long as human beings don’t make troubles, Hong really wants everyone to do business together, develop together and make progress together. This intentionally makes the other party suffer She couldn't do what she did.

And to be honest, a little propellant may be worth a little money on the human side, but for the Cat League, where the price of basic industrial products is basically equal to the cost, it is really not valuable.

When I heard that the Cat League will be responsible for this consumption, the human side was really surprised-you know, when I heard that the Cat League required that the cargo ship must stop at Kawei II, and at the same time change to the Cat League's own transport ship, They are already ready to be swept away by this level.

Even if the gang of xenophobic people from the Outer Solar System Alliance came, they wouldn't think there was anything wrong with doing this, because it was so normal. Wouldn't the countries' own checkpoints be more ruthless than this?

As a result, Maomeng didn't even want to squeeze this kind of "should" wool, which greatly enhanced the confidence of various companies in developing the Maoming market.

"Your cargo has been inspected, here is your permission document." Hong handed a paper document to the captain, "The electronic permission has been entered into your wristbands, and you can directly use the wristbands for quick inspection if necessary." verify."

"Okay, thank you, Your Excellency Hong."

The businessman in formal attire nodded and carefully put the documents into the folder.

"In addition, although I believe that your superiors must have told you many times, I still want to clarify the rules for entering the Starfield of the Cat League."

Hong paused for a moment, and said very seriously: "Please don't take off your wristband when you need to go out, don't enter the area where the wristband warns that you can't enter, and don't make any suspected aggressive behavior towards anyone—we all It’s here to do business, to make money with kindness, isn’t it?”

"Understood, Your Excellency, we all understand this." The merchant's face was full of smiles, "Harmony makes money, and harmony makes money."

"Okay, I hope you can gain something in the next trip."

After confirming that his words and deeds were consistent through the micro-expressions on the other party's face, Hong nodded in satisfaction.

"Have a nice trip, everyone."

This is the first batch of cargo ships for human beings to explore the road. Their cargo holds are filled with all kinds of goods, and there are so many types that even the merchants themselves cannot count them.

After learning that they can start trading with Maomeng, even though they know that all trades can only be settled with catcoins, and catcoins themselves have not been exchanged with their own currency, there are countless companies hoping to participate this trade.

Even if there are a large number of clauses restricting them in the agreement, coupled with the special social system of the Cat League itself, the possibility of them earning excess profits through capital operations is almost zero.

However, this is a market of 200 billion people!

In such a large market, even a little bit of residue flowing out from between the fingers is enough for an industry leader to eat a lot.

With such a big prospect, almost every company capable of participating in interstellar trade hopes to get a share of it—however, the Cat League will not allow their cargo ships to swarm into their star field like a swarm of bees. The cost of star trading does not allow each company to build a special ship to develop the market.

Therefore, under the negotiation, the Ministry of Foreign Trade of Mars finally took the lead to establish a fleet carrying almost all the products of qualified companies. They will go to the Cat League star field to explore the way first, and find out the commodity preferences of the Cat League people. .

"Speaking of which, is this thing really useful?"

Looking at the extremely exquisite package in the merchant's hand, which seemed to be a precious cigar-like box, the captain complained: "Jeffrey looks like a fox, right? What are you doing with a box of cigars?"

"Don't be embarrassing." The businessman straightened his tie and retorted very seriously, "Have you heard a word? Foxes are cats mixed with dogs—maybe it will work?"

"I have serious doubts about that."

"No way, we don't know what people like, so we can only try everything." The businessman sighed.

"You can't really carry two bottles of Moutai, can you?"

"It's not impossible."

The captain said that this can be said: "That is a good thing with a long history of more than 400 years ago."

"I don't think so."