Now that it has been decided to support the little princess to ascend to the throne.

That would naturally require finalizing a series of future plans.

"To take back everything, the first thing needed is hard power."

More starships!

However, our current number of starships is far too small; compared to the starships controlled by the princes, we are completely outmatched.

Zhao Ruyue began to explain one by one: "The entire Xingyao Empire has nearly two hundred starship legions and more than six hundred thousand interstellar warships."

Currently, it appears that the Prince Party controls the Royal Interstellar Main Fleet Group stationed in the Central Star Region, the Eastern Interstellar Main Fleet Group, as well as the private armies of several governors and the interstellar legions under the command of several marshals.

There are at least sixty interstellar legions, directly controlling up to two hundred thousand interstellar warships!

This doesn't even include the lord fleets.

Furthermore, as the Princes' faction continues to grow in power and draws in more and more neutral factions, they will control an increasing number of interstellar fleets.

With our starships alone, it will be difficult to gain the ability to fight back in a short period of time.

But it would be risky to contact the existing legion fleet commanders and try to win them over.

This could potentially reveal our location.

After all, no one would choose to support a princess who has lost power at this time...

As Zhao Ruyue finished speaking, she couldn't help but glance at her younger brother.

Only this crazy guy, just because of one sentence he said, actually stood on the princess's side.

Zhao Chen rubbed his chin and said, "That's right. Moreover, it's better to rely on ourselves than on others. We still need to have enough interstellar warships of our own."

"Then let's buy a starship!" Qin Xiaolei said excitedly from the side.

Zhao Chen chuckled as he looked at the seemingly naive little princess: "Your Highness, this is not as simple as buying a few interstellar warships."

It would require purchasing tens of thousands of interstellar warships, which is no small sum.

Qin Xiaolei nodded seriously, seemingly agreeing with Zhao Chen's statement. She then asked, "How much would it cost to acquire an interstellar legion?"

It seems this princess is still up to her old tricks and is even thinking about buying a starship.

To dispel the princess's unrealistic ideas, Zhao Chen did some calculations for Qin Xiaolei, raising his hand to pull up some data.

"Based on the current construction standards of the Imperial fleet, I'm referring to the old construction standards. The new construction standards would require the elimination of all T2 interstellar warships, which would cost even more money."

According to the old standard, a front-line Imperial fleet should be equipped with at least 100 T3 starships out of 3,000 starships, and the rest should be T2 starships.

The main types ✧ NоvеIight ✧ (Original source) of interstellar warships consist of interstellar escorts and interstellar destroyers, supplemented by a small number of interstellar battleships and carrier starships, as well as a number of interstellar battlecruisers and interstellar cruisers.

Sometimes the proportion of these ship types will be adjusted depending on the type of combat the interstellar legion uses.

According to conventional calculations, the procurement cost of such an interstellar legion fleet would be at least 40 billion star coins!

Of course, this is based on the selling price; if you build it yourself, you'll save a lot of money.

Qin Xiaolei looked at the string of numbers and nodded as if she understood: "Four hundred billion star coins can purchase an interstellar legion of three thousand interstellar warships, which is indeed a bit expensive..."

"In that case, let's buy the starships needed for ten legion fleets first!"

Zhao Chen chuckled: "Didn't I just say that this requires a huge amount of money? Ten legion fleets, that's four hundred billion star coins!"

“Four hundred billion star coins? I have that.” Qin Xiaolei blinked her big, watery eyes at Zhao Chen.

Zhao Chen was stunned.

He looked at Qin Xiaolei: "What...did you just say?"

Qin Xiaolei said again, "I said, I have four hundred billion star coins."

Zhao Chen looked at Zhao Ruyue beside him, his face full of questions.

Zhao Ruyue shrugged: "Don't forget who this person in front of you is."

Zhao Chen's thoughts instantly became clear.

Good heavens! How could he forget something so important?

Yes, this is the little princess of the Starry Empire, the most beloved treasure of the Starry Emperor, the apple of the eye of the entire Starry Empire!

How could she possibly have no money at all?

Zhao Chen immediately looked at Qin Xiaolei with a beaming smile. At this moment, it was as if he was looking at a string of zeros, not a little princess.

"Cough cough cough... Your Highness, are you sure you have four hundred billion star coins?"

At this moment, even Zhao Chen changed his way of addressing him.

Qin Xiaolei raised her hand and opened several data interfaces, on which several account pages were displayed, each showing an extremely large number: "My father used to give me many gifts every year, and on my birthday, many ministers would also give me some."

Then my mother said that it would be a waste to just keep that money as it was; it would be better to put it to use.

My mother started setting up some financial accounts for me when I was three years old, and handed them all over to me when I turned fifteen.

I have many fixed assets in the Starry Empire, but I estimate that these industries will soon be controlled by Consort Zhen and her ilk because of my situation.

However, these companies transfer a portion of their profits to some of my secret, secure accounts every quarter.

I also know about my older brother's security account.

Actually, I personally only have 100 billion Star Coins, but my older brother has even more! About 300 billion Star Coins.

However, half of it was cash flow, and the other half consisted of raw materials purchased in various forms and stored in warehouses around the world.

"Are these secure accounts really safe?" Zhao Chen asked worriedly. He now considered the four hundred billion star coins as his own money, and he was quite concerned.

Qin Xiaolei nodded and assured, "These funds are very safe. The vast majority of them are not within the Star Glory Empire, but in other neutral countries, or even stored in the Holy Radiance Empire and the Warhammer Interstellar United States."

My mother said that as royalty, we must be prepared for the worst, so my brother and I have always kept a secret stash of money.

Long live the great Empress Dowager!

Zhao Chen immediately said seriously, "Your Highness, I actually have channels for producing interstellar warships!"

But I need raw materials and funds.

You currently lack interstellar warships, but you have raw materials and funds.

You've seen the performance of my interstellar warships; their combat capabilities are quite advanced.

Therefore, I think you can purchase starships directly from me.

Not only is it safe and reliable, but it's also trustworthy!

Looking at Zhao Chen's businessman-like demeanor, Zhao Ruyue couldn't help but be surprised. Her younger brother used to be a bookworm, how did he become so shrewd now?

At that moment, he looked like a hungry wolf that had caught the smell of meat.

"You can build interstellar warships?" Qin Xiaolei looked at Zhao Chen in surprise, then she thought for a moment: "What you said isn't impossible."

But I can't give you all of it at once.

How about this, let's draft a procurement plan, and I won't take advantage of you.

Just tell me how long it will take to build me a legion fleet.

Before each legion fleet is delivered, I can pay you the corresponding funds and raw materials.

Then, when the second legion fleet is built, I will give you the second payment.

And so on.

What do you think?

The little princess is still a bit wary, but it doesn't have a big impact.

Zhao Chen smiled and said, "Of course, no problem."

At that moment, he felt as if he could see huge sums of money beckoning to him.