The identity of the Imperial Count still brought significant benefits to Guo Zhun.

In recent days, the number of survivors flocking to Ice City has noticeably increased, and several large bases in the province have chosen to join.

The population of Ice City is already approaching four million, and it is expected that in ten days, it will reach a total population of five million.

According to Guo Zhun's understanding, the entire surviving population of Divine Dragon Province is estimated not to exceed twenty million.

His single base city accounted for more than a quarter of that population, providing an unprecedented abundance of human resources.

However, he still lacked weapons; before, he was only thinking about how to get rid of Ye Fan and never considered purchasing weapons from Dawn City.

Now, reminded by Yan Zhihuan, he immediately saw the rationale.

"It's a good idea, but we've already issued our new currency, and continuing to print more would lead to inflation, not to mention that the new currency is worthless in Dawn City..."

Yan Zhihuan smiled, "Sir, we have gold and silver, and countless jewelry and treasures. Many things have become useless after the apocalypse. We can exchange them for Light Yuan in Dawn City and then use Light Yuan to buy firearms, or even mutant beast meat and crystal cores, whatever we need."

"You're right, I have no idea what use Ye Fan has for collecting so much gold and jewelry, but since he's willing to collect it, let him collect to his heart's content!"

"Spread my orders: apart from keeping a reserve of necessary gold and some high-end jewelry, collect all remaining platinum, silver, jade, gems, and so on. Doesn't Dawn City have an exchange standard? Prepare to exchange items worth two hundred million Light Yuan!"

"Yan Zhihuan, head to Dawn City with great fanfare to make the purchases. I want to see if Ye Fan is willing to trade firearms for things that can't be eaten or drunk."

"If he can't do it, then he's contradicting himself, and their Dawn Trading Market's reputation will be ruined!"

"If he fulfills it, then sooner or later, we will let these weapons and ammunition fall on the soil of Dawn City!"

......

"What? People from Ice City have arrived? Yan Zhihuan is here to make a large exchange for Light Yuan to order weapons?"

When Ye Fan heard this report from the military intelligence bureau, he was extremely surprised.

These days, Ye Fan has been overwhelmed as well. The issuance of Light Yuan went smoothly, but he didn't receive much profit; he gained a total of fifteen million in funds from this wave.

This was far from the fifty million startup funds he needed to establish a base in the south.

But unexpectedly, at this time, Guo Zhun sent Yan Zhihuan over to exchange two hundred million Light Yuan in one go.

The jewelry appraisers have already arrived to evaluate the jewels Yan Zhihuan brought to see if they can equate to two hundred million Light Yuan.

Two hundred million Light Yuan translates to twenty million in system funds.

Meanwhile, the current price of firearms in Dawn City is not high; a Rakshasa light tank sells for only 300,000 Light Yuan, while a medium tank sells for 600,000 Light Yuan.

After the Battle of Hai Shan Wei, the Dawn Army seized a lot of Rakshasa firearms.

After all, the Rakshasa side had tens of thousands of troops, with the most being armored units.

At that time, the Rakshasa's armored units hadn't unleashed their power before they were bombed back and forth by Dawn Army's bombers, and most were scrapped.

However, tanks are hard to reduce to rubble; most can still be repaired.

Several hundred Rakshasa tanks were dragged back like scrap iron; those that could be repaired were, and now over thirty are repaired and up for sale, with over three hundred still stacked in the munitions factory.

There are also a lot of armored car wrecks; over two hundred lie there like garbage.

Even the wrecks of bombed-out helicopters and fighter jets were dragged back.

Upon hearing that Guo Zhun wanted to order a large amount of firearms, especially high-end weapons, Ye Fan's interest was piqued.

This deal must be made!

The appraisal team has already sent back word that the jewels brought by Yan Zhihuan, once converted into system funds, amount to just over twenty million.

This influx of funds immediately broke the forty million barrier in Ye Fan's hands, bringing him closer to the basic conditions for setting up a base in the south.

Yan Zhihuan even boldly stated on their end that they have plenty of gold and jewelry, only fearing that the Dawn Army doesn't have enough weapons to supply.

Ye Fan immediately calculated an economic account.

If the scrap metal brought back from Rakshasa could be repaired, it should cumulatively generate about thirty million in funds, or three hundred million Light Yuan.

However, standard repairs won't work, as many items aren't worth repairing; the engineers here are already prepared to disassemble those things.

He immediately opened his system page, where there was a building that had been there for a long time but he hadn't built.

This building was the Repair Factory, available since he upgraded to Commander.

But the construction cost isn't low, requiring a million in funds.

The Repair Factory is a Red Alert Unit, mainly used for vehicle repairs; as long as a tank isn't shattered, sending it there for repairs will restore it to its original state.

Besides vehicle repairs, there are two other projects: one to purify the terrifying robots, and another to add the option of base vehicles in the Tank Factory.

Base vehicles are the foundation for establishing Red Alert bases. Ye Fan's first base vehicle was built by engineers using blueprints, and further constructions require the Repair Factory.

It's just that as he hasn't gone south yet, there has been no urgency to construct this expensive building.

It seems now is the time to set up the repair factory.

Before making preparations, Ye Fan asked the engineer: "Can the repair factory repair non-Red Alert units' vehicles?"

"Yes, sir. Any vehicle or fighter jet can be restored in the repair factory as long as the damage does not exceed 50%."

"What exactly does not exceeding 50% mean?"

"The system's definition of 50% means the integrity should not look less than 50%. If a vehicle is scrapped but the remaining volume is more than 50%, it can be repaired."

Upon hearing this, Ye Fan understood; in other words, if more than half remains, it can be repaired, but if less than half, it's done for.

"Do we need to pay extra funds?"

"No, sir, but it will consume some resources. For example, if the car is damaged, it will require steel reserves, and if the tires are damaged, it will need rubber reserves. However, compared to the overall value, it's negligible."

Hearing this, Ye Fan was relieved. He gritted his teeth and set up the most expensive building at present, the repair factory.

[Confirmed to build the repair factory, it will take a total of 48 hours. Please be patient, sir.]

Seeing the progress of the repair factory beginning to run, Ye Fan immediately instructed Director Shen to notify Yan Zhihuan.

"Tell Yan Zhihuan, if they want to place an order, they need to exchange enough. Their two billion Light Yuan limit isn't enough. If they're able to provide jewelry equivalent to three billion Light Yuan, I'll take their order. Not only will there be tanks, but also armored vehicles and helicopters, even Rakshasa Fighters, as long as they can come up with the money."

This issue has been stirred up over at Ice City and broadcasted on TV. It's impossible to blackmail them, and Ye Fan can't afford to ruin his own reputation. However, since Ice City came as a cash cow, Ye Fan felt compelled to turn junk into treasure, selling all those scraps to them.

Director Shen quickly relayed the message, and after listening, Yan Zhihuan could report to Guo Zhun.

Guo Zhun thought Ye Fan was putting up a front, so he wasn't polite with Ye Fan. He scraped together and managed to send over jewelry worth one billion Light Yuan to Yan Zhihuan again.

Back and forth, nearly two days passed.

The date was now March 25th.

Ye Fan's repair factory was finally completed, and he immediately found a place in the core area to set it up.

A factory occupying 5,000 square meters appeared, with a workshop below and a tower crane above.

[Repair Factory: Comes with thirty members, a repair workshop, and repair machinery, capable of repairing a vehicle within thirty minutes as long as the vehicle's damage does not exceed 50%.]

Ye Fan grinned slightly; indeed, it was a black technology product. Though the cost was high, the cost-effectiveness was even higher.

Spending this million at once could bring in a profit of thirty million.

Unfortunately, such good things don't happen every day; otherwise, Ye Fan would dare to upgrade his force to an army group in a couple of months.

Immediately putting the repair factory to work, Ye Fan watched as a tank with its turret blown off was sent into the workshop. Half an hour later, it rolled out shiny.

"That fast! Is it loaded with shells?"

"Reporting, sir, it's in full ammunition status after repair."

"Take them out, remove all shells and bullets. If they want to buy, let them pay extra and sell them separately."

The engineers hurriedly worked to remove the ammunition and repack it separately, preparing to sell it to the Liberation Army for an added price.

The Dawn City bank was also working overtime, printing three billion Light Yuan in notes, gradually dealing with Yan Zhihuan.

Bundles of cash were handed over, with boxes of jewelry brought in.

As the jewelry was delivered to Ye Fan, he almost immediately converted it.

The system funds were rapidly increasing.

Ye Fan felt that he had never experienced such a good moment.

Guo Zhun's base was indeed a large one, occupying Jiangbei District. Over time, a considerable amount of resources had been collected, leaving a substantial amount of gold and silver.

However, during continuous exchanges, Ye Fan discovered a shortage of gold here, and the quality of the jewelry was generally average.

Among them, some of the gold bracelets he separately exchanged turned out to be 18K gold.

"This Guo Zhun is not being straightforward. He's kept the good stuff for himself."

Seeing this, Ye Fan was certain that Guo Zhun still had a stash.

However, to extract his remaining stock, relying on this transaction alone wouldn't suffice.

Ye Fan's stockpile was almost depleted; selling more would mean selling system-produced weapons.

However, as the system now automatically produces items with a One-Star rating, Ye Fan didn't want to sell such quality items externally, except perhaps bullets and grenades.

Additionally, Ye Fan knew that Guo Zhun would likely use the weapons he bought to go against him, possibly even acting as early as April.

But Ye Fan needed this money; with this massive arms deal, Ye Fan's funds unprecedentedly reached fifty-two million!

Ye Fan didn't want to touch these funds easily, but if Guo Zhun recklessly came for him, Ye Fan wouldn't hesitate to spend whatever it takes to give Guo Zhun a head-on blow.

Sometimes Ye Fan even thought maliciously that if something happened in Guo Zhun's Ice City, preventing him from meddling in Dawn City, it would be perfect.

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