Chapter 3674

Lin Wanner's suggestion gave Ye Chen great inspiration.

The nine teleportation arrays located around the world can enable him to achieve global rapid mobility.

And the storage ring makes this rapid mobility evolve into an extremely powerful logistics and transportation capability.

The storage space in Ye Chen's ring is at least one hundred thousand cubic meters, and the amount of supplies he can carry each time is astonishing; if used to transport light crude oil, he could carry at least ninety thousand tons, basically no different from an ocean-going giant ship.

But the key problem is that an intercontinental voyage by a giant ship takes at least a month, while Ye Chen using the teleportation arrays to cross continents takes no more than ten seconds.

In this way, dispatching supplies among the nine teleportation arrays in the future will become very convenient.

However, Ye Chen cannot personally handle the allocation and gathering of all kinds of supplies, so the best solution is to establish a shipping company and an aviation logistics distribution center, using cargo planes to concentrate various supplies, and then he will uniformly store them in his space.

To Ye Chen, several billion US dollars is nothing but a drop in the bucket.

But this amount of funds, placed in any field, counts as a huge sum.

Ye Chen does not need to make money from air transport, so he does not need to, like foreign UPS or China's SF Express, build a huge cargo plane fleet, develop multiple hub airports as bases, or even invest in building a dedicated cargo airport.

He only needs to, according to his actual needs, find a plot of land near Chengdu Airport to build a complete base, and simultaneously set up a fleet of more than ten cargo planes, basically satisfying all his needs.

Moreover, in the long run, such a base cannot be deployed only in Chengdu; theoretically, bases should also be built near the other eight teleportation arrays, but Russia's Far East region, Tanzania's Kilimanjaro mountain range, and Indonesia's Semeru volcanic mountain range are in relatively economically backward areas, so these places do not need urgent deployment for now; however, the areas near the teleportation arrays in the United States, Japan, and Europe should still be deployed as soon as possible, so that in the future it will be much more convenient; if something like taking the Four Directions Treasure Pagoda from the Rothschild family happens again, he can return to the country in the blink of an eye through the teleportation arrays.

After the idea became clear, Ye Chen immediately began to lay out the plan.

He instructed Chen Zhekaili to immediately start establishing the shipping company, and at the same time asked him to personally go to Chengdu to find a suitable site, since the shipping company requires too many related procedures, Ye Chen told him to give up building from scratch and instead directly acquire a fully qualified company.

Considering that domestic air cargo is dominated by SF Express alone, it is not easy to acquire a fully qualified company with a sufficient fleet scale, but fortunately Ye Chen has plenty of money, so he can acquire companies while expanding the fleet.

Moreover, buying planes is not difficult at all; cargo planes do not need to be ordered from manufacturers and wait one or two years or more for delivery like passenger planes; nowadays in the international air cargo field, the vast majority of cargo planes are converted from retired passenger planes; in SF Express's fleet, passenger planes converted to cargo planes account for at least 90%, and many are over twenty years old, even over thirty years old; if such planes were still used for passenger transport, they might frighten passengers, but for cargo transport they remain sturdy and reliable.

However, Ye Chen gave Chen Zhekaili a clear requirement: do not use short- or medium-range narrow-body cargo planes, because such planes, for ordinary express companies, are a powerful tool for making money on domestic trunk routes, but for him they are completely useless; he needs ultra-long-range cargo planes with a range of over ten thousand kilometers, only then convenient for dispatching between continents.

After instructing Chen Zhekaili, Ye Chen then contacted Wei Liang, who is responsible for Jiu Xuan Pharmaceuticals, and asked Wei Liang to arrange experts in herbal medicine to cultivate the medicinal materials he needs in movable modular planting containers, and the containers must also be made to a uniform standard and specification, so that in the future he can bring the medicinal materials together with their planting containers to the underground city, thus avoiding the need to replant.

After arranging everything, Ye Chen said to Lin Wanner: "Miss Lin, these preparations still need time; we might as well first bring the Mother of Pu Tea back to the underground city, and when the Antarctic winter ends, the preparations of the shipping company, the storage base, and Wei Liang's side should be about done."

Lin Wanner lightly nodded and said: "Then please, Young Master, dig up the Mother of Pu Tea by the roots and temporarily store it in your storage space; I will have Old Qiu and Old Sun make arrangements, and then send us back to Heming Mountain."

Ye Chen nodded, and with the powerful and abundant spiritual energy in his body, he precisely stripped the root system of the Mother of Pu Tea completely from the soil, and then lightly touched its branches and trunk with his hand, storing it in the storage space.

The Huang Huali wood in the storage space, although it is unknown how many years it has been left here, still looks very fresh, as if it had just been cut down, so Ye Chen speculates that this four-dimensional space should also have another advantage: there should be no concept of time inside; plants and food placed there probably do not need to worry about shelf life, and no matter how long they are stored, everything remains as it was when first put in.

Lin Wanner saw the Mother of Pu Tea disappear from Ye Chen's hand into thin air, was amazed, and then suddenly thought of a question, so she asked Ye Chen: "Young Master, there should be no soil in the underground city, right?"

"No." Ye Chen shook his head and said: "Those cultivators seem not to need to plant any crops at all, not even flowers and grasses."

Lin Wanner then said: "Then we still need to bring some soil over to be safe."

Ye Chen said with a smile: "Then let's go now to the forest near Xiangxieli, the place where I once fought the decisive battle with Changsheng Bo; the vegetation there is lush and growing well, so the soil should not be poor either."

Lin Wanner smiled and said: "Then I will fly the helicopter to take you there; we will be back soon."

There is a light helicopter at Zijin Mountain Villa, and Lin Wanner herself is skilled in helicopter piloting; the two immediately agreed, and taking advantage of the night, they set off from Zijin Mountain Villa and headed for the forest near Xiangxieli.

While piloting the helicopter, Lin Wanner spoke to Ye Chen through the noise-reducing headset and intercom system: "Young Master, when I turn back I can have Old Sun use his connections, under the guise of scientific research, to build a helicopter landing pad near the teleportation array at Heming Mountain; then coming and going will be much more convenient: after exiting the teleportation array at Heming Mountain, one can directly pilot the helicopter to Chengdu Airport, and the whole trip will only take twenty minutes."

Ye Chen delighted: "That would be great; with this helicopter, this segment is equivalent to having cleared the final link, and returning to Jin Ling in the future will also be more convenient."