"Jin Hao was very clever, but... he was too clever." — Harry Seldon, First Chancellor of the Fourth Empire
Sun Power Energy Company (TaiYang Dynamics Energy) had originally been just a small company. Its founder was Jin Hao, an Elite Class energy specialist revived from the mothership.
At first, he had been a subordinate of Minister of Internal Affairs Daphne Clement, responsible for planning and establishing Dawn Star Planet's energy grid. All energy on Dawn Star Planet had been directly managed by the government, so Jin Hao had only been a department supervisor at the time.
Later, however, Jin Hao found working in a government department rather dull, so he resigned and struck out on his own. Because he had some connections with Xu Yan, the chief director of United Mining Group, he followed Xu Yan into the rare mineral trade.
At the time, Jin Hao's main business was traveling all over the Milky Way Galaxy and reselling rare minerals, either back to the Kingdom of Dawn or to the black market. Over the course of this work, his capital gradually accumulated, and he acquired considerable assets. Even so, he could only be considered an ordinary wealthy merchant.
The turning point came when the Kingdom of Dawn went to war with the Ayrou. After the Ayrou were ultimately defeated, the Vaxian, once a vassal race of the Ayrou, gained independence and became part of the Kingdom of Dawn. In order to win over the Vaxian, Tang Xiao decided to rebuild their temple.
The Vaxian had a tradition of worshipping gold, so Tang Xiao ordered that the temple be rebuilt entirely from gold. Preliminary estimates put the amount required at over thirty million tons. United Mining Group, still in its development phase at the time, did not have that much