And the compensation they had once again received from the Li Family Chamber of Commerce, minus the one Star Destroyer delivered to the Chen Family, left them with thirty-nine Star Destroyers.
Although Wang Dong had handed seven of them over to Wang Jujun in the New Song Kingdom.
There were still sixty-six Star Destroyers left!
What did that mean?
Even the New Song Kingdom, the leading power of the Changpan River System,
had owned no more than half again as many Star Destroyers at its peak!
The Purple River Kingdom, the undisputed hegemon of the Wuche River System, had only around a hundred Star Destroyers.
The Li Family Chamber of Commerce, backed by the Death Starship Hanchuan Simida, had fewer than two hundred Star Destroyers!
Yet the Black Stone Kingdom, which occupied only about one spiral arm's worth of territory in the Changpan River System, already possessed this many Star Destroyers!
There was no question: this was absolutely beyond the norm!
Not just in terms of fleet size, but also in terms of the financial burden.
Other powers needed the resources of an entire river system to support so many Star Destroyers.
The Black Stone Kingdom, on the other hand, supported them from a remote corner of the system. As everyone knew, the matter and resource density in the central disk region 917 far exceeded that of other regions in the system!
Before the thirty-nine Star Destroyers brought back this time by the Sky Peng Horizontal had arrived, both the Black Stone Kingdom and Tianpeng Territory had already been feeling the strain of their regular expenditures.
The last time, after Wang Dong captured the Armored Cuirassier, that Death Starship still hadn't officially entered service.
One reason was that refitting the entire ship and selecting its crew would take time.
Another