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Li Qinwu used a piece of precious goldenwood as payment for refitting the Knight Legion and gave it to the olive oil merchant.
The olive oil merchant immediately processed the goldenwood into a luxurious office desk, then eagerly ran off to deliver it to Titus.
Li Qinwu did not know exactly what the two of them discussed, but afterward, he received 10 billion Sola as a brokerage fee.
The olive oil merchant convoy provided Titus with 100 billion in military funding. As the intermediary, Li Qinwu earning a 10% commission was perfectly reasonable.
He did not take a single Sola of those 10 billion with him. He spent all of it.
He directly set aside 5 billion for those in his fleet willing to remain on Macragge, allowing them to establish a family.
As the capital of the Five Hundred Worlds and the hometown of the Gene-Primarch Guilliman, Macragge was simply too important. He had to leave his own mark here.
He did not know about the other planets, but he could sense that he would definitely visit Macragge often in the future.
He spent 1 billion to purchase a vast olive grove on Macragge, arranged for a thousand willing people to establish a family there, and used the remaining 4 billion to grease the wheels with officials and merchants so they could continue developing.
With the remaining 6 billion, he purchased large quantities of premium olive oil and Macragge silk from the locals. He also hired more than a hundred highly versatile senior talents and sent them to Agricultural World 496B, where they would govern local regions or establish special factories.
After all that was done, a month passed quickly, and Titus's fleet was ready.
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