Li Chen watched Mei Xuan speak with easy confidence, feeling a little surprised, but soon returned his attention to the Teleportation Array itself.
The Teleportation Array to be built on Broad Cloud Peak was not intended for passenger traffic, but for transporting supplies.
The Puppeteer Dao Path had long studied such matters. Different grades and specifications produced different results once construction was complete.
Overall, a Freight Transport Array did indeed cost less than a Passenger Transport Array, but the scale Broad Cloud Peak required far exceeded even that of an ordinary Passenger Transport Array.
"As far as I know, building a Logistics Array of sufficient scale requires an initial investment of over a hundred billion, along with enormous quantities of cultivation provisions and wealth worth several hundred billion."
"In particular, an array like this isn't finished just by building it in one place. As trade expands, receiving stations must also be built at various locations to form a Parent-Child Array System."
"Even a regional hegemon like the Golden Sun Gate wouldn't lightly invest in its construction alone. They would enlist numerous vassals and friendly factions to undertake it together. Even so, over the past several centuries, aside from restoring the Golden Crow Puppet stationed at the Sun Palace, they haven't launched another project of comparable scale."
"We don't have a vassal network like the Golden Sun Gate's. How should we resolve the lack of startup capital and the inability to sustain the effort afterward?"
Mei Xuan posed the difficult question.
Li Chen said, "The merchants who settle here are our natural allies. Perhaps we can raise funds from them."
Mei Xuan said, "More people will certainly give this undertaking greater strength, but ownership will also become tangled, making it difficult to unite everyone's efforts. Fortunately, you've now successfully earned the