Chapter 7499 Completing the Last Link.
Maria’s advice gave Charlie a lot of inspiration.
Nine teleportation arrays located around the world allow it to achieve rapid global mobility.
This circular storage structure turns this rapid mobility into a very powerful logistics and transportation capability.
The storage capacity of the Charlie ring is at least 100,000 cubic meters, and the amount of supplies it can carry at any one time is astonishing. If used to transport light crude oil, it can carry at least 90,000 tons, which is essentially the same as a giant cruise ship.
The main issue is that giant ships need at least a month to travel between continents, while Charlie can travel between continents using teleportation arrays in less than ten seconds.
This way, it will be much easier to allocate resources among the nine teleportation arrays in the future.
However, Charlie cannot handle the allocation and collection of various resources by himself, so the best solution is to set up a shipping company and an air logistics distribution center, using cargo planes to centralize various resources and then collect them himself.
For Charlie, billions of US dollars are just a drop in the ocean.
However, this amount of money would be considered a huge sum in any field.
Charlie doesn’t need to make money from air transportation, so he doesn’t need to build a large cargo fleet, develop many hub airports as bases, or even invest in building dedicated cargo airports like UPS in the West or SF Express in China.
He only needs to find a piece of land near Chengdu Airport according to his needs, build a complete base, and prepare a fleet of more than ten cargo planes, which will basically meet all his needs.
Furthermore, in the long term, such a base cannot be solely located in Chengdu. In theory, it would also be necessary to build bases near the other eight teleportation arrays. However, the Russian Far East, Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, and Mount Semeru in Indonesia are all relatively underdeveloped economic regions, so there’s no need to rush to locate them. However, it’s necessary to quickly locate them near the teleportation arrays in the United States, Japan, and Europe. This would be much more convenient in the future. If something like the Four Directions Treasure Banner were ever taken from the Rothschild family again, it would be possible to return home in the blink of an eye via the teleportation array.
Once he had a clear picture, Charlie immediately began making arrangements.
He instructed Isaac to immediately establish a shipping company and also asked him to go to Chengdu to scout for a suitable location. Because a shipping company required too many procedures, Charlie told him to abandon starting one from scratch and instead directly acquire a company that had all the necessary qualifications.
Given that SF Express dominates the domestic air freight market, acquiring a company with such comprehensive qualifications and a sizable fleet is no easy feat. Fortunately, Charlie has ample cash and can acquire the company while expanding his fleet.
Moreover, purchasing an aircraft is not a difficult task. Cargo aircraft do not require orders from manufacturers and delivery times of one or two years or more, unlike passenger aircraft. Currently, in the international cargo aviation industry, most cargo aircraft are converted from retired passenger aircraft. In the cargo fleet, passenger aircraft converted into cargo aircraft account for at least 90%, and many of these are older aircraft with a service life of more than 20 or even 30 years. If these aircraft were still used for passenger transportation, passengers might be wary, but these aircraft are still very capable for cargo transportation.
However, Charlie made a clear request to Isaac: not a short- or medium-range narrow-body cargo plane. While such aircraft were a revenue generator for ordinary courier companies in domestic transportation, they were completely useless to him. What he needed was an ultra-long-range cargo plane with a range of over 10,000 kilometers, allowing for seamless intercontinental deliveries.
After giving Isaac instructions, Charlie contacted Liam Weaver, the head of Jiu Xuan Pharmaceutical Company, and asked him to arrange for Chinese herbal medicine experts to cultivate the herbs he needed in modular, portable planting containers. Furthermore, the containers must meet uniform standards and specifications, so he could save the hassle of replanting when transporting the herbs and planting containers to the underground city in the future.
After arranging everything, Charlie said to Maria, “Miss Lin, these preparations will take some time. We’d better take Mrs. Pu Cha back to the underground city first. By the time the Antarctic winter is over, the shipping company, the storage base, and Liam Weaver’s side should have completed their preparations.”
Maria nodded slowly and said, “Then, I’ll have to trouble you, Young Master, to move the Pu’er tea mother plant and its roots and store them in the storage room for the time being. I’ll ask Lao Qiu and Lao Sun to arrange for us to return to Mount Heming.”
Charlie nodded, and with the powerful and abundant Qi in his body, he immediately and precisely separated the roots of the Mother Pu-erh Tea Tree from the soil. Then, he gently touched the branches of the Mother Pu-erh Tea Tree and stored them in his storage space.
The rosewood in the storage room, although it was unknown how many years it had been there, still looked very fresh, as if it had just been cut down. Therefore, Charlie speculated that this four-dimensional space should have another advantage: that it should have no concept of time. Plants and food placed inside would most likely not have to worry about expiration dates. No matter how long they were placed inside, everything would remain as it was when they were first placed inside.
Seeing Mother Pu Cha disappear from Charlie’s grasp, Maria was shocked. Then, a question suddenly crossed her mind, and she asked Charlie, “Young Master, there shouldn’t be any soil in the underground city, right?”
“No.” Charlie shook his head and said, “Those cultivators don’t seem to need to plant any crops, not even flowers and grass.”
Maria then said, “In that case, we need to bring soil to make it safer.”