Chapter 212, Ten consecutive draws at level 1000!

When it comes to drawing technology cards, Gu Hang’s first choice at the moment is definitely level 1000.

The 10 yuan store and the 100 yuan store are no longer under consideration. The two prize pools have been drained, and the probability of the remaining goods being shipped is too low, so it is not cost-effective at all.

Currently, the probability of shipping at the 1000 level is: basic level: 40%, advanced level: 30%, elite level: 20%.

There is also a 10% chance that you will get nothing if you are unlucky.

Gu Hang's luck in his first three shots was not very good.

There is no empty space, but there is no burst either. There is one advanced level and two basic levels.

The advanced technology is the [Lion Tank].

Gu Hang was overjoyed at this reward.

This is the armored force that the Astra Militarum has been equipped with for a long time. It is a real tank. It is completely different from the old "Challenger" imported by the old Alliance Army.

However, the Lion tank can only be regarded as a light tank in the armor sequence of the Astra Militarum.

But light tanks are also tanks, with the same heavy armor and powerful firepower.

The armor of the Challenger tank can be penetrated by the Space Marines' bolters, but the bolters are just a tickle to the Lion tank.

Even weapons like heavy bombs and plasma guns cannot threaten the tank's frontal armor.

The 155mm howitzers currently equipped by the alliance are just a scratch on the 'Lion'.

In terms of offense, it has a 125-caliber kinetic main gun that uses railgun technology and can be replaced with a plasma gun; it is equipped with two heavy bomb coaxial machine guns; it has active smoke screen defense and special ceramic steel armor defense...

Such a king of land warfare cannot be compared with the Cruiser armored vehicle.

The reason why the Astra Militarum is called the "Hammer of the Empire" is that its strong armor is the core. Without these heavy tanks, how can the Astra Militarum, with its human flesh and blood, fight against the monsters in the universe?

And now, the Union Army finally has real tanks!

Moreover, Gu Hang calculated that the [Lion Tank] Alliance was capable of directly setting up a production line for production. The basic ceramic steel and whetstone engine were all produced. As for the main gun, according to the technical blueprint of the Lion Tank, the Alliance was also capable of replicating it and setting up a separate production line.

This could even improve the Alliance's own artillery technology.

It is just that it is not realistic to replace the tank with a plasma cannon, because the Alliance cannot produce it now, unless they choose to produce plasma cannons as accessories when using black boxes to directly produce accessories for the Lion tank, but the production volume is too low.

But there is no need for that. The railgun and heavy bolter are already powerful enough weapons.

The two basic-level technologies are two production-related technologies, namely [Superconducting Grid] and [Basic Engineering Machine].

Both of these are infrastructure technologies.

The former, as the name implies, is a type of technology for building power grids. Compared with the traditional power grid construction technology currently being used by the alliance, the main highlight is low loss, strong load, and convenient wireless charging.

The latter is a kind of construction machinery. By configuring different supporting equipment, it can be used as an excavator, a road paver... a variety of construction machinery.

These can be used for other purposes, but from what Gu Hang saw, most of them were used for infrastructure projects, such as laying roads, railways, and tracks.

Both of these infrastructure technologies are very important.

As the size of the land controlled by the alliance grew and the population increased, some infrastructure construction became insufficient.

The most intuitive point is that the alliance’s power transmission network is just about to cover the Fuxing Twin Cities and Garbage Town.

For example, other settlements in the three central provinces have not yet had time to get electricity, let alone the more distant Beiqinggu Province.

There is no technology to build a power grid, but construction takes time, and a large part of the alliance’s current energy is focused on various other areas that need development.

The issue of the power grid was put on hold.

After all, apart from the two cities, the productivity of other small and medium-sized settlements is very weak even if they are preserved as much as possible. Even if they are quickly electrified, their value is not that high.

The same is true for road and railway networks.

But this is obviously not a long-term thing.

Gu Hang didn’t really intend to build a super metropolis for the entire world according to the model of some nest city world.

Of course, supercities have their own reasons for existence. Denser populations and denser industries will produce greater clustering effects.

However, agricultural production areas in the Northern Qing Valley and raw material industries in the eastern provinces that recycle the ruins of pre-war cities are all indispensable.

Now, if you want to transport goods, you have to rely on iron ox trucks, which have to drive back on muddy roads, dirt roads, and gravel roads.

Although it is much more reliable than the ox-drawn carts that relied on animal power in previous years, it is still not fast enough. At least for an industrial system, it is not enough.

What's more, Gu Hang is not really just concerned with the development of the two cities.

He made calculations based on the production capacity of the entire alliance. Even though this year's taxes were no problem, future taxes could be offset by adding troops to the Star Army Corps that would be established. However, looking purely at actual productivity, the alliance's annual GDP was only 12 million tax coins.

Gu Hang has to bear the responsibility of paying 5 million tax coins every year for the 50 million people on the planet.

Without the system-given military training capabilities to cheat, and without a functioning Astra Militarum legion to serve as additional help, his life would be extremely difficult.

If he only pays 5 million of the 12 million tax coins out of an annual output value, then the people under his rule will be no better off than living in poverty.

Of course, there are some other objective factors.

He has only 14 million people under his command, and the planet has not yet been unified, so there is still a large amount of human resources that has not been transferred to his hands.

But there is another problem at the same time. The development levels of various regions in the alliance vary greatly.

The heavy industrial zone in Weixing City can achieve an annual per capita output value of 1.6 tax coins; while that in Fuxing City is only 1.02.

These two are still positive, reaching the amount when the imperial standard tax was set, that is, the total value of production per person per year, which is regarded as one tax coin.

But other places are simply out of reach.

There is still a lot of room for improving production efficiency in every part of the alliance.

If you want to be rich, build roads first.

The extensive power grid can deliver the power from the reactor built outside the city of Renaissance to every part of the alliance without loss and at high load.

The well-connected road and rail transportation will greatly improve the efficiency of material transportation.

Roads are the blood vessels of industry, this is not nonsense.

All places must be connected so that Weixing City's developed industrial system can better drive the development of all other towns together; at the same time, more developed roads, railways, and energy transmission lines will also feed back to Weixing City, an industrial center, and develop to a better level.

This is what the Alliance Development Department had planned to do next.

The two new technologies will undoubtedly be able to greatly speed up this process.

Gu Hang expects the output value of Weixing City's industrial core to be further improved as a result; he also expects the development of other regions in the alliance to grow significantly thanks to sufficient logistics and energy.

…

After mediocre results in the first three hands, Gu Hang's luck started to improve.

In the next seven hands, he hit two elite levels, two advanced levels, and three basic levels.

The three basic levels are [Construction Machinery], [Agricultural Machinery Technology], and [Mechanical Servant Transformation Technology].

I won’t say much about construction machinery, it’s a major positive.

There was a lot of work to be done in every part of the alliance. Even Weixing City, which was already a decent industrial center, was constantly building new houses.

The construction of residential areas, factory buildings, and various public facilities after the population has increased significantly...

The alliance's construction team has always been the busiest group. They don't even have much time to build residential areas, and most of their time is spent on the construction of factories and plants.

Weixing City currently has a population of 1.6 million, but most of them don’t even have a simple wooden house to live in. Shanty towns simply built with some waste materials are scattered all over the city.

This is definitely not a good idea.

Now, these people who have just escaped from the precarious lives of refugees and other places may have a stable job, stable food rations, and some extra allowances to buy some consumer goods that they never dared to think of or had never seen in the past.

However, as time goes by, people's demands for a better life will become higher and higher.

Improving housing conditions is an essential part of the process.

In fact, there are a large number of residential areas planned in Weixing City. At present, the entire city is planned according to the specifications of 5 million industrial population to plan various functional blocks.

It’s just that there have never been enough construction teams to build it.

Now, with a series of construction engineering machines, the efficiency of each construction team will be greatly improved, and this problem should be solved.

The same is true for [agricultural machinery technology].

Tractors and their supporting equipment for tilling, sowing, weeding, fertilizing, harvesters, balers... this series of agricultural production machines came at the right time.

The Beiqinggu Province would be in great need of these agricultural machines.

Their appearance will directly transform the manual farming and animal farming methods used in Beiqinggu Province for many years into mechanized agricultural production.

In Beiqinggu Province, the theoretical maximum per capita land area reached 500 acres; it is estimated that about one-fifth of it is arable land.

In the past, this was only a theoretical value. A large amount of land was jungle and could not be used. The looters and deformed monsters that were always outside were threats, and small farms could not survive. The exploitation of plantation owners bound the population to limited land...

But now, all these situations have changed. A large number of jungles have been razed, and those that have not been razed are waiting to be razed; the threat of looters and deformed monsters has been basically eliminated; the plantation owners have been eliminated and replaced by local officials of the alliance, who eat the alliance finances instead of the surplus value of the land.

Although corruption is inevitable and a lot of land may not be utilized...but in general, it is very likely to develop more farms and farmlands.

Eight million people, corresponding to three million square kilometers of fertile land, that is a vast land with few people. It is definitely impossible to cultivate it by normal artificial cultivation.

This requires mechanized and large-scale planting.

When agricultural production is fully mechanized, given the natural conditions in the Qinggu area, it will no longer be a dream for everyone there to live an idyllic life.

Maybe it can be realized in the next two years.

A family of four to five people can have two or three laborers, contract a thousand acres of land, become full-time farmers, carry out fully mechanized production, and plant high-yield seeds imported from my cousin's merchant ship. The annual grain output of the land may reach 50 tax coins; even if the empire is a little bit dark, the price of grain sold in the market is much different from the purchase price, it is at least equivalent to 20-30 tax coins.

According to the current assessment, Beiqinggu Province has 1.2 billion mu of arable land. If all of it can be utilized, the output value will be 60 to 30 million tax coins per year!

The food output alone is not only enough to feed all the people on the Angry Owl Star, but also has enough surplus to pay the imperial tax for the entire planet. Even after paying the tax, there is still a large amount of surplus that can be stored, given to the empire in exchange for tax coins, and used for interstellar trade.

Food is the real hard currency in the entire starry sky.

In fact, Gu Hang had been thinking about this for a long time. Even if he didn't win the agricultural machinery technology in the lottery, Gu Hang would ask his two technical officers, Wu Jiarong and Hu Ke, to go all out to master the relevant technology.

This is really a way to develop!

And this time, I won the lottery directly, which is definitely the best.

This saves Gu Hang from having to wait any longer for them to develop it.

Can be used directly.

As for the last part, [Mechanical Servant Transformation Technology]...

Gu Hang didn't think much of it.

It's not that they are useless. When he started, he used robot soldiers. Although they don't have brains and can't think actively, they are qualified soldiers, servants, and laborers.

But Gu Hang was not too impressed by this.

The Mechanicus likes to use servitors, but Gu Hang really doesn't like it.

This technology only needs a little bit of development. In the future, it may be the same as the manufacturing technology of the [Servoskull], which is reserved for the punishment of criminals.

Let’s make the best use of the death row prisoners.

As for ordinary people, Gu Hang is not allowed to appear on certain planets, where living people can be bought and sold, and innocent people can be turned into servo skulls or robot servants.

In his opinion, a living, normal human being creates more value than a robot servant.

As for the servoskull, this kind of biological computer and wetware does have high value, but its application scenarios are relatively few. Donations from death row inmates, terminally ill patients, and elderly people whose lives are about to end are enough.

…

In addition to these three basic technologies, Gu Hang also drew two elite levels, namely [Warp Identification System] and [Starport Blueprint]; and two advanced levels, namely [Reflector Orbital Air Defense System] and [Chainsaw Sword Technology].

(End of this chapter)