Chapter 759, Alliance Values

Chairman Zuo Zhaofeng's good political alliance with the Alliance, coupled with the strong economic strength of the Dragon Eagle Star Region, has established many communities of interests, which has become the core element for the Alliance to build influence in the Eastern Universe.

At the same time, it also created favorable conditions for the alliance to carry out cultural propaganda in the Eastern Universe.

With the frequent economic and political exchanges, high-end consumer goods produced by various alliances have entered the market of the Eastern Universe.

Especially some luxury goods produced by the alliance.

The industrial capacity of the Dragon Eagle Star Region is very developed in many aspects, including agriculture. Among the planets taken back from the greenskins, some have relatively good environments and have thousands of miles of fertile land. After the greenskins were cleared, the population of immigrants was sparse, and they could often adopt large farms and large-scale agriculture. The huge amount of food output can not only serve as military rations, but can also be transported to industrial planets as food rations, and there is even a large amount of material surplus that can be used to pay taxes.

But using primary grain to pay taxes is a loss, and the money is not much. However, after processing primary agricultural products, it will be much better to make high-quality food with various flavors; further, when agricultural products are abundant, you can luxuriously make wine using the traditional method.

The red wine and craft wines produced in this way taste much better than industrial wines produced by the food industry.

Civilians and ordinary soldiers may not be able to afford it, but for the middle class and even the powerful, it is no problem at all.

The value of this thing is useless for paying the imperial tax. The imperial tax is not high for luxury goods. However, it is a good choice to export it to the dignitaries in the Eastern Universe.

Luxury brand cars and hovercrafts made by the developed vehicle manufacturing industry; luxurious interstellar cruise ships customized by the shipbuilding industry; clothing and accessories made by craftsmen in the textile industry using leather developed from expensive aquaculture and surplus refined gold materials...all of these things have become popular in the Eastern Universe.

The reason why they are so popular, besides their good quality and scarcity, is also largely due to cultural influence.

The propaganda department of the alliance spared no effort to promote the values ​​of the alliance in various places within the Eastern Universe. The most important means was various literary and artistic works.

Everywhere in the Empire, people unanimously recognize Holy Terra as the home planet of humanity. What is popular on Holy Terra can easily have a great influence in other places.

Some commodities, lifestyles, fashion pursuits, and the like may be transmitted more slowly. After all, even if you want to pursue something, you need something to do it. But popular literary and artistic works are much easier to copy.

A series of videos about the Iron Armor War, praising Gu Hang and the Alliance lifestyle, are popular in Holy Terra, and will be even more popular in other places.

In these films, alcohol, cigarettes, clothing, utensils, decorative styles, luxury brands... everything was intentionally implanted with the alliance's products during production.

It's not a hard advertisement, but would you like to have a cigarette of the luxury brand that Governor Gu lit up while thinking?

Even though Gu Hang doesn't actually smoke, it doesn't stop him from endorsing this product.

This is the favorite cigarette brand of the real imperial heroes and imperial high lords!

And with developed agricultural production, its quality is indeed quite high.

Using similar means, alliance products have a natural advantage in opening up sales channels.

All these consumer products and literary and artistic works, when added together, have had a cultural impact on all classes of people in the Eastern Universe.

Add to that the increased economic exchanges and friendly political relations...these three aspects work together, and the sum of them is called "alliance values."

This thing has an influence in Holy Terra. The people on Holy Terra are all the people of the Imperial Capital. What haven't they seen? Even so, they all fall for the Alliance's tricks, not to mention the border area of ​​the Eastern Universe.

The effect is very good.

Of course, the effect of transmitting "alliance values" cannot be as direct as military means.

This is a silent process.

Moreover, no matter how much the values ​​are conveyed, it is impossible to directly transform the Eastern Universe into an alliance.

But as long as this process of peaceful evolution continues and the middle alliance can remain strong, the future results will be quite bright.

There is no need to transform the Eastern Universe into an alliance.

Sometimes, direct rule may not be as good as indirect "colonization".

The advantage of direct rule is that one can fully mobilize the human and material resources of the ruled area and build the area in the direction one wants.

But at the same time, if they were to rule directly, the Alliance would have to bear a huge political and financial burden, just like the Alliance had to bear the burden of the Spider Web Universe.

Indirect influence is not easy to mobilize, and construction is not possible, but there is no such a heavy construction burden. With the economic exchanges between the two sides, although it cannot be regarded as economic plunder, the alliance can make a lot of money from it. The Eastern Universe will become a dumping market for the alliance and a source of raw materials.

If you make enough money, you will have more funds to invest in the alliance's own construction, pay taxes, and support the army...

When the Eastern Universe is full of allies of the Alliance, and a series of economic agreements have been signed or are being signed, then in the future, signing a series of military mutual assistance agreements will become a matter of course.

When fighting, the Eastern Universe would easily stand on the side of the Alliance.

Just don't fight with the Imperial Center.

But this may not be the case.

If the connection between the two sides deepens to a certain extent, perhaps one day even if the alliance falls out with the central government of the empire, the Eastern Universe will stand on its side?

At least when the allied forces move south, they will not encounter particularly strong resistance.

Just like during the Iron Armor War, when the Iron Armor regiment attacked from the Princess Star Region, the Empire's army in the Spider Web Universe was almost shattered at the first touch. That was certainly because the gap in strength between the two sides was huge, but on the other hand, it was also the result of the Iron Armor's influence over the Spider Web Universe for hundreds of years, which made many forces in the Spider Web Universe unwilling to fight to the death with the Iron Armor.

Now, the Alliance has a larger size and greater advantages than Iron Armor, so it is not difficult to achieve a similar level.

But no matter what, the key to expanding your influence outward is to be strong enough.

A blacksmith must be strong himself.

The continued development of the alliance is the most important thing. If we cannot maintain strong economic, political and military capabilities, then everything will be in vain.

When Gu Hang returned to the Dragon Eagle Star Region and returned to his old nest, the Angry Owl Star, the first thing he saw was Ossena, the Prime Minister of the Alliance, who was leading many high-ranking officials of the Alliance government to give a government work report to the Alliance leader who had been away for two and a half years, almost three years.

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I’ll try to finish one more chapter before going to bed!

(End of this chapter)