Chapter 225: Investment Alliance
Faced with Grit's unwillingness and dissatisfaction, Gu Hang was also helpless.
"Sister Grit, I am also very sorry. The contributions you and your sisters have made over the past year have been witnessed by the people of the entire planet. I am very grateful for your efforts, and I sincerely hope that you can stay and work together to completely eliminate the heretical cultists of the Original Wrathful Owl Sect."
"But I can't be so selfish. You still have to communicate with Koroja 3. In the end, whether you decide to go or stay, I respect your choice."
Gu Hang's words were polite and sincere.
This is exactly what he had in mind.
No matter how unwilling she was, Grit could only nod.
Before dialing the interstellar communication with Koroja 3, she said to Gu Hang seriously: "I will try to stay, at least until we eliminate those cultists."
Gu Hang smiled and nodded.
…
When Grit was communicating with her family, Gu Hang left gracefully and did not listen.
When the nun grew up, her complexion was very ugly.
At this time, Gu Hang asked: "What's going on? Is the situation still serious?"
"Yes." Grit sighed, "Perhaps, Koroja 3 will face a war."
Gu Hang's face also darkened.
He asked, "Is it similar to... the incident in the history of Wrathful Owl?"
"It's better not to get to that point. We go back to prevent that from happening."
"call……"
Captain Gu let out a breath.
He didn't know what exactly happened on Koroja 3, but he didn't want that place to fall into chaos.
The total population of the entire Pegasus star region, excluding Koroja 3, and the remaining eight planets add up to a total of only 40 billion people.
Once Koroja 3 was in turmoil, half of the population of the star region would be plunged into turmoil. All kinds of business, trade, and communication would come to a standstill.
Gu Hang is still waiting to become the head of the Gu family. Even if he is just a puppet and the actual power lies with his mother, it will not prevent him from using family resources to strengthen the Angry Owl Star in the direction of interstellar trade.
Isn’t this the reason why he built the starport?
This is a huge economic benefit.
But the war was about to begin.
If it was just a minor disturbance on the planet, it would be fine. But if it really spread to the scale of the terrible war in the history of the Wrathful Owl Star, it would require the mobilization of fleets for blockade, a large amount of material investment, and the continuous dispatch of interstellar troops to quell the situation...
That's it. If things aren't settled, trade may never recover.
Moreover, if the disaster spreads beyond Koroja 3, the Angry Owl will probably be the first to be hit.
It only takes one star jump from Koroga 3 to Wrathful Owl, and there is a star tunnel directly connecting them. If there is corruption, cult traitors, or even demons spreading outward from Koroga 3, Wrathful Owl will not be able to escape.
If a disaster that could destroy Koroja 3 spreads out, the Angry Owl Star will have no way of resisting it.
This is an absolute gap in size. A planet with a population of 40 billion cannot withstand a disaster, so the Angry Owl Planet, which is a thousand times smaller and has a population of only 40 million, cannot resist it.
Gu Hang still hopes that the problems on Koroja 3 can be resolved more properly.
However, there is not much he can do in it.
It's another matter where we can only wait for the results.
However, at this time, it was Grit who comforted him: "Don't worry too much. There are twenty hives on Koroja 3, and each hive is so large and densely populated. There are too many places and people that are beyond the supervision of law enforcement and administrative departments. All kinds of disgusting things happen there all the time, and the breeding of cults is one of them. This time, it's just a bigger scale and a worse situation, and it won't necessarily develop to the point where it can't be reversed. I'm going back to solve this problem."
"I hope you can resolve this issue properly." This was all Gu Hang could say.
"Well, but..." Grit seemed to have made a decision and said to Gu Hang, "But we don't have a ship to go back now. Bishop Zhao Qinghong said that he would send a ship of the state religion to pick us up on the Wrathful Owl Star. It will take at least six or seven days to get here, plus the round trip... He told me that we can return to Korojia within a month. So, I'm thinking..."
"If we act in advance, will there be enough time for us to completely eradicate the Original Wrathful Owl Sect?"
Obviously, the head nun was still unwilling to give in.
After working on this for a year, she just left without any results. She felt really aggrieved and uncomfortable.
Hence, this proposal came up.
But Gu Hang was very calm.
"If it's possible, that would be great. But... we can't act rashly. Do we have enough intelligence now? Do we have enough time? Is the timing right?"
Grit said frankly: "It's not so mature, but it's not impossible. Listen to me..."
She carefully told Gu Hang about their so-called recent big gain.
Gu Hang was listening carefully and interrupting to ask questions from time to time.
During this process, he seriously considered whether the plan proposed by Grit was feasible.
If we can really solve this serious problem before the nuns leave and recover the northern region in one fell swoop, then it would obviously be a good thing.
Although, he had already formed a new team of heretic demon hunters, with a size of fifty people, spending thousands of his grace points and half of this month's income into it, preparing to have them take over the work of the combat nuns.
But this is a fallback measure after all.
The abilities of the heretic demon hunters were not as strong as those of the battle sisters. They might be able to catch up in terms of investigation and exploration, but their combat effectiveness was far behind. Even if they were equipped with exoskeletons and the most outstanding individual equipment of the alliance, and they also had a variety of psychic talents, they were definitely no match for the battle sisters.
If these female warriors were to fight one-on-one, only Space Marines could defeat them. According to the abilities in Gu Hang's soldier card system, they were at least T1 level super warriors with a layer of Emperor's Blessing buff.
In addition to their combat effectiveness, the battle sisters have been investigating that group of cultists for a year and have been active in the northern region for such a long time. Whether it is the level of intelligence they have or their understanding of the local situation, they are not comparable to the heretic demon hunters who have just arrived.
All disadvantages.
Of course it would be best if the matter could be resolved before the nuns leave.
After listening to Grit's detailed explanation, Gu Hang thought to himself:
"Your plan is indeed possible. Let me think about it carefully... Where is Thadius? Let my chief of staff come. I need to know how much force we can mobilize."
…
Five days later, in the northern region, the polar industrial city.
Now, it is almost autumn. In the Qinggu region of the south, the residual heat is still there, and the staple food planting has reached the harvest season. The ground is golden, and people have begun to work hard and happily.
This will be a good year.
In the north, it is already snowing this season.
The first heavy snow turned the entire area around the Far North Industrial City into a silvery white.
But this city alone, standing in the snow, is still gray and hot.
The northern region is very large, larger than the southern and northern Qinggu regions combined. But the climate here is relatively harsher, and it was also greatly damaged in the world-destroying war. People's living environment is more severe, and the population is even more sparse.
According to the last population census of the Old Alliance during the reign of the second governor several years ago, the total population of such a vast northern region should be around three million.
In the North, the biggest force is a company called 'Polar Industrial Group'.
A large number of northerners serve them, or directly become their employees, which gives them a higher status, more pay, and better living conditions; but there are also many informal employees, or simply serve the peripheral industries of the Polar Industrial Group, which is not very popular.
And it has nothing to do with it...then generally speaking, life will be even more difficult.
The Polar Industrial Group has relatively good industrial capabilities and produces a variety of consumer goods and mechanical products, including vehicles, construction machinery, and munitions.
In the northern region itself, food production is very small, with only a few greenhouse planting bases, but this is not enough to guarantee the food needs of millions of people.
The main food supply for the northern region comes from imports from the western desert region.
This gray-black city, which is still smoking in the winter snow due to the residual heat from metal smelting and industrial industries, is the headquarters of polar industries.
It originally had no name, but an industrial base was built here. Later, as the scale grew, more and more people worked in it, and it formed the appearance of an industrial city, and got the name "Far North Industrial City".
At this moment, at the top of the industrial city, in an office with a rather luxurious interior decoration, Jerome Pierre was thinking about something with a gloomy face.
He is the current CEO of Polar Industries and can be considered the biggest boss in the northern region.
Logically speaking, there are very few things that would bother him so much now.
But recently, annoying things have been happening one after another.
The latest news is that an army of unknown size but not small in size has appeared on the highway in the North Central Province and is heading northward.
To be honest, he has never been in a good mood since the establishment of the alliance.
Polar Industries and the Original Wrathful Owl Cult have a relatively close cooperation. Although he doesn't like those crazy people, he doesn't need to go too far when he can appease them with money. What's more, that cult has been developing in the North for a longer time than them, and even established a relatively widespread belief. In particular, a large number of low-level workers believe in this cult, and believe that believing in the Original Wrathful Owl can allow them to go to the Wrathful Owl Star in the future after death, which is as prosperous as the past.
If they turned against the original Angry Owl sect, firstly, they would not have enough power to wipe out the entire sect; secondly, their industry would be unstable; thirdly, if the other party retaliated, it would be difficult for them to cope with it.
It's better to spend some money, "donate" and maintain good relationships, which can be considered as spending money to ensure safety.
After the relationship got better, they found that they could also delegate some of the messy and dirty work to the sect, which became even more interesting.
But after the alliance was established, their good days became a little difficult.
On the one hand, the industrial capacity of the new alliance has inexplicably soared. In the past, they knew that Fuxing City was just a trade center and a hub for high-quality products. They imported a lot of agricultural products from it, and also sold their own industrial products through Fuxing City in exchange for raw materials and production materials...
Now, a year and a half later, according to the latest intelligence, the industrial city called Weixing City, which has sprung up not far from Fuxing City, already has a population of over two million, and its output has even surpassed that of the Polar Industrial City. Moreover, it can produce many things that they consider to be high-tech and sophisticated.
There are three things that the polar industry can show off: Challenger tanks, helicopters, and fixed-wing jet aircraft.
Their production capacity for these three items is actually not very high. They have sold some of them at very high prices before and earned relatively excess profits.
On the Angry Owl Star, generally speaking, whichever force can produce a Challenger and drive it out will almost certainly have an absolute advantage in a regional conflict.
But now...that's far from it.
The New Alliance's army is equipped with Wind Falcons, Walker armored vehicles, and Lion tanks...
Isn't this much better than what their polar industries come up with?
The Alliance no longer wants the "earth-made guns and cannons" they make, as they have better products and their prices may even be cheaper than theirs.
The sales of arms, which have the largest profits, have dropped sharply - especially after the eastern provinces were recovered by the Alliance, there are even fewer customers.
Thanks to the trade with the Western Desert, the impact was not that great.
The Alliance has considerable restrictions on the export of arms, so not much is sold. For those oasis lords in the Western Desert who want to enhance their armaments, their polar industry is still a good choice.
Although it is painful to compete with Blackbird Heavy Industries in the west...
The group of people who called themselves Battle Sisters who came to the North also gave him a headache.
They had fought many battles with the cultists under his industry. As a result, many settlements that were originally affected by the polar industry were brought under the jurisdiction of the so-called North Central Province of the Alliance.
But they didn't dare to get angry.
What? Do you dare to fight the alliance?
On the contrary, what Pierre, the president of Polar Region, was most worried about all day was whether the alliance would suddenly decide to retake the northern border.
If that's the case...
To be honest, there is not much we can do.
Pierre could clearly realize that he would not be able to win if he fought.
From production capacity to existing military strength to war potential...no one part of the North has an advantage.
And I can't attract allies.
Furthermore, they cannot be careless - they are nominally members of the alliance.
There is indeed some hope, which is to take advantage of the current hostile relationship between the Alliance and the original Angry Owl Sect, rely more on the popular base of that evil cult in the North, and wage a people's war against the Alliance.
but……
Why bother?
Rather than adopting a strategy with a low success rate and huge cost, it is better to vote for the alliance.
As soon as the thought of investing comes into your mind, the world becomes wider!
In fact, he also had this opportunity.
The battle sisters contacted him more than a month ago, asking him for help, providing clues about the original wrathful owl sect, and even helping them track down the cultists.
The advantage is that these combat nuns still have a lot of face in the alliance, so it is easier to contact the Polar Industrial Group to "return" to the alliance.
He has been getting pretty close to those nuns lately.
But I had already decided to vote, so why did the Alliance suddenly dispatch a large army north?
(End of this chapter)
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