Chapter 269, Alliance Output Value
Gu Hang still had some time, so he chatted with Wu Jiarong for a while longer.
Based on Wu Jiarong's extremely fast progress, he came up with another idea:
"If we send more people to join the institute, I don't mean peripheral ones, but formal ones like you who can study black boxes, then wouldn't the entire alliance become stronger in the training of scientific researchers?"
"In theory, yes." Wu Jiarong said, "Although I can share some of my research results, I have also established a research journal in the technical college, which can also accelerate the training of technical personnel; and, if these technical personnel come to participate in the black box research and reach duplicate conclusions and results, it will not help their growth much. But in general, we have too many black boxes here, and I can't study them all. It will definitely be good to have more helpers."
"The only problem is confidentiality."
Speaking of this, Gu Hang thought of Hu Ke again.
He is definitely a good choice.
But after all, he is an outsider and still needs to be tested.
Gu Hang said to Wu Jiarong: "Pick a few young people with good talents and bring them to meet me."
"Okay!" Wu Jiarong was also very happy after getting the permission. "There are indeed a few good candidates. After they join, I will definitely pay attention to the security issues of confidentiality."
"Well, you can't relax here."
Gu Hang said this, but at the same time he also made plans for double insurance.
Later, he met four young people, three men and one woman, selected by Wu Jiarong.
Gu Hang chatted with them, which was considered an interview.
During the interview, he used his mind to tamper with the information and did some tricks.
He tried his best to avoid abusing this ability, but when it came to the secrets of the black box, he had to be cautious.
He would not interfere with the mind excessively, but simply added a layer of mental maze to prevent these participants from leaking information.
Next, Wu Jiarong will lead these four young people, whose levels are at most technical specialists, into the real research institute.
They were confused and had no idea what kind of palace they were about to enter.
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After doing all this, Gu Hang hurriedly boarded the Feng Falcon and embarked on the journey back to Fuxing City.
There, many senior officials of the alliance have gathered together.
Gu Hang had to meet with Ossena, Lambert, Thadius and others one by one, listen to their recent work reports, and then preside over a working meeting with many senior officials of the alliance.
The content of Thadius' report was relatively routine, concerning military construction.
During the entire reporting process, it was actually Gu Hang who was talking and he was listening.
Gu Hang will build the Angry Bear Legion in preparation for its subsequent formation as the Star Army; in addition, he will also have to take care of the newly built Eastern Army Group and Central Army Group.
After receiving instructions from the Governor, Thadius hurried away.
Mobilizing troops and forming the Angry Bear Corps; reorganizing twelve divisions from the militia regiments in the three eastern provinces. These are all big moves, and he will be busy in the future.
After that, there were many things to talk about with Ossena.
The Prime Minister of the alliance gave a detailed account of the current development of the alliance.
Currently, there are 25 million people under the actual control of the alliance, divided into eight provinces.
It has been estimated that the total output value of the alliance this year has reached 34.14 million tax coins.
Under this premise, the per capita welfare and allowances of the alliance consumed a total of 10 million tax coins; administrative costs, development reinvestment, and military industry supply to the troops consumed a total of 23 million tax coins, and the alliance's fiscal surplus was about 1 million tax coins.
Of course, this so-called tax currency is actually a statistical algorithm, and the currency issued within the alliance is another matter. Many investments and benefits are not issued in the form of currency, but in kind.
Another point that must be mentioned is that these are normal economic production conditions within the alliance and do not include the output of the Wei Xingcheng Research Institute.
The output of the institute cannot be calculated at all.
There is not only direct output of various military products, but also the construction of many production lines, which are of extraordinary value.
In fact, if the output of the research institute is taken into account, the Alliance's spending on reinvesting in industrial production will be much higher than the apparent figures.
In terms of output, contrary to expectations, the province with the largest output value in the alliance is not the expected Weixing City Industrial Center, but the Beiqinggu Province.
The main reason is that the natural environment of Beiqinggu Province is so excellent. It has the second largest land in the entire alliance, which can be called fertile land. In contrast, the largest area is the Northern Border Province, but the land there is very poor.
There is a big gap between the two.
Similarly, the Beiqinggu Province has a population of eight million, accounting for one-third of the entire alliance.
The most fertile land, the second largest area, the largest population...created the province with the highest output value in the entire alliance.
Moreover, not to mention the total amount, just the per capita output value is the highest.
It is higher than the per capita output value of Weixing City.
This is mainly because, after a large number of agricultural machinery were produced and transported to Weixing City, the land there was used very effectively. Eight million people were scattered on the vast fertile land, and farmers drove agricultural machinery. Each household took care of hundreds of acres of land, using genetically modified seeds and industrial fertilizers to help. The output value would not be low.
The cultivated land that has been utilized in the Beiqinggu area has reached 200 million mu. In addition to the service industry, transportation industry, fertilizer and food processing industry derived from agricultural production, the annual output value per capita has reached 2.3 tax coins.
In contrast, the current per capita output value of Weixing City is only 1.95 tax coins, and the population is only 2.55 million, and the annual output value is just a little short of five million.
This is where the gap between the two comes from.
Of course, when looking at development, we can’t just look at money.
The main output of Beiqinggu Province is agricultural products, mainly grain, supplemented by other types of cash crops.
These things are hard currency, and their prices are very strong whether you eat them yourself, use them as food for export trade, or even pay taxes.
However, agriculture alone will not make one rich, nor will it be possible to train a reliable army.
Moreover, large-scale agricultural production fundamentally relies on "land", a resource with an upper limit.
Although there is still a large amount of arable land in the Qinggu area that has not been used. According to estimates, the arable area in the northern Qinggu area can reach up to 1.2 billion mu; and the southern Qinggu is still in an undeveloped state. If it is fully developed, it can also provide no less than 700 million mu of arable land.
But after all, there is an end to this.
But large-scale industrial production has no end.
As time goes by, the per capita output value of Weixing City will have room to rise further. And according to the plans of Prime Minister Ossena and Weixing City Mayor Patel, the construction of Weixing City will be accelerated in the next year.
The population of Weixing City has been growing rapidly. In two years, it has grown from a flat land to an industrial city with a population of 2.5 million.
But it can be faster.
What restricts further population growth is the expansion of industrial lines and the construction of urban supporting facilities.
They expect to lay a solid foundation in this area within half a year; then, within a year, they will double the industrial population of Weixing City.
In this case, the industrial output value of Weixing City should be able to catch up with the agricultural output value of the Beiqinggu area.
Of course, no matter what, Beiqinggu and Weixing City are the core sources of the alliance's output value. The two places together account for more than 67% of the alliance's total output value.
The remaining provinces are lagging behind.
Except for the capital city of Fuxing, the per capita annual output value barely reached 1 tax coin, while the rest were all less than 1.
The poorest among them was the newly recovered Northern Province. As the Far North Industrial City was assigned to the Central North Province, the main production capacity of the Polar Industrial Group was moved away during the administrative division. The Northern Province had the largest land in the entire alliance and a population of 3 million, but the per capita annual output value was only 0.34.
Not to mention the subsequent alliance investment and construction there, just for the more than 3 million people, according to the alliance's welfare and subsidy policies, the average cost per person is 0.4 tax coins, which is a loss-making business.
Other places are not much better. Even if you take into account the allowances and benefits, you won't make much money after factoring in taxes.
Taking into account the investment and construction, it is most likely a pure loss.
However, as I said before, construction cannot be done purely for the sake of money. This is not doing business.
Although the natural environment in the Northern Province is harsh, there are mines.
The exploration team, which has been working around the alliance territory with [Resource Exploration Technology], has discovered three mineral veins of various types in the Northern Province in the past month alone.
In addition, there are many mining ruins left over from the pre-war era there, and it may become the most important mineral resource area for the Alliance in the future.
Xiongya Province, one of the three eastern provinces, has found its own development path by relying on the Star Port; the other two provinces are not so good, but they are also trying to find their own ways. At least they still have ruins and mines to clean up in their own territories. The pre-war nest cities are still enough to pick up garbage for many years. Before they are completely exhausted, they still have a long time to find a way out.
The other regions of Gaota Province, Zhongbei Province, and Zhongyin Province are working hard to receive the industries that overflow from Weixing City. It is expected that a large industrial circle will be formed with Weixing City as the center...
Everyone has a bright future!
Finally, Ossena concluded: "In the next two-year plan, I hope to double the total output value of the alliance; even the poorest provinces must have a per capita output value of more than 1."
Gu Hang clapped softly.
He was basically satisfied with Ossena's report.
What more could you ask for?
In fact, the alliance has only been in existence for two years. Weixing City was built from scratch; Beiqing Valley was recovered just over a year ago; the three eastern provinces were recovered less than a year ago; and the northern border was recovered just a month ago.
Under such circumstances, the biggest factor in the development to the current point is of course the unreasonable golden finger that Gu Hang brought with him when he traveled through time. However, as the steward of the entire alliance government, the hard work that Ossena has put in cannot be ignored.
Amid the applause, Gu Hang opened the character interface.
He could see that in Ossena's character information, her potential had quietly risen from R level to SR level. At the same time, behind her LV3 level, there was an upgrade option.
Gu Hang clicked on upgrade without hesitation.
Ossena became a LV4 Archon.
And, you can continue to upgrade.
She has accumulated a lot of experience in this position.
However, Gu Hang no longer has enough gift points.
There are only 194 points left, which is not enough to meet the 500 points of grace required for a LV4 character to upgrade to LV5.
But it doesn't matter. After waiting for the subsequent 'salary payment', Gu Hang will not hesitate to upgrade Ossena to the next level.
Currently, Gu Hang's monthly gift income has reached 3522 points, of which 3178 are provided by the Alliance, and the other 344 are provided by the Kingdom of Luman through the [Vassal] system.
It's quite emotional.
In the past, if you earned a thousand or two thousand grace points after fighting a battle, you would feel like you had become rich. At that time, the grace points given each month were not much and were quite useless.
But now it seems that it is easy to get rich through war, but the daily accumulation of farming cannot be ignored.
Ten thousand points of grace can be obtained by just lying in bed for three months.
It's nothing.
Moreover, the monthly income from grace points will continue to grow as the alliance grows.
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After meeting Ossena, Gu Hang met Lambert again.
There are mainly three things he mentioned.
One is the rule of law construction within the alliance, which is progressing normally. Gu Hang has also read the criminal law, civil law and the like seriously.
The rule of law is of course important.
Another thing is the result of the anti-corruption campaign that started in Beiqinggu Province and gradually spread to the entire alliance.
A considerable number of alliance officials were purged and held accountable, and the main problem was that they were officials who had switched from the original ruling class.
The league has already given them a chance, but they didn't seize it, so they can't blame the league for being ruthless.
There are relatively few death sentences, and if someone is sentenced, they are transformed into robot servants or servo skulls to make the best use of their resources; most of them are still based on labor, and for lighter cases, they are supplemented by imprisonment and demotion.
Don't think that hard labor is easy. Being sentenced to ten years of hard labor is really worse than just the death penalty. The Union as a whole is not yet rich and developed enough to take care of and improve the working environment of prisoners. Generally, those sentenced to ten years of hard labor will hardly live to that age.
In fact, the Alliance's Servant Administration and Servo Skull Studio have repeatedly found Chief Justice Lambert and hope that he will impose a heavier sentence when he returns.
You can sentence them to 10 years of hard labor, but they won't survive more than 10 years. Why not just give them the death penalty? You can also give them some materials for making servo skulls and servitors. If they make these things, they can serve for much longer than 10 years.
Lambert said he had been thinking about the matter carefully.
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