Chapter 339: One Hundred Thousand Gifts
Gu Hang hasn't seen Ye Lixia for a long time.
Ever since Ye Licia led a naval ship to complete the close-earth support mission in the orbit of the Angry Owl Star two years ago, the only time the two met was when Pedes was about to die.
Apart from this, the two of them rarely had any other communication.
What was the relationship between the two?
We are mostly partners who cooperate well with each other. It is a stretch to call us friends, let alone have feelings for each other.
It is obvious that their engagement has nothing to do with love. It is a pure political marriage and a combination of interests.
Gu Hang doesn't have too much of a mysophobia and isn't averse to things like political marriage.
The two were not completely strangers. In Gu Hang's memory, they had dealt with each other on Feiyi Star when they were very young; later, they spent another two years on Angry Owl Star.
Although they didn't really meet in those two years, they kept in touch a lot. The alliance's establishment on the Angry Owl Star was inseparable from Ye Lishia's escort in the planet's orbit.
If a political marriage must be arranged, Ye Lishia is better than having an unfamiliar person on the other side.
What's more, Ye Lixia is quite pretty and fits his aesthetic taste.
Of course, getting married and having a wife was secondary. He was the ruler of two planets and would never lack women, no matter how beautiful they were.
The main thing is that the combination of the two companies does have great benefits.
Then do it.
In addition, Gu Hang had another consideration.
The construction of the navy is currently the alliance's extremely weak point, but it is also the most difficult thing to make up for.
At present, all technologies related to the navy and interstellar navigation are relatively advanced in the system's [Technology Tree] panel. Gu Hang has only extracted [Starport Technology Blueprint] and [Traveler]. Other technologies such as compressed energy technology and anti-gravity engines are also necessary for interstellar navigation, but they are not key technologies after all.
In order to draw out these technologies, it costs a huge amount of money and they have to be drawn from high-level prize pools.
In addition, even if it is extracted, the related construction work will be extremely costly and time-consuming.
The saying "It takes ten years to build an army and a hundred years to build a navy" is not nonsense.
If the alliance wants to build its own navy, especially a navy that is strong and useful enough, there is too much foundation to be made and too much time to be spent.
This is of course a step that the Alliance must take towards the starry sea. No matter how difficult the road may be, it must be taken.
But before you get through it, if there is a shortcut right in front of you, then what's wrong with that?
Yelisia Fofana is that shortcut.
She herself had recently reaped the rewards of her victory over the green-skinned orc raiding fleet in the Wrathful Owl Galaxy, and had been promoted to the rank of rear admiral of the Imperial Navy.
Although the Fofana family cannot be said to control the Pegasus Fleet, they have many students and former employees throughout the fleet; they also have their own connections in the higher-level Imperial Navy Command.
After marrying Ye Lisia, Gu Hang will be able to use all these connections.
That certainly doesn't count as taking the Pegasus Fleet into their possession, and even the Fofana family themselves don't dare to say that.
But at least, when the Alliance's naval power was basically zero, he didn't have to worry too much about being targeted by the navy; when necessary, as long as he paid a sufficient price, he also had the means to call on the Imperial Navy to do things.
That's where the value lies.
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Before leaving for his engagement ceremony, Gu Hang still had some things to do.
He has accumulated a lot of gift points and needs to find a chance to spend them.
The source of such a large amount of grace points is quite complicated.
War rewards are one thing. Although the troops suffered heavy losses in a series of battles within the Kingdom of Panpos, no one can deny that it was a victory. Gu Hang also earned more than 20,000 points of grace here.
Adding the previous offensive against the Kingdom of Stefano and, after the overall situation was determined, some rebellion suppression work and some wars of annihilation against some small countries that were confused, the total amount exceeded 10,000 points.
The continued fighting of the Angry Bear Legion on Koroga also earned Gu Hang thousands of grace points.
In total, the war rewards totaled 40,000.
The remaining bulk comes from the accumulation of monthly grace points over the past year.
With the influx of a large number of people, the utilization of the original population, and the rapid development of productivity, the monthly grace points provided to Gu Hang by Angry Owl Star have exceeded 4,000.
As for Black Arrow Star, it was considered a vassal state in the early days. The number of gift points provided was not much, only a few hundred points. It was estimated that the vassal state had a large amount of attenuation.
However, the situation changed as two things happened.
First of all, the political entity of the "Alliance" was recognized by the Empire, thus becoming legal. This gave Gu Hang legal and recognized ownership of the Black Arrow Star in name.
Secondly, Gu Hang actually controlled the world through military operations.
Third, the Alliance has its own political system, which is disguised as the new King's Council. In fact, it has taken root quickly in the past six months and has significantly enhanced the Alliance's control over the entire Black Arrow Star.
These changes were directly reflected in the system. In Gu Hang's [Vassal] panel, in addition to the Kingdom of Luman, many other countries were added in a short period of time. Then, the vassal levels of these countries were rapidly improved. A few days ago, the option of annexation finally appeared.
Gu Hang has already ordered.
At this point, Black Arrow Star can be regarded by the system as a 'native' like Angry Owl Star.
However, the bonus of gift points that this native land can provide is not much at present.
Although it has a population of 400 million, the monthly grace points provided are less than 2,000 points, less than half of that of the Angry Owl Star.
But Gu Hang was not too surprised by this.
Gu Hang knew that the monthly supply of grace points should be closely related to a series of data such as population size, total productivity, average living standards of the population, government control, etc. Moreover, the monthly growth of grace points was not directly linearly related to the increase of these things, but more like a step-by-step system, with a certain data point rising.
If you want to raise the number of grace points that Black Arrow Star can provide to a more ideal level, you have to calm down and build the entire planet in a positive direction.
This is exactly the goal of the alliance.
The grace points provided by the Angry Owl Star accumulated to nearly 50,000 in this year; the Black Arrow Star had just become a native land, and before that, as a [vassal], the points provided were not many, and accumulated to less than 10,000 in a year.
If the war rewards are added, the number of grace points Gu Hang received in the past year has exceeded 100,000 points.
Of course, he didn't have that much on hand right now. After all, it was impossible for Gu Hang to not spend any gift points in the past year.
The main expenses are concentrated on personnel.
Gu Hang has been training talents through the [Hero] interface, even including some natives on the Black Arrow Star. If he feels that a person is reliable and good, he will train him to be a talent.
This [Hero] interface is quite reliable. The talents that are enlightened are all in line with their original abilities and talents, and they also have good growth potential. They are more valuable than those trained on a large scale through the soldier card system.
In addition, whether it is these enlightened talents or people who have just entered important positions on the two planets, their loyalty still needs to be guaranteed.
Zhongsi College still plays an important role in this regard.
Before those people take up their posts, they have to go to Xifeng Zhongsi College. The people on Angry Owl Star are easy to deal with, but the people on Black Arrow Star have to take the Traveler to Fuxing City for further study. Gu Hang will also regularly spend some gift points in the advanced training class of Zhongsi College to transform these people into "political commissars" in one step.
Moreover, the Alliance is now gradually trying to arrange cross-border work for officials in the two places. For example, let some promoted officials from Angry Owl Star go to Black Arrow Star, or let those from Black Arrow Star come to Angry Owl Star. The former is more common.
The Alliance's several current travel ships are traveling back and forth between the two planets almost all the time, mainly transporting various government personnel and official documents.
This is normal. After all, the load capacity of travelers is limited and they can only do these things.
In addition to talent, another thing is the military reinforcement.
Whether it was on Black Arrow or Koroja, the Alliance was fighting a war, and the loss of troops was inevitable.
At present, the largest source of soldiers for the alliance army is still the Angry Owl Star. The new recruit camp has always maintained a scale of hundreds of thousands of people, and Gu Hang needs to pay thousands of gift points to train them. Then, when there are casualties in the front-line battles, the corresponding soldiers are replenished, along with a series of supplies such as weapons, equipment, ammunition, etc., and sent to the front line to replenish the corresponding front-line troops.
This certainly won't last long.
Including the expansion of the Angry Bear Legion, the total strength of the Alliance Army is over one million. It should not rely solely on the Angry Owl Star for replenishment.
Now that Black Arrow Star has become our homeland, there is no need to maintain a certain ratio between troops.
In fact, Thadius has received orders to establish multiple recruit training centers on Black Arrow Star and continue to recruit new soldiers on Black Arrow Star to supplement the alliance's army.
At the same time, a special recruit training center will be established on Koroga to specifically replenish the losses of the Angry Bear Legion.
However, the reason why this recruit training center is special is that the Angry Bear Corps does not have the power to directly recruit soldiers from Koroja. Even if they are forcibly recruited, the system will not recognize it, and Gu Hang will not be able to train. They can only go through the logistics replenishment channel of the Star Army. In essence, the personnel are sent to the Angry Bear Corps as imperial taxes, and then enter the recruit camp.
In this way, these people can be counted as the reserve forces of the Angry Bear Legion, allowing Gu Hang, the commander of the Angry Bear Legion, to conduct direct training.
According to imperial law, these soldiers can only be used to replenish the Angry Bear Legion and cannot be used for other purposes.
In general, the training cost of ordinary soldiers is not high. One gift point can train one hundred T5 soldiers. In three planets and multiple recruit training bases, maintaining a camp of more than 200,000 recruits to replenish the front line at any time, it costs less than a few thousand points of gift, and there is not much pressure.
The real big expense is the construction of the Phoenix Regiment.
In the decisive battle on Black Arrow Star, the Phoenix Space Marines played a significant role in destroying all twelve Knight Titans.
The Alliance also lost thousands of armored vehicles, nearly five hundred tanks, and more than forty Wind Falcons, as well as six Phoenixes.
From this perspective, we can also see that the Knight Titan is still a very powerful thing - after all, it costs 700,000 per unit. In comparison, the cost of a Space Marine's power armor is only 50,000 per set; the Terminator on Martins is only 800,000.
Cost is certainly not everything. The most valuable thing about a Space Marine is the warrior itself, not the armor on the outside.
But no matter what, the cost can also explain a lot of problems.
Martins was still very sad about the casualties of Space Marines, but after all, it was different from before. Now the number of chapters was growing continuously, so his mentality was relatively stable.
In the past six months, Gu Hang has trained twelve new interstellar warriors, in addition to thousands of elite special forces from the 10th Brigade.
Among these twelve people, seven are from the native land of Angry Owl Star, and among the other five, two are from Korojia immigrants, and the other three are from Black Arrow Star.
Gu Hang did this intentionally in many things.
As for the recognition of the concept of 'alliance' and the integration of populations, Gu Hang will try his best wherever he can.
Although it is somewhat difficult to bridge the gap between the two planets and create an "alliance identity" in addition to the original "empire identity", "human identity", "planetary identity" and "ethnic identity", and it cannot be done in a short time, we still have to do it and seize every opportunity to emphasize it.
Gu Hang used this idea to formulate various personnel exchange policies, the selection of officials, the military, and even space marines.
It is true that Angry Owl Star is his main base, but it is too small after all. It is impossible for him to rely solely on the population of 45 million to travel the starry sea in the future.
Expanding the base is necessary, and Black Arrow is the first step.
These personnel gift points cost Gu Hang less than 20,000 in total.
In addition to personnel, he also spent some time on the [Architecture] interface in the past six months.
The main thing is the construction of the factory.
He built more than twenty civilian/military factories in three industrial centers on Black Arrow Star, and ten on Angry Owl Star.
This is another consumption of more than 3,000 points of grace.
But overall, not much.
He still has more than 70,000 points.
He planned to keep more than 20,000 yuan for emergencies, and use the remaining 50,000 yuan to draw technology.
(End of this chapter)
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