Chapter 1003, New Empire and New Contradictions
Gu Hang held a report and frowned slightly.
Although he was already the Prime Minister of the Empire, he was not in the Empire for long. Even at the founding ceremony of the new Empire, his so-called "personal" speech was actually just an avatar.
He can't really leave Angry Owl Star.
The Angry Owl Star is the location of the Storm God Kingdom, and he cannot leave it for a long time.
After all, his biggest responsibility is to 'suppress'.
Only when he suppressed it, and Old Deng had his hands free, would he have the space to slowly repair the big problem of the scarlet scar.
Before Gu Hang came along, he had to do the "suppression" himself.
All I can say is that in this "cesspool" universe, everyone has a prison sentence.
However, although he cannot go to Holy Terra in person often, Gu Hang still has a pretty good grasp of the overall political situation of the empire.
The main means of achieving this is, of course, the coalition government.
The current alliance government is still mainly in the east, in the Angry Owl Star and the Tianma Star Region, the "place where the dragon rises".
The central government of the Alliance and the central government of the Empire are the same team with two sets of names. Logically, they should go to Holy Terra, the center of the Empire.
This is indeed the plan for the future.
But I haven’t settled there yet.
At present, my main work is still focusing on the alliance, and I spend more time in the alliance.
But it does not mean that the control over Holy Terra is weak.
First of all, the Alliance - or the Imperial Government - has a special Holy Terra Capital Government that is responsible for the affairs of the special world of Holy Terra. Its personnel are administrative elites drawn from all parts of the Alliance.
The Alliance attaches no less importance to Holy Terra than Comoros.
The standards of this capital government are very high. It is able to operate independently and implement the central strategy of the alliance well.
Secondly, it has convenient transportation.
The team of the Alliance's central government, specifically referring to several central government leaders such as Ossena, although they do not reside in Holy Terra permanently, they will go to Holy Terra every two weeks or even every week and stay for two days.
In the past, this would have been impossible.
A trip to Holy Terra is too far away and takes too long - not to mention the problem of the journey, even the communication may not be reliable.
Under such circumstances, it is impossible to achieve a model where people on the frontiers of the empire can effectively rule the center of the empire.
But now it's different.
Although communications were worse than before due to the Scarlet Scar, the Alliance's control of Comoros had truly been effective. For greater efficiency, ultra-miniature veiled spirit doors had been installed in several of the most important government buildings on the Angry Owl Star.
On the other side, Comoros opened a small port specifically for government use, which corresponds to the administrative office of Holy Terra.
The Alliance government argued with the Imperial Guards for a long time over this matter. After all, these administrative offices were located within the Imperial Palace. Citing the safety of the palace, the Imperial Guards refused. Ultimately, it took the combined efforts of Gu Hang and Robert to finally convince Yan Xinzhen.
With these three doors in three places, an official with high enough authority like Ossena could, if she wanted, open the door of her office, come to the miniature curtain spiritual door in the same building, walk in, arrive at Comoros, take a few more steps, go to the corresponding spiritual door, walk in again, and arrive at Holy Terra.
The whole process probably took less than fifteen minutes in total.
Thanks to Comoros's teleportation capabilities, it became possible for the Union Government to govern both the Dark Side of the Empire and Holy Terra simultaneously.
And the report that Gu Hang was reading at the moment came from the central government of the new empire.
What made him frown was that the main problem mentioned above was still quite tricky - the league's current increasing financial pressure.
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The governance of the Alliance is very good. The worlds conquered by the Dark Side Expedition can often recover well economically in a short period of time and provide fuel supply for the expedition again.
However, this economic recovery also has a prerequisite - investment.
Construction does not happen out of thin air. Builders, technology, resources... these things are all indispensable.
Construction investment and construction in various places have occupied a lot of funds.
Many newly conquered worlds not only fail to bring direct benefits, but are instead a financial burden.
The Dark Side Crusade has been going on for so many years, and the Alliance has already developed a complete set of reconstruction processes. But no matter how good the process is, it still takes time to slowly rebuild the world and turn financially positive.
However, before becoming a regular employee, it is a financial burden.
At the same time, the Alliance's Dark Side Expedition was immediately divided into five fronts: the Central Front, the Eastern, Western, and Southern Fronts, plus the Angel Front. Each of these fronts was massive, and even without additional troops, simply maintaining the current size and sustaining their operations would require an astronomical amount of funds.
This alone would be fine, after all, the Alliance has been doing this since its hundred-year expedition, and has been able to maintain a balance overall.
However, this balance was somewhat disrupted when the Alliance took over Holy Terra and assumed the responsibilities of serving as the center of the Empire.
Holy Terra is too large. With 700 billion survivors, a large amount of infrastructure and factories need to be rebuilt, and the investment required is enormous.
According to the Alliance's past experience, this is equivalent to an entire star field being instantly incorporated into the Alliance's rule, and hundreds of worlds all need to be reinvested.
This puts a lot of economic pressure on us.
Fortunately, there is a Mars nearby.
Mars provided significant assistance, but they themselves were not having an easy time either. Production on Mars also required a vast investment of raw materials and resources, and a large workforce. Even with the Mechanicum's preferential treatment, they still needed to earn a profit.
It also costs money to place an order with them.
To put it bluntly, at the founding ceremony, Gu Hang, on behalf of the new imperial government, promised to give the residents of Holy Terra a better life.
This requires sufficient construction, and the construction period is not short. It will take a considerable amount of time to recover the costs and see obvious benefits.
But there is a contradiction here: Robert hopes to advance the construction of a powerful expeditionary force.
A huge army of soldiers, a huge number of new Space Marine chapters, a huge fleet...
Building these requires huge capital investment.
In terms of scale, if Robert's needs are fully met, it would be equivalent to building an army of the size of two and a half alliances.
The capital investment alone would be one thing, but the key is that it also requires a large amount of production capacity and population, which will make the original economic construction and economic recovery time even slower.
This contradiction has been going on for a long time, and finally it could no longer be tolerated and was brought to Gu Hang's desk.
(End of this chapter)
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