Chapter 411: Don’t be too honest
The trip to Jue Saturn gave Gu Hang a boost. There was a long-term risk (Iron Armored Corps) and a threat that could erupt in the near future (Ashes of the Dead).
Let’s not talk about those far away for now. The reason why the Ash Dead are a close threat is that since Blevins and his gang can come to our door, then Zhong Jihua and his gang can also do so.
Gu Hang was a little annoyed.
However, since the tone of responding to the crisis with development has been set, the focus should still be placed here.
And within the alliance, what is the biggest driver of development?
That of course is the gift points in Gu Hang's hand.
The last time I spent a large amount of grace points was four years ago.
At that time, it was mainly a wave that boosted the alliance's shipbuilding industry, which directly led to the current industry.
Now, after four years, although the alliance did not have any large-scale wars during this period, Gu Hang's control has stabilized within the scope of the entire Tianma star region, and the total population has reached 61 billion. In the past four years, the average life expectancy of the population under the alliance has increased, the fertility rate has not changed much, and the key is that the mortality rate has dropped significantly. These reasons have brought about a fairly high level of population growth.
The population of the Alliance increased by approximately one billion during this period.
Such a high population growth is quite frightening to some parts of the world.
If the population increases, then when the world population is calculated and tax rates are assessed next time, that will be all money.
But the alliance is not afraid.
More people is a good thing.
The three stars of Fache and the red arrows have even greater population carrying capacity.
Koroja will continue to move its population out.
In addition to population, the Alliance's productivity has been increasing over the years.
The education system of Feiyi Star is open to the entire star region, and the higher quality of the population has boosted the productivity of the alliance.
With the improvement of living standards...
These factors, population size, population quality, average living standards and happiness, productivity level... are all reasons that have a strong positive correlation with Gu Hang's monthly gift point income.
This also caused Gu Hang's monthly income to soar.
Four years ago, before taking over the Flying Wing Star, the Three Stars of Fache, and the Red Arrow Star, Gu Hang's income of grace points was seven thousand - and that was after raising Koroja's situation a lot to return to the level when he only controlled the Angry Owl Star and the Black Arrow Star.
Now, this number has grown to 32,000.
A full 4.5 times improvement.
Of course, this number has increased gradually, not all at once, and the growth rate has slowed down a lot recently.
But in general, Gu Hang's cumulative monthly income over the past four years has exceeded one million.
However, although he did not spend a large amount of money at once, Gu Hang spent 600,000 yuan of it over the past four years.
The main uses are basically on "people" and "buildings".
More heroes were activated, and a large amount of gift points were spent on the political commissar training at Zhongsi College. A lot of money was also spent on military training. Occasionally, some gene seeds had to be exchanged, and personnel were selected through the basic training templates on the soldier cards to replenish new blood for the Space Marines...
Many college templates, factory templates, and even church building templates were exchanged and assigned to corresponding buildings in the real world to play a role.
It is precisely because of these investments that we have achieved high growth.
Whether it is the growth of alliance income or the growth of grace point income.
And now, it was time to use the more than 400,000 gifts he had left in batches.
First, he planned 200,000 points on the Space Marines.
With the continuous increase in the past, the number of Phoenix Space Marines has reached more than two hundred.
This time, with the drop of 200,000 points, the number of phoenixes directly increased to 500.
In addition to the gene seeds that Gu Hang directly exchanged, the first batch of new blood of the Phoenix a few years ago, five years have passed, and the first seed on its body has matured and been picked.
Originally, Martins was still thinking about whether he should keep some of these gene seeds to prepare for the gene seed tax that the Phoenix would have to pay later.
When Gu Hang was asked about this idea, he was speechless.
The gene-seed tax collected by the Empire is calculated based on how many new gene-seeds the Chapter has produced in the past ten years. This can be calculated: in the past ten years, how many new bloods have grown to the five-year period, and how many old warriors have sacrificed, that is the total number of gene-seeds in ten years, and one tenth of it is enough.
Under normal circumstances, it is not too difficult for the Empire to obtain this information. Generally speaking, the loyalty of the Space Marines is guaranteed. They will report a number themselves, and the Empire will accept it. It is actually a bit difficult to monitor. The number of deaths is easy to say. After all, generally speaking, the Space Marines will not fight alone, and other Imperial troops will probably know some of the situation. The development of new blood is really a bit difficult to monitor.
But it doesn't matter, the Empire won't be so strict. The Mechanicus and the Space Marines Administration will look at the total size of a chapter, calculate an average, and use common experience to calculate how many seeds you can hand in in ten years - a chapter of a thousand people will generally have five to ten seeds in ten years, and if something big happens, it will be another count - it's enough to hand in a similar number.
The empire will only intervene if the quantitative deviation is particularly large.
Now the question is, how does the Empire know how many Phoenixes there are currently?
The last time they reported information, there were only seven Phoenixes. According to common sense, after a few years, no matter how many Phoenixes there are, their number will not be much.
Under Gu Hang, the conventional experience of the Mechanicus and the Space Marine Management Agency is of no use.
The Empire has very little information about the Phoenix. As long as you don't talk too much, it's hard for the Empire to know how many people there are in the regiment and how much tax they have to pay. Isn't it up to you?
Now, it’s almost ten years later. By that time, we can say that we have a staff of one hundred people and just hand over a seed as a token of our appreciation.
So, do you, Martins, really want to pay according to the actual situation?
That's too much to pay. For four or five hundred new people in five years, you have to pay forty or fifty seeds... Isn't that asking for trouble?
You guys are really law-abiding and loyal subjects of the great empire. Even in this situation now, you still want to pay the full amount of gene-seed taxes?
No wonder you can't beat Tiekai.
But Gu Hang didn't say it so directly to Martins.
He responded by saying that none of the new seeds produced by the new blood of the regiment should be kept, and all should be used to develop new warriors. In addition, Gu Hang would follow the previous routine and select young, T1-level seedlings through the soldier card training system and perform implantation surgery on them.
The success rate of Phoenix's gene seed implantation surgery is quite high. Over the years, there have been a total of 500 operations, with only 9 failures, and the success rate is as high as 98%.
There are two main reasons why we have such a high success rate:
First, Phoenix seeds are not that picky.
The second, and most important, is that each candidate is at the right age and has been trained to the T1 level. Physical fitness, experience, skills, and mental will are all up to standard. As long as the individual undergoing the operation is not too unsuitable for the Phoenix Seed, failure is unlikely.
Relying on the gene seeds produced by the new blood and the seeds exchanged by Gu Hang, the number of Phoenixes has now risen to five hundred, which can be considered a recovery.
In the future, Gu Hang may not even need to exchange gene seeds for the Phoenixes. After all, the personnel structure of the regiment is very special, all of them are new blood. The number of new seeds they produce in five years is even greater than that of many fully staffed regiments. In addition, the high success rate of implantation surgery means that Gu Hang will not need to spend extra money on seeds in the future. As they continue to reproduce, the number will increase quickly.
At this point, the Phoenix certainly cannot be said to be very powerful, but at least it looks like a normal battle group.
Many Space Marine Chapters that have been in war for a long time and are in a bad situation may be of this size.
As for their missing battle fleets, battle servants, mortal auxiliary troops, armored vehicles and aviation vehicles, Gu Hang currently has no way to equip them all at once. But there is no doubt that their next action will not be to fight alone as a battle group, but will definitely be with the alliance's army. The relevant war needs can be provided and supplemented by the alliance's army.
Although the armored vehicles driven by mortals are not as effective as some proprietary armored vehicles that can provide Space Marines with special neural connections, it at least solves the problem of whether or not they exist.
Even if Gu Hang wanted to equip the Space Marines with exclusive armored vehicles, it would be difficult. Rhino transporters could be produced, but raider tanks were not, not to mention things like dreadnoughts and apocalypse mechas.
If you want to get it, you can only purchase it from outside.
But outsourcing... that's just not worth it.
If the Alliance produces on its own, what is actually consumed is the cost price, which is simply the working hours of the personnel, the raw materials, the food and daily necessities paid to the workers... Although the prices reflected in the Alliance's accounts are still calculated using the Empire's standard price list, the budget is so high, but in reality not that much money is spent at all.
If you purchase it from outside, you will have to spend the alliance's tax currency, not a penny less. Even things with high technological content will most likely have a significant premium.
We have to make do with this for now.
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After spending 200,000 on the phoenixes and raising their number to 500, he would no longer be too worried about the problem of the dead in the ashes.
That Chaos Warband had more than 200 Space Marines at most. With about 2.5 times the number of them, even if the Ash Dead rushed to his face and caused trouble, Gu Hang would have enough strength to deal with it.
If they had come a little slower, a few years later, they might have been facing a standard full-strength battle group of a thousand men.
At that time, Gu Hang really wanted to see what expression would be on Zhong Jihua's face.
Aren’t you greedy for the blood of the phoenix?
There are a thousand bloodlines here, come and take them if you have the ability.
Of course, the 200,000 grace points that were spent on the Phoenix also brought nearly 20,000 T4-T2 level senior soldiers.
Although these people were byproducts, they were not without value. As usual, some were stuffed into the 10th Brigade, and the rest were thrown into some units with special numbers, such as the 1st Breathing Brigade, the 2nd Beast Slaughtering Brigade, or several Skeleton Divisions.
The 10th Brigade has over 10,000 troops, all of whom are elite and fully equipped with special equipment, so I won't say much about it; the other divisions and brigades have been drawn from the best soldiers and generals, and have even formed a team of all T4 level troops, plus a comprehensive replacement of exoskeleton armor and LR series and GHS series rifles, plus more armor and firepower ratios.
Such an army could probably defeat an enemy twenty times its size when fighting against ordinary Star Army troops.
But the key point is that such troops are not used to exchange troops with the enemy on the battlefield, but are deployed on key battlefields to become the spearhead that plays a key role in the overall battle situation.
In short, this has greatly strengthened the alliance's function in military construction.
As for the remaining 200,000 points of grace, Gu Hang thought about it and took out 100,000 for the technology lottery.
In the 10,000-point range, it was far from being drained. However, after the previous draw, the probability of delivery was definitely much lower than at the beginning.
However, if you throw out 100,000 points of grace, there will always be some splash.
We will not go into details about some upgraded technologies such as advanced engineering machinery and some less important technologies.
One of the more important gains from these ten consecutive draws was the elite-level technology [Power Weapons].
The power sword in Martins' hand belongs to this type of weapon.
This kind of thing, to put it in an exaggerated way, is indestructible. In this universe, except for a small number of materials that cannot be mass-produced, there is almost nothing in conventional armor that can withstand the attack of power weapons.
Moreover, it is not just the power sword. Weapons like 'Thor's Hammer', 'Force Field Scepter', and 'Power Fists' which are more often equipped on Terminator armor...all fall into the category of power weapons.
Power weapons are not only suitable for Space Marines.
Just like the elite warriors of the Alliance's 10th Brigade, many of them use chainswords. Power weapons can be modified and adapted to be used by mortals, as long as they are not made so big or so heavy.
If you want to increase the power of the weapons, you can make these power weapons into precision versions. Although the cost will increase significantly and it is difficult to mass produce, it doesn't matter. These are originally equipped for cutting-edge combat forces, and the goal is to be more useful when dealing with some powerful individuals.
At this point, Gu Hang had spent 300,000 points of the gift.
He wants to keep the remaining 100,000 yuan as a reserve fund for emergencies.
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4k
Oh my god! Thank you for the reward from the leader of [Only 1.6 Yuan Left]!
What you have left is not 1.6 yuan, but 20,000 words!
I just paid back a little yesterday, and now the amount I owe has skyrocketed to 54k!
February is not over yet...keep working hard in March!
(End of this chapter)
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