Chapter 886, Expedition Status and Alliance Economy
Due to the alliance's long-term investment in various places, the alliance was under some pressure in the early stages, and the speed of the war expansion was not as fast as expected.
People now often like to compare the Dark Side Expedition with the Solar Expedition that began almost two hundred years ago.
The difference between the two is actually quite big.
In terms of scale, the two are similar. Although the Dark Side Expedition was only launched from two cosmic regions, it has quickly spread to eight cosmic regions, and in the long run, it will be further expanded, even to the entire East and South Border.
Although the main battlefield of the Solar Crusade was only in the Solaria universe, unlike the Dark Crusade which had expanded to eight universes, the difference was that the Solaria universe was quite large, with a total of about 10,000 worlds, which was three or four times the size of the Advance universe. Moreover, although the battlefield of the Solar Crusade was relatively small, it involved a much wider range, and the entire empire was providing support for that war.
Judging from the results, the Sun Crusade took sixty years to conquer ten thousand worlds, while the Dark Crusade took sixty years to expand the Alliance's territory to more than forty thousand worlds. It seems that there is a gap of several times, but in fact it is not. The Dark Crusade conquered the Empire's territory, which is much easier to conquer.
Especially as the Alliance's Dark Side Expedition is in full swing, the military pressure will be less. After all, those imperial worlds are not the Alliance's enemies. They often welcome the Alliance's arrival. The Alliance's real enemy is only the threat suffered by those worlds.
The Battle of Omgeria was a typical example. It took only two or three years to finish the war, and three thousand worlds in the advancing universe were instantly "submitted", and their rule was quite stable.
Elsewhere, although not on the scale of the Omgerian War, the pattern was similar.
If the biggest threat to a planet is eliminated, the planet will basically return to normal. These planet-level threats are most likely rebels, cults, and the like.
Eliminating a sector-level threat can often lead to the return of multiple sectors and dozens of worlds; eliminating a star field threat will quickly lead to the return of hundreds of worlds in that star field. That would usually be an interstellar rebel or cult force; or an alien threat, or an invasion by a Chaos army.
From this perspective, it is only natural that the Dark Crusade is progressing fast. After all, when the Solar Crusade was fighting, there was no such convenience. The Solar Crusade fought outside the empire's borders, and every world, every star region, and every star field had to be gnawed with great effort.
If we say that the two wars can be compared and are equally matched in terms of scale, the impact of these two wars on the empire and on the human race are completely different.
So far, the Solar Expedition has been concluded to be a continuous disaster for the Empire. Not only during the sixty years of the expedition, the Empire continued to spend a huge amount of money to support the expedition. After the expedition ended, it seemed that a huge universe like Solaria with more than 10,000 worlds was expanded. However, these 10,000 worlds did not bring much benefit to the Empire. Instead, riots continued, which was a continuous bleeding point and burden for the Empire.
Gu Hang's Dark Side Expedition is truly recovering the lost territory of mankind. Moreover, the Alliance's long-term policy of focusing on governance will quickly restore normal production in each world. Overall, the Dark Side Expedition is a positive return.
And it’s a huge profit.
The difference between the two is obvious.
It is precisely because of the high returns of the Dark Side Expedition that the entire expedition not only did not exhaust the Alliance physically and mentally due to its long duration, but instead continued to add fuel to the expedition, making it even more intense.
In fact, the Dark Side Expedition Headquarters is currently discussing that since the Southern Expeditionary Force is doing so well, it would be better to add an Eastern Expeditionary Force and send it south along the Guangjin Universe to attack the Lingyuan Universe and the Turgu Universe. The ultimate target is the southeastern edge of the empire's territory - the Karlolia Universe.
As for the southern route, they continued along the Ningshou and Dingyuan space areas, which had been mostly conquered, and continued southward to attack the Mailiang and Hexiang space areas.
At this point, the largest of the five territories of the empire, the Eastern Territory, will all fall under the control of the alliance. In terms of the number of worlds, this is almost a quarter of the empire.
The effect of the accelerated expansion is evident here.
Without the need to further exploit the alliance's homeland or to continue raising the level of the mobilization order, the investment in infrastructure and industry in the newly expanded areas alone would be sufficient to support the further expansion of the expedition.
It won’t even have much impact on the alliance’s investment in each newly occupied region!
Under such circumstances, Gu Hang approved the order to establish a new expeditionary force in a new direction.
The Dark Side Expedition, which was already moving very fast, was once again accelerated.
In the next phase of the plan, within a period of fifteen years, the entire eastern part of the empire should be completely recovered; at the same time, the central territory of the empire, after the Tianwang universe, the western expeditionary force has now entered the Ando universe.
In the past, the Andor Universe was considered the core of the empire's core. Further west from the Andor Universe was the Sun Universe, where the Holy Terra, the heart of the empire, was located.
That place is also close to the scarlet scar.
The Western Expeditionary Force can basically be said to be fighting on the Scarlet Scar. The intensity and strength of the war were much higher than in other places, and the subsequent situation is expected to continue in this way.
But we cannot ignore the achievements of the Western Front just because it is difficult and slow to accomplish.
Just like we can't conclude that the North Front has no achievements just because it has been on the defensive, has not expanded its territory in the Dark Side Expedition, and has been losing soldiers and generals. On the contrary, the North Front Legion has established a solid line of defense on the edge of the Alliance's hinterland, preventing the troops pouring out of the Scarlet Scar from directly entering the most important core of the Alliance. This is their greatest achievement.
The largest number of generals were trained on the northern front.
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After reviewing the overall situation of the Dark Side Expedition, Gu Hang turned his attention to the overall development of the alliance.
At present, the most important engine of the alliance is still the earliest alliance territory centered on the Dragon Eagle Star Domain, which expands to the Eastern Universe and the Spider Web Universe.
Especially in the Dragon Eagle Star Region, the rapid economic development here has been maintained and has never been interrupted since the Dragon Eagle Star Region was unified by the Alliance until now.
Even if the growth rate has slowed down in recent years, it is because the scale is too large and has reached a certain limit. But even so, the recent economic growth rate can reach about 3% per year.
And if we look at the period from unification to now, a full 110 years, the average economic growth rate is about 6%. The overall economic scale of the Dragon Eagle Star Region was already considered an upper-middle-level star region economy in the East 110 years ago, and it has expanded almost 600 times since then!
The population has also increased nearly tenfold from less than one trillion when the country was just unified to over one trillion.
From an economic perspective, the Dragon Eagle star region alone is more than fifty times the size of a smaller space region like the Forward Space Region.
This is the result of the twenty to thirty years of vigorous development after the Forward Universe was incorporated into the Alliance and received a lot of investment. If we calculate it compared to when the Forward Universe was first incorporated into the Alliance, this number can be nearly a hundred times.
Even if we only talk about the population, after the Ohmgeria War in the Forward Universe, which resulted in the emptied out of an entire star field, the population size after the war was only about 5 trillion, less than half of the Dragon Eagle Star Field.
It is precisely because of the Dragon Eagle Star Domain as the central engine that has driven the development of the Spider Web and the Eastern Space Domains. Furthermore, it can also export investments and obtain returns to all newly occupied areas of the alliance, thus establishing the overall economic model of the alliance and allowing the Dark Side Expedition to move forward in a stable and healthy manner.
The importance of the Dragonhawk Star Region to the Alliance is equivalent to the importance of the Solar Star Region to the entire human empire.
Perhaps, now there is no single world in the Alliance that can reach the level of the mother planet Holy Terra. Whether in terms of population or economic scale, the situation of Holy Terra is rare in the entire universe and absolutely cannot be replicated.
But to be honest, Gu Hang had no intention of copying a Holy Terra in the Alliance.
In his opinion, it was too unhealthy for a single world to be like that. On the one hand, in terms of security, once Holy Terra fell, the consequences would be almost unacceptable to the human empire. It was unacceptable politically and economically.
On the other hand, Holy Terra is obviously so developed, but when it comes to the people of Terra, have they enjoyed much of the benefits of the huge economic scale?
Enjoyed it, but not much.
There is no need to talk about the high housing prices and the high cost of living. However, because Holy Terra is overcrowded with people, there are not enough resources. The ecological environment of the entire planet is almost destroyed. It is completely dependent on technology and manpower to support it...
The wealthy and powerful class naturally have no worries, but for the vast majority of the common people, the living conditions on Holy Terra cannot be described as good at all.
Although the alliance also has cores within the core, such as the Tianma star region where the alliance started, such as the Angry Owl Star and the Flying Wing Star, or the Yunluo Star where the capital of the star region is located and another core of the forging world Jindi Star, but overall, the economic development of the Dragon Eagle Star Region is relatively balanced.
If the population pressure is evenly distributed, it will not be as great as in Holy Terra; nor will it be like in Holy Terra, where all the eggs are placed in one cage.
Gu Hang was quite satisfied with this economic model. He was conscious of not allowing the alliance to have an absolute central world, whether in terms of economy or politics.
In addition, even from the perspective of the scale of the entire star field, he felt that the current scale of the Dragon Eagle Star Field was large enough and concentrated enough.
He certainly would not intentionally reduce the development of the star field.
Let’s develop in the way it should be developed.
However, under his instructions, the federal government intends to strengthen industrial transfer to other places.
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There's one more chapter before dawn
(End of this chapter)
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