Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 211

Chapter 211: Sweeping the Eastern Provinces

After the Central Army Group got a vacation and replenished the losses caused by the previous battle in the Qinggu area from the new recruits camp, they set out for the Eastern Provinces.

Their actions were very smooth.

The connection between the Eastern Provinces and the Central Three Provinces and Fuxing City is very close.

The situation there is completely different from that in the Qinggu area.

The food production capacity of the Eastern Provinces is very weak, even worse than that of the Central Three Provinces.

That is mainly because the Eastern Provinces were the core urban areas on the main continent of the Angry Owl Star in the pre-war era, especially the coastal areas. The only urban ruins in the Central Three Provinces, the “Tower Ruins”, are everywhere in the Eastern Provinces.

Although there is still a certain amount of flat field soil that can be used for agricultural production, the overall amount is not enough.

The main food supply of the five or six million people living in the Eastern Provinces actually depends on the Qinggu area.

After the unrest in the Qinggu area, the Eastern Provinces also unexpectedly experienced a widespread famine, which led to unrest.

The Alliance is still kind.

Gu Hang has always attached great importance to population. He does not want the eastern provinces to be in chaos, starving a lot of people to death, and then fighting each other to kill a lot of people for food.

Severe famine may even be more terrible than the population reduction caused by war.

In this case, under Gu Hang’s instruction, Bradford, who is currently the head of the Alliance Commerce Department, continued to supply food to the eastern provinces according to the governor’s idea.

At the beginning, according to Bradford’s merchant characteristics, he wanted to take this opportunity to sell food at a high price, which would definitely make a lot of money.

But this merchant instinct was criticized by Prime Minister Ossena.

Amid the criticism, Bradford finally remembered that he was not a businessman now. It is true that he manages the Ministry of Commerce, but he is a politician and he has to do things according to political logic rather than business logic.

For a long time in the past, the food supply to the eastern provinces was maintained by large orders imported from the Western Desert; recently, there has been more food imports from the Northern Qinggu Province.

The Qinggu region had its autumn harvest a few months ago. Although the output is still somewhat lower than that of previous years, it is at least not a big problem to feed the 14 million people in the alliance.

The large amount of cleared jungles and trees, and the large number of deformed monsters killed in the previous war, were all put into the synthetic starch factory.

The alliance mastered the self-developed technology of synthetic starch about half a year ago. For each set of related industrial lines produced, one set was sent to Beiqinggu.

At present, many synthetic starch factories of various sizes have been put into operation in Beiqinggu.

The output of these synthetic starches is getting bigger and bigger.

Counting these things that don’t taste very good but are definitely not starving to death, the food that can be exported from the Qinggu region may be even more than in the previous bumper years.

That’s enough.

The various types of food exported from the alliance to the eastern provinces are mainly exchanged for various industrial raw materials in business.

Industrial raw materials are the most important basic output of the eastern provinces, and they are traditional outputs.

To put it bluntly, it is similar to the production mechanism in the ruins of the tower, relying on picking up garbage.

Exporting food at a fair price in exchange for industrial raw materials is a basic business. It does not make money, or just makes normal money.

But since it is said that this matter has political considerations, it is essentially a political business.

The political goal of this matter, in addition to maintaining the uncontrollable large-scale famine and war of millions of people in the eastern provinces, the excess profits not earned from the business must also be earned back from other aspects.

Through increased trade operations, the alliance has established a very deep influence in many settlements in the eastern provinces.

Only the alliance can provide sufficient food supply. This forces many settlements to sell raw materials to the alliance at normal prices. Of course, this is not strictly speaking forced, after all, the food is not sold at a high price, and the raw materials are not sold at a low price. It is a reasonable transaction.

But some attached conditions, such as promoting the alliance system and reaffirming that their own settlements are members of the alliance, are necessary.

Don’t underestimate these, people’s minds will change.

In my own settlement, I don’t have enough food or warm clothes. I have to pick up garbage every day, face mutant beasts in the wasteland, and worry about looters. In the Alliance, as long as I go there, I become a citizen of the Alliance, and have a job level, at least I will have no worries about food and clothing. As for work, how can it be harder than picking up garbage? Not to mention, in the Alliance’s propaganda, all job levels have basic medical insurance, vacations…

Compare them, and you will know which is better and which is worse.

And with the second propaganda, my own settlement is also a member of the Alliance.

Then wouldn’t the lower-level or even middle-level residents think: Why are they all members of the Alliance, but our lives are not so good?

So if one day, the Alliance comes and says that it wants to bring the entire settlement under the direct management of the Alliance. Then, how much resistance can the entire settlement have?

Let alone resistance, I’m afraid there will be guides everywhere.

In addition to the minimum requirement to allow the Alliance’s merchants to promote the Alliance, there are some other deeper cooperation.

For example, they began to gradually accept the “guidance” of some expatriate officials from various ministries of the Alliance. In name, it is to help these settlements to build their homes and bring the advanced experience of the alliance. The expatriate officials will not directly lead and manage the settlements, but will be consultants to provide reasonable advice to the leaders of the settlements.

That’s what they say, but in fact…

it’s actually true.

But in this process, the influence of the alliance will naturally be further strengthened.

What kind of strategy will the rulers of the settlements who constantly listen to the advice of the expatriate officials of the alliance and yearn for the alliance system adopt when the alliance’s army arrives?

In other words, the alliance’s food trade strategy and value output have brought about a strong expansion of political influence. In the past six months, a good situation has been established in the eastern provinces. In

fact, if it weren’t for the urgent urging of the Governor-General Gu Hang, the alliance might not need military action. As long as they fanned the flames at a certain time in the future, a revolutionary wave sweeping across the eastern provinces would be able to take this area of millions of square kilometers and six million people safely.

Military action is a double-edged sword.

Of course, this can speed up the process of bringing all the eastern provinces under the alliance’s rule, without having to wait for the so-called “time is ripe”. But correspondingly, some of the targets that might have been fought for may now stand on the opposite side of the alliance.

It’s harmless.

At present, the new troops that the Alliance Army has planned have not yet been reorganized, and the corresponding weapons and equipment are still being produced. The Central Army Group that is now on the move has only seven divisions and more than 70,000 people.

But they

are still reporting victory. The land of the eastern provinces is too large, and because many city ruins stand on the wasteland, the terrain is very different, and it is difficult for each settlement to form a joint force. In addition, many places do not have a strong will to resist.

Therefore, when facing the actions of the Central Army Group, many places simply surrender directly.

The Alliance also has corresponding policies for this.

Those who do not resist are not considered enemies, and everyone from the people to the original ruling class will receive relatively good treatment.

As for resistance…

that’s like trying to stop a chariot with a mantis arm.

To put it bluntly, even if the six million people in the eastern provinces were all gathered together, they could only form an army of several hundred thousand at most. With their crappy weapons and logistics, and the situation where more than half of them would starve to death if the alliance cut off their food supply, they would not be able to resist.

Not to mention, they couldn’t even unite.

Yan Fangxu’s army made rapid progress in the east.

Every few hours, they would say that they had captured one or two settlements.

Later, Yan Fangxu himself felt embarrassed when he heard the good news.

What’s there to report? Just send a regiment to stand next to a settlement, and without firing a single shot, they would surrender in three minutes; if they were a little tougher, they would pull out the regiment’s artillery to bombard it twice, and the infantry would fire a few shots more for intimidation than for attacking, and they would surrender in fifteen minutes.

If there were those who really resisted to the end, they would be killed.

Eliminate all the resistance forces, arrest all the leaders, and there is no need to escort them back to Fuxing City, but to sentence them on the spot. The local people were divided into other camps according to the situation.

It was a thundering measure.

After the whole battle, even if only one regiment was sent out, it would often take less than a day to finish it.

In short, no matter what the situation, there are corresponding and mature ways to deal with it.

This set of methods was what they had left when they recovered the two million people in the Central Province. It was nothing more than another attempt to move to the larger and more dispersed eastern provinces.

There was really no intention to pass on this kind of victory report.

Later, Yan Fangxu would just make a summary report every week and that was it.

…

Gu Hang was too lazy to read Yan Fangxu’s various reports.

It was nothing more than taking down a city today and a town tomorrow. It was meaningless.

To be honest, he had no doubt that the Central Army Group could easily flatten the entire eastern provinces.

The only thing to worry about was that no more monsters and demons would appear in the east.

It was just the local survivors, and that did not pose any threat.

He was still struggling with the remaining gift points in his hand.

Phoenix new blood, the construction of the 10th Special Operations Brigade, the expansion of the Alliance Army… In these aspects, Gu Hang has spent about 5,500 points of grace.

He still has more than 12,000 points left.

And he plans to invest all these grace points in the construction of the territory at once.

This is divided into two parts: technology and architecture.

Let’s talk about architecture first.

After the war in the Qinggu area was settled, Gu Hang found that three new buildings appeared in the [Architecture] interface.

They are [Farm I], [Ecclesiarchy], and [Tribunal].

Gu Hang estimated that the [Farm] building was because after he took over the Qinggu area, the area of agricultural production land increased significantly, reaching a certain goal built into the system, thus achieving the achievement of unlocking the [Farm] building.

The [Farm I] building is the same as the [Civilian Factory I] and [Military Factory I] that Gu Hang has unlocked before. Spending 100 points of grace and loading it on a farm that has been built and put into production can increase production to a certain extent.

Before, he didn’t have extra grace points to spend on these production-increasing buildings, but now he has quite a lot of grace points, so he can use them.

After thinking for a while, he didn’t exchange any farm buildings.

There was no need.

According to a rough report recently sent back by Beiqinggu Province, it mentioned the production plan for the next year.

According to optimistic estimates, the food output in Beiqinggu area for the whole year next year, from agricultural products to synthetic starch, can reach a total value of about 6 million tax coins.

In addition, the imports from the West Desert and some grain output from the three central provinces will add up to about 3 million tax coins worth of food.

This batch of food is enough to feed more than 18 million people at the standard of a well-off society, that is, the standard of the Alliance E9 food supply; if you pay a little attention to food rationing and supply, at the standard of food and clothing, that is, the Alliance E5 standard, it can feed more than 27 million people; if you are more demanding, at the standard of not starving people to death, that is, the Alliance E3 standard, it is enough to feed 45 million people.

Even if the six million people in the eastern provinces are included, the total population of the alliance is only about 20 million.

It’s enough.

On the contrary, industrial production is never enough.

Especially military industry.

The production of civilian factories is mainly on various consumer goods. These things are recognized by the empire when they are used to pay taxes; others also want them when they go out for interstellar trade. But in general, the demand is relatively small. They can’t sell them at a high price in trade, and the tax amount assessed for tax deduction is generally lower than their actual production value.

But on the contrary, arms are hard currency in the interstellar and are a hot spot for trade. The empire will give enough tax coins for tax payment.

In this case, Gu Hang exchanged 16 military factories and 4 civilian factories in one go.

The former were all added to the various military industries in Weixing City.

The latter will also be put into the metal smelting industry of basic heavy industries such as ceramic steel and plastic steel, as well as the metal processing industry.

Don’t say anything, the alliance’s monthly production of wind falcons has risen to ten.

After exchanging these twenty factory bonus cards, it is estimated that the annual industrial output value of Weixing City has increased by about 400,000 tax coins.

And the price is only 2,000 gift points.

He still has 10,000 points.

And Gu Hang did not use these 10,000 points for other purposes, but used them all to draw technology cards!

It’s time for the exciting lottery again, Gu Hang is ready to go!

(End of this chapter)