Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 340

340. Chapter 339, One Hundred Thousand Gifts

Gu Hang hadn’t seen Ye Lixia for a long time.

Since two years ago, when Ye Lixia led a naval ship to the orbit of the Angry Owl Star for a close support mission, the only time the two met was when Pedes was about to die.

Apart from that, the two of them rarely communicated with each other.

What was the relationship between the two before?

At most, they were partners with good cooperation. It was quite reluctant to call them friends, not to mention that they had feelings for each other.

Obviously, their engagement had nothing to do with feelings. It was a pure political marriage and a combination of interests.

Gu Hang didn’t have too much cleanliness, and he didn’t dislike political marriages.

The two were not completely strangers. In Gu Hang’s memory, they had dealt with each other on the Winged Star when they were very young; later, they spent another two years on the Angry Owl Star.

Although they didn’t really meet during those two years, they had a lot of contact. The alliance’s establishment on the Angry Owl Star was inseparable from Ye Lixia’s escort in the planet’s orbit.

If a political marriage must be arranged, Ye Lishia is better than an unfamiliar person.

What’s more, Ye Lishia is pretty and fits his aesthetic taste.

Of course, getting married and having a wife is secondary. He is the ruler of two planets and will not lack women, no matter how beautiful they are.

The main thing is that the union of the two families does have great benefits.

Let’s do it.

In addition, Gu Hang has another consideration.

The construction of the navy is currently the weakest point of the alliance, but it happens to be the most difficult to make up for it.

As far as it can be seen, all technologies related to the navy and interstellar navigation are relatively advanced in the system’s [Technology Tree] panel. Gu Hang has only [Starport Technology Blueprint] and [Traveler] so far. Other technologies such as compressed energy technology and anti-gravity engines are also considered to be things needed for interstellar navigation, but they are not key technologies after all. If

you want to extract these technologies, you need to spend a huge cost and have to draw them from the high-level prize pool.

In addition, even if you draw them, the related construction work is also very costly and time-consuming.

The saying that it takes ten years to build an army and a hundred years to build a navy is not nonsense.

The Alliance needs to build its own navy, especially a strong navy that can be used. There are too many foundations to make up and too much time to go.

This is of course a step that the Alliance must take to the starry sea. No matter how difficult the road is,

it must be taken. But before it is completed, if there is a shortcut in front of you, why not?

Ye Lishia Fofana is this shortcut.

She herself has finally gained the fruits of victory after her victory over the green-skinned orcs’ plundering fleet in the Wrathful Owl Galaxy, and was promoted to a serious Imperial Navy Rear Admiral.

Although the Fofana family cannot be said to control the Pegasus Fleet, they are also full of their students and old officials in that fleet; they also have their own connections in the higher-level Imperial Navy Command. After

marrying Ye Lishia, Gu Hang can also use these connections.

Of course, that cannot be regarded as taking the Pegasus Fleet into his pocket, and even the Fofana family themselves dare not say this.

But at least, when the alliance’s naval power was basically zero, he didn’t have to worry about being targeted by the navy; when necessary, as long as the cause only paid enough, he also had a way to call on the imperial navy to do things.

This is the value.

…

Before leaving for his engagement ceremony, Gu Hang still had some things to do.

He had saved a lot of grace points and had to find an opportunity to spend them.

The source of such a large amount of grace points was relatively complicated.

War rewards were one aspect. Although the troops suffered heavy losses in a series of battles in the Kingdom of Panbos, no one could deny that it was a victory, and Gu Hang also earned more than 20,000 grace points here.

Counting the previous offensive against the Kingdom of Stefano, and after the overall situation was determined, some rebellion work and some wars against small countries that were confused, the total amount exceeded 10,000 points.

The continuous battles of the Angry Bear Legion on Koroja also earned Gu Hang thousands of grace points.

In general, the war rewards totaled 40,000.

The remaining bulk comes from the monthly grace points accumulated 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 have exceeded 4,000.

Black Arrow Star was previously considered a vassal state. The grace points provided were not many, just a few hundred points. It is estimated that the vassal state has a large amount of decline.

However, with the occurrence of two things, the situation has changed.

First, the political entity of the “Alliance” was recognized by the Empire and thus legalized. This gave Gu Hang a legal and recognized ownership of the Black Arrow Star in name.

Secondly, Gu Hang actually controlled the world through military operations.

Third, the political system of the Alliance, which was actually promoted under the skin of the New King’s Council, has taken root quickly in the past six months and has effectively improved the Alliance’s control over the entire Black Arrow Star.

These changes were directly reflected in the situation in the system. In addition to the Kingdom of Luman, many other countries were added to Gu Hang’s [Vassal] panel 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 had already clicked it.

So far, Black Arrow Star can be regarded by the system as a “homeland” like Angry Owl Star.

However, the bonus of grace points that this homeland can provide is not much at present.

It has a population of 400 million, but the monthly grace points provided are less than 2,000 points, less than half of Angry Owl Star.

But Gu Hang was not too surprised by this.

Gu Hang knew that the supply of monthly 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 increase of monthly grace points is not directly linear with the increase of these things, but more like a ladder system, and it will rise a bit when a certain data is reached.

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 good direction.

This is exactly the goal of the alliance.

The grace points provided by Angry Owl Star have accumulated to about 50,000 in this year; Black Arrow Star has just become a native land, and before that, as a [vassal], it did not provide many points, and accumulated less than 10,000 in a year.

If you add the war rewards, the grace points that Gu Hang received in the past year have exceeded 100,000 points.

Of course, he doesn’t have that much on hand now. After all, in the past year, Gu Hang couldn’t have spent no grace points.

The main expenses are concentrated on personnel.

Gu Hang has been enlightening talents through the [Hero] interface, even including some natives on Black Arrow Star. If you feel that the person is quite reliable and good, then he will enlighten them into talents.

This [Hero] interface is still quite reliable. The enlightened talents 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, the loyalty of these enlightened talents or those who have just entered important positions on the two planets still needs to be guaranteed.

Zhongsi College still plays an important role in this regard.

Before those people take up their posts, they must go to Xifeng Zhongsi College. People on Angry Owl Star are easy to deal with, but people on Black Arrow Star have to take the Traveler to Fuxing City for further study. And Gu Hang will also regularly spend some gift points in the advanced training class of Zhongsi College to transform these people into “political commissars”, directly in one step.

In addition, the alliance is now gradually trying to arrange cross-border official work between 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 current few travel ships are almost constantly traveling between the two planets, mainly transporting various civil servants and various official documents.

This is also normal, after all, the traveler’s load capacity is so small, and they can only do these things.

In addition to talents, there is also military replenishment.

Whether it is on Black Arrow or Koroja, the Alliance is fighting a war. The loss of soldiers is inevitable.

At present, the largest source of soldiers for the Alliance Army is still Angry Owl. The recruit camp has always maintained a scale of more than 100,000 people, and Gu Hang needs to pay thousands of gift points to train them. Then when there is a reduction in the number of soldiers in the front-line battle, the corresponding soldiers will be replenished, along with a series of things such as weapons, equipment, ammunition and supplies, and sent to the front line to replenish the corresponding front-line troops.

This will definitely not last long.

Including the part of the Angry Bear Legion that needs to expand its army, the total strength of the Alliance Army will exceed one million. It should not rely solely on Angry Owl to replenish.

Black Arrow has now become the homeland, so the soldiers do not have to maintain a certain ratio.

In fact, Thadius has been ordered to establish multiple recruit training centers on Black Arrow, and continue to recruit new soldiers on Black Arrow to supplement the Alliance’s army.

At the same time, a special recruit training center will also be established on Koroja, specifically for replenishing 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 recruit soldiers directly from Koroja. Even if it is forcibly recruited, the system will not recognize it, and Gu Hang will not be able to train. It 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 of the Angry Bear Corps, so that Gu Hang, the commander of the Angry Bear Corps, can directly train them.

According to the imperial decree, these soldiers can only be used to supplement the Angry Bear Corps and cannot be used for other purposes.

In general, the training cost of ordinary soldiers is still not high. One gift point can train one hundred T5 soldiers. In three planets and multiple recruit training bases, maintaining a recruit camp of more than 200,000 people so that the front line can be replenished at any time, that is less than a few thousand points of gift consumption, and there is not much pressure.

The real big expense is the construction of the Phoenix War Corps.

In the decisive battle on the Black Arrow Star, the reason why all twelve Knight Titans were destroyed was that the Phoenix Space Marines played a major role.

In addition to the thousands of armored vehicles, nearly five hundred tanks, and more than forty Wind Falcons lost by the Alliance, the Phoenix also lost six in total.

From this perspective, it can be seen 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 of course not everything. The most valuable thing about a Space Marine is the warrior inside, not the armor outside.

But no matter what, the cost can also explain a lot of problems.

Martins will still be very sad about the casualties of the Space Marines. But after all, it is different from before. Now the number of war groups is growing continuously, and his mentality is relatively stable.

In the past six months, Gu Hang has trained twelve new Space Marines, in addition to thousands of special warfare elites from the Tenth Brigade.

Among these twelve people, seven are from the native land of Angry Owl Star, and among the other five, two are immigrants from Koroja, and three are from Black Arrow Star.

Gu Hang did this intentionally in many things.

Regarding the recognition of the concept of “alliance” and the integration of populations, Gu Hang will try his best in all possible places.

Although it is difficult to bridge the two planets and come up with an “alliance identity” in addition to the original “empire identity”, “human identity”, “planet identity” and “ethnic identity”, and it cannot be done in a short time. But we still have to do it, and we must seize every opportunity to emphasize it.

Gu Hang has followed this idea to deal with various personnel exchange policies, officials, troops, and even the selection of space warriors. It is

true that Angry Owl Star is his most important base, but after all, it is too small. In the future, it is impossible to rely on the population of 45 million forever to travel the star sea.

Expanding the base is necessary, and Black Arrow Star is the first step.

These personnel gift points consumed Gu Hang’s total of less than 20,000 points.

In addition to personnel, he also spent a little on the [Construction] interface in the past six months.

Mainly on factory construction.

He built more than 20 civilian/military factories in the three industrial centers on Black Arrow Star, and 10 on Wrathful Owl Star.

This is another consumption of more than 3,000 points of grace.

But in general, it is not much.

He still has more than 70,000 points.

He plans to keep more than 20,000 for emergencies, and the remaining 50,000, he plans to use all of it to draw technology.

(End of this chapter)