Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 412

Chapter 411: Don’t be too honest

. The Saturn group has increased the strength of Gu Hang. There is a long-term risk (Iron Armored Corps) and a threat that may erupt in the near future (Ashes of the Dead).

Let’s not talk about the distant ones. The reason why the Ashes of the Dead are a near threat is that since Blevins and his gang can come to the door, then Zhong Jihua and his gang can also.

Gu Hang is a little annoyed.

However, since the tone of responding to crises with development has been set, the focus should still be placed here.

And in the alliance, what is the biggest boost to development?

Of course, it is the gift points in Gu Hang’s hand.

The last time I spent a lot of gift points was four years ago.

At that time, it was mainly a wave that boosted the alliance’s shipbuilding industry, which directly created the current industry.

Now, after four years, although the alliance has not had any large-scale wars during this period, Gu Hang’s control has now stabilized within the scope of the entire Tianma star region, and the total population has reached 61 billion. During these four years, the life expectancy of the population under the rule of the Alliance has been increasing, the fertility rate has not changed much, and the key is that the mortality rate has dropped significantly. These reasons have brought about a very high level of population growth.

The population of the Alliance has increased by about one billion during this period.

Such a high population growth is quite scary for some worlds.

If the population increases too much, then when the next world population and tax quota are determined, it will all be money.

But the Alliance is not afraid.

More people is a good thing.

The three stars of Fache and Red Arrow have a larger population carrying space.

Korojia will continue to migrate people out.

In addition to the population, the productivity of the Alliance 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 pushed up 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 made Gu Hang’s monthly income soar directly.

Four years ago, before taking over Feiyi Star, Faches Three Stars, and Red Arrow Star, Gu Hang’s gift point income was 7,000 – that was after Koroja’s situation was raised a lot to return to the level when he only controlled Angry Owl Star and Black Arrow Star.

Now, this number has increased to 32,000.

A full 4.5 times increase.

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 monthly income accumulated over the past four years has exceeded one million.

However, although he didn’t spend a lot of money at once, Gu Hang has also spent 600,000 of it over the past four years.

The main use is basically on “people” and “buildings”.

More heroes were activated, a large amount of gift points were spent on the political commissar training of Zhongsi College, and a lot of money was spent on military training. Occasionally, some gene seeds had to be exchanged, and personnel were screened through the basic training templates of the soldier cards to add new blood to the Space Marines…

Many academy templates, factory templates, and even church buildings were exchanged and given to some corresponding buildings in the real world to play a role.

It is precisely because of these investments that there is a high growth.

Whether it is the growth of alliance income or the growth of gift point income.

And now, the more than 400,000 points of gift left in his hand are also time to use them in batches.

First, he planned 200,000 points for the Space Marines.

With the continuous increase in the past, the number of Phoenix Space Marines has reached more than 200 people.

And this time, with 200,000 points, the number of Phoenixes directly rose to 500.

In addition to the gene seeds directly exchanged by Gu Hang, the first batch of new blood of the Phoenix in the early years has been five years, and the first seed on the body has matured and been picked.

Originally, Martins was still thinking about whether to keep some of these gene seeds to prepare for the gene seed tax that Phoenix would pay later.

After asking Gu Hang about this idea, he was speechless.

The gene seed tax collected by the Empire is calculated according to the number of new gene seeds produced by the regiment 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 them will be 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 still guaranteed. They will report a number themselves, and the Empire will accept it if it is not too bad; if it is to be monitored, it is actually a bit difficult. The number of deaths in battle is easy to say. After all, generally speaking, the Space Marines will not fight alone, and other imperial troops will probably have some information; the development of new blood is really a bit difficult to monitor.

But it doesn’t matter, the Empire will not be so strict. The Mechanicus and the Space Marines Administration will look at the total size and number of a chapter, calculate an average, and use conventional experience to calculate how many seeds you can hand in in ten years – a chapter with a thousand people will generally have five to ten seeds in ten years, and another number if something major happens – it’s okay to hand in a similar number.

Only when the number is extremely different will the Empire ask about it.

Now the question is, how does the Empire know how many people there are in the Phoenix at present?

The last time the information was reported, there were only seven Phoenixes. According to common sense, after a few years, no matter how much the Phoenix grows, the number will not be much.

Under Gu Hang, the conventional experience of the Mechanicus and the Space Marines Administration is useless.

The Empire has very little knowledge of the Phoenix situation. As long as you don’t talk too much, it will be difficult for the Empire to know how many people there are in the chapter now, and how much tax to pay. Isn’t it up to you?

Now, it’s almost the end of the ten-year period. At that time, you can say that you have a size of 100 people and hand in a seed as a token of your appreciation.

In the end, do you, Martins, really want to pay according to the actual situation?

That’s too much to pay. For four or five hundred new bloods in five years, you have to pay forty or fifty seeds… Isn’t that asking for trouble?

You really follow the rules, you are really loyal subjects of the great empire. Even now, you still want to pay the full amount of gene seed tax?

No wonder you can’t beat Iron Armor.

But Gu Hang did not say that directly to Martins.

He responded 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 will follow the previous routine and select young, T1-level seedlings through the soldier card training system to perform implantation surgery on them.

The success rate of the Phoenix gene seed implantation surgery is quite high. Over the years, there have been a total of 500 operations, and only 9 have failed, with a success rate of up to 98%.

There are two main reasons for such a high success rate:

First, the Phoenix seeds are not so picky.

Second, and the most important, is that each candidate has been trained to the T1 level at the right age. Physical fitness, experience, skills, and all aspects are up to standard, and mental will is also no problem. As long as the individual undergoing the operation is not too incompatible with the Phoenix seeds, it is unlikely to fail.

Relying on the gene seeds produced by the new blood before, and the seeds exchanged by Gu Hang, the number of Phoenixes has now risen to 500, which can be regarded as a revival.

In the future, Gu Hang may not even need to exchange gene seeds for the Phoenixes. After all, the personnel structure of the Chapter 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 Chapters. In addition, with the extremely high success rate of implantation surgery, Gu Hang really does not need to spend extra money on seeds in the future. The number will increase quickly as they continue to reproduce.

At this point, the Phoenixes are certainly not very strong, but at least they look like a normal Chapter.

Many Space Marine Chapters that have been in war for a long time and are not in a good situation may be of this scale.

As for the missing Chapter Fleet, Chapter Servants, Mortal Auxiliary Forces, Armored Vehicles and Aircraft, 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 Chapter, 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 special neural connections to space marines, at least the problem of whether there are any or not has been solved.

Even if Gu Hang wants to equip space marines with exclusive armored vehicles now, it is quite difficult. Rhino transporters can be produced, but raider tanks are really not produced, not to mention things like dreadnoughts and apocalypse mechas.

If you want to get them, you can only rely on external purchases.

But external purchases… that’s too uneconomical.

If the Alliance produces them themselves, what is actually consumed is the cost price, which is to say, the man-hours of the personnel, the raw materials, the food and daily necessities paid to the workers… Although the price reflected on the Alliance’s books is still calculated using the Empire’s standard price list, the budget is so much, but in fact, not so much money has been spent at all.

If you purchase them externally, you will actually consume the Alliance’s tax coins, not a penny less, and even such high-tech things are likely to have a considerable premium.

You can only make do with this for now.

…

After 200,000 points were spent on the Phoenix, and it was expected that the number of Phoenixes would be raised to 500, he would not worry too much about the problem of the Ash Dead.

That Chaos warband could only have more than 200 Space Marines at most. With about 2.5 times the number prepared, even if the Ash Dead rushed to his face and made trouble, Gu Hang would have enough power to deal with it.

If they came a little slower, a few years later, they might have to face a standard full-strength war group of 1,000 people.

At that time, Gu Hang really wanted to see what expression Zhong Jihua would have on his face.

Aren’t you greedy for the bloodline of the Phoenix?

A thousand bloodlines are here, come and get them if you have the ability.

Of course, the 200,000 gift points spent on the Phoenix also brought nearly 20,000 high-level soldiers at the T4-T2 level.

Although these people are by-products, they cannot be said to have no value. As usual, part of it was stuffed into the 10th Brigade, and the other part was thrown into some special units, such as the 1st Breathing Wind Brigade, the 2nd Beast Slaughter Brigade, or several Skeleton Divisions.

The 10th Brigade has more than 10,000 people, all of them are elite, and they are fully equipped with special equipment, so I won’t say much; the other divisions and brigades have even formed a full-member T4 level, plus a comprehensive replacement of exoskeleton armor and LR series and GHS series rifles, plus more armor and firepower ratio.

Such a unit, fighting against ordinary Star Army, is afraid that it can beat an enemy twenty times larger.

But the key is that such a unit is not an exchange ratio with the enemy on the battlefield, but a sharp knife that plays a key role in the overall battle situation when it is invested in the key battlefield.

In short, this has also greatly strengthened the function of the alliance 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 this level of 10,000 grace points, it is far from being drained. However, after the previous extraction, the probability of delivery is definitely much lower than the initial time.

However, throwing 100,000 points of grace will always make some splashes.

For example, some upgraded technologies such as advanced engineering machinery and some less important technologies will not be mentioned.

Among the ten consecutive extractions, a more important harvest is the elite technology [power weapon].

The power sword in Martins’s hand belongs to this type of weapon.

This kind of thing, to exaggerate a little, can be said to be 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 power swords, such as “Thor’s Hammer”, “Force Field Scepter”, and “Power Fist” that is more often equipped on Terminator armor… These are all within the scope of power weapons.

Power weapons are not only applicable to Space Marines.

Just like the elite warriors of the 10th Brigade of the Alliance, many of them also use chainsaw swords. Power weapons can be modified and adapted so that they can be used by mortals. Just don’t make them so big and heavy.

And if you want to increase the power of the weapons, these power weapons can also be made into precision versions. Although the cost will increase significantly and it is difficult to mass produce, it doesn’t matter. This was originally equipped for cutting-edge combat power, and the goal is to be of greater use when dealing with some powerful individuals.

So far, Gu Hang has concentrated on consuming 300,000 points of gifts.

He has 100,000 left on hand as a reserve fund for emergencies.

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4k

God! Thank you for the reward from the leader of the big brother [Only one dollar and sixty cents left]! What

you have left is not one dollar and sixty cents, but twenty thousand words! I

just paid back a little yesterday, and now the amount I owe has soared to 54k!

February is not over yet… Keep working hard in March!

(End of this chapter)