Chapter 501, Alliance 400 World

The Alliance Government did a better job than Gu Hang had imagined.

The bloody fight between the Phoenix and the Fury was an invitation initiated by Martins. Before he proposed this idea to the Fury Corps, he had reported it to Gu Hang and got Gu Hang's consent.

Otherwise, how could he dare to casually use the lives of 100 Phoenixes as a bet on the table?

And the reason why Gu Hang agreed was of course because he was actually more confident than Martins.

After approving Martins's opinion, he also gave a list of 100 people, asking Martins to choose from this list when arranging the duel.

He raised the training level of all these 100 people to the level of company champions.

It's a pity that the regular training level that the system can carry out can only reach this level at most, and it can't be higher.

However, Gu Hang has other means.

The enlightenment of the [Hero] interface can of course be used for Space Marines, but the price of enlightenment is a bit more expensive.

But for this duel, Gu Hang would definitely be willing to spend the money.

In fact, the enlightenment work is still before training them to become the champions of the company. After all, Gu Hang cannot be sure of the hero template that will appear after enlightenment in advance. Some people are not completely talented in combat, but may be talented in battlefield command, lurking and assassination. There is even a Space Marine whose talent is a civil affairs official!

As an aside, it is really feasible to let Space Marines be managers in a sense!

After they have undergone genetic modification, most of their mundane desires have been eliminated, and they are not easily corrupted by various low-level desires; they are energetic and can work all year round. Mortals complain about 996, but Space Marines can really do 007, no joke, at least in a short period of time.

But this is just a thought.

To train a Space Marine civil affairs officer, the cost is much higher than that of a mortal, and the improvement effect is far less than the improvement of Space Marines compared to mortal soldiers on the battlefield.

Moreover, Gu Hang had to consider the atmosphere of the entire empire. It was a bit taboo to let the Space Marines govern. Except for the Infinite Warriors who had such privileges in their Infinite Star Field, no Space Marines would do so now.

But no matter what, the gift points spent on the Space Marines were always valuable, bringing a large number of elite warriors to the promotion. Moreover, it was also possible to kill a large number of elites of the Fury through this bloody death battle.

Under normal circumstances, it was not easy to do it.

For example, how difficult was it to behead the commander of the chapter, Erso, on the battlefield? You had to break through countless layers of obstacles, and then when you faced him, he was still a top-notch extraordinary warrior.

However, in the duel, he was alone.

The same was true for other high-ranking members of the Fury Chapter.

This was a great opportunity to weaken the Fury Chapter.

Gu Hang expected that Fury would definitely send a considerable number of the chapter's elites in the duel, which was a good opportunity to eliminate them!

Of course, although this was indeed Gu Hang's plan, he could not have imagined that the final effect would be so good.

Even Erso himself died here.

How could he have imagined that Erso would really lose his mind and end up like this?

Moreover, after listening to the report about the duel, he was a little scared. The battle between Erso and Martins was just a matter of seconds, and the result would be completely different if they fought again.

If Erso killed Martins, although the Fury of Flames suffered heavy losses in the end, killing Martins saved some face, and Erso himself was fine, then even if the morale of the Fury of Flames was low, it would not be completely defeated. In this case, the Fury of Flames would not be so hasty when evacuating, nor would they completely give up the looting operation.

It is even possible that the looting during the retreat became more brutal and violent because of the losses in the arena. If things go wrong, what will be left for Gu Hang is a shabby Yunluo Star, which will be a huge loss.

Although the victory of the bloody battle is not a war, the things won back are more than a war!

From this perspective, the Phoenix has made great contributions.

Of course, the subsequent achievements of the Alliance Government cannot be ignored.

They quickly took over almost the entire western part of the star field, and in the following eight months, not only stabilized the local situation of each planet, but also implanted the Alliance system on these planets, and even started to operate effectively.

Gu Hang was very satisfied with this.

The government system that he built by himself and spent countless gifts on for a long time in the past for the cultivation of talents and loyalty finally played the effect he expected.

So far, the entire Dragon Eagle Star Field has been completely under his control.

Oh, no.

Speaking of which, there are still some places that have not been completely brought under the direct rule of the Alliance.

That is the Steel Fire Dragon Star Region.

The Mingyang Sect almost completely controlled the Steel Fire Dragon Star Region, and at the end of the Iron Tooth War, when sweeping the greenskins everywhere, they also attacked and controlled the other two star regions in the north, namely the Dragon Tamer and Dragon Pass.

However, the actions of the Mechanicus should be a little more cautious.

These oil guys are not easy to deal with.

But usually, they rarely become a threat.

These two star regions, plus the Steel Fire Dragon Star Region directly controlled by the Mingyang Sect, don't worry about it for the time being. Later, Gu Hang has a trip plan to go to Jindi Star in person and have a good chat with the Mingyang Sect.

By then, the remaining problems should be solved.

After all, among the senior leaders of the Mingyang Sect, there is an "old acquaintance" of Gu Hang: Wu Jiarong.

Many things will become easy to handle when there are people inside.

Gu Hang actually didn't expect that his accidental success would bear fruit now.

Let's put aside the matter of the Mechanicus for now. In the Dragon Eagle Star Region, the remaining 34 star regions are all in Gu Hang's hands.

Adding up, there are exactly 400 worlds, no more, no less.

The total population has reached 820 billion people.

Gu Hang's family assets have become much richer!

Moreover, unlike the various territories that Gu Hang obtained in the previous wars, the entire western part of the Dragon Eagle Star Region is actually more prosperous than the eastern part.

Before, the population of the area occupied by Gu Hang was actually only about 340 billion; while the total population in the west was much larger, reaching 480 billion.

Moreover, Yunluo Star, a star region capital that is more developed than Feiyi Star, is not mentioned. In the entire Yunluo Star Region, Yunluo Star is the leader, radiating many worlds and strongly driving the economic development of these worlds, unlike Feiyi Star, which was beautiful alone, while other worlds in Tianma Star Region were as poor as ghosts.

At the same time, in the Fire Eagle Star Region, the Heroic Soul Star Region, and the Ancient Totem Star Region, these three star regions that had never been attacked by war before, a total of more than 40 worlds, became a strong support for the star region government at that time because of the war.

A large amount of resources collected from the Universe Region and other places in the star region were stored here. Some production bases were also built here as much as possible to provide resources for the front line.

At the same time, there were also a large number of people transferred from the worlds in a state of war on the front line.

Objectively, the war provided a good development opportunity for more than 40 worlds in these three star regions.

These three star regions, together with the Yunluo Star Region, became a relatively developed economic engine in the western part of the Dragon Eagle Star Region.

At present, the Dragon Eagle Star Region has formed a general situation of "three cores and large ruins".

The so-called three cores refer to the southwestern core with Yunluo Star as the core and the three major star regions of Ancient Totem, Heroic Soul and Fire Eagle as the subordinates, which is also the largest part of the alliance's profit this time.

These four places alone have a population of 250 billion and a total output value of 630 billion. The annual imperial tax paid is also 67 billion, but even so, the fiscal balance left to the alliance after paying the tax has reached 100 billion.

Such a large fiscal balance means that there are almost two battle cruisers left a year!

Rich land!

The other core is naturally the Qima land formed by Gu Hang's old nest, Tianma Star Region, and the six surrounding star regions. This area has a population of 170 billion and a total output value of 360 billion.

To be honest, it is a bit worse than the "Yunluo Center". After all, the ‘Seven Horses Land Center’ is a late-developing region. It has only started to develop in the past eight years since it was incorporated into Gu Hang’s rule, and the main place that has developed well is the Tianma Star Region. The Tianma Star Region has fully exerted its economic radiation and driving effect on the other six horses, but the time is still short and the development is relatively limited.

Moreover, the total population is not large enough. It has reached 170 billion, but it has only grown to this extent in recent years under the policy of encouraging childbirth, plus the population migrated from several other star regions in a state of war.

But in general, the development potential is still very large, and it is indeed on the fast track of rapid development under the leadership of the Alliance.

There is also a third core area, the Steel Fire Dragon Center, which is a joint industrial collective developed based on the forging world of the Mechanicus, Jindi Star, but it is not completely under the control of the Alliance at present, so I won’t talk about it.

In addition to these three cores, there are 23 other star regions, totaling 258 worlds, but the total population is only 388 billion people; the output value is even worse, with a total output value of only 300 billion. After paying the annual imperial tax, deducting the consumption of local residents, there is still a debt of 11 billion.

This means that the alliance loses money by acquiring these worlds.

Losing 11 billion a year is nothing, the alliance can afford it. For the alliance after mastering the entire star field, this is a small hole that is easy to fill.

But the key is that this loss is only calculated when residents' consumption and imperial taxes are calculated.

If the costs of maintaining rule are taken into account, the loss will be further expanded; moreover, many of these worlds have suffered from the disasters of war in the previous green tide, and they have to carry out post-war reconstruction and increase investment in humanitarian relief. Otherwise, the situation will not only take a long time to improve, but may even deteriorate further in the short term.

Establishing a government, military construction, deepening rule... Adding up all kinds of investments, the alliance estimates that it will have to spend about 60 billion in fiscal deficits every year!

This is not a small amount!

This number can be compared. The theoretical imperial tax of the Dragon Eagle Star Field is only over 120 billion a year!

The huge economic burden imposed by these worlds has made the alliance a little bit unbearable.

The alliance has 50 army groups and 1 billion land forces, and the annual maintenance cost is less than 15 billion!

This 60 billion a year figure is really too exaggerated.

In fact, after Gu Hang returned to the Dragon Eagle Star Region and met many people on Yunluo Star, the first government meeting within the alliance was held to solve this problem: How to deal with the 258 "loss-making worlds"?

At present, officials within the alliance have roughly three directions of discussion.

First, to continue to maintain a high degree of core rule, 60 billion a year is not even enough, and it must continue to be invested, up to 70 billion or even 80 billion. This is not a long-term loss. The high investment in the early stage is in exchange for the future development of these worlds. After one to two years of investment, the cost of investment should be reduced by more than half; at the same time, the output of these worlds will be fully recovered under the stimulus of large-scale investment.

It is estimated that in four to five years, it will be able to turn losses into profits.

But another faction is quite opposed to this plan.

It is too exaggerated. Even if everything is carried out according to their estimates, the total investment in five years may need to reach more than 250 billion. But what they have achieved is only to stop losing money and bleeding; it is unknown how many years it will take for them to develop to the point where they can generate blood for the alliance and even earn back the 250 billion invested.

Now, the war can indeed be regarded as temporarily over. However, the alliance still faces huge external threats. The "evil neighbor" next door, that is, the Iron Armored Warband, may attack at any time; after the Fury Warband goes back and licks its wounds, will it forget the humiliation and pain given to them by the alliance?

The alliance cannot transfer all its strength to economic construction.

Spending so much money on the recovery of these "loss-making worlds" will seriously hinder the alliance's military construction.

If the enemy breaks in, I am afraid that before the construction results are implemented, they will be smashed to pieces by others.

As for the third faction, there is no brilliant idea, it is nothing more than the middle faction between the two.