Chapter 556, Alliance Version of 'Blood Tax' And 'Gray Tax'

Gu Hang has his eyes on the Blood Shark.

Although he knows that it is not realistic to make the Blood Shark like the Phoenix.

The Phoenix's situation back then was no different from that of a wiped-out group, so it was easy to deal with.

Now, although the Blood Shark is poor, in some ways, because of their long-term operations in the Dark Outer Realm, they have obtained many precious lost technologies. From this perspective, they are very rich, but they are reluctant to sell many things.

What's more, they have a full staff, always 600 to 700 people, and their individual combat capabilities are very strong. They can almost be regarded as the best and most outstanding part of the regular regiment.

It is impossible to make them almost become part of the Alliance like the Phoenix.

However, just like many Space Marine regiments, there are various forces behind them, and the Alliance can also become a supporter of the Blood Shark.

This kind of relationship also has levels.

Generally, it is just a trading relationship; a little closer, it can be promoted to an employment relationship; a closer level, it may be a stable partner...

Among these relationships, no matter which level they reach, Gu Hang can accept it.

Even if it was just a trading relationship, it would be nice to buy the good stuff that Blood Shark got from the aliens and lost worlds in the dark outer domain.

There are two main concerns here.

The first is the relationship between Blood Shark and Phoenix.

But after just a little thought, Gu Hang didn't care too much.

First of all, the hatred between the two groups in the past was not as big as imagined. There must be people from Phoenix who died at the hands of Blood Shark. But Blood Shark's role is just a mercenary, just a knife, and the real enemy is still Iron Armor.

The knife must still hate it, but not as seriously.

What's more, how can the Phoenix today be the same as it was back then?

Not to mention that the people have completely changed, and now they are deeply integrated with the alliance. In this case, even if they are unhappy, Gu Hang is fully confident that he can appease them.

As for the future, there will still be some conflicts between them, which is also normal. Just have less contact and less cooperation.

On the contrary, the second consideration is more troublesome.

Blood Shark’s tradition of ‘blood tax’ and ‘gray tax’.

If they insist on the past tradition, let alone cooperation in the future, they are afraid that there will be trouble now.

But the communication between Gu Hang and Alma Ewing is still normal.

He is just a little more taciturn.

Later, I checked and found that they changed the war captain. A hundred years ago, when fighting the Bauhinia Rebellion, their war captain was named ‘Salinas’.

The reason for changing the war captain is that the previous war captain died in the war in most cases.

When the Blood Shark is active in the Outland, it is dangerous. It is not strange to change the war captain in a hundred years.

Not necessarily only one was changed.

It is normal for the top leadership to change, and the entire war group to be different from the past in some details while maintaining the overall style and war group culture.

One hundred and thirty years ago, they also suffered losses in this regard. They were friendly forces fighting side by side at the beginning, but they became enemies with Iron Armor because of the ‘blood tax’ and ‘gray tax’. Although there may not be any change in hatred, it is possible that in the past 100 years, they have carefully thought about their original actions. Is it a little inconsiderate and should learn from it in the future?

In short, no matter what the reason is, the current Blood Shark, 'blood tax' and 'gray tax' are already negotiable.

This is very good.

Gu Hang believes that the two sides have very good conditions for cooperation.

In terms of the so-called gray tax, that is, conventional supplies, the Alliance is undoubtedly. With two star fields, thousands of worlds, and multiple strong local industrial manufacturing capabilities, it is possible to supplement all the resources needed by the Blood Shark.

Whether they want various types of armor, weapons, conventional supplies, or various vehicles, the Alliance can produce them.

Some are in surplus.

Even if they want starships, the Alliance may not be able to build battle barges, but there is nothing wrong with the manufacture of strike cruisers. This thing is very expensive, so let's see if the Blood Shark can get enough merit to exchange for these things.

As for the blood tax, it is even simpler.

Isn't it just people? The Alliance can directly provide manpower, even trained mortal troops, to enter the Blood Shark and become the Blood Shark's mortal auxiliary army.

As long as the Blood Shark wants it, Gu Hang will happily give it.

The political commissar will be equipped for you.

On the other hand, the greater meaning of the blood tax is to select new recruits for the regiment.

This is even more within the scope of Gu Hang's expertise!

The Phoenix inherits the bloodline of the Phoenix Regiment. This is a type of gene seed with relatively high adaptability requirements. The number of Phoenix sub-groups has always been small, unlike the Infinite Regiment, Punisher Regiment, and Golden Knight Regiment, which are prosperous.

But even so, when Gu Hang can cheat through the soldier card system to select the best candidates, the success rate of implantation has been raised a lot.

The bloodline of the Blood Shark Regiment is unknown. It is said to be a sub-group from the Bat Legion, and the population is not prosperous. But because of this, the selection of candidates must be more cautious, otherwise a failure will waste a seed.

Gene seeds are no longer valuable to Gu Hang. On the contrary, the "quota" for Space Marines was what gave him a headache.

But for any normal warband, gene seeds are still precious things related to the survival of the warband.

If Gu Hang can provide the best candidates stably, under the high success rate of implantation surgery, even if Blood Shark has many other considerations, it is difficult to resist the temptation of rapidly increasing the number of its own warbands.

As for these candidates, they grew up under the system of the Alliance, received education from the Alliance, and even attended the Zhongsi Academy... so what? It's nothing more than the first ten years of life. For the infinite lifespan of Space Marines, the memory of the mortal stage will always be compressed infinitely small and eventually replaced by the warband culture.

If Gu Hang were to comment on this, he would say:

"Yes, that's it!"

In this way, Gu Hang does have a series of means that can be effective in the long term or in the short term, in short, they can bring Blood Shark on board.

However, the plan for Blood Shark is a slow and steady thing. There is no need to be too anxious at the moment. Anyway, they have now accepted Gu Hang's identity as the "Commander-in-Chief of the Southern Theater" and acknowledged the fact that fighting in this area requires a certain degree of obedience to Gu Hang's command.

From this perspective, the Blood Sharks are still very loyal to the Empire and are willing to obey the Empire's system.

Now, they are also following Gu Hang's requirements, hunting the Fury Fleet and constantly driving them towards Heyang VIII.

And the main fleet led by Gu Hang is waiting for them here.

By the way, they are also waiting for the reaction of the Alfonzo Sect.