Chapter 586, Spend the Gift

The Alliance provides more than just blood tax to Blood Shark.

There is also a gray tax, which Gu Hang will not forget.

When it is time to be generous, be generous.

Blood Shark saved three of its own battlecruisers, made a lot of efforts in the Battle of Bowang, and participated in boarding and seizing ships... Gu Hang remembers all these achievements.

What does Blood Shark want?

Consumables?

Ammunition, medical supplies and equipment, starship repairs and parts... Give, it's all small money.

Equipment?

Blood Shark itself is a little bit disdainful of the Alliance's vehicles. They have a lot of good things they got in the Dark Outer Realm, as well as some elite equipment exchanged with other Mechanicus. However, quantity is a problem, and the Alliance's production can supplement a lot of equipment, which can greatly enhance the combat strength of Blood Shark's vassal army and auxiliary army. From exoskeletons to feedback power armor; from armored vehicles to sentinel mechas... The Blood Shark auxiliary army used to be cannon fodder, how could they get such treatment? With these equipment, they can last longer when they are cannon fodder in the future.

However, the Alliance also has some cutting-edge equipment that the Blood Sharks need. The Iron Knight Terminator and the Great Power Armor are all good stuff. They do have some very powerful things, and the regiment even has two Hades-type Terminators. This is almost the most advanced Terminator armor, and it is quite rare in the entire empire.

However, after all, these things are few in number. The Blood Sharks generally still use the most common Skyhawk Power Armor and Indomitable Terminator.

Now that the Alliance has supplies, they must be happy to replace a batch of new ones.

In addition, there are good things like phase weapons. According to the style of the Blood Sharks, it can be made into a battle axe or a long-handled weapon, which is no problem.

Phase weapons, the Alliance has not yet been able to mass-produce them, relying only on black box output, and the number is relatively limited. Even the Phoenix does not have many pieces. But because of this, the price of this thing can be set at a crazy high price.

It is indeed worth the money.

This top weapon is even more important than the upgrade of power armor for a melee-oriented regiment like the Blood Sharks. A few phase axes are enough for them to pay a very high price in exchange.

Among the equipment, the most valuable ones are not these.

But the starship.

What the Blood Sharks want most is, of course, the battle barge.

However, their merits and sacrifices are not enough to exchange this battle barge that originally belonged to the Fury Corps from the Alliance. After all, in the entire Battle of Bowang, the one who played the greatest role was Gu Hang himself, followed by the Phoenix Corps. The Blood Sharks helped a little, but not much, not even as much as the contributions of the Alliance's own Glory Guards and Battle Sisters.

In terms of starship naval battles, the role played by the Alliance Navy is also higher than that of the Blood Shark Fleet. After all, at the beginning, the Blood Sharks did not think that it was a correct decision to fight the powerful Alfonzo Fleet in the Bowang Galaxy, and Ewing would naturally not hand over the entire fleet to the Alliance and fight with them. It was not until the Alfonzo II, the most powerful war ark, was destroyed that they put aside their hesitation and fought seriously.

The Blood Sharks themselves were not ashamed to say that their contributions were great enough to ask for the best ship.

However, they saved three battlecruisers of the Alliance after all, and sacrificed two hundred people in the ongoing war.

The Alliance is willing to build a Holy Grail-class battlecruiser and three Space Marine strike cruisers for them.

Mainly ordinary ships, the Blood Sharks don't want them either, they just want fast ships that can keep up with their actions.

Combined with the excellent blood tax, the gray tax provided by the Alliance, and the increase in fleet strength, the Blood Sharks are generally quite satisfied with the gains from fighting with the Alliance this time.

This is much more generous than the rewards for doing business and taking jobs with some Mechanicus sects in the history of the previous regiment.

Gu Hang's promise of "higher than the general price" has been verified.

They are also willing to continue to fight side by side with the Alliance in this war, and follow the orders of Gu Hang, the commander-in-chief of the Southern Empire.

Of course, their independence is still very high, and the two sides are more like allies. Ewing will listen to Gu Hang's orders, but Ewing will judge for himself how to do it and to what extent.

Gu Hang has no problem with this.

It should be.

This does not affect the Alliance's provision of blood tax and gray tax to them.

They deserve it.

And... what's yours is mine, why do we need to distinguish them so clearly?

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Gu Hang exchanged 1,800 Space Marines, 300 of which were given to Blood Sharks, which not only made up for their losses, but also made up for their surplus, allowing them to slightly increase their strength; 500 were given to Phoenixes, replenishing their strength to 1,000. Although there were nearly 100 Dreadnoughts among them, and some were waiting for Dreadnoughts in the life support capsule, their strength was replenished to the upper limit of a regiment anyway.

What about the other 1,000 people?

Gu Hang built a 'Shadow Regiment'.

They all used Phoenix's gene seeds; in terms of training, that is, the consumption of Gu Hang's gift points, they were also on par with Phoenixes. But Gu Hang did not intend to let too many people know about their existence.

Just like the name, they are a shadow.

The role that Gu Hang wanted them to play was first to be able to replenish Phoenixes more quickly.

Normally, even if there is a way to speed up the process by consuming grace points, it will take several months for the superhuman organs in a teenager's body to grow completely after the gene seed is implanted.

At present, it is estimated that there will be a relatively long period of recuperation, which is not bad. But if the war is fierce and the Phoenix suffers heavy casualties, it will need to be replenished quickly. With this group of members of the Shadow Corps, it will not even take several months to replenish, and it can be seamless.

Another point is that the Shadow Corps can give Gu Hang some other work.

When the Phoenix can't spare the time, when even the Phoenix is ​​not suitable to do it... they can be used.

Space Marines are not only in the Empire.

Those lost traitors, or even the fallen who fell into chaos, are all good identities.

Suitable for doing dirty work.

Some people died at the hands of the "rebel" Space Marines; some things were done by traitors or fallen, so it can't be blamed on the Alliance, right?

At present, Gu Hang has no room to use this trick.

But in the future, it is uncertain.

While the gift points on hand are quite sufficient, you can prepare first.

Even if the time is right in the future, Gu Hang can also "list through a backdoor listing".

In the empire, there are many war groups that disappeared in the long river of history.

Those war groups that were clearly expelled from the empire and whose members were all killed in battle are not easy to use. But it doesn't matter. In the history of the empire, there are war groups whose whereabouts are unknown.

Although there is a risk of people suddenly appearing and returning, such as the blood shark. However... the risk of those who have no news for hundreds of years is not that big after all.

As for the incomplete procedures and difficulty in getting recognition, these are also real problems.

But Gu Hang thinks that he will gradually not be afraid of such problems.

I am willing to borrow a backdoor listing, and others will be happy secretly. It is obvious that the war group has been expanded to a certain scale, and how many people can do anything to Gu Hang?

Of course, if it comes to that step, it will be a bit embarrassing. Gu Hang is not so powerful at this moment that he can completely ignore what Holy Terra will think.

It can only be said that things need to be prepared in advance. Otherwise, when the opportunity is really in front of you, it will be difficult to deal with if you are not well prepared.

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The various expenses for Space Marines are very expensive, but they are mainly in the consumption of resources and funds.

The grace points are actually not so bad.

It only cost 1.5 million.

Although they are very strong, expensive and good at fighting, they are not large in scale after all, with only a thousand people, so it is not expensive.

Moreover, Gu Hang's idea of ​​setting up a Space Marine Corps was shattered because of the restrictions on gene seed exchange.

Then it is even less expensive.

So far, Gu Hang has spent more than 18 million of the 30 million grace points he got.

There are still a little over 10 million left, and Gu Hang is a little hesitant.

Mainly thinking about whether to hold a technology lottery?

It is really a bit expensive to hold a technology lottery now. The previous prize pool has basically been drained. If he does a ten-draw in the million-level file, he can spend all his remaining grace points.

But he still has a lot of places to use grace points.

Especially in terms of productivity.

Gu Hang has the idea of ​​exchanging countless factories, colleges and other buildings to cover the entire alliance.

When fighting a war, we cannot just focus on the military issues at hand.

Fighting a war is more about competing with one's family background.

Especially from the perspective of the navy, building a starship costs tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of dollars; the Alliance now has one Retribution-class ship, one Zhuge-class ship, and four battlecruisers in one shipbuilding cycle, which adds up to more than 200 billion.

What does this mean?

That doesn't mean that the Alliance has to pay out so much tax coins to buy them, at least not completely. The two Dragon Snake-class battlecruisers that the Mingyang Sect wants to order continuously in one cycle have to be bought with money.

The other ships are built by the Alliance itself, without spending real money.

However, the actual cost is not bad.

A starship is so huge. To build a nest city that can sail and fight in space, it requires too many supporting industries.

Countless people work for it. Not only the technical workers related to the shipbuilding industry, that is already a very large number. And if we take into account the treatment given by the alliance, the food, medical care, various consumer goods, and even spiritual entertainment expenses required to build houses for them and maintain a relatively superior life, there are not a few.

In this matter, oppression and exploitation are even a dead end. Those who can participate in the shipbuilding industry, not to mention those core senior engineers, even some lower-level technical workers can be classified as "talents".

Relying on oppression is not conducive to the morale of workers, and it may even reduce efficiency.

Building various parts, shells, supporting raw materials processing and production... This series of matters are very "expensive".

Or in other words, occupying productivity.

A considerable part of the alliance's finances has been put into the shipbuilding industry.

But even so, it is not enough.

In fact, according to the "national strength" of the two star regions of Menghe and Longying, maintaining the current shipbuilding efficiency has reached the limit, or even overdrawn.

Fortunately, the imperial tax does not need to be paid after the war, otherwise it will not be able to bear it at all.

Moreover, as the alliance advanced deeper, the results were good and support from the empire was increasing.

Some of them are direct military support. More than fifty warships were mobilized from all over the surrounding areas to become friendly forces and were united under the command of the commander-in-chief Gu Hang.

Although they are all small and medium-sized ships, even a frigate requires hundreds of millions of tax coins. Fifty ships are a lot of money.

In the army, there are also six Star Army Corps, totaling about 40 million people, who have been sent to the front line one after another and become the troops that Gu Hang can mobilize.

After the war, these will be returned. Gu Hang has no idea of ​​harming friendly forces and deliberately letting people go in the cruel war.

There is no need. They are just embellishments, not affecting the overall situation, and not destroying their own reputation.

But anyway, these are all good supplements.

The war support provided by the empire is not just the exemption of imperial taxes - to be more precise, the imperial taxes are specifically used for the Iron Armor War.

In addition, the empire also directly gives "money".

The latest batch of funds paid by the Eastern Space Domain government, which actually came from two or three surrounding universes, according to the requirements of the central government of the empire, is as much as 150 billion.

After the Alfonzo sect joined the war, this money came.

In any case, 150 billion is a very large number.

It is definitely useless for Gu Hang to ask for money and pieces of paper. He does not need to use these tax payment certificates to offset taxes. However, these "pieces of paper" can be used to directly purchase all the materials needed by the alliance in the surrounding star fields and even the universe.

Shells, energy, weapons and equipment, food... even purchased ships!

Some things cannot be bought even if you have money, but now they can be bought at a fair price.

Gu Hang directly bought a retribution-class battleship from the Duanchen sect in the neighboring Gushan universe for 60 billion.

This thing costs 50 billion, and if you add the equipped sailors, the fuel brought over, and the full shells... 60 billion is no different from not making money.

What's more, the seven star regions of the entire Lonely Mountain Universe can be regarded as the places where the greenskins are making more trouble within the empire. The faction of Duanchen can produce a battleship and sell it to Gu Hang instead of using it for the defense of this universe, which is already a face-saving thing.

This face is definitely not given to the Alliance, and the two have no friendship. It is purely based on the influence of the central government of the empire.

The money is given by the central government, and the purchase authority is obtained by the central government.

With Holy Terra as a backing, there are still great benefits.

That's great.

I, Gu Hang, have always been a loyal minister of the empire!

In short, without the local use of imperial taxes and the external economic support of the empire, the war machine of the alliance would not be able to run at full power like it is now.

But this is not a long-term solution after all.

The iron must be hard before it can be forged.

After thinking for a long time, Gu Hang decided to postpone the lottery.

He spent almost all of the remaining 10 million gift points on improving productivity.

This is mainly achieved through two means.

First, in Longying and even Menghe Galaxy, many college buildings were built.

Some were exchanged for the Comprehensive College, Zhongsi College, and Military College, but the most were still the Technical College.

After improving the efficiency of talent training in this area, the number of engineers and technical workers in the alliance in the future will be greatly improved.

The two star regions have a population of more than one trillion. If the professional skills are improved to a high level and the human resources can be fully tapped and utilized, the overall productivity level will be greatly improved.

The exchange price of one college is 1,000 points of grace.

Gu Hang exchanged 3,000 points.

For example, there are at least thousands of universities on Feiyi Star. Gu Hang directly used these exchanged grace points to cover 500 of them, further strengthening the role of the education center of this planet.

Korojia also exchanged 100 points. It is a densely populated world, so it should be; Angry Owl Star covered 100 points, directly exporting a large number of shipbuilding talents on the spot...

Other worlds are also covered. He wanted to ensure that there was at least one on each of the two star regions that he considered his territory, a total of 774 worlds; some with large populations or more developed industries would have more.

This was the consumption of three million points of grace.

There were still nine million points of grace left, and Gu Hang spent all of them on the exchange of another building: the factory.

Whether it was a civilian factory or a military factory, this exchange, covering the existing built factories, could directly improve the efficiency, which was a simpler and cruder but more useful method.

Gu Hang exchanged 50,000 factories, covering almost every planet and every industry.

Food processing, material processing, construction, consumer goods production, civilian engineering machinery manufacturing... These civilian industries cannot be ignored. Even from a military perspective, they are also the backing of the military industry.

But the bulk of it is still in the military industry.

Especially the production of various parts related to the shipbuilding industry and the dock assembly plant on the star port. That is not just a first-level factory with 100 grace points, how can it be enough?

Gu Hang directly used the fifth-level factory to exchange!

The exchange price of a factory building increases by one zero for each level it goes up.

But the effect of a level 5 factory can almost double the work efficiency.

Of course, this only greatly improves the efficiency of machinery and personnel, and cannot really reduce the time required for shipbuilding by half. It may be reflected in the number of ships that can be built at the same time, the reduction of resource and energy consumption, and the reduction of manpower.

But it is already very good to save resources, save manpower, and speed up the construction of ships by 50%.

Gu Hang is willing to spend 1 million gift points on the two major shipyards of Angry Owl Star and Flying Wing Star.

At the same time, Gu Hang is willing to exchange 100,000 points for the shipbuilding center in Yunluo and the Granya shipbuilding center in Menghe Star Region.

The construction technology of the Holy Grail class has also been distributed to these two places. The Alliance squeezed resources from its teeth and built two more production lines for Holy Grail class battleships in these two places.

So far, Gu Hang has just received 30 million gifts, which have not been warmed up for a short time, and he has spent them all.

In exchange, we have an alliance that will become stronger from military to economics!

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