Chapter 876: Chapter 477, Spending Big Bucks
Chapter 876: Chapter 477, Spending Big Bucks
“Securing new territories” was a matter of general direction for Gu Hang, but he did not meddle too much with the specific strategies and execution.
Spread across dozens of planets as battlefields, the situation was changing every day, and it was impossible for him to handle it all by himself.
His powerful spiritual energy granted him the ability to multitask, but there was no need for him to oversee everything.
He placed full trust in the Alliance’s military command system and left it to them.
Meanwhile, Gu Hang started to ponder how to use the millions of Grace Points at his disposal.
This was the real foundation of the Alliance’s future development.
The largest two windfalls came from the great victory at Temir and the interception of Titus.
The former brought him upwards of 8.78 million Grace Points; the latter, although the war was brief, was still not small in scale.
When Gu Hang blocked Titus in the Jiang Meiyu Sector, that guy still had about a third of the Green Skins’ main force with him, most of which were annihilated at sea by Gu Hang. A small portion piloted their ships toward the planet surface, preferring to crash land and disintegrate rather than be destroyed in space by human warships.
Only a very few managed to flee.
It was impossible to tally the total number of Green Skins that died, but Gu Hang could see from the battle reports.
There were seven hundred million Green Skins.
Plus over two hundred Green Skin warships.
These battle achievements provided Gu Hang with roughly four million Grace Points in total.
Additionally, in these recent days, the Alliance had been bombarding the four major Green Skin sectors, yielding an additional two million plus Grace Points.
All together, this made up 15.22 million Grace Points.
With so many Grace Points, Gu Hang did not plan to hoard them; he was definitely going to spend them.
He roughly divided these Grace Points into three areas of spending.
The first was for civil economic development, with the core goal of increasing productivity, which took approximately 5 million of Gu Hang’s Grace Points.
He enlightened talents in various fields such as engineers, teachers, civil servants, and so on. A significant number of heroic individuals at production positions enhanced the potential of the Alliance’s productivity. Here, Gu Hang spent 2 million, and tens of thousands of people suddenly felt their talents had been further augmented in their areas of expertise, becoming ‘heroes’ within their domains.
These individuals would also subsequently be listed in the Alliance Development Department’s talent reserve. After a period of evaluation, these people would be promoted quickly within the Alliance system and more likely positioned in key roles to have a greater impact.
Then, Gu Hang spent another 3 million on exchanges for civilian structures like factories, academies, and churches.
This resulted in tens of thousands of factories receiving system blessings and thousands of schools and churches being established across various worlds.
Half of these expenditures were spent on the Tianma Star Sector, while the other half was spent on worlds that had signed the Economic Community Act.
The initial ten worlds that had signed the Economic Community Act had reached Vassal Level LV5, and upon consideration, Gu Hang decided to merge these worlds into the Alliance to expand the core territories and enhance the Alliance’s developmental potential.
This meant that the Alliance directly dispatched officials to govern these planets—since the Economic Community already involved a large number of Alliance officials integrating into the governments, it was now establishing direct Alliance Planetary Governments.
The amalgamation of these LV5 planets did not cause any particular upheaval on the planets themselves. On the contrary, both the native inhabitants and the ruling classes, after two years of being nurtured by Alliance policies, were eager to formally join the Alliance.
However, this development did have a certain impact on other worlds that either had a lower Vassal Level or had not yet signed the Economic Community Act.
The ruling classes on those planets were apprehensive, worried that the Alliance’s absorption could come for them in a few years.
The Alliance’s propaganda and diplomatic departments are working together, striving to minimize the negative impacts brought by world integration and Alliance expansion.
The main methods are twofold:
First, propagandize to the public about the benefits of signing the Economic Community Act and joining the Alliance, which will solve unemployment and survival problems, and ensure a better prospective future.
Second, propagate to the ruling class that joining the Alliance will not result in purges, citing examples of worlds that have joined the Alliance—whether they wish to lie back and enjoy wealth, the Alliance provides, or if they wish to progress, under the Alliance’s large system, there are more opportunities. After all, they have broken out of being confined to a single planet and now have dozens of planetary stages.
Their work has indeed achieved some results, with much of the resistance dissipating due to the propaganda.
The elevation of the civilian economy will make the Alliance wealthier and more developed in the future.
Additionally, Gu Hang expended six million Grace Points on military construction.
The largest expenditure was on the training of personnel for the Alliance Land Forces and Navy.
There were also tens of thousands of enlightened officers and generals.
Moreover, four hundred million soldiers—most of whom were Land Forces, with a few being naval sailors—received training through the Army Badge System.
The Alliance has developed a Land Forces army with a total strength of five hundred million, which previously seemed ample, but now seems entirely insufficient.
Moreover, the effectiveness that the Alliance Land Forces can demonstrate is completely incomparable to the Pact Army. In some key battles, even ten or twenty times the number of Pact Army troops is futile.
In a trench, after all, only so many people can crouch, and the Alliance Land Forces can hold out there for a month while the Pact Army, having arrived today, would collapse by tomorrow.
Not that the Pact Army is too weak—they all have at least one year of military training. But the level of the Alliance Land Forces is too high, having reached the standard of the Star Realm Army, with a qualitative difference between them.
Conveniently, after merging ten new worlds, the core population of the Alliance also increased by about 15 billion, greatly expanding the manpower pool.
Subsequently, Gu Hang planned to expand the number of Alliance Land Forces to over one billion and ensure at least an 80% ratio of Tier 5 soldiers.
This means that later on, Gu Hang had to use the [Soldier Tag] System to train four hundred million soldiers.
That’s an investment of four million Grace Points.
Another investment was in Interstellar Warriors.
Gu Hang planned to fill the last five hundred vacancies of the Phoenix Battle Group all at once, which cost about five hundred thousand Grace Points.
Thus, Phoenix now possessed a thousand-person scale, reaching the standard Battle Group numbers.
But actually, that’s not enough.
It seems the Alliance will inevitably have to deal with ‘Tie Nu Shi’ in the future. Just the Fury Flame Battle Group—rumor has it they’ve overbred to around three thousand in scale.
Not to mention the Iron Armor Battle Group, which may truly reach tens of thousands in number.
By the Empire’s standards, Phoenix is definitely revitalized. But looking at the need to confront ‘Tie Nu Shi’, Phoenix is still not able to compete.
Directly increasing numbers is not a problem. If Gu Hang wished, he could save a bit from various other areas, keep ten million Grace Points aside, and instantly raise Phoenix’s numbers to a ten-thousand-person scale.
But… overbreeding can’t withstand scrutiny.
Iron Armor has no shame, clearly carving out their own territory, should Gu Hang do the same?