Chapter 339, One Hundred Thousand Gifts

Gu Hang hasn't seen Ye Lixia for a long time.

Since the end of the near-earth support mission led by Yelicia and a navy ship stationed in the orbit of the Raging Owl two years ago, the only time the two of them met was when Peters was about to die.

Apart from this, the two of them rarely communicated with each other.

What does the previous relationship between the two count?

There are most partners who work well together, and it is difficult to call them friends, let alone mutual affection.

Obviously, their engagement has nothing to do with their relationship. It is purely a political marriage and a combination of interests.

Gu Hang didn't have much of a mysophobia, and he wasn't averse to things like political marriage.

The two of them were not completely strangers. In Gu Hang's memory, they had interacted with each other on the Winged Star when they were very young. Later, the two spent another two years on the Raging Owl Star. .

Although we didn't really meet much in those two years, we had a lot of contacts. The Alliance's founding on Raging Owl was indispensable without Yelicia's escort in the planet's orbit.

If a political marriage must be made, it is better to have Yelicia than to be opposite an unfamiliar person.

What's more, Yelicia is quite beautiful and fits his aesthetic taste.

Of course, getting married and having a wife are secondary. He is the ruler of two planets and will never lack women, no matter how beautiful they are.

The main thing is that the combination of the two companies does have great benefits.

Just do it.

In addition, Gu Hang had another consideration.

The construction of the navy is currently an extremely weak point in the alliance, but this thing is the hardest to make up for.

From the current point of view, all technologies related to the navy and interstellar navigation are relatively advanced in the [Technology Tree] panel of the system. The only thing Gu Hang has pulled out so far is the [Star Port Technology Blueprint] ] and [Traveler]. Others, such as compressed energy technology and anti-gravity engines, are considered necessary for interstellar navigation, but they are not critical technologies after all.

If you want to extract these technologies, you need to spend huge costs, and you have to draw them from a high-level prize pool.

In addition, even if it is taken out, the related construction work will be huge and time-consuming.

The so-called ten-year army and a hundred-year navy are not nonsense.

If the alliance wants to build its own navy, especially a navy that is powerful enough to be useful, there are too many foundations to make up, and too long a period of time to overcome.

This is of course a step that the Alliance must take to reach the sea of ​​​​stars. No matter how difficult the road is, it must be walked.

But before you go through it, if you have a shortcut in your face, then why not?

Yelicia Fofana is this shortcut.

She herself, after recently reaping the fruits of her victory over the plundering fleet of green-skinned orcs in the Raging Owl System, was promoted to a serious Imperial Rear Admiral.

Although the Fofana family cannot be said to control the Pegasus fleet, within that fleet, they can be considered to be full of their disciples and former officials; in the higher-level Imperial Navy command, they also have their own personal connections.

After marrying Ye Lixia, Gu Hang can also make use of these connections.

Of course, that cannot be considered as acquiring the Pegasus fleet. Even the Fofana family themselves do not dare to say this.

But at least, when the alliance's naval power is basically zero, he doesn't have to worry about being targeted by the navy; when necessary, as long as the cause is sufficient and the price is paid, he also has the ability to call on the imperial navy to do things. way.

This is where the value lies.

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Before setting off to attend his engagement ceremony, Gu Hang still had some things to do.

He has accumulated a lot of gift points and is looking for an opportunity to spend them.

The source composition of such a large amount of gift points is relatively complicated.

War rewards are on the one hand. In a series of battles in the Kingdom of Pampos, although the troop losses were not small, no one could deny that this was a victory. Gu Hang also earned more than 20,000 points of gifts here.

Including the previous offensive against the Kingdom of Stefano, and after the overall situation was determined, some counter-insurgency work, and some wars of annihilation against individual small countries that were confused, the total number exceeded 10,000 points.

The Raging Bear Legion's continuous battle on Koroja also earned Gu Hang several thousand gift points one after another.

In total, there are a total of 40,000 in war rewards.

The remaining bulk comes from the accumulation of monthly gift points over the past nearly one year.

With the immigration of a large number of people and the utilization of the original population, the productivity of the angry owl star has developed rapidly, and the monthly gift points provided to Gu Hang have exceeded the 4,000 mark.

The Black Arrow Star was previously regarded as a slave country. The gift points provided are not many, just a few hundred points. It is estimated that the servant state has a large amount of decline.

However, the situation changed as two things happened.

First, the political entity of the ‘Union’ was recognized by the empire and thus legitimized. This gave Gu Hang nominal legal and recognized ownership rights to the franchisee, Black Arrow Star.

Secondly, it was Gu Hang who essentially controlled the world through military operations.

Third, it is using the skin of the New King's Council, but in fact, the alliance's own political system is being implemented. In the past six months, it has quickly taken root, and has truly improved the alliance's influence on the entire Black Arrow Star. Control.

These changes are directly reflected in the situation within the system, that is, under Gu Hang's [vassal] panel, in addition to the Luman Kingdom, many other countries have been added in a short period of time; then, the vassal levels of these countries Rapid improvement. Then a few days ago, the option of annexation finally appeared.

Gu Hang has already ordered it.

At this point, the Black Arrow Star will be regarded by the system as the same 'local' as the Raging Owl Star.

However, the gift point bonus that this local area can provide is currently not many.

Although it has a population of 400 million, the monthly gift points provided are less than 2,000 points, less than half of the Raging Owl Star.

But Gu Hang was not too surprised by this.

Gu Hang knew that the supply of monthly gift points should be closely related to a series of data such as population size, total productivity, average living standards of the population, government control, etc. Moreover, the growth of monthly gift points is not directly linearly related to the increase of these things. It is more like a ladder system, and it will increase by a certain amount when reaching a certain number.

If you want to increase the gift points that Black Arrow Star can provide to a more ideal level, you have to calm down and build the entire planet for the better.

This is exactly the goal of the alliance.

The number of gift points provided by the Raging Owl Star this year has accumulated to almost 50,000; the Black Arrow Star has just become a native land, and before that, as a [vassal], it did not provide many points, and it accumulated less than one in a year. Ten thousand.

Including war rewards, the number of gift points Gu Hang received in the past year has exceeded 100,000.

Of course, he doesn't have that many on hand right now. After all, it was impossible for Gu Hang not to spend any gift points in the past year.

The main cost is concentrated on personnel.

Gu Hang has been doing this all the time through the [Heroes] interface to identify talents, even including some natives on the Black Arrow Planet. If he feels that the person is quite reliable and good, then he will identify them as talents.

This [Hero] interface is quite reliable. The talents attuned are in line with their original abilities and talents, and they also have good growth potential. They are more valuable than those trained on a large scale by the weapon card system.

In addition, whether these enlightened talents are new to important positions on the two planets, their loyalty still needs to be guaranteed.

Zhongji Academy still plays an important role in this regard.

Before those people take up their posts, they must go to Xifeng Zhongsi Academy. The people on the Raging Owl star are easy to deal with, but the people on the Black Arrow star have to take the Voyager to Fuxing City for further training. Gu Hang would also regularly spend some gift points in the training classes at Zhongsi Academy to transform these people into ‘political commissars’, directly in one step.

Moreover, the alliance is now gradually trying to arrange official work across the border between the two places. For example, let some promoted officials from the Raging Owl Star go to the Black Arrow Star, or let those from the Black Arrow Star come to the Raging Owl Star. The former is more common.

The alliance's current travel ships travel between the two planets almost all the time, mainly transporting various types of official personnel and official documents.

This is normal, after all, the traveler's load capacity is only so small, and it can only do these things.

In addition to the talent aspect, the other thing is the military replenishment.

Whether it's on Black Arrow or Koroga, the Alliance is at war. The loss of soldiers is inevitable.

Currently, the largest source of soldiers for the alliance army is the Raging Star. The recruit camp always maintained a size of hundreds of thousands of people, and Gu Hang needed to pay thousands of gift points to train them all. Then when there is attrition in the battle on the front line, the corresponding replenishment of soldiers, together with a series of things such as weapons, equipment and ammunition supplies, are sent to the front line and replenished to the corresponding front-line troops.

This will definitely not last long.

Including the expansion of the Raging Bear Legion, the total strength of the Alliance Army will exceed one million. You shouldn't just rely on Raging Star for supplementation.

Now that Black Arrow Star has become a local territory, there is no need to maintain a certain ratio of soldiers.

In fact, Thaddeus has been ordered to establish multiple recruit training centers on the Black Arrow Star and continue to recruit new recruits on the Black Arrow Star to add to the alliance's army.

At the same time, a special recruit training center will be established on Koroja, specifically to supplement the losses of the Raging Bear Legion.

However, the reason why this recruit training center is special is because the Angry Bear Legion does not have the authority to recruit troops directly from Koroja. Even if it is forced recruitment, the system will not recognize it, and Gu Hang will not be able to train. You can only use the logistics supplement channel of the Astra Militarum, which essentially means sending personnel as imperial taxes to the Raging Bear Legion for use, thus entering the new barracks.

In this way, these people can be counted as the reserves of the Angry Bear Legion, allowing Gu Hang, the commander of the Angry Bear Legion, to directly conduct training.

According to imperial laws, these soldiers can only be used to supplement the Raging Bear Legion and cannot be used for other purposes.

Generally speaking, the training cost of ordinary soldiers is not high. One gift point can train a hundred T5 level soldiers. Maintaining more than 200,000 recruit camps on three planets and multiple recruit training bases so that the front line can be replenished at any time will cost less than a few thousand points of gifts, so there will be little pressure.

What really counts as a big expense is the construction of the Phoenix Chapter.

In the decisive battle on the Black Arrow Star, the Phoenix Space Marines played a major role in wiping out all twelve Knight Titans.

As for the Alliance's losses, in addition to thousands of armored vehicles, nearly 500 tanks, and more than 40 Wind Falcons, the Phoenix also lost six people in total.

From this perspective, it can also be seen that the Knight Titan is still a very powerful thing - after all, there are 700,000 units. In comparison, the cost of a Space Marine's power armor is only 50,000 yuan; the Terminator set on Martins is only 800,000 yuan.

Of course, cost is not everything. The most valuable thing about a Space Marine is the warrior inside, not the armor on the outside.

But in any case, the cost can also explain a lot of problems.

Martins would still be saddened by the casualties among the Space Marines. But after all, it was different from before. Now the number of battle groups was growing continuously, and his mentality was relatively stable.

In the past six months, Gu Hang has trained twelve new space warriors, along with thousands of special warfare elites from the 10th Brigade.

Among these twelve people, seven are from the mainland of Raging Owl, and of the other five, two are from Koroga immigrants, and three are from Black Arrow.

Gu Hang did this intentionally in many things.

Regarding the recognition of the concept of 'alliance' and the integration of species, Gu Hang will do his best wherever possible.

Although it is somewhat unreasonable to want to bridge the two planets and create an 'alliance identity' in addition to the original 'imperial identity', 'human identity', 'planet identity' and 'ethnic identity'. It’s difficult, and it can’t be done in a short time. But do it anyway, and stress it at every opportunity.

Gu Hang followed this idea in terms of various personnel exchange policies, the selection of officials, armies, and even space warriors.

It is true that Raging Owl is his most important base, but after all, it is too small. In the future, it will not be possible to rely solely on the 45 million people to travel across the star sea.

It is necessary to expand the basic base, and Black Arrow Star is the first step.

These personnel gift points totaled less than 20,000 for Gu Hang.

In addition to personnel, he has also spent a little time on the [Architecture] interface in the past six months.

The main thing is the construction of factories.

He has a total of more than 20 civilian/military factories in the three industrial centers on Black Arrow; there are also ten on Raging Owl.

This is another consumption of more than 3,000 points of gifts.

But overall, not much.

He still has more than 70,000 points.

He planned to keep more than 20,000 yuan for emergencies, and he planned to use all the remaining 50,000 yuan to extract technology.