Chapter 714, Population Dilemma
Except for the three star regions controlled by the alliance, there is no good land left in the entire spider web space.
No one can blame the Queen Star Territory. It can no longer be described as bad. It can be said that the entire Star Territory has been empty.
Nearly one-third to half of the world has been baptized by the Extermination Order and has become worthless.
More than half of the planet is left, and the remaining population is already very small. Maybe there are only 10 billion people left in more than 300 worlds combined?
On average, there are 30 to 40 million on a planet.
This reminded Gu Hang of his early days when he was just starting out.
Relying on these local populations, do you want to rebuild planets one by one? Gu Hang was not very happy to do this kind of thing.
It’s not impossible.
When the Raging Owl Star was rebuilt, Gu Hang was not yet so powerful. Everything was started from scratch. Isn’t it still like this?
However, he also knows better than anyone how much effort this requires.
The price/performance ratio is too low.
It is better to gather as many people as possible, and then choose a nearby world with a good natural environment and an acceptable degree of Zerg destruction, and then uniformly resettle and develop it.
Let’s leave the other planets alone first.
Treat it as a training ground and slowly clear it up, just like the area once occupied by the Iron-toothed Orcs in the northeastern part of the Dragon Eagle Star Territory.
More than ten or twenty years have passed, and the core policy there is re-colonization, supplemented by long-term surveillance and military clean-up. Overall, it has done pretty well. Now, there is basically no need to worry that the orcs will appear on a large scale and sweep across a planet as a huge and unified tribe. The combat effectiveness of the colonial regiment, armed by the alliance, is enough to fight against those orcs.
Four star regions, forty or fifty worlds, with persistent immigration and encouragement of births, the population has exceeded six billion.
With the vast land and sparse population, large tracts of farms have been opened up in the plain areas where the threat is relatively small. A family of adult couples, and perhaps one or two elderly people, would have three or five children. The labor force may only be two or three, but it can also constitute a small farm, often with more than 500 hectares of land.
Intensive farming is not necessary at all. The improved seeds cultivated by the Alliance Biological Research Institute, coupled with the advanced agricultural machinery produced, can be used for large-scale mechanized production.
Even so, it is possible not to plant on land that is not really fertile.
These are all considered state farms of the Alliance. The food produced belongs to the alliance. Those on the farm are not actually farmers, but agricultural workers, who have a rank, receive wages, and receive a share of the farm's output. And because of their large output, their ranks are promoted relatively quickly, which will allow their descendants to obtain more land when they reach adulthood - whether it is the expansion of the family farm or splitting up to open a farm elsewhere. .
Life was pretty good.
The population is a little sparse, so we can only rely on alliance radio, TV programs, and alcohol to pass the time. But compared to the life they lived at the bottom of the hive before they immigrated here, it was definitely much better.
There are also some planets whose ecological environment is not suitable for large-scale agricultural production, but mining is also quite good.
In short, those four star regions are no longer a burden to the alliance. Instead, they have become granaries and mineral deposits, supplying the huge food needs of Qima Di and Yunluo, as well as providing military rations. , and there is still surplus that can be sold as goods or paid taxes.
The successful experience in these four star regions is to be copied to those worlds that can still be saved in the Princess Star Region.
However, in addition to the Princess Star Territory, the Fox Moon Star Territory in the easternmost part of the Spider Web Space Territory can barely be regarded as a place with better conditions, similar to the Nepeta Star Territory.
However, the former battlefield on the Northern and Western Front was a mess.
The Western Front is relatively better. At least the battle on the Western Front was won, and the swarm of insects was not able to devour the planet on a large scale. The main problem was infection. Through the 'Insect Control' program in the Nepeta Star Territory , can still solve the problem.
It can be regarded as a deteriorated version of the Nepeta Star Territory.
But the Northern Line is terrible.
The Northern Front Army really left a huge hole for Gu Hang. They allowed the infection to spread there and then lost the war.
It can no longer be solved with a simple 'pest control' solution, it must be recolonized. There is a little bit of good news.
The Black Crusaders still feel a little guilty for the mess they left behind. They will retain a battle fleet consisting of five hundred Space Marines, a large number of mortal troops, and a battle barge as the core, and cooperate with the Alliance to slowly solve the mess on the northern front.
They don't need Gu Hang to pay for the war.
But although a certain amount of military expenses have been saved, the bigger expense is still in the reconstruction expenses.
The two star regions of Lofo and Jianmen on the northern line can only be regarded as the Princess Star Region with slightly better conditions.
Recolonization will only take ten years to start seeing results.
Moreover, there is another difficulty.
One of the reasons why it was possible to recolonize the areas occupied by the Iron-toothed Orcs was that the Dragon Eagle Star Region had an abundant population, and there were several hive worlds that the Alliance judged had an excessive population.
In those hive worlds, the population is already a burden. It has long exceeded the upper limit of the planet's ecological environment. Just like the former Koroga 3, it can only simply Use population itself as a resource to deduct taxes.
That is obviously a huge waste.
Through emigration, we not only solve the large population required for recolonization, but also alleviate the ecological pressure on the planet. The migrated population will also have a better and brighter future. Apart from the upfront investment, the rest is all profit.
However, the badly beaten Spider Web Realm is really short of people.
It is indeed possible to carry out larger-scale immigration from the Menghe Star Territory, the Dragon Eagle Star Territory, and to those worlds in the Spider Web Space Territory.
But obviously, the cost will be much higher.
Moreover, it may not be able to meet the demand.
The basic policy of encouraging childbirth still needs to be released.
But besides that, Gu Hang had to think of other ways to increase the population quickly.
There may not be enough students or it may be too late; there may not be enough immigrants within one’s own territory; the only way left is to immigrate from outside.
Available for purchase.
In the surrounding universe, including other star regions in the Eastern universe, there are hive worlds that make money by selling people.
However, buying people is very expensive. For an adult, 10 tax coins is the basic price; the number of new people Gu Hang hopes to increase is calculated in hundreds of billions or trillions, which is too expensive. The cost of transporting people is also relatively high.
There are many pitfalls.
It would be quite stressful to let Gu Hang take over the entire Spider Web Domain and then impose high taxes.
However, Gu Hang decided to accept it.
This is a good opportunity for legal and reasonable expansion.
The greater the pressure, the greater the pressure.
Can resist.
And the huge territory of an entire universe represents huge development potential. No matter how hard it is in the early stage, the bright future is in the future.
(End of this chapter)