Chapter 586: Spend all the gifts
The alliance provides blood sharks with more than just blood tax.
There is also a gray tax that Gu Hang will never forget.
When you should be generous, be generous.
Blood Shark saved three of his own battle cruisers, also contributed a lot of effort in the Battle of Bowang, and also participated in jumping gangs to seize ships... Gu Hang remembered all these achievements.
What does the blood shark want?
Consumables?
Ammunition, medical supplies and equipment, starship repairs and parts...here, it's all a small amount of money.
equipment?
The Alliance's vehicle, the Blood Shark, is a bit disdainful. They have a lot of good stuff obtained in the Dark Outer Realm, as well as some elite equipment traded with other Adeptus Mechanicus. However, quantity is an issue, and the alliance's output can supplement a lot of equipment, which can greatly improve the combat strength of the blood shark's servant army and auxiliary army. From exoskeletons to feedback powered armor; from armored vehicles to sentinel mechas... the previous Blood Shark Auxiliary Army was used as cannon fodder. Where have they ever received such treatment? With these equipment, we can last longer when delivering cannon fodder in the future.
However, the Alliance also has some cutting-edge equipment that the blood sharks need. The Iron Cavalry Terminator and the Stalwart Power Armor are both good things. They do have some pretty awesome stuff, and the chapter even has two Hades-type Terminators. This is almost the most advanced Terminator armor, which is quite rare in the entire empire.
However, after all, these things are in small quantities. Blood Sharks generally still use the most common Aquila-type power armor and Indomitable Terminator.
Now that they are supplied by the alliance, I will definitely be happy to replace them with a new batch.
There are also good things like phase weapons. According to the blood shark's style, it can be made into a battle ax or a long-handled weapon, no problem.
The alliance has not yet been able to mass-produce phase weapons. It only relies on black box production. The quantity is relatively limited. Even the Phoenix does not have many pieces. But because of this, the price of this thing can be set to be crazy expensive.
It's also really good value for money.
This top-notch weapon is even more important than the upgrade of power armor for a war group like the Blood Sharks who are good at close combat. A few phase axes were enough for them to pay a very high price in exchange for them.
Among the equipment, these are not the most valuable ones.
But a starship.
What the blood shark wants most is of course the battle barge.
However, their achievements and sacrifices were not enough to exchange the battle barge from the Alliance for the battle barge that originally belonged to the Raging Flames Chapter. After all, in the entire Battle of Bowang, the one who played the biggest role was Gu Hang himself, followed by the Phoenix Chapter. The Blood Sharks helped some, but not much, not even as much as the Alliance's own Glory Guards and The Battle Sisters deserve a lot of credit for bringing it down.
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, Blood Shark did not feel at first that it was the right decision to fight the powerful Alfonzo fleet in the Bowang galaxy, and Ewing naturally would not hand over the entire fleet to the alliance and fight with them. It was not until Alfonzo II, the most powerful war ark, was destroyed that they put aside their hesitation and started fighting seriously.
Blood Shark himself has no shame in saying that their contribution is great enough to ask for the best ship to go.
However, they saved three Alliance battle cruisers and sacrificed two hundred people in the ongoing war.
The Alliance is willing to build them a Grail-class battlecruiser and three Space Marine strike cruisers.
Mainly ordinary ships, not even blood sharks, they just want fast ships that can keep up with them.
Combined with the excellent blood tax, the gray tax provided by the alliance, and the enhancement of the fleet's 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 previous rewards when doing business and taking jobs with some Mechanicus sects in the chapter's history.
Gu Hang's promise of 'higher than ordinary prices' has been verified.
They are also willing to continue fighting 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 relationship between the two parties is more like that of allies. Ewing will listen to Gu Hang's orders, but he will make his own judgment on how to do it and to what extent.
Gu Hang had no problem with this.
It should.
This does not affect the alliance's ability to provide them with blood tax and gray tax.
They deserve it too.
And...what's yours is mine, why are you so clear about it?
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Gu Hang exchanged 1,800 Space Warrior seedlings, and gave 300 to the Blood Sharks, which not only made up for their losses, but also provided them with wealth, which could slightly increase their military strength; he gave 500 phoenixes, replenishing their military strength to 1,000, although Among them, there are nearly a hundred Dreadnoughts, and some are waiting for Dreadnoughts to be sent to them in the life support cabin, but in any case, their strength has reached the upper limit of a battle group.
What about a thousand more people?
Gu Hang established a ‘shadow war group’.
All they used were the gene seeds of the Phoenix; in terms of training speed, that is, the consumption of Gu Hang's gift points, they were also on par with the Phoenix. But Gu Hang didn't intend to let too many people know about their existence.
Just like the name, they are a shadow.
Gu Hang wanted their role to be, first of all, to replenish the Phoenix more quickly.
Normally, even if there is a method of consuming gift points to accelerate, it will take several months for the superhuman organs in a young man's body to grow after the gene seed is implanted.
It is estimated that I can have a relatively long period of time to recuperate now, but it is not short of a little time. But if the war gets intense and Phoenix suffers relatively large casualties, it will need to quickly replenish its troops. With this group of Shadow Legion members, it won't even take a few months to replenish the team, it can be seamless.
Another point is that the Shadow Group can do other jobs for Gu Hang.
When the phoenix can't spare the time, when even the phoenix is not suitable for doing things... they can come in handy.
Space Marines are not just found in the Empire.
Those lost traitors, even the fallen ones who fell into Chaos, are quite good identities.
Perfect for doing dirty work.
Some people died at the hands of 'renegade' Space Marines; some things were done by traitors or fallen ones, so the Alliance can't be blamed after all, right?
Currently, Gu Hang has no room to use this trick.
But in the future, we can’t say for sure.
You can make preparations first while you have plenty of gift points on hand.
Even if the time is right in the future, Gu Hang can also go public through a backdoor merger.
In the empire, there are many battle groups that have disappeared in the long river of history.
The names of those war groups that were clearly removed from the Empire and all members were lost in battle were not easy to use. But it doesn't matter. In the history of the empire, there are many battle groups whose whereabouts are unknown.
Although there is a risk of someone suddenly appearing and returning, like the blood shark. However... the risk is not that big after all, if there is no news for hundreds of years.
As for incomplete procedures and difficulty in getting approval, these are also real problems.
But Gu Hang felt that he would gradually no longer have to be afraid of such problems.
I am willing to borrow a shell, and others can enjoy it secretly. It's obvious that the battle group has been expanded to a certain size, but how many people can do anything to Gu Hang?
Of course, if it gets to that point, it will look a little ugly. Gu Hang is not so powerful at this moment that he can completely ignore what Holy Terra will think.
All I can say is that everything needs to be prepared in advance. Otherwise, when the opportunity does appear in front of you, it will be difficult to be insufficiently prepared.
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The various expenditures on Space Marines are very expensive, but they are mainly in the consumption of resources and funds.
In terms of gift points, it's actually pretty good.
It only cost 1.5 million.
Although they are very powerful, expensive, and capable of fighting, they are not large in scale after all. They only have a thousand people and can't cost much.
What's more, Gu Hang's idea of creating a Space Marine Legion was dashed due to restrictions on gene seed exchange.
Then it won’t cost a lot of money.
At this point, Gu Hang had spent more than 18 million of the 30 million gift points he had received.
With just over 10 million left, Gu Hang hesitated.
Mainly I'm thinking, should we hold a technology lottery?
Nowadays, it is a bit expensive to engage in technology lottery. The previous prize pool has basically been drained, and if he does ten consecutive rounds in the million-dollar bracket, he can spend all the remaining gift points.
But there are still a lot of places where he uses his gifts.
Especially when it comes to productivity.
Gu Hang had the idea to exchange it for countless factories, colleges and other buildings to cover the entire alliance. When fighting a war, we cannot ignore the military issues at hand.
Fighting means fighting for family wealth.
Especially from the perspective of the navy, building a starship can easily cost billions or tens of billions. In one shipbuilding cycle of the Alliance, one Retribution-class ship, one Zhuge-class ship, and four battle cruisers add up to two thousand ships. More than 100 million.
what does that mean?
That doesn't require the alliance to spend so many tax dollars to buy it, at least not entirely. The Mingyang Sect will continue to order two Dragon Snake-class battlecruisers in a cycle, and they will have to pay for them.
The other ships were built by the alliance itself without any real expense.
However, the actual cost is not bad.
A starship, so huge. To build a hive city that can sail and fight in space, it requires too many supporting industries.
Countless people work for it. It’s not just the skilled workers related to the shipbuilding industry, that’s already a very huge number. Taking into account the treatment given to them by the alliance, the expenditure on food, medical care, various consumer goods, and even spiritual entertainment products required to build houses and maintain a relatively superior life for them is quite a lot.
In this matter, oppression and exploitation are even hopeless. Those who can participate in the shipbuilding industry, not to mention the core senior engineers, even lower-level skilled workers can be classified as "talents".
Relying on oppression is not good for workers' morale, and may even reduce efficiency.
The construction of various parts and shells, the processing and production of supporting raw materials... this series of matters is very 'expensive'.
Or in other words, take up productivity.
A considerable part of the alliance's finances has been invested in the shipbuilding industry.
But even this is not enough.
In fact, according to the 'national power' of the Menghe and Longying star regions, maintaining the current shipbuilding efficiency has reached the limit, or even overdraft.
Fortunately, after the war, there is no need to pay imperial taxes, otherwise it would be impossible to bear it.
Moreover, as the alliance progressed, the results were good, and the support from the empire became more and more.
Some are direct military support. More than fifty warships were mobilized from surrounding areas to become friendly forces and were united under the command of 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 is still a lot of money.
In the army, there were also six Astra Militarum legions, with a total of about 40 million people, and they were also sent to the front line one after another, becoming the troops that Gu Hang could call upon.
After the war, these must be returned. Gu Hang also didn't have the idea of trailing friendly forces and deliberately letting people fall into cruel wars.
There is no need, they are just embellishments, do not affect the overall situation, and do not damage your own reputation.
But no matter what, these are 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 Cosmic Region government, actually from two or three surrounding cosmic regions, according to the requirements of the central empire, amounted to 150 billion.
The money came after the Alfonzo Order entered the war.
In any case, 150 billion is a very large number.
It would definitely be useless for Gu Hang to ask for money or pieces of paper. He does not need to use these tax payment certificates to deduct taxes. However, these 'pieces of paper' can be used to directly purchase all the materials needed by the alliance in the surrounding star regions and even space regions.
Artillery shells, energy, weapons and equipment, food...even outsourced ships!
There are some things that money cannot buy, but now you can buy them at a reasonable price.
Gu Hang directly bought a Retribution-class battleship from the Forging Chen Sect in the Gushan Universe next door for 60 billion.
The cost of building this thing is only 50 billion. Taking into account the crew, fuel, and shells... 60 billion is no different from making no money.
What's more, the entire seven star regions of the Gushan Universe can be regarded as places where the green skin riots are more serious within the empire's territory. The Forging Chen Sect can produce a battleship and sell it to Gu Hang instead of using it for the defense of this universe, which is enough to give them face.
This face is definitely not for the alliance, and the two families have no friendship. They rely solely on the influence of the central empire.
The money is given by the central government, and the purchasing authority is obtained by the central government.
There are still great benefits to having Holy Terra as a backing.
That's good.
I, Gu Hang, have always been a loyal servant of the empire!
All in all, without the on-site access to imperial taxes and without the empire's external economic support, the alliance's war machine would not be able to operate at full power like it is now.
But this is not a long-term solution after all.
Forging iron requires oneself to be strong.
After thinking for a long time, Gu Hang decided to postpone the lottery for now.
He spent almost all of the remaining 10,000,000 gift points on improving productivity.
This is mainly achieved through two means.
First, many college buildings were built in Dragon Eagle and even the Menghe galaxy.
The Comprehensive College, Zhongji College, and Military College all exchanged some, but the largest number was from the Technical College.
After strengthening the efficiency of talent training in this area, the number of engineers and technical workers in the alliance will be greatly improved in the future.
The two star regions have a combined population of more than one trillion. If the professional skills level is raised to a very high level and human resources can be fully exploited and utilized, then the overall productivity level will be greatly improved.
The exchange price for a college is 1,000 gift points.
Gu Hang redeemed a total of 3,000.
For example, there are now at least thousands of universities on the Winged Planet. Gu Hang directly used these exchanged gift points to cover 500 of them, further strengthening the responsibility of the education center of this planet.
Koroga also exchanged 100 of them. The hive world is a densely populated area, so it should be; the Raging Star has covered 100 of them, directly exporting a large number of shipbuilding industry talents on the spot...
Other worlds are also covered. He wants to ensure that the two star fields that he has regarded as his own territory, a total of 774 worlds, each planet has at least one; some with larger populations or more developed industries will have more.
This is the consumption of three million points of gifts.
There were still nine million gift points left, and Gu Hang spent all of them on the redemption of another building: the factory.
Whether it is a civilian factory or a military factory, this kind of exchange can be applied to existing factories to directly improve efficiency. It is a more simple and crude but easy-to-use method.
Gu Hang redeemed 50,000 factories, covering almost every planet and every industry.
Food processing, material processing, construction industry, consumer goods production, civil engineering machinery manufacturing... these civilian industries cannot be ignored. Even from a military perspective, they are the backing of the military industry.
But the bulk 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’s not just a first-level factory with 100 gift points, so how can it be enough?
Gu Hang directly used the fifth-level factory to redeem it!
For each level of factory building, a zero is added to the exchange price.
But the effect of a level five factory can nearly double work efficiency.
Of course, this only greatly improves the efficiency of machinery and personnel, and does not really reduce the time required for shipbuilding by half. This may be reflected in the number of ships that can be built at the same time, the reduction in resource and energy consumption, and the reduction in manpower used.
But it is already good if it can save resources, save manpower, and speed up ship construction by 50%.
For one million gift points, Gu Hang was completely willing to spend it on the two major shipyards of Nuo Xiaoxing and Feiyixing.
At the same time, Gu Hang was willing to give the shipbuilding center in Yunluo and the Granya shipbuilding center in the Menghe star region a level four factory worth 100,000 points.
Holy Grail-level construction technology has also been distributed to these two places. The Alliance is squeezing resources through its teeth and wants to build two more Holy Grail-class battleship production lines in these two places.
At this point, not long after Gu Hang got it, he spent all the 30 million gift before he could warm it up.
In exchange for an alliance that will become stronger from the military to the economy!
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5k
Still owe 114
(End of chapter)