Chapter 1008, The Trend of the Calamity Ending

Chapter 1008, The Trend of the Calamity Ending
There is still much room for improvement in the productivity and efficiency of Holy Terra.

As the heart of the empire, this place once possessed terrifying production capacity.

Even after the baptism of a brutal war, Holy Terra still possesses immense potential.

But the prerequisite is that it can be discovered and put to use.

Once the policies from the Alliance Central Committee were implemented, a bunch of deputies in the Department of Justice, eager to make achievements, started working hard everywhere, and within just a few years, things changed dramatically.

Under the powerful government's decrees, the various powerful families were quickly dismantled.

A significant portion of them eventually accepted their fate and didn't make any unnecessary trouble—like the Cafiora family.

The entire family's businesses were taken over, but they did not use their influence in the industries to cause trouble for the central government. Instead, they cooperated well with the takeover and transfer work, allowing the entire transfer of industries to proceed quite smoothly.

Since they'd already admitted defeat, backed down, and surrendered, they might as well do it decisively and thoroughly. They once again demonstrated their decisiveness and lack of hesitation.

With such a cooperative attitude, they also received considerable benefits.

Although the family business was gone, the acquisition price was not bad; with the money, it was distributed, and the family members were scattered in all directions, with very few people left in Indonia Hive City, and they were dispersed to other Hive City, or even other worlds.

However, the entire family members hold quite high ranks within the alliance system. Furthermore, they have many excellent positions befitting these high ranks. In other worlds, some even serve as administrators of hive cities or planetary governors.

Although under the Alliance's administrative system, the position of Planetary Governor is not the same as the traditional concept of a planetary emperor, and is merely a "nominal official" under the system, it is still the highest administrative head of an entire planet.

There are also things like the location of caravans, the leaders of large state-owned enterprises operating across regions...

The Cafiora family ate their fill.

Ultimately, whether it's a family or an interest group, it's still a collection of 'people'. People form groups to pursue their own interests. A group is most cohesive when the interests of the group and the interests of individuals are highly aligned. And now, the alliance's offer is that if the interest group is dismantled, each individual within the group will benefit more.

This would greatly reduce the resistance to dismantling the entire interest group.

But the same question remains: where do the profits come from?
This involves two parts:
Firstly, they come from those disobedient, rebellious powerful figures, families, and interest groups.

There will always be some dim-witted individuals who choose to rebel. When their group is violently dismantled and swiftly suppressed, the empty spaces they leave behind become a tempting prize.

We don't even need to completely eliminate them.

Dogs fighting dogs is also a good solution.

Some families outwardly agreed, but unsurprisingly, they later went against their word. Those caught red-handed were dealt with swiftly and decisively; those not caught but suspected were dealt with by sending people from 'compliant' families to act as their superiors and handle their affairs.

The effect is quite significant.

These converts to the Alliance are often ruthless. Furthermore, they are well aware of the various intricate tactics employed by the traditional elites of Holy Terra, allowing them to target these threats with remarkable effectiveness!
However, the above only covers the distribution of the cake.

Distribution alone is not enough; it can't feed those families that have been split up.

To feed them, offering so many good positions and high ranks, simply feeding on the corpses left behind by the wiped-out families is still not enough; it will inevitably encroach on and affect the alliance's original promotion system.

Unless, make the cake even bigger.

This is precisely the purpose of this operation.

Not to mention territorial expansion, even within Holy Terra, once the Alliance completely controls the core industries of many hives, enormous production potential is unleashed!
No more shirking work due to profit issues, no more layers of subcontracting, and no more exploitation.

The industry began to consolidate, efficiency improved, and production capacity was released.

In the following years, the overall economy of Holy Terra began to grow at an even faster rate!
All of this resulted in greater support for His Highness the Regent's long-cherished Unyielding Expedition. Although he was dissatisfied with the fact that the overall formation of the expeditionary force had been delayed for two years, he had to admit that the cost of those two years was entirely worthwhile. The expeditionary force would have a more solid backing, and Holy Terra's support for the Unyielding Expedition would be even stronger in the future.

The time saved in future expeditions may far exceed the two years spent in the early stages.

And now, the Great Unyielding Expedition, as another important part of the entire imperial expedition, has officially begun.

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In fact, the prelude to the Unyielding Expedition had already begun long before Holy Terra was fully pacified. A portion of the expeditionary fleet led by Robert, mixed with a portion of the Solar Fleet, formed an advance fleet that left Holy Terra to once again 'expand its territory' to other parts of the Solar System.

However, progress has been slow.

On the one hand, there is a lack of troops; on the other hand, the problems caused by the previous chaos and corruption are not limited to Holy Terra.

Holy Terra is far too important, attracting everyone's attention. But beyond that attention, the other worlds in the Solar System each have their own problems, some of which are far from minor.

While these worlds in the solar star system are all considered core territories of the human empire and are heavily guarded, a considerable number of these worlds have still fallen entirely to the enemy.

Even with the advance fleet's strength, and even with many Space Marines aboard, and even with Robert persuading Marshal Yan Xinzhen to send some Imperial Guard troops to participate in the operation, the best they could do was prevent the situation from deteriorating further.

During the fifteen-year Terra War, and the subsequent five-year reconstruction and expeditionary force formation period, fewer than two hundred worlds in the entire Solar System were completely restored and placed under the full control of the new imperial central government.

The entire solar system contains eight hundred worlds.

Once the army of the Unyielding Expedition was assembled, its first goal was to reclaim the entire Solar Starfield with a force equivalent to two and a half army groups of the Alliance's Dark Side Expedition.

This step was achieved in just two years, supported by a massive military force.

Then, as originally planned, they split into three directions—the Unyielding Expeditionary Northern Area Army, the Western Area Army, and the Southern Area Army.

In the tenth year that the Unyielding Expedition officially began, the Southern Army was the first to complete its mission: it victoriously joined forces with the Allied Western Army and reorganized into a larger Southwestern Army, advancing along the Scarlet Scar toward the southwest of the Empire.

Twenty-five years after the start of the Unyielding Expedition, the Northern Front also completed its mission and joined forces with troops advancing south from the Infinite Starfield. Together, they formed the Northern Front of the Expedition, with the goal of restoring the entire northern border of the Empire.

The Western Front was relatively more difficult to deal with, but at least they conquered the entire Solar Domain and entered the Anyang Domain to the west of the Solar Domain.

Thus, in the Holy Frontier of the Empire, during the twenty-five years of unyielding expeditions, six cosmic domains, equivalent to a quarter of the entire Holy Frontier of the Empire, have been largely restored.

Including the Dark Side Expeditions, after these twenty-five years, the 13 cosmic domains of the Empire's eastern frontier have been fully recovered.

The Southern Army has entered and conquered the two space domains separated by the Crimson Scar in the central space domain.

Dante's angelic expeditionary force and Eastern Front have fully entered the southern border of the Empire.

Combined, the new empire now controls twenty-one cosmic domains.

This is already half of the empire's total territory.

More importantly, the Imperial Expedition currently involves a total of six army groups, all carrying out their missions with great fanfare. The campaign to reclaim the entire Empire is like a snowball, growing larger, more vast, and more unstoppable.

But the good news doesn't stop there.

Scarlet scars have been present for nearly 150 years.

This enormous scar, representing profound disaster, is now visibly fading.

(End of this chapter)