Chapter 1010, Spending Points

Gu Hang can earn billions of Blessing Points every month, as the war progresses and the Alliance's homeland develops.

And every month, they spend over a billion yuan cleanly.

These spent Grace Points became the extra fuel for the Alliance—now the Empire as a whole—to move forward.

Why are so many administrative officials from the coalition so outstanding in the new government?

That's because the Alliance has a comprehensive education system. These academies, whether specialized institutions or schools like the Loyal Succession Academy that focus on advanced studies and have a prestige-enhancing effect, were mostly enhancement projects that Gu Hang redeemed through the system's [Building] interface. After being enhanced, these institutions saw a significant improvement in their educational level, greatly increasing the probability of producing talented individuals.

At the same time, it is also because the so-called talents who have reached a certain level are those who have been inspired by Gu Hang through the [Hero] interface on a large scale.

Excluding upgrade costs, each person receives a 10-point blessing, which directly provides some enhancement attributes based on their individual potential level. In addition, most people have gone through the Loyalty Academy in various places, so they are definitely much stronger than the average in terms of moral character, loyalty to the cause, and love for the Empire.

Another point that cannot be ignored is that the coalition government can fully achieve 'knowing people and making good use of them'.

These talents, enlightened by the Gift Points, possess attributes that clearly reveal their greatest strengths. Furthermore, the magnitude of their abilities can be determined through their talent level and 'rarity'.

Such judgments cannot determine a person's future. After all, Gu Hang has seen more than once that the rarity of his enlightened subordinates can change after they have acquired certain unique personal experiences—sometimes increasing, sometimes decreasing.

Not to mention, with prolonged exposure to real-world experience, individuals can also level up. It's just that Gu Hang can level up very quickly by forcibly adding Blessing Points, while the character's own leveling up takes a much longer time.

But overall, at least in the present moment, his assessment of this person is very accurate.

The alliance is able to use the instructions and information given by the governor to place the right people in the right positions.

This also reflects Gu Hang's authority over personnel matters.

This type of official system is professional, efficient, reliable, and loyal.

Although corruption, dereliction of duty, and even corruption by chaos are inevitable, overall it seems much better than the situation under the rule of human empires in the past.

Such a large and highly qualified civil service group is the core reason why the alliance can ensure the correct and efficient implementation of its system.

Even the most perfect system in the world still requires people to implement it. If people are incompetent, any system can be ruined. If people are competent, even the worst system can be improved.

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Besides talent acquisition, the cost of Blessing Points also includes exchanging them for buildings. How difficult is it for factories to improve production efficiency under normal circumstances? They either need to conduct process research and development and upgrades, but that requires a large capital investment with uncertain returns; or they need to reform and optimize management and systems, but this is not only equally difficult, but if not done well, it can also have adverse effects.

However, with a 100-point bonus, the improvement to a basic factory results in a very significant increase in production capacity. This manifests in increased worker efficiency, rapid advancements in processes, improved machine tool precision, and a reduced failure rate—the effects are clearly visible in all aspects.

Now, Gu Hang can spend 300 million Grace Points a month on this.

That would mean up to three million factories distributed across different star systems of the empire could receive increased production capacity. Of course, in reality, there wouldn't be that many. Because for some key factories, Gu Hang wasn't just exchanging for level one factories, but up to level five—which meant millions of grace points.

However, the effect of that increase will be more pronounced, and it's generally used in particularly important industries. For example, shipyards, large-scale energy conversion centers, mineral smelting centers, Titan manufacturing centers…

Currently, Gu Hang has a general plan for the expenses of the factory exchange.

The most important area is the region extending from the northern part of the Eastern Space Domain to the southern part of the Spider Web Space Domain.

This is the Alliance's 'birthplace,' and the place where it has been established for the longest time. Wrathful Owl Star, Pegasus Star Region, Dragon Eagle Starfield... these are the core areas of this region.

Gu Hang spends approximately 25% of his monthly bonus points for increasing production capacity here.

Centralizing production capacity certainly has its advantages. Especially in the current space environment, where shipping is difficult, the efficiency gains brought about by economies of scale are becoming increasingly apparent.

In reality, the Dragon Eagle Starfield, centered on the Alliance's old territory and encompassing two or three surrounding starfields, forms this "old alliance region." It is indeed the most developed and productive area within the entire Alliance—and arguably the entire Empire. It embodies the essence of the Alliance's nearly two centuries of development.

This old alliance territory alone can support an expedition of four army groups at its maximum capacity—of course, we can't push it to that limit, or we'll be squeezing it too hard.

Excessive centralization is not a good thing either; you can't put all your eggs in one cage.

Although the Alliance has done a very good job of protecting the core area, except for the Central Front during the Comoros War, the entire Central Front, which is arguably the largest and strongest of all the Fronts, has always stayed in the core territory of the Alliance.

However, no one can guarantee that all risks have been eliminated.

Moreover, as expeditions take them further and further afield, the Alliance's supply lines will be stretched longer and longer as a result.

If every loss of a warship or every Titan had to be transported from the core territory, then expeditions would be severely limited.

The alliance has also consciously established industrial belts in other places.

The model is often centered on a planet or star region that was already relatively developed before the war, radiating outwards to an entire or multiple star regions, forming an industrial belt.

The capital of the Eastern Universe, Wuji Star, is a particularly good example; in the Spiderweb Universe, Lingze Star, which was once the core hub for trade between the Alliance and the Empire, has also successfully transformed into a new industrial belt center after more than a decade of painful trade disruption following the Scarlet Scar, thanks to its locational advantages and its accumulated super-strong infrastructure.

Similar examples are being replicated in many places throughout the universe.

Of all the favor points Gu Hang spent on exchanging for factories, 60% were allocated to this.

Another 15% of your Grace Points can be spent on Holy Terra.

(End of this chapter)