Chapter 556: Alliance version of 'blood tax' and 'gray tax'

Gu Hang took a fancy to the blood shark.

Although he knew that it was unrealistic to make the blood shark look like the phoenix.

The situation of the Phoenix back then was no different from being wiped out, so of course it was easy to deal with.

Now, although the Blood Sharks are poor, in some ways they have obtained many precious lost technologies due to their long-term operations in the dark outer realms. From this perspective, they are very rich, but they are reluctant to sell many things.

What's more, they are well-staffed, with always six or seven hundred people, and their individual combat capabilities are very strong. They can almost be regarded as the most outstanding and top-notch part of the regular combat group.

It is impossible to make them become a part of the alliance like the Phoenix.

However, just like many Space Marine Chapters have various forces behind them, the Alliance can also become a supporter of the Blood Sharks.

This kind of relationship also has levels.

Generally speaking, it is just a transaction relationship; if it is a little closer, it can be promoted to an employment relationship; if it is even closer, it may be a stable partnership...

Among these relationships, no matter which level they reach, Gu Hang can accept it.

Even if it's just a trading relationship, it would be nice to be able to buy the good things that Blood Shark got from the aliens and lost worlds in the dark outer realm.

There are two main concerns here.

First, is the relationship between the blood shark and the phoenix.

But after just thinking about it for a moment, Gu Hang didn't care too much about it.

First of all, the hatred between the two groups in the past is not as big as imagined. There must be people from Phoenix who died at the hands of Blood Shark. But the role of Blood Shark is just a mercenary, just a knife, and the real enemy is Iron Armor.

I definitely still hate Dao, but it’s not that serious.

What's more, how is the phoenix today the same as it was back then?
Not only has the personnel been completely replaced, but they are now deeply integrated with the alliance. In this case, even if they are unhappy, Gu Hang is fully confident that he can calm them down.

As for the fact that there will still be some conflicts in the future, that is also normal. We just need to have less contact and less cooperation.

On the contrary, the second consideration is more troublesome.

The Blood Shark's tradition of 'blood tax' and 'grey tax'.

If they insist on their past traditions, then let alone future cooperation, there will probably be trouble right now.

But the communication between Gu Hang and Alma Ewing was still normal.

He's just a little quiet.

Later I checked and found out that they had changed their chapter leader. A hundred years ago, during the Redbud Rebellion, their chapter leader was named 'Salinas'.

The reason for changing the Chapter Leader is, in most cases, that the previous Chapter Leader died in battle.

With the Blood Sharks operating in the Outlands, which are fraught with danger, it is not surprising to see a change of Chapter Leader every hundred years.

It doesn't necessarily mean that you only changed one.

There have been changes in the top leadership, and it is normal for the entire chapter to be different from before in some details while maintaining its overall style and culture.

One hundred and thirty years ago, they also suffered losses in this regard. They were allies fighting side by side at the beginning, but ended up becoming enemies with Tiekai because of the "blood tax" and "ash tax". Although the hatred may not have changed, who knows if they have thought about their original actions in the past hundred years. Is it a little inconsiderate? Should they learn from it in the future?
In short, no matter what the reason is, the blood shark, 'blood tax' and 'gray tax' are now negotiable. This is good.

Gu Hang believes that the two sides have very good conditions for cooperation.

In terms of the so-called gray tax, that is, regular supplies, the Alliance has no doubt. With two star regions, thousands of worlds, and multiple powerful local industrial manufacturing capabilities, it is possible to supply all the resources that the Blood Shark needs.

Whether they want various types of armor, weapons, conventional supplies, or various vehicles, the Alliance can produce them all.

Some are in surplus.

Even if they wanted a starship, the Alliance might not be able to build a battle barge, but there was no problem in making a strike cruiser. This thing was very expensive, so it would depend on whether the Blood Shark could get enough merit to exchange for these things.

As for the blood tax, that is even simpler.

Don’t they just need people? The Alliance can directly provide manpower, or even trained mortal troops, to enter the Blood Shark and become the Blood Shark’s mortal auxiliary army.

As long as Blood Shark wants it, Gu Hang will happily give it to him.

All the political commissars will be assigned to you.

On the other hand, the greater significance of blood tax is to select new soldiers for the war group.

This is even within Gu Hang's area of expertise!
The Phoenix inherited the bloodline of the Phoenix Chapter, which is a type of gene seed that requires a relatively high degree of adaptability. The number of Phoenix Chapters has always been small, unlike the Infinite Chapter, Punisher Chapter, and Golden Knights Chapter, which have a large population.

But even so, since Gu Hang can cheat by using the soldier card system to screen out the best candidates, the success rate of implantation has been greatly increased.

The blood shark regiment's lineage is unknown, and it is said to be a sub-group of the bat army, and the number of people is not very large. But because of this, the selection of candidates must be more cautious, otherwise if they fail once, a seed will be wasted.

Gene seeds are no longer valuable to Gu Hang. On the contrary, the quota of Space Marines is his biggest headache.

But for any normal chapter, gene seeds are still precious things that are related to the survival of the chapter.

If Gu Hang can provide the best candidates steadily, with the high success rate of the implant surgery, even if the Blood Sharks have many other considerations, it will be difficult for them to resist the temptation to quickly increase the number of their own regiments.

As for these candidates, they grew up under the Alliance system, received Alliance education, and even attended the Loyalty Academy... so what? It was nothing more than the first ten years of life. For the infinite lifespan of Space Marines, the memories of the mortal stage would always be compressed infinitely small and eventually replaced by the Chapter culture.

If Gu Hang were to comment on this, he would say:

"Yes, that's it!"

By this calculation, Gu Hang does have a series of methods that can be effective in either the long term or the short term. In short, they can lure the blood sharks on board.

However, the plan for the blood shark is a slow process. There is no need to rush at the moment. Anyway, they have already accepted Gu Hang's identity as the "Commander-in-Chief of the Southern Theater" and agree that fighting in this area requires a certain degree of obedience to Gu Hang's command.

From this perspective, Blood Shark is quite loyal to the Empire and is willing to obey the Imperial system.

Now, they are also following Gu Hang's request, hunting down the Fury Fleet and driving them towards Heyang VIII.

The main fleet led by Gu Hang was waiting for them here.

By the way, we are also waiting for the response from Alfonzo's sect.

(End of this chapter)