Chapter 586: Spend the Gift

Chapter 586: Spend the Gift
What the alliance provides to the blood sharks is more than just blood tax.

There is also a gray tax that Gu Hang will not forget.

Be generous when you should.

Blood Shark saved three of his own battlecruisers, made great efforts in the Battle of Bowang, and participated in boarding and seizing ships... Gu Hang remembered all these achievements.

What does the blood shark want?
Consumables?

Ammunition, medical supplies and equipment, starship repairs and spare parts... here, that's just a small amount of money.

equipment?

The Blood Sharks themselves are a bit disdainful of the Alliance's vehicles. They have a lot of good stuff from the Dark Outer Realm, as well as some elite equipment from other Mechanicus. However, quantity is a problem, and the Alliance's production can supplement a lot of equipment, which can greatly improve the combat strength of the Blood Sharks' servants and auxiliary forces. From exoskeletons to feedback power armor; from armored vehicles to sentinel mechas... In the past, the Blood Sharks' auxiliary forces were cannon fodder, how could they have such treatment? With these equipment, they can last longer when they are cannon fodder in the future.

However, the Alliance also has some cutting-edge equipment that the Blood Sharks need. The Iron Knight Terminator and the Great Power Armor are all good stuff. They do have some very powerful stuff, and the Chapter even has two Hades-type Terminators. This is almost the most advanced Terminator armor, and it is quite rare in the entire Empire.

However, these things are few in number after all. Blood Sharks generally still use the most common Skyhawk Power Armor and Indomitable Terminator.

Now that we have the alliance supply, we will definitely be happy to get a new batch.

In addition, there are good things like phase weapons. According to the style of Blood Shark, it can be made into a battle axe or a long-handled weapon, which is no problem.

Phase weapons, the Alliance has not yet been able to mass-produce them, they only rely on black boxes, the quantity is relatively limited, even the Phoenix does not have many. But because of this, the price of this thing can be set at a crazy high price.

It’s also really good value for money.

This kind of top-notch weapon is even more important than the upgrade of power armor for a close combat group like the Blood Sharks. A few phase axes are enough for them to pay a high price in exchange.

Among all the equipment, these are not the most valuable.

It's a starship.

What Blood Shark wanted most, of course, was the battle barge.

However, their merits and sacrifices were not enough to exchange the battle barge that originally belonged to the Fury Corps from the Alliance. After all, in the entire Battle of Bowang, the one who played the biggest role was Gu Hang himself, followed by the Phoenix Corps, and the Blood Sharks helped a little, but not much, not even as much as the Alliance's own Glory Guards and Battle Sisters.

In terms of starship naval warfare, the role played by the Alliance Navy was also higher than that of the Blood Shark Fleet. After all, at the beginning, the Blood Shark did not think that it was the right decision to fight the powerful Alfonzo Fleet in the Bowan Galaxy, and Ewing would naturally not hand over the entire fleet to the Alliance and fight with them. It was not until the Alfonzo II, the most powerful war ark, was destroyed that they put aside their hesitation and fought seriously.

The Blood Sharks themselves were too embarrassed to say that their contribution was great enough to warrant the best ship.

However, they did save three Alliance battlecruisers and sacrificed two hundred men in the ongoing war.

The Alliance is willing to build them a Grail-class battlecruiser and three Space Marine strike cruisers.

They mainly want ordinary ships, and don't want blood sharks. They just want fast ships that can keep up with their movements.

Combining the excellent blood tax, the gray tax provided by the alliance, and the enhanced strength of the fleet, the Blood Sharks, in general, are quite satisfied with the gains from this war with the alliance.

This is much more generous than the remuneration received in the past history of the Chapter when doing business and taking jobs with some Mechanicus sects.

Gu Hang's promise of "higher than normal prices" was verified.

They are also willing to continue fighting alongside the alliance in this war and follow the orders of Gu Hang, the commander-in-chief of the empire on the southern front.

Of course, their independence is still very high, and the relationship between the two sides is more like that of an ally. Yu Yin will listen to Gu Hang's orders, but how to do it and to what extent, Yu Yin will make his own judgment.

Gu Hang had no problem with this.

It should be.

This does not affect the alliance's provision of blood tax and gray tax to them.

They deserve it too.

Besides...what's yours is mine, why should we make such clear distinctions?

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Gu Hang exchanged for 1800 Space Marine seedlings, 300 of which were given to Blood Sharks, which not only made up for their losses but also provided a surplus, allowing them to slightly increase their military strength; he gave 500 Phoenixes, bringing the military strength to 1000. Although there were nearly a hundred Dreadnoughts among them, and some were in the life-support cabin waiting for the Dreadnoughts to be delivered, no matter what, their military strength was also supplemented to the upper limit that a regiment should have.

What about the other thousand people?
Gu Hang established a 'Shadow Regiment'.

They all used 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 their name, they are a shadow.

The first purpose that Gu Hang wanted them to have was to be able to replenish the Phoenix more quickly.

Normally, even if there is a way to speed up the process by consuming grace points, it will take several months for the superhuman organs in a teenager's body to grow completely after the gene seed is implanted.

At present, it is estimated that there will be a relatively long period of recuperation, which is not bad. But if the war is fierce and the Phoenix suffers heavy casualties, it will need to be replenished quickly. With this group of members of the Shadow Corps, it will not even take several months to replenish, and it can be seamless.

Another point is that the Shadow Regiment can give Gu Hang some other work to do.

When the phoenix is ​​too busy to do something, when even the phoenix is ​​not suitable to do it... they can come in handy.

Space Marines are not only found in the Empire.

Those lost traitors, or even those fallen into chaos, are all good identities.

Good for dirty work.

Some people died at the hands of 'rebel' Space Marines; some things were done by traitors or corrupted ones, so it can't be blamed on the Alliance, right?
At the moment, Gu Hang has no time to use this trick.

But in the future, it’s hard to say.

While you still have plenty of grace points on hand, you can start preparing.

Even if the time is right in the future, Gu Hang can also go public through a backdoor listing.

In the empire, there are many war groups that disappeared in the long river of history.

The names of those chapters that were clearly expelled from the Empire and whose members were all destroyed in battle are not very useful. But it doesn't matter, there are many chapters in the history of the Empire whose whereabouts are unknown.

Although there is a risk of them suddenly appearing or returning, such as the blood shark, but... the risk of not having any news for hundreds of years is not that great.

As for incomplete procedures and difficulty in obtaining recognition, these are also real problems.

But Gu Hang feels that he will gradually stop being afraid of such problems.

I am willing to borrow a shell, and others can just be happy secretly. Obviously, the battle group has expanded to a certain scale, and how many people can do anything to Gu Hang?

Of course, if it comes to that, it will be a bit embarrassing. 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 comes, it will be difficult to handle it if you are not well prepared.

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The various expenses on Space Marines are expensive, but they mainly involve the consumption of resources and funds.

The grace points are actually okay.

It only cost one and a half million.

Although they are very strong, expensive and powerful, they are not large in scale after all, with only a few thousand people, so the cost is not that high.

What's more, Gu Hang's idea of ​​establishing a Space Marine Legion was shattered due to restrictions on gene seed exchange.

Then you won’t have to spend a lot of money.

Up to this point, Gu Hang had spent more than 18 million of the 30 million points of grace he had received.

There was still a little over 10 million left, and Gu Hang was a little hesitant.

Mainly, I am wondering whether we should hold a technology lottery?

It's a bit expensive to do a technology lottery now. The previous prize pool has basically been drained. If you do a ten-draw in the million-level file, you can use up all his remaining gift points.

But he still uses his gifts a lot.

Especially when it comes to productivity.

Gu Hang has an idea to exchange countless factories, colleges and other buildings to cover the entire alliance. When fighting a war, you can't just focus on the military issues at hand.

Fighting a war is a fight for one's family's wealth.

Especially from the perspective of the navy, building a starship costs tens of billions or hundreds of billions of dollars. The Alliance's current shipbuilding cycle is one Retribution-class, one Zhuge-class, and four battlecruisers, which add up to more than 200 billion.

what does this mean?
That doesn't mean the Alliance has to spend so much tax coins to buy it, at least not completely. The two Dragon Snake-class battlecruisers that the Ming Yang Sect wants to order continuously in a cycle have to be purchased with money.

The other ships were built by the Alliance itself without spending any real money.

However, the actual cost is not bad.

A starship is so huge. To build a nest city that can travel and fight in space, it requires too many supporting industries.

Countless people worked for it. Not only the skilled workers in the shipbuilding industry, that was already a huge number. And if we count the treatment the alliance gave them, the food, medical care, various consumer goods, and even spiritual entertainment expenses needed to build houses for them and maintain a relatively superior life, it was not small.

In this matter, oppression and exploitation are even a dead end. Those who can participate in the shipbuilding industry, not to mention the core senior engineers, even the lower-level technical workers can be classified as "talents".

Relying on oppression is not good for workers' morale and may even reduce efficiency.

Building various parts and shells, processing and producing supporting raw materials... this series of matters are all very "expensive".

Or in other words, taking up productivity.

A considerable portion of the Union's finances were invested in the shipbuilding industry.

But even so, it's not enough.

In fact, according to the "national strength" of the two star regions of Menghe and Longying, maintaining the current shipbuilding efficiency has reached its limit, or even overdrawn.

Fortunately, after the war, we no longer have to pay imperial taxes, otherwise we would not be able to bear it.

Moreover, as the alliance advanced deeper, the results were good and support from the empire was increasing.

Some of them were direct military support. More than fifty warships were mobilized from all over the surrounding areas to become friendly forces and were united under the command of Commander-in-Chief Gu Hang.

Although they were all small and medium-sized ships, even a frigate would cost hundreds of millions of tax coins. Fifty ships was a lot of money.

In the army, there are also six Star Army corps, totaling about 40 million people, which have been sent to the front line one after another and become the troops that Gu Hang can mobilize.

After the war, these things will be returned. Gu Hang did not have the idea of ​​harming friendly forces or deliberately letting people go in the cruel war.

There is no need, they are just embellishments and do not affect the overall situation. Don't destroy your own reputation.

But regardless, these are good supplements.

The war support provided by the Empire was not just the exemption of imperial taxes - to be more precise, the imperial taxes were specifically used for the Iron Armor War.

In addition, the empire also gives "money" directly.

The most recent batch of funds paid by the Eastern Space Domain government, which actually came from two or three surrounding space domains in accordance with the requirements of the central government of the empire, amounted to 1500 billion.

The money came after Alfonzo's sect entered the war.

In any case, 1500 billion is a very large number.

It is definitely useless for Gu Hang to ask for money and pieces of paper. He does not need these tax payment certificates to offset taxes. However, these "pieces of paper" can be used to directly purchase all the materials needed by the alliance in the surrounding star fields and even the universe.

Artillery shells, energy, weapons and equipment, food...even purchased ships!
There are some things that you cannot buy even if you have money, but now you can buy them at a reasonable price.

Gu Hang directly bought a Retribution-class battleship from the Duanchen Sect in the neighboring Gushan Universe for 600 billion.

This thing costs 500 billion to build, and when you factor in the sailors, fuel, and shells required to equip it... 600 billion is almost the same as not making any money.

What's more, the seven star regions of the Lonely Mountain Universe can be regarded as the places where the greenskins are the most troubled within the empire. The faction of Duanchen was able to produce a battleship and sell it to Gu Hang instead of using it for the defense of the universe, which was already a great honor.

This face is definitely not given to the alliance, and the two families have no friendship. It is purely based on the influence of the central government of the empire.

The money was given by the central government, and the purchasing authority was obtained from the central government.

There are great benefits to having Holy Terra as a backup.

That's good.

I, Gu Hang, have always been a loyal subject of the empire!
In short, without the local use of imperial taxes and the external economic support of the empire, the alliance's war machine would not be able to operate at full power as it is now.

But this is not a long-term solution after all.

Blacksmith need its own hardware.

After thinking for a long time, Gu Hang decided to put the lottery matter on hold for the time being.

He spent almost all of the remaining 10 million grace points on improving productivity.

This is achieved primarily through two means.

Firstly, many college buildings were built in Longying and even the Menghe galaxy.

The Comprehensive College, Zhongsi College, and Military College all exchanged some, but the largest amount was exchanged at the Technical College.

After improving 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 skill levels are raised to a very high level and human resources can be fully tapped and utilized, then the overall productivity level will be greatly improved.

The exchange price for one academy is 1000 points of grace.

Gu Hang exchanged a total of 3000.

For example, there are at least thousands of universities on Feiyi Star. Gu Hang directly used the exchanged gift points to cover 500 of them, further strengthening the responsibilities of this planet's education center.

Koroja also exchanged 100 of them, Hive Worlds, densely populated areas, as it should be; Wrathful Star covered 100 of them, directly exporting a large number of shipbuilding talents locally...

The other worlds were also covered. He wanted to ensure that the two star regions he considered his territory, a total of 774 worlds, had at least one on each planet; some with larger populations or more developed industries would have more.

This is the consumption of three million points of grace.

There were still 9 million points of grace left, and Gu Hang spent them all on exchanging for another building: the factory.

Whether it is a civilian factory or a military factory, this kind of exchange, covering the existing built factories, can directly improve the efficiency. It is a simpler, cruder but more practical means.

Gu Hang exchanged 50,000 factories, covering almost every planet and every industry.

Food processing, material processing, construction, consumer goods production, civil engineering machinery manufacturing... these civilian industries cannot be ignored. Even from a military perspective, they are also the backing of the military industry.

But the bulk of the investment is still in the military industry.

Especially for the production of various parts related to the shipbuilding industry and the dock assembly plants on the starports. It takes more than 100 grace points to build a first-level factory. How can that be enough?

Gu Hang directly used the fifth-level factory to exchange it!

The exchange price increases by one zero for each level up of the factory building.

But the effect of a level five factory can almost double work efficiency.

Of course, this only greatly improves the efficiency of machinery and personnel, and cannot really reduce the time required for shipbuilding by half. It may be reflected in the number of ships that can be built at the same time, the reduction of resources and energy consumption, and the reduction of manpower used.

But if it can save resources, save manpower, and speed up ship construction by 50%, that would be great.

With 100 million grace points each, Gu Hang was fully willing to spend them on the two major shipyards, Nuxiao Star and Feiyi Star.

At the same time, Gu Hang was also willing to exchange the shipbuilding center in Yunluo and the Granya Shipbuilding Center in Menghe Star Field for a level four factory worth 100,000 points.

The construction technology of the Holy Grail class was also distributed to these two places. The Alliance squeezed resources from its teeth and built two more production lines for the Holy Grail class battleships in these two places.

At this point, Gu Hang had just received the 3000 million gift, and before he could even warm up to it, he had spent it all.

In return, the alliance will become stronger from military to economy!
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