Chapter 810, a little sad

Chapter 810, a little sad
In order to support the Dark Side Expedition, not only did Gu Hang spend most of his gift points as soon as they were obtained, but the alliance itself was also under tremendous pressure.

For many years, there has been no progress in people's livelihood in the alliance, and it has even been regressing.

This does not mean that the society of the Alliance has not made progress. On the contrary, during these 27 years, despite the debt of war, the economic growth of the Alliance has still been very fast.

But all the growth was in the military.

More and more ships are being built, and the production of major consumer items such as ammunition and energy has increased by dozens of times. The production lines of other types of weapons are being put into operation one after another.

Everything else is retreating and giving way to the war.

In terms of military personnel, the size of the Alliance's army and navy has increased by more than twenty times compared to before the war, and has now reached a scale of nearly 100 billion.

Compared with the mobilization rate of the total population of the alliance, this number has not yet reached 1%, but the difference is not much.

This is just counting the Alliance Army and Navy, not including the Planetary Defense Forces. If the latter were included, the number would swell by more than five times.

If necessary, the Alliance is certainly capable of raising the mobilization rate to a level far higher than this number. The simplest way is to recruit and assemble the planetary defense forces that are not counted and add them to the Alliance Army.

In fact, the Defense Force was originally the reserve force of the Union Army. At least 70% of the current Union Army's troops were originally recruited from the Defense Force.

New recruits from various planets are drafted into the defense force, and the outstanding ones are transferred to the Alliance Army, reorganized and trained, and then join the grand cause of the Dark Side Expedition.

Even after the stressful stage, Gu Hang no longer had enough grace points to invest in ordinary T5-level soldier training for the Alliance Army.

It really feels like I can't afford it.

Tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of grace points were spent at every turn, and Gu Hang really couldn't afford it when he had a large number of grace points to spend.

If ordinary people are trained into T5-level soldiers, the cost-effectiveness is still very high and the benefits are huge. Gu Hang is definitely not the kind of person who throws the newly recruited civilians into a boot camp, trains them for a few weeks and then sends them to the front line.

In this situation, you have to pay the grace points and conduct military training.

However, under the current conscription mechanism of the Alliance, the army's "recruits" have all been trained in the defense army for many years. Among them, a considerable number have already reached the T5 level. The remaining ones who have not reached it may not be far behind.

Under this premise, it is really unnecessary to spend tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of grace points on training new soldiers. The improvement is small and the cost-effectiveness is low.

The alliance still has to stick to its original conscription plan.

Even though the various headquarters on the front lines kept complaining about insufficient troops, they remained unshaken.

If you don't have enough soldiers, you can think of other ways. If that doesn't work, you can just fight slower.

Stability is more important.

Anyway, the sacrifice of personnel in the front-line troops is one thing. The main reason they are calling for more soldiers is that the front line is advancing rapidly and the occupied area is expanding. Each planet has to send a certain number of troops to garrison on the spot and help the local planet stabilize the situation on the ground.

The demand for troops in this area is relatively the largest.

Here, Gu Hang seems to be in a very contradictory state of mind. He clearly feels a sense of urgency, but when it comes to doing things, he puts stability first.

But in fact, these two points are not contradictory at all in Gu Hang's mind.

Because time waits for no one, we must be more cautious.

His biggest support now is the alliance. No matter how fiercely the Dark Side Expedition is going, it is still supported by this foundation.

What he needs to do is to ensure the stability of this basic foundation.

The current situation may not have reached its limit, but Gu Hang does not want to push the alliance to the limit at all - unless the overall environment changes for the worse.

In many places, local officials have reported that the living standards and allowances that have not improved for many years and have even slightly declined, as well as the increasingly heavy work pressure, have fostered some dissatisfaction among the people.

Under normal circumstances, it would be easy to suppress these dissatisfactions, and they would not even come to the surface.

However, in the current chaotic environment, it is different. Even if the alliance has Gu Hang in charge, the pervasive whispers of the subspace are hard to guard against. It always whispers in the ears of a dissatisfied person at a critical moment, corrupting his mind and giving rise to his dissatisfaction.

In most cases, this will be calmed down by psychologists, church pastors, and the league's publicity agencies. But the few that are not calmed down will become "hidden dangers" over time.

If these "hidden dangers" erupted individually, it would still be a good thing. Going to prison or being shot were both ways to deal with them. However, these "hidden dangers" often did not erupt so easily. On the contrary, while lurking, they would spread chaotic ideas in various ways.

Find similarly dissatisfied workers, guide and amplify their dissatisfaction; organize private gatherings and associations to expand influence in the name of fighting for workers' interests; organize strikes and violently destroy factories; form a rebel army and openly occupy an area...

This set of things may seem familiar, but in fact it is just a nice-looking cover. The difference between chaos corruption and genuine dissatisfaction for the sake of gain is that the first is for the sake of employee benefits, which can be resolved through negotiation; while chaos corruption is purely for sabotage, which cannot be resolved through negotiation.

However, within the alliance's internal review bodies, distinguishing between the two... it has to be said that it is very difficult in practice.

In case of emergency, all protests must be suppressed.

Gu Hang looked at the many reports coming out from within the alliance and couldn't help but worry.

The dark expedition is in full swing outside, but we must not let a fire catch fire in the backyard.

The strongest fortress is often broken from within, and the most glorious cause often begins to rot from within.

Gu Hang must always be vigilant about this issue.

He has to ensure the stability of the basic base, and even expand the basic base, which is the greatest support for supporting the dark side expedition.

This forced Gu Hang to spend more grace points and social resources on internal control.

Censorship and religious institutions were inevitably strengthened in this process.

To be honest, Gu Hang felt a little sad about this.

(End of this chapter)