STARTING FROM THE PLANETARY GOVERNOR

Chapter 810: Chapter 444, the Alliance is frantically sucking blood

Temir No.5 showed signs of becoming a permanent meat grinder.

It was a terrifying thing.

By the hundreds of millions, living beings would continuously die on this planet, one by one. With the current intensity of the war, perhaps every second saw a dozen or even dozens of deaths due to the conflict.

The daily ammunition expenditure alone, converted into money, was an astronomical figure.

Yet, for the survival of the species, these sacrifices, these fortunes, were all necessary expenditures.

Actually, Gu Hang also realized this: the Green-skinned War swept across too vast an area with too great an intensity.

Even a victory, say at Jindi Star where The Emperor descended and wiped out Titus’s group of Green Skins, the subsequent issues were not simple.

Estimates showed that hundreds of billions of Green Skins swarmed out from the territory of the Green-skinned Empire, engulfing various places. Which of the planets under attack didn’t have tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions, of Green Skins?

To completely exterminate these Green Skins within the entire Star Domain, to destroy the ecosystems they left behind, that would be an enduring task, taking decades was the norm.

The war was bound to be prolonged.

In fact, this was the normal state of the entire Star Sea.

Wars were always ongoing; those few years without a war, like the years before the start of the Beastman War, that brief period of peace that the Alliance had, were the rare commodities in this universe.

And since war was bound to become prolonged and normalized, the Alliance must learn to seek development amidst war.

Here, Gu Hang had two directions of effort, still divided into internal and external.

Internally, all developmental aspects of the Alliance must lean towards the war. The manpower of the Alliance, first and foremost, must satisfy the army’s manpower needs, followed by the production needs of various types of military supplies, logistics support, and all kinds of equipment.

But this manpower and resources expended for the war were clearly not what one would call development.

They were pure consumption.

If the war had escalated to the point where the entire society had to devote every bit of manpower and resources to war-related matters, then one would have to forget about development altogether. Thinking about development when survival was at stake?

Fight with all might, fail to fight and perish.

But clearly, the war hadn’t reached that point.

If Titus’s absolute main force did not return, then the Alliance still had some capacity left; if Titus’s absolute main force did return, then even if the Alliance prepared fully for war, they would not be able to win.

So proceed as normal.

Aside from what was needed for war, under the Third Level Mobilization Order, social production must not stagnate.

Various heavy industries producing new means of production, as well as various raw material industries, were all stepping up investment.

Agricultural production was also intensifying.

Under the Third Level Mobilization Order, economic development actually maintained a relatively high number, it was just that most of it was reinvested and consumed by the war, leaving a significantly reduced portion for the over six hundred billion residents of the Tianma Star Sector to improve their standard of living, but at least there was still a little bit.

This was also Gu Hang’s target when initiating the Third Level Mobilization Order: normal, even more stimulated high-speed economic growth; minimal investment in people’s livelihoods.

And if it reached the Second Level Mobilization Order, then people should forget about raising their standard of living as it would instead drop; moreover, the increase in productivity would likely be affected. Infrastructure construction would almost entirely halt, new factory construction would continue but would shift entirely towards military factories; everything would further serve the production of various military weapons and equipment.

Once it reached the First Level Mobilization Order, not only would a large number of people have to serve in the military, but more importantly, all regular economic activity would grind to a halt, people’s living standards would drop significantly, society would no longer develop, most civilian factories would transform to military use, the entire society would serve the war, and all productive forces would start to manufacture more war materials.

Under this definition, Gu Hang very much hoped that the Alliance would never have to initiate the First Level Mobilization Order.

That would mean the halt of societal development, the disruption of the Alliance’s development process, and even the potential for development would be overextended.

Still, it should be emphasized, when it truly came down to life and death, the First Level Mobilization Order had to be sounded when necessary.

But unless it came to that, it was best not to raise the level of the mobilization order.

Under the Third Level Mobilization Order, economic growth within society was still fast; as long as the people’s livelihood didn’t fall, that was good enough.

This was the minimum contingency plan under the premise of responding to the war, while also seeking possible development, and it was also Gu Hang’s requirement of the Alliance Government.

The guaranteed option.

Yet to truly gain development amidst the war, one had to rely on another aspect: external.

As long as there was victory in war, there were always spoils to be won. Whether it was development space, wealth plundered, or new territories and populations brought about by expansion, these were avenues for a windfall.

And now, what was Gu Hang’s biggest harvest in this war?

Of course, it was the entire Seven Horse Territory.

The signing of the Seven Horse Treaty with six nearby Star Sectors turned them into de facto vassals of the Alliance.

The most recent collection of the Imperial Tax was also the first time the Alliance “helped” the Empire to collect taxes.

Following the signing of the treaty, tax collection began.

Each Planetary Governor had their own opinions about this.

Wasn’t it collected every two years?

It’s been less than a year since we last paid the Imperial Tax, we’ve only been under the Seven Horse Agreement for half a year at most, and some have just signed for one or two months.

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