Start with Planetary Governor - Chapter 768

After the work report of the Alliance government represented by Ossena was finished, Gu Hang had another meeting.

The reporter was Thadius, the chief political commissar of the Alliance’s military and political department, who was also responsible for military construction.

If it is said that in the past two years, the political and economic aspects of the Alliance have been developing and expanding at a rapid pace, then for the Alliance army, the past two years have not been too comfortable.

During the Iron Armor War and the Zerg War, the scale of the war was so large and the intensity was so high that the entire system of the Alliance could not help but turn to serve the war.

The size of the army has expanded significantly, not only to the front line, but also a large number of reserve troops, which must be prepared at any time and sent to the front base camp. In the case that an army group is defeated at any time on the front line, a new army must be formed and sent to the place.

But now, there is definitely no need to use such extremes.

The war is over, and disarmament has become the mainstream.

Of course, it is said to be over, but in fact, in the 7109 worlds controlled by the Alliance, the war will never be truly quelled.

In general, the Zerg infected without the central command are all over the Spider Web Universe. They are not a big threat, but they still need to be cleared. It will take ten years to clear them out.

The aftermath of war has always been like this. Haven’t you seen how many years have passed since the main battle of the Iron Tooth Orc War? Now the northeastern four star regions of the Dragon Eagle Star Region and the areas controlled by the original Iron Tooth Orc Empire have become the Alliance’s granary, but in fact, it is hard to say that the orcs have been completely cleared out. On many planets, orc tribes still appear in groups; in places that have been cleared out, one or two small orc tribes emerge from time to time.

It has been like this for more than ten or twenty years.

The difficulty of clearing the Zerg infected is much simpler than that of the orcs, but after all, the scale of the disaster left behind is larger, and the time required for cleaning up is not much shorter.

These are all things that need to be dealt with by the army, but after all, such a large-scale decisive battle army is not needed.

During the war, when the Alliance was at its peak, the Army organized more than 350 army groups, with 7 billion Alliance Army soldiers on the battlefield, fighting for the Alliance, or always ready to fight for the Alliance.

The Alliance has to pay more than 100 billion yuan for maintenance every year.

The Alliance Army is very expensive now. According to the standards of the Star Army, an army group of 20 million people has a total cost of just over 1.2 billion, which has reached the equipment level of the Star Army.

Many so-called Star Army soldiers do not have equipment worth so much money.

But the cost of an army group of the Alliance has soared to 3 billion.

Various heavy bomb machine guns, plasma anti-armor guns, individual missiles…many things that are issued to the squad level can only be seen at the company level or at least the platoon level in the Star Army;

The coverage rate of exoskeleton armor can generally reach about 5-10%. At the regiment level, a special assault company can be formed. All members of the exoskeleton can charge with individual missiles and bomb guns. It is an important force in the offensive battle or in the defensive battle to regain the position.

A special commando equipped with feedback power armor can form a whole spearhead battalion at the division level, while in the ordinary Star Army, I am afraid that even a group army cannot gather so many sets.

And in the armored forces, artillery forces, and land aviation forces, there is a gap in quantity and quality between the two levels in terms of firepower and vehicles.

Why can the Alliance Army fight?

Of course, it is inseparable from Gu Hang. He has spent countless gift points over the years to train T5 and T4 elite soldiers, combined with the morale bonus of the military and political commissars for the entire army, which is the key to forming the powerful combat power of the Alliance Army.

However, spiritual will and technical and tactical levels cannot completely determine the combat effectiveness of the army.

Money is also important.

On the basis of the super high quality of the soldiers, combined with the equipment investment equivalent to more than three times that of ordinary Star Army troops, that is even more critical.

Since the Alliance is taking the elite soldier strategy, it will be more straightforward.

But the cost of maintaining such an elite force is also very high.

The maintenance cost of over 100 billion is only the amount of money to maintain the existence of the army and normal training in non-war periods.

If a war breaks out, the cost will be out of control. The shells falling like rain and the fuel consumed on countless battlefields can fill the ocean together. These costs are very huge. Not to mention that people will die in a war, and the cost of pensions, the cost of replenishing troops, the cost of replenishing vehicles and equipment…

The total cost of the empire fighting an Iron Armor War is over 100 trillion, which is proof.

Now, the war is not going to be fought, but it is really unbearable to bear the military expenditure of 100 billion.

Disarmament is inevitable.

Some troops do need to be reduced.

The Iron Armor War started a large-scale military expansion. Seventeen years have passed. That is not two generations, or even three generations of youth, who have spent their youth in war and in the military. Some old soldiers who are old and have not been promoted to officers or sergeants can retire.

Of course, they are all veterans who have been baptized by war, and some backbone forces must be retained.

Moreover, the laid-off soldiers and retired officers will not be wasted.

They won’t really become farmers or workers – not that there aren’t any, but in general, their professions are not suitable. The retired soldiers have at least been in the elite forces like the Alliance Army. When they arrive on the planet, the planetary defense force, the police department, the merchant ship escort, and even the professional bodyguards of the security company… all need them to show their abilities.

Maybe the treatment is better than staying in the army.

Speaking of which, the army of the Alliance is not just the Alliance Army.

The military strength of the Alliance is about four major parts: the Alliance Army, the Alliance Navy, the Alliance Defense Force, and other special forces.

There are actually some similarities with the system of the Empire. The Alliance Army is benchmarked against the Star Army, and the Navy is needless to say. The Alliance Defense Force is benchmarked against the planetary defense forces of each imperial world.

The number of defense forces is not as scarce as the Alliance Army.

The Alliance has a population of 12 trillion and 7,000 worlds. It is impossible for the Alliance Army to defend them alone. The mobilization ratio is less than 0.6% of the total population. Each planet can only be allocated one million army. What’s the use of that?

Don’t laugh at the Empire. The Alliance will also delegate military power to the planetary government, allowing the planetary governor to form a defense force on his own. At the same time, the cost of the defense force will be borne by the local government.

Of course, there are many similarities and differences. The star district and star field governments of the Alliance cannot form interstellar forces. The Alliance Army and the Alliance Navy are fully responsible for all interstellar operations. When necessary, the star field government can mobilize the planetary defense force to conduct interstellar operations, and the planetary governor has no right to refuse.

The planetary governors of the Alliance do not have as much power as the planetary governors of the Empire. The planetary governors of the Empire are local emperors who can do whatever they want after paying taxes. The Alliance’s planetary governors are just bureaucrats who will be supervised and have performance indicators. If they do a good job, they will be promoted, and if they don’t do a good job, they will be kicked out. The planetary defense force can be transferred at the request of the superior military affairs unit.

At the same time, the difference between the military systems of the Alliance and the Empire is that the Alliance Army has a full connection with the Defense Force. A large proportion of the Alliance Army is recruited from the Defense Force, and they will return after retirement; the Alliance Army has full power to mobilize the Defense Force. Even the commander-in-chief of the Defense Force system falls on the Army.

Not to mention the army’s disarmament and the transfer of personnel to local governments for resettlement, only a small part of the remaining equipment was allocated to the Defense Force, and the rest was paid as imperial taxes, directly relieving the burden.

It is true that relieving financial pressure is the main reason, but there are indeed some old equipment models that can be eliminated at this opportunity.

Anyway, the imperial tax does not refuse these things – the empire is so big that there are many places to digest these equipment that the Alliance does not want.

Things that are obsolete for the Alliance Army may be good things that others dream of if they are placed elsewhere.

In the next two years, disarmament will continue, and the total military expenditure of the Alliance Army will eventually be reduced to less than 80 billion per year (non-war state). The military equipment and materials that can be used to offset the imperial tax will exceed 100 billion.

There is no need to say much about the Alliance Defense Force. Although the Alliance Central Committee has no regulations on various localities, at present, economic construction is the top priority of local governments. If the central government did not have certain requirements on the number and quality of local defense forces, they would like to maintain as few defense forces as possible – the expenses of the defense forces fall on the consumption of local governments, and the central government does not give money.

The situation of the Alliance Navy is similar.

The Alliance Navy now has a total of more than 2,000 warships. All the armed merchant ships recruited during the war were sent back.

Among these more than 2,000 warships, most of them must be small patrol ships and frigates. At the level of destroyers and cruisers, the number is much smaller; then there are only 21 ships in total for battlecruisers, battleships, and aircraft carriers.

But it is precisely these 21 giant ships that actually account for nearly 70% of the total expenditure of the navy.

The navy is more expensive than the army.

The annual maintenance cost of the alliance on the navy has reached more than 150 billion. This figure also refers to the cost of the fleet’s normal cruise in non-war situations. When a war breaks out, it will rise to an unpredictable level. The specific amount depends on the intensity of the war.

The navy also needs to be cut.

However, the cuts of the navy are much easier: just pay some unwanted ships as imperial taxes.

Moreover, since the alliance’s naval power was indeed underdeveloped in the past and there were not enough ships, during the war, all the ships were pulled into the navy, resulting in some problems with the structure of the naval fleet.

Take this opportunity to optimize it.

At the same time, some old ships and ships with poor technical levels can be sold.

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For example, the musician class and the dragon snake class, the alliance intends to eliminate them all from its own fleet.

Of course, the relevant production lines are still retained, which is a lot of money.

However, the new ships built will be taxed.

For example, the Moon-class and Holy Grail-class ships built by the Alliance will be kept for their own use.

The size of the Alliance fleet will not decrease, and new ships will continue to be ordered. However, it is estimated that for every Holy Grail-class ship produced in the future, a Dragon Snake-class ship will be eliminated from its own fleet and given to the Empire.

The Navy is estimated to be able to eliminate warships worth more than 300 billion in the next two years.

But the military expenditure will probably not be reduced too much. It is estimated that it will remain at around 150 billion. At the same time, because new ships need to be ordered, the military expenditure will also increase.

It is the same whether the navy is cut or not.

But there is no other way.

The army is relatively easy to deal with. If there is a need, it can be called up at any time. The equipment is produced quickly and the inventory is large. If it is really not good, lower the standard a little. There will always be something to use.

But there is really no way to deal with the navy. Now that too many are cut, when they are needed later, the shipbuilding cycle will take three to five years or six to seven years. The core large ships cannot be obtained immediately.

But in general, the military expenditure is also the part that the alliance has to “suffer” first.

Wait a few years, when the financial situation of the alliance improves, then expand the scale.

However, there is only one expenditure, which is being invested at a rate of tens of billions every year in the name of confidential projects.

Even though the financial pressure of the alliance is very high, this money has not been reduced.

The confidentiality level is high, and almost no one knows what this project is, but Gu Hang certainly knows.

That is actually an investment in the navy: the Queen of Glory-class battleships that are being built in secret.

When this thing is built, the value of one ship will be equal to the fleet of an entire alliance; its combat effectiveness will be brought to an extremely exaggerated level under the protection of the alliance fleet.

This is a battleship that the central empire does not have now.

The existing Queen of Glory is in the hands of those ancient Space Marines’ founding chapters.

Let’s not talk about how much trouble the alliance will have after its ability to build the Queen of Glory-class is exposed, and whether the alliance dares to use this ship publicly, but let’s talk about it first.

The difference between having and not having is the biggest.

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In general, the military construction of the alliance has basically stopped.

It is helpless to make concessions for economic construction.

But Thadius’s recent work is not that simple.

Disarmament is OK, but it cannot be done to one’s own arteries.

Compared with disarmament, Thadius prefers to call his work optimization.

While keeping the framework of the entire alliance army unchanged, reduce costs and increase efficiency.

The team structure can be optimized and the cost can be reduced, but there must be room for maneuver. The original framework can support the alliance to quickly re-assemble the troops when necessary, and even become larger and stronger than before.

Gu Hang fully believes in his ability.

At the same time, he is also very willing to believe in Osena’s ability.

Just let it go and do it well.

He will check the news in the work reports of the government and the army.

At the same time, he also has the system’s [Soldier Card] panel and the monthly income panel of the gift points to check whether his officials’ reports to him are fooling people.

This is where he cheats: the data-based panel faithfully feedbacks things that are difficult to count with normal statistics.

There is a certain deviation between the two, which Gu Hang can accept.

Statistics is a very deep subject, and deviation is very normal.

As long as the deviation is not to an outrageous extent.

In addition, Gu Hang is not standing idly by for the development of the alliance.

He now has a large amount of gift points on hand.