Start with Planetary Governor - Chapter 780

Due to the special characteristics of the long construction cycle and large investment of the naval fleet, it is impossible to do it like the army. It is necessary to maintain a strong enough fleet at all times, otherwise it will not be built when it is not needed, and there will be no ships when it is needed.

But if the construction of ships is really liberalized in the past fifteen years, and the size of the alliance fleet is expanded disorderly, it is impossible.

The financial situation of the alliance is good, but it cannot withstand such a bottomless pit.

Now the alliance’s shipbuilding industry is already very developed. A large part of the alliance’s large-scale investment in the navy is actually in the expansion of shipyards.

The shipbuilding industry also has an important direction for the alliance’s economic development.

The shipbuilding industry belongs to the terminal industry and can drive the integration of the entire manufacturing industry upstream and downstream.

From raw material mining to processing, from industrial base to arms… the shipbuilding industry is the most important industrial pearl in terms of scale and technical content.

If it were not for the high technical content of shipbuilding, the slow expansion of docks and shipyards, and the requirement of a very complete range of industries and a high industrial base, the alliance would be eager to open shipyards in every place under its command.

Even if this is not possible, there are three large shipbuilding centers in the Dragon Eagle Star Region: Qimadi, Yunluo Center, and Jindi Star Center.

I won’t say much about the former. The shipyards of Angry Owl Star-Flying Wing Star are the most central areas of the Alliance’s ruling area and have always been the focus of construction. The latest technologies and technologies are all realized in these two shipyards. Later, in order to maximize the allocation of human resources, a large-scale shipyard was also built in Korojia, the most populous city in the Tianma Star Region.

After the three shipyards in the Tianma Star Region were expanded, the related industries continued to overflow. Some small ships and civilian ship construction facilities with relatively low technical content and less demanding industrial clusters were dismantled and towed away from Angry Owl Star and Flying Wing Star to the other six star regions in Qimadi by transport ships and engineering ships.

The Yunluo Center originally had the ability to build civilian ships and was also focused on by the Alliance.

Jindi Star is the casting world of the Mingyang Sect, and now the Mingyang Sect has become the shape of the Alliance.

It is said that the Mechanicus has a superior status in the Empire, which is guaranteed by both political tradition and legal text.

However, it depends on the actual situation.

How can Jindi Star remain independent in such a powerful alliance?

Even the more powerful Aramita Sect (formerly Alfonzo Sect) has completely surrendered to the Alliance.

They are the same.

Moreover, they are quite willing to bow their heads.

After standing on the side of the Alliance, their lives are getting more and more prosperous.

Originally, they were an ordinary small sect on the border of the Empire, nothing special. In the Iron Armor War, they lived a very comfortable life with the war orders of the Alliance; and after the war, their cooperation with the Alliance was unimpeded. Although the highest ruler on Jindi Star is still the Sage Council and the Casting General in name, in fact, from grassroots management cadres to the management of core factories, almost all of them are from the Alliance.

And the sages of the Mingyang Sect have no objection to this.

The administrative officials of the alliance did a good job.

As for power?

Losing power is indeed quite unwilling and uneasy. However, the alliance gave them a sense of security, and their status would not be deprived. At the same time, the alliance also gave them greater benefits.

After development, more abundant resources allow them to conduct various research in which they are specialized; the needs of the alliance promote their technology to be implemented on a large scale. The most valuable thing is that the alliance can even bring technical feedback to the main business sages, whether it is the alliance’s own technology or the communication with the Aramita sect, it is very effective.

Then, there is the black box.

Although the process of applying for a new black box is a bit difficult, everyone has to compete. However, the quality of the black box given by the alliance is indeed quite high and fascinating.

In short, Jindi Star is not just the shipbuilding industry, all industries are basically used by the alliance. The alliance also gave them full returns. Over the years, the development speed of Jindi Star has surprised them themselves.

It is not over with these three major shipbuilding centers.

In the Menghe star field and the Alfonzo star field, there is also a large shipbuilding center.

In other star fields, the shipyard may not be so large, but it is no problem to make some small boats and civilian ships.

Strong production capacity is also the core of the rapid development of the alliance caravan in recent years.

But even if the alliance caravan has a lot of demand for ships, it can’t take them all.

Not to mention the warships built.

A considerable part of these ships were sold.

Half of the sold part flowed into the imperial tax and fell into the hands of the imperial central government. But in fact, only 2% of the ships were directly handed in as imperial taxes.

That price is too inappropriate, and the price difference in the middle is relatively large. Some big figures make money in the middle.

Or white gloves, or other forces, buy ships from the alliance at a price higher than the price set by the tax department, and pay the alliance tax coins or other physical objects.

Then, nearly half of these buyers sold the ships to the Imperial Military Affairs Department and the Navy Command on the spot on Lingze Star. They bought the ships with the budget and paid the tax coins given to them by the Imperial Tax Department when approving the budget.

These tax coins fell into the hands of the Alliance and paid the Imperial taxes on their behalf.

In other words, half of the ships sold by the Alliance did fall into the hands of the Imperial Central Government. But in fact, most of them were transferred from other places, which was equivalent to being bought by the Empire. This price is often 30% to 150% higher than the price set by the Tax Department for each type of ship.

The money in the middle was earned by the Alliance and the middlemen. The Imperial Central Government bought at most 60% of the warships at the same price.

Under normal circumstances, the Imperial Central Government would never allow such a middleman to make a profit.

It is not allowed even if it complies with the regulations.

To be honest, the Empire is the strongest. No matter whether you comply with the regulations or not, you all make money and I lose money, so my fists are not so big in vain?

However, the so-called “Empire” is not a living person. What if the people who determine the will of the central government of the empire are the big guys behind the middlemen who make money?

Then…

Prime Minister Qi Bodu, Prime Minister Xu Fuzhen, Prime Minister Luo Fei, the state religion, the Imperial Chamber of Commerce, the powerful families hidden under the political arena on Holy Terra…

Who doesn’t have a share?

Even for Qi Bodu, there are rules for how to spend the financial money earned by the central government of the empire. Even he cannot decide it at will. He has to hold a meeting to make a decision.

But the money in his own hands is different.

Spend it however you want.

Moreover, at this point, even if Qi Bodu wants to stop the trade on Lingze Star that is seriously harmful to the interests of the empire, he can’t do anything.

He is the most powerful minister, but power is something that requires others to believe in you. Those who unite around him believe that following him can gain greater and more benefits, so they will continue to follow him. Those big guys who make money in this matter are the basis of his rule.

If he is ruthless, he can cut himself; but he can’t cut the foundation of his rule. If that happens, the chain reaction he will trigger may be something he cannot bear.

Who doesn’t know that this will nourish the alliance?

The knowledgeable people on Holy Terra (mainly those who didn’t make money from this matter) cursed Lingze Star Trade.

However, it still runs like this, and it will continue to run for a long time in the future.

There is no place to argue.

However, no matter what others do, the alliance is in it anyway, relying on the shipbuilding industry to make a lot of money.

In addition to investing in economic construction, a considerable part of the money earned is used to upgrade the navy.

The scale of more than 2,000 warships has not expanded, but the number of large ships has increased a lot.

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At present, the Alliance Navy has 3 Emperor-class battleships.

Retribution-class battleships, 6.

Zhuge-class aircraft carriers, 6.

Dragon Snake-class and Holy Grail-class battlecruisers, 22.

In total, there are 37 of these giant ships.

This is more than the Ironclad War at the beginning of the Ironclad War.

The number of supporting cruisers, destroyers, and frigates seems a bit insufficient, and the small ships are a bit shabby when forming a fleet.

But the speed of exploding small and medium-sized warships is very fast, unlike these giant ships, which have a great time cost.

And, if necessary, the next batch of warships of the Alliance can be directly sent to the Navy without paying taxes or trading. Within two years, the total number of navy giant ships can be doubled again at any cost, reaching more than 70 ships.

What’s more, another wave of naval power has not been calculated.

That is the Alliance’s ‘Six Great Regiments’, as the regiment fleet of the Space Marines.

Strike cruisers are not counted, and the Alliance has produced four battle barges one after another.

None of them were sold, and 1 Phoenix, 1 Yellow Spring Gull, 1 Blood Shark, and 1 Dragon King Spear were given.

It is worth mentioning that the Emperor-class battleship and the battle barge are both Apocalypse-class technologies.

They were drawn by Gu Hang in the past fifteen years.

In the past fifteen years, although there were no large-scale wars and no one-time income, Gu Hang relied on the monthly gift point income, plus some small-scale wars, more or less, and accumulated 550 million gift points.

Among them, 260 million were used for technology lottery. In the 26 draws of the 10 million gift file, two Apocalypse-class technologies were drawn, which were the Emperor-class battleship technology and the battle barge technology.

As for the remaining 290 million gift points, they were basically spent on various types of alliance construction in the past 15 years, so I won’t go into details.

The emergence of the two Apocalypse-class shipbuilding technologies has made the alliance’s shipbuilding industry achieve more long-term progress.

In addition to these, the alliance also has a killer weapon with a very high level of confidentiality, which rarely enters the alliance port and is strictly sealed every time it enters.

The Queen of Glory class battleship was finally built.

Gu Hang named it: Dongfang.

The Alliance has a pretty clear naming rule for ships: cruisers and below, there is nothing special about them. Apart from the numbers in the Navy, they are usually named something tall and mighty, or with some meaning, which is quite casual.

But for battlecruisers and above, they are named after planets within the Alliance. Generally, some important planets are selected, which is also one of the means of united front propaganda for those places.

Going up, it should have been the names of star regions and star fields, but they have never been used, and they jumped directly to the universe field.

It is a bit unreasonable, but it seems very reasonable when it is placed on the Queen of Glory, which has few ships in the entire empire.

The specific name “Eastern” is quite intriguing.

Although the Alliance started in the Eastern Universe. But now there are a total of 14 star fields, only two of which are in the Eastern Universe, and most of the others are in the Spider Universe. Gu Hang’s biggest official identity is the High Lord selected as the Chairman of the Spider Universe.

Logically speaking, wouldn’t it be more appropriate to name this ship “Spider Web” as the Queen of Glory?

No, Gu Hang wanted to name the first Queen of Glory of the Alliance with the name “Eastern”.

Undoubtedly, this showed Gu Hang’s ambition.

This was also the goal of the Alliance for the next stage that he talked about in the next small-scale meeting after he expressed his opinions on the construction of the navy.

The entire Eastern Universe.

This is a big deal, and we need to wait for some time.

The current state of the Alliance has aroused full vigilance. The Central Empire will not allow the Alliance to continue to expand.

There needs to be some variables.

But the Alliance is not waiting foolishly.

Part of the variables have been put into Holy Terra.

Just wait for it to happen.