Starting from the Planetary Governor

Chapter 1459: Chapter 828

The success of the Alliance in governing newly occupied regions is of great significance.

It means that the Dark Side Expedition is not merely a costly military operation but one that can yield returns and enhance the overall strength of the Alliance through war funding war.

Moreover, this is not predatory income, nor is it one-off. With the Alliance’s management skills, numerous planets are enabled to generate self-sustaining development, even advancing to become more prosperous than before. The Planetary Defense Forces established on these planets can also contribute reserve forces to the Expedition, similar to the Alliance’s home territory, and the strengthened military and food industries can provide resources for the Expedition.

Furthermore, the Alliance aims to transform these areas to be like its home territory.

Actually, according to the current situation, six hundred worlds have been incorporated into the Alliance’s home territory; over six hundred worlds are yielding positive returns, being assimilated into the direction of the Alliance’s home territory. Additionally, more than a thousand worlds have achieved a break-even point. In the Magrey Cosmic Domain, about a thousand worlds are currently running at a loss. The remaining worlds are essentially safe zones, subtly operating at a loss, but are mostly areas the Alliance has largely abandoned—unless they themselves strive to expand the safe zone to cover more than half of the entire planet, only then will the Alliance invest significant resources to normalize their worlds.

This is the general situation in the Magrey Cosmic Domain, where the Dark Side Expedition has virtually conquered the entire region.

The main troops of the Western Expedition Army have already moved to the Forward Cosmic Domain.

Meanwhile, in the Southern Line, operations in the Yadan Starfield and Guangjin Cosmos Domain have conquered about fourteen hundred worlds, with four hundred of them achieving a break-even or positive return; the remaining majority of the thousand worlds are still in a support phase, with a minority under a safe zone policy.

The situation in the conquered areas is roughly as follows.

The issues in these regions have currently been classified as internal affairs of the Alliance or the Imperial Dark Side Control Committee, rather than military issues.

In terms of internal affairs, the issue of North Line reinforcements, which triggered a political upheaval in the Alliance Political Arena, was handled in a low-profile manner.

This incident itself is actually not significant.

The Dark Side Expedition Headquarters has recognized the severe fighting, limited benefits, and heavy sacrifice problems faced by the North Line, and has been researching solutions.

Since an incident occurred, they simply brought forward the solutions sooner.

The plan is to strengthen the merit calculation method for the North Line, requiring that promotions for a high percentage of senior officers in the Alliance pass through the North Line; combat allowances are doubled; the already faster rank promotion speed compared to the West and Southern Lines has been further accelerated.

Of course, if it were just this, it might not be enough.

Offering benefits without addressing the nine-dead-one-alive situation faced on the North Line would still make it hard for anyone to willingly go.

Benefits increase, but if they can’t be brought back, what use are they?

Although supposedly left for the family, the current living standard in the Alliance is not particularly low. As long as one has some sense of responsibility and works well within the Alliance system, one shouldn’t have to risk their life to provide a good living for their family.

As for those truly doing poorly, they often lack this sense of responsibility.

Recruiting from those just recuperated impoverished worlds is a viable idea, but it doesn’t look good.

The Alliance is promoting orthodoxy in those just recuperated worlds, proclaiming that everyone is one family, and the Alliance is there to save the world.

After supposedly saving them, packing off their light arm labor to the brutal battlefield of the North Line is inappropriate and doesn’t fundamentally solve the issue.

The solution proposed by the Headquarters is rotation.

Strengthening the rotation among the West, South, and North Line troops, institutionalizing the process, is one aspect.

Another aspect is further improving the demobilization and resettlement system of the Alliance Army, so that soldiers fighting afar do not have to return at fifty years old with full injuries when they enlisted at twenty. If that’s the case for all recruits, recruiting difficulty would be too high.

Yet another point is that even those aspiring for a long career in the army should return after spending five to six years on the North Line, rest for two years, and then head to the West or South Line.

Furthermore, all new units constructed from the Alliance’s home territory should first go to the North Line to ensure a stable front there while facilitating the rotation of participating units there.

It must be said, these solutions do not entirely cure the North Line’s predicament.

The core reason for the North Line’s issues still lies in the heavy military pressure in that direction, which is an objective condition that cannot be resolved. Other methods merely address the symptoms, not the cause.

Nonetheless, treating the symptoms is better than letting the present situation persist, which constantly depresses the morale of the troops sent to fight on the North Line.

Issues like these take up a lot of Gu Hang’s time in the Alliance’s internal affairs.

These issues must be solved, and not just once, as they will inevitably continue to emerge in the future, requiring ongoing governance.

Gu Hang has prepared for a long-term battle.

However, the Alliance is not only facing internal issues at the moment.

External challenges are also numerous.

Leaving aside the North Line issue, where military pressure is significant, solutions can only be found by overcoming it, continuously reinforcing, and investing more to maintain the front line.

However, in the Western Line, a new issue has arisen, much to everyone’s concern.

It was a report received by Gu Hang concerning the Forward Cosmic Domain.

When the main forces of the Alliance’s Dark Side Expedition entered the Forward Cosmic Domain, they quickly encountered a major problem: in the Dragon Tongue Star Domain, an entire star domain that once could be considered relatively affluent, has now become an empty zone.

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Issues like these take up a lot of Gu Hang’s time in the Alliance’s internal affairs.

These issues must be solved, and not just once, as they will inevitably continue to emerge in the future, requiring ongoing governance.

Gu Hang has prepared for a long-term battle.

However, the Alliance is not only facing internal issues at the moment.

External challenges are also numerous.

Leaving aside the North Line issue, where military pressure is significant, solutions can only be found by overcoming it, continuously reinforcing, and investing more to maintain the front line.

However, in the Western Line, a new issue has arisen, much to everyone’s concern.

It was a report received by Gu Hang concerning the Forward Cosmic Domain.

When the main forces of the Alliance’s Dark Side Expedition entered the Forward Cosmic Domain, they quickly encountered a major problem: in the Dragon Tongue Star Domain, an entire star domain that once could be considered relatively affluent, has now become an empty zone.