Starting from the Planetary Governor

Chapter 1333: Chapter 760: Finance and Development

The Spiderweb Domain has truly suffered the anguish of war, its entire realm, nearly every Star Domain has been afflicted with the calamities of war.

And if any disaster is more grievous than war, it is the subsequent insect swarm disaster.

The Alliance fought rather well on the Southern Line; Proudclaw Cosmos didn’t face much trouble and soon recovered.

The Thistle Muster Star Field, which was later taken over by the Alliance, was not much involved in warfare, but the subsequent insect infestation issue was significant, yet it was fortunately controlled in the early stages. Now, although it’s still losing money, the population remains fairly large, and the losses are minimal, to the point where profit can soon be turned.

For other Star Domains, however, problems were immense. The Empire and Iron Armor Army repeatedly contested the three Star Domains on the West Line; the four Star Domains on the North Line were not fought as fiercely as the West Line, but the insect swarm disaster was even more severe due to strategic errors on the North Line.

The worst of all is, of course, the Princess Star Domain.

This is evident from the population.

Dragonhawk Star Domain has 1.2 trillion people, Menghe Star Domain has 1 trillion people — both are considered normal population scales for an ordinary Star Domain. The twelve Star Domains in the Spiderweb Domain should have roughly similar scales.

Even more.

For example, Princess Star Domain before the war should logically have over 3 trillion population; Alfonso Space Domain should also have 2 trillion. The others should typically have over 1 trillion population.

But in reality, except for Alfonso Star Domain, which naturally had more people, all other Star Domains now have less than 1 trillion population. Even Alfonso Space Domain has only 1.4 trillion.

The most devastated Princess Star Domain, which should have been the essence of the Spiderweb Domain, now has only 257 billion population.

Besides the sharp population decline, industries everywhere were shattered beyond recognition.

These are all impacts of the war.

However, if devastated then devastated, if population sharply decreased then it sharply decreased. If the Alliance wanted, it could intensify the extraction from those still alive, utilizing the still viable industries to exhaust resources.

After all, the war is over, and there’s always some profit to extract. If truly dire, just feed them enough to fend off starvation and freezing, then ship them all as blood tax to the Empire, isn’t that done?

But the Alliance didn’t do this, instead it squeezed out a lot of fiscal expenditure to invest in these worlds.

The aim is to quickly restore the vitality of the Spiderweb Domain.

If coerced into extraction, what would the Alliance gain from holding the Spiderweb Domain?

Taking over those numerous Star Domains is to paint well on the virtually cleansed white canvas after the war.

Of course, doing so meant enduring hardships before sweetness.

The so-called hardships are not limited to fiscal pressures but also encompass the comprehensive pressure on political governance.

The post-war reconstruction of the war-ravaged territories, although unlikely to face major counterattacks from existing forces on various planets. Even if they still exist, their powers are greatly diminished, and during the process of regaining and rebuilding planets, under the Alliance’s support and control, they can’t stir up much trouble.

Yet similarly, without those local forces, the Alliance can’t leverage the wealth of various forces originally present on the planets. Not only must it establish its governmental systems from scratch, but many places genuinely need to build from a blank slate.

Fortunately, many planets still have remnants of the ’Pest Control Office’ that managed the insect infestations back then. Using the Pest Control Office as a foundation to build new management systems would slightly lessen the difficulty. Back when fighting parasitic infectors, they had conducted some emergency reconstruction to utilize the planets’ manpower and resources locally. Although the main focus was on essential goods like food, medicine, and military supplies, higher-grade productivity couldn’t be developed in time, yet there was somewhat of a foundation.

But precisely due to the blank slate, after enduring the hardships, sweetness would follow.

This is what Osenia emphasized after providing an overview of the Alliance’s current overall situation: the Alliance’s development plan for the next two years.

It splits into two parts, one concerning the Dragonhawk Star Domain.

This is the core region of the Alliance, although it represents less than a tenth of the population, it accounts for over 30% of the overall output value.

The Alliance comprises four revenue-generating Star Domains, but to put it bluntly, Proudclaw, Menghe, and Alfonso merely earn small profits. They maintain fiscal surpluses, but they don’t significantly impact the overall picture. Only Dragonhawk Star Domain, with a fiscal surplus of 1.3 trillion, can practically sustain the entire Alliance with its strength alone.

It not only shoulders the tax duties for the Empire but also almost entirely supports the Alliance’s extensive military expenditures and fiscal support for the nine deficit Star Domains, primarily relying on Dragonhawk Star Domain’s massive production capacity and fiscal surplus.

Further construction of Dragonhawk Star Domain is thus an inevitability.

In reality, Dragonhawk Star Domain is the pioneer of numerous major productivity upgrades within the Alliance, especially regarding large-scale production and application of various new and advanced technologies produced by the Alliance Central Research Institute (the Black Box Factory led by Wu Jiarong).

From scientific research, to shipbuilding industry, to advanced warfare weapon production, to advanced engineering machinery manufacture, to advanced energy development and manufacturing… Dragonhawk Star Domain is unrivalled.

Meanwhile, some low-grade industries, ensuring overall employment rate within Dragonhawk Star Domain, are relocated as much as possible.

Honestly, Dragonhawk Star Domain handling these so-called low-grade industries is actually the most efficient, and the profits are decent too. Not only is the scale large, but critically, the industry categories are comprehensive, and both upstream and downstream supply chains are well-equipped, providing strong cost and scale advantages.

However, industry updates are inevitable, and the brothers outside clamoring for sustenance need a sip of soup too. On the other hand, even the so-called low-grade industries remaining in Dragonhawk Star Domain must further upgrade.

Take the simplest raw material processing industry for example, with more advanced engineering machinery and production lines, whether it’s refining metals or initial chemical product processing, the aim is to reduce labor input and enhance efficiency.

Freed-up manpower could be invested in the tertiary sector if nothing else works.

Larger outputs in cultural industries, services sector, and luxury industry, on one hand to earn money, on the other to enhance life quality for those in Dragonhawk Star Domain’s heavy industries and pillar industries.

Even in agriculture, it must follow the path of large farms, efficient production. Various latest agricultural genetic technologies and agricultural machinery can notably enhance the productivity in both livestock breeding and crop cultivation. Furthermore, on several key agricultural planets in Jiang Meiyu Sector, the Alliance extravagantly deployed climate reconfiguration technology.

Using climate reconfiguration to revive a barren planet is costly and somewhat insignificant; however, optimizing the climate for planets already blessed with good natural conditions to make them better suited for agricultural development is much more economical.

And if Dragonhawk Star Domain has surplus engineers, whether in bioengineering, mechanical engineering, or other fields, they can be dispatched to other Star Domains for technical aid, yielding remarkable results.

The gradually crowded upward channels within Dragonhawk Star Domain can also be alleviated through such approaches.

In conclusion, Dragonhawk Star Domain essentially continues progressing along its established path, advancing towards more refined, efficient directions.

For the other thirteen Star Domains, the emphasis lies on quickly achieving profitability, with a strict mandate to aim for ’developing productivity,’ forbidding any dubious practices.

Alliance officials dispatched to various Star Domains, Star Sectors, and even planets each carry explicit targets, with strict orders.

They will receive full support from Dragonhawk Star Domain and the Alliance, aimed at boosting the output value!