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Chapter 1765: Chapter 1002: New Empire, New Contradictions

Gu Hang held a report, his eyebrows slightly furrowed.

Even though he was the Imperial Prime Minister, he was not residing in the Empire for long periods. Even at the founding ceremony of the New Empire, his so-called ’personal’ appearance was merely an avatar.

He couldn’t really leave Rage Owl Star.

Rage Owl Star is the seat of the Storm God Kingdom, a place he cannot afford to leave for long.

After all, his greatest duty is ’suppression.’

Only once he has successfully suppressed everything can Old Deng free up his hands to slowly fix the major issue of the Scarlet Scar.

Before Gu Hang, ’suppression’ was something he had to handle on his own.

In this ’filthy pit’ of a universe, one could say everyone has their prison sentence to serve.

However, although he cannot visit Holy Terra frequently, Gu Hang still has a good grasp of the overall political situation of the Empire.

The main method of achieving this, naturally, is through the Alliance Government.

The current Alliance Government mainly operates in the east, in Rage Owl Star and the Tianma Star Sector, this ’Land of the Rising Dragon.’

The Alliance Central Government and the Imperial Central Government are one organization with two different names, theoretically stationed in Holy Terra, the center of the Empire.

This is indeed the plan for the future.

But for now, they have not taken up permanent residence there.

Currently, the focus is still on the Alliance, spending more time in the Alliance regions.

But this doesn’t mean that the control over Holy Terra is weak.

Firstly, the Alliance—or rather, the Empire Government—has a specific Capital Government for Holy Terra, handling the unique affairs of this special world, with administrative elites drawn from all over the Alliance.

The importance placed on Alliance Holy Terra is not even less than that of Comoros.

The scale of this Capital Government is high, capable of operating independently and executing the Alliance Central strategies effectively.

Secondly, there is convenient transportation.

The leadership of the Alliance Central Government, specifically leaders like Osenia and others, despite not residing permanently in Holy Terra, would visit Holy Terra once every two weeks or even every week and stay for two days.

In the past, this would have been impossible.

The journey to Holy Terra was too far, taking much time—not to mention the travel issues, communication itself wasn’t reliable.

In this scenario, it was impossible to effectively govern the Imperial Central region from the Empire’s frontier.

But things are different now.

Although communication has worsened due to the presence of the Scarlet Scar, the effectiveness of Comoros controlled by the Alliance has been immense. For efficiency, ultra-miniature Veil Spirit Gates have been set up in the most important government buildings of the central government in Rage Owl Star.

On the other hand, in Comoros, a small government-use port has been opened, corresponding to the administrative offices within Holy Terra.

For this, the Alliance Government had a prolonged dispute with the Imperial Guard. After all, these administrative offices were within the Imperial Palace. The Imperial Guard refused due to palace security. Ultimately, Gu Hang and Robert intervened together to barely persuade Yan Xinzhen.

With these three doors in three places, officials with high enough authority like Osenia, if she wishes, could open the door of her office, arrive at the ultra-miniature Veil Spirit Gate in the same building, walk through, reach Comoros, take a few more steps to the corresponding spirit gate, and enter, arriving at Holy Terra.

The entire process might not even take fifteen minutes.

With the teleportation ability of Comoros, it became possible for the Alliance Government to simultaneously govern the Dark Side of the Empire and Holy Terra.

Currently, the report Gu Hang is looking at is from the central government of the New Empire.

What made him frown was that the main issues mentioned on it were rather troublesome—the ever-increasing fiscal pressure on the Alliance.

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The governance of the Alliance is quite good. Worlds conquered by the Dark Side Expedition often recover economically well in a short time, providing fuel supply for future expeditions.

However, this economic recovery has a prerequisite—investment.

Development doesn’t come from nowhere. Builders, technology, resources... all these are indispensable.

Investment in construction across various regions occupies a tremendous amount of funds.

Many newly conquered worlds not only fail to bring immediate returns but instead become a financial burden.

After years of Dark Side Expedition, the Alliance has developed a comprehensive rebuilding work process. But no matter how good the process, it still takes time to slowly build up the world and turn finances positive.

However, before turning positive, there is a financial burden.

Simultaneously, the current Dark Side Expeditions of the Alliance are divided into five main fronts—the Central Front Army, the East, West, and South Front Armies, plus an Angel Corps. Each one is of massive scale, and even without increasing troops, merely maintaining their current scale and sustaining their continuous operations requires astronomical funding.

This alone would be manageable, after all the Alliance has sustained a balance through the century-long expedition.

However, once the Alliance received Holy Terra and assumed the responsibilities of the Imperial Central, this balance became somewhat disrupted.

The scale of Holy Terra is too vast, with seven hundred billion survivors and a massive amount of basic infrastructure that needs reconstruction, numerous factories that must be rebuilt, requiring an enormous investment.

According to the Alliance’s previous experience, it’s equivalent to instantly incorporating an entire Star Domain into the Alliance’s governancy, and hundreds of worlds all requiring reinvestment.

This has significantly increased economic pressure.

Fortunately, there is Mars nearby.

Mars has provided great assistance, yet they themselves are not in an easy situation. Mars’ production also requires a significant amount of raw material resources and a large workforce. Even with the discounts from the Sect of Mechanics, they still need to make a profit to some extent.

Placing orders with them also costs money.

In essence, at the founding ceremony, Gu Hang, on behalf of the New Empire’s government, promised the residents of Holy Terra a better life.

This requires sufficient construction, and the construction period is long; recovery of costs and visible significant returns require a considerable amount of time.

But here lies a contradiction: Robert hopes to push forward building a strong Expeditionary Force.

Massive ground soldiers, colossal new Starfighter Battle Groups, vast fleets...

Building these requires massive funding.

In terms of scale, if Robert’s demands were fully met, it would be equivalent to constructing two and a half times the scale of Alliance’s Front Armies.

While the funding investment is one thing, it also demands a huge portion of production capacity and manpower, which would slow down the original economic development and recovery time.

This contradiction has persisted for a long period, and now it finally cannot be endured any longer, arriving at Gu Hang’s desk.

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