Chapter 766: Chapter 427: Investing in People_2 Chapter 766: Chapter 427: Investing in People_2 Unfortunately, the Alliance is still not wealthy enough.
The “Skeleton Division,” this type of elite unit, even now can’t ensure every Army Group has one, let alone each Army Group cluster only having one or two at most.
Despite this, the Alliance Army remains Gu Hang’s pride and the trump card that the Alliance has stood tall with to this day.
Even though the Alliance has invested substantial manpower and resources, allocating the most important resources and most of the funds into the construction of the naval forces in hopes of catching up and overtaking the competition, as things stand, the Army is still the backbone of the Alliance’s existence.
A large infantry division can ensure its position is not lost under an equivalent number of Green Skins’ assaults; add one heavy composite brigade, and it can break through the positions of twice or even three times the number of Green Skins; when facing elite Green Skins with heavy equipment, the Alliance also has sufficient firepower and armored forces to contend.
All of this is extremely rare.
Even more so, Gu Hang can confidently say that within the entire Dragonhawk Star Domain, there isn’t a second human ground force that can compare with the Alliance Army.
Not even the Dragonhawk Legion can do it.
The Dragonhawk Legion has a total of thirteen legions, with a total population exceeding one billion, which is much more than the Alliance Army, but in terms of equipment and overall training level, they are certainly inferior.
As long as the Alliance catches up in naval force at least not to be a drag, then the strength of the Alliance Army can play a significant role on the cosmic battlefield.
By “not being a drag,” it means the navy doesn’t necessarily have to win naval battles, just ensure the troops can be properly delivered, and ensure the enemy can’t conduct orbital bombardments on one’s own army without restraint.
This requirement is much simpler than gaining control of space.
And as long as this low standard is met, then the combat power of the Alliance can be exponentially unleashed.
After all, in this cold universe, the void itself has no value.
The most important value still lies on the many planets.
In addition to the two hundred thousand blessing points spent on the construction of the Land Forces, Gu Hang also invested one hundred and fifty thousand blessing points in talent development.
Here, the spending was more diverse.
Further construction of academies consumed a sum of blessing points.
Flying Wing Star’s educational industry was already fairly developed, but the Alliance couldn’t possibly rely solely on Flying Wing Star to carry out all educational work.
On Rage Owl Star, Korolya, Fatches…
the construction of corresponding academies needed to be scheduled as well.
There was also adequate training for civil officials.
Especially after entering the war period, the Alliance launched a third-level mobilization order.
Under this scale of mobilization, large-scale social unrest was unlikely, and the entire order was maintained very well, even strengthened somewhat.
However, maintaining a stronger social order requires more governance costs.
At the same time, under the mobilization order, civilian production, if not thwarted, has at least significantly slowed down, which has led to stagnation in the growth of the public’s standard of living.
This issue also requires stronger government control and propaganda to keep under control.
Gu Hang was very vigilant against systemic corruption emerging within the Alliance without his notice.
The more critical the time, the more cautious one must be of pervasive corruption.
At his insistence, on one hand, the government system needed to self-examine and self-correct, ensuring that situations like “the system forces one to be corrupt,” “needing to do wrong for superior targets and performance,” “ensuring consistency between core goals and specific policies,” “ensuring consistency of goals among government, officials, and the public,” etc.
In general, a good system encourages good deeds; a bad system forces one to commit bad deeds.
All these presented higher management requirements for the Alliance Government, requiring constant vigilance and adjustments, relying on continuous system reforms to maintain vitality.
But all changes and internal adjustments require people to carry them out.
In terms of personnel quality, the conventional educational system is certainly the most important aspect.
However, training key personnel in key positions through the Loyal Heir Academy to ensure loyalty is a safeguard for the minimum standard.
Before even discussing if there is a problem with the system, one must first ensure that there is no issue with the people who reform and execute the system.
Without the latter, there is no basis for the former.
Apart from the educational foundation and training of civil officials, Gu Hang also had a special investment in personnel, focusing on special operations.
The Alliance’s need for intelligence had grown with its size, becoming increasingly important.
Overseen by Lambert Chief Justice, the center of legal administration, which is independent of the Alliance Government, has internal intelligence capabilities, although they are distinguished by their functions.
The Police Bureau is responsible for public cases, primarily focusing on maintaining order and stability; the Anti-Corruption Bureau is responsible for combating corruption among government officials and state-owned enterprises; the Alliance Security Bureau is in charge of counter-espionage, subversion, surveillance, and crackdowns on rebels.
The former two need not be elaborated on, but the presence of the Total Security Bureau within the Alliance, although not widely felt, was not without its actions.
The society of the Alliance has always been stable, not only because after obtaining ruling rights over the Tianma Star Sector, the standard of living for the public did not decline but increased.
Various local forces were either bound to the chariot of the Alliance or were crushed to ashes by an iron fist.
But it can never be completely clean.