Starting from the Planetary Governor

Chapter 270: Chapter 179: No Need to Worry About Imperial Tax at All - Part 2

Looking at the current situation, the motorized infantry division is not too bad, it could be fully equipped in a month; the composite division, on the other hand, may take two months.

However, this is calculated based on the current military industrial capacity. Going forward, the capacity will become increasingly explosive. In fact, in the past two or three months, the output of Walkers has risen from the original thirty or forty units to upwards of ninety, nearly tripling.

And the burst in production capacity, or the overall development of the territory, can be seen quite intuitively from Gu Hang's monthly welfare point income.

Initially, the month he first came down from the starship, he received 678 welfare points; last month, the welfare points had already reached 817; and this recent month's income points have even climbed to 1022 points a month.

Among these, the largest increase came from Weixing City, followed by the increase contributed by the two million new population after the Central Province was recovered. Although the latter had a larger population, the welfare points didn't increase as much, mainly because their productivity was too weak.

The third increase came from Revival City, whose population also returned to the major milestone of one million people.

As for the three hundred thousand people in Gaota Province and the five hundred thousand people in Central-North Province, the welfare points reward they provided were merely trivial amounts. Mainly because, although their combined populations were not small, their productivity was weak and their living standards poor. Your journey continues with M-V-L

They were barely able to satisfy their basic food needs, with almost the entire population living in extreme poverty. Starvation deaths were common, and they could hardly bring any net positive benefits to the entire alliance. In fact, the alliance needed to allocate resources to support them, ensuring people wouldn't starve to death and providing them with funds for development.

In the short term, these areas were effectively negative assets for the alliance except for their contributions in manpower. They required long-term investment and construction to improve.

Accordingly, the welfare points contribution from these areas was very low.

At present, Gu Hang was not particularly clear about the calculation mechanism for his fixed monthly welfare point income. He could only roughly distinguish four main factors: population size, living standards, total productivity, and contributions to the whole political body.

Moreover, the rise in welfare points was not linear.

Otherwise, it would be difficult to explain why Gu Hang, before even conquering Revival City, could earn several tens of points a month from just a few thousand people at the Governor's Camp; and yet now, with the fifty thousand people in Central-North Province, the welfare point gains are nearly the same as the camp's scale back then despite the hundredfold increase in population base.

Perhaps the rise in welfare points could be tiered and segmented? Maybe after the political body reached a certain scale, further improvements needed to be significantly higher to achieve the same rate of increase as before?

Nevertheless, no matter what the exact calculation method was, one truth was indisputable: as long as Gu Hang worked hard to increase the population under his effective control, enhance productivity, and improve people's living standards, then this number would certainly rise.

And after receiving the income for these two months, the welfare points that had been completely spent in Gu Hang's hands once again rose to a rather significant figure, reaching 1901.

Since welfare points couldn't earn interest just by sitting around, Gu Hang still chose to spend them on drawing technologies.

However, this time he did not go for the thousand-tier again. High-level technologies, while compelling, could not be mass-produced and thus didn't significantly aid in enhancing the overall alliance's productive capacity.

With not so many welfare points on hand, it seemed wiser to allocate a portion to draw from the hundred-tier and see if he could fill in some basic technological gaps.

And indeed, it was effective.

He first hit a basic level, and then the probability for the hundred-tier became 20% for basic level—a 30% drop—but the advanced level actually rose from 10% to 20%.

The chances for hitting a prize in the hundred-tier should have only dropped by 20%, yet the basic technology tier had plummeted by 30%, with the extra portion seemingly going to the advanced tier?

The mechanism was getting harder and harder to understand… but of course, it was good news.

After two more attempts, both turned up empty. After all, an overall 40% chance of winning implied that misses were quite normal.

Then there was another hit, this time an advanced level. And the overall probabilities turned into 10% for both basic and advanced tiers.

After five more attempts, he hit an advanced level. At this point, only a 2.5% chance for either remained.

Theoretically, one would need two thousand welfare points to obtain a prize, with the probability divided equally between basic and advanced tiers… At this point, it could be said that the hundred-tier technical cards prize pool was essentially depleted in Gu Hang's view.

However, up to now, he had drawn nine times in total, accumulating two advanced levels and one basic level.

Quantity-wise, drawing from the hundred-tier remained more cost-effective than the thousand-tier until the prize pool was exhausted.

As for the three technologies, the basic level was [Servo Cranium], and the advanced levels were [Alloy Cerasteel] and [Anti-Gravity Engine].

Seeing these three items, Gu Hang was very satisfied.

All the prerequisite technologies for the Falcon Assault Airship were now unlocked.

There's no need to say much about Alloy Cerasteel, as Gu Hang was extremely happy to have drawn this technology. Like alloy plasteel, it is an advanced version of high-grade alloy.

With it, the production of bomb-guns could be mass-produced; reactors could be mass-produced; and the external armor of the Falcon Assault Airships, as well as some of the internal components, were now sufficient...

In the future, a large number of medium and high-end industrial products would require Alloy Cerasteel, which was fundamental.

While the Anti-Gravity Engine could be directly used for the Falcon Assault Airships. Also, this type of advanced engine could be applied in some high-end equipment. This engine is the basis allowing some super-heavy equipment to be operational. Even for some Titans, if the main engine wasn't this kind, they would still need it in some places to reduce gravity.