All were subjects of Gu Hang, seventy thousand able-bodied youth, all precious labor.
Gu Hang issued an order to Tadeusz, instructing the military governor to prepare the relevant work plan, ensuring it was perfected before the prisoners of war arrived.
The overall objective was to assimilate these people, whether by selecting a portion to be transformed and trained as new soldiers or by ensuring they were problem-free before dispersing them as civilians into factories—both were possible.
With subordinates at hand, Gu Hang no longer needed to take care of everything personally; he simply had to review their work.
Tadeusz indeed presented a corresponding plan the next day.
The general approach was that all prisoners of war would be assigned appropriate jobs in Revival City for a month as punishment.
They would be allocated to construction sites, to cargo sorting and transportation centers, to factories… in short, wherever labor was needed, they could be placed. In this aspect, Tadeusz would coordinate and communicate with the production department’s personnel.
They would enjoy an eight-hour workday, would not be mistreated or cursed at, and would receive the same treatment as regular workers. They would not lack for occupational safety gear, food rations, or medical care.
But they would receive no pay and no personal freedom.
After work, they must return to the prisoner-of-war camp, then undergo four hours of ideological education from the military commissars, instructors, and part-time lecturers from Loyal Heir Academy, who would make them understand their past actions were wrong; their former suffering was caused by the rulers of their previous settlements; the Governor came to unite all the Rage Owl Star people; the Alliance wouldn’t harm them, on the contrary, as long as they properly reformed, a beautiful and bright future awaited.
These weren’t empty words, for they were underpinned by tangible systemic advantages.
During the day, these prisoners would labor alongside the residents of Revival City, in factories or on construction sites.
They would learn what life was like for the residents of Revival City: stable job ranks, no worries for food and clothing, an additional salary to improve their standard of living; and if they worked long enough or performed exceptionally, they would see promotion opportunities—a tangible upward mobility.
Life was hopeful and something to look forward to.
The best days were yet to come!
After receiving societal education by day and ideological education by night, after a month of being prisoners of war, these paupers drafted from various settlements would likely have changed.
Then, based on their performance in the camp during that month, assigning them ranks and integrating them into the city should proceed smoothly.
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After reviewing Tadeusz’s plan, Gu Hang hardly made any modifications, with a grand gesture he approved it.
At the end of the approved document, he added a note for Tadeusz to summarize this prisoner management experience, to serve as a standard procedure for similar future occurrences.
This matter was thus considered concluded on his end; it was now time to wait for the results.
As for his own tasks… he still had unspent grace points.
After returning to the surface, he spent 500 points on training fifty thousand new soldiers, 1000 points on Loyal Heir Academy, 700 points on training commissars, and with the recent completion of the campaign, he gained 774 points, leaving him with a total surplus of 3232 grace points.
Still quite a lot.
After considering, Gu Hang decided to draw a technology card.
Technology is the primary productive force; his territory could support nearly a hundred thousand well-equipped troops with just over two million people, but was that really because of his, Gu Hang’s, charm?
No matter how charming, can one conjure armored vehicles, tanks, or food?
In truth, the role of the Weixing City industrial base was immensely significant. Its development hinged on the technology system’s Black Box, which directly produced entire production lines.
And drawing technology cards, according to the system’s sinister mechanism, essentially every tier of the card pool is limited and can be depleted, so there is strategy in drawing cards.
Currently, the card pools available to Gu Hang were the 10/100/1000 tiers.
The 10-point tier had a basic probability of 10%, and air force probability of 90%. Expecting one basic level for every hundred points, the cost-performance ratio… actually wasn’t bad.
The 100-tier, with a basic level at 50%, an advanced level at 10%, expecting an investment of a thousand points to get an advanced level, two hundred points for a basic level, and probably a basic level for every five hundred points on a second guess, the cost-performance ratio was rather dismal.
The 1000-tier, with a basic probability of 40%, an advanced probability of 30%, and the higher Elite probability at 30%.
This was a card pool he hadn’t drawn from before, the cost-performance ratio maxed out; investing a thousand points guaranteed a technology, getting basic level might be a bit disappointing, but the probabilities for advanced and Elite levels were not low, scoring big if successful!
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Gu Hang was a bit eager, but decided to start off with a hundred points of grace to draw a 10-point card, to try his luck.
Luck was indeed on his side; he scored within eighty points.
[Basic Level Technology: LR5 Optical Energy Gun Family]
[The Sect of Mechanics, fulfilling the order requirements of the Star Realm Army, developed the new generation of optical energy rifle family. It can be easily modified with different accessories to form continuous fire speed shooting laser guns, laser rifles, energy storage rifles, laser pistols, and other functional firearms.]
Great stuff!
The LR series of laser guns are also the basic weapons configuration of the Star Realm Army. But unlike the G9, which is also a basic weapon configuration, the LR is much more high-end and much more expensive.
If the G series kinetic rifles are given to the five-dollar good brothers, troops pulled to fill the lines; then the troops widely equipped with the LR5 laser guns can be considered the main force of the Star Realm Army.
Without going into details, the damage of this thing is almost the same as the HS series electromagnetic rifles; it’s just that the electromagnetic rifle launches metal spikes, while the laser gun is a pure energy weapon.
But whether it’s one or the other, when shooting Green Skins, you definitely won’t encounter the situation with the G series rifles where it takes dozens of shots to kill one Green Skin.
Shooting a common Green Skin kid without a helmet, if you aim well, one shot one kill; shooting the torso, five or six shots will do the job.
Overall, this is a weapon that improves the firepower of light infantry and even after sufficient allocation, the basic firearms’ power increases significantly, enough to cause a qualitative change in the entire army’s combat capability.
Gu Hang had just been feeling a slight regret, wishing he had drawn the LR5 instead of the G9 initially.
With the LR5, who would need the G9?
However, upon further thought, he changed his mind again.
Back then, it was better to have drawn the G9.
Good stuff always has one problem; it’s expensive.
The Imperial Taxation Department would take away four Tax Currency per LR5 individual soldier set. You should know, the Department of Taxation takes only five Tax Currency per person.
I wonder if I should say the LR5 is too expensive, or that in the eyes of the Department of Taxation, human life is too cheap.
As for the price of the G9… let’s say five sets for one Tax Currency. The manufacturing cost of a set of individual equipment centered on the LR5 laser gun is twenty times that of a G series kinetic rifle.
If he had directly drawn the LR5 at that time, Gu Hang’s plan to massively produce weapons would have probably faced big trouble, unable to produce so many guns.
Moreover, even now, there’s a problem with the LR5: Guns can be made, but there are no conditions to manufacture the ‘ammunition,’ the high-energy batteries…
The finished Black Box would directly generate them with batteries, but not so on the production line.
Headache. This is what happens when you rely entirely on Black Boxes for your industrial system; you draw certain technologies but are helpless to implement them.
Nevertheless, this problem is not unsolvable.
Gu Hang had a ‘former genius’ mechanic, Ms. Wu Jiarong.
This mechanic, whose name is very similar to his cousin’s, has actually come up with some results recently: she has conquered the production line process for synthetic starch; at the same time, she has also come up with a production plan for energy storage batteries.
This thing, while having performance gaps compared to the high energy density batteries used by the Star Realm Army, is not unusable. It just means that a magazine’s bullet count would drop from eighty to fifteen. Furthermore, if the high-power charging shot is used, one shot can deplete a fully charged battery.
But again, it’s about solving the issue of having nothing at first. Whether it’s good or bad, we’ll discuss it later.
Who knows, maybe next time I’ll draw the production technology for high-energy batteries?
However, although drawing the LR5 laser gun family is something to be happy about, it didn’t come without a cost.
It was not just the 80 points of grace, but the critical point was that the ten-point newbie prize pool had been completely depleted.
After this, the probability of winning at ten points of grace is only 1%. The expected value is a basic level technology for every thousand points; only a fool would continue to draw.
Afterward, Gu Hang began to set his sights on the 1000 bracket.
He had high expectations for it.
There’s a high probability of drawing an advanced or elite level treasure, but if the draw is for a basic level, that would be a real loss.
“Hope I get a bit luckier!”