Gu Hang had some time, so he spoke with Wu Jiarong a bit more.
Starting from the extremely fast progress that Wu Jiarong had made, he came up with another idea:
“If we send more people to join the research institute, I’m not talking about the periphery, but formally, like you, capable of researching the Black Box, wouldn’t that make the entire Alliance very strong in training scientific research personnel?”
“In theory, yes,” Wu Jiarong said, “Although I can share some of my research findings, and I’ve also established a research journal within the Technical Academy to speed up the training of technical personnel; moreover, if these technical personnel were to participate in the Black Box research, and if they reached the same conclusions and results, it wouldn’t be much help to their growth.
But overall, we have too many Black Boxes here, and I simply can’t study them all. Having more help would definitely be good.”
“The only problem lies in keeping secrets.”
At that point, Gu Hang thought of Hu Ke.
He would certainly be a good choice.
But after all, he is an outsider, and still needs to be tested.
Gu Hang said to Wu Jiarong, “Pick a few talented young people and bring them to meet me.”
“Sure!” Wu Jiarong was quite happy to have received permission, “Indeed, there are a few good candidates. After they join, I will definitely pay attention to security issues regarding confidentiality.”
“Mhm, we can’t relax here.”
While saying so, Gu Hang also made plans for a double layer of assurance.
Later, he met the three young men and one woman that Wu Jiarong had selected.
Gu Hang chatted with them, which was basically like an interview.
During the interview, he casually used his mental manipulation, making some adjustments.
He tried his best to avoid abusing this ability. However, when it came to the secrets of the Black Box, he had to be cautious.
He would not overly interfere with their minds, just adding a layer of Mental Maze Lock which would prevent the participants from leaking any information.
Next, Wu Jiarong would take these young people, who were actually at most the level of technical staff, into the real gates of the research institute.
They were confused and had no idea of the grand hall they were about to enter.
…
After finishing all this, Gu Hang hurriedly boarded the Wind Falcon and embarked on the journey back to Revival City.
There, many of the Alliance’s high-ranking officials had already gathered together.
Gu Hang had to meet individually with Osenia, Lambert, Tadeusz, and others, listen to their recent work reports, then preside over a work meeting facing many high-ranking Alliance officials.
The content of Tadeusz’s report was quite routine, related to military construction matters.
During the entire reporting process, it was mainly Gu Hang talking while he listened.
Gu Hang had plans to build the Rage Bear Legion, in preparation for its eventual incorporation into the Star Realm Army; moreover, the new Eastern Group Army and Central Group Army also required Tadeusz’s attention.
After receiving instructions from the governor, Tadeusz hurried off.
Mobilizing troops, forming the Rage Bear Legion; reorganizing twelve divisions from the militia groups in the three Eastern provinces, these were all considered major actions, and he had many busy days ahead.
Afterward, there was a lot to discuss with Osenia.
The Alliance Premier went into detail about the current development status of the Alliance.
Currently, within the Alliance’s control, there were twenty-five million people, divided into eight provinces.
By estimation, the Alliance’s total GDP for the year reached 34.14 million Tax Currency.
Under this premise, the Alliance’s per capita welfare and allowances totaled a consumption of ten million Tax Currency; administrative costs, developmental reinvestment, military industrial supply for the troops, all adding up to a consumption of twenty-three million Tax Currency, leaving an Alliance budget surplus of around one million Tax Currency.
Of course, this so-called Tax Currency is actually a statistical methodology, and the currency issued internally by the Alliance is another matter. Many of the investments and welfare are not issued in currency but are given in the form of goods.
Another point that must be mentioned is that these are the normal economic production conditions within the Alliance and do not include the outputs of the Weixing City research institute.
The outputs of the research institute cannot be calculated.
There are both direct outputs of various military products and the construction of numerous production lines, which are of extraordinary value.
Actually, if the outputs of the research institute were included, the Alliance’s expenditure in industrial production reinvestment would be much higher than the apparent figures.
In terms of outputs, unexpectedly, the province with the highest GDP in the Alliance was not the anticipated Weixing City Industrial Center, but the Beiqing Valley Province.
The main reason was that the natural environment of Beiqing Valley Province was too good. Possessing the second largest area of land in the whole Alliance, this place could be called a land of a thousand miles of fertile soil. Correspondingly, the largest in terms of area was the Northern Border Province, but the land there was extremely barren.
The disparity between the two was quite significant.
Similarly, Beiqing Valley Province had a population of eight million, accounting for one-third of the entire Alliance.
The most fertile land, the second largest area, the largest population… these factors created the highest GDP province in the entire Alliance.
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Moreover, not just in total volume, but also in per capita GDP, it was the highest.
It was even higher than the per capita GDP of Weixing.
This was mainly because, after a large number of agricultural machines were produced and sent to Weixing, the land there was utilized very effectively.
Eight million people spread out over those vast fertile lands, driving farming machines, each household tending hundreds of acres of land, using genetically improved seeds, and with industrial fertilizers providing a boost, the productivity could not be low.