Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 54: Activate This Girl for Me

The situation in Revival City was complex and unpredictable, but Gu Hang could roughly guess it without being too clear.

He didn’t have much energy to manage it either.

He continued to push the development progress of the entire territory.

The replenishment work for the 2nd Infantry Battalion and 3rd Infantry Battalion was ongoing, and Gu Hang also planned to recruit another infantry battalion.

The new batch of refugees was an important source of soldiers.

Given the choice, Gu Hang had always strived to avoid too much uniformity in the source of soldiers within a single unit. But now, the other groups under his command had already been mobilized several times, making it hard to draw more manpower from them.

So, Gu Hang simply spent 3 Grace Points to complete the preliminary training of the newly recruited 300 soldiers, then extracted some veterans from the 2nd and 3rd Battalions and mixed them into the newly formed 4th Battalion.

At this point, the total population under Gu Hang’s rule reached eight thousand, with eleven hundred soldiers.

The manpower gap was still significant.

However, the arrangements made by the Hodgson grandfather and grandson duo earlier were gradually bearing fruit at this moment.

Apart from the more than two thousand refugees who arrived with Lambert, in the past few days, people who heard about the Governor’s camp started migrating here with their families, increasing Gu Hang’s forces by dozens to a few hundred people daily.

Although it wasn’t enough to quench the thirst, having a continuous supply was still beneficial.

One by one, the Alloy Smelting Furnaces manufactured by the Black Box Fabricator were sent to the Wasteland Society; truckloads of Hot Ash Stones, metal scrap, and metal ores were transported from Garbage Town to the smelting factories.

The Alloy and Plastic Steel produced in the Wasteland Society was partially sent to Revival City for sale through Denison Henry’s channels; some remained in the Wasteland Society to be crafted into Bulletproof Vests, primarily supplied to the newly recruited soldiers of the Governor but also sold in Garbage Town.

Another portion of the alloy went into the newly established G9 Rifle Series workshop, being processed into various parts and assembled.

The G9 Rifle Series had already begun mass production in Gu Hang’s territory, no longer relying solely on the output from the Master Machine.

The population of the Wasteland Society even surpassed that of the Governor’s camp now.

Heavy industry was like a black hole for the population, seemingly able to absorb as many people as it could.

Meanwhile, the development of light industry in the Governor’s camp was relatively slower.

The textile factory and the Synthetic Starch Production Line were operational, but the latter still lacked enough machines.

The technicians from the starship had not yet figured out how to manufacture the synthetic starch machines with the current industrial base.

Only two production lines were running at the moment.

While the former could indeed absorb a considerable number of people, according to the plans, the Wasteland Society’s heavy industry had a higher priority for recruiting workers, leaving the textile factory with only female workers—even many of those women had gone to the Wasteland Society.

At the same time, both places also had a significant demand for construction workers.

Factories needed to be expanded, homes needed to be built, and besides these, there were needs for stores, distribution centers, canteens, schools, and administrative buildings… All of these required construction.

Correspondingly, these facilities also needed people to fill them.

People, people, and more people.

The unemployment rate under Gu Hang’s command was nearly zero.

This also meant that every person who came to the Governor’s camp was warmly welcomed.

Managers of factories, production lines, and various departments were all eager to recruit people.

Men went to factories, women to the textile mills, children were collectively cared for and educated; even the elderly, as long as they could still move, always had some work they could do, even if it was just to free up another laborer…

As the forces under his command operated with clockwork efficiency, Gu Hang also reached the moment of settlement for his second month since arriving at Fury Owl Planet.

Current Grace Points: 88

Monthly Fixed Income: 56

Governor’s Temporary Camp: 17/Terra Month

Wasteland Society: 39/Terra Month

The monthly fixed income was distributed.

Previously, he had 36 Grace Points left, and with the replenishment of the 2nd and 3rd Battalions, as well as the establishment of the 4th Battalion, four hundred new soldiers needed training, costing 4 Grace Points.

Adding the 56 points distributed this month, the total was now 88.

The numbers here quantitatively compared the development speed.

Almost half a month ago, this figure was just over twenty, and now it had more than doubled.

This was already the limit under the current population scale. To see further improvement, there would need to be a significant increase in population while still maintaining an extremely low unemployment rate and high production efficiency.

Under this premise, looking at the hundreds of thousands of impoverished populations outside Revival City, Gu Hang felt it was a tremendous waste.

At this population scale, if everyone could be fully utilized, what a terrifying figure that would be?

To let them suffer unemployment, hunger, and cold outside the city was a tremendous loss.

However, returning to his own forces’ development, after meeting a person, Gu Hang felt his thoughts were somewhat broadened.

That person was named Osena.