Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 1269 - 718_2

Chapter 1269: Chapter 718_2

But the financial pressure is still too great. This time, she just wanted to discuss with Wu Jiarong whether the plan could be revised.

The first phase of 60 billion has already been paid, use it first; can the second phase of 80 billion be a little less? That 60 billion is quite a large sum of money, use it first to hold on a bit, surely it wouldn’t be spent all so quickly?

Even if not a bit can be reduced, can it be delayed a little?

It won’t be too late, just a few months, until after the first two-year Imperial Tax is paid, then allocate this new sum of money.

Wu Jiarong refused.

“This is the Governor’s project, crucial to the survival of the Alliance.”

Wu Jiarong first emphasized this point.

Using the Governor to pressure me?

Osenia felt somewhat uncomfortable.

But she wasn’t going to show it.

Maybe engineers are all like this, can’t expect them to have high emotional intelligence after having many organs replaced and dealing with machines daily.

“This is not a demand.” Osenia patiently explained, “It’s a request, a discussion with you. The government side is under a lot of pressure, hoping you can understand.”

“I can understand you, Prime Minister Oseina.” Wu Jiarong still maintained a rather firm attitude and responded, “But there is no room for negotiation on this matter.”

However, she wasn’t really arrogant enough to hold Osenia down just with the Governor’s demand.

She did offer a little explanation: “The current expenditure has already been precisely calculated, it’s the optimal solution under very extreme conditions. The number of workers in the entire secret project, the number of senior engineers, raw material consumption, energy consumption… are all too much. Additionally, we need to place orders with various high-tech factories from all regions of the Alliance, even to Alamita and Jindi Star. Some orders even require the Sages to personally lead and manufacture.”

“Expenses are extremely high, and the current situation truly is the most extreme state within calculations. The current research and production status is already proceeding on a dangerous bridge. If we pull back slightly, the entire bridge may collapse.”

Wu Jiarong had tried her best to speak nicely, even using some adjectives!

Osenia could feel it too.

She sighed and accepted the reality: “All right, I will find a way.”

At this point, the two fell into silence for a moment.

Osenia brushed off some of the disappointment from not achieving her goal and brought up another matter.

The most important issue she needed to discuss with Wu Jiarong, of course, was the secret project. The second matter was regarding the Alliance’s technical support for production recovery and enhancement in various regions.

This is not particularly related to those new areas in the Spiderweb Domain.

It’s not entirely unrelated, but those places’ main task is still to restore production. It’s either these planets already had a certain production capacity and industrial level before the occupation, so they could find ways to retrieve equipment and workers from the original planets; or, if they can’t retrieve them or the planet’s production capacity is lacking, they need to rely on the technology spillover from the core areas of the Alliance.

Relocating some ’lower-end industries’ from the core areas to these regions would be enough.

But after relocating the low-end industries, surely the workers in the core areas wouldn’t be left with nothing to do?

No, that’s not the case.

Higher-value industries are needed to absorb those experienced workers and engineers.

And for these, it depends on what assistance Wu Jiarong can provide.

On this matter, Wu Jiarong did give Osenia some good news.

There indeed are quite a few excellent industries that can be shipped out.

Rage Owl Star has now transformed into the core technology base of the Alliance. Regarding the transferred industries of the Seven Horse Territory, many stronger industrial supports have been brought in.

Advanced heavy engineering machinery, Star Fortress construction factories, more shipyards, more Titan factories, more advanced energy compression factories, more stellar power stations…

All require more people.

They cannot be completed by low-level workers, it must be those with rich experience and accumulated technical skills. Those who have been liberated from the lower-level industrial sectors can exactly do this.

For these workers and engineers personally, it’s also beneficial. More advanced and important industries clearly provide better upgrade opportunities.

A satisfied Osenia, after ending the call, immediately had her clerks form records and summaries of this conversation and sent them to Minister Zhao Jiuzheng of the Production Department.

He was also quite invigorated, immediately starting to arrange personnel to connect with Rage Owl Star regarding these technologies, equipment, and technical guidance personnel, then plan where to construct these new factories.

Meanwhile, Osenia herself began her next task.

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In the capital city, Snow Fox Star, in the Fox Moon Star Domain, which is very far from the Seven Horse Territory and Dragonhawk Star Domain, a Jason Morgan was also holding a crucial meeting.

The situation in the Fox Moon Star Domain is quite different from many other star domains in the Spiderweb Domain. This star domain is located east of the Princess Star Domain and northeast of the Alfonso Star Domain. Going east from the Fox Moon Star Domain, it already leaves the Imperial Territory and enters the Dark Outer Domain.

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