Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 127

Chapter 127, Long Live the Governor!

In fact, not all the people in the inner city are rich.

With this broken productivity, how can we support so many rentiers?

Most people in the inner city still have to rely on their own work to support themselves and their families. They just have a relatively more affluent family background, better education, and better and more opportunities.

They are industrial workers, employees of factories and enterprises, clerks of chambers of commerce, and officials under the alliance government… They have a stable and even decent job, but this is the source of everything they have.

In fact, under the new system designed by Gu Hang, if these people do their job well, their opportunities are still much greater than those of people in the outer city. A more adequate education level and richer work experience are their advantages.

But this point cannot be believed by propaganda alone. Gu Hang does not need to maintain stability through empty words for the time being, and his army can do this in a short time.

As for the future, these people in the inner city will feel this through actual experience.

In fact, he already has some preliminary ideas about the entire political and economic structure of the future, and he has communicated with Ossena.

The entire livelihood system will be built on 45 job levels: AE stratification, each level has 9 levels.

Each level will be equipped with corresponding welfare benefits, including food rations, housing benefits, medical benefits, and the right to purchase a small number of scarce goods.

Every formal employee will have at least E6 level benefits after entering the workplace. Below E6, there are apprentices, trainees, partially assisted students, convict workers, relief for the unemployed not due to their own reasons…

and the specific level will be determined according to the position and personal work contribution.

Although the job level is linked to the position, it is not completely consistent in fact. In the early stage, the low level will be promoted year by year according to seniority and work contribution, that is, the basic treatment will be improved.

The promotion speed will slow down after the high level.

Those with significant performance will be promoted by skipping levels.

The treatment of military soldiers does not follow this line, but it will correspond. Privates and corporals have allowances similar to those of the E-level, which vary depending on the unit. After retirement, they will try to arrange jobs of the corresponding level; NCOs, senior NCOs and some lower-level officers correspond to the D-level; mid- and high-level officers retire with the C-level treatment; high-level officers and generals retire with the B-level or A-level treatment depending on the situation.

Ranks and positions will also be paid monthly, but they will no longer be paid in Alliance coins. Now it is paid in work points, and there may be certain currency reforms in the future. You can buy things in stores by spending work points or currency.

Most civilian goods, as long as they are not scarce, will be put on the shelves normally.

Want to eat better side dishes in addition to regular food rations, such as cakes, ice cream, meat and dairy products? You can buy them;

want high-quality electrical appliances? You can buy them;

want to buy a three-wheeled vehicle or even a car? You may not be able to buy it in the short term, but when the production volume increases in the future, the demand for military supplies is met, and there is extra production capacity, you can also buy it. In the early stage, there may be a rank limit, and after the production capacity is more abundant, the limit can be lifted.

When the material resources are more abundant, you can buy personal hobbies, such as reading, entertainment, and art.

In other words, housing, food, clothing, and medical care, the three mountains, are guaranteed as long as you enter this new system; wages can meet higher-level, more personalized, and diversified needs.

Want better? Sure, work hard to get a promotion and a raise.

The only exception is education.

For this thing, Gu Hang plans to go the route of public, free, and all based on grades.

And this system will include future civil servants, industrial workers, service industries, farmers…

Of course, at present, this whole system looks beautiful and has a utopian meaning. If it is really implemented, there will probably be many problems.

Ensuring fairness, ensuring reasonable promotion, ensuring sufficient supply of materials, meeting individualized and diverse needs, fighting corruption, avoiding institutional rigidity, planning material distribution and production plans… There are many problems.

But this collective, planned system has a fundamental advantage: it is easier to concentrate on doing big things.

On the Angry Owl Star, there is a fundamental difference from the modern world: there will be no problem of overproduction for a long time.

The significance of market regulation is not that great.

All excess production capacity will be eliminated by the huge pressure of imperial taxation.

The only thing Gu Hang has to do is to expand production capacity as much as possible. No matter how many things he makes, it doesn’t matter if he can’t sell them or use them. The huge system of the empire will eat them all.

Under this premise, what Gu Hang attaches the most importance to is how to make this system full of incentives for people within the system.

He does not allow people to lie down, eat and wait for death, and muddle through in terms of welfare.

These ideas that should be hung on the street lights are what Gu Hang must do.

Promotion of job grades, increase in salaries, and vigorous promotion of values are all positive incentives.

Performance appraisal, competitive upgrade quotas, demotion penalty system…

This kind of relatively encouraging competition means are also indispensable.

If the people don’t work hard, how can Gu Hang develop?

Hurry up and work, and the governor will be able to change to a sports car next year.

Of course, this is a joke. What Gu Hang wants is not those low-level interests.

Expanding the army, developing industries, building starships, raising one or more war groups… His ambitions are huge.

As for the current reality, once these people in the inner city enter his new system, due to their own educational advantages, professional and technical advantages, and previous professional experience, they will naturally be better at everything than those poor people in the outer city who may not even recognize all the words. They will easily strive for a higher starting level and a faster upgrade speed.

As long as they support the governor, they will feel the benefits.

It is not difficult to restore the past living standards, and it is even inevitable with the improvement of productivity. And better class mobility will give them opportunities that they could never have in the past.

The good days are still to come!

…

Gu Hang’s divergent thinking was brought to a halt with the death of the last batch of executed people.

Next, there is another big event: the awarding ceremony and the military parade.

These two things are put together.

In fact, there are only about 10,000 people standing in the huge square now, and the open space is for the upcoming military parade.

Each unit will set out from the preparation area outside, accompanied by military bugles and majestic music, and walk along the main road outside the Parliament Square, along the road made by the spectators, to the rostrum.

The commander of the unit will go on stage to receive medals and military ranks, and more importantly, accept the number and flag on behalf of the entire unit.

The military music has already sounded, and the four military bands in the four directions of the square have made a lot of noise. There are also speakers arranged in different directions, which further amplify the music.

Then, a column slowly came.

Four “Wanderer V” infantry fighting vehicles took the lead. Behind them were tanks captured from the former Union Corps, whose paint had not yet been changed, and then a team of Iron Bull trucks, accompanied by Ranger motorcycles. These trucks are full of soldiers acting as troop transports, and there are also towing trucks towing huge 155 howitzers.

This is the 3rd Battalion of the former Governor’s Infantry Regiment. And in the officer’s vehicle at the front, sitting are Perbov of the 2nd Battalion and the chief officer of the 3rd Battalion.

In fact, it should be the 2nd Battalion that should be reviewed first, and Perbov, as the commander of the 2nd Battalion, was indeed the first. Unfortunately, he was a bit lonely, and the main force of his troops was still recruiting soldiers in Weixing City, so he could only rub shoulders with the 3rd Battalion.

The entire phalanx arrived under the rostrum, and both the soldiers in the car and on foot shouted slogans loudly!

First, the officer in the front shouted “For the Emperor!”, and all the soldiers behind followed suit.

Then there was another sentence “For the Governor!”

Gu Hang stood at the front of the viewing platform, watching his army pass by, his face expressionless, just a slight nod.

The soldiers followed the instructions and entered the open space reserved for them in the square, and stood there. Perbov and the commander of the 3rd Battalion went on stage together.

Gu Hang personally put on the shoulder straps symbolizing the rank of major for them; then, he put on medals for them.

Gu Hang personally designed two styles of medals.

At this moment, they were all wearing the “Renaissance Medal”.

The medal is roughly circular, with a grip of a hammer and an upward movement, surrounded by wheat ears.

Gu Hang intends to issue the Medal of Renaissance as a basic medal. It is mainly issued to soldiers and officers who have performed well in a series of battles in Renaissance City.

Half of the recipients are those who died bravely or were injured. Needless to say, the former, the latter basically have to retire after receiving the medal.

These medals are not recognized throughout the empire, unlike military ranks. The ranks of the planetary defense force will be recognized by the imperial military – although the gold content is very different.

But Gu Hang still needs to establish this system.

Soldiers who fight for themselves deserve honor.

Moreover, in addition to honor, medals also have tangible benefits. The “Medal of Renaissance” itself is equivalent to an E5-level allowance. Although it is not much, it is an additional allowance on the basis of the original soldier’s allowance. Moreover, this allowance will continue until retirement. Even if there is disability or death, the pension will be more.

In fact, the purpose of giving medals to disabled retired and dead soldiers is to give more pensions to the soldiers who died bravely and send them to their relatives.

As for those who have no relatives, the military political department will arrange an orphan – there are too many in the wasteland – to inherit these, but the premise is that the orphan needs to inherit the surname of the hero.

They will be raised by a special war orphan institution and receive the necessary education.

After Gu Hang put on the military ranks and medals for the two battalion commanders, the ceremony of awarding ranks and medals for them was over, and the phalanx of the 4th Battalion was already coming from behind.

The two battalion commanders and several soldiers they brought to the rostrum each took a large box and many rolled-up flags from the governor’s entourage, and hurried off the stage to make room for the brothers of the 4th Battalion behind.

The box contained several Renaissance medals, which were put on by the battalion commanders on the soldiers of their own battalion after they went down; the rolled-up flags were the red flags of the battalion headquarters and the company, and the team numbers would be clearly written on them.

These numbered flags were distributed and immediately raised by the flag bearers.

Soon, when the next batch of chief officers came on stage to award titles and medals, the red flags were flying in the first square.

Among them, there were two special numbers – the 1st Feidong Company and the 4th ‘Caudy’ Company.

These two flags belonged to the 1st Combined Battalion of the 1st Combined Brigade of Perbov. Although he did not bring anyone with him, friendly forces helped to serve as flag bearers and raised the flags.

The former was to commend the first company established by Gu Hang, which was established by the natives of the Angry Owl Star, for its outstanding performance in many battles; the latter was to commend the great achievements of the sacrificed Caudy, and gave him the company where he served as the political commissar. This company was incorporated into the 1st Combined Battalion and became the fourth company.

This is the entire process of awarding titles and medals.

To be honest, the level of the military music with circular accompaniment is quite average; the square formation composed of soldiers and vehicles is not particularly neat when marching.

From Gu Hang’s perspective, especially compared to the military parade he had seen on TV before traveling through time, it was still a little bit lacking.

But there was a completely different point: this was truly his army.

With his order, the guns and cannons in these square formations would fire at any enemy for him; the soldiers in the square formations would die for him.

Looking at them on the high platform, Gu Hang felt an infinite sense of pride in his heart.

The people in the inner city who were watching the ceremony together were silent.

In fact, among the soldiers who came in the form of square formations, many of them were familiar to them. Many of them were indeed soldiers of the original Alliance Corps, and a considerable number of them were absorbed into the 1st Combined Brigade; the rest would be filled into the 2nd Infantry Division as a skeleton.

However, the people in the inner city felt that these familiar soldiers looked very strange at the moment.

There had never been any military parade in Fuxing City, and they could only see them when they were on duty or on missions. People in the inner city generally had an indifferent attitude towards the army.

But now, the whole army seemed different from what they had imagined.

The whole spirit was different.

Led by those red-hatted soldiers, the soldiers straightened their chests and were full of vigor and vigor.

When had the residents of the inner city ever seen their own army with such a spirit?

Oh, no, it’s the governor’s army now… Huh? No, we seem to be the governor’s people, and this is still our army…

It was a bit confusing.

The people watched these familiar yet unfamiliar soldiers walk in front of them, and then line up neatly on the other side of the square, with mixed feelings.

The people in the outer city were not so emotional.

Fuxing City did not have the ability to broadcast live images, so it was not easy to let everyone see the images of this ceremony.

But at least, there was technology for broadcasting via radio.

Lambert’s sentence of death for various people was also broadcast live by radio.

Compared with the calmness of the inner city, the outer city was quite lively. People heard various big figures being executed while working. They could not know who everyone was, but they could always hear someone they knew and who made them hateful being shot.

So, there were cheers from time to time on the construction site.

In the subsequent awarding ceremony, the broadcasting emcee would also read out the awards received by each unit and their merits according to the script.

This also made the poor people in the outer city understand that there was such a reliable army before, fighting to defend Fuxing City from being destroyed by the cult conspiracy.

…

After all the troops had passed, the last two to come on stage were Yan Fangxu and Taddius.

Gu Hang gave the former the rank of colonel.

Accepting this rank basically means that he bid farewell to the Imperial Navy and joined the planetary defense force of the Wrathful Star.

The relevant formalities have been processed, and Gu Hang has also specially greeted Brigadier General Ye Lixia for his matter.

In this case, Gu Hang spent 10 points of grace to activate Yan Fangxu.

In the system’s evaluation, his rarity is N, which is ordinary level. He is a level 2 military commander. The highest attribute point is commander, which has reached 12 points. He only has one attribute of [Excellent Military Commander], which is nothing special.

In addition to getting the rank of colonel, Yan Fangxu also got a “Renaissance Medal”.

And Taddius next to him was awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel. In addition, there is also a “Wind Extinguishing Medal”.

The medal is an irregular cone, which looks like an abstract tornado.

This is the second medal designed by Gu Hang. Only one was awarded this time, which was given to Taddius.

There is no doubt that in the entire military medal system, the “Wind Extinguishing Medal” is a hundred times more precious than the Renaissance Medal.

After completing their individual rank and medal awards, the two also received a flag each.

They saluted Gu Hang, wearing military ranks on their shoulders and medals on their chests, and walked down with flags in their hands.

Then, they each went to the front of the two large squares and handed the flags to the flag bearers who had been prepared.

The flag bearer team raised the red flag, and the two flags were erected at the forefront of the two armies.

The flag that Thadius brought down was nothing special. After unfolding it was the flag of the [2nd Infantry Division].

The flag that Yan Fangxu brought down was a bit more interesting.

After unfolding it, it was written: [1st Wind Extinguishing Brigade].

There is no doubt that this is also an honorary number, which was given to the entire brigade to commend the officers and soldiers of the brigade, including those former Alliance Corps soldiers who were absorbed into it, for their outstanding performance in the Wind Extinguishing Operation, which also included the company that Thadius led as the political commissar before.

After the ceremony of conferring titles and honors, the broadcast signal was switched to the microphone in front of Gu Hang. His voice, along with the loudspeaker, resounded throughout the square and then throughout the city.

People fell silent, and they began to listen carefully to the words of the governor, hoping to find a little more reliable support for their future lives.

“Hello, residents of Renaissance City, my most loyal warriors. I am your governor, Gu Hang.”

“Just now, my warriors who fought bravely to defend this city wore the honor they deserved.”

“I issued one hundred Renaissance Medals, and every recipient is a well-deserved hero. They made outstanding contributions to the defense of Renaissance City and even sacrificed their lives.”

“I awarded an Extinguishing Wind Medal, the highest honor, to Comrade Taddius.”

“Many people still remember the storm ten days ago. With the help of the Phoenix Regiment and the Holy Lily Sisters, we thwarted the conspiracy of the cultists, extinguished the storm and saved the entire city. Comrade Taddius is undoubtedly the best of them. At the most critical moment, with the most fearless attitude, he completed the most heroic feat. He struck the final blow to extinguish the storm.”

“Extinguish the Storm, this is the origin of the Extinguish the Storm Medal and the honorary number of the Extinguish the Storm Brigade. All the soldiers who fought bravely, all those who maintained order and saved the city in the disaster, are heroes.”

At the beginning of the speech, Gu Hang started with the origin of the Extinguish the Storm Medal and the honorary title of the Extinguish the Storm Brigade.

The people in the inner city were silent, and they did not feel deeply about it; but the people in the outer city recalled the figures of those soldiers.

In the grain transportation war, they fought against the cultists who tried to destroy the grain carts and let them starve right under their noses.

In the storm that intensified and finally stopped abruptly, they may not know what happened in several wind farms, but they clearly saw a large number of soldiers maintaining order, distributing food and supplies in the wind and rain, and arranging for people to evacuate the city.

This army seems to be really different.

In the disaster, they did not rely on the weapons in their hands to smash and loot, nor did they oppress the poor. Instead, they stood with the people and withstood the wind and rain.

These were all witnessed by them, and the governor’s concluding words of praise strengthened the impression in their hearts.

This is Gu Hang’s goal.

He wants to give honor to the army.

Honor allows the army to maintain discipline, and honor allows the people to love the army.

After saying this, Gu Hang paused for a moment and continued his speech:

“Hundreds of years ago, before the war, Angry Owl was a civilized world and the pearl of the entire Pegasus region. With the help of advanced industrial technology and unique psychic gas fields for energy mining, the amount of imperial tax paid by Angry Owl ranked among the top three in the Pegasus region, second only to the capital of the region, Wing Star, and the hive world, Koroga III; the living standards of the residents were ranked second, only slightly worse than the garden world, Wing Star.”

“At that time, the Angry Owl people lived in cities, and many of them had decent jobs; food and clothing were never a problem for most people. They enjoyed the sun, the nightlife, the diverse food production, and the developed cultural industry…”

“Such a rich world is not seen on many planets in the empire. The Angry Owl people at that time were the envy of most residents of the imperial world.”

Gu Hang’s words made many people look complicated.

No one had seen the pre-war appearance with their own eyes. But they had heard some of it from their predecessors, and even from their predecessors before them, passed down orally from generation to generation; this was also proven by some things occasionally excavated from pre-war ruins.

In the past, the Angry Owl Star was indeed developed and prosperous.

So why do we, the descendants, live in such a miserable state?

The governor gave an answer:

“The hateful traitors betrayed us. The best energy output on the Angry Owl Star: the psychic gas field, was used as the source by the Chaos traitors to open the psychic tunnel. This tunnel connects to a world corroded by Chaos; under the cover of evil magic, even the demons in Hell were summoned.”

“A brutal war broke out with the Angry Owl Star as the battlefield.”

“The people of the Angry Owl Star, and the soldiers of the Empire, defeated the Chaos traitors with endless sacrifices, closed the psychic tunnel, and blew up the psychic gas field… But at the same time, this war that lasted for decades turned the Angry Owl Star into ruins, turning this prosperous world with a population of nearly 10 billion into a wasteland. The collapsed ecological system has spawned terrible waste energy storms and mutated monsters, and a large amount of land is no longer suitable for survival.”

“From then on, the Angry Owl Star was transformed from the former pearl of the star zone into a wasteland planet. It was abandoned by the Empire and removed from the star zone planning.”

Many people didn’t understand this part. Chaos traitors, demons, etc., seemed to be something they had never seen before; what about psionic gas fields and psionic tunnels, was even more confusing.

But it did not prevent them from extracting the key points: our world was betrayed by traitors and destroyed by Chaos traitors.

Those ghosts were the culprits who destroyed the beautiful life we should have.

This reminded them of the original Angry Owl Sect, which was also a cult and almost destroyed Renaissance City!

Gu Hang continued:

“After a hundred years of darkness, an imperial official named Huo Haibin was surprised to find that there were still tens of millions of people living on the Angry Owl Star when he passed by. He helped the people here and applied to the higher authorities through the star district government. He finally got permission to rebuild the Angry Owl Star, allowing the Angry Owl Star to return to the embrace of the empire. He also became the first governor of the Angry Owl Star in the wasteland era.”

“Governor Huo is a respectable man. He worked hard on the Angry Owl Star for 17 years. Relying on the tax-free period of the first 15 years, he worked hard to restore the population of the Angry Owl Star, established a unified alliance, united all forces on the entire planet, ended the frequent conflicts over limited resources in the wasteland, and rebuilt initial productivity.” “

But he didn’t do enough. In the seventeenth year after he became governor, the Angry Owl Star needed to pay taxes to the empire for the first time, and needed to pay standard imperial taxes. But the Angry Owl Star had not recovered yet, and it couldn’t even pay the lowest level of taxes. He was executed by the Ministry of Taxation, and the alliance government at that time underwent a major reshuffle.”

“Then, it was the era when Neil Fachs served as governor-general. It was also the era of the second-generation governor that made countless Alliance people terrified when they thought of him. He learned from Governor Huo’s failure and, with the help of the Alliance government, implemented many policies that Governor Huo would rather die than implement, and levied heavy taxes on the entire planet. Everything was done to pay taxes to the empire, and all production and recovery work came to a standstill.” “

He completed two tax collection tasks, but for this he emptied out Governor Huo’s accumulation of more than ten years. Countless families were torn apart, and innocent people were charged as taxes; countless food that should have filled the people’s stomachs and countless necessary industrial products were collected and handed over to the empire.”

“The Wrathful Owl Star ushered in a disaster, and his unsustainable behavior aroused rebellion. He sat in this position for six years, and the Alliance was on the verge of collapse. Many people left the Alliance, many people secretly disobeyed, many people violently resisted, and many people were exterminated… The planet suffered huge population losses, and seventeen years of recovery were almost destroyed. What he did, in his third term, sent him to the guillotine.”

“Later, three consecutive governors, each governor only served for two years, and were executed when they could not pay taxes. The remaining forces conspired to control the behavior of the governor, tampered with the governor’s orders, and deceived the superiors and subordinates. Every two years, the governor and the governor’s government officials who were temporarily selected to serve for two years were made scapegoats.”

“During the whole process, Angry Owl Star spent another six years. These six years of division and chaos did not get better than the period of the second generation of governors

. Many people still died, and the entire planet still did not see any hope of revival. The name of Fuxing City seemed ridiculous and sad.” Gu Hang used a large part of his speech to tell the history of Angry Owl Star in the past few decades.

And this period of time is very familiar to people. From the first generation of governors to the fifth generation of governors, a total of 29 years, many younger people grew up during this period of time; the older people have experienced these years completely.

They know that what Governor Gu said is not false, that is their personal experience.

However, before this, few of them thought deeply about why all this happened?

After Gu Hang pointed these out, they naturally thought about these questions.

Is it because of the Empire?

No, before the Empire recaptured Angry Owl Star, during the six months of darkness after the war, Angry Owl Star was in a state of collapse. It was the first generation of governors who established the most basic order, supported the alliance structure through imperial aid and interstellar trade, and supported many local industries.

The second generation of governors and the subsequent governors who had no real power were the ones who were screwed.

The second generation of governors’ brutal but lack of level of rule brought a huge disaster;

the subsequent three governors had no real power, no soldiers and no people, and were deceived by their superiors and subordinates. Almost every one of the three of them felt that they could pay taxes, and the news they heard was stable and improving. As a result, when it came time to pay taxes, the things in the warehouse did not meet the standards at all, and the population camps that should have been paid as taxes were also empty.

The three governors could only sit in Fuxing City as wax figures, with their eyes and ears covered, and they had no idea that the alliance was so loose that it was about to disintegrate. The various forces did not listen to the instructions or the announcement. Under the loose and independent system, the power of the planet could not be integrated, let alone development.

Then, it seemed that the answer was obvious: the problem was not entirely with the empire, but the main problem was that there was no governor who was powerful, courageous, and capable enough.

Of course, many people could not think of this level. The suffering they had experienced in the past, from a larger and more macro level, was like listening to a book in heaven. Their thoughts could only passively follow the governor’s narration.

But what Gu Hang said next was for these people who were not smart enough, but were the most important and the most core group of people:

“Until I came.”

“More than two months ago, I came to this world and saw devastation.”

“At that time, I used the alliance’s communications to announce my arrival and my ideas to the entire planet. I said that I would rebuild the entire wasteland world so that every Angry Owl person can live a good life through their own efforts. I am not here purely for taxation, and I will not ignore the lives of the people for the sake of taxation.”

“When I found that the officials of the alliance were not only unable to be a help, but were a hindrance, I left Fuxing City.”

“Now, I’m back. My declaration has never changed. Those who prevented me from bringing you reconstruction, revival, and a better life are all dead. From now on, no one will prevent us from working together to build our city and our world!”

“I will establish a welfare system so that everyone who works hard can have enough food and clothing!”

“I will build schools so that every child can learn and grow in a bright classroom, instead of relying on stealing, begging on the streets, and working as a child laborer in a black factory!”

“I will build factories to produce more goods, create more jobs, and let you live a better life!”

“I will build hospitals so that everyone who is injured or sick can be cared for.”

“I will establish a fairer and more efficient government to maintain order and public security.”

“I will build a better and more honorable army to fight to defend all the achievements we have created!”

“These are my duties, my mission, the mission of the new alliance government, and the mission of every angry owl.”

“Working together, we will surely win!”

What Governor Gu said at the end was something that everyone could understand.

People cheered and were very excited!

“Long live the Governor!”

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