Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 168

168. Chapter 168, Gu Hang’s Past

Compared to the two ladies, Gu Hang was able to get relatively less.

But he was very satisfied.

The target of this looting fleet of the Iron Tooth Clan was the Wrathful Owl Star. Pulling the power of the caravan and the navy was equivalent to solving a huge problem for him that he could not solve by his own ability.

This was the biggest gain.

And the thousands of gift points seemed to be incidental and should be expected.

However, Gu Hang would still strive to gain more additional rights for himself.

Destroy the surface pioneers, provide important intelligence, participate in the star war to eliminate the orc warlords… The planetary defense forces of the Wrathful Owl Star made such a great contribution in this war, and suffered great losses. Shouldn’t the Military Affairs Department consider sending me some advanced equipment to cope with the wars that may occur in the future?

Even, Gu Hang was still thinking about one thing:

Now, there is definite intelligence involving a behemoth like the Iron Tooth Clan, which may launch a large-scale attack on the Pegasus Star Region. They have actually sent out the vanguard fleet.

Then, the Empire needs to strengthen its defense force on the Wrath of the Owl, is that okay?

In addition to stationing a starship, it is reasonable to equip a certain amount of land forces and station a real Astra Militarum Corps, right?

Oh, the Astra Militarum Corps is stretched to the limit? Can’t temporarily allocate a sufficient force?

It doesn’t matter! I, Gu Hang, the planetary governor of the Empire, the most loyal minister of the Emperor, must share the worries of the Empire.

This matter is entrusted to the Wrath of the Owl.

As the planetary governor, Gu Hang will fully support the construction of the Astra Militarum Corps.

It only takes 10 million tax coins to establish an army of hundreds of thousands of people equipped with various heavy weapons on the Wrath of the Owl.

People and equipment are all from the planet.

And Governor Gu Hang, because of his outstanding performance in the last war, can serve as the corps commander of this Astra Militarum Corps.

But this is very difficult to operate. There are examples of planetary governors serving as corps commanders of the Astra Militarum Corps, but they are very rare.

If it can’t be done, Gu Hang can also accept pushing Thadius to this position as a second choice.

Since a new regiment is to be established, the Empire must of course allocate funds.

Ten million tax coins, isn’t that just right?

Angry Owl Star was supposed to pay an imperial tax in a year and a half.

The imperial tax amount of Angry Owl Star is the lowest. This planet is in the Imperial Taxation Department, with a nominal population of 50 million. It needs to pay an imperial tax of 5 million tax coins per year every year, 10 million every two years.

He only needs to pay a quarter of the first tax, which is a concession given by the star district government. Of course, the Imperial Taxation Department does not recognize this. In essence, the extra 7.5 million is paid by the star district government on behalf of Angry Owl Star to the Imperial Taxation Department.

Then the star district government should not give the 7.5 million tax coins to the Imperial Taxation Department, but transfer them to me. It can be given directly, plus the 2.5 million tax coins that Angry Owl Star itself has to pay, adding up to 10 million. It is reasonable to build an army group with a scale of more than 500,000 and equipped with various heavy weapons on Angry Owl Star.

At that time, Gu Hang will put all his troops in it.

Anyway, the army construction is to be done, and the biggest support is still the first one. It is offset by the imperial tax revenue, and everyone is happy. The soldiers of the army are my people, the officers are my people, the supreme commander is my people, and the team is also guarding the planet. Whatever I do, I still have the final say?

It’s just a change of name.

Of course, it is not completely without harm.

After all, the Star Army is different from the Planetary Defense Force. The latter is completely under the command of the Governor and is only responsible for the internal affairs of the planet. The former needs to obey the dispatch of the Ministry of Military Affairs. Today, the order of the army is to garrison the Angry Owl Star, so Gu Hang can still use his influence to completely control the entire team. But tomorrow, maybe a transfer order will come, and it is possible to pull the troops to fill the line on a battlefield where they can’t bear the power.

Can I still not accept the order?

But this kind of thing is very imaginary.

Not to mention that the probability of occurrence is not particularly high, even if it is not transformed into the Star Army, when there is a real need, the Ministry of Military Affairs will invoke special emergency laws to recruit planetary defense forces to join the Star Army. That is also a common thing, and Gu Hang can’t stop it.

Instead of doing that, it would be better to turn it into the Star Army. If they are really going to be taken away, then so be it. Anyway… the money and people used to form the army are also considered to have been bought with the taxes allocated by the empire.

Just treat it as paying taxes normally. Does Gu Hang still lose anything?

It is better than the planetary defense force being conscripted without any compensation.

Of course, all of the above are just Gu Hang’s ideas.

If you want to turn it into reality, there is still a long way to go.

He said to the two ladies: “This is essentially to transform the reality of military victory into a tangible political victory, and then into corresponding economic benefits. Since everyone agrees with the statement I put forward, the rest is to solve some minor problems.”

Ye Lixia also nodded, and she further added: “The general facts are fine, but there are two more important links. First, what exactly does the intelligence I intercepted say; second, Ye Lixia recruited the beautiful girl caravan to participate in the battle in the name of the Imperial Navy, which requires empirical evidence.”

Wang Jiarong said: “The latter problem is relatively easy to solve. Sister Ye Lixia, you sign a conscription order on paper and say that it was signed later; at the same time, you need to make a communication record that I accepted the conscription of the Imperial Navy at the beginning of the battle, and the actions after leaving the jump point were all to lead the greenskin fleet to the predetermined combat location.”

Gu Hang also said: “I will do the relevant intercepted intelligence in the ruins on the surface.”

They began to talk carefully about how to patch it in the middle to ensure that the details can withstand scrutiny.

In fact, this is mostly useless. In the case that there is no problem with the general facts, the Military Affairs Department will most likely not go into these details. If they have to send a special review team to carefully verify the specific details of each war, the countless wars that are happening every moment between these stars will make the Military Affairs Department exhausted and unable to check them all.

Sometimes, the Military Affairs Department even knows that there may be some problems in some places, but they are too lazy to care. It’s basically the same.

As long as there is no false reporting of military merits and no fabrication of facts in major events, that’s enough.

As for what happened after the merits were reported, the three of them tacitly didn’t talk much about it.

How Wang Jiarong can make up for the losses or even make a fortune through operations is her business and the Gu family behind her.

How Ye Lixia and the Fofana family behind her can package her as a star of the Imperial Navy through operations is also their business.

Including Gu Hang himself, he had to find his own way to turn his ideas into reality.

There was no need to communicate about these things. When the general achievements were determined, how to get the political benefits was up to each person.

…

Gu Hang had an in-depth exchange with the two ladies for a long time.

They said that only some details needed to be supplemented, but even these details had to be perfect.

There is only a small chance that the Imperial Military Affairs Department will investigate, and even if they do, they will most likely not investigate too seriously. They will confirm that a group of greenskins were indeed slaughtered on the surface, that twelve greenskin ships were indeed blown up at the jump point, and that the head that was chopped off did belong to an orc warlord, and that’s it.

But just for that tiny chance, things must be done as beautifully as possible to avoid even the slightest accident.

After the agreement was completed, the rest of the matter was for each of them to go back and execute.

After Ye Lixia left first, only Gu Hang and Wang Jiarong, a brother and sister, were left in the small living room.

The two of them were silent for a while.

In fact, at this time, Wang Jiarong was no longer too angry about the loss.

Although this caravan was under her name, in essence, it was the property of Gu’s Trading Company. She was the commander, the shareholder, and the leader. This major loss was not her fault, but she was targeted by the invincible pirates, so her guilt would not be particularly great.

Her status within the trading company would decline, and her investment would lose a lot of money. These were what she should have, but they would not really ruin her.

Moreover, according to the new statement given by her cousin, she can still turn losses into profits, or even make a fortune, then everything will be back.

The matter itself cannot be blamed entirely on her cousin.

With several factors added together, she really can’t be angry with her cousin who she grew up with.

But she can’t be too i*imate.

This is mainly because of another thing.

She sighed and said, “Cousin, actually… Aunt still misses you very much.”

“Oh.” Gu Hang replied.

He didn’t mean anything else. From the memory of his previous life, he could see the figure of a beautiful woman. However, in his perception, the previous life had very contradictory feelings for his mother in his heart.

Love, of course, but there was also some resentment.

To be honest, he didn’t really want to care about the family affairs of his previous life. Those things that were dug out from his memory, in his feeling, were always separated by a layer of gauze and a layer of cloth. They were clearly there, but he didn’t feel deeply. It was like watching a movie, the story was clearly here, and it also had psychological feelings, but he didn’t feel that it happened to him.

Of course, he couldn’t give up these things.

These things were in his mind and memory, and he couldn’t throw them away. In addition, he was able to become the governor of this planet because of his family background, and he couldn’t lose this identity in the future.

The alienated, yet inseparable contradiction, summed up in his performance, is just a calm “oh”.

Wang Jiarong on the opposite side misunderstood.

She sighed again: “Cousin, you can’t blame your aunt, she… Well, anyway, it’s your fault this time. Chief Pei Desi asked you to be the governor of the Angry Owl Star, you shouldn’t agree, this will put your Gu family in a particularly passive position.”

Gu Hang’s heart moved.

Is there something else hidden?

In his memory, he is one of the core children of this generation of the Gu family. His grandfather was the head of the previous generation of the family. His father should have been in this position, but he died not long after he was born. The current Gu family does not have a real head.

And his mother, Ms. Wang Qi, is considered very capable – this is Gu Hang’s evaluation of the beautiful woman in his memory.

A woman who married into the family and whose husband died just after she gave birth, in the subsequent internal struggles of the family, she preserved a lot of interests belonging to her own small family, and became an important branch force in the current Gu’s business.

This is not easy.

However, when he was wholeheartedly engaged in his career, he inevitably neglected his son.

In his previous life’s memory, his relationship with his mother was relatively indifferent, and he had little contact time. In addition, he was strictly disciplined, and during his growth, he encountered all kinds of rumors in the family, his fellow tribesmen secretly isolated his predecessor, and his achievements and performance were mediocre and unrecognized… All these things added up to the source of his previous life’s resentment.

Then, a few months ago, he met the head of the star zone, Mr. Luo An Pei De Si, at a gathering of the upper class.

There was a big gap between the two. One was the head of the star zone, and the other was just a rich second generation. But Pei De Si chatted carefully with Gu Hang for a while during a toast exchange.

According to the memory and feeling of his previous life, he felt respected. Chief Pedes praised him in a friendly and gentle manner, saw the potential in him that had not yet been shown, and had expectations for his future. Then, they talked about the Wrathful Owl Star, saying that they hoped that a child of the Gu family could serve as the governor of the Wrathful Owl Star to solve such a long-standing problem for the star region.

The predecessor was not completely stupid, he could see that the head of the star region was a bit suspicious of fooling him.

But he still accepted it without hesitation.

From his perspective: Wrathful Owl Star is the origin of the Pegasus Star Region. After it returned to the empire, it has not paid enough imperial taxes, and the star region government has always needed to pay the price to make up the difference. The decision to rebuild the Wrathful Owl Star was made by the chief Pedes, expanding the ninth world outside the eight worlds of the Pegasus Star Region.

Recovering the territory was the main political achievement that Pedes reported to the higher-level regional government. At that time, he had just become the head of the star region not long ago.

The nature of the head of the star region is different from that of the local emperor such as the planetary governor. The latter is more like a lord, who is in charge of military, political and financial affairs. It is no problem to ensure the loyal empire’s tax revenue. It is difficult to move them; the former is more like a bureaucrat and politician, who needs political achievements and stories to decorate the facade

, and needs the support of the powerful planetary governor to sit firmly in the position of the boss of the star zone. However, the story of regaining the homeland when he first came to power did not expect that this matter would be rotten later

. After decades of work, it ended up being a burden. This is not only because the conditions and environment of the Angry Owl Star are terrible and difficult to deal with, but also because the political enemies in the star zone are constantly dragging their feet, and the reconstruction work has been delayed.

Peddes has had enough of this situation and must solve this problem.

He wants to unite the Fofana family and the Gu family to solve this problem in one go.

The Peddes brothers, the Fofana family, and the Gu family are an iron triangle in the Tianma star zone.

Fofana represents the Imperial Navy, and the Gu family represents abundant financial resources. In addition, the political influence of the Peddes brothers, one as the governor of Feiyi Star and the other as the head of the star zone, is fully capable of building up the Angry Owl Star thoroughly.

Gu Hang’s predecessor believed that he was the most capable person in the Gu family that Mr. Pedes had found.

He was even worried that there would be accidents, such as whether another child in the family would steal his position as governor. He did not tell anyone until the appointment letter came.

Then, he was slapped hard by his mother.

(End of this chapter)