Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 2

Chapter 2, Gift

In fact, this is only the first month since Gu Hang came here.

He is now in a cosmic era. The huge human empire rules over the boundless star field. The God Emperor who ascended 10,000 years ago established the “Spiritual Network” and brought spiritual energy to humans. The current empire is ruled by the Supreme Council sitting in Terra, the human mother planet.

About 120 years ago, the planet where Gu Hang is currently located was still an ordinary world. A war completely destroyed the surface environment of the entire world, and the Wrathful Owl Star became a wasteland planet.

29 years ago, the imperial government assessed that there was still hope for the Wrathful Owl Star to be saved, and for the first time after the war, a governor was sent to be responsible for reconstruction.

Within the imperial system, planetary governors can rule their planets in any way, provided that the governors must remain loyal to the empire.

What is loyalty? Paying taxes is loyalty. If you don’t pay taxes, or don’t pay enough, you will be executed and replaced by a loyal one.

So far, in the past 29 years, the Wrathful Owl Star has changed five governors.

In fact, each of the three governors before Gu Hang only worked for two years. The imperial tax of Angry Owl Star is paid every two years, and these three unlucky guys did not make it through the first tax payment after taking office.

And now, Gu Hang is here.

A month ago, when he just crossed over and merged his body’s memory, he was already on the starship to Angry Owl Star. He wants to ensure that Angry Owl Star can pay a quarter of the standard tax in two years, and the remaining three quarters will be paid by the star district government. This is the favorable condition that his political family, the Gu family, has fought for him.

The second tax payment in four years must be paid in full.

A cruiser belonging to the star district navy is anchored in the planet’s orbit to provide him with support. The only people he brought to the surface are 3,000 slaves and 300 mecha soldiers whose frontal lobes have been removed and mechanically transformed. 30 Marines, led by Captain Yan Fangxu.

The main regime on Angry Owl Star, called the ‘Alliance’, was established by the first generation of governors 29 years ago.

Logically speaking, after arriving at the Angry Owl Star, Gu Hang should have landed in the alliance capital city of Fuxing City, taken over the identity of the alliance leader, and then began to exercise the power of the planetary governor based on the alliance government.

But he did not do so. He took people and established a camp not far from Fuxing City, and then buried his head in doing things that people could not understand.

For example, Yan Fangxu did not understand why Gu Hang wanted to train the 300 mechanical servants?

These slaves who no longer had self-thinking could not even operate armored vehicles and artillery well. They could only be equipped with the lowest-level equipment and used as cannon fodder. There was no value in training at all.

However, he had to be ashamed of his shallow knowledge.

He watched with his own eyes that those mechanical servants actually had earth-shaking changes in a very short period of time!

He saw that under the command of Gu Hang, these mechanical servants quickly completed a series of pre-departure tasks such as teaming up and checking equipment; and in the previous training, these mechanical servants also showed a technical and tactical level far beyond the previous level. Shooting, physical fitness, tactics… these have all been greatly improved, and coupled with their original characteristics of not fearing sacrifice and fully abiding by discipline, they have become high-level soldiers.

This is already the level of the regular troops of the Imperial Guard Astra Militarum.

Although, he still doesn’t think these servitor soldiers are opponents of his elite marines, but that only refers to one-on-one. There are only 30 elite marines, and there are 300 servitors.

More importantly, Yan Fangxu doesn’t understand how Gu Hang did it.

This is completely beyond his cognition: doesn’t the servitor soldier only depend on the level when they are transformed, and subsequent training is meaningless?

While he was in a daze, he heard Gu Hang’s full-bodied voice: “Captain Yan, tell your team to move faster. How come the elite Marines are not even as fast as the Servants in their pre-war preparations?”

Coming back to his senses, Yan Fangxu saluted Gu Hang with a little shame, then turned around and yelled at his subordinates who were also stunned by the changes in the Servants Battalion: “What are you guys dawdling about? Hurry up! The slowest five will start sleeping with the Servants tomorrow!”

After watching Yan Fangxu kick the team members’ butts one by one, Gu Hang chuckled, retracted his gaze, and refocused on the information on the panel in front of him.

The illusory and floating fonts in his eyes formed multiple options:

[Current Gift Points: 2]

[Total income of territory: 5/Terra month]

[Hero]

[Soldier card]

has four items in total. Gu Hang clicked on the second item [Total income of territory]. Here, he saw more detailed information: [Governor’s temporary camp: 5/Terra month].

There is only this one.

According to Gu Hang’s understanding, this monthly total income depends on the total income provided by the territory recognized by the system for his territory. And his current territory only has this temporary camp.

After seeing the system and knowing that he became the governor, he was very excited and wanted to know how much gift he could get every month after having a planet as his territory?

However, after landing in Renaissance City from the starship, this number has always been zero.

He guessed at the time that the nominal territory could not be recognized by the system, and he had to be actually controlled by himself. How easy is

it for him, the airborne governor, to control a loose Wasteland Alliance regime and integrate the entire alliance? If it was easy, the previous governors would not have been finished.

So, he decisively abandoned the route that led to the past governors, turned around and asked for servants and slaves and some armed forces from the starship, left Fuxing City, found an open space, and planned to start from scratch and make use of the golden finger that accompanied him through the journey.

When he led people to build a temporary camp completely under his control, the number finally changed from 0 to 4.

Gu Hang guessed that the initial 4 came from the population; the later increase was probably because the camp was built larger and more complete.

In the latter two items in the system, [Hero] showed his own panel; in the soldier card, there were two items.

[Marine Corps 1st Squadron, Comprehensive T4 Level, Upgradable]

[Quantity: 30 people], [Equipment: T4], [Training: T4], [Experience: T4]

This is the situation of the thirty people led by Yan Fangxu.

The other one is the mechanical servant light infantry battalion that has just completed the upgrade.

[1st Mecha Servant Light Infantry Battalion, comprehensive T5 level, cannot be upgraded]

[Number: 300 people], [Equipment: T5], [Training: T5], [Experience: -]

The T level should be the overall strength of the corresponding troops. The smaller the number, the more elite. The Mecha Servant Light Infantry Battalion was originally a low-level level, but it was fully equipped with rifles, grenades, and squad machine guns; the platoon level had mortars and rifle grenades, but lacked heavy weapons, so it could only be considered a light infantry battalion.

He spent 3 points of grace to upgrade this light infantry battalion. In four days, this brainless, cannon fodder unit that only acted according to orders and was considered to have extremely low training value has undergone earth-shaking changes.

Reaching the training level of T5 can almost be considered to have reached the strength level of the regular army of the empire. The T4 level where the Marine Corps is located can be regarded as a conventional elite unit.

It was precisely because the Mecha Servant Infantrymen, who were originally just cannon fodder, completed the upgrade that Gu Hang had the confidence to participate in it strongly after hearing about the situation of the Abandoned Cave Society.

This is an opportunity, and he now has the ability to seize it.

He hopes to use this event to bring Feidong Society into his actual rule, rather than just being a nominal governor. In the future, he will expand his actual control step by step until the entire planet.

(End of this chapter)