Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 216

216. Chapter 216, This Mom Still Needs Me

Gu Hang’s coming to the Angry Owl Star really made her mother passive.

Originally, he wanted to seek the position of the head of the family, but in the end, the head of the family was gone.

But his performance on the Angry Owl Star made things turn around.

Gu Hang’s outstanding performance on the Angry Owl Star not only saved Wang Qi millions of money needed to fill the hole of the imperial tax, but more importantly, Gu Hang had his own industry through it.

Doesn’t the Gu family want to own their own planet? That’s definitely not the case. But it’s too difficult to get a planet of their own, especially a world with positive assets.

But they don’t want a wasteland world like the Angry Owl Star. The initial construction cost is too high, and the cycle of recovering the cost is quite long, and there may be a lot of risks in the middle.

For example, the greenskin disaster and the invasion of the demon cult that Gu Hang has encountered in the past year and a half, any of these two risk points, if encountered by people who normally redevelop the Angry Owl Star, would be a disaster, making the high investment go down the drain.

Moreover, the biggest problem in seeking an unreliable planetary governor is that you cannot easily admit the loss and leave. If other investments fail, the loss is lost; but if the investment in a planet fails, the Imperial Tax Department will not care so much about you. You must pay the imperial tax you should pay, not a penny less, and you must pay it in the future.

It is precisely because of this that Gu Hang’s performance over the past year has been surprising.

Although the Angry Owl Star is too closed and the information is not well circulated, not many people know about it. The upper class of Feiyi Star still regards Gu Hang’s appointment as a planetary governor as a joke. However, in the eyes of some people with ulterior motives, they can see it clearly.

The people of the Gu family are of course such people with ulterior motives.

Because of Gu Hang’s nonsense behavior, Wang Qi’s allies began to strongly question her plan. The most serious attitudes are a little out of Wang Qi’s control. Even if Wang Qi has some remedial measures for this, they will worry whether they can achieve the growth of everyone’s interests by holding up such a family head.

But Gu Hang’s performance has calmed their concerns, anger, and hesitation.

In the past, he was considered a loser who was a small waste and a burden to his mother. Now, he has transformed himself into a planetary governor. Moreover, he has made his career on that wasteland planet very successful without the support of his family.

Not only does he not need external subsidies, he can pay the taxes by himself and have a very good output value.

At present, this output value may reach the planet of a family caravan by next year. Who dares to underestimate it?

Industry and business are two different things!

What’s more, this is a comparison at the moment; the potential of a planet, as it develops better and better in the future, the population becomes more and more numerous, and the industrial structure becomes more and more perfect, everything has great potential for improvement.

And can this potential be realized?

At least looking at Gu Hang’s performance in the past year and a half, it is quite possible.

To be honest, many people dare not believe this is true, and even think that this is a rumor made up by Wang Qi in order to maintain the support of his old brothers. Otherwise

, how could it be possible?

How could the Angry Owl Star, which had troubled Chief Pedesi for a long time and burdened the Star District Government for so many years, be so easy to deal with?

It turned from waste to treasure in just one and a half years?

Could it be that the guy who used to be a waste was actually a chosen one of the Emperors? Blessed by the Emperor?

However, as more and more information was disclosed, even if you didn’t believe it, you had to believe it.

It was precisely because of this that Wang Qi’s situation began to improve before she had time to launch some of her additional arrangements.

She should no longer need to take special risks, as long as she followed the past plans and slowly moved forward.

She was not afraid that the current head of the family would know her thoughts.

This thing could not be hidden, and it was aboveboard.

Everyone could just set up their chariots and cannons to play chess. The winner and loser would naturally be revealed at the next family meeting, depending on the votes of the fourteen family caravans.

However, an accident happened.

The current head of the family, Gu Ming, convened the Gu family meeting in advance.

The venue was on the Black Arrow Star.

Among the nine planets in the Pegasus region, the worst one is Black Arrow, except for the wasteland world of Wrathful Owl.

It is a feudal world. The overall technological level is not much better than that of the Middle Ages, except for a few dignitaries who can enjoy some technological conveniences in the interstellar era. In most places on the planet, the production relations may not be much better than those in the Middle Ages.

It is not that there is no technology, but the entire social production relations are wrong: serfs driving advanced agricultural machinery pay tribute to the knight masters;

the knight masters are granted titles by lords in various places, driving knight mechas to fight for the lords;

the lords are granted titles by the kings to help the kings collect taxes;

the highest ruling body of the planet is the King’s Alliance, and the planetary governors have always been rotated by the world’s largest kings. They will be responsible for ensuring that each kingdom can pay taxes. Once there is a sign of non-payment, the King’s Alliance will launch a punitive war against countries with insufficient taxes and make up the taxes through plunder…

Gu Hang is quite speechless about such backward mechanisms, but this is the overall policy of the empire: as long as you pay taxes, I don’t care about anything else.

Under normal tax payment and no other major events, the Empire really doesn’t care what the planet develops like. Gu Hang even suspected that after the Empire regained some worlds, it seemed to intentionally let these worlds maintain their original appearance.

We don’t know what the high lords of the Empire think, and the current situation is like this.

Black Arrow Star has a population of 400 million – the feudal production relations really can’t support too many people, not to mention that their production relations are not only backward, but also their industrial capacity is almost non-existent.

However, this planet has a very good relationship with the Gu family.

Those kings who want to canonize more lords and more knights need a hard indicator: knight mecha.

Obviously, with the appearance of Black Arrow Star, they can’t even make agricultural machines, let alone mecha. The mechas they use to canonize knights are obviously all dependent on foreign trade.

It is normal to have a good relationship with the Gu family.

The Gu family held the Black Arrow Star for the past six family meetings.

This time is no exception.

Wang Qi believed that Gu Ming did this because Gu Hang’s career and reputation were not big enough. And when Angry Owl Star paid taxes for the first time seven months later and proved his ability, it would be too difficult to save the situation.

He wanted to start the family meeting before that, and take advantage of the fact that the trouble caused by Gu Hang has not been completely settled, when Wang Qi’s allies are shaken, and when Wang Qi has not been able to win more votes, to decide the next six years.

This is certainly a smart approach, but Wang Qi also said that she is not worried.

She now has at least eight votes, and Gu Ming can’t turn the tables.

“If nothing unexpected happens, you will be the head of the Gu family in four months.” Wang Qi said this to Gu Hang.

Gu Hang smiled.

He always felt that the current business structure of the Gu family was very unstable. It was a pure caravan, and all the family property was on those fleets. That was too empty.

Although the value of the Angry Owl Star is not enough now, it will only be worth a caravan at most next year; and the Gu family has fourteen caravans.

But he would not exchange his own foundation for the head of the Gu family. If he

develops further, a real planet, countless people, a huge army, and real industrial and agricultural output value, isn’t this more real than traveling merchants?

Of course, if he becomes the head of the family, it will not prevent him from continuing to be the governor of Angry Owl Star.

If this is really possible, it is not a bad thing. The Gu family has nothing else, but it is really rich. Even the heads of the star regions have to be won over, which shows that.

If he could really mobilize the power of the entire family, then the future construction of Angry Owl Star would soar.

Even if, at that time, the person who actually made the decision in the Gu family was not him, but his mother, it would not be a big problem.

But people, when planning things, can’t just look at the good direction.

“Are you so sure?” he asked.

“Yes.” Wang Qi showed confidence.

“What if… Uncle Ming overturns the table?”

“Huh?” Wang Qi was stunned. “Overturn the table?… What do you mean?”

Gu Hang said it more bluntly: “Did you arrange the security for the family meeting?”

“…No.” Wang Qi said, “Do you think he will kill people at that time?”

“Why not?”

“Impossible, this has never happened in the family.” Wang Qi’s first reaction was to refute, “The Gu family tradition has been maintained for so many years, and there has never been an internal killing. We have always been united…”

Before she finished speaking, she was interrupted by Gu Hang: “Everything has a first time, and conventions are meant to be broken. Does that mean we don’t have to consider extreme situations?”

Wang Qi was silent for a moment: “I actually thought that he would do something desperate. I brought enough guards. Moreover, the current planetary governor of Black Arrow, King Muir, has a good relationship with me and is my supporter.”

“Don’t put your own safety on others. Is that King Muir reliable? Even if he is reliable, did he arrange the security of the venue?”

These questions stumped Wang Qi again.

Gu Hang paused and continued, “As for the guards around you… Heh, I roughly know who they are. They are the ones who came to arrest me and locked me up when I did something naughty in the past? It’s not that I look down on them, but… they are really no good.”

“Do you have better candidates?”

“Of course. To be honest, their level is the average level of the soldiers under my command. I can always find a team with a much larger number and better level than the guards around you.”

“Xiao Hang, you are really promising.” Wang Qi didn’t know whether he believed it or not, so it was unclear whether this was irony or admiration.

Maybe it was both.

Gu Hang didn’t bother about it. He continued, “What’s more, what you need is not only a guard team, but…”

“An army.”

…

After hanging up the call, Ms. Wang Qi sat there, stunned for a long time.

Until the door of the office on the starship was knocked.

“Come in.”

“Aunt.” The visitor was Wang Jiarong.

After the beautiful girl caravan returned, all the ships needed to be repaired before they could set off again. So she returned to her aunt and helped out as a secretary – she used to do this, but she was only released in the last one or two years to lead a caravan that was completely controlled by Wang Qi.

She asked cautiously: “Is your call with your cousin… over?”

“Yeah.”

“It’s good. You and your cousin haven’t talked for such a long time in a long time.”

“We talked about serious matters.”

“What exactly?” Wang Jiarong seemed very curious.

Wang Qi smiled: “Your cousin… is worried that your aunt will be cheated.”

Wang Jiarong was delighted, it seemed that they had a good chat: “Of course he would be worried, after all, you are his mother.”

At this point, Wang Qi sighed: “He has changed a lot, his voice, appearance and appearance are still the same, but his temperament is completely different.”

“Isn’t that a good thing? Isn’t it your wish that your cousin can become better?”

“Yes, it’s great…” Wang Qi said with a smile, “But we have to change the route. We have to go to the Angry Owl Star System first.”

“Go… for what?”

“Take an army with you.”

…

Sending an army to my mother, escorting her to the Black Arrow Star, and protecting her safety on the Black Arrow Star, that is of practical significance.

In addition to the fact that she is the biological mother of this body, Gu Hang has at least two major reasons:

the position of the head of the Gu family, it is very important for him to get it. The patriarch of the richest merchant family in the Tianma Star Region, fourteen fleets that can carry out interstellar navigation, from armed merchant ships to transport merchant ships, that is a huge wealth.

Even though this wealth will not belong to him all at once, or even to his powerful mother, after all, those caravans are all “franchisees”. But the power to mobilize this force and wealth in name is already huge enough.

This is of great significance to the development of Angry Owl Star, and is a major impetus for Angry Owl Star to move towards interstellar society.

The second reason is actually based on the first point: he has to find a stage to show his strength.

Keeping a low profile and making a name for oneself are not completely contradictory. Some things in Gu Hang’s hands need to be kept under a low profile, and need to be hidden to make a fortune. But Angry Owl Star is becoming stronger, richer, and has enough potential… This information should be widely publicized.

The more people know, the better.

This will bring attention.

And attention is money, and money is the source of power for development.

In short, whether from a personal emotional point of view or from a practical benefit point of view, this mother is still necessary.

You can’t do without a mother.

(End of this chapter)