Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 217

Chapter 217: The first senior official of the alliance to be dismissed

, discussed with his mother and finally decided to send a team of about 30,000 people to accompany the Black Arrow Star.

The reason for this number is mainly due to the consideration of loading capacity and delivery capacity.

They will stay in the starship as sailors and crew members.

It is not that more people cannot be loaded. In fact, Wang Qi took nine starships with him this time, four of which were “giant belly” transport ships.

This thing is very famous in interstellar trade. It does not run fast, it does not have heavy armor, and it does not even have interfaces designed to be equipped with weapons. It has no potential to be converted into an armed merchant ship.

But it has two advantages that make it the overlord in interstellar trade: 1. It is big and can be loaded. 2. It is cheap.

The population that can be loaded by the “giant belly” can reach a maximum of 20 million people-although there is no quality of life at all, and people are loaded as cargo, but it can indeed load so many people.

However, in addition to loading capacity, delivery capacity must also be considered.

If Gu Hang really gave Wang Qi an army of 100,000, it would take a long time to get people to the ground with the delivery capability of the caravan she led.

Thirty thousand people is the limit.

The troops Gu Hang selected were the 34th Motorized Infantry Division and the 37th and 38th Mechanized Brigades.

Three division-level units, a total of more than 28,000 people. Gu Hang also sent a few hundred special warfare elites from the 10th Brigade, plus some civilian officers, for a total of 30,000 people.

Gu Hang hoped that they would not be used, but just go for an armed parade, and it would be best if they could hold a small military parade on Black Arrow Star to show the appearance of Angry Owl Star.

If they were really used, things might become very troublesome, and the worst situation Gu Hang guessed would probably happen.

He didn’t want to see that scene, but he was indeed preparing for it.

…

The fleet led by Wang Qi had just set off from Feiyi Star.

Generally speaking, the fastest route from Feiyi Star to Black Arrow Star is to go through the Star Boundary Tunnel twice, first from Feiyi Star to Korojia No. 3 System, and then to Black Arrow System.

However, since Wang Qi has decided to visit Angry Owl Star, she can first go to Angry Owl Star from Korojia No. 3, and then go to Black Arrow Star from Angry Owl Star through the Star Boundary Tunnel.

There are three Star Boundary Tunnel in the Angry Owl System, two of which lead to Korojia No. 3 and Black Arrow Star respectively, and the other one goes out of the Pegasus Star Region and goes to the Orange Chrysanthemum Star in the neighboring Amber Star Region.

According to the time calculation, it will take about half a month for Wang Qi’s fleet to reach Angry Owl Star.

There is no need to make any special preparations, just let the troops get ready.

And in this half month, several things happened.

Things about our own people.

…

Just after Gu Hang decided which troops to send to Black Arrow Star to act as the biological mother’s guard, a senior official of the alliance came to ask for an interview.

He sat in his office, listening to Denison Henry’s endless complaints expressionlessly.

Speaking of this man, he also joined Gu Hang’s forces very early. At first, he was just a merchant in Garbage Town, and he didn’t even get the identity of Garbage Town’s agent. In Gu Hang’s early days, he invested in Gu Hang and helped him.

He got a huge return on this investment.

Now he has become the provincial head of the Alliance’s High Tower Province, which can be regarded as a return on the original investment.

At that time, his goal was to hope that the governor would support him to become the head of Garbage Town. Now, not only Garbage Town is under his control, but also a large area around Garbage Town and the ruins of the tower is assigned to the High Tower Province, all under his jurisdiction.

In the past, the High Tower Province was the smallest of the three central provinces, both in terms of population and area.

Recently, when Yan Fangxu led the Central Army Group to pacify the eastern provinces, a large amount of land and settlements in the border areas were planned into the High Tower Province.

This has increased the area of the High Tower Province by more than three times; the population has also increased from the original 300,000 to 1.4 million, which is four or five times the original.

Not only that, the use of waste energy storms in the ruins of the High Tower is also at the forefront of the entire alliance. The compressed energy crystals produced by just that one industry are enough to make ends meet.

With this contribution, plus being a veteran in the establishment of the alliance, he can build relationships and develop some industries, especially recently Weixing City has been clearing out some consumer industrial products and simple military industries, and the production lines of various engineering machines recently established by the alliance are not placed in Weixing City, but thrown to other surrounding areas. On

the one hand, this is to support production in other regions, establish an industrial chain for the entire alliance, and bring the connections between various parts of the alliance closer; on the other hand, Weixing City needs to concentrate more on the production of key products. In

this case, Denison Henry can completely rely on old relationships, and rely on the fact that it is close to the energy production area and the High Tower Province is close to Weixing City, so it is easier to take over those relocated industrial lines.

Logically, Denison Henry should be satisfied.

He only needs to guard his own province,

but he doesn’t.

He is still seeking one thing: he hopes that the ground part of the star port that Angry Owl Star is about to build can be located within his jurisdiction.

Speaking of this, the relevant technical blueprint has been handed over to Wu Jiarong to arrange. Through field investigations, she has found several places suitable for building star ports.

There are several alternative sites, which are generally concentrated to the east of Fuxing City and at the junction of Gaota Province and Xiongya Province.

The two sides naturally began to fight openly and secretly.

Obviously, if the ground part of the star port can be built within his jurisdiction, then after the construction of the star port is completed in the future, it will bring huge economic benefits, and it will have an obvious and huge boosting effect on the development of his own province.

Originally, Henry was full of confidence that he could win the construction rights.

However, the final result made him very disappointed.

The final site was decided in a place called “Scarro Heights” in Xiongya Province.

Henry was furious about this. He made trouble in the Alliance Government more than once and had several fierce face-to-face exchanges with Ossena, accusing the Alliance Development Department of forming cliques and excluding him. Because the new governor of Xiongya Province was an official from the Development Department, they were taking care of their own people and ignored the multiple investigation reports issued by the Alliance Research Institute.

He insisted that the alternative star port address in Gaota Province was more suitable than Scarro Heights.

The original words he sprayed in front of Ossena were:

“You want to build relationships, right? You like to build relationships, right! Then aren’t my relationships stronger and stronger than everyone else’s? Even you, you came from the first batch of refugees I brought to the Governor from Renaissance City! I am also the Governor’s first investor! What kind of a bastard is that guy named Rafar? How dare he compete with me?!”

Why did Gu Hang know so clearly?

Because this was passed on to him by the Alliance’s Internal Affairs Department.

Ossena was a little difficult to deal with Henry’s dominance.

In actual work, she did reject Henry’s requests many times, even in person. But when she was scolded, she couldn’t stand it and let the guards kick Henry out. After all, he

was a provincial official of the alliance and a veteran of the alliance. What he said, “Ossena was brought to the governor by him,” was indeed the truth.

It’s really not good to make things too ugly.

On the one hand, persuading with kind words, and on the other hand, firmly rejecting unreasonable requests.

But Henry was obviously not satisfied with this.

Seeing that Ossena, the prime minister of the alliance, was unwilling to meet his requirements, he angrily threw down a few unpleasant words.

What “ungrateful” and “you are useless as a prime minister”, and then ran to see Gu Hang.

Of course, he couldn’t be so domineering in front of Gu Hang.

On the contrary, his attitude was very humble. As soon as he entered the door, he fell to the ground and began to tell his grievances with snot and tears. It was not until Gu Hang asked him to get up several times with an impatient attitude that he was willing to get up, sat on a chair brought by the waiter, and continued to complain.

Gu Hang was getting more and more annoyed the more he listened.

He finally couldn’t stand it anymore, raised a document in his hand, and smashed it on Denison Henry’s face.

“Look carefully!” Gu Hang stared at him, “Are you going to continue to talk nonsense in front of me?”

The crying and complaining stopped abruptly.

Henry didn’t expect that Gu Hang would get so angry, and he was stunned for a moment.

He glanced at the white paper that fell to the ground after flying. He was quite familiar with the content on it and had read it many times.

It said that the location of the High Tower Province was indeed slightly better than that of the Skaro Highlands in terms of environment. This was also the basis for his many troubles.

Gu Hang was very disappointed to see that he had no intention of repenting.

He said: “Just for this selfish gain, you delayed my star port construction plan for more than a week? Do you think I have plenty of time?”

“Yes, the location of the High Tower Province does have slightly better natural conditions, but not much better, and it is very replaceable.”

“But in other places, the Skaro Highlands simply crushes you!”

“The alliance’s major infrastructure project was launched three months ago. Look at what you have done in these three months? The construction of roads and railways has opened up a route from Garbage Town to Weixing City and Fuxing City. Other projects have been procrastinated. Especially the eastward project has been delayed until now and has not even started!”

“Do you think I don’t know your little tricks at all? Do you think the land taken from Yan Fangxu’s Eastern Expedition is not enough, and Gaota Province has not expanded enough? Do you think the industries of Gaota Province and the eastern provinces are very similar, both are key resource production areas, there is not much room for cooperation, but fierce competition. If you connect Gaota Province’s railway and road network with Xiongya Province, they will make money for nothing?”

“I definitely don’t think so!”

Henry knelt on the ground again.

Gu Hang was even more disgusted: “When did the alliance have this kind of etiquette of kneeling?”

Henry stood up again awkwardly.

“I don’t care whether you think so or not, and I don’t want to argue with you about this issue.” Gu Hang continued, “I only look at the facts in front of me. The Development Department has formulated multiple infrastructure plans. You don’t understand the meaning behind these plans. That means you are blind and indifferent to the overall development of the alliance, which is a dereliction of duty. What’s even more wrong is that you didn’t understand it and were unwilling to implement it!”

“The first phase of the project was given four months, and now three months have passed, and your High Tower Province has only achieved a little more than half of its engineering goals. Every other province has completed the plan better than you. Even Wangcha Province, which was established the shortest time, has pushed the project more than halfway. Xiongya Province has already completed the first phase of construction, and has also built multiple road networks in the Skaro Highlands to facilitate logistics after the establishment of the future star port.”

“Rafar’s plan, from the transportation of materials and personnel needed to build the star port to the planning of a transportation hub city that the ground part of the star port will rely on, has all been planned and is already being implemented. Why did the Development Department give up that place and choose your High Tower Province? Is it because you haven’t finished building the railway yet? By then, the engineering team building the star port will have to drive iron ox trucks to transport construction materials worth tens of millions on the muddy road to the construction site?”

“I…” Henry’s forehead was full of cold sweat, “It’s not that there is no construction, I also have related plans…”

“Come on, because of your nonsense, the star port construction plan has been forced to be postponed for a week. Do I have to wait for you for another two months to finish the basic projects that you should have built long ago before I can start the plan?”

At this point, Gu Hang had lost the desire to continue talking about this with Denison Henry.

He made the final decision:

“Henry, I am very grateful for your help a year and a half ago, but you have also gained more because of it. My tolerance for you is limited. I don’t want you to talk about these things all day long and ignore the actual work.”

“Don’t think that letting you be the head of the High Tower Province is a reward for your past contributions. To be honest, are the things you did in the past enough to be rewarded with a province? Letting you be the leader of this province is because I hope you can contribute your abilities to make our business better and more prosperous, not to let you rest on your laurels.”

“I am very disappointed with this matter. I think you are not suitable to govern a province. I will let Ossena choose a more suitable candidate to replace you. However, your C9 level rank, as well as the relevant benefits and allowances will be retained. This is my thank you for your help in the past.”

Hearing this, Denison Henry’s face was already pale.

Am I… dismissed?

Since the establishment of the alliance, the first provincial and ministerial-level official to be dismissed, it turned out to be me?

Henry regretted it deeply.

(End of this chapter)