Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 298

298. Chapter 297, Koroja No. 3

still has 700,000 Star Army troops “loading” in the Fachers system, and the estimated arrival time is two weeks later.

The 300,000 Star Army troops that have already arrived are disembarking one after another at the Angry Owl Star Port.

The Angry Owl Star Port is still small in scale, and the overall personnel throughput is not very good.

In addition, from the ground part of the star port, the city of Skarlo, to the West Desert Front by car, the distance in between is thousands of kilometers.

Even though there are paved roads built when the alliance was engaged in large-scale infrastructure, and there are sufficient logistical supplies along the way, the speed is not slow, but when 300,000 troops arrive at the deployment position one after another, it still takes a relatively long time.

Two weeks have passed, and they have just taken their positions.

While waiting for them to take their positions, the 7 divisions of the Angry Bear Legion have also reached the time to leave.

According to the transfer order of the Dragon Eagle Command, they have to leave at this time.

The transport ships of Gu’s Trading Company that transported the Dragon Eagle 3 Legion to Angry Owl Star are still staying in the port of the Angry Owl System.

In fact, on the way here, they received a new order: transport 7 divisions of the Angry Bear Legion, a total of 77,000 people, away from the Angry Owl Star and to Koroga 3.

That’s just on the way.

Gu Hang will also go.

The transfer order from the Star Army Command did not have anything related to him, so of course he could not go. However, after he had a phone call with his mother, he realized that the opportunity he wanted came faster than expected.

After leaving the Angry Owl Star, Gallardo will stay briefly on the Winged Star to meet some people, and then go to Koroga 3 in the name of “inspecting the spread of the Chaos Plague”.

Of course, he is not so kind. In fact, it is not the responsibility of him, the war apostle, to solve the Chaos Plague and quell the Chaos Rebellion.

He went there to make money.

Koroga 3 is suffering. According to the current situation, the plague is unstoppable in a hive city on Koroga covering a billion people. It has almost become a fallen area, and a large number of planetary defense forces are fighting in it. Rebels and plague zombies are emerging there one after another.

If the whole planet’s power is used, it is impossible that they cannot be suppressed. Koroga is a huge planet with a population of 40 billion.

However, they dare not withdraw too many manpower from other hives to support the place infected by the Chaos Plague.

What if other hives have problems?

In fact, there are already reports of sporadic infections in other hives. And with the action power of Koroga 3, if a report appears on the surface, then secretly, in the bottom of the hive, the number of infected people must be a hundred times more than the number of reports.

In fact, the planetary government of Koroga 3 is already considering an extermination strike against the infected city.

This is just a proposal for the time being, and it is still in the discussion stage. There are many opponents.

One billion people, can you just give up? What a joke!

Even if you are not a good person, purely in terms of profit, this is 5 billion tax coins!

From these perspectives, it can be seen that the current predicament of Koroga 3 is really not small.

For the others, there are those who laugh at the joke, those who feel sorry for the world, and those who worry that the situation there will deteriorate and cause greater troubles…

But there are also those who will use the disaster as a bargaining chip, not only not providing help, but also reaping benefits.

For example, Gallardo.

This guy came here when he smelled the fishy smell.

In the name of “inspecting the spread of the Chaos Plague”, he actually intended to let the head of the star zone and Governor Koroja pay a large sum of “money”.

This money is used to buy “peace”.

If they don’t buy it, he will cause trouble for these two people by letting the chaos spread and not doing things well.

Chaos corruption is a big deal in the empire. Generally speaking, if the planetary governor can suppress it himself and it doesn’t make a fuss, then everything will be fine; if it makes a fuss and attracts attention, the planetary governor may be dismissed-especially after the arrival of senior officials.

Gallardo has no right to dismiss a planetary governor, but he can make a big deal out of it by using the handle.

Especially after hearing the proposal that the Koroja government intended to exterminate the hive city and sacrifice one billion people, Gallardo was overjoyed. He took this as a key handle and stood on the moral high ground, angrily accusing the Koroja government of not taking the lives of the people of the empire seriously.

Ms. Wang Qi also repeated Gallardo’s original words to Gu Hang:

“That’s one billion people! I don’t know how you can say such a thing!”

Gu Hang didn’t believe that Gallardo really cared about human lives, but there was no doubt that this became his most advantageous weapon for attacking.

According to this posture, from the head of Pedes to the Governor of Koroja, if they don’t give a satisfactory answer, they will probably be in trouble.

And the “discussion” that Gallardo is going to hold on Koroja 3 is a stage. He has widely invited all the well-known figures in the Pegasus star region, and they will be the audience to watch a play in which Gallardo plays the leading role.

If Pedes and Governor Koroja submit, then this will be a serious meeting for superiors to inspect and guide the work; if they don’t submit, then this will become a trial where the war apostles criticize local officials for dereliction of duty and malfeasance.

Of course, the Gu family also received an invitation letter, and sincerely invited Gu Hang and Wang Qi, mother and son, to attend.

Combined with the previous events, Gu Hang would understand that Gallardo was demonstrating to them.

“I can easily control the head and the governor of the largest planet, and I haven’t taken any ruthless action against you, Gu family, so don’t be ungrateful.”

Originally, Wang Qi advised her son not to come and let her handle it.

But Gu Hang decided to go.

Don’t blame me if you want to die.

…

Before leaving, there were also things to be explained on the Angry Owl Star.

In terms of government affairs, he talked with Ossena for a long time; in terms of public security and stability maintenance, Lambert had to lead the Public Security Police Department; in terms of military affairs, Yan Fangxu and Taddius would be responsible.

After giving each of them a lecture, Gu Hang left.

He estimated that he would be gone for at least a month.

He still had a lot of confidence in the Alliance government system that he had built. After leaving him, it would be no problem for them to survive for a few months.

The only thing that worried him was the war on the Western Front.

Although there would be a large number of Star Army troops coming to support them, it might not be all good news.

He already knew that the commander of the Star Army who came here was a major general of the Empire.

With a high military rank and being a member of the Star Army, he had a natural identity advantage over the planetary defense force.

If the major general did his job well, there would be no problem, but he was afraid that he would cause trouble.

However, Gu Hang was also prepared for this matter.

He just hoped that his preparation would not be used.

After all, the other party was here to help, and it was not Gu Hang’s intention to create any conflicts. It would be best if he could smoothly rely on superior forces to flatten the Blackbird Heavy Industry in the west of the continent.

For this reason, he also contacted Ye Lixia once.

It stands to reason that after the first installment of the imperial tax was completed on the Angry Owl Star, Ye Lixia and her ships should leave.

The order she originally accepted was to stay in the orbit of the Angry Owl Star for two years.

The two-year period has expired, and it is time for her to leave.

But at Gu Hang’s request, and the new order from the Pegasus Fleet Command has not yet come down, Ye Lixia considered it and finally agreed to Gu Hang’s request.

…

Nine days later, Korojia No. 3, named Yancheng.

This is the largest hive city on Korojia, with three billion people living in it.

It is a huge, honeycomb-like structure. The lower part almost hollowed out the earth; the upper part is a huge multi-layered structure that reaches into the sky.

Before seeing it with his own eyes, Gu Hang had always found it hard to believe how a city could accommodate three billion people.

Now he knows.

It is really like bees and ants.

People are crowded in it, and most of the residents of the hive may never see the sun in their lives. They live in a beehive and work hard just to earn a little bit of corpse starch and water to survive;

some of them don’t even have jobs, and Korojia’s local demand and local productivity cannot provide so many jobs. For such people, the better ones get into gangs, gather together for warmth, live by doing dirty work, or squeeze others; some people become unemployed vagrants, rely on a little government relief, do odd jobs, barely avoid starvation, work hard to live, and hope that one day they will be selected to become imperial taxes and be handed over.

This is the original intention of the Koroja government to provide relief.

5 tax coins per person.

If you feed a person purely on the basis of not starving to death, 5 tax coins can feed a person for fifty years – of course, if 0.1 tax coins are consumed per year, then most people cannot live that long. Long-term malnutrition, disease, poor social environment, accidents… can easily kill a person.

But what does it matter? As long as the poorest people don’t starve to death temporarily, and then they can pay taxes.

Koroja’s largest output and main industry for paying taxes is population.

They really can feed people like pigs – even better than pigs.

After all, meat pigs can’t work, but people, after a few years of birth, can be thrown into factories as child laborers, not to mention adults.

Mingyan City is such a place.

But this city is not without its beauty.

At the top of the city, the upper class is indulging in luxury. The huge glass cover filter layer makes the sunlight leaking from the broken atmosphere not only non-lethal, but warm and comfortable; the blazing storm sweeping the dust will also be filtered and turned into a relaxing breeze; the burning incense, with fragrance, sweeps across the entire upper area.

Except for the serious shortage of water resources, which makes it difficult to grow too many green plants, this place is like a garden.

And a grand banquet was held here.

Gu Hang stood in the “open-air” parliament hall, staring at the huge and gentle star in the sky for a long time.

And beside him, his mother was talking to Pei Desi. In

Gu Hang’s impression, Pei Desi is always well-dressed, meticulous, decent, reserved and calm, with a certain kind of graceful nobility.

But today, although his clothes are still well-dressed, it is difficult to hide the red bloodshot in his eyes, and it is even more difficult to hide the slight hoarseness in his voice.

Pedes asked, “Are you really going to sell the ship?”

“Yes.” Wang Qi said with a wry smile, “Otherwise, how can we satisfy the absurd appetite of the War Apostle?”

“We shouldn’t let him do whatever he wants. He treats all of us as fat sheep to be slaughtered!”

“Yes, I think so too. Why don’t you let Chief Pedes take the lead?”

“…Alas.” Pedes sighed deeply.

The two chatted for a few more words, and the star zone leader said goodbye and left to talk to other people.

Gu Hang came back to his senses and said, “It seems that the news we put out to sell ships and raise money to surrender should be credible enough. At least Pedes believed it.”

Wang Qi took a sip of the wine in his hand and patted his son next to him: “We really wanted to sell ships and raise money. We can’t go against Gallardo. There is no benefit, only disadvantage.”

Gu Hang didn’t explain much.

He didn’t tell his mother about his plan.

In fact, he didn’t tell anyone.

This matter must be kept completely confidential. It’s not that he doesn’t trust others, but there are too many ways to get certain information in this universe.

He just told Wang Qi that he didn’t intend to give in as Gallardo wished. At most, he would just release some news of giving in to ease some pressure. It would be best if he could delay until Gallardo had satisfied his appetite and left in other places in the Tianma Star Region. After all, this guy doesn’t have time to mess around in one star region for too long.

But Wang Qi obviously had different ideas.

She sighed and said, “Galardo will indeed leave soon, but he is just gone, not dead. If he wants to continue to maintain his deterrence, he will not let go of anyone who disobeys him. As long as his power is still there, even if he leaves, he has countless ways to target us. Even the head of Peides has to give in, what can we do? Three hundred million… I’ll give it to you.”

When she said the latter sentence, she seemed to be gritting her teeth, and it was obvious that her heart was bleeding.

Gu Hang nodded absent-mindedly, and suddenly his eyes condensed, locking onto the man who walked out of the backstage with a bright smile.

Not only Gu Hang, but everyone’s eyes were attracted by his appearance.

Is this his charm?

This is the charm of power.

He stood in the center of the stage, picked up the microphone, coughed twice, and his smile gradually faded, turning into calm and serious.

After everyone quieted down, he said, “We are facing a disaster.”

“This disaster is not only happening on Koroja and the Wrathful Owl Star, but in every part of the Empire.”

“The glorious and great human race has struggled to survive in the entire universe for countless years.”

“Our race, with the blood of countless heroes and with absolutely fearless great sacrifices, established our empire under the leadership of the God-Emperor, and won a place for survival for us in this dark and terrifying universe.”

“But the danger is never far away. Abyss demons, Chaos traitors, aliens, intelligent iron men… always threaten our survival.”

“The great Sun Lord has launched the largest expedition since the Great Crusade of the Emperor to establish the Empire. The stars and the sea are all surrendering to the glory of the Sun Lord.”

“This is a great era. The territory of the Empire is expanding every day. Countless worlds that have sunk into darkness have returned to the embrace of the Empire and are bathed in the glory of the God-Emperor.”

“I deeply feel the dedication of every citizen of the Empire. It is hard, but also glorious.”

“Captain Pedes and Governor Akuna have set an outstanding example!”

“I believe that under their leadership, Koroja will surely defeat those Chaos traitors and let the bright sunshine shine again in every corner of this world!”

…

Hearing this, Gu Hang knew that Chief Pedes and Governor Ramiro Acuna of Corroca had indeed given in. Gallardo chose the one that praised the two manuscripts he had prepared.

But for Gu Hang, these didn’t matter.

He raised his head again and looked at the sun.

An inconspicuous black shadow suddenly appeared.

He smiled slightly.

It’s finally here.

It’s a dragon.

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(End of this chapter)