Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 308

308. Chapter 307: The Benefits of Fighting for the Empire

What are the benefits of being a star army and fighting for the Empire?

For the government of the Angry Owl Star Alliance, there is no direct benefit.

But for Gu Hang, it is not necessarily the case.

He originally did not want to be the commander of the Angry Bear Legion himself. It was a better choice to let Yan Fangxu do it and hide behind.

But since he has already sat in this position, he will make the best of it. Gu Hang will also try his best to use this matter to find out if there is any value and opportunity that can be used.

There is still some.

First of all, reputation, which is not direct, but very valuable. He is not a lonely person. As a politician and the leader of a force, making money quietly and developing in silence can no longer be the only means.

Of course, there is a need for this aspect, such as the development of science and technology, the development of industrial capacity within the planet, these do not need to be publicized, and belong to the cultivation of internal strength.

And now, the Angry Owl Star is gradually moving towards the sea of stars. In the communication between the stars, the role that intangible property such as “reputation” can play cannot be underestimated.

For example, before, Gu Hang showed the strength of an A-level psychic, which was an improvement in his personal reputation.

And reputation can be converted into cash, but it requires some methods and abilities.

He is already converting it into cash.

The branch of the Psychic Order that is about to be established on the Wrathful Owl Star is a way to convert it into cash.

This branch will receive funding from the Pegasus Order headquarters; it can obtain the treasured information on cultivating psychics; Gu Hang has the qualifications to cultivate psychics with good reason, and he can issue legal licenses to the psychics under his command.

These are all very important.

No matter how much the funding is, it is at least a sum of money, and the most important thing is the issue of issuing legal licenses. When there is no license, it is okay for the psychics cultivated on the Wrathful Owl Star to operate on their own planet. But as the entire Wrathful Owl Star has been pacified and the entire society is relatively stable, it will definitely move towards the interstellar stage in the future.

Then, when you are outside, with the Empire’s control policy on psychics, it is easy for psychics to have problems without a legal license.

In the future, there is no need to worry about this point.

At the same time, in addition to the things related to psychics, Gu Hang’s fame this time has a more important benefit.

Through the relationship of Gu’s business, he found many investors and signed many investment contracts.

The industrial capacity within the planet does not need outside investment. The economic system of the alliance is more planned, and the functions of currency and market play an auxiliary role. It does not need to introduce a lot of foreign investors for construction.

But trade is indispensable. The alliance has sufficient production capacity, but a considerable part of the production capacity has no place to digest. Even if all of it is used to pay taxes, the remaining tax coins cannot be kept in hand after paying. There must be some trade and some orders to convert their extra production capacity into income.

Moreover, although the alliance has sufficient production capacity and can be self-sufficient, it does not need external input for everything. With the subsequent expansion of production capacity, the demand for raw materials will increase day by day.

Mining, logging, planting… Of course, these will also be developed in the native land of Angry Owl Star, but we must plan ahead. It is also good to have a trade route for resource input.

With the support of Gu’s Trading Company, Gu Hang does not have to worry about not having channels for interstellar trade. But there is a huge problem: what about the star port?

There is a star port on the Angry Owl Star now, but it is too small. It takes several days to send hundreds of thousands of interstellar troops who can move and run on their own. If it is a large-scale interstellar trade, there is no condition to exchange goods worth tens of millions or hundreds of millions of tax coins, and the star port cannot bear such a large transportation capacity.

Moreover, the largest ship that can be docked at the star port of the Angry Owl Star is a frigate. For example, the most popular “giant belly” transport ship in interstellar trade simply cannot dock.

Gu Hang has a complete set of design blueprints for building a large star port, and there is no technical bottleneck. The city of Skaro below the star port now has a permanent population of 500,000. In less than a year, it has changed from a wasteland to the largest city in Xiongya Province. Almost all of these 500,000 people came to build the Starport. Even if they were not directly engaged in construction work, they were at least doing raw material transportation, personnel and material support, ground management, medical care, police…

Among this series of derived work, the core is of course the construction of the Starport.

However, even with so many people working for this, the construction speed of the Starport is still very slow.

When Gu Hang said this to his mother, he was stared at with incredible eyes for a long time.

“What do you think a Starport is? You have only started building it for less than a year! The large-scale Starports you have seen on other planets, which one has not experienced decades or hundreds of years of use and expansion before slowly forming what it is now? Don’t think about getting fat in one bite!”

But Gu Hang wanted to be a fat man.

And what is the way to speed up construction?

Find external investment.

The current way of construction of the Alliance is to launch orbital spacecraft, sending a small number of accessories produced on the ground, or one or two engineering machines into space at a time. Then the workers have to wear space suits that are very hindering to their movements to carry out space operations.

Gu Hang does have a full set of blueprint technology now, but many of the construction methods cannot be realized at all.

But if there is external investment, it will be easy.

You can find a large engineering ship to do this job, which is much more reliable than engineering machines; you can directly purchase super-large parts produced by others, transport them over, and use engineering ships to assemble them…

In short, if there is enough money, Gu Hang estimates that he can expand the scale of the Angry Owl Star Port to hundreds of times its current size in one or two years.

Such a large amount of money is not enough to save by yourself, cheat, or rely on the funding of Gu’s Business.

It is necessary to introduce strong investors.

After understanding her son’s ambitions, Ms. Wang Qi also actively took action and found some people who were initially interested.

If it were before, this investment project would probably be ignored. But now, Gu Hang has shown some ability, and the Angry Bear Legion has gained some reputation. People are beginning to believe that investing in the Angry Owl Star, a wasteland planet in the past, is a rewarding thing.

Of course, these investors are still relatively cautious now, and the money they are willing to invest is generally only tens of thousands, or at most hundreds of thousands of tax coins.

This is not enough for Gu Hang’s grand plan.

But despite this, he accepts everyone who comes.

It is necessary to set an example in advance. Even scammers know to give a sweet treat first. Gu Hang will let those who are willing to spend money to build a star port for him make money.

As for the future… The star port is in the orbit of the Angry Owl Star, and Gu Hang has guns and cannons, so there is not much to say.

However, Gu Hang’s main reputation now is still concentrated on his identity as an A-level psychic and the young master of Gu’s Trading Company. This type of reputation is not very effective in attracting investors.

If the Angry Bear Corps can perform better on the battlefield of Korojia No. 3, it will undoubtedly be a plus.

Everyone knows that the Angry Bear Corps, from soldiers to equipment, are all produced by the Angry Owl Star. The combat effectiveness of an army will be able to illustrate the comprehensive strength of a planet from all angles. This is a huge billboard.

The value of reputation lies here.

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In addition to the value of reputation, the Angry Bear Legion has other direct benefits if it achieves better results here.

Politically, it can bring the relationship with the surrounding political forces closer. Helping the Empire World to beat the Plague Demon is undoubtedly the right thing to do.

The achievements of the Angry Bear Legion will eventually fall on Gu Hang. He is the legion commander and has the rank of brigadier general. If he makes great contributions in the end, will the Star Army Headquarters have the nerve to raise my rank and give me some benefits?

Of course, this is very important for those who are fully committed to the Star Army system. For Gu Hang, the cost-effectiveness is not very high.

Even if his rank rises and his position rises, he can’t abandon his base and run to the Star Army circle.

But that’s like if he mixed into the Imperial Psionic Order and became a senior figure of the Dragon Eagle Star Field Order, he would get a series of benefits under this system. If Gu Hang gets a higher status in the Star Army by relying on the development and growth of the Angry Bear Legion, then there will be direct benefits.

For example, the Angry Bear Legion may be expanded – not from the Angry Owl Star, but the Military Affairs Department will directly expand the army for him, sending soldiers and equipment.

All the Star Army Legions are like this.

At that time, Gu Hang will be getting an army for free. The money for raising the army can be reimbursed by the Military Affairs Department.

And if you want to talk about more direct benefits, there are more.

War, there will be spoils of war.

The Angry Bear Legion strictly inherited the habits of the Alliance Army. Looting is not allowed. Soldiers must unconditionally hand in all the spoils and unowned items collected after the war.

In the Alliance, these handed-in things will eventually enter the treasury, and the soldiers will receive combat allowances, rank upgrades brought by military merits, and generous pensions for the dead and wounded…

But on the battlefield of Korojia, there is no such thing. The highest level of submission is the legion level.

The demons killed by the troops in battle are valuable, and the corresponding logistics troops will deal with the biological materials in the bodies of the demons after their souls are expelled. The logistics troops collect part of the handling fee, and the rest will be given to the legion.

In addition, when recovering certain areas, many people died, and the property left by the local residents also belonged to the legion.

Li Kexi was a little at a loss, he had never encountered such a thing before!

He thought he had to hand it over to the Military Affairs Department, and he also discussed and asked the people of the Dragon Eagle Legion, but found that it was not necessary.

Later, after consulting Gu Hang, the legion commander decided to take the money as the legion’s property and loan it all to the Alliance Government.

The Alliance Government will establish a “Legion Foundation” to be used for pensions, additional allowances for the soldiers of the Angry Bear Legion, ammunition supplies, logistics maintenance and a series of other things. Of course, it can also be used for other purposes, but anyway, the interest must be paid to the foundation.

It is a transfer from the left hand to the right hand.

However, the additional allowances and additional pensions are of great help to the morale of the Angry Bear Legion.

The Alliance Army has never worried about the problem of morale. On the one hand, the soldiers who have been systematically trained naturally have a very high degree of organization. They are determined, disciplined and high-spirited. On the other hand, the Alliance Army is a force with faith. In the past, they mainly fought on the mainland of the Wrathful Owl Star. The political commissars in the army always emphasized to the soldiers that they were fighting for the future of the entire planet and for the happiness of people all over the world.

However, when they fought on alien planets, this belief was more or less challenged.

Although the political commissars would come up with two other explanations:

First, loyalty to the governor, which was fine and recognized by all the soldiers.

Second, they changed “for our world” to “for all mankind”. However, this effect was not very good.

The former was grand enough. Many people recognized this belief after personally experiencing the huge changes in themselves, their families, relatives and friends, and even the entire planet.

But the latter is even grander and more illusory than the former.

What’s more terrifying is that there is no change. They fought for half a year, but to be honest, has the situation in Fino City improved at all?

No, it has gotten worse.

The soldiers accepted that they were fighting for humanity, but the acceptance was not high, and the situation of no results and no changes made them feel a little frustrated.

At this time, higher allowances and better treatment, this kind of actual material wealth reward, became a part of the compensation.

Gu Hang also made it clear in this meeting with Li Kexi that at most he would dispatch the other half of the Angry Bear Corps from the Angry Owl Star to rotate with them in half a year. Let the soldiers who have fought for a long time have the opportunity to go back to rest, reunite with their families, and enjoy life.

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The benefits and interests that the Angry Bear Corps has gained from fighting here, whether direct or indirect; whether in terms of reputation, politics, or economy, need Li Kexi and the soldiers under his command to fight on the battlefield.

It was exchanged for the blood of the soldiers.

After half a year of fighting, the seven divisions and brigades were no longer fully staffed. A total of more than 13,000 soldiers were killed and wounded, with more than 8,000 killed, and more than 5,000 seriously injured and determined to be unable to return to the army.

Gu Hang went to the battlefield hospital and visited the wounded.

He promised to take the wounded and the remains of the martyrs back to their hometown. They would receive a grand funeral and generous pensions.

Gu Hang kept his word.

More than 5,000 soldiers who withdrew from the battle sequence and more than 5,000 bodies that could be collected were sent to the star port of Korojia through the logistics system of the Star Army and transported to the armed merchant ship of Gu’s Trading Company that was about to take Gu Hang away.

In addition, there were others traveling with him.

An investigation team, a total of more than 20 people, mainly from the Star Domain Investigation Team, and the investigation team of the Cosmic Domain Government sent three observers.

There was also an investor team. Many rich people could not leave Korojia because of the involvement in the disappearance of Gallardo, but they could send some investment consultants and trusted subordinates to go with Governor Gu to see if his planet was really worth investing in.

In addition, the largest group was the 210,000 refugees who were to be “evacuated” to the Angry Owl Star, who were loaded into an accompanying transport ship.

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Ah, it’s dawn

(end of this chapter)