Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 309

309. Chapter 308: Unify the World and Forge Ahead (End of this Volume)

The 210,000 refugees loaded into the transport ship are Gu Hang’s “trophies” in the political arena. These more than 200,000 people are all going to migrate to the Angry Owl Star to live.

This is a serious value.

Five tax coins per person is the price set by the empire. Even if they are taken to the Angry Owl Star and nothing is done, a refugee camp is built to feed the people. After two years, when the imperial tax is paid, it can be worth a million tax coins.

Where did these people come from?

First, it was the various planets in the Tianma Star Region… “robbed” Korojia.

Before Gallardo disappeared, the situation in Korojia had already deteriorated. In the star region, many knowledgeable people can realize that

under the call of the star region government, the governors of various planets, some other forces in the planets, and even wealthy businessmen have all “donated generously” and provided some rescue to Korojia No. 3 within their capacity.

Mainly various materials.

Similarly, many forces that provided supplies also “generously” expressed that they could accept refugees on Koroga 3 who were homeless and had nowhere to go due to the unrest.

This was of course blackmail.

Most forces generously took out supplies to support Koroga 3, which were not worth the value of the population they plundered from Koroga 3.

But the Koroga 3 government had no choice but to accept it.

They needed those supplies very much, otherwise the army’s operations would lack supplies and the lives of the people would be affected.

In addition, those homeless refugees who appeared due to the outbreak of plague demons in various places did exist.

Other places were not so bad, but the city of Fino, which had fallen by more than half, was the most serious problem.

There were originally one billion people there, half of whom were in the occupied area. Their only fate was death, transformation into plague zombies, and infection.

But in the non-occupied areas, there were still hundreds of millions of people. Of course, they should be evacuated away from the areas that could become war zones at any time, but… that was hundreds of millions of people, and it was really difficult to transport them to other hives.

The entire Koroja 3 has always been in a state of overpopulation and resource shortage. It is difficult to evacuate so many people and find a place to accommodate so many people.

They can only build refugee camps and quarantine areas in the upper areas of Fino City.

All areas are managed in a hierarchical manner, divided into high-risk areas, medium-risk areas, low-risk areas, and no-risk areas. Each area is strictly separated, and all areas are under military management. People are not allowed to go out – even if they starve to death.

After reporting, people who do not have typical symptoms of infection within seven days will be able to transfer to a lower-level risk area until they reach a no-risk area.

But in fact, the no-risk area only has a low risk of illness, which does not mean safety. The problem of shortage of supplies has always plagued the refugee camps in the quarantine area of Fino City. At the same time, no matter what the risk level of the area is, there is a risk of the plague demon breaking through the army’s defense line and then directly conquering it, and there is also a risk of a sudden outbreak of a large-scale plague.

Therefore, under such circumstances, the most beneficial thing for the Koroja planetary government is indeed to sell people to other planets and forces.

If they don’t sell, it will be difficult to support them, and they may be finished at any time.

But it has to be a reasonable price, right?

In other words, other forces generally use materials equivalent to 0.2-0.5 tax coins to exchange for a population worth 5 tax coins. Isn’t this robbery?

Of course, as a hive planet with 40 billion people, equivalent to 62.2% of the population of the entire Pegasus star region, the Koroja government is one of the most powerful planetary governments. What’s more, Governor Akuna is a staunch supporter of Pegasus leader Pedes and belongs to the same faction.

Of course, they will not accept robbery so easily.

But… who made Akuna and Pedes, the two core figures, not very clean themselves? They are now very worried because of Gallardo’s disappearance. The political influence that was originally very strong has dropped to only two or three points.

There are quite a lot of political struggles and compromises in the middle.

The final result of the negotiation is that each force can obtain a certain degree of free “migrated” population quota according to their support for Koroja No. 3; if it exceeds this quota, it needs to be purchased with tax coins. The purchase price is calculated according to the ladder mechanism, ranging from 1 tax coin/person to 4 tax coins/person.

There are preferential measures, but at the same time, it limits those forces from plundering Koroga 3 too much.

Gu Hang participated in the negotiation process on this matter.

In it, of course, he stood on his own side, on the side of Angry Owl Star, and tried his best to gain benefits.

But outside of this matter, Gu Hang sometimes pulled his emotions out of his mind and thought about it.

When Koroga 3 suffered a major disaster and countless people of the empire were affected, the ideal situation of all forces working together to face the natural disaster together only existed on the surface. Secretly, this turned into a feast of interests and division of Koroga 3. The bigwigs of all parties, intrigue and verbal battles, lie in a disaster, and eat oily mouths.

Gu Hang cannot stand on the moral high ground to criticize these things, because he is also the one who eats oily mouths.

But is there a “good thing” in this matter from beginning to end?

The various forces that are trying to divide up the interests of the population of Korojia 3 are certainly taking advantage of the situation;

the government of Korojia 3 is not clean at all. The population has become a bargaining chip for them to gain benefits. Instead of thinking about how to save more people, they would rather put refugees in refugee camps with huge risks and face death at any time than let refugees go to a good place to live.

Only those people who are facing risks, who are poorly clothed and hungry, and who have lost their homes are the most difficult.

Gu Hang cannot change the overall environment. All he can do is try his best to allow those who “migrated” to the Angry Owl Star to live a life that belongs to “people” again.

The people on the ship all came from risk-free areas and went through the quarantine process.

Gu Hang was also unwilling to put people with infectious diseases on board, otherwise, before they arrived at the Angry Owl Star, a ship full of people would die, or even bring the plague to the Angry Owl Star.

Half of these 210,000 people came from the “free” population provided by the Angry Owl Star to Koroga 3 – this was the free population quota that Gu Hang got by participating in political activities while working in the investigation team.

The other 110,000 people came from the Angry Bear Legion. They were directly involved in the front-line combat, and there were many refugee camps within the defense zone of the Angry Bear Legion. Li Kexi and the commander of the Koroga local forces “colluded” and resold this group of people.

After all, the Koroga government can sell it, but the money is not distributed to the army. Then can’t the local military sell it themselves?

The price was very cheap. The Koroja government wanted 1 tax coin per person at the lowest price, but these local troops were willing to sell at 0.6 tax coins. In addition, Li Kexi had the power to command them, so he used both soft and hard tactics to lower the price to 0.2 tax coins per person.

These 110,000 people only cost Gu Hang a little over 20,000 tax coins. What’s the difference between this and free money?

…

After drifting in the sea of stars for seven days, the group arrived at the Angry Owl Star.

An armed merchant ship and a transport ship belonging to Gu’s Company docked at the small port of the Angry Owl Star.

Two hundred and one thousand people left the port and went to the ground; some materials were loaded on the ship and prepared to be shipped to Korojia. The entire port began to become extremely busy.

However, Gu Hang certainly didn’t have to squeeze here.

He took the investigation team and the investor representatives and left the star port first and came to the ground.

The Prime Minister of the Alliance, Ms. Ossena, the Political Commissar of the Alliance Army, Major General Taddius, and the Chief Justice of the Alliance, Lambert Hodgson, these three can be regarded as the three giants of the Alliance government. All of them went out to personally welcome their governor back.

After a brief reception banquet, the group boarded several wind falcons and went to Fuxing City.

Ossena, who had already received the news, will send a team composed of the Alliance Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Commerce to connect with those investor representatives.

They will be taken to see Weixing City, the industrial center of the Angry Owl Star, and then to see the vast plantation fields in the southern Qinggu area, and then return to Scaro City to see the construction status of the star port.

I believe that after seeing all this, they will provide their master with a reasonable report on whether the Angry Owl Star is worth investing in.

As for the people in the investigation team, it is a little troublesome.

Gu Hang couldn’t ignore them too much, so he simply took people and went to the Qinggu area first.

This is also reasonable.

They were originally here to investigate the situation of the plague demon. When the investigation of Korojia No. 3 was completely deadlocked, they wanted to see if they could find some other clues on the Angry Owl Star. The Qinggu area was originally the starting point of the demon disaster a year and a half ago. It is quite reasonable to go to the Qinggu area to investigate.

However, after they go to the Qinggu area, how to investigate is their own business.

The Alliance Government fully supports their work. A pastoral villa was arranged, with abundant pure natural food, a chef, and servants. They can enjoy the idyllic scenery that is hard to see in the nest city and those civilized planets.

There are no shortage of delicious food and fine wine. If they are bored, they can go to the southern edge of the Beiqing Valley area and hunt some deformed monsters as a hunting game… No, it’s an investigation.

Isn’t this more comfortable than squatting in the harsh environment of Korojia 3 and waiting for the arrival of the investigation team of the Sun Lord?

After settling the guys of this investigation team, Gu Hang hurried back to Fuxing City.

Because of the arrival of the 210,000 refugees and the investor team, Osena hurriedly put down her work, came to see the governor, and made a work report.

The development of the Angry Owl Star is the top priority, but Gu Hang doesn’t need to listen too much. In the past, they basically maintained a frequency of at least once a week and up to three times a week. Although he is not on the Angry Owl Star, he still knows the development of the alliance very well.

There are some more important things in it, which can be talked about separately.

For example, as an industrial center, Weixing City has a population of 5 million, which has doubled compared to more than a year ago. It is mainly due to the population siphoned from other regions.

The annual industrial output value of Weixing City has reached 11 million tax coins, and the per capita output value has exceeded 2, which is double the per capita annual output value of the empire standard.

The concept of 1 tax coin is originally set by the central government of the empire as the ‘total output value of an imperial citizen in a year under standard conditions’.

Of course, this is only the per capita output value of Weixing City that exceeds 2, and other places are far from it. Fuxing City has 1.2 million people, but it is only over 1; due to the huge land resources and high per capita planting area in the Beiqing Valley area, it can reach 1.9 tax coins; other places are all under 1.

Another thing, which is also the key thing reported by Ossena, is the situation after the western part of the continent, including the Western Desert area, has been completely recovered.

After destroying the Blackbird Heavy Industry entrenched in the west of the continent, the alliance has no enemies on the entire Angry Owl Star.

The entire Angry Owl Star is still a planet dominated by oceans. In the pre-war era, the natural environment was quite good and the living standards of residents were very high. It can be regarded as a combination of a garden world and a high-level resource planet.

The land area of the entire planet only accounts for about 36%. The main body of the alliance is currently located in the main continent, which is about 22% of the entire planet. There are two other continents, with an area of 9% and 5% of the planet respectively.

However, although the main continent is said to be destroyed, there are still fertile lands such as the Qinggu area; the natural environment of other lands is terrible, but as long as you avoid the waste energy storm, you can still live. Even

in the Western Desert Bad Land with the worst natural environment, there are star oases and groundwater systems that can be used for planting factories below. In addition to feeding a large population, it is also capable of exporting food. The other two continents are almost completely unsuitable for human survival. They were originally the main mining sites of the Angry Owl Star in the past. Now the two continents and the surrounding seas are shrouded by the never-ending waste energy storm all day long.

According to the intelligence obtained in the past, there is indeed no sign of any activity on the two continents.

From this point of view, the alliance can be regarded as clearly unifying the entire world.

Unify the world!

Become the ruler of a planet in every sense!

Although this is the goal that Gu Hang has set for himself since he came to this world two and a half years ago, he never doubted that he could do it. But when all this became a reality, he still couldn’t help feeling a little emotional.

Before crossing, he was just an ordinary person, how could he have thought that there would be such a day for him?

However, Gu Hang didn’t feel very excited.

If it weren’t for the series of events caused by Gallardo and this trip to Korojia, Gu Hang might be more excited.

But now, when the vast sea of stars is no longer just a background board in memory, but has truly become the stage he is going to step on, he realizes how small the power of himself and a planet is here.

The only way is to forge ahead.

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