Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 319

319. Chapter 318, not only interested, but also very big

After finishing the conversation with the head of Peides, several people said goodbye, and Gu Hang returned with his mother.

They didn’t say a word on the way, thinking about it. It was not

until they returned to their safe and stable residence that they began to talk about the whole thing.

Wang Qi reminded Gu Hang worriedly: “Governor Korojia… Don’t be confused. Now, this is a huge pit, not comparable to when you went to the Angry Owl Star alone. If you don’t handle it well, you and the entire Gu family will die without a burial place.”

“I understand, I won’t be fooled.” Gu Hang nodded, and sighed again, “It’s really a tempting piece of fat, but it’s a pity that it’s covered with dog shit.”

Gu Hang’s sigh was from the heart.

To be honest, when Peides proposed to push a member of the Gu family to serve as the governor of Korojia after Akuna’s death, he was really moved.

How could he not be moved? In comparison, the population of Korojia is a thousand times that of the Angry Owl Star!

If Gu Hang can control this planet, rely on the black box, and then complete the political and economic transformation of the entire planet, so that dozens of nests on the entire planet, with a total population of 40 billion, can burst out with strong productivity, then the value of this planet will become extremely huge!

But… it’s too difficult.

Korojia 3 is not the Angry Owl Star. There are too many local forces here, which are complicated; in terms of objective conditions, there is potential, but the huge population also brings terrible environmental pressure.

Gu Hang can’t simply copy his success on the Angry Owl Star to Korojia 3, which has a completely different ecology.

What’s more, the situation here is bad enough, and the political struggle in the Pegasus Star Region is superimposed. This is the core vortex; superimposed on the large-scale invasion of the plague demon, not only has it not been controlled, but it has a trend of getting worse…

This is what Gu Hang calls “fat meat covered with dog shit”.

Now is definitely not a good time to take over Korojia 3. At this point in time, whoever comes to power will be the scapegoat and the victim.

“Old Fofana didn’t accept Pedes’ invitation to run for the next district leader, right?” Gu Hang asked softly.

“Yes, General Fofana probably didn’t mean that.”

Gu Hang nodded slightly: “It’s easy to understand. They are a military family. What’s the point of running for the district leader? It’s not easy to stand in the front, but lack the support of political forces. The key is that there are no specific benefits after being elected, but you have to face the pressure of Fache.”

“Alas…” Wang Qi sighed, “It’s difficult.”

Gu Hang knew what his mother was sighing about.

Once Akuna and Pedes died, the investigation team of the Sun Lord did not come, and the investigation teams of the Star Domain and the Universe Domain patted their butts and left, leaving behind a huge mess.

The original balance of power in the Tianma Star Region will be directly broken.

Objectively speaking, Pedes is a very qualified district leader. Although there is a political enemy in the star region, Fache, who also has a huge influence on the Star Realm Army in the star region. However, he was able to firmly suppress the Fachers family in terms of population and production scale by supporting his brother to become the governor of Feiyi Star and uniting with Governor Akuna of Koroja. In addition, the alliance with the Fofana family and the use of the developed economic strength of Feiyi Star, especially the shipbuilding industry, strongly influenced the Imperial Navy.

In this case, he undoubtedly has a great advantage in the star zone, and is not a decorative leader like many other star zones.

What is more valuable is that he is a person who knows how to restrain himself. Despite the great advantages and the very bad relationship, he never pushed Fachers to death, lest the super powerful family that controls three planets and has a total population of over 10 billion people jump over the wall. All struggles can basically be controlled under the water, which objectively guarantees the stability of the entire star zone.

Although some operations were played out of control – such as trapping Gu Hang’s predecessor to become the governor of Angry Owl Star – but overall, he is an excellent leader who can generally control the stability of the Tianma Star Zone.

If this situation continues, the Pegasus region will continue to enjoy decades of peace. In the foreseeable future, no one can adjust the stable situation in the Pegasus region.

But… the disappearance of Gallardo completely broke the foundation of stability. The death of Akuna and Pedes represents the emergence of a huge power vacuum.

What will the Fachers family, which has been suppressed for the past few years, do?

How to quell the increasingly fierce evil demon invasion in Koroja?

The people above did not seem to have considered this issue much. They just hastily and arbitrarily killed two people and let them “take responsibility”, and then declared the end.

Gu Hang was also powerless to do anything about it… Oh, it seems that I caused all this?

But to be honest, although he was the initiator, he did not expect things to develop in this direction.

It can only be said that the inherent political contradictions in the star region and the crisis that Koroja itself is experiencing can no longer be held after Gu Hang’s poke.

…

Then, old Fofana brought his granddaughter Ye Lishi to visit the Gu mother and son.

As expected by Wang Qi and Gu Hang, the Fofana family had no intention of taking over. After the death of Pedes, they did not want to be pushed to the front and confront those forces that were secretly preparing to move.

But the situation that followed began to go towards chaos.

The next day, Pedes ended his life decently, and the investigation teams hurriedly took the bodies of Akuna and Pedes and left Koroga 3. Next, the two forces in the star region began to fight all-out. On

one side was Faches, who heard the news and began to fight for the position of Governor of Koroga 3 and the head of the Pegasus Star Region.

Unlike other places, Faches has three civilized planets as capital in his left hand, and has a huge influence on the Star Army of the Dragon Eagle 3rd Legion in his right hand. If they take over Koroga, they really have the ability to stabilize the situation here.

Now, there are seven million Star Army soldiers fighting here, but they are fully capable of doubling this number within a year; if it is not enough, the planetary defense forces on the three planets can transfer tens of millions more.

This is a huge advantage in terms of size.

Once they control Koroja, plus the original three planets of Fats 1/2/3, the population they control will reach more than 50 billion, almost 80% of the population of the entire star region.

With this power, they will take the position of the head of the Pegasus star region, and they will become the undisputed local emperor of the entire star region and return to the glory of the family.

The so-called family glory refers to the history of the Fats family.

Before the Pegasus Star Region was recovered by the Empire, the Fachers family was the one who ruled here. After the golden age of mankind, the major worlds fell apart and each ruled their own territories. The Fachers family grew rapidly in that dark age. They controlled three planets in the galaxy, formed a three-star political alliance, and became the ruler of it.

After the end of the dark age, when the Empire’s fleet came to the Fachers Galaxy, they offered three planets, surrendered to the Empire, and actively participated in the Empire’s expedition, which also allowed them to retain the position of governor of the three planets afterwards and keep it in their family forever. Even, once controlled the entire Pegasus Star Region. Many of the past heads of the star region were controlled by the Fachers family.

Until the arrival of Pedes, this person in power who was a senior official of the star region government, in the decades since he became the head of the Pegasus Star Region, has vigorously suppressed the Fachers family’s control over the entire star region, and almost suppressed their influence back to their own star system.

Now is the perfect time for them to regain the family’s glory and become the “horse herders” of Pegasus again.

But at the same time, the other forces will not give up so easily.

Pedes is dead, but he is the only one who died. His political legacy is not dead, and even his brother is still the governor of Feiyi Star – from this, we can see how rough the empire is in solving the problems of the Pegasus star region.

But this is also very much like the style of the Empire.

Before his death, Pedesi had fought for enough things. He had a wide network of contacts in the Star Region Government, and even quite a number of people sympathized with his death, thinking that it was the Sun Lord who was messing around, and they all knew that he was the scapegoat.

He made good use of these, saved his brother’s position, and did not let Pedesi Jr. be implicated. He even tried to continue to pull Gu and Fofana and tie them together.

If all of Pedesi’s previous requests were fulfilled, it would be really stable.

Old Fofana was the leader, and he was still from his faction with the Imperial Navy; Gu found someone to be the Governor of Koroja, who was also from his faction; and Pedesi Jr. was still the Governor of Wing Star.

In this way, the original political entity that had completely suppressed the Fache family could still be preserved in general.

Originally, Pedesi might have many means to ensure that Gu and Fofana would follow his plan obediently. However, no matter how many means he had, they were useless. He had no time. After Gu and Fofana rejected his plan, he didn’t even have time to persuade and campaign for the second time, and his life was gone.

And little Pedes… in Gu Hang’s opinion, he didn’t have the ability of his brother at all.

After his brother’s death, he tore his face off and cursed Gu and Fofana in many meetings and banquets, calling them “traitors”; on the other hand, he fully launched the political legacy left by his brother and started a full-scale political war with Fache.

This war mainly has two battlefields, one is inside Koroja 3, and the other is the star domain government.

The birth of a new governor can be appointed by the empire, but the central government of the empire can’t take care of so many things. To put it bluntly, it is still reported by governments at all levels. Generally, there is no big problem, and the central government of the empire will approve it. Here, the government at the star domain level has a lot of say.

But at the same time, the identity of the governor means that he must have enough control over the entire planet. He is the top military and political leader, shouldering the heavy responsibility of the empire’s taxes. He must be able to settle the troubles on this planet and ensure that taxes can be paid normally.

No matter what the way to settle it is.

Is there an airborne governor? Of course there is. But as long as he is not the kind who messes with people and sends them to death, the airborne governor must be a “strong dragon” who comes to the planet with powerful resources to suppress the “local snake”.

Is the star domain government willing to send out such a strong dragon?

I’m afraid it is not willing.

Although the star domain government is large and strong, its resources are also limited.

Another way is to choose one from the local snake, and there will be no problem.

If this model is adopted, the star domain government will fully consider the situation inside the star region and the planet and find someone they think can stabilize the situation.

This is the point that Fache and Little Pedes are arguing about.

On Yunluo Star, officials at all levels of the star domain government who can speak will probably continue to welcome lobbyists in the next period of time.

And the other battlefield, that is, inside the planet, is a step to select this “local snake”.

To put it bluntly, both companies are looking for a spokesperson. This spokesperson must be strong enough to unite other local forces and stand on their side.

I’m afraid that all kinds of solicitation and exchange of interests are inevitable.

This is just on the surface.

In secret, assassinations, lies, conspiracies, frame-ups, and false accusations… are all inevitable.

Gu’s and Fofana leaned together, which probably showed a bit of neutrality, but who can be really neutral?

Gu’s was fine, at least not long ago, there was such a past that tried to repair the relationship with Fachs; when Gu Hang was on the Angry Owl Star, he threatened Fachs a little and made them bleed, but to put it bluntly, he was also cleaning up their asses, and the evidence of the Iron Man Rebellion obtained from the Blackbird was hidden and not handed over to Pedes.

But Fofana is different. They have participated in the suppression of Fachs before.

Everyone has a grudge.

Over the years, the alliance between Gu’s and Fufana and Pedes has made the two sides have a complex and close relationship, which is difficult to break away from.

To put it bluntly, the Pegasus Fleet is in the star zone; Gu’s business is also mainly active in the star zone, and the Angry Owl Star is also in the star zone. This vortex that will gradually affect the entire star zone will definitely not be completely avoided by you here.

Wang Qi has been visibly busy, and has repeatedly expressed dissatisfaction with his son’s leisurely and laziness.

But Gu Hang just smiled and perfunctorily said a few words every time, and did not really participate.

It’s not that he doesn’t care, but he has other things to do.

Does your quarrel have much to do with me?

Taking advantage of this opportunity, it is true to get some real benefits.

There are two things he is eyeing.

The first is, of course, the population.

The least valuable thing on Korojia 3, but the most precious thing in Gu Hang’s eyes, is the population.

Apart from the population, this world is useless in his eyes.

At least he had Governor Akuna before, and behind him was Pedes. Now, all of these are gone, and it will be easier and more convenient for Gu Hang to recruit people.

As for the second thing he set his sights on, it was the position of Governor of Black Arrow Star.

He had no interest in being the Governor of Korojia, at least not now, because he was neither a local tyrant nor a powerful figure in a place as big as Korojia.

But he was not only interested in being the Governor of Black Arrow Star, but also very interested.

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