Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 320

320. Chapter 319, Black Arrow Star Strategy

In theory, the position of the governor of Black Arrow Star is now controlled by Gu Hang.

The current “governor” is Ness Luman, and this king is indeed under the control of Gu Hang at this moment. Not only is his brain controlled by Gu Hang, but the country’s military, politics, and economy are also controlled by the alliance.

But this control does not represent the alliance’s control over the entire Black Arrow Star.

Ness Luman’s position as governor comes from the special political ecology of Black Arrow Star: the King’s Council.

The person nominated by the King’s Council will temporarily serve as the candidate for the governor of Black Arrow Star until the next election.

After the last opening of the King’s Council, the Kingdom of Luman, which stood on the wrong side in the previous war and was beaten by the army of the Angry Owl Star, deservedly lost the seat of governor.

According to the political tradition of Black Arrow Star, Ness should have stepped down after the previous tax collection was completed.

But he occupied the position after the King’s Council. The specific manifestation is that he did not go to the star district government to submit the process of resignation and the nomination of the next governor.

In the past of Black Arrow Star, some people did this, but the ending was quite unpleasant.

The reason is that the governor of this planet is essentially the entity of the “King’s Council”.

The King’s Council itself certainly does not have power, but what it represents is very important. The seven most powerful countries on the planet, with a number of scattered small countries, discuss major issues in this council. The most important thing is that everyone finds a way to collect the imperial taxes that each country should pay and pay them together to maintain the stability of the entire planet.

Occupy the position of governor and refuse to pay?

It has never been that you can dominate the planet by becoming a governor, but only those who can dominate the planet can become the real governor.

No matter how this dominance comes from.

Obviously, the current Ness Luman, or the alliance behind him, is not able to dominate Black Arrow Star. The other kings on that planet are not convinced.

After Ness Luman refused to hand over the position of governor, they chose a new governor in the King’s Council. This person is the largest kingdom on Black Arrow Star, Panbos.

They have begun to mobilize their own relationships, trying to seek recognition from the Empire.

Of course, the influence of these sub-kings in the political arena is too weak. Not to mention the star region government, even the star region government has no way to go, not to mention the current political situation in the star region is in a mess.

Their past connections were mainly with Gu’s Trading Company and the Mechanicus in the star region. But the former is now on the side of Ness Luman. When they came to them, the people in Gu’s Trading Company basically persuaded them to accept their fate; as for the latter, the Mechanicus in the Pegasus Star Region has very low influence. To be honest, this place is more like the territory of the state religion. The organization is complete, the influence is relatively large, and there is even a headquarters of the Sisters.

In short, they will be suppressed to death if they pursue a political line.

But they obviously don’t count on this aspect.

While actively active, their actions within the planet are more important.

They have declared that they refuse to remit imperial taxes to the Kingdom of Luman. The Kingdom of Panbos is responsible for the relevant tax work and has almost received the support of the remaining 85% of the country.

The annual imperial tax on Black Arrow Star is 40 million tax coins.

The Kingdom of Luman cannot fill this hole by itself, and Gu Hang cannot sell everything he has to bear it. The entire Black Arrow Star must pay for it.

So what to do?

The only way is to fight a war.

In fact, a war has already been fought.

However, it was not Gu Hang who took action.

Over there, the King of Panbos, after being elected as the new “Governor”, gathered an army and issued a warning to the Kingdom of Luman. At the same time, a copy of the warning was sent to Gu’s Trading Company through the Star Language Tower.

Their warning letter to the Kingdom of Luman was very harsh, accusing Ness Luman of being a traitor and listing the nine deadly sins.

However, their warning to Gu was relatively euphemistic, meaning that they had been doing business for many years and had always had a relatively friendly relationship. Black Arrow Star was very poor, and there was nothing here that was worth obtaining by Gu’s business except for trade. At the same time, the Black Arrows were also very brave. If even the only things they had were to be taken away, they would fight to the end at all costs.

This also showed their attitude, but Gu Hang ignored them.

The troops gathered by the King’s Council entered the territory of the Kingdom of Luman upon seeing this.

However, their determination to fight was obviously not so sufficient, and their logistical supply capabilities did not support them to really assemble a very large and elite army to invade the Kingdom of Luman on a large scale.

Among them, even the Knight Titan, even only the Kingdom of Panbos had one.

The newly established army of the Kingdom of Luman was definitely not their opponent. After all, the Luman people now did not even have many sentinel mechas.

But the subsequent Black Arrow Army was dispatched.

Under the fierce attack of the armored forces, the King’s coalition was beaten to a pulp. If they hadn’t retreated quickly, even the Knight Titan would have been left behind.

Perbov’s army gave the Black Arrows a little shock to the alliance.

But at this point, it was just a repel of the enemy’s attack, far from the point where the kings could admit defeat.

They didn’t have the courage to regroup their troops to attack the Kingdom of Luman on a large scale, so they could only adopt an economic blockade and small-scale border invasion to continue the hostile behavior.

Of course, they certainly couldn’t give the imperial tax to the Kingdom of Luman.

This was still a bit tricky for Gu Hang, but it was actually within his expectations. In the case of instructing Ness Luman not to give up the Governor of Black Arrow, the reaction of other countries on Black Arrow Star was predictable.

This matter could not be resolved peacefully, and a war must be needed to end it all.

Gu Hang wanted to annex the entire Black Arrow Star, and the other kingdoms were not made of clay, so of course they would resist.

Rather than saying this situation was an accident, it would be better to say that it was caused by Gu Hang.

He had been prepared for a war.

Especially now that the war on Angry Owl Star had almost completely subsided, the Alliance had enough strength to deal with this war.

Moreover, Gu Hang also had enough confidence to win.

Black Arrow Star had a population of 400 million, and Angry Owl Star only had 55 million including new immigrants. It seemed that the size difference between the two places was very large, but in fact it was not. The gap

between the industrial capacity and mobilization capacity between the two was too big.

The main military forces of the major kingdoms of Black Arrow Star, that is, the kingdom army, are at most at the level of militia in quality, and are very different from the regular army of the alliance in all aspects. Not to mention the organization, discipline and tactics, just in terms of hardware equipment, they don’t even have a complete G series of rifles. Many of them are “homemade guns and cannons” produced by their own kingdoms, and their range, power and accuracy are all worrying.

The only equipment that can be regarded as high-tech and can make the army of the alliance look up to them is the sentinel mecha and the knight Titan. However, the former performs mediocre on the front battlefield, and the latter is too small in number.

What’s worse is that the high-tech equipment of the kingdom army all depends on foreign trade, and the channel for this foreign trade is Gu’s Trading Company. This makes their ability to continue the war very weak. Once a fight breaks out, Gu’s Trading Company blocks the trade route, and their army will collapse after a long time.

However, although Gu Hang feels that he has a great chance of winning the war, and even the losses he may suffer will not be that high. However, he also has to face his own dilemma:

the name of war.

Of course, he could use Luman’s name to directly declare all other kingdoms on Black Arrow Star as rebels in the name of not paying imperial taxes, and then ask for help from the Star Army, the Angry Bear Legion, to quell the rebellion. The Alliance Army, in response to the Star Army, will go to Black Arrow Star on a large scale with the Angry Bear Legion to carry out the “quelling” mission.

This whole set of logic is smooth and compliant.

However, it is a bit too shameless and forced.

After all, the governor’s right to rule is guaranteed by the Empire, but there are many places to argue. For example, the situation of the King’s Council electing a governor has always been supported by the Empire according to the different political styles of each planet. The King’s Council of Black Arrow Star is also a system that has been reported and recognized by the Imperial Government.

What’s more, for thousands of years, Black Arrow Star has been operating under such a political system. No matter what name Gu Hang is in, others are not blind or stupid. How can they not see that you are doing annexation?

In the past, Gu Hang would not dare to do this.

Although this star sea is a world where the strong prey on the weak, under the human race and the unified government of the empire, doing this would be too much criticism, and it is very easy to be interfered with by other political forces at some step and fail under external interference.

Moreover, even if it succeeds, there are a lot of particularly difficult aftermath work to do, and if it goes wrong, you will have to spit out as much as you eat.

After all, Gu Hang still has to mix in the system of the empire.

The main reason why it can be done now is that the political situation in the entire Tianma star region has become completely chaotic, and Gu Hang can profit from the chaos.

In addition, it is precisely because of the chaos in the political situation that things that previously required a lot of interest exchanges and political compromises to get it done are now easier to obtain.

In the name of the Gu family, Gu Hang simultaneously issued a notice to the two major forces in the current star region that he was going to the Black Arrow Star to quell the rebellion.

This almost announced that Gu Hang wanted to annex the Black Arrow Star.

As for these two major forces, there was a core issue that Gu Hang was fighting for before.

That was about Blackbird Heavy Industry, an asset controlled by the Fache family, which was involved in the Iron Man Rebellion on the Angry Owl Star.

When the Fache family sent the Star Army to the Angry Owl Star to quell the Iron Man Rebellion, Major General Cai Minjin accepted the task of rushing into Blackbird City first to collect and destroy the relevant clues.

For them, this is very natural.

Indeed, our people from the Fache family have caused you trouble, so now I have sent a million Star Army to solve this trouble for you, so we should be even.

But obviously, the actual situation depends on the specific means. Cai Minjin couldn’t rush into Blackbird City first, and eventually let the Alliance loot it first.

Fache is guilty, they don’t know what is there, and Gu Hang didn’t say it, but… isn’t this fear?

At this critical juncture, they don’t want this mine to explode.

On the contrary, Xiao Pedes hoped that Gu Hang could hand over the mine to them, so that they would have a weapon that could attack the Fache family.

Not to mention how deadly it was, but linking the Iron Man Rebellion, which was originally characterized as an individual act, with the entire Fache family would obviously cause them a lot of trouble.

And here, Gu Hang also had the capital to exchange with both parties.

Black Arrow Star was originally just a small marginal place, with a population of 400 million, not even half the population of Korojia; there were no rich specialties, just an agricultural planet with a feudal system, which was really not critical.

Moreover, if Gu Hang wanted to go there, he would go there by himself, without any special help from others, just a nod from them.

So, after an exchange, Fache finally agreed not to make things difficult for Gu Hang on this matter. As long as he could settle the situation on Black Arrow Star before the next imperial tax payment, they would acquiesce to it.

After Gu Hang got a satisfactory answer, he quickly gave the other party a reassurance:

“I will never give the information of Blackbird Heavy Industry to Little Pedes as a weapon to attack Fachs.”

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“I will never give the information of Blackbird Heavy Industry to Fachs, so that they will have no worries at all.”

Turning around, Gu Hang also gave Little Pedes a reassurance.

Gu Hang heard that Little Pedes was furious. He was angry about the “betrayal” of Gu and Fofana before, and now, Gu Hang did not fully meet his requirements, did not give him the things, and it was even more impossible for him to stand up and identify the Fachs family.

But after all, Gu Hang did not completely vote for the other side.

Under the repeated persuasion of the staff and other cooperative forces, based on the principle of not getting hostile relations even if he could not get the support of the Gu family, he finally nodded, and his attitude was roughly the same as Fachs.

No help, no trouble.

That’s enough.

After solving the political problems, Gu Hang can finally start his fists.

The Central Army Group, half of the Angry Bear Legion on Angry Owl Star, the Phoenix Regiment… The troops that Gu Hang has decided to participate in the war are getting ready to set off.

They will board the transport ship mobilized by Gu’s Trading Company, board the ship from the port of Angry Owl Star, which has obviously expanded many times, and head to Black Arrow Star, taking the first step of the alliance’s conquest of the star sea.

And Gu Hang will also participate in this war personally.

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There is still one chapter, but it will be very late, maybe around four o’clock.

(End of this chapter)