Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 326

326. Chapter 325, New King’s Council

, with no leader and being beaten whenever they tried to unite, the remaining million-strong army of the Kingdom of Stefano was broken into warlords of all sizes.

The largest army that gathered together once reached 400,000 people. They accepted the invitation of the Kingdom of Panbos and went to the area near the border to try to retreat.

But this retreat was stopped.

When crossing the river, the ferry and the troops waiting to cross the river were attacked by the wind falcon; the support troops on the other side were attacked by the special warfare elites and forced to evacuate.

Then, the remnants of Stefano’s army, which lacked supplies and had no hope, had to choose to surrender completely in the attack of multiple armored brigades and infantry divisions.

Then, only a small part of the alliance army was left, leading the kingdom army mobilized from the Kingdom of Luman and the surrendered troops selected from Stefano’s prisoner-of-war camp to form a defense army to ensure the maintenance of the capital and surrounding areas, as well as the logistics supply lines.

The rest of the troops gathered again and headed towards the neighboring Black Arrow Star’s largest kingdom, Panpos.

At this time, the political turmoil caused by the horrific record of the Stefano Kingdom, which was destroyed in just 47 days since the start of the war, had spread all over the world.

The King’s Council was extremely terrified and even shouted in despair that “the Angry Owl Star people will rule the world”;

while some kingdoms took more practical actions.

In fact, at this moment, it was not only Queen Ispsi who was deep in the Pinsel Palace.

Thirteen countries, either monarchs came or sent ambassadors of solemn status, came here.

These are basically small countries. Among the seven most important kingdoms on the Black Arrow Star, only Luman and Stefano are here.

At the same time, the King’s Council, which had originally severed diplomatic relations with the Luman Kingdom, also sent diplomats to the other five most important countries.

This is exactly what Gu Hang has been busy with during this period.

After he signed the last document, he finally raised his head, looked at the Queen of Iron Curtain, and said:

“Sorry to have kept you waiting.”

“Listen carefully to what I say next.”

“There is no room for bargaining. This is a unilateral notice. You can only choose to agree or not.”

Ispusi took a deep breath: “I understand, you say.”

What the governor was going to say next was related to the fate of her country. Although she could not change anything about it and could only passively accept the judgment of fate, she was still very serious.

“First of all, all kingdoms will be retained.”

Gu Hang’s first sentence made Ispusi breathe a sigh of relief.

This is the biggest issue of survival.

What she feared most was that this governor was determined to exterminate the Kingdom of Stefano.

Although she rationally judged that the probability of this happening was actually very low, as long as it happened, the Kingdom of Stefano would now be completely defenseless.

Ispusi’s demeanor was seen by Gu Hang.

He also sighed slightly in his heart.

If possible, why wouldn’t he want to directly implement the alliance’s management system on Black Arrow Star, and copy the alliance government’s system here in an all-round way, to ensure that a highly centralized government with strong control over local civil affairs, industry, and military can be established on Black Arrow Star?

But that’s unrealistic.

Gu Hang was able to build such a system from scratch on Angry Owl Star because he really spent two and a half years from head to toe to overthrow almost all the original ruling classes on Angry Owl Star.

It sounds exaggerated, but it’s not.

Angry Owl Star is a whole planet, but first of all, with a population of 45 million, the scale is not as large as imagined; secondly, in the wasteland environment of Angry Owl Star, the original ruling class is also quite fragile, and it is not difficult to destroy it.

But it’s different on Black Arrow Star.

This is a complete feudal society with a deep-rooted ruling class. If Gu Hang wants to completely eliminate it, the resistance he will face will be too great. If he had enough power to capture all the nobles and hang them, that would be a solution, but he didn’t.

After all these years of management, the productivity of Angry Owl Star is indeed much more developed than the feudal world of Black Arrow Star, but the problems of insufficient population and short development time are objective. With a population of 55 million, swallowing up the Black Arrow Star with a population of 400 million is like a snake swallowing an elephant.

It’s not that it can’t be swallowed, but it’s unrealistic to expect to digest it immediately.

It’s not easy to clean up the local ruling class. For example, although the Kingdom of Stefano has been defeated now, 200,000 people were captured in the royal city and 400,000 people were captured in the border evacuation, but the noble warlords and landlord warlords who were broken into pieces on the ground, if you want to say there is any threat, then there is no threat; but if you want to clean them up, you have to divide the troops for many years to gnaw them one by one.

But there are threats from other kingdoms. How can Gu Hang have the time to gnaw them?

Not to mention, if you really gnaw them, the follow-up will be the real trouble.

In order to build a complete set of subsequent efficient administrative systems, a large number of loyal and reliable administrative personnel are needed. This is somewhat difficult in the Alliance itself, and Zhongsi College needs to step up its efforts to fight corruption, not to mention on the Black Arrow Star.

Considering various factors, Gu Hang decided to adopt the strategy of eating first and then digesting.

In fact, when he first conquered the Qinggu region and the eastern provinces on the Angry Owl Star, he also adopted this strategy, and had to temporarily leave a large number of the original ruling class, not to mention on the alien planet.

On this basis, Gu Hang had to give these original kings and nobles a glimmer of hope, so that they felt that the Alliance was not going to kill them all. Otherwise, he would certainly encounter the strongest resistance. After

making it clear that the kingdom would be retained, Gu Hang made it clear again.

“As long as the nobles in various places act in accordance with the laws of the Alliance, the Alliance will fully respect your rights.”

This is the second guarantee given by Gu Hang.

At the same time, he also gave favorable conditions:

“The Alliance and the Gu family will continue to provide various types of assistance to Black Arrow Star to help gradually establish a more modern agricultural production and industrial system on the Black Arrow Star’s homeland.”

If it was a decadent feudal emperor, he might not be interested in this so-called support, but Ispsi was not.

She even felt a sense of joy.

In the past, Black Arrow Star was not without people of insight who wanted to make some changes. But firstly, the conservative forces within the planet were too stubborn, and secondly, it was difficult to import production lines from outside. The equipment and technology needed for industrial upgrading through Gu’s Company were too expensive.

Now, both problems seemed to be solved.

Governor Gu had largely cleared out the conservative stubborn forces of the past, and the latter’s technical assistance even sounded free.

This made Ispusi look a little bit unbelievable.

Gu Hang said: “The Alliance will not simply regard Black Arrow Star as a ruled country. Compared with gaining 400 million slaves, I hope that the Alliance can increase 400 million citizens and hope that the kingdoms of Black Arrow Star can truly become members of the Alliance.”

Everyone can say nice words, but Ispusi heard a sincerity in Governor Gu’s words.

She felt that Gu Hang really thought so.

This made her happy and worried.

The good thing was that her kingdom seemed to be less likely to suffer;

the worry was that after all this, would the kingdom still be a kingdom?

She couldn’t help but ask, “So… what’s the price?”

Gu Hang chuckled and said, “First, each kingdom will have a special commissioner from the alliance stationed there. From military to administration to economic development, the special commissioners of the alliance have the power to intervene directly. Our special commissioners will do their best to help each kingdom get back on track.”

“We will establish a new King’s Council and invite all the kingdoms to join. This new King’s Council is different from the past and will take on greater responsibilities. The succession of the thrones of each country must be approved by the King’s Council; the military forces of each country will be uniformly deployed by the allied system established by the new King’s Council. There will also be special commissioners from the alliance in the King’s Council, and they will be regarded as part of the alliance government as a whole…”

“On this basis, the King’s Council guarantees the survival of each kingdom and the rights of each royal family and nobles, but in the same way, you also need to follow the rules set by the King’s Council.”

This set of things made Ispsi feel very heavy.

She could realize the ambition of the alliance wrapped in a series of words that sounded quite mild.

The most important point here is that after participating in this new King’s Council, each country has actually lost its independent military power.

All military forces will be taken away by the alliance.

This so-called new king’s parliament is obviously just a shell under the control of the alliance. Parliament, parliament, what is there to discuss? It’s nothing more than the kings sitting here, listening to the people of the alliance.

And when they can’t control their own military power, it’s like a knife across their necks in someone else’s hands. The so-called non-interference in internal affairs is pure nonsense.

If someone says not to interfere, then don’t interfere. What can you do when you want to interfere? Isn’t it just to do what they say?

As for other things, such as the replacement of the king requires the approval of the parliament; each country will station observers and can intervene in specific government affairs, which becomes a matter of course. The knife is in their hands, can’t they do whatever they want?

She opened her mouth and instinctively wanted to bargain.

But looking at the smile on Gu Hang’s face, she suddenly remembered what Governor Gu said just now.

There is no room for bargaining. This is a unilateral announcement.

So how should she choose?

If yes, Stefano will be assimilated into a member of the alliance in the future, and even the name may change from a country to a simple place name. But at least, the kingdom can be preserved for the time being, and it sounds like the people here will be treated well.

If you choose no, you will die.

She will die first, but she is not afraid. But what about the follow-up? The alliance has a lot of ways to find a descendant of Stefano’s royal family to be the king. The final outcome will not be any different from if she chooses “yes”.

In the end, she could only nod helplessly to show that she understood.

…

The alliance moved very quickly.

The new king’s council was convened four days later.

Under the protests of the other five major countries of Black Arrow Star and diplomats of more than 40 small countries, the new king’s council was declared established.

Four countries that participated in the new king’s council eventually chose to refuse to join.

It doesn’t matter, it’s normal.

Gu Hang will not go to trouble them for the time being.

The new governor of Black Arrow Star will still be elected by Ness Luman, and the member states include Stefano.

The alliance destroyed Stefano, the second largest country on the planet, in more than 40 days. The strong performance of capturing the Iron Curtain Queen did cause a great shock. In addition, seven small countries chose to join the new King’s Council.

According to the requirements, their army, totaling more than 200,000 people, will be assembled to form an alliance with the 300,000 troops of the Kingdom of Luman, and accept the leadership of Major General Perbov, the commander-in-chief of the alliance and the commander of the Black Arrow Star Army Group.

In addition, the new King’s Council will also establish a new Stefano Kingdom government with the authorization of Queen Ispsi, and require the uncontrolled nobles, landlords and warlords in various places to swear allegiance, otherwise they will be traitors and will be cleared.

This part of the work is handed over to the new alliance.

And Stefano’s new government is composed of some local nobles who have surrendered, some are expatriates from the Kingdom of Luman, and some are officials of the alliance. They will also make every effort to transform the 600,000 captured Stefano troops, with the goal of selecting 200,000 people from them to join the new alliance.

Ispsi played a great role in it.

She is the head of state and the queen. She is not a nominal monarch. She has been a real ruler for the past ten years. When she joined the Alliance, she was of great help to the Alliance’s operations in the Kingdom of Stefano.

Of course, because of this, the Alliance is also wary of her.

Now, she is always under the close supervision of more than four demon hunters, and the areas she enters and leaves must be guaranteed to be completely under the military control of the Alliance.

If she runs away and is caught by the remaining resistance organizations in Stefanone, it will be a big trouble.

Especially now that the Alliance’s occupation power here is not strong.

At this moment, the Alliance’s top target is still the Kingdom of Panpos.

The main army has already entered the territory of the Kingdom of Panpos.

At this moment, in this number one power on the Black Arrow Star, there are more than two million troops, more than two thousand sentinel mechas, and twelve Knight Titans.

This is already a military force that the Alliance Army cannot ignore.

(End of this chapter)