Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 339

339. Chapter 338, Army Expansion

In Gu Hang’s opinion, Korojia No. 3 is now a world full of despair.

Let him be the governor of Korojia?

That is equivalent to asking him to jump into this cesspool with bare hands and purify it.

The difficulty is too high.

For him, Korojia has only one function at this stage: to absorb population.

In the past year, the Alliance has taken more than 8 million people from there and migrated to the Angry Owl Star. This was obtained through the Support Act, arms production and military support. The Alliance paid a lot for this, of course, compared with the population gain, it is definitely a huge profit.

The population sucked from Korojia has generally brought the population of the Angry Owl Star to more than 65 million.

It’s enough to keep taking people. Gu Hang doesn’t want to touch anything else for the time being.

Even the Black Arrow Star with a population of 400 million is almost indigestible, let alone Korojia with a population of 40 billion.

Gu Hang has no ability to transform that extremely populous planet into what he wants.

Moreover, can you get such a huge benefit from Koroja No. 3 just by wanting it?

Faches spent so much effort to get the position of governor, and if Gu Hang goes to grab it, it is equivalent to a direct war.

Laois said that there is also a political faction represented by Martinelli and Little Pedes that needs to support him, but how can this be done?

This so-called “parliamentary faction” refers to a political faction in the Dragon Eagle Star Region. Its most important core is in the star region government, and its philosophy is to strive for the position of the head of each star region and support the party center of the star region government.

The former head of Pedes was the product of this plan.

After Pedes’ death, the parliamentary faction immediately selected Ivan Martinelli from the party and continued to hold the position of the head of the important star region of Tianma.

But getting the position of the head is only the first step.

Why did Pedes have the final say in the Tianma Star Region before? Because the governors of Koroja and Feiyi Star were all his people.

To put it bluntly, whether the words of the head of the star zone count or not depends entirely on how many governors support him. A head without support is just a decoration.

Martinelli’s words are not effective now because the three planets of Fachs don’t listen to him, and Koroga doesn’t listen to him either.

The core of the parliamentary faction has always been to defeat Ivan Fachs and take back Koroga.

Can Gu Hang be a dog of the parliamentary faction?

Obviously not. If he really went to great lengths to stabilize the problem of Koroga, it was for his own “alliance”, not to be a thug of the parliamentary faction.

This is a fundamental contradiction.

If Gu Hang wants to make Koroga completely his own, he will have to stand on the opposite side of the two sides who are fighting fiercely over Koroga.

It’s really hard to deal with.

After turning these thoughts over in his mind several times, Gu Hang basically gave up on this aspect.

Of course, Gu Hang didn’t refuse directly.

He smiled and asked, “If Koroja really joins the alliance, can it be turned into a war zone?”

“I told you, that’s unrealistic.”

“My army has been fighting in Koroja now, and I know it very well. It’s really rotten there, and Koroja has to pay 8 billion tax coins every two years. Koroja can’t stand it.”

“Don’t we need a great man to come and save the world? You have already saved the Wrathful Owl Star, and you are still saving the Black Arrow Star. Let’s have another Koroja.”

“I’m far from being a great man.” Gu Hang refused to flatter. “The situation in Koroja is completely different from that of the Wrathful Owl Star and the Black Arrow Star. Unless the star domain government can fully support me, turn Koroja into a war zone, and give me full support, so that I can let go for a few years, otherwise the problems there can’t be solved at all.”

When it comes to the support, Lao Yisi was silent.

If you can give so much support, what do you need to do?

All this support is given to Ivan Fachers. He has his own family as a backing. Can’t he solve the problem?

Gu Hang saw through Lao Yisi’s thoughts.

He felt that Ivan Fachs didn’t have the ability.

But he just smiled and didn’t argue about it.

After thinking for a while, Gu Hang decided to tell some of the truth in his heart: “Ms. Lao Yisi, in my opinion, there are many bleeding wounds of all sizes within the star domain, which is true. But the problems must be solved one by one, from small to large, from the key to the edge. Korojia is such a place. It is relatively small, but it is critical enough. Instead of dragging this wound to continue to fester for the so-called overall situation, it is better to make up your mind and solve it here first. If it is dragged on, Korojia’s problems will continue to worsen, which will be the biggest damage to the overall situation.”

“The star domain government also knows this truth.” Lao Yisi said this and didn’t say anything more.

Gu Hang understood it at this point.

Others were just perfunctory and didn’t really care about his suggestions.

He also tacitly didn’t say anything more.

Lao Yisi also roughly understood Gu Hang’s thoughts, and knew that he had no intention to take over Koroja 3, so she couldn’t help but feel a little disappointed.

However, she was not particularly disappointed.

This matter was originally just a whim after she saw the changes in Black Arrow Star and Angry Owl Star, and it was not a decision made by the star region government.

If Gu Hang agreed, she might put in some effort to push it forward. If he didn’t agree, then forget it.

If you want to be more serious, what the Fachers family couldn’t solve, how could Gu Hang, who has a shallow foundation, definitely be able to solve it?

Lao Yisi stopped talking and started to remind him of another matter: “Although you are not very willing to be the governor of Korojia, you still have to shoulder some responsibilities for the affairs there. After all, you have another identity, the commander of a Star Army Corps. Your Angry Bear Corps will at least expand three to five times in the next few years…”

Seeing that Gu Hang seemed to be about to speak, Lao Yisi waved his hand and interrupted: “Don’t rush to refuse. In fact, there is no room for refusal. This is initiated by the Star Army system, and the Military Affairs Department approved it in response to relevant needs. No one here is causing trouble for you. It is purely because your army performed very well on Korojia 3. The commanders of the Dragon Eagle Corps hope to increase the size of your corps; the Governor of Korojia also applied to increase the size of your army.”

Gu Hang scratched his head. It sounded like there was really no room for refusal.

He said: “Increase the troops and equipment of the troops, as well as logistical supplies…”

Lao Yisi immediately said, “Don’t worry, everything will follow the normal procedures of the Star Army.”

Gu Hang was really relieved.

He smiled and said, “How long can you stay in the Pegasus Star Region?”

“About six or seven days.”

“That should be enough. I hope to invite you to my engagement ceremony.”

“Engagement ceremony?” Lao Yisi said in surprise, “I have heard rumors before, but I didn’t expect it to be true. Congratulations to you and Major General Ye Lixia.”

“Congratulations.” Gu Hang responded with a smile.

…

For Gu Hang, it is not impossible to expand the Angry Bear Legion. After all, it is his own army and is completely under his control.

However, it is not possible to do it for free.

Even if it is not free, Gu Hang is not very happy to let more alliance troops transfer to the Angry Bear Legion, even if he is paid. Among them, the most important point is that the alliance’s focus for a long time in the future is to digest the immigrant population of Black Arrow Star and Angry Owl Star. It is to take advantage of the surge in population size to vigorously carry out production and construction. Gu Hang does not have so much manpower to invest hundreds of thousands of hundreds of thousands in the construction of the Angry Bear Legion.

But if it is the standard construction process of the Star Army, there will be no problem.

After agreeing on the expansion of the Angry Bear Legion, Lao Yisi left.

She is a busy person. It is really a great honor and treatment for her to take the time to come and meet Gu Hang.

However, after she left, some other members of the team stayed behind.

On the one hand, the tax settlement work of the two planets was still going on, and on the other hand, it was about the expansion of the Angry Bear Legion.

The two leaders had already discussed the general intention, but if things were to be done properly, wouldn’t it be up to the people below to negotiate the details and actually push forward to really get it done? Among

the team she brought, there were people from the Military Affairs Department.

The work of the Military Affairs Department was the formation and logistics of the Star Army and the Imperial Navy. Although it did not have battlefield command power, nor did it have the responsibility to mobilize troops and issue military missions, logistics and the formation of new armies were extremely important responsibilities.

The person who talked to the Military Affairs Department was not Gu Hang himself, but the Logistics Department of the Angry Bear Legion… Oh, in fact, the Angry Bear Legion did not have any Logistics Department, it was just that the Logistics Bureau of the Alliance Military and Political Department hung a new sign.

According to the bosses on both sides, the Angry Bear Legion would expand to more than 500,000 people next. At present, the Angry Bear Legion has only 180,000 people at full strength. There is a gap of more than 300,000 people in between.

According to the army building mechanism of the Angry Bear Legion, the newly expanded 300,000 people finally negotiated to add 30 divisions and brigades according to the military organization of the alliance.

The newly expanded troops are numbered from 73 to 102, including 8 armored combined brigades and 22 infantry divisions. The total force is 320,000, and the total cost is 9 million tax coins.

Including the previous troops of the Angry Bear Legion, the total force has reached 510,000, with a total cost of 13 million tax coins.

The money spent on building the army is secondary, and raising and using the army is also a high consumption. If the battle is maintained at a normal intensity, it will cost an extra year to build the army; and if the battle intensity is higher, then the price will be unlimited. After all, in some high-intensity battlefields, a division may be destroyed in one day.

But since the Angry Bear Legion has become the Star Army, all the expenses of these 500,000 people fighting are the burden of the empire.

The Alliance will provide all logistical support, including equipment and personnel, but these will be paid for by the Empire, and the Star Army or the Military Affairs Department will need to place an order with the Alliance.

Moreover, Gu Hang does not want the Black Arrow Star or the Angry Owl Star to send the additional 300,000 troops, so the Military Affairs Department will have to find a way to transfer manpower from other places.

There are a lot of taxes in the tax fleet, and more importantly, Korojia No. 3 is the place with the largest population.

However, Korojia cannot hand in 300,000 qualified troops – if there were these troops, they would have been sent to fight long ago.

After several rounds of negotiations, the Alliance’s Military Logistics Department – oh, the Logistics Department of the Angry Bear Legion – finally generously stated that 310,000 regular manpower would be enough, and you can pay the difference for the rest, and we will find a way ourselves.

The difference is 1.5 million tax coins. In fact, the training of these soldiers and political commissars will cost Gu Hang 4,000 points of grace in the future.

To put it bluntly, Gu Hang is equivalent to exchanging 4,000 grace points for 1.5 million tax coins.

In fact, he didn’t want to do this business, but he had no choice.

Even if the Military Affairs Department provided him with Star Army soldiers according to the so-called standard of 10 tax coins/person, Gu Hang would still go to train. Although, in theory, 10 tax coins/person should be the standard level of Star Army soldiers, theoretically they have reached the level of T5 soldiers and do not need training.

However, everyone knows the actual situation.

If they really accept those soldiers, it would be good if one-third of them can reach the T5 level, and the rest are at best some show goods.

Anyway, they have to be retrained again, so it is better to directly send ordinary people. As long as they are healthy, the [Soldier Card] training system will naturally raise the quality of the soldiers to the appropriate level.

It can also save 1.5 million tax coins.

Of course, this is not compliant.

But compliance is something that people have the final say. The bureaucrats in the Military Affairs Department have only seen people scolding them for the low quality of the soldiers they provide every day, and this is the first time they have seen low-quality soldiers.

Doesn’t this give them an opportunity to take advantage of it? It

was quite difficult to find such opportunities in the past, but now this is too easy to make money.

Of course, the big share has to go to the alliance, but it would be nice to get a little share.

…

The people below are discussing the specific details of the military expansion, so Gu Hang naturally doesn’t need to participate much. He just needs to take a look at the report at the end. It’s fine as long as the whole situation is roughly within expectations.

In fact, he will also leave his territory and go to Feiyi Star soon.

His engagement ceremony was held at the star port of Feiyi Star.

On the other side, it was Ye Lixia.

This marriage is of course an out-and-out political marriage. Ms. Wang Qi has been in contact with the Fofana family for a long time and decided on this marriage.

This idea came from Wang Qi personally. She felt that:

first, Gu Hang was old enough to get married;

second, the Fofana family was a good marriage partner. One family was a member of the Imperial Chamber of Commerce, and the other had a very deep influence in the Imperial Navy. The marriage would definitely be effective;

third, in terms of political factions, after the death of Pedes, Fofana got out of the vortex of the struggle between the “Parliamentary Faction” and Faches, and is currently a neutral third party like the Gu family.

This third party sounds comfortable, and you don’t have to fight with others, but it’s actually not easy to be one. If you don’t do it right, you will offend both sides at the same time and be caught in the middle.

Neutral people without strength will not be taken seriously; neutral people with strength will be feared by others.

But in general,

it is better to have strength than to have no strength. If Gu and Fofana join together at the level of a neutral third party, it will be a good reinforcement.

Of course, by now, Ms. Wang Qi has fully recognized her son’s status and will not act on her own. Before pushing this matter forward, she also fully consulted Gu Hang’s opinion.

Gu Hang agreed.

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