Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 375

Chapter 374: Alpha-Class Psychic

Gu Hang never dared to underestimate the state religion. Although they did not have nominal military power, their greatest weapon was influence. But this thing was already very terrifying.

If the pope of the state religion, or a cardinal with great influence, really declared someone or a place to be a heretic, or claimed a place occupied by aliens or chaos cults, it would very likely lead to the start of a holy war. The

bishop’s subordinates may not have conventional armed forces outside the Sisters, but they can call on all governors and imperial military forces in several star regions in the name of “holy war”.

And if they want to do so, they often succeed. There are many examples in the historical records of the empire.

This is not power, order or mandatory requirement, but the appeal brought by influence.

But it is precisely this influence and appeal that makes the governments at all levels of the empire from the central to the local level quite vigilant.

My goodness, after the state religion caused political unrest that affected the entire empire, they had been put on layers of tight spells, but now they still have such a strong influence.

Who is not afraid of this?

In places where the state religion is strong, let’s not talk about those government officials who have faith in their minds. Officials under normal circumstances will restrict this.

Of course, this will cause contradictions or even conflicts, which depends on personal means and local conditions.

Gu Hang felt much more at ease because there was no trouble on Koroja.

The core reason was that not long after the last war ended, Gu Hang gained huge prestige and military power, and his status as the commander of the war zone was still there. Bishop Zhao Qinghong was not a particularly strong person. Although he had a good mass base, he was not satisfied with the cancellation of privileges, but he weighed the compensation given by Gu Hang, such as the promise to support missionary work and the special allocation of the Union Government; and then weighed the consequences of the riot, especially the riot without the support of the nuns…

Forget it, let it be.

As for finding a higher-level organizational structure of the state religion to complain, Zhao Qinghong actually did it.

But it was useless, and he knew it himself. The goal of the complaint was essentially to cry and talk about how difficult it was for him. The archbishop above appeased him, and that was it.

The higher-level state religion organization had no intention of taking the lead in this.

The key point is that Gu Hang did not touch upon the core interest that the state religion values most: influence.

The state religion can still continue to preach without restrictions, and the Union Government even provides some conveniences.

As long as the number of registered believers does not decrease, it will be fine.

Even as the management system becomes more effective and clearer, the number of registered believers may surge.

So what’s the big deal?

As for not letting them touch politics and not letting them have economic privileges – what does it have to do with the superior state religion organization?

The state religion organization has neither plans to control the Tianma Star Region through influence, nor will it fight for the economic privileges of lower sects: the money is not given to me, and the removal of corrupt elements is applauded.

…

After discussing the state religion, all matters of Korojia have been put on the right track, and the rest depends on time to ferment.

Gu Hang needs to wait for Mingyan City to step forward step by step according to the planned pace to the extent that an internal cycle can be formed.

And he himself has become free.

But this so-called “free” is only relative. How can he get real free time when he is in this position?

After he no longer needed to focus all his time and energy on government affairs, he naturally had other things to do.

He first went to the Kingdom of Storms for a walk. The subspace essence of the Great Unclean One Gawaga was still on the high tower of the Kingdom of Storms, suffering the baptism and torture of the storm.

Several months had passed, and the subspace essence of Gawaga had been almost eliminated. Even Gu Hang could no longer see the fangs and claws of the “little” unclean one, only a group of yellow-green mist remained.

Instead, the Kingdom of Storms was filled with thunder.

In the dense thunderclouds, a stronger new life was born.

The scale of the entire Kingdom of Storms has almost doubled in the past few months.

Gawaga’s subspace essence was decomposed and then swallowed, which made the power of the Kingdom of Storms even stronger. After having a greater “subspace authority”, the power that the entire Kingdom of Storms can call on has also increased significantly.

According to Gu Hang’s own estimation, with the current strength of the Kingdom of Storm, if he faced a demon of the level of Gowajia again and dared to invade alone, he should not need to rely on any favorable time and place, and he had to squeeze the opponent into the gap of the reality curtain, and rely on the blows of the real world to destroy the opponent’s body and soul.

Now, relying solely on the power of the Kingdom of Storm, he should be able to defeat the opponent.

Even if it is not a single invasion, but the demon brings thousands of demons with him, the Kingdom of Storm has the ability to

fight head-on. This is not only the result of the substantial increase in the power of the Kingdom of Storm, but also the result of Gu Hang’s own strengthening.

After defeating Gowajia, he has accumulated enough experience and can upgrade.

Although the number of gift points required to upgrade to LV9 has reached a terrifying 200,000 points. But after many personal experiences, Gu Hang clearly understands that in this universe, the army is very important, and a strong top combat force is equally important.

He decisively spent this gift point.

After upgrading to LV9, his own psychic strength has reached S level under normal conditions without the subspace bonus.

This is the highest level that can be achieved in the psychic order, almost one person can form an army. The thunder he calls will be more terrifying than the simultaneous firing of thousands of cannons, and can repeatedly bombard an entire position into slag; his telekinesis can twist the charging armored cluster into a dough stick; he can use the assistance of an entire psychic mage group to amplify his power, and in the void of space, he can affect more than 100,000 kilometers away, tearing apart the cruiser-level void shield…

Gu Hang also has a killer. Once he tears open the curtain of reality and lets the power of the Storm God Kingdom leak into reality, his psychic power will rise to another level and directly have the strength of S+ level.

Put it in the subspace, Gu Hang has already possessed the strength of the Great Demon in the Storm God Kingdom.

However, this is the top.

Gu Hang used to think that it was normal to have 10 above 9.

There is no reason why 9 is the top, right? Gu Hang still has various events and characteristics to bless him, so that he can have S-level psychic strength at LV9. If the normally activated [Heroes] under him, even if their psychic powers were upgraded to LV9, it would probably be around A+ level, at most weak S level.

However, let’s not talk about those records that are a bit like myths and legends. Among the existing people in the Imperial Psychic Order alone, there are so-called S+-level psychics. This is a strength that Gu Hang cannot reach by relying on his characteristics, and can only be achieved by cheating in the subspace. Not to mention, in the classification of the Psychic Order, there are also Alpha-level psychics, which are one level higher than S-level.

To exaggerate, psychics of this level can shatter a star with a thought – of course, the premise is that this “star” has no protection.

In any case, although Gu Hang’s current psychic strength can be considered top-level, it is obviously still far from the ceiling, but in the system, it has reached the ceiling.

This situation reminds Gu Hang of the dream he had before. The person in the dream said that this is a “very interesting little toy.”

A little toy, not presentable, is this what you mean? Because it is just a “little toy”, so there is a ceiling?

This explanation seems to be somewhat reasonable, but Gu Hang is not reconciled.

He recently read a lot of data sets shared by the Psychic Order, and even asked Wang Yuyang, the president of the Star Region Order, to come from Feiyi Star to give him the data.

Combined with his own situation, especially his careful perception of his feelings when using psychic power, and self-analysis and research, he roughly came up with a guess.

When psychics use psychic power, they are not essentially using their own power. They are essentially a “loophole” in the real world, a channel, and psychic power comes to this world with the soul of the psychic as an anchor.

In theory, a high-level psychic will show psychic power even without any training, but this power is uncontrolled and will cause terrible damage, and even become a punctuation for the evil creatures of the subspace to come to the real world, or even tear open a gap in the subspace.

Controlled psychics can use this power according to their own talents.

In this sense, how much power a psychic can master is destined, depending on whether his “loophole” is big or small. Acquired training improves the control of psychic power. However, most people cannot reach that upper limit. The psychic energy that can be controlled is used; the psychic energy that cannot be controlled is intentionally suppressed to avoid losing control. This is the core of the training of psychics.

The function of the system has always been to provide Gu Hang with “spirituality” and “talent” so that he can better apply and master psychic energy. Without the system, his ability in psychic energy would probably be around C-level in his lifetime, and he would suppress the psychic energy that he cannot control and never show it.

But now, the system has improved his ability to control psychic energy to the point where it cannot be improved any further, allowing him to fully master the ultimate power as a psychic. The system can only improve this on the [Hero] interface, but it cannot expand the “loophole” for Gu Hang.

And if it goes up to the Alpha level psychic, according to the research definition of the Psychic Order, it has exceeded the upper limit of psychic energy intensity that can be controlled by human individuals.

For all beings with this level of psychic talent, there is no “control” in the conventional sense. The loophole cannot be filled. The surging psychic waves in the subspace will devour people of this talent level. As they grow older, psychics at this level will be unable to stop the reckless psychic power, thus distorting into an existence that is enough to endanger an entire planet or even cause a larger-scale disaster.

The way the Psionic Order deals with Alpha-level psykers is to capture them if they can be discovered in the early stage, and then control them in a special anti-psychic prison for research until the anti-psychic prison can no longer control them, and then execute them; if it is difficult to capture them, they will be executed directly.

Even if there are extremely individual Alpha-level psykers who can control their power, according to the research of the Psionic Order, this control is temporary and unsustainable. The human brain will be burned, and eventually the soul will be distorted uncontrollably.

Unless… some people with natural talent. That is a very individual case and needs to be studied, but it is generally believed that this is related to the Emperor, the most powerful great existence in history, who is far stronger than Alpha-level psykers. For example, the legendary Holy Angel and Sage, these two demigods among the Space Warriors are famous for their psychic powers.

Now the situation is very clear. Under normal circumstances, Gu Hang’s psychic power has indeed reached its limit and cannot be raised.

However, he thought of another way.

Since it is believed that S-level is the most powerful psychic level that humans can master, and the next level cannot be mastered by humans, then I will not be… Oh, I must not be a human.

However, Gu Hang also has a unique condition, that is, the essence of the lesser god of the warp he has mastered.

If you want to break through the limits of human beings, master Alpha-level psychic power, or even stronger, you can’t rely on “loopholes” alone. You must possess the essence of the warp and become a “person” of the warp.

If he is in the warp now and has the power to defeat the great demon head-on, he has actually reached the strength of an Alpha-level psychic. Next, what he has to do is to make this warp essence closer to himself as much as possible, or even embrace this essence, so that he can gradually have the corresponding strength in the real world.

But Gu Hang still has doubts about this.

Over-embracing the warp essence of the Kingdom of Storms, wouldn’t that be equivalent to… not being a human?

Now, he is still a psychic, even if the Grand Inquisitor of the Tribunal stands in front of him, he is still a legal imperial psychic. But if combined with the essence of the storm, that won’t work.

Gu Hang also hesitated in his heart about this.

But fortunately, this is not something that needs to be decided immediately.

The current LV9 psychic power, which is equivalent to the S+ level strength, is enough. If something serious happens, Gu Hang can use a cheat to temporarily gain Alpha-level power, which is not unsatisfactory.

There is still enough time to explore the way to touch the ceiling in the future.

…

Gu Hang has a lot of gift points on hand. After the victory of the previous war, he directly received 1.3 million. At that time, he even felt that he could not spend all the gift points.

Later, he found out that it was a complete illusion.

The loyalty training of 40,000 administrative officials cost 400,000 points; his personal upgrade cost 200,000 points.

Almost half of it was gone.

But even though so much was spent, these 40,000 people can only be regarded as emergency at most, and the administrative officials are still not enough.

And later, he will have to keep a large number of gift points for training the army. He wants to implement martial law in all the nests of Korojia, clean up all the bottom nests and lower nests, and need to guard them for a long time. At present, the planetary defense force of 150 million is not enough, and Gu Hang does not look down on ordinary planetary defense forces. He wants to eventually transform the entire Korojia army into the system of the “Salvation Army”.

Let alone expanding the army, the training of the existing 100 million troops would cost 1 million grace points. How could he afford it?

If he really wanted to expand to his ideal 300-400 million troops, it would be even more impossible.

From this point of view, the grace points are still very insufficient.

And Gu Hang’s expectation that Korojia would be able to significantly increase his monthly grace point income after being recognized by the system also fell through.

Korojia was indeed recognized by the system, and Gu Hang can now see it in the panel.

However, the 40 billion people joining the alliance not only did not bring an increase in monthly income, but it actually fell!

Before, Gu Hang’s monthly income had reached 7,000. But the moment Korojia was recognized by the system, this number fell to 4,000, which was only the level of four years ago.

My goodness, Korojia turned out to be a burden, right?

Gu Hang was complaining in his heart.

This situation was indeed a little beyond his expectations.

Originally, he did not expect Korojia to provide him with a particularly high grace point income all at once, even if there were 40 billion people here. But the worst case scenario that Gu Hang had thought of before was nothing more than a relatively low income. He had never thought that it would be a negative number.

But Gu Hang was not panicked at all.

He knew at that time that it was only temporary. It is normal to increase the population of tens of billions with low quality of life, low productivity, and low control. As various practical problems on Korojia are solved, this situation will soon be improved.

This is indeed the case.

From the time Korojia was recognized by the system to now, in a few months, Korojia has migrated hundreds of millions of people to the Alliance Twin Stars.

This matter also attracted the attention of Lao Yisi, who has returned to the Star Domain Government and is about to take office as Minister of the Interior.

The huge change in population in a short period of time will of course cause problems.

She would question, if Korojia continues to export population like this, what will happen to the tax in six years?

At the same time, Gu Hang also had questions. The rapid population growth of the Alliance Twin Stars was achieved through population migration, so how to calculate the tax problem? You can’t calculate Koroja based on 40 billion people, and then calculate the Alliance Twin Stars based on the increased population. Isn’t that calculating the tax twice for me?

After this communication, Ms. Laois agreed in principle that the Alliance would pay taxes as a whole. That is, 4.05 billion tax coins per year.

Koroja is a war zone, and 4 billion tax coins are exempted. In the past six years, only Black Arrow Star and Wrathful Owl Star need to be paid every year.

However, there will be a follow-up to this matter. The Empire will recalculate the rated tax amount of each world every ten years, and the next calculation period will be in a year.

At that time, the administrative officials of the star region government will conduct a detailed investigation of the situation of the three planets of the Alliance, and finally calculate the individual tax amounts and report them to the star region. According to the situation in previous years, Koroja’s population is too difficult to calculate clearly, and I am afraid that it will still be calculated as 40 billion in the end; while the Twin Stars are easier to calculate, and the estimated number of people will be calculated at that time.

Whether the population migrates or not, the Empire does not care, there is no precedent. In order to avoid being taxed twice, if Gu Hang can manage Korojia in an orderly manner, do a good job of population statistics, and withstand the on-site inspection of the star district government and the review of the star region government, then it will be over, right?

The population statistics are clear, and the population migration within the alliance will not affect the tax calculation-unless the overall development coefficient of the alliance is adjusted upward.

For example, Feiyixing has to pay 4 billion tax coins every year, the same as Korojia, but it has only 8 billion people. This highly developed garden world has a development coefficient of level 5, which means that one population corresponds to 0.5 tax coins.

It’s simply astonishing.

But at present, the alliance should not be adjusted upward.

It’s hard to say after the next ten years.

Gu Hang is still a little helpless about this result.

Even if he is optimistic, he is still a little unsure that the rule over Korojia will be adjusted to the point where a complete population statistics can be carried out within a year.

Maybe he will still be in trouble.

However, even so, he can’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. The migration of population still needs to be done continuously, even if it means losses.

In fact, it has already worked.

The population migrated to Black Arrow Star and Wrathful Owl Star has no debuffs, and can indeed be put into production immediately.

On the Angry Owl Star, there is still a lot of land that can be reclaimed in the North Qinggu area; people can also start to reclaim the South Qinggu area. The Qinggu Group Army, which has always been in place, has been ordered to march south to clear out the mutant monsters inside. A large amount of jungle has been cut down – not all, but planned – and the land has been reclaimed.

According to estimates, at least 200 million workers are needed to fully develop the farmland in the Qinggu area.

Not to mention that the industrial center of Weixing City is still expanding its production capacity and has a large demand for industrial workers.

According to the calculations of the Alliance Government, it is very difficult for the Angry Owl Star to restore the grand occasion of hundreds of years ago, and the natural conditions do not support it. However, it is still no problem to carry 3 billion people.

This is still the premise of not developing into the model of the hive world. In fact, the Angry Owl Star can develop one or two industrial hives, and the population that can be accommodated can double.

The Black Arrow Star, which has better natural conditions, but the ocean area is too large and the land area is small, can also accommodate more than 3 billion people.

If a large-scale migration is carried out according to this goal, the population of Korojia will be reduced by 15%-20%, and the pressure of survival will be much smaller.

The Black Arrow Star and the Angry Owl Star, which have received a large population supplement, will develop rapidly.

At the same time, the reforms within Korojia, especially in Mingyan City, have begun to show results.

Up to now, Gu Hang’s monthly gift point income has returned to more than 7,000 points.

Up to now, it has been eight months since the end of the Mingyan City Defense War, and Gu Hang has received more than 30,000 monthly income alone.

Adding the income from some small-scale battles to suppress the rebellion, Gu Hang now has a total of 750,000 gifts on hand.

Most of it, of course, has to be kept for subsequent preparations. He still has to expand the army and train administrative officials.

However, it is not impossible to take out a part of it and draw some technology.

At the 10,000 yuan level, let’s try ten consecutive draws.

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