Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 398

Chapter 397: Visit of the Mechanicus

The Alliance’s treatment of Wing Star is similar to that of Fache Three Star to some extent.

Smooth currency reform, nationalization reform of key industries, welfare policies covering state-owned enterprises and government personnel, and finally pushing the job level to all people and all industries, and reforming private enterprises with no guarantees into private start-up enterprises with the characteristics of the Alliance system…

Wing Star seems to be much more developed than Fache Three Star, but after the Alliance actually took over both places, it found that the gap is not as big as imagined.

Fache Three Star’s development level is 2, and it was barely raised to 3, and it was already crying for its parents;

Wing Star is still enjoying its life with a development level of 5.

The biggest gap between the two places is the shipyard. This is a profit of about 2.5 billion a year, and Fache has no place to make up for it;

plus the money that Wing Star exempted from the star district government, various academies, especially the Naval Academy, and the money earned, it directly made up for the imperial tax, and even had more.

Apart from these aspects, Feiyi Star is only slightly better than Fachers Samsung in terms of natural environment conditions. The overall productivity and social civilization are not much different.

In this case, the Alliance can completely remove the three major blocks of shipyard, administration, and education, and apply the policies of Fachers Samsung to the remaining parts with some minor adjustments.

The situation of the shipyard is relatively simple. As long as the shipyard and various supporting factories are continuously started and production capacity is maintained, and the workers’ treatment can be guaranteed under the job grade system, then the problem of acceptance is not big.

In fact, this is exactly the case.

The difficulty of taking over the shipyard is not even as big as the subsequent process reform.

For some old masters in the shipyard, Feiyi Star has a history of hundreds of years in manufacturing various sizes of starships. You, a bunch of so-called technical experts from the Angry Owl Star and the so-called Alliance, are just a group of mud legs, running to teach us how to build ships?

That’s not a joke!

However, under the promotion of power, the initial changes were still passed with difficulty – of course, it was also because some enlightened “old masters” did find some merits in these improvements, so they gave it a try.

Then, this test was more eloquent than words.

Higher quality, lower cost, higher production efficiency… These things are real, can’t be faked, and can be seen immediately.

The mechanics from the shipyard of the Wrathful Owl Star were immediately supported.

At the same time, there were also looming explorations.

In the Pegasus Star Region, the Mechanicus did not have too much power. Their forging world was not here. They did not set up a church of the Mechanicus and a clear institution in the Pegasus Star Region.

However, throughout the empire, the influence of the Mechanicus was everywhere, even infiltrating the ordinary.

The most common titles such as primary specialists and technical specialists were widely used in many factories and even in the military. Some of them graduated from certain technical colleges and obtained certificates; some passed the examinations later. They may not have a strong religious background, but the qualifications issued to them, whether by technical colleges or technical associations, are obtained from a Forge World.

The teaching of formal technical colleges includes the content of mechanical theology; the examinations of technical associations also include theological knowledge assessment and theological discussion content, and the higher the level, the more difficult it is.

And what is a Forge World? A world that can be called this name is a world that is completely controlled by the Mechanicus. The Forge World does not even pay Imperial taxes. The official statement is that the Forge World or the home world of the Space Marines is serving the Empire in another way, so there is no need to pay Imperial taxes.

This statement is also correct. The Forge World is the one that created most of the weapons and equipment of the Imperial Army, most of the construction work, and most of the naval ships; in the Astra Militarum, there are countless technical specialists and mechanical priests sent by the Mechanicus to handle military equipment with the army, and even participate in combat in person; the Skitarii and Titan Legions belonging to the Mechanicus are simply a main force of the Empire that cannot be ignored.

But if we look deeper, it may be a bit shallow to understand that the Mechanicus does not have to pay taxes just because they have assumed these responsibilities.

Some people say – just some people say – the national emblem of the Empire: a double-headed eagle, one head is Holy Terra, the other head is the Forge World of Mars.

Whether this is true or not, it at least illustrates a very important issue: they do not pay taxes, not because of their contribution, but because of their special status; they contribute to the Empire, not because they have any obligations, but because the Mechanicus can almost be regarded as the most important original shareholder of the Empire.

Only people like Gu Hang, who have redeveloped from a dead world like the Wrath of the Owl, have not been influenced by the Mechanicus too much – but even so, his most trusted technical expert, Ms. Wu Jiarong, is also from the Mechanicus; the technical certificates issued by the newly built technical colleges on the Wrath of the Owl and the Black Arrow are all “fake” certificates, and no one will recognize them outside.

Moreover, this matter cannot last long. In fact, Wu Jiarong has already made a plan to go to the nearest Forge World – Jindi Star, to get this done.

Jindi Star belongs to the Mingyang Sect under the Mechanicus.

The Ming Yang Sect is not well-known among the complicated church factions within the Mechanicus, but it is not a particularly small sect. They are the sect with the highest influence in the entire Eastern Universe.

In the Pegasus Star Region, all technical professional certificates have a small, bright yellow round sun around fire logo, which is the symbol of the Ming Yang Sect.

Theoretically, the Feiyi Star Shipyard has nothing to do with the Mechanicus, but in such a technology-intensive industry, how can it be separated from its influence?

There is even a ruling bishop in the shipyard. Although he does not preach, but only works as a technical expert and technical consultant, he must wear a red robe when traveling, and must hang the Mechanicus sign on his body and carry scriptures. His greatly modified body makes him look inhuman but “holy”. At least

it is very sacred by the standards of the Mechanicus.

Going down, there are not so many engine prophets, but there are a lot of mechanical priests.

In the past, the Alliance “fighted a little bit”, even if it took out something like the Warhound Titan on the battlefield of Korojia, it was actually not too serious. Although the Forge World doesn’t sell many Titans, it still sells some; as for the technology of the Titans it produces, that is a secret that is not kept secret – it is not clear that the technology is forbidden to be leaked, but in fact, there is no known Titan production capacity outside the Mechanicus.

The scale of the Alliance is still not large, and the number of War Dogs appearing is not many, but despite this, it has still attracted the attention of those who are interested, but this attention has not had any direct impact on Gu Hang.

However, this kind of time of just watching without taking action will not last long.

People stare in order to take action.

And now, with the ability to build starships, Gu Hang has directly built a shipyard on the Wrath of the Owl, which is even more eye-catching.

Starship manufacturing is not monopolized by the Forge World like Titan manufacturing. However, in terms of technical content and industrial scale alone, starship manufacturing is a more advanced and complex industry than Warhound Titan construction.

Being able to build a starship is a big deal.

What’s more, the starship manufacturing technology of Wrathful Star seems to have many unique features, and it can even provide some guidance to old shipyards like Winged Star. This cannot be ignored.

After the Alliance took over the shipyard, five sneaky people were caught within two days. They were looking around and checking the Alliance’s renovation project on the shipyard when no one was around.

To be honest, the Alliance’s control over the Winged Star Shipyard is not high at the moment. Even so, they were able to catch so many people, so the number of people who were not caught must be hundreds or thousands of times this number.

A few days later, Gu Hang welcomed an expected visitor.

Wang Zhaoran, the ruling bishop of the Mechanicus’ Mingyang sect and the casting consultant of the Feiyixing Shipyard.

What is supposed to come will come.

In fact, Wang Zhaoran’s visit was much gentler than Gu Hang had initially thought.

There was no questioning, no further violent actions. Wang Zhaoran just fulfilled his duties in the shipyard while submitting a request for a meeting with Gu Hang, the head of the star region.

The reason for the meeting was also clearly stated, that is, he came for the new technology of the Feiyixing Shipyard.

His intention seemed to be aboveboard, which left Gu Hang no room for refusal.

It’s not that he really couldn’t refuse, but why?

He is a casting consultant and the ruling bishop of the Mechanicus.

Seeing the new technology, isn’t it natural to ask about the source of these technologies?

On the contrary, if Gu Hang chose to refuse, he would seem guilty.

Although he did feel a little guilty.

However, Gu Hang also made a plan for this expected thing.

After confirming the meeting time, Gu Hang also found his most important technical expert, Ms. Wu Jiarong.

Taking over the Feiyixing Shipyard is a big deal for the alliance, and there is no room for technical mistakes. Wu Jiarong came here in person with the technical team she trained to deal with the shipyard.

It was just right for her to face Wang Zhaoran.

At the beginning of the meeting, Gu Hang was also there. But soon, he found other reasons and left the scene, letting Wu Jiarong and Wang Zhaoran, two technical people, talk by themselves.

Of course, Gu Hang was fully capable of monitoring the content of the conversation. He also had full trust in Wu Jiarong, and Ms. Wu would not talk nonsense.

This was also what Gu Hang had thought of earlier, the way to deal with a series of technical sources that he could not explain, such as the black box: all pushed to Wu Jiarong’s head.

In any case, it was said that Wu Jiarong had researched it, she knew these, and brought these technical capabilities to the Angry Owl Star, and helped the development of the alliance.

As for how Wu Jiarong learned these techniques, it was the enlightenment from the God of All Things, the divine revelation she received during prayer, plus some knowledge she already knew, which she integrated.

This sounds ridiculous, but it is not completely impossible.

And Wu Jiarong did deal with Wang Zhaoran according to these long-prepared statements.

The two did not talk about this issue for a long time. Later, more content was still technical exchanges.

In this regard, Wu Jiarong would not have any problems. For so many years, she has been immersed in countless black boxes alone, and has a lot of research experience, and her level has risen rapidly. Now, it may be a little different to say that she has the knowledge and technology of the ruling bishop, after all, she has not yet mastered many technologies. However, if it is just theory and academic discussion, she will not have any problems.

After so many years of research, some of the technical ideas and thoughts she proposed are very groundbreaking and inspiring to Wang Zhaoran.

The mechanical voice of the ruling bishop even clearly carries a hint of excitement.

The two chatted for a long time, and when the conversation ended, Wang Zhaoran still felt a little reluctant to leave.

He took the opportunity to invite Wu Jiarong to the shipyard to talk in detail the next day.

Wu Jiarong readily agreed.

Then, he proposed to go to the Angry Owl Star to take a look, especially to see Wu Jiarong’s research center.

Wu Jiarong also agreed immediately.

Why can’t I come?

I used to feel guilty, but now all the black boxes are hidden in the Kingdom of Storm God. As long as Gu Hang doesn’t want to, who can break into his territory in the subspace and uncover his past?

If you want to see, then go ahead and see it openly.

Even in the future, if the ruling bishop makes any request for an exchange student, Gu Hang is ready to agree directly.

Don’t be afraid.

After sending Wang Zhao away, Wu Jiarong said to Gu Hang, “He must still have doubts.”

“Let him doubt. No matter what we do, we can’t dispel these doubts, right?”

“Indeed.”

“Then come openly. These things are very troublesome and even dangerous. However, it has come to this point now. Are we going to stop using them because of the risks? That is even more impossible.”

Wu Jiarong nodded. She said to Gu Hang, “Now, Governor, you are not the same as before. Back then, perhaps just because of a suspicion, the Mechanicus’s recycling fleet would run to the Wrathful Owl Star and turn our territory upside down. But now, your status forces the Mechanicus, which has always been independent, to treat it with caution. Without clear evidence, they will not do too much in public. As for the means in private, we are not afraid.” After thinking for a while

, she continued, “I look forward to the Alliance being stronger in the future. At that time, even if we openly use our evil ideas, no one will dare to say anything.”

(End of this chapter)