Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 59

Chapter 59, From the Golden Age

“Do you believe it?”

Wu Jiarong didn’t believe it.

Productivity comparable to that of the Forge World? That’s possible;

living standards comparable to that of the Garden World? There are examples of this.

But having both at the same time?

That’s a joke.

The Garden World has a beautiful environment, abundant resources, and people have a good quality of life. It is usually an administrative planet or a trade hub planet. As for the Forge World, the environment is usually not much better. The whole world will be like a huge factory, and countless people will contribute sweat and even flesh and blood to it.

Can these two things be easily integrated?

Among the countless stars in the entire empire, how many such examples can be found?

Can the capital of the empire, Holy Terra, be as good as the governor said?

I don’t know.

It can be heard from the propaganda, but she has never been there, has not seen it with her own eyes, and dare not believe it casually.

She didn’t even believe that Holy Terra would be what the governor said, let alone this wasteland planet in a remote and poor place.

Rationally, she felt that the governor was just talking nonsense and drawing big cakes.

That pie was big and round, but it was so far away and unreal that it was a little ridiculous.

But emotionally, she could feel Governor Gu’s lofty ambitions.

Ambition, of course, can’t be eaten. She had the ambition to be promoted to a mechanic, and even to a technical priest, but in the end, didn’t she have to pay it as imperial tax?

But she felt that she could believe in Governor Gu’s ambition.

Believing that he has an ambition is different from believing that this ambition can be realized.

But just by believing in the governor’s ambition, she could probably imagine in her mind that her governor in the future should not be a person who only wants to eat and wait for death, only wants to levy heavy taxes, only wants to deal with the imperial taxes every two years, and enjoy the rest of the time.

Then working under such a governor seems, as if, probably… a good opportunity that she has never had in the past?

Ten years ago, she was in the Forge World, and she thought she was gifted and talented, but she only wanted to be promoted to a mechanic; on the starship, her future was cut off, and she only wanted to find a good man to marry and have children, and then live a life of idleness and wait for death. One day, she will be too old to retire, but it is also very likely that before that, the “Quinte” will be destroyed in a war, and all the people on board will become another part of the space garbage.

Following a governor and becoming the most important technician under the governor, her future achievements may not be just a mechanic or a mechanical priest. Perhaps, she will have the opportunity to become a mechanical bishop, or even…

She dare not think about it any further, it is too difficult to be promoted to a sage. Isn’t it as vain as the governor’s fantasy that the Wrathful Owl Star can become a combination of the Forge World and the Garden World?

All this is still far away, but not that far away.

Indeed, the governor is now poor and penniless, and the population under his direct management has not even exceeded 10,000. Even the governor’s administrative power cannot be extended to the world. But then again, if the current governor is in power, would he still look down on a small technical specialist like me? I’m afraid he can easily recruit a bunch of more senior experts.

It is now, when I am starting out, that I have the opportunity to help in times of need, and the opportunity to grow as the governor continues to gain power.

What’s more, the governor has a black box manufacturing machine in his hand…

The value of this thing is extremely precious.

Legend has it that they came from the distant golden age, when the empire had not yet been established and it was almost impossible to verify. It is said that at that time, humans were the masters of the entire universe. Every human had dignity and could enjoy the best life. They could engage in any industry according to their own interests, or they could not work at all.

The black box manufacturing machine was a product of that era to ensure that humans could obtain products easily and quickly in any environment. As long as the interstellar colonists have a black box, they can quickly build a suitable home on a new barren planet.

It is also relying on the black box that humans can spread their footprints throughout the universe in the golden age and maintain that each world can have a similar level of technology.

Today, the technology of the Empire is completely different from that of the Golden Age.

Scientific research relies on archaeology, this statement is not a joke.

A topic that the Forge World has been unable to solve for a hundred years may be solved by discovering an ancient relic one day, and getting a little hint from it.

In fact, many of the various technologies that the Empire now uses on a large scale are restored by archaeology, and the level is less than one percent of the Golden Age. The precious Titan armor may have been just a vehicle driven by lumberjacks in the Golden Age.

And the black box manufacturing machine is the top priority of archaeology… uh, I mean scientific research.

This thing can directly produce finished products and has extremely high research value.

Although the three black boxes that Governor Gu currently has are suspected to have produced things that have long been popular in the Empire and have no value in themselves. After all, which normal world can’t produce rifles, alloy plastic steel, and grindstone engines?

However, it is the black box itself that is of high value.

The output is not that important, but the technology from the Golden Age contained in the black box itself is enough to drive the Mechanicus crazy.

…

Gu Hang listened carefully to Wu Jiarong’s introduction of these situations.

Some of them he knew from his memory, and some he didn’t.

This information is important, but relatively speaking, it’s not that important.

According to Wu Jiarong, he basically gave up the idea of selling the black box manufacturing machine. In fact, it’s not that it can’t be sold at all. It takes effort for people to snatch it. It’s not a more labor-saving way to buy it with some money.

However, Gu Hang won’t sell it.

It’s too dangerous.

Compared with the Mechanicus, which is extremely powerful throughout the empire, he is a small governor, which is nothing. What

‘s more dangerous is that if he sells a few machines, won’t the Mechanicus keep an eye on him? Intent on getting more? Or want to know how he got the precious black box?

As for the unimportant point, it’s because the Wrathful Owl Star is too remote and inconspicuous. What happens here is difficult to reach the ears of the Mechanicus.

At present, the only interstellar communication of the entire Wrathful Owl Star is with the Quintet. If the news is not leaked to the sky, this matter will be regarded as nothing.

Moreover, Gu Hang would not lose sight of the main point and not use the black box.

He was careful before, but it was inevitable that some of it would be exposed. As long as he used it

, there would be no other way. In the future, he would be more careful.

At the same time, he also needed someone to help him.

Gu Hang looked at Wu Jiarong with expectation.

(End of this chapter)