Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 74

Chapter 74, Dilemma

“Why didn’t anyone stop them?”

Mondok, who was guarding the gate and sitting in the army in the outer city, had just been awakened. When he heard the news, he was already very panicked.

After the governor’s army arrived yesterday, although the nephew who was sent out did not come back, the governor’s army actually stopped outside and did not move. This made him quite satisfied. His tough attitude was effective. The next thing to do was to consider how to talk to the governor.

But who would have thought that he would hear the shocking news early this morning!

The governor, under the protection of seven space warriors and eleven battle sisters, swaggered through his army and was walking on the road, heading towards the inner city.

And during the whole process, his army and the governor’s guards seemed very “peaceful”.

It is said that an officer who blocked the road died and his head was crushed by a punch.

But other than that, no shots were fired and no cannons were fired.

His soldiers just let the “enemy” go.

Why is this?

Did all my troops rebel?

This is exactly the source of Mondok’s panic.

Because it is not impossible.

He is a general and a commander, but nominally he is a subordinate of the governor, and the governor is the highest commander. Ordinary soldiers don’t know so many twists and turns, and they won’t easily identify the governor as an enemy.

To a certain extent, if the soldiers really “rebelled”, what can he do?

Mondok couldn’t even help it, looking around, fearing that the next moment, before the governor’s men arrived, his own soldiers would tie him up and shout something like “borrow the general’s head for a while”.

But fortunately, this did not happen. His personal guard battalion was still loyally guarding outside.

The adjutant who came to report the news answered his previous question: “No one really stopped them. I asked around and said that you might have allowed the governor’s team to pass, so the soldiers didn’t dare to stop or open fire…”

Not to mention others, even he himself thought so.

“Bullshit!” Mondok was furious!

“Uh… you haven’t given such an order?”

Faced with this question, Mondok calmed down.

He calmed down and quickly analyzed the current situation in his mind.

The situation should not be as bad as he just imagined.

The soldiers are just confused, bewildered, and at a loss, but they have no intention of mutiny.

The prestige that Mondok has established in the army still exists, and the soldiers will still regard him as the supreme commander of the army.

More importantly, the propaganda they have been doing in the army and even in the entire city for a long time in the alliance authorities is still effective.

Only six years have passed since the brutal rule of the second generation of governors, and people still remember it vividly. No one wants to go back to that time. And it is precisely with the help of this public opinion that they have puppeted the governor in the past six years, so that his orders cannot leave the office, let alone affect the wider land outside the city of Renaissance; on the other hand, they have also secretly blamed the governor for many of their own bad things.

On Angry Owl Star and in Times City, after the baptism of the past twelve years, although some people still remember the revival of the governor, people nowadays do not have much good feelings towards the governor sent by the empire.

Hatred, after all, he is a newcomer and has not had time to do bad things. But the remaining fear and resentment, are no less.

After Gu Hang came, he actually jumped out of Renaissance City and ran outside to mess around. This was something that the top leaders of the alliance did not expect, but they were happy to see.

If you want to play any construction game, then go ahead and play it yourself. No one believed that he could survive the imperial tax two years later just by building from scratch outside. Two years later, the governor was executed, and the top leaders of the alliance introduced some scapegoats, saying that they were members of the governor’s government, and they would all die together, and then wait for the next governor to come, and survive another two years.

It is precisely because of this that they have recently relaxed their smear campaign against the new governor.

Not to mention, among them, there is a traitor like old Hodgson!

Intentionally or unintentionally, the news that the new governor is doing well outside has been circulated among the poor outside Renaissance City.

Until recently, they realized that the problem was huge. Not only did they kill Hodgson, but they also made it clear to the Governor that they wanted to confront him. In this situation, they restarted a round of urgent propaganda work, trying to make Gu Hang a new “second-generation Governor”, saying that he would come back to seize power and arrest half of the people in Fuxing City to pay as imperial taxes. They said that being paid as human taxes would be so miserable…

But in fact, if the poor were really paid as human taxes… it might not be a bad thing. Being a slave on a starship might be better than being a poor on the Wrathful Owl Star.

Of course, there is also a chance of being sent to the Star Army as a slave, cannon fodder, or a front-line logistics transport team… That might be a little bit worse. Although they can eat enough, the average life expectancy is a bit lower, calculated in hours.

But when they promote, they don’t talk about eating enough, glory, or honor. They only promote that they won’t live long.

Their propaganda still has a certain effect.

Before, Gu Hang had done a lot of construction outside and absorbed a lot of refugees. Henry and Hodgson also promoted him a lot, which made his reputation very good.

Now, if they say bad things about Gu Hang, the effect is limited. But at least it has diluted his previous good reputation a lot, reminding people of the fear of being ruled by the governor, and the attitude that had already been inclined has become hesitant again.

Thinking back to this, Mondok had to be thankful that it was a good move. Otherwise, he might really face the situation where the governor raised his arm and the soldiers turned against him.

After analyzing these situations clearly, Mondok also knew roughly what he should do.

He needed to come forward in person, use his own prestige to strengthen the will of the soldiers, let them clearly distinguish the situation, who is the “enemy” and who is the commander.

Even at the critical moment, he needed to further insist on his tough attitude, let the guards camp, under his encouragement, clearly stop Gu Hang from moving forward, so as to drive the entire army.

But thinking of this, he hesitated again.

Intellectually, this is fine; but what if he really has to face the Space Marines in person?

If the Governor really doesn’t care and orders an assault, can the hundreds of people in his personal guard battalion stop them?

I’m afraid that before the army has time to react and the heavy artillery has not had time to mobilize, his head will be taken off.

Mondok is in a dilemma.

(End of this chapter)