Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 86

Chapter 86, Hebang Renaissance City (First Order Request!!!)

Sitting in the Alliance Parliament Hall, Gu Hang looked around.

This place is built quite realistically. There are many complex reliefs on the round dome. The content looks quite religious, and the image of the emperor can be seen everywhere; and it seems to vaguely tell a grand story of the ancestors who built the alliance in ruins with great difficulty.

There is a small hole with a glass cover on the top, and the skylight shines through it. It will be very bright even if the lights are not turned on on sunny days.

Under the dome is a long table. I think the Alliance members usually hold meetings here.

Above the long table, on the platform with five steps, there is a throne-like chair.

According to the design concept, there should be a seat exclusively for the governor.

Back then, when the Alliance was revived, a generation of governors should have sat in that high position, watching the members below discuss and solve various problems in the reconstruction process of the Angry Owl Star. One proposal after another was brought out, one problem after another was solved, and one plan after another was implemented…

That should have been a glorious time.

Until now, there are still many people on the Angry Owl Star who will miss that time – especially after experiencing the subsequent second-generation governor.

Gu Hang didn’t know much about the deeds of the first-generation governor, and he didn’t think that he was the successor of his will. But this did not prevent him from doing something similar in the same place.

Sitting on it, Gu Hang’s system received new information.

[You have occupied the city: Fuxing City.]

[Fuxing City’s monthly fixed income: 68 points of grace]

Gu Hang was happy to see that the occupation and Fuxing City were included in the system statistics.

When he first landed as the governor a few months ago, he was looking forward to this news, but he never saw it. Today, he finally got his wish.

However, after seeing the number 68, Gu Hang frowned fiercely.

This is too low! It

‘s ridiculously low!

The governor’s camp he built from scratch, plus the waste cave community that was rotten when he conquered it, can provide him with 61 points of grace in total.

To reach that number, the two camps combined only had a population of just over 10,000. How could Fuxing City, with a population of nearly one million, have so few people?

Then, he saw a series of negative effects under Fuxing City in this integrated internal affairs interface.

[City shutdown: greatly reduce city income.]

[Anarchy: greatly reduce city income.]

In addition to [Anarchy], there are several other states with the term “greatly reduce city income”, including: [Uneasy people], [Extremely low average living standards], [Hungry city], [Low management level], [Poor infrastructure], [Low population quality], [Low public order], [Rebels], …

and there are also several entries with medium-sized income reductions: [Disordered market], [Trade interruption], [Extensive development], [Post-war chaos], [Martial state], [Administrative chaos], [Grassroots out of control], [Cult heresy] …

I won’t mention the small income reductions, anyway, there are quite a few.

Gu Hang was speechless.

With so many negative effects, it is not surprising that the gift income plummeted to the bottom…

However, Gu Hang quickly adjusted his mentality.

He did not expect this situation at all.

His previous thought was that even if he took the city by military means, he would need to govern it later in order for the system to recognize that the city belonged to him.

And now there are so many negative effects stacked on him, which greatly reduces the income, which is probably the same idea.

Similarly, this matter can also be thought of in a positive way.

These clear negative effects clearly pointed out to Gu Hang the problems that needed to be solved.

It would be fine if we conquered them one by one.

In his opinion, these debuffs of Fuxing City can be roughly divided into two categories: development problems and management problems.

The former cannot be solved immediately. Productivity needs to be raised and trade routes need to be restored so that people can have enough food and clothing, have the energy to transform the city, and obtain a better standard of living.

As for management problems, some deep-rooted ones also need time to be dealt with slowly. But at least some problems can be solved immediately.

For example, the biggest debuff: [City Shutdown].

Factories and shops stopped, and the residents of the city did not even dare to go out on the streets because of military control or fear and anxiety.

Unable to work, insufficient food reserves… This was what Gu Hang was going to do right away.

He needed to immediately establish an administrative system that was at least effective, no matter how simple it was, to deal with the problem of the city shutdown.

That would be a brand new administrative team.

He had hesitated before whether to do so, but the death of old Hodgson completely extinguished that idea.

If there was an old man who supported him wholeheartedly and had prestige in the alliance to assist him, he might have taken over the original administrative system of Fuxing City and slowly carried out reforms.

But now?

Forget it.

There must be constraints if we still use the old administrative system.

The war has been won, why should we mix it with Fuxing City and the original system of the alliance government?

What’s more, is there anything good about the original system of the alliance government? The governors in the past did not have enough control and needed to coordinate all parties and factions and compromise with each other.

However, Gu Hang did not need to do that.

At least not for the time being.

He did not need to come up with a parliamentary system to bring together all factions, all walks of life, all kinds of people who hold power and have words, in order to get things done.

He decided to abandon the original system, overturn and completely rebuild a highly centralized regime and system to implement his will with high efficiency.

He would retain the name of “Alliance”, which was a necessary political name for conquering and ruling settlements outside Fuxing City. But other than that, he did not intend to leave too much else.

He will completely abolish the parliament and replace it with a coalition government. The government will have multiple departments under its jurisdiction, and the affairs officers will become the dominant ones. In the future, political officials will be proposed to make decisions and guide urban development.

The old system will be swept away; the once high and mighty people in power and the rentier class will be liquidated; the entire factory owner class will be directly eliminated in one wave, and replaced by government-owned collective factories…

After the old interest groups are eliminated, their vacated positions and interests will become the interests of the newcomers.

The new interest groups have grown up from the new system and can only emerge with the help of the governor. In turn, they will also be the governor’s most staunch supporters.

This process will be a revolution that seems cruel to some people.

There were footsteps at the door, and Gu Hang ended his contemplation. He looked up and saw a slightly thin girl in a gray-blue shirt walking in.

Ossena is here.

(End of this chapter)