Chapter 168, Gu Hang's Past
Compared with the two ladies, Gu Hang was able to get relatively less.
But he is very content.
The Iron Tooth Clan's plundering fleet was originally targeting the Wrathful Owl Star. By bringing together the forces of the merchant caravan and the navy, he was able to solve a huge problem that he could not have solved on his own.
This is the biggest gain.
The thousands of grace points, on the other hand, seemed to be a bonus and a necessary part.
However, Gu Hang will still work hard to gain more additional rights and interests for himself.
Destroying surface pioneers, providing important intelligence, participating in star wars to eliminate orc warlords...the planetary defense forces of Angry Owl have made such a great contribution in this war, but also suffered heavy losses. Shouldn't the Military Affairs Department consider sending me some more advanced equipment to cope with possible wars in the future?
Even Gu Hang was thinking about something:
Now, there is accurate intelligence that a behemoth like the Iron Tooth Clan may launch a large-scale attack on the Pegasus Star Region. They have actually sent out a vanguard fleet.
So, the Empire needs to strengthen its defenses on the Wrath of the Owl, is that okay?
In addition to garrisoning a starship, it would also make sense to have a certain amount of land forces stationed there, and station a real Astra Militarum legion, right?
Oh, the Astra Militarum is stretched to its limits? Can't they mobilize enough troops on short notice?
It doesn't matter! I, Gu Hang, am the planetary governor of the Empire and the most loyal subject of the Emperor. I will definitely share the worries of the Empire.
This matter is left to Angry Owl Star.
As the planetary governor, Gu Hang will fully support the construction of the Star Army.
With only 10 million tax coins, you can build an army of hundreds of thousands of people equipped with various heavy weapons on the Angry Owl Star.
People and equipment all come from planets.
Governor Gu Hang, because of his outstanding performance in the last war, can serve as the commander of this star army.
But this is very difficult to implement. There are examples of planetary governors serving as commanders of the Astra Militarum, but they are rare.
If he can't handle it, Gu Hang can also accept the second best option of pushing Thadius to this position.
And since a new regiment is to be established, the empire must of course provide funding.
Ten million tax coins, isn’t that just right?
The Angry Owl Star was originally going to pay an imperial tax after a year and a half.
The Imperial Tax on Angry Owl was the lowest. This planet was under the Imperial Taxation Department, with a population of 50 million and an annual Imperial Tax of 5 million Tax Coins, which was paid every two years, 10 million each time.
He only needs to pay a quarter of the first tax, which is a concession given by the star district government. Of course, the Imperial Taxation Bureau does not recognize this. In essence, the extra 7.5 million is paid by the star district government on behalf of the Wrathful Star to the Imperial Taxation Bureau.
The star district government doesn't need to pay the 7.5 million tax coins to the empire, but needs to transfer them to me. They can be given to me directly, plus the 2.5 million tax coins that the Angry Owl Star has to pay, adding up to 10 million. It is reasonable to build an army with a scale of more than 500,000 and equipped with various heavy weapons on the Angry Owl Star.
When the time comes, Gu Hang will throw all his troops in.
Anyway, military construction is something that needs to be done, and the biggest support is still the one. If the imperial tax revenue is used to offset it, everyone will be happy. The soldiers of the army are my people, the officers are my people, the supreme commander is my people, and the team is also guarding the planet. Isn't it still my decision to do anything?
Just a change of name.
Of course, it's not completely without disadvantages.
After all, the Star Army is different from the Planetary Defense Force. The latter is completely under the command of the Governor and is only responsible for the internal affairs of the planet. The former needs to obey the dispatch of the Military Affairs Department. Today, the order of the troops is to garrison the Angry Owl Star, so Gu Hang can still use his influence to completely control the entire team. But tomorrow, a transfer order may come, and it is possible that the troops will be pulled to fill the line on a battlefield where they can't bear the pressure.
Is it possible that I cannot accept the order?
But this kind of thing is very imaginary.
Not to mention that the probability of it happening is not particularly high, even if it is not transformed into the Astra Militarum, when there is a real need, it is common for the Ministry of Military Affairs to invoke special emergency laws to recruit planetary defense forces into the Astra Militarum, and Gu Hang cannot stop it.
Instead of that, it would be better to turn them into the Astra Militarum. If they are really going to be taken away, then so be it. Anyway... the money and people used to form the army are also considered to be purchased by the taxes allocated by the Empire.
Just consider it as paying taxes normally. Did Gu Hang lose anything?
It's better than conscripting the planetary defense force without any compensation.
Of course, all of the above are just Gu Hang’s ideas.
There is still a long way to go before it can be turned into reality.
He told the two ladies: "This is essentially about transforming the reality of military victory into a tangible political victory and then into corresponding economic benefits. Now that everyone agrees with the statement I made, what remains is to solve some minor problems."
Ye Lishiya also nodded, and she further added: "The general facts are correct, but there are two more important details. The first is what the intelligence I intercepted said. The second is that Ye Lishiya recruited the beautiful girl caravan to participate in the war in the name of the Imperial Navy, which requires actual evidence."
Wang Jiarong said, "The latter problem is relatively easy to solve. Sister Ye Lixia, please sign a paper order for the conscription and say that it was signed later. At the same time, you need to make a communication record. At the beginning of the battle, I accepted the conscription of the Imperial Navy. The actions after leaving the jump point were all aimed at leading the greenskin fleet to the predetermined combat location."
Gu Hang also said: "I will do the work of intercepting intelligence in the ruins on the surface."
They began to discuss in detail how to patch it and ensure the details would stand up to scrutiny.
In fact, this is mostly useless. If there is no problem with the general facts, the Military Affairs Department will most likely not investigate these details. If they have to send a special review team to carefully verify the specific details of each war, the countless wars that occur every moment between the stars will be too much for the Military Affairs Department to check.
Sometimes, the Military Affairs Department even knows that there may be some problems in certain areas, but is too lazy to do anything about it.
It's basically the same. As long as there is no false reporting of military achievements and no fabrication of facts in major events, that's enough.
As for what would happen after reporting their achievements, the three of them tacitly agreed not to discuss much.
How Wang Jiarong will make up for the losses or even make a fortune through operations is a matter for her and the Gu family behind her.
It is also Ye Licia and the Fofana family behind her's business to package her into a star general of the Imperial Navy.
Including Gu Hang himself, he has to find his own way to turn his imagination into reality.
There is no need to communicate these things. When the general achievements are determined, how to get the political benefits depends on one's own ability.
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Gu Hang had an in-depth communication with the two ladies for a long time.
It is said that there are only some details that need to be supplemented, but even these details must be perfect.
There is only a small chance that the Imperial Military Affairs Department will investigate, and even if they do, they will most likely not investigate too seriously. They will only confirm that a group of greenskins were indeed slaughtered on the surface, twelve greenskin ships were indeed blown up at the jump point, and the head that was chopped off did belong to an orc warlord, and that's it.
But just for that tiny probability, we have to do things as beautifully as possible to avoid even the slightest accident.
After the agreement was reached, all that remained was for each of them to go back and carry it out.
After Ye Lixia left, only the brother and sister Gu Hang and Wang Jiarong were left in the small living room.
The two of them were silent for a while.
In fact, at this time, Wang Jiarong was no longer so angry about the loss.
Although this caravan was registered under her name, it was essentially the property of Gu's Company. She was the commander, the shareholder, and the leader. This heavy loss was not her fault. She was targeted by the invincible pirates, so her guilt would not be particularly serious.
It was natural that her status within the firm would decline and she would suffer a huge loss from her investment, but it would not really ruin her.
Moreover, according to the new statement given by her cousin, she could turn losses into profits, or even make a fortune, then everything would be back.
The incident itself cannot be blamed entirely on my cousin.
Taking several factors into consideration, she really could not get angry with her cousin, who she grew up with.
But she also didn't want to be too intimate.
This is mainly because of another thing.
She sighed and said, "Cousin, actually... Auntie still misses you very much."
"Oh." Gu Hang replied.
He didn't mean anything else. From the memory of his previous life, he could see the figure of a beautiful woman. However, in his perception, his previous life had very conflicting feelings towards his mother.
Love, of course it is love, but there is also some resentment.
To be honest, he didn't really want to bother with the little family affairs of his previous life. In his mind, the things he dug out from his memory were always separated by a layer of gauze or cloth. They were clearly there, but he didn't feel deeply. It was like watching a movie, the story was clearly there, and it also had psychological feelings, but he didn't feel that it was something that happened to him.
Of course, he couldn't give these up.
These things are in his mind and memory, and he can't throw them away. In addition, he was able to become the planetary governor because of his family background, and he will not be able to lose this identity in the future.
The alienated yet inseparable contradiction was summed up in his expression, which was just an indifferent "oh".
Wang Jiarong on the opposite side had some misunderstandings.
She sighed again: "Cousin, you can't blame aunt, she... Well, anyway, it was you who made the mistake this time. Chief Pei Desi appointed you to be the governor of Angry Owl Star, you shouldn't have agreed, this will put your Gu family in a particularly passive position."
Gu Hang's heart moved.
Is there any hidden secret?
In his memory, he was one of the core children of this generation of the Gu family. His grandfather was the head of the family in the previous generation. His father should have been in this position, but he died not long after he was born. The current Gu family does not have a real head.
However, his mother, Ms. Wang Qi, was considered quite capable - this was Gu Hang's evaluation of the beautiful woman in his memory.
A woman who married into the family and whose husband died just after she gave birth to a child, managed to preserve a large number of interests belonging to her own small family in the subsequent internal family struggles, and has become an important branch force in the current Gu's Trading Company.
This is not easy.
However, when he was fully devoted to his career, he inevitably neglected his son.
In his previous life's memory, he had a rather cold relationship with his mother and they had very little contact time. In addition, he was under strict discipline, faced all kinds of rumors within the family during his growth, was isolated by his fellow tribesmen, and his grades and performance were mediocre and not recognized... All these things added up to be the source of his previous life's resentment.
Then, a few months ago, he met the sector chief, Mr. Loan Pedes, at an upper-class gathering.
There was a big gap between the two. One was the leader of the star region, and the other was just a rich second generation. But Pei Desi chatted carefully with Gu Hang for a while during a toast.
According to the memories and feelings of his predecessor, he felt respected. Chief Pedes praised him in a kind and gentle manner, saw the potential in him that had not yet been shown, and had expectations for his future. Then, they talked about the Angry Owl Star, saying that they hoped that a child of the Gu family could serve as the governor of the Angry Owl Star and solve such a difficult problem for the star region.
The predecessor was not completely stupid. He could see that the head of the star sector was trying to fool him.
But he accepted it without hesitation.
From his perspective: Angry Owl Star is the origin of the Pegasus Star Region. After it returned to the Empire, it has not paid enough taxes to the Empire, and the star region government has always needed to pay the difference. The decision to rebuild Angry Owl Star was made by the leader Pedesi, expanding the ninth world in addition to the eight worlds in the Pegasus Star Region.
Recovering territory was the main achievement that Pedes reported to the higher-level regional government. At that time, he had just become the head of the star zone not long ago.
The nature of the sector head is different from that of a local emperor like a planetary governor. The latter is more like a lord, who controls the military, politics and finances, and it is difficult to move them as long as they ensure the loyal empire's tax revenue; the former is more like a bureaucrat or politician, who needs political achievements and stories to decorate the facade, and needs the support of a powerful planetary governor to hold the position of the sector boss.
However, when he first came to power, he talked about the story of recovering the homeland, but he didn't expect that this matter would be rotten later. After decades of work, he ended up carrying a burden.
This is not only because the conditions and environment of the Angry Owl Star itself are terrible and difficult to deal with, but also because the political enemies within the star region are constantly dragging their feet, causing problems in the reconstruction work.
Pedesi had had enough of this situation and was determined to solve this problem.
He wanted to unite the Fofana family and the Gu family to solve this problem at once.
The Pedes brothers, the Fofana family, and the Gu family form an iron triangle in the Tianma star region.
Fofana represented the Imperial Navy, and the Gu family represented abundant financial resources. In addition, with the political influence of the Pedes brothers, one as the Governor of Winged Star and the other as the head of a star region, they were fully capable of building up Wrathful Star thoroughly.
Gu Hang's predecessor believed that he was the most capable person in the Gu family found by Mr. Pei Desi.
He was even worried that there might be unexpected events, such as whether another member of the family might steal his position as governor. He didn't tell anyone until the appointment letter came down.
Then, he slapped his mother hard.
(End of this chapter)
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