Chapter 209: Am I the head of a province now?
Feiyi Star, Gu’s residence.
A middle-aged woman, wearing a bathrobe, was curled up on the sofa, reading a stack of newspapers.
She frowned as she read the first half of the passage.
But when she saw the second half, her frown relaxed again.
Seeing the hostess's expression change drastically, the housekeeper standing next to her couldn't help but ask, "Is this news about Master Hang?"
"Yes." The middle-aged woman, Wang Qi, Gu Hang's biological mother, handed the letter to her confidant, "Take a look at it too."
The housekeeper took the letter, read it carefully, and couldn't help showing shock on her face.
A great demon appeared on the Angry Owl Star, and the Demon Rift opened... Of course, these news made her worried.
But it was successfully solved, that's good.
She stroked her chest gently to calm down her fear, and returned the letter to the hostess, saying, "What Master Hang did was too shocking... Let's find a way to get him back so that we don't have to worry about it all day long."
"It's not that easy. You can't just remove a planetary governor. But it's good that the brat has really become smarter and more capable after going to the remote countryside. It's better to go out and gain experience and make a bigger difference than staying on Winged Star as a useless waste for all those years."
Having said that, she couldn't help feeling melancholy.
Why not earlier?
If her son could have come to his senses earlier, and shown his maturity, responsibility, and ability earlier, she wouldn't have had to work so hard these years. Many things could have been handed over to him step by step.
The housekeeper has been with Wang Qi for many years and can probably guess what the mistress is worried about.
She thought about it and carefully proposed an idea: "How about... we help Master Hang?"
Wang Qi looked up at the subordinate who had followed him for many years and asked, "Help? How do you want me to help?"
"Uh..." She was really thinking, "Can we help Mr. Hang build some factories on his planet through construction? If the ownership is difficult to deal with, we can register it in a new Gu caravan, and this new caravan will serve Mr. Hang exclusively..."
"Building a factory is useless if there are too few. If there are too many, how can the family approve this investment plan? Avoiding heavy asset investment other than the fleet is the principle of the Gu family."
When he said this, Wang Qi sneered, as if he didn't take it seriously, with a hint of sarcasm in his voice.
However, she finally sighed: "This won't work, at least not now."
She looked out the window: "Wait until I solve this problem now... As long as everything goes well, what's ours will be ours in the future, and we won't have to listen to those old guys' instructions anymore."
Hearing this, the housekeeper became a little worried.
She hesitated for a moment, then said, "Should we talk to Master Hang about this matter? He is also a governor now, maybe he can provide some help?"
"No." Wang Qi said decisively, "Don't say it."
"Are you worried that he will still be influenced by his uncles, aunts, and cousins? But I think Young Master Hang seems to have grown up a lot now, so he shouldn't..."
"Be safe, be safe. When I'm done with my work, he might hate me, but no matter what, the entire Gu family will be his."
The housekeeper wanted to persuade him again, but seeing Wang Qi's expression, she finally stopped trying to persuade him. She could only sigh and say, "I hope Mr. Hang will understand your intentions in the future."
Wang Qi snorted coldly: "He doesn't need to understand. I just want to give the things that originally belonged to my husband to his son. Just don't cause trouble for that brat."
The housekeeper lowered her head but couldn't help rolling her eyes.
This mother and son...each one is more awkward than the other.
"Okay, you go first, I'll rest for a while."
"OK."
The hostess spoke, and the butler did not stay long and turned away.
Wang Qi, who was alone, couldn't help but took out the letter she had just finished reading and read it again from beginning to end.
Then she stood up, took out a wooden box from the bookcase next to her, opened it and put the letter in it.
There is already a thick stack of things in this wooden box.
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Gu Hang, who was far away on the Angry Owl Star, had no idea what his mother was thinking, let alone the big job she was going to give him.
At this moment, he was having multiple rounds of discussions with his team of bureaucrats regarding the affairs of the Qinggu region.
I thought that after he destroyed the headquarters of the Natural Salvation Society and expelled all the unclean ones who stood out back to the Chaos Abyss, the situation in the south should be settled, right?
But in fact it doesn’t.
There is also a very fundamental problem in that land: the deformed monsters.
After Hu Ke's narration, Gu Hang roughly understood that the deformed monsters on the Angry Owl Star were not created by the Natural Salvation Society or the devil. These things were essentially the "climate disaster" that appeared after the ecological collapse of the Angry Owl Star.
Wrathful Owl was once a developed energy mining world, with the Spiritualized Gas Field being its main output. The barrier between Wrathful Owl and the dark side of the universe and the spirit world seemed particularly weak. At the weakest point, the energy of the spirit world penetrated the barrier between the two worlds and condensed somewhere, forming a Spiritualized Gas Field over the years.
But after the last disaster, most of the spiritual energy fields on the Wrathful Owl Star collapsed. The whistling, unrestrained spiritual energy created all sorts of strange disasters.
The waste energy storm is the most typical one. Now the ruins of the tower outside the Garbage Town are still blowing. The energy collection equipment and energy compression equipment placed there can stably produce energy crystals equivalent to 80,000 tax coins every month.
This is hard currency.
The aberrations that are common throughout the wasteland, especially in the Qinggu area, are actually plants that are affected by psionic energy and animated.
Gawaga made use of these things. Through his former technical knowledge and the so-called "fatherly grace", he spread a virus that could control these plants into the vast forest of Qinggu.
But now, Govaga is dead, the summoned demon has been expelled, and the influence of the chaotic abyss that corroded reality in the Qinggu region no longer exists.
This caused the supernatural virus that had spread everywhere and infected almost most of the mutants to lose its foundation and disappear.
However, the modified central nervous systems of the deformed monsters will not be restored.
The deformed monsters with a piece missing from their central nervous system have all gone crazy.
They rushed out of the woods madly, attacking all living things.
There is no method or plan.
To be honest, these monsters are not difficult to deal with. Although there are many special species among them that have been transformed by the Natural Salvation Society in recent years, they are quite powerful. However, there are ways to deal with brainless creatures, no matter how powerful they are.
Not to mention, they are even more brainless than before.
After all, although these deformed monsters did not have the ability to think independently before, they still had controllers.
Before this, almost every large-scale action of the Deformed Monsters had traces of the Father's followers. With the help of the control virus, they could roughly control the actions of the entire group of monsters.
Because of this, they were able to more or less send out cannon fodder to cover the approach of shooting infantry such as Abscess Sprayers; biochemical artillery to bombard from a distance; zombie dogs to wait for an opportunity to launch a deadly surprise attack when the enemy's formation was in disarray, causing heavy casualties...
However, without the control of the cultists, these brainless monsters lost even the most basic tactical coordination ability.
In front of the army, isn't this just a beast waiting to be slaughtered?
But there are just too many of them.
According to Hu Ke's calculations and estimates, there may be between 150 million and 300 million deformed monsters of various types in the entire Qinggu area, living in the vast jungle of the Qinggu area.
This is a terrifying number, many times greater than the population of the entire planet; it is thirty times the total population of the Qinggu region.
Even if it is the Nature's Salvation Society, they only have the ability to infect most of the deformed monsters, and they do not have the ability to command so many monsters at the same time.
But now, when all these monsters are out of control and rushing out crazily, the trouble is huge.
No matter how stupid they are, with a number of 150 million to 300 million, it would take an unknown amount of time just to produce enough shells and bullets to destroy them all.
However, fortunately, when these monsters become violent, they do not recognize any relatives or friends. They do not simply target humans or other creatures, but also their own kind.
It is also because of this that the pressure faced by the Central Army Group in the Qinggu area is relatively not that strong.
Fortunately, the Beiqing Valley area carried out large-scale terrain transformation work in the Extinction Jungle, and the number of deformed monsters here was also reduced.
The settlements and towns began to tighten their defenses, and no one had to leave unless necessary. The army defended each node and requested firepower strikes at any time when they were hit by waves of monsters.
The Alliance's air force was extremely busy, attacking everywhere; even the Sharp Blade Tiger in the sky would occasionally help out, firing a few scalpel rounds downwards to clear out large areas of particularly concentrated enemy forces...
The unrest in the Qinggu area lasted for three months before it gradually subsided.
After these three months, reports of monster appearances in various settlements seldom began.
Under such circumstances, Gu Hang could safely transfer the Central Army Group back.
But despite this, people still need to stay in the Qinggu area.
Hu Ke was on a business trip in Qinggu area. Under the protection of the special operations brigade, he conducted on-site investigations in some jungles and discovered that some deformed monsters were still alive.
Although their numbers have been greatly reduced, they may be able to repopulate.
However, without the influence of the power of the abyss, the reproduction rate should not be particularly fast, and it will not be easy to restore the original population size.
Moreover, the central nervous systems of these deformed monsters gradually got rid of the influence of the central nervous system after the chaos virus disappeared out of thin air, and became much calmer.
If nothing unexpected happens, they should return to their traditional appearance of decades ago: reproducing normally in the jungle until the population reaches the upper limit of the environment and begins to overflow, forming a wave of deformed monsters; when the number is drastically reduced to normal levels, they will continue to reproduce in the jungle.
Their reproduction and growth rate are all related to the season and light, which is why traditional aberration waves are seasonal.
If that were all, these aberrations wouldn't be much of a threat anymore.
After this wave of disasters in the Southern Qinggu area, there are probably not many survivors, and those who exist have fled to the north. The Northern Qinggu area now has a population of about eight million. After clearing out the jungle and the deformed monsters, they only need to deal with problems from the south.
The Qinggu region used to have almost no industrial production capacity, relying on the armed forces of each manor, so it was normal that they could not handle it; now, with the regular army of the alliance, the conventional and traditional waves of deformed monsters would be wiped out as soon as they emerged from the jungle.
For this reason, Gu Hang still had to leave a force in the Qinggu area.
He retained the 15th to 25th Divisions established in the Qinggu area and formed the Qinggu Garrison Army.
These 11 divisions are all garrison divisions. They are cheap but sufficient.
They will be responsible for the long-term defense of the Beiqing Valley area.
In fact, the best way to deal with those deformed monsters is to go deep into the jungle and eradicate them completely.
But that's obviously unlikely.
The Qinggu area is too large, and Gu Hang has an army of less than 200,000 soldiers, so there is no way to do this. Moreover, according to Hu Ke's assessment, the deformed monsters are a manifestation of psychic disasters. As long as the jungle is still there, they will regenerate even if they are killed.
If the jungle is cleared, the deformed monsters will not be generated again, but the psychic disaster will not be quelled and will most likely turn into a waste energy storm.
It would be better to clean up the deformities regularly every year.
At least after the deformed monsters are killed, they can be recycled and turned into synthetic starch, which will make the land fertile.
If it turns into a waste energy storm, we won’t be able to farm.
Gu Hang's positioning of the entire Beiqing Valley area is the 'granary of the alliance'.
After the alliance solved the annual disaster of the monster wave, united the entire region and established a unified government, agricultural productivity could be greatly increased if we optimistically estimate it.
It would be perfect if the entire Beiqinggu area was turned into an agricultural production area, a large number of farms were built, and some hub cities were built as well, mainly engaged in industries such as transportation, commerce, primary processing of agricultural products, and services.
Crocker Manor was also renamed 'Beigu City' as the capital of Beiqinggu Province.
Jason Morgan, who played a significant role in the recovery and quelling of the disaster in the Beiqing Valley region, was transferred out of the Civil Affairs Bureau. He was commissioned to establish the Beiqing Valley Provincial Government and serve as the first high-ranking official.
His rank also rose directly to C1 level.
Jason Morgan felt that this appointment was reasonable, but when it actually happened, it seemed like a dream.
"I used to be an employee of a small company in Fuxing City. It's only been a few months, and I've become the head of a province?"
(End of this chapter)
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