Chapter 308: Unify the World and Forge Ahead (End of this Volume)
The 210,000 refugees loaded into the transport ship are Gu Hang's "trophies" in the political arena. These more than 200,000 people are all going to migrate to the Angry Owl Star to live.
This is serious value.
Five tax coins per person is the price set by the Empire. If they are taken to the Angry Owl Star, even if nothing is done there, a refugee camp will be built to feed the people, and after two years the Imperial tax can be paid, it will be worth a million tax coins.
How did these people come?
The first is the "robbery" of Korojia by various planets in the Pegasus region.
Before Gallardo disappeared, the situation in Koroja had already been deteriorating. Many knowledgeable people in the star region were aware of this.
At the call of the star zone government, the governors of various planets, some other forces within the planets, and even wealthy businessmen all "generously donated" and provided some rescue to Koroga 3 to the best of their ability.
Mainly various types of supplies.
Likewise, many of the forces that provided supplies also "generously" expressed their willingness to accept refugees on Koroja 3 who were left homeless and had nowhere to go due to the unrest.
This is of course blackmail.
Most of the forces generously provided supplies to support Koroga III, but the supplies were not worth the value of the population they plundered from Koroga III.
But the Koroja 3 government had no choice but to accept it.
They need those supplies very much, otherwise the army's operations will lack supplies and people's lives will be affected.
In addition, there are indeed homeless refugees who have emerged due to the outbreak of plague demons in various places.
Other places are not so bad, but the city of Fino, where more than half of the city has been occupied, is the place with the most serious problems.
There were originally one billion people there, half of whom were in the occupied areas. Their fate was only death, transformation into plague zombies, or infection.
But in the non-occupied areas, there are still hundreds of millions of people. They should of course be evacuated away from the areas that could become war zones at any time, but... that's hundreds of millions of people, it's really difficult to transport them to other hives.
The entire Koroja 3 has always been in a state of overpopulation and resource shortage. It is difficult to evacuate so many people and find a place to accommodate so many people.
They could only set up refugee camps and quarantine areas in the upper areas of Fino City.
All areas are managed in a graded manner, divided into high-risk areas, medium-risk areas, low-risk areas and no-risk areas for infection. Each area is strictly separated and all areas are under military management. People are not allowed to go out - even if they starve to death.
After reporting, people who do not have typical symptoms of infection within seven days will be able to move to a lower-level risk area until they reach a risk-free area.
But in fact, a risk-free zone only means that the risk of disease is very low, not that it is safe. The problem of material shortages has always plagued the quarantine refugee camps in Fino City. At the same time, no matter what the risk level of the area is, there is the danger of plague demons breaking through the army's defense line and then directly conquering it, and there is also the danger of a sudden large-scale plague outbreak.
Therefore, under such circumstances, the most beneficial thing for the Korojia planetary government is indeed to sell people to other planets and forces.
If I don't sell it, it will be difficult to maintain it and it may go bankrupt at any time.
But it has to be a reasonable price, right?
When calculated, other forces generally use materials equivalent to 0.2-0.5 tax coins to exchange for a person worth 5 tax coins. Isn't this robbery?
Of course, as a hive planet with a population of 40 billion, equivalent to 62.2% of the entire Pegasus region, the Koroga government is one of the most powerful planetary governments. What's more, Governor Akuna is a staunch supporter of Pegasus leader Pedes and belongs to the same faction.
They certainly wouldn't accept being robbed so easily.
But… who can blame the two core figures, Akuna and Pedes, for not having clean butts? They are now in a state of panic because of Gallardo’s disappearance. Their political influence, which was originally very strong, has dropped to only two or three points.
There was a lot of political struggle and compromise involved.
The final result of the negotiation was that each faction could obtain a certain amount of free "migration" population according to their support for Koroja 3; if the amount exceeded, they would need to purchase it with tax coins. The purchase price was calculated according to the ladder mechanism, ranging from 1 tax coin/person to 4 tax coins/person.
There are preferential policies, but at the same time, those forces are restricted from plundering Koroja 3 excessively.
Gu Hang participated in the negotiation process on this matter.
In this, he certainly stood on his own side, on the side of Angry Owl Star, and tried to gain as much benefit as possible.
But apart from this matter, Gu Hang would sometimes pull himself away from his emotions and think about it.
When Koroja 3 suffered a major disaster and countless people in the empire were affected, the ideal situation of all forces working together to face the disaster together only existed on the surface. Secretly, it turned into a feast of interests and division of Koroja 3. The bigwigs of all parties were scheming and arguing with each other, lying in the disaster, eating oil with their mouths full.
Gu Hang cannot stand on the moral high ground to criticize these things because he is also a person who eats a lot of greasy food.
But is there a single 'good thing' in this matter from beginning to end?
The various forces that are trying to divide up the population benefits of Koroja 3 are certainly trying to take advantage of the situation;
The government of the planet Koroja 3 is not clean at all. The population has become a bargaining chip for them to gain benefits. Instead of thinking about how to save more people, they would rather place the refugees in refugee camps with huge risks, where they may face death at any time, than let the refugees go to live in a good place.
The people who are facing risks, who are poorly clothed and hungry, and who have lost their homes, are facing the most difficult situation.
Gu Hang couldn't change the whole environment. All he could do was try his best to let those who "migrated" to the Angry Owl Star live the life that "people" should live.
Everyone on board came from a risk-free area and had gone through the quarantine process.
Gu Hang was also unwilling to put people with infectious diseases on board, otherwise a whole ship of people might die before reaching Angry Owl Star, or even the plague might be brought to Angry Owl Star.
Half of these 210,000 people came from the "free" population provided by the Angry Owl Star to Koroga III - this was the free population quota that Gu Hang obtained by participating in political activities while taking part in the investigation team.
The other 110,000 people came from the Angry Bear Legion. They were directly involved in the front-line combat, and there were many refugee camps within the Angry Bear Legion's defense zone. Li Kexi and the commander of the Korojia local forces colluded and sold this group of people.
After all, the Koroja government can sell it, but won’t share the proceeds with the military, so can’t the local military sell it themselves?
The price was very cheap. The Koroja government asked for 1 tax coin per person at the lowest price, but the local army was willing to sell it for 0.6 tax coins. In addition, Li Kexi had the power to command them, so he used both soft and hard tactics to directly reduce the price to 0.2 tax coins per person.
These 110,000 people only cost Gu Hang a little over 20,000 tax coins. What's the difference between this and not paying for anything?
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The group drifted in the sea of stars for seven days and arrived at the Angry Owl Star.
An armed merchant ship and a transport ship belonging to Gu's Trading Company were docked at the small port of Angry Owl Star.
Two hundred and one thousand people left the port and headed for the surface; some supplies were loaded onto ships and prepared to be shipped to Koroga. The entire port began to become extremely busy.
However, Gu Hang certainly doesn't need to squeeze here.
He led the investigation team and investor representatives to leave the star port and come to the ground first.
The Prime Minister of the Union, Ms. Ossena, the Political Commissar of the Union Army, Major General Taddius, and the Chief Justice of the Union, Lambert Hodgson, who are considered the three giants of the Union government, all came out to personally welcome the return of their governor.
After a brief reception banquet, the group boarded several falcons and headed for Fuxing City.
Ossena, which had already received the news, would send a team composed of the Union's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Commerce to connect with the investor representatives.
They will be taken to see Weixing City, the industrial center of the Angry Owl Star, and then to see the vast plantation fields in the Qinggu area in the south, and then return to Scarro City to see the construction status of the star port.
I believe that after reading this, they will provide their masters with a reasonable report on whether the Angry Owl Star is worth investing in.
As for those people in the investigation team, things are a little bit troublesome.
Gu Hang didn't want to ignore them too much, so he simply took his men and went to Qinggu area first.
This also makes sense.
They were originally here to investigate the situation of the plague demons. With the investigation on Koroja 3 at a complete standstill, they wanted to see if they could find some other clues on the Wrathful Owl Star. The Qinggu region was the starting point of the demonic disaster a year and a half ago, so it was quite reasonable to go to the Qinggu region to investigate.
However, after they go to the Qinggu area, how they investigate is their own business.
The Union Government fully supports their work. They have arranged a pastoral villa with plenty of natural food, a chef, and servants. They can enjoy the pastoral scenery that is hard to see in the hive city or on those civilized planets.
There is no shortage of delicious food and fine wine. If you are bored, you can go to the southern edge of the Beiqing Valley area and hunt some deformed monsters as a hunting game... No, it's an investigation operation.
Isn't this much more comfortable than squatting in the hostile environment of Koroja 3 and waiting for the Sun Lord's investigation team to arrive?
After settling the members of the investigation team, Gu Hang hurried back to Fuxing City.
Ossena, who was busy with the arrival of 210,000 refugees and the investor team, hurriedly put down her work, met with the governor, and gave a work report.
The development of Angry Owl Star was of utmost importance, but Gu Hang didn't need to hear too much. In the past, they had basically maintained a call frequency of at least once a week and at most three times a week. Although he was not in Angry Owl Star, he was still well aware of the development of the alliance.
There are some more important things in it that can be discussed separately.
For example, Weixing City, as an industrial center, has a population of five million, which has doubled compared to more than a year ago. This is mainly due to the population siphoned in from other areas.
The annual industrial output value of Weixing City has reached 11 million tax coins, and the per capita output value has exceeded 2, which is double the imperial standard per capita annual output value.
1The concept of tax currency was originally the "total output value of an imperial citizen in one year under standard circumstances" set by the imperial central government.
Of course, this is only the per capita output value of Weixing City that is over 2, and other places are far from it. Fuxing City has a population of 1.2 million, but it is only over 1; the Beiqing Valley area has huge land resources and a very high per capita planting area, so it can reach 1.9 tax coins; other places are all under 1.
Another important thing reported by Ossena was the situation in the western part of the continent, including the Western Desert, after they were all recovered.
After destroying Blackbird Heavy Industries entrenched in the west of the continent, the Alliance no longer had any enemies on the entire Angry Owl Star.
The entire Angry Owl Star is still a planet dominated by ocean area. In the pre-war era, the natural environment was quite good and the living standards of the residents were very high. It can be regarded as a combination of a garden world and a high-level resource planet.
The land area of the entire planet only accounts for about 36% in total. The main body of the alliance is currently located on the main continent, which is about 22% of the entire planet's area. There are also two other continents, with areas of 9% and 5% of the planet respectively.
However, although the main continent was destroyed, at least there were fertile lands like the Qinggu area; the natural environment of other lands was terrible, but as long as they avoided the waste energy storm, they could still be inhabited. Even the Western Desert, the worst natural environment, had oases and underground water systems that could be used for the underground planting factories, feeding a large population and also capable of exporting food.
The other two continents were completely unsuitable for human survival. They were originally the mining sites for the most important spiritual gas fields on the Angry Owl Star. Now, the two continents and the surrounding seas were shrouded in a never-ending waste energy storm.
According to the intelligence obtained in the past, there is indeed no sign of any activity on the two continents.
From this perspective, the Alliance can be considered to be a clear unification of the entire world.
Unify the world!
Become the ruler of a planet in every sense of the word!
Although this was the goal that Gu Hang had set for himself when he came into this world two and a half years ago, and he never doubted that he could achieve it, when all this became a reality, he still couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
Before traveling through time, he was just an ordinary person. How could he have imagined that there would be such a day?
However, Gu Hang did not feel very excited.
If there hadn't been the series of events triggered by Gallardo and this trip to Koroja, Gu Hang might have been more excited.
But now, the vast sea of stars is no longer just a backdrop in his memory, but has truly become the stage he is about to step onto. Only then did he realize how insignificant he and the power of a planet are here.
The only thing we can do is to keep moving forward.
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