Chapter 319, Black Arrow Star Strategy
Theoretically speaking, the position of governor of Black Arrow Star is now controlled by Gu Hang.
The current 'Governor' is Ness Luman, and the king is indeed under Gu Hang's control at the moment. Not only is his mind controlled by Gu Hang, but the country's military, politics, and economy are also controlled by the alliance.
But this control does not represent the alliance's control over the entire Black Arrow Star.
Ness Luman's position as governor comes from the unique political ecology of Black Arrow Star: the King's Council.
The person nominated by the King's Council will temporarily serve as the Governor of Black Arrow Star until the next election.
After the last meeting of the King's Parliament, the Kingdom of Luman, which had stood on the wrong side in the previous war and was beaten badly by the army of the Angry Owl Star, naturally lost its governor's seat.
According to the political tradition of Black Arrow Star, Ness should have stepped down after the previous tax collection was completed.
But he insisted on not stepping down after the King's Council. Specifically, he did not go to the Star Region Government to submit his resignation and the process of nominating the next Governor.
In the past, some people have done this on Black Arrow Star, but the consequences were not good.
The reason is that the governor of this planet is essentially the entity called 'King's Council'.
The King's Council itself certainly does not have any power, but what it represents is crucial. The seven most powerful countries on the planet, along with a number of small and scattered countries, discuss important matters in this council. The most important matter is that everyone finds a way to collect the imperial taxes that each country has to pay and pay them together, so as to maintain the stability of the entire planet.
Are you holding on to the position of governor and refusing to hand it over?
It is not the case that one can dominate a planet just by becoming a governor, but only those who can dominate a planet can become a true governor.
No matter where this power of domination comes from.
Obviously, Ness Luman, or the alliance behind him, was not able to dominate the Black Arrow Planet. The other kings on that planet were also unconvinced.
After Ness Luman refused to hand over the position of Governor, they chose a new Governor from the King's Council. This person was from the largest kingdom on Black Arrow Star, Panpos.
They have begun to mobilize their own relationships in an attempt to gain recognition from the empire.
Of course, the influence of these kings in the political arena is too weak. Not to mention the star domain government, even the star district government has no way to go, not to mention that the current political situation in the star district is in a mess.
Their past connections were mainly with Gu's Trading Company and the Mechanicus in the star region. But the former is now on the side of Ness Luman. When they came to them, the people in Gu's Trading Company generally advised them to accept their fate; as for the latter, the Mechanicus in the Pegasus Star Region has very little influence. To be honest, this place is more like the territory of the state religion. The organization is well-established and has a relatively large influence. There is even a headquarters of the Sisters.
In short, if they pursue a political line, they will be suppressed to death.
But they obviously didn't count on it too much.
While they are actively active, their actions within the planet are more important.
They have declared that they will refuse to pay imperial taxes to the Kingdom of Luman. The Kingdom of Panbos is responsible for the relevant taxation work and has almost received the support of the remaining 85% of the country.
The annual imperial tax on Black Arrow Star is 40 million tax coins.
The Luman Kingdom will definitely not be able to fill this hole on its own, and Gu Hang can't possibly sell everything he has to fill it. The entire Black Arrow Star must come to the rescue.
What should I do then?
The only option is to fight.
In fact, one fight has already taken place.
However, it was not Gu Hang who took action.
Over there, after being elected as the new 'Governor', the King of Panpos gathered an army and issued a warning to the Kingdom of Luman. He also sent a copy of the warning to Gu's Company through the Star Language Tower.
The warning letter they sent to the Kingdom of Luman was very harsh, accusing Nestor Luman of being a traitor and listing the nine deadly sins.
However, the wording used in the warning to Gu's company was relatively tactful. The general meaning was that they had been doing business for many years and had always had a relatively friendly relationship. Black Arrow Star was very poor, and there was nothing here worth obtaining by Gu's company other than through trade. At the same time, the Black Arrow people were all very brave, and if even the only things they had were to be taken away, they would fight to the end at all costs.
This can be considered as showing an attitude, but Gu Hang ignored them.
Seeing this, the troops assembled by the King's Council invaded the territory of the Kingdom of Luman.
However, their determination for war was clearly not sufficient, and their logistical supply capabilities did not support them in assembling a very large and elite army for a large-scale invasion of the Kingdom of Luman.
Among them, even the Knight Titan was only produced by the Kingdom of Panpos.
The newly established army of the Luman Kingdom is definitely no match for them. After all, the Luman people don’t even have many sentinel mechas left.
But the subsequent Black Arrow Army was dispatched.
Under the fierce attack of the armored forces, the King's coalition was beaten to a pulp. If they had not retreated quickly, even the Knight Titan would have been left behind.
Perbov's army gave the Black Arrows a small shock to their alliance.
But at this point, they had only repelled one of the enemy's attacks, which was far from enough to make the kings surrender.
They did not have the courage to regroup their troops for a large-scale attack on the Luman Kingdom, and could only adopt a mode of economic blockade and small-scale border invasion to continue their hostile behavior.
Of course, they certainly couldn't hand over the imperial taxes to the Kingdom of Luman.
This was still a bit tricky for Gu Hang, but it was actually within his expectations. When Ness Luman was instructed not to give up the Governor of Black Arrow, the reaction of other countries on Black Arrow Star was predictable.
This matter cannot be resolved peacefully. A war is necessary to end it all.
Gu Hang wants to annex the entire Black Arrow Star. The other kingdoms are not made of clay and will of course resist.
Rather than saying this situation was an accident, it would be more accurate to say that it was caused by Gu Hang.
He had been ready for a battle.
Especially now that the war on the Angry Owl Star has almost completely subsided, the Alliance has enough strength to deal with this war.
Moreover, Gu Hang also has enough confidence to win.
Black Arrow Star has a population of 400 million, and Angry Owl Star has only 55 million including new immigrants. It seems that the size difference between the two places is very large, but in fact it is not the case.
There is a huge gap in industrial capacity and mobilization capabilities between the two.
The main military forces of the major kingdoms of Black Arrow Star, that is, the kingdom army, are at most at the level of militia in terms of quality, and are very different from the regular army of the alliance in all aspects. Not to mention the organization, discipline and tactics, just in terms of hardware equipment, they don't even have a complete G series of rifles, and many of them are "homemade guns and cannons" produced by their own kingdoms, with worrying range, power and accuracy.
The only equipment that could be considered high-tech and that the Alliance's army looked up to was the Sentinel Mech and the Knight Titan. However, the former performed mediocrely on the front battlefield, and the latter was too few in number.
What's even worse is that the high-tech equipment of the Kingdom Army all depends on foreign trade, and the channel for this foreign trade is Gu's Trading Company. This makes their ability to sustain the war very weak. Once a war breaks out, Gu's Trading Company will block the trade route, and their army will collapse after a long time.
However, although Gu Hang felt that he had a good chance of winning the war, and that the losses he might suffer would not be that great, he still had to face his own difficulties:
In the name of war.
Of course, he could use Luman's name to directly declare all other kingdoms on Black Arrow Star as rebels for not paying imperial taxes, and then ask the Astra Militarum Legion for help to quell the rebellion. The Alliance Army would then respond to the Astra Militarum Legion and go to Black Arrow Star in large numbers with the Angry Bear Legion to carry out the "quelling" mission.
This whole set of logic is smooth and compliant.
However, it's a bit too shameless and forced.
After all, the governor's right to rule is guaranteed by the Empire, but there are many places below that are wrangling. For example, the situation of the King's Council nominating the governor is supported by the Empire according to the different political styles of each planet. The King's Council of Black Arrow Star is also a system that has been reported to and approved by the Imperial Government.
What's more, for thousands of years, Black Arrow Star has been operating under such a political system. No matter what name Gu Hang uses, others are not blind or stupid, how can they not see that you are just annexing?
In the past, Gu Hang would not have dared to do this.
Although this starry sea is a world where the strong prey on the weak, but under the human race and the unified government of the empire, doing so would incur too much criticism, and it would be very, very easy for any step to be interfered with by other political forces and fail due to external interference.
Moreover, even if it is successful, there are still a lot of extremely difficult follow-up work to do, and if it is not done properly, you will have to vomit out as much as you eat.
After all, Gu Hang still has to work within the empire's system.
The main reason why it can be done now is that the political situation in the entire Tianma star region has become completely chaotic, and Gu Hang can profit from the chaos.
In addition, precisely because of the chaotic political situation, things that previously required a lot of exchanges of interests and political compromises to accomplish are now easier to obtain.
In the name of the Gu family, Gu Hang notified the two major forces in the current star zone at the same time that he was going to Black Arrow Star to quell the rebellion.
This almost makes it clear that Gu Hang intends to annex Black Arrow Star.
As for these two major forces, there was a core issue surrounding Gu Hang before this.
That is about Blackbird Heavy Industries, an asset controlled by the Fats family, and its involvement in the Iron Man Rebellion on the Wrath of the Owl.
When the Fats family sent the Star Army to the Angry Owl Star to quell the Iron Man Rebellion, Major General Cai Minjin accepted the mission to rush into Blackbird City first to collect and destroy the relevant clues.
For them, this is a matter of course.
Indeed, we, the people of the Fachers family, have caused you trouble. Now I have sent a million interstellar troops to solve this trouble for you. So we should be even on our side.
But obviously, the actual situation depends on the specific means. Cai Minjin was unable to rush into Blackbird City first, and eventually let the Alliance loot it first.
The Fats were guilty as they were, they didn't know what was there, and Gu Hang hadn't told them either, but... wasn't this fear?
At this critical juncture, they don't want the bomb to explode.
On the contrary, little Pedes really hopes that Gu Hang can give them this bomb. In this way, they will have a weapon in their hands that can attack the Fats family.
Not to mention how deadly it is, but linking the Iron Man's rebellion, which was originally characterized as an individual act, to the entire Fats family will obviously cause them a lot of trouble.
And here, Gu Hang has the capital to exchange with both parties.
Black Arrow Planet was originally just a small marginal place, with a population of 400 million, less than half the population of Koroga Hive City; it did not have any rich specialties, and was just an agricultural planet with a feudal system, so it was really not important.
Moreover, wherever Gu Hang wanted to go, he could go and get it by himself. He didn’t need any special help from others. He just needed them to nod.
So, after some exchanges, Fats finally agreed not to make things difficult for Gu Hang in this matter. As long as he could settle the situation on Black Arrow Star before the next imperial tax payment, they would acquiesce to this matter.
After Gu Hang received a satisfactory answer, he quickly reassured the other party:
"I will never give the information about Blackbird Heavy Industries to Little Pedes to use as a weapon to attack Fats."
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"I will never hand over the information about Blackbird Heavy Industries to Fats, so that they will have no worries at all."
Turning around, Gu Hang also gave little Pedesi a reassurance.
When Gu Hang heard this, Little Pedes was furious. He was already angry about the "betrayal" of Gu and Fofana, and now, Gu Hang did not fully meet his demands and did not give him the things, let alone stand up and identify the Fachers family.
But after all, Gu Hang did not completely turn to the other side.
After repeated persuasion from his staff and other cooperative forces, based on the principle that even if he could not gain the support of the Gu family, at least he should not create a hostile relationship, he finally nodded, and his attitude was roughly the same as that of Fats.
Don't help, don't cause trouble.
That's enough.
After solving the political problems, Gu Hang can finally take action.
The Central Army Group, half of the Angry Bear Legion on the Angry Owl Star, the Phoenix Regiment... the troops that Gu Hang had determined to participate in the war began to get ready to set off.
They will board the transport ship mobilized by Gu's Trading Company, board the ship from the Angry Owl Star Port which has obviously expanded many times, and head for the Black Arrow Star, taking the first step in the alliance's conquest of the starry sea.
And Gu Hang will also participate in this war personally.
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(End of this chapter)
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