Chapter 2, Gift
In fact, this is only the first month since Gu Hang traveled through time.
He is now in a cosmic era, with a huge human empire ruling over a boundless star field. The God-Emperor who ascended ten thousand years ago established the "Spiritual Network" and brought spiritual energy to humans. The current empire is ruled by the Supreme Council sitting in Terra, the human mother planet.
About 120 years ago, the planet where Gu Hang was currently located was still an ordinary world. A war completely destroyed the surface environment of the entire world, and the Angry Owl Star became a wasteland planet.
29 years ago, the Imperial government assessed that there was still hope of saving the Wrathful Owl Planet, and for the first time since the war, it sent a governor to oversee reconstruction work.
Within the Empire's system, planetary governors can rule their planets in any way, provided that the governor remains loyal to the Empire.
What is loyalty? Paying taxes is loyalty. If you don't pay taxes, or don't pay enough, you will be executed and replaced by someone more loyal.
Up to now, in the past 29 years, Angry Star has had five governors.
In fact, the three people before Gu Hang only worked for two years each. The imperial tax of Angry Owl Star is paid every two years, and these three unlucky guys did not make it through the first tax payment after taking office.
And now, Gu Hang is here.
A month ago, when he had just crossed over and merged his body's memory, he was already on the starship heading to Angry Owl Star. He wanted to ensure that Angry Owl Star could pay a quarter of the standard tax in two years, and the remaining three quarters would be paid by the star district government. This was a favorable condition that the political family he belonged to, the Gu family, had fought for him.
If you pay taxes for the second time four years later, you must pay the full amount.
A cruiser belonging to the star zone navy was parked in the planet's orbit to provide him with support. The only people he brought to the surface were 3,000 slaves, 300 servitors whose frontal lobes had been removed and mechanically modified, and 30 marines led by Captain Yan Fangxu.
The main government on the planet Angry Owl, called the 'Alliance', was established by the first generation of governors 29 years ago.
Logically speaking, after arriving at the Angry Owl Star, Gu Hang should have landed in the alliance's capital city, Fuxing City, taken over the role of alliance leader, and then began to exercise the power of the planetary governor based on the alliance government.
But he didn't do that. He led his men to set up a camp not far from Fuxing City, and then started doing things that were incomprehensible.
For example, Yan Fangxu didn’t understand why Gu Hang wanted to train those 300 mechanical servants?
These slaves, who have lost their self-thinking, cannot even operate armored vehicles and artillery. They can only be equipped with the lowest-level equipment and used as cannon fodder. There is no value in training them at all.
However, he had to be ashamed of his shallow knowledge.
He watched with his own eyes as those mechanical servants actually underwent earth-shaking changes in a very short period of time!
He saw that under Gu Hang's command, these servitors quickly completed a series of tasks before departure, such as assembling the team and checking equipment; and in the previous training, these servitors also showed a far superior technical and tactical level. Shooting, physical fitness, tactics... all of these have been greatly improved, and coupled with their original characteristics of not fearing sacrifice and fully abiding by discipline, they have become high-level soldiers.
This is already the level of the regular troops of the Imperial Guard Astra Militarum.
Although, he still didn't think these servitors were a match for his elite marines, but that was only in a one-on-one situation. There were only 30 elite marines, while there were 300 servitors.
More importantly, Yan Fangxu had no idea how Gu Hang did it.
This was completely beyond his understanding: For servitor soldiers, wasn't it only the level they were at when they were transformed that made subsequent training meaningless?
Just as he was in a daze, he heard Gu Hang's full-throated voice: "Captain Yan, tell your team to move faster. How come the elite Marines are not as fast as the Servitors in their preparations before the battle?"
Coming back to his senses, Yan Fangxu saluted Gu Hang with a bit of shame, then turned around and yelled at his subordinates who were also stunned by the changes in the Mechanical Servant Camp: "What are you guys dawdling about? Hurry up! The slowest five people will start sleeping with the Mechanical Servant from tomorrow!"
After watching Yan Fangxu start to kick his teammates one by one, Gu Hang chuckled, retracted his gaze, and focused again on the panel information that appeared in front of him.
The illusory, floating fonts in his eyes formed multiple options:
[Current Gift Points: 2]
[Total territory income: 5/Terra month]
【hero】
【Soldier Card】
There were four items in total, and Gu Hang clicked on the second item [Total Territory Income]. Here, he saw more detailed information: [Governor's Temporary Camp: 5/Terra Month].
There is only this one.
According to Gu Hang's understanding, this monthly total income depends on the total income provided by the territory that is recognized by the system. And his current territory only has this temporary camp.
After seeing the system and learning that he had become the governor, he was very excited. He wanted to know how much blessings he could get every month if he had a planet as his territory.
However, after landing in Renaissance City from the starship, the number remained zero.
He guessed at the time that the nominal territory would not be recognized by the system and that he had to have actual control over it.
As an airborne governor, how easy is it to control a loose Wasteland Alliance regime and integrate the entire alliance? If it were easy, the previous governors would not have been ruined.
So, he decisively abandoned the route that had led the governors to the past, turned around and asked for servants and slaves and some armed forces from the starship, left Renaissance City, found an open space, and planned to start from scratch and make use of the golden finger that accompanied him in his journey.
When he brought his men and established a temporary camp that was completely under his control, the number finally increased from 0 to 4.
Gu Hang guessed that the initial 4 came from the population; the slight increase later was probably because the camp was built bigger and more complete.
In the last two items in the system, [Hero] shows his own panel; in the soldier card, there are two items.
[Marine Corps 1st Squadron, comprehensive T4 level, upgradeable]
[Quantity: 30 people], [Equipment: T4], [Training: T4], [Experience: T4]
This is the situation of the thirty people led by Yan Fangxu.
The other one is the Mecha Servant Light Infantry Battalion that has just completed the upgrade.
[1st Mecha Servant Light Infantry Battalion, comprehensive T5 level, cannot be upgraded]
[Number: 300], [Equipment: T5], [Training: T5], [Experience: -]
The level of T should be the overall strength of the corresponding unit. The smaller the number, the more elite it is. The Mecha Servant Light Infantry Battalion was originally a low-level level. It was fully equipped with rifles, grenades, and squad machine guns. The platoon level had mortars and rifle grenades, but lacked heavy weapons, so it could only be considered a light infantry battalion.
He spent 3 points of grace to upgrade this light infantry battalion. In four days, this brainless cannon fodder unit that only knew how to follow orders and was considered to have very low training value underwent a tremendous change.
When the training reaches the T5 level, it can be considered as reaching the strength level of the regular army of the empire. The T4 level where the Marine Corps is located can be regarded as a regular elite force.
It was precisely because the mecha-servant infantry, who were originally just cannon fodder, had completed the upgrade that Gu Hang had the confidence to forcefully participate after hearing about the situation in Feidong Society.
This is an opportunity, and he now has the ability to seize it.
He hopes to use this incident to bring Feidong Society into his actual rule, rather than just being a nominal governor. In the future, he will expand his actual control step by step until the entire planet.
(End of this chapter)
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
