Chapter 426: The Seven Horses Agreement Spreads
Those words were indeed said by Gu Hang.
In fact, no matter whether the Wuma Star Region, or even the Zima Star Region, Bianma Star Region, and Tiema Star Region join the Seven Horse Agreement or not, Gu Hang will always have to fight this war.
After all, he can ignore the life and death of others, but he cannot ignore his own life and death.
If they don't defend Steel Wing and Green Spring I, the greenskins will swarm in from the two northern star regions. The Alliance will have to defend the Fats and Flying Wing systems.
It would be better to guard the first two.
What's more, Steel Wing Star was originally a fortress world, and Cuiquan I was just a mining world, so it wouldn't hurt to destroy it. If they fought on Flying Wing Star and destroyed a cruiser dock, Gu Hang would have no place to cry.
Never let the war spread to your own land.
Since we have to defend Steel Wing Star and Green Spring I, not to mention the Eagle Horse and Mist Horse themselves, the four major star regions of Purple Horse, Border Horse, Iron Horse and Reclamation Horse will all benefit from the alliance's military operations and be protected from greenskin invasions.
They actually gained benefits, and then by not joining the Seven Horsemen Pact, they were essentially getting the Alliance's military protection for free.
How could Gu Hang allow others to take advantage of him?
The alliance is not trying to annex you.
In fact, even if they wanted to join the alliance, Gu Hang might not agree. There were already several worlds in the Eagle Horse Sector that were secretly negotiating with the alliance, not only signing the Seven Horses Agreement, but even going a step further and joining the alliance directly.
But Gu Hang refused.
I'm not saying it's a sure thing, but at least the timing is not right now.
On the one hand, there is the political and diplomatic impact. It is easy to swallow it, but it will be difficult to deal with it when the Seven Horses Agreement spreads to other star regions. The governors and leaders were already suspicious of this, and if this happened again, the difficulty of negotiations would increase significantly.
In addition, from the perspective of the alliance, joining the alliance means a major change in the political system, which means that the alliance needs to treat the residents as if they were its own country. Political reform, economic reform, welfare reform, all these things must be carried out.
Otherwise, wouldn’t it be a waste?
Of course, with this whole set of things, the world will be digested by the alliance and become part of itself. However, digestion takes time and requires a large investment cost in the early stage.
The alliance itself has now issued a Level 3 mobilization order. It is already very good that people's consumption has not been reduced. A large amount of production has shifted from civilian materials to military and heavy industry, and the improvement of people's quality of life has basically stagnated. The rising production capacity is basically in all war-related industries. The production of civilian vehicles and civilian electrical appliances has been reduced a lot.
In this situation, asking the Alliance to shoulder the burden of rebuilding worlds devastated by war would be something that would not bring any short-term benefits.
No.
At least until the war is over.
Following the model of the Seven Horse Agreement, it would be pretty good.
This is an agreement that emphasizes the concept of military alliance. The alliance does not interfere in the political and economic development of the signatory planets, but only requires the unity of military command.
In other words, the Alliance will not care about the lives of civilians on the planet, the government structure, or the economic development. The Alliance only cares about collecting taxes from the Empire to fight against the greenskins; only cares about the number and quality of local defense forces reaching a certain level and accepting the unified deployment and command of the Alliance Headquarters; only cares about collecting a special war tax when necessary.
It's all about fighting wars.
Fighting against the greenskins is the responsibility of all governors and leaders. There is no reason to rely solely on the Alliance.
Just sign the Seven Horse Agreement for me honestly.
If you don’t want to sign, fine. The greenskins are blocked by me and can’t beat you, but the Alliance can beat you.
In the past, if Gu Hang wanted to deal with a planetary governor or even a star district leader outside the star district, it would not work. Before, he dealt with the Juetu Star under the pretext of arresting pirates, and he did catch evidence of the Juetu Governor colluding with pirates, but Gu Hang dealt with it. But for this matter, the Kenma Star District came to negotiate and talk nonsense, and also complained to the star region government.
The actual damage isn't that great, but it's still pretty annoying.
But now, it's another matter.
Gu Hang has already confronted the Star Domain Government, so what else is there to be afraid of?
In fact, after Ye Licia's fleet swept across the thirteen star systems in the Wuma star region and ensured that this star region joined the framework of the Seven Horses Agreement, her fleet would continue westward and enter Dongyuan III, which is the territory of the Zima star region.
Purple Horse has not yet been invaded by the Greenskins. This star region has a population of 38 billion, which is second only to Pegasus among the seven horse regions in terms of total population.
The Purple Horse leader had always been trying to evade the Seven Horses Agreement by saying that the Purple Horse region had been suffering from a serious rebellion. The rebels had even gone so far as to seize the starport and small shipyard of the Ancient Silver Star.
The rebel army made them suffer terribly, and the rampant pirates also threatened the safety of the Purple Horse Star Region. They had no way of joining the Seven Horses Pact and deploying all the forces of the star region to fight against the green-skinned orcs.
Okay, Gu Hang accepted their statement.
The joint fleet led by Ye Licia and nearly 20 million alliance army entered the Zima star region to help the Zima leader quell the rebellion.
Otherwise, after the Zima rebellion is put down, all the Zima star region will sign the Seven Horse Agreement.
Otherwise, you are lying and deceiving the Alliance, ignoring the overall situation of the star field against the Iron-Tooth Greenskins. The Alliance will punish you, and then the new leaders and governors should understand the good intentions of the Alliance and eventually join the framework of the Seven Horse Agreement.
Anyway, everyone in the Zima Star Region has the freedom to choose.
They can choose to join the Seven Horse Pact.
Gu Hang was waiting for good news from the Zima Star Region.
If the situation really gets worse, Gu Hang does not want to and will not start a civil war when the external threat is not resolved.
He had already provided Ye Licia with some additional personnel assistance, and also allowed her to fully learn from some of the methods the Empire would take when it encountered some planetary governors who were disobedient, difficult to use, and did not pay taxes.
There are methods from the Imperial Ministry of Justice and the Imperial Inquisition.
These two imperial organizations have sufficient experience in dealing with planetary governors, and Gu Hang thinks he can learn from them.
If the empire encounters a world that does not pay taxes or pays insufficient taxes, and sends a large army to suppress it, the empire will definitely be too busy to cope with it.
Too many.
Trial, bribery, assassination, subversion, coup d'état... these methods, combined with small-scale armed suppression, support new spokespersons and interest groups...
These are all good ideas.
After handing these matters over to Ye Licia and the accompanying multi-department alliance officials, Gu Hang himself was busy with another matter.
The gift points from the Steel Wing Star battle were settled for him.
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I saw someone asking where the star map came from.
I drew it myself using PS!
I also thought about using the Stars, but it didn't really suit me, so I just painted it myself in the style of the Stars.
(End of this chapter)
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