Chapter 127, Long live the Governor!
In fact, not all inner-city people are rich.
With such poor productivity, how can we support so many rentiers?
Most people in the inner city still have to rely on their own work to support themselves and their families. They just have a relatively richer family background, better education, and better and more opportunities.
They are industrial workers, employees of factories and enterprises, clerks of chambers of commerce, and affairs officers under the alliance government... They have stable and even decent jobs, but this is the source of everything they have.
In fact, under the new system designed by Gu Hang, if these people work well, their chances will still be much greater than those from outside the city. A more adequate education level and richer work experience are their advantages.
But this cannot be convinced by propaganda alone. Gu Hang does not need to use empty words to maintain stability for the time being, his army can do this in a short time.
As for the future, these inner-city dwellers will get a taste of it through real-world experience.
In fact, he already had some preliminary ideas about the entire future political and economic structure, and had a disagreement with Ossana.
The entire people's livelihood system will be established on forty-five levels: A-E, each with 9 levels.
Each level will be equipped with corresponding welfare benefits, including food rations, housing benefits, and medical benefits, and will determine the purchase rights for a small number of scarce commodities.
Every formal employee will receive at least E6-level treatment after entering the workplace. Those below E6 are provided with relief for apprentices, trainees, partially aided students, criminal workers, and those who are unemployed through no fault of their own...
The specific level is determined based on position and individual work contribution.
Although there is a certain link between rank and position, they are not exactly the same. Those in the early stage and at lower levels will be promoted year by year based on their seniority and work contribution, which means their basic benefits will be improved.
The promotion speed will slow down after reaching higher ranks.
Those with significant performance will be promoted.
The treatment of soldiers in the army does not follow this line, but it will correspond. Privates and privates have allowances similar to E-level allowances, which vary depending on the unit. After retirement, they will try their best to arrange jobs of corresponding levels; non-commissioned officers, senior non-commissioned officers and some lower-level officers correspond to D-level; middle- and high-level officers retire and have C-level Salary: senior officers and general officers will be graded B or A depending on their circumstances when they retire.
Salaries for ranks and positions will also be paid monthly, but they will no longer be in alliance currency. Now it’s work points, and there may be some currency reform in the future. You can spend work points or currency to buy things in the store.
Most civilian goods, as long as they are not scarce, will be put on the shelves normally.
Want to eat better non-staple foods in addition to regular food rations, such as cakes, ice cream, meat and dairy products? Can be bought;
Want quality appliances? Can be bought;
Want to buy a Sanbengzi or even use it as a car? You may not be able to buy it in the short term, but when production increases in the future, the demand for military supplies is met, and there is additional production capacity, you can still buy it. There may be rank restrictions in the early stage, but once the production capacity becomes more abundant, the restrictions can be lifted.
After you have more supplies, you can buy everything such as personal hobbies, reading, entertainment, art...
In other words, housing, food and clothing, and medical care are all guaranteed as long as they enter this new system; wages can meet higher-level, more personalized, and diversified needs.
Want better? Yes, work hard for a promotion and a salary increase.
The only exception is education.
For this thing, Gu Hang plans to take the route of being public, free, and all based on results.
This system will include future civil servants, industrial workers, service industries, farmers...
Of course, at present, this entire system looks beautiful and somewhat utopian, but there may be many problems in its actual implementation.
Ensuring fairness, ensuring reasonable promotions, ensuring adequate supply of materials, meeting individual and diverse needs, fighting corruption, avoiding institutional rigidity, planning material distribution and production plans... there are many problems.
But this collective, planned system has a fundamental advantage: it is easier to concentrate efforts on big things.
On Raging Owl, there is one fundamental difference from the modern world: there is no problem of overproduction for a long time.
The significance of market regulation is not that great.
All excess production capacity will be eliminated by the huge pressure of imperial taxation.
The only thing Gu Hang has to do is to expand production capacity as much as possible. No matter how many things he makes, it doesn't matter if he can't sell or use them. The empire's huge system will eat them all.
Under this premise, the most important thing for Gu Hang himself is how to make this system full of incentives for the people within it.
He was not allowed to lie down, eat and wait for death, and the situation of muddling along in terms of welfare appeared on a large scale.
These ideas should be put on the street lights, but they are what Gu Hang must do.
Promotion in rank, increase in salary, and vigorous promotion of values are all positive incentives.
Performance appraisal, competitive upgrade quotas, downgrade penalty system...
This type of means that relatively encourages competition is also essential.
If the people don't work hard, how can Gu Hang prosper?
Work hard and the Governor will be able to get a sports car next year.
Of course, this is a joke. What Gu Hang wants is not those vulgar tastes.
Expand the army, develop industries, build starships, raise one or more battle groups... His ambitions are very big.
Talking back to the current reality, once these inner-city people enter his new system, due to their advantages in education level, professional skills, and previous professional experience, they are naturally better at everything than those in the outer city who are not even sure how to pronounce. The poor people who can recognize themselves will be even more powerful. They will easily strive for a higher starting level and faster upgrade speed.
As long as they support the Governor, they will feel the benefits.
It is not difficult to restore the living standards of the past, and it is even inevitable as productivity increases. And better class mobility will give them opportunities that they simply could not have in the past.
The better days are yet to come!
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Gu Hang's divergent thinking came to an end with the death of the last batch of executioners.
Next, there is another major event: the medal ceremony and military parade.
These two things are put together.
In fact, there are only about 10,000 people standing in the huge square now, and the open space left is for the upcoming military parade.
Each troop, accompanied by bugles and majestic music, will set off from the preparation area outside, walk through the main road outside the Parliament Square, and along the road let go by the spectators, to the rostrum.
The commander of the unit will go up on stage to accept the medal, accept the military rank, and more importantly, on behalf of the entire unit, accept the designation and flag.
Military music was already playing, and four military bands were making a lot of noise in the four directions of the square. There were also speakers arranged in different directions, further amplifying the music.
Immediately afterwards, a square team came slowly.
Four "Rambler V" infantry fighting vehicles took the lead. Behind them were tanks that had not yet been repainted and had been captured from the former Alliance Army, and then a group of Iron Bull trucks, accompanied by Ranger motorcycles. Some of these trucks are loaded with soldiers and serve as personnel carriers, and some are tractor trucks towing huge 155mm howitzers.
This is the 3rd Battalion of the original Governor's Infantry Regiment. In the officer's vehicle at the front were Perbov of the 2nd Battalion and the chief officer of the 3rd Battalion.
In fact, it stands to reason that the 2nd Battalion should be the first to be inspected, and as the chief officer of the 2nd Battalion, Perbov was indeed the first. It's a pity that he is a bit lonely. The main force of his army is still recruiting troops in Weixing City, so he can only take advantage of the phalanx of the 3rd Battalion.
The entire phalanx arrived under the rostrum. Whether they were soldiers in cars or on foot, they all shouted slogans!
First, the officer in front shouted "For the Emperor!", and all the soldiers behind him shouted together.
Followed by another sentence: "For the Governor!"
Gu Hang stood at the front of the viewing platform, watching his troops pass by. His face was expressionless and he just nodded slightly.
The soldiers followed the instructions, entered the open space reserved for them in the square, and stood still. Purbov took the stage together with the chief officer of the 3rd Battalion.
Gu Hang personally put on the epaulettes symbolizing the rank of major for them; then, he put on the medals for them.
Gu Hang personally designed two styles of medals.
At this moment, what they are wearing are ‘Revival Medals’.
The shape of this medal is roughly round, with a hammer held tightly and raised upward, surrounded by ears of wheat.
Gu Hang planned to issue the Renaissance Medal as a basic medal. It is mainly issued to soldiers and officers who have performed outstandingly in a series of battles in Fuxing City.
Half of the recipients were heroically killed or wounded. There is no need to mention the former, while the latter will basically retire after getting the medal.
These medals are not recognized throughout the empire and are not like military ranks. The rank of the Planetary Defense Force will be recognized by the imperial military - although the gold content is hugely different.
But Gu Hang still needs to establish this system.
Soldiers who fight for themselves deserve honor.
Moreover, in addition to honor, medals also have tangible benefits. The 'Revival Medal' itself is equivalent to an E5-level allowance. Don't look at it too much, but it is extra on top of the original soldier's allowance. Moreover, this allowance will continue until retirement. Even if there is disability or death, the pension will be larger.
In fact, issuing medals to disabled retired and fallen soldiers is also to provide an extra pension to the soldiers who died heroically in battle and send it to their relatives.
As for those who have no relatives, the military political department will arrange for an orphan - there are too many in the wasteland - to inherit them, but the premise is that the orphan needs to inherit the hero's surname.
They will be raised in special institutions for war orphans and receive the necessary education.
After Gu Hang put the military titles and medals on the two battalion commanders, the awarding ceremony for them was over. The phalanx of the 4th Battalion had already come behind.
The two battalion commanders and the few soldiers they brought to the rostrum each received a large box and many rolled-up flags from the governor's entourage, and then hurriedly stepped off the stage and gave them to the 4th battalion behind them. The brothers gave way.
Contained in the box are multiple revival medals, which will be worn by the battalion commanders on the soldiers of their own battalions after being put down; the rolled-up flags are the red flag of the battalion headquarters and the red flag of the company, with the team number clearly written on them.
These numbered flags were distributed and immediately raised by flag bearers.
Soon, when the next batch of chief officers came on stage to receive their titles, red flags were flying in the first square formation.
Among them, there are two special numbers - the 1st Waste Hole Company and the 4th 'Caudy' Company.
The two flags belonged to Purbeuf's 1st Combined Battalion, 1st Combined Brigade. Although he didn't bring anyone here, friendly troops sent people to help serve as flag bearers and raise the flag.
The former was in recognition of Gu Hang's establishment of the first company established by natives of the Raging Owl Star, and its outstanding performance in many battles; the latter was in recognition of the great achievements of the deceased Cody, and he was given the position of political commissar. The company was incorporated into the 1st Combined Battalion and became the fourth company.
This is the entire process of conferring honors.
To be honest, the level of military music with looping accompaniment is quite average; the phalanx composed of soldiers and vehicles does not move particularly neatly.
From Gu Hang's point of view, especially when compared with the military parade he had watched on TV before, it was almost uninteresting.
But there is a completely different point: this actually belongs to his army.
With his order, the guns in these phalanxes will fire on any enemy for him; the soldiers in the phalanxes will die for him.
Watching them from the high platform, Gu Hang felt infinite pride in his heart.
The people in the inner city who were watching the ceremony together were silent.
In fact, many of the soldiers walking over in square formation were familiar to them. Many of them are indeed soldiers of the original Alliance Legion. A considerable part of them have been absorbed into the 1st Combined Brigade; the rest will be filled into the 2nd Infantry Division as the skeleton.
However, the people in the inner city felt that these familiar soldiers looked strange at the moment.
There has never been any military parade in Fuxing City. They can only see these soldiers when they are on duty or on missions. People in the inner city generally have an indifferent attitude towards the army.
But looking at it now, the entire army seems to be different from what they remembered.
The whole energy and spirit are different.
Under the leadership of those red hats, the soldiers puffed up their chests one by one and stood proudly.
When had the residents of the inner city seen their own troops and had such a mental attitude?
Oh, no, it’s already the governor’s army now... Huh? That’s not right, we seem to be the Governor’s people too, and this is still our army...
A bit confusing.
The people looked at these familiar and unfamiliar soldiers walking in front of them and then standing in neat rows on the other side of the square. They felt quite complicated. The mood of the people in the outer city was not so complicated.
Fuxing City does not have the ability to live broadcast the scene, so it is difficult for everyone to see the scene of this ceremony.
But at least the technology to broadcast via radio was there.
Lambert's previous sentence, which sentenced various characters to death, was also broadcast live on the radio.
Compared to the calmness of the inner city, the outer city is quite lively. While people were working, they heard various important figures being executed. They didn't know who everyone was, but they could always hear that someone they knew and whom they found hateful was shot.
As a result, cheers could be heard from time to time on the construction site.
In the subsequent award ceremony, the broadcast emcee will also read out the awards of each unit and their merits according to the script.
This also made the poor people in the outer city understand that there was such a reliable army fighting to protect Fuxing City from being destroyed by the cult's conspiracy.
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After all the troops had passed, the last two people to take the stage were Yan Fangxu and Thaddeus.
For the former, Gu Hang gave him the rank of colonel.
Accepting this military rank basically means that he bids farewell to the Imperial Navy and joins the Planetary Defense Force of Raging Owl.
The relevant formal procedures were already being completed, and Gu Hang even greeted Brigadier General Yelicia specifically for his sake.
In this case, Gu Hang spent 10 points of gift to activate Yan Fangxu.
In the system's evaluation, his rarity is N, which is the ordinary level. He is a level 2 military commander. The highest attribute point is commander, which reaches 12 points. He has only one attribute of [excellent military commander], and there is no Nothing special.
In addition to receiving the rank of colonel, Yan Fangxu also received a ‘Revival Medal’.
Next to him, Thaddeus was awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel. In addition, he also had a 'Qushing Wind Medal'.
The medal has an irregular cone shape and looks like an abstract tornado.
This is the second medal designed by Gu Hang. Only one was awarded this time, and it was to Thaddeus.
There is no doubt that in the entire military medal system, the "Qushing Wind Medal" is a hundred times more precious than the Renaissance Medal.
After completing their personal awards and decorations, the two of them also received a flag each.
They saluted Gu Hang, wore military ranks on their shoulders, medals on their chests, and walked away holding flags in their hands.
Then, they each arrived at the front of the two large phalanxes and handed the flags to the flag bearers who had been prepared.
The flag-bearing team hoisted the red flag, and two flags were set up at the front of the two armies.
The flag that Thaddeus brought down was nothing special. When unfolded, it was the flag of the [2nd Infantry Division].
The flag that Yan Fangxu brought down has something to say.
After unfolding it, it read: [The 1st Quenching Wind Brigade].
There is no doubt that this is also an honorary designation. It was given to the entire brigade to commend the officers and soldiers of the entire brigade, including those former Alliance legionnaires who were absorbed, for their outstanding performance in Operation Quenching, including Thaddeus. The company that I led as political commissar before.
After completing the awarding ceremony, the broadcast signal cut to the microphone in front of Gu Hang. His voice, along with the loudspeaker, resounded throughout the square and then throughout the city.
People became quiet, and they began to listen carefully to the governor's words, hoping to find some more trustworthy support for their future lives.
"Hello residents of Fuxing City, my most loyal warriors. I am your governor, Gu Hang."
"Just now, my warriors who fought bravely to defend this city were given the honor they deserve."
"I distributed one hundred Fuxing Medals. Every recipient is a well-deserved hero. They made outstanding contributions to defending Fuxing City, and even sacrificed their lives."
"I awarded a Quenching Medal, the highest honor, to Comrade Thaddeus."
"The storm ten days ago is still fresh in the memory of many people. With the help of the Phoenix Chapter and the Sisters of Holy Mercy Lily, we defeated the cultists' conspiracy, we extinguished the storm and saved the entire city. Comrade Thaddeus is undoubtedly the most outstanding one. He performed the most heroic feat in the most fearless manner at the most critical moment, and he achieved the final blow to extinguish the storm." br>
"Extinguishing the Storm, this is the origin of the name of the Extinguishing Wind Medal and the honorary title of the Extinguishing Wind Brigade. All soldiers who fight bravely, and all those who maintain order and save the city in disasters, can be called heroes."
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At the beginning of his speech, Gu Hang started with the origin of the Xifeng Medal and the honorary title of Xifeng Brigade.
The people in the inner city were silent, and they did not feel this deeply; but the people in the outer city recalled the figures of those soldiers.
In the food transportation war, they fought right under their noses against the cultists who were trying to destroy the food trucks and starve them.
In that storm that intensified and finally stopped abruptly, they may not have known what was going on in several wind farms, but they clearly saw a large number of soldiers maintaining order, distributing food and supplies, and arranging personnel despite the wind and rain. Evacuate the city.
This army does seem to be different.
During the disaster, they did not use the weapons in their hands to smash, loot, or oppress the poor. Instead, they stood with the people and withstood the wind and rain.
These were witnessed by them with their own eyes, and the Governor's concluding words of praise strengthened the impression in their minds.
This is Gu Hang's purpose.
He wants to give honor to the army.
Honor allows the army to maintain discipline, and honor makes the people love the army.
After saying this, Gu Hang paused for a moment and continued his speech:
"Hundreds of years ago, before the war era, the angry owl star was a civilized world and the pearl of the entire Pegasus star region. With the help of advanced industrial technology and unique energy-rich gas fields for energy extraction, the angry owl star paid every The imperial tax can be ranked among the top three in the Pegasus sector, second only to the sector capital Wing Star and the hive world Koroga 3; the living standards of residents can even be ranked second, only higher than the Garden World Wing Star. A little bit worse.”
"The Nuxiao people at that time lived in the city, and many of them had decent jobs; food and clothing were never a concern for most people. They enjoyed the sunshine, the nightlife, and the diverse food production, There is also a developed cultural industry..."
"Such a prosperous world is not seen on many empire planets. The Angry Owl Stars at that time were the envy of most residents of the empire world."
Gu Hang's words made many people look complicated.
No one had ever seen it with their own eyes as it looked before the war. But they have heard some of it from their predecessors, and even their predecessors, orally passed down from generation to generation; some things occasionally excavated from the ruins before the war also prove this.
The Raging Owl Star in the past was indeed developed and prosperous.
So why are we, the descendants, living so miserable lives?
The Governor gave the answer:
"The hateful traitor betrayed us. The best energy output on the angry owl planet: the psychic gas field, was used as the source by the Chaos traitor, and opened the psychic tunnel. This tunnel is connected to a world corrupted by Chaos; evil law Under the shroud, even the demons in hell were summoned.”
"A tragic war broke out on the Raging Star as the battlefield."
"The people of Wrathful Star and the soldiers of the Empire made endless sacrifices to defeat those Chaos traitors, closed the psychic tunnels, and blew up the psychic gas fields... But at the same time, this war lasted for dozens of Years of war reduced the Raging Owl to ruins, turning this once prosperous world with a population of nearly 10 billion into a wasteland. The collapsed ecosystem gave rise to terrifying waste energy storms and mutant monsters, and a large number of them. The land is no longer suitable for living.”
"Since then, the Raging Owl has changed from the former pearl of the sector to a wasteland planet. It was abandoned by the empire and removed from the sector planning."
Many people don't understand this part. It seems that they have never seen Chaos traitors or demons before; it is even more confusing to see what kind of energy-enriched fields and psychic tunnels they have.
But that doesn't stop them from extracting the key point: our world was betrayed by traitors and destroyed by chaos traitors.
Those ghosts are the main culprits that destroy the beautiful life we should have.
This reminded them of the original Angry Owl Sect, which was also a damn cult and almost destroyed Fuxing City!
Gu Hang's words continued:
"After a hundred years of darkness, an imperial official named Huo Haibin was surprised to find that tens of millions of people still lived here when he passed by the Raging Star. He helped the people here and eliminated them through the star district government. He applied to the higher level and finally got permission to rebuild the Raging Star, allowing the Raging Star to return to the embrace of the empire. He also became the first governor of the Wasteland era of the Raging Star."
"Governor Huo is a respectable person. He has worked hard on the Raging Star for 17 years. Relying on the tax holiday for the first 15 years, he worked hard to restore the population of the Raging Star and established a unified alliance to unite the people on the entire planet. The various forces have put an end to the constant conflicts over limited resources in the wasteland, and have rebuilt initial productivity. ”
"But he didn't do enough. In the seventeenth year when he became the governor, the Raging Owl Star needed to pay taxes to the empire for the first time and had to pay standard imperial taxes. But the Raging Owl Star has not recovered yet, even for the lowest level. He couldn't even pay the taxes. He was executed by the Ministry of Revenue, and the coalition government at that time went through a major reshuffle."
"Then, there was the era when Neil Faches served as the governor, and it was also the second-generation governor period that made countless Alliance people fear when they think about it. He learned from Governor Huo's failure, and with the help of the alliance government, he implemented many of Governor Huo's The policy of preferring death to implementation imposed exorbitant taxes on the entire planet, and all production and restoration work came to a standstill."
"He completed two tax collections, but for this he emptied out Governor Huo's accumulation over the past ten years. Countless families were torn apart, innocent people were used as taxes; countless grains that should have filled the people's stomachs, countless necessities The industrial products were confiscated and handed over to the empire.”
"The Raging Owl faced a disaster, and his unsustainable behavior sparked a rebellion. He sat in this position for six years, and the alliance almost collapsed. Many people left the alliance, and many people acted in secret. Many people resisted violently, and many people were exterminated... The planet's population suffered huge losses, and the seventeen-year recovery was almost destroyed. His actions put him on the guillotine in his third term. "< br>
"Later, there were three consecutive generations of governors. Each governor only served for two years and was executed when he could not pay taxes. The remaining forces conspired to control the governor's behavior, tampered with the governor's orders, and deceived superiors and subordinates. Every two Once a year, let the governor and the governor-general government officials temporarily selected for two years be the scapegoats.”
"During the whole process, Raging Owl spent another six years. These six years of division and chaos were no better than during the second generation of the Governor. Many people still died, and the entire planet still saw less than half of it. The name of Fuxing City seems ridiculous and sad.”
Gu Hang spent a large part of his speech describing the history of the Raging Star in the past few decades.
This period of time is very familiar to people. From the first governor to the fifth governor, there were twenty-nine years in total. Many younger people grew up during this period; older people have completely experienced these eras.
They knew that what Governor Gu said was not false. It was their personal experience.
However, before that, few of them thought deeply about why all this happened?
And after Gu Hang broke through these points, they would naturally think about these issues.
Is it because of the empire?
No, before the empire regained the Raging Owl Star, during the dark half-year post-war period, the Raging Owl Star was in a pill state. It was a generation of governors who established the minimum order. Through imperial assistance and interstellar trade, he supported the structure of the alliance and supported many local industries.
What’s fucked is the second-generation governor and subsequent governors who have no real power.
The cruel but lack of standard rule of the second generation governor brought huge disasters;
The subsequent three governors had no real power, no soldiers and no one, and were deceived by superiors and subordinates. Almost every one of the three of them thought that they could pay the tax, and the news they heard was stable and good. However, when it came time to pay the tax, the things in the warehouse were not up to standard at all, and the population that should have been paid as tax The campground was also empty.
The three governors could only sit in Fuxing City like wax figures, blindfolded and ears covered, not knowing that the alliance was so loose that it was about to disintegrate. The forces of all parties do not listen to the tune or the propaganda. Under the loose and independent system, the power of the planet cannot be integrated at all, let alone develop.
Then, it seems that the answer is ready to come out: the problem is not all in the empire, the main problem is that there is no governor who is powerful enough, courageous enough, and capable enough.
Of course, there are many people who don't think of this level. The suffering they have personally experienced in the past, when told from a larger and more macro level, is like listening to a book from heaven. Their thoughts could only passively follow the governor's narration.
But what Gu Hang said next was meant to be heard by these people who are not smart enough, but are the most important and the most important:
"Until I come."
"More than two months ago, I came to this world and saw devastation."
"At that time, I used the alliance's communications to announce my arrival to the entire planet, and also announced my philosophy. I said that I would rebuild the entire wasteland world, so that every Raging Owl star can achieve their goals through their own efforts. , live a good life. I am not here purely for taxation, and I will not care about the life and death of the people for the sake of taxation.”
"When I found that the officials of the alliance were not only unable to help, but actually hindered, I left Fuxing City."
"Now, I am back. My declaration has never changed. Those who hindered me from bringing reconstruction, revival, and a better life to you are all dead. From now on, no one will hinder us from building our city together. , our world! ”
"I will establish a welfare system so that everyone who works hard can have enough food and clothing!"
"I will build schools so that every child can learn and grow in a bright classroom, instead of living on the streets stealing, begging, or doing child labor in black factories!"
"I will build factories, produce more goods, create more jobs, and let you live a better life!"
"I will build hospitals so that every injured and sick person can be cared for."
"I will establish a fairer, more efficient government and maintain order and security."
"I will build a better and more honorable army to fight to protect everything we have created!"
"These are my responsibilities, my mission, the mission of the new alliance government, and the mission of every angry owl person."
"Working together, we will win!"
What Governor Gu finally said is something that everyone can understand.
People cheered and people were excited!
"Long live the Governor!"
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