Chapter 168, Gu Hang’s past
Compared to the two ladies, Gu Hang could get relatively few things.
But he was content.
The target of this plundering fleet of the Iron Teeth Clan is the Raging Owl Star. Pulling in the power of the caravan and the navy was equivalent to solving a huge problem for him that was impossible to solve with his own abilities.
This is the biggest gain.
But the thousands of gift points seemed to be incidental, as they should be.
However, Gu Hang will still work hard to obtain more additional rights and interests for himself.
Destroy the surface vanguard, provide important intelligence, participate in Star Wars and eliminate the Ork Warlords... The planetary defense force of Raging Owl has contributed so much in this war and suffered huge losses. The Ministry of Military Affairs must not consider sending me some. More advanced equipment to deal with possible wars in the future?
Even, Gu Hang is still thinking about something:
Now, there is definite information that a behemoth like the Iron Teeth Clan may launch a large-scale attack on the Tianma Star Region. They have actually dispatched a vanguard fleet.
So, the empire needs to strengthen its defense forces on Raging Owl, is that okay?
In addition to stationing a starship, it is also reasonable to equip a certain amount of army power and station a real Astra Militarum legion, right?
Oh, the Astra Militarum is stretched thin? Can't you mobilize enough force temporarily?
It doesn’t matter! I, Gu Hang, the planetary governor of the empire and the most loyal minister of the emperor, must share the worries of the empire.
This matter rests with Angry Owl Star.
As the planetary governor, Gu Hang will fully support the construction of the Astra Militarum.
With only 10 million tax coins, a group army with hundreds of thousands of people and equipped with various heavy weapons can be established on the angry owl planet.
People and equipment all come from the planet.
And Governor Gu Hang, because of his outstanding performance in the last war, can serve as the commander of this Astral Army.
But this is very difficult to work. There are examples of planetary governors who also serve as commanders of the Astra Militarum, but they are rare.
If it doesn't work out, Gu Hang can settle for the next best thing and push Thaddeus to this position.
And since a new regiment is to be built, the empire must allocate funds.
Ten million tax coins, isn’t this just right?
The Raging Owl Star was supposed to pay an imperial tax in a year and a half.
The imperial tax amount of Raging Owl Star is the lowest. This planet is within the Imperial Taxation Department, with a rated population of 50 million. It needs to pay an annual imperial tax of 5 million tax coins per year, once every two years, 10 million at a time.
He only had to pay a quarter of his first tax payment, which was a discount given by the district government. Of course, the Imperial Taxation Department does not recognize this matter. In essence, the extra 7.5 million was paid to the Imperial Taxation Department by the Sector Government on behalf of the Raging Owl Star.
The 7.5 million tax coins from the sector government should not be given to the empire for taxes. They have to be transferred to me. You can give them directly to me, plus the 2.5 million tax coins that the Raging Owl itself has to pay, which adds up to 10 million. It is very reasonable to establish a group army with a scale of more than 500,000 and equipped with various heavy weapons on the Raging Owl Star.
When the time comes, Gu Hang will put all his troops in.
Anyway, the military construction is what we need to do, and it is the biggest support. If it is offset by imperial taxes, everyone is happy. The soldiers in the army are my people, the officers are my people, the supreme commander is my people, and the team is also guarding the planet. Why shouldn't it be mine that has the final say?
Just change the name.
Of course, it's not entirely without disadvantages.
The Astra Militarum is, after all, different from the Planetary Defense Forces. The latter is completely under the orders of the Governor and is only responsible for the internal affairs of the planet. The former needs to obey the dispatch of the Ministry of Military Affairs. Today, the troops were ordered to garrison the Raging Owl Star, so Gu Hang could still use his influence to completely control the entire team. But tomorrow, maybe a transfer order will come and the troops will be dragged to fill the lines on some unbearable battlefield.
Is it still possible not to accept the order?
But this kind of thing is vain.
Not to mention that the probability of it happening is not particularly high, but even without transforming into the Astra Militarum, when necessary, it is common for the Ministry of Military Affairs to invoke a special emergency act to recruit planetary defense forces into the Astra Militarum. Even Gu Hang couldn't stop things.
Instead of doing this, it would be better to turn into the Astra Militarum and pull them down. If you really want to be dragged away, then just drag him away. Anyway... no matter the money to build the army or the people, it can be considered that the empire has allocated taxes to buy their lives.
Just treat it as normal and pay taxes. Did Gu Hang still lose something?
It's better than having the Planetary Defense Force be conscripted and sent away without even a dime of compensation.
Of course, these are just Gu Hang's assumptions.
There is still a long way to go to turn this into reality.
He said to the two ladies: "This is essentially about transforming the reality of military victory into practical political victory, and then into corresponding economic benefits. Since everyone agrees with the statement I made, then the rest, Just solve some trivial problems.”
Ye Lixia also nodded, and she further added: "There is no problem with the general facts, but there are two more important small links. One is what the intelligence I intercepted said; the second is what Ye Lixia said In the name of the Imperial Navy, the recruitment of a caravan of beautiful girls to participate in combat requires evidence.”
Wang Jiarong said: "The latter problem is relatively easy to solve. Sister Yelicia, please sign a recruitment order on paper, which means it was signed later; at the same time, you need to create a communication record. I will sign it at the beginning of the battle. After accepting the recruitment of the Imperial Navy, the actions taken after leaving the jump point were all aimed at introducing the greenskin fleet to the planned combat location.”
Gu Hang also said: "I will do everything about intercepting intelligence in the ruins on the surface."
They began to talk carefully about how to patch up the details to ensure they could withstand scrutiny.
In fact, this is mostly useless. As long as there are no questions about the general facts, the Ministry of Military Affairs will most likely not delve into these details. If they had to send out a special review team to verify the specific details of each war, the Ministry of Military Affairs would not be able to investigate the countless wars that are happening every moment among these stars.
Sometimes, the Ministry of Military Affairs even knows that there may be problems in some areas, but does not bother to take care of them.
It's basically the same, as long as he doesn't lie about his military exploits or make up facts about major events.
As for what happened after reporting the merit, the three of them tacitly agreed not to talk much.
How Wang Jiarong can make up for her losses or even make a fortune through operations is a matter for her and the Gu family behind her.
How Yelicia and the Fofana family behind her want to package her into a star of the Imperial Navy through operations is also their business.
Including Gu Hang himself, he had to find his own way to turn the things he envisioned into reality.
These things do not need to communicate with each other. When the overall achievements are certain, how to get political interests in hand depends on everyone's ability.
……
Gu Hang had an in-depth exchange with the two ladies for a long time.
It is said that there are only some details that need to be added, but even these details must be perfected. There is only a small chance that the Imperial Military Affairs Department will investigate, and even if it does, there is a high probability that the investigation will not be too serious. It is confirmed that a group of greenskins were slaughtered on the surface, and that twelve greenskins were indeed destroyed here at the jump point. The ship, the severed head did belong to an orc warlord, and that was the end.
But just for that very small probability, we must try our best to do things beautifully and avoid even a little accident.
After the agreement is completed, the only thing left is to go back and execute it.
After Ye Lixia left first, only the brother and sister Gu Hang and Wang Jiarong were left in the small living room.
The two were silent for a while.
In fact, at this time, Wang Jiarong was no longer angry about the loss.
Although this caravan is in her name, it is essentially the property of Gu's Trading Company. She is a commander, a participant, and a leader. This heavy loss was not her fault because she was targeted by invincible pirates. Her fault was not particularly serious.
Her status within the company would be reduced and she would lose a lot of money on her investment. These were expected, but they would not really kill her.
Moreover, according to the new statement given by her cousin, she can turn losses into profits, or even make a fortune, and then everything will come back.
The incident itself cannot be entirely blamed on my cousin.
The combination of several factors made her unable to be angry with her cousin, whom she had grown up with since childhood.
But it's not easy for her to be too intimate.
This is mainly because of another thing.
She sighed and said: "Cousin, actually... my aunt still misses you very much."
"Oh." Gu Hang replied.
He didn't mean anything else. From the memory of his previous body, he could see the figure of a beautiful woman. However, in his perception, his predecessor had very conflicting feelings towards his mother.
Love, of course it is love, but there is also some resentment.
To be honest, he didn't really want to deal with his predecessor's shortcomings. In his mind, the things he found out from his memory were always separated by a layer of veil or a layer of cloth. It's obviously there, but I don't feel it deeply. It's like watching a movie. The story is clearly here, and there are also psychological feelings, but you don't feel that it is happening to you.
Of course, he couldn't give up on these.
These things are in my mind and memory and cannot be thrown away. In addition, his ability to become the governor of this planet was all due to his family background, and he would not be able to lose this status in the future.
The alienation but inseparable contradiction, when summed up in his performance, is just an indifferent "oh".
Wang Jiarong opposite had some misunderstandings.
She sighed again: "Cousin, you can't blame aunt, she... Well, in short, you did something wrong this time. Leader Peddes appointed you to be the governor of Raging Owl. You shouldn't have agreed. This will make things worse. You Gu family are in a particularly passive position.”
Gu Hang's heart moved.
Any hidden secrets?
In his memory, he was one of the core children of this generation of the Gu family. His grandfather was the leader of the previous generation of the family. His father was also supposed to be in this position, but not long after he was born. dead. The current Gu family does not have a real leader.
But his mother, Ms. Wang Qi, was quite capable - this was Gu Hang's evaluation of the beautiful woman in his memory.
A woman who married into the family and whose husband died shortly after giving birth to a child, managed to preserve a large number of interests belonging to her small family in the subsequent internal struggles within the family, and became an important branch force in the current Gu's business firm.
This is not easy.
However, when he was focusing on his career, he inevitably neglected his son.
In the memory of his predecessor, he had a relatively indifferent relationship with his mother, with very little contact time, coupled with strict control, various rumors in the family during the growth process, the vague isolation of his predecessor from the same clan, and his various achievements and performance were average. , not being recognized...the combination of many things is the source of resentment in the past.
Then, a few months ago, he met the head of the sector, Mr. Roan Peddes, at an upper-class gathering.
The gap between the two is huge. One is the head of the star sector, and the other is just a rich second generation. But during a toast exchange, Pedes chatted with Gu Hang carefully for a while.
According to the memories and feelings of his predecessor, he felt respected. Leader Peters praised him in a kind and gentle manner, saw the potential in him that had not yet been shown, and had expectations for his future. Immediately afterwards, they talked about the angry owl star, saying that they hoped that a son of the Gu family could serve as the governor of the angry owl star and solve such a long-standing problem for the star region.
The predecessor was not completely stupid. He could tell that the leader of the sector was a bit deceiving him.
But he accepted it without hesitation.
From his perspective: Raging Owl is the origin of the Pegasus Sector. After it returned to the empire, it has never paid enough imperial taxes, and the sector government has always needed to pay to make up the difference. The decision to rebuild the Raging Owl Star was made by the leader Pedes, who expanded a ninth world in addition to the eight worlds in the Pegasus Star District.
Recovering territory was the main achievement that Peddes reported to the higher-level regional government. At that time, he had just become the head of the sector.
The nature of a sector leader is different from that of an earthly emperor like a planetary governor. The latter are more like lords, who can control the military, government and finance, and ensure the loyal empire's tax revenue, but it is difficult to move them; the former are more like bureaucrats and politicians, who need political achievements and stories to decorate their appearance, and need the support of a powerful planetary governor. Only then can he secure his position as the boss of the star region.
However, when I first came to power, I told the story of regaining my homeland. I didn’t expect that this story would go bad later. After decades of doing this, I ended up carrying a burden.
This is not only due to the poor conditions and environment of the Raging Owl Star, but also because the political opponents in the star area are constantly holding back, and the reconstruction work has been delayed.
Peters has had enough of this situation and must solve this problem.
He wanted to unite the Fofana family and the Gu family to solve this problem in one fell swoop.
The Peders brothers, the Fofana family, and the Gu family formed an iron triangle in the Pegasus region.
Fofana represents the imperial navy, and Gu represents abundant financial resources. Coupled with the political influence of the Peders brothers, one of whom serves as the governor of the Winged Star and the other as the head of the sector, they are fully capable of completely building the Raging Owl Star.
Gu Hang's predecessor believed that he was the most capable person in the Gu family that Mr. Peddes found.
He was even worried that something unexpected would happen, such as whether another member of the family would steal his governorship. He didn't tell anyone until the appointment letter came out.
Then, he slapped his mother hard.
(End of chapter)