Chapter 216, I still have to have this mother
The incident of Gu Hang coming to Angry Star really made her very passive.
Originally, I wanted to seek the position of the head of the family, but it turned out that the intended head of the family was gone, but that was okay.
But his performance in Angry Star changed things for the better.
Gu Hang's outstanding performance in the Raging Owl Star not only saved Wang Qi millions of money needed to fill the imperial tax hole, but more importantly, Gu Hang established his own industry through this.
Does the Gu family not want to own their own planet? That's certainly not the case. But it is too difficult to get a planet of your own, especially a world with positive assets.
But they don’t want a wasteland world like Raging Owl Star. The initial construction cost is too high, the cost recovery cycle is quite long, and there may be many risks in the process.
For example, Gu Hang has encountered green skin disasters and demonic cult invasions in the past year and a half. If any of these two risk points is encountered by normal people who are re-developing Raging Star, they will be The disaster caused the high investment to go down the drain.
Moreover, the biggest problem in seeking an unreliable planetary governor is that he cannot easily admit his losses and leave. If other investments fail, you lose money; but if you fail to invest in a planet, the Imperial Taxation Department will not care about you that much. You must pay not a cent less in Imperial tax, and you will have to pay it in the future.
It is precisely because of this that Gu Hang's performance over the past year or so has been surprising.
Although not many people know about it because the Raging Owl is too closed and the information flow is not smooth, the upper class of Winged Planet still regard Gu Hang's decision to become the planetary governor as a joke. However, in the eyes of some thoughtful people, they can see it clearly.
The people of the Gu family certainly belong to this kind of caring people.
Because of Gu Hang's nonsense, Wang Qi's allies began to strongly question her plan. Those with the most serious attitudes seemed to be a bit out of Wang Qi's control. Even if Wang Qi has some remedial measures for this, they will still worry about whether they can achieve the growth of everyone's interests by supporting such a family head.
But Gu Hang's performance calmed down their worries, anger, and wavering a lot.
The prodigal boy who used to be considered a little waste and a drag on his mother has now transformed into a planetary governor. Moreover, he really did not rely on the support of his family at all to make his career successful on that wasteland planet.
Not only do we no longer need external subsidies, we can pay the taxes ourselves, and we can also generate quite good output value.
Right now, this output value may reach the planet of a family caravan by next year. Who dares to underestimate it?
Industry and commerce are two different things!
What's more, this is still a current comparison; as the potential of a planet gets better and better in the future, the population becomes larger, and the industrial structure becomes more complete, there is still a lot of room for improvement.
And can this potential be realized?
At least based on Gu Hang's performance over the past year and a half, that is quite possible.
To be honest, many people can't believe this is true, and even think it is a rumor Wang Qi made up to maintain the support of her old brothers.
Otherwise, how is it possible?
How can it be so easy to deal with the Raging Owl, which has caused Chief Peders to worry for a long time and made the sector government shoulder the burden for so many years?
Turning waste into treasure in a year and a half?
Could it be that the guy who used to be known as trash was actually the Emperor's Chosen One? Blessed by the God Emperor?
However, as more and more information is revealed, even if you don't believe it, you have to believe it.
It was precisely because of this that before Wang Qi had time to activate some of her additional arrangements, her situation began to improve again.
She shouldn't need to take any special risks anymore, she just needs to slowly advance according to her past plan.
She is not afraid that the current head of the family will know her thoughts.
This thing can't be hidden, and it's upright.
Everyone just has to play horses, horses and cannons. Who wins and who loses will be announced naturally at the next family meeting. Just watch the votes of the fourteen family caravans.
However, something unexpected happened.
The current head of the family, Gu Ming, convened the Gu family meeting in advance.
The meeting place is on the Black Arrow Star.
Among the nine planets in the Pegasus Star District, apart from the wasteland world of Raging Owl, the one with the biggest hips is the Black Arrow Star.
It was a feudal world, and the overall level of science and technology, except for a small number of powerful people who could enjoy some of the technological conveniences of the interstellar era, in most places on the planet, the production relations were probably not much better than those in the Middle Ages.
It’s not that there is no technology, but the entire social production relationship is not right: serfs driving advanced agricultural machines provide supplies to the knights;
Knight masters are granted the title of lords from various places, and they drive knight mechas to fight for the lords;
The lords were granted titles by the kings and helped the kings collect taxes;
The highest governing body of the planet is the King's Alliance. The planetary governors have always been held by the world's largest kings in turn. They will be responsible for ensuring that each kingdom can pay its taxes in full. Once there are signs of uneven payment, the King's Alliance will Launch a punitive war against countries with insufficient tax amounts, and make up for the tax through plunder...
Gu Hang was speechless at this backward mechanism, but this was the empire's overall policy: as long as you pay taxes, I don't care about anything else.
As long as taxes are paid normally and there are no other major issues, the empire really doesn't care how the planet develops. Gu Hang even suspected that after regaining some worlds, the empire seemed to be deliberately trying to keep these worlds as they were.
We don’t know what the high lords of the empire think about the current situation.
Black Arrow Star has a population of 400 million - the feudal production relations cannot support too many people. What's more, not only are their production relations backward, but their industrial capacity is also almost non-existent.
However, the relationship between this planet and the Gu family is very good.
Those kings who want to canonize more lords and more knights need a hard target: knight mechas.
Obviously, with the local appearance of Black Arrow Star, they can't even build agricultural machines, let alone build mechas. The mechas they use to confer knights obviously rely on foreign trade.
It's normal to have a good relationship with the Gu family.
The past six family meetings of the Gu family were all held on the Black Arrow Star.
This time is no exception.
Wang Qi believed that Gu Ming did this just to take advantage of the fact that Gu Hang's career and momentum were not big enough. And when Angry Star paid his taxes for the first time seven months later and truly proved his ability, it would be too difficult to undo the matter.
He wanted to start a family meeting before that. Before the chaos caused by Gu Hang was completely settled, before Wang Qi's allies were shaken severely, and before Wang Qi could win more people, he wanted to start a family meeting. When counting votes, the next six years are determined.
This is certainly a smart move, but Wang Qi also said that she is not worried.
She now has at least eight votes, and Gu Ming can't overturn the situation.
"If nothing happens, you will be the head of the Gu family in four months." This is what Wang Qi told Gu Hang.
Gu Hang smiled.
He has always felt that the current business structure of the Gu family is very unstable. It is purely a caravan and all the wealth is on those fleets. That is too empty.
Although the current value of the Raging Owl Star is not enough, it will not be worth a caravan until next year; and the Gu family has fourteen caravans.
But if he was asked to trade his inheritance for the head of the Gu family, he would not do it.
After further development, a real planet, a countless population, a huge army, and real industrial and agricultural output value, isn't this more real than doing business?
Of course, if he becomes the head of the family, it will not prevent him from continuing to be the governor of Raging Owl Star.
If this is really possible, it wouldn't be a bad thing. The Gu family has nothing but a lot of money. Even the leaders of the star regions have to win over, which is evident. If he can really mobilize the power of the entire family, then the future construction of the Raging Owl Star will skyrocket.
Even if the person who actually makes the decision in the Gu family is not him but his mother, it won't be a big problem.
Keren, when planning things, you can't just look at the good direction.
"Are you so sure?" he asked.
"Yes." Wang Qi showed confidence.
"What if...Uncle Ming flipped the table?"
"Huh?" Wang Qi was stunned for a moment, "Turn over the table?...What do you mean?"
Gu Hang made his words even more naked: "Did you arrange the security of the family meeting?"
"...No." Wang Qi said, "Do you think he will kill someone at that time?"
"Why not?"
"Impossible, this kind of thing has never happened in the family." Wang Qi's first reaction was to retort, "The Gu family tradition has been maintained for so many years, and there has never been an internal massacre. We have always been united..."
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Before she could finish her words, she was interrupted by Gu Hang: "There is a first time for everything. Conventions are meant to be broken. Doesn't it mean that extreme situations don't need to be considered?"
Wang Qi was silent for a moment: "I actually thought that he would jump over the wall. I brought enough guards. Moreover, the current planetary governor of Black Arrow, King Muir, has a good relationship with me and is my supporter."
"Don't put your own safety on others. Is King Muir reliable? Even if he is reliable, did he arrange the security of the venue by himself?"
These questions stopped Wang Qi again.
Gu Hang paused and continued: "As for the guards around you...heh, I probably know who they are. Are they the same people who came to catch me and lock me up when I did some nonsense? It’s not that I look down on them, but... they really can’t do it.”
"Do you have a better candidate?"
"Of course there is. To be honest, their level is the average level of the soldiers under my command. I can always find a team that far exceeds the number of escorts around you and is better than them."
"Xiaohang, you are really promising." Wang Qi didn't know whether she believed it or not, so she couldn't tell whether it was irony or admiration.
Maybe both.
Gu Hang didn't bother, he continued: "What's more, what you need is not just a escort team, but..."
"An army."
……
After hanging up the communication, Ms. Wang Qi sat there, dazed for a long time.
Until there was a knock on the door of the office on the starship.
"Come in."
"Aunt." The visitor is Wang Jiarong.
After the beautiful girl's caravan returned, all the ships needed to be repaired before they could go on the road again. So she returned to her aunt to help out as a secretary - she had done this before, but she had only been released in the past year or two to lead a caravan completely controlled by Wang Qi.
She asked cautiously: "Is your call with your cousin... over?"
"Yeah."
"It's good. It's been a long time since you and your cousin talked for so long."
"It's all about business."
"What is it specifically?" Wang Jiarong looked very curious.
Wang Qi showed a smile: "Your cousin... is worried that your aunt will be cheated."
Wang Jiarong felt happy. It seemed that they had really had a good conversation: "I will definitely worry about that. After all, you are his mother."
Speaking of this, Wang Qi sighed: "He has changed so much. He looks and sounds the same, but his demeanor is completely different."
"Isn't that a good thing? Isn't it your long-cherished wish that my cousin can become better?"
"Yes, it's great..." Wang Qi said with a smile, "But we have to change our route. We have to go to the Raging Owl Galaxy first."
"Go... for what?"
"Bring an army."
……
It is of practical significance to send an army to my mother to escort her to the Black Arrow Star and protect her safety there.
In addition to the fact that she is his biological mother in this body, Gu Hang has at least two important reasons:
It was very important that the position of head of the Gu family fell into his hands. The patriarch of the richest merchant family in the Pegasus sector, fourteen fleets capable of interstellar navigation, ranging from armed merchant ships to transport merchant ships, are all huge wealth.
Even if this wealth does not belong to him completely at once, it does not even belong to his mother who controls the power. After all, those caravans are 'franchisees'. But the power to mobilize this power and wealth is already huge enough.
This is of extremely great significance to the development of Wrath Star, and is a major push for Wrath Star to move towards interstellar society.
The second reason was actually based on the first point: he had to find a stage to show his strength.
Keeping a low profile and building a reputation are not completely conflicting things. There are some things in Gu Hang's hands that he needs to keep a low profile and make a fortune in silence. But the Raging Owl Star is getting stronger, richer, and has enough potential...this information should be widely publicized.
The more people know, the better.
This will bring attention.
And attention is money, and money is the source of power for development.
All in all, no matter in terms of personal emotions or actual interests, this mother still needs it.
I can't do it without my mother.
(End of chapter)