Chapter 217, the first high-ranking official in the alliance to be dismissed
After Gu Hang discussed with his own mother, he finally decided to send a team of about 30,000 people to accompany him to the Black Arrow Star.
The reason for this quantity is mainly due to the loading capacity and delivery capacity.
They will stay in the starship as sailors and crew members.
It's not that more people can't be accommodated. In fact, there are nine starships that Wang Qi takes this time, four of which are "big belly" transport ships.
This thing is quite famous in interstellar trade. It doesn't run fast, it doesn't have heavy armor, it doesn't even have interfaces designed to equip weapons, and it has no potential to be converted into an armed merchant ship.
But it has two advantages that make it the overlord in interstellar trade: 1. It is big and can be installed. 2. It's cheap.
The maximum population that the 'Big Belly' can carry can reach 20 million people - although there is no quality of life to speak of, and people are loaded like cargo, it can indeed carry so many people.
However, in addition to loading capacity, delivery capacity must also be considered.
Gu Hangzhen gave Wang Qi the entire 100,000-strong army. With the delivery capabilities of the caravan she led, it would take a long time to send people to the ground.
Thirty thousand people is the limit.
The troops selected by Gu Hang were the 34th Motorized Infantry Division and the 37th and 38th Mechanical Brigades.
There are three division and brigade-level units with a total of more than 28,000 people. Gu Hang sent hundreds more special operations elites from the 10th Brigade, plus some civilian officers, for a total of 30,000 people.
Gu Hang hoped that they would not be put to any use and would just go for an armed parade. It would be best to hold a military parade at Black Arrow Star to show off the face of the Raging Owl Star.
When they really come into use, things may become very troublesome, and the worst case scenario Gu Hang guessed may happen.
He really didn't want to see that scene, but he was indeed preparing for that scene.
……
The fleet led by Wang Qi had just set off from the Flying Wing Star.
Generally speaking, the fastest route from the Winged Star to the Black Arrow Star is to take two astral tunnels, first from the Winged Star to the Koroga 3 Galaxy, and then to the Black Arrow Galaxy.
However, since Wang Qi has decided to visit the Raging Owl Planet, she can first come to the Raging Owl Planet from Koruga 3, and then take the astral tunnel from the Raging Owl Planet to the Black Arrow Planet.
There are three astral tunnels in the Raging Owl galaxy. Two of them lead to Koroga 3 and the Black Arrow Star. The other one goes out of the Pegasus Sector and goes to the Orange Chrysanthemum Star in the Amber Sector next door. .
Calculating based on time, it will take Wang Qi's fleet about half a month to reach the angry owl star.
There is no need to make any special preparations, just let the troops be ready.
And during this half month, several things happened.
One’s own business.
……
Just after Gu Hang decided which troops to send to the Black Arrow Star to serve as his mother's bodyguard, a high-ranking official from the alliance came to see him.
He sat in his office seat, listening to Denison Henry's endless complaints with a blank expression.
Speaking of this person, he also joined Gu Hang's forces very early on. At first, he was just a businessman in Junk Town, and he didn't even have the identity of Junk Town's agent. But in Gu Hang's early days, he invested in Gu Hang and helped him a little.
He received huge returns on this investment.
Now, he has become the provincial head of the Alliance Tower Province, which can be regarded as fulfilling his original investment.
Back then, his goal was to hope that the Governor would support him in becoming the leader of Garbage Town. But now, not only the Garbage Town is under his control, but also a large area around the Garbage Town and the Tower Ruins as the core are classified into the Tower Province and are all under his jurisdiction.
In the past, Gaota Province was the smallest among the three central provinces, both in terms of population and area.
Recently, when Yan Fangxu led the Central Group Army to pacify the eastern provinces, a large amount of land and settlements in the border areas were planned to be included in the Gaota Province.
This increased the area of the High Tower Province by more than three times; its population also increased from the original 300,000 to 1.4 million, a full four to five times its original size.
Not only that, the use of waste energy storms in the ruins of the tower is also at the forefront of the entire alliance. The compressed energy crystal blocks produced by that industry alone are enough to eat.
With this contribution, and as a veteran of the alliance, we can build relationships and develop some industries, especially recently when Wei Xingcheng is clearing out some consumer industrial products and simple military industries, as well as many industries recently established by the alliance. The production lines of these engineering machines were not placed in Weixing City, but were thrown into other surrounding areas.
On the one hand, this is to support production in other regions, establish an alliance-wide industrial chain, and bring closer connections across the alliance; on the other hand, Wei Xingcheng needs to concentrate more on the production of key products.
In this case, Denison Henry can rely on its old relationships, its proximity to energy production areas, and its proximity to the Tower Province and Wei Xing City to more easily acquire those industrial lines that have relocated.
Logically speaking, Denison Henry should be satisfied.
As long as he protects his province,
But he doesn't.
He is also seeking one thing: he hopes that the ground part of the star port to be built on Angry Star can be located within his jurisdiction.
Speaking of this matter, the relevant technical blueprints have been handed over to Wu Jiarong for arrangement. Through on-site inspections, she found several places suitable for building star ports.
There are several alternative sites, generally concentrated in the east of Fuxing City, at the junction of Gaota Province and Xiongya Province.
The two sides naturally began to fight openly and secretly.
Obviously, if the ground part of the star port can be completed within its own jurisdiction, then after the star port is completed in the future, it will bring huge economic benefits, and it will have an obvious and huge boosting effect on the development of its own province. .
Originally, Henry was confident that he could win the construction rights.
However, the final result made him very disappointed. The final location was chosen at a place called ‘Skarro Highlands’ in Xiongya Province.
Henry was very angry about this. He made trouble in the alliance government more than once, had several fierce face-to-face exchanges with Oceana, and sued the Alliance Development Department for engaging in cliques and ostracizing him. Because the new provincial head of Xiongya Province is an official from the Ministry of Development, they are looking after their own people and have ignored multiple investigation reports issued by the Alliance Research Institute.
He insisted that the alternative starport location in the Tower Province was more suitable than Skaro Heights.
The exact words he sprayed in front of Oceana were:
"Making relationships, right? I like having relationships, right? Then aren't my relationships stronger than anyone else's? Even you are from the first batch of refugees I brought to the Governor from Fuxing City! I He’s the Governor’s first investor! What kind of a piece of shit is that guy named Rafael? He’s worthy of fighting with me!”
Why does Gu Hang know so clearly?
Because this was what came to his ears from the alliance's internal affairs department.
It was a bit difficult for Oceana to deal with Henry's strength.
In actual work, she did reject Henry's many requests, even in person. But when she was being sprayed, she couldn't bear it and let the guards kick Henry out.
After all, he is a high-ranking provincial official of the Alliance and a veteran of the Alliance. What he said, 'He brought Oceana to the Governor' is indeed the truth.
It's really not good to make things look too ugly.
It is one thing to give kind words and advice, but it is also another thing to resolutely refuse unreasonable requests.
But Henry was obviously not satisfied with this.
Seeing that Oceana, the Prime Minister of the Alliance, was unwilling to meet his demands, he angrily dropped a few unpleasant words.
He said something about 'ungratefulness' and 'you are useless as Prime Minister', and then came to see Gu Hang.
Of course, it was impossible for him to act so domineering in front of Gu Hang.
On the contrary, his attitude was very low. As soon as he entered the door, he fell to the ground and began to express his grievances with tears and runny nose. It wasn't until Gu Hang asked him to get up several times with a somewhat impatient attitude that he agreed to get up, sat on a chair brought by the waiter, and continued to complain.
Gu Hang became more and more annoyed the more he listened.
He finally couldn't stand it anymore, raised a document in his hand, and hit Denison Henry squarely in the face.
"Look carefully for yourself!" Gu Hang stared at this person, "Do you want to continue to tease you in front of me?"
The crying and complaining stopped abruptly.
Henry didn't expect that Gu Hang would be so angry, and was a little stunned for a moment.
He glanced at the white paper that flew to the ground. The content on it was quite familiar to him and he had read it many times.
It is written above that the location of the Tower Province is indeed slightly better than the Skaro Highlands in terms of environment. This is also the basis for his many troubles.
Gu Hang was extremely disappointed when he saw that he had no intention of repenting at all.
He said: "Just for your own personal gain, you delayed my star port construction plan for more than a week? Do you think I have plenty of time?"
"Yes, the site selection in the Tower Province does have slightly better natural conditions, but not much better and is highly replaceable."
"But elsewhere, Skaro Heights will simply crush you!"
"The alliance's major infrastructure project was launched three months ago. Look at what you have done in these three months. The construction status of roads and railways has opened up a road from Junk Town to Weixing City. The route to Fuxing City and other projects have been delayed, especially the eastward project, which has not even started yet!”
"Do you feel that I don't know your little thoughts at all? You feel that the land carved out from Yan Fangxu's Eastern Expedition is not enough, and the Gaota Province is not expanded enough; you feel that the Gaota Province and the eastern The industries in all provinces are very similar. They are all key resource producing areas. There is not much room for cooperation. On the contrary, competition is fierce. If the railway and highway networks of Gaota Province are connected in parallel with Xiongya Province, will others make money in vain? ”
"That's absolutely not what I meant!"
Henry plopped down to his knees again.
Gu Hang was even more disgusted: "When did the alliance have this etiquette of kneeling down?"
Henry stood up again awkwardly.
"I don't care whether you think so, and I don't want to argue with you about this issue." Gu Hang continued, "I only look at the facts before me. The Ministry of Development has formulated a multi-phase infrastructure construction plan, and you can't understand these What is the meaning behind the plan? It’s because you are blind and indifferent to the overall development of the alliance. What you did wrong is that you don’t understand it and are unwilling to implement it!”
"Four months were given for the first phase of the project. Now three months have passed, and your tower province has only achieved a little more than half of its project goals. Every other province has completed the plan better than you. Good. Even Wangcha Province, which has been established for the shortest time, has advanced the project to more than half. Xiongya Province has completed the first phase of the construction project, and has also built multiple road networks in the Skaro Highlands. To facilitate logistics work after the future star port is established.”
"Rafal's plan, from the material transportation and personnel support needed to build the star port, to the planning of the transportation hub city based on the ground part of the star port, has all been planned and is already being implemented. Why does the Ministry of Development Do you want to give up that place and choose your tower province? Just because you haven’t finished building the railway yet? By then, the engineering team of the Star Port Construction will drive tens of millions of construction materials from the dirt road. Transported to the construction site? ”
"I..." Henry's forehead was covered with cold sweat, "It's not that there is no construction, I also have all the related plans..."
"Okay, you, because of your nonsense, the star port construction plan has been postponed for a week. Do I have to wait for you for another two months to complete all the basic projects that you should have built long ago? Expand the plan? ”
At this point, Gu Hang had lost the desire to continue talking about this matter with Denison Henry.
He gave the final decision:
"Henry, I am very grateful for your help a year and a half ago, but you have gained more because of it. My tolerance for you is limited, and I don't want you to talk about these things all day long and ignore them. actual work.”
"Let you be the head of the High Tower Province. Don't think it is a reward for your past achievements. To be honest, what you did back then was enough to reward you with a province? Let you be the leader of this province. Leader, I hope you can contribute your abilities to make our business better and prosperous, instead of just resting on your laurels.”
"I am very disappointed with what happened this time. I think you are not suitable for running a province. I will let Oceana choose a more suitable candidate to replace you. However, your C9 rank, as well as related benefits and allowances will be Keep it, this is my gratitude for your help in the first place.”
Hearing this, Denison Henry's face turned pale.
Am I being...removed?
Since the establishment of the alliance, the first provincial-level and ministerial-level official to be dismissed from his post turned out to be me?
Henry's gut turned green with regret.
(End of chapter)