Chapter 216, This Mom Still Needs It
The fact that Gu Hang came to anger Xiaoxing really made her mother very passive.
Originally, he wanted to seek the position of Patriarch, but it turned out that the scheduled Patriarch himself disappeared.
But his performance in Nu Xiaoxing made things turn around.
Gu Hang's outstanding performance in Star Fury not only saved Wang Qi millions of money needed to fill the pit of the imperial tax, but more importantly, Gu Hang got his own property through this.
Does the Gu family not want to have their own planet?That is 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 Nu Xiaoxing.The construction cost that needs to be invested in the early stage is too high, and the cycle of cost recovery is quite long, and there may be a lot of risks in the middle.
For example, Gu Hang has encountered the green skin disaster and the evil cult invasion in the past year and a half. Any of these two risk points, if encountered by the normal people who redeveloped the angry owl star, would be The catastrophe of extinction made the high investment go to waste.
Moreover, the biggest problem with seeking an unreliable planetary governor is that you cannot easily admit your losses and leave the game.If other investments fail, you will lose if you lose; but if you fail to invest in a planet, the Imperial Taxation Department will not care so much about you. The imperial tax that you should pay should not be less than a dime, and you will have to pay it all the time in the future.
It is precisely because of this that Gu Hang's performance over the past year has been surprising.
Although Nuo Xiaoxing is too closed and the news flow is not smooth, so not many people know about it, and the high society of Flying Wing Star still regards Gu Hang's going to be the planetary governor as a joke.However, in the eyes of some caring people, they can see clearly.
The members of the Gu family, of course, belong to this kind of caring people.
Because of Gu Hang's nonsense behavior, Wang Qi's allies began to strongly question her plan.Those with the most serious attitude seemed to be a little bit out of Wang Qi's control.Even if Wang Qi has some remedial measures for this, they will also worry about whether they can realize the growth of everyone's interests by holding such a Patriarch.
But Gu Hang's performance made their worries, anger, and vacillations calm down a lot.
The prodigal kid who used to be considered a little waste and dragged his wife down, has now transformed himself into a planetary governor.Moreover, he really did not rely on the support of his family at all to make his career flourish on that waste planet.
Not only do we no longer need external subsidies, but we can pay taxes on our own, and also have a fairly good output value.
Right now, this output value may have reached the planet of a family caravan by next year, who dares to underestimate it?
Industry and commerce, these are two different things!
What's more, this is the current comparison; as the potential of a planet gets better and better in the future, with a larger population and a more complete industrial structure, there is still a great possibility of improvement.
And can this potential be realized?
At least judging from Gu Hang's performance in the past year and a half, it is quite possible.
To be honest, many people couldn't believe it was true, and even thought it was a rumor fabricated by Wang Qi in order to maintain the support of her old brothers.
How else is it possible?
How can Star Nu Xiaoxing, who has caused the head of Peders to worry for a long time and let the star district government bear the burden for so many years, be so easy to settle?
Turn waste into treasure in a year and a half?
Could it be that the guy who used to have the title of trash is actually the Emperor's God's Choice?With the blessing of the emperor?
However, as more and more information is disclosed, 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 any special adventures anymore, as long as she moves forward slowly according to the past plan.
She is not afraid that the current Patriarch will know what she thinks.
This thing can't be hidden, and it's aboveboard.
All you have to do is play chess with horses and cannons. Whoever wins will be announced at the next family meeting. Just watch the votes of the fourteen family caravans.
However, an accident happened.
The current head of the family, Gu Ming, held the Gu family meeting in advance.
The meeting place is Black Arrow Star.
Among the nine planets in the Tianma star area, apart from the wasteland world of the Nuxiao star, the most hip-moving star is the Black Arrow star.
It was a feudal world, and the overall level of science and technology, except for a small number of dignitaries who can enjoy some technological conveniences of the interstellar age, in most places on the planet, the production relationship may not be much better than that of the Middle Ages.
It's not that there is no technology, but the production relations in the whole society are not right: the serfs who drive advanced agricultural machines offer sacrifices to the knight master;
The knight lords are sealed by the lords everywhere, and they drive the knight mecha to fight for the lords;
The lords were entrusted to the king and helped the kings collect taxes;
The supreme governing body of the planet is the Alliance of Kings. The planetary governors have always been held by the world's largest kings in rotation. They will be responsible for ensuring that each kingdom can pay taxes in full. Launch a war of punishment against countries that do not pay enough taxes, and make up for it by plundering...
Where this mechanism is backward, Gu Hang is quite speechless, but this is the overall policy of the empire: as long as you pay taxes, I don't care about anything else.
In the case of normal tax payment and no other major events, the empire really doesn't care what the planet develops.Gu Hang even suspected that after the empire regained some worlds, it seemed that they were intentionally allowing these worlds to maintain their original appearance.
We don't know what the high lords of the empire think, the status quo is like this.
Black Arrow has a population of [-] million—the feudal production relations really cannot support too many people, what's more, not only are their production relations backward, but their industrial capacity is almost non-existent.
However, the relationship between this planet and the Gu family is very good.
Those kings who want to confer more lords and more knights need a hard target: knight mechs.
Obviously, as far as Black Arrow is concerned, they can't even make agricultural machines, let alone mechs.The mechas they use for the canonization of knights obviously depend 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 Black Arrow Star.
Now this time is no exception.
Wang Qi thought that Gu Ming did this because he wanted to take advantage of the fact that Gu Hang's career and reputation were not strong enough.And when Fu Xiaoxing paid his taxes for the first time in seven months and proved his ability, it would be too difficult to undo the matter.
He wanted to start the family meeting before that, when the trouble caused by Gu Hang hadn't completely settled down, when Wang Qi's allies were shaken, and before Wang Qi could win more When counting votes, set the next six years.
This is of course a smart approach, but Wang Qi also said that she is not worried.
She has at least eight votes now, and Gu Ming can't turn the tables.
"If there is no accident, after four months, you will be the head of the Gu family." 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 too empty for pure caravans and all their belongings to be on those fleets.
Although the current value of Fu Xiaoxing is not enough, it will be worth a caravan until next year; and the Gu family has fourteen caravans.
But if he was asked to exchange his inheritance for the Patriarch of the Gu family, he would not do it.
After further development and development, a real planet, countless population, huge army, real industrial and agricultural output value, isn't this more real than a merchant?
Of course, his going to be the head of the family does not prevent him from continuing to be the governor of Fu Xiaoxing.
If that's the case, it's not bad at all.The Gu family has nothing else, they really have a lot of money.It can be seen that even the head of the star region has to win over.
If he can really mobilize the power of the entire family, then the future construction of Fu Xiaoxing will skyrocket.
Even if, when the time comes, the actual decision-maker of the Gu family will not be him, but his mother, but it will not be a big problem.
But people, when planning things, you can't just be optimistic about the direction.
"Are you so sure?" he asked.
"Yes." Wang Qi showed confidence.
"Then what if... Uncle Ming flipped the table?"
"Huh?" Wang Qi was stunned for a moment, "Turn the table?... What do you mean?"
Gu Hang made his words even more blatant: "Did you arrange the security situation 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 refute, "The Gu family tradition has been maintained for so many years, and there has never been an internal massacre. We have always been based on unity..."
She was interrupted by Gu Hang before she could finish her sentence: "There is a first time for everything, and conventions are meant to be broken. Don't you need to consider extreme situations?"
Wang Qi was silent for a moment: "I actually thought that he would jump over the wall in a hurry. 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 that King Muir reliable? Even if he is reliable, did he arrange the safety of the venue by himself?"
These made Wang Qi question again.
Gu Hang paused for a moment, then continued: "As for the guards around you... Heh, I probably know who they are. They were the ones who came to arrest me and lock me up when I was doing some nonsense before? It's not that I look down on them, but...they really can't."
"Do you have a better candidate?"
"Of course there is. To be honest, their level is the average level of my soldiers. I can always find a team that far exceeds your escort team and is better than them."
"Xiao Hang, 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 there are.
Gu Hang didn't bother, he continued: "What's more, what you need is not only a guard, but..."
"An army."
...
After hanging up the communication, Ms. Wang Qi sat on the spot, dazed for a long time.
Until there was a knock on the door of the office on the starship.
"Come in."
"Aunt." It was Wang Jiarong who came.
After the beautiful girl caravan returns, all the ships need to be repaired before they can go on the road again.So she went back to her aunt and helped out as a secretary—that's what she used to do, but she was only released in the last year or two to lead a caravan that was completely controlled by Wang Qi.
She asked cautiously: "Your call with your cousin... is it over?"
"Ah."
"It's good. It's been a long time since you and your cousin talked at once for so long."
"It's all about business."
"What exactly is it?" Wang Jiarong seemed very curious.
Wang Qi showed a smile: "Your cousin...I'm worried that your aunt will be tricked."
Wang Jiarong was overjoyed, it seemed that the conversation was really good: "Then I will be worried, after all, you are his mother."
Speaking of this, Wang Qi sighed: "He has changed so much, his voice and appearance are all his, but his demeanor is completely different."
"Isn't that a good thing? Cousin can become better, isn't it your long-cherished wish, aunt?"
"Yeah, that's great..." Wang Qi said with a smile, "However, we have to change the route. We have to go to the Nuo Xiao galaxy first."
"Go...for what?"
"Bring an army."
...
It is practical to send an army to Mom to escort her to Black Arrow, so as to protect her safety on Black Arrow.
Apart from being the mother of his body, there are at least two important reasons for Gu Hang:
It is very important that the position of head of the Gu family falls into his hands.The patriarch of the richest merchant family in the Tianma Star Region, fourteen fleets capable of interstellar voyages, ranging from armed merchant ships to transport merchant ships, are all huge wealth.
Even if the wealth doesn't belong to him all at once, or even to his mother who controls the power, after all, those caravans are all 'franchisees'.But the power to mobilize this power and this wealth in name is already huge enough.
This is of great significance to the development of Nu Xiaoxing, and it is a major thrust for Nu Xiaoxing to move towards the interstellar society.
And the second reason is actually based on the first point: he has to find a stage to show his strength.
Keeping a low profile and making a name for yourself are not completely in conflict.There are some things in Gu Hang's hands that need to be hidden and made a fortune.But Nu Xiaoxing's strength is getting stronger, richer, and has enough potential... Such information should be widely publicized.
The more people know the better.
This brings 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 practical benefits, this mother still needs to be wanted.
You can't do without a mother.
(End of this chapter)