Chapter 308: Unify the world and move forward (end of this volume)
The 21 refugees loaded into the transport ship are Gu Hang's 'trophies' in the political arena. These more than 20 people are all going to migrate to the Raging Owl Planet.
This is a serious value.
Five tax coins per population was the empire's pricing.If you go to the Raging Owl Star, even if you do nothing, build a refugee camp, raise people, and pay it as imperial tax after two years, you can still get a million tax coins.
Where did these people come from?
The first is the... 'robbery' of Koroga by various planets in the Pegasus region.
The situation in Koroga was already deteriorating even before Gallardo disappeared.Within the star area, many knowledgeable people can realize that
Under the call of the sector government, the governors of each planet, some other forces within the planet, and even wealthy businessmen all "generously donated money" to provide some relief to Koroga 3 within their capabilities.
Mainly based on various types of materials.
Similarly, many forces that provided supplies also expressed their "generousness" in accepting those refugees on Koruga No. 3 who were homeless due to the unrest and had nowhere to resettle.
Of course this is blackmail.
Most of the forces generously provided materials to support Korokga 3, but they were not worth the value of the population they plundered from Korokja 3.
But the Koroga No. 3 government had no choice but to accept it.
They need those supplies very much, otherwise the military operations will be short of supplies and people's lives will be affected.
In addition, those homeless refugees who appeared due to the outbreak of plague demons in various places do exist.
Other places are fine, but Fino City, which has lost more than half of its territory, is the place with the most serious problems.
There were a billion people there, half of whom were in occupied areas.Their only endings are death, transformation into plague zombies, and illness.
But there are still hundreds of millions of people living in non-occupied areas.Of course they should be evacuated away from the area that may become a war zone at any time, but... those are hundreds of millions of people, and it is really difficult to transport them to other hives.
The entire Koroga 3 has always been in a state of overpopulation and resource constraints.It would be difficult to evacuate so many people and find a place that can accommodate so many people.
They can only establish refugee camps and quarantine areas in the upper-class areas of Fino City.
All regional hierarchical management are divided into high-risk areas, medium-risk areas, low-risk areas, and no-risk areas. Each area is strictly separated, and all areas are under military management. People are not allowed to go out, even if they starve to death.
After reporting, people who have no typical symptoms of the disease within seven days will be able to move to a lower-level risk area until they reach a risk-free area.
But in fact, the risk-free zone only means that the risk of disease is very low, which does not mean safety.The problem of material shortages has always plagued the quarantine area refugee camp in Fino City. At the same time, regardless of the risk level of the area, there is the danger of the plague demon breaking through the army's defense line and then directly conquering it, and there is also the danger of a sudden large-scale plague outbreak. .
Therefore, under such circumstances, what is most beneficial to the Koroga planetary government is indeed to sell people to other planets and forces.
If you don't sell them, it will be difficult to afford them, and they may die at any time.
But it has to be a reasonable price, right?
After calculation, other forces generally use materials equivalent to 0.2-0.5 tax coins to exchange for a population worth 5 tax coins. Isn't this robbery?
Of course, as a hive planet that controls 400 billion people, equivalent to 62.2% of the population of the entire Pegasus sector, the Koroga government is already one of the most powerful planetary governments, not to mention that Governor Akuna is the staunch supporter of Pegasus leader Peddes. Supporters, belonging to the same faction.
Of course they won't accept robbery so easily.
But... who makes the two core characters Akuna and Pedes also have very clean butts?They are currently very worried because of Gallardo's disappearance. Their political influence, which was originally very strong, has dropped to only two or three points.
There was quite a bit of political struggle and compromise.
The final result of the negotiation is that each force can obtain a certain amount of free 'migration' population according to their support for Koruga No. 3; if it exceeds this amount, it needs to be purchased with tax coins.The purchase price is calculated according to the ladder mechanism, ranging from 1 tax coin/person to 4 tax coins/person.
There is a strong discount, but at the same time it limits those forces that go too far in plundering Koruga No. 3.
Gu Hang participated in the negotiation process on this matter.
In it, of course he stands on his own side, standing on the side of Raging Owl Star, and strives for the benefits as much as possible.
But apart from this matter, Gu Hang would sometimes withdraw his emotions and think about this matter.
When Koroga 3 suffered a major disaster and countless people of the empire were affected by the disaster, the ideal situation of all forces working together to face the natural disaster only existed on the surface.Secretly, this turned into a feast of dividing interests and carving up Koroga 3.Big bosses from all sides are scheming and quarreling among themselves, lying in the midst of a disaster, with their mouths full of oil.
Gu Hang can't criticize these things from the moral high ground, because he is also the one who takes the easy way out.
But is there a 'good thing' in this matter from beginning to end?
The various forces that carve up the interests of the population of Koruga No. 3 certainly want to take advantage of the situation;
The planetary government of Koroga 3 is not clean at all. The population has become a bargaining chip for them to obtain profits. They don't think about how to save more people to survive, but would rather put the refugees in a refugee camp with huge risks, where they may face challenges at any time. Death will not allow refugees to live in a better place.
Only those who are at risk, have no food and clothing, and have lost their homes are the most difficult.
Gu Hang couldn't change the entire environment. All he could do was to try his best to allow these people who had 'migrated' to the Raging Star to live a life that a 'human' should have again.
The people on the ship all came from risk-free areas and had gone through the quarantine process.
Gu Hang was also unwilling to put people with infectious diseases on the ship, otherwise he might die before reaching the angry owl planet, or even bring the plague to the angry owl planet.
Half of these 21 people come from the 'free' population brought by the support provided by Angry Owl to Koroga 3 - this was created by Gu Hang's participation in political activities in addition to participating in the investigation team. Free population quota.
The other 11 people came from the Raging Bear Legion.They were directly involved in the front-line combat. They were close to the water and there were many refugee camps within the defense zone of the Raging Bear Legion.Li Kexi and the commanders of the Koluojia native troops were in cahoots with each other and resold this population.
After all, the Koruga government can sell it, but the money from the sale will not be distributed to the army, so the local army and the military can't sell it themselves?
The price is very cheap. The lowest level in the Koroga government costs 1 tax coin per population, but these local troops are willing to sell it for 0.6 tax coins.In addition, Li Kexi had the power to command them, and with both soft and hard tactics, the price was directly reduced to 0.2 tax coins/population.
These 11 people only spent a total of over [-] Gu Hang's tax dollars. What's the difference between this and no money?
...The group of people drifted in the sea of stars for seven days and arrived at the Raging Owl Star.
An armed merchant ship and a transport ship belonging to the Gu's Trading Company docked at the small port of the Raging Owl Star.
21 people left the port and headed for the surface; some supplies were loaded onto ships and prepared to be shipped to Koruga, and the entire port began to become extremely busy.
However, Gu Hang certainly doesn't have to squeeze in here.
He led the investigation team and investor representatives to leave the starport and came to the ground.
Alliance Prime Minister Ms. Oceana, Alliance Army General Political Commissar Major General Thaddeus, and Alliance Justice Lambert Hodgson, these three can be regarded as the three giants of the Alliance government. They all went out to personally welcome their governor back.
After a brief reception banquet, the group boarded several wind falcons and headed for Fuxing City.
Oceana, who has already received the news, will send a team composed of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Commerce of the Alliance to contact the investor representatives.
They will be taken to see Wei Xing City, the industrial center of the Raging Owl Star, and then to see the vast plantation fields in the Qinggu region in the south, and then return to Skaro City to see the construction status of the star port.
I believe that after reading this, they will provide their owners with a reasonable report on whether the Raging Owl Star has investment value.
As for those on the investigation team, it's a little more troublesome.
Gu Hang didn't want to ignore them too much, so he simply took the people and went to the Qinggu area first.
This is also very reasonable.
They were originally here to investigate the situation of the Plague Demon. With the investigation on Koroga 3 completely at a deadlock, they wanted to see if they could find some other clues on the Raging Owl.As for the Qinggu area, it was originally the starting point of the demonic disaster a year and a half ago. It is quite reasonable to go to the Qinggu area to investigate.
However, after they go to the Qinggu area, how they want to investigate is their own business.
The coalition government fully supports their work.A pastoral villa was arranged, with plenty of natural food, a chef, and servants.They can enjoy the pastoral scenery in the hive city and on those civilized planets that are difficult to see.
There is no longer a shortage of food and wine. If you are bored, you can also go to the southern edge of the Beiqinggu area to hunt some aberrant monsters as a hunting game... No, it is an investigation operation.
Isn't this more comfortable than squatting in the dangerous environment of Koroga 3, waiting for the Sun Lord's investigation team to arrive?
After settling the members of the investigation team, Gu Hang hurried back to Fuxing City.
Oceana, who was busy because of the arrival of the 21 refugees and the investor team, hurriedly put down her work, came to see the governor, and gave a work report.
The development of Raging Owl Star is the top priority, but Gu Hang doesn't need to hear too much.In the past, they basically maintained a call frequency of at least once to as many as three times a week.Although he is no longer on the Raging Owl Star, he still knows the development of the alliance very well.
There are some relatively important things in it that can be discussed separately.
For example, Weixing City, as an industrial center, has a population of 500 million, which has doubled from more than a year ago.Mainly from the population siphoned in from various other areas.
The annual industrial output value of Weixing City has reached 100 million tax coins, and the per capita output value has exceeded 2, which is double the imperial standard per capita annual output value.
1 The concept of tax currency is originally the 'total output value of an empire citizen in one year under standard circumstances' set by the central government of the empire.
Of course, this is only 2% of the per capita output value of Weixing City, and it is far from that of other places.Fuxing City, with a population of 120 million, only exceeds 1; due to the huge land resources in Beiqinggu area, the per capita planting area is extremely high, so it can reach 1.9 tax coins; other places have not exceeded 1.
Another thing, which is also the key thing reported by Oceana, is the situation after the western part of the continent, including the Western Desert region, was recovered.
After wiping out the Blackbird Heavy Industry entrenched in the west of the continent, the Alliance no longer has any enemies on the entire Raging Owl Star.
The entire Raging Owl Planet is still a planet dominated by ocean areas. In the pre-war era, the natural environment was quite good and the residents' living standards were very high. It can be regarded as a combination of a garden world and a planet with high-end resources.
The total land area of the entire planet only accounts for about 36%. The main body of the alliance is currently located on the main continent, which is about 22% of the entire planet's area. There are also two continents, with areas of 9% and 5% of the planet respectively. %.
However, the main continent is said to have been destroyed, but at least it still has thousands of miles of fertile soil like the Qinggu area. The natural environment of other lands is poor, but as long as they avoid the waste energy storm, they can still be inhabited.Even in the Badlands of the Western Desert, which has the worst natural environment, there are star-pointed oases and underground water systems that can be used to supply the planting factories below. In addition to feeding a large population, it is also capable of exporting food.
The other two continents are almost completely unsuitable for human survival.It was originally the mining area for the most important Linghua gas field on the Raging Owl Star in the past. Now the two continents and the surrounding sea areas are shrouded in the never-ending storm of waste energy all day long.
According to the intelligence obtained in the past, there is indeed no sign of anything moving on those two continents.
From this perspective, the alliance can be regarded as unequivocally unifying the entire world.
Unify the world!
Become the ruler of a planet in every sense of the word!
Even though this was the goal Gu Hang had set for himself since he came to this world two and a half years ago, he never doubted that he would be able to achieve it.But when all this became a reality, he still couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
Before time travel, he was just an ordinary person. How could he have imagined that he would have such a day?
However, Gu Hang didn't feel very excited.
If it hadn't been for the series of events caused by Gallardo and this trip to Koroga, Gu Hang might have been a little more excited.
But now, when the vast sea of stars is no longer just a background in his memory, but has truly become the stage he wants to step on, he realizes how powerful he and the power of a planet are here. Small.
Just keep moving forward.
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The second volume will start tomorrow!
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