Chapter 367, you can applaud now
Chapter 367, you can applaud now
After boarding Lois's ship, Gu Hang was greeted with a cocktail party.
Nair Lois, wearing a smart white uniform skirt, combed her gray hair into curls, looking quite graceful and capable. Seeing Gu Hang coming in from the door, she smiled, raised her glass to Gu Hang, and shouted to everyone else at the reception:
"Everyone! Everyone! Look! Our protagonist today is here!"
"Here comes the hero who saves Koroga and the Pegasus Sector!"
"I propose that everyone raise a glass to our heroes together!"
After speaking, she took the lead and drank the wine in one gulp.
Lois was the one with the highest status among those present. With her taking the lead, the others, no matter what thoughts they had in their hearts, had to put a smile on their faces at this time, and then raise their glasses to drink together.
After putting down their wine glasses, people started to applaud Gu Hang who walked into the reception and was pulled by Lois to go on stage.
Gu Hang walked through the applause of all the big shots in the Tianma Star District and walked to the front desk.
On the stage, looking at the people applauding in the audience and appreciating the hidden thoughts behind their applause and smiles, Gu Hang quickly formed what he wanted to say in his mind.
He raised his hand and pressed down.
He didn't start speaking until the applause died down:
"The last time I met with you was more than four months ago. I still remember the atmosphere of that meeting, solemn and desperate. I believe no one could have imagined at that time that four months later, we would be in the same place, Drink, talk, and celebrate victory."
"This is all because of you!" someone shouted below.
Whistles and applause sounded one by one, and Gu Hang waited with a smile on his face.
When the applause died down, he continued:
"Indeed, I will not be modest, and that is indeed because of me. Four months ago, I said some not-so-nice words here. I criticized the policies of the previous two governors in Koruga and I also criticized Fache. The ongoing struggle between the family and the sectoral government.”
"I became the new governor of Koroga without hesitation, and after Koroga announced its complete war zone, I took office as the commander-in-chief of the Koroga theater. I promised that I would do my best to fight a famous battle to defend Yancheng, and Victory will be achieved.”
"Four months have passed, and I have brought the victory I promised you in front of you."
At this point, everyone cheered again.
It's not that these big shots here like to make noises, but... Gu Hang's achievements this time, his performance that turned the tide, has formed a majestic trend.
If you don't applaud or cheer, then do you have a problem?
Not to mention those neutral elements, those supporters who had previously connected with the Gu family and the Fofana family to form a third-party neutral force in the Pegasus sector, even the parliamentary faction representing the sector government, and those who lost The representatives of the Fachers family who had elected Governor Kologa, no matter what they thought in their hearts, they had to clap and cheer along.
No choice.
However, this time, Gu Hang did not let the cheers rise.
He made a gesture of pressing his arms down, and at the same time, he spoke quickly and said what happened next: "But this does not mean the end of the war."
He set a tone first.
"The plague cult is still breeding in Koroga. If it is not properly dealt with, the disaster caused by Fino City may happen again."
"The external enemy is never the most terrifying; the most terrifying enemy is always within."
"I think everyone has their own answer to how the problem of Koroga has evolved to this day. But for me, the thing I want to solve is the next six years when Koroga continues to become a war zone. Here, completely eliminate all cult influences; thoroughly clean up the lower nest area and bottom area of every hive city on Korokga."
"I said that I will establish a complete and efficient administrative system, eliminate the inefficiency and corruption that the Koruga government has continued for countless years, and better mobilize the potential of the entire planet. This sentence, by the fourth Now, a few months later, I am still here, asking everyone to witness it. Six years later, the sector government and the star domain government will see a complete, brand-new Koroga with sufficient development potential."
"I have finished speaking, you can now applaud."
Gu Hang smiled and took a step back, leaving the microphone.
Everyone in the audience applauded again in a dignified manner.
But this time, everyone was more rational, and the applause became more polite.
In fact, the so-called "elimination of cults", "elimination of corruption", "Korojia with development potential" and other statements are very false. Which governor wouldn't brag like this when he takes office?
Everyone's ears can almost hear cocoons.
Who can’t just mention goals and talk big words?
But the key is that Gu Hang's words mentioned a serious strategy.
That's called 'thoroughly cleaning up the Diji area'.
This is something I don’t dare to talk about casually.
In a hive world like Koroga, who doesn’t know that all kinds of terrifying and stubborn diseases exist in uncontrolled underworld areas?
However, how easy is it to completely clean up the Diji District?
Among the 40 billion people in Koroga, almost 30 billion people live in the Diji District and the Lower Nest District. With such a huge population, it would be impossible to establish effective administrative management based on the conditions of past planetary governments.
Various intricate gangs, interest groups, rebels...all kinds of organizations are entrenched in those places, essentially replacing the powers of the planetary government.
Some of their relationships with the planetary government are antagonistic, some are superiors and subordinates, and some are managers or managed... But no matter what role they play, there is a certain tacit understanding between them and the government: I respect you, see. In order to save your face, I will find a way to pay your taxes, and you don’t have to worry about anything else.
Of course, the planetary government is always the most powerful, top-level, and most orthodox force on the planet. The so-called 'tacit understanding' purely depends on whether the planetary government is willing to maintain it.
But the essential reason why this tacit understanding exists is that the planetary government cannot fully manage the lower levels, so there is room for these interest groups to emerge and grow. The planetary government also needs them to take care of the power vacuum area of the government. Without these interest groups, let the planetary government collect taxes on its own?
When Diji District's eyes darkened, he collected a hammer tax, and he was afraid that the tax convoy would disappear as soon as it arrived.
Of course, there are often some interest groups that are messing around or paying taxes unreliably, such as the 'rebels' (they often call themselves the rebels). This group is the most disobedient. Those radical rebels directly resist taxes in an all-round way, and the more established ones will also use their own territory and population to kidnap the planetary government and negotiate to try to pay less or no taxes.
Sometimes, the planetary government will turn a blind eye, but if it goes too far, or the planetary government becomes desperate, it will dispatch the planetary defense force and launch a 'counter-insurgency' operation to deal with the corresponding interests. group.
But countering rebellion requires an army and time. What if the fight lasts for a long time and no taxes can be collected at all? After the crackdown is over and the interest groups have been eliminated, who collects the taxes? Who should be taxed, where they are, how much they can pay... none of this information is known, making tax collection extremely difficult.
That would be a little crueler, and if we suppress the rebellion in an area, we would arrest all the rebels, kill all the rebels, and pay taxes to all the survivors, but this is not sustainable development. If you do it this time, what will you do next time you pay taxes?
It's not good to cut the leeks all the way to the root.
Such actions can only be punitive and warning in nature. Normally, it is cheaper and easier to implement half of the negotiations or to support a new interest group to take over after the negotiation is cancelled.
On Koroga, the ecology of each hive city has continued to operate like this for hundreds or thousands of years.
Many, many years ago, Koroga had a population of about 40 billion, and it has always maintained a relatively high fertility rate. However, it is precisely because of imperial taxes and high mortality that the population size of Koroga has barely increased despite the high fertility rate, and has remained at its current size. Even the so-called ‘40 billion’ people are just an imaginary number.
In the past long years, the Koroga Planetary Government has produced several world censuses, and the data are quite unreliable. In the end, many of the data relied on extrapolation.
Anyway, the imperial tax has been levied based on the population of 40 billion, so let’s assume that there are 40 billion people on Koroga.
This planet is generally in such a situation.
Now, Governor Gu said that he wants to completely clean up the entire Diji District?
Everyone is really not optimistic about it.
If a system is still functioning, don't touch it. Otherwise, you don’t know how many mountains of shit there are below, and they might all collapse if you move.
They simply can't imagine how the system that has been proven to be able to maintain the operation of Kologa in the past so long needs to be changed in order to become better?
Establish a complete government down to the grassroots level?
So do you know how many administrative staff are needed? How should these administrative staff be managed? How can the government afford such high personnel costs? How many troops are needed to maintain stability in turmoil?
Can you afford it?
There are ten thousand problems here.
If it had been before, whoever proposed to do this would probably have sparked a flood of questions immediately. Even though the planetary governor nominally has complete management rights over his own planet, this is just a casual talk.
In "bad places" like Raging Owl and Black Arrow, it's true that no one cares about you if you do whatever you want, so it doesn't matter.
But if Koroga, such an important financial and taxation center and manpower export center, gets messed up, everyone will be doomed.
The star district government has to step in, the star region government has to step in, and all the stakeholders who are connected with Koroga's population business have to come out and point their fingers.
That is, Gu Hang, who came here with a great victory to save the world, and stood here to speak, could barely block these words in everyone's hearts, so that they did not dare to say it to Gu Hang in public.
But in fact, I dare not say that it does not exist.
His enemy has a sarcastic smile on his face. Although he is applauding, he may be thinking about waiting to see your kid's joke. What's more, he may be thinking about what to do next. Lagging behind.
Some people close to him looked worried.
……
After the cocktail party, Governor Gu's old mother came to find him.
"You said you wanted to clean up every lower nest area and bottom area on Koroja? You were just talking about it, right? Did you mean to do it for real?"
"Of course I mean it," Gu Hang said, "When have I ever told such lies?"
She frowned fiercely: "What are you going to do?"
"That's too complicated. It's hard for me to explain it to you at once."
"Just tell me where your money comes from."
Wang Qi asked a key question. This is a key core question from her perspective as a businessman.
"Coming from Koluojia." Gu Hang said, "Koluojia has such a huge population, why are you worried that you can't afford the money?"
"You want to sell people? After selling out, from now on..."
"No." Gu Hang interrupted his mother, "Of course it's not about selling people. In fact, I also plan to reduce the personal tax rate when Koruga pays taxes as much as possible in the future. The ideal situation is that one person's tax rate is all Don’t hand it over.”
"Then the population resources you are referring to are..."
Gu Hang rolled his eyes: "Mother, have you been brainwashed by the past situation of Koluojia? When it comes to human resources, you can only think of the price of 'people' themselves? People are the most precious means of production. It is the most core and basic labor force.”
"Oh my God!" Wang Qi almost screamed, "Forty billion people! Do you know what you are talking about? You want to provide 40 billion jobs so that they can generate value as a labor force?! This is simply a fantasy! "
"Why not? Isn't this the best ending for Koruga?"
"Then the best outcome for Gu's Trading Company is to become the president of the Imperial Chamber of Commerce!" Ms. Wang Qi rolled her eyes, "The key is how to achieve it?! This is impossible!"
"Then let's see what I can do."
Wang Qi wanted to ask more questions, but at this moment, a waiter came to the two of them.
"Please forgive me for interrupting, but... Special Envoy Laois hopes to have a private chat with Governor Gu alone."
"Of course." Ms. Wang Qi said.
She pulled her son and said in his ear: "Don't mention this crazy plan of yours in front of Lois, you..."
"Okay, mother, I'm confident, don't worry."
After saying that, he turned around and followed the waiter to a small room on the side of the banquet hall.
Lois, dressed in white, is already waiting here.
However, her face was not very pretty, and she did not look like she had just won a battle.
Seeing Gu Hang coming, she asked directly:
"You want Koroga to become a war zone for six years because you want to clean up all the hives?"
----
I was very sleepy when I got home yesterday. I wanted to lie down for a while, close my eyes and relax for a while before getting up and typing, but when I woke up, it was time to go to work...
When I came back today, I originally wanted to post a single chapter to explain it, but then I thought it would be better to finish coding as soon as possible.
(End of this chapter)
