2.benevolence
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Actually, this is the first month since Gu Hang crossed over.
He is now in a cosmic era, within a vast human empire ruling boundless star realms. Ten thousand years ago, the Emperor, who ascended, established the "Spiritual Network," bringing spiritual energy to humanity. At present, the empire is governed by the highest council, seated on the human mother planet, Terra.
About 120 years ago, the planet where Gu Hang currently resides was still an ordinary world. A war completely destroyed the surface environment of the entire world, turning the planet into a wasteland - the Angry Falcon Star.
Twenty-nine years ago, the Imperial Government assessed that there was still hope for the Angry Falcon Star and dispatched a governor for reconstruction after the war.
Within the imperial system, planetary governors can rule their planets in any way they choose, provided they remain loyal to the Empire.
What is loyalty? Paying taxes is loyalty. If taxes are not paid, or if they are insufficiently paid, then execution follows, and a more loyal replacement is found.
Up to now, within these 29 years, the Angry Falcon Star has changed governors five times.
Even before Gu Hang, the previous three governors each only lasted two years. The Imperial tax on the Angry Falcon Star is collected every two years, and none of these poor fellows lasted through their first tax collection.
And now, Gu Hang has arrived.
A month ago, just after crossing over and assimilating memories, he was already on a starship heading to the Angry Falcon Star. He is determined to ensure that two years from now, the Angry Falcon Star will be able to pay one-quarter of the standard tax. The remaining three-quarters will be paid by the regional government, a favorable condition secured by his political family, the Gu Clan.
Four years later, for the second tax collection, the full tax must be paid.
A cruiser belonging to the regional navy is parked in orbit around the planet, providing support. The workforce he brought to the surface consisted of only 3000 slaves and 300 mechanical servant soldiers who had their frontal lobes removed and undergone mechanical modification. Thirty marine commandos, led by Captain Yan Fangxu.
The main political power in the Angry Falcon Star is called the "Alliance," established by the first governor 29 years ago.
In theory, after arriving at the Angry Falcon Star, Gu Hang should have landed in the capital city of the Alliance, Revival City, and taken over as the leader of the Alliance, then used the Alliance government as the basis to exercise planetary governorship.
But he didn't. With his people, he established a camp not far from Revival City, and then began doing things that were incomprehensible to others.
For example, Captain Yan Fangxu didn't understand why Gu Hang wanted to train those 300 mechanical servant soldiers.
These servants, who had lost their ability to think, couldn't even operate armored vehicles or artillery properly. They could only be equipped with the most basic gear and used as cannon fodder, making their training seem pointless.
However, he had to feel ashamed of his own shallow knowledge.
He watched incredulously as these mechanical servants underwent earth-shattering changes in a very short period of time under Gu Hang's command!
He saw, under Gu Hang's command, these mechanical servant soldiers rapidly complete a series of pre-departure tasks such as formation, equipment check, and more. In previous training, these mechanical servants also demonstrated tactical skills far beyond what they previously showed. Shooting, physical fitness, tactics... all of these have seen substantial improvements, combined with their inherent fearlessness and discipline, turning them into high-level soldiers.
This had already reached the level of a regular force in the Imperial Guards' Star Domain Army.
Although he still didn't think these mechanical servant soldiers could match the elite of his marine commandos, that was only in one-on-one combat. The elite commandos numbered only 30, while there were 300 mechanical servants.
What's more important is that Captain Yan Fangxu completely didn't understand how Gu Hang did it.
This completely exceeded his understanding: weren't the capabilities of mechanical servant soldiers determined only by their initial modifications, making subsequent training meaningless?
Just as he was dumbfounded, he heard Gu Hang's energetic voice: Captain Yan, have your squad move faster. How come the pre-battle preparation speed of the Marine Corps' elite doesn't even match that of the mechanical servants?
When Yan Fangxu snapped back to reality, he slightly embarrassedly saluted Gu Hang, then turned to his subordinates who were equally dumbfounded by the changes in the mechanical servant camp and roared, What are you bunch of lazy kids dawdling for? Move faster! The slowest five of you will start bunking with the mechanical servants tomorrow!
As Yan Fangxu began to kick his team members' butts one by one, Gu Hang chuckled lightly, withdrew his gaze, and refocused on the panel information appearing before him.
The ethereal, floating fonts in his eyes constituted several options:
【Current Grace Points: 2】
【Total Income of Territories: 5/Terra Month】
【Heroes】
【Army Cards】
Four options in total. Gu Hang clicked on the second option, **Total Income of Territories**. Here, he saw more detailed information: **Temporary Governor's Camp: 5/Terra Month**.
There was only this one.
According to Gu Hang's understanding, this monthly total income depended on the total income provided to his territory as recognized by the system. And his current territory only consisted of this temporary camp.
Upon seeing the system and learning of his status as governor, he was initially enthusiastic, wanting to know how much grace he would receive each month with a planet as his territory. However, after landing in Revival City from the starship, this number remained at zero.
He guessed at the time that nominal territories could not be recognized by the system; they had to be directly controlled by him.
For himself, a parachuted governor wanting to control a loose political regime and integrate the entire alliance, how easy was it? If it were easy, the previous governors wouldn't have failed.
So, he decisively abandoned the path that led to the past governor's downfall, turned around, and requested slaves and some armed forces from the starship, leaving Revival City to find an empty space, intending to start from scratch and make use of the golden finger that came with him through the crossing.
After he established a temporary camp fully under his control with his people, this number finally changed from 0 to 4.
The initial 4, Gu Hang speculated, came from the population; the later increase was probably due to the camp being constructed larger and more improved.
And in the two following items in the system, **Heroes** displayed his own panel; in **Army Cards**, there were two items.
**Marine Corps 1st Squad, Comprehensive T4 Level, Upgradable**
**Quantity: 30 people**, **Equipment: T4**, **Training: T4**, **Experience: T4**
This was the situation of the thirty led by Yan Fangxu.
The other one was the just completed upgraded Mechanical Infantry Battalion.
**1st Mechanical Infantry Battalion, Comprehensive T5 Level, Non-upgradable**
**Quantity: 300 people**, **Equipment: T5**, **Training: T5**, **Experience: -**
The T level should correspond to the overall strength of the unit, with smaller numbers indicating more elite status. The Mechanical Infantry Battalion was initially at a low level, but with complete equipment: rifles, grenades, squad machine guns; platoons had mortars, rifle grenades, but lacked heavy weapons, only qualifying as light infantry.
He spent 3 grace points on upgrading this light infantry battalion. In four days, this brainless, only obeying orders, and deemed to have very low training value, cannon fodder, unit underwent earth-shattering changes.
With a training level reaching T5, it could almost be considered to have reached the level of the Imperial Regular Army. The Marine Corps, at T4 level, could be considered a conventional elite force.
It was precisely because the Mechanical Infantrymen, originally just cannon fodder, completed the upgrade that Gu Hang had the confidence to intervene forcefully after hearing about the situation in the Waste Hole Society.
This was an opportunity, and he now had the ability to seize it.
He hoped to use this incident to incorporate the Waste Hole Society into his current rule, rather than just being a nominal governor. In the future, he would gradually expand his current control range to the entire planet.
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