Chapter 515: Mr. Gu Gave Too Much

Gu Hang came here to solve the problem of slow action in the Menghe Star Region.

The solution is of course not for Gu Hang to go to war himself. The problem of the Menghe Star Region is not a problem of war. The Alliance has sufficient power to solve every war they encounter in the Menghe Star Region.

These local rebellions are not enough for the Alliance to deal with.

But the problem is that there are too many.

On the one hand, the Alliance's advance troops are not strong enough, and on the other hand, the Alliance cannot send precious troops to Menghe on a large scale to suppress local rebellions.

That will cost a lot of money and affect the Alliance's current overall development plan in the Dragon Eagle Star Region.

Moreover, it is not economical or affordable.

To put it bluntly, the Alliance's entry into the Menghe Star Region is not simply to expand its territory. Gu Hang's goal is to establish a strategic buffer zone outside the Dragon Eagle Star Region. If a subsequent war begins, then try not to let the war take place on its own territory.

Secondly, it is... to put it bluntly, it is plunder.

Gu Hang wants the imperial tax and planetary defense force of Menghe Star Region.

The former is real money, while the latter is manpower and cannon fodder.

This star region is poorer than Dragon Eagle Star Region, but it is larger, with more than 700 worlds. Even if each world can provide few resources, the Alliance does not have enough resources to develop these places, and Dragon Eagle Star Region as a "local" has not yet developed.

However, just the income and manpower that can be provided under this scale, as well as the various benefits attached, have made Gu Hang quite envious.

In the absence of the intention and the inability to turn this place into a local, the Alliance needs a cheap rule over this place, even if it is an unstable rule, but as long as it can grab local interests, that is enough.

The key word is "cheap ruling cost".

The team of officials sent by the Alliance to act on various planets is very small, often an administrative team of one or two hundred people. Their main job is not to directly manage the local planet, but to establish a cooperative government, whether it is a new one or in cooperation with the original interest groups.

After the establishment work is completed, it is time to manage and supervise the government. Specific policies, tax collection, resource supply, and manpower supply are mainly completed by the local cooperative government.

Add a small number of alliance garrisons, such as one regiment per planet, and that's about it.

At most one division.

Under such a mechanism, the low-cost rule that Gu Hang expects can be achieved.

This is exactly where the problem lies.

Low-cost rule means instability.

What are the reasons for those rebellious worlds?

Is it just because of the influence left by the Fury of Flame?

I'm afraid it's not that simple.

This part of the reason certainly exists, and it is a very important factor.

However, the loss of control brought about by low-cost rule is also very important.

Some worlds are dissatisfied with being controlled by the alliance, because the alliance actually requires more than imperial taxes.

The establishment of a cooperative government will more or less infringe on the interests of the original ruling class of these worlds.

It is normal for them to incite rebellion or even participate in rebellion.

This is reflected in the panel information that Gu Hang can see in his system. Although these worlds have been recognized by the system and entered the [Vassal] panel, the vassal levels are basically all LV1 and LV2, and the probability of secession and rebellion is very high.

In this regard, Gu Hang has made some requirements for the work of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Alliance Government.

The core is that when the officials sent by the Alliance to Menghe act locally, they must respect the interests of the local ruling group, and can even use the Alliance's powerful garrison troops and agents of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to solve some troubles that they originally could not solve. They can also be allowed or even indulged to seize the benefits that they had difficulty seizing in the past.

For example... more fierce exploitation.

That will certainly make the lives of local residents, who are not rich to begin with, even worse.

But...

It can only make the people suffer more.

In this process, of course, there will be many negative effects. For example, local residents will have more resistance to the rule of the Alliance. They may think that the arrival of the Alliance has made their lives worse. The local ruling class is also happy that the people think so, and even actively promotes it.

But the alliance has no other way.

At most, it can be more meticulous in its work, carry out some publicity in the local area, and put the blame on the cooperative government.

These are some of the ways the alliance handles the work of the cooperative government.

In the Menghe Star Region, Gu Hang couldn't really use the authorization he had just obtained, that is, the Land Occupation Act, on a large scale. After all, the Land Occupation Act only granted Gu Hang the right to bring the local area into the rule of the alliance when defeating the enemy of the empire. But the situation in the Menghe Star Region is obviously not enough to call these planets in the region "enemies of the empire".

It's not impossible to say so reluctantly, but it's a bit too much and will reduce one's reputation.

Anyway, it's impossible and not intended to rule directly. Using the colonial style of "cooperative government" to turn these places into vassals and rule indirectly, there is no need to use the Land Occupation Act.

...

After establishing the policy and strategy for the planetary level, the rest of the work is for Gu Hang to do.

The hostile forces from the Princess Star Region require the joint efforts of military and intelligence agents to solve;

The rebel forces from the local planets are solved by optimizing the cooperative government strategy;

In addition to these two, there is also resistance from a third direction that cannot be ignored.

That is the pressure from the Menghe government.

This problem was something that Gu Hang had not even thought of at first.

After becoming the commander-in-chief of the Southern Theater and nominally in charge of military and political power, Gu Hang certainly did not have the right to manage the entire Eastern Universe - this request was rejected by Holy Terra - but at least, Holy Terra clearly issued an order to the Eastern Universe, requiring the power of the entire Universe government to cooperate with Gu Hang's actions and help Gu Hang prepare for war.

As one of the "own people", Zuo Zhaofeng belongs to the political faction of Gallardo, so he certainly will not set any obstacles for Gu Hang.

Although the support is not enough to bankrupt him, after all, there are still many other threats to be solved within the scope of the universe. But at least, within a reasonable range, he has done a lot of work.

For example, some imperial taxes were distributed to the alliance.

For example, the troops mobilized in some relatively peaceful areas within the universe, especially a considerable part of the naval forces, were mobilized to the alliance to help the alliance fight and strengthen the alliance's naval strength.

This is a great support.

Converted into money, I am afraid the total value will reach tens of billions.

Not to mention, this kind of support will continue to be given for many years to come.

That's a lot of money.

Now the alliance does not count the expenditure, the imperial tax and fiscal revenue from the Dragon Eagle Star Region, the total is about 200 billion.

The Eastern Universe can provide 50 billion ships, materials, money, troops... a year... It's already quite good, equivalent to about 20% to 25% of the total income of the alliance.

At this point, Zuo Zhaofeng is very generous.

The Universe needs to spend money, and the various star regions under the Universe also need to spend money. Who can say that Zuo Zhaofeng is not one of us if he can get so much money for him in a year?

From his point of view, he also gave clear instructions to the star region government of Menghe Star Region, asking them to cooperate with the actions of the alliance.

However, the situation in Menghe Star Region is different after all.

Other star regions just need to listen to the requirements of the Universe Government and contribute money and effort, and the alliance will not come to their territory.

Menghe Star Region was serious and entered into the body by the alliance.

As the master, or at least the self-proclaimed master, the Menghe Star Region Government was not happy about this.

This is the superficial factor. At least, that is what Zhai Guangshan, the star region head of the Menghe Star Region, said when he expressed his dissatisfaction to the Alliance.

He believed that the Alliance's actions were an invasion and had complained to the Alliance several times.

It was not so useful to complain to the Cosmic Region Government, so he complained to Holy Terra.

That was also not very useful.

But it was a bit disgusting. Every day, there was a star region head shouting about what the Alliance had done to him, which was really annoying.

The possible loss of reputation was already a problem in itself, not to mention that under the suggestion of the star region government, rebellions broke out in various places.

The intelligence department of the Alliance has already obtained some intelligence, from which it can be inferred that many places where the trouble was more serious had the shadow of the star region government or the star district government behind them.

In addition to violating a certain degree of interests, the Alliance Intelligence Department also believed that there were some unclear connections between the Menghe Star Region Government and the Iron Fury Stone.

Although the intelligence currently held by the alliance is not critical and not a solid hammer, it is impossible to directly kill Zhai Guangshan, but if it is just a suspicion, there is no need for complete stone hammer.

Moreover, if Gu Hang wants to use force to solve this problem, it is not necessary to have conclusive evidence.

What evidence is needed to quell the rebellion?

It is nothing more than Gu Hang does not want to fight.

At least not a large-scale war.

Since he does not want to fight, Gu Hang came here in person this time to solve the problem through diplomatic and political means.

This is something that cannot be solved simply by sitting on the Dragon Eagle.

After entering the Menghe Star Region, his goal was very clear: it was a planet called "Gran Ya".

Granya's position in the Menghe Star Region is somewhat similar to that of Feiyi Star in the Dragon Eagle Star Region.

Perhaps even more important.

Although it is not the capital of the star region, the shipbuilding industry in this world is developed, and relying on the shipbuilding industry, it has a strong economic radiation effect.

In contrast, Mengyang Star, the capital of the Menghe Star Region, is even worse than Granya in economic development.

The advance fleet of the Alliance has entered Granya.

Granya itself is one of Gu Hang's strategic goals. He wants the shipbuilding capacity of this planet very much.

Although it is not even as good as Feiyi Star at the beginning, let alone the shipbuilding industry has reached a higher level under the control of the Alliance. However, Granya is also one of the few places that can build large ships. Although the original technology cannot even build the Moon Class, the cruiser that can be built is a castrated version called the "Zhenhe Class", but it is also a cruiser!

Moreover, if Granya is mastered by the Alliance, then the Alliance's technology can be effective on this planet. The original technical bottleneck has been broken, and the hardware facilities of Granya - the large dock and the large star port, as well as the production capacity of various ship parts on the planet will be able to be well liberated.

Even the dock that originally manufactured the giant belly transport ship can be used to build battle cruisers after some modification.

The sooner Granya is obtained, the sooner the shipbuilding can be started, and the sooner the strength can be accumulated for the Alliance Navy.

But here, they were blocked.

The Menghe Fleet blocked the Alliance advance fleet in front of it, preventing the Alliance fleet from approaching; at the same time, the planet, including the star ports and shipyards in the planetary orbit, were also filled with a large number of troops, ready to fight.

The Alliance troops were stuck.

On the one hand, the force of the advance fleet alone may not be able to defeat the Menghe Fleet, and the scale of the army troops carried is not enough to quickly conquer the entire planet.

On the other hand, it is not right to really set up a battle formation.

Then, Gu Hang arrived.

He also came to the meeting alone.

The alliance attaches so much importance to Granya, so of course there are arrangements in it. Multiple alliance intelligence organizations have placed people in it. On behalf of Gu Hang, an invitation for a meeting was sent to the board of directors of the Granya Shipping Group, the person in power on the planet.

They also agreed to meet.

Later, the star district government, which knew about this situation, was still trying to stop it. However, when they started to act, it was too late. Gu Hang himself had already taken a small boat to the star port of Granya and met with the people in power of the shipping group.

They just blocked Gu Hang outside the conference hall who had just finished a meeting with the directors of the shipping group.

There were only two followers around Gu Hang, and he was the only one.

The head of the Yayun star district led the team personally. He looked at Gu Hang with a bad face and sneered, but he didn't know what to say, and finally he could only watch Gu Hang leave the star port.

Then, the Menghe Fleet made way, and the Alliance's army entered the star port and the surface.

The irritable star region leader was "courtesy" to leave the star port.

...

"What did Gu Hang say to you that made you give up resistance?" Zhai Guangshan asked this question to Jerryo Fisher with a dark face.

When Zhai Guangshan, the head of the Menghe Star Region, knew that Gu Hang was coming to Granya, he hurried over.

But when he arrived, everything was too late.

Granya was already owned by the Alliance.

Unwilling to leave, he was about to leave, but received an invitation from Gu Hang who had not left yet.

After thinking about it, he decided to accept the invitation and talk to Gu Hang in person.

The place of the conversation was still at Granya's star port.

Fisher, the chairman of the shipping group, accompanied him and waited for Gu Hang's arrival with Zhai Guangshan.

While waiting, Zhai Guangshan couldn't help but asked the previous question.

Fisher just smiled embarrassedly: "Mr. Yuan, there is no other way..."

"I didn't want to do it at first, and I planned to stand with you."

"But... Mr. Gu gave too much."