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“Hmm,” Gu Hang nodded slightly, not saying much more. Read exclusive content at empire
The corresponding consolation, merits and rewards, and even the follow-up arrangements for this child named Cisney, didn’t need his further input. He believed his subordinates would handle things well.
After returning, Gu Hang sat in thought for a while before summoning someone to initiate an interstellar communication.
On the other end was none other than his mother.
The image of Miss Wang Qi appeared before Gu Hang, looking rather tired.
“Very busy?” Gu Hang asked.
“Yes,” Wang Qi nodded, without elaborating further.
After the Heijian Star incident, Wang Qi lived, Gu Ming died, and Gu Hang formally became the nominal Gu Clan Head, but he had not yet met the most important powers of the clan, nor the most important group of power-holders—the remaining twelve Fleet leaders.
All such matters were being managed by Wang Qi.
Gu Hang was fine with this, as it had been agreed upon with his mother.
Even if he were asked to take up the real power of the Family Head now, he wouldn’t be particularly keen. His focus was solely on the actual governance and development; he had no time to manage the family’s business.
Although the family business was large in scale, in his view, its foundation was not solid enough and its potential for future development was limited; it was not the path he wished to follow.
Moreover, he did not understand the workings of interstellar commerce.
After the recent events, his perception of Wang Qi had changed. Handing everything over to his mother, he felt quite at ease.
And his mother, Miss Wang Qi, was truly exhausted during this time.
They won, indeed, but the victory had left a huge fissure in the Gu Commercial Firm. The whole firm, being franchise in nature, teetered on the verge of disbanding. The staff were unsettled, business was unstable.
Eradicating Gu Ming’s line completely, restoring the related business operations, appeasing the people, reconnecting the Star Sectors, and even the various political landscapes beyond the Star Sectors kept her extraordinarily busy every day.
She would have liked her son to help, but he fended her off with “not understanding, not familiar.”
So much so that now, when Gu Hang’s call came through, she did not show her ‘lazy’ son any good expression, asking stiffly, “What’s the matter?”
Gu Hang had some understanding of his mother’s current state and mentality.
He was very considerate of this.
And he told his mother all about the situation in Blackbird City.
After hearing the news, Wang Qi’s virtual image remained motionless before Gu Hang for a long while, making Gu Hang wonder if there was some problem with the signal.
It took a good while before Wang Qi let out a long sigh:
“What is this mess… One problem after another.”
It took her a long while to come back to her senses.
After that sigh, she forced the tiredness out of her mind and faced her son seriously, saying, “You do realize the seriousness of this, don’t you?”
Gu Hang slowly nodded.
“Then let me add two pieces of intelligence for you,” she said.
Wang Qi pondered, considering her words, before speaking:
“The first piece of news is from within the Star Sector. The situation on Korolya III is deteriorating; a Nest Capital with a population of a billion has fallen. Countless residents have been turned into plague-zombies under Dark Magic, and many more have been displaced, spreading the plague everywhere…
The main Star Realm Legion stationed in the Tianma Star Sector, the Dragonhawk Third Legion, has urgently dispatched an army group, over 1.5 million soldiers, aboard the Tianma Fleet to Korolya III.”
Having relayed the objective reality, Wang Qi paused, then added some analysis: “But in my estimation, even so, it will be difficult to quell the situation. I suspect the situation on Korolya III will deteriorate rapidly. This is no small matter. The population of Korolya III accounts for 56% of the entire Tianma Star Sector, a whopping forty billion people.
If chaos erupts there, its impact will certainly not be limited to a single planet. Flying Wing Star, with a population of ten billion and an annual output value of over forty billion, is prosperous partly because Korolya III serves as a huge market and source of raw materials.”
Hearing this, Gu Hang inevitably became concerned.
This was new intelligence for him.
He quickly recalled the urgent recall of the Battle Nuns.
He had thought that after the return of Georgette and more than thirty nuns to Korolya III, the situation should have been contained.
But it seemed things were not so simple.
And according to his mother, if Korolya III fell into turmoil, so would Flying Wing Star, which was tightly economically linked to Korolya. With Flying Wing Star’s output rapidly declining, it would no longer be easy to face the Imperial Tax.
The total population of Tianma Star Sector might be just over seventy billion, and these two planets together accounted for fifty billion. If they both were engulfed in turmoil…
What a complete disaster!
At the same time, Gu Hang realized that these two worlds were at the heart of Pei Desi’s power in the Star Sector. The Fatches Family’s three worlds—Fatches No.1, No.2, and No.3—with a combined population of twenty billion, were their stronghold.
It seemed as though they were unperturbed.
Oh, not that they were without issues. Gu Hang was about to cause trouble for them.
But they were closely related to the main force of the Star Realm Army in the Star Sector, the Dragonhawk Third Legion. A large amount of manpower and supplies came from the three Fatches planets.
Would they fully support Pei Desi in quelling the turbulence?
Probably not so easy. This time, the one hundred and fifty thousand Star Realm soldiers sent to Korolya III might seem like a lot, but… that was just about it.
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