After concluding their discussion with the leader Pei Desi, several people took their leave, and Gu Hang returned with his mother.
On the way, they were silent, each lost in thought.
Only after they got back to their secure residence did they begin to discuss the whole matter.
Wang Qi reminded Gu Hang with great concern, “Korolya Governor… you mustn’t be confused. Right now, it’s a huge trap, incomparable to when you went to Rage Owl Star on your own. If you handle it poorly, it could spell death for you, as well as for the entire Gu Clan without a place to be buried.”
“I understand, I won’t be fooled,” Gu Hang nodded and then sighed, “It’s such an enticing piece of fat, it’s a pity it’s covered in dog shit.”
Gu Hang’s lament was heartfelt.
Honestly, when Pei Desi proposed to promote someone from the Gu Family to assume the role of Korolya Governor after Akuna’s death, he was indeed very tempted.
How could he not be moved? By comparison, Korolya’s population was a thousand times that of Rage Owl Star!
If Gu Hang could control this planet, and with the Black Box, complete the political and economic transformation of the entire planet, igniting the strong productivity of its tens of Nest Capitals and a total population of forty billion, then the value of this planet would become immensely vast!
But… the difficulty was too high.
Korolya III isn’t Rage Owl Star; there are massive and intricate native forces here; objectively speaking, while there is potential, the huge population also brings with it terrifying environmental pressure.
Gu Hang couldn’t replicate his success on Rage Owl Star straightforwardly on Korolya III, with its entirely different ecology.
Moreover, the situation here on its own was bad enough, compounded by the political struggles of the Tianma Star Sector—a core vortex; further compounded by the massive invasion of the Plague Demon that hadn’t just been controlled but was showing a trend of worsening…
That was what Gu Hang meant by “fat covered in dog shit.”
Now was absolutely not a good time to take over Korolya III. At this point, whoever took the helm would be the scapegoat, a sacrifice.
“Old Fufana also didn’t accept Pei Desi’s invitation to run for the next Star Sector head, did he?” Gu Hang quietly asked.
“Yes, General Fufana seems to have no such intention,” Wang Qi responded.
Gu Hang slightly nodded, “That’s easy to understand. They are a military family, why run for Star Sector head? To unnecessarily stand out, yet lacking the support of political forces. The difficulty of getting elected is not small, and the key issue is that even after being elected, there’s no tangible benefit but instead direct pressure from Fatches.”
Wang Qi sighed, “Ah… it’s difficult.”
Gu Hang knew what his mother was lamenting about.
With Akuna and Pei Desi’s deaths, the investigation teams from the Sun Lord no longer came, the Star Domain and Cosmos Domain investigation teams left without a fuss, leaving behind a huge mess.
The original balance of power in the Tianma Star Sector was going to be directly shattered.
Objectively speaking, Pei Desi was a very competent Star Sector head. Although there was Fatches, a political opponent within the Star Sector, who also had immense influence over the Star Realm Army there, he was still able to support his own brother to become the Flying Wing Star Governor and ally with Korolya’s Governor Akuna. With population and production he firmly suppressed the Fatches Family. Additionally, the alliance with the Fufana Family and the economic strength of Flying Wing Star, especially its shipbuilding industry, strongly affected the Imperial Navy Troops.
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In this situation, he was unquestionably very advantaged within the Star Sector, not like those Star Sector heads who are mere figureheads in many other Star Sectors.
Even more valuable, he was a man who knew restraint. Despite his great advantages, and even though relations were very bad, he never pushed Fatches to a dead end, lest the super powerful family who controlled three planets with a total population of over ten billion be driven into a corner. All struggles were mostly kept under control, also objectively ensuring the stability of the entire Star Sector.
Although there were some missteps—such as trapping Gu Hang’s predecessor on Rage Owl Star to become the governor—on the whole, he was an outstanding head, largely able to maintain the stable situation of the Tianma Star Sector.
If this situation continued uninterrupted, the Tianma Star Sector could foreseeably continue to enjoy decades of peace. In the foreseeable future, no one could adjust this stable situation in the Tianma Star Sector.
But… the disappearance of Galaraldo completely shattered the foundation of stability. The deaths of Akuna and Pei Desi represented a huge power vacuum that had suddenly emerged.
In the past few years, what action would the Fatches Family, which has long been suppressed, take?
How would one quell the increasingly severe Demons invasion in Korolya?
Those above seemed to have hardly considered this problem, hastily and brutally killing two people, holding them “responsible,” and thus declared an end to it all.
And Gu Hang, despite being powerless over this… oh, looks like I triggered all of this?
But honestly, even as the instigator, he had not anticipated that things would unfold in this direction.
It could only be said that the existing political contradictions within the Star Sector, coupled with the crisis Korolya itself was facing, after a poke from Gu Hang, could no longer hold.
…
Later, Old Fufana came to visit Gu Hang and his mother with his granddaughter Yelisia.
In conversation, as expected by Wang Qi and Gu Hang, the Fufana Family had no intention of taking over. After Pei Desi’s death, they did not wish to be pushed to the forefront to confront those sinister forces lurking in the dark.