Chapter 646: Chapter 371, Right Path_2
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Regarding this, Gu Hang’s response was:
“General Hans, I must severely criticize you. How can you have such disloyal thoughts?”
“I regard your legions as my own troops.”
“You are fighting on my planet, so of course, I will support you without any reservation.”
After hearing this, Hans felt deeply ashamed to the extent that by the time he led his team to leave Mingyan City for the other two Nest Capitals, he didn’t dare to complain anymore.
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The situation in Mingyan City, of course, couldn’t be considered completely stable yet.
In the past couple of days, there had been reports of more than a dozen serious incidents, including looting, damaging construction sites, and attacking civilians who had surrendered…
Gaining the trust of the public and dismantling criminal forces still required time. It wasn’t the case that policies could simply be announced and enforced and everything would immediately be resolved.
Despite the administration system and organizing labor production seeming to progress vigorously and generally running smoothly, in reality, this was all built on the foundation of previously effective military control.
Military control was still being maintained now, and serious incidents would occasionally occur; once military control ceased and the police and security forces had not yet established a foothold, the nascent administrative system and economic system would likely struggle immensely.
Gu Hang had no intention of ending military control.
Twenty million savior troops were still stationed in Mingyan City, carrying out their control tasks; at the same time, the scale of the savior army would be further expanded, on one hand, to absorb the employed population, and on the other hand, expansion of the army was a requirement from Gu Hang himself.
However, now that the situation was improving, there was no need to keep that many troops.
The Star Realm Army withdrew, taking with it a portion of the administrative personnel and started heading toward the surrounding two Nest Capitals.
Those two Nest Capitals were estimated to each have a population of about one billion people, roughly 1,500 kilometers away from Mingyan City.
Each of them had several million Native Defense Forces internally, responsible for suppressing locals. The Planetary Government had issued commands for all Nest Capitals to carry out clearance operations in the Bottom Nest District and Lower Nest District, and these commands had been communicated, but the outcome was far from clear.
The remaining thirty-eight Nest Capitals, although officers from the Alliance had been stationed there, had an average of only a work team of several dozen people in each capital. Taking over the power of the government was difficult. Those local power brokers were not pushovers.
In fact, the task Gu Hang gave them was not to take over the cities.
If it wasn’t achievable, then they should take it slow, there was no rush. Even, at this stage, Korolya’s original administrative system had started operating again at Gu Hang’s instigation, which was tantamount to reaching a considerable degree of compromise with the power brokers of the other Nest Capitals.
First, get the Nest Capitals up and running, allowing the Alliance Government, which still bore the name of the Planetary Government temporarily, to issue some decrees to these capitals, that would be sufficient.
As for the winds of reform, there was no rush to spread them globally.
Gu Hang wanted to set a good example in Mingyan City first, and incidentally also train enough administrative personnel.
But one thing must be controlled immediately now.
Military power.
Gu Hang did not trust those power brokers to rebel openly, at least not until his blade truly fell upon them.
The power brokers were different from the rebels and gangs in the Bottom Nest District and Lower Nest District. Their wealth and power could not exist outside of the official system.
But no one could say for sure.
What Gu Hang wanted was to ensure that even if these people were driven to desperation, they would pose no threat.
Military power was the top priority.
And for this matter, Gu Xing had already made preparations.
The Planetary Defense Force of Korolya had peaked at 150 million personnel, and even after a great battle and the reorganization of tens of millions of people into the savior army, there were still 130 million personnel. These troops, spread across all the major Nest Capitals, were the main force in stationing and suppressing the locals.
However, these forces were also deeply tied to the power brokers within their respective Nest Capitals, at least more closely than Gu Hang, the foreign governor.
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To address this issue, Gu Hang had already laid the groundwork at the end of that great battle earlier.
When various Planetary Defense Forces were called back, they were deployed to locations different from their original bases. Moreover, a massive rotation of forces among the different Nest Capitals also took place.
At that time, it didn’t cause any particularly strong reactions.
Firstly, the imminent danger of annihilation had preoccupied the elites, who were more concerned about survival than resistance.
Secondly, as the commander-in-chief of the combat zone, Gu Hang made such decisions, and the local elites had no power to resist.
Thirdly, to prevent collusion between the military and the elites, it was a tradition in Korolya to periodically rotate troops to different locations, an exercise that happened every few years.
The rotations organized by Gu Hang were not unusual.
After the rotation, even if the local elites wanted to reconnect with the military, it would take time.
The primary goal of these working groups Gu Hang dispatched to each of the Nest Capitals was to take control of the military before the local elites could reestablish connections.
They had certain innate advantages.
Parts of the Rage Bear Legion and the Salvation Army would be allocated to accompany them to other Nest Capitals, serving as a show of force to stabilize the situation.
Additionally, during the last major war, Gu Hang had intentionally planted his own people within the Native Defense Army, who had won over a number of insiders. These individuals would assist the work groups in seizing control of the troops.
Overall, while achieving this would not be easy, it was still highly feasible.
Because these work groups had two of the most important “weapons” at their disposal:
General Hans’ Dragonhawk Legion would not stay in any one Nest Capital for too long and would no longer implement strict military governance like that in Mingyan City. His role was to lead the troops across the planet on a “tour” to support the Alliance officials stationed in each Nest Capital, helping them secure control over the troops.
Furthermore, logistics support, personnel appointments, and officer promotions within the Planetary Defense Forces of each Nest Capital were all still controlled by the new government.
With these conditions and a careful, diligent approach, plus the moral high ground on their side, securing control over the military should not pose a significant problem.
As for when the reforms occurring in Mingyan City would be pushed out to all the Nest Capitals… that would have to wait until the early successes of the reform in Mingyan City became apparent.
Once that was established and Gu Hang’s Salvation Army had expanded to a greater strength, capable of enforcing military governance throughout all Nest Capitals on the planet, it would be time to initiate global reform.
By then, any opposition on the planet would be as good as a paper tiger.
The upper echelons would see the example set by Mingyan City, and those who cooperated with the new government could integrate into it, attaining high-ranking positions. They could keep their status, and although their treatment might decline, they would still hold significant power. They just needed to shift their mindsets and accept the rules of the Alliance, working in the manner prescribed by it.
Those who did not cooperate and instead worked against them covertly, would face the harshest iron fist.
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Since then, Gu Hang had become somewhat more relaxed.
Government work was still plentiful and burdensome. Nonetheless, it was clear that he could not govern the now immensely populous Alliance single-handedly. His work was more about the big picture, designing the systemic framework. The specific tasks would be executed by the government. Multilevel governmental structures, manned by millions, even tens of millions of civil servants, were responsible for carrying out his will.
Osenia had already submitted a timeline to Gu Hang.
The first milestone for a successful reform in Mingyan City was to make it self-sufficient, independent of aid from Rage Owl Star and Heijian Star within a year, and capable of exporting resources.
Of course, this dependency refers to aid dependency, not normal trade. The demand for food in Korolya was enormous, and even with recycling technologies and the use of synthetic starch on a large scale, it was not enough.
Synthetic starch still required raw materials.
Normal imports were one aspect, but it was mainly that beyond imports, Mingyan City needed to solve some of its own food requirements—such as utilizing soilless farming technology—and potentially produce industrial goods that would match the value of the necessary consumption for a population of four billion.
As long as that was achieved, the reform would be considered a success.
The next steps would be to continuously improve productivity, raise the standard of living for the population, and provide resources to aid other Nest Capitals in their reforms.
Directly exporting the resources needed for reforms from Mingyan City clearly meant that the entire Korolya would be set on the right track as designed by Gu Hang.
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