Chapter 693: Chapter 391, Mr. Gu_3
During the call with Lois, the lady was quite surprised. She said that before she even had the chance to propose, it was Xu Dechen who made the first move. She obviously wouldn’t refuse, and together they convinced the leader Tan Jiuyi.
Although there’s still the step of reporting this, there won’t be any more twists and turns; the official appointment will come through very soon.
After expressing his thanks, Gu Hang immediately received a call request from Xu Dechen.
It was the first exchange between the two, and Xu Dechen was very enthusiastic and polite.
He was there to claim credit, which Gu Hang of course understood. After chatting amiably for a while, Xu Dechen made it clear that he would greenlight the applications of the three new governors to join the Alliance.
After discussing these happy matters, Xu Dechen didn’t forget to subtly stab Lois in the back.
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“General Lois originally had another preferred candidate for the Tianma leader, thinking they would work well with you. I thought that instead of finding someone to cooperate, it might be smoother for you to take on the role yourself,” he said.
“Well, thank you very much for that,” Gu Hang replied.
Gu Hang chatted with him for a few more sentences, said his friendly goodbyes, and then hung up the call.
As for what he said about Lois, Gu Hang didn’t take it to heart.
It could be true, or it could be made up; Lois isn’t his real mother, bound to cater to his every whim.
But Gu Hang actually didn’t care.
It was irrelevant to him.
Turning his head, he began to worry again.
These pieces of good news didn’t actually help with the problems he was currently facing.
The three Planetary Governors he had appointed were essentially puppets—Osenia not so much, her status as Alliance Premier was far more important than that of a Planetary Governor; it was merely an interim position.
The applications of the three governors to join the Alliance were undoubtedly going to be approved, and the three planets would soon become members of the Alliance.
However, the internal politics of the Tri-Star couldn’t be solved by relying on this alone.
Gu Hang discovered that the methods he had consistently used, which never failed on Rage Owl Star, Heijian Star, and Korolya, did not work on Fatchess Tri-Star.
He wasn’t as effective at winning the hearts of the people, and it was difficult to implement the Alliance’s system of reform on Fatchess Tri-Star.
In the past, situations Gu Hang encountered involved impoverished people, low productivity. Whereas the Alliance’s system of assigning ranks, providing definitive citizen benefits, clear upward mobility, and nationalizing all production materials and earnings… this combination of policies was quite effective.
On one hand, the populace generally saw a significant increase in their treatment compared to the past, and they could see hope; on the other hand, low productivity improved drastically through centralized and planned development.
As for a series of other political maneuvers, they were all fancy tricks built on this foundation. Sincerely improving people’s lives and giving them hope, increasing productivity—these were the substantive aspects; everything else was illusionary, tools used by Gu Hang to maintain the system. As long as he ensured the former, no matter what the Alliance Government did, it was all good.
But the situation on Fatchess Tri-Star was entirely different.
The development level here was already decent; the people were not poor.
Applying the Alliance’s rank system forcibly would set ranks for the populace that were lower than their previous standard of living, inevitably rousing dissatisfaction among Fatchess Tri-Star residents; higher ranks, and the residents of Rage Owl Star, Heijian Star, and Korolya might become discontented over “not suffering from scarcity but from a lack of fairness,” and additionally, the cost that the Alliance would bear would be very high.