Chapter 216, I Still Need This Mother

Gu Hang's coming to Angry Owl Star did make her mother very passive.

Originally, he wanted to seek the position of the head of the family, but in the end, the head of the family was gone.

But his performance on Angry Owl Star made things turn around.

Gu Hang's outstanding performance on Angry Owl Star not only saved Wang Qi millions of money needed to fill the hole of imperial taxes, but more importantly, Gu Hang had his own industry through it.

Doesn't the Gu family want to own their own planet? That's definitely not. But it's too difficult to get a planet of their own, especially a world with positive assets.

But they don't want a wasteland world like Angry Owl Star. The initial construction cost is too high, and the cycle of recovering the cost is quite long, and there may be a lot of risks in the middle.

For example, the greenskin disaster and the invasion of the demon cult that Gu Hang has encountered in the past year and a half, any of these two risk points, if encountered by people who normally redevelop Angry Owl Star, would be a disaster, making the high investment go down the drain.

Moreover, the biggest problem in seeking an unreliable planetary governor is that you can't easily admit the loss and leave. If other investments fail, the loss is lost; but if you fail to invest in a planet, the Imperial Tax Department will not care so much about you. You must pay the imperial tax you should pay, not a penny less, and you must pay it in the future.

It is precisely because of this that Gu Hang's performance over the past year has been surprising.

Although the Angry Owl Star is too closed and the information is not well circulated, not many people know about it. The upper class of Feiyi Star still regards Gu Hang's appointment as a planetary governor as a joke. However, in the eyes of some people with ulterior motives, they can see it clearly.

The people of the Gu family are of course such people with ulterior motives.

Because of Gu Hang's nonsense behavior, Wang Qi's allies began to strongly question her plan. The most serious attitudes all have the intention of getting out of Wang Qi's control. Even if Wang Qi has some remedial measures for this, they will worry whether they can achieve the growth of everyone's interests by holding up such a family head.

But Gu Hang's performance has calmed their concerns, anger, and hesitation.

In the past, he was considered a loser who was a burden to his mother, but now he has become a planetary governor. Moreover, he has made his career on that wasteland planet without any support from his family.

Not only does he not need external subsidies, he can pay taxes by himself and have a very good output value.

At present, this output value may reach the planet of a family caravan by next year. Who dares to underestimate it?

Industry and business are two different things!

What's more, this is a comparison at the moment; the potential of a planet, as it develops better and better in the future, the population becomes more and more numerous, and the industrial structure becomes more and more perfect, everything has great potential for improvement.

And can this potential be realized?

At least looking at Gu Hang's performance in the past year and a half, it is quite possible.

To be honest, many people dare not believe this is true, and even think that this is a rumor made up by Wang Qi in order to maintain the support of his old brothers.

Otherwise, how could it be possible?

How could the Angry Owl Star, which had troubled Chief Pedesi for a long time and burdened the Star District Government for so many years, be so easy to deal with?

It turned from waste to treasure in just one and a half years?

Could it be that the guy who used to be a waste was actually a chosen one of the Emperors? Blessed by the Emperor?

However, as more and more information was disclosed, even if you didn't believe it, you had to believe it.

It was precisely because of this that Wang Qi's situation began to improve before she had time to launch some of her extra arrangements.

She should no longer need to take special risks, as long as she followed the past plans and slowly moved forward.

She was not afraid that the current head of the family would know her thoughts.

This thing could not be hidden, and it was open and aboveboard.

Everyone could just set up their chariots and cannons to play chess. Whoever won or lost would naturally be revealed at the next family meeting, depending on the votes of the fourteen family caravans.

However, an accident happened.

The current head of the family, Gu Ming, convened the Gu family meeting in advance.

The venue was on the Black Arrow Star.

Among the nine planets in the Tianma Star Region, the worst one is the Black Arrow Star, except for the wasteland world of the Wrathful Owl Star.

It is a feudal world. The overall technological level is not much better than that of the Middle Ages, except for a few powerful people who can enjoy some technological conveniences in the interstellar era.

It is not that there is no technology, but the entire social production relationship is wrong: serfs driving advanced agricultural machinery pay tribute to the knight masters;

The knight masters are granted titles by lords in various places and drive knight mechas to fight for the lords;

The lords are granted titles by the kings to help the kings collect taxes;

The highest ruling body of the planet is the King's Alliance. The planetary governors have always been rotated by the largest kings in the world. They will be responsible for ensuring that each kingdom can pay taxes. Once there is a sign of non-payment, the King's Alliance will launch a punitive war against the country with insufficient tax and make up the tax through plunder...

Gu Hang is quite speechless about this kind of backward mechanism, but this is the overall policy of the empire: as long as you pay taxes, I don't care about anything else.

Under normal taxation and no other major events, the Empire really doesn't care how the planet develops. Gu Hang even suspected that after the Empire regained some worlds, it seemed to intentionally let these worlds maintain their original appearance.

We don't know what the high lords of the Empire think, the current situation is like this.

Black Arrow Star has a population of 400 million - the feudal production relations really can't support too many people, not to mention that their production relations are not only backward, but also almost non-existent industrial capacity.

However, this planet has a very good relationship with the Gu family.

Those kings who want to enfeoff more lords and more knights need a hard indicator: knight mecha.

Obviously, with the appearance of Black Arrow Star, they can't even make agricultural machinery, let alone mecha. The mechas they use to enfeoff knights are obviously all dependent on foreign trade.

It's normal to have a good relationship with the Gu family.

The Gu family held the Black Arrow Star for the past six family meetings.

This time is no exception.

Wang Qi believed that Gu Ming did this to take advantage of the fact that Gu Hang's career and momentum were not big enough. When Nu Xiaoxing paid taxes for the first time in seven months and proved his ability, it would be too difficult to save the situation.

He wanted to start the family meeting before that, and take advantage of the fact that the trouble caused by Gu Hang had not been completely settled, when Wang Qi's allies were shaken, and when Wang Qi had not been able to win more votes, to decide the next six years.

This is certainly a smart move, but Wang Qi also said that she was not worried.

She now has at least eight votes, and Gu Ming can't turn the tables.

"If nothing unexpected happens, you will be the head of the Gu family in four months." Wang Qi said this to Gu Hang.

Gu Hang smiled.

He always felt that the current business structure of the Gu family was very unstable. It was too empty to be a pure caravan with all the family property on those fleets.

Although Nu Xiaoxing's current value was not enough, it would be worth a caravan at best by next year; and the Gu family had fourteen caravans.

But he would not trade his own foundation for the head of the Gu family.

With further development, a real planet, countless people, a huge army, and real industrial and agricultural output, isn't this more real than business?

Of course, if he becomes the head of the family, it will not prevent him from continuing to be the governor of the Angry Owl Star.

If this is really possible, it is not bad. The Gu family has nothing else, but it has a lot of money. Even the heads of the star regions have to be won over, which is evident.

If he can really mobilize the power of the entire family, then the future construction of the Angry Owl Star will soar.

Even if the person who actually makes the decision in the Gu family is not him, but his mother, it is not a big problem.

Keren, when planning things, you can't just look at the good direction.

"Are you so sure?" he asked.

"Yes." Wang Qi showed confidence.

"What if... Uncle Ming flips the table?"

"Huh?" Wang Qi was stunned. "Flip the table?... What do you mean?"

Gu Hang said more bluntly: "Did you arrange the security of the family meeting?"

"... No." Wang Qi said, "Do you think he would kill people at that time?"

"Why not?"

"Impossible, this has never happened in the family." Wang Qi's first reaction was to refute, "The Gu family tradition has been maintained for so many years, and there has never been an internal killing. We have always been united..."

Before she finished speaking, she was interrupted by Gu Hang: "Everything has a first time, and conventions are meant to be broken. Does that mean that extreme situations don't need to be considered?"

Wang Qi was silent for a moment: "I actually thought that he would jump off the wall when he was desperate. I brought enough guards. Moreover, the current planetary governor of Black Arrow, King Muir, has a good relationship with me and is my supporter."

"Don't put your own safety on others. Is King Muir reliable? Even if he is reliable, did he arrange the security of the venue?"

These questions stumped Wang Qi again.

Gu Hang paused and continued, "As for the guards around you... Heh, I roughly know who they are. They are the ones who came to arrest me and locked me up when I did something naughty in the past? It's not that I look down on them, but... they are really no good."

"Do you have better candidates?"

"Of course. To be honest, their level is the average level of my soldiers. I can always find a team with a much larger number and better level than your guards."

"Xiao Hang, you are really promising." Wang Qi didn't know whether she believed it or not, so it was unclear whether this was irony or admiration.

Maybe both.

Gu Hang didn't bother to worry about it. He continued, "What's more, what you need is not only a guard team, but..."

"An army."

...

After hanging up the call, Ms. Wang Qi sat there, stunned for a long time.

Until the door of the office on the starship was knocked.

"Come in."

"Aunt." The visitor was Wang Jiarong.

After the beautiful girls' caravan returned, all the boats needed to be repaired before they could set sail again. So she returned to her aunt and helped out as a secretary - she used to do this, but she was only released in the last one or two years to lead a caravan that was completely controlled by Wang Qi.

She asked cautiously: "Is your call with your cousin... over?"

"Um."

"It's good. It's been a long time since you and your cousin talked for so long."

"It's all about serious business."

"What is it specifically?" Wang Jiarong looked very curious.

Wang Qi showed a smile: "Your cousin... is worried that your aunt will be cheated."

Wang Jiarong was overjoyed. It seemed that they had really had a good conversation: "Then you will definitely be worried. After all, you are his mother."

Speaking of this, Wang Qi sighed: "He has changed so much. He looks and sounds the same, but his demeanor is completely different."

"Isn't that a good thing? Cousin can become better, isn't that what you have always wanted, aunt?"

"Yeah, it's great..." Wang Qi said with a smile, "But we have to change the route. We have to go to the Raging Owl Galaxy first."

"Go...for what?"

"Bring an army."

…

It is of practical significance to send an army to my mother to escort her to the Black Arrow Star and protect her safety there.

In addition to the fact that she was his biological mother in this body, Gu Hang had at least two other important reasons:

It was very important that the position of head of the Gu family fell into his hands. The patriarch of the richest merchant family in the Pegasus sector, fourteen fleets that can conduct interstellar voyages, ranging from armed merchant ships to transport merchant ships, are all huge wealth.

Even if this wealth does not belong to him completely at once, it does not even belong to his mother who controls the power. After all, those caravans are 'franchisees'. But the power to mobilize this power and wealth is already huge enough.

This is of extremely great significance to the development of Wrath Star, and is a major push for Wrath Star to move towards interstellar society.

The second reason was actually based on the first point: he had to find a stage to show his strength.

Keeping a low profile and building a reputation are not completely conflicting things. There are some things in Gu Hang's hands that he needs to keep a low profile and make a fortune in silence. But the Raging Owl Star is getting stronger, richer, and has enough potential...this information should be widely publicized.

The more people know, the better.

This will bring attention.

And attention is money, and money is the source of power for development.

All in all, from a personal emotional point of view, or from a practical benefit point of view, this mother still deserves it.

I can’t do it without my mother.