Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 485

Chapter 484, Silver Tribunal

the choice of Lao Yisi of the Silver Tribunal was a pleasant surprise to Gu Hang.

Isn’t the problem of legitimacy the main concern?

If Lao Yisi could come, she would be of great help.

She is the Chief of the Political Affairs Department of the Dragon Eagle Star Region, and can be considered the second-in-command in the entire star region government.

After her arrival, Gu Hang could establish a small star region government in the area under his actual control.

The name is obvious: it is reasonable for the Chief of Political Affairs to carry out the work of the Star Region Political Affairs Department here.

After that, Gu Hang could do anything in the name of the star region government.

He could even go back and cause some trouble for the Fury Flame Corps.

This is the struggle between “name” and “reality”.

In fact, Gu Hang suffered a lot in the name of the star region government, but he also made some efforts in this regard.

Although there were many difficulties, the intelligence departments of the alliance showed their magical powers and thought of some ways to plant some agents in various worlds in the western part of the Dragon Eagle Star Region, including Yunluo Star.

It is unrealistic for these agents to subvert the world. The Alliance’s influence and instigation capabilities are not enough; however, they can spy on some intelligence and make some secret contacts with some key figures.

Through the intelligence that was not even confidential, Gu Hang could see that the star domain government was not so willing to serve the Wrath of Flames.

Some high-ranking officials of the star domain government reached a certain tacit understanding with the Alliance.

They could not directly resist the Wrath of Flames, but they could tip off the Alliance; they did not dare to help the Alliance blatantly, but they could resist and delay some things that the Wrath of Flames needed their cooperation, increasing the cost of the Wrath of Flames.

After all, the Wrath of Flames was a guest army. Half of the star domain, hundreds of billions of people and the affairs of one or two hundred worlds could not be solved by less than a thousand Space Marines. Although they also brought a large number of auxiliary troops, they still needed to rely on a large number of local forces to maintain their rule.

To be honest, this was very unstable and completely different from Erso’s original idea.

Originally, Erso envisioned that the Fury Corps would become the heroes of the Dragonhawk Star Domain, and then everything would become very easy to handle. They would return power to the local forces, and only form a strong alliance with them through influence and security. Then, they would introduce the power of the Menghe Star Domain and the Huangnu Star Domain, and continue to infiltrate through trade and political cooperation. In a few years, the Dragonhawk Star Domain would become the de facto ally of the “Iron Fury Stone”; in a few more years, they would have to rely strongly on the “Iron Fury Stone”.

They have tried this method in many star domains. Although it takes a long time, it has been successful.

However, in the Dragonhawk Star Domain, everything is different. The step of becoming a hero and savior is greatly discounted. Now, half of the star domain regards them as enemies, so how can they be considered heroes? Moreover, it is precisely because of the hostile relationship with the Alliance that they cannot devote all their efforts to building their own “glorious image” and have to squeeze the power of the half of the star domain they control to maintain this cold war.

But this will significantly consume their prestige that they have built up with great difficulty through the Iron Teeth War and has been greatly reduced due to the existence of the alliance.

It must be emphasized again that they are guest troops, and they are not the masters of the Dragon Eagle Star Region. They can control half of the star region because of the prestige brought by victory in the war and saving the world, as well as their powerful strength. Both are indispensable.

With the former being constantly consumed, no matter how strong their strength is, they will not be able to continue to control half of the star region after the local forces really begin to become disunited.

Gu Hang, on the other hand, is much more patient in this regard.

If it drags on, the eastern part of the Dragon Eagle Star Region will only develop better and better under his control, and the society will tend to be stable. He can turn the two hundred worlds in the east into his base.

On the contrary, as long as Gu Hang still maintains the cold war situation with the Fury Flame Corps, the internal contradictions in the western part of the star region will become increasingly uncontrollable, and the entire society will become increasingly boiling. The rebellions that come one after another may not be easy to see, but the cost of the Fury Flame Corps’ rule will undoubtedly be continuously raised, so that not only can they not generate blood here, but they have to constantly transfuse blood to maintain it.

Be patient, don’t rush, don’t make mistakes, digest the results of the battle, and save up your family.

This is the overall idea of Gu Hang leading the alliance to fight against Fury.

Only two years have passed, and Laois has defected;

what about two years later? What about four years?

If you have the ability, you can spend six or eight years with me. By then, I don’t know how the alliance’s naval formation will grow!

…

But, it is obvious that Erso does not want to waste time with Gu Hang.

What Gu Hang can see far away in the east of the star field, Erso is in it, and the feeling is of course more personal.

He has been feeling more and more uncomfortable.

Up to now, he must admit that the alliance standing opposite him is a very powerful enemy. He is not very good at spying on the intelligence within the alliance, but the few words he has revealed can still let him know that this enemy will only become stronger and stronger. But he

can’t take advantage of this time to directly use force, and he has to stay here to engage in a cold war.

This was very frustrating, but what was even more frustrating was that he felt that the local forces in the western part of the Dragon Eagle Star Region were rebounding because of the resources exploited during the Cold War and the high-pressure and strong rule that the Fury Corps had to adopt.

The allocation of materials and personnel replenishment became increasingly unsmooth, and the transmission and execution of orders became increasingly obscure.

He felt like he was stuck in a quagmire. He could clearly feel that if this continued, he and his regiment would be drowned in the Dragon Eagle Star Region.

A breakthrough was necessary.

But the way to break the deadlock could not be war, at least not a war without a justification.

It is not enough to say that the Alliance is treasonous. Although Erso is shouting loudly, he knows better than anyone what kind of image the Iron Fury Stone has in the imperial political arena. He is still a mess, and no one believes him when he points at others and calls them traitors.

Once he takes the initiative to start a war, if his “claims” are not enough, it may cause a very big reaction. In the worst case, it may even lead to the Empire declaring the Fury of Flames as traitors and mobilizing forces to suppress him.

At that point, it will be another “Redbud Rebellion”. That is the most important opportunity for the development and growth of the Iron Fury Stone, but it is also their biggest crisis. At that time, if they did not win, the fate of the three chapters of Redbud, Starbreaker, and Phoenix would be the fate of Iron Armor, Fury of Flames, and Stone Shield. But

on the other hand, what if the claims are enough?

In the past two years, Erso has been causing all kinds of trouble for the Alliance, just to accumulate “claims”.

Officials who disobey orders, disobey assignments, and refuse to accept the Star Domain Government… And this time, the issue of the Imperial Tax is a deadly blow.

Erso had long thought that Gu Hang would not pay him taxes. Otherwise, if more than 70 billion fell into his hands, many things could be settled, and he would not have to exploit the locals so much, and he could even share the benefits…

But it doesn’t matter if he doesn’t pay taxes, even if Gu Hang goes to the upper government to pay, just like the previous report of merit, it is also within his expectations.

He even thought about whether to rob the transport fleet sent by Gu Hang. Anyway, it is not a formal Imperial tax fleet, and it is not the same as robbing the Imperial Tax.

But after thinking about it, the risk is still too high, and that would offend the Cosmic Domain Government too much. After all, the money is transported to the Cosmic Domain Government. If the Cosmic Domain Government jumps out and says that this is the official tax fleet they recognize, it will be a big trouble.

Under the current situation, it is enough.

Skip the Star Domain Government and pay taxes directly to the higher-level government?

Even if it is recognized by the higher-level government, there are still too many things to do about this matter.

In this universe, there are only a few things that are truly black and white. Most things are in gray, but the gray is different in depth. The same thing, under different judgment standards and even different standpoints, has completely different natures.

The accumulated materials in the past, plus the issue of the imperial tax this time, all accumulated together, are the shells that Erso will use next.

But this shell cannot be fired by the Fury Warband, just as he cannot start a war without authorization.

However, the “Iron Fury Stone” has been in the imperial political arena for so many years, doing many things that do not follow the rules and laws, and it is still so arrogant now. There is a reason. In addition to their own strong hard power, they have also developed some partners and some communities of interests, which has formed a certain degree of “protection umbrella”.

Without some connections, the boat would have capsized long ago!

And now, it is time to use these “connections”.

Inquisition.

In these years, “Iron Fury Stone” has maintained a very good relationship with many imperial inquisition institutions and orders.

Speaking of the Inquisition, this is a very special organization in the empire.

They are a super spy organization that combines multiple functions such as secret police, spies, intelligence, internal monitoring, handling heretics, and external elimination of demons and aliens.

Their power is so great that it almost overrides any other political entity in the Empire, and they are always monitoring all living things in the Empire.

In theory, the Inquisitor has almost unlimited power. As long as the reason is justified, they can do almost anything they want. Sign an extermination order to kill billions or even tens of billions of people on a planet; execute an Imperial Marshal; monitor the Lord of the Supreme Council; sentence a Space Marine Chapter to treason…

At the same time, the Inquisition is a large, loose and complex organization. Each Inquisitor has his own ideas on how to more effectively defend the Empire. According to different philosophies and methods of doing things, the Inquisition is actually divided into countless factions.

There is the Demon Inquisition that specializes in dealing with the problems of the Abyss Demons, the Foreign Inquisition that concentrates on fighting all kinds of aliens, and the Heretic Inquisition that specializes in finding out traitors from the Empire… These three are still the largest, but there are many other small factions with completely different ideas.

The Inquisition has no formal structural framework. When some Inquisitors encounter major problems that they cannot solve alone, they will form a cooperation group. Often, such a cooperation group is the predecessor and prototype of an Inquisition faction.

It is said that the power of the Inquisitors is boundless, but in reality, the situation is much more complicated. The excessive power of the Inquisition in name often turns into no power at all. In other words, what a specific Inquisitor wants to do depends on his “strength”.

This strength, on the one hand, depends on how much power the Inquisitor can mobilize within the Inquisition itself. How much willingness to support his own faction, how much power he can mobilize from other factions, whether he can get enough support from organizations outside the Inquisition, and whether he can mobilize the help of the State Church, the Mechanicus, or even the Astra Militarum or the Imperial Navy. These are all components of an Inquisitor’s strength.

On the other hand, it depends on how much recognition this Inquisitor’s words and judgments can get within the Empire.

So although the Inquisitors have almost unlimited secular power in legal theory, if they abuse their power in reality, they will soon face various kinds of retribution in this life – even the Inquisition itself has a special agency to supervise the Inquisitors who abuse their power. Therefore, although it is theoretically feasible, the Inquisitors cannot really do whatever they want.

And the relationship of ‘Iron Fury Stone’ in the Inquisition is unexpectedly good.

Especially the Silver Inquisition, a large faction that often operates in the east of the empire.

This Inquisition once had a glorious history, with tens of thousands of formal Inquisitors under its command, and maintained good cooperation with many powerful Star Army Corps and Navy Marshals. There are two biggest moves. One is that they successfully launched a trial against the chairman of the ‘McCree Space Domain’. This person, who is definitely a top official and a frontier official of the empire, was sentenced by the Silver Inquisition.

Regardless of whether he was “traitorous”, “incompetent and corrupt”, or “causing huge losses to the empire” as the Silver Tribunal said, the final result was that the chairman of the universe wanted to start a rebellion to protect himself, but was still dismantled and executed by the Silver Tribunal.

The second biggest move was to prove the loyalty of the Iron Armored Regiment in the Bauhinia Rebellion more than a hundred years ago, sentence the Bauhinia Regiment to extinction, and sentence the Starbreaker Blade and the Phoenix to a penance expedition.

After these two major events happened in succession, the Silver Tribunal became famous in many universes in the eastern part of the empire. The “Iron Fury Stone” also often cooperated with some of their actions and made a lot of things.

The judgments made by the Silver Tribunal can always become a reality under their original strong strength and with the support of the “Iron Fury Stone”. At the same time, it can also make the Imperial Tribunal Headquarters sign and approve their judgments.

(End of this chapter)