Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 817

Chapter 811, Review Mechanism

. Gu Hang fully understood the unrest and discontent within the Alliance.

Forcing people to shave their clothes and eat less, working over ten-hour shifts, and adding up the Alliance’s navy, army, and planetary defense forces, with a mobilization rate exceeding 3%, there were also massive sacrifices. A significant number of people had friends, family, or even acquaintances serving in the military, or even lost their lives…

What was the reward for such a price?

Just some glorious propaganda, one victory after another under a grand narrative. But in reality, their lives hadn’t improved at all as the Dark Side Crusade progressed, and in fact, they had gotten worse.

People began to wonder, why should we endure so much for those outside the Alliance?

Victory is good, of course, for the survival of humanity.

You ask if I support it, of course I do. You ask if I’m willing to donate a cow…

If a salary cut is needed for the company’s lofty goals, would I accept it?

Same principle.

Of course, there are people with lofty ideals who are willing to sacrifice for the greater good.

And there are quite a few. The Alliance’s consistent education and internal propaganda efforts are reliable and effective.

However, we can’t expect everyone to be receptive. The majority of people still live in poverty.

Understanding this kind of thing is understandable, but it doesn’t mean they can be accepted or tolerated.

As the ruler of the Alliance, doesn’t Gu Hang want the people under his rule to continuously improve their living standards?

He’s been working on this for a long time.

The Alliance’s central government, in order to concentrate development, has indeed reaped the lion’s share of the benefits. However, after significantly eliminating the exploiting classes like capitalists, feudal lords, and slave owners, the remaining portion, when distributed to the people, still ensures a fairly good standard. Furthermore, a significant portion of the Alliance’s share, whether it’s development dividends or surplus value, is used to develop the planet’s infrastructure.

Roads, hospitals, higher economic development, more job opportunities, more opportunities for promotion… all of this will benefit the people’s work and lives.

It’s precisely because of this that public satisfaction has always been quite high.

This has always been Gu Hang’s goal.

At the same time, he also recognizes that within the Alliance’s centralized decision-making, planned economy, and collective system, there are ways to stimulate the initiative of the people who produce, allowing them to freely and independently unleash their ingenuity.

The Alliance’s economic system is primarily based on centralized state ownership, with concentrated, basic, high-tech, investment-intensive, and military-related industries dominating heavy industry, supplemented by a portion of key light industry. The private sector, on the other hand, primarily focuses on the service industry and some light industry.

The Alliance’s civilian economy is actually quite vibrant, a crucial pillar of its economic development for many years.

However, strengthening religion, tightening censorship, and strictly regulating citizens’ words and actions will significantly stifle this vitality.

Gu Hang himself dislikes measures like strengthening religion and strengthening censorship. It’s true that

these two measures can significantly reduce Chaos corruption. These

methods, passed down from thousands of years ago, are indeed effective. Without some formidable skills, the Human Empire would not have been able to lead humanity through such a long and dark universe.

The construction of churches, the preaching of missionaries, the practice of religious rituals in daily life, and confessing to priests when experiencing psychological problems and anxieties…

Establishing a censorship structure, publicizing the Alliance’s victory, and the profound and glorious significance of the people’s current efforts, censoring publications, censoring all types of illegal associations and gatherings, censoring speech, and arresting lawbreakers…

how could these things not be effective?

While not completely curbing Chaos corruption, at least it could manage the appearance of it.

The diminished vitality of the private economy was a secondary negative effect.

The resulting discontent among the masses due to such controls was another.

Not only did the controls themselves incur significant costs, but they also reduced production efficiency…

a host of drawbacks.

But what could be done?

Faced with the pervasive Chaos corruption, there was no other way.

Gu Hang could only do his best to minimize the impact.

He had stratified his control measures, and the level he activated would be determined based on the planet’s recent conditions.

Level one was the highest, and level five was the lowest. Gu Hang aimed to maintain the minimum level of level five within the Alliance’s home turf, particularly in places like the Dragon Eagle star field. For places like those in the Magrey Space and in the north that have been captured and intended for use as fortress worlds, Level 1 controls will be activated.

If possible, choose a lower level. Even if a high level of control is unavoidable, a series of indicators will apply; if they are met, they must be lowered.

The Alliance has also established dual-level control indicators. For local governments, even those newly established in the Magrey Space, lowering the control level is not only beneficial to their own economic development but also a key indicator for senior government officials. Successfully lowering the control level signifies outstanding achievements in public security, management, education, and publicity, which can be beneficial for their career advancement.

However, to prevent local officials from falsifying information and causing greater problems on previously controllable planets, the Alliance’s regulatory agencies will rigorously review the control levels of each planet and verify the information submitted by local governments to avoid unnecessary problems.

Under these circumstances, the Alliance can maintain its position.

Not only the homeland of the Alliance, but also the Eastern Space Domain and the newly occupied Magre Space Domain, all became smooth and controllable under this level of control.

As for the discomfort in Gu Hang’s heart, and the feeling that if the Alliance continued like this, it would become a small, alternative empire… this kind of psychological cleanliness, he had to compromise under realistic factors.

What’s more, in reality, the difference between the two is still quite large.

At least, when the Alliance started the control, it always knew that this measure was forced and it was a compromise with reality.

As for the empire… the powerful people in the empire are probably enjoying the taste of this power.

Of course, in the future, many parts of the Alliance will be under strict control for too long, and perhaps the officials of the Alliance will also be obsessed with the feeling of huge power and will not be willing to retreat. But as long as Gu Hang is there, he always has the confidence that he can control the situation to an acceptable level.

(End of this chapter)