Starting from the Planetary Governor

Chapter 1425: Chapter 810

Gu Hang fully understands some of the unrest and dissatisfaction within the Alliance.

Making people tighten their belts, work for more than ten hours, enlist the entire Alliance Navy and Planetary Defense Force, with a mobilization rate of over 3%, and a lot of sacrifices. A significant portion of the populace will have friends or family, or at least acquaintances, serving, and even sacrificing…

What is gained in exchange for such a cost?

Merely some glorious propaganda, merely a series of victories under grand narratives. But in reality, one’s life hasn’t improved at all with the Dark Side Expedition, instead, it has worsened a bit.

People start to murmur, why do we have to bear so much for those outside the Alliance?

Victory is certainly good, and for the survival of humanity, of course, it’s good.

If you ask me if I support it, of course I support it; if you ask me if I’m willing to donate a cow…

For the company’s grand goals, so now we have to accept a pay cut, will you accept it?

It’s the same logic.

Of course, there are those with grand ideals, willing to sacrifice and contribute for the greater good.

And there are quite a few. The Alliance’s long-standing education and internal propaganda are still reliable and effective.

However, you can’t expect everyone to be selfless. The vast majority of days, people are bound to be self-centered.

But understanding such matters doesn’t mean acceptance or tolerance.

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

He has been endeavoring to achieve this for a long time in the past.

For the sake of concentrated development, the Alliance central indeed took most of the development dividends. However, after significantly removing the exploiting classes such as capitalists, feudal lords, and slave owners, the remaining portion, when distributed to the populace, still ensures a rather decent level. Moreover, what the Alliance takes, be it development dividends or surplus value, a significant portion is used for developing planetary infrastructure.

Roads, hospitals, higher levels of economic development, more employment opportunities, more promotional opportunities… all these will feed back into the people’s work and lives.

Precisely because of this, public satisfaction has always been quite high.

This has always been Gu Hang’s goal in doing things.

At the same time, he can also realize that under the Alliance’s centralized decision-making, planned economy, and collective system, the Alliance also has a set of ways to stimulate the subjective initiative of the people as producers, allowing them to freely and autonomously exert their ingenuity.

The economic system of the Alliance is mainly based on concentrated state ownership, leading concentrated, foundational, high-tech, high-investment, military industries, focusing on heavy industry with some key light industries as a supplement. The private sector mainly covers services and some light industries.

The civilian economic condition of the Alliance is actually very vibrant, and it has been an indispensable pillar of economic development for so many years.

But under circumstances of strengthening religion, strengthening censorship, and strongly regulating the words and actions of the populace, this vitality will be significantly stifled.

From his heart, Gu Hang doesn’t like measures such as strengthening religion and strengthening censorship agencies.

These two measures can significantly reduce Chaos Corrosion, that’s true.

These are methods passed down from ten thousand years ago that are indeed effective. If the Human Empire didn’t have some capability, it couldn’t have led humanity to survive in this dark and brutal universe for thousands of years.

The construction of churches, the preaching of missionaries, performing religious rituals in daily life, seeking a priest for confession when having mental problems or anxiety…

Establishing a censorship structure, promoting the Alliance’s victories, publicizing the significant and glorious meaning of the people’s current sacrifices, censoring publications, censoring all kinds of illegal associations and gatherings, censoring speech, arresting illegal individuals…

These things, how could they not be useful?

Not to say completely controlling Chaos Corrosion, at least this situation can be controlled on the surface.

And the reduction of vitality in the private economy is one of the accompanying negative effects.

Because such control generates dissatisfied crowds, it’s the second negative effect.

The control itself requires a lot of cost, and after implementing control, production efficiency will also decrease…

These are a heap of disadvantages.

But, what can be done?

Under the pervasive Chaos Corrosion, this is a helpless matter.

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

He divided the controlling methods into several levels. According to the situation on the planets in the recent past, he decides what level to activate.

Highest level one, lowest level five. Gu Hang strives to maintain the lowest level five on the Alliance’s home turf, especially in places like the Dragonhawk Star Domain. Whereas, in places like the Magrey Cosmic Domain, in the north where new Fortress Worlds are being prepared, level one control will be initiated.

If a lower level can be chosen, then choose a lower level. Even if the current situation necessitates a high level of control, there will be a series of indicators, and once they are met, the level must be lowered.

Here, the Alliance also sets dual resistance indicators. For local governments, even for those newly established governments in the Magrey Cosmic Domain, reducing the control level not only benefits their own economic development but also is an important indicator for high-ranking government officials. Successfully reducing the control level means excellent performance in aspects like planetary security, management, education, and propaganda, which is beneficial for their own promotion.

However, to avoid local officials falsifying information, leading to bigger problems on planets that could otherwise be controlled, the Alliance’s control agencies will strictly review the control levels of each planet, as well as verify the information reported by local governments, to avoid unwanted problems.

In such circumstances, the Alliance is able to hold its ground.

Not only the Alliance’s home territory, but also the Eastern Cosmos Domain and the newly acquired Magrey Cosmic Domain, have all become smooth and controllable under these control levels.

As for the feeling of discomfort in Gu Hang’s heart, fearing that if the Alliance continues like this, it will inevitably become a small-scale, alternative Empire… this psychological scruple, he has to compromise under realistic factors.

Moreover, in reality, there is still a considerable difference between the two.

At least, when the Alliance initiates control, it is always aware that such methods are involuntary and are compromises with reality.

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Smooth and controllable.

As for the feeling of discomfort in Gu Hang’s heart, fearing that if the Alliance continues like this, it will inevitably become a small-scale, alternative Empire… this psychological scruple, he has to compromise under realistic factors.

Moreover, in reality, there is still a considerable difference between the two.

At least, when the Alliance initiates control, it is always aware that such methods are involuntary and are compromises with reality.