Starting from the Planetary Governor

Chapter 521: Chapter 307, Unifying the World, Forging Ahead (End of This Volume)

The 210,000 refugees crammed into the transport ships were Gu Hang’s ‘spoils of war’ on the political battlefield, all destined to be relocated to live on Rage Owl Star.

This was a legitimate value.

Five Tax Currency per person was the pricing set by the Empire. Taken to Rage Owl Star, even if they did absolutely nothing but set up refugee camps to sustain these people, after two years, once the Imperial Tax was paid, it could offset a million in Tax Currency.

But how did these people come about?

Firstly, it was the Tianma Star Sector’s various planets… ‘looting’ Korolya.

Before Galaraldo disappeared, Korolya’s situation was already deteriorating. Many of the learned in the Star Sector could tell that,

Under the call of the Star Sector Government, the governors of each planet, some other forces within the planets, and even the wealthy were all “generously digging into their pockets,” providing some manageable relief for Korolya III.

It was mainly in the form of various supplies.

Similarly, many forces that provided supplies also ‘generously’ expressed that they could accept refugees from Korolya III who had become homeless due to turmoil and had nowhere else to be placed.

That was surely extortion.

The majority of the forces ‘generously’ donated supplies to support Korolya III that were not even worth as much as the population they plundered from Korolya III.

But the Korolya III Planetary Government had no choice but to accept.

They desperately needed those supplies, or else military operations would lack provisions, and the civilians’ lives would be affected.

Moreover, those homeless refugees, who had emerged due to outbreaks of the Plague Demon, truly existed.

It was more manageable elsewhere, but Fino City, having fallen by more than half, was facing the gravest issue.

There were originally a billion people there, half of them in occupied zones. Their fate, only death, transformation into plague walkers, or infection, these were the three outcomes.

But in the non-occupied zones, there were still hundreds of millions of people. They should, of course, be evacuated from areas that could become battlegrounds at any time, but… That was hundreds of millions of people, and moving them to other Nest Capitals was extremely difficult.

All along, Korolya III had always been in a state of having too many people and not enough resources. Trying to evacuate so many people, finding places that could take this many people, that was very hard.

They could only establish refugee camps and quarantine zones in some of the slightly more upper-level areas of Fino City.

All zones were managed by classification, divided into high-risk, medium-risk, low-risk, and no-risk infection zones, with strict barriers between each zone. All areas were placed under military management, with civilians not allowed to leave their homes—not even if they faced starvation.

After reporting, those without typical infection symptoms within seven days could be moved to a lower-risk zone, all the way down to the no-risk zones.

But in reality, no-risk zones only meant a very low risk of infection; it was not necessarily safe. The problem of scarcity of supplies always plagued the quarantine zones in Fino City’s refugee camps. Additionally, regardless of the risk level of the area, there was always the danger of the Plague Demon breaking through the military defenses and directly taking over, there was also the risk of a sudden large-scale outbreak of the epidemic.

Therefore, under such circumstances, the most beneficial course of action for the Korolya Planetary Government really was to sell people to other planets and powers.

Not selling them meant they would find it tough to provide for and could be doomed at any moment.

But they had to sell at a reasonable price, right?

When all was calculated, other forces generally exchanged supplies worth about 0.2 to 0.5 Tax Currency to take away a population worth 5 Tax Currency per person. Was this not robbery?

Of course, with Korolya as the Nest Capital planet that held four hundred billion inhabitants, amounting to 62.2% of the entire Tianma Star Sector’s population, its government was one of the most powerful Planetary Governments. Moreover, Governor Akuna was a staunch supporter of the Tianma leader, Pei Desi, belonging to the same faction.

They certainly would not accept being robbed so easily.

But… who could blame Akuna and Pei Desi, two core figures whose own hands were not very clean? Now, with the disappearance of Galaraldo causing much trouble, their political influence, which was once great, would be lucky to retain even two or three tenths of its former strength.

There was quite a lot of political struggle and compromise involved.

And the outcome that was ultimately negotiated was that each power could obtain a certain quota of ‘migration’ population for free based on their support for Korolya III; exceeding this quota would require purchasing with Tax Currency. The purchase price was determined using a tiered mechanism, ranging from 1 to 4 Tax Currency per person.

There were discounts offered but at the same time, it restricted those powers from plundering Korolya III too excessively.

Gu Hang was involved in the negotiation process for this matter.

Therein, he naturally stood from his own perspective, on behalf of Rage Owl Star, trying to gain as much advantage as possible.

But outside of this matter, Gu Hang sometimes detached himself emotionally and reflected on the situation.

During Korolya III’s major disasters, when countless citizens of the Empire were afflicted, the ideal of all parties working together to face a natural disaster existed only on the surface. Behind closed doors, this had turned into a feast of dividing interests and feasting on the division of Korolya III. Various bigshots engaged in backstabbing and verbal combat, greedily feeding off the ravages of a disaster.

Gu Hang could not stand on the moral high ground to criticize these events, as he was one of those partaking in the feast.

But was there anything ‘good’ from start to finish in this matter?

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