Starting from the Planetary Governor

Chapter 701: Chapter 395, Feiyi Shipyard_2

“Yes, Pei Desi’s ship left the port yesterday. We seized most of his assets, but left him with some liquid assets to ensure his peaceful departure and avoid further troubles. The assets he took with him amount to about four hundred thousand Tax Currency, which shouldn’t cause us any more issues in the future,”

“Well, that guy is lucky to have a good brother, serving as a governor who only indulged in pleasures for over a decade without having to work, and now he can be a wealthy retiree for most of his life. But I hope he’ll grow wiser in the future, or he won’t be able to preserve his fortune,”

“Yes.”

“Let’s get down to business.”

“Yes.”

The pressing matter they were about to discuss was none other than the greatest asset on Flying Wing Star—the Feiyi Shipyard.

Speaking of Zhang Lingdian, he was one of the hundred talented students from Flying Wing Star who were sent by Gu Hang’s mother when she had initially reached an understanding with him.

Despite the reconciliation, Gu Hang still didn’t completely trust his mother. At first, he didn’t take these hundred people seriously, leaving them all to Osenia to handle and assigning them to low-level clerical jobs.

However, at that time, the Alliance was in dire need of people. The fact that individuals like Patel, former leaders of refugees, could manage an industrial center, was telling. Among the talented students from Flying Wing Star, although many were pampered and couldn’t endure hardships and thus were declining in low-level jobs, those who were dedicated and willing to work hard always managed to stand out.

Zhang Lingdian was such a person.

He didn’t receive any preferential treatment and even faced pressure in the Alliance’s bureaucratic system, particularly because he was an outsider and initially seen as a ‘spy’ sent by Gu Hang’s mother. Nonetheless, over a long period, he achieved remarkable results in every position he held.

These achievements were impossible to ignore. The Alliance had clear standards for rank recognition and merit assessment of government officials. When someone performed well, diligently, with a good ranking and consistent results, how could the Alliance resist promoting him, especially when there was a severe lack of clerical staff?

Or rather, the Alliance’s system had been trying hard to keep him down, as many with lesser accomplishments were being promoted much faster.

Latterly, as the relationship between Gu Hang and his mother improved even further, to the point of integration, and it was also confirmed that there was nothing particularly exceptional about them. It turned out that Gu Hang’s mother, dissatisfied with the rag-tag bunch under her son’s command, handpicked some poor graduates from various colleges on Flying Wing Star, signed fifteen-year contracts with them, and sent them over en masse.

There are many universities on Flying Wing Star—an important industry for earning foreign currency for the star. Not just locals from Flying Wing Star, but many elites from Tianma Star Sector and even other star sectors would send their students here for education.

With over thirty thousand universities that offered technical and liberal arts education, they have nurtured countless talents.

But not every graduate had a promising future.

For students like Zhang Lingdian, who came from a disadvantaged background and had relied on scholarships and educational loans to progress, the pressure after graduation was even greater as they had to start repaying their loans.

For the graduates of Flying Wing Star, the Gu Commercial Firm was an excellent destination, and the limited number of recruitment spots available each year were fought over fiercely. Even a fifteen-year contract to a little-known place was sought after.

That’s how Zhang Lingdian came to be here.

Once his background was clear, those who performed well among these hundred individuals quickly made it onto the talent list of the Alliance Organization Department. They started to rise rapidly, and Zhang Lingdian was the one who ascended the fastest, even entering the Premier’s office and becoming one of Osenia’s important aides. Now, Gu Hang has promoted him to a position of greater responsibility.

The reason Gu Hang chose him was still due to his full trust in the [System]’s judgment. Zhang Lingdian was one of the talents who had been enlightened early on in the [Hero] panel, with considerable aptitude and a quick advancement rate. With assurance of loyalty, Gu Hang decided to use him more boldly.

Under the Alliance system, the ‘Planetary Governor’ post is not significant. Although, according to the imperial registry, this is the highest official on a planet and could even be considered the owner of the planet. In reality, under the Alliance system, this is at most an honorary title, if even that. The real power is held by the Planetary Government of the Alliance Government.

Moreover, the leaders of the Alliance’s planets are not at all the same as the Imperial Planetary Governors.

They are purely administrative heads under the jurisdiction of the Alliance Government, in charge of administrative power. The Alliance Government also exercises strict control over the various planetary governments, except for the leaders who are responsible to higher authorities, entities like the Organization Department, Commerce Department, Development Department, Industry Department, and other such departments, are not only managed by the planetary leaders but also subject to the vertical jurisdiction of the Alliance’s ministerial commissions.

Planetary leaders have no authority over military matters;

Aspects like legislation, judiciary, law enforcement, as well as functions such as audit, anti-corruption, and internal affairs, are the jobs of the Alliance Legal Tribunal, and Lambert, the Chief Justice, operates independently from the government in theory, which the Planetary leaders can’t interfere with.

Under the centralizing system of the Alliance, there’s no possibility for the Planetary leaders to act independently.

However, despite this, the position remains very important. Economic development, administrative management, both depend on them.

Gu Hang had great expectations for Zhang Lingdian, otherwise, he wouldn’t have bestowed such an important responsibility upon this young man.

And indeed, Zhang Lingdian did not let Gu Hang down.

His first task was completed quite satisfactorily.

The Flying Wing Star Shipyard, as the most significant wealth on the entire planet, is now under Zhang Lingdian’s control.

The production capability of the entire shipyard has also been clearly ascertained.

With about a four-year large construction cycle, the Flying Wing Star Shipyard can produce 1 Musician-class cruiser, 8 destroyers, 20 escort ships, along with various patrol ships and civilian merchant vessels. The total output value of this cycle can reach 300 billion Tax Currency, averaging 75 billion Tax Currency a year.

Of course, that’s the output value. In reality, there are some components that need to be purchased, a massive amount of raw materials, even the processing of the raw materials, all of which are completed elsewhere. These procurement costs must also be accounted for.

But despite this, the profit each year is around 25 billion.

The Feiyi Shipyard is the absolute pillar industry supporting the whole of Flying Wing Star, not only bearing the brunt of a high tax revenue of level 5 development but also ensuring that the 8 billion inhabitants of the planet can live a fairly decent standard of life.

The value of this shipyard cannot be compared with the one on Rage Owl Star. For the Rage Owl shipyard to develop to this level, even with advanced technology, it would take a very long time.

Moreover, now that it’s in hand, there’s no reason for Gu Hang’s advanced technology not to be used on the Feiyi Shipyard.

The construction special effects of the shipyard can be redeemed and applied to improve production efficiency; the shipyard’s blueprints can be used to reform some unreasonable designs; some components that originally couldn’t be produced in-house can now be processed on their own, without the need to buy from distant places through trade, or even compete to purchase…

All these can enhance the efficiency of the Feiyi Shipyard and significantly reduce costs.

Under Gu Hang’s control, the Feiyi Shipyard can achieve effects much more potent than before.

Of course, even with the acquisition of the Feiyi Shipyard, it doesn’t mean Gu Hang will give up on developing the Rage Owl shipyard.

Progressing on multiple fronts isn’t a bad thing.