Starting from the Planetary Governor-Chapter 763 - 425, The Seven Horses Pact Great Spread

Chapter 763: Chapter 425, The Seven Horses Pact Great Spread Chapter 763: Chapter 425, The Seven Horses Pact Great Spread Indeed, those words had been spoken by Gu Hang.

Actually, whether it was the Mist Horse Star District or even further back the Purple Horse Sector, Border Horse Sector, or Iron Horse Sector, they’d have to decide whether to join the Seven Horse Treaty or not—Gu Hang would have to fight this war regardless.

After all, he could ignore the life and death of others, but he could not ignore his own.

If they didn’t defend Steel Wing Star and Emerald Spring I, the Green Skins would swarm from the two northern sectors.

The Alliance would then have to defend the Fatches Star System and the Flying Wing Star System.

It would be better to defend the former two.

Besides, Steel Wing Star was a fortress world, and Emerald Spring I was just a mining world; damaging them would not be a big loss.

If the battle took place at Flying Wing Star and a cruiser dockyard was damaged, Gu Hang would have nowhere to cry.

One should never let the flames of war reach their homeland.

And since they were going to defend Steel Wing Star and Emerald Spring I, not to mention Eagle Horse and Mist Horse, following the alliance’s military actions, the four major sectors of Purple Horse, Border Horse, Iron Horse, and Cultivating Horse would all benefit and be spared from the Green Skins’ invasion.

In effect, they were getting a good deal and then not joining the Seven Horse Treaty, which amounted to freeloading off the Alliance’s military protection.

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Could Gu Hang let people take advantage of this situation?

The Alliance wasn’t trying to annex them anyway.

In fact, even if they wanted to join the Alliance, Gu Hang might not agree.

Several worlds in the Eagle Horse Sector had been holding secret discussions with the Alliance, not just to sign the Seven Horse Treaty but even to take a further step and directly join the Alliance.

But Gu Hang had rejected them.

It wasn’t an outright ‘no’, but at least the timing was not right.

On one hand, there were political and diplomatic implications; it was easy to assimilate territories, but when the Seven Horse Treaty spread to other star sectors, things would become more complicated.

The planetary governors and leaders already had their doubts; adding this issue would make negotiations much more difficult.

Moreover, from the Alliance’s internal perspective, joining the Alliance would mean a significant change in political structure and implied that the Alliance would have to treat the residents of those worlds as its own citizens.

Political reforms, economic reforms, changes in welfare benefits—all these things would have to be addressed.

Otherwise, wouldn’t that be tantamount to obtaining them for nothing?

Of course, with this whole set of changes, the world would eventually be digested as part of the Alliance.

However, digestion takes time, not to mention that the initial phase would require significant investment.

The Alliance itself had already issued a level three mobilization order.

The fact that consumer spending was just barely maintained was already quite impressive, as a large amount of production shifted from civilian goods to military and heavy industry, resulting in a halt to improvements in the quality of life for the populace.

The increase in production capabilities was mainly directed at all war-related industries, with significant reductions in the production of civilian vehicles, home appliances, and the like.

Under these circumstances, asking the Alliance to shoulder the burden of rebuilding worlds ravaged by war was a task that wouldn’t see returns in the short term.

It was out of the question.

At least until after the war was over.

The Seven Horse Treaty model was already a good arrangement.

This was a treaty that emphasized the concept of a military alliance.

The Alliance would not interfere with the political and economic development of the signing planets, requiring only unity in military command.

That is, the Alliance wouldn’t manage how civilians lived on the planets, the structure of the governments, or the economic development.

The Alliance only cared about collecting Imperial Taxes to fight the Green Skins; ensuring that the local Defense Army’s numbers and quality met certain standards and accepted the unified coordination and command of the United Fleet’s headquarters; and levying a special war tax when necessary.

All this was for the sake of war.

Fighting the Green Skins was the responsibility of all governors and leaders; it was unreasonable for the Alliance to bear the brunt alone.

Just sign the Seven Horse Treaty already.

If not, fine, if the Green Skins can’t reach you because I’ve held them off, the Alliance can still fight you.

Normally, Gu Hang couldn’t deal with a Planetary Governor from a star sector away, let alone the head of a star sector.

He had previously handled Extinct Soil Star under the guise of capturing pirates, and indeed he obtained evidence of the governor of Extinct Soil colluding with the pirates, which led to Gu Hang disposing of him.

However, because of this, the Cultivating Horse Star Sector had not refrained from negotiations and verbal exchanges and even complained to the Star Domain Government.

The actual harm wasn’t significant, but it was quite annoying.

But now, it was a different matter altogether.

If Gu Hang could confront the Star Domain Government, what else needed to be feared?

In fact, once Yelisia’s fleet had swept through the thirteen star systems of the Mist Horse Star District, ensuring that this district joined the framework of the Seven Horse Territory, her fleet would continue westward into East Garden III, entering the territory of the Purple Horse Sector.

As of yet, the Purple Horse Sector had not been invaded by the Green Skins.

This sector had a population of thirty-eight billion, making it the second most populous in the Seven Horse Territory, after Eagle Horse.

The leadership of Purple Horse had always found excuses to avoid joining the Seven Horse Treaty, claiming that the Purple Horse Sector had been suffering from severe rebellion.

Rebels even went so far as to seize the starport and the small shipyard on Ancient Silver Star.

The rebels’ land forces caused them great distress, and the proliferation of pirates also endangered the safety of the Purple Horse Sector.

They simply could not join the Seven Horse Treaty and concentrate the sector’s forces on fighting the Green Skin Orcs.

Gu Hang accepted their reasoning.

The United Fleet led by Yelisia, along with nearly twenty million Alliance Army troops, entered the Purple Horse Sector to help the Purple Horse leadership quell the rebellion.

Either, after the rebellion within Purple Horse was suppressed, the entire Purple Horse Sector would sign the Seven Horse Treaty.

Or, if they were lying and deceiving the Alliance, ignoring the overall strategy of the star domain against the Iron-teeth Greenskins, the Alliance would come to administer justice, and then the new leaders and governors would likely understand the Alliance’s goodwill and eventually join the framework of the Seven Horse Treaty.

Either way, the Purple Horse Sector had the freedom to choose.

They could decide how they wanted to join the Seven Horse Treaty.

Gu Hang awaited good news from the Purple Horse Sector.

Should the situation turn dire, Gu Hang neither wanted nor intended to start a civil war while external threats remained unaddressed.

He had already provided Yelisia with some additional personnel to assist her and had also allowed her to learn from the methods the Empire used when dealing with disobedient, inefficient, or non-tax-paying Planetary Governors.

These included techniques from the Empire Legal Affairs Department and the Imperial Inquisition.

These two Imperial organizations had ample experience in handling Planetary Governors, and Gu Hang felt they were worth studying closely.

If the Empire had to send a large army to suppress every world that did not pay or inadequately paid Imperial Tax, they would certainly be overwhelmed.

Too many to handle.

Trial, bribery, assassination, subversion, and coups…

these methods, coupled with small-scale military suppression and support for new spokespersons and interest groups…

Were all good strategies.

And now, these tasks were entrusted to Yelisia and the various departments of the Alliance officials accompanying her, while Gu Hang himself was busy with something else.

The rewards from the Steel Wing Star battle had been settled for him.

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Some people asked where the star map came from.

I drew it myself with Photoshop!

I had considered using the game Stellaris, but it wasn’t quite suitable, so I decided to draw one in the style of Stellaris myself.