Starting from the Planetary Governor-Chapter 1612 - 911: Little Primordial Body

Gu Hang finished reading the last report on the table, and at that moment, the pen controlled by spiritual energy simultaneously completed the annotations for twenty-four reports, setting them aside.

Thus, today’s administrative work was done.

At least the paperwork was finished.

But it didn’t mean Gu Hang could relax.

In fact, he hadn’t had a moment of leisure in a long time.

Sometimes he recalled the time before he arrived in this universe. Back then, he would only feel sympathy for those working 9-9-6, thinking that such work intensity was absolutely unbearable for him. Earning more money without any time for rest and entertainment—what was the point?

At that time, he couldn’t have imagined that one day he would adhere to a 0-0-7 working system.

It wasn’t a joking 0-0-7, but a real one.

Gu Hang hadn’t taken a rest for a long time.

His body, which had long transcended the ordinary, wouldn’t feel fatigued; his mind, filled with endless spiritual energy, could always think at full capacity without error; his psychological state could always maintain optimal condition, never feeling annoyed due to exhaustion...

That’s the theory.

But in reality, day after day, year after year, although he was ’not tired’, he occasionally couldn’t help but ponder—back when The Emperor was around, perhaps he too had to carry out unceasing work like himself? Surely, he was someone who never felt tired? How did he manage those years?

Or perhaps he occasionally experienced some fatigue, thinking, ’To hell with it, we’ve come this far, why shouldn’t I enjoy myself a bit?’

Don’t even mention Slaanesh’s corruption.

Though this deserves high vigilance, often such thoughts don’t stem from desire. Or even if they do, there’s no energy for indulgence. Just wanting to find a place to watch the sea, the sunset, the sunrise, the stars, letting the mind go blank—doing nothing, thinking nothing, is already a luxurious thing.

In this regard, so-called corruption is different.

However, even so, Gu Hang would swiftly discard these thoughts once they arose.

The current state of the Alliance, the Empire, and humanity leaves no room for the slightest negligence.

His time is almost entirely filled with no respite.

Certainly, he has a vast bureaucratic system that forms the Alliance Government to execute his will. Thanks to ’plug-ins’, oversight, ideals, and the system, this bureaucratic structure can still maintain a certain level of purity, making huge progress compared to the Empire’s traditional bureaucracy, and it might be called a group of administrative operations.

He also has a transferred group of officers responsible for frontline warfare. They possess professional skills and have accumulated sufficient experience in long-term warfare. In most cases, they perform quite well.

In such circumstances, Gu Hang seems only to need to hold the right direction while letting his government and army execute the specific tasks.

However, it’s easier said than done—what exactly is ’big direction’?

When a ruler’s dominion involves tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of worlds, with a population reaching millions of billions, thinking strategically about the so-called ’big direction’ becomes extraordinarily complex.

Gu Hang couldn’t help but doubt the saying of The Emperor about ’entrusting the Human Empire to humanity’—did it undergo thorough deliberation?

How can a mortal ruler, regardless of their excellence and strength, govern such an Empire single-handedly?

This is an issue impossible to solve just by increasing the number of rulers. Merely growing the number of rulers is most likely to result in mutual accusations and hindrances rather than collective effort, decreasing efficiency instead.

Just look at the High Lords on Terra.

One authority, one person in charge, is undoubtedly the best.

But then comes the question: how can ’one person’ govern the entire Human Empire effectively?

In Gu Hang’s view, the political condition of the Empire over the millennia is actually a huge regression in governance. Essentially, the Empire nearly abandoned centralization, ’imperial power not reaching rural areas’, with the Empire’s power rarely extending to planets, or to Star Sectors. The Central Empire has very few effective direct governance and management of star domain-level administrative institutions.

In people’s eyes, the Empire system, similar to feudalism, allows various ’lords’ to dominate, with Planetary Governors able to dictate all matters on their planet akin to sovereigns; Star Domain Heads are like powerful provincial lords; Cosmic Domain Chairs resemble regional Alliance Leaders—this political stance is easily understandable.

Without effective direct governance from the Central Empire, devolution to localities has to occur. Then, try to either ally with or intimidate the Alliance Leaders and lords, barely maintaining the Human Empire’s ramshackle state for millennia.

Frankly, from this perspective, The Emperor has tried his best.

Without his ascension and his establishment of the Empire with his great achievements, ultimately forming the Human Empire’s collective spiritual will community with his divinized status as a religious belief, forcibly holding the Empire together... If not for this, the Empire would have long shattered into countless pieces.

Regardless of how inefficient, dark, ignorant, or corrupt one may deem the Empire’s rule... all negative terms can be thrown at the Empire, but no matter what, the Empire’s collective existence is indispensable. If the Human Empire were to collapse, it wouldn’t survive these ten thousand years.

Extinction? Hard to say, but at least a complete collapse.

This is the value of the Empire’s existence.

And currently, within the Alliance, Gu Hang is crafting an upgraded version of the Human Empire.

Gu Hang once gleaned snippets from Robert’s passing comments and some ancient documents from the foundation era of grand expedition millennia ago.

They refer to it as a ’bright era’, ’believing in reason, believing in science’, starkly different from the current Empire.

Gu Hang doesn’t know if his Alliance has reached the image of the Empire during the foundation grand expedition period millennia ago, nor does he know if it has some older, so-called human Golden Age image...

But achieving the current state, Gu Hang has already exerted himself to the utmost.

Of course, he’s aware of some imperfections within the Alliance, but regardless, the Dark Side Expedition is continuously advancing, the internal economy of the Alliance is developing, and overall, people’s living standards are rising...

He can’t do any better.

Moreover, while focusing on economic construction, political construction, and military expeditions, Gu Hang has many other tasks to address.

For instance, the secret research he initiated over a decade ago has yielded results.

Based on the Phoenix’s genetics, the final transplantation experiment on Martins, whom he summoned back, is considered... a half-success.

Gu Hang is relatively cautious, not making a grand spectacle nor successfully creating a true ’Son of God’, ’Father of Genetics’ in reverse.

However, Martins has gained certain uniqueness.

Gu Hang refers to it as the ’Little Primordial Body’.