Jason Morgan is also a veteran of the league.
When the Alliance was just starting out on Ragestar, Jason Morgan was the head of the first province they established.
He is indeed a very capable person, and if nothing unexpected happens, his career should go smoothly.
Unfortunately, the biggest corruption scandal within the league that year occurred under his leadership. Although he himself was not at fault, he still bore the responsibility for the consequences, which greatly affected his subsequent career advancement.
Otherwise, he would already be a high-ranking official at the ministerial level in the central government of the alliance.
But he was, after all, a seasoned veteran, whose abilities had been continuously enhanced through the process of managing a planet and a sector. He did an especially good job during his tenure in the Steelfire Dragon Sector.
They secured an Alliance warcruiser, named after Ronglin Star, the capital of the Steelfire Dragons, thereby gaining considerable prestige and winning over the local population, making them proud of the Alliance. Afterwards, they established contact with the most important planet in the Steelfire Dragons region—the Forging World, Jindi Star.
In the past, under the conventional imperial system, although the many worlds of Steel Rathalos were under the jurisdiction of the empire, they were naturally greatly influenced by the Forging World due to their proximity to it.
That might not necessarily be a good thing.
The forging world's oil makers never really care about places outside their homeland. These places are the barriers protecting the forging world, the sources of various resources, the fiefdoms of knightly families, and the places of exile for those who lose in battles...
But ultimately, it's not a place that needs proper development.
The extensive and predatory management has hindered the development of these planets.
The league certainly won't allow this situation to continue.
The Mingyang Cult initially had reservations, but quickly dismissed them. All they wanted was security and abundant resources. The Alliance could provide both, so there was no need to continue controlling these planets.
In this matter, the advantage of the Steelfire Dragon Star District being so close to the Golden Star becomes apparent: they can undertake a considerable number of jobs serving the Golden Star, ranging from providing consumer goods to offering services and even exporting labor.
In addition, it can also receive a large amount of foreign investment from Jin Di Xing nearby, or introduce investment, and then take on some low-end industrial orders that can be done from Jin Di Xing.
In addition, it served as a transit point for trade between the Alliance and the Mingyang Sect...
Despite limited development funding in the Alliance Central Region, Jason Morgan effectively leveraged the geographical advantages to rapidly industrialize and commercialize numerous worlds within the Steelfire Dragon Star District.
After more than a decade of development, the Steelfire Dragon Star Region has become the second largest region in the Dragon Eagle Starfield, after Seven Horse Land and Yunluo Center. It is showing signs of becoming a third center. Its development momentum is no longer limited to the Steelfire Dragon Star Region itself, but extends to two or three surrounding star regions that were previously under the influence of the Mingyang Sect.
Jason Morgan's outstanding leadership played a crucial role in this series of tasks.
For local officials who are capable, qualified, and have made achievements, promotion is a natural consequence.
Past stains can no longer stop him from taking another step forward.
Now, he has taken office as the star region commander of the Fox Moon Star Region.
The first thing to do upon arriving in the Fox Moon Starfield is to thoroughly analyze the fundamentals of Fox Moon and the goals you want to achieve, so that you can know how to proceed with your work.
His most important and core goal is to increase productivity.
Whether he wants to ensure that the Fox Moon Star Region government has more fiscal surplus or improve the overall quality of life of the people in the Fox Moon Star Region, he needs stronger productivity support.
To increase productivity, it is necessary to enhance the newly formed Alliance Star Region Government's control over the entire star region.
Those local forces, whether companies, landlords, feudal lords, or the remnants of the imperial bureaucracy... In Jason Morgan's eyes, they were all stumbling blocks to his development of productivity. He wished he could sweep them all away in one fell swoop, and then send civil servants and political officials from the core of the alliance to take over the entire star field so that he could paint smoothly.
But obviously, that's impossible.
If these groups were to be eradicated, it would take an unknown number of years. It's not that it's impossible, but it would take too long. By then, his achievements in the Fox Moon Starfield would not be considered merely insignificant; he might even greatly disappoint the Alliance Central Committee.
If we want to bring the power of the entire star field under our control as quickly as possible, then negotiation, compromise, and exchange of benefits are essential.
Even if you have to hold your nose, you have to bear it.
We must be patient for the sake of the country.
Jason Morgan is quite experienced in this regard.
A large part of his work experience over the past few decades has been dealing with stubborn conservative interest groups.
In particular, many of the experiences are applicable because the political environments they face are similar: the area he takes office in is newly occupied by the Alliance, and the Alliance has full authority over this land.
In the past, Gu Hang was the head of state of the Dragon Eagle Star Region, appointed by the Imperial Central Committee. Jason Morgan, as the appointed star region leader, naturally held the highest legitimacy. Currently, in the Fox Moon Star Region, he is also the star region head appointed by Gu Hang, the chairman of the Space Region, and his legitimacy is equally assured.
Moreover, the Fox Moon Starfield was conquered by the Alliance through force. Although this is not the main battlefield, the daily battle report allows anyone of any standing in the Fox Moon Starfield to clearly see the changing situation.
Whether it was the Ironclad Group or the Alfonso Cult, in the eyes of these local powers, they were like gods.
Now they've all been crushed by the league.
The insect swarm war that swept across thousands of worlds in the Spiderweb Universe terrified them. Even the slightest spillover effects and infection had already caused these local powers immense headaches.
They knew that in other star systems within the Spiderweb Domain, the infection was far more severe than what they had encountered. Even so, the Alliance had suppressed it all, and despite being at a disadvantage, they had annihilated the Zerg swarm.
The war lasted for fifteen years. The duration was secondary; the key was the intensity of the fighting during those fifteen years, which was simply beyond imagination!
With everything settled, the alliance victorious, and Gu Hang gaining the most legitimate right to rule, how could the local forces in the Fox Moon Starfield possibly harbor any thoughts of opposing the alliance?
Even though the military force that the alliance has deployed to the Fox Moon Starfield is not large in scale, they are still quite well-behaved.
This was also evident in the very warm welcome Jason Morgan received after he, as the leader of the star system, settled in the Fox Moon Star System.
This mentality greatly facilitated Jason Morgan's work. Regardless of what the leaders of the local factions were really thinking deep down, at least on the surface, everyone was very polite, even obsequious. A significant number of them genuinely recognized the clear trend and desperately wanted to latch onto the league's powerful backing.
I am loyal, and I also want to improve!
However, revolution is not a dinner party. Reforms that involve alliances will genuinely harm these interest groups.
In fact, the alliance reform aims to dismantle these groups and essentially revolutionize their very existence.
If the alliance reforms are implemented, the leaders of the interest groups will receive preferential treatment, be immediately promoted to high positions, have no worries about food and drink, and even be able to maintain a relatively luxurious lifestyle.
However, the income from the new job title is incomparable to the income from the past.
In the past, some groups controlled an entire planet, some controlled a cross-stellar caravan, and some controlled monopolistic industries on multiple planets...
In short, it means exploiting tens of millions, hundreds of millions, or even billions of people, or monopolizing an entire market or a certain resource in the entire star system.
How much would that cost?
That would require a tremendous amount of power.
Fine clothes and sumptuous food? A life of luxury? It's not just that! There's also a supreme position, second only to the emperor and above hundreds of millions of people! Authority to decide life and death, to decide the fate of the world with a single word!
Even if you just give someone a job title, even if it's just an A-level, their personal income in taxes is only a few thousand dollars a year... That's a huge difference.
Even so, do you still want to improve?
Most things will still improve.
Otherwise, if we don't make progress, are we just waiting to be overthrown?
While they are at a disadvantage morally, militarily, although the alliance has deployed relatively few troops, it is more than capable of suppressing individual forces. Even if they were truly capable of uniting and igniting a rebellion that would sweep across the star field, the final result would undoubtedly be the arrival of the alliance's main force for a more powerful suppression, and they would still be crushed in the end.
no need.
Even if someone is overthrown, it doesn't mean they are truly dead.
The experienced Jason Morgan knew exactly where to draw the line between these interest groups' weaknesses, their most painful but not entirely unacceptable bottom lines, applying pressure in a way that seemed extreme but was actually quite safe.
Giving up one bottom line is equivalent to giving up all bottom lines.
They dealt with some of the most stubborn ones;
They suppressed some of those who had a poor attitude towards cooperation and those who were outwardly compliant but inwardly defiant.
Offer incentives to those who cooperate well, such as retaining their assets and allowing all members to be promoted to higher-ranking positions within the alliance. The original controllers can then continue to control the transformed company. This also allows them to take over some of the assets and market share left behind by the more entrenched members.
Both the stick and the carrot are there, along with the unstoppable momentum, and Jason Morgan's own wealth of experience and shrewd methods...
In short, everything progressed quite rapidly, albeit with some difficulties.
The political problem is essentially a problem of distribution.
Jason Morgan spent half a year waging political battles, which, to put it bluntly, was to regain as much of the power to distribute the spoils in the Fox Moon Star Region as possible. He transformed the previous situation where interest groups took the lion's share, the government took a small share, and the general populace lived in misery, into a situation where the alliance government took the lion's share, the living standards of the people generally improved under the rationing system based on job rank, and the interest groups were brutally suppressed and dismantled.
This situation is definitely unstable and can only be maintained through the power of the alliance.
But it doesn't matter, as long as power works.
No matter how great the contradictions caused by reforms may be, they can be effectively contained within the unbreakable pressure cooker of the "alliance of powerful nations" and prevented from erupting.
As long as it doesn't erupt too quickly, Jason Morgan is confident that he can find a pressure relief valve and gradually release the pressure over a longer period of time.
To be more specific, it cultivates new interest groups—countless individuals who benefit from the new hierarchical system, and countless others who, through subsequent promotions, climb to high positions they never dared to dream of before. These include bureaucrats, new entrepreneurs, technically skilled civil servants, and groups of engineers…
If they can't rebel now, then as time goes by, as the alliance's rank system becomes more deeply ingrained, and as the alliance's culture is widely promoted, these reactionaries will become increasingly unable to rebel.
The responsibility for this kind of cultural promotion and public education fell to his wife.
Heather Morgan is also a veteran of the League. Back then, it was she who strongly persuaded Jason Morgan to join the League and pursue a political career.
Later, Heather herself became the Director of Ideological Education at the first Loyal Succession Academy on Wrathful Owl Star. She later became the principal, and then joined the Alliance's Department of Education.
She and Jason Morgan lived apart for a long time when Jason Morgan went to work in the Steelfire Dragon District.
For those ten years or so, the two could only keep in touch through letters exchanged during the transport of supplies, plus the occasional communication via the Star Language Tower.
The round trip from Pegasus Star Region to Steelfire Dragon Star Region takes a month. Given the nature of their jobs, taking a month off to travel is incredibly difficult. They've only met twice in between, both times using Haier's saved-up vacation days to see Jason.
It was only thanks to the Alliance's efforts in developing the intergalactic civil aviation industry during the war that we could have seen such things.
Jason worried that their relationship might deteriorate due to their long-distance separation.
Heather sensed this, and during her first meeting with him, she said something that Jason Morgan remembered vividly:
"The extent of your contribution to the league proves how much you love me."
No wonder he comes from an ideological education background, and no wonder he was a professor who trained political commissars at the Zhongsi Academy.
This time, Heles was also appointed. The organization generally prefers to keep families together, and coincidentally, in the Fox Moon Starfield, there's a need to establish an education system radiating eastward from there into the Spiderweb Universe.
Helesi followed.
She will establish the Loyal Heir Academy to train a new generation of Alliance members in the local area.
She will also establish cultural and promotional organizations to publicize the alliance's glory to the people.
Movies, television programs, radio, newspapers, novels, music... all are media that can be utilized.
With multiple approaches combined and the husband and wife working together, the future of the Fox Moon Star Region will surely be brighter!