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Chapter 4 Rostov II

Stepping out of the warship, Chen Xi brought his two teams of fully armed attendants to the slipway of a star port.

The people who came to greet him had been waiting for a long time, and the leader was a woman who looked very capable.

Chen Xi went up to her and greeted her, "I am Chen Xi, the Inquisitor of the Anti-Foreign Order. I have been appointed by the Great Divine Emperor to serve as the Planetary Governor of this planet. Please tell me who you are, ma'am."

The woman is wearing a dark blue coat. Although this outfit is somewhat masculine for a woman, it also shows her capable side.

However, the way this woman greeted Chen Xi made his eyes twitch.

The other party saluted Chen Xi with the Star Army salute, instead of the Imperial Sky Eagle salute commonly used on such occasions.

"Hello, Your Excellency the Inquisitor. I am Rachel Olivia, the Prime Minister appointed by the previous Governor-General. I have served as the political commissar of the Rostov II Planetary Defense Force. In the future, I will assist you in managing this planet, all for the God-Emperor!" Rachel introduced herself to Chen Xi, standing at attention the whole time, allowing Chen Xi to see at a glance that she had received rigorous military training.

It is somewhat abstract that a former political commissar of the Planetary Defense Force serves as the Palace Prime Minister.

But considering that the administrators of this planet are mainly an entire retired interstellar military corps, Chen Xi did not think it was a big problem.

It is normal for the Star Army Corps to retain a certain level of military proficiency, and this also makes Chen Xi have more expectations for the planetary defense force of this planet.

You must know that those who can become interstellar troops are the elite among the elite mortals. If the planetary defense forces they train can inherit some of the combat power, they can be handed over to the empire as a tithe to become the new interstellar troops.

If the planetary defense force is used to pay the tithe, it means that the planet does not have to pay other tithes.

This matter is very important. After all, in the empire, only death and paying taxes are inevitable. Even death can be avoided in this world, but paying tithes cannot.

"For the Emperor!" Chen Xi also gave a standard response at this time, and then performed a Sky Eagle salute.

This is a way of expressing politeness and completing the greetings.

Afterwards, under Rachel's guidance, Chen Xi followed her towards the starport, and the PDF she brought followed behind Chen Xi.

"Please introduce me to this planet under our feet. I don't know much about it. I heard that this is a newly developed imperial world?" Chen Xi asked Rachel, trying to obtain more information and understand the world he was about to rule.

At the same time, this is also a test of Rachel's ability and attitude, a test of whether she can speak with substance, and what is her attitude and the attitude of the forces she represents towards herself as the governor.

"Rostov II is a desert world with only a few oases and water sources. However, according to the survey of the Mechanicum, the planet's underground water reserves are still considerable. If mined in a planned way, it can meet the planet's most basic water needs." Rachel introduced the situation to Chen Xi and made further explanations: "There are currently two cities on the planet. One is the planetary capital, and the city you are going to next. It has the same name as the planet, Rostov City. This city originated from the Astra Militarum and their families who originally immigrated to this planet. The other city belongs to the State Religion. A pilgrim group of the State Religion chose this planet as the end point of their pilgrimage and believed that the mission entrusted to them by the Emperor was to build this city.

Under the governance of the previous governor, both cities are currently developing well, and the relationship between the two cities is also good."

"It sounds okay. So what are the main sources of income for these two cities? And what is the food self-sufficiency rate of the planet? Does the former governor have any development plans?" Chen Xi was still satisfied with the current situation of the planet. At least it was not the kind of planet where forces were intertwined, all kinds of monsters were rampant, and even the planet itself had to face various crises.

You have to know that in the Empire Million World, there are places where even the Ministry of the Interior doesn't bother to care, and everything is OK as long as you pay taxes.

There are even some more perverted worlds that existed before the establishment of the Empire, such as the famous Necromunda. There are a thousand hive cities in this place, and each hive city has a population ranging from 5 million to 10 billion. It has stood in the galaxy for eight thousand years before the Emperor launched the Great Crusade.

One can imagine how excellent this place is, and how high the requirements are for a planetary governor to govern such a planet.

Fortunately, Old Man Huang did not give Chen Xi such a hellish start, but instead chose a world that was relatively easy and suitable for starting with.

"Rostov II currently has no stable source of income. The costs for planetary development and construction come from special approval from the Ministry of the Interior. After the state religion pilgrims established a city here, some pilgrims came to worship, and their arrival brought a certain amount of income. However, because Rostov II is located in a remote area and the entire star region is a newly expanded area that was only developed in the last two hundred years, there are not many pilgrims." Obviously, Rachel or the ruler of this planet is also troubled by this problem.

"It seems that the first problem I need to solve is to find a stable source of income for this planet?" Chen Xi said half-jokingly and half-seriously.

"It would be great if you could find a stable source of funds for Rostov II!" Rachel was obviously not optimistic about this, but she did not show it obviously.

Chen Xi was not surprised by this. After all, finding financial resources for an entire planet was not an easy task.

However, leaving aside this topic, Chen Xi was more concerned about the planet's food self-sufficiency rate.

Although the people of the empire are usually not treated as human beings, and even their corpses can be used to make corpse starch to feed them, or even corpse starch made from promethium extracts can be used, the food self-sufficiency rate is still an issue that needs attention.

Otherwise, if the food supply is interrupted for some reason one day, it will be a big problem.

It’s not that they are afraid of people starving to death, but they are afraid that people who are about to starve to death will attract Nurgle.

"Thanks to the help of a biological sage from the Mechanicum, the food self-sufficiency rate is currently around 40%. As for the shortfall, the Imperial merchant fleet is transporting food from an agricultural world in another sub-sector. The Ministry of the Interior has already paid for a hundred years of food for Rostov II, and there are probably thirty years left. You don't have to worry about food for the time being." Rachel told Chen Xi a piece of news that was neither good nor bad.

(End of this chapter)