The so-called award is to commend Gu Hang's outstanding performance in the Battle of Koroga as the commander of the theater.

The atmosphere of the award ceremony was very formal, but it was not too complicated or grand.

Gu Hang was wearing a military uniform, took the paperwork from the representative of the Astral Army, and pinned the medal to his chest, this matter was over.

It's a bit wrong to bring a medal to yourself, but that's the end of the occasion.

The people who came from the Star Domain and the Celestial Domain did not have high-ranking officials. The representative of the Astral Army, who is also a civilian lieutenant colonel, makes it even stranger for him to give the award.

Gu Hang simply came by himself.

After a brief exchange of pleasantries with these guests, they were also entertained by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and rested for a few days before returning home.

And Gu Hang has since become a lieutenant general of the Astral Army, and won the Glorious Medal.

This is the second level of the Empire's five-level medal, and although it is only one level higher than the Warrior Medal, it is actually a great honor.

In fact, as long as it is an 'Imperial Medal', no matter what level it is, the gold content is very high.

It's not the same thing as the Pheasant Medal from some planets and other interstellar organizations. There are only five medals that are common in all fields throughout the empire. Even if it is the lowest-level warrior medal, if the Star Marines have won it, they will hang it on their shoulder armor and breastplate as an honor.

But when it comes to actual value, there is none. Although there are those who have made great contributions, they are awarded medals, and then they are rewarded with a planet or something, or they have a particularly high political status, but that is not attached to the medal, but the value of the merit itself. The medal is purely an honor.

Gu Hang couldn't help but complain, the medal of the alliance was still paid! What revival medals, wind extinguishing medals, and third-class combat meritorious service medals are all issued for a lifetime with additional allowances, unless they are deprived of the medal for later crimes, then it is another matter.

However, Gu Hang still happily put away his glorious medal.

In the future, when I go out and hang it on my chest, it will still be quite face-saving.

In addition, Gu Hang's military rank has also been promoted.

At the beginning, the war apostle Gallardo engaged in the wave of commotion, which turned Gu Hang into the commander of the Angry Bear Legion, and also got the rank of major general.

At that time, his military rank was a bit unworthy of the name. Major General of the Astral Army, which one does not command the last army? The size of a group army is more than a million people, to say the least. When the Angry Bear Legion was first established, there were only about 100,000 people, and the scale of two or three masters was a bit enough for even a brigadier general.

The current Angry Bear Legion is on the scale of more than a million people, and the commander of the legion deserves the rank of major general.

But Gu Hang's identity is not only that, although the Koroga Theater is a temporary setting, but as the commander of the theater, Gu Hang nominally commanded half of the Pegasus fleet, a whole group of army groups of the Dragon Eagle Legion, plus the local planetary defense forces, and the result was only the rank of major general, which was a bit small - below him, Hans, who had to obey his orders, was a lieutenant general.

As a result, Gu Hang's military rank was promoted to lieutenant general - the Astral Army sequence.

Gu Hang continued to complain: Why is the battle over, and now I think that my military rank is not appropriate?

The Empire's reaction speed ......

But no matter what, if you upgrade it afterwards, it's also an upgrade.

In the future, if Gu Hang goes out, or if there are any characters who come to the Angry Owl Star, the rank of lieutenant general in the Astral Army and the Imperial Glory Medal, these two things are put together, and they can be regarded as having a row.

However, Gu Hang was still thinking about another situation: the empire took the initiative to do this for him?

He wasn't convinced.

According to the value of these things, and according to Gu Hang's understanding of the political ecology of the empire, what is the reward for merit, it is just a matter of talking. If you don't go to activities, don't fight for it, and don't have a backer, then it's really hard to say whether your credit is yours or not.

Gu Hang's achievements are not something that anyone can understand, but it is a bit difficult to want the empire to take the initiative to reward him, and the strength is not small.

But when it comes to backers, Gu Hang really thinks of two people.

One of them is Nair Loys.

But he soon ruled out that option.

Loys has a lot of real power, but his position is not high enough. belongs to the current management, and can fight for some tangible benefits for Gu Hang, but if he seeks the rank of lieutenant general and the imperial medal, it should not be able to exert much strength. The identity of the chief of the internal affairs of the star field is also not very relevant to what Gu Hang has obtained so far.

However, it seems that he has another backer.

Garraldo.

He pondered for a moment, and made a very complicated interstellar call through the Star Whispering Tower of the Angry Owl Star, and the target of the call was the Wuji Star, the capital of the Eastern Celestial Domain.

The Star Whispering Tower in his hand could only reach the Flying Wing Star where the capital of the star sector was located—it had already crossed two star systems and passed through two astral tunnels.

In order to contact Yunluo Star, where the Star Domain Government is located, you need to jump from the Star Whispering Tower system from Winged Star.

And if you want to get in touch with the capital planet of the Eastern Celestial Domain, you still need to jump from Yunluo Star once.

Light uses the Star Whisper Tower to find psionic channels, then apply for permission, get permission, jump to search, and then apply for permission...... This whole process is cumbersome.

Especially when looking for psionic channels, the more times and farther you jump, the more difficult it is to find in a complex psionic environment, and the greater the challenge for the work of the Star Whisperer.

The original Star Whisperer on the Raging Star couldn't do it.

Even if he was paired with dozens of psionic beings from the Storm Mage Regiment and filled up the strength of his psionic energy, he still wouldn't be able to jump to the capital of the Celestial Domain many times.

Ultra-long-distance star communication, the requirements for the star whisperer, in addition to the strength of psionic energy, a stronger ability to search for signals is also important.

The current star whisperer of the angry owl belongs to what he can't do.

It is not possible to throw this guy into the Alliance's Storm Mage Academy to further his studies, he has no potential.

This guy was sent to him by Gu Hang's mother, in fact, the Star Whisperer Tower was also given by his mother, and the Star Whisperer was sent together. I used to think he was a high-tech talent, but later I found out that this guy is just at this level, he has neither talent nor ambition, and he just wants to eat and wait for death.

There's no problem, Gu Hang is still very tolerant of this. No matter how much you can do, just work normally, and Gu Hang will not ask for more for the rest of your ability.

However, for Star Communication, Gu Hang has a realistic demand.

When the alliance's stall spreads bigger and bigger, the demand for external communication will definitely increase.

Moreover, the communication of stars to fixed planets is already the simplest. Even harder, against the long-sailing fleet.

If you want to make a phone call to Wuji Star now, it's so difficult, and the war fleet itself is in a remote star area, constantly moving, and may enter a state of silence from time to time—such as the Pegasus fleet to which Gu Hang's fiancée Yelicia belongs, isn't it even more difficult to contact?

This is indeed the case.

This piece needs to be strengthened.

On the one hand, it is the quality construction of the Star Whisperers, and on the other hand, it is the technical level of the Star Whispering Tower.

The two complement each other. Awesome Star Whisperers can use rotten equipment to connect directly to Holy Terra; A rotten Star Whisperer with a good enough Star Whisperer can at least contact a place outside the Celestial Domain.

While thinking about the direction in which the alliance would strengthen its development in the future, Gu Hang's psionic perception followed the signal of the Star Language Tower, and connected to the transfer station of the Flying Wing Star, and then connected to the Yunluo Star, and then looked for the Wuji Star.

There's no way, his subordinates can't do it, so Gu Hang has to go on his own.

He is not the same as the star whisperer who has been on duty for a long time on the angry star, he is a serious S-level psionic person, and the strength of his psionic energy is not a grade. Although, his disadvantage is that he has not undergone professional star talker training, but he has time to practice - he has enough capital to try.

Then, the process of making a phone call wasted a full day of his time.

It's okay to receive the phone call from Wujixing, it only took two hours, but after calling, Gu Hang got the news that Garardo is no longer in Wujixing.

This is not consistent with the news Gu Hang got last time.

Gallardo must have taken a clipper ship to the capital of the Empire, the home planet of humanity: Holy Terra.

It should have been a year and a half since he left Wujixing. At the speed of the ship he was on, Garardo should have arrived at Holy Terra long ago.

So, Gu Hang called Divine Terra again.

This was far away, and it took Gu Hang a whole day.

After going through this wave, Gu Hang's proficiency in the operation of star calls has been greatly improved.

Next time I call Wujixing, it should only take an hour to get it; Hit the Holy Terra, and it will take seven or eight hours at most.

Of course, even if this is the case, the time is actually a bit unacceptable. Where did Gu Hang spend so much effort on the phone?

In the future, unless there is a better Star Whisperer, a better Star Whisperer, and Gu Hang can be the telephone operator himself, otherwise, it is not an extremely important thing, and he will definitely not make any ultra-long-distance interstellar calls.

In fact, this time he actually regretted it. He felt as if he didn't have anything special to say to Gallardo.

It's just that when he reached the middle, time had already been invested, and the sunk cost was too high, so he gritted his teeth and persevered, which was supposed to be a workout for himself.

But when the phone call was connected, Gu Hang felt that the information obtained from this phone call was still very valuable.

"I'm still wondering how long it will take for this call to come." On the other side, Gallardo's flirtatious voice sounded, with an intimacy that he hadn't seen for a long time.

"Only those who bestow the medal will be the angry star. As soon as I saw them, I wanted to communicate with you, but ...... Far away, please understand, it's really hard to get in touch with Holy Terra. ”

"I understand, I understand, but you'll ...... soon"

"Hello? Feed? ”

"Oh, I can hear you...... This damn call quality! After Gallardo complained and cursed, his tone returned to briskness, "I called a few star whisperers to come over and reinforce the call channel for us, it shouldn't be a big problem now!" ”

"Listening to you, it seems that you are also respected in Divine Terra?"

"Of course, who am I? I'm Pochoa Gallardo! ”

"Apostles of War ......"

"Don't call me an apostle of war, I'm not anymore." When he said this, Gallardo's mood was slightly depressed for a moment, but he was quickly infected by a new full emotion, "Now, please call me the Deputy Minister of the Imperial Military Department!" ”

Later, Gallardo added: "If nothing else, in half a year, I will be promoted to assistant minister of military affairs." ”

“！”

Gu Hang's exclamation was not fake.

The surprise that Galaardo brought to Gu Hang was even more significant than he imagined.

The prefix of the former war apostle 'Ministry of War' is Empire, without adding other affixes.

This means that he is referring to the Central Military Department of the Empire.

And what is the rank of the second chief?

The head of the Imperial Central Government is the Imperial Prime Minister, and the Imperial Military Prime Minister is one of the most important government positions under the Imperial Prime Minister, and at some times, such as the current era, the Military Prime Minister can be one of the thirteen members of the Supreme Council of Mankind.

In the Ministry of War, the Prime Minister is followed by the Deputy Prime Minister and the Assistant Minister, and then the Deputy Minister.

In the Ministry of Military Affairs, at the head of Gallardo, including the Prime Minister, there may be six or seven people in total; If he really sits as he said, and then sits as an assistant minister within half a year, then he can almost be regarded as the top five figures in the Ministry of Military Affairs, and in extreme cases, he can even be regarded as the third-in-command.

So, in this way, Gu Hang's 'good friend', Garardo, has become a serious senior official of the empire?

It is not a so-called 'war apostle' who relies purely on the authority of the Sun Lord to run amok, but in fact has no specific position, but a high-ranking official of the Empire.

This guy ...... How?

Gu Hang felt deeply surprised.

Beaming with pride, Gallardo roughly told Gu Hang about his experience during this period of time.

"Wait, you're ...... there"

"Don't worry, I'll be careful that our calls won't be eavesdropped." ”

He continued: "Let me think about where I am talking about......"

……

At the beginning, after Galaardo was fished out of the subspace by Gu Hang, when he heard that the Sun Lord delegation who came to save him hastily withdrew halfway, he realized that something had happened to the Sun Lord.

He ran away from the Pegasus Star Zone as soon as possible.

No matter how important the Pegasus Sector may seem, it is always located in a remote part of the Empire. He had to act while he had enough time.

No matter how the Sun Lord died, Gallardo, as a confidant, clearly understood that after the Sun Lord, no one could continue to maintain the Sun Expedition; The vast Sun Expeditionary Force, which has gathered almost the entire empire's elite, will also fall apart.

He had to find a way out for himself, otherwise someone like him, who had no military power, made money for the Sun Lord, and offended countless high-ranking officials in the empire, would surely be quickly purged in the first wave.

(End of chapter)