Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 310

310. Chapter 309, Administration

recovered western part of the continent was divided into three provinces, namely Baojun Province, Gushu Province, and Peninsula Province.

The names were actually chosen very casually. Baojun is the area where Blackbird City is located, and the name was taken from the past name of the ruins of the city here in the pre-war era; ‘Gushu’ is the northeastern part of the continent, there is a big ancient tree that makes people a little surprised, so it was simply called this name; Peninsula is the southwest part, there is a protruding peninsula.

The three provinces have a total population of more than 13 million.

In fact, according to past records, it should be nearly 20 million. But firstly, there may be problems with past statistics, and secondly, under the rule of Blackbird Heavy Industry, a large number of people were transformed into unconscious cyborgs, either died in past operations, died in labor, or died in the war with the alliance.

As for now, there are only 11 million left. The other two million were migrated to the heartland of the alliance during the war, along with the supply convoys that came back.

These relocated populations were mainly supplemented in two places – Weixing City and Beiqinggu Province. They

are also the two areas with the greatest demand for labor.

Weixing City is naturally an industrial center, and the explosive development of the industry has created a black hole for the demand for labor.

Beiqinggu area is not much better. The per capita output value there is quite high, but this output value is brought about by the huge per capita cultivated area and heavy labor. Even though Beiqinggu has almost achieved full mechanization and industrialization of agricultural production, the average agricultural worker has too many fields to take care of, and the working hours remain high.

Of course, the agricultural workers in Qinggu area are fully motivated to do so. Their efforts can be rewarded under the alliance system. According to their total working hours and total output in the past year, almost all of them who work normally have received a personal rank promotion at the end of the year. It is common for the salary to be raised from E5 to E6, and even 30% of people have been directly promoted to E7.

The promotion from E5 to E6 means that the basic welfare and allowances have increased by 50%; the promotion to E7 is equivalent to doubling.

The welfare and allowances of the E5 level have far exceeded what they used to get when they were “serfs” on the plantation. They already lived like human beings. On this basis, an increase of half or even double will have a significant effect on improving living standards.

This is a reward for their hard work, but Gu Hang does not intend to let them maintain 14 hours a day or even more working hours forever.

The one million people coming from the three western provinces will be able to relieve some pressure.

As for reclaiming more land, more people are still needed.

At present, after the unification, there are more than 44 million people under the rule of the entire alliance, and the annual total output value has reached 52 million tax coins.

The per capita output value has exceeded 1, but it has just exceeded it.

The reason for this is mainly due to the uneven development of productivity in various parts of the Angry Owl Star.

Beiqing Valley and Weixing City are very high, but other areas have basically not exceeded 1.

According to the imperial tax standard, paying one-tenth of the tax is not only stress-free, but also more than enough.

At present, the per capita living consumption level under the rule of the alliance is about 0.6 tax coins/person/year. Objectively speaking, this is not a particularly high living standard, just enough to have enough food and clothing, and just short   of a well-off life .

But the public satisfaction is very high. Although not rich, it is much better than struggling on the survival line before.   Happiness is compared.   The current consumption scale of Quan Nu Xiaoxing is about 27 million tax coins, and theoretically there should be 25 million “surplus value”.   The administrative efficiency of the alliance is very high. From the 25 million surplus value, 15 million can be collected and entered into the alliance finance.   This is rare, and you will know it by comparison.   Korojia No. 3 has a population of 40 billion, an annual output value of at least 28 billion, and a per capita consumption of 0.3, with a surplus value of 16 billion tax coins. It stands to reason that it should be relatively easy to collect 4 billion imperial taxes per year.

But the Koroja government can’t do it at all. They can only collect more than 2 billion every year, and the rest depends on the population.

This is the difference in administrative efficiency.

The alliance is strong in this regard, mainly due to two reasons.

First, it is a system problem. Under the overall planned economy, the rentier class between the government and the producers has been greatly eliminated. Factory owners, plantation owners, entrepreneurs… these are essentially employees of the alliance government. The means of production do not belong to these managers, but to the alliance. Work enthusiasm is supplemented by job promotion and additional allowances.

There is no “collection” link here. All output is owned by the government and is subject to government allocation.

But if it is just like this, it is not enough.

The number of administrative personnel in the alliance is not large, but the efficiency is high. Thanks to the persistent anti-corruption and anti-malfeasance, as well as the incentive policy for administrative personnel, the entire society is currently operating in an efficient and clear political environment.

But even so, a large amount of output value has “disappeared” in the middle. There are 10 million tax coins, which have neither entered into regular resident consumption nor entered into the alliance’s finances.

There are many reasons for this. The biggest part is in the service industry. After all, the output value of the service industry is not calculated in the statistics of the alliance. After that, there are administrative costs, waste, spontaneous investment…

But no matter what, the current situation of the alliance is more than enough to deal with the imperial tax.

As long as one-third of the fiscal budget is reserved every year, some development investment is slowed down, and the pace is slowed down, the entire alliance will be able to enter a normal positive cycle of the imperial world.

But Gu Hang does not intend to do so.

Under his instructions, the fiscal budget of the alliance is still full, and there are even quite a few deficits.

It is mainly in production reinvestment.

Under the system of the alliance, although there is a certain amount of private investment, the government also encourages this behavior, but the overall development still depends on large-scale investment led by the official.

If you really want to slow down, the imperial tax will eat up a lot, and the military expenditure will eat up another part. The remaining investment is not enough. Gu Hang does not want to slow down the pace of development.

On the one hand, the industrial center still needs to continue to be built, and on the other hand, the economic level of other regions of the alliance needs to rise.

Of course, another important factor restricting the development of the entire planet is population.

For such a large planet, more than 40 million people are still too few.

It’s too slow to give birth on your own. Although many policies to encourage childbirth have been introduced, they are for the future. As for the present, immigration is still the most important way.

The two largest immigration channels are Black Arrow and Koroja 3.

According to Gu Hang’s plan, they will continue to introduce at least 10 million people from outside in the next two years.

This is also a big challenge for the Union Government.

Regardless of how Mr. Gu will do this at that time, government officials must do a good job of taking over such a large population. How to arrange the economy, how to clarify the identity politically, how to eliminate cultural differences…

There are many difficulties. As the Prime Minister of the Union, Ossena can only take a deep breath and bite the bullet to make plans.

(End of this chapter)