Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 337

337. Chapter 336: It’s Tax Season Again

Gu Hang and the senior officials of the alliance designed a series of political system plans and economic development plans for Black Arrow Star.

But many of these things are not effective immediately, but require long-term implementation and patience.

For example, completely eliminating the class of “nobles” and “landlords”;

such as population quality education;

such as copying the alliance’s system and implementing it completely on Black Arrow Star…

Many of these long-term policies have not been implemented in the past six months, let alone seeing results.

In this regard, the alliance has maintained sufficient strategic determination. There is no need to rush many things, just take it slowly.

In addition, some things that can be done immediately and have relatively little resistance have been implemented.

For example, agricultural mechanization, liberating the agricultural population, and establishing three industrial centers…

These have effectively solved many problems and brought a lot of benefits.

Especially the three industrial centers directly managed by the alliance government. In terms of construction specifications, they are all built according to the level of a population of tens of millions and an industrial diffusion chain that radiates 50 million people. Although it is impossible to accommodate 30 million industrial population at once, within half a year, these three industrial centers also began to operate due to the various equipment and technical guidance transported from the Angry Owl Star.

These three places did not have time to expand greatly within half a year, and the half-year construction and production period was not enough for them to contribute much wealth in this period of taxation.

But there is no doubt that when time is longer, their potential will gradually spread.

At the same time, since these industrial centers are newly built, a large number of people are attracted by government instructions or economic conditions. There is no residual influence of local forces. Everything starts from scratch and can be directly used. The ready-made management experience of the alliance can be used to do it. It can be regarded as jumping out of the cage of primitive feudal society and opening up a new world.

When these three industrial centers are well established, the relevant experience can continue to be replicated.

To put it bluntly, the alliance is not very afraid of the deep-rooted feudal remnants of “aristocrats” and “landlords” on the Black Arrow Star. When productivity develops and people’s lives are quickly freed from the land, those nobles and landlords will immediately feel the devastating blow of productivity development to their inherent rights.

What’s more, the Alliance government will intentionally promote this situation at multiple levels, such as administration and legislation.

For example, a large number of people have been relocated to industrial centers. What should the landlords do if they lack enough manpower to plant?

They can only sell or lease the land to the Alliance officials and establish collective farms owned by the government, and then mechanized agricultural production will begin.

This will lead to a large reduction in agricultural production costs, followed by a sharp drop in food prices. Many manor owners who continue to maintain the traditional feudal system find that the price of food has fallen so much that they can’t bear it, and it is very unprofitable to maintain more farmers to produce, so they can only sell the land or lease it to the Alliance.

This is normal economic logic. In order to facilitate all this to happen quickly, the Alliance has also established the independence and liberation of farmers through legislation and law enforcement. Those who dare to restrict farmers and do not give hired farmers the standard treatment of their designated ranks will all suffer an iron fist.

And what guarantees that all this can go on according to the will of the Alliance is a sufficiently loyal and powerful military force.

The Alliance Independent Commission Against Corruption led by Lambert is implemented by demon hunters; if demon hunters can’t do it well, there is still the army.

In just half a year, the “trend of the times” has already taken shape on Black Arrow Star. Anyone who can see a little further knows that Black Arrow Star has not only changed the sky, but also the land and people’s hearts.

Thanks to the efforts of the propaganda officials of the Alliance, the farmers who were originally confused can now say a few words, such as “We are all Alliance people”, “Hardworking hands can make you rich”, and “The people of the empire live and are equal”.

These are the changes that have taken place in just about half a year.

However, the Alliance government has another major task in this half year – the imperial tax.

The imperial tax is a tight curse that has never been relaxed on the head of every imperial world.

And this year, it is particularly difficult for the Alliance.

There is no need to worry about the imperial tax on Angry Owl Star, as it has been prepared for a long time.

Two years have passed, and the tax amount on Angry Owl Star is only 10 million tax coins. Although there is no star district government to help bear three-quarters of the tax this time, and the tax must be paid in full, but with the current productivity of Angry Owl Star, these taxes are not a problem.

The population of the current Angry Owl Star has continued to grow in the past two years and has reached about 65 million people. Most of them are of course immigrants absorbed from Koroga 3. Most of them were settled in the industrial center of Weixing City and the mechanized agricultural production industry in the Beiqing Valley area. A small number of them were added to other provinces.

According to the latest data, the annual industrial and agricultural output of the Angry Owl Star has reached hundreds of millions of tax coins. The fiscal surplus of the planetary government has also reached 30 million per year.

In the past two years, there has been a surplus of almost 40 million (not so much in the first year), so it is no problem to pay 10 million in taxes.

Moreover, it is not necessary to pay all.

There is the Star Army of the Angry Bear Legion in the Alliance. The expenses of the Alliance for the Angry Bear Legion can be deducted from taxes.

This is not a small amount.

First of all, before this, Gu Hang applied for the expansion of the Angry Bear Legion.

This is really not something Gu Hang did for tax deduction. The performance of the Alliance’s army on Korojia 3 is obvious to all. It was the people of the Fachers family and the commander of the Dragon Eagle 3rd Legion who hoped that the Angry Bear Legion could expand its organization and better support the war on Korojia 3.

Instead, Gu Hang severely reduced the number of expansions they requested. If

they expanded too much, they would have to send troops from the Alliance’s homeland, which would not be able to support them.

He just incorporated the six divisions and brigades that the Alliance’s original Central Army Group sent to Korojia into the Angry Bear Legion. Although five of them were the lowest garrison divisions, there were also elite troops such as the 59th Armored Brigade.

The total value of these six divisions and brigades was more than one million tax coins.

At the same time, some of the Angry Bear Legion’s troops had previously fought on the Black Arrow Star.

When the Alliance came to the Black Arrow Star Campaign, they came to “suppress the rebellion” and applied for support from the Star Realm Army, which received a response from the Angry Bear Legion.

All of this has legal procedures.

Including the battles on Black Arrow and Koroja 3, after two years of fighting, the Angry Bear Legion had a total of 180,000 people, with a loss of nearly 40,000, which the Alliance made up for.

In addition, the loss of technical equipment such as tanks and armored vehicles, ammunition and logistics…

all these costs, a total of 4 million tax coins.

The cost of the Angry Bear Legion alone offset 5 million.

In fact, the alliance only needs to pay 5 million.

Compared with the fiscal surplus of 40 million, it is a drizzle.

However, although everything on the Angry Owl Star is thriving, the Black Arrow Star is a big problem.

The tax amount that the Black Arrow Star has to pay for two years is 80 million tax coins.

If you want to do a good job of collecting taxes on a planet, you must not start preparing when the tax is due, otherwise it will be too late. In fact, in the past, Black Arrow Star was doing tax collection work almost every moment. The node

every two years was just the time to hand over the quota when the empire’s tax fleet arrived. In the past two years, there has been a war on Black Arrow Star. A large amount of resources have been consumed, and the alliance government has only recently recovered the planet in an all-round way, and a unified and powerful government has not yet been established. How to collect taxes? The alliance only

has half a year left.

Several countries that fought quickly or did not fight at all have a stable tax amount, which solved about 35 million; the many spoils of war that the army won in the war, the thorough elimination of some resisting nobles, and the plunder of the treasury of defeated countries such as Panbos, this part can also take out more than 20 million tax coins.

Then, it is to pay the human tax.

In the process of ruling the alliance, Gu Hang has emphasized a principle to senior government officials countless times, that is, paying human taxes is not advisable.

This will not only impact the credibility and stability of the government, but it is also very uneconomical. One person is worth five tax coins, but the value of a person’s life, in Gu Hang’s opinion, far exceeds this number.

If a person from a certain world cannot earn back these five tax coins, then the governor of this planet is doing a terrible job.

However, the situation on Black Arrow Star can be viewed with a little more ease.

Some people’s taxes are not for Gu Hang to collect people to hand over, but there are a group of “diehards” on the planet itself, as well as the problem of prisoners of war that was difficult to solve before.

Then just hand it over and be done with it, once and for all.

In the past, Black Arrow Star often used people to make up for the lack of tax payments.

Adding up all these, Black Arrow Star can solve the amount of about 60 million tax coins by itself.

There is still a difference of 20 million.

Then only Angry Owl Star can fill this hole.

From this perspective, the Alliance has lost a lot so far in conquering Black Arrow Star.

The army spends money on war, investment and construction, and the tax gap on Black Arrow Star has to be filled…

But Prime Minister Ossena has promised Gu Hang that the next time the tax is paid, that is, two years later, Black Arrow Star will be self-sufficient.

This is also her promise to Gu Hang, the ruler of the alliance, as the head of the government.

…

Half a year has passed quickly.

Neil Laois, the chief tax officer of the Dragon Eagle Star Region, came to the Tianma Star Region again on his star region tax circle tour.

According to the importance of the taxation of the entire star region, Laois generally only goes to Korojia and Feiyi Star in person. The tax amount to be paid by these two planets is about 4 billion tax coins. As long as we keep an eye on the situation of these two planets, the taxation work of the entire Tianma Star Region is almost completed.

At most, we will go to the three worlds of the Fache Star System to take a look, and the rest are all scraps.

In recent years, Governor Gu, who has made a great reputation in the star region, only has an annual tax amount of 5 million.

It’s pitiful.

Lao Yisi has never had the energy to pay attention to this kind of world. The last time she came to the Tianma Star Region and went to the Angry Owl Star for a tour, it was purely because of the request of the War Apostle.

But this time, there was no War Apostle, but Lao Yisi still came here

on her own initiative. The tax officer came to collect taxes, of course.

But it is not just to collect taxes.

In fact, she came here mainly to see Gu Hang.

The Angry Owl Star, 10 million tax coins in two years; the Black Arrow Star, 80 million tax coins in two years, add up to less than 100 million, which is a drop in the bucket for the tax fleet

. Moreover, she didn’t think Gu Hang would not be able to pay taxes.

“You think too highly of me.” Gu Hang was not worthy of the compliment. “Black Arrow Star has just joined the Alliance, and there are many things to be done. There are more than 400 million people there. This round of taxes will cost 80 million. I am under great pressure.”

Lao Yisi smiled and said, “The pressure is only for this year, and didn’t you pay it all in the end? I heard that you have only controlled the situation on Black Arrow Star for half a year? I have seen the results of your work. It has been quite good to get it like this in half a year. By the next tax season, you will definitely have no pressure at all.”

Gu Hang smiled happily, looking very cheerful.

Although he was trying to hide his shortcomings, it was meaningless to deny such an obvious fact.

Black Arrow Star has indeed developed quite well in the past six months since it fell into the hands of the Alliance. There is no need to deny this.

Half a year ago, when the dust on the war on Black Arrow Star was initially settled, two bigwigs in the Alliance government, Ossena and Lambert, came to Black Arrow Star.

Gu Hang himself also stayed in Black Arrow Star for a long time during this period.

The alliance came up with a series of political and economic reform plans and began to implement them.

Although the effect will take a longer time to show, at least with part of the accumulation of Black Arrow Star, plus some holes filled by Angry Owl Star, there will be no problem in paying taxes.

Moreover, Angry Owl Star is still developing at a high speed, and Black Arrow Star is also changing for the better.

Even this year, which is the most difficult tax payment work, has been passed, and it will only get easier in the future.

This is why Lao Yisi praised Gu Hang wholeheartedly after witnessing the changes in Black Arrow Star with her own eyes.

For so many years, she has been a tax officer and has been traveling in hundreds of worlds in the Dragon Eagle Star Region. In her eyes, most of the worlds are stagnant water. It was like this last time, and it will be the same next time.

When she came to Angry Owl Star two years ago, she saw the huge changes in Angry Owl Star; now, the changes on Angry Owl Star are even greater, and Gu Hang has also led the alliance into the interstellar space, bringing this huge change to Black Arrow Star.

Lao Yisi is full of admiration for this young governor.

During the chat, she couldn’t help but say, “I really hope you can be the governor of Koroja 3, then my job won’t be so difficult.”

Hearing this, Gu Hang’s heart skipped a beat.

Is the real purpose revealed?

(End of this chapter)