Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 395

Chapter 394, Red Arrow Star Joins

For the reform of the three stars of Fache, even if it is carried out smoothly according to the plan made by Ossena, the alliance will have to bear continuous losses until five years later to break even.

During this period, the alliance is estimated to have to pay a total of about 1 billion to 1.5 billion.

However, this is different from maintaining the old system and losing 200 million net every year. The extra money spent by the alliance can be regarded as an investment in the construction and reform of the three stars of Fache, and it will be profitable in the future. Gu Hang is relatively willing to make such an investment.

As for whether the alliance can withstand the loss of 1.5 billion in five years… Having this question is too much to underestimate the alliance.

When the reform of Korojia has not been fully completed, and the Angry Owl Star and the Black Arrow Star still need to provide large-scale supplies to Fache, these two basic planets of the alliance still have the spare capacity to fill the hole of the three stars of Fache.

This is still without counting the income of the alliance shipyard.

What’s more, since the alliance has paid taxes for integration, the investment spent by the alliance on the Star Army can of course be tax deductible. The Dragon Eagle Corps came to fight this rebellion war, and of course the Military Affairs Department should pay for it.

To maintain the Dragon Eagle Corps, the normal retirement and replenishment of personnel, ammunition consumption and equipment loss, stationing and training costs… After all, the Alliance’s investment in this for a year is equivalent to 100 million tax coins, right?

The Military Affairs Department will pay to offset the tax.

However, the cost of maintaining troops for the Alliance is still very high. The Angry Bear Corps is very expensive, but at least there are not many of them; the Koroja Salvation Army is cheap, but with a number of 300 million, it can’t be cheap.

Koroja can still handle 300 million Salvation Army.

In the future, as Koroja’s reforms continue to advance and productivity catches up, the financial pressure on the Alliance will be greatly reduced.

At present, Koroja’s annual output value can also reach about 20 billion – compared with the three-star Fachs, it has 30 billion more people, but the output value is not as good. The Alliance is still losing money on Koroja.

However, Koroja currently has one-third of the nest cities and has pushed forward the reform strategy. In the past year, the Alliance collected 1.1 billion in taxes from the unreformed areas; the profits from the centralized production reform in the reformed areas also amounted to 800 million.

This was achieved even though Korojia had lost more than 4 billion people and continued to transfer population to Angry Owl and Black Arrow.

This has reached the amount of 2 billion in taxes Korojia could generate each year before the war.

Korojia’s tax amount is 4 billion, and the remaining 2 billion tax gap in previous years was made up by paying population.

Gu Hang’s request to Korojia is that the population of this planet will be reduced to less than 30 billion through transfers at the end of the remaining 4 years of tax exemption, and the profits of various types of output value will reach 3 billion.

If this can be achieved, then Korojia can be considered self-sufficient, no longer needing subsidies, and no longer needing to make up taxes with population, and can complete the imperial tax.

In the next five years, the nearly 6 billion people who will continue to transfer out will settle in Angry Owl and Black Arrow. Gu Hang hopes that the output value of these two planets plus the shipyard will reach more than 20 billion in five years, and the Alliance can reap more than 6 billion in profits from it. By then, the imperial taxes of the two places will be calculated as 7 billion in total, and the Alliance will still have a surplus of more than 6 billion out of 700 million.

At this point, the Alliance can be regarded as an extremely powerful political entity in the star field.

It is self-sufficient and can have excess profits every year. It can produce most of the weapons and equipment needed by the conventional Star Army, support a Space Marine Chapter and a Battle Sisters, and can produce warships on its own.

Although, under the organizational structure of the Planetary Defense Force and the Star Army, it is not allowed to have a naval fleet, and it is not allowed to conduct large-scale interstellar trade. If you want to engage in interstellar trade, you need to obtain a merchant license from the Imperial Chamber of Commerce.

However, this regulation has never been dead, and many planets will have some ships of their own. I don’t have a navy or interstellar trade, but I have some material transportation needs, some escort needs, flexible defense in planetary orbits, and anti-piracy needs within the star system. This is also normal. Isn’t it reasonable to have some ships?

Most planets do not have their own starships. In fact, the biggest obstacle is far from the empire’s regulations, but that they cannot afford them; even if they can afford them, they cannot afford to maintain them.

But Gu Hang does not have this worry. He can form an escort team, because the Alliance’s ruling scope has spanned multiple star systems. There is a practical need for this.

What if there are interstellar pirates wandering over? As for the price, he can produce it himself, and he has his own shipyard. The cost of self-organization is controllable and low. Even if he takes a step back, Gu Hang can also attach the Alliance’s fleet to Gu’s Trading Company. On the surface, it is a merchant fleet under Gu’s Trading Company, but in fact it is the Alliance’s naval fleet.

With a complete army and navy, by that time, the Alliance can be called “rich and strong” – both rich and strong.

Not to mention, in the past five years, Gu Hang has been able to get Feiyi Star by relying on his position as the head of the star zone. In the previous conversation between Gu Hang and Xu Dechen, it was also mentioned that Xiao Pei Desi had been abandoned by the parliament. This guy has lost his brother and the support of the backstage, and he can’t control Feiyi Star at all.

Although Feiyi Star has a population of only 8 billion, the shipyard that can build cruisers on the planet is really mouth-watering.

That is a huge fortune. It is a waste to put it in the hands of Xiao Pei Desi. Gu Hang does not think that guy will be able to hold it firmly in the future.

With the level of that straw bag, there are ways to get rid of him.

Moreover, this matter needs to be done quickly, and Gu Hang does not want to wait too long.

The sooner you get it, the sooner you can get the benefits.

As for how to get it, Gu Hang has some ideas.

Moreover, these ideas have begun to be implemented initially.

How Xiao Pei Desi will react to this is not in Gu Hang’s concern. No matter what that guy thinks or does, it will not change the result.

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While Gu Hang was planning Feiyi Star, another world in the Tianma Star Region had a movement.

That is Hongjian Star, which is the only two planets in the Tianma Star Region that have not joined the alliance.

Hongjian Star is an empire world dominated by agriculture, with a total population of about 2 billion people. Many large or small farmers, or agricultural group companies, control the land on the planet. These farmers and agricultural groups form an industry association, which is the highest power structure on the planet.

The association will elect the leader of the association, who will also become the acting planetary governor and authorize the establishment of a planetary government. The government of Red Arrow Star is a very loose organization that only handles public security issues and provides some necessary public services. They will not form an army or collect taxes, and the necessary resources for the operation of the government are also obtained through money from the agricultural association.

At the same time, the level of military construction on Red Arrow Star is also very low, with only a few million ground forces for 2 billion people, and the heavy equipment is even worse, mainly light infantry.

The imperial tax on Red Arrow Star is determined by discussions among many people in the Agricultural Association. These large agricultural enterprises seize every trade opportunity and use grain to pay an annual imperial tax of 200 million. They also use grain trade to exchange for various industrial products needed by the planet, especially agricultural production machinery.

The development level of Red Arrow Star is not high, and there is almost no industrial level. But the residents on the planet generally live a good life. They have a high food content. Although most of it is taken away by agricultural companies and farmers, the remaining part can also provide many agricultural workers with food and drink.

Gu Hang had really considered how to take over Red Arrow Star before, but found it very difficult.

The people in the agricultural company are all local rich people. They have no special ambitions at all. They just stay in their own small acres of land to farm. There has been no special situation on the planet for people to intervene.

Although their military strength is very weak, Gu Hang can take it down with a wave of his hand. But they are an imperial world, and there is no reason to fight at all.

What’s more, the main output on Red Arrow Star is food, and the output is very single. Gu Hang doesn’t seem to have to get it. As long as he continues to trade, let Red Arrow Star buy the agricultural output other than the imperial tax, and dump industrial products at the same time.

Although Gu Hang has a bit of obsessive-compulsive disorder of “map coloring”, it has reached this point now. He really wants to plant the flag of the alliance on all the planets in the entire star zone.

Considering the practical factors, Hongjian Star is really the kind of star that can be planted or not.

Gu Hang is right to think so, but he did not expect that his fame in the star zone, the rapid expansion of the alliance system, and his position as the head of the star zone would bring such a great impact on these local rich people on Hongjian Star.

Gu Hang did not want to torment them, but only wanted to do business, but he did not tell them this, and the local rich people did not know what Gu Hang thought.

Even if he said it, they might not be at ease.

The envoys from the Hongjian Star Agricultural Association came to Feiyi Star with an uneasy mentality, met with Governor Gu, and put forward their demands:

We want to join the alliance!

This made Gu Hang laugh.

You haven’t done anything, and you want to join on your own initiative?

However, these local rich people did not join unconditionally.

Before sending out the envoys, they still conducted some research on the alliance system.

They had a biggest psychological barrier to joining the alliance – the alliance would “confiscate” almost all means of production and monopolize all output. Whether it was the boss or the workers and farmers below, they would all be assigned a rank and receive welfare benefits according to the corresponding rank.

They definitely couldn’t accept this, which would be more uncomfortable for them than killing them.

However, they were really afraid of death.

Although, in their assessment, it was basically certain that Gu Hang was unlikely to take military action directly against Hongjian Star, but with Gu Hang’s current ability, there was no need for military action to deal with Hongjian Star.

As long as the trade was cut off, or even just harsh price negotiations were conducted, the blow would be fatal to a planet like theirs with a very single output.

So, with a frown on their faces, these local rich people on Hongjian Star proposed a plan.

They saw that there were also some private enterprises in the alliance system. That was more of a situation on the Angry Owl Star. In order to avoid institutional rigidity, the alliance government opened up opportunities for people to start businesses.

When people see an entrepreneurial opportunity, they can keep their job rank and welfare benefits, and then start a business, and even get certain support from the alliance government. But on this basis, they have to sign a contract with the government and make performance commitments. Then, they can recruit soldiers and recruit workers and employees, who also enjoy job rank benefits and allowances, which is equivalent to the government paying wages.

This is equivalent to opening a new state-owned enterprise.

If the entrepreneurial results are not good, the job rank will drop, or even drop sharply, and there may not be the previous position when you come back; if you do well, the job rank will rise rapidly, and part of the profit of the business will be rewarded to the corresponding entrepreneur – in fact, it is equivalent to income outside of taxes. In addition, the government will also provide strong support for successful people who want to expand their scale.

However, under the alliance system, the successful cases of this kind of entrepreneurship are basically concentrated in small-scale, non-key industries.

The smallest scale is a couple opening a breakfast shop; the higher-level ones think there is a business opportunity somewhere, so they open a store or supermarket and hire three or five people; the most amazing one is to start a transportation company, or to start a clothing factory if they think the current market for clothing design is lagging…

And these local rich people in Hongjianxing saw opportunities under this policy.

They want to join the alliance to avoid being squeezed to death and targeted, but they don’t want to lose their current property, so they came up with this idea.

They all follow the rules of the alliance and obtain job ranks according to the scale of the industry they manage; the farmers and workers under their command will all have job ranks and receive welfare allowances according to the alliance standards. At the same time, they all obtain the status of entrepreneurs and can enjoy the excess profits obtained by their agricultural companies or farms.

They also promised to accept the jurisdiction of the alliance system. Those who do well will be promoted, and with the support of the alliance, they can expand their scale and make more profits. Those who do a bad job, or those who are unlucky enough to encounter natural disasters and fail to resist the disasters, resulting in reduced production, will bear the risk themselves, and their ranks will be reduced, their scale will be reduced, and in the worst case, they will be shut down and handed over to others.

To put it bluntly, market competition naturally led to these results in the past, but now there is an additional layer of alliance jurisdiction and they accept alliance regulation.

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I said I would be on a business trip for a week, but I didn’t say I would stop updating for a week… It means that the updates may not be stable, but I still have to get full attendance, all for money!

Then there is the situation of this business trip… I had a sore throat the night before yesterday, but I didn’t think it was a big deal at first. Yesterday, I was exhausted from the flight and the wind and rain, and the temperature difference between the two places was large. I was wearing thick clothes, and I was sweating after landing at more than 20 degrees. I took them off quickly, and the wind blew and it was cold again. As a result, I couldn’t stand it at night, and I felt dizzy, vomited, and my sore throat worsened. I wanted to update last night, but I didn’t finish it.

When I woke up today, I had a low-grade fever.

The good news is that I don’t have to work anymore, I’m staying in the hotel; the bad news is that I took medicine and slept all day, and I feel weak all over. The antipyretic medicine took effect for a while, but the fever came back after a while… I

barely finished this chapter.

Later, I will try to write as much as I can and strive to keep full attendance. If I owe more, I can’t pay it back for the time being…

I’m going to sleep again…

(End of this chapter)