Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 396

Chapter 395, Wing Star’s Decision

is similar. After joining the Alliance, Hongjian Star can still manage its own agricultural groups and farms, and can let anyone inherit the industry according to its own wishes.

But in fact, the local rich people on Hongjian Star still paid a great price.

In name, their performance and their respective companies are all subject to the supervision of the Alliance. Even the government they originally formed, which was so loose that it played a little auxiliary role at most, will be replaced by the Alliance government after it is disbanded. The planetary management model that mainly relied on the autonomy of farmers in the past will never return. The farm militia that had basically no construction level in the past will also be disbanded and replaced by the direct garrison of the Alliance Army.

They are equivalent to putting a rope around their necks and sending the other end to the Alliance. In the future, as long as the Alliance wants, they can strangle any farmer or agricultural group at any time.

They will not have any ability to resist.

Of course, they also expected this situation. After all, they were the ones who proposed the conditions to the Alliance.

There were also objections within the Red Arrow Star.

However, these objections had already been resolved internally by them.

The reasoning behind their decision was actually quite smooth.

First of all, it was very easy for the Alliance to destroy the Red Arrow Star. With a strong military force, the legitimacy of the head of the star region, and the influence of the Gu family’s status as the head of the family on interstellar trade… there were many ways to destroy it, from force to peace, from civilization to barbarism.

Anyway, they would have to kneel down to save their lives, so it was better to negotiate a good deal before the Alliance took action, when everything on the Red Arrow Star was still valuable and a valuable bargaining chip.

This was the condition that could be negotiated after weighing the pros and cons.

Did they have to rest easy in the past? Not really.

The situation on the Red Arrow Star was generally stable for many years, but occasionally farmers would go bankrupt and agricultural groups would downsize. Under market competition, they also had a set of clearing mechanisms to allow those who were not doing well to leave the positions they should not be in.

Now, it is just to turn the invisible hand of market competition into the visible hand of the alliance government’s control.

They paid a price, but they will also gain.

The alliance made a promise. Although they took over the power of Hongjian Star, they did not have much intention to make major changes to the situation of Hongjian Star. There is no problem in maintaining the appearance of an agricultural planet here.

The alliance did not intend to invest heavily in Hongjian Star, but just to increase the export trade of agricultural machinery, agricultural technology reform, expand and optimize the starport of Hongjian Star… These measures are enough to bring enough benefits to these local rich people on Hongjian Star.

They came with helplessness and returned with worries, but in the next few years, they will feel the warmth of the alliance and be glad that they made the right decision.

Gu Hang also gave instructions that the alliance should give preferential treatment to such planets that actively surrendered and fully accepted the transformation of the alliance.

It is not that special economic support is needed-of course, mutual communication and progress are necessary. More importantly, political support should be given. For these smart farmers, the alliance will try its best to ensure that their identity, status, and wealth will not decline.

We have to create a vivid benchmark. If there are planets that want to join the alliance in the future, with such a good precedent, it will be able to dispel the doubts in many people’s hearts and make the alliance’s future path much easier.

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Compared with the preferential treatment of Red Arrow Star, Gu Hang was not so gentle to Feiyi Star.

Gu Hang met the “Governor” of Red Arrow Star at the Tianma Palace of Feiyi Star and accepted their joining.

The reason why it was here was of course because this was the office location of the Tianma leader.

Feiyi Star has a population of 8 billion and a development level of 5. How does it pay the annual 4 billion imperial tax?

Most of it depends on the shipbuilding industry, and a considerable part of the remaining part depends on various tax reduction policies, exemption or payment in other forms.

This kind of “other form of payment” has many ways.

There are several major items, such as paying for the expenses of office staff and office resources of the star region government.

Of course, the staff of the star district government must be paid and have income. These people are dependent on the empire’s finances. They also need an office space. The star district government needs to be equipped with cars, spaceships that can perform interstellar jumps, and servo skulls required for office work to assist in processing data…

This is a very large amount of money.

Even the entire Tianma Palace was built for the star district government. It took more than ten years to create a garden-style palace as the office of the star district government. The total cost was more than 1 billion tax coins, which was spent by the empire.

Although the office staff of the star district government is not particularly large, the annual salary of a senior clerk is often dozens or even hundreds of tax coins, which is far higher than the income level of ordinary people.

In addition, there is also the Tianma Naval Academy, which also consumes the empire’s finances to train naval talents for the empire and send them to the Tianma Fleet.

These costs are all paid by Feiyixing, and then they get the certificates of the star district government, the military affairs department and the navy to ask the empire for tax deduction.

In the past ten years, the amount that Feiyi Star paid for the Star District Government and the Naval Academy was as low as 500 to 600 million and as high as 1 billion.

This huge tax credit, plus the ships paid by the shipyard, constituted the structure of Feiyi Star’s payment of the Empire’s taxes. Sometimes, when the Feiyi Star Shipyard was in the cycle of producing large ships, the Empire could not collect an extra dime from Feiyi Star, but had to pay a lot of money.

However, how could there be no tricks in these things?

In the past, the leader of the Star District Government was Pedes; although the Governor of Feiyi Star was Little Pedes, could Little Pedes lead Feiyi Star well? He

didn’t have that ability.

At that time, he just helped his brother to lead the position of Governor, and lived happily every day. In fact, the important work on the planet was handled by Pedes himself.

When Pedes managed the planet and the Star District Government, he actually used a group of people as two teams. This group of people is doing the work of the planetary government and the work of the star district government.

Isn’t this just letting the same group of people take the empire’s financial support and serve as the team of the planetary government? This saves the planetary government a considerable amount of administrative costs.

Many personnel expenses and material acquisition expenses were not checked when the two Pedes were in office, or when Martinelli was in office.

But can they really withstand a check?

Can they withstand a cursory investigation, and can they withstand a serious investigation by Gu Hang, the successor?

In fact, it is not just the expenses of these star district governments and naval academies, but even the production of shipyards, are they really so fair and comply with the regulations of the empire?

That is also uncertain.

Starships are different from other standardized war equipment, tanks, etc. Starships can have different configurations from hull design, power design, protection design, and the specifications of weapons and equipment on them.

Of course, the word “design” is a better word. In fact, to put it bluntly, it is the construction level of each shipyard.

The level of each shipyard is different, and the ships that can be built are also different, which can only be roughly regarded as XX-level specifications.

In this regard, people from the Imperial Navy and the Imperial Military Affairs Department will come to evaluate the design of the ship and determine the specific price of the ship manufactured by the shipyard.

But this kind of pricing will only happen once. Later, when the Imperial tax officials come, they can inspect and accept the ship.

The two links of design and acceptance cannot be tampered with. The big and small Pedes are not yet at the point of being all-seeing. Those who have this ability don’t look down on this thing.

However, there are countless links between design and acceptance. It is not easy to cut corners in the construction link, but let’s talk about the most normal one – after the workers are skilled and the technology is mature, what about the money saved?

Not to mention some abnormal ones, such as the margins that were deliberately left when designing, which can be saved now.

From the administration of one team and two sets of brands, to the training of naval cadets with financial resources, to the transfer of qualified sailors as taxes;

from the construction of ships, to the change of technology, to the acceptance of ships;

when the degree of integration between the star district government and the planetary government reaches this level, there are too many links that can be operated in the middle.

After receiving the official appointment from the head of the star zone, Gu Hang ran to the Pegasus Palace on Feiyi Star as soon as possible.

He brought his own guards, and after landing, he also deployed the personnel of the Psychic Order and went directly to the Pegasus Palace.

The first person he met was the head of the guard of the Pegasus Palace. This group of elite warriors, all equipped with feedback power armor, are private guards who eat the empire’s finances and obey the command of the head of the star zone. They are the benefits or rights given by the empire to the position of the head of the star zone.

The equipment is purchased, and the personnel are specially selected from the elite of the Star Army. This is of course a very good place for the soldiers of the Star Army. Being able to stay away from the war, have higher allowances and benefits, and be on a garden planet like Feiyi Star, isn’t it the best destination for the soldiers who have survived hundreds of battles?

But for the empire, it is not clear whether it is a good thing for such an elite team of a thousand people to be placed here and pampered.

In the past, the Pegasus Palace Guards obeyed both the Star District Government and the Planetary Government. This was not a choice for them, because they were the same thing before. Even after Martinelli came, they were in the same camp, but the distinction was not so clear.

But now, this problem was suddenly and firmly placed in front of them.

And they didn’t have to think too much, they knew what was the right choice.

From the perspective of interests, following the obviously sunk little Pedesi was a brain disease; from the perspective of responsibilities, they were the direct guards of the Star District Head. As for who the Star District Head was, they didn’t care, and they shouldn’t care. Whoever was in that position, they just had to listen to.

Then, they received the first order from the new head: clear out all irrelevant people who were not from the Star District Government from the Pegasus Palace, the office of the Star District Government.

In fact, there wouldn’t be too many people. Although the Pegasus Palace actually still served as the headquarters of the planetary government, the officials of the planetary government usually had a layer of Star District Government clerks on their bodies.

But little Pedesi didn’t have that kind of skin.

He was waiting to greet Gu Hang in the Pegasus Palace, and he didn’t know how many grievances he had hidden in his heart. He was still thinking about whether he should face the reality and kowtow or be tough and unyielding. As a result, he was driven out by the Pegasus Palace guards who had protected him before he even saw Gu Hang.

Then, little Pedesi found that as the planetary governor, he could not interfere in the affairs of the planet.

There were very few people who should obey his orders. Most of the important positions and senior staff were star district government personnel who led the empire’s finances.

In the past, when the star district leaders nodded to let them do the work of the planetary government, they would of course do it. Now, they are not allowed to do it, what should they do?

Then they can only honestly not do it.

Most of them are reluctant to leave their positions in the star district government. Not to mention that the salary in the position is high, these people know better than anyone that the planetary government has no personnel budget at all – it was unnecessary before, but now?

Now no one makes this budget.

Of course, without management, the planet will be in chaos. Gu Hang didn’t want the wealthy place of Feiyi Star to be in chaos. He had already regarded it as his own property.

He would still let the officials of the star district government continue to work, but they couldn’t do it directly.

As the head of the star district, he issued the first decree: he reprimanded the governor of Feiyi Star, Xiao Pedes, for his chaotic governance, the planetary government was in name only, the star district government temporarily replaced the management, and ordered Xiao Pedes to reorganize the planetary government within one month and complete the management work. Otherwise, Gu Hang, as the head of the star district, would formally initiate an impeachment of Xiao Pedes to the higher government.

Xiao Pedes was dumbfounded.

Where can I set up a planetary government in a month?

The people of the star district government are not used?

Isn’t this asking for my life?

But it was obvious that Gu Hang was not asking for his life.

If it was to kill him, there would not be this month.

For Xiao Pedes, this was a full month of thinking time for him to make the right choice.

But Xiao Pedes found that he didn’t have many choices.

(End of this chapter)