Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 403

Chapter 402: I have plenty of money now

While busy with the imperial tax, Shang Yanwen did not forget one thing he wanted to do.

When he was in Feiyi Star, he combined what he learned and his past experience to design some industries that could be developed for his hometown, as well as corresponding specific development strategies.

When he came back this time, he saw that his hometown had changed a lot. Many of his previous ideas were not “designs”, but more like “wild fantasies”, which were completely inconsistent with the current situation of the Green Bee Block.

But he was not frustrated, nor was he anxious.

In the process of being busy for the imperial tax, he also became more familiar with the block that had undergone such a big change, and investigated many actual situations.

He constantly overturned his own plan, based on the current situation of the block, and made a new one based on the actual situation.

At the same time, he did not relax his own work.

When counting the tax situation, he found that the situation he was most worried about did not occur. The Green Bee Block has a population of 420,000, and in the past year, the total output value of various materials in the Green Bee Block was 390,000 tax coins. Most of them were consumed by the local population.

These value outputs, through currency and exchange, have become houses, food, furniture and appliances, textiles, and medical expenses… They have effectively improved the living standards of the people in the neighborhood.

The medical level is not high enough, the furniture and appliances are not enough, the food types are not rich enough, and the textiles are not fashionable enough. Even the houses built with large-scale construction are actually not enough. Many people who should be allocated houses are still queuing.

However, there is no doubt that it is much better than in the past.

And there is no need to worry about the imperial tax.

In fact, the neighborhood government has started to prepare for the imperial tax since the beginning of the year, and has reserved 40,000 tax coins. Its components are mainly some primary processed raw materials, textiles and alliance currency cash.

The neighborhood can pay taxes to the higher-level government in alliance currency cash. Correspondingly, the alliance government will use these alliance currencies to pay some key industrial areas, such as military factories and heavy factories, whose output is the main force of physical tax payment.

After all, when the alliance government pays the imperial tax, the imperial tax officer will not recognize your alliance currency. In the eyes of the Empire, currency is just a piece of waste paper. They only recognize tax payment certificates, that is, tax coins, or physical objects.

There are many physical objects recognized by the Empire, but not all items. If you produce a kitchen knife or a table, the Empire will ignore you. Not to mention, some service industries, such as commerce, construction, transportation, and medical industries on the planet, of course they have created value on the planet, but they have nothing to pay taxes to the Empire.

Therefore, in fact, the planetary government pays taxes mainly by relying on the production of “hard currency” recognized by the Empire, such as heavy industry, military industry, textile industry, and agriculture.

But the workers in these production areas also have to live. Their living necessities, such as transportation, medical care, service industry, food… come from supplies from other places. This has formed a general division of labor: areas that can produce products in the Imperial tax category purchase other services in other regions through the currency issued by the Alliance, and they themselves produce most of the products required for the Imperial tax in the area. Non-production areas use Alliance coins to prove that they have made contributions through affiliated industries.

This division of labor is widely present at all levels. Between blocks, between hives, and even between planets.

The main pillar industries of the Green Bee District are construction, transportation, waste recycling and primary processing of raw materials. Except for the products of material processing, which can be used as physical objects to pay imperial taxes, the others are actually not very good.

But they still created value.

They don’t have to worry about the real imperial taxes. Those large industrial production areas will take them out, and the higher-level governments will make overall plans; they helped in transportation, and also exported construction teams to other industrial areas to build houses, and obtained alliance coins, which is essentially the value of their labor, and it is recognized by the alliance government.

This is the essential logic of the Green Bee District with a local population of 410,000, a total output value of 390,000 tax coins, a consumption of 350,000, and 40,000 to pay taxes.

The per capita consumption of the Green Bee District is 0.85 tax coins, which is not a very good living standard, but it is definitely survivable.

Shang Yanwen once read an old report that in the 100 years before the Plague War, the per capita consumption of Korojia was actually only about 0.3 tax coins. This is a level that barely keeps people from starving to death; Korojia’s per capita output value is only about 0.5 tax coins, which is only half of the lowest per capita standard in the empire.

This is also the fundamental reason why the people of Korojia have to pay 0.05 tax coins per capita as imperial tax, and then face a 1% probability of being levied as human tax.

As for where the 0.15 per capita tax coins went… we have to ask Korojia’s former bureaucrats and rulers.

Now, the per capita consumption level has reached 0.85, more than doubled, so it is no wonder that life has become more bearable.

Moreover, this is the consumption level after the 0.1 imperial tax was taken away, which means that the Green Bee District will no longer need to pay human tax in the future.

Of course, this is just the result of Shang Yanwen’s observation of his own Green Bee District.

But at present, the entire Promise City is about this level. Even in the middle and upper areas of the hive, the situation is much better than the lower hive; the situation in the bottom hive may be worse, but it should be roughly the same overall.

From the perspective of Promise City, if all the hives in Korojia are at this level, then it can be said that the entire Korojia is on the right track. Korojia no longer needs to pay human taxes. It can rely on its own production to pay the imperial tax and is no longer a burden on the alliance.

According to the current development speed, there may be a surplus in two years; in a few years, the surplus will increase, and the living standards of the people of Korojia will get better and better, and it will become a major engine for the development of the alliance – the population size is here.

Thinking about these things really makes Shang Yanwen very excited.

He is excited that he can personally participate in this great change of the times.

And the development plan he made after work will also add another engine to the Green Bee Block on this basis.

After the busy work of the imperial tax came to an end, he found his immediate boss, Moody, the head of the block government, and put forward his own ideas.

What he wants to do is a circular breeding system.

In the Green Bee Block, there used to be a small flying creature that was similar to a bat, with tough fleshy wings and strong teeth. The main materials needed for its survival are three things: human domestic garbage, wastewater discharged from industrial production, and a luminous spore fungus produced in a highly polluted environment.

The locals call this thing “fluorescent disease bat”. In the past, it was a pest in the nesting area under and under the city of Nuoyan. It would bring diseases, pollution, and radiation to people, causing illness or even death.

The neighborhood also spent a lot of effort to deal with it. This thing still exists now, but there are not so many.

But Shang Yanwen saw the value of this little monster.

A classmate he knew was studying biomaterials at an engineering school on Feiyi Star. Shang Yanwen felt that the little monsters in his hometown, with teeth honed by eating highly polluted fungi, organic waste, and drinking wastewater, as well as a very durable skin, were very good materials.

Previously, he had managed to get some of these “specialties” from the nest area under the promise city, and analyzed them for the research team, saying that they were indeed of certain value.

As long as they could be mass-produced, the collected monster wings and teeth could be used as a good biomaterial material for leather materials needed for some mechanical manufacturing, for armor linings, and for anti-corrosion biomaterials to glow and heat in some places.

He compiled a copy of the relevant technical materials and brought them back.

What he had to do was to dedicate a part of the area to breed polluting bacteria, and then breed these highly polluted mutant monsters, and then slaughter them in a centralized manner, collect biomaterials, and sell them to some processing plants.

This was a preliminary project. In the future, it would be best if the relevant processing industry could be undertaken by the Green Bee District, and relevant factories could be established; even on this basis, a more comprehensive industrial chain could be developed.

If the whole set can be done, there is no doubt that the Green Bee District will get a new industry. This means higher output value, more jobs, and it will be easier for residents of the Green Bee District to upgrade their ranks. After having money, the living standards of the people will be further improved, and they will be able to pay more taxes directly and make greater contributions to the alliance.

After listening to Shang Yanwen’s plan, Moody patted his thigh and said, “You are worthy of being a top student! You have helped a lot with tax matters before, not to mention that you have come up with a surprise now!”

“Do you think this is feasible?” Shang Yanwen was not as confident as he was when he talked just now.

In essence, he is still a rookie who has just started out and has little experience in governing. He is very afraid that what he has carefully made is actually his own fantasy. Although he has tried his best to avoid this situation, and has done a lot of research, and there are many carefully considered specific implementation steps in the plan, he is still a little worried.

He is afraid of pitting his hometown.

But Moody seemed much more relieved: “Don’t think about this or that. We just have to have this spirit. As long as the whole looks good, just do it! What if we fail? The superiors will not punish us for our failed attempt. The alliance has always encouraged this kind of innovative behavior!”

“However, we do have to be cautious. If the investment is too large, it will still have an impact.”

“Let’s start with small-scale breeding and work slowly!”

“As long as it works, we will have solved a big problem! To be honest, there are still a lot of labor in the block that have not been absorbed. This is a core indicator of our regional government. I have been worried about it for a long time. Your method sounds good and we must try it!”

“Even if it can only accommodate dozens or hundreds of people at the beginning, it is also very good. Don’t underestimate hundreds of jobs. With hundreds of jobs with stable output, we can support a new shopping mall, more construction workers, more hawkers and stalls… and the ancillary industries can develop together.”

“Not to mention, there will be opportunities to grow bigger and stronger in the future!”

Shang Yanwen, who was encouraged, said: “Then do it! I will apply for the opportunity of interstellar communication right away and contact my classmates. Their research group will be interested in us!”

…

Shang Yanwen’s deeds were condensed into a short report, and placed on Gu Hang’s desk together with the deeds of several other young civil servants and new managers of state-owned enterprises who also performed well.

At this moment, Gu Hang was on the starship, heading to Korojia. During the voyage, he read through these documents and gave an evaluation:

“Our young people have done a good job.”

He was very pleased.

The industry created by Shang Yanwen was very prosperous. After a few months, it had a good output value, which had a driving effect on the local neighborhoods, and it was also worth promoting to the bottom nests and lower nests of the entire Promise City Hive.

Although, even if this industry develops in the future, the output value is a small matter in general. Its application range is still a bit narrow. Grinded teeth, stripped and processed bat wings, after processing, become a basic material, which can only play a certain role in the structure of some industrial product components. It is not the same concept of scale as the metal smelting industry. In the past, the alliance also had applications for this material, but it was basically imported.

However, the innovative ability of the alliance system reflected behind this incident, as well as the emergence of this new generation of administrative personnel, are things that make Gu Hang even happier.

One circular breeding and processing industry is nothing, but if there are more, or even connected in groups, to build multiple industrial chains, it may have high value. Moreover, as long as it is proved that the alliance system has the ability to innovate and the new generation of officials of the alliance are reliable, then whether it is to develop new industries or maintain old industries, it is no problem to say that the future is promising.

Putting this matter aside, Gu Hang looked at another electronic board at hand.

There is a more important thing on it.

The tax situation faced by the alliance.

At present, the imperial tax is collected in one go from the alliance as a whole. For the imperial tax fleet, this is also a hassle-free.

At present, the total annual tax of the alliance is 10.95 billion tax coins. 4 billion for Feiyi Star, 3 billion for Faches Three Stars, 3.5 billion for Korojia No. 1 and No. 3, 100 million for Angry Owl Star, 150 million for Black Arrow Star, and 200 million for Red Arrow Star.

When the tax was calculated, there were 1 billion people on Angry Owl and 1.5 billion on Black Arrow. The extra population migrated from Koroja. As a result, Koroja’s population dropped from more than 37 billion to about 35 billion, and the tax was calculated at 3.5 billion.

Minus the 4 billion tax-free allowance, and the tax is paid every two years, the alliance has to pay 13.9 billion in imperial taxes in the two tax seasons of the past four years.

This is a huge number that Gu Hang, who was not well-off a few years ago, would not dare to think about, but it is not difficult for the current alliance.

Especially in the most recent tax season, Feiyi Star completed a Musician-class cruiser, plus four destroyers, which is more than 10 billion.

If the imperial taxes are kept every year, the alliance’s fiscal surplus can still be more than 5 billion.

In the last call with his mother, Gu Hang once said quite ostentatiously:

“I have plenty of money now.”

(End of this chapter)