Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 404

Chapter 403: You call this the Planetary Defense Force?

A fiscal surplus of more than 5 billion a year is definitely a figure that the Pegasus Star Region could not have achieved in the past.

Compared with other surrounding star regions, the Pegasus Star Region is indeed rich, but because of this, the imperial taxes it bears are not less at all. For example, in Koroja, half of the 4 billion imperial taxes in the past year had to be paid by human taxes; the three-star planet of Fache was desperate to raise its development level to level 3; the flying wing star was not bad, but with such a developed shipbuilding industry, almost all the ships built had to be handed in to withstand the tax of level 5 development…

After the alliance took over all the planets in the Pegasus Star Region, four years have passed. Not only can it meet the imperial taxes, but it can also have a surplus of 5 billion. The key is that the living standards of the people in the entire star region have not declined, but have risen.

The changes on the five planets of Fache, Fache, and Red Arrow may not be big, and people’s living standards have not improved significantly; but on Koroja, Angry Owl, and Black Arrow, the changes are not small.

The reason why this can be done is that, on the one hand, the imperial tax will not change within ten years after it was set four years ago, and the planets under the rule of the alliance have developed rapidly during this period.

Of course, this cannot be achieved by relying solely on development results.

The core reason is that the alliance system has greatly reduced the existence of capitalists, bureaucrats and other rentiers. They still exist in the alliance system and play a role, but the excess profits they can get have been greatly reduced, and they have turned to a way of obtaining results by rank. They will be more likely to be promoted than ordinary workers, but much less than the exploiters in the past.

Most of the value created by workers is consumed by the workers themselves, which is the fundamental reason for the significant improvement of people’s living standards under the rule of the alliance; the second part is eaten directly by the alliance government; the rentier class still has some benefits, after all, the alliance has not banned all private economies, but overall it is definitely greatly reduced.

With both development and the elimination of the middle class, the alliance has become more direct in managing the middle and grassroots of society and production. Under this dual effect, it has brought this 5 billion fiscal surplus.

Of course, the alliance will not keep these fiscal surpluses like a miser.

Their use is to allocate budgets for production reinvestment, which accounts for the majority of the fiscal budget.

The second largest part is used for military expenses. Including military expansion and military maintenance.

The third largest part is used for the expansion of government spending. Normal government spending is not included here, but is included in the cost. This refers to the cost of opening more government agencies. In addition to the cost of opening more agencies, the corresponding maintenance costs will naturally increase, but the maintenance costs are included in the costs.

These three are economic construction, military construction, and political construction.

The 5 billion will be spent, and there is nothing left.

Spending more money now is to have more income in the future.

And when Korojia starts paying taxes for the first time in two years, the 4 billion tax exemption will be gone. Gu Hang hopes that the alliance will still have a fiscal surplus of 5 billion by then.

This means that in the past two years, the alliance’s income surplus will have to increase by another 4 billion. Under the premise of ensuring the growth of people’s consumption, the alliance must increase the current output value of 112.3 billion to at least 1,300 billion, and have an economic growth rate of 20% in two years.

It is not very difficult.

The two with the greatest potential are Angry Owl Star and Koroja.

Gu Hang hopes that Angry Owl Star will have a population of 4 billion in two years – mainly through Koroja transfer. With this scale, the power of Angry Owl Star’s transformation into an industrial planet can be better exerted, and the value of Angry Owl Star’s shipyard can also be better exerted.

As for Koroja itself, it is expected that after a total of six years of population migration in the next two years, in addition to increasing the population of Angry Owl Star to 4 billion, the population of Black Arrow Star can also be increased to 3 billion – for Black Arrow Star, that’s the end. It is estimated that at that time, including the new part, Koroja will still have a population of about 31 billion.

With 9 billion fewer people, the pressure on the nest city will be much smaller; at the same time, as the reform deepens, the development potential brought by the population will also be realized.

Gu Hang was counting on these two planets, as the strongest economic engines, to really bring about a 20% growth in two years.

This was also Gu Hang’s requirement for the Alliance government.

Ms. Ossena, who had been promoted to A4 and was the Prime Minister of the Alliance, was so worried that she was pulling her hair.

She thought that when the situation of the Alliance was getting better and better, she would be able to take a breath and have more time to rest. However, the plan indicators for the next two years issued by the Governor-General made her continue to worry.

It’s not that it can’t be done. The Governor-General is not raising indicators randomly. But it is because she has to work hard that she has to continue to struggle.

She has to grab all the people in her Prime Minister’s Office, pull up the governments of various planets, and pull up senior officials from various ministries of the Alliance, and work hard.

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After reading the tax-related documents and reports and signing some, Gu Hang turned his attention to military construction.

In fact, he went to Korojia this time just for this matter.

A large part of the Alliance’s fiscal surplus was allocated to military construction.

The Alliance Army will not make any big moves at the moment. In other words, the big moves have been made since four years ago, but they have only recently borne fruit.

At the beginning, the composition of the Alliance Army was still very simple. Later, when Koroja, Faches, and Wing Star gradually fell into Gu Hang’s hands, the situation became complicated.

Koroja’s planetary defense force was changed into two parts, the Salvation Army and the Defense Army; Faches and Wing Star also had their own planetary defense forces; on this basis, there is also the Alliance Army sequence, and the two combat force sequences of the Angry Bear Legion and the Dragon Eagle 3 Legion. An

overly complex military force structure is definitely not conducive to command.

The Angry Bear Legion and the Dragon Eagle 3 Legion are not easy to move. These two forces are in the Star Army sequence, and theoretically have little to do with the Alliance and the Star District Government. Logistics is under the jurisdiction of the Imperial Military Affairs Department, and command operations and the appointment and removal of officers are under the jurisdiction of the Star Army Headquarters.

However, just like the Faches family had a strong influence on the Dragon Eagle 3 Legion, now this 20 million-strong Star Army force is actually supported by Gu Hang’s Alliance. Although this part of the expenses was actually paid by the Military Affairs Department, from soldiers to officers, they were all from the Tianma Star Region, and they were all citizens under the rule of the Alliance in the past, so the influence of the Alliance was absolutely inseparable.

Not to mention the Angry Bear Corps, which was simply transformed from the Alliance Army on the spot from the command system to the soldiers.

In the past, Gu Hang was still thinking about how to digest the Dragon Eagle 3rd Corps into his own. Now, he found that he didn’t have to do anything at all. When he became the ruler of the Tianma Star Region and he was the boss in reality and in name, the Dragon Eagle 3rd Corps stationed in the Tianma Star Region was his.

Especially, Gu Hang also adopted some strategies.

Normally, there is no such thing as demobilization in the Star Army. Most of their soldiers come from human taxes. Since they have been levied as human taxes, how can they be released?

What’s more, the longer the service period, the more veterans they become, and they must be much more powerful than new recruits.

But the premise is that they are not too old to lift a gun.

People will age. When they are in their thirties and forties, they are in their prime, but after the age of fifty, the physical functions of normal humans begin to decline sharply, and their physical conditions cannot keep up with the accumulation of experience. When they are in their sixties and seventies, it is really difficult for them to carry a lot of weight to open mountains and wade through rivers. At that point, unless you are promoted to an officer, it is really inappropriate to continue fighting on the front line.

The Star Army, which is constantly fighting on the front line, may have veterans who have survived for decades, not to mention some who are stationed in the rear.

Generally speaking, the Star Army treats veterans who have been fighting on the front lines, survived for a long time, and have made outstanding military achievements very well. Veterans who can still live will either be promoted to officers, or those who are not suitable for being officers will be resettled locally when they reach the retirement age. It is a routine operation to pay a large sum of money and place them in a position with leisure and money on the local planet or the rear planet.

It is a little worse for those who stay in the rear.

However, Gu Hang does not intend to do this.

In fact, the Star Army also has a normal retirement process. That is, soldiers can be arranged when they reach a certain age – not necessarily old – but if veterans retire at the age of thirty or thirty-five, the combat effectiveness of the army will decline, and how to replenish new soldiers? The former can basically not be compensated, and the latter will cost the empire more money and mobilize human taxes to make up for it. It is a loss. The Ministry of Military Affairs and specific Star Army units will not do such a thing, which makes the normal retirement process meaningless.

After many discussions with the Dragon Eagle Corps, General Hans agreed to the large-scale retirement process for veterans, but also put forward some conditions:

within the Dragon Eagle 3 Corps, veterans aged 30, especially those aged 35 and above, will be retired in batches and on a large scale, and the resettlement work will be solved by the Alliance;

the missing soldiers will be supplemented by the Alliance, and the standard level of the Star Army will be reached;

Gu Hang agreed to all these conditions.

Veterans aged 30/35 are retired, not dead, and there are plenty of places to resettle them after they stay in the local area. The police department, anti-corruption, and secret service departments will all need them; if there are more that cannot be absorbed, many industries and industrial areas will need manpower.

Even, transferring them to some planetary defense forces locally is equivalent to turning the veterans of the Star Army into the backbone of their own defense forces, which is not a loss at all.

And the Star Army of this age, especially those who have retired from the Dragon Eagle 3 Corps, which has been left behind most of the time, are not particularly meritorious, and they are not very old, so there is no need to arrange a particularly comfortable and lucrative position like a retired hero.

As for Gu Hang’s benefit, it was that he could complete the “blood transfusion” of the Dragon Eagle Corps by doing so.

The additional soldiers were required to reach the level of the Star Army. Where would these people come from? Gu Hang transferred them from the Alliance Army that had completed the soldier card training.

The Dragon Eagle 3 Corps had been fighting and stationed in Korojia for more than eight years. Even if the original veterans in the army were very young before, it was normal for them to be over 30/35 years old after spending these eight years.

After a certain degree of blood transfusion, the Dragon Eagle 3 Corps was no longer what it used to be.

Of course, its essence was still the Star Army. The same was true for the Angry Bear Corps. The Military Affairs Department and the Star Army General Headquarters had the power to transfer these two troops to take on other tasks.

However, it was not so easy to transfer them away. Now was not the past, and Gu Hang’s voice was hard to be ignored.

What’s more, if there was a war around the star zone, it would be a good thing to transfer them there to fight.

Up to now, the Alliance had expanded to its limit under normal means. Without the bonus of the star zone leader and no unexpected events, it would be difficult for Gu Hang to get involved in areas outside the star zone.

Because of this, Gu Hang did have an idea to continue to expand the alliance with the help of the Star Army to fight outside. However, this idea is not mature yet, and there are still many problems to be solved. Moreover, the main work of the alliance now is still internal digestion. It has to make all the chassis currently controlled into core territories, and it has no energy to go out for the time being.

But at least, Gu Hang has to keep this method. When there is an opportunity, the Star Army will go out, and the alliance can follow behind to find opportunities.

And even in the current peace period of the past few years, it is not a loss for the alliance to raise the Star Army.

It can offset taxes.

The Dragon Eagle 3rd Legion maintains a scale of 20 million people, and the Angry Bear Legion has expanded to about 10 million in the past few years. In terms of equipment level, it has maintained a high standard. The maintenance cost of these 30 million troops alone is hundreds of millions of tax coins a year.

That is, it can offset 100 million imperial taxes for the alliance a year.

In addition to the 30 million Star Army, the Alliance cancelled the establishment of the Salvation Army in Koroja and the establishment of the Planetary Defense Force within the entire Alliance, and replaced the Planetary Defense Force with the Alliance Army system.

The total size of the Alliance Army is currently around 400 million, of which 300 million are stationed in Koroja.

Gu Hang cannot use the military card system to train all 400 million people into qualified soldiers, and there is no need to do so.

In fact, only 100 million people have completed the training by the system; the remaining 300 million are all trained under normal means.

But with 25% of the backbones and the standard logistics supplies of the Star Army, after four years of training, they will reach the combat effectiveness of the standard Star Army without much problem. At present, the proportion of soldiers in the Alliance Army who have reached the standard Star Army level can reach 85%, which is better than many conventional Star Army units.

Not to mention, Gu Hang has also established many elite divisions in it.

These elite divisions, internally called “Skeleton Divisions”, often have more powerful equipment, such as rifles fully replaced with laser guns or Gauss rifles; equipped with more heavy-bolter machine guns and various bombs; equipped with plasma weapons and melta weapons; armored vehicles of armored units have a higher density, equipped with Lion King tanks; reconnaissance units can even be equipped with sentinel mechas.

Even higher-level, more elite divisions with special numbers have a large proportion of exoskeleton armor distributed to soldiers; some spearhead companies are even equipped with a large number of “Servants” feedback power armor.

Not to mention those elite special-numbered troops, even the Skeleton Division will make General Hans of the Dragon Eagle Legion feel sour.

Damn it, the equipment of the planetary defense force is more powerful than my authentic Star Army!

How can this make sense?

(End of this chapter)