Chapter 393, Red Arrow Star joins
For the reform of Fast Samsung, even if it is implemented smoothly according to the plan made by Osena, the league will have to suffer continuous losses, and it will not be able to even the cost until five years later.
During this period, the alliance is estimated to put about 1 billion to 1.5 billion in total.
However, this is different from maintaining the old system, with a net loss of 200 million per year. The additional money spent by the alliance can be regarded as an investment in the construction and reform of Fastces Samsung, and the benefits can be seen in the future. Gu Hang is relatively willing to make such an investment.
As for whether the alliance can resist or not, it will lose 5 years and 1.5 billion...... With this problem, it is too underestimated to underestimate the alliance.
In the case that Koroga's reform has not been fully completed, and the Raging Owl Star and the Black Arrow Star still have to provide large-scale supplies to Falcherth, the two alliance basic planets still have the spare power to fill the hole of the three stars of Fastces.
And that's without counting the benefits of the Alliance's shipyards.
What's more, since the alliance has paid taxes in an integrated manner, the investment spent by the alliance on the Astral Army can of course be tax deductible. The Dragon Eagle Legion came to fight this counterinsurgency war, and of course the Ministry of Military Affairs paid for it.
To maintain the Dragon Eagle Legion, normal personnel retirement and replenishment, ammunition consumption and equipment consumption, stationing and training costs...... After all, the alliance's investment in this area is not too much to convert into 100 million tax coins a year, right?
The Ministry of Military Affairs will pay for tax deductions.
However, the cost of raising troops in the alliance is still very high. The Raging Bear Legion is expensive, but there aren't many of them; The Koroga Salvation Army is cheap and cheap, and the number of 300 million is here, and it can't be cheap.
With 300 million Salvation Army, Koroga can still bear it.
In the future, as Koroga's reforms continue to advance and productivity keeps up, the financial pressure on the alliance will be greatly reduced.
At present, the annual output value of Koroga can also reach almost 20 billion - compared with the three stars of Fastces, it is obviously 30 billion more people, but the output value is not as good. The league is still losing money on Koroga.
However, at present, there is already a third of the nest capital in Koroga, and the reform strategy has been pushed forward. In the past year, the Union has received 1.1 billion in tax revenues in unreformed regions; The profits generated by the reform of centralized production in the reform areas were also 800 million.
This is also the result of Koroga's loss of more than four billion people, and the continued transfer of population to the Angry Owl and Black Arrow.
That's up to the two billion dollars in tax revenue that Koroga could generate annually before the war.
Koroga's tax amount is four billion, and the remaining two billion tax shortfalls in previous years are made up by paying the population.
Gu Hang's request to Korojia is to hope that by the end of the remaining 4 years of tax holidays, the population of this planet will be reduced to less than 30 billion through transfer, and the profits of various output values will reach 3 billion.
If this can be done, then Koroga can be considered self-sufficient, no longer need subsidies, and does not need to pay taxes on the population, and can complete the imperial tax.
The nearly six billion people who will continue to move out in the next five years will settle in the Raging Owl and the Black Arrow. With the output value of these two planets and the shipyard, Gu Hang hopes that in five years, it will reach more than 20 billion, and the alliance can reap more than 6 billion profits from it. At that time, the imperial tax of these two places will be calculated according to a total of 7 billion, and there will still be a balance of more than 6 billion in the hands of the 700 million alliance.
At this point, the Alliance can be considered an extremely powerful political entity in the star field.
Self-sufficient, able to make excess profits every year, can produce most of the weapons and equipment required by the regular Astral Army, has a Space Marine Warband and a Battle Sisters, and can produce its own warships.
Although, under the establishment structure of the Planetary Defense Force and the Astral Army, it is not allowed to have a naval fleet, and it is not allowed to conduct large-scale interstellar trade, and if you want to engage in interstellar trade, you need to get a merchant license from the Imperial Chamber of Commerce.
However, this rule is never dead, and many planets will have their own ships. I don't do navy, I don't do interstellar trade, but I have some material transportation needs, some escort needs, some elastic defenses in planetary orbits, and anti-piracy needs within star systems, which is also normal, isn't it reasonable to have some ships?
The vast majority of planets don't have their own starships, and the biggest obstacle is far from being the Empire's regulations, but the inability to afford them; Even if you can afford it, you can't afford it.
But Gu Hang didn't have this worry. He can form an escort team, because the Alliance's domination has spanned multiple galaxies, and there is a real need for this to have interstellar pirates roaming over? As for the price, you can produce it yourself, plus you have your own shipyard, and the cost of self-formation is controllable and low.
Even if you take a step back, Gu Hang can also anchor the alliance's fleet under the Gu family's firm, which is ostensibly the merchant fleet under the Gu family's firm, but is actually the alliance's naval fleet.
The army and navy were complete, and by that time, the alliance could already be called "rich and strong" - rich and strong.
Not to mention, in the past five years, Gu Hang has relied on the position of the head of the star region to get his hands on the Flying Wing Star. In the previous conversation between Gu Hang and Xu Dechen, it was also mentioned that little Pei Desi had been sent by the parliament to give up. This guy has no brother, no backstage support, and he can't control the Flying Wing Star at all.
And although the population of Flying Wing Star is only eight billion, the shipyard to which the planet belongs can build cruisers is really drooling.
That's a great asset. It was really a waste to put it in the hands of little Pei Desi, and Gu Hang didn't think that guy would be able to hold it steadily in the future.
At the level of that straw bale, there are ways to get him down.
Moreover, this matter should be faster, Gu Hang didn't want to wait too long.
The sooner you get it, the sooner you get the benefits.
As for how to get it, Gu Hang had some ideas.
In addition, the initial implementation of these ideas has already begun.
How little Peides will react to this is not in Gu Hang's concerns. No matter what the guy thinks or does, it doesn't change the outcome.
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While Gu Hang was planning the Flying Winged Star, the other world in the Pegasus Star Region had a movement first.
That's the Red Arrow, the only planet in the Pegasus region that hasn't joined the Alliance.
Red Arrow is a predominantly agrarian imperial world with a total population of around two billion people. Many large and small farmers, or agricultural conglomerates, control the land on the planet. These farmers and agricultural groups form the trade associations, which are the highest power structures on the planet.
The leader of the Association will be elected within the Association, who will also become the acting Governor of the planet and authorize the establishment of a planetary government. The government of the Red Arrows is a very loose agency, dealing with law and order issues and providing some necessary public services. They don't raise armies, they don't collect taxes, and the necessary resources for the functioning of the government are also financed by agricultural associations.
At the same time, the level of army construction of Red Arrow Star is also very low, with two billion people in millions of troops, and heavy equipment is even more scarce, mainly light infantry.
The Imperial Tax of the Red Arrow Star was negotiated by a large number of people in the Agricultural Association, and these large agricultural enterprises seized every trade opportunity to pay the Imperial Tax of 200 million per year with grain; It is also a trade in grain in exchange for various industrial products needed by the planet, especially agricultural production machines.
The Red Arrow Star is not highly developed, and there is hardly much industrial level. But the inhabitants of the planet are generally doing well. They have a high share of food, and although most of it is taken away by agricultural companies and farmers, the rest can be used by many agricultural workers to eat and drink.
Gu Hang had really thought about how to take down the Red Arrow Star before, but found that it was very difficult.
The people of these agricultural companies, all of whom are rich landowners, have no special ambitions at all, so they nest in their own acres and three-thirds of land to farm. On the planet, there has not been anything special to intervene in.
Although, their military strength is very weak, Gu Hang can beat them down with a wave of his hand. But it's an imperial world, and there's not enough reason to fight at all.
What's more, on the Red Arrow Star, the main output is food, and the output is very simple. Gu Hang didn't seem to have to get it in his hands, as long as he continued to trade, let Red Arrow Star buy the agricultural output beyond the imperial tax, and dump industrial products at the same time.
Although, Gu Hang has a bit of 'map coloring' obsessive-compulsive disorder, it has reached this level, and he really wants to plant all the planets in the entire star region with the flag of the alliance.
Considering practical factors, Red Arrow Star really belongs to the kind of person who can be plugged in or not.
Gu Hang was right to think so, but he didn't expect that after he became famous in the star region, the alliance system expanded rapidly, and obtained the position of the head of the star region, it would have a big impact on these rich people on the Red Arrow Star.
Gu Hang didn't have the heart to toss them, he just wanted to do business, but he didn't tell them this, and the rich people didn't know what Gu Hang thought.
Even if they do, they may not be at ease.
The envoy from the Red Arrow Star Agricultural Association, with a restless attitude, came to the Flying Wing Star, met with Governor Gu, and put forward their demands:
We're going to join the Alliance!
This time, it amused Gu Hang.
Nothing has been done, you just want to take the initiative to join, is it okay?
However, these rich landowners did not join unconditionally.
Before sending the envoys, they had done some research on the alliance system.
One of the biggest psychological obstacles to joining the alliance is that the alliance will 'confiscate' almost all the means of production and monopolize all output. Whether it is the boss or the workers and peasants below, they will all be given a rank and receive welfare benefits according to the corresponding rank.
They certainly couldn't accept this, and it was even more uncomfortable for them than killing them.
However, they are really afraid of death.
Although, in their assessment, it was basically certain that Gu Hang was unlikely to take military action directly against the Red Arrow Star, but with Gu Hang's current ability, it would not be necessary to take military action against the Red Arrow Star at all.
As long as trade is cut off, or even just harshly negotiated prices, the blow will be fatal for a planet like theirs with very homogeneous output.
So, in the midst of their sad faces, these rich people of the Red Arrow Star came up with a plan.
They saw that in the alliance system, there were also some private enterprises. That's more of a situation on the Angry Owl, where the coalition government is open to people to start their own businesses in order to avoid institutional rigidity.
When people see an opportunity to start a business, they can keep their rank, keep their benefits, and then start a business, and even get some support from the alliance government. But on that basis, they have to sign contracts with the government and make performance commitments. Then, they can recruit soldiers, and the workers and employees they recruit are also entitled to rank benefits and allowances, which are equivalent to the wages paid by the government.
This is equivalent to opening a new state-owned enterprise.
If the results of entrepreneurship are not good, the rank will fall, or even fall sharply, and there may not be a previous position when you come back; If you do it well, you will rise in rank, and a portion of the profits from starting a business will be rewarded to the corresponding entrepreneur - in fact, it is equivalent to income beyond 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 is that the husband and wife stall open a breakfast shop; The higher ones feel that there is a business opportunity somewhere, go and open a store supermarket and hire three or five people; It's amazing, to be a transportation company, or to start a garment factory if you feel that the clothing design in the current market is collapsed......
And these rich people of the Red Arrow Star saw the opportunity from this policy.
They wanted to join the alliance to avoid being squeezed to death and targeted, and they didn't want to lose their current property, so they came up with such an idea.
They are all in accordance with the rules of the alliance and according to the scale of the industry they manage; The peasants and workers under their command will also have all ranks, and welfare allowances will be paid according to the standards of the alliance. At the same time, they all get the status of entrepreneurs, and can enjoy the super profits of their agricultural companies or farms.
They also promised to accept the jurisdiction of the alliance system, and the ranks of those who did well were raised, and the scale of the alliance support could be expanded and the profits would be higher; If you are sloppy, or if you are unlucky enough to encounter a natural disaster that is not in good shape and the rain is not smooth, then you will bear your own risk, and your rank will be reduced, and the scale will be reduced, and even the most serious will be shut down and handed over to others to manage.
To put it bluntly, it was market competition that naturally led to these results in the past, but now there is an additional layer of alliance jurisdiction and acceptance of alliance regulation.
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I said I was on a business trip for a week, but I didn't say a week...... It's that the update may not be very stable, but I still have to take full attendance, it's all money!
And then there's the case of this business trip...... Had a sore throat the night before, but at first it didn't feel like much. Yesterday, I took a plane and a boat and a lot of wind and rain, the temperature difference between the two places is big, I was wearing very thick, I sweated more than 20 degrees after landing, I quickly took it off, the wind blew and it was cool and swishing, and I couldn't stand it at night, dizziness, vomiting, and sore throat intensified. I didn't finish writing what I wanted to update last night.
Get up today, good guy, just add a low-grade fever.
The good news is that there is no need to do the work, the hotel is lying in the nest; The bad news is that I took medicine and slept all day today, and I was weak, and the antipyretic medicine worked for a while, and then I continued to burn after a while......
Barely finish this chapter.
Later, I tried to write as much as I could, trying to keep my full attendance. If you owe more, you will not be able to repay it temporarily......
I went back to sleep......
(End of chapter)