Chapter 395, Wing Star's decision
Although it sounds similar, after joining the alliance, Red Arrow Star can still decide on its own agricultural group and farm, and can also let anyone inherit the industry according to its own wishes.
But in fact, the rich people on the Red Arrow Star paid a high price.
In name, their performance and their respective companies are all subject to supervision by the alliance. Even the government they originally formed, which was so loose that it only played a supporting role at most, would be replaced by the coalition government after it was disbanded. The past model of planetary management that mainly relied on farmer autonomy will be gone forever. In the past, the farm militia groups, which were basically of no construction level, will also be completely disbanded and replaced by direct garrison troops from the Alliance Army.
They put a rope around their own necks and handed the other end to the alliance. From now on, as long as the alliance wants to, they can strangle any farmer or agricultural group to death at any time.
They will have no ability to resist.
Of course they had expected this situation. After all, this condition was originally proposed to the alliance by them.
Within Red Arrow Star, it is not that there are no objections.
However, these objections have been resolved internally first.
The way they made this choice was actually very smooth.
First of all, it is very simple for the alliance to kill the Red Arrow Star. The powerful military power, coupled with the legitimacy of the head of the star sector, plus the influence of the Gu family's status as head of the interstellar trade... There are many methods of execution, from force to peace, from civilization to brutal.
Anyway, you still have to kneel down to save your life. It is better to negotiate a good condition before the Alliance takes action. Everything on the Red Arrow Star is still considered valuable, or a valuable bargaining chip.
This is the condition that can be negotiated after weighing the balance.
Did they have to sit back and relax in the past? Neither.
The situation on Red Arrow is generally stable for many years, but occasionally farmers go bankrupt and agricultural groups shrink. Under market competition, they also have a clearing mechanism to allow those who are not doing well to leave their undeserved positions.
Now, it is just a matter of changing the invisible hand of market competition into the visible hand of alliance government control.
They pay a price, but they also gain.
The Alliance made a commitment. Although they took over the power of the Red Arrow Star, they did not have much willingness to make major changes to the situation on the Red Arrow Star. There is no problem here maintaining the appearance of an agricultural planet.
The Alliance does not plan to invest heavily on Red Arrow, but just increasing the export trade of agricultural machinery, reforming agricultural technology, expanding and optimizing the star port on Red Arrow... these measures are enough to reduce the cost of these projects on Red Arrow. The local rich man has brought enough benefits.
They came with helplessness and left with worry, but in the following 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 would give preferential treatment to planets that took the initiative to surrender and fully accepted the Alliance's transformation.
It's not that we need special financial support – of course, mutual exchange and progress are necessary. More importantly, it must provide political support. For these smart farmers, the alliance will try its best to ensure that their identity, status, and wealth will not decline.
We need to create a vivid benchmark. If in the future, there are planets that want to actively join the alliance, having such a good precedent can dispel the doubts in many people's minds and make the future of the alliance easier. a lot of.
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Compared with the preferential treatment given by Red Arrow Star, Gu Hang was not so gentle towards Feiyi Star.
Gu Hang met the 'Governor' of the Red Arrow Star at the Flying Wing Star Pegasus Palace and accepted their joining.
And the reason why it is here is of course because this is the office of the leader of Tianma.
Wing Star has a population of 5 billion, a development level of 40, and an annual imperial tax of billion. How can we pay it?
Most of it depends on the shipbuilding industry, and a considerable part of the remaining part is exempted or paid in other forms through various tax reduction and exemption policies.
There are many ways to do this 'other forms of payment'.
There are several major items in it, such as paying for district government office personnel and office resources.
Of course, the personnel of the sector government must be paid and paid, and these people need to feed off the empire's finances; they also need an office space, and the sector government needs to be equipped with cars, spaceships that can make interstellar jumps, and offices. Required servo skull to assist in processing data...
This is a very large amount of money.
Even the entire Tianma Palace was built for the sector government. It took more than ten years to build a garden-style palace. As the office space of the sector government, it cost a total of more than one billion tax coins. This was an imperial expense. money;
Although there are not many office staff in the district government, a senior clerk's salary can easily reach dozens or even hundreds of tax dollars a year, which is far higher than the income level of ordinary people.
In addition, there is the Pegasus Naval Academy, which also feeds on the empire's finances, trains naval talents for the empire, and sends them to the Pegasus fleet.
The Flying Wing Star pays these costs, and then obtains certificates from the district government, as well as certificates from the Ministry of Military Affairs and the Navy, to claim debts and tax credits from the empire.
In the past ten years, the amount paid by Feiyi Star to the district government and the Naval Academy every year ranged from 500 to 600 million to as much as one billion.
This huge tax deduction, coupled with the ships paid by the shipyards, formed the structure of Feiyingxing's imperial tax payment. Sometimes, when the Wing Star shipyard happens to be producing large ships, the shipping fee plus tax deductions, the empire not only cannot collect an extra cent from Wing Star, but also has to pay a lot of money.
However, how could there be no manipulation at all in these things?
In the past, the leader of the sector government was Peddes; although the governor of the Winged Stars was little Peddes, could little Peddes be able to lead the Winged Stars well?
You don't have the ability to know.
During that period, he only helped his brother, led the governorship, and lived happily every day. The important work on the planet was actually handled by Peders himself.
When Peters was managing the planet and sector 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 sector government.
Isn't this just letting the same group of people, with the financial supplies of the empire, serve as the team of the planetary government? This saves the planetary government a considerable amount of administrative costs. There are many personnel expenses and the cost of purchasing materials. In the past, when Peter and Martinelli were here, no one would check it.
But does it really stand up to inspection?
Can it stand up to a cursory investigation? Can it stand up to Gu Hang, his successor? Do you really want to investigate?
In fact, not only the expenses incurred by the sector government and the Naval Academy, but also the products produced by the shipyard, are the prices really so fair and comply with the regulations of the empire?
That's also possible.
Starships are different from other standardized war equipment, tanks, and the like. Starships can be configured in different ways, from the hull design, power design, protection design, weapons and equipment specifications... all of them can be configured differently.
Of course, the word 'design' sounds nice. In fact, to put it harshly, every shipyard has this level of construction.
The level of each shipyard is different, and the ships they can build are also different. They 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 ship's design and determine the specific price of the ship manufactured by the shipyard.
But this kind of pricing will happen once. The next step is to inspect and accept the ship when the imperial tax collector comes.
There is no room for manipulation in these two aspects, design and acceptance, and Peter and Peter have not yet reached the point where their hands and eyes can reach the sky. Even those with such ability would look down upon this little thing.
However, there are still countless links between design and acceptance. It is not easy to cut corners in the construction process, but let's talk about the most normal thing - after the workers are skilled and the technology is mature, what about the money saved?
Not to mention there are some abnormalities, such as the margin that was deliberately left during the design, but can now be saved.
From the administration of one team and two brands, to the financial training of cadets in the navy, to the selection of qualified sailors as taxes;
From ship construction, to process changes, to ship acceptance;
When the integration of the sector government and the planetary government reaches this level, there will be too many operational links in between.
After Gu Hang received the official appointment from the head of the sector, he immediately ran to the Winged Star Pegasus Palace.
He brought his own guards, and after landing, he also deployed the manpower of the Psychic Order and went directly to Tianma Palace.
The first person he met was the head of the Tianma Palace guard. This group of elite warriors, all equipped with feedback-type power armor, are private guards who are financially dependent on the empire and obey the command of the sector leader. They are the benefits or rights given by the empire to the sector leader position.
The equipment is purchased, and the personnel are specially selected from the Astra Militarum. This is of course a very good place for the soldiers of the Astra Militarum. Being able to stay away from war, with higher allowances and benefits, or on a garden planet like Winged Star, isn't it the best destination for soldiers who have spent the rest of their lives fighting?
It's just that for the empire, it's not clear whether it's a good thing for such an elite thousand-man team to be pampered here.
In the past, the Pegasus Palace Guards took orders from both the sector government and the planetary government. This was not a multiple choice for them, because it used to be the same thing. Even after Martinelli came, the distinction between them, who were on the same camp, was not so clear.
But now, this problem suddenly and firmly faced them.
And they don't have to think too much to know what the right choice is.
In terms of interests, following Little Pedro, who is obviously shipwrecked, is because of a serious mental illness; in terms of responsibilities, they are the direct guards of the sector leader. As for who the sector leader is, they don't pay attention, and they shouldn't pay attention. Whoever is in that position will just listen to whoever is there.
Immediately afterwards, they received the first order from the new leader: to remove all non-sector government non-relevant persons from Tianma Palace, the office of the district government.
In fact, there won't be too many people. Although the Pegasus Palace actually serves as the headquarters of the planetary government, planetary government officials usually have the skin of sector government clerks.
But little Pedro didn't have this layer of skin.
In the Tianma Palace, waiting to greet Gu Hang, I don't know how much grievances I hide in my heart. I am also wondering whether it is better to recognize the reality and bow down, or to be tough and prefer to die rather than surrender. As a result, he was kicked out by the Tianma Palace guards who used to protect him without even seeing Gu Hang's face.
Then, little Peddes discovered that as the planetary governor, he was unable to interfere in planetary affairs.
There are extremely few people who should obey his orders. Most of the important positions and senior staff are sector government personnel in charge of the empire's finances.
In the past, when the sector leaders nodded and asked them to do the work of the planetary government, of course they would do it. Now, if they are not allowed to do it anymore, what should they do?
Then I can only stop doing it honestly.
Most of them are reluctant to leave their posts in the sector government. Not to mention the amount of money in their positions, they know better than anyone else that the planetary government has no personnel budget at all - it was not necessary before, but now?
No one makes this budget now.
Of course, without management, the planet will be in chaos. Gu Hang didn't want to cause chaos in Feiyi Star, a wealthy place. He already regarded this place as his own property.
He will still let the officials of the sector government continue to work, but he cannot do it directly.
As the head of the sector, he issued his first decree: he reprimanded the governor of the Winged Star, Little Peddes, for his chaotic governance and the fact that the planetary government was in name only. The sector government temporarily replaced management, and ordered Little Peddes to reorganize the planetary government within a month and complete the task. Good management work, otherwise Gu Hang, as the head of the sector, will formally initiate the impeachment of Little Pedro to the higher-level government.
Little Peter was dumbfounded.
Where can I go to form a planetary government in a month?
People from the district government won't use it?
Isn't this going to kill me?
But it was obvious that Gu Hang was not trying to kill him.
If it was life-threatening, I wouldn't have this month.
For little Peters, this was a whole month of thinking time to make the right choice.
And little Peddes found that he didn't have many choices.
(End of this chapter)