Chapter 482: I’m crazy to pay you taxes!

Chapter 482: I’m crazy to pay you taxes!

Battlecruiser!
Although it is not a serious battleship, its significance may be no less than the battleship itself.

It is essentially a high-speed battleship. Compared with battleships, battlecruisers have slightly thinner armor and slightly weaker firepower, but the speed gained by sacrificing part of the armor gives them extremely high tactical value.

It has the firepower of a battleship but the speed of a cruiser.

The mainstream thinking in the Empire is of course still based on fleet decisive battles, and battleships with thick armor, thick shields, and powerful firepower are the undisputed core; however, in the Imperial Naval doctrine, there is also a group of theorists and naval generals who prefer battlecruisers in war.

What it pursues is that anyone who can catch up with me will not be able to defeat me; anything that I cannot defeat will not be able to catch up with me.

The former refers to cruisers. Battlecruisers can easily defeat cruisers through high speed and firepower;

The latter refers to battleships. Battleships that are much slower than cruisers and battlecruisers really cannot catch up. Maybe the battle cruiser has circled to the other side of a planet or star, and the battleship is still chasing after it.

This gives the battlecruiser a very flexible positioning in war.

It is more suitable for fighting alone than a battleship, and is less likely to fail to capture the enemy after a sortie, and is less likely to be besieged;

Gu Hang doesn't care who is right or wrong among those theories. If he has to choose, he will choose them all!
And now, before drawing a battleship, giving a battle cruiser is also a good choice.

It can serve as the vanguard during fleet operations and force the enemy's vanguard into a difficult situation. If the vanguard fleet goes to war alone, it will obviously be disadvantageous for the enemy.

The battlecruiser extracted this time is called the 'Holy Grail Class'. Its length is similar to that of the Retribution Class Battleship, but it is much slender. The power specifications used are similar and even stronger.

Within the Imperial Navy, the faction that supports battlecruisers believes that in the current space environment, the forces of the enemy and ourselves are balanced, and fleet decisive battles that rely on battleships to solve problems are rare.

He never doubted that he would get bigger ship technology, it was just a matter of time.

But fortunately, Gu Hang had already planned this.

The finished black box can be used to pull out some technically difficult components and send one to the sky; the production line is constructed in an orderly manner, starting with the simple ones; the final assembly work is completed in the battleship dock.

It can also serve as a defender, reacting quickly to join the front-line battle after the war begins; it can withstand the enemy when retreating, making it impossible to ignore, but it can also use its speed advantage to easily complete the blocking task and escape from the battle.

But so what?

As the dominant side, battlecruisers are better able to pursue, break up, and annihilate enemies; as the disadvantaged side, they are more flexible and capable of maneuvering around than bulky battleships.

It can be built first.

But the price is that its armor and void shield energy level can be considered to be at the same level as that of a Moon-class cruiser. It is only a little stronger at most, but there is not a big gap, let alone a battleship. .

In fact, when the "Yuhuo Nova" was in the process of being washed, the berth where it was originally used to park the Big Belly-class transport ship had been transformed over the past two and a half years to make it more suitable as a battleship military dock.

Gu Hang still doesn't know how long it will take to build a battleship after extracting the battleship technology, but thinking about it, it will be quite long; but it only takes 6 years to build the 'Holy Grail' class, which is even longer than a Moon class cruiser. It’s only 2 more years!

In a war, one side always has an advantage and the other side has a disadvantage.

They believed that building more battlecruisers was a more advanced solution than traditional giant ships and cannons.

On the one hand, it is to facilitate the availability of a dock in case the Yuhuo Xinxing encounters a major problem and needs to return to Hong Kong for overhaul. On the other hand, it is to prepare for this situation.

If the enemy's vanguard retreats and joins the main force, the battlecruiser can use its high speed to pursue in the rear, causing considerable damage before the engagement; it can also outflank one end of the enemy fleet, creating a flanking advantage; otherwise, it can also attack both sides on both sides. When the main force is fighting, return to your own main fleet and act as an ordinary battleship to participate in the fleet decisive battle.

Its firepower is also very strong, and it cannot defeat an orthodox battleship, but when used to fight a cruiser, it is really easy to defeat. Not only does it have 12 L-sized heavy cannons, six times that of the Moon-class, it also has an X-class heavy cannon, which is a killer for the cruiser.

Moreover, no shipyard in the Alliance can build the Holy Grail. The shipyard where the cruiser was built was so small that there was no room for modification. The Alliance also has to build a larger shipyard to accommodate the assembly and production of the Holy Grail class.

It's just that the cost is much more expensive. The cost of building a 'Holy Grail' is 450 billion tax coins, which is five times that of the monthly level.

With the help of the finished product black box, the construction time of the first battleship started by the Alliance can be shortened by more than half.

Of course, if two ships are to be built at the same time, the finished black box will not be that helpful.

But now the Alliance only has the ability to build one ship, unless a new large shipyard is built and a complete production line that can capitalize on all components of the battlecruiser is built.

However, it is enough for the time being.

The Alliance needs the 'Holy Grail' now! It would be great to be able to build one in three years. A battlecruiser can barely serve as the main flagship of a star-level fleet and can hold up the scene.

……

After completing the technology lottery, the black box Gu Hang was naturally placed in the black box factory in the Kingdom of Storm God, and the heroic spirits would operate in it; the relevant products were taken from the alliance's research institute and then delivered to various The specific industrial circles that produce these products.

At the same time, the alliance government will also receive instructions from Gu Hang and begin to make plans based on the situation after having these new technologies, and ensure that these technological products are truly implemented, which will be of great help to the development of the alliance.

And Gu Hang himself was not idle either.

He took his entire staff team to the Raging Owl Star.

Leading the team was to facilitate his departure from Feiyi Star, so that all the work related to the function of "Alliance Governor" could be carried out normally. At the same time, going to Angry Owl Star was also to make use of the [Planetary Level Climate Modification Technology].

The Raging Owl Star is the first place, and Gu Hang will use his powerful spiritual power, as well as the close enough correlation between the Kingdom of Storm God and the Raging Owl Star, to channelize the penetration of subspace energy while changing the planet's climate.

The special thing about Raging Owl Star is that the curtain of reality here is very thin. In the prosperous era hundreds of years ago, this was a good thing, which brought advanced energy such as Linghua Gas Field; more than a hundred years ago, this was a disaster, The over-exploitation of the Linghua gas field made the penetration of subspace energy uncontrollable. An accident directly caused a subspace rift, opening the door for demonic invasion. The Imperial forces did suppress the daemons, destroying and closing the warp rift, but they also nearly destroyed Raging Owl.

But now, it's a benefit again. As long as the climate modification technology is used, coupled with Gu Hang's control over the Kingdom of Storm God, and the cooperation of this subspace area native to the Raging Owl Star, the waste energy storm can be calmed down and the spiritual gas field can re-emerge.

Moreover, there should be no need to worry too much about the accident happening again in the future.

In its prosperous period, the Nuo Xiao Star had a history of mining Linghua Gas Field for hundreds or thousands of years, and there was only one major incident. The probability was actually not high. Not to mention, the subspace area closest to the Raging Owl Star is Gu Hang's Kingdom of Storm God.

Demons want to invade the planet Raging Owl? Let’s go through the level of Storm Kingdom first.

This time, Gu Hang planned to stay peacefully on the angry owl planet for three months, and complete the preliminary work of transforming the angry owl star with the climate modification instruments pulled out of the finished black box.

After completing the most difficult points at the front and fine-tuning and maintenance at the end, he no longer has to stay here in person.

However, the second month after Gu Hang arrived at the Raging Owl Star and started his work, the trouble caused by the Raging Flames Chapter came to him.

It was his old acquaintance who came, the former tax director of the Dragon Eagle Star Territory and now the political director, Ms. Nair Lois.

She seems to have returned to her old business, bringing a tax fleet to the alliance-controlled area. Now she is blocked outside Duxingxing by the alliance's 'border defense'.

The tax fleet led by Laois did not forcefully break in, but only stated its purpose: to collect imperial taxes.

The war is generally over, and the eastern and western parts of the Star Territory are nominally connected.

The imperial tax, which has been stagnant for several years, will of course come to be paid again.

Information about the arrival of the Star Territory Government's tax fleet was quickly sent back.

Without orders, the border guards dare not let them go.

After seeing the news from the border defense, the Alliance War Council and the Alliance Government did not dare to make decisions without authorization. Oceana made this Star Language call to Gu Hang. After reporting the situation, she waited for Governor Gu's instructions.

"Blast her away." Gu Hang gave a very clear explanation.

"But the imperial tax... didn't you ask our Ministry of Finance to set aside this budget specifically to pay the imperial tax?"

"Yes, that's right. Of course we have to pay the imperial tax. Do we need to question the loyalty of our alliance? Of course we will pay the imperial tax."

Having said this, Gu Hang paused and continued: "But, who said we have to hand over imperial taxes to the star region government?"

Oceana asked: "You mean to directly contact a higher level of government to pay this tax?"

"Yes, that's what I mean." Gu Hang said, "We will hand over the imperial tax to the Dragon Eagle Star Territory government and let Lois fill her tax transport ship and send it to Yunluo Star. This money can Transferred to the hands of the empire? Obviously it is impossible. After they collected the imperial taxes in the western part of the star field, how many of them were handed over, and were not used by the Raging Flame Legion under their own banners?

"No matter how many reasonable reasons there are, most of the imperial taxes currently collected by the Dragon Eagle Star Territory government are controlled by the Raging Flames. They have too many reasons and use various explanations to spend this tax. Counterinsurgency, defense, and eradication of green skins... are just like what their 'Iron Fury Stones' did in the Queen's Star Territory."

"If we pay taxes to the Star Territory Government honestly, we will have to take one-tenth of the output value of the entire alliance - the empire tax in the past two years will give them 760 billion tax coins in supplies! Are we crazy? Send 760 billion to Nu Yan, and then let them use our money to attack us? "

"I understand what you mean. I will arrange the corresponding transport fleet and escort work right now. The route we can choose now to lead to the Promise Star, the capital of the universe, may have to take a slightly detour, starting from the Donglin Star Territory in the east. The only option is to transfer to the Promise Star Territory. The road in the middle is quite winding and not necessarily safe. We need to dedicate a lot of strength to ensure that the tax fleet can reach the target safely. It will take at least half a year to go back and forth. , to complete this tax payment.”

"What I want to say is that paying imperial taxes puts a lot of pressure on us. This work will not only occupy part of our warships, but more importantly, it will also occupy one-third of our interstellar transportation capabilities. A large number of The transport ship must be occupied to transport the large amount of materials represented by the imperial tax. These are the costs of tax collection and transportation. In the past, the star domain government had to bear it, but now, we have to bear it ourselves..."

Oceana's voice sounded a little uncomfortable.

This is also normal.

As the Prime Minister of the Alliance Government, I have not paid imperial tax in recent years - no, the imperial tax was used locally, and the accounts are still clear - and now I suddenly have to pay tax in a serious way, it is really embarrassing. pain.

The area occupied by the alliance is not small. In the past two years of the struggle with the Raging Flames, the alliance has been basically stable and controls 12 star districts outside the seven horse lands. Except for the four in the greenskin lair, there is no output, and there is no other population except new immigrants. Naturally, there is no such thing as imperial tax. But now that the remaining eight star regions are in the hands of the alliance, the alliance will naturally be responsible for paying taxes.

Although it is not the alliance itself, but these planets. But since these planets are either not under the mutual defense framework or under the EC Act, in Oceana's view, their money is equivalent to the alliance's money!

They are paying taxes, which means the alliance is paying taxes!
These newly acquired territories have a total population of more than 1500 billion, and the imperial tax to be paid will naturally reach more than 150 billion tax coins. However, these planets have generally just come into the hands of the alliance and have not yet had time to develop, and subsequent development will require a large initial investment.

After the money collected from these planets is used to pay imperial taxes, the remaining financial portion that the Alliance can collect only adds up to more than 0.6 billion. This is because the living standards of the residents on these planets are very low, and the average annual consumption per capita is only 0.7-.

Life was so bad and I was exploited so much that I could only achieve this little result.

If the alliance spends money to develop them in the future, the financial balance of more than 5 billion will definitely not be enough, and the alliance will have to put money into it!

After working hard for a long time, you are working for the imperial tax? Still losing money?

Oceana is definitely not willing to give in.

Moreover, forget about the imperial tax alone. It is a sum of money that cannot be escaped no matter what.

But what makes Oceana even more unhappy is that the cost of paying taxes seems to be borne by the alliance in the future. One-third of the alliance's transport ships have been occupied for more than half a year. How much capital loss is this? will have an impact on the development of the alliance.

Gu Hang probably understood what Oceana was thinking. He could only comfort him: "I know this is not easy, but it must be done. In the future, we will reach this point one day, so why not take advantage of the opportunity that everyone can understand, the Raging Flame Chapter, to take this step Go. Tell the combined fleet to form a battle group with four cruisers to serve as the escort fleet. "

At this point, Gu Hang added: "Moreover, we don't really need to transport all the materials to Wuji Star."

"hiss!"

Oceana took a breath. Just now, the Governor was scolding Wrath Flame for intercepting imperial taxes. Now you are...?
(End of this chapter)