Chapter 502: Getting busier after peace

Chapter 502: Getting busier after peace

At the meeting, many senior officials of the league were still arguing.

But Gu Hang was already in a trance.

The war in the Dragon Eagle Star Territory is basically over no matter what.

There may still be remnants of green skins on various planets; there are also the hastily retreating Fury Flames outside, and the possible revenge of their allies, as well as the Spider Web Universe located in the northern part of the Eastern Universe, where the Iron Fury Stone may set off Great war...

The shadow of war still looms.

But no matter what shadows or remnants of green skin, generally speaking, it can be said that peace has generally arrived.

Don't expect that there won't be any disputes within a regime that spans four hundred worlds. That's unrealistic.

If there is no crisis that affects multiple worlds at the same time, it can already be said to be peace.

After peace came, Gu Hang found that he and the entire alliance had more things to worry about and were busier.

The head of the sector is a paper framer, so I won’t mention it;

Richer, but paying less taxes. This is obviously something created by the previous star domain government.

Not to mention the empire, it is quite difficult to establish a unified centralized government controlled by the alliance government in all the four hundred worlds of the Alliance, and the maintenance costs have soared.

The accumulation over the past many years, and the three star districts behind it as the rear area, are quite abundant in resources, and their size should not be much higher than Qima Di, which has only been developed for a few or more than ten years.

By then, I'm afraid it won't be a matter of money.

Holy Terra may not have figured out until now how many worlds are under the empire's jurisdiction. This number is changing every day, with some newly added, some lost, and some rebelling. , there is a solution to the rebellion...

In this structure, the most independent ones are the planetary governors. They can do almost anything they want on their own planet. The only reason that prevents them from doing this is that the power of a single planet is not strong enough.

If you don’t understand basic information, how can you still rule? Rule with a hammer!
Under such objective conditions, the empire’s current top-down five-level structure—Holy Terra, Space Domain, Star Domain, Star Region, and Planet, coupled with the political system of strong local autonomy in each region—is helpless. .

What if one day, the alliance's control range becomes four to five thousand worlds in the entire Eastern Universe?

This problem exists widely throughout the entire human empire.

I don’t even know how many imperial worlds there are specifically, but I only know that it’s on the order of a million or so.

The same is true for the military. The Empire barely knows how many Astra Militarum and Imperial Navy establishments there are, but these are only establishments on paper, and the actual situation is also unclear. There are so many departments, institutions, and dignitaries who have the power to create new Astra Militarum and Navy forces that it is impossible to count them all.

Of course, this is not the alliance's own problem. Gu Hang was praising the alliance government for doing a good job before, so he would not turn his back on them now and feel that their work is too much for them.

Similarly, although those worlds that are losing money have many objective conditions for losing money, if the administrative management capabilities of the alliance can keep up, then the cost of establishing and maintaining rule should not be so high.

Moreover, these changes are not just happening in the border areas. Due to the special nature of astral tunnels, sometimes a galaxy that was originally located in the hinterland suddenly becomes a front line because of the discovery of a new astral tunnel.

In Gu Hang's view, the current situation in which the entire alliance relies solely on two centers to make money, while the remaining large parts of the world are in losses, is essentially caused by the alliance's administrative capabilities failing to keep up with the expansion of the political system.

The scope of domination is too vast.

From this perspective, Gu Hang can actually understand why the empire behaves like this.

In fact, although the output value of Yunluo Center is much higher, its financial contribution is not high enough.

Yunluo Star is a more developed place than Feiyi Star, and it is not rated at level 5 development like Feiyi Star, but at level 4.

If you can't even figure out these things, let alone the population and industry situation in each world.

The Star Territory Head of State is another heavyweight.

Among the three-level structure in the middle, the most important one is the star government. It has a particularly high degree of independence. It can retain imperial taxes, have control over the appointments of each sector under its command, and can deploy the Astra Militarum and the Navy within the sector.

Every star region government is like a local prince with real power.

And the government of the Eternal Territory further up actually looks like the image of the leader of the princes and allies.

Generally, the cosmic domain government occupies the most developed star domain, and is itself the richest and most powerful local prince. With the blessing of administrative power, each star domain government must also obey orders to a certain extent, which is like the leader of a princes alliance. It looks like, but it is difficult for the Eternal Territory Government to directly control every star domain and star region.

The entire structure is a bit like a feudal system, but it is very different from feudalism. After all, officials are appointed from the Holy Terra government, and there is no right to inherit by themselves.

Of course Gu Hang doesn't like this. His alliance has always insisted on a high degree of centralization. As the central government, the alliance government has a high degree of control over the areas it directly controls.

But now, realistic factors are pressing on me, and it seems that I have to make a certain degree of compromise.

While thinking, Gu Hang had some vague ideas in his head.

Just then, someone called him at the meeting.

Gu Hang came to his senses.

Although he was distracted before, he actually listened to what was being discussed intensely in the meeting.

At this time, when people call him, it is natural that the discussion has reached a point where it can no longer proceed, and he, the leader, is needed to make the final decision.

Anyway, everyone's opinions were clearly expressed in the previous debate.

Gu Hang no longer hesitated and expressed his opinion directly:
"I roughly understand what everyone means: increase investment in loss-making worlds, build these worlds as soon as possible, turn them into profits as soon as possible, and exchange large short-term losses for rapid development. In the future, we can be self-reliant, get rid of long-term losses, and even make profits. ”

"The other extreme is to completely abandon these worlds, maintain the empire's regular rule, appoint a planetary governor, and impose a 10% imperial tax. Other resources will no longer interfere, and the alliance will not cause trouble to the point of destroying the entire planet. It will interfere with the local situation, but it will be handled by the local governor.”

"I also fully understand everyone's thoughts, but I think these two directions are not completely conflicting, and we can execute them at the same time."

"I agree with Jason Morgan. We need to analyze the situation in detail, region by region and planet by planet, to decide how to implement it."

"Let's talk about several areas separately..." Gu Hang began a long discussion.

While he was speaking, everyone else basically remained quiet, listening carefully to the opinions of him, the supreme commander of the alliance. Only when Gu Hang asked, did the person named accordingly speak.

Gu Hang first determined the development goals of Qimadi.

The entire Qima Di is designated as the core area of ​​the alliance.

Not only the Tianma Sector, but the remaining six horses also need to be developed with focus.

These seven star regions have a total of 88 worlds and a population of 1870 billion. It is now an area with positive profits. Although the main revenue comes from the Pegasus Star Region, where the alliance originated, the development of the Pegasus Star Region will always reach its upper limit.

Of course, this upper limit does not mean that there will be no development after reaching a certain level of development. This is a soft upper limit. After reaching a certain level, the speed of development will inevitably decrease. At the same time, because advanced industries account for a large proportion of manpower and output, the number of people that the planet's environment can support will also reach the upper limit - Gu Hang doesn't really want to build a world like Holy Terra, it's too scary.

After reaching this soft upper limit, the star area will of course continue to develop, especially high-end and high-tech industries. However, some backward production capacity will definitely be eliminated.

Qima Di is the best area to undertake it.

Moreover, since these 88 worlds were already under the control of the Alliance during the previous war, the Seven Horses Framework and the Economic Community Framework were fully promoted to these worlds. Now, the time is ripe for complete transformation into an alliance system.

These 88 worlds are also where the Alliance will invest heavily in the future.

Upon Gu Hang's inquiry, Alliance Prime Minister Ms. Ossina Chenko, after discussing with her own staff and many senior officials from the Alliance ministries for several minutes, gave Gu Hang a definite answer: In the next five years, seven Malaysian territories will The industrial economic development can maintain an annual growth rate of 10%.

Five years later, the total output value of Qima Di should grow to more than 3000 billion.

……

The second area mentioned is Yunluo Center.

This will be the focus of establishing alliance-dominated areas.

These forty-plus worlds have large populations and developed economies, so it is impossible to lose money. But Gu Hang doesn't accept that just making money in these places is enough.

What Gu Hang wants is for these 2500 worlds, with a population of 6300 billion and an output value of 54 billion, to complete the comprehensive institutionalization of the alliance just like the seven-horse land.

Only in this way will it be convenient for Gu Hang to put various high-level technologies and industries in this place for production in the future. This will be able to further increase the output value of these places; and, the alliance believes that these worlds obviously have such high output value, and the imperial tax is not high, so why is the financial amount provided only so much a year?

After replacing the alliance system, what Gu Hang hopes to achieve is: there should be no large-scale unrest, the living standards of the vast majority of the empire's citizens should not be generally reduced, and the industrial economy should at least not decline. On these basis, the alliance's control over these areas has been greatly improved, and its financial revenue contribution has been clearly improved.

Oceana was troubled by this.

There are many clauses here that are in conflict.

There is a contradiction between unionization and the lack of unrest. Allianceization will inevitably bring losses to the middle rentier class. Although according to the alliance's policies, these business owners and former local officials can obtain relatively high ranks as long as they cooperate with the institutionalization of the alliance. But for the high-ranking people in the alliance, the advantages of life are indeed as high as the sky for ordinary people. However, compared to the past, they have the power of life and death, and all industries are their own. That is not a concept.

If these rentier classes are not eliminated, how can fiscal revenue increase significantly without increasing output value and reducing people's living standards?
The knife is meant to be used on these people.

If people resist, there may be unrest; even if they do not resist in person and just engage in non-violent non-cooperation, the work of the alliance will suddenly become difficult to do due to the lack of cooperation from local officials.

This is much more radical than the personnel replacement method adopted by the league before.

But it seems that Governor Gu has made up his mind.

Gu Hang also gave his own reasons: "No matter how the future develops, Qimadi and Yunluo Center are the core areas that we need to rely on most. In the foreseeable future, our neighbors to the north will make big moves. Regardless of Whether we want to or not, we need to face it. We must solve the backyard problem while there is still time. I don’t want the rear to be compromised when the front is under tremendous pressure.”

Oceana understood.

But this time, her discussions with the coalition government team took longer.

In the end, their answer to Gu Hang, or the 'kpi' they set for themselves, was that in the next five years, other economic indicators and people's livelihood indicators in Yunluo District would remain unchanged, and there would be as little unrest as possible. Under this circumstance, the fiscal revenue contribution increased by 30%.

Gu Hang believes that Yunluo Center has more potential, but he is reluctantly satisfied with this number.

Then, we arrived at those loss-making sectors.

Different regions have different conditions.

In the eastern part of the star field, the area once controlled by the alliance, namely Jinguan, Tongguan, Jiaoshou... there are a total of 8 star sectors and 94 worlds, but the population is only about 880 billion. The common feature of these star areas is that before the Green Tide of the Iron-toothed Orcs broke out, they were the world surrounding the occupied areas. They were part of the 'Iron-tooth Defense Line' and had endured wars all year round;
In the green tide, they either fell completely or partially.

After the end of the Green Tide, during the confrontation between the Alliance and the Raging Flames, they were under the control of the Alliance.

The production bases and social order of these worlds have almost all collapsed to varying degrees due to the Greenskin Wars, resulting in massive population losses and government dysfunction.

The Alliance passed the 'Economic Community Act' in these places in the early stage, and later directly dispatched Alliance officials to manage them, basically having these worlds firmly in their hands.

In these worlds, there is no resistance. On the contrary, they are very grateful to the Alliance for saving them from the flames of war. Thanks to the efforts of the Alliance Propaganda Department, the entire social atmosphere is also committed to the Alliance.

There is no cost of governance here. The main reason for the losses is due to the war. Too many people died and all kinds of production were destroyed. Now they are very poor.

The problems of these worlds are relatively easy to solve. Throw money at it and it will work.

What Gu Hang means is that these worlds can throw money.

In these 94 worlds, the alliance estimates that if it spends about to billion a year, it will be able to achieve better results.

In fact, after these 94 worlds ushered in peace, a baby boom has already occurred, and it is foreseeable that the population will recover quickly.

Oceana is the most confident in the work plan for this region. She even dares to guarantee that in five years, the total output value of these eight star regions will increase from 670 billion to 1000 billion. The population can also rise from 880 billion to 950 billion.

The remaining areas are the real areas that need to be attacked.

(End of this chapter)