Chapter 715, Bargaining

Of course, Gu Hang is still paying attention to what is happening on Holy Terra.

But it’s no longer the most important thing.

Gu Hang has decided to accept the proposal put forward by Premier Xu of the Ministry of Taxation.

Of course, not now, immediately, or right away.

There are still many details to be discussed.

For example, the location of tax settlement, and the five major star regions mentioned in the alliance plan all pay taxes to the empire in full. However, Gu Hang has become the chairman of the Spider Web Universe and does not allow the alliance to expand. So, for the other nine star regions in the Spider Web Universe, should 30% be left in the star region government and 20% in the universe government?
After all, these nine star fields are not alliance territories and do not have to comply with the Alliance Plan.

Of course, instead, although the government agencies of the universe domain can be established by Gu Hang, the chairman of the universe domain, the Executive Yuan has the right to intervene in the appointment of the head of the star domain and the bureaucrats of the two levels of the universe and star domain. In addition to the government, there are also vertical administrative agencies, such as the two-level military affairs department, taxation department, and legal department, which also need to be vertically led by the imperial central military affairs department, taxation department, and legal department.

Not to mention, it also has to support the Inquisition, the Astra Militarum, and the Navy, all of which are subject to restrictions.

The Astra Militarum needs to build, the navy needs to build, and the Inquisition needs money for its activities, so all of these need to be allocated. Not to mention asking the Ministry of Taxation for funding directly, but also the superiors of these departments, institutions, and troops need to allocate funds.

Of course, what replaced them were the interstellar armies, navies, government departments and other units that had to obey the chairman of the universe and accept vertical leadership from the upper echelons.

This is a political arena.

What matters is whether the funding from the higher authorities is stronger or the funding from the Universe Government is stronger; what matters is the competition for personnel power; the final result is that these departments are constantly wavering in implementing the will of the Universe Chairman, the Star Region Head, and the Imperial Central Government, coupled with their own departmental interests and the personal interests of departmental bureaucrats...

There are so many conflicts of interest, what about corruption? What about ideas? Political ideals?

Just thinking about it makes me dizzy.

In this case, how to improve efficiency? How to implement the "salvation plan" that Gu Hang had thought of for the worlds in the Spider Web Universe?
Gu Hang was actually unwilling to accept that the alliance was completely restricted from expanding, and that he could only rely on the regular local government agencies of the empire to rule the Spider Web Universe. The efficiency of the universe, star field, star region, and planet was too low, and there were too many things to argue about.

However, even though Gu Hang was unwilling, it did not stop him from taking the matter to negotiation.

What this means is that if you do not allow the alliance to expand, then the alliance plan will not include other places in the Spider Web Universe, and then the tax revenue of these places cannot be guaranteed. We cannot give you an additional 1.3 billion in taxes beyond the 8000 million. You have to collect taxes according to the normal local tax collection situation of the empire.

That means not only that more than half of the tax revenue must be left to local governments, but the alliance cannot guarantee low losses.

All in all, the tax revenue that the imperial central government could possibly collect would only be 50 billion?
More than ten times the difference.

If you don’t allow the alliance to expand, then I will pay you more taxes;

If we don’t allow the alliance to expand, there will be no money.

Gu Hang’s meaning was quite clear: the Taxation Department needs to give more help.

Moreover, even if expansion is allowed, good bargaining will be required.

The nine star regions were in ruins. Although they were large, they had been badly damaged by the brutal wars of the past decade or so. Eight hundred billion was not worth it. We had to talk a little further.

In addition to continuing to use money to hang on to the Imperial Central Taxation Department, Gu Hang also wants to put pressure on the Ministry of Government Affairs.

Since they are not under the alliance system and are not included in the "Alliance Plan", then should the Imperial Central Star Army Headquarters and the Navy Headquarters allocate funds for the construction of these local star army and navy?

Should the Executive Yuan allocate funds to the government for the reconstruction of the planet?

Should the taxation department allocate funds to build a taxation fleet? Otherwise, how can taxes be collected? The alliance can't collect taxes, right? This has nothing to do with the alliance, and you don't allow the alliance to interfere. The same goes for other cosmic and star domain affairs.

By this calculation, except for the areas controlled by the alliance, the Spider Universe Empire can forget about recovering 500 billion a year. Even with these grants, the central government of the empire may have to give money to Gu Hang instead.

It's up to you.

These things cannot be determined overnight.

Let’s talk slowly.

The ambassador sent by the Alliance to Holy Terra was of a high rank. Salihovic was an important figure in the Alliance's diplomatic department. As the Alliance grew larger, the most important external relationship was naturally the relationship with Holy Terra, so naturally the most important person was needed to take on the position of ambassador.

Gu Hang is still very confident about Salihovic.

Apart from anything else, this person is now at level 8, and all of his upgraded characteristics are related to diplomacy, negotiation, and charm. He is the most powerful talent in the alliance in this area.

Of course, as the saying goes, what you can’t get on the battlefield, you can’t get at the negotiation table. Salihovic is just good at speaking, can read people’s expressions, can make people like him, and can stick to his guns when he needs to be sharp, but he can’t turn black into white and gain any excess benefits.

In the final analysis, a good plan must be made, and then there needs to be a strong Gu Hang and a strong alliance behind it to enable Salihovic to perform at his highest level.

The good news is that Salihovic can also get the support of Gallardo.

With the help of a high lord, the effect is very good.

On the one hand, it is possible to obtain some information that cannot be obtained through normal channels. Otherwise, no matter how high the intelligence department of the alliance is, it is not easy to know the content discussed in the Supreme Council in the first place.

There was no problem the second time, the air was leaking everywhere.

On the other hand, there are some strategies that Gallardo can use to help speak in the Supreme Council.

Let’s talk slowly.

But it won't take too long.

The time for the next tax payment has to be determined.

Whether to implement the Alliance Plan or to find other solutions will be determined in one or two months.

Gu Hang patiently pushed the coalition government to formulate the first two-year plan, and then followed it up with an eight-year plan.

The first two-year plan was to deal with the 8000 billion that would be paid when the empire received its first tax payment two years later.

It's actually not difficult.

The current taxes from the Dragon Eagle Star Region plus the fiscal surplus are almost enough to cover this amount of money.

But the pressure in the past two years is not on taxes, but on trying to raise the construction level of other places while the tax pressure is not too great in the early stage.

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(End of this chapter)