Chapter 811, Review Mechanism

Gu Hang could fully understand the turmoil and dissatisfaction within the alliance.

Let the people tighten their belts and eat less, work more than ten hours a day, add up the Alliance Navy, Army and Planetary Defense Force, and the mobilization rate will be over 3%, and there will be a lot of sacrifices. A considerable number of people will have relatives and friends, or at least people they know, serving in the army, or even sacrificed...

What do you get in return for paying such a price?
It was just some glorious propaganda, just one victory after another under a grand narrative. But in reality, my life did not get better at all as the Dark Side Expedition progressed, but got worse.

People began to wonder in their hearts, why should we endure so much for people outside the alliance?

Of course victory is good, and of course it is good for the survival of mankind.

If you ask me if I support it, I definitely support it; if you ask me if I am willing to donate a cow...

For the company's long-term goals, we have to take a pay cut now. Do you accept it?
One reason.

Of course there are people who have lofty ideals and are willing to sacrifice and contribute for the greater good.

And there are quite a few. The education and internal publicity provided by the alliance are still reliable and effective.

However, we cannot expect everyone to do this several times.

But for things like this, understanding is one thing, but it doesn't mean we can accept or tolerate it.

As the ruler of the alliance, doesn't Gu Hang want the people under his rule to continuously improve their living standards?
He has been doing this for a very long time.

In order to concentrate on development, the central government of the alliance did eat up most of the development dividends. However, after largely eliminating the exploitative classes such as capitalists, feudal lords, and slave owners, the remaining part can still be distributed to the people at a fairly good level. Moreover, a considerable part of what the alliance took away, whether it was development dividends or surplus value, was used to develop the planet's infrastructure.

Highways, hospitals, higher levels of economic development, more job opportunities, more opportunities for promotion...all of these will be fed back into people's work and life.

It is for this reason that people’s satisfaction has remained quite high.

This has always been Gu Hang’s goal.

At the same time, he was also able to realize that under the alliance's centralized decision-making, planned economy, and collective system, the alliance also had a set of methods to stimulate the subjective initiative of the people's producers, allowing them to freely and independently use their intelligence and talents.

The economic system of the alliance is based on centralized state ownership, which dominates centralized, basic, high-tech, investment-intensive, and military industries, focusing on heavy industry, supplemented by some key light industries. The private sector is mainly in the service industry and some light industries.

The Alliance's civilian economy is actually very vibrant, and has been an important pillar of the Alliance's economic development over the years.

However, if religion is strengthened, censorship is intensified, and people's words and deeds are strictly regulated, this vitality will be significantly stifled.

From the bottom of his heart, Gu Hang himself does not like measures such as strengthening religion and strengthening censorship agencies.

It is true that these two methods can significantly reduce Chaos Corruption.

The tricks passed down from ten thousand years ago are indeed effective. If the human empire did not have some ability, it would not be possible for the human race to survive for ten thousand years in this dark and cruel universe.

The construction of churches, preaching by missionaries, religious ceremonies in daily life, confession to priests when psychological problems arise... Establish a censorship structure, publicize the victory of the alliance, publicize that the people's current efforts have great and glorious significance, censor publications, censor all kinds of illegal associations and gatherings, censor speech, and arrest illegal people...

How could these things be useless?
Not to mention completely controlling the chaos corruption, at least we can control the situation on the surface.

The reduced vitality of the private economy is also one of the negative effects.

The second negative effect is that this kind of control will create dissatisfied people.

Not only does regulation itself require a lot of costs, but it will also reduce production efficiency...

That’s a whole bunch of bad things.

But what to do?

Under the pervasive corruption of chaos, there is nothing that can be done about it.

Gu Hang could only try his best to minimize the impact.

He has divided the control measures into several levels, and will decide which level to activate based on the planet's recent situation.

The highest level is level one, and the lowest level is level five. Gu Hang strives to keep the alliance's homeland, especially in places like the Dragon Eagle Star Region, at the lowest level of level five. As for places like the Magre Universe and some places in the north that were taken over and prepared to be used as fortress worlds, level one control will be activated.

If you can choose a lower level, choose a lower level. Even if you have to use a high level of control at the moment, there will be a series of indicators, and once they are reached, they will be lowered.

Here, the alliance also set up dual confrontation indicators. For local governments, even those newly established governments in the Magre Universe, lowering the control level is not only beneficial to their own economic development, but also a key indicator for senior government officials. If the control level can be successfully lowered, it means that the planet's public security, management, education, publicity and other aspects have made outstanding achievements, which is beneficial to their own promotion.

However, in order to prevent local officials from committing fraud and causing bigger problems on planets that could have been controlled, the alliance's regulatory agencies will seriously review the control level of each planet and verify the information reported by local governments to avoid problems that should not arise.

Under such circumstances, the alliance can hold on.

Not only the alliance's homeland, including the Eastern Universe and the newly occupied Magrena Universe, are under this level of control, and the situation has become smooth and controllable.

As for the discomfort in Gu Hang's heart, he felt that if the alliance continued like this, it might become a small, alternative empire... He had to compromise with this psychological obsession due to realistic factors.

What's more, in reality there is a big difference between the two.

At least, when the alliance initiated the regulation, it always knew that this measure was a last resort and a compromise with reality.

As for the empire... the powerful people in the empire are probably all enjoying the benefits of this power.

Of course, many places in the future alliance have been under strict control for too long, and perhaps the officials of the alliance will be obsessed with the feeling of great power and will be reluctant to return. But as long as Gu Hang is there, he is always confident that he can control the situation to an acceptable level.

(End of this chapter)