Start with Planetary Governor - Chapter 761

Lingze Star has never been so busy.

This is a planet located in the west of the Spider Web Universe – Tangu Star Region, and is the capital of the Lingze Star Region.

Before the war, this planet had a developed star port system and was a transportation hub connecting the central territory of the empire with the Spider Web Universe.

During the war, this place also became the focus of contention, but fortunately the Empire defeated Iron Armor after a war, and it has been controlled by the Empire since then. Even during the Iron Armor counterattack stage, the ground and star port parts of the planet were stationed by the Imperial Army, and Iron Armor’s fleet skipped this planet.

Later, when the Western Front Corps was reorganized, Lingze Star was used as an important logistics hub. Countless transport ships transported various war materials here, unloaded them, and then distributed them to various battlefields on the front line by small transport fleets.

During this stage, the Lingze Star Port system, which was originally damaged by the war, was not only urgently repaired, but also further expanded and constructed.

The location is good, and the planet itself has good hardware conditions as a transportation hub. After the alliance took over, this place was chosen as the place where the alliance and the central government of the empire delivered the imperial tax.

Originally, Lingze Star, as a transportation hub and a logistics center during the war, had many ships coming and going, and the waterway was extremely prosperous.

But all the prosperity in the past cannot be compared with the prosperity after it became the place for the delivery of imperial taxes!

Although the “Alliance Plan” was signed less than a year ago, the delivery of imperial taxes has already begun.

The tax payment cycle agreed between the alliance and the empire is every two years. However, the alliance is now so large that it controls nearly 10,000 worlds. It is no longer possible to wait for the tax officials to come to the door to do business as it did in the past when the scale was small.

The “Alliance Plan” stipulates that the alliance will collect the taxes of the fourteen star fields together to pay. This work cannot be started until the tax period is approaching, otherwise the tax work will definitely not be completed.

In fact, long before the “Alliance Plan” was signed, the Alliance had a special Imperial Tax Working Group, which had settled in Lingze Star and started working.

This working group is a high-level working group specially set up under the Alliance Finance Department and reports to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance at the same time. It has great power.

It also has great responsibilities.

It is fully responsible for the collection of the Alliance’s Imperial Tax.

A large number of transport ships, including the Chamber of Commerce fleet within the Alliance, were allocated to the working group for use.

They can directly call on the official transport ships of the Alliance; those ships of the Chamber of Commerce need to pay some money and operate in the form of the Chamber of Commerce fleet accepting transportation orders.

At this moment, the head of the working group, Director Guo Chenyu, was accompanying Gu Hang, who was on his way back and transferred to Lingze Star on the way, to inspect the tax situation together.

At this time, it has been seven months since Gu Hang left Holy Terra.

Tax work is of course very important, so much so that Gu Hang had to turn around and take a look on his way back to the Dragon Eagle Star Region.

“…Our taxation work is going relatively smoothly. The materials transported from all over the star field have reached a total of 432.7 billion tax coins, and there will be more ships coming to transport materials and store them on Lingze Star.”

“It is expected that a batch of ships from the central empire will arrive in three months, and will transport 160 billion tax coins of materials here; after that, a batch of ships will arrive about every month, and it is estimated that it will take eight months to transport the remaining 640 billion tax coins of materials. So far, the first taxation work of the alliance has been completed.”

According to the “Alliance Plan”, the tax amount of the alliance in the first year is 300 billion, and 500 billion in the second year. The first installment of tax payment totals 800 billion.

Then, it will increase to 800 billion in the third year, 1 trillion in the fourth year… and so on. It is a non-linear growth. The annual growth amount is the result of the quarrel between the officials of the alliance and the officials of the imperial tax department, but in short, it will increase to 2.1 trillion in the tenth year and maintain this number.

Gu Hang nodded slightly, his eyes quickly flipped through the documents, and his spiritual energy enveloped the huge star port system of Lingze Star, quickly checking and verifying whether the content of the documents was consistent with the actual situation.

There must be some discrepancies.

But Gu Hang is not a person who is full of criticism.

It is normal for such a large-scale material operation and statistics to have some errors and omissions.

It is necessary to give a little advice and knock; it is unnecessary to impose heavy penalties for this.

No one can be perfect.

Generally speaking, there are no problems.

Then, Gu Hang asked about the second phase of the imperial tax and the large-scale infrastructure construction made by Lingze Star for the imperial tax.

Guo Chenyu answered one by one, obviously he was confident about it.

The first phase of tax coins only requires 300 billion, but Lingze Star has already stored more than 400 billion materials. The extra ones are obviously prepared for the next tax payment.

In fact, the ships from the central government of the empire will not stop after delivering the first phase of 800 billion tax coins. The Empire’s ships will run at a monthly rate, or even shorter in the future. During the third and fourth years, the second phase of 1.7 trillion tax coins will be delivered to the center of the Empire.

And so on.

The same will be true when it stabilizes to 2.1 trillion in the future.

To transport such a huge amount of materials at one time, even the central government of the empire would find it difficult to mobilize so many ships immediately.

They can only send out a batch of ships every month or even every week.

Of course, there is a cost, and the empire still needs to bear the transportation cost from Lingze Star to the central government of the empire.

However, this cost is completely controllable.

Like the general universe, you have to negotiate with the local government, including the star domain and the universe domain, and argue about how much you keep and how much I take. Although there is a quota for this matter, if you are not careful, your 40% is 100 billion and my 30% is 150 billion. The local government has sufficient motivation to use a series of means such as false reporting, concealment, and reasonable calculation of losses to tug at the imperial tax department.

All of them require negotiation, compromise, threat, and even the use of force when necessary.

All of them are costs.

Not to mention, there are many details. Arguing about who will bear the tax transportation costs between star regions; Arguing about who will bear the escort work in the middle; Arguing about who is responsible for the food spoilage, expiration date, improper storage, etc. during transportation of materials…

With the alliance, there is no need to consider these things at all.

Quota, fixed point.

The tax officer will come to count the amount, and after the counting, the fleet will come to transport the materials. It’s simple and clear.

However, there are also problems. The infrastructure of Lingze Star can cope with the tax amount of the past two years.

However, in the third and fourth phases in the future, the tax amount to be paid by the alliance will rise to a scale of more than one trillion.

At that level, the infrastructure of Lingze Star will be a little bit overwhelmed.

In Guo Chenyu’s plan, Lingze Star is building a new star port called “Tax Port”. At the same time, on the surface, a huge tax storage space city is also under construction. Space storage city, ground storage city, tax port, there are cargo space elevators for direct and rapid transportation of goods, and there are also fixed spacecraft orbits with lower costs but capable of transporting goods on a larger scale.

Once completed, the cargo throughput of Lingze Star will be three times that of the current one, and it can fully shoulder the tax cargo throughput of the future alliance.

There is even enough to provide to the trade fleet of the Imperial Chamber of Commerce to trade bulk commodities with the alliance.

It is worth mentioning that the total cost of this “tax port system” is very high. It is divided into four construction periods, a total of eight years to complete, and a part of it can be delivered for use after each construction period. The total cost is to reach 70 billion tax coins, which is equivalent to the cost of a battleship.

However, this money will not be paid by the alliance.

When the officials of the alliance discussed many implementation details of the “Alliance Plan” with the officials of the Ministry of Taxation in Holy Terra, they mentioned this matter.

After intense discussions, the officials of the alliance won a benefit: the construction funds of the Lingze Star Tax Port will be paid by the Imperial Ministry of Taxation.

The Ministry of Taxation will definitely not allocate funds, and they are not willing to spend money to directly requisition and hire construction teams to work on Lingze Star.

It doesn’t matter. The Alliance can do it, just pay the money; if you don’t want to pay, then deduct it from the tax.

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The tax department agreed.

After all, this is also necessary investment and construction for the smooth progress of tax work.

What’s more, although they pay the money, the pressure is much less when it is counted as a deduction.

Speaking of deductions, the Alliance’s tax deduction expenditures are not only for the construction of the tax port.

70 billion is not a small amount of money, but it is not the key.

The most important thing is the war expenditure of the Alliance during the Iron Armor War and the Zerg War.

The central government of the empire should reimburse it, right?

This was a promise made when the Western Front Legion was established, and it is also the political tradition of the empire.

In the empire, local rulers have the responsibility to protect the country and the territory. The planetary governor should ensure the stability of his own world. Putting aside the more virtual level of the star zone, the star domain and the universe domain governments also have the responsibility to ensure the safety of their own jurisdiction.

This is also the fundamental reason why the Empire has to leave a part of the imperial tax to the star domain government and the universe domain government.

Without money, how can people build and fight?

However, this part of the responsibility is mainly limited to guarding the homeland.

Just like the safety of the planet, the planetary governor will solve it; if the planetary governor cannot solve it, then the governor is derelict in his duty, and he should be removed or shot. Then the star region will ask the star domain government to intervene and mobilize troops from other planets to support, or even the star domain government will directly intervene. These troops from other planets who come to support naturally cannot fight in vain, and the star domain government has to pay.

The problems within the star domain government are solved by the 30% imperial tax received by the star domain government; if they cannot be solved, they will ask the chairman of the universe domain for help, and the “leader of the princes” will personally intervene, or summon troops from other star domains to solve them. This part of the money will be paid by the universe domain government, and the universe domain government also retains 30% of the imperial tax.

By analogy, when there is a big problem that the universe government cannot solve, or when the empire advocates launching an empire-level war in a certain direction, then Holy Terra will mobilize the core troops of the Sun Universe, or call on troops from other universes to participate in the war. And the money will naturally be paid by the central government.

The Iron Armor War is undoubtedly a war across universes, which requires a large number of troops to be mobilized from other places to participate in the war. The Spider Universe itself has no ability to solve the problem internally.

The alliance responded to the call of the empire, which was an act of loyalty that no one could fault. The Iron Armor War was not within the scope of the alliance’s obligations, so it was only right that the central government of the empire should pay for it.

Of course, due to the urgency of the situation, even if the central government of the empire had money, it would be difficult to allocate supplies to various places where troops were to be sent in a short period of time.

What’s more, the central government of the empire often did not have that much money.

This also meant that the supporting troops often had to bring their own dry food.

The northern and southern corps in the Iron Armor War were in this situation.

On the one hand, there were some political demands for the troops from other places participating in the war, and on the other hand, the central government would reimburse the money spent on the war.

If they really couldn’t afford to pay afterward, they would give tax coins to offset the tax amount.

This was a common practice.

The alliance spent a lot on the war.

The cost of building the army did not need to be paid by the central government of the empire, but the many shells consumed, the sacrificed soldiers, the destroyed army equipment, the naval ships, the fuel consumption… all of these had to be calculated, right?

Equipment loss, rewards after victory, allowances during the war… also have to be calculated, right?

What’s more, when the war broke out, when the Southern Front Legion was still fighting in the Menghe Star Region, Holy Terra made a clear promise to urge the Alliance to go north as soon as possible when it was the cannon fodder that attracted the attention of the Iron Armor.

Clear regulations, political conventions, pre-war promises… these things added up, Holy Terra had no way to evade the debt.

This money should be paid by the Military Affairs Department.

But the Military Affairs Department obviously doesn’t have that much money.

Conservatively estimated, the Iron Armor War consumed more than 100 trillion tax coins of resources in the Empire. Among them, the construction of the two Western Front Legions was basically paid directly by Holy Terra, which alone was 50 trillion.

The Empire did not pay for the North and South Fronts, but it was converted to 50 trillion.

When it came to the Alliance, according to the calculation, the total expenditure was 16 trillion.

This is the number after being cut again and again by the Military Affairs Department. The victory rewards were cut a lot, and the army of the southern alliance, unlike the northern front, had to pay a lot of pensions and compensation because many people died, many ships exploded, and many land forces were lost.

But even with the data calculated in this way, the central government of the empire still found it difficult to accept.

Sixteen trillion, what does that mean?

The total tax revenue of the alliance increased from 300 billion to 2.1 trillion, and in ten years, the total amount was only 12.7 trillion!

It means that after signing the “Alliance Plan” and giving it to you, Lord Gu Hanggao, I, Holy Terra, will have to give you 3.3 trillion?