Chapter 180: No need to worry about imperial taxes
After this wave, Gu Hang directly spent all his grace points, leaving only 62 points.
But all the work has been arranged, and Gu Hang needs some time to wait patiently for the results to come to fruition.
In the next two months, Gu Hang did not make any big moves, but the changes in the territory he controlled were still very big.
The first major event was that the war in the Central Province had finally almost completely subsided.
After completely annihilating the main force of the anti-Governor Alliance, the Central Army Group led by Yan Fangxu took a little more than half a month to sweep across the entire Central Province of one million square kilometers of land, and the two million people were completely brought under the rule of the alliance.
As for the leaders of the so-called anti-Governor's coalition forces and the leaders of many large settlements, it would be fine if they surrendered. As long as they had not committed war crimes, they would just be given idle positions by the government department headed by Ossena. As for the few who were really capable, they would continue to be in charge of the settlements, be transferred to bureaucrats, and be retained if they did a good job, otherwise they would be fired.
But as for some hardliners, some who surrendered at the last moment, and some of the main culprits who committed crimes, there is nothing much to say.
Lambert Hodgson, as Chief Justice of the League, once again made a splash, conducting a trial and sentencing more than three hundred people to death and thousands of people to hard labour for between three and ten years.
Of course, this is no longer the time when Gu Hang had just taken over Fuxing City. There is no need to make the scene too bloody, so there is no on-the-spot execution drama. They just take him to the shooting range and shoot him.
Yan Fangxu seemed a little regretful about this. He had originally planned to hold a triumphal ceremony and present prisoners to the governor, but his plan was rejected.
According to the Governor, are these guys worthy?
Yan Fangxu was frustrated and a little embarrassed. However, after he achieved at least a qualified record by commanding the army group, he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general based on this experience, which was a little consolation.
However, although Gu Hang seemed to be disdainful of the rebel leaders, in fact, the pacification of the Central Bank Province was still of great significance:
The total population of the alliance has exceeded the five million mark. The main increase comes from the Central Province, the largest and most populous of the three provinces currently planned. After this place is pacified, it means that two million people have joined the alliance.
The population policy of the alliance has been carried out consistently. Settlements with resources, industries and large scale will be retained and supported for development; others will be abolished and the population will be incorporated into Fuxing City and Weixing City to strengthen the population scale effect and meet the manpower needs of the concentrated development of various industries.
The Weixingcheng Industrial Zone has seen a further increase in industrial production efficiency as its population has grown, more production lines have been laid out, and resource issues have been better resolved.
The production of RN series trucks has increased to 1,000 units per month, and the production of the Rambler series armored vehicles has also reached 90 units per month.
Of the Tieniu trucks produced in the past two months, excluding the part for foreign trade, the rest was used to supplement the army.
The 2nd Division and the 3rd Slaughter Brigade, which was reorganized from an independent regiment, have completed comprehensive motorization modifications, and have newly formed the 11th and 12th Divisions, two motorized infantry divisions built according to the specifications of the 2nd Division.
The motorized infantry division has a full strength of more than 9,000 people, and can achieve full motorized marching. Not only does it have 3,000 more troops than the garrison division, it is more mobile and has more artillery, so its overall firepower is more than twice as strong.
These two troops were incorporated into the Central Army Group and commanded by Yan Fangxu. At the same time, the 7th and 8th Divisions broke away. They will then guard various places in the Central Province and suppress the locals. The Central Army Group, which has newly obtained the 11th and 12th Divisions, will advance southward with the remaining 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Divisions, and advance to the border between the Central Province and the Qinggu area.
The Qinggu region will be the main direction of the alliance’s military operations in the next phase.
The newly formed troops are not just the 11th and 12th divisions. Later, the 10th Special Operations Brigade, the 13th Mechanized Combined Brigade, and the 14th Motorized Infantry Division are also planned.
The 14th Motorized Infantry Division is of the same standard as the 2nd, 11th, and 12th Divisions, needless to say; the 10th Special Operations Brigade is a special organization, and Gu Hang intends to build an elite special operations unit specializing in special operations, operations behind enemy lines, and decapitation operations with the elite soldiers of the dozen or so Storm Squadron soldiers who are still alive as the core. However, at present, it is only a framework, and the training price of elite soldiers is still a bit expensive, but the equipment is not a big problem, the LR5 series laser gun has given him the capital to form an elite special operations team.
In the future, in addition to the Phoenix Regiment, Gu Hang will still need a sufficient number of elite troops to carry out some special tasks.
As for the 13th Mechanized Combined Brigade, its specifications are similar to those of the 1st Xifeng Brigade, but because there are no more tanks, the tank companies in each combat combined battalion were replaced with a mechanized infantry company.
But in general, apart from the fact that the soldiers have less experience, the combat effectiveness will not be much different from that of the 1st Brigade.
The 13th and 14th division-level units actually have enough soldiers. At present, there are still about 30,000 new soldiers in the new recruit training base outside Fuxing City. They are just waiting for all kinds of equipment to arrive before being organized into new troops.
At present, the motorized infantry division is doing well and can be equipped in one month; the synthetic division is not so good and needs two months.
However, this is based on the current military production capacity. In the future, the production capacity will be more and more explosive. In fact, in the past two or three months, Edifier's production has increased from 30 to 40 units to 90 units, almost three times.
The explosion of production capacity, or the development of the entire territory, can also be seen more intuitively from Gu Hang’s current monthly income in grace points.
At the beginning, the month after I got off the starship, I got 678 grace points; last month, I got 817 grace points; and this most recent month, my income points have reached 1022 points per month.
Among them, the largest increase came from Weixing City, and the second largest increase came from the two million new people added after the Central Bank Province was recovered. Although the latter had a large population, the increase in grace points was not that much, mainly because the productivity was too poor.
The third increase came from Fuxing City, where the population has returned to the one million mark.
As for the 300,000 people in the High Tower Province and the 500,000 people in the Central and North Province, the grace points rewards provided are just insignificant. This is mainly because although the total number of people in these two places is not small, their productivity is too poor, and their living standards are too poor. They can't even afford food and clothing. Almost all of their members are in extreme poverty, and starvation to death is common. They can hardly bring any positive benefits to the entire alliance, and even need the alliance to allocate supplies to support them, to ensure that no one starves to death, and to provide them with funds for development.
In the short term, these places are negative assets for the alliance, except for the help they can provide in terms of soldiers and population. They all need a long period of investment in construction before they can get better.
In terms of grace points, these places also give very low rewards.
At present, Gu Hang is not particularly clear about the calculation mechanism of the monthly fixed gift points. He can only roughly divide it into four major factors: population size, population living standards, total productivity, and contribution to the entire political system.
Moreover, the increase in the number of grace points is not linear. Otherwise, it is difficult to explain why Gu Hang could earn dozens of dollars a month with only a few thousand people in the Governor's Camp before he even conquered Fuxing City; and now the Central and Northern Province has 500,000 people, a population base hundreds of times larger, but the income from grace points is about the same as the size of the camp at that time.
The increase in grace points could be a step-by-step, segmented increase? After the entire political system reaches a certain standard, it will have to be upgraded even more to get the same increase as in the past?
However, no matter what the specific algorithm is, there is one truth that is correct. As long as Gu Hang works hard to increase the population he actually knows, improve productivity, and improve people's living standards, then this number will definitely increase.
After Gu Hang received the income for the past two months, the gift points that had been used up in his hand rose again to a considerable number, reaching 1901.
The gift points would not be of any use anyway, so Gu Hang still used them to draw technology.
However, this time he did not draw the 1,000th gear again. High-level technology cannot be mass-produced. Although the technological products themselves are very powerful, they are not very helpful in improving the production capacity of the entire alliance.
Anyway, I don't have that many grace points on hand, so I might as well take out some of them and draw 100 levels to see if I can supplement some basic technology and fill the previous gaps.
As a result, it really worked.
First I won the basic level, and then the probability of the 100 level became 20% for the basic level, a drop of 30%, but the advanced level increased from 10% to 20%.
The probability of winning the 100-level lottery should only drop by 20% each time, but this time the probability of basic-level technology dropped by 30%, and the extra drop even fell to the advanced level?
I am increasingly confused about this mechanism... but this is of course a good thing.
He drew two more times, but they came up empty-handed. After all, the overall winning rate was only 40%, so it was normal to come up empty-handed.
Then I won once more, and it was an advanced level. The overall probability became 10% for the basic level and 10% for the advanced level.
I drew five more times and got an advanced level. At this point, the probability of each level was only 2.5%.
Theoretically, it takes 2,000 points of grace to ship the item, and the probability of getting the basic level and advanced level is half each... At this point, from Gu Hang's point of view, it can basically be said that the 100-level technology card prize pool has also been drained.
However, up to now, he has drawn nine times and won two advanced levels and one basic level.
From a quantitative perspective, before the prize pool is drained, the 100 tier is still more cost-effective than the 1000 tier.
Among these three technologies, the basic one is [Servoskull], and the advanced ones are [Alloy Ceramic Steel] and [Anti-gravity Engine].
Gu Hang was very satisfied when he saw these three things.
All the prerequisite technologies for the speed attack airship have been activated.
I won't say much about the Alloy Ceramic Steel. Gu Hang was very satisfied with getting this technology. Like Alloy Plastic Steel, this was an advanced version of a high-grade alloy.
With it, the grenade launchers can be mass-produced; the reactors can be mass-produced; the outer armor of the speed attack airship, as well as some internal parts are also enough...
In the future, a large number of mid-to-high-end industrial products will require alloy ceramic steel, which is the foundation of the foundation.
The anti-gravity engine can be directly provided to the Falcon Speed Attack Airship. Moreover, this advanced engine can also be used in some more advanced equipment. This engine is the basis for some super-heavy equipment to move. Even some Titans, which do not have this engine as their main engine, need it in some places to reduce gravity.
Otherwise, many pieces of equipment are so heavy that their own weight cannot be borne by some weak structures.
In short, with these two things, the Fengshen speed attack boat can be pulled out of the production line and mass-produced by itself.
Of course, there is still a lack of a servo skull. If there is no servo skull as a fire control system, it is not impossible to produce it, but it is nothing more than asking the co-pilot, or the gunner, to do the naked eye aiming.
But obviously, that would reduce the combat effectiveness to a certain extent.
Once you have a servo skull, it is like having an auxiliary computer.
As for what the Servo Skull is… it is actually a genetic technology that can turn a human with a complete brain and skull into "wetware". It is similar to the method of making a servo, removing a part of the brain, erasing the personality and active thinking, and just using it as a computer.
On many of the Mechanicus' creations, you can see something like this: a human skull connected to some machine by a metal spinal cord. Sometimes the skull can move on its own with the spinal cord, floating around...
To be honest, Gu Hang didn't quite understand why it was a basic technology. In his previous life, this was definitely black technology, and it couldn't be any blacker.
However, this is really just basic technology.
Like land resource exploration, servoskull technology is also of a blueprint nature, which includes manufacturing processes.
The finished black box can directly pull out a set of equipment needed for a servo skull transformation studio.
It's easier than you think. One studio and one junior specialist can make one in one day.
But Gu Hang noticed that this set of craftsmanship included a very important item: burning incense, praying, and reciting scriptures for six hours...
Gu Hang didn't understand at first, but he soon understood.
It would be foolish to regard this universe as a materialistic universe. He himself is a psychic.
Obviously, this technology can really create something like a servo skull, which is closely related to supernatural powers.
In other words, almost all technologies may contain some supernatural elements, whether more or less, obvious or hidden.
After figuring this out, Gu Hang stopped worrying about it.
Just use it, no matter what the principle is.
Anyway, he himself couldn't figure it out.
However, Gu Hang still finds it hard to accept that making a servo skull requires a complete human head.
He was not the kind of stubborn guy who would let himself be bound by complete morality and ethics - given the moral level of the empire, using living people to make servo skulls was really nothing.
But at least he wouldn't just arrest anyone and do it.
In this regard, he still formulated relevant regulations: only death row prisoners and criminals who have been deprived of their human rights and are not even at the E9 level are allowed to be used as materials.
Only these guys who no longer have human rights can be treated as non-human beings and their wishes can be ignored.
In addition, the public and soldiers can sign relevant donation documents during their lifetime, and their brains will be preserved when they donate their bodies after death.
If the cause of death is a bullet in the head or brain cancer, then it is definitely impossible to do so; if the person has died for a long time, then it is definitely impossible to do so. But if the person died of other organ diseases and the head was preserved by special methods within an hour after death, then this surgery can be performed to transform the skull into a servo skull.
To put it more directly, doing it before death has the highest success rate.
However, Gu Hang has not yet considered whether to open it up. This will lead to ethical issues and even homicides and corruption.
It is not needed at the moment, but if the situation changes in the future and the demand for servo skulls is particularly large and cannot be met by death row prisoners, perhaps Gu Hang will really be forced to take it out.
It's a pity that the prisoners who were previously arrested and sentenced to death were executed before Gu Hang pulled out the servo skull, otherwise it would have been a good source of raw materials.
In short, with this technology, the [Wind Falcon Speed Attack Boat] can now be fully put into production.
In the past two months, eight Falcons have been produced from the finished black box. After the subsequent production, it is initially estimated that three can be produced per month, plus the black box can produce four per month, which means a total of seven per month.
Of course, this production capacity will be further improved in the future.
When it comes time to pay taxes in a year and a half, Gu Hang optimistically estimates that it would not be a big problem to equip his Star Army with an air force regiment and a hundred or so Wind Falcons.
As for this air force regiment, it will not be a problem to obtain one million tax coins.
In addition to the alloy ceramic steel, servo skull, anti-gravity engine, and Falcon speeder attack boat being put into production, the deep ore veins of the abandoned cave mine have also completed preliminary construction and are put into production.
The 'Ruin Mine' and 'Storm Mine' in the High Tower Province have also been put into production.
Especially in the Storm Mine, Wu Jiarong has been concentrating on mastering the primitive technology of collecting spiritual gas dug out from the ruins in the past month. She came up with a trial version, built a sturdy wind tower group, and connected it to an energy compressor.
According to Wu Jiarong's estimate, in two months, the expected energy crystal income of 40,000 tax coins per month will be achieved.
Of course, this is an average, an estimate, and the exact amount depends on how frequently the waste energy storms occur.
According to the latest statistics from the Alliance Government's Production Department, the annual output value of the entire Alliance, measured in tax coins, is now approximately just over two million tax coins.
This is the eighth month since Gu Hang came to the surface.
Even if the Star Army had not been formed to offset taxes, paying 2.5 million tax coins would not be a problem after one year and four months.
Of course, the output value of two million tax coins a year cannot be used to pay taxes, as people need to eat and drink. However, who says that productivity will not continue to rise?
To put it bluntly, the main production capacity of the alliance is still in the population of about 1.6 million in Shuangcheng. Most of the remaining 3.3 million people are in extreme poverty and their contribution to productivity is extremely low. But since Gu Hang was able to build an industrial center like Weixing City in eight months, he certainly has the ability to build another one. The productivity of the more than three million extremely poor people has huge growth potential.
If given a year, he is absolutely confident that he can increase the current annual output value of 2 million by more than 500%.
There is no problem for a city to pay one year's imperial tax.
Not to mention, he's still expanding.
Gu Hang is no longer worried about the empire's taxation. He doesn't have to worry about the first period, and he doesn't have to worry about the rest. He already has too many ways to solve the tax problem. The pressure from the empire's taxation will become lighter and lighter with development and expansion.
What's more, there is someone to blackmail.
In the sky, the Beautiful Girl is doing business with Blackbird Heavy Industries.
As the planetary governor, Gu Hang approved Blackbird Heavy Industries' requirement to conduct interstellar trade with the Beautiful Girl, on the condition that they pay all taxes for this period, as well as the unpaid taxes for the past two periods, totaling seven million tax coins.
This is a reasonable request. Blackbird Heavy Industries, which occupies the western world of the Wrathful Owl Star, directly or indirectly controls a population of more than 10 million. According to the tithe standard, there is nothing wrong with taking out 2 million in the first period of tax revenue. Adding the previous debt, 7 million tax coins are still less.
A month ago, the special envoy of Blackbird Heavy Industries arrived in Fuxing City and met with Gu Hang.
The two sides held several rounds of consultations on this matter.
In the end, Gu Hang still couldn't hold on to the 7 million.
Obviously, Blackbird Heavy Industries would definitely not agree to the price of seven million.
Firstly, they don't have that much money; secondly, they wouldn't give it even if they had it. The value brought by this interstellar transaction may not be worth that much, so why should they give so much to the Governor?
Gu Hang didn't want to push too much.
He could have declared Blackbird Heavy Industries a traitor for not paying taxes, but he was not able to go thousands of miles away to quell the rebellion. He could have also blocked Blackbird Heavy Industries' interstellar trade, so that not only would they fail to do business this time, but they would also be unable to do legitimate interstellar business in the future.
But if it really comes to that, no one will benefit.
Blackbird Heavy Industries can engage in smuggling, although it faces the threat of starships, but starships are only so big after all, and they have to run around in circles in the planet's orbit. Others fly to the other side of the planet, use small spaceships, enter the atmosphere and fly at low altitude to avoid detection... It is troublesome and risky, but it is not impossible to do it.
Blackbird Heavy Industry was hit, so what benefit could Gu Hang get at the moment? Nothing.
It’s better to negotiate a reasonable price and put the money in your pocket.
If they don’t agree to seven million, then let’s talk about the lower limit. Gu Hang’s bottom line is two million.
In the end, the price they agreed on was around 3.5 million.
This amount of money alone is enough to pay taxes and still have a surplus after one year and four months.
Sure enough, Gu Hang had every reason to not worry about the imperial tax.
However, some people are not very happy about the negotiations between Gu Hang and Blackbird Heavy Industries.
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