Chapter 378, Win-Win
The extremely high profits and value of the shipbuilding industry made Gu Hang very ambitious.
According to the construction period mentioned by Wu Jiarong, after six years, the total value of the ships launched by the Alliance Shipyard every two years will exceed 3 billion tax coins. Although it is still far behind the 20 billion ships launched by Feiyixing in four years, but they have been developing for hundreds of years, how long has the Alliance been established?
At this rate of development, the Alliance Shipyard will continue to grow larger and larger. In ten years or so, it may reach the size of Feiyi Star and complete its hundreds of years of development.
But at the same time, even though the speed was already very, very fast, so fast that even naval veterans like old Fofana thought it was a pipe dream after hearing it, but Gu Hang still had a feeling that time was running out.
It will still take him a long time before he can own ships that can roam the starry sea.
However, the good news is that Gu Hang is still young and there is a long time to wait.
If we talk about life span, not to mention the life-extending surgery that he can certainly afford now, just based on the psychic power he possesses and the nature of the subspace he masters, he estimates that his life span will not be short.
It's not a problem to live for a few hundred years without having a life-extending surgery.
Although he can't be called an immortal, he is still pretty impressive.
Not to mention, if his lifespan really reaches its limit, Gu Hang still has one last trick up his sleeve.
Humans have their limits, so I’m not a human being!
By embracing the essence of the subspace, Gu Hang can immediately gain immortality.
Of course, we are still a long way from reaching that point.
Gu Hang just used this way to tell himself not to rush, time is on his side.
Thinking of this, his mentality gradually calmed down.
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In the next few months, Gu Hang basically traveled between the three places: Angry Owl Star, Black Arrow Star, and Korojia.
Listen to the political reports of this planet, visit some places on the spot, and give some instructions.
At this point, to be honest, Gu Hang can no longer manage an alliance of this size by himself. He has to rely on the government and the officials under his command. Gu Hang's own work has to focus more on "managing people".
Essentially, it is to see whether one's will is implemented by officials. If it is, then reward; if it is not done well, then criticize and demote; those who maliciously dissent and corrupt elements will be brought to court.
For Gu Hang, he has one particularly important advantage over most rulers in the world: he understands people's hearts.
He really understood it. After all, he had the gift of spiritual thinking.
Of course, he couldn't use his psychic powers to spy on the thoughts of every subordinate. In fact, he rarely did so.
On the one hand, that is not good. He does not want to become a sorcerer tyrant who rules his country by playing with minds. If so, he will not be able to hear the voices of others. The wisdom of one person is far less than that of a group - provided that the group is developing in the right direction.
On the other hand, he couldn't do it either. He could spy on a person's mind, but he couldn't spend time to understand the thoughts of his officials one by one and then control them. If he really did that, he wouldn't have to do anything else in his life.
However, not actively spying and not actively changing does not mean that the effect of spiritual energy cannot be exerted. In fact, even if Gu Hang does nothing, when the person standing in front of him and talking to him has any special changes in his mind, the clear fluctuations in his thoughts will be clearly visible in front of him.
Behind the smiles and nervousness of those officials when they were reporting on their work, there were certain factors, such as confidence, lack of confidence, guilt, and the desire to hide secrets in their work... Gu Hang could see it clearly.
To be honest, Gu Hang didn't particularly care about the officials' little thoughts. He didn't have any mental obsession, and he knew that everyone, even the people he trusted the most, such as Ossena, Lambert, and Yan Fangxu, would have their own ideas. They might not understand Gu Hang's thinking, and might have selfish motives...
This is all very normal.
In other words, this is the true nature of human beings.
Even Gu Hang himself, at certain moments, had the urge to slack off and take a break.
As long as it is generally positive, it's fine. Some selfishness, some paranoia, some confusion, some laziness, some resentment... just be moderate, Gu Hang just laughs it off.
Of course, if there are some particularly ridiculous cases, we can just let the Alliance’s Anti-Corruption Bureau investigate. Gu Hang doesn’t mind using this method to catch some corrupt elements and those who have committed dereliction of duty.
Half a year passed like this.
At this moment, Gu Hang, who was on the Angry Owl Star, witnessed the commissioning of the Alliance's first proper new ship at the Alliance Shipyard.
This is a 'Flying Dolphin'.
Although it was just a transport ship, and although most of its core components were produced from the black box, and although the dock for producing the Flying Pigs had already been laid long ago...
But in any case, this is the first ship produced by the Alliance - small things like the Traveler are not counted.
Its value is clearly stipulated in the imperial tax: 20 million tax coins.
At present, the Alliance Shipyard can produce a Flying Pigeon every half a year.
Now, the population of Angry Owl Star is 150 million, and the annual imperial tax is only 15 million.
One Flying Pig produced in half a year is more than enough to pay taxes.
Not to mention, Gu Hang doesn’t have to pay the next imperial tax.
Not to mention the tax-free Koroja, the current rated imperial tax of the alliance is still 50 million tax coins a year, which means a total of 100 million taxes need to be paid every two years.
However, Gu Hang has already paid a lot on the Korojia battlefield.
The first is to replenish and expand the Angry Bear Corps's forces, as well as the consumption of various materials, supplies, and artillery shells. In the past two years, the alliance has spent a total of 30 million on this. Originally, most of the Angry Bear Corps's troops were replenished from Koroja, but now Koroja belongs to Gu Hang and is tax-free, so this part needs to be paid by the Military Affairs Department.
But the Ministry of Military Affairs actually didn't pay a penny, all of it was in the form of IOUs, which can be used to offset taxes in the next tax season.
This is supported by documents from the Imperial Military Affairs Department.
At the same time, the Dragon Eagle Corps received more than 3 million Koroja soldiers, of which more than 1 million were replenished in the form of a full army group. And after the war, the weapons and equipment, ammunition consumption, and logistical supplies of the Dragon Eagle Corps' 3rd Army Group were all supplied by the Alliance, and the relationship with Fachs was severed - regardless of whether Fachs or the Dragon Eagle Corps was voluntary, it was the order of the Empire anyway.
The league has spent more than 80 million on this in recent months.
The total tax revenue for these two legions alone is 110 million tax coins.
During tax season, the Empire still owed me more than ten million dollars.
In the future, even if the wars are not so intense, the annual regular maintenance costs of the Dragon Eagle Legion and the Angry Bear Legion will be around 80 million tax coins.
There is no need to worry about imperial taxes at all.
At least there is no need to worry during the few years when Koroja is tax-free.
And now, Gu Hang "sold" this Feitun to Gu's Trading Company at a bargain price.
This is a comfort to Gu's Company.
Gu's Company had been doing a lot of free work for Gu Hang for a long time. At the beginning, during the Koroja War, the Military Affairs Department paid to help transport supplies and evacuate personnel, which were all orders placed by the Empire to Gu's Company.
But after the war, because the Alliance itself did not have the ability to transport goods on a large scale in the star realm, Gu's Company had an entire caravan that gave up almost all other orders and specialized in transporting goods for the Alliance, and the price was very cheap.
Businessmen will be unhappy about this.
Gu Hang is the head of the family, and his mother is the actual person in charge, which is true. But Gu's Business is not their private property, but a member of the Imperial Chamber of Commerce, which has performance pressure. Moreover, the franchise nature is still strong today.
For this caravan serving the alliance, the prices for various transport orders are very low, which is fine since they are short-distance transport after all; but the fact that they cannot accept other high-profit orders is quite unsatisfactory.
Ms. Wang Qi can stop earning money to support her son, but she cannot let the people below her do the same.
Feitun is a very good payment method.
For a merchant fleet, the most important asset is the ships.
This Flying Pig was sold to Gu's Company at a bargain price of 10 million, which was enough to suppress many dissatisfactions.
With one more ship, there will be one more captain, many more positions, some people can be promoted and have their salaries increased. With more profits, the entire caravan can also earn more.
Mainly saving a lot of money.
For Gu Hang, it’s not a loss either.
First of all, even if the selling price is 10 million, which seems to be sold at half price, the Alliance Shipyard still makes a considerable profit.
Of course, the cost cannot be calculated in this way. The black box output is free for Gu Hang, but it is also wealth.
But the most important thing is that Feitun was delivered to the fleet working for the alliance. In the end, isn’t it still working for the alliance?
By transferring money from one hand to the other, the fleet was appeased, profits from shipbuilding were earned, and the fleet's capacity was increased... a win-win situation!
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After meeting and having dinner with the head of the caravan, his cousin Wang Jiarong, Gu Hang received a message.
A guest is coming.
It was a group from the Star Region Government, which included representatives from the Star Region Government, the Military Affairs Department, and the Star Region Army. The latter two groups even had two groups of people, one from the Dragon Eagle Star Region and the other from the Eastern Universe Region.
It’s easier to deal with people coming from the star region, after all, the current Minister of the Interior, Lao Yisi, has a good relationship with Gu Hang.
Why are there another group of people from the Universe Government?
What are they here for?
Gu Hang did not receive him personally. The visitor's status was not particularly high, so the Ministry of Foreign Affairs could receive him.
But soon, officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs came to report and asked the governor to come out.
This group of people came to award Gu Hang a medal.
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