Chapter 395: Wing Star's Decision
Although it is similar, after joining the alliance, Hongjianxing can still be in charge of its own agricultural group and farm, and can also let anyone inherit the industry according to its own wishes.
But in fact, the local rich people on Hongjian Star paid a heavy price.
In name, their performance and their respective companies will all be supervised by the Alliance. Even the government they originally formed, which was so loose that it played a supporting role at most, will be replaced by the Alliance government after it is disbanded. The planetary management model that mainly relied on the autonomy of farmers in the past will never return. The farm militias that had basically no construction level in the past will also be completely disbanded and replaced by the direct garrison of the Alliance Army.
They put a rope around their necks, and the other end was handed over to the Alliance. From now on, the Alliance can strangle any farmer or agricultural group at any time if they want.
They will not be able to resist at all.
Of course, they had expected this situation. After all, they were the ones who proposed this condition to the alliance.
There are also objections within Hongjianxing.
However, these objections have been resolved internally by them first.
The way they made this decision was actually very smooth.
First of all, it is very easy for the alliance to destroy Red Arrow Star. With strong military force, the legitimacy of the head of the star zone, and the influence of the head of the Gu family on interstellar trade... there are many ways to destroy it, from force to peace, from civilization to barbarism.
Anyway, he would have to kneel down to save his life at that time, so it would be better to negotiate good conditions before the alliance takes action, when everything on Red Arrow Star is still valuable and can be used as bargaining chips.
This is the condition that can be negotiated after weighing the pros and cons.
Did they have to rest easy in the past? No, they didn't.
The situation on Red Arrow Star has generally been stable for many years, but occasionally farmers go bankrupt and agricultural groups downsize. Under market competition, they also have a clearing mechanism to allow those who are not doing well to leave the position they should not be in.
Now, it is just a matter of transforming the invisible hand of market competition into the visible hand of federal government control.
They pay a price, but they also gain something.
The Alliance made a promise. Although they took over the power of Red Arrow Star, they did not have much intention to make major changes to the situation of Red Arrow Star. It was no problem to keep the appearance of an agricultural planet.
The alliance has no plans to invest heavily in Hongjian Star, but simply increasing the export trade of agricultural machinery, agricultural technology reform, expanding and optimizing Hongjian Star's star port... these measures are enough to bring enough benefits to the local rich people on Hongjian Star.
They came with helplessness and left with worries, but in the next few years, they will feel the warmth of the alliance and be glad that they made the right decision.
Gu Hang also gave instructions that the Alliance should give preferential treatment to planets that proactively surrendered and fully accepted the Alliance's transformation.
It is not about special economic support - of course, mutual communication and progress are necessary. More importantly, it is about political support. For these smart farmers, the alliance will try its best to ensure that their status, position, and wealth will not decline.
We need to create a vivid benchmark. If there is another planet that wants to actively join the alliance in the future, having such a good precedent will dispel the doubts in many people's minds and make the future path of the alliance much easier.
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Compared with the preferential treatment shown to Hongjian Star, Gu Hang was not so gentle to Feiyi Star.
Gu Hang met the 'Governor' of Red Arrow Star at the Pegasus Palace of Feiyi Star and accepted their joining.
The reason why it is here is of course because this is the office location of the Tianma leader.
Feiyi Star has a population of 8 billion and a development level of 5. How does it pay the annual imperial tax of 4 billion?
Most of it is paid for by the shipbuilding industry, and a considerable portion of the remaining part is exempted or paid in other forms through various tax reduction and exemption policies.
There are many ways to deal with this kind of "other forms of payment".
There are several major items, such as paying for the expenses of star district government office staff and office resources.
Of course, the people in the star district government need to be paid and have income, as these people are the ones who feed the empire's finances; they also need an office space, and the star district government needs to provide cars, spaceships that can perform interstellar jumps, and servo skulls required for office work to assist in processing data...
This is a very large amount of money.
Even the entire Tianma Palace was built for the star district government. It took more than ten years to create a garden-style palace as the office of the star district government. A total of more than 1 billion tax coins were spent. This was the empire's money;
Although there are not a lot of office workers in the star district government, the annual salary of a senior clerk is often dozens or even hundreds of tax coins, which is far more than the income level of ordinary people.
In addition, there are also institutions like the Tianma Naval Academy, which also draws on the empire's finances to train naval talents for the empire and send them to the Tianma Fleet.
All these costs were paid by Feiyi Star, which then obtained certificates from the star district government, as well as certificates from the Ministry of Military Affairs and the Navy, and demanded payment from the Empire to offset the taxes.
In the past ten years, the amount of money that Feiyi Star paid to the star district government and the Naval Academy each year ranged from 500 to 600 million at the least to over 1 billion at the most.
This huge tax credit, plus the ships paid by the shipyard, constituted the structure of Feiyi Star's payment of imperial taxes. Sometimes, when the Feiyi Star shipyard happened to produce large ships, the ship fee plus the tax credit, not only could the Empire not collect an extra dime from Feiyi Star, but it had to pay a lot of money.
However, how could there be no manipulation in these matters?
In the past, the leader of the star district government was Pedes; although the governor of Feiyi Star is Little Pedes, can Little Pedes lead Feiyi Star well?
I don’t have the ability to know.
During that period, he was just helping his brother, leading the position of governor, and living happily every day. In fact, all the important work on the planet was handled by Pedes himself.
When Pedes was managing the planet and the star district government, he actually used a group of people to form two teams. This group of people did the work of the planetary government and the work of the star district government.
Isn't this just letting the same group of people, with the financial support of the empire, serve as the planetary government team? This saves the planetary government a considerable amount of administrative costs.
Many personnel expenses and material purchasing costs were not checked by anyone in the past when the elder and younger Pedes and Martinelli were in office.
But can it really stand up to scrutiny?
Can it withstand a cursory investigation, and can it withstand the serious investigation by Gu Hang, its successor?
In fact, it's not just the spending on these star district governments and naval academies, even the production of the shipyards, are the prices really so fair and in compliance with the regulations of the Empire?
That's also uncertain.
Starships are different from other standardized war equipment, such as tanks. Starships can have different configurations from the hull design, power design, protection design, and the specifications of the weapons and equipment on them.
Of course, the word "design" sounds nice. In fact, to put it bluntly, this is the construction level of each shipyard.
The level of each shipyard is different, and the ships they can build are also different. They can only be roughly considered to be of XX level specifications.
In response to this, people from the Imperial Navy and the Imperial Military Affairs Department will come to evaluate the design of the ship and determine the specific price of the ship manufactured by the shipyard.
But this kind of pricing will only happen once. Later, when the imperial tax officials come, they can inspect the ships.
The two links of design and acceptance cannot be tampered with. The big and small Pei Desi are not yet at the level of being all-powerful. Even those who have such ability would not look down on such things.
However, there are countless links between design and acceptance. It is not good to cut corners in the construction stage, but let’s talk about the most normal thing - after the workers become skilled and the technology matures, what about the money saved?
Not to mention some unusual things, such as the margins that were intentionally left when it was designed, which can now be saved.
From one team with two different administrations, to using the government budget to train naval cadets, to extracting qualified sailors as tax revenue;
From the construction of the ship, to the process change, to the ship acceptance;
When the integration between the star district government and the planetary government reaches this level, there are too many links that can be operated in between.
After receiving the official appointment from the head of the star zone, Gu Hang immediately ran to the Pegasus Palace on Feiyi Star.
He brought his own guards with him, and after landing, he also mobilized the personnel of the Psychic Order and went directly to the Tianma Palace.
The first person he met was the head of the Tianma Palace's guard. This group of elite warriors, all equipped with feedback power armor, were private guards who received financial support from the empire and obeyed the orders of the sector chief. This was a benefit or right given by the empire to the sector chief.
The equipment was purchased, and the personnel were specially selected from the elite of the Star Army. This is of course a very good place for the soldiers of the Star Army. Being away from the war, with higher allowances and benefits, and being on a garden planet like Feiyi Star, isn't it the best destination for the soldiers who have survived hundreds of battles?
However, it is not clear whether it is a good thing for the empire to leave such an elite team of a thousand people here to live a life of luxury.
In the past, the Pegasus Palace Guards obeyed both the district government and the planetary government. This was not a choice for them, because they were the same thing before. Even after Martinelli came, they were in the same camp, and the distinction was not so clear.
But now, this problem was suddenly and firmly placed in front of them.
And they don't have to think too much to know what is the right choice.
From the perspective of interests, following the obviously sunk little Pedesi is a mental disorder; from the perspective of duties, they are the direct guards of the star zone leader. As for who the star zone leader is, they don't care, nor should they care. They just listen to whoever is in that position.
Immediately afterwards, they received the first order from the new leader: to clear out all irrelevant people who were not from the star district government from the Tianma Palace, the office of the star district government.
In fact, there won’t be too many people. Although Tianma Palace actually serves as the headquarters of the planetary government, the officials of the planetary government usually have the appearance of clerks of the star district government.
But little Pedes doesn't have that kind of skin.
He was waiting to welcome Gu Hang in the Tianma Palace, and he had no idea how much grievance he had hidden in his heart. He was still wondering whether he should face the reality and kowtow, or be tough and never yield. As a result, he was driven out by the Tianma Palace guards who had protected him before, without even seeing Gu Hang.
Then, little Pedes discovered that as the planetary governor, he could not interfere in the affairs of the planet.
The number of people who are supposed to obey his orders is extremely small, and most of the important positions and senior staff are from the star district governments that are in charge of the empire's finances.
In the past, when the sector leader gave the nod to let them do the work of the planetary government, they would of course do it. But now, they are not allowed to do it, what should they do?
Then you can only do nothing.
Most of them were reluctant to leave their positions in the star region government. Not to mention the high salary, they knew better than anyone that the planetary government had no personnel budget at all - it was unnecessary before, but now?
No one has this budget anymore.
Of course, without management, the planet will be in chaos. Gu Hang also didn't want to make Feiyi Star, a rich place, chaotic. He already regarded it as his own property.
He would still let the officials of the star district government continue to work, but they couldn't do it directly like this.
As the head of the star zone, he issued his first decree: he reprimanded the governor of Feiyi Star, Xiao Pedes, for his chaotic governance, and the planetary government was in name only. The star zone government temporarily took over the management, and ordered Xiao Pedes to reorganize the planetary government and complete the management work within one month. Otherwise, Gu Hang, as the head of the star zone, would formally initiate impeachment of Xiao Pedes to the higher-level government.
Little Pedes was dumbfounded.
How can I set up a planetary government in a month?
The people from the star district government won’t use it?
Isn't this going to kill me?
But it was obvious that Gu Hang was not trying to kill him.
If it was life-threatening, there wouldn't be this month.
For little Pedes, this is a whole month of thinking time for him to make the right choice.
But little Pedesi found that he didn't have many choices.
(End of this chapter)
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