Chapter 402: I have plenty of money now
While Shang Yanwen was busy with imperial taxes, he did not forget that there was one thing he wanted to do.
That was when he was on Feiyi Star. He combined what he had learned and past experiences to design some industries that could be developed for his hometown, as well as corresponding specific development strategies.
When he came back this time, he saw that his hometown had changed a lot. Many of his previous ideas could not be called "designs" but were more like "wild fantasies" and were completely inconsistent with the current situation of the Green Bee District.
But he was not depressed, nor was he anxious.
While busy with the imperial taxes, he also became more familiar with the neighborhood, which had undergone such great changes, and investigated many actual conditions.
He kept overturning his own plans, based on the current situation of the neighborhood, and made a new one with more practical features.
At the same time, he did not relax his job.
When he counted the tax situation, he found that the situation he was most worried about did not occur. The Green Bee District has a population of 420,000, and in the past year, the total output value of various materials in the Green Bee District was 390,000 tax coins. Most of it was consumed by the local population.
These value outputs, through currency and exchange, are transformed into houses, food, furniture and appliances, textiles, medical expenses... and have effectively improved the living standards of the people in the local neighborhoods.
The medical level is not high enough, there are not enough furniture and appliances, the food types are not rich enough, the textiles are not fashionable enough, and even the houses built with large-scale construction are actually not enough. Many people who should be allocated houses are still waiting in line.
But it is undoubtedly much better than before.
And there is no need to worry about the imperial tax.
The district government actually started preparing for the imperial tax at the beginning of the year, setting aside 40,000 tax coins. The main components were some primary processed raw materials, textiles, and Union Coin cash.
The neighborhood can pay taxes to the higher-level government in Alliance currency. Correspondingly, the Alliance government will use these Alliance currencies to pay some key industrial areas, such as military factories and heavy factories, whose output is the main source of tax payment in kind.
After all, when the Union Government pays the Empire taxes, the Imperial tax officials will not recognize your Union currency. In the eyes of the Empire, currency is just a piece of waste paper. They only recognize tax payment certificates, that is, tax coins, or physical objects.
The Empire recognizes many physical objects, but not all of them. If you produce a kitchen knife or a table, the Empire will ignore you. Not to mention some service industries, such as commerce, construction, transportation, and medical industries on the planet. They certainly create value on the planet, but they have nothing to pay taxes to the Empire.
Therefore, in reality, the planetary government pays taxes mainly by relying on the production of "hard currency" recognized by the empire, such as heavy industry, military industry, textile industry, and agriculture.
But the workers in these production areas also need to make a living. Their living needs, such as transportation, medical care, service industry, food, etc., come from other places. This has formed a general division of labor: regions that can produce products in the imperial tax category purchase other services from other regions through the currency issued by the alliance, and they themselves produce most of the products required for the imperial tax in the region. Non-production areas use alliance currency to prove that they have made contributions through affiliated industries.
This kind of division of labor exists widely at all levels, between blocks, between hives, and even between planets.
The main pillar industries of the Green Bee District are construction, transportation, waste recycling and raw material processing. Except for the products of material processing, which can be used as physical objects to pay imperial taxes, the others are actually not very good.
But they still created value.
They don't have to worry about the real imperial tax, as the large industrial production areas will provide it, and the higher-level governments will make overall planning. They helped with transportation and also sent construction teams to other industrial areas to build houses, and received alliance coins, which were essentially the value of their labor and were recognized by the alliance government.
This is the essential logic behind the Green Bee District, where the local population is 410,000, the total output value is 390,000 tax coins, the consumption is 350,000, and 40,000 is used to pay taxes.
The average per capita consumption in the Green Bee District is 0.85 tax coins, which is not a very good living standard, but it is definitely manageable.
Shang Yanwen had read an old report that in the 100 years before the plague war, Koroja's per capita consumption was only about 0.3 tax coins. This was a level that barely kept people from starving to death; Koroja's per capita output value was only about 0.5 tax coins, only half of the empire's lowest per capita standard.
This is also the fundamental reason why the Korojia people have to pay 0.05 tax coins per person as imperial tax, and then have a 1% chance of being levied as adult tax.
As for where the 0.15 per capita tax currency difference went... you'll have to ask Koroja's former bureaucrats and rulers.
Now, the per capita consumption level has reached 0.85, more than doubled, so it is no wonder that life has become more bearable.
Moreover, this is the consumption level after the 0.1 imperial tax was taken away, which means that the Green Bee District will no longer need to pay human taxes in the future.
Of course, this is just the result of Shang Yanwen's observation of his own Green Bee Block.
But at present, the entire Promise City is about this level. Even in the middle and upper areas of the hive, the situation is much better than that in the lower hive; the situation in the lower nest area may be worse, but it should be roughly the same overall.
If we look at all the hives of Koroja from the perspective of the City of Promise, and if every hive is at this level, then we can say that the entire Koroja is on the right track. Koroja no longer needs to pay human taxes, and can pay the imperial tax with its own production, and is no longer a burden on the alliance.
At the current rate of development, there may be a surplus in two years; in a few more years, the surplus will be larger and larger, the living standards of the Koroja people will get better and better, and it will become a major engine for the development of the alliance - the population size is there.
Thinking about these things really made Shang Yanwen very excited.
He was excited that he could personally participate in this great change of the times.
The development plan he worked out in his spare time will also serve as another engine for the Green Bee District on this basis.
After the busy work on the Imperial Tax came to an end, he found his immediate superior, Moody, the head of the neighborhood government, and put forward his ideas.
What he wants to do is to set up a recirculating breeding system.
In the Green Bee District, there used to be a small flying creature that resembled a bat, with tough fleshy wings and strong teeth. The main materials it needed to survive were three things: human garbage, industrial wastewater, and a luminous spore fungus produced in a highly polluted environment.
The locals call this thing "fluorescent disease bat". In the past, it was a pest in the nesting area under and under the city of Nuoyan. It would bring disease, pollution, and radiation to people, causing illness or even death.
The neighborhood has put in a lot of effort and dealt with it specifically. This kind of thing still exists, but just not as much.
But Shang Yanwen saw the value of this little monster.
A classmate he knew was working at an engineering school on Feiyi Star and had a research project on biomaterials. Shang Yanwen felt that this little monster from his hometown, with its teeth honed by eating highly polluted fungi, organic waste, and drinking wastewater, as well as its very durable skin, was a good material.
Previously, he had managed to obtain some of these "specialties" from the nest area under Nuoyan City, and had given them to the research team for analysis, saying that they did have some value.
As long as they can be mass-produced, the collected monster wings and teeth can be used as a good biological material, for the leather needed for some mechanical manufacturing, for armor linings, and for anti-corrosion biological materials to generate light and heat in some places.
He compiled a copy of the relevant technical materials and brought them back.
What he had to do was to specially demarcate a certain area, cultivate the contaminated bacteria, and then cultivate the mutated monsters under this strong pollution, and then slaughter them in a centralized manner, collect the biological materials, and sell them to some processing plants.
This is a preliminary project. In the future, it would be best if the relevant processing industries could be undertaken by the Green Bee District, and relevant factories could be established; and even on this basis, a more comprehensive industrial chain could be developed.
If the whole set can be done, there is no doubt that the Green Bee District will get a new industry. This means higher output value, more jobs, and it will be easier for residents of the Green Bee District to upgrade their ranks. With money, the living standards of the people will be further improved, and they will be able to pay more taxes directly and make greater contributions to the alliance.
After listening to Shang Yanwen's plan, Moody patted his thigh and said, "You are indeed a top student! You have helped a lot with the taxation issue before, not to mention that you have come up with another surprise now!"
"Do you think this is feasible?" Shang Yanwen was not as confident as he was when he was talking just now.
In essence, he was still a rookie with little experience in governing. He was afraid that what he had carefully crafted would actually be his own fantasy. Although he had done his best to avoid this situation, he had done a lot of research and the plan had many carefully considered specific implementation steps, but he was still a little worried.
He was afraid of bringing disaster to his hometown.
But Moody seemed much more relieved: "Don't think about this or that. We just need to have this spirit. As long as it looks good, just do it! What if we fail? The superiors will not punish us for our failed attempt. The alliance has always encouraged this kind of innovative behavior!"
"However, we do need to be cautious. If we invest too much, there will still be an impact."
"Let's start with small-scale farming and work our way up slowly!"
"As long as it works, we will have solved a big problem! To be honest, there are still many laborers in the neighborhood who have not been absorbed. This is a core indicator of our local government. I have been worried about it for a long time. Your method sounds good, and I must try it!"
"Even if it can only accommodate dozens or hundreds of people at the beginning, it's good. Don't underestimate hundreds of jobs. If there are hundreds of jobs with stable output, then we can support a new shopping mall, more construction workers, more hawkers and stalls... and the ancillary industries can develop along with it."
“Not to mention, there will be opportunities to grow even bigger and stronger in the future!”
Shang Yanwen, who was encouraged, said, "Let's do it! I will apply for the opportunity of interstellar communication and contact my classmates. Their research groups will be interested in our work!"
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Shang Yanwen's deeds were condensed into a short report and placed on Gu Hang's desk together with the deeds of several other young civil servants and new managers of state-owned enterprises who also had good performance.
At this moment, Gu Hang was on the starship, heading to Korojia. During the voyage, he read through these documents and gave an evaluation:
“Our young people have done a really good job.”
He was quite relieved.
The industry created by Shang Yanwen was quite prosperous. After a few months, it had a good output value, which had a driving effect on the local neighborhood and was also worth promoting to the bottom and lower nests of the entire Nuoyan City Hive.
Although, even if this industry develops in the future, the output value is still a small matter in the overall sense. Its application range is still a bit narrow. Grinded teeth, stripped and processed bat wings, after processing, become a basic material, which can only play a certain role in the structure of some industrial parts. It is not the same as the scale of the metal smelting industry. In the past, the alliance also had applications for this material, but it was basically imported.
However, what made Gu Hang even happier was the innovative ability of the alliance system reflected behind this incident, as well as the emergence of this new generation of administrative personnel.
One circular breeding and processing industry is nothing, but if there are several, or even connected in groups, to build multiple industrial chains, it may have high value. Moreover, as long as it is proven that the alliance system has the ability to innovate and the new generation of officials in the alliance are reliable, then whether it is to develop new industries or maintain old industries, it is no problem to say that the future is promising.
Putting this matter aside, Gu Hang looked at another electronic board at hand.
There is something more important here.
The tax situation facing the alliance.
Currently, the Imperial tax is collected from the Alliance as a whole, which is a hassle-free operation for the Imperial tax fleet.
At present, the total annual tax amount of the alliance is 10.95 billion tax coins. Feiyi Star is 4 billion, Faches Star is 3 billion, Korojia No. 1 and No. 3 are 3.5 billion, Angry Owl Star is 100 million, Black Arrow Star is 150 million, and Red Arrow Star is 200 million.
When the tax was set, there were 1 billion people on Angry Owl and 1.5 billion on Black Arrow, and the extra population migrated from Koroja. As a result, Koroja's population dropped from more than 37 billion to about 35 billion, and the tax was set at 3.5 billion.
Minus the $4 billion tax-free allowance and the fact that taxes are paid every two years, the league has paid $13.9 billion in imperial taxes in the two tax seasons of the past four years.
This is a huge number that Gu Hang, who was not well-off several years ago, could not even imagine, but for the current alliance, it is not difficult.
Especially in this most recent tax season, Feiyi Star completed a Musician-class cruiser and four destroyers, which totaled more than 10 billion.
If the imperial taxes are kept every year, the alliance's fiscal surplus will still be more than 5 billion.
In his most recent phone call with his mother, Gu Hang stated quite flamboyantly:
"I have plenty of money now."
(End of this chapter)
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