Chapter 403: You call this the Planetary Defense Force?
A fiscal surplus of over 5 billion a year is certainly a figure that the former Tianma Star Region could never have achieved.
Compared to other surrounding star regions, the Pegasus star region is indeed rich, but because of this, the imperial taxes it bears are not small at all. For example, Koroja, half of the 4 billion imperial taxes in the past year had to be paid by human taxes; the three-star Farchese star is on the verge of death after the development level is raised to level 3; Feiyi Star is not bad, but with such a developed shipbuilding industry, almost all the ships built must be handed in to cover the taxes of level 5 development...
Four years have passed since the Alliance took over all the planets in the Pegasus star region. Not only can it meet the imperial tax, but it also has a surplus of 5 billion. The key is that the living standards of people in the entire star region have not declined, but have increased instead.
The changes on the five planets, namely, Three Stars of Fache, Winged Star, and Red Arrow Star, may not be that big, and people's living standards have not improved significantly; but on Koroga, Angry Owl, and Black Arrow Star, the changes are quite significant.
The reason why this can be done is that, on the one hand, the imperial tax was set four years ago and will not change within ten years, and the planets under the rule of the Alliance have developed rapidly during this period of time.
Of course, this cannot be achieved by development achievements alone.
The core reason is that the alliance system has greatly reduced the existence of capitalists, bureaucrats and other rentiers. They still exist in the alliance system and play a role, but the excess profits they can get have been greatly reduced, and they have turned to a way of obtaining results by rank. They will be more likely to be promoted than ordinary workers, but much less than the exploiters in the past.
Most of the value created by workers is consumed by the workers themselves. This is the fundamental reason why people's living standards have improved significantly under the rule of the alliance. The rest is eaten directly by the alliance government. The rentier class still gets some benefits, after all, the alliance has not banned all private economies, but overall it has certainly been greatly reduced.
There has been development, and the middle class has been eliminated. The alliance's management of the middle and grassroots levels of society and of production has become more direct. This dual effect has brought about a fiscal surplus of 5 billion.
The alliance will certainly not keep these financial surpluses like a miser.
Their usefulness lies in allocating budget for reinvestment in production, which accounts for the majority of the fiscal budget.
The second largest part is used for military expenditure, including military expansion and maintenance.
The third part is used for the expansion of government expenditure. Normal government expenditure is not included in this, but is included in the cost. This refers to the cost of opening more government agencies. In addition to the cost of opening more agencies, the corresponding maintenance costs will naturally increase, but the maintenance costs are included in the costs.
These three are economic construction, military construction, and political construction.
The five billion will all be spent, leaving nothing behind.
Spend more money now so that you can have more income in the future.
Two years later, Koroja started paying taxes for the first time, and the 4 billion tax-free quota was gone. Gu Hang hoped that the alliance would still have a fiscal surplus of 5 billion by then.
This means that in the next two years, the alliance's revenue surplus will have to increase by another 4 billion. While ensuring the growth of people's consumption, the alliance must increase its current output value from 112.3 billion to at least 1,300 billion, and have an economic growth rate of 20% in two years.
It’s not that difficult.
The ones with the greatest potential are Angry Owl Star and Koroga.
Gu Hang hopes that Wrathful Star will have a population of 4 billion in two years - mainly through Koroja's transfer. With this scale, the power of Wrathful Star's transformation into an industrial planet can be better exerted, and the value of Wrathful Star's shipyard can also be better exerted.
As for Koroja itself, it is expected that after six years of population migration, in addition to increasing the population of Wrathful Owl to 4 billion, the population of Black Arrow will also be increased to 3 billion - that will be the end for Black Arrow. It is estimated that by then, including the new population, Koroja will still have a population of about 31 billion.
With 9 billion fewer people, the pressure on the hive cities will be much less; at the same time, as reforms deepen, the development potential brought by the population will also be realized.
Gu Hang is counting on these two planets, as the strongest economic engines, to really bring about a 20% growth in two years.
This is also Gu Hang’s request to the alliance government.
Ms. Ossena, the Prime Minister of the Union, whose rank has been promoted to A4, is pulling her hair out in worry.
She had thought that when the alliance's situation got better, she would be able to take a breather and have more time to rest. However, the plan indicators for the next two years issued by the Governor-General made her continue to worry.
It's not that it can't be done, the Governor is not raising the target randomly. But it's because she has to work very hard, so she has to keep fighting.
She had to gather everyone in her Prime Minister's Office, as well as high-ranking officials from the governments of various planets and ministries of the alliance, and work hard.
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After reading the tax-related documents and reports and signing some documents, Gu Hang turned his attention to military construction.
In fact, he went to Koroja this time just for this matter.
A large portion of the alliance's fiscal surplus was allocated to military construction.
The Alliance Army will not take any major actions at the moment. Rather, the major actions have been in progress since four years ago, but they have only recently borne fruit.
At first, the composition of the alliance army was very simple. Later, when Koroja, Fache, and Wing Star gradually fell into Gu Hang's hands, the situation became complicated.
Koroja's planetary defense force was then divided into two parts: the Savior Army and the Defense Army; Faches and Wing Star also had their own planetary defense forces; on this basis there was also the Alliance Army sequence, as well as two combat force sequences, the Angry Bear Legion and the Dragon Eagle 3 Legion.
An overly complex military force structure is definitely not conducive to command.
The Angry Bear Legion and the Dragon Eagle III Legion were not easy to move. These two units were part of the Astra Militarum and theoretically had little to do with the Alliance or the Star Region Government. Logistics were under the jurisdiction of the Imperial Military Affairs Department, while commanding operations and appointing and removing officers were under the jurisdiction of the Astra Militarum Command.
However, just like the Fachers family had a strong influence on the Dragon Eagle 3rd Legion, now, this 20 million-man Star Army is actually supported by Gu Hang's alliance. Although this part of the cost is actually paid by the Military Affairs Department, from soldiers to officers, they are all from the Pegasus Star Region and were once citizens under the rule of the Alliance, so the influence of the Alliance is absolutely inseparable.
Not to mention the Angry Bear Legion, everything from the command system to the soldiers were converted on the spot from the Alliance Army.
In the past, Gu Hang was still thinking about how to make Dragon Eagle 3rd Legion his own. Now, he found that he didn't have to do anything at all. When he became the ruler of Tianma Star Region and he was the boss in reality and in name, Dragon Eagle 3rd Legion stationed in Tianma Star Region was his.
In particular, Gu Hang also adopted some strategies.
Normally there is no such thing as demobilization for the Astra Militarum. Most of their soldiers come from human taxes. Since they have been levied human taxes, how can they be released back?
What's more, the longer the service period, the more veterans they become, and they are definitely much more powerful than new recruits.
But the prerequisite is that you are not too old to lift a gun.
People age. In their thirties and forties, they are in their prime, but after fifty, the normal human body functions begin to decline sharply. Physical conditions cannot keep up with the accumulation of experience. When you are sixty or seventy, it is really difficult for you to carry a lot of weight and cross mountains and rivers. At that point, unless you are promoted to an officer, it is really not suitable for you to continue to fight on the front line.
Among the Astra Militarum troops who are constantly fighting on the front lines, there may be veterans who have survived for decades, not to mention some who are performing garrison missions in the rear.
Generally speaking, the Astra Militarum treats veterans who have been fighting on the front lines, survived for a long time, and have made outstanding achievements very well. The veterans who can survive will either be promoted to officers, or those who are not suitable for officers will be resettled locally when they reach the retirement age. It is a common practice to give a large sum of money and place them in a leisurely and lucrative position on the local planet or the rear planet.
Those left behind were almost there.
However, Gu Hang did not intend to do so.
In fact, the Astra Militarum also has a normal retirement process. That is, soldiers can be arranged when they reach a certain age - not necessarily old, but if veterans retire at the age of 30 or 35, the combat effectiveness of the army will decline, and how to replenish new soldiers? The former can basically not be compensated, and the latter will cost the empire more money and mobilize human taxes to make up. It is a big loss. The Military Affairs Department and specific Astra Militarum units will not do such a thing, which makes the normal retirement process meaningless.
After many discussions with the Dragon Eagle Legion, General Hans agreed to carry out a large-scale veteran retirement process, but also put forward some conditions:
In the Dragon Eagle III Corps, veterans aged 30, especially those aged 35 and above, will be withdrawn from the army in batches and on a large scale, and their resettlement will be handled by the Alliance;
The Alliance will be responsible for replenishing the missing troops, which must reach the standard of the Astra Militarum.
Gu Hang agreed to all these conditions.
Veterans over 30/35 years old have retired, not died. After they stay in the local area and transfer to civilian jobs, there are plenty of places to place them. The police department, anti-corruption department, and secret service department will all need them. If there are more that cannot be absorbed, many industries and industrial areas will need manpower.
Even more, they could be transferred to some planetary defense forces on the spot, which would be equivalent to turning the veterans of the Star Army into the backbone of their own defense forces, which would be a win-win situation.
Astra Militarum soldiers of this age, especially those who have retired from units like the Dragon Eagle III Legion where they spent most of their time on the defensive, cannot be said to have made any special achievements and are not very old, so there is no need to arrange a comfortable and lucrative position for them like a retired hero.
As for Gu Hang's benefit, it is that by doing so he can complete the "blood transfusion" of the Dragon Eagle Legion.
The additional soldiers were required to reach the level of the Star Army. Where would these people come from? Gu Hang transferred them from the Alliance Army that had completed the soldier card training.
The Dragon Eagle 3rd Legion has been fighting and stationed in Korojia for more than eight years. It is normal for the original veterans in the army, even if they were very young before, to be over 30/35 years old after these eight years.
After a certain amount of blood transfusion, the Dragon Eagle 3rd Legion is no longer the same as before.
Of course, its essence is still the Astra Militarum, including the Raging Bear Legion. The Military Affairs Department and the Astra Militarum General Headquarters have the power to transfer these two units to take on other tasks.
However, it is not so easy to be transferred. Now is not the same as before, and Gu Hang's voice is hard to ignore.
What's more, if there really is a war around the star region, it may not be a bad thing to be transferred there to fight.
The alliance has already expanded to its limit under normal means. Without the support of the star zone leader and the occurrence of unexpected events, it is difficult for Gu Hang to get involved in areas outside the star zone.
Because of this, Gu Hang did have an idea to continue expanding the alliance by relying on the Star Army to fight outside. However, this idea is not mature yet, and there are still many problems to be solved. In addition, the main task of the alliance now is to digest internally, and all the chassis currently controlled must be made into core territories, and there is no energy to expand outside for the time being.
But at least, Gu Hang has to keep this method. Whenever there is an opportunity, the Star Army will go out and the Alliance can follow behind and look for opportunities.
Furthermore, even in the current period of peace, it is not a loss for the Alliance to maintain the Star Army.
It's tax deductible.
The Dragon Eagle 3rd Legion maintained a size of 20 million people, and the Angry Bear Legion expanded to about 10 million in the past few years. The equipment level was maintained at a high level. The maintenance cost of these 30 million troops alone would cost hundreds of millions of tax coins a year.
That means it can offset 100 million imperial taxes for the alliance each year.
In addition to these 30 million interstellar troops, the Alliance abolished Koroja's Salvation Army and the planetary defense force organization within the entire Alliance, and completely replaced the planetary defense force with the Alliance Army system.
The total size of the Alliance Army is currently around 400 million, of which 300 million are stationed in Koroja.
It is impossible for Gu Hang to use the soldier card system to train all 400 million people into qualified soldiers, and there is no need for that.
In fact, only 100 million people have completed training by the system; the remaining 300 million have all been trained using normal methods.
But with 25% of the backbones and the standard logistical supplies of the Astra Militarum, after four years of training, they can reach the combat effectiveness of the standard Astra Militarum without much problem. At present, the proportion of soldiers in the Alliance Army who have reached the standard Astra Militarum level can reach 85%, which is better than many regular Astra Militarum troops.
Not to mention, Gu Hang also established many elite divisions there.
These elite divisions, internally called "Skeleton Divisions", often have more powerful equipment, such as rifles completely replaced with laser guns or Gauss rifles; equipped with more heavy-bolter machine guns and various bombs; equipped with plasma weapons and melta weapons; the armored vehicles of the armored units are denser and equipped with Lion King tanks; the reconnaissance units can even be equipped with sentinel mechas.
Even higher-level, more elite divisions that were given special numbers had a large proportion of exoskeleton armor distributed to their soldiers; some spearhead companies were even equipped with a large number of "Servant of the Gods" feedback power armor.
Not to mention those elite special-numbered troops, even the Skeleton Division would make General Hans of the Dragon Eagle Legion feel jealous.
Damn, the equipment of the Planetary Defense Force is more powerful than that of my authentic Astra Militarum Army!
How can this be justified?
(End of this chapter)
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