Chapter 760: Is the Alliance About to Go Bankrupt?
Gu Hang looked around the huge conference room. There were so many people here and they were all present, which was quite rare.
The alliance now has a large area of rule, and many senior officials of the alliance shoulder great responsibilities. Even senior officials at the central level often have to go to specific places because of their different responsibilities.
On the Angry Owl Star, it is not often seen to see such a complete gathering.
The last time there was such a grand occasion...it seems like it never happened.
Because in the alliance, only Gu Hang has enough prestige to convene such a complete group of heads of all departments of the alliance government to hold a meeting together.
The reason why it was not opened in the past was because after the Iron Armor War began, Gu Hang personally led the army to war.
Before the fight, the alliance wasn't this big.
The war lasted for a long time, and Gu Hang had almost no time to come back and hold a meeting like this. There was no way to gather so many people during the war. It was not easy for everyone to make a trip, and it was easy to make mistakes.
After the battle, Gu Hang ran to Holy Terra again.
After the alliance expanded to fourteen star regions, there was indeed no opportunity to hold such a general meeting.
Thanks to Gu Hang's continuous training of [Political Commissars], at key positions in the alliance, regardless of their abilities, at least their loyalty is guaranteed. This ensures that no matter whether they are political officers or administrative officers, there will be no ideological problems. When the principles and vision of the alliance can be effectively implemented.
Otherwise, the alliance, a highly centralized system that relies heavily on the professionalism and purity of the bureaucracy, would not be able to maintain such a large scale and would have collapsed long ago due to corruption and institutional rigidity.
Many other imperial powers were secretly planting spies in the Alliance, gathering information, and studying the Alliance system to figure out how they were able to maintain such a large-scale, effective centralized rule. However, the Alliance's system was obvious and did not require much study, but no one could learn from it.
Not to mention fourteen star regions, thousands or tens of thousands of worlds, and a population of ten trillion, all managed by a unified government and a highly centralized semi-planned system. For ordinary forces, even if a similar system is implemented on just one planet, it will not be able to solve the sharp rise in governance costs as the scale of rule increases.
This is Gu Hang’s golden finger, which cannot be learned.
It is precisely because of the existence of this set of things that the alliance can still operate without any problems even when Gu Hang has not held a meeting for many years and even when no one was in his ruling center during the three-year Holy Terra journey.
But in the end, similar meetings still have to be held.
Although he could see a lot of information from the system panel, there was also a lot of information that he could not see, and he had to rely on the bureaucratic system of the alliance to report to him before he could understand it clearly.
Similarly, he also needs a general meeting like this to implement a clear will.
As the Prime Minister of the alliance, Ossena opened the meeting first.
In the first part, she first gave an overview of the alliance's current situation.
Currently, the Alliance rules over 14 star fields, 577 star-district-level administrative divisions, and a total of 7,109 worlds.
There is no very precise statistics on the total population, only a best estimate: 11.8 trillion people.
The total output value of all 14 star regions in the past year is estimated to be 16.1 trillion.
The largest share of the total is the core territory of the alliance, the Dragon Eagle Star Region. The output value of the Dragon Eagle Star Region alone is over 5.2 trillion, accounting for 32.5%. The total expenditure for residents' consumption, development investment, star region military expenditure, etc. is 3.9 trillion. In the Dragon Eagle Star Region, the alliance has a surplus of 1.3 trillion.
Apart from that, the strongest is the Alfonzo star field. Its annual total output value reaches 1.4 trillion. The main reason for raising the total output value of this star field is the forging world - Aramita. It's a pity that the other two forging worlds were destroyed. Otherwise, even if they have gone through the war, as long as they are basically preserved, the output value of the entire Alfonzo star field can at least reach 3 trillion.
It’s a little worse than the Dragon Eagle Star Region, but at least it’s a great help.
pity……
Further ahead are the Menghe star field and the Aozhua star field.
These two star regions were relatively less affected by disasters after the last war.
Menghe is the smallest of them, with only a few star regions in the north having fought large-scale wars. During the war, it was the rear base camp of the alliance. The alliance invested a lot of resources in the construction of the Menghe star region, which greatly improved the development of the entire star region. The people of Menghe were blessed in disguise.
The entire Proud Claw Star Region was at war, but the war between the Alliance and the Fury of Flame was mainly fought on the interstellar sea, and rarely landed on planets to engage in decisive battles that were devastating to the planet's ecology and population, which preserved more vitality for the entire star region. Moreover, in the later stages of the war, the Proud Claw Star Region basically became the rear area, and did not suffer much from insect plagues, so it recovered quickly.
The above four star fields are the star fields where the alliance’s finances make money.
The imperial tax is now paid uniformly by the alliance. When calculating the fiscal surplus, the alliance government does not count taxes, but only counts how much it has earned from each planet/star region/star field.
In these four star regions, the alliance’s annual fiscal surplus can reach 1.55 trillion.
Among the remaining ten star fields, except for the Fox Moon Star Field which is basically able to break even now because the war is not mainly fought there, the remaining nine are all losing money.
The nine loss-making star regions suffered a total loss of 1.27 trillion.
Add to that the 300 billion tax coins payable in the first year in imperial taxes, the alliance's own military expenses, and the financial expenditures of some special projects of the alliance's central government... the alliance was almost on the verge of bankruptcy.
Who could have thought that the glamorous alliance that boasted every day about being a paradise on earth would almost go bankrupt?
This was the most painful stage for Ossena.
The overall fiscal deficit is huge, about 200 billion.
Fortunately, there was some surplus in the past few years, and some armaments can be cut from the military that is not fighting now. On the one hand, this reduces expenditures, and on the other hand, the equipment cut from the disarmament can be used as tax offset.
That's a lot of money.
Only in this way can we get through the most difficult year.
Those nine loss-making star regions basically comprise the entire Spider Web Universe.
Gu Hang did take over a huge financial burden when he took over the Spider Web Universe, and it was correct from this perspective.
Otherwise, the fiscal surplus of the Dragon Eagle Star Domain alone would be 1.3 trillion a year, and if the Spider Web Domain was not taken, the Alliance's imperial tax rate would not be so high, and it would be much more comfortable.
However, Gu Hang did not regret it.
Ossena also gave the reasons for the losses of those nine star regions.
The most important point, of course, is that the war destroyed those nine star regions.
(End of this chapter)
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