Chapter 765: The Six Major Battle Groups of the Alliance
The alliance's current fiscal expenditure, in addition to the three major items of military expenditure, government expenditure, and government investment, also has a large section called special projects.
It includes investment in the Queen of Glory battleship, as well as some smaller projects that are not that large.
In addition, it also includes investment in several Space Marine Chapters.
They are not included in the Alliance Army, so they certainly have no share in the Alliance military expenditures.
However, the alliance does need to support them.
That's a pretty big sum of money.
At present, there are six war groups following the alliance.
They are the Phoenix Regiment, the Yellow Spring Gull Regiment, the Blood Shark Regiment, the New World Torch Regiment, the Fury of Flame Regiment, and the Spear of the Dragon King Regiment.
Their respective situations are quite different.
The Phoenixes are a Chapter that has returned to normalcy after the Atonement Crusade. They should be considered a Fleet-Based Chapter in the Imperium's Space Marine Governing Body.
For such a war group, there is no home planet, and they have to find ways to collect and raise the funds they need.
If these funds are obtained through employment, gifts, war commissions, etc., then of course there is no problem.
But this alone is often not enough.
When necessary, the Empire will give some green lights, such as turning a blind eye when they ask some planetary governors or star domain governments to pay taxes.
Often, some unscrupulous war groups do not use very fair means in this regard, and extortion and violent coercion are very common.
Whether the Empire can tolerate the less-than-honest means used by fleet-based regiments to raise money, and to what extent, depends on the background of the regiment and the background of the "victim". Perhaps for the same thing, some regiments will not get into trouble, but the victim will be severely criticized; while other regiments will be investigated by the Inquisition and become extremely anxious.
In short, the fleet-based regiment has no fixed source of income. For the Phoenix, it doesn't matter that they are in this state, because the Alliance has always supported them.
But after the Phoenix made outstanding contributions in the Iron Armor War, Gu Hang used this thing to ask for a home planet for the Phoenix - Koroja 3.
This will not have any impact on Koroja. Phoenix will not recruit soldiers from Koroja, Koroja's income will not belong to them, and Koroja's defense will not be their responsibility. This so-called "mother planet" is purely nominal.
The main purpose of doing this is to avoid tax.
The current population size of Koroja 3, after years of migration, is still 35 billion, and it has increased instead of decreased. This is mainly due to the Alliance's policy of encouraging childbirth. In addition, after the Alliance became rich, Koroja was at the core of the ruling. Planetary climate transformation technology and Eden Ecosystem technology were used on Koroja. At the same time, many of the Alliance's first-line technologies were directly put into production on Koroja, which has a rich industrial population...
All of these have greatly improved the overall environment and productivity of this planet. According to normal judgment, it is not an exaggeration to rate this planet's development level as level 4.
That would mean 14 billion in imperial taxes a year.
Now, we have obtained this mother planet and can enjoy direct tax exemption.
The alliance saved a lot of money.
Of course, the resources the alliance has invested in the Phoenix are far more than just this amount of money.
But even if there is no mother planet, investing in the Phoenix is something that must be done, and this money is indispensable.
The situation of the Yellow Springs Gull Regiment is exactly the same as that of the Phoenix.
No one knows where the real Huangquangulls have disappeared to. Anyway, there has been no news about this group for hundreds or thousands of years. The current Huangquangulls are essentially a shadow group created by Gu Hang using the surplus 1,000 Phoenix seeds. They are disguised as a missing group and have been active in their name. They have also participated in the Iron Armor War and performed well, but because they are a bit shady, they are relatively low-key and not as outstanding as Phoenix.
The Alliance has also applied for a home planet for the Yellow Spring Owl. Shouldn’t it be rewarded for its contribution?
The Empire agreed.
Originally, they wanted to create a developed planet to save more taxes, but Huang Quanou’s achievements were not enough, so the Empire refused and only allocated a world in the Menghe star field.
The alliance's operation is the same as that of the Phoenix. The mother planet is purely a name and is used simply to reduce taxes.
The tax reduction that Huang Quanou brought to the alliance was only 800 million per year - that was an ordinary world with a population of 8 billion and a development level of 1.
The Phoenix Corps gets 14 billion a year, which doesn't even seem to be enough for the Alliance's investment in them, not to mention the 800 million for the Yellow Springs Owl, which is just a drop in the bucket.
But any savings are appreciated.
As for the Torch of the New World, Fury of Flame, and Spear of the Dragon King, the natures of these three chapters are quite similar and can be discussed together.
The New World Torch and Fury are essentially dead. They were two groups created with the "Secondary Infinite Warrior Seeds" brought by the New World Torch after its surrender. But since they used the names of these two groups, they can't avoid the sins they have committed. They are all atonement expeditions, and a sentence of hundreds of years is still early.
Although under the protection of the Alliance, they don't have to struggle on the brink of life and death like the Redemption Corps, but they can forget about getting tax cuts for the Alliance.
Even in the future, when their sentences are over, they will become fleet-based regiments just like the Phoenixes before, unless they make some meritorious contributions that will allow the Alliance to ask the Empire for their home planet and get tax cuts.
As for the Spear of the Dragon King, although he was also sentenced to a redemption expedition, his sentence was only 15 years and would be over soon.
Logically speaking, they don't necessarily have to follow the alliance. After 15 years, they will regain their freedom and go wherever they want. The alliance cannot force them to stay.
However, if possible, they still want to stay in the Spider Web Universe.
Their original home planet was in the Spider Web Universe, and was already under the control of the Alliance. They were reluctant to leave their home planet, after all, all of them were warriors recruited from the Longbeard Star, and they had been defending the Longbeard Star for a thousand years.
After sufficient communication and negotiation with the Spear of the Dragon King, and the fact that it could not bear to part with its home planet, the Spear of the Dragon King agreed to accept the protection of the Alliance and spend the rest of its atonement sentence. After the sentence was over, it would serve the Alliance as a fleet-based regiment.
What the Alliance paid was to give them Longbeard Star as their base, and to be fully responsible for all kinds of treatment and consumption of their regiment.
The overall situation is the same as that of other regiments, except that it is a fleet-based regiment and therefore cannot be exempted from tax.
It was when the matter was settled that Gu Hang saw the Spear of the Dragon King in his system interface.
(End of this chapter)
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