Chapter 770, A Memorandum
First, they say the alliance is in a bad situation and the future will be very serious, then they give a very short deadline, forcing people to make a quick decision...
Yang Shiwei's combo can be considered smooth, but it is actually not very sophisticated.
It is nothing more than creating pressure and expecting others to make wrong judgments within a short time window.
But it should be enough to deal with a young man.
Moreover, what Yang Shiwei said left himself a loophole.
He didn't force the child to sign.
He simply pointed out the difficulties and problems, and even emphasized in his words that "you shouldn't have come" and "you are not suitable to sign", but secretly added "but if you don't sign, there will be big problems."
The result he expected was that Gu Jing would rush to sign, that would be perfect.
Of course, he was not naive enough to think that the drama he had created was perfect. He also did not think that just because he coaxed a child into signing something, he could use it to tell the league that they must fulfill the contract.
The only person who can truly make the signature effective is Gu Hang; to take a step back, it must at least be a senior official of the alliance who has been clearly authorized by Gu Hang through documents.
Gu Jing neither held a high enough position in the alliance nor had his father's explicit authorization, so what he signed was invalid.
This is not a feudal force. Even if everyone regards Gu Jing as Gu Hang's successor, it cannot be considered as such without a formal appointment and legal basis.
But no matter what, Gu Jing has a special identity, and this time he was specially sent here to do the delivery, so he has a job identity.
Although none of them were convincing enough, what he wanted Gu Jing to sign was not really a document that confirmed the payment of taxes.
He made it clear that it was a 'memo'.
At this point, in order to reduce some of Gu Jing's psychological pressure in signing, he made additional explanations when he saw the young man frowning.
"This is not a formal agreement or convention. It doesn't mean that you have to follow it after signing it. You don't have that power yet. This is a memorandum, an informal document, which is a substitute for the explanation of the alliance investigation. As a special tax officer of the Imperial Taxation Department, that is, me; and the person in charge of the alliance's imperial tax work, this year you are the highest official in charge of tax handover on Lingze Star. We have jointly signed and acknowledged the current situation."
"The most you can do with this document is take one copy back with you and I take one back with you to provide additional information on the current situation."
"If the original document is submitted, the annual tax amount of the alliance will be set at more than 5 trillion. According to the instructions in our memorandum, the recommended tax amount is only 2.5 trillion."
"Damn it, why am I telling you all this... Can you make the decision? If not, time is running out. If we wait any longer, it will be too late for anything!"
Yang Shiwei was still increasing the pressure on Gu Jing.
Actually, what he said was not wrong. It was just a memorandum, which did not have direct effect and was not a formal agreement.
But it is definitely not as simple as he said, just recording it.
The recorded document was signed by Gu Jing, a man of special status who was indeed the current tax director of Lingze Star. Even though it was not a formal agreement document, this memorandum would become the sharpest weapon of the Empire during the formal negotiations.
The sharp point lies not in the proposed tax of 2.5 trillion, but in the fact that it stipulates that the alliance needs to pay an annual tax of 10% of its gross output value, normalizing the alliance and denying the fixed tax content in the "Alliance Plan".
If Gu Jing really signed, the alliance would be in a passive position in the future.
That means that the Alliance has acknowledged part of the contents of the memorandum to a certain extent. If it wants to overturn it later, the price it will have to pay will probably be very high - or even impossible to overturn it forever, and the central government of the empire will always use this memorandum to make trouble.
At that point, Yang Shiwei's mission was accomplished brilliantly.
The tax renegotiation with the alliance will not be completed overnight. The subsequent negotiation process will probably be protracted.
He received the negotiation task from Xu Fuzhen, but he was very clear about his position. He was just here to test and build an outpost.
For such a big thing, the ones who really competed in the future were the "big guys", including Prime Minister Xu Fuzhen, Prime Minister Gallardo, Prime Minister Luo Fei, Chairman Gu Hang, and even Prime Minister Qi Bodu. What was he, the senior deacon? Even if he was promoted to the deputy minister he had always dreamed of, he was a top official in the eyes of others. At this moment, he was able to use some "intelligence" to get a document that would be very beneficial to the central government of the empire in the subsequent negotiations, which was already a great achievement.
After he returned, no one could say that he did a bad job.
Now, all that was left was for Gu Jing to sign his name on the document.
Looking at the young man's frown, it shouldn't be a big problem, right?
How about thinking of another explanation and pressuring him again?
Yang Shiwei was about to open his mouth when he saw Gu Jing's brows relax. He picked up the pen from the side of the document and turned it between his fingers, very skillfully.
"you……"
Yang Shiwei just opened his mouth to speak, but was interrupted by Gu Jing.
“I’ve read all the documents.”
"You've only finished reading eleven pages?" Yang Shiwei snorted coldly, but a bad feeling came over him.
“No, all of them.” Gu Jing slapped his palm on the pile of more than a thousand pages of documents.
Yang Shiwei felt that Gu Jing was joking and bluffing.
How long has it been? Less than an hour!
The document is over a thousand pages long, filled with all kinds of data and vague descriptions. Even with an entire analysis team and the help of the servo-skull, it would take a long time to finish reading it, let alone analyzing and purifying the information.
Gu Jing finished reading?
Impossible things.
"I know you think it's impossible, but it doesn't matter. Let's talk about it."
"Falsifying the survey, fabricating data, and adulterating the report... Director Yang, you are really brave."
"Heh, I don't know what you're talking about." Yang Shiwei still didn't believe it.
Gu Jing flipped a page and pointed to a chart on it and said, "The statistics on the growth of the textile industry in the Fox Moon Star Region - Snow Fox Star on page 257 are ridiculous. Not to mention whether this data was falsified when it was collected, it does not match the output value data of the textile industry on page 456 of the Huisuan Alliance. Similar situations also occur in the statistics of the Jiangmeiyu Star Region. The data on pages 441, 486, and 822 are clearly conflicting..."
"besides……"
Gu Jing pointed out many places in the document one after another. Every word he said was true and covered a wide range. He could find problems almost every ten or twenty pages. It didn't seem like he was lucky and happened to see that part of the content and then pointed out the problems he encountered.
Even Yang Shiwei himself was not clear about many of the issues mentioned by Gu Jing.
There is no way he could memorize all the content of more than a thousand pages!
At this point, no matter how much Yang Shiwei thought it was impossible, he had to admit that Gu Jing looked like he had completely read the document and completed the detailed analysis.
Yang Shiwei even recalled how Gu Jing had been frowning before.
Where is the anxiety and where is the uneasiness?
That's obviously thinking!
It’s just that the efficiency of this thinking is really too high!
That is definitely not a level that normal humans can achieve.
But considering that the father of this young man Gu Jing is the famous Gu Hang, the top psychic in the empire, it seems reasonable that Gu Jing, as his son, would have inherited some psychic talent.
Psychics are so magical that it is not surprising that they have any kind of abilities.
But in short, this Gu Jing is definitely not as useless as he thought.
He is a playboy, indeed, and young. It is also true that he may not have experienced much and does not have enough experience... However, there is such a thing as a "genius" in this world.
Yang Shiwei had completely lost interest in continuing the conversation.
"Enough! I've heard enough of your ridiculous accusations. You know nothing about the data in the report, but you're talking nonsense here. It's totally incomprehensible!" Yang Shiwei didn't want to continue chatting or staying, but he certainly wouldn't admit anything verbally.
He continued to say to Gu Jing: "I am very disappointed in you! You didn't come here to solve the problem at all. It's a waste of words to say so much to you."
While he was speaking fiercely, he did not stop his hands. He quickly sorted out the documents on the table, stacked them all together, and wanted to grab them and leave.
Gu Jing placed one hand on the document.
"This is evidence of fraud by the audit team you lead. You can't just take it away."
Yang Shiwei held Gu Jing's wrist with his other arm and exhaled - this arm of his had been completely modified, a fine product made by a master, and its instantaneous power could even rival that of a space warrior.
He moved Gu Jing's hand away and pulled out a thick stack of documents with thousands of pages. Then he exerted force and pushed the young man back several steps. He snorted coldly and prepared to turn around and leave.
But the next moment, a powerful, invisible force suddenly emerged from Gu Jing's body, like a shock wave, and hit Yang Shiwei hard.
Yang Shiwei was knocked to the ground by a gust of air and could no longer hold the documents in his hands.
The documents that should have been scattered all over the ground were lifted up by an invisible force and slowly flew towards Gu Jing.
Yang Shiwei wanted to get up from the ground and continue to fight for the documents, but he felt as if his body was tied up, pinned to the ground, unable to move.
He could only stare at Gu Jing with a pair of angry eyes and growled, "Do you know what crime it is to attack an official of the imperial central government? You are committing treason!"
“Treason?” Gu Jing had already come to him. “Since you mentioned it, let’s talk about treason. I have a document here too. Does it look familiar to you?”
As Gu Jing spoke, a stack of papers flew out from the briefcase behind the chair where he was originally the author, hovering in front of Yang Shiwei, and were turned page by page.
At first, Yang Shiwei continued to maintain the anger on his face, but when he had no choice but to see those contents, his expression quickly turned into panic.
"This...you...can't be possible...how did you know?"
"The senior deacon of the Empire's Central Taxation Department has been engaging in long-term illegal dealings with the State Church, the Central Chamber of Commerce, local chambers of commerce, local governments... a total of 11 organizations, helping them purchase large quantities of goods at low prices from the already paid imperial taxes. To fill the gaps in the imperial taxes, they used inferior goods as good ones, and even falsely reported the numbers, made false accounts, and smoothed over the process. Over the past 15 years, the Empire has lost a total of 800 billion tax coins."
"This is fake! It's fictitious! It's a forged account book by you! You will never succeed in framing me!"
"Oh? Did we frame you?" Gu Jing's expression did not change at all. "That's a pity. Next, I will publish this document and propose that the Alliance Law Department and the Empire Central Law Department form a review team to see if there is really any problem with this set of documents."
Yang Shiwei's face turned very ugly.
Gu Jing noticed this and smiled: "Look, you don't seem to be willing to make it public. I think so too. The data, accounts, and transactions in this document are very detailed. The data can withstand scrutiny and there are no contradictions. The source of each data is very clear, and even the source of each data has at least two traceable references and responsible persons. My document is much more than the one you made."
Yang Shiwei's face turned pale.
There is no rebuttal.
Because these are indeed true, and he really did them.
Of course, he could not have made 800 billion yuan in these 15 years. This much money was earned by many companies. Some of them were people he could not refuse; some were people he turned a blind eye to and took some benefits from.
It's normal to do so. Your alliance can make money from the interest rate difference of the imperial tax pricing, but I can't?
Of course!
This money is not only earned by me! 800 billion! Even if Yang Shiwei has a big appetite and a big courage, he dare not eat so much.
What he earned himself is far from 800 billion, let alone 80 million.
However, this matter cannot be brought to the table.
Come on, does he dare to give out those people whom he cannot refuse one by one?
He's done for after he said that!
Even Xu Fuzhen couldn't save him - in fact, Prime Minister Xu Fuzhen might be the one who wanted him dead the most!
His eyes turned into pleading ones, his lips trembled, there were some words he wanted to say but he couldn't.
Gu Jing understood.
He shook his head slightly and said, "It's okay not to make it public, but I also have a memorandum here for you to sign."
Another document flew in front of Yang Shiwei.
He looked at it and his eyes turned horrified.
"No... No, if I sign it, my future will be over..."
"Indeed, but you have to choose a way to end up dead." Gu Jing was cold and ruthless.
(End of this chapter)
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