Chapter 502, Even Busier After Peace

At the meeting, many senior officials of the alliance were still arguing.

But Gu Hang was already daydreaming.

The war in the Dragon Eagle Star Region was basically over anyway.

There might still be remnants of greenskins on various planets; there were also the hastily retreating Fury Flames outside, and the possibility of revenge from their allies, as well as the Spider Web Universe located in the north of the Eastern Universe, where the Iron Fury Stone might start a war...

The shadow of war was still looming.

But no matter what the shadow was, or what the remnants of greenskins were, generally speaking, peace had roughly arrived.

Don't expect a regime spanning four hundred worlds to have no disputes at all, that's unrealistic.

If there were no crises that affected multiple worlds at the same time, then it could be said to be peace.

After peace came, Gu Hang found that he and the entire alliance had more things to worry about and were busier.

In Gu Hang's view, the current situation of the entire alliance, which relied on two centers to make money and the remaining large areas of the world were all losing money, was essentially caused by the fact that the administrative capacity of the alliance could not keep up with the expansion of the political system.

Yunluo Star is a more developed place than Feiyi Star, and it is not set at level 5 like Feiyi Star, but level 4.

Richer, but with less taxes to pay. This is obviously what the previous star domain government came up with.

With so many years of accumulation in the past, and the three star regions behind as the rear base, the resources are quite abundant, and the size should not be much higher than Qimadi, which has only been developed for a few years or more than ten years.

In fact, although the output value of Yunluo Center is much higher, its financial contribution is not high enough.

Similarly, although those loss-making worlds have many objective conditions for loss, if the administrative management capabilities of the alliance can keep up, then the cost of establishing and maintaining rule should not be so high.

Of course, this is not the alliance's own problem. Gu Hang was still praising the alliance government for its good work before, so he would not turn his face and recognize them now, thinking that their work is lame.

This problem is widely present in the entire human empire.

The scope of rule is too large.

Let’s not talk about the Empire. It is quite difficult to establish a unified centralized government controlled by the Alliance government for all the 400 worlds in the Alliance, and the maintenance cost has soared significantly.

What if one day the Alliance’s control range becomes the 4,000 or 5,000 worlds in the entire Eastern Universe?

At that time, it may not be a matter of money.

From this perspective, Gu Hang can actually understand why the Empire has become like this.

Holy Terra may not have figured out how many worlds are under the rule of the Empire’s territory. This number changes every day, with new ones being included, lost, rebelling, and resolving rebellions...

Moreover, these changes do not only occur in the border areas. Due to the special nature of the star tunnel, sometimes a galaxy originally located in the hinterland suddenly becomes a front line because a new star tunnel is discovered.

It is not even clear how many worlds there are in the Empire, only that it is on the order of millions.

The same is true for the military. The Empire may barely know how many Star Army and Imperial Navy organizations there are, but these are only on paper, and the actual situation is unclear. There are too many departments, institutions, and dignitaries who have the power to newly organize the Star Army and Navy, and it is impossible to count them.

If even these are not clear, let alone the population and industry situation of each world.

If you can't even figure out the basic information, how can you rule? Rule a hammer!

Under such objective conditions, the current top-down five-level structure of the Empire - Holy Terra, Space Domain, Star Domain, Star Region, Planet, plus the strong autonomous political system of each locality, is also helpless.

In this structure, the most independent is the planetary governor, who can do whatever he wants on his own planet. The only reason that prevents them from doing so is that the power of a single planet is not strong enough.

The head of the star region is a wall hanging, so I will skip it;

The head of the star region is a heavyweight.

Among the three-level structure in the middle, the most important position is the star region government. It has a high degree of independence, can retain imperial taxes, has control over the appointment of each star region under its command, and can deploy the interstellar army and navy within the star region.

Each star region government is like a powerful local prince.

And the cosmic government above is actually like the image of a prince leader.

Generally, the cosmic government occupies the most developed star region, which is the richest and most powerful local prince. With the blessing of administrative power, each star region government must also obey orders to a certain extent, which is like a prince leader, but it is difficult for the cosmic government to directly control every star region and star region.

The whole structure is a bit like the feudal system, but it is very different from feudalism. After all, the appointment of officials is still from the Holy Terra government, and there is no self-inherited power.

Gu Hang certainly didn't like this. His alliance always insisted on a high degree of centralization. As the central government, the alliance government had a high degree of control over the areas it directly controlled.

But now, with the pressure of reality, it seems that it has to compromise to a certain extent.

While thinking, Gu Hang had some vague ideas in his mind.

Just at this time, someone called him at the meeting.

Gu Hang came back to his senses.

Although he was distracted before, he actually listened to the heated discussions at the meeting.

At this time, people called him, which naturally meant that the discussion had reached a point where it could not go on, and he, the leader, needed to make the final decision.

Anyway, everyone's opinions were clearly expressed in the previous debate.

Gu Hang did not hesitate any more and directly expressed his opinion:

"I roughly understand what everyone means: increase investment in loss-making worlds, build these worlds as soon as possible, turn them from loss to profit as soon as possible, exchange short-term large losses for rapid development, and be self-reliant in the future, get rid of long-term losses, and even make profits."

"The other extreme is to completely abandon these worlds, maintain the regular ruling method of the empire, appoint planetary governors, and forcibly demand 10% imperial tax. Other resources will not be interfered with. Unless the whole planet is destroyed, the alliance will not interfere with the local situation, but will be handled by the local governor."

"I also fully understand everyone's ideas, but I think these two directions are not completely contradictory. We can implement them at the same time."

"I agree with Jason Morgan's opinion. We need to analyze the situation in detail, region by region and planet by planet, and then decide how to implement it specifically."

"Let's talk about several regions separately..."

Gu Hang began a long speech.

While he was speaking, the others basically remained silent and listened carefully to the opinions of him, the supreme commander of the alliance. Only when Gu Hang asked questions did the corresponding named people speak.

Gu Hang first determined the development goals of Qimadi.

The entire Qimadi was identified as the core area of ​​the alliance.

Not only the Tianma Star Region, but also the remaining six horses need to be developed as a priority.

These seven star regions have a total of 88 worlds and 187 billion people. Now it is a positive income area. Although the main income is in the Tianma Star Region, the birthplace of the alliance, the development of the Tianma Star Region will always reach its upper limit.

Of course, this upper limit does not mean that there will be no development after reaching a certain level of development. This is a soft upper limit. After reaching a certain level, the speed of development will inevitably decline. At the same time, because advanced industries occupy a large proportion of manpower and production, the number of people that the planetary environment can carry will also reach its upper limit-Gu Hang does not want to build a world like Holy Terra, it is too scary.

After reaching this soft upper limit, the star region will of course continue to develop, especially advanced and high-tech industries. But some backward production capacity will definitely be eliminated.

Qimadi is the best receiving area.

Moreover, since these 88 worlds were already under the control of the alliance during the previous war, the Seven Horses Framework and the Economic Community Framework were fully promoted to these worlds. Now, the time for a complete transformation into the alliance system has matured.

These 88 worlds are also where the alliance will invest heavily in the future.

Under Gu Hang's inquiry, the Prime Minister of the Alliance, Ms. Ossena Chenko, discussed with her own staff and several senior officials from various departments of the alliance for a few minutes, and gave Gu Hang a definite answer: In the next five years, the industrial and economic development of the Seven Horses can maintain an annual growth rate of 10%.

Five years later, the total output value of the Seven Horses should increase to more than 300 billion.

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The second area mentioned is the Yunluo Center.

This will be the key area to establish the rule of the alliance.

These more than 40 worlds have a large population and a developed economy, so it is not a loss. But Gu Hang does not accept the result of just making money in these places.

What Gu Hang wants is that these 54 worlds with a population of 250 billion and an output value of 630 billion, like the Seven Horses, will complete the comprehensive alliance systematization.

Only in this way can Gu Hang conveniently place various high-level technologies and industries in this area for production in the future. This will be able to further increase the output value of these places; and the alliance believes that these worlds obviously have such a high output value, and the imperial tax is not much, why is the fiscal quota provided in a year only so little?

After replacing the alliance system, what Gu Hang hopes to do is: no large-scale unrest, the living standards of the vast majority of imperial citizens must not be generally reduced, and the industrial economy should at least not decline. On this basis, the alliance's control over these areas has been greatly improved, and the contribution to fiscal revenue has been clearly improved.

For this, Osena looked embarrassed.

Many of these items are conflicting.

There is a contradiction between alliance and unrest. Alliance will inevitably bring losses to the middle rentier class, although according to the alliance's policy, these business owners and former local officials can obtain relatively high ranks as long as they cooperate with the institutionalization of the alliance. But the high ranks of the alliance are indeed very superior to ordinary people, but compared with the past, when they held the power of life and death and owned all the industries, that is not the same concept.

If these rentiers are not eliminated, how can fiscal revenue increase significantly without increasing output value and reducing people's living standards?

The knife is going to be on these people.

If people resist, there may be unrest; even if they do not resist openly, but only use non-violent non-cooperation as a means, the work of the alliance will become difficult to do due to the lack of cooperation from local ruling personnel.

This is much more radical than the personnel replacement method that the alliance used before.

But it seems that Governor Gu has made up his mind.

Gu Hang also gave his own reasons: "No matter how the future develops, Qimadi and Yunluo Center are the core areas we need to rely on the most. In the foreseeable future, our northern neighbors will make big moves. Whether we like it or not, we need to face it. While there is still time, we must solve the backyard problem. I don't want the rear to fall behind when the front line is under great pressure."

Ossena said she understood.

And this time, she spent more time discussing with the Alliance government team.

In the end, their answer to Gu Hang, or the 'kpi' they set for themselves, was that in the next five years, the fiscal revenue contribution of Yunluo District 4 would increase by 30% while other economic indicators and livelihood indicators remained unchanged and unrest was avoided as much as possible.

Gu Hang believed that Yunluo Center had more potential, but he was reluctantly satisfied with the number.

Then, it was time to go to those loss-making star areas.

Different areas have different situations.

In the eastern part of the star field, the areas once controlled by the Alliance, namely the Golden Pass, the Bronze Pass, the Prideful Hand... a total of 8 star regions, 94 worlds, but the population is only about 88 billion. The common feature of these star regions is that before the outbreak of the Iron Tooth Orc Green Tide, they were the worlds surrounding the fallen areas, and were part of the "Iron Tooth Defense Line" of the year, and they had been subjected to war for many years;

In the Green Tide, they were either completely or partially fallen.

After the Green Tide ended, during the confrontation between the Alliance and the Fury, they were under the control of the Alliance.

The production base and social order of these worlds have almost collapsed to varying degrees due to the Greenskin War, with a large number of population losses and government dysfunction.

The Alliance passed the "Economic Community Act" in these places in the early stage, and in the later stage, by directly sending Alliance officials to manage them, it has basically firmly grasped these worlds in its hands.

There is no resistance in these worlds. On the contrary, they are very grateful to the Alliance for saving them from the war, and the entire social atmosphere is also oriented to the Alliance under the efforts of the Alliance Propaganda Department.

There is no cost of ruling here. The main reason for the loss is the war. Too many people died and all kinds of production were destroyed. Now it is very poor.

The problems of these worlds are relatively easy to solve. Throw money and it will work.

And what Gu Hang meant was that these worlds can spend money.

In these 94 worlds, the alliance estimates that if it spends about 20 to 30 billion a year, it will be able to achieve relatively good results.

In fact, after peace came to these 94 worlds, a baby boom has already occurred. It is foreseeable that the population will recover quickly.

Ossena is most confident about the work plan for this area. She even dares to guarantee that in five years, the total output value of these eight star regions will be able to break through the 100 billion mark from 67 billion. The population will also increase from 88 billion to 95 billion.

And the rest are the areas that really need to be attacked.