Chapter 718, Top Cattle and Horses

Arno had a relatively long vacation, which was quite rare.

After the vacation, he didn't know where he would be sent to perform another mission.

In theory, Ossena should cherish this time and try to take some time out of work to reunite with her family and accompany each other.

However, she really couldn't get away.

Matters came one after another. First, before the governor left, a series of meetings were held to set the general direction of the subsequent work. This period of time really couldn't be delayed, and Governor Gu could only stay in the alliance for another month before leaving.

After sending Governor Gu away, she not only did not become idle, but became busier.

Originally, many decisions could be handled in the governor's office, and the hundreds of the empire's most elite staff would send the decisions to the alliance government according to the governor's opinions. For this part of the work, Ossena was relatively relaxed. She didn't have to think about it, just follow the opinions of the governor's office.

And there would be no room for wrangling.

Are the various government departments dissatisfied with the decision? Do you have any opinions?

Take it all!

That is the will of the Governor. There is only the way to implement it. There is no room for bargaining!

Osena does not need to use her brain or think of a plan. She just needs to settle all parties and execute it.

But now, it's gone!

Without the Governor, the group of staff in the Governor's Office will naturally no longer be able to convey the Governor's opinions.

Although more than half of them stayed and did not go to Holy Terra. However, the rest... there is actually no need for them to exist. All of them were stuffed into the three lines of government, law, and the military as middle and senior officials.

This was originally the traditional destination of the Governor's staff. The Governor's staff always draws personnel from government units, legal units, local units, military units, and schools to serve as the Governor's staff. Even among them, there will be a considerable proportion of outstanding graduate geniuses. Members with complex origins together form the Governor's Office.

After working for a period of time, they will be sent out again, and generally they will be promoted significantly.

This is also a common way for the Governor to train senior officials.

It can be regarded as gilding, but it is more than just gilding. In the Governor's Office, these staff members can be exposed to the high-level affairs of the entire alliance, and their perspectives will become broader; they can often listen to Governor Gu's lofty ideas and understand Governor Gu's thinking. After being released, they can represent the Governor's will for a long time. Their loyalty is beyond doubt.

From Gu Hang's point of view, this is also to cultivate loyalty and ideological awareness in advance with the current potential stars and future mainstays in the alliance, so that Governor Gu can better control the entire alliance.

Now, these people have been released. Although the government departments have obtained many excellent personnel, they cannot replace the decision-making role of the governor.

Now, many things need to be done by the government departments, that is, Ossena herself.

Not to mention the surge in workload, it was already very tiring, and now it is even more tiring.

For example, now, the leaders of the three departments of the Alliance's Production Department, Ministry of Civil Affairs, and Tax Amount Special Group are quarreling in front of Ossena.

The three parties have different opinions, mainly about the supply of agricultural products and industrial consumer goods, the overall welfare of the entire people of the alliance, and the special coordinated collection of imperial taxes, which will indeed cause conflicts among them.

The supply side is actually not a big problem. Minister Zhao Jiuzheng of the Production Department came here mainly to report on the current coordinated production situation of the alliance. He actually has no big opinion on how to divide it specifically.

If he must say that he has any opinions, he stands on the side of Minister of Civil Affairs Wen Zhengnan: He hopes to ensure that the living standards of industrial workers will not only not decline, but also be able to improve.

That means a general promotion of job grades.

Wen Zhengnan also means the same thing.

In fact, what he wants to do is not just for workers in various industries.

In the sense of the entire alliance, he must steadily promote the stable improvement of the job grades of all people.

The salary and welfare level of the people in the alliance are linked to the job grades. The low-level jobs below E9 actually have a very low burden, and the welfare and consumption of a single person are not much. Although this is the largest proportion of the population, they are also generating income, and their output is often much greater than the welfare and salary provided by their job grades.

But as you move up, the cost of welfare and salary gradually increases.

Of course, it does not mean that those at high levels cannot make contributions. On the contrary, the reason why they can be promoted to a relatively high level means that they must have made great contributions.

Especially for those who are promoted quickly, this is even more true. Within the E level, one level is promoted every year; starting from the D level, one level is promoted every two or three years, and there is also an assessment. If you fail the assessment, the promotion will be postponed. If you want to break the routine of rapid promotion, you must have a very good performance; when you reach D5 and above, you will be promoted every 5 to 6 years. When you reach D8 and above, you will be promoted every 8 to 10 years.

According to a person, if he reaches E5 at the age of 18, he will stay in E level for 5 years and D5 for 14 years, and he will be 37 years old. To D8, it will be another 18 years, and to D9, it will be another 9 years. People are 64 years old, and basically they get a D9 rank and enjoy retirement benefits-when they retire, they will enjoy all political benefits, 70% welfare benefits, and 40% salary benefits according to their level.

If a citizen of the Alliance lives from adulthood to old age, this is the trajectory of his life.

If you can rise this far, it would be wonderful. At D1 level, you will have a comfortable life, no worries about food and drink, and you can also have enough salary to buy relatively good large appliances. There are also multiple guarantees in terms of welfare, such as housing, medical care, and education. At D5 level, it is the middle class defined by the Alliance. According to the nest cities of ordinary imperial worlds, some small industrialists can live the same level of life. Even in some garden worlds, the living standard of people with good incomes is just like this. At D9, it is the level that most imperial civilians can only think of when they are extravagant. In most imperial worlds, the working class can reach the top.

Above C level, in terms of personal life, it is considered a wealthy class.

Obviously, according to this level, the treatment of Alliance citizens is quite good.

But even the Alliance cannot really make everything as wonderful as a utopia.

If all people can go smoothly from 18 to 64 years old, the high welfare and salary expenditures will not be able to withstand such a huge financial pressure even for the Alliance.

In fact, it becomes difficult to assess from level D onwards. You have to assess your years of service. If you fail the assessment, your term will be extended. Only if you pass the assessment can you continue to accumulate years of service. If you do well in the assessment, you can be promoted directly without considering your years of service. If you have made significant contributions, you can skip a level.

In addition, all job levels must be matched with jobs. If you are unemployed, you will not be promoted, but will be demoted every year.

This "assessment" is simply based on indicators.

The huge system of the Ministry of Civil Affairs will calculate the total budget for human resources expenditure this year according to the fiscal budget, and allocate these upgrade indicators according to the overall plan. From production units to functional units, whether it is an enterprise, a self-employed business, or a government personnel department, it all depends on how well they do. If they do well, the department will have more upgrade indicators, otherwise they may even have demotion indicators.

The organization department within the department will then allocate these quotas to the lower-level departments and finally to individuals.

From a macro perspective, to put it bluntly, how many upgrade quotas there are depends on the total output of the alliance and how much of the total output is allocated to human resources.

During the war, a large amount of resources were invested in military production. In addition, a large number of new occupied areas need to be allocated funds for construction, and the upgrade quotas that can be given are relatively limited.

Some war mobilization orders have even been issued, that is, all levels need to reduce benefits and salary ratios.

Now, the war mobilization order is to be lifted, and the newly included people in each occupied area, even if the initial level is very low, can easily be tens of billions or hundreds of billions. The expenditure on human resources costs has increased a lot in turn.

In addition, the organization departments of various units are now constantly giving feedback upward. Since the alliance has started a large-scale production plan, various units are issuing a series of production incentive policies for people. People who do well and do well are more likely to be promoted, which can stimulate stronger production enthusiasm.

All of these require that human resources costs continue to rise.

To put it bluntly, this is to pay back the oppression of the people during the war, and in order to stimulate development in the next period of great development, the dividends of development must be shared with the people.

The people do not need military products or heavy machinery to improve their living standards. What the people want is a serious quality of life.

This requires more abundant material supply, from food, clothing, housing and transportation to all kinds of entertainment consumption...

Whether it is the growth of service industry personnel or the living standards of ordinary people, they all require a large number of consumer goods.

This has caused a conflict with the Alliance Taxation Special Office.

They are specifically responsible for solving the problem of collecting imperial taxes. The bulk of the money is in heavy industries, but the collection of consumer goods, especially food, is also a top priority.

This contradiction broke out in the distribution of agricultural products and agricultural processed products in the former orc-occupied areas in the northern part of the Dragon Eagle Star Region, which has a generally bumper harvest this year.

The civil affairs department requires more consumer goods to be included in the budget, but the tax department requires a considerable proportion of consumer goods to enter the tax system and be transported to the storage world, Shiping Star, which is already under construction and located in the Tangu Star Region in the easternmost part of the Spider Web Universe.

Neither side gave in to the other, and each went to their own leaders. After several arguments, the arguments escalated to Ossena.

In the past, Ossena would sometimes handle similar matters, but sometimes she couldn't handle them, so she would often send them to the Governor's Office for processing. Once the document representing the Governor's will came down, no one would say anything and just do it.

But now, it's all piled up here at Ossena.

After listening to the quarrels between the two sides, Ossena rubbed her head, and at the same time quickly followed her ideas and the opinions left by the Governor before leaving. She didn't let the contradiction continue to be argued, but quickly made a decision.

"According to Minister Wen Zhengnan's opinion, we really need to invest a large number of consumer goods in public incentives."

"The value of civilian consumer goods is relatively low, and a large amount of tax collection to fill the tax is a drop in the bucket."

"But the civil affairs department must cooperate with the Ministry of Production to set requirements for various production departments and local governments. Once the quotas are given, the corresponding production indicators must be improved. We use civilian consumer goods with lower added value in exchange for more The output value. Military production, shipbuilding, and raw material processing industries are all top priorities. The effect I expect is to use one billion shirts and 100 million tons of food to exchange for more warships, and then send them to the empire to serve as imperial taxes. , rather than simply improving people’s welfare.”

After making the decision and sending the person away, she immediately called her secretary:

"Also, let someone from the Ministry of Commerce come to see me."

Later, she arranged some business part of the work.

She requested the Ministry of Commerce to strengthen business exchanges within and outside the alliance. For some high value-added consumer goods, it is necessary to build a reputation and increase the selling price so that the money in the hands of people with improved ranks can be spent. At the same time, these high-value consumer goods, including some military products and heavy machinery, have wealthy people in the alliance. , can trade with the outside world and directly exchange for tax coins.

The market will change, and the imperial tax has a clear value target for each product. However, some planets may be suffering from food crises, and some external worlds are at war and need more military products. Often at this time, the corresponding product can be exchanged for a higher value.

Send 100 million consumer goods to the Alliance people, produce one billion military products, sell them to some planets in need in exchange for 2 billion consumer goods, and then distribute them to the people to encourage the production of more military products... In the exchange , generating more circulation value.

Output that exceeds market demand is directly taxed, so there is less need to worry about overcapacity; profits from business are used to pay taxes, amplifying the value of production capacity...

The means to meet the imperial tax must be diverse.

Not to mention, besides paying taxes, Oceana did not forget that she also had to take care of the development of the alliance.

After finishing all this work, Oceana suddenly realized that she had not rested for another thirty-three hours. The meals in between are the most ordinary simple meals.

Sometimes she couldn't help but smile bitterly. After all, she was receiving A7-level treatment. Logically speaking, the salary and benefits allocated to her in a year were worth more than 3,000 tax coins in total.

However, it would be amazing if she could spend a hundred tax coins a year.

She eats fast work meals, lives in the office, wears uniforms given by tailors, and is still in her prime. The rejuvenation surgery not only extended her life, but also made her energetic, and she did not get sick even after continuous high-intensity and high-load work...

There is no need for any luxuries or anything like that. If you want to travel, all the cars and airships are owned by the public.

Sometimes, she felt like she was the best—a term that came from a joke told by the Governor that had spread throughout the league.

But even if she is as energetic as she is, she is already very tired and exhausted after thirty-three hours without rest.

I looked at my schedule and saw that there was still a mountain of work piled up.

She planned to sleep for six or seven hours before continuing.

However, she had one last thing to do before going to bed.

It's almost time to have a call with Sage Wu Jiarong.

They still have to communicate again about the alliance's production issues.