Starting from the Planetary Governor

Chapter 936: Chapter 502, Financial Allocation_2 Chapter 936: Chapter 502, Financial Allocation_2 Just pay the damn taxes.

Anyway, the Alliance now controls the Star Domain Government, which can retain 30% of the Imperial Tax. Under such circumstances, the Alliance hasn’t invested a penny in the planet, so taking 30% of the tax revenue is nothing unacceptable.

If things are done too poorly, leading to the inhabitants of the planet being unable to survive, then the Alliance would have an excuse to intervene, following the Imperial rules to forcibly evacuate and start anew, without getting entangled in local interest groups. By confiscating all private property on the planet and establishing an Alliance-style government while maintaining military control.

If things go well… wouldn’t everyone be happy? The tax rate could be raised, and once things reach a certain level, the Alliance could certainly think of other ways to pluck the ripe fruit.

However, this kind of situation is probably one in a hundred planets.

With this arrangement, the Alliance’s fiscal income and expenditure have reached a balance.

An annual fiscal surplus of around 150 billion, plus 390 billion that can be used from the total Imperial Tax of 1,300 billion.

That’s a total income of 1890 billion.

Maintaining and building the military roughly requires an investment of about 1,000 billion, constituting 52.9% of the budget, which could be described as exorbitant militarism, but there’s no helping it – that’s the way of this universe. Actually, the Alliance’s proportion might even be considered modest.

The Navy wants new ships, even new fleets; the Land Forces aim to expand to two billion regular soldiers. Since the Alliance now governs many planets directly, the construction of these planets’ Defense Army also falls under the Alliance’s responsibility, which is another significant expenditure…

Everyone is crying poor.

Although 1,000 billion is a lot, it still feels like scraping by.

Around 400 billion for maintaining governance, including staff expenses, government spending, and public services;

Around 490 billion as government-led economic production reinvestment, including infrastructure construction and industrial production investment…

And the good news is that some of the Land Forces can be converted to the Star Realm Army. The military expenses for this part can be claimed from the Empire.

This was a condition he negotiated when he returned from Holy Terra.

But it can’t be too excessive.

He was supposed to pay 910 billion in taxes to the Empire each year; exceeding this number is definitely not okay, the Empire won’t provide additional funds; even pushing the limit of this number is not acceptable, it would seem too greedy.

Gu Hang plans to start with 25 Army Groups in the first year, which is 300 billion Tax Currency. Then he would also incorporate the entire existing Dragonhawk Legion into the Rage Bear Legion.

Thus, the new Rage Bear Legion would have a force of about one billion, equivalent to 50 Army Groups. The annual maintenance fee could be further reduced by about 100 billion.

He won’t bother with the Navy; Gu Hang isn’t keen on placing the warships he painstakingly amassed into the Imperial Navy’s roster.

The Tianma Fleet and Yunluo Fleet are already in the Navy’s sequence, and there is no other way but to rely on his wife, the Admiral, to centralize power; however, the current Alliance Fleet has already surpassed them. A single Retribution-class Battleship is already something the Tianma and Yunluo Fleets cannot match, not to mention that the Alliance is about to continuously complete the construction of Battle Cruiser.

Gu Hang has even started the construction of two new Battle Cruisers at the same time. One shipyard is on Rage Owl Star, and the other, on Yunluo Star.

The one on Rage Owl Star is managed with technology Black Boxes, which the Alliance has experience with. But the Black Box can only support the construction of one shipyard at a time, after all, those important production parts can only be made one by one.

The one on Yunluo Star will have to rely on the technical blueprints, implemented by the shipbuilding engineers on Yunluo Star.

This is exactly why Gu Hang has to ensure that Yunluo Star, including the entire core area centered around Yunluo, is well settled.

Only with Yunluo’s level of development can it support the construction of production lines for advanced technical products solely based on technical blueprints, independent of the Black Box.

Once the shipyards for these two Battle Cruisers are completed, it will not only greatly promote economic development, but also, a construction speed of three Battle Cruisers every five years is quite satisfactory. Many Foundry Worlds don’t have this production capacity. Give Gu Hang a bit more time, and even without proper Battleships, he can amass a powerful, luxurious Fleet!

Moreover, who says the Alliance can’t produce Battleships?

Gu Hang currently has quite a few Grace Points at his disposal!

…

After wrapping up this lengthy, boring, but necessary meeting and establishing the development path for different blocks and directions within the Dragonhawk Star Domain, Gu Hang went to ‘rest.’

The Star Domain Government buildings on Yunluo Star are quite elegantly constructed, with an Eastern charm reminiscent of Gu Hang’s impressions.

Aromatherapy turns into a gentle waft of smoke that not only pleases the nose but also possesses unique effects. These are produced by a special plant from a neighboring planet and come in many different varieties. During meetings or work periods, energizing and mind-clearing types can be utilized.

And in places like the entertainment lounge, rest lounge, and bathhouse, the air is filled with aromatherapy that relaxes the mind.

After the meeting ended, Gu Hang soaked in a hot spring. The scent of aromatherapy, mixed with the fragrance of flowers in the hot spring, created a very comfortable atmosphere.

Even Gu Hang felt this was a form of enjoyment.

However, though he was soaking in the bath, he wasn’t completely relaxing.

On the contrary, with his eyes tightly closed, Gu Hang was actually dealing with very important matters in the depths of his mind:

Spending his Grace Points.

In the last two years, he had accumulated a considerable amount of Grace Points.

Currently, his monthly income of Grace Points had reached 170,000/month.

This was more than 2.5 times what it was before Gu Hang set off for Holy Terra.

The main reason for such a significant increase was, of course, the expansion of the Alliance’s control, which almost encompassed the entire Dragonhawk Star Domain.

Of course, due to some issues with governance intensity, there might be some numeric erosion. Moreover, the increase in monthly Grace Points due to expansion in the scope was not linear; double the size did not equate to double the growth. Instead, it was more like climbing up slowly, milestone by milestone, as if on an exponential curve.

But overall, by expanding the scope, through the improvement of the Alliance’s productivity and despite the slow pace of public living standard improvement, it was truly on the rise.

These factors still had the ability to affect the monthly income of Grace Points.

Of course, the income level of 170,000/month had only increased recently; it wasn’t this high before.

Even so, Gu Hang had now accumulated more than 2.2 million Grace Points.

However, in these two years, in clearing out the Green Skins, especially in those four overrun Star Sectors, sweeping them in about two years contributed about nine million additional Grace Points to Gu Hang.

At this rate, with five to six hundred billion Green Skins left in those four Star Sectors, completely eradicating them could potentially earn Gu Hang another seventeen to eighteen million Grace Points.

By adding a bit more to the monthly income, Gu Hang could accumulate about ten million Grace Points’ worth of income every two years.

This was equivalent to ten consecutive draws of million-grade technology!

At present, Gu Hang just went ahead and made the draw.

This ten-draw yielded steady profits.

One Apocalypse-level Technology, plus three Epic Technologies.

The other six are not worth mentioning.

The three Epic Technologies drawn were: [‘Valkyrie’ Mecha], [‘Eden’ Ecological Technology], [‘Command-class’ Aircraft Carrier].

The Command-class, alongside the Moon-class currently held by the Alliance, both belong to the cruiser grade; however, their design styles are entirely different.

The Moon-class is a typical all-rounder, a standard omnipotent battleship, lacking any standout features, but easily constructed, which offsets all its shortcomings.

Moreover, being a jack-of-all-trades is not necessarily a bad thing. With no strengths, it also has no significant weaknesses. It could hold its own against any kind of opponent.

The Command-class is entirely different.

Its firepower is less than the Moon-class, even less than some destroyers; its speed is also slower; it has thicker armor, but not by much compared to the Moon-class.

Its greatest advantage lies in the massive number of weapon fittings that have been converted into flight decks.

This is a youth-version of a cruiser-grade aircraft carrier.

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