Chapter 715, Bargaining
Of course Gu Hang is still paying attention to the matters on Holy Terra.
It’s just that it’s not the most important thing anymore.
Gu Hang has decided to accept the plan proposed by Premier Xu from the Ministry of Taxation.
Of course, not now, immediately, or immediately.
There are still many details to discuss.
For example, the location of tax settlement, such as the five star regions mentioned in the alliance plan, fully paid taxes to the empire, but Gu Hang became the chairman of the Spider Web Universe and did not allow the alliance to expand, then the Spider Web Universe Should the other nine star regions leave 30% in the star region government and 20% in the space region government?
After all, these nine star regions are not alliance territory and do not need to abide by the "Alliance Plan".
Of course, instead, although the Eternal Territory government agencies can be established by Gu Hang, the Eternal Territory Chairman, the appointment of the Star Territory head of state, the Eternal Territory and Star Territory government bureaucrats, and the Executive Yuan are Have the right to intervene. In addition to the government, there are also vertical administrative agencies, such as the two-level Ministry of Military Affairs, the Ministry of Taxation, and the Ministry of Legal Affairs, which also need to be under the vertical leadership of the Empire's Central Ministry of Military Affairs, Taxation, and Legal Affairs.
Not to mention, you have to match the Inquisition, the Astra Militarum, and the Navy, which are all restricted.
If the Astra Militarum needs to be built, the Navy needs to be built, and the Inquisition needs money for its activities, all of them need to be allocated funds. Not to mention directly asking the tax department for funding, it also requires funding from the superiors of these departments, agencies, and military units.
Of course, in their place, these units such as the Astra Militarum, Navy, and government departments that have been built, in addition to listening to the chairman of the universe, must also accept vertical leadership from the upper levels.
This is a political wrestling ground.
What we look at is whether the superiors allocate funds, or whether the Space Region government allocates more funds; what we look at is the struggle for personnel rights; the final result is that these departments are implementing the three parties of the Space Region Chairman, the Star Region Head of State, and the Empire Central Committee. They are constantly swaying in their will, coupled with their own departmental interests and the personal interests of departmental bureaucrats...
There are so many interest disputes, and corruption is included? What about claims? Political ideal?
Just thinking about it makes me feel numb.
In this case, how to improve efficiency? How to implement the ‘salvation plan’ for the worlds in the spider web domain that Gu Hang had thought of before?
In fact, Gu Hang is unwilling to accept that the alliance is completely restricted from expanding, and then he can only rely on the regular imperial local government agencies to rule the spider web domain. The efficiency of cosmic domain, star domain, star region and planet is too low, and there are too many places to argue.
However, Gu Hang’s unwillingness did not prevent him from negotiating on this matter.
It means that if you don’t allow the alliance to expand, then the alliance plan will not include other places in the spider web domain, then there is no way to guarantee the tax revenue of these places, and we cannot give you 800 billion more than 130 million. The amount of tax must be based on normal local tax collection in the empire.
That means not only must more than half of the tax revenue be reserved for local governments, but the alliance also cannot guarantee low losses.
After all, the tax revenue that the empire center may receive is only 50 billion?
More than ten times the difference.
If you don’t let the alliance expand, then I will pay you more taxes;
If you don’t let the alliance expand, then there will be no money.
Gu Hang's meaning is quite obvious: the tax department will give them more strength.
Moreover, even if expansion is allowed, one has to bargain hard.
The nine star regions that are in ruins are all together, but they have been severely harmed by the brutal wars in the past ten years. Eight hundred billion is really not worth it, so we have to talk about it further.
In addition to continuing to use money to keep the Imperial Central Taxation Department in check, Gu Hang also wanted to put pressure on the Ministry of Government Affairs.
Since they are not under the alliance system and are not included in the "Alliance Plan", then do the Astra Militarum and the Navy in these places need to be allocated funds for these constructions, the Empire's Central Astra Militarum Headquarters and the Navy Headquarters? ?
Will the Executive Yuan allocate funds to the government for planetary reconstruction?
Will the Department of Taxation allocate money to build a tax fleet? Otherwise, how can we collect taxes? You can't let the alliance take it away. This has nothing to do with the alliance. You don't want the alliance to interfere. The same goes for other space and star domain affairs.
After all, in addition to the areas controlled by the alliance, the Spider Web Space Empire wants to take back 50 billion a year. Counting these allocations, maybe the central government of the empire will still be able to recover 50 billion. You have to give money to Gu Hang in turn.
You figure it out.
None of these things can be determined overnight.
Let’s talk slowly.
The ambassador sent by the Alliance to Holy Terra is quite high-level. Salikhovich has long been an important figure in the alliance's foreign affairs department. As the scale of the alliance grows larger and larger, the most important external relationship is naturally the relationship with Holy Terra, so naturally the most important person is needed to assume the position of ambassador.
Gu Hang is still very relieved about Salikhovich.
Not to mention anything else, this person is now at level LV8, and all of his upgraded characteristics are related to diplomacy, negotiation, and charm. He is the most powerful talent in the league in this regard.
Of course, as the saying goes, what you can’t get on the battlefield, you can’t get at the negotiation table. Salihovich can only speak well, watch people's emotions, make people like him, and stick to it when he should be sharp and persevere, but there is no way to turn black into white and win any excess benefits.
In the final analysis, we still need to make a good plan, and then we need a strong Gu Hang and a strong alliance behind us to allow Salihovich to reach his highest level.
The good news is that Salihovich can also get the support of Gallardo.
A high lord helped, and the effect was very good.
On the one hand, it is possible to obtain some information that is impossible to obtain through normal channels. Otherwise, no matter how high the level of the alliance's intelligence department is, it will not be easy to know the content discussed in the Supreme Council at the first time.
The second time there was no problem, the air leaked everywhere.
On the other hand, there are some strategies, and Gallardo can help speak in the Supreme Council.
Let’s talk slowly.
However, time will not drag on for too long.
The tax date for the next period is about to be decided.
Whether we should implement the "Alliance Plan" or find other ways can be determined in just one or two months.
Gu Hang patiently pushed the alliance government to formulate the first two-year plan, followed by an eight-year plan.
The first two-year plan is to solve the problem of the 800 billion that will be paid when the empire is handed over taxes for the first time two years later.
It’s actually not difficult.
The current tax revenue of the Dragon Eagle Star Region alone, plus the fiscal surplus, is almost enough to cover this amount.
But the pressure in the past two years is not on taxes, but on trying to improve the construction level of other places while the tax pressure is not great in the early stage.
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(End of this chapter)