Chapter 718, Top Cows and Horses
Arnault had a relatively long vacation, which was quite rare.
After the vacation, he didn't know where he would be sent again or what task he would be sent to.
Logically speaking, Oceana should cherish this time and try her best to spend some time after work to reunite with her family and spend some time with each other.
However, I really can’t get away.
Things come one after another. First, before the Governor left, there were continuous meetings to set the general direction for the follow-up work. This period of time really cannot be delayed. Governor Gu could only stay in the alliance for one month before leaving.
After sending Mr. Gu away, not only did she not become leisurely, but she became even busier.
Originally, many decisions can be handled in the governor's office. Hundreds of the empire's most elite staff will send the decisions to the alliance government based on the governor's opinions. For this part of the job, Oceana is relatively relaxed. She can just follow the advice of the Governor's office without having to think too hard.
And there will be no room for wrangling.
Are government departments dissatisfied with the decision? Have an opinion?
Keep it all for me!
That is the governor's will, there is only an implementation statement, there is no room for bargaining!
Osena does not need to use her brains or come up with a plan. She just settles all parties and executes it.
But now, no more!
With the Governor's absence, it is naturally impossible for the staff in the Governor's office to convey the Governor's opinions.
Although more than half of them stayed and did not go to Holy Terra. However, the remaining people... actually have no need to exist. They are all middle- and high-level officials and have been stuffed into the three lines of government, legal affairs, and military.
This was also the traditional place for the governor's staff. The Governor's staff will always draw personnel from government units, legal units, local units, military units, and schools to serve as the Governor's staff. There will even be a considerable proportion of outstanding graduates among them. Members with complex origins jointly form the Governor's Office.
After working for a period of time, they will be sent abroad again, and usually they will be promoted significantly.
This is also a conventional method used by governors to train senior officials.
It can be regarded as gold plating, but it is not just gold plating. In the Governor's Office, these staff can be exposed to high-level affairs of the entire alliance, and their perspective will become wider; they can often listen to Governor Gu's thoughts from a high position, and can better understand Governor Gu's thinking. can represent the Governor's will for a long time. Their loyalty is beyond doubt.
From Gu Hang's perspective, this is also about cultivating loyalty and ideological awareness in advance with the current potential stars and future mainstays of the alliance, so that Governor Gu can better control the entire alliance.
Now, these people have been released. Although the government departments have received many excellent people, they cannot replace the decision-making role of the Governor.
Now, many things need to be done by government departments, that is, Oceana herself.
Not to mention the huge increase in workload, I was already very tired, and now I am even more tired.
Just like now, the leaders of the three departments of the alliance, namely the Production Department, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the Tax Amount Special Group, are having a huge quarrel in front of Ossena.
The opinions of the three companies are different, mainly regarding the supply of agricultural products and industrial consumer goods, the overall welfare of the people of the alliance, and the special coordination and collection of imperial taxes. There will indeed be conflicts between them.
The supply side is actually not a big problem. Minister Zhao Jiuzheng of the Production Department came here mainly to report on the alliance’s current overall production situation. He actually didn’t have much opinion on how to divide it into details.
If he had to say something, he stood with Minister of Civil Affairs Wen Zhengnan: He hopes to ensure that the living standards of industrial workers not only do not decline, but preferably improve.
That means rank promotion in a general sense.
Wen Zhengnan means the same thing.
What he wants to do is not only target workers in various industries.
In the sense of the entire alliance, he must steadily promote the stable improvement of everyone's ranks.
The salary and welfare levels of alliance people are linked to their ranks. The lower ranks from E9 down actually have very low burdens, and the benefits and consumption for a single person are not much. Although this is the largest proportion of the population, they are also generating benefits, and their output is often much greater than the consumer goods provided by their rank and salary in exchange for benefits.
But as you go up, gradually, the expenditure on welfare and salary increases.
Of course, it does not mean that those high-level people cannot contribute. On the contrary, the reason why he can be promoted to a relatively high level means that he must have made a great contribution.
This is especially true for those that upgrade quickly. Within E-level, one level is achieved every year; starting with D-level, one level is achieved every two to three years, and assessments are required. If the assessment fails, it will be postponed. If you want to break the convention of rapid upgrades, you must perform very well; when you reach D5 and above, you will be promoted once every 5 to 6 years. When you reach D8 or above, you will be promoted in 8 to 10 years.
According to the calculation that a person will go to E5 when he reaches adulthood at the age of 18, he will stay in E level for 5 years and it will take 14 years to reach D5. This person will be 37 years old. By D8, it’s another 18 years, and by D9, it’s another 9 years. People are 64 years old. They basically get a D9 rank and enjoy retirement benefits. When you retire, you will enjoy all political benefits and 70% according to the level. benefits, 40% of salary.
If a citizen of the Union, from adulthood to old age, this is the trajectory of his life.
It would be great if it could be promoted like this. Once you reach the D1 level, you will have a relatively comfortable life, you will not have to worry about food and drink, and you will have enough salary to buy relatively good large appliances. In terms of welfare, there are also multiple guarantees such as housing, medical care, and education. At the D5 level, it is the middle class defined by the alliance. According to the hives of ordinary empire worlds, only some small industrial owners can live the same level of life. Even in some garden worlds, the living standards of people with good incomes are just like this. By D9, that is the level that most common people in the empire can only dream of. In most empire worlds, the working class can reach the top.
C-level and above are considered a wealthy class in terms of personal life.
Obviously, at this level, Alliance citizens are treated quite well.
But even an alliance cannot really make everything as wonderful as a utopia.
The whole people can live a smooth journey from the age of 18 to 64. Even the alliance cannot withstand such huge financial pressure due to the high welfare and salary expenses.
In fact, starting from D level, the assessment becomes difficult. You have to take the assessment when the age is up. If you fail the assessment, it will be postponed. Only if you pass the assessment can you continue to accumulate years. If you do well in the assessment, you can directly upgrade without considering the age. ; If you perform major meritorious services, you can skip the grade.
Also, all ranks must have matching jobs. If you are unemployed, let alone upgrade, your salary will have to be reduced every year.
This 'assessment', to put it bluntly, is based on indicators.
The huge system of the Ministry of Civil Affairs will calculate the total budget that can be spent on manpower expenditures this year based on the financial budget, and allocate these upgrade indicators according to the overall plan. Whether it is a production unit or a functional unit, whether it is an enterprise, an individual businessman, or a government personnel department, it all depends on how well it is doing. If it is done well, the department will have more upgrade indicators, otherwise it may suffer from downgrade indicators.
The organization department within the department then allocates these quotas to lower-level departments and finally to individuals. From a macro perspective, to put it bluntly, the number of upgrade quotas depends on the alliance's total output, as well as the total output part, and how much of the budget is allocated to manpower expenditures.
During the war, a large amount of resources were invested in military production. In addition, a large number of newly occupied areas require funds for construction, and the number of upgrade places that can be given is actually relatively limited.
Some war mobilization orders have even been issued, which means that benefits and salary ratios need to be reduced at all levels.
Now, the war mobilization order is about to be lifted, and the newly admitted people in each occupied area, even if their initial grades are very low, can easily be placed here in tens or hundreds of billions. The human cost expenditure is In turn, it improved a lot.
In addition, the organizational departments of each unit are now constantly providing upward feedback. Since the alliance has begun large-scale production plans, each unit is issuing a series of production incentive policies for people. People who do well and do well are more likely to be promoted in rank, which can stimulate stronger production enthusiasm.
All of these require labor costs to continue to rise.
To put it bluntly, this is repayment for the oppression of the people during the war, and the subsequent period of great development. In order to stimulate development, the dividends of development must be shared with the people.
To improve their living standards, people do not need any military products or heavy machinery. What the people want is a decent quality of life.
This requires a more abundant supply of materials, from food, clothing, housing and transportation to various entertainment consumption...
Whether it is the growth of service industry personnel or the living standards requirements of ordinary people, All require large amounts of consumer goods.
This creates a conflict with the Alliance Tax Special Office.
They specialize in solving the problem of imperial tax collection, mostly on heavy industries, but the collection of consumer goods, especially food, is also a top priority.
This conflict has erupted intensively in the distribution of agricultural products and agricultural processed products in the areas formerly occupied by the orcs in the northern part of the Dragon Eagle Star Territory, which has generally had a bumper harvest this year.
The civil affairs department requires more consumer goods to enter the budget, but the tax department requires a considerable proportion of consumer goods to enter the tax system and be transported to Tangu Star, which is already under construction and is located in the easternmost part of the spider web domain. The warehousing world of the domain - on the planet Shiping.
Both sides refused to give in to the other, each went to their respective leaders, and after several arguments, they escalated to the point where they were in front of Oceana.
In the past, Oceana 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 and end it. As soon as the document representing the governor's will comes out, no one can stop and just follow it.
But now, it’s all down to Oceana.
After listening to the quarrel between the two sides, Oceana rubbed her head. At the same time, she quickly followed her thoughts and the opinions left by the governor before he left. Instead of letting the conflict continue to escalate, she quickly made a decision.
“According to the opinions of Minister Wen Zhengnan, we really need to invest a large amount of consumer goods into public incentives.”
“The value of civilian consumer goods is relatively low, and collecting a large amount of fill-in tax is It’s a drop in the bucket.”
“But the civil affairs department must cooperate with the production department to set requirements for each production department and local government. Once the quotas are given, the corresponding production indicators must be raised. We need to use lower value-added civilian consumer goods in exchange for more output value. The top priority is to use one billion shirts and one hundred million in the raw material processing industry. Tons of food, in exchange for more warships, and then sent to the empire to serve as imperial taxes, instead of simply improving the welfare of the people."
After making the decision, she sent the people away, and she immediately called her secretary:
"In addition, ask people from the Ministry of Commerce to come and see me."
Subsequently, she arranged some work in the business department.
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. 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.
Give the Alliance people 100 million consumer goods, 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 exchange, more circulation value is generated.
Output that exceeds market demand is directly taxed, so there is less need to worry about overcapacity; profits from trade 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 into account the development of the alliance.
After finishing these tasks, 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 had an A7-level treatment. Logically speaking, the salary and benefits allocated to her in a year would add up to a total value of more than 3,000 tax coins.
However, it would be amazing if she could spend a hundred tax coins a year.
Eating quick work meals, living in the office, and wearing uniforms given by tailors, her body was still in its prime. The rejuvenation surgery not only extended her life, but also made her energetic, and continued high-intensity and high-load work. I won’t get sick...
There is no need for any luxury goods. If you want to travel, all the cars and airships are owned by the public.
Sometimes, she feels that she is the top cow horse - this word comes from a joke told by the Governor, and has now spread throughout the alliance.
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, before going to sleep, she had one last thing to do.
The time is almost up to have a call with Sage Wu Jiarong.
They still have to communicate again about the alliance's production issues.
(End of this chapter)