Chapter 768, Fifteen Years Later
Imperial calendar, year 10262.
Yang Shiwei was at the porthole of the ship, admiring everything in front of him.
The star port system of Lingze Star is really well built. Even from Yang Shiwei's perspective, which is accustomed to seeing the market, it is quite outstanding.
Of course it can't be compared to Holy Terra. How many places in this world can be compared to Holy Terra?
However, compared with many other places in the empire that have well-constructed star ports, Lingze Star is also one of the best.
What's even more valuable is that all of this was built within fifteen years.
Yang Shiwei witnessed with his own eyes how this planet has reached its current prosperous stage.
No matter what, he applauds the alliance.
In the early days, Lingze Star served as the empire's tax transfer base. The original star port infrastructure was actually quite good, but it seemed to be somewhat inadequate under the scale of tax transfer that was bound to become larger and larger in the future. After consultations with the Alliance, the Empire agreed to pay a certain amount of money to build Lingze Planet, at least to ensure that the planet's infrastructure could meet the requirements for paying Imperial taxes.
According to Yang Shiwei's understanding, the general local forces should be basically satisfied at this point: they have used a sum of funds from the central empire to build their own territory, so what's wrong with that?
Some local forces will make good use of this fund and take advantage of the opportunity to invest all in construction and reap benefits in the long term;
Some are short-sighted and will use their brains on this money and use various means to make a fortune. Normally, the empire would turn a blind eye to this situation. There will be some redundancy in the allocation. If you cut corners and make some money, as long as you don't miss the business and can make the construction of Lingze Star reach a minimum standard, then that's fine.
The worst thing is that we have overextended ourselves in it, and the construction we have done is just a cosmetic project, but in fact it does not meet the needs at all, so that it will later affect the handover of imperial taxes.
Yang Shiwei brought an entire audit team, which included not only those responsible for civilian work from the Ministry of Taxation and the Ministry of Government Affairs, but also people from the Ministry of Legal Affairs, and even anti-corruption personnel seconded by the trial court. This entire team is designed to prevent the last situation from happening.
However, after fifteen years of review, no illegal behavior was found in Lingze Star, including the local officials of the Tangu Star Region to which Lingze Star belongs.
It’s not that they didn’t use their brains on this money, on the contrary, they used it quite a lot. But what is different from general expectations is that they are not making money from this, but are trying their best to increase investment in it.
This large amount of money invested by the empire is enough to build Lingze Star to the point where it can support the exchange of materials of more than two trillion tax dollars every year. But the alliance is obviously not satisfied with this. In the past fifteen years, it has invested an amount similar to the empire's investment in the Tangu star field, which was used to integrate the star port system of Lingze star and various infrastructure inside the planet. Funds for large-scale facility construction.
Not only the alliance government, but also the Tangu star region government and the alliance official are also trying their best to raise funds. Although the resources raised from one star field are definitely not as much as the money given by the Empire Central and Alliance Central, it is still a large amount of money for them.
The team led by Yang Shiwei found that they had nothing to audit. The alliance's investment in Lingze Star far exceeded their original estimate, and even many
With so many resources accumulated, the results achieved by Lingze Star are quite gratifying.
Complete delivery of imperial tax?
No, no, no, this is just the lowest and lowest standard.
Whether it is the Alliance Government or the Tangu Star Region, their goal is to take advantage of the huge business opportunities brought about by the huge amount of material exchange when the imperial tax is paid.
The Empire and Alliance personnel who deliver the goods need food, drink, and entertainment, and they are all available in the space city;
A large number of ships come and go from Lingze Star, and the corresponding services such as ship maintenance, supplies, and fuel processing are all available.
All of these can make money.
Not to mention, the Tangu government also built a trade center here to facilitate the caravans coming from the central territory of the empire to follow the imperial tax fleet and come to Lingze Star to trade with the alliance.
Even after the trade center grew in size, a series of financial mechanisms were established.
The alliance pays in kind denominated in tax currency, and there is no problem with the amount. The empire does accept everything, as long as it is in the list specified by the tax department.
However, the pricing of items in the imperial tax list is very poor, and generally it is on the low side compared to the real value on the market.
These two factors alone are enough to make money, and there is a lot of room for arbitrage.
The most direct way is to have the alliance's own, external, or even caravans starting from Holy Terra, which will directly take a large amount of tax coins and come to Lingze Star to do business. Before the Alliance and the Imperial Taxation Department conduct tax payments, the Alliance's warehouses should be 'looted'. As a token, tax coins can be used to directly offset imperial taxes. They can just use the tax coins to directly purchase alliance goods. As long as the bid is higher than the tax price, the alliance will not only pay the tax, but also receive additional income.
In the beginning, their bids were indeed just a little higher than the imperial tax price. After all, it was a bulk commodity; later, as there were more competing merchants, they had to bid more, and in the end it was relatively dynamically balanced.
For the Imperial Taxation Department, this is no problem. They have collected enough taxes, and the tax coins themselves are fine. That means other places have made up for the tax, and there is no loss anyway. In fact, a lot of business is simply done by the tax department on its own initiative.
Who earns and does not earn?
Not only are they making money, who of those chamber of commerce caravans from Holy Terra don’t have a background? They all have to make money!
The profit from the price difference alone is enough to make a fortune!
This is just a factor of tax pricing being lower than market pricing.
The empire's pricing is fixed, but the market is dynamic, which means that the prices of some scarce supplies are not actually reflected. For example, food is not of high value, but in many hive worlds that are in a state of famine and have a particularly large population but insufficient agricultural production, a large amount of imported food is needed. At this time, even if the price of food can only be calculated based on market price, it is still very cost-effective for these places with import demand.
For some places that are in a state of war, the alliance's arms are really cheap and high-quality.
Ships, consumer industrial products...all can be viewed similarly.
On top of these two direct arbitrage environments, some more advanced financial methods have evolved, such as futures... This is a bit of a departure from reality, and the alliance is controlling this area.
The Alliance itself is using Lingze Star to conduct a large amount of trade, of which the two most important strategic imports are population and raw materials.
Later in the development, the trade with the Alliance and the central empire was still on one side. The various universes and star regions in the eastern border of the empire, the northern border of the empire, and the central border all heard the news and gradually gathered here, specializing in doing business on Lingze Star. Business.
The merchants came to Lingze Star with a huge amount of tax coins and supplies.
Not only do they do business with the league, they also do business with each other.
The alliance's trade center also manages all these, and only extracts a small "insignificant" management fee.
A place with such a complete infrastructure and such a large scale of trade is hard to find. The alliance's clean, transparent, convenient and efficient management services are also rare in the entire universe.
The more prosperous it is, the more scale effect will be formed.
All these factors combined have almost made Lingze Star the newly emerging and most prosperous trade center in the entire eastern territory.
The league made an unknown amount of money from it.
Anyway, according to Yang Shiwei's audit team, which had no work to do, they had time to try to make statistics and found that the money Ling Zexing made for the alliance ranged from direct trade profits, to trade commissions, to the money earned from the service industry. The income may be close to one trillion.
Really jaw-dropping. And the benefits may not end there.
Such a large scale of trade and profit will not only benefit Lingze Star, but also many other places in the Tangu Star Territory can also benefit greatly.
Until now, Yang Shiwei still doesn't understand that fifteen years ago, the Alliance not only spared a dime of the money used by the Empire to build Lingze Star, but instead gritted its teeth and invested two or three times the amount of money to build Lingze Star. The reason?
The rewards have been nothing short of explosive!
Can it be copied elsewhere?
I'm afraid it won't work.
Other cosmic regions are still losing a lot of tax revenue, and they can't even collect taxes. How easy is it to build a trading center with a basis of several trillion?
What's more, the empire has invested 500 billion tax dollars in the infrastructure construction of Lingze Star over the past fifteen years, and the central government of the alliance has invested more than 1500 billion; Tangu Star Territory itself has also planned More than a trillion dollars.
Three trillions are placed here. Which of those ordinary cosmic realms can be built?
Yang Shiwei can only say one awesome thing.
Back then, the alliance was able to create this opportunity, seize this opportunity, and have enough resources to build... I can't help but admire it.
Doing the math, it has been eighteen years since the Battle of Rheaducches, which marked the end of the Iron Armor War and the Swarm War, and fifteen years since the signing of the "Alliance Plan".
During these fifteen years, Lingze Star served as the place where the empire's center and the alliance made tax settlements, and Yang Shiwei worked here for a long time.
As a deacon of the Imperial Taxation Department, he was a confidant of Prime Minister Xu Bojin.
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Fifteen years ago, he was specially sent to be the person in charge of tax settlement with the alliance.
For others, it is true that as a central official, he has to travel to local places every day. It takes ten months to travel from Holy Terra to Lingze Star. It is really hard, and he has been away from the central political arena of the empire and the center of power for a long time. It is true. Not a good thing.
But Yang Shiwei knew that this was his first step.
Prime Minister Xu Fuzhen attaches great importance to this money. If you work hard and ensure that the money can be delivered stably, that will be a great achievement.
And indeed it is.
In the next fifteen years, he has been working hard, mainly because the alliance has also cooperated very well, which is quite worry-free. There has never been any problem with tax settlement.
And he himself was naturally promoted a few years ago, from deacon to senior deacon.
This position is not low anymore. In the ranking of the entire tax department, he can be among the top 100.
What's more, this isn't the end yet.
He recently traveled back and forth between Holy Terra and Lingze Star. When he returned this time, Prime Minister Xu Fuzhen specially called him for an interview.
First of all, Xu Fuzhen praised his work achievements in the past fifteen years. At the same time, he also gave him a further advantage: in two years, he can be promoted to the position of deputy minister of the Imperial Taxation Department.
That means he can be ranked in the top ten in the tax department.
But at the same time, Xu Fuzhen also gave him a task: let him arrive before the fifteen-year deadline to talk to the alliance about raising taxes.
When he first heard this request, Yang Shiwei was almost numb.
Can taxes be increased arbitrarily?
The "Alliance Plan" clearly states in black and white that it is 2.1 trillion.
This is a ‘tax package’ with a fixed amount.
Oh, now you see that the alliance is developing well. Not only is it internally strong, but it can earn one trillion yuan a year just by relying on one Lingze star, you feel that the tax amount was set too little back then.
What did you do early?
Back then, before Yang Shiwei came, he often heard some sayings on Holy Terra.
It probably means that after the tax rate for the alliance has been raised to this point, can the alliance still create a rebellion?
I have already collected 100% tax, how can he still have money to support the rebels?
Now, I find that things are not like this at all, so I want to change the rules and increase taxes sharply.
Does this make sense?
Of course, it doesn't matter whether it makes sense or not.
The central government of the empire has been unreasonable many times, and this time is no different.
However, whether you want to be reasonable or not, in addition to face and bottom line, which can be thrown away at any time, there are at least two key factors: strength, pros and cons.
The tax increase will definitely be beneficial to the center of the empire, but will the alliance agree?
Obviously it is impossible to agree.
Is there going to be a confrontation then?
Yang Shiwei is a senior official in the Ministry of Taxation and is also responsible for the alliance's money. He knew clearly that after fifteen years, the money given by the alliance every year accounted for between 6-11% of the total tax collected by the empire from the local areas.
This is a huge number.
A large number of various expenditures of imperial departments are dependent on this money.
Can the Empire afford to quarrel with the Alliance to the point of overturning the table?
There is no need for war. As long as the two sides decouple, it will be fatal.
In terms of taxation, if the income is reduced by 6% to 11%, many projects in many departments will be suspended.
Without Lingze Xing's business, many big bosses in the center of the empire who were making huge profits would suffer losses.
Can the central government of the empire bear just these two things?
Then, even if it is a hard decoupling, what can the Empire do to the Alliance?
War?
Can't open it at all.
(End of chapter)