Chapter 769, just bullying
The relationship between the empire and the alliance has been the focus of research by many experts and scholars.
Related reports and forecasts are flying all over the place.
But except for some sensationalists who talk endlessly without shocking words, normal research has generally reached a consensus: the empire cannot afford the consequences of going to war with the Alliance.
It doesn’t mean that they can’t win, and it doesn’t mean that the Alliance can directly drive Holy Terra to overthrow the rule of the central empire.
Rather, it’s a loss.
Blood loss, explosive losses, and even with huge losses, the empire may fall apart after the alliance is destroyed.
The Iron Armor War that started thirty-three years ago was the latest large-scale rebellion that the empire experienced, and it can be a good lesson.
In that war, the empire directly or indirectly spent more than 100 billion, and shouldered a huge financial burden. Even with the alliance's financial input of 2 trillion a year, and many military expenditures were spread out over more than ten years, Paying in installments has alleviated the pressure, but it is still painful to carry such a huge burden.
People from the Central Taxation Department feel particularly deeply.
And how does the current alliance's military strength compare with Iron Armor?
Only strong, not weak!
But that's not all.
That's just a comparison of military strength, and it's not of the same magnitude as war potential.
Look at how strong the alliance's economy is!
Guang Ling Ze Xing earns them nearly one trillion yuan a year. What about the real economic production within the alliance?
Yang Shiwei does not have exact data to report here, but as the central government of the empire becomes more and more curious about the current situation of the alliance, there is a lot of overt and covert exploration.
On the surface, there is a 'supervision team' sent to the alliance under the document framework of the "Alliance Plan". They are guests of the alliance, but they are just 'guests', not hosts, and they cannot exert any 'supervision' The role comes. It was so frustrating because they were inside the alliance and could get first-hand information.
And secretly, there are many spies from Holy Terra and even some local forces with good intentions.
Based on the information gathered from Ling Ling Zong Zong, it is generally believed that the alliance's annual financial surplus may be more than 4 trillion.
Not only their gross production value, but also the money earned by Lingze Star, including the trade between the northern line and the Galactus Universe and the Infinite Universe, as well as the trade income between the southern line and the Eastern Universe. .
After subtracting the 2.1 trillion imperial tax, the alliance still has an income of 2 trillion a year.
The Alliance is really rich!
With such a strong economy, once they no longer need to pay imperial taxes, how many troops can they support?
If the Alliance wants to, they are fully capable of expanding their military strength in a short period of time!
Moreover, it must be pointed out that there are at least two explanations for this four trillion income:
First, the surveyed alliance income may deviate from the real situation. Compared with this figure, the alliance’s income may be higher!
Secondly, in addition to the alliance's financial surplus, there are still a large number of resources that continue to be invested in economic construction. Once the focus of the alliance shifts from economic construction to a full-scale war mode, there is no telling how much production capacity the alliance can generate.
Under this premise, we can compare the Iron Armor War.
In the Iron Armor War, the rebels had no way to survive if they did not expand. They could only expand the front crazily to support war with war. Otherwise, if the Iron Fury Stone and a group of traitors had insisted on defending the Queen's Star Territory at that time, they would have been captured long ago.
But the Alliance is really not afraid of a war of attrition.
Even if trade is cut off, it doesn't matter if the alliance makes less than one or two trillion yuan a year.
I also paid less imperial tax.
It is true that the empire is much larger, but it is absolutely unable to mobilize all its power on the alliance.
According to the standards of the Iron Armor War, by gathering the southern, northern, and western fronts and launching an attack on the Alliance at the same time, the Alliance may really be capable of conducting a long-term military confrontation with the Empire.
By then, not to mention that the empire's annual income of two trillion yuan will be gone, but it will have to bear a cost of at least ten trillion yuan a year. Only then can it be possible to suppress the alliance and prevent them from attacking outside the country; if they want to destroy the alliance, that is Expenditures of 15 trillion to 20 trillion per year will last for at least 20 years.
The imperial center simply does not have the financial spending capacity.
Even if the expenditure is forced, rebellions in other places will probably arise one after another, and where will the power be found to suppress them?
Orc invasions, Zerg invasions, cult rebellions are popping up in various places...
The country is really going to perish!
If one day the alliance becomes distracted, rebels, and acts as a traitor, then there is no need to say anything. We have to fight even if we don't want to fight. Otherwise, what can we do?
But if the alliance is forced to rebel by the central government of the empire, then whoever does it will be the eternal sinner of the empire.
Under this premise, should Yang Shiwei be asked to discuss tax increases with the alliance?
Yang Shiwei himself has no idea!
Precisely because he understood the alliance, he felt that there was no need to talk about tax increases.
The central government of the empire has no leverage at all, so how can we talk about it?
As for how to deal with it with a tough attitude...he didn't dare.
He doesn't want to be that 'eternal sinner'.
But you don’t have to be tough and negotiate normally. How can you possibly succeed in negotiation when you see things that are impossible to obtain on the battlefield?
He couldn't just take on the next mission in vain.
He can't afford to take the blame for forcing the rebel alliance, it will cost people;
If we can't negotiate tax increases, we may not be able to die by taking the blame, but the future may be difficult to predict.
However, what made him relieved in the end was that Xu Fuzhen didn't just ask him to be the scapegoat.
Premier Xu understood that this matter was difficult to handle, and it did not make it difficult for him. If the negotiation can't be done, the negotiation can't be done. Although it doesn't count his achievements and it will make people a little disappointed, he will not be allowed to bear the responsibility after all.
Of course, the premise is not to anger the alliance.
Of course, what Yang Shiwei knew, Holy Terra also knew.
Of course the gentlemen on Holy Terra have read all the reports from various sources.
Although there are indeed opinions that advocate being tough on the alliance, at least the person who holds this opinion is not Xu Fuzhen.
The reason is also very simple.
Those hard-liners who are so angry every day are the ones who made the decision back then to develop the alliance into such a state that it cannot be handled at all?
The primary target was Gallardo. Everyone knew that the Prime Minister of the Ministry of Military Affairs and Gu Hang were wearing the same pair of trousers.
The second person who scolded her was Xu Fuzhen. She was greedy for that little money back then and raised such an insurmountable monster now. She must be held responsible.
Can Xu Fu really recognize it?
Definitely not.
No matter what she thinks in her heart, she cannot change her political stance at this point. Even as the Prime Minister of the Department of Taxation and one of the high lords, she cannot bear such a responsibility.
On Holy Terra, she and Gallardo fiercely advocated the alliance's loyalty, believing that the current state of the alliance was by no means a risk.
And raising taxes was a trick she came up with.
Letting the alliance increase taxes so that the empire's center can earn more revenue is obviously a way to show the loyalty of the alliance. Through this, we can effectively counterattack those hard-liners in the political arena at the center of the empire.
Yang Shiwei deeply agrees.
At this point, he plans to talk to the alliance very frankly, so that the alliance can provide more money, which is fine. However, when he knew who was coming to represent the alliance this time, he had a new idea.
"Gu Jing? Is that Gu Hang's eldest son?"
"How old is he this year? Twenty-three years old?"
"You are still a child...can you scare me?"
These thoughts were running through Yang Shiwei's head.
You don’t dare to offend the alliance, but you still have the courage to bully a child.
In his opinion, Gu Jing was indeed a child.
He was only twenty-three years old. Among the empire's elite, it was normal for him to be two to three hundred years old.
Those old ghosts, all of them were either born into aristocratic families, or they climbed out from the bottom after going through all kinds of hardships. They have experienced a lot of things, and it is too difficult to fool them.
But at the age of twenty-three, I have experienced too few and different things.
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After having an idea, Yang Shiwei quickly read through the resume information about Gu Jing and determined his strategy.
Gu Jing's twenty-three-year life history is very simple. Before the age of eighteen, he had been by Gu Hang's side, being taken care of by his father and mother, while receiving an independent elite education; it was not until the age of eighteen that he left his parents and went to the Dragon Eagle Star Territory for education. Center - the highest institution of learning in Feiyi Star, go to college.
After his four-year general university career, he entered the Union government. The first place was probably a local government, where he worked for half a year. Then, he was transferred to the Union Ministry of Finance, where he should have been for half a year now. .
Then, he took on a major task: coming to Lingze Star to deliver and settle the current imperial tax.
Yang Shiwei was dumbfounded.
Is this atypical young master who has never experienced the beatings of the world yet come to brush up his resume?
He could totally understand this arrangement.
The delivery of the Imperial Tax is also a major event for the Alliance. To lead this kind of work is obviously a beautiful part of the resume; but at the same time, the delivery of the Imperial Tax is actually once every two years. Due to the special nature of the Alliance, the amount of materials is too large. Large, the ships come in batches, are counted in batches, and pass through the trading center in batches, and then the taxes are paid. They do not strictly follow the time cycle. If the goods are available, they will be taken away, as long as officials from the Imperial Taxation Department and officials from the Alliance Imperial Tax Working Group jointly sign to confirm that a batch of goods has been shipped out.
Every two years, it is verified whether the total tax amount meets the standard.
The process in the middle has been running for fifteen years and has become very mature. There are basically no mistakes. It means that the main work is done by the people who do the actual work. The so-called 'responsible for delivery' means bringing an audit team to verify and sign the final contract.
Usually nothing goes wrong.
If there was a problem, there would have been a thunderstorm in the middle.
What's more, this is not a two-year major review, but an annual review in between, so the importance is not too high.
Why not simply brush up your resume?
Just right for bullying!
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"The alliance has reached a critical stage of survival!"
Yang Shiwei is very emotional, sincere and worried.
The young man in front of him frowned: "How to talk about it?"
While Yang Shiwei was speaking, his eyes had looked at Gu Jing up and down.
He wears a white shirt, white trousers, and a blue robe with gold embroidery. His figure is somewhat thin. Black hair, dark eyes, and fair skin make him look handsome, almost like a handsome boy.
If you are a girl, you will be attracted easily.
But it is a pity that the younger this noble son is, the more he will be like Yang Shiwei thought.
He continued: "Tax evasion has been really serious in the alliance over the past few years. I have been mediating in the middle, and it has become unsustainable now."
Gu Jing leaned forward, with a look of surprise clearly on his face: "How is this possible? Our alliance's taxation has always been clear..."
Yang Shiwei interrupted Gu Jing's words forcefully and said: "I am the senior deacon assigned by the Imperial Taxation Department. Is there anyone who knows the tax situation better than me?"
Gu Jing seemed to be restrained.
Yang Shiwei continued: "Imperial taxes have always been collected in the amount of eleven. When has the alliance ever paid it in full? The alliance's output value over the years is far higher than this figure!"
"But the "Affiliate Plan" stipulates a clear tax amount..."
"I participated in the signing of the "Alliance Plan". The tax amount is not a fixed number. The Alliance deceived Holy Terra through fraudulent means. Now, many people on Terra have obtained conclusive evidence. A huge... The storm is coming, and once it breaks out, your father may turn from a hero of the empire to a rebel!”
"Deacon Yang, what you said is too big, I didn't understand it for a while."
Yang Shiwei made a dissatisfied look: "I don't know why I sent you for such a big matter. Your experience is still too shallow."
After speaking, Yang Shiwei saw the young man's brows frown slightly.
The young man cannot stand the excitement.
He changed the topic and said: "Look at these."
He spread a stack of documents in front of Gu Jing: "This is a memorandum, a detailed investigation of the alliance's output value and tax payable."
Gu Jing flipped through the thick stack of documents, obviously unable to read them.
It’s okay if you can’t see it.
This document is not for people to see. There are more than 2,000 pages of content, including various details, various charts, and one-sided conclusions taken out of context... Without a team, it will take two or three months to review it, and it will not be able to be thoroughly reviewed.
There is no meaning after the review, unless you conduct on-site investigation and find a large number of original documents for comparison.
When it comes to data, the tax department is professional.
Seeing Gu Jing's headache, Yang Shiwei smiled secretly in his heart.
He deliberately waited for a while, and when he saw Gu Jing's clueless look, he sighed heavily: "If you don't understand it, take it back and let your staff take a good look at it... Take this document as well and take a look at it. ”
He took out another part, these were relatively simple, only 11 pages, clear and concise.
Gu Jing could understand this part.
"This is a memorandum. I have cooperated with the alliance for so many years. Prime Minister Xu Fuzhen and Prime Minister Gallardo have also maintained a very good friendship with Governor Gu Hang. We will not let the alliance suffer too much. We can kill that original All the investigation records can be reported to the Empire Central Committee according to the situation in the memorandum. You sign it and represent your father in your capacity.”
"Oh, I shouldn't have asked you to sign this, but what can I do? The matter is too urgent."
"There is not much room for change. The time window is only a short time. I will report to Holy Terra in an hour. If there is no your signature on the memo, I can only report according to the original data."
(End of chapter)