Chapter 789, Ten years passed by in a hurry.
In the past ten years, excluding those small-scale ones that are solved within the stars, the alliance has experienced three relatively large-scale wars.
Thankfully, none of these three wars was fought against the Central Committee of the Empire.
It's rare.
Although a series of new treaties between the Empire and the Alliance ten years ago, it brought back both sides from the brink of war when bilateral relations were at their most critical state.
However, any knowledgeable person can recognize that the contradiction between the alliance and the central government has not been resolved. That series of agreements are all full of compromises, essentially eased the contradictions slightly, but did not solve the fundamental problem.
The core contradiction is still there. This time it is pressed down. When the next time it cannot be pressed, it will only explode in a more violent way.
It seems that only war is the ending method to end all contradictions.
However, it should also be recognized that with the current situation of the alliance and the empire, the war between the two sides is extremely devastating and will bring about a crisis of destruction to both sides.
No one can afford to fight.
I don’t know when this fragile balance can be maintained.
In fact, in recent years, the problem has gradually become bigger and worse again.
Objectively speaking, both sides are responsible.
In terms of the league, there are also hardliners in the league. The alliance made a lot of money in the custody and taxation of the Oriental Universe. In this case, naturally, there are quite a few people who hope to expand similar models.
They believe that the McGrey Universe in the west of the Spider Web and the Star-Swallowing Universe in the north can reuse the model of the Eastern Universe, and control them indirectly through the influence of economic and cultural power, and even colonize them. .
Of course, it's not that simple. There are many innate factors in the ability of the Eastern Universe to be controlled.
The decade when Zuo Zhaofeng was the chairman of the Universe, he gave the alliance a lot of convenience; the most core territory of the alliance is also the territory with the best development level, and the Dragon Eagle Star Domain is located in the Eastern Universe Domain. Inside, very close.
These conditions do not exist in the McGrad Universe and the Star-Swallowing Universe.
The chairman of these two universe domains was actually newly replaced after the Iron Armor War. Before they came, they were all told by the Central Committee of the Empire, emphasizing how terrible the alliance is. When they were in power, they must be very careful about the existence of the alliance and must avoid the impact of the alliance on the universe.
However, even so, the alliance's economic and cultural hard power is still too strong. With this hard power, even if there are local politicians who are strictly guarding each other, the two or three star fields will still be affected to a considerable extent.
The two presidents of the universe beat the corresponding lawsuit to the Holy Terra. And Holy Terra will also use it as an excuse to attack the league and rebuke the league again and again.
At the same time, taxes have gradually increased in recent years, with an increase of 50 billion yuan per year. It is expected that by this year, the alliance tax will be increased to 3 trillion yuan. However, in this decade, the alliance's rapid growth has not slowed down. Even if the growth rate has dropped a little, it is also caused by excessive size. In terms of absolute increments, it is still a very terrifying number.
In this case, the Empire hoped that the Union's taxation would continue to grow.
The first idea proposed by the Empire was to continue the agreement that would increase taxes by 50 billion a year for another ten years.
He was rejected by the league. Good guy, you still want to collect 50 billion more every year in the future, right?
What is this concept? Every four years, is the center of the empire expanding a tax base in the universe?
Where can you imagine such a beautiful thing!
For the Empire, it is normal for them to have similar ideas.
Your alliance makes so much money every year, it won’t be enough to make more money?
You have to pay 7 trillion in accordance with the standard imperial tax of 10% of the annual output value!
Now, the empire only needs to pay 500 more per year, and in another ten years, it will only grow from 3 trillion to 4 trillion. Why not?
The tax increase plan has not been successfully passed, and it has become the foundation of all contradictions.
At the negotiating table of Saint Terra, the diplomats of the Alliance and officials of the Imperial Taxation Department gathered together every once in a while to discuss these issues. In addition to directly discussing tax issues, the Empire is always trying its best to find some things to put pressure on the alliance in various directions.
The alliance is not easy to mess with. The alliance government, which originally maintained a certain restraint in areas that eroded other universes, slowed down some control over the hardliners later. In the name of alliance caravans, investment institutions, etc., we began to enter those star fields more significantly.
The game is in progress all the time.
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As for the three wars that the alliance has really participated in in the past decade, it has nothing to do with the empire.
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These three wars are one orc war, one war with the Dark Spirit, and one war in Solaria.
In the third year after the signing of the "Association Plan Supplementary Agreement", a large orc force gathered in the Oriental Universe Domain. There was an orc disaster in that area, and it was very likely that the energy gathered by these local orcs was transmitted to the outside world, attracting a powerful orc warlord from outside the territory of the empire.
In terms of its strength, it is even more important than the threat to the Iron Tooth Orc Empire faced by the Dragon Eagle Universe.
However, it doesn't matter.
To the strength of the alliance today, such a war is no longer difficult to deal with.
Since the Eastern Universe is already considered to be its own territory, the alliance will definitely not ignore them.
The two battle groups of New Century Torch and Fury were led by the Alliance Army and Navy. Under the "invitation" of the Cui Ru government in the Eastern Space Region, the Alliance participated in the war. In three years, Destroyed that Orc Legion.
The war in Solaria is actually not to be said. The alliance has been involved in the war in Solaria for twenty-five years now.
As early as twenty-five years ago, Gu Hang became the High Lord and one of the conditions for signing the "Affiliate Plan" was that the alliance had to send troops to help the empire fight the war against Solaria.
The alliance has been performing this duty, and over the years, the army has been sent more and more.
At the beginning, the Central Empire was quite happy about it.
But now, I've been muttering a little.
The Solaria universe is in the southern border of the empire. It is logically far from the alliance, and its cultural and economic influence cannot be expanded. Why just use military power to project and expand, right?
(This chapter ends)