Chapter 2173: Acting with a Public Mind
After briefly tidying up his mind and body, Soshiyang immediately threw himself into his busy work.
First of all, he held a grand memorial ceremony for all the soldiers who died in the decisive battle of the Kara system, and announced that the non-Space Marines who died in this expedition will receive the standard pensions of the Astra Militarum. Of course, even so, this number is not small, and Soshiyang cannot fully satisfy it with the current material resources at his disposal.
So he came up with the second strategy, which was actually a relatively common measure adopted by the Ministry of Military Affairs, which was to replace the land with land.
Of the many galaxies that have been conquered, quite a few are habitable, such as the ocean world of the Magg Star Cluster, which the Red Pirates exploited very extensively. After "relocating" the residents above, those fertile Islands and land, as well as oceans rich in algae and fishery resources, can immediately become very suitable resettlement places - Soshyan named it the Martyrs' Territory.
If the families of the fallen are willing, they can obtain land, mountains, forests and other resource points of varying sizes from these livable worlds according to the troops and military ranks they belonged to during their lifetime, and there will also be a tax holiday of up to ten years, so that they can To meet the needs of providing compensation for fallen officers and soldiers, another part of the immigrants were provided.
Of course, there must be many people who are unwilling to leave their homes. There are also arrangements for these people. The land in their hands can be sold, and who is the buyer?
He is the newly appointed ruler of this world.
All appointed governors have one condition, which is to unconditionally acquire the transferred martyrs' territories and must pay immediately.
The governor also has to spend money to buy land in his own world. This sounds a bit incredible, but many people still flock to it. After all, these livable worlds are much more comfortable than those hive worlds or mining worlds. , the development potential is also greater.
In this way, Soshyan can solve the problem of pensions for the fallen without any effort.
Of course, this is only a general framework. The formulation and implementation of specific rules can only arrange the administrative agencies of the expeditionary force to interface with the Ministry of Military Affairs and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Although the Ministry of Internal Affairs is quite dissatisfied with Soshyan's arbitrary handling of recovering the world, the other party is now the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force, and his power in the maelstrom is close to unlimited. As long as the expedition lasts for one day, After that, he will be qualified to deal with any world.
Not only the officers and soldiers who died in battle, but after the expedition is over, except for some outstanding troops who will be recruited by the Ministry of Military Affairs to continue serving the empire, many temporary troops recruited locally will have to be disbanded, and those retired soldiers will They will also receive similar rewards.
After dealing with the issue of dead officers and soldiers, Soshyan made another surprising decision.
Considering the efforts and sacrifices made by the people of various worlds in the Maelstrom for this expedition, he decided to exempt all non-agricultural and mining worlds from tithes for one cycle, except for the worlds belonging to the Mechanicus and the Ministry of Justice, and those two types In the world, the tithe is halved!
This decision immediately encountered serious opposition from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Soshyan later explained that this was his personal decision. He, or the expeditionary force, was willing to pay a cycle of tithes on behalf of the people of the Maelstrom. .
At that time, the person in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was dumbfounded. It was the first time they had seen someone doing this. Later, Soshyan further explained that during the years of the expedition, they had seized huge amounts of money from the Red Pirates. Counting gold, silver, jewelry, cultural relics, antiques, religious relics and other valuables can be said to be handing over all property except weapons, equipment and machinery. These things cannot be eaten or drunk, but they have "value", Soshyan I also specifically checked the tithe collection standards of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. It can be "deducted" with items of specific value, including but not limited to exquisite jewelry, ancient cultural relics, etc.
But the person in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is in trouble. This is indeed possible, but it often needs to inform Terra in advance, and it also depends on the type of local tithe, some of which involve strategic resources or Important human resources cannot be deducted in this way. Soshyan then threw out a second bargaining chip, which was the bunch of illegal psykers caught in several years of expeditions.
Due to a certain degree of chaos pollution in the Red Pirates' domain, there are more illegal psychics or sorcerers than in the normal empire world. Over the years, four to five thousand people have been captured here and there. Some of them are strong, some are weak, and some are gray in between. The knights took away a batch, the state church took a batch, and the think tanks of each battle group took away a small portion, leaving more than 3,800 people.
The Psychic Tithe is the highest level tithe in the Empire. Due to the value of psykers, some worlds even provide a dozen psykers which are enough to offset a cycle of tithes.
These more than 3,000 psykers are almost three times the psychic tithe of one cycle of the Maelstrom. At most, this area only provides less than 1,000 psykers at a time. This is because The subspace of the Maelstrom has relatively frequent activities.
With these psychics, the tone of the Ministry of Internal Affairs immediately changed, and they all praised Soshiyang for his integrity and caring for the people.
However, regarding the role of the Maelstrom area in the imperial tax system, these alone are still not enough. For this reason, Soshyan also found the Terran envoy, explained his ideas, and finally got the other party support.
Of course, this matter was also widely publicized. Under the crazy operation of the empire's claim machine, at least the vast majority of the hives and a considerable number of residents inside knew that the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force exempted them from the tithe for one period. This also Jean Soshyan won the praise of many governors and nobles, after all, the tithe was first imposed on them.
And this involves the next question.
In the appointment of governors of newly recovered worlds, although some worlds and nests will be attributed to meritorious officers, there are still some resource worlds or worlds that can barely develop immigrants. Of course, Soshyan will not sell his official position and get a title. In fact, he selected those governors based entirely on ability, conduct and family background. Among them were many officers who were civilians and gradually climbed to senior command positions. If Soshyan had made such a decision before, the nobles would definitely have I am dissatisfied, but now that I am short-handed, it is hard to say anything.
And Soshyan did this just in the hope that the Maelstrom would be more stable in the future, and that more and more capable people would be able to make a small contribution to the empire's rule in this area, and that he could Let the people under their rule live a slightly better life.
No matter what the original intention of this expedition is, at least as an Astartes, Soshyan must have a clear conscience.
Maybe things won't always be good, maybe when he turns around, everything that was good will slowly deteriorate, but he has done his best.
Of course, he still fulfilled the contract with the Wotan Alliance. These greedy short men obtained the mining rights of several high-value mining worlds in the Bloody Skeleton Galaxy. Although this kind of suspected "compromising alien" His behavior would damage his image of greatness and uprightness, and the Alien Tribunal also criticized it. However, fortunately, Wotan still has considerable influence in the Maelstrom. With the traditional method of money making the world go round, coupled with the The definition of a short man is still a gray and fuzzy area, and Soshyan's behavior can only be said to be "inappropriate", not a violation of imperial law.
(End of this chapter)