Chapter 180: Don’t worry about imperial taxes at all
After this wave, Gu Hang spent all the gift points, leaving only 62 points.
But all the work has been arranged, and Gu Hang needs some time to wait patiently for it to bear fruit.
In the next two months, Gu Hang did not make any big moves, but the changes in the territory he controlled were still very big.
The first big thing is that the war in the central and central provinces has finally almost completely calmed down.
After the Central Army Group led by Yan Fangxu completely annihilated the main force of the Anti-Governor Allied Forces, it took a little more than half a month to sweep through the entire central province of one million square kilometers, and a population of two million was completely wiped out. came under the rule of the Alliance.
Those leaders of the so-called Anti-Governor Alliance, including the leaders of many large settlements, will forget about surrendering. As long as they have not committed war crimes, let the government department led by Oceana support the entire free position. That's fine; a small number of them are indeed okay, so let's continue to let them manage the settlements and change their jobs to bureaucrats. If they do a good job, they will be retained. If they don't, they will get out.
But for some hard-liners, some who surrendered at the last moment, and some who committed crimes, there is nothing to say.
As the Chief Justice of the Union, Lambert Hodgson once again made a splash. He held a trial and sentenced more than 300 people to death and thousands of people to hard labor ranging from 3 to 10 years.
Of course, it is no longer the time when Gu Hang just captured Fuxing City. There is no need to make the scene too bloody, so there is no drama of execution on the spot or in public. Just pull him to the shooting range and shoot him as usual. .
In this regard, Yan Fangxu seemed a little regretful. He originally planned to hold a triumphal ceremony and present prisoners to the governor, but this was rejected.
According to the Governor, are these guys worthy?
Yan Fangxu felt a little embarrassed. However, after he achieved at least a qualified record through this operation of commanding the group army, he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general based on this experience, which was considered as some comfort.
However, although Gu Hang seemed dismissive of the rebel leaders, in fact, the pacification of the central province was still of great significance:
The total population of the alliance has exceeded the five million mark. The most important growth comes from the central province, which is the largest and most populous among the three currently planned provinces. After this place was pacified, it meant that two million people had joined the alliance.
The alliance's population policy is carried out consistently. Settlements with resources, industries, and large-scale settlements will be retained and supported for development; others will be abolished and merged into Fuxing City and Weixing City to enhance the population scale effect and meet the manpower needs of the concentrated development of various industries.
As for the Weixingcheng Industrial Zone, which has experienced population growth, laid out more production lines, and better solved resource problems, its industrial production efficiency has been further improved.
The production of RN series trucks has increased to one thousand units per month. The production of Edifier series armored vehicles has also reached 90 units per month.
In the production of Tieniu Truck in these two months, except for the foreign trade part, the rest was replenished to the army.
The 2nd Division and the 3rd Beast-Slaying Brigade, which was reorganized from an independent regiment into a brigade, have completed a comprehensive motorized refit, and two new motorized infantry divisions, the 11th Division and the 12th Division, have been formed according to the specifications of the 2nd Division.
The full strength of the Motorized Rifle Division is more than 9,000 men, and it can conduct all-motorized marches. Not only does it have 3,000 more troops than the Garrison Division, but it is also more mobile and has more artillery. Its overall firepower is more than twice as strong. .
These two troops were organized into the Central Army Group and were commanded by Yan Fangxu. At the same time, the 7th and 8th Divisions broke away. They will then guard various parts of the central and central provinces and suppress the local areas. The Central Group Army, which had newly acquired the 11th and 12th Divisions, took the remaining 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Divisions and brigades and advanced southwards, advancing to the border between the Central Province and the Qinggu area.
The Qinggu area is the next stage, the main military action direction of the alliance.
The newly formed troops are not just the 11th and 12th divisions. Subsequently, the 10th Special Operations Brigade, the 13th Mechanical Synthetic Brigade, and the 14th Motorized Infantry Division were also planned.
Needless to say, the 14th Motorized Infantry Division has the same specifications as the 2nd, 11th, and 12th Divisions; the 10th Special Operations Brigade is a special organization, and Gu Hang plans to use the dozen or so surviving elite soldiers of the Storm Squadron as his At the core, an elite special operations unit specializing in special operations, operations behind enemy lines, and decapitation operations was established. However, for now, there is only a shelf. The price of training elite soldiers is still a bit expensive, but the equipment is not a big problem. The LR5 series laser guns have given him the capital to form an elite special forces team.
In the future, in addition to the Phoenix Chapter, Gu Hang will still need a sufficient number of elite troops to perform some special tasks.
As for the 13th Mechanical Synthetic Brigade, its specifications are similar to those of the 1st Xifeng Brigade. However, because there are no more tanks, the tank companies in each combat synthetic battalion are replaced by mechanical infantry companies.
But in general, except for the fact that the soldiers have less experience, the combat effectiveness will not be much different from the 1st Brigade.
The 13th and 14th divisions and brigade-level units actually have enough soldiers. Currently, there are almost 30,000 recruits in the recruit training base outside Fuxing City. Just waiting for all kinds of equipment to be in place before being organized into a new unit.
From the current point of view, the motorized infantry division is not bad, and the equipment can be in place in one month; the synthetic division is not so good, and it takes two months.
However, this is calculated based on the current military production capacity. In the future, production capacity will become even more explosive. In fact, in the past two or three months, Edifier's production has increased from 30 to 40 units to 90 units, almost three times.
The explosion of production capacity, or the development of the entire territory, can also be seen relatively intuitively from Gu Hang's monthly gift point income.
At first, the month I got off the starship, I got 678 gift points; last month, I got 817 gift points; and the income points this month have reached 1022 points a month. .
Among them, the largest increase came from Weixing City, and the second increase came from the additional two million people after the central province was recovered. Although there are many people in the latter group, their gift points have not actually increased that much, mainly because the productivity is too high.
The third increase comes from Fuxing City, which has a population of one million again.
As for the 300,000 people in the Tower Province and the 500,000 people in the North-Central Province, the gift point rewards provided are all at the shrimp level. Mainly in these two places, although the combined number of people is not small, but Productivity is too low, and the population's living standards are too low. Food and clothing are not enough to satisfy them. Almost all the people are in extreme poverty, and people often starve to death. It can hardly bring any positive benefits to the entire alliance. The alliance even needs to allocate materials to support them to ensure that people do not starve to death and provide them with Provide funding for development.
In the short term, for the alliance, apart from providing support in terms of soldiers and population, these places themselves are generally negative assets. It takes a long time to invest in construction to get better.
In terms of gift points, these places also give very low points.
At present, Gu Hang is not particularly clear about the income calculation mechanism of fixed monthly gift points. We can only roughly distinguish four major factors: population size, population living standards, total productivity, and contribution to the entire political system.
Moreover, the increase in gift points is not linear. Otherwise, it is difficult to explain why Gu Hang could earn tens of thousands of people per month in the governor's camp when he had not even captured Fuxing City; but now, with 500,000 people in Zhongbei Province, The population base was hundreds of times larger, but the gift point income was about the same size as the camp at that time.
The increase in gift points may be a step-by-step increase? After the entire political system reaches a certain level, if it is improved again, will it need to be improved even more to obtain the same increase as in the past?
However, no matter what the specific algorithm is, there is one truth. As long as Gu Hang works hard to increase the number of people he actually controls, improve productivity, and improve people's living standards, then this number will definitely rise.
After Gu Hang received these two months' income, the number of gift points that had already been spent increased to a considerable number again, reaching 1901.
The gift points couldn't be used to lay eggs anyway, so Gu Hang still used them to draw technology.
However, this time he did not smoke another thousand gears. High-level technology cannot be mass-produced. Although the technology products themselves are very powerful, they will not help much in improving the production capacity of the entire alliance.
In short, I don’t have that many gift points on hand, so why not use some of them and draw 100 levels to see if I can add some basic technology and fill in the previous holes.
As a result, it really works.
First, I won the basic level, and then the probability of level 100 became 20% for the basic level, which dropped by 30%, but the probability for the advanced level increased from 10% to 20%.
The probability of winning in the 100th level should only drop by 20% each time, but this time the probability of basic-level technology dropped by 30%. Those who dropped too much still fell to the advanced level?
I'm getting more and more confused about this mechanism...but of course that's a good thing.
He fired two more rounds and came up empty. After all, the overall winning rate is only 40%, which is normal for the Air Force.
Then I won once, and the person I won was an advanced class. The overall probability has become 10% for the basic level and 10% for the advanced level.
After five more lashes, I got an advanced level. At this point, there are only 2.5% probabilities left.
Theoretically, only two thousand points of gifts can be shipped, and the probability of basic level and advanced level is half and half... At this level, from Gu Hang's point of view, it can basically be said that the 100-level technology card prize pool has been drained.
However, so far, he has drawn a total of nine times and won two advanced levels and one basic level.
From a quantitative point of view, before the prize pool is drained, 100 levels are still more cost-effective than 1,000 levels.
As for these three technologies, the basic level is [Servo Skull], and the advanced level is [Alloy Ceramic Steel] and [Anti-Gravity Engine].
Seeing these three gadgets, Gu Hang was very satisfied.
The front-end technology of the fast-attack airship is all lit up.
I won’t go into detail about alloy ceramic steel. Gu Hang was extremely satisfied with this technology. Like alloy plastic steel, this is an advanced version of advanced alloy.
With it, the bolter can be mass-produced; the reactor can be mass-produced; the outer armor and some internal components of the fast-attack airship are enough...
In the future, a large number of mid-to-high-end industrial products will require alloy ceramic steel, which is the foundation of the foundation.
The anti-gravity engine can be directly provided to the Wind Falcon fast attack airship. Moreover, this advanced engine can also be used in more advanced equipment. This kind of engine is the basis for some super-heavy equipment to move. Even some Titans, which are not the main engines, still need it in some positions to reduce gravity.
Otherwise, a lot of equipment is heavy to a certain extent, and some structures that are not strong enough cannot bear its own weight.
In short, with these two things, the Wind Falcon speed attack boat can be mass-produced by itself after it is pulled out of the production line.
Of course, there's still a servo skull missing. If there is no servo skull as the fire control system, it does not mean that it cannot be produced. It just requires the co-pilot or gunner to perform naked-eye sighting.
But obviously, that will reduce the combat effectiveness to a certain extent.
And once you have a servo skull, it's like having an auxiliary computer. As for what exactly a servo skull is... it's actually a genetic technology that can turn humans with complete brains and skulls into 'wetware'. It is similar to the method of making a machine servant. It removes part of the brain, erases personality and active thinking, and uses it only as a computer.
You can see something like this on many of the Mechanicum's creations: a human skull, connected to some machine by a metal notochord. Sometimes the skull can move around on its own with the notochord, floating around. ……
To be honest, Gu Hang didn't quite understand why it was a basic technology. In his previous life, this black technology was extremely black.
However, this is really just a basic technology.
Like land resource exploration, servo-skull technology is also a blueprint, which includes manufacturing processes.
The finished black box can directly pull out a set of equipment required for the Servo Skull Transformation Studio.
It's simpler than imagined. A studio and a junior specialist can do one in a day.
But Gu Hang noticed that this set of techniques included a very important item: burning incense, praying, and praying on scriptures for up to six hours...
Gu Hang didn't understand it at first, but he soon understood.
It would be foolish to regard this universe as a materialistic universe. He is a psyker himself.
Obviously, the fact that this process can really create something like a servo skull is inseparable from supernatural power.
In other words, almost all technologies may have some supernatural elements in them, but they are more or less obvious or hidden.
After thinking through this step, Gu Hang no longer struggled any more.
Just use it, no matter what the principle is.
Anyway, he couldn't figure it out himself.
However, Gu Hang still couldn't accept the fact that making a servo skull required a complete human head.
He is not that kind of stubborn guy, and he doesn't let himself be bound by complete morals and ethics - according to the empire's moral level, taking a living artificial servo skull is really nothing.
But at least he won't just arrest people and do it.
Here, he has formulated relevant regulations: only death row prisoners and criminals who have been deprived of human rights and do not even have the E9 level are allowed to be used as materials.
Only these guys who no longer have human rights can be treated as human beings and their wishes can be ignored.
In addition, the public and soldiers can also sign relevant donation documents during their lifetime. When the body is donated after death, the brain will be retained.
There is definitely nothing that can be done about the cause of death such as a bullet in the head or brain cancer; there is definitely nothing that can be done if the death time is too long. But some other body organ diseases lead to death. If the head is preserved by a special method within an hour after death, this surgery can be performed and transformed into a servo skull.
To be more direct, doing it before death has the highest success rate.
However, Gu Hang has not yet decided whether to open it. This can lead to ethical issues and even homicide and corruption cases.
It is not used for the time being, but if the situation changes in the future and the demand for servo skulls is particularly large and cannot be met by death row prisoners, perhaps Gu Hang will really be forced to put it forward.
It is a pity that the prisoners who were previously arrested for death penalty trials were shot before Gu Hang could extract the servo skull. Otherwise, they would be a good source of raw materials.
In short, with this technology, the [Wind Falcon Speed Attack Craft] is fully ready for full production.
In the past two months, eight Wind Falcons have been pulled out of the finished black box. After subsequent production, it is initially estimated that three aircraft can be produced per month. In addition, the black box can pull out four aircraft per month, so the total monthly production is 7 aircraft.
Of course, this production capacity will be increased in the future.
When it comes time to pay the tax in a year and a half, Gu Hang optimistically estimates that it won't be a big problem to have an air regiment and a hundred or so Wind Falcons in his Astra Militarum army.
As for this empty army, it is not a big problem to target one million tax coins.
In addition to the alloy ceramic steel, servo skull, anti-gravity engine, and Wind Falcon speed attack craft that have been put into production, the deep veins of the waste cave mine have now completed preliminary construction and are put into production.
The ‘Ruins Mine’ and ‘Storm Mine’ in the Tower Province have also been put into production,
Especially for the Storm Mine, Wu Jiarong has concentrated on conquering the original technology of collecting spiritual gas dug out from the ruins in the past month. He came up with a trial version, built a strong wind tower group, and connected it. Energy compressor.
According to Wu Jiarong's estimate, in two months, the expected monthly income from energy crystal blocks of 40,000 tax coins will be achieved.
Of course, this is an average number and an estimate. The specific number depends mainly on how frequent the waste energy storm is.
According to the latest statistics from the Ministry of Production of the Alliance Government, in terms of tax coins, the current annual output value of the entire alliance can reach approximately two million tax coins.
This is Gu Hang's eighth month on the surface.
Even if there is no tax deduction for forming the Astra Militarum, it will not be a problem to pay 2.5 million tax coins after one year and four months.
It is true that the output value of two million tax coins a year cannot be used to pay taxes. People need to eat and drink. But who’s to say productivity won’t continue to rise?
To put it bluntly, the alliance's main production capacity is still based on the Twin Cities' population of about 1.6 million. The vast majority of the remaining 3.3 million people live in extreme poverty and contribute very little to productivity. But since Gu Hang was able to build an industrial center like Wei Xing City in eight months, he certainly had the ability to build another one. The productivity of the more than three million extremely poor people has huge potential for growth.
Give him a year, and he is absolutely confident that he can increase the current annual output value of two million by more than 500%.
There is no problem if a city pays imperial tax for one year.
Not to mention, he’s still expanding.
Gu Hang no longer worries about the empire's taxes. He doesn't have to worry about the first period, let alone the subsequent ones. He already has too many ways to solve tax problems, and the pressure brought by imperial taxation will become lighter and lighter with development and expansion.
What's more, there is a target for blackmail.
In the sky, the Beautiful Maiden is doing business with Blackbird Heavy Industries.
As the planetary governor, Gu Hang's request for approving the interstellar trade between Blackbird Heavy Industries and the Beautiful Maiden is that they have to pay all the taxes for this period, as well as the unsatisfied taxes owed in the past two periods, for a total price of seven million. Tax coins.
This is a reasonable request. Blackbird Heavy Industries, which occupies the western world of Angry Owl, directly or indirectly controls a population of more than 10 million. According to the tithe standard, there is nothing wrong with spending two million in one installment of tax revenue. In addition to what was owed before, seven million tax coins are even less.
A month ago, the special envoy from Blackbird Heavy Industry arrived in Fuxing City and met with Gu Hang.
The two sides have held several rounds of consultations on this matter.
In the end, Gu Hang still couldn't bite Seven Million to death without letting go.
Obviously, Blackbird Heavy Industries cannot agree to the seven million price.
First of all, they don't have that much money; secondly, they won't give it to them if they have it. The value brought by this interstellar transaction may not be worth so much, so why should they give so much to the governor?
Gu Hang didn’t want to push too hard.
He could have declared Blackbird Heavy Industries a traitor for not paying taxes. However, he could not afford to go thousands of miles away to quell the rebellion now. He can also block the interstellar trade of Blackbird Heavy Industries. Not only will the business fail this time, but he will also not be able to do legitimate interstellar business in the future.
But if it gets to that point, no one will benefit.
Blackbird Heavy Industries can smuggle. Although they have to face the threat of starships, starships are only that big after all, and they have to run around in the orbit of the planet. People fly to the other side of the planet, use small spacecrafts, and enter the atmosphere at low altitudes. Flying, avoiding detection... Trouble is trouble, risk is risk, but it doesn't mean that nothing can be done.
And Blackbird Heavy Industries was hit. Can Gu Hang benefit from it now? Nothing.
It's better to negotiate a reasonable price and settle down.
If seven million people don't agree, then let's talk further. Gu Hang's bottom line is two million.
In the end, the price they negotiated stopped at 3.5 million.
This amount of money alone will be enough to pay taxes in one year and four months and still be wealthy.
As expected, Gu Hang was completely confident not to worry about imperial taxes.
However, some people were not happy about the negotiations between Gu Hang and Blackbird Heavy Industries.
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