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Chapter 403, Do you call this the Planetary Defense Force?

A financial balance of more than 5 billion a year is definitely a figure that the former Tianma Sector could not reach.

Compared with other surrounding star regions, the Pegasus Sector is indeed rich, but because of this, the imperial tax it bears is not large at all. For example, Koroga, half of the 3 billion imperial tax in the past year has to be paid by human taxes; Fachus Samsung will die if it raises its development level to level 5; Wing Star is good, but such a developed shipbuilding Industry, basically all the ships built must be turned in to withstand the tax of level development...

Four years have passed since the Alliance took over all the planets in the Pegasus Sector. Not only can it meet the imperial tax, but it can also have a balance of 5 billion. The key is that the living standards of the people in the entire sector have not declined. On the contrary, it has increased.

The changes on the five planets of Fachus, Winged Star, and Red Arrow may not be big, and people's living standards have not improved significantly; but on Koroga, Raging Owl, and Black Arrow, The changes are not small.

The reason why this can be done is that, on the one hand, the imperial tax will not change for ten years after it was set four years ago, and the planet under the alliance has developed rapidly during this period of time.

Of course, this cannot be achieved by relying solely on development results.

The core reason is that the alliance system has greatly reduced the existence of capitalists, bureaucrats and other rentier classes. They still exist within the alliance's system and play a role, but the excess profits they can obtain have been extremely reduced, and have transformed into a method of obtaining results based on rank. It will be easier for them to advance through the ranks than ordinary workers, but it will be much less common than in the past as exploiters.

Most of the value created by workers is consumed by the workers themselves, which is the fundamental reason why people’s living standards have significantly improved under the alliance; the second part is directly eaten by the alliance government; the rentier class still benefits a little Yes, after all, the alliance has not banned all private economies, but overall it has definitely been greatly reduced.

With both development and the elimination of the middle layer, the alliance has become more direct in the management of production at the middle and grassroots levels of society. The dual effect has brought about a financial surplus of 5 billion.

With 90 billion fewer people, the pressure on the nest city will be much less; at the same time, as the reform deepens, the development potential brought by the population will also be realized.

Spend more money now so you can have more income later.

The third part is used to expand government spending. Normal government expenditure is not included here, but is included in the cost. This refers to the cost of opening more government agencies. In addition to the expense of opening more institutions, the corresponding maintenance costs will naturally increase, but the maintenance fees are included in the costs.

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Gu Hang hopes that the Raging Owl will have a population of four billion in two years—mainly relying on the transfer of Koroja. Only with this scale can we better utilize the power of Nuo Xiaoxing to transform into an industrial planet, and at the same time, can we better utilize the value of Nuo Xiaoxing Shipyard.

The ones with the greatest potential are Angry Owl Star and Koroja.

All five billion will be spent and there will be nothing left.

Gu Hang is counting on these two planets as the strongest economic engines to really bring about a 20% growth in two years.

Their purpose is to allocate budgets for reinvestment in production, accounting for the majority of the fiscal budget.

Two years later, when Koruga began to pay taxes for the first time, the 40 billion tax exemption quota was gone. Gu Hang hoped that the alliance would still have a financial balance of billion by then.

Of course, the alliance will not keep these financial balances like a miser.

The second largest part is used for military expenses. Including military expansion and maintenance.

These three are economic construction, military construction, and political construction.

This means that in the past two years, the league's revenue balance will have to increase by another 40 billion. In order to ensure the growth of people's consumption, the alliance must increase its output value from the current 1123 billion to at least 20 yuan, and achieve an economic growth rate of % in two years.

It's not that it can't be done. The Governor is not just raising targets blindly. But it was the premise that she had to work very hard that forced her to continue struggling.

She had to grab a bunch of people from her Prime Minister's Office, pull up the planetary governments, and pull up the senior officials of the alliance's ministries and commissions, and it was a hard struggle.

It's not very difficult either.

Ms. Oceana, whose rank has been promoted to A4 level and is the prime minister of the alliance, is so worried that her hair is pulled out.

As for Koroga itself, it is expected that after a total of six years of population migration in the next two years, in addition to pushing the population of Raging Owl to 40 billion, it will also push the population of Black Arrow to 30 billion. ——It’s the end for Black Arrow Star. It is estimated that at that time, including the new additions, Koruga will still have a population of about 310 billion.

I thought that when the alliance's situation got better and better, I would be able to take a breath and have a little more time to rest. However, the plan targets for the next two years issued by the Governor suddenly made her continue to worry.

This is also Gu Hang's request for the alliance government.

After reading the tax-related documents and reports and signing some words, Gu Hang turned his attention to military construction.

In fact, he went to Koroga this time just for this matter.

A large part of the alliance's financial balance is allocated to military construction.

The Alliance Army will not make any particularly big moves at the moment. In other words, the big moves have been in progress since four years ago, but they have recently begun to bear fruit.

In its earliest days, the composition of the Union army was still very simple. Later, when Koroja, Farches, and Winged Stars gradually fell into Gu Hang's hands, the situation became complicated.

Koroga's planetary defense force was changed into two parts: the Salvation Army and the Defense Force at that time; Farches and Winged Stars also had their own planetary defense forces; on this basis, there was also the Alliance Army sequence, and There are two combat force sequences: the Raging Bear Legion and the Dragon Eagle 3 Legion.

An overly complex military force structure is definitely not conducive to command.

The Raging Bear Legion and the 3rd Dragonhawk Legion are not easy to move. These two troops are part of the Astra Militarum. In theory, they have little to do with the Alliance and the sector government. Logistics is under the control of the Imperial Military Affairs Department, and combat command and officer appointment are under the control of the Astra Militarum Headquarters.

However, just as the Faches family had a strong influence on the 3rd Dragon Eagle Legion, now, this million-strong Astra Militarum force is actually supported by Gu Hang's alliance. Although this part of the cost is actually paid for by the Ministry of Military Affairs, from the soldiers to the officers, they are all from the Pegasus Sector. They were all people under the rule of the Alliance in the past, so the influence of the Alliance is absolutely inseparable.

Not to mention the Raging Bear Legion, everything from the command system to the soldiers was transformed on the spot by the Alliance Army.

In the past, Gu Hang was still thinking about how to digest the 3rd Dragon Eagle Legion into his own. Now, he found that there was nothing to do at all. When he became the ruler of the Pegasus Sector, and he was the boss both in substance and in name, the 3rd Dragon Eagle Legion stationed in the Pegasus Sector became his property. In particular, Gu Hang also adopted some strategies.

Normally, there is no talk of demobilization of the Astra Militarum. Most of their soldiers come from the human tax, and they have been levied the human tax. Is there any reason to demobilize them?

What's more, the longer you serve and become a veteran, you will definitely be much more powerful than a new recruit.

But only if you don't get too old to even carry a gun.

People will age. When they are thirty or forty years old, they are in the prime of life. But after the age of fifty, normal human body functions begin to decline significantly, and physical conditions cannot keep up with the accumulation of experience. By sixty, seventy, people still have It is really difficult to carry a heavy load through mountains and rivers. At that point, unless you are promoted to an officer, it is really inappropriate to still fight on the front line.

The Astra Militarum who are constantly fighting on the front lines may have veterans who have survived for decades, not to mention some who are performing garrison duties in the rear.

Generally speaking, the Astra Militarum is quite good to veterans who have been fighting on the front lines, survived for a long time, and have outstanding military exploits. Veterans who can survive forever will either be promoted to become officers. Those who are not suitable to be officers will have to retire. They will also be placed on the spot according to their age. It is a routine operation to make a large sum of money and find a position with leisure and money on the local planet or the back planet.

Those who stayed behind were just a little bit behind.

However, Gu Hang did not intend to do this.

In fact, the Astra Militarum also has a normal decommissioning process. That is, soldiers can be arranged when they reach a certain age - they don't have to be old - but if the veterans retire at the age of thirty or thirty-five, what will happen to the army's combat effectiveness and the recruitment of new soldiers? The former is basically impossible to make up for, and the latter will also cost the empire more money and raise personnel taxes to make up for it. Unfortunately, neither the Ministry of Military Affairs nor the specific Astra Militarum units would do such a thing, which made the normal decommissioning process useless.

After many discussions with the Dragon Eagle Legion, General Hans approved the large-scale veteran retirement process, but also put forward some conditions:

Within the Dragon Eagle 3 Legion, veterans aged 30, especially those over 35, will withdraw from the army in batches and in large areas, and the resettlement work will be handled by the alliance;

The Alliance is responsible for replenishing the missing soldiers, and they are required to meet the standards of the Astra Militarum;

Gu Hang agreed to all these conditions.

Veterans over the age of 30/35 have retired, but they have not died. After staying in the local area and changing jobs, there will be a place to resettle them. Police departments, anti-corruption departments, and special agents will all need them; if they can’t absorb it, many industries and industrial areas will need manpower.

Even being transferred to some Planetary Defense Force teams on the spot is equivalent to turning the veterans of the Astra Militarum into the backbone of one's own defense force, which is not a loss at all.

As for the Astra Militarum at this age, especially those who have retired from troops like the 3rd Dragon Eagle Legion who have stayed behind most of the time, they are not particularly outstanding in meritorious service, and they are not very old. They do not need to treat retired heroes. Likewise, you must arrange a particularly comfortable and wealthy position.

As for Gu Hang's benefit, it is that he can complete the 'replacement' of the Dragon Eagle Legion.

The additional soldiers are required to reach the level of the Astra Militarum. Where will these people come from? Gu Hang was transferred from the alliance army who had completed the military training.

The 3rd Dragon Eagle Legion has been fighting and stationed in Korojia for more than eight years. Even if the original veterans in the army were very young, after spending these eight years, it is normal for them to be over 30/35 years old.

After the exchange of blood to a certain extent, the Dragon Eagle 3 Legion will no longer be what it used to be.

Of course, its essence is still the Astra Militarum. The same goes for the Raging Bear Legion. The Ministry of Military Affairs and the Astra Militarum Headquarters have the power to transfer these two troops to take on other tasks.

However, it is not that easy to transfer away. Now is not the same as before. Gu Hang's voice is difficult to ignore.

What's more, if there is a war around the star area, it would be a good thing to mobilize them to fight.

The alliance has now reached its limit under normal means. Without the bonus from the star sector leader and no unexpected events, it would be difficult for Gu Hang to get involved in areas outside the sector.

Because of this, Gu Hang did have the idea of ​​​​continuing to expand the alliance with the help of the Astra Militarum military expedition. However, this idea is not mature yet, and there are still many problems that need to be solved. Moreover, the main work of the alliance now is still internal digestion. It has to turn all the chassis currently under its control into core territories, and it has no energy to expand externally for the time being.

But at least, Gu Hang has to keep this method alive. Whenever there is an opportunity, as soon as the Astral Army moves out, the Alliance can follow behind to find opportunities.

And even in the current peaceful period of the past few years, the alliance has not lost money in raising the Star Realm Army.

It's tax deductible.

The Dragon Eagle 3 Legion maintains a strength of million people, while the Raging Bear Legion has expanded to million in recent years. In terms of equipment level, a high level was maintained. The total maintenance cost of these million troops would cost hundreds of millions of tax dollars a year.

In other words, the alliance can be deducted 100 million in imperial taxes a year.

In addition to these 30 million Astra Militarum troops, the Alliance canceled the establishment of the Salvation Army on Koroja, canceled the establishment of the Planetary Defense Force within the entire Alliance, and completely replaced the Planetary Defense Force with the Alliance Army system.

The total size of the Alliance Army is currently around 400 million people, of which 300 million are stationed in Koroga.

It was impossible for Gu Hang to use the soldier card system to train all of these 400 million people into qualified soldiers, and there was no need for it.

In fact, only 100 million people were trained by the system; the remaining 300 million were all trained using normal training methods.

But with 25% of the backbone and the standard logistics supplies of the Astra Militarum, after four years of training, they have reached the combat effectiveness of the standard Astra Militarum without much problem. Currently, the proportion of soldiers in the Alliance Army who have reached the standard of the Astra Militarum can reach 85%, which is already better than many conventional Astra Militarum troops.

Not to mention, Gu Hang also established many elite divisions among them.

These elite divisions, known internally as 'skeleton divisions', often have more powerful equipment, such as rifles that have been completely replaced with laser guns or Gauss rifles; they are equipped with more heavy bolt machine guns and various types of bombs; they are equipped with plasma weapons and thermal Melt weapons; the armored troops have a higher density of armored vehicles and are equipped with Lion tanks; the reconnaissance troops even have the luxury of being equipped with Sentinel mechas.

Even at higher levels, more elite divisions will be given special numbers, and even have a large proportion of exoskeleton armor distributed to soldiers; some sharp knife companies are even equipped with a large number of 'Samurai Gods' Feedback power armor.

Not to mention those elite special-numbered troops, even the Skeleton Division would make General Hans of the Dragon Eagle Legion feel sour in his heart.

Damn it, the equipment of the Planetary Defense Force is better than my real Astra Militarum!

Where does this make sense?

(End of this chapter)