Chapter 769, Just Right for 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' dispatched 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 from 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 4 trillion yuan in 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 earns one or two trillion less a year.

I also paid less imperial tax.

It is true that the empire is much larger, but the empire 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, the empire's annual income of two trillion yuan will be gone, but it will have to bear costs 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 it?

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 couldn't afford to take the blame for forcing the rebel alliance, it would cost people;

If the tax increase fails to be negotiated, he may not die if he takes the blame, but his future is uncertain.

However, what finally relieved him was that Xu Fuzhen did not simply let him take the blame.

Prime Minister Xu understood that this matter was difficult to handle, but he did not make it difficult for him. If the negotiation fails, then it fails. Although it does not count as his achievement and will make people a little disappointed, he will not be held responsible after all.

Of course, the premise is not to anger the alliance.

What Yang Shiwei knows, of course, is also known to Holy Terra.

The masters on Holy Terra have of course read all the reports.

Although there are indeed opinions advocating a tough stance against the alliance, at least the person who holds this opinion is not Xu Fuzhen.

The reason is also very simple.

Those hardliners, who are always weird, who made the decision back then to make the alliance into such a state that it is impossible to handle?

The primary target is Gallardo. This Prime Minister of the Ministry of Military Affairs is in the same boat with Gu Hang, and everyone knows it.

The second person to be scolded was Xu Fuzhen. She was greedy for that little money and raised such an unsolvable monster now. She should be responsible.

Can Xu Fuzhen admit it?

Definitely not.

No matter what she thinks in her heart, she can't move at this point in her political stance. Even if she is the Prime Minister of the Taxation Department and one of the high lords, she can't bear such responsibility.

On Holy Terra, she and Gallardo vigorously advocated the loyalty of the alliance, believing that the current state of the alliance is by no means a risk.

And raising taxes is a trick she came up with.

Letting the alliance increase taxes so that the central government of the empire can obtain more income is obviously a way to show the loyalty of the alliance. Through this, it can effectively fight back against those hardliners in the political arena of the central government of the empire.

Yang Shiwei deeply agrees.

On this point, he intends to talk to the alliance very frankly and let the alliance pay more money, just for the sake of showing his intention.

However, when he knew who was coming to represent the alliance this time, he had a new idea.

"Gu Jing? The eldest son of Gu Hang, right?"

"How old is he this year? Twenty-three?"

"Still a child... Can I scare him?"

These thoughts were running through Yang Shiwei's mind.

He didn't dare to offend the alliance, but he still had the courage to bully a child.

In his opinion, Gu Jing was indeed a child.

He was only twenty-three years old. It was normal for the powerful and wealthy in the empire to be two or three hundred years old.

Those old ghosts, one by one, were either born in aristocratic families or climbed out from the bottom through hardships. They had experienced a lot of things, so it was too difficult to fool them.

But at the age of twenty-three, they had experienced too little, so it was different.

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After having an idea, Yang Shiwei quickly read the information about Gu Jing's resume and determined the strategy.

Gu Jing's twenty-three-year life resume is very simple. Before he was eighteen, he had always been by Gu Hang's side, brought up by his father and mother, and received a separate elite education. It was not until he was eighteen that he left his parents and went to the highest institution of learning on Feiyi Star, the educational center of the Dragon Eagle Star Region, to study at university.

After the four-year ordinary college career, he entered the Alliance government to work. The first place should be a local government, where he worked for half a year; then, he was transferred to the Alliance Finance Department, which should have been half a year now.

Then, he took on an important task: to come to Lingze Star to settle the current imperial tax.

Yang Shiwei was amused.

Is this atypical young man who has just started out and has not experienced the beatings of the world here to brush up his resume?

He can fully understand this arrangement.

The delivery of the imperial tax is also a big deal for the alliance. Leading this kind of work is obviously a good part of the resume; but at the same time, the delivery of the imperial tax is actually once every two years. Due to the particularity of the alliance, the amount of materials is too large. The ships just come in batches, count them in batches, pass through the trading center in batches, and then deliver the tax, which is not strictly based on the time cycle. If there is any goods, they will be taken away. As long as the officials of the Imperial Tax Department and the officials of 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 is very mature. There will be basically no mistakes. It is equivalent to the main work, and the people who do the work have done everything. The so-called "responsible for delivery" means that an audit team will be brought in to verify and sign at the end.

Generally, there will be no problems.

If there are problems, they will be exposed in the middle.

What's more, this is not a two-year review, but an annual review in the middle, so the importance is not too high.

Why is it not a clear resume?

Just a good opportunity to bully!

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"The alliance is in a critical moment!"

Yang Shiwei spoke with emotion, sincere attitude, and worried.

The young man in front of him frowned slightly: "How to start?"

While speaking, Yang Shiwei's eyes had already looked up and down at Gu Jing.

White shirt, white pants, blue outer robe with gold embroidery, and a thin figure. Black hair, black eyes, and fair skin make him look handsome, just like a beautiful young man.

If he were a girl, she would be easily attracted.

But unfortunately, the younger this young man is, the more he is like what Yang Shiwei thought.

He continued: "The alliance has been evading taxes for many years. I have been mediating in the middle, but now it is difficult to continue."

Gu Jing leaned forward, with a look of surprise on his face: "How is it possible? The taxation of our alliance has always been clear..."

Yang Shiwei interrupted Gu Jing's words forcefully and said: "I am the senior deacon specially appointed by the Imperial Taxation Department. Who knows the taxation situation better than me?"

Gu Jing seemed to be stunned.

Yang Shiwei continued, "The Empire's taxes have always been levied at 11%. When has the Alliance ever paid the full amount? The Alliance's annual output value is far higher than this number!"

"But the Alliance Plan stipulates a clear tax amount..."

"I have participated in the signing of the Alliance Plan. The tax amount is not a fixed number. The Alliance deceived Holy Terra by fraudulent means. Now, many people on Terra have obtained solid evidence. A huge storm is about to come. Once it breaks out, your father may be reduced from an imperial hero to a rebel!"

"Deacon Yang, what you said is too big. I didn't think it through for a while."

Yang Shiwei made a look of dissatisfaction: "I don't know why you were sent for such a big thing. Your experience is still too shallow."

After speaking, Yang Shiwei saw the young man's brows slightly frowned.

The young man couldn't stand the excitement.

He changed the subject and said, "Take a 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 taxes payable."

It was a very thick stack of documents. Gu Jing flipped through it and obviously couldn't read it.

That's right.

This document is not for people to read. There are more than 2,000 pages in total, with all kinds of details, various charts, and one-sided conclusions taken out of context...If you don't find a team to review it for two or three months, it will never be thoroughly reviewed.

There is no point in reviewing it, unless you conduct a field survey and find a large number of original documents for comparison.

The tax department is professional in making data.

Looking at Gu Jing's headache, Yang Shiwei smiled in his heart.

He deliberately waited for a while, and seeing that Gu Jing didn't have a clue, he sighed heavily: "If you don't understand, take it back and let your staff take a good look...By the way, take this document and have a look."

He took out another part, which was 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 also maintain a very good friendship with Governor Gu Hang. We will not let the Alliance suffer too much. We can kill the original investigation record, and everything can be reported to the central government of the empire according to the situation on the memorandum. You sign it and act as your father's agent."

"Alas, I shouldn't have asked you to sign this, but what can I do? Things are too urgent."

"There is not much room for maneuver, and the time window is just a moment. I will report to Holy Terra in an hour. If there is no signature on the memorandum, I can only report according to the original data."