Chapter 771, The Ever-Changing Demon Lord

Waving goodbye to the sweaty Yang Shiwei, Gu Jing put on his hat and returned to the spaceship.

The spaceship took him and his followers away from Yang Shiwei's ship and returned to the space city of Lingze Star, and parked directly outside the apron of the Imperial Tax Office Building.

He walked back to his office.

This is the office exclusively for the Alliance Imperial Tax Envoy, and now it belongs to him.

The Imperial Tax Working Group is currently a permanent institution, and its work content is to coordinate the payment of imperial taxes by various government agencies and local governments of the Alliance.

They were also in charge of the imperial tax differential trade in Lingze Star.

But when all these were added together, there was a problem.

The authority of the working group was too great. When the "Alliance Plan" was just implemented fifteen years ago, the tax pressure on the alliance was relatively large. Even military spending had to be cut, not to mention other things.

Taxes, local development investment, trade investment, military spending, special project investment... are all competing for money. And the imperial tax is particularly urgent, and it is a hard target to be completed every year. So, the working group was given a very high authority.

The military is not easy to mess with. The military budget has been cut according to the governor's opinion. Are you still asking for money to save your face?

Special project investment is not easy to mess with either. These are specially approved funds. Some of them are so confidential that even Ossena, the prime minister of the alliance, has no right to ask about them, let alone the working group.

So, they can only focus on the two major items of trade and local development. There are many contradictions in it, and even the forced taxation by the working group has caused some things that can be called "persecution". There are also many people in government departments and legal departments who are staring at the working group and fighting.

After all, the alliance is not a real utopia, and the problems that should arise will also arise. Some of the actions of the working group have indeed had a negative impact on the economic development and people's livelihood development of the alliance.

This alone is not enough. The working group has great power, especially later, when the amount of the imperial tax differential trade rose rapidly, and under their control, the breeding of corruption is an inevitable thing.

Not everyone has received training at Zhongsi College, and Zhongsi College cannot offer so many classes; not everyone has attended the special training class at Zhongsi College, that is, received special training for political commissars.

Others, without this resume, really can't get a high position. But the corruption of the little devils is often more deadly. Because there are more of them.

Fortunately, the political atmosphere of the alliance is still good after years of hard work and serious treatment, and the corruption is not particularly serious.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Alliance and the Anti-Corruption Agency jointly acted to sweep the working group. Those who should be shot were shot, those who should be imprisoned were imprisoned, and those who did not do bad things but their subordinates did it were treated as dereliction of duty if they knew about it but did not report it; if they really did not know about it, they must also bear leadership responsibility and be demoted and transferred to other places.

After cleaning the Imperial Tax Working Group, it was not enough. The Alliance then greatly reduced the power held by the working group.

The Imperial Tax differential trade was the first step to be removed from them. A special Lingze Trading Company was established, a state-owned enterprise, which was affiliated to the Ministry of Commerce of the Alliance.

Then, the work of tax collection was also stripped from them. The Alliance already has a tax system, and local governments also have their own financial institutions. In the past few years, before the development, when the pressure of the imperial tax was still relatively high, a working group was needed to supervise. In the past seven or eight years, it is no longer needed.

After these functions were cancelled, the imperial tax working group had only to make imperial tax deliveries on Lingze Star and coordinate the taxes that various places, trade lines, and chambers of commerce needed to pay. It was no longer as prestigious as it was at the beginning.

Even so, the central government of the alliance was still a little worried and sent special envoys to Lingze Star every year. The level of the tax envoy is higher than that of the director of the working group, but it is a temporary job appointment. When they come to Lingze Star, they often bring teams from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the General Office of the Commission for Integrity. Obviously, the task of the tax envoy is not to do specific work, but to deal with the imperial tax department as a representative of the higher power of the official alliance, and to supervise the working group that has had corruption problems.

At this moment, Gu Jing's position as a tax envoy came from this.

In fact, Yang Shiwei's initial idea was not wrong. Gu Jing did come here to "gild" and "brush his resume."

The Alliance has also gradually felt the pressure on the matter of the Imperial Tax. Especially recently, Ambassador Salihovic ended his ambassadorial work in Holy Terra, returned to the Alliance, and served as the Minister of the Alliance's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He also brought back a lot of first-hand intelligence from Holy Terra, and coupled with his personal stay in Holy Terra for more than 20 years, he had a deep understanding of the political arena of Holy Terra. He clearly warned the Alliance that the change in the wind direction of the central empire was going in the direction that the Alliance was gradually out of control.

However, it has not come to the surface after all, and the rift between the two sides should still be fermenting.

The Alliance has made a lot of preparations and plans for this, but before this wind direction becomes a real threat, it should be dealt with as it should be.

In the past 15 years, the GDP within the Alliance has been rapidly rising at a growth rate of more than 10% in the early stage; in recent years, it has slowed down a lot, but it is still more than 6%.

The Alliance has enough capacity to deal with all this.

Against this background, Gu Jing came to Lingze Star.

After serving as the tax envoy, he will continue to study in the Union Finance Department for a few years, and then go out to be a local official, or continue to work in other government departments of the Union Central for a few years, or even join the army.

It's up to him to choose.

In this regard, he is still very grateful to his father.

Gu Hang never asked him to become a certain kind of person, but he never relaxed his education since he was a child, and even kept him with him all the time. Even when he was only a few years old, he did not avoid him when talking about some important things, and even allowed him to "talk without restraint".

At that time, even if he didn't understand, he was actually not narrow-minded under the influence of his father.

Since childhood, he has not only been taught by his father himself, but also by various famous teachers, which have never been interrupted.

Then when he became an adult, he wanted to go to college, and his father supported him; after graduation, he wanted to gain experience in various departments of the Union, not to say that he would be an heir, but at least become a useful person and contribute his own strength to the development of the Union. His father also supported all of it.

So what should he do?

He had to do everything well to live up to it.

This was the case when he was studying, and he was one of the best students; after graduation, he joined the Alliance Tax Department, and his work ability was also demonstrated.

He never denied that he had the deepest background and received the greatest help.

But at the same time, he could pat his chest and say that his academic performance and work performance were the best even without his background bonus.

And now, as a tax envoy, he knew that his responsibilities were of great significance to the Alliance and were by no means dispensable, so of course he had to do better.

After sitting in the luxurious office chair for a long time, he probably thought about what to do next.

"Send the memorandum that Yang Shiwei tried to get me to sign, as well as the one he signed later, to Nuxiaoxing, and attach my suggestions."

"The imperial central government has a clear opinion on raising taxes, which is a foregone conclusion. Since they have already sent Yang Shiwei to conduct preliminary negotiations on raising taxes, no matter what the result is, further pressure will inevitably follow."

"The memorandum that I asked Yang Shiwei to sign repeatedly emphasized that the "Alliance Plan" is sacred and inviolable. The core of it is that the alliance tax amount should continue to be determined at a fixed value of 2.1 trillion and should not be changed."

"This will become our weapon in subsequent negotiations with the empire."

"Instead of waiting for things to continue to develop, it is better to use this incident to The memorandum signed by Yang Shiwei and his corruption and abuse of power are used as breakthrough points to take the lead. "

"I plan to send the account books of Yang Shiwei's transactions with various forces in the hands of the Central Investigation Bureau to Holy Terra, contact the candidates on the list, and speak together with the Holy Terra forces that have made money in the differential trade, and jointly form the voice of the alliance in the central political arena of the empire to take the initiative. "

"When necessary, this document can also be made public, and the details of the normal income earned in the differential trade can also be made public. It is expected that a political storm bomb may be formed in Holy Terra. "

"I would like to ask Comrade Salihovich for reference. Do you agree to implement it this way? "

Gu Jing was talking in the empty office, looking a little silly.

He did not turn on any communication device or any recording equipment, as if he was just talking to himself.

However, after he finished speaking, there was a flash of electric arc beside him.

A monster about half the size of a man, whose whole body was made of mild electric current, appeared.

The body condensed by the electric current has wings on its back, and the arc outlines feathers one by one, which is lifelike. On its half-human body, the neck is stretched out very long, and it is topped with an eagle's head. In its clawed hand, it also holds a long staff.

No mistake, one post, one content, one 6, one 9, one book, one bar!

If there is a person who has a thorough study of demons, seeing this scene, he will definitely exclaim: This is a very scary demon image, which comes from the least common type of big demon.

People call this powerful demon belonging to the most unpredictable and moody evil god, the Lord of Change!

Of course, this is not the real Lord of Change. Looking at its body made of thunder, you know that it is the product of Gu Jing's father.

But in a sense, it is indeed a Lord of Change.

Gu Jing has been smart since he was a child, and he inherited many excellent genes from his parents.

And smart and wise people are always more likely to attract the attention of Tzeentch.

But he is not actually very smart, he is only very smart among ordinary people.

But with his identity, he can't help but covet him.

A Thousand Changes Demon Lord named 'Xevriqi' - the one standing next to Gu Jing at the moment, has set his sights on him.

The Thousand Changes Demon Lords are good at conspiracy. Unless it is a critical moment, they will never show up easily. They are completely different from the Khorne Demons who always like to rush out at the first time, and they are even two extremes.

Xevriqi patiently roamed in the subspace outside the Kingdom of Storms, carefully hiding himself, and projecting a little bit of influence on Gu Jing.

It didn't even try to seduce Gu Jing, but just gave him some "wisdom".

It is easier to understand when reading, clearer when calculating, and more mature in speech...

No matter what kind of parents, even those like Gu Hang and Ye Lixia, don't they want to see their children smart from an early age?

No.

In a few years, Gu Jing's natural intelligence became a matter of course. Coupled with the education he received, his reputation as a child prodigy and genius became more and more famous in a small range.

At this point, it began to continue to execute.

In Gu Jing's dream, it turned into a kind professor, just like the teacher who taught him during the day, and talked to him. Most of the time, they talked about knowledge, but occasionally, Shefrich would tell Gu Jing some poisonous knowledge.

He would tell Gu Jing that you will never inherit the alliance in this life, and your father is immortal.

Your father may not be a human being.

You are destined to live in the shadows in this life.

You have to do something to let the world know that you are not just Gu Hang's son, you are unique...

Xie Fulichi never dared to tamper with Gu Jing's mind by direct means, because that would only be discovered by Gu Hang.

This master of the storm has become an existence that people dare not offend in the subspace. Perhaps Xie Fulichi's master can easily wipe him out as long as he can catch Gu Hang, but the Kingdom of Storm cannot catch him under the protection of the cold sun that symbolizes the emperor of mankind.

And he, Xie Fulichi, does not have the ability to confront directly.

He can only plant some seeds in Gu Jing's heart from an early age with this indirect and some bewitching words.

He expects his conspiracy to take root and sprout in decades or even hundreds of years.

At that time, there will be a grand conspiracy and turmoil in the alliance.

His master, the existence he fears and admires the most, will definitely give him an excellent reward.

Maybe he can even be promoted to the level of God-honored Demon because of this!

However, when Gu Jing was 9 years old, he saw the old professor in his dream, just like many times in the past.

Shefrich invaded again.

But before it could say a few more words to Gu Jing, the sky in the dream suddenly became overcast.

Then, it saw Gu Hang's figure.

He screamed and turned back to his original form, becoming a human-shaped bird, flapping his wings and trying to escape. But the violent thunder bound it in Gu Jing's dream, and it couldn't escape at all!