Chapter 772, The ‘War’ to End the War

When he was young, Gu Jing might have been ignorant about things like demons, Tzeentch, great demons, and subspace. But now that he is in his twenties, he has fully understood the crisis he encountered at that time.

That is a subspace demon, a ever-changing demon!

This kind of existence is enough to set off a terrible turmoil that sweeps the entire star field. They can always hide behind the shadows, confuse people's minds, create all kinds of coincidences, and use conspiratorial means to cause terrible destruction without showing up.

Not to mention, targeting a tiny baby.

But because of this, he also fully understood the horror of his father.

Such a most dangerous demon, no matter how careful it was to hide, was finally caught.

In his dream, Gu Jing saw the demon being electrocuted into a twisted shape by his father.

"If you like reading with me, then spend the rest of your life with me."

To this day, Gu Jing still remembers what his father said.

Then, next to him, there was a trumpet called 'The Ever-Changing Demon Lord' whose whole body was made of thunder and lightning. When he was young, he read with him, breaking down knowledge and learning quickly. When he grew up, he became his assistant and assisted in his work.

It no longer has its own will, and the demon's soul has been annihilated by the thunder. Now, it is just something reshaped in the Kingdom of Storms through its subspace essence. It is of the same nature as the many heroic spirits in the Kingdom of Storms, but it only retains a little more knowledge and knowledge of the Tzeentch Demon. Intellectual characteristics.

Its behavioral characteristics are quite dull and it has no active behavioral capabilities, just like an intelligent assistant.

But as a tool, it's still very useful.

This was also his father's intention.

For a Tzeentch demon, it is necessary to leave a little more mind to it. If something happens to it, it should be completely annihilated to ensure that it will not affect Gu Jing's decision-making. Now, this All-Changing Demon King version of the heroic spirit is only used in things like calculators, computers, and analysis machines.

In the previous meeting between Gu Jing and Yang Shiwei, he was able to quickly read through, analyze and understand the thousands of pages of documents and materials thanks to the help of this ever-changing demon.

The plug-in my father gave me is so useful!

As for the spiritual power Gu Jing used in the 'slight' physical conflict later, it was his own power.

As Gu Hang's son, he was born with psychic talent, and he was quite good at it. Among the subjects he studied since he was a child, psychic training was clearly included. The instructors from the Psychic Order came specifically to teach him. Sometimes when Gu Hang was free, he would train him himself.

After the All-Changing Demon Lord became his 'plug-in', his psychic abilities reached a new level.

Of the four types of warp daemons, Tzeentch daemons are the most adept at psychic powers. As the top of the Tzeentch demons, the All-Changing Demon Lord's psychic power is even more exaggerated.

There is no psyker among humans who can stand up to the All-Changing Demon Lord.

Um...except Gu Hang, he doesn't count as a human being.

With the help of this ever-changing demon, Gu Jing, who is only 23 years old now, can easily exert A+ level psychic power, and his psychic strength is still growing rapidly. It is certain to reach S+ level in the future. things.

As for the Alpha level... he had received a stern warning from his father and was not allowed to summon this level of power. The relevant upper limit was also sealed by Gu Hang himself.

It is not a question of whether Alpha level psyker can be achieved. Gu Jing will be able to achieve it easily if he grows up a little in the future. But the biggest problem with this level of psychic power is that it must be controllable.

The upper limit of human beings is here, and it is impossible to control it.

Unless Gu Jing is no longer a human being and finds a way to grasp the essence of subspace.

That was so rare. Gu Hang also happened to encounter a weak and primitive existence that truly belonged to the sub-space sub-god. With systematic help, the fusion created this sub-space essence.

The easiest way to reproduce this process is to find a copy of the essence of subspace.

Although, not every planet is like the Raging Owl Star, which has a thin curtain of reality and can easily breed local gods. But after all, the universe is so big, if you want to look for it, you can always find it.

There are similar things in the Alliance. Local religions and cults do not believe in subspace demons or the emperor, and they have cultivated some strange things.

This kind of thing is usually not very strong, far from reaching the level of a big demon. At best, it is a higher-level demon level. But because of the way it was produced, it truly has a subspace essence.

The Alliance basically has a combative attitude towards this, attacking cults in the real universe and destroying all non-state religions and Mechanicus beliefs; in the subspace... those primitive inferior gods have basically been eaten by Gu Hang.

After eating so much, it’s not a big deal to leave one portion for my son.

But the key is, how do mortals integrate a piece of subspace essence?

If it can't be done, not even Gu Hang can do anything about it.

God's choice doesn't count. If you want to do it, you can do it now, and you don't need to do anything about the nature of subspace.

But divine selection cannot make people immortal.

Unless Gu Hang is a little stronger, he can create something similar to the Four Gods that can elevate people to demons and become devil princes.

But in that case, humanity will be lost, the soul will be completely reshaped, and the person may not be the same person as before.

Still have a slight headache.

But there is no need to rush.

Gu Jing is still very young, and there is still a lot of time in the future to consider how to go on the path of psychic energy. Continuing to maintain the S+ level is not a bad idea.

At least, safety issues are guaranteed.

If that doesn't work, this heroic spirit, the version of the Ever-Changing Demon Lord, will also provide Gu Jing with personal protection.

Although it is a little weaker than it was in 'life', it is not a whole level weaker. It is still at the level of a big demon and has many methods. It is not like a bloodthirsty demon who only knows how to cut and slash.

At this moment, it also played a very good supporting role.

It can quickly polish the report that Gu Jing previously narrated into a suitable formal document, and then quickly transmit it back to the hands of senior alliance officials through subspace.

After finishing this matter, Gu Jing could only wait for Nu Xiaoxing's reply.

He is not so arrogant that he dares to decide on such a critical and important matter by himself.

Exactly what to do depends on the overall decision-making of the coalition government.

After the decision is made, whether you want him to implement it or not is another matter.

However, he is definitely not idle anymore.

As a tax envoy, he still has to do his job.

However, this matter is not challenging for him.

Even if he doesn't need the assistance of the All-Changing Demon Lord, with his ability, it's easy to handle this matter.

As one of the two responsibilities of the tax envoy, there is no problem in communicating with the Imperial Tax Department. He now has Yang Shiwei completely under control. Before the Imperial Taxation Department changes their head, Gu Jing is confident that he will have a huge say in the taxation work on Lingze Planet.

As for the other responsibility, supervising the Alliance Imperial Tax Working Group, there is nothing much to say about this. He only needs to sit here, and the specific matters will naturally be taken care of by the elite working group he brought composed of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Independent Commission Against Corruption, and the Audit Department of the Finance Department.

Usually there won't be any problems. The Imperial Tax Working Group has been washed and checked many times.

But even if it is boring, Gu Jing will finish his work meticulously.

He has already made a good beginning, and he will be sorry for himself if he does not end with a good ending.

…

Gu Hang quickly received the report.

His son reports to his direct boss, the Minister of Finance, and the Union Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is directly in charge of external relations.

However, neither of these two dared to make an independent decision on such a big matter.

They sent Gu Jing's suggestions, along with their own opinions, to Gu Hang's desk.

There is no mistake in every song, one post, one content, one 6 one, one book, one book, take a look!

After reading it, Gu Hang smiled.

The young man still has some ideas.

However, Gu Jing did not have to bring this matter up.

Salikhovich had a complete set of preemptive plans, but before that, they had not been used.

If possible, the alliance does not want any changes to the current situation.

The past fifteen years have been a period of rapid development for the alliance. The 16 trillion war expenses have basically been deducted. Before that, the Alliance actually paid 1 trillion in actual taxes a year, and the rest was the iron armor war expenses owed by the Empire to the Alliance.

The empire has already taken advantage of this matter.

Sixteen trillion, the alliance couldn't even get the interest, so the central government of the empire divided it into fifteen years, what else?

So forget it. Now that the deduction of war funds has been completed, the alliance has resumed its normal tax payment amount of 2.1 trillion. There is no pressure, at least it will not affect the development of the alliance. In this case, it would be best if the situation remained unchanged.

Over the past fifteen years, the growth rate of the Union's GDP has remained at a high level. In recent years, it has developed into a deep-water area, especially in the Dragon Eagle Star Region as the leader. The average annual output value per capita has now reached 11 tax coins. Although it is still growing, in the end it is not as fast as in previous years.

But it doesn’t matter, the Dragon Eagle star field can’t rise, and there are other star fields.

There is still a lot of room for growth.

Even if the growth rate has slowed down, the absolute magnitude of annual growth is still very large given the current scale of total output value, which has increased four or five times compared with the past.

Gu Hang really had no intention of opposing the Imperial Central Committee. It would be best if the relatively peaceful development trend of the alliance could be maintained for a little longer.

But I definitely don’t want to raise taxes.

According to the version of the memorandum that Yang Shiwei tried to deceive Gu Jing into signing, Xu Fuzhen, or the Empire Central Committee, was not too harsh on the amount of tax increases for the alliance. It only increased from 2.1 trillion to 2.5 trillion, an increase of only 4,000. billion in taxes.

The league is affordable.

However, 400 billion is a lot. This is the total tax revenue that the empire can receive from the general universe. It must be a place where the empire has relatively strong control and the tax cost can be reduced; some poor universes, Or in a space where the order is quite chaotic, if all the costs are spent, it would be good to recover 100 billion.

Moreover, compared with the alliance's past tax revenue of 2.1 trillion, it has increased by almost 20%.

The league can't afford to pay.

You can't start this kind of thing.

If it is opened once, it will rise again in a few years, what should I do?

If it goes too far, they will conduct a comprehensive investigation of the development level of the entire alliance, strictly collect taxes at 10% of the total output value, and directly increase the amount of imperial tax to more than 5 trillion. What should we do then?

The "Alliance Plan" will be dead in name only by then.

Furthermore, seeing that the alliance is so fat and so easy to control, don't the greedy bosses want to intervene and share the pie in various industries of the alliance?

Once the bottom line is broken once, it will be broken again and again.

Can we increase taxes?

Yes, if it is really a choice between increasing taxes and civil war, then the 400 billion will be paid with a pinch of the nose.

However, there are still a lot of gray areas between increasing taxes and civil war, and there is still a lot of time and space in between to play a game with the central government of the empire.

The alliance also has enough chips.

Take it slow.

Even if it comes to the point of paying 400 billion, the central government of the empire must pay enough price to let them know the pain, so as to delay the next time they make further advances as much as possible.

Retracting his thoughts, he looked at the present first. This time, Gu Jing went out alone for the first time.

The result was expected, but there were also unexpected things in Gu Hang's view.

It was expected that the big demon that dared to attack his son that year was changed to a new purpose in his mind, and it really worked wonders.

Originally, Gu Hang wanted to devour the subspace essence of the Wanbian Demon Lord. Although, at that time, he was no longer like the beginning, eating a big demon or a neuron worm could make a leap forward, but the big demon was still very nourishing.

Going out in the subspace to actively hunt big demons is very dangerous, and it is easy to be caught by their masters. But if you don't eat this kind of thing that comes to your door, you will be sorry for yourself.

But... sorry, sorry, for my son.

So far, it has worked. Bodyguard, wisdom bonus, intelligent assistance, triple functions in one, the role is played out.

With such a configuration, Gu Jing, even if he is only 23 years old, even if he is not rich in experience, can definitely stand alone, and it is not surprising that he has made achievements.

The so-called unexpected means that the harvest of Gu Jing's work is really good.

More importantly, this actually allows Gu Hang to obtain a piece of information, which can then push him to make a decision.

The issue of tax increase is no longer just a public opinion in the central government of the empire. With Yang Shiwei's attempt to discuss this issue with the alliance tax envoy-Gu Jing, tax increase has officially become a policy being implemented by the central government of the empire.

Then, political peace is already a bubble.

The opening of this war without gunpowder is already doomed.

Of course, war is just an adjective. In fact, all this is working for peace, in order to avoid a real war.