Chapter 1352: Chapter 772: Army Developnt
The various counterasure plans from Salihoovich can be deployed.
The information on Yang Shiwei’s corruption and insider trading is the result of years of investigation and serves as a part of their strategy.
On top of that, the diplomatic mo obtained by the young man, signed by Yang Shiwei as the Empire’s representative, is an unexpected delight that will play a role in subsequent counterasures.
Gu Hang’s orders have been explicitly issued to the Alliance Foreign Affairs Departnt.
This part of the work will be led by Salihoovich.
However, the executors will definitely not be limited to just the Foreign Affairs Departnt.
The entire Alliance machinery, ready to be deployed, has roared into action.
From the administrative departnt to the economic departnt, the military departnt, the legal departnt, and the intelligence departnt, everyone must take action.
Yet, the process from execution, through ferntation and explosion, to final feedback results, requires ti to solidify. Since the specific executors have already been determined, Gu Hang won’t personally oversee the matter but will await reports.
Currently, what he must personally handle is yet another Alliance Governnt Work Report Conference.
This conference is held almost annually, and Gu Hang naturally has to attend.
For so years, the conference’s importance is average, while in other years, it is very critical.
Foremost was fifteen years ago when Gu Hang returned from Holy Terra with the signed “Alliance Plan”.
That conference report essentially established the Alliance’s subsequent developnt direction.
And now, it’s again a very significant mont.
On the one hand, consecutive developnt plans have been successfully realized, and the war expenses owed by the Central Empire to the Alliance have been fully deducted. The most crucial developnt phase for the Alliance has ended, and it’s ti to review how well the overall developnt has fared over these fifteen years.
On the other hand, the Alliance has observed changes in the Empire’s political scene, and the external political environnt for the Alliance is deteriorating. It is now like being at a crossroads, requiring a crucial comprehensive eting to unify thoughts, define directions, and clarify future actions.
The first half of the conference focuses on the governnt report.
The intelligence held by the Empire about the Alliance is indeed ‘correct’.
The Alliance’s annual GDP indeed reached fifty trillion.
It is precisely because of this data that they produced a flawed docunt, proposing an annual tax of five trillion to the Alliance.
However, the reason the word ‘correct’ is quoted is that the fifty trillion figure is just one of several estimates by Holy Terra’s intelligence departnt, and it’s the highest one.
The widely accepted figure is between thirty and thirty-five trillion.
This is already a quite high number, nearly three tis that of similar Cosmos Domains.
The Empire still maintains inertia from common sense.
They cannot conceive how a vast economy with twelve trillion people could sustain fifteen years of ultra-high-speed growth, increasing its GDP fivefold.
It is indeed sothing that challenges common sense.
In fact, even thirty trillion is already quite challenging.
They always believed the Alliance’s strength primarily lies in its efficient political system, which results in outstanding tax collection efficiency.
Based on this, the Central Empire formulated the number Yang Shiwei later ntioned, which he truly seeks to execute—naly, a 2.5 trillion tax levy.
To the Central Empire, this already considers a concession of 500 billion to the Alliance, without precisely imposing the 10% Empire Tax rate. Combined with the Alliance’s excellent tax collection efficiency and system advantages, the Alliance should still earn a lot. This already fully considers the Alliance’s strong power and respects Gu Hang as a High Lord. Gu Hang and his Alliance should be grateful.
This is the cognitive gap between both sides.
Away from the Empire, the Alliance’s substantial general budget revenue and state enterprise earnings combined actually reach around ten trillion annually.
Just as the Central Empire considered, the Alliance system is very efficient in extracting surplus value from labor.
But this is not the end.
The trade with the North, South, and Lingze Star all involve comrce groups profiting. Among them, the taxable part is included in the tax revenue, but the associated comrce groups within the Alliance also earn a significant amount.
Especially on Lingze Star.
All earnings from these sectors, post-taxation, must also be submitted to the Alliance’s hands. This alone adds around one trillion annually.
In total, in the 11 trillion in fiscal revenue, aside from the part submitted as the Imperial Tax, the rest will not be reserved by the Alliance but reinvested in Alliance construction, primarily focusing on economic developnt.
Currently, the rapid, fervent, and economically oriented construction cycle is also about to conclude.
It does not an economic construction will not be pursued. On the contrary, economic developnt will still be the governnt’s primary task.
However, at this mont, with potential shifts in future circumstances, the Alliance will have to invest significantly more resources in other areas.
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