Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 483

Chapter 482: I’ll pay taxes to you if you’re crazy!

Battlecruiser!

Although it’s not a proper battleship, its significance may be no less than that of the battleship itself.

It is essentially a high-speed battleship. Compared with battleships, battlecruisers have slightly thinner armor and slightly weaker firepower, but the speed gained by sacrificing some armor gives it extremely high tactical value.

It has firepower similar to that of a battleship, but has the same speed as a cruiser.

The mainstream thinking in the empire is of course based on fleet decisive battles. Battleships with thick armor, thick shields, and powerful firepower are the well-deserved core; however, in the imperial naval doctrine, there is also a group of theorists and naval generals who prefer battlecruisers in war.

What it pursues is that anyone who can catch up with me cannot beat me; anyone who I can’t beat can’t catch up with me.

The former refers to cruisers, and battlecruisers can easily defeat cruisers through high speed and firepower;

the latter refers to battleships, which are much slower than cruisers and battlecruisers, and they really can’t catch up. Maybe the battlecruiser has gone around to the other side of a planet or the other side of a star, and the battleship is still chasing behind.

This gives the battlecruiser a very flexible positioning in the war.

It is more suitable for single combat than battleships, and it is not easy to fail to catch the enemy after attacking and be besieged;

it can serve as the vanguard of the fleet during combat and force the enemy’s vanguard into a difficult situation. If the vanguard fleet starts a war alone, it will obviously be disadvantageous for the enemy.

If the enemy’s vanguard retreats and joins the main force, the battlecruiser can pursue them from behind with its high speed, causing considerable damage before the battle; it can also outflank one end of the enemy fleet to create a flanking advantage; if that doesn’t work, it can also return to its own main fleet when the main forces of both sides are fighting, acting as an ordinary battleship and participating in the fleet decisive battle.

It can also serve as a rear guard, reacting quickly to join the front-line battle after the battle begins; when retreating, it can hold off the enemy and make it impossible to ignore it, but it can also use its speed advantage to easily complete the blocking mission and leave the battle.

In the Imperial Navy, the faction that supports battlecruisers believes that in the current cosmic environment, the forces of the enemy and us are balanced, and fleet decisive battles that need to rely on battleships to solve problems are rare.

In war, there is always one side with an advantage and the other side with a disadvantage.

As the advantaged side, the battlecruiser is more capable of chasing, breaking, and annihilating the enemy; as the disadvantaged side, it is also more flexible than the bulky battleship and can make a detour.

They believe that building more battlecruisers is a more advanced solution than traditional giant ships and cannons.

Gu Hang doesn’t care who is right or wrong in those theories. If he has to choose, he will choose all of them!

And now before the battleship is drawn, giving a battlecruiser is also a good choice.

The battlecruiser drawn this time is called the “Holy Grail Class”. Its length is similar to that of the Retribution Class battleship, but it is much thinner and longer; the power specifications used are similar, or even stronger.

Its firepower is also very strong. It can’t beat the orthodox battleship, but it can be used to fight against the cruiser. Not only does it have 12 L-specification heavy guns, which is six times that of the Moon Class, it also has an X-class heavy gun, which is a sure kill for the cruiser.

But the price is that its armor and void shield energy level can be regarded as the same level as the Moon Class cruiser, at most a little stronger, and can’t open up a big gap, let alone compare with the battleship.

But so what?

Gu Hang still doesn’t know how long it will take to build a battleship after extracting the battleship technology, but it will be quite long. However, it only takes 6 years to build a ‘Holy Grail Class’, which is only 2 years longer than a Moon Class cruiser! It

‘s just that the cost is much more expensive. The cost of a ‘Holy Grail’ is 45 billion tax coins, which is 5 times that of a Moon Class.

Moreover, no shipyard in the Alliance can build the Holy Grail now. The shipyard for building cruisers is too small, and there is no room for transformation. The Alliance has to build a larger shipyard to accommodate the assembly and production of the Holy Grail Class.

But fortunately, Gu Hang has already planned for this.

He never doubted that he would extract a larger ship technology, it was just a matter of time.

In fact, during the washing process, the berth where the ‘Burning Star’ was moored was originally used to park the Giant Belly Class transport ship. In the past two and a half years, it has been transformed to make it more suitable as a battleship military dock.

On the one hand, it is convenient to have a dock available in case there is a big problem with the Fire Nova and it needs to return to the port for overhaul. On the other hand, it is to prepare for the current situation. It

can be built first.

The finished black box can pull out some parts with high technical difficulty, and one will be sent to the sky after it is built; the production line is built in an orderly manner, starting with the simple ones; and the final assembly work is completed in the battleship dock.

With the help of the finished black box, the construction time of the first battleship started by the alliance can be shortened by more than half.

Of course, if two ships are to be started at the same time, the help provided by the finished black box will not be so great.

But now the alliance can only start one ship, unless a new large dock is built and a complete production line with all parts of the battlecruiser can be built.

However, it is enough for the time being.

The alliance needs the “holy grail” now! It would be great if one can be built in three years. A battlecruiser can barely serve as the main flagship of the star domain fleet and can hold up the scene.

…

After completing the technology lottery, the black box Gu Hang naturally put it into the black box factory in the Kingdom of Storms, where the heroes would operate; the related products would go through the Alliance’s research institute and then be delivered to the specific industrial circles that produce these products.

At the same time, the Alliance government would also receive Gu Hang’s instructions and start making plans according to the situation after having these new technologies, and ensure that these technological products are truly implemented, which would be of great help to the development of the Alliance.

Gu Hang himself was not idle either.

He took his entire staff team to the Angry Owl Star.

Bringing the team was to facilitate him to leave the Winged Star, so that all the work around the function of “Alliance Governor” could operate normally. At the same time, going to the Angry Owl Star was also to make use of the [planetary-level climate modification technology].

The Angry Owl Star was the first place, and Gu Hang would use his powerful psychic power and the close correlation between the Kingdom of Storms and the Angry Owl Star to transform the planet’s climate while channeling the penetration of subspace energy.

The special thing about the Wrathful Owl is that the reality veil is very thin here. In the prosperous era a few hundred years ago, this was a good thing, which brought advanced energy such as the Spiritual Gas Field. More than a hundred years ago, this was a disaster. The over-exploitation of the Spiritual Gas Field made the subspace energy penetration uncontrollable. An accident directly caused a subspace rift, which opened up the demon invasion. The Imperial Army did suppress the demons and destroyed and closed the subspace rift, but it also almost destroyed the Wrathful Owl.

But now, it’s become a benefit.

As long as the climate modification technology is used, plus Gu Hang’s control over the Kingdom of Storms, and this subspace area native to the Wrathful Owl Star is used for cooperation, the waste energy storm can be calmed down and the spiritual gas field can emerge again.

Moreover, there should be no need to worry too much about the recurrence of accidents in the future.

The history of the spiritual gas field mining on the Wrathful Owl Star during its heyday was hundreds or thousands of years, and there was only one major incident, so the probability was actually not high. Not to mention, the subspace area closest to the Wrathful Owl Star is Gu Hang’s Kingdom of Storms.

The demons want to invade the Wrathful Owl Star? Let’s get through the Kingdom of Storms first.

Gu Hang planned to stay on the Wrathful Owl Star for three months this time, and cooperate with the climate modification instrument pulled out of the finished black box to complete the preliminary work of the transformation of the Wrathful Owl Star.

After finishing the most difficult points in the front, he didn’t have to stay here in person for the fine-tuning and maintenance in the back.

However, when Gu Hang arrived at the Wrathful Owl Star and started his second month of work, the troubles caused by the Wrathful Flame War Group came.

The person who came was his old acquaintance, the former chief tax officer of the Dragon Eagle Star Region and now the chief government officer, Ms. Neil Laois.

She seemed to have returned to her old job, bringing a tax fleet to the controlled area of the Alliance, but was now blocked outside the Duxing Star by the Alliance’s “border defense”.

The tax fleet led by Laois did not force its way in, but only stated its purpose: to collect imperial taxes.

The war was basically over, and the eastern and western parts of the star region were nominally connected.

The imperial taxes that had been stagnant for several years were of course due for re-payment.

The information about the arrival of the tax fleet of the star region government was quickly sent back.

Without orders, the border defense dared not let it pass.

After seeing the news from the border defense, the Alliance War Committee and the Alliance Government did not dare to make a decision on their own. Ossena made this star language call to Gu Hang, reported the situation, and waited for Governor Gu’s instructions.

“Kick her out.” Gu Hang gave a very clear statement.

“But the imperial tax… didn’t you ask our Ministry of Finance to set aside this budget specifically for paying the imperial tax?”

“Yes, that’s right. Of course we have to pay the imperial tax. Is there any need to question the loyalty of our alliance? Of course we will pay the imperial tax.”

At this point, Gu Hang paused and continued, “But who said we have to hand over the imperial tax to the star domain government?”

Ossena asked, “Do you mean to directly contact the higher-level government to pay the tax this time?”

“Yes, that’s what I mean.” Gu Hang said, “We hand over the imperial tax to the Dragon Eagle star domain government and let Laois fill her tax transport ship and send it to Yunluo Star. Will this money be transferred to the hands of the empire? Obviously not. After they collected the imperial tax in the western part of the star domain, how much did they hand over? Wasn’t it that the Fury Corps used it for their own purposes under many pretexts?”

“No matter how many reasonable reasons there are, most of the imperial taxes currently collected by the Dragon Eagle Star Domain government are controlled by the Fury Corps. They have too many reasons and use various excuses to spend this tax money. Suppressing rebellions, defense, clearing out greenskins… just like what they, the ‘Iron Fury Stone’, did in the Princess Star Domain.”

“If we pay taxes to the star domain government honestly, we will have to take one-tenth of the output value of the entire alliance – the imperial taxes for the past two years will cost them 76 billion tax coins in supplies! Are we crazy? Send 76 billion to the Fury, and then let them use our money to fight us?”

“I understand what you mean, I will arrange the corresponding transport fleet and escort work right away. The route we can choose now to lead to the capital of the Universe, Wuji Star, may be a little roundabout. We have to go from the Donglin Star Domain in the east to the Wuji Star Domain. The route in the middle is more circuitous and not necessarily safe. We need to allocate a lot of manpower to ensure that the tax fleet can reach the target safely. It will take at least half a year to complete the round trip to complete this tax payment.”

“What I want to say is that paying the imperial tax is a great pressure on us. This work will not only occupy a part of our warships, but more importantly, it will occupy one-third of our interstellar transportation capacity. A large number of transport ships will be occupied to transport the large amount of materials represented by the imperial tax. These are the costs of collecting and transporting taxes. In the past, they were all borne by the star region government. Now, we have to bear it ourselves…”

Ossena’s voice sounded a little unhappy.

This is also normal.

As the Prime Minister of the Alliance Government, I haven’t paid the imperial tax for several years in recent years – no, the imperial tax was used locally, and the accounts are still clear – now I suddenly have to pay taxes seriously, which is really painful.

The area occupied by the Alliance is not small. In the struggle with the Fury of Flame in the past two years, the Alliance has basically stabilized in addition to the Seven Horses, and also controlled 12 star regions. Except for the four greenskin nests, there is no output, and there is no other population except the new immigrants, so naturally there will be no imperial tax. But the remaining eight star regions, now that they are in the hands of the Alliance, the Alliance will naturally be responsible for paying taxes.

Although it is not the Alliance itself that pays, but these planets. However, since these planets are either under the framework of joint defense or under the Economic Community Act, in Ossena’s view, their money is equivalent to the Alliance’s money!

They are paying taxes, which is equivalent to the Alliance paying taxes!

These newly acquired territories have a total population of more than 150 billion, and the imperial taxes to be paid naturally reach more than 15 billion tax coins. However, these planets have generally just come into the hands of the Alliance, and there is no time to develop them. In addition, if they want to develop them in the future, they will also need a large amount of initial investment.

After paying the imperial taxes, the remaining fiscal part that the Alliance can collect from the money collected from these planets is only more than 5 billion. This is based on the fact that the living standards of the residents on these planets are very low, and the average annual per capita consumption of residents is only about 0.6-0.7.

Life is so bad, and they have been exploited so badly, but they can only get this much.

In the future, the Alliance will spend money on them for development, and the fiscal surplus of more than 5 billion will definitely not be enough, and the Alliance will have to pay for it!

After working so hard for so long, I ended up working for the Imperial Tax? And I lost money?

Ossena would definitely not be reconciled.

Moreover, it would be fine if it was just the Imperial Tax, after all, it was a sum of money that could not be escaped no matter what.

But what made Ossena even more unhappy was that it seemed that the cost of paying the tax would still be borne by the Alliance in the future. One-third of the Alliance’s transport ships were occupied for more than half a year . How much capital loss is this? It will have an impact on the development

of the Alliance. Gu Hang probably understood what Ossena was thinking. He could only comfort her: “I know it’s not easy, but it must be done. In the future, we will have to reach this step one day. Why not take advantage of the opportunity of the Fury Flame Regiment that everyone can understand and take this step forward. Tell the United Fleet to send out four cruisers to form a battle group to serve as the escort fleet.”

At this point, Gu Hang added: “Besides, we don’t really need to transport all the supplies to Wuji Star.”

“Hiss!”

Ossena took a breath of cold air. Just now, the Governor was still scolding the Fury Flame Interceptor Imperial Tax. Now you are… ?

(End of this chapter)