Starting from the Planetary Governor

Chapter 1332: Chapter 759: Is the Alliance Going Bankrupt?

Gu Hang looked around the large conference room, noting that the attendees were numerous and complete, a rare occurrence indeed.

The Alliance now has a very expansive territory, and its high-ranking officials bear significant responsibilities. Even central officials often have to travel to specific locations due to the different tasks they are in charge of.

On Rage Owl Star, such a full gathering is actually uncommon.

The last occurrence of such an event… seems like it has never happened before.

For within the Alliance, only Gu Hang has enough prestige to summon a complete assembly of all department heads from the Alliance Government for a meeting.

The reason for not holding such meetings in the past is that after the Iron Armor War began, Gu Hang personally led the troops into battle.

Before the war, the Alliance was not as large as it is now.

The war lasted for a long time, during which Gu Hang barely found time to return for similar gatherings, nor was it feasible to convene so many people during the war, as it was difficult for everyone to travel and prone to errors.

After the war, Gu Hang went to Holy Terra.

Since the Alliance expanded to fourteen Star Domains, there has truly been no opportunity to hold such a comprehensive assembly.

Luckily, Gu Hang’s [Political Commissar] training has never been neglected, ensuring key positions within the Alliance are at least filled with loyal personnel, regardless of their ability. This guarantees that whether they are political officers or administrative officers, no ideological issues will arise, allowing the principles and vision of the Alliance to be effectively implemented.

Without this, the Alliance’s highly centralized and bureaucratically dependent system could never sustain such a large scale without collapsing due to corruption and institutional rigidity.

Many other imperial forces have secretly planted spies within the Alliance, trying to figure out how to maintain such large-scale effective centralized governance. However, the Alliance’s system is straightforward and doesn’t require much research, yet no one can emulate it.

Forget about managing fourteen Star Domains, thousands of worlds, trillions of people with a unified, semi-planned centralized system; for ordinary forces, even applying a similar system on a single planet wouldn’t resolve the sharply rising governance costs with increased ruling scale.

This is Gu Hang’s golden touch, impossible to replicate.

It is precisely because of this set of things that Gu Hang, despite not holding assembly for many years, or even absent from his ruling center during a three-year journey to Holy Terra, the Alliance still functioned without problems.

Ultimately, meetings of this nature must still be held.

Although he can view much information from the system panel, there is still much he cannot see and must rely on the Alliance’s bureaucratic system to report to him to understand clearly.

Similarly, he also needs a comprehensive assembly like this to effectively convey his intentions.

Osenia, as the Alliance Premier, started the meeting.

In the first part, she provided an overview of the current status of the Alliance.

Currently, the Alliance governs 14 Star Domains, with 577 Star Sector-level administrative divisions, totaling 7109 worlds.

The total population lacks precise statistics, only estimated to be approximately 11.8 trillion.

Across all 14 Star Domains, last year’s total output is estimated at 16.1 trillion.

Among them, the core territory of the Alliance, the Dragonhawk Star Domain, holds the largest share. Just the output of the Dragonhawk Star Domain alone reached 5.2 trillion, accounting for 32.5%. When considering residents’ consumption, development investment, Star Domain military expenses… including all expenditures, the total is 3.9 trillion. In the Dragonhawk Star Domain, the Alliance’s surplus is 1.3 trillion.

Apart from this, the strongest is the Alfonso Star Domain. Its annual total output reached 1.4 trillion. The main contributor to raising the Star Domain’s total output is Founding World–Alamita. Unfortunately, two other Founding Worlds were destroyed; otherwise, even after experiencing warfare, as long as they were largely preserved, the entire Alfonso Star Domain’s output could at least reach three trillion.

Not as good as the Dragonhawk Star Domain but still quite a significant assistance.

Regrettably…

Following that are the Menghe Star Domain and the Proudclaw Cosmos Domain.

These two Star Domains, after the last war, suffered relatively minor disasters.

Menghe is the smallest, with only the northern Star Sectors engaged in large-scale battles, and during the war served as the Alliance’s rear stronghold. The Alliance invested considerable resources in the Menghe Star Domain, boosting its overall development considerably. Menghe people benefited from adversity.

Although Proudclaw Cosmos was entirely engaged in combat, the war between the Alliance and the Fury Flame Battle Group was primarily fought in the Star Sea, with few instances of total planetary ecological and population destruction, preserving the Star Domain’s vitality significantly. Furthermore, in the war’s later stages, Proudclaw Cosmos essentially became the rear, and once spared from insect infestations, recovery was rapid.

These four Star Domains represent the Alliance’s fiscal profit Star Domains.

The Imperial Tax is now unified and calculated by the Alliance, and when calculating fiscal surplus, the Alliance Government excludes taxes, focusing solely on how much it earns from individual planets/Star Sectors/Star Domains.

From these four Star Domains, the Alliance’s annual fiscal surplus can reach 1.55 trillion.

Among the remaining ten Star Domains, aside from the Fox Moon Star Domain, which similarly wasn’t significantly involved in the war and can essentially break-even, the other nine are losing.

The nine deficit Star Domains, combined, total a loss of 1.27 trillion.

Adding the first year’s mandatory 300 billion empire tax, plus the Alliance’s military expenditure, and some special fiscal projects of the Alliance Central Government… the Alliance is nearly bankrupt.

Who would have thought that the splendid and self-proclaimed earthly paradise Alliance nearly drove itself to bankruptcy?

This is Osenia’s most burdensome phase.

The overall fiscal deficit is significant, approximately two hundred billion.

Fortunately, in earlier years there was some surplus, and by cutting military readiness from the now non-combat military, expenditures are reduced on one hand, while the equipment from disarmament can be used to offset taxes on the other.

This is quite a substantial amount.

Only in this way could the most challenging year be weathered through.

Those nine deficit Star Domains essentially comprise the entirety of Spiderweb Domain.

Gu Hang captured Spiderweb Domain, which indeed became a massive fiscal burden; from this perspective, this is correct.

Otherwise, Dragonhawk Star Domain alone would have an annual fiscal surplus of 1.3 trillion, and without Spiderweb Domain, the Alliance’s Imperial Tax wouldn’t be so high, greatly easing pressure.

However, Gu Hang does not regret.

Osenia also explained the reasons for the deficits in those nine Star Domains.

The most important reason is that the war tore those nine Star Domains into shreds.