Starting from the Planetary Governor

Chapter 885: Chapter 481, Only a Madman Would Pay You Taxes!_2 Chapter 885: Chapter 481, Only a Madman Would Pay You Taxes!_2 But for now, it was enough.

The Alliance urgently needed the “Holy Grail”! If a Battleship Cruiser could be built in three years, that would be quite an achievement. A Battleship Cruiser could barely serve as the flagship of a Star Domain Level Fleet, holding its own in a show of force.

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After completing the technology lottery, the Black Box with Gu Hang’s name naturally ended up in the Black Box Factory within the Storm God Kingdom, operated by the Heroic Spirits; the related products would then pass through the Alliance’s research institutes before being delivered to the specific industrial sectors that manufactured these products.

At the same time, the Alliance Government would receive instructions from Gu Hang to start planning according to the new technological capabilities and ensure these technological products were effectively implemented, providing significant assistance to the development of the Alliance.

Gu Hang himself was far from idle.

He took his entire staff team and headed to Rage Owl Star.

Bringing the team ensured the smooth operation of all tasks related to the function of the “Alliance Governor” after leaving Flying Wing Star. Additionally, the trip to Rage Owl Star aimed to utilize the Planetary Climate Transformation Technology.

Rage Owl Star was the first location where Gu Hang planned to use his potent psychic powers and the close relationship between the Storm God Kingdom and Rage Owl Star to not only alter the planet’s climate but also to alleviate the permeation of subspace energy.

The particularity of Rage Owl Star lay in the thinness of its reality veil. During the flourishing era centuries ago, this was a blessing, bringing forth advanced energy sources like Spiritualized Gas Fields. Over a hundred years ago, however, it turned into disaster. Excessive exploitation of the Spiritualized Gas Fields led to uncontrollable subspace energy seepage, and an accident caused a Subspace Rift and a demonic invasion. The Imperial Army did suppress the demons, destroyed the Subspace Rift, and saved Rage Owl Star from total annihilation.

But now, it became an advantage again.

With the climate transformation technology and Gu Hang’s control over the Storm God Kingdom, combined with the native Subspace region of Rage Owl Star, it was possible to quell the energy storms and have the Spiritualized Gas Fields emerge anew.

Moreover, there was less concern for a repeat of the disaster going forward.

In its heyday, Rage Owl Star mined the Spiritualized Gas Fields for hundreds or thousands of years with only one major incident occurring, meaning the probability was initially low. Not to mention that the Subspace region closest to Rage Owl Star now was Gu Hang’s own Storm God Kingdom.

Demons wishing to invade Rage Owl Star? They would have to contend with the Storm God Kingdom first.

Gu Hang intended to stay on Rage Owl Star peacefully for three months, working in tandem with climate transformation devices taken from finished Black Boxes, to begin the preliminary work on transforming the planet.

Once the most challenging part was done, the fine-tuning and maintenance could proceed without him necessarily being on-site.

However, during the second month of Gu Hang’s work on Rage Owl Star, trouble found him, courtesy of the Fury Flame Battle Group.

An old acquaintance arrived, none other than Ms. Nell Raouise, previously the Chief Administrator of Dragonhawk Star Domain, now back to her old role, leading a Tax Fleet towards the controlled regions of the Alliance, currently held up outside Capital Star by the Alliance’s “border defense.”

The Tax Fleet led by Raouise didn’t try to force its way through but made its purpose clear: collecting Imperial Taxes.

The war was largely over, and the Eastern and Western parts of the Star Domain were nominally reunited.

With the Imperial Taxes stalled for several years, it was time to resume payments.

The news of the Star Domain Government’s Tax Fleet’s arrival was promptly relayed back.

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

The Alliance War Committee and the Alliance Government, upon seeing the message from the border defense, were also hesitant to make a unilateral decision. Osenia made a Star Speech call to Gu Hang to report the situation, waiting for Mr. Gu’s directives.

“Blast her away,” Gu Hang gave a very clear response.

“But the Imperial Tax… Didn’t you instruct our Finance Department to specifically reserve a budget for paying the Imperial Tax?”

“Yes, that’s right, we of course need to pay the Imperial Tax. Is our loyalty to the Empire in question? Of course, we will pay the Imperial Tax.”

At this point, Gu Hang paused, then continued, “But who said we have to pay the Imperial Tax to the Star Domain Government?”

Osenia inquired, “You mean to directly contact a higher tier of government to make this tax payment?”

“Yes, that’s exactly what I mean,” said Gu Hang, “We pay the Imperial Tax to the Dragonhawk Star Domain Government, but can we trust Raouise to fill her Tax Fleet with tax currency and deliver it to Yunluo Star to be transferred to the Empire’s hands? Clearly not. How much of the Imperial Tax collected by the western part of the Star Domain actually gets passed on? Didn’t the Fury Flame Battle Group cleverly create numerous pretexts to spend it on themselves?”

“No matter how many valid reasons there are, the majority of the Imperial Taxes currently collected by the Dragonhawk Star Domain Government is under the control of the Fury Flame Battle Group. They have too many justifications for spending these taxes—subduing rebellions, defense, clearing out Green Skins… just like what they did with ‘Iron Fury Stone’ in the Princess Star Domain.”

“If we dutifully pay our taxes to the Star Domain Government, we would have to hand over one-tenth of the Alliance’s outputs—the past two years’ Imperial Taxes total up to 76 billion tax currency in materials! Are we insane? To give 76 billion to the Fury Flame and then let them use our own money to fight us?”

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