Chapter 1085: Military Reform of the Confederacy of Independent Systems (Part 2)
1085, Independent System Confederacy Military Reform (Part 2)
In fact, Tang Xiao has already been planning a transformation.
Main warships, drones, and fighter jets are all preparing for transformation, because a lot of old warships have been consumed in the battle of the Eriadu system.
And because the Salarians have digested most of the Amarr Empire's battleship technology in "EVE", the Fourth Civilization is now ready to fully replace the Amarr Empire's battleships. Among them, the Catastrophe-class and Hell's Angel-class battlecruisers are
The prototype ship has been designed and finalized and is ready for sea trials.
Of course, it is impossible for these things to be talked about everywhere by the Confederation of Independent Systems, and they are just an afterthought.
Returning to the Confederacy of Independent Systems, after the naval battleship models were finalized and production was unified, the Confederate Army currently has no plans to reform. On the one hand, the Confederate Army will be an important force in resisting the invasion of the Galactic Republic for at least the next six months.
Strength, on the other hand, if too many reforms are made at once, it will cause greater internal chaos.
The political system of the Confederacy has also begun to change, and many new departments have begun to be established to coordinate and manage many specific affairs throughout the entire Confederation territory. This will slowly change the current situation of the Confederation's participating planets acting independently.
Then the most important point is to reform the war tax policy that is currently most hated by all franchise planets.
In the past, all planets had to pay war taxes, and they had to pay them in the form of money. For the sake of profit, corporate giants would never accept anything else. When some planets really couldn't afford the money, they could only get it through mortgage loans.
Corporate giants borrowed money from them and then used the borrowed money to continue paying war taxes.
After a lot of back and forth in the process, the final converted price of the mortgaged resources and industries can only be half of the original market price at most. This is naked robbery and plunder.
Moreover, the corporate giants did not even allow these planets to participate in the war, nor did they allow them to send out armies or spaceships. They were not even allowed to serve in the limited administrative structure of the Confederation of Independent Systems at the time.
To put it bluntly, the previous war was actually a war waged by these corporate giants united against the Galactic Republic.
Corporations are naturally unable to fight against the country, so they support their own war process by plundering the resources and wealth of these planets. Such a war model is not only anti-social but also anti-human. It is useless except to push people into desperation.
It would be weird to win.
Now, although the Confederation of Independent Systems has not directly abolished war taxes, it has added the option of directly mortgaging materials or factory production capacity, and has set up a notary office to unify prices to avoid malicious companies from maliciously lowering prices.
In addition, all people from allied planets are allowed to join the army, and it is agreed that these planets can offset part of the war tax by sending troops.
Then, sergeant schools were built on many planets to train natural soldiers.
In this project, the Fourth Civilization, which has accumulated a large number of officer resources because it pioneered the use of natural troops, once again benefited. Many soldiers who retired due to injuries went to these sergeant schools to become instructors, which also brought the influence of the Fourth Civilization.
force.
Therefore, the Confederacy of Independent Systems reduced war taxes by allowing those corporate giants to reduce profits, brought in more soldiers, and also reduced the cost of war.
In order to compensate these companies, it is to return to what was mentioned before - exchanging power for money.
Giving corporate giants more political power to make compromises, at the same time, there are also the efforts of the Mutual Aid Alliance established by Tang Xiao behind the scenes.
However, this is naturally a stopgap measure. In Tang Xiao's long-term plan, the ultimate goal is to nationalize all these corporate giants one by one.
And now, this knife will be struck first on the commercial guild!
As Tang Xiao and Count Dooku expected, Shu Mai, the leader of the commercial guild, was the first to jump out and fiercely oppose this military reform, and his attitude was very firm.
This is inevitable. Compared with others including the Interstellar Banking Association, Trade Alliance, Technology Alliance, and the Fourth Group, the Commercial Guild does not have its own core competitiveness at all.
To put it bluntly, they actually do not have the strength to match their current status. Even the corporate alliances further back have a large number of robot factories of their own, but the equipment of the commercial guilds basically relies on OEMs, which rely on stolen designs.
Trying to build a Defiant-class light destroyer barely has any credibility.
And this time the military reform has directly torn away their only card, it’s surprising that Shu-Mai can agree to it.
During this military reform, every other corporate giant has some way of survival, but for the commercial guilds, there is no way of survival at all.
Of course, the most important point is that although there are many idiots among the leaders of these corporate giants, Shu Mai is definitely the stupidest and worst one. It is absolutely impossible for Shu Mai to accept such a huge gap.
! And those businessmen in the commercial guild who are dedicated to profit are absolutely impossible to accept it!
Before the summit ended, Shu-Mai had already left early. After returning to his headquarters on the planet Felucia, he began to claim that if Count Dooku did not withdraw this military reform, the commerce guild would withdraw from the Confederation of Independent Systems.
, rejoined the Galactic Republic.
But this is absolutely impossible!
Before Shu Mai could really react, a combination of punches that Tang Xiao and Count Dooku had planned for a long time came down.
You must know that Shu Mai only found out in the past few days that Tang Xiao and Count Dooku were going to attack him, but the two foxes, one big and one one small, had been planning for months!
Not long after Shu-Mai returned to the planet Felucia, the Free Dark Volunteer Engineering Corps, which originally joined the Commercial Guild, announced its withdrawal from the Commercial Guild.
The Free Dark Volunteer Engineering Corps is an engineering company established by the Quarren Isolation Alliance. After the Quarren Isolation Alliance rebelled against the Dark planet (Mon Calamari planet), the Commercial Guild accepted them and allowed them to work in Paman
settled on the special planet and built huge shipyards and factories.
The price was that the Free Dark Volunteer Engineering Group joined the Commercial Guild and handed over a series of battleship designs stolen from the Dark Planet Ship Design Bureau.
For a long time, the Free Dark Volunteer Engineering Group has also accepted large-scale investments from several other major corporate giants, and has become the largest shipbuilding company in the Confederation of Independent Systems. However, in terms of their affiliation, they still belong to the Commercial Guild.
But things changed after the civil war on Dark Planet!
After the civil war on the planet Dark, Prince Lee-Char of the Mon Calamari temporarily abdicated, and the Quarren leader Nosori ascended to the position of acting king of the planet. At the same time, the theory of the Mon Calamari planet was also abandoned, and the traditional theory of the planet was reactivated.
The name of the planet Dark.
In this way, the political legitimacy of the Quartz Isolation Alliance has actually been recognized. Because every one of their political demands has been realized, normally there is no need for the Quarren Isolation Alliance to exist.
However, in order to deceive public opinion and create a political situation on Dark's planet that is neutral on the surface but actually pro-Confederacy, the Quarren Isolation Alliance can continue to exist.
However, what does this have to do with your commercial guild?
That's right! The Quarren Isolated Alliance no longer needs the support of the Commercial Guild! They are no longer an exile organization not recognized by their home planet!