Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 1267 - 717, Top-tier Cattle and Horses_2

Chapter 1267: Chapter 717, Top-tier Cattle and Horses_2

If a Union Citizen, from adulthood to old age, this is the trajectory of life.

If one can be promoted like this, life would be quite beautiful. Reaching level D1 provides a relatively comfortable life, with no worries about food and drink, and offers a sufficient salary to purchase fairly decent large appliances. In terms of benefits, one has multiple guarantees such as housing, healthcare, and education. At level D5, it is defined by the Union as the middle class level, and according to the standards of a typical Empire World’s Nest Capital, some small industrial owners can enjoy a similar standard of living. Even in some Garden Worlds, those with decent incomes only live at this level. At level D9, one reaches the level that most Empire citizens can only dream of, and it is the pinnacle that the salaried class can reach in the majority of Empire Worlds.

At level C and above, in terms of personal life, one is considered affluent.

Clearly, at this level, the treatment of a Union Citizen is quite good.

But even in the Union, it’s impossible for everything to be as wondrous as a utopia.

For every citizen to smoothly progress from age 18 to 64, the high welfare and salary expenses are a financial burden even the Union cannot bear.

In reality, starting from level D, evaluations become difficult; evaluations are required to reach the time limit, and failing them results in delays; passing them allows time accumulation to continue; doing well allows direct promotion without considering the time limit; outstanding achievements even allow for skip-level promotions.

Moreover, all job levels require matched work. If unemployed, forget about promotions, demotions occur annually.

This ’evaluation’ is essentially based on indicators.

The enormous system of the Ministry of Civil Affairs calculates the year’s total budget for human resources expenditure based on the fiscal budget, and distributes these promotion indicators according to the overall plan. Whether it’s enterprises, individual businesses, or government personnel departments, it all depends on performance. If done well, the department gets more promotion indicators; otherwise, it might even face demotion indicators.

The internal organization department of a department then allocates these spots to lower-level departments, eventually down to individuals.

Macroeconomically, it’s essentially about how many promotion spots are available and looks at the total output of the Union, and the budget allocated for human resources expenditure from that output.

During wartime, a large amount of resources is put into military production. Additionally, a large number of newly occupied zones need funding for development, meaning the available promotion spots are relatively limited.

Some wartime mobilization orders have even been issued, requiring reductions in welfare and salary ratios at all levels.

Now, as wartime mobilization orders are lifted, the newly incorporated populations from various occupied zones, even if initially rated very low, represent massive numbers in the hundreds of billions, drastically increasing human resource expenditures.

Additionally, all units’ organizational departments are constantly reporting upward; as the Union has initiated grand production plans, units are launching various production incentive policies. Those who perform well and strongly are more likely to be promoted, to drive stronger production enthusiasm.

All of this calls for human resource costs to keep rising.

In essence, this is repaying the public for wartime exploitation and preparing for the upcoming grand growth period, where development benefits must be shared with the populace to stimulate growth.

The populace desires an improved living standard, having little use for military goods or heavy machinery. They desire proper quality of life.

This calls for more abundant material supply, from food and clothing to various entertainment consumption…

Increases in service industry personnel or the populace’s living standard demands all require a large amount of consumer goods.

This conflicts with the Alliance Tax Special Office.

They specifically resolve issues concerning the collection of the Imperial Tax, primarily focusing on heavy industries, but also placing significant importance on collecting consumer goods, especially food items.

This conflict arose sharply in the allocation of agricultural products and processed agricultural goods in the northern parts of the Dragonhawk Star Domain this year, especially in former beastman-occupied zones that now experience a bumper harvest.

The Ministry of Civil Affairs demands more consumer goods be included in the budget, while the Department of Taxation insists a significant proportion of consumer goods be incorporated into the tax system and transported to the storage world located at Shi Ping Star, at the easternmost part of the Spiderweb Domain, currently under construction in the Tanggu Star Domain.

Neither side gives in, each seeking assistance from their respective leadership, escalating the dispute up to Osenia.

In the past, Osenia sometimes handled similar issues herself, but sometimes when overwhelmed, she’d direct them to the Governor’s Office, and once the document representing the governor’s will was issued, everyone complied without objection.

But now, everything is piled up on Osenia.

After listening to both sides argue, Osenia rubbed her head, and quickly acted according to her thought process and the governor’s parting instructions, to stop the conflict from continuing and decisively resolved it.

“Follow Minister Wen Zhengnan’s advice; we indeed need to put a large number of consumer goods into civilian incentives.”

“The value of civilian consumer goods is relatively low; their massive collection to fill tax quotas is akin to adding a drop of water to a vast ocean.”

“However, the Ministry of Civil Affairs must collaborate with the Ministry of Production, requiring each production department and local government to increase production indicators, as quotas are given out. We need to use low-value civilian consumer goods to exchange for greater production value. Military production, shipbuilding, and raw material processing are top priorities. My expectation is to exchange ten billion shirts and one billion tons of food for more warships, and then send them to the Empire as part of the Imperial Tax, rather than simply enhancing civilian welfare.”

After making the decision, she dispatched everyone and immediately called her secretary:

“Additionally, have someone from the Ministry of Commerce come see me.”

Subsequently, she arranged some work concerning the Ministry of Commerce.

She demanded that the Ministry of Commerce strengthen trade within and outside the Union. High-value consumer goods should be well-marketed to increase their price, so citizens whose job levels have risen can spend their money; simultaneously, these high-value consumer goods, including military goods and heavy machinery, should be traded externally for tax currency if surplus exists.

The market fluctuates; the Imperial Tax has clear assigned values for each product. However, some planets might be experiencing food crises, while others might be at war externally, requiring more military goods. Often in such times, corresponding products can fetch higher value.

Distributing one billion consumer goods to Union citizens can produce ten billion military goods, which is then sold to needful planets in exchange for twenty billion consumer goods, further distributed to citizens, incentivizing the production of more military goods… generating greater circulation value through exchange.

Excess output beyond market demand is directly taxed, mitigating concerns about overcapacity; trade profits are used for taxation, amplifying capacity value…

Diverse methods must be employed to meet Imperial Tax obligations.

Not to mention, besides taxation, Osenia did not forget the need to balance the Union’s development.

Having finished these tasks, Osenia suddenly realized she hadn’t rested for thirty-three hours. Even her meals were the simplest fast food.

Sometimes she couldn’t help but smile bitterly, as she qualified for level A7 treatment, with an annual allocation of salary and welfare having a total value exceeding three thousand tax currency.

However, spending a hundred tax currency a year is quite an achievement for her.

Eating fast work meals, living in the office, wearing tailor-provided uniforms, maintaining a peak physical condition thanks to rejuvenation procedures that extend her lifespan and bolster her vitality, allowing prolonged intense work without illness…

Luxury goods are utterly unnecessary. For travel, all vehicles and ships are provided by the state.

At times, she feels like the ultimate workhorse—a term that originated from a joke by the governor, now prevalent across the Union.

But even someone as energetic as her, after thirty-three hours without rest, is quite exhausted and tired.

Glancing at the schedule, the piled-up work remains mountainous.

She plans to sleep for six to seven hours before continuing.

However, before going to sleep, she has one last thing to do.

The time for a call with Wu Jiarong Sage is approaching.

They need to discuss the Union’s production issues once more.