1085. Military reform of the Confederacy of Independent Systems (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", now the Fourth Civilization has the conditions to fully replace the Amarr Empire's battleships. Among them, the prototypes of the Catastrophe-class and Hells Angel-class battlecruisers have been designed and finalized and are 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.
Back 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 half year. 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 participating planets.
In the past, all planets had to pay war taxes, and they had to pay them in the form of money, and corporate giants would never accept anything else for the sake of profit. When some planets really can't come up with money, they can only borrow money from corporate giants through mortgage loans, and then use 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 wars were actually wars waged by these corporate giants united against the Galactic Republic.
Corporations are naturally unable to fight against countries, so they support their 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 desperate situations.
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 and avoid malicious companies from maliciously lowering prices.
In addition, all people from the 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 build non-commissioned officer schools on many planets to train natural soldiers.
In this project, the Fourth Civilization, which was the first to use natural troops and accumulated a large number of officer resources, benefited again. Many soldiers who retired due to injuries went to these non-commissioned officer schools to become instructors, which also brought the influence of the Fourth Civilization. force.
As a result, 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 said 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 Disobedient-class light destroyer barely has any cards.
And this time the military reform has directly torn away their only card, it is strange that Shu Mai can agree to it.
During this military reform, every other corporate giant has some way to survive, but for the commercial guilds, there is no way to survive.
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. Such a huge gap is absolutely impossible for Shu-Mai to accept! And those businessmen in the commercial guild who are bent on 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 Group, which originally joined the Commercial Guild, announced its withdrawal from the Commercial Guild.
The Free Dark Volunteer Engineering Group 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.
The Free Dark Volunteer Engineering Group has also received large-scale investments from several other major corporate giants, and has become the largest shipbuilding company in the Confederation of Independent Systems. However, their affiliation is still classified as a business 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 one was reactivated. The name of the planet Dark.
In this way, the political legitimacy of the Quarren Isolation Alliance was actually recognized. Because every one of their political demands has actually 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 the planet Dark that was neutral on the surface but actually pro-Confederate, the Quarren Isolation Alliance was able to continue to exist.
However, what does this have to do with your commercial guild?
That's right! The Quarren Isolation Alliance no longer needs the support of the commercial guild! They are no longer an exile organization not recognized by their home planet!
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Thanks to the high-ranking lord Tal'darin for the 100 reading points! !
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