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Chapter 401, Koroga pays taxes

The changes in the Green Bee neighborhood made Shang Yanwen feel a sense of unreality.

He hasn't returned home for four years. Why does it feel like he has changed the world?

Let alone four years, even in the past forty years, the Green Bee neighborhood has not changed so much. In the past era, in the lower hive area of ​​the hive city, people's faces changed one by one, but apart from the people, the buildings, the streets, the ceilings covered with pipes... all seemed to be imprisoned by time. The same, nothing ever changes.

Before going to Feiyingxing to go to school, Shang Yanwen had personally experienced the reform policies introduced by Mayor Espressi, which gave people in their neighborhood enough food, jobs, and a future; in Feiyingxing, When Yi Xing was in school, he also saw from some newspapers that the alliance's reform was still deepening, and that all the major nests on Koroga had changed a lot.

However, can the impact of what I see through words and photos in newspapers be the same as seeing with my own eyes the dramatic changes in my hometown that I remember?

My hometown has changed drastically and is no longer what I remember. But Shang Yanwen is not sad at all, only happy and excited.

All he wanted was for such changes to come faster and more frequently!

He regrets that he has not been able to witness the changes in the past four years; he is excited that he will not miss it again.

To cheer up, he went back home first and met his parents and siblings.

Needless to say, his family was surprised, but he was even more emotional.

Originally, there were seven members of his family. Except for one brother who died young, the remaining four children, including him, were raised with difficulty by their parents.

But now, everyone is doing well.

Both his father and mother work in the supply and marketing mall that opened five years ago in the neighborhood. His father is a loader and unloader of goods, while his mother is responsible for shopping guide work in the mall.

In the early years, both of them were rated E5 at the beginning, but now they have been upgraded to E8 level. The benefits of food and daily necessities, plus allowances, are enough to support a family. The family also moved into a newly built collective apartment. Except for him, the four members of the family were allocated a -square-meter apartment.

The house has three rooms, a bathroom, and an additional open kitchen that can be used as a small dining room.

The parents live in the master bedroom, and the two small secondary bedrooms are enough for the younger siblings to live separately.

The whole environment is still a bit small and cramped, and there is no decoration at all, just some simple furniture and cabinets. But at least, each family member has a place to sleep and their own space. You can cook by yourself, there is a table for gathering together to eat, and a set of kitchen utensils and tableware.

This was already much better than the 'home' he remembered growing up with.

My sister used to work in a textile factory. With her literacy, certain knowledge of mathematics and accounting, she worked as a clerk in the textile factory. She married a young man two years ago and has moved out to live with her husband.

My brother-in-law is from another place and is a clerk in the neighborhood. He is currently responsible for the construction of a new supply and marketing mall. The two already have a child and have been allocated a 60-square-meter house. The niece is now in her early one year old and healthy. The young couple can see that they will have a prosperous life in the future.

My younger sister and younger brother are studying. Although my younger sister's grades are not as good as his, which was unbelievable all the way to the top, she is now a good student in the middle school in the neighborhood. She has the opportunity to fight for a place in the community high school. Although the scholarship is a bit difficult, but As long as you pass the exam with an E4 or E5 rating, the benefits can guarantee your living, the allowance can supplement part of the burden, and the tuition fees can probably be covered by education loans, which can be paid back later when you work.

Generally speaking, as long as you have a rating of E8 or above, you can pay off your tuition loan in two or three years of work. The E8 rank is not difficult for graduates of community colleges. Moreover, with her grades, it is not impossible to apply for a local university in Koruga after graduating from high school. Although the tuition fee is quite stressful, Shang Yanwen is back and he can help support her.

My brother is a bit unlucky. The young man is not focused on studying. It seems that he can't even go to middle school. I estimate that after finishing elementary school in two years, he will have to find something to do when he is fourteen years old.

Although there are some worries - such as his brother's study and future issues - overall, Shang Yanwen is pleased to see that the family situation has gotten better and better in the past few years since he was gone.

He chatted a lot with his parents at home, and even cooked a table of meals together. When it was time for dinner, my sister, who had received the news, rushed back and took her husband and daughter to have a lively family reunion dinner.

He spent the whole night in his brother's room. The single bed was a little crowded, but it wasn't a big problem.

Before going to bed, the two brothers chatted a lot. His younger brother's name was Shang Yanwu. You could tell they were brothers just by looking at their names.

Shang Yanwu received some encouragement from his brother.

What Shang Yanwen said about life at Feiyingxing University was not bad, but especially the description of the sea of ​​stars really made Shang Yanwu feel yearning for it.

But he was also a little frustrated. He thought he was not good at studying. Unlike his brother or even his second sister, who could concentrate on studying without any distractions and even feel the joy of knowledge. He feels sleepy as soon as he reads, and becomes energetic as soon as he puts down the book.

By late at night, the topic was over. In the darkness, Shang Yanwu suddenly raised a question:

"Brother, what do you think about me becoming a soldier?"

"Soldier?"

"Yes, preferably the Navy!"

"It's quite good." Shang Yanwen said, "But you can't take anything seriously like this. Now the Alliance Army's selection is becoming more and more strict. I'm afraid you won't even be able to get into the Planetary Defense Force... You still have to work hard, and it's best to get into the Naval Academy."

"But it's too difficult!" Shang Yanwu became frustrated again, "The Naval Academy is the best even on the Winged Star, right? I can't get in... Is there any way to become a navy sailor? This is much easier than getting into the Naval Academy, right?"

Shang Yanwen felt that his brother was right.

Even though his grades back then were invincible, it was actually quite difficult to apply for the Flying Wing Naval Academy.

Not to mention his brother like this.

However, going to the Naval Academy is the way to become a naval officer. If you just want to be a Navy soldier, Navy sailor, or even a Marine Corps, the difficulty is completely different from that of becoming a Navy officer.

It would be difficult for the Pegasus fleet to enter because their size is relatively fixed. Although the governor's fiancée is the general of the Pegasus fleet and fights on the front line, the naval forces fighting on the front line do not receive additional personnel from the Pegasus sector at the rear.

What's more, there is something special about naval operations. Generally speaking, the loss of personnel is not large, but once a loss occurs, an entire ship of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people will be wiped out. To replenish it, you have to build a new ship and then replenish it.

However, since the Pegasus fleet cannot enter, the Alliance Navy should have a chance. According to the information currently available to Shang Yanwen, the Alliance Navy will face increasingly serious pirate challenges in the future, and the Alliance's two major shipyards have enough production capacity. In addition to paying imperial taxes, there are also many wealthy people. of production capacity.

These production capacities will never be wasted.

It is foreseeable that the subsequent alliance's naval fleet will definitely continue to expand.

My brother really has a chance to get in.

As for the dangers of joining the army, Shang Yanwen also knew it. If possible, he also hopes that his little brother will always stay with his parents, even if he is just an ordinary worker and finds an ordinary job. Under the current alliance system, as long as he works, he will definitely not worry about future life problems.

However, since his younger brother has ambitions, Shang Yanwen feels that it would not be a bad idea to become a naval officer. Danger is danger, but it is definitely not a bad thing for a good man to have dreams of stars and sea.

It's still early, my little brother is only twelve years old, and he still has at least five or six years left, so he will help keep an eye on it.

But at the moment, he still warned: "Even if you are just a sailor, you have to work harder to learn something now. If you can't even go to middle school, everything will be in vain."

...

The next day, Shang Yanwen said goodbye to his parents and went to report to the government in Green Bee Street.

His commissioned training unit is Promise City. He had already reported to Promise City, and he had been assigned to the office in his hometown.

As soon as he entered, he received a warm welcome.

The head of the government of the Green Bee neighborhood is from Koroga, but not from Promise City. He came from Mingyan City, where he also worked on deepening the reform of a community. He was recently transferred here to take charge of a larger neighborhood.

This man named Moody is a somewhat balding middle-aged man.

"Comrade Shang, you came at the right time! We are very lacking of top talents like you now!"

"To be polite, I won't tell you any more. Now is the busiest time. I'm sorry, I didn't give you time to wash away the dust. You will need to shoulder the responsibility soon."

"That's exactly why I'm here, asking for instructions from the leader."

"it is good!"

Under Moody's explanation, Shang Yanwen quickly understood what was the first major task he had to do when he came to his hometown:

Imperial tax.

Upon hearing these three words, Shang Yanwen could only feel nervous.

The imperial tax was quite profound in his past memory.

Every time the imperial tax comes, with a two-year cycle, the people in the lower nest area of ​​Koroga suffer.

Various supplies will begin to shrink in the early stage of imperial tax payment, food will become insufficient, and various daily necessities will become tight. Moreover, each family may be assigned the obligation to pay the population. .

His grandfather, his uncle, and his uncle were all taxed as adults and never came back.

Their own family is quite lucky. But thinking about it, if Governor Gu had not led the alliance to save Koroga, their family might have had to pay personal taxes again in six years, either his father, him, or his sister.

After the alliance took over, Koroga was transformed into a war zone and no taxes were paid for six years.

Now, after all, six years have passed, and Koroga will once again return to the normal situation of paying imperial taxes.

However, under the rule of the Alliance, the payment of imperial taxes should not be as difficult to overcome as it was in the past, right?

This is true.

Now, the imperial tax has nothing to do with the common people, and has completely evolved into an obligation of the government and enterprises-except for those places that have not yet completed the reform. But even among the forty hives of Koroga, there should not be many places like this now.

Where reforms are completed, the people are assigned ranks, assigned jobs, and enjoy benefits and subsidies. Of course, with Shang Yanwen's current knowledge, he understands that these benefits and subsidies are not as much as the wealth created by the people.

But he still clearly understands that the opportunity to create wealth itself is given by the coalition government.

What's more, the general public who have created wealth only have the obligation to work, obey the law, and enjoy benefits and subsidies, but they have no obligation to pay taxes. The extra value they created has been taken away by the alliance government. The alliance government should guarantee the people a peaceful and stable life, ensure that they can have channels for advancement if they work hard, and ensure that they will no longer go bankrupt and suffer due to undue taxes.

In Green Bee Street, a place that has initially completed reforms, this concept is fully implemented.

Government personnel in the neighborhood must carefully inventory all production conditions in the neighborhood, connect various enterprises, factories, soilless plantations and other production institutions, and complete a series of tasks such as inventory, warehousing and transportation of all production income.

This is indeed a big project.

Shang Yanwen immediately got into business.

And all of this, within the neighborhood government, can be regarded as a summary of certain experiences. Although it is the first time to pay imperial tax, for the past four years, there is no need to pay tax, but the alliance system itself is also in operation. The government itself is strongly responsible for the production situation and material movement within the enterprise, and these work processes are all ready-made.

It's just that during tax season, this part of the work will become more arduous.

And Shang Yanwen really played his role in this process.

His processing speed for various documents and affairs has become extremely fast after he passed the unskilled period when he first got started. Moreover, through the management knowledge he learned, he was able to detect some inefficient and wasteful parts of their current work process, and was able to propose practical modification plans through participation in practice.

Although it is only a few detailed changes in working methods and does not involve major changes, it does make the operation of the entire organization smoother and more efficient.

This was also praised by Moody's.

"Top students are different!"

Shang Yanwen is very modest about this: "I still have a lot to learn, and there are a lot of things I can still contribute to the league."

(End of this chapter)