1085. Confederacy of Independent Systems 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 Eriadu system campaign.
And because Salarian has digested most of the battleship technology of the Amarr Empire in "EVE", now Fourth Civilization has the conditions to fully upgrade the battleship of the Amarr Empire. Among them, the prototype ships Calamity-class and Hell-Angel Class Battlecruiser have completed their design and are ready for sea trials.
Of course, it is impossible for Confederacy of Independent Systems to talk about these things everywhere, and they are just an afterthought.
Returning to Confederacy of Independent Systems, after the navy warship models are finalized and production is unified, the army of Confederacy of Independent Systems currently has no plans to reform. On the one hand, the Confederacy of Independent Systems Army will be an important force in resisting the Galactic Republic invasion 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 Confederacy of Independent Systems has also begun to change. Many new departments have been established to coordinate and manage many specific affairs in the entire Confederacy of Independent Systems territory. This will slowly change the status quo of the Confederacy of Independent Systems franchise planets being fragmented.
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 afford the 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 agencies of Confederacy of Independent Systems at that time.
To put it bluntly, the previous war was actually a war waged by these corporate giants united against 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 Confederacy 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 the planets are allowed to join the army, and these planets are allowed to send troops to offset part of the war tax.
Then build a non-commissioned officer school on Xu Draon Planet to train natural soldiers.
In this project, Fourth Civilization, who 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 Fourth Civilization's influence.
Therefore, Confederacy of Independent Systems reduced war taxes by allowing those corporate giants to reduce profits, brought 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.
Give corporate giants more political power to make compromises, and at the same time, there are also the efforts of the Cooperative 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 strike Merchant Guilds first!
As Tang Xiao and Count Dooku expected, Merchant Guilds leader Shu Mai 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 InterGalactic Banking Clan, Trade Federation, Technological Alliance, and Fourth Group, Merchant Guilds 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 Corporate Alliance, which is further behind, has a large number of robot factories of its own. However, Merchant Guilds basically relies on OEM equipment, and it is only by relying on stolen design drawings that Defiant-class light destroyer can barely have any reputation.
But this time the military reform has directly torn off their only card, it's strange that Shu Mai can agree to it.
During this military reform, every other corporate giant has some way to survive, but for Merchant Guilds, there is no way to survive 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. Such a huge gap is absolutely impossible for Shu-Mai to accept! And it is absolutely impossible for Merchant Guilds businessmen who are obsessed with profit to accept it!
Before the summit was over, Shu-Mai had already left early. After returning to his headquarters Felucia, he began to claim that if Count Dooku did not withdraw this military reform, then Merchant Guilds would quit Confederacy of Independent Systems and rejoin 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 Felucia, Freedom Dark Volunteer Engineering Corps, who originally joined Merchant Guilds, announced his withdrawal from Merchant Guilds.
Freedom Dark Volunteer Engineering Corps is an engineering company established by Quarren Isolation League. After Quarren Isolation League betrayed Dak Planet (Mon Calamari), Merchant Guilds accepted them and allowed them to settle on Parmant and build huge docks and factories.
The price was that Freedom Dark Volunteer Engineering Corps joined Merchant Guilds and handed over a series of battleship designs stolen from the Dak Planet Ship Design Bureau.
For a long time, Freedom Dark Volunteer Engineering Corps has also accepted large-scale investments from several other major corporate giants, becoming the largest shipbuilding company in Confederacy of Independent Systems. However, in terms of their affiliation, they still belong to Merchant Guilds.
But things changed after the Dak Planet civil war!
After the Dak Planet civil war, Prince Lee-Char of Mon Calamari temporarily abdicated, and Quarren leader Nossori ascended to the position of acting king of the planet. At the same time, the term Mon Calamari was also abandoned, and the traditional title of Dak Planet was reactivated.
In this way, the political legitimacy of Quarren Isolation League is actually recognized. Because every one of their political demands has been realized, normally, there is no need for Quarren Isolation League to exist.
However, in order to deceive public opinion and create a political situation in which Dak Planet appears neutral but is actually pro-Confederacy of Independent Systems, Quarren Isolation League is able to continue to exist.
But what does this have to do with you Merchant Guilds?
That's right! Quarren Isolation League no longer needs the support of Merchant Guilds! They are no longer an exile organization not recognized by their home planet!
Thanks to High Lord Taldarin for the 100 reading points!!