If all non-combatants were deployed in densely populated nests, it would be nothing more than to distribute this cost to the governors of each planet, but the problem is that many logistics stations are built on deserted planets and satellites with sparse populations and even no populations, which would result in even their supplies taking up logistics transportation.
In order to reduce the burden of logistics capacity and to save costs, Soshiyan proposed an idea, that is, based on the credit of the Expeditionary Force, supplemented by the materials provided by Reza, to establish an equivalent that is easy to trade, and use this thing to pay the non-combatants' remuneration, so that the supply of non-combatants can be completed through the merchant ship trade. Although the profit demand of merchants will eventually fall into the hands of those employees, Soshiyan will have nothing to do for war.
In a sense, this is considered to be a temporary universal currency in the entire Great Vortex War Zone. However, Soshiyan's idea is relatively simple. He only intends to use it as a "exchange voucher" within the Expeditionary Force, rather than as a real currency. Staff can use this to exchange materials with corresponding denominations at fixed locations or designated markets, and can even be used as subsidies and retirement fees for soldiers in the future.
The treatment of retired soldiers in the empire is often very different. Some soldiers recruited from the fortress world often return to their hometowns after retirement, become instructors or hold certain low-level public offices, while some of the empire worlds just give some rewards at will and send them back to their hometowns, or give positions such as sheriffs and dispatchers, and some go to relatively safe new colonies to obtain a piece of land or a little industry, becoming one of the countless colonists in the empire. Most of the soldiers recruited by the Great Vortex themselves come from the empire. The empire basically rewards such soldiers. Soshiyan felt that if he did not intend to continue serving after the war, he should also give them some substantial rewards.
The empire was relatively relaxed in the right to mint coins, and basically every world could mint coins independently. Therefore, Soshiyan's idea was not legally problematic. The only problem was that as a space warrior, he could not know anything about the economy, but his understanding was undoubtedly relatively superficial. The same was true for Laisand and others. Although they agreed with Soshiyan's idea, they could not give any comments.
On the contrary, Marcus reminded Soshyan that due to the huge payment amount, this kind of thing will inevitably flow into the free market, which will eventually affect the production, supply and trade of the entire vortex. It is quite taboo to dominate these, so it is best to let the Ministry of Internal Affairs come forward. In addition, it also depends on the intentions of the merchants. After all, they control galaxy logistics, which is also a direct stakeholder, and need to consider comprehensively and comprehensively, to decide the final plan.
Things must be done, but Soshyan listened to Marcus's opinion and planned to ask the Ministry of Internal Affairs to give a plan first, and this temporary currency will be temporarily named "Military Ticket".
After finishing the strategic discussion, Soshiyan met with the business delegation and listened to their opinions on the supply of materials, especially food.
Originally, he should not have been involved in such "trivial" trivial matters, but recently the Ministry of Internal Affairs has complained to him many times that the logistics pressure on the Expeditionary Force was too great, which made them difficult to handle - although they knew that there must be exaggeration in it, Soshiyan found that this was actually an opportunity.
According to them, due to the escalation of the war, various grain suppliers have tightened their exports, which has caused the food prices to soar in the Great Vortex area, and the prices of many daily necessities have risen.
The food supply of the empire basically comes from three aspects. The first is to cast the world, which produces synthetic foods that the empire uses for trading and war, the second is the agricultural world, which are the main sources of natural food and raw materials, and the third is the food manufacturers and processing plants of all nests and high industrial levels in the world. However, the food produced is basically only enough to meet local needs, so it will not be included in the production share most of the time.
In the empire's trade network, the most basic one is grain trade. The route is generally like this. If grain is produced from the casting world, traders will exchange various raw materials with them, and then sell the grain to places such as Cundu to exchange for manpower, local special resources or development rights in a certain region. Then use these to exchange for more raw materials, or use the lower price casting world for more food.
If it is an agricultural world, it is generally exchanged for electronic products or other industrial and consumer goods, and then traded in Nest or other worlds, and converted into raw materials needed to cast the world or locally produced industrial products.
This food crisis comes from the first type of production, mainly because Angustorm cuts off their food exports. It should be noted that although the total amount of protein blocks and other synthetic foods produced in this world only account for about 8% of the entire food production of the Great Vortex, it accounts for nearly 30% of the food trade. Therefore, its termination of exports has a great impact on the price of the entire Great Vortex area.
At this point, Soshiyang followed the flow and provided another channel for businessmen - to create the world of Ruizha.
Reza has wanted to enter the market of the vortex for many years, but he was stared at by Mars and Angustom. After all, he can exchange cheap food for a large number of rare resources and minerals. Since Angustom himself cut off food exports, it cannot be blamed for "taking far water to save the near fire". He used Reza's food production share to stabilize the market of the vortex and ensure the stability of the expedition behind. Even if he talks about Mars, he would not pay any attention to this matter.
On the other hand, it was also considered that he had reached his previous agreement with Riza.
The traders naturally have no resistance to Ruiza's products. Anyway, the business is done with everyone, and the price of Ruiza is actually lower.
Reza was very grateful for Soshiyang's actions to help open up the market. The sage who followed the Expeditionary Force said that he would feed Soshiyang's "goodwill" to the forging world. In the future, it can be foreseen that many powerful war machines will enter the Expeditionary Force's armory.
Later, Soshiyang vaguely revealed a little idea of ​​"military ticket" to the merchants. Everyone's attitudes towards this were different, which also confirmed Marcus's statement. Most of them expressed disapproval of this.
After meeting the merchant representatives, Soshiyang met with officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and asked about the situation of the special tax on the war, because the war had been expected to last for a long time, and he had to mobilize all manpower and material resources at hand to have a long-term game with the Red Pirates.
The special war tax he originally formulated was only targeted at the nobles and ruling classes, but he soon realized that doing so was nothing more than to transfer the burden downwards. The galaxies of the Great Vortex have not recovered since the last Badab War. Many worlds are even devastated and the people are extremely poor. In order to rebuild the imperial rule, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has added several taxes. Many planetary ruling classes have also imposed heavy taxes as usual. Some worlds have even received taxes for 42 thousand years in advance.
Chapter completed!