If all non-combatants are deployed in densely populated hives, it is nothing more than spreading the cost to the governors of various planets. But the problem is that many logistics stations are established on desolate planets and satellites with sparsely populated or even non-populated planets, which leads to
Even their supplies require logistical transportation.
In order to reduce the burden on logistics capacity and save costs, Soshyan proposed an idea, which is to use the credit of the expeditionary force as the basis, supplemented by the materials provided by Reza, to establish an equivalent that facilitates transactions, and use this thing to pay
The remuneration of non-combatants, so that the supplies of non-combatants can be completed through merchant ship trade - although due to the profit needs of merchants, what will eventually fall into the hands of those employees will definitely be less than the physical delivery, but everything is for the war,
Soshyan was helpless.
In a sense, this can be regarded as a temporary common currency in the entire Maelstrom Theater. However, Soshyan's idea is relatively simple. He only intends to use it within the expeditionary force as a "coupon" rather than as a currency.
A real currency that employees can use to exchange for supplies of corresponding denominations at fixed locations or designated markets. It can even be used as subsidies and retirement pay for soldiers in the future.
The empire's treatment of retired soldiers often varies greatly. Some soldiers recruited from fortress worlds often return to their hometowns after retirement to become instructors or hold some low-level public positions, while some hive worlds just send them back to their places of origin with random rewards.
Or they are given a position such as a peace officer or a dispatcher, or some go to a relatively safe new colony to obtain a piece of land or some industry and become one of the countless colonists in the empire. Most of the soldiers recruited by the Maelstrom themselves come from the nest.
In both cities, the empire basically gave mainly symbolic rewards to such soldiers. Soshyan felt that after the war, if they did not plan to continue serving, they should also be given some substantial rewards.
The empire is relatively relaxed about the right to mint money. Basically, each world can mint coins independently. Therefore, there is no legal problem with Soshyan's idea. The only problem is that as a space warrior, he cannot be said to know nothing about economics.
, but the understanding is undoubtedly relatively superficial, including Lysander and others. Although they agree with Soshyan's ideas, they can't give any opinions.
Instead, Marcus reminded Soshyan that due to the huge amount of payment, this kind of thing will inevitably flow into the free market, eventually affecting the production, supply and trade of the entire Maelstrom, and it is taboo for Space Marines to dominate these.
Therefore, it is best to let the Ministry of Internal Affairs come forward. In addition, it is also necessary to look at the intentions of the merchants. After all, they control the galaxy logistics and are also direct stakeholders. It requires comprehensive consideration from many aspects before deciding on the final plan.
Things must continue to be done, but Soshyan listened to Marcus's opinion and planned to let the Ministry of Internal Affairs come up with a plan first, and this temporary currency was temporarily named "military coupons."
After concluding the strategic-level discussions, Soshyan later met with the Hong merchant delegation and listened to their opinions on material supply, especially food supply.
Originally, he should not be involved in such "trivial" matters personally, but recently the Ministry of Internal Affairs has complained to him many times that the logistics pressure on the expeditionary force is too great, which has made it difficult for them to cope with it. Although he knows that there is definitely an exaggeration in this, but simply
Shi Yang discovered that this was actually an opportunity.
According to them, due to the continuous escalation of the war, various food suppliers have tightened their exports, which has caused the price of food in the Maelstrom area to skyrocket, and the prices of many daily necessities have also increased with it.
The empire's food supply basically comes from three aspects. The first is the forging world, which produces most of the synthetic foods used in trade and war in the empire. The second is the agricultural world, which is the main source of natural food and raw materials. The third
These are the large and small food production plants and processing plants in various hive cities and worlds with higher industrial levels. However, the food produced is basically enough to meet local needs, so most of the time it is not counted in production.
among the shares.
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 forging world, merchants will exchange it with various raw materials, and then sell the grain to the hive capital and other places.
Land, in exchange for manpower, local special resources or development rights in a certain area, and then use these to exchange for more raw materials, or go to a lower-priced forging world to exchange for more food.
If it is an agricultural world, then it is usually exchanged for electronic products or other industrial products and consumer goods, and then traded in the hive or other worlds, and converted into raw materials required in the casting world or locally produced industrial products.
This food crisis comes from the first type of production, mainly because Angstrom has cut off their food exports. You must know that although the total amount of protein blocks and other synthetic foods produced in this world only accounts for the entire food production of Maelstrom
It accounts for about 8% of the food trade, but it accounts for nearly 30% of the food trade. Therefore, its termination of exports has a great impact on prices in the entire maelstrom area.
Because of this, Soshiyang followed the trend and provided another channel for the merchants - the forging world Reza.
Reza has wanted to break into the Maelstrom market for many years, but he has been stared at by Mars and Angstrom. After all, being able to exchange cheap food for a large amount of rare resources and minerals is a business that everyone wants to monopolize.
Since Angstrom has cut off food exports this time, we can't blame Soshyan for "taking distant water to put out nearby fire" and using Reza's share of food production to stabilize the maelstrom market and ensure the stability of the rear of the expedition.
, even if this matter was brought up to Mars, he would not be wronged.
On the other hand, it can be regarded as reaching his previous agreement with Reza.
Businessmen naturally have no objection to Reza's products. They do business with anyone anyway, and Reza's prices are actually lower.
Reza was very grateful to Soshyan for helping open the market. The sage who followed the expedition said that he would feed Soshyan's "goodwill" back to the forging world. It is foreseeable that there will be many powerful people in the future.
The war machine entered the armory of the expeditionary force.
After that, Soshyan secretly revealed some ideas about "military coupons" to the merchants. Everyone had different attitudes towards this, which also confirmed Marcus' statement. Most of them expressed disapproval of it.
After meeting the business representatives, Soshyan met with officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and asked about the special war tax. Because this war was already expected to be protracted, he had to mobilize all the manpower and material resources at hand to play a long-term game with the Red Pirates.
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The special war tax he originally enacted was only for the nobility and ruling class, but he soon realized that doing so was just to shift the burden downwards. The Maelstrom galaxies have not recovered since the last Badab War.
Yuan Qi, many worlds are even more devastated, the people are extremely poor, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs has increased taxes several times in order to rebuild the empire's rule. The ruling class of many planets has also imposed excessive taxes as usual. Some worlds even received taxes 42 thousand years in advance.
What Soshyan wants is not a victory with no results, so he must make those bastard nobles willing to pick their pockets.