Super Spender

Chapter 826: Chapter 821: Fear of Comparison (Part 2)_1

Of course, privileged classes exist everywhere, and Earth is no exception, but at least it is not as blatant as it is here, and now Finn Lewis is about to change that. To be honest, based on the investigation of various families in the Luna Starfield during this period, it is true that the population governed by each family amounts to at least tens of billions.

For instance, the population under the control of the royal family’s nine surnames is at least several hundred billion, so for many of these people their sense of belonging to their family isn’t very strong. For example, now that the Aitken Family’s territory has become Finn Lewis’s, the common people have accepted this quite calmly, without a single voice of opposition.

Because to them, it makes no real difference—it’s merely a change of administrative layer. To put it bluntly, they lack a sense of belonging, whereas most people on Earth do feel a sense of belonging to their own countries.

No matter whether they acknowledge it or not, when it comes to their country, people do feel some sense of belonging, and such a sense of belonging comes from having something to contrast with and a differential to perceive. To the common people of the Federation, who rules them makes no difference; thus, they naturally lack a sense of belonging.

Take the people under the Aitken Family, for example, Finn Lewis ruling them—at least he is of the royal family, meaning their territory is a bit safer than that of the nobility, which makes many people too happy to care about having a sense of belonging.

Perhaps only if someone worse than the Aitken Family ruled them, threatening their current way of life, would they possibly oppose. So what Finn Lewis now intends to do is to enhance their rights to a certain stage, not too high, just equivalent to the rights of ordinary people in the countries on Earth would suffice. Even this would be unique within the entire Galactic Federation.

Finn Lewis made numerous modifications to the laws and regulations, which undoubtedly signify one thing—that the rights to the common people’s daily lives will be greatly enhanced. Finn Lewis even modeled the courts in his territory after those on Earth, doing so directly and openly.

The Supreme Court has vast authority and, according to the legal provisions, can deal with anyone who breaks the law, naturally including the direct heirs within Finn Lewis’s own family. There are plenty of other benefits as well, and as these policies were broadcasted, almost everyone was in an uproar.

This was simply unbelievable—no one had ever heard of such actions taken by a prince before, but Finn Lewis did it, and he publicly announced these policies, meaning that they were indeed real. People from the entire Aitken family’s territory were almost going mad, especially with regards to taxes.

Before this, these ordinary people had to hand over 20% of their income every year because, nominally, they belonged to the Aitken family; therefore, they had to pay this income to their main family. This is the same for every family in the Galactic Federation, with no exceptions.

When Finn Lewis first learned about this, he was shocked. On Earth, he thought the taxes were already high, but it was only after coming to the Galactic Federation that he realized Earth’s taxes were nothing in comparison.

No matter how much you earn, a fixed 20% tax is to be paid without exception. And aside from this 20%, there are various other taxes, which though different in name from those on Earth, essentially amount to the same thing. That is to say, after paying all their taxes, they still have to hand over 20% of their income.

These people had long been accustomed to such a system. As the saying goes, when everyone is in the same boat, nobody feels anything’s wrong with it. But now, Finn Lewis directly abolished this tax, not only that, but he also announced that within the next month, he would refund the entire 20% part that had been collected over the past six months back to the individuals.

If there were people from Earth here, they would recognize that this is the famous principle of “buying a horse’s bones with a thousand pieces of gold,” and Finn Lewis intended to use this approach to gain control of the entire territory as quickly as possible. And for the courts throughout his territory, not only did he have Luna Starfield monitor them, but he also directly exchanged for a large number of T2500-type intelligent robots to complete the task.

Although other T-series robots can be easily detected within the Galactic Federation, the T2500-type robots are different. These robots are all manufactured in a clone-like fashion, with only the most advanced biological chips used in their brains, so the T2500-type cannot be detected.

The T2500-type robots Finn Lewis exchanged would gradually take control of all the courts in his territory, with the army ensuring the authority of the courts, as he deployed the 10 first-class warships and the simulation robots he brought with him here. With 10 first-class warships stationed, nobody here dared oppose this step.@@novelbin@@

As long as these two points were controlled, it would ensure that Finn Lewis’s rule could be smoothly enforced. Barry and others were completely speechless and shocked; they had never expected Finn Lewis to take such actions.

Finn Lewis spent about a week within the Aitken family’s domain, and believe it or not, during that week, due to the enforcement of new laws, the rapidly deployed T2500-type robots quickly processed many cases that were previously oppressive but disadvantageous to the average person according to the new laws.

Moreover, they released a large number of people who had been imprisoned for offending members of the Aitken family. They didn’t just release them, but also directly provided them with substantial so-called state compensation. This series of actions, although only over a little more than a week, was executed with unprecedented efficiency.

While executing, these matters were continuously publicized rapidly through all networks throughout the territory, so that everyone was made aware of what was happening. This was not Earth, where there may still be places that networks can’t cover, but here, that wasn’t an issue, as nearly everyone could see the handling of these matters.

Thus, when Finn Lewis left the Aitken Family’s Capital Star, something unprecedented happened—a surprise to many—that was, close to Star Harbor on Capital Star, a large number of common people gathered, at least a million, and they were not there for any reason other than to see off Finn Lewis.

Because Finn Lewis was leaving that day, and these people were there to bid him farewell. Finn Lewis had won the respect, or rather the admiration, of everyone at a frightening speed, because his measures could be said to be sincerely considered for their well-being.