Chapter 40 Plans

Hearing this, Jian was quite surprised. The other party's first reaction upon receiving a massive compensation payout was to make a donation, which made her muse that modern young girls indeed possessed a strong sense of social responsibility... at least much more than she had. Still, this wasn't all that strange; in their line of work, they had seen all sorts of people, and individuals like Jiang Hui were not entirely unheard of.

She did not immediately ask about the amount Jiang Hui intended to donate, but instead inquired about her specific donation plans and the targeted recipient projects.

The Interstellar donation system was relatively well-established, allowing individuals to donate directly without necessarily going through large organizations. As long as the recipient was a legitimate, legally registered organization applied for and approved by the Empire, all remaining procedures could be streamlined.

However, it still depended on the specific project Jiang Hui wished to support. For projects or special individuals requiring installment payments and long-term follow-up, it might be necessary to go through a foundation agent. Even though society had become quite transparent in this regard, there was still plenty of room for manipulation, and dealing with things individually could easily put one at a disadvantage. Generally, this type of donation method was only adopted by enterprises engaging in commercial-backed philanthropy.

On the other hand, direct donations to major disease associations or individual projects that could immediately allocate funds to help patients could be paid in a single lump sum.

Jiang Hui wanted to split her donation into two parts. The first was directed toward the education system in the remote galaxies, hoping to contribute in a modest way to help more ambitious and talented students continue their education.

The second part was designated for the frontier defense military and government, specifically earmarked for the pensions and allowances of disabled soldiers.

Jian was somewhat surprised. The former was quite common—belonging to the most typical category of charitable giving—while the latter was rather rare. After all, the Imperial military had always been relatively well-funded with full national backing, and massive shipments of military resources were continuously dispatched; no matter how one looked at it, they hardly seemed short on money.

Interstellar citizens were quite pragmatic, and very few members of the public made donations in this area. Furthermore, donations to military and government sectors generally could not be used for tax deductions, a rule implemented to prevent opportunistic individuals from exploiting loopholes or harboring ulterior motives. Therefore, even if such donations existed, they were mostly made by specific privileged classes or socially responsible corporate entrepreneurs.

It seemed rather peculiar for a young girl like Jiang Hui to think of contributing in this direction.

Jiang Hui said softly, "My parents were both soldiers." Moreover, the original body's parents had both died in the frontier defense war. However, she kept this latter sentence to yourself.

Jian suddenly felt a wave of understanding. This Ms. Jiang's parents were Imperial soldiers, and she was indeed currently living alone without a guardian. Now that she wanted to make a donation to the military, one could read between the lines and sense a hint of a deeper story.

Jian did not probe further. After all, could she really ask the other party whether her parents had perished or suffered on the battlefield? That would be far too presumptuous and cruel. It was better to simply pretend not to know.

Both of Jiang Hui's chosen donation paths had dedicated official interfaces specifically established to accept contributions from all sectors of society, eliminating the need to go through any intermediary organizations.

When the time came, she only needed to submit the relevant materials to the respective institutions and sign her name. Once the institution verified her identity, the Interstellar Bank would transfer the funds directly to the corresponding accounts on her behalf.

The former donation required paying a tax because the funds came from her compensation payout. While it did not generate capital gains, it could still offset a portion of her taxable amount.

As for the funds donated to the military, they went entirely into a sub-treasury of the national treasury, meaning no taxes were levied on this portion whatsoever; however, it could not be used for tax deductions either.

Jiang Hui could submit the applications for both types from home. If submitted tonight, the processing would likely be completed in the next day or two.

Yet, fundamentally she was a person from Planet Blue, having arrived in the Interstellar era only recently, and she hadn't even fully figured out how her optical brain worked—how could she possibly navigate these complex procedures? Thus, she simply entrusted the matter entirely to Ms. Jiang. The firm Ms. Jiang worked for handled a wide range of commissions, and this happened to be one of their regular services.

Jian assured her that it was very simple and could be handled by tomorrow. Once Jiang Hui returned and reported the intended donation amounts, she would be able to fill out the corresponding application documents accordingly.

At this point, the conversation between the two essentially came to a close. Both parties had achieved their goals and were quite satisfied.

As they both prepared to pack up their things and leave, Jian asked as if suddenly recalling something, "Ms. Jiang, you recently arrived in the resident star system, didn't you?"

This was recorded in the basic profile. Jiang Hui had forgotten to hide this section when she submitted her commission materials, so the other party naturally saw it when accepting the commission.

"Yes, I used to live in the inner-ring star system. Due to family changes, I relocated here. But I hadn't been living there for more than few days before I was sent flying to the hospital by that intelligent robot belonging to Haelusi," Jiang Hui couldn't help offering a wry smile.

So she was originally a resident of the inner-ring star system. Her family background must have been quite affluent, which explained why she could remain so nonchalant about such a large compensation payout.

Interstellar residential zones were divided into several tiers. The conventionally recognized residential areas known to the general public were roughly categorized into four levels: outer-ring star systems, resident star systems, inner-ring star systems, and the central star sector.

The positions ranged from outside to inside, bottom to top; the closer to the center, the more important the region. The optimal residential zone was naturally the central star sector, commonly referred to as the capital star system. It housed the largest concentration of high-ranking officials, major political figures, the super-wealthy, and their immediate families. Of course, ordinary residents also lived there, but these so-called ordinary people, after thousands of years of environmental immersion and various regional advantages, were no longer truly ordinary.

The next tier down, the inner-ring star systems, belonged to prime residential zones. They served as the primary settlements for many literati, scholars, domain experts, mid-to-small aristocratic households, and wealthy families. Several well-known universities and academies also liked to establish themselves there.

Their current location belonged to the resident star system, which was a standard middle-class residential area. Citizens lived peaceful lives, and conditions and resources were relatively abundant, though all aspects were still somewhat inferior to the upper tiers.

Moving further down to the outer-ring star systems, these were basically extremely impoverished border stars, exile planets, garbage disposal worlds, or dark sectors; in short, most conditions were poor. Only the outer ring closest to the resident systems had passable conditions, with education and communication systems connected to the inner rings.

Naturally, the realm explored by humanity was vast, yet the universe remained endless to this day, leaving many areas unexplored and unmanaged. Regions that had not been visited by humanity and lacked conditions for official records were known as unknown stars and dark stars. Such places were generally not included in public archival information, so ordinary citizens knew very little about them.