In no time, merely half a year later, Gu Hang was able to see on the "Vassal" interface that the worlds which had signed the "Seven Horse Territory Economic Union Act" were rapidly increasing in vassal grade.
This vassal grade fundamentally had nothing to do with the economic level or development level of the planet, it purely reflected the relationship between this world and the "sovereign state," the Alliance.
Under the framework of the Seven Horse Covenant, besides the Tianma Star Sector, seventy-nine worlds were basically at LV2 and LV3. These grades were essentially stable or unstable in vassal status. It meant they could be squeezed for a bit of blood by the Alliance, and the Imperial Tax belonged to a special condition in extraordinary times.
However, starting from LV4 upwards, things were different.