At the Federation Lightyear Headquarters, the office that originally belonged to Chu Jungui on the top floor is still cleaned every day, but he hasn't been here for a long time.
The directors' offices were a few floors below, and Henry was currently working in one of them. He is now not only an outside director, but also the chairman of Lightyear. When Chu Jungui is away, he is the one leading the company's business.
This appointment seems a bit strange, because under normal circumstances, someone from within Lightyear should take over the positions of chairman and president. However, the current situation of Guangnian is special. It is actually in the mode of government takeover. Under this situation, Henry is equivalent to half of the government's agent. He is also a good friend of Chu Jungui. Taking the position of chairman is It's logical.
At this location, Henry came into contact with many light-year internal data. The entire ship assembly and manufacturing of starships is not within the federal territory, but the mature and large shipboard equipment production system alone is extremely valuable. Not to mention that Lightyear has also built its own logistics and transportation chain, this system also has great potential. But what Henry paid attention to was not this, but what was hidden behind countless reports.
He has been working non-stop for two days, and it seems that he has returned to the days when he was young and digging for real data from companies. Fortunately, Henry has not abandoned his old foundation. After hard work, he finally found what he wanted from countless data: the number of starships under construction and delivery in light years.
Of course these will not be recorded in the report, but there are still some clues that can be discovered. For example, a certain piece of equipment is specifically used to cool engines and is indispensable. Each starship requires a fixed number. From its consumption quantity, we can infer the number of starships under construction, and then from the fluctuations in the supply quantity, we can roughly infer that too many have been delivered. For example, when a starship is delivered and construction of a new starship begins, a batch of similar equipment will be ordered together, and then the number of orders for flagship construction will be significantly reduced.
In this way, by analyzing several key devices and comparing them interactively, we can eliminate a lot of interference and see some reality. These data are not disclosed to the public, but Henry, the chairman and president, naturally has the right to review them, and the government has sent down several waves of investigation teams to get to the bottom of Lightyear.
The results of the analysis made Henry find it incredible. Lightyear should have started construction on more than 30 starships in just a few years, and delivered at least half of them!
At first, Henry doubted his judgment, but then he thought about it. Lightyear has even delivered two battleships. Will there be fewer other starships? This data seems incredible, but Henry knows that it is probably true.
Henry rubbed his eyebrows and walked to the balcony. The window of his office faces the internal scenic spot, artificially creating a beautiful view of a forest and lake, which can be described as extremely luxurious. It was already late at night, but there was an office light on the same floor. Henry looked a little weird, glanced at the window, and then went back to continue his work.
That office belonged to Kun. As the third-ranked shareholder of Lightyear and with a profound background, Kun actually became a director of Lightyear by relying on his personal connections. After taking office, this guy almost lived in the office. If he didn't have to take a shower, he probably wouldn't leave the house.
Henry knew what Quin was doing, and it was strange because he knew. Kun was doing the same thing as him, which was to analyze various data of light years. But Henry was trained by an orthodox big investment bank all the way. What kind of financial analysis does a half-way monk like Kun know?
But Henry was too lazy to interfere. Everyone was temporary anyway, so it was best not to interfere with each other.
Data analysis also yielded additional rewards. Henry accidentally discovered a hidden warehouse that should contain a batch of equipment shipped before the blockade. Henry used his own channels to check the situation of the warehouse and found that the equipment was still in the warehouse, but according to the plan, someone would come to transport them in three days.
At this time, the subordinate's investigation had already yielded results. The equipment had changed hands twice, but the actual ownership was still light years away. The people who were scheduled to pick up the goods in three days really couldn't find out the details. After all, Henry was just an individual, not a government, and the worst he could do was this. In fact, it is enough to check here. The shipment was arranged before the government took over. Where else can it be sent?
Henry opened his personal terminal and stared at the photos of the warehouse for a long time before he contacted his confidant and said: "Report the location of that warehouse to the government."
"……yes."
Henry turned off his personal terminal and leaned back in his chair tiredly. This matter was very inconsistent with his personal principles, but at this moment, he did not want the dynasty to get even a little more help. As for the friendship with Chu Jungui, it can only be put aside.
After a short rest, Henry cheered up and started handling company affairs. This batch of equipment is worth more than 1 billion, and Henry is ready to help Lightyear earn back the money by relying on his own ability. This is the only place where he can help Chu Jungui.
At this time, Chu Jungui's communication channel received less and less information from the federation, and many of his old business friends had disappeared.
On the 22nd day after the Battle of Birds of Paradise, the main fleet of the dynasty arrived at the St. Paul star cluster, and the largest space battle in human history broke out.
The main fleet of the dynasty has assembled an unprecedented 12 battleships, 6 mobile bases, more than 100 light and heavy cruisers, thousands of small starships, and more than 10,000 various transport ships and support ships.
The Federation has assembled 7 regular fleets, with a total of 7 capital ships and 800 other starships of various types, relying on the facilities of the St. Paul star cluster for defense. In response to the call-up order, there were more than 20,000 large and small starships coming from all over the country, including many private yachts that came with a few cannons and pieces of armor welded on them.
The dynasty's assembled military strength exceeds 25 million, while the federal regular troops are 19 million, but the irregular troops exceed 100 million. Including logistics and support troops, the total strength of both sides exceeds 500 million.
Xu Bingyan did not give the Federation much time to prepare. He started to attack the day after arriving on the battlefield. This time, the Federation fleet no longer retreated. The two sides launched a life-and-death battle. Countless battles broke out every moment. , starships disintegrated, and countless lives turned into fireworks.
The dynasty fleet is like a group of huge whales, surrounded by countless small sharks desperately attacking. But no matter how hard the sharks fight, they can't stop the whales from approaching the galaxy step by step.
Countless federal levy starships surrounded the dynasty fleet from both sides and from top to bottom. They were unable to implement too sophisticated tactics and mainly besieged the dynasty's troops that had fallen out of formation.
Not long after the decisive battle began, the battlefield gradually became chaotic. Both the federal defense formation and the dynasty's attack formation began to fall into disarray. The casualties of the federal levy fleet increased sharply. However, many people in the conscripted fleet were not afraid of death and attacked the dynasty fleet in waves. Many people were so jealous that they did not even listen to military orders.
On the first day of the battle, the conscripted fleet suffered more than 5 million casualties, and the federal command had to withdraw them. However, the regular federal fleet was unable to stop the absolutely superior Dynasty fleet and had to retreat step by step, eventually exposing the St. Paul star cluster to the attack range of the Dynasty base artillery.
37 hours and 15 minutes after the decisive battle began, a star destroyer shell from a base gun fell on a habitable star in the St. Paul star cluster.
