374. The loser’s reckoning
After the celebration and recognition of the victors, the losers will naturally stand on the bench for trial.
In this vicious incident of the Trade Federation's invasion of the planet Naboo, several direct participants have been captured. Among them, the senior sector director of the Trade Federation, Daltai Dauphin, died when the robot control ship was destroyed during the battle. The Governor of the Trade Federation, Newt Gunray, and his adjutant, Rune Harko, were in the palace on the planet Naboo. Captured.
Also captured at the same time was Xiao Guanghua, a military observer of the Fourth Civilization.
Of course, the term "Fourth Civilization" was not used in the Galactic Republic. At this time, Xiao Guanghua's identity was the operational advisor of the Fourth Group. He appeared in this battle, and according to the confession of the Gungan army commander, Xiao Guanghua appeared as the commander of the robot army.
This situation immediately put the fourth group into a passive position in parliamentary public opinion.
Because of this incident, Tang Xiao originally wanted to visit the planet Naboo and participate in the celebration of the planet Naboo and have a meal. However, due to the ambiguous relationship between the Dawn Planet and the Fourth Group, he was directly rejected by Armida. The queen's ugly refusal made Tang Xiao, who thought he was extremely handsome, a little disappointed, so he dismissed Xiao Guanghua from his post in anger.
During the trial against Newt Gunray, Rune Harkor and Xiao Guanghua, Speaker Sheev Palpatine immediately showed a completely different courage from Fenis Valorum before. He decisively demanded Indict three people for war crimes and demand huge compensation from the Trade Federation and Group Four.
But the corruption in the Republic cannot be solved in a day or two. The Trade Federation refused to admit that Newt Gunray was guilty of his actions. Their representative Lot Dude repeatedly emphasized that it was the planet Naboo that breached the contract first, and the Trade Federation's actions Just normal business behavior.
He also took out the unequal treaty signed by the former king of the planet Naboo, Als-Veruna, as evidence, showing that the planet Naboo has not fulfilled its treaty obligations in the past year, causing a loss of 1.24 billion to the Trade Alliance. Loss of tens of millions of credit points.
However, the planet Naboo refused to recognize the validity of this treaty. Queen Amidala said that this treaty was signed under the pressure of strong power, and the treaty itself violated the constitution of the Republic.
Then several parties started wrangling over the treaty without end.
The attitude of the Fourth Group towards Xiao Guanghua was even simpler. Gross Shelbia, who had been promoted to the director of the Fourth Group, did not attend the hearing. Instead, the fourth Group representative Rosana Gu attended the hearing. Des.
Rosanna just said lightly, "Xiao Guanghua went on vacation. He didn't do anything. He was just watching for fun."
Gungan representative Jar Jar Binks said loudly: "I also participated in this battle as a general. I saw Xiao Guanghua commanding the robot army with my own eyes!" However, his appearance was not very convincing.
"As we all know, the Trade Federation's robots are controlled by robot control ships. What do you think Xiao Guanghua should do to command this battle?" Rosanna looked at Jar Jar Binks coldly, "And you actually Is he the Gungan general? Haha, I think I can imagine why the Gungan army of 100,000 was beaten to pieces and lost its armor."
Now even the good-tempered Jar Jar Binks was angry. He jumped and said: "There are no cowards in the Gungans! More than 10,000 of our warriors lost their lives in the Battle of the Prairies! I won't allow you to insult the Gungans like this. Root man!”
"No offense, I'm just stating the facts," Rosanna said.
Her sharp words made Jar Jar Binks, who had never seen such a big scene before, almost collapse emotionally. He tried to hit Xiao Guanghua with a water glass but was stopped, and the hearing once again ended in vain.
Finally, because the 48-hour detention period has expired, the Republic's law enforcement agencies have no reason to continue to detain the three people. They can only temporarily release them and require them to be on call at all times. They are not allowed to leave Coruscant and must be on call.
Then Xiao Guanghua boarded Newt Gunley's spaceship that day, and the three of them left directly and went back to their respective homes.
But the matter was not over yet. Speaker Sheev Palpatine convened an enlarged meeting the next day and immediately put a bill on sanctions against the Trade Federation and the Fourth Group on the table.
According to the content of the sanctions, the trade alliance will be completely deprived of its trade privileges. The trade alliance that has lost its trade privileges will no longer be a member of the free trade zone, and all their commercial activities in the outer ring star area will be levied a large amount of taxes.
Not only that, this bill requires the Trade Federation to completely disband their defense fleet, and the job of protecting their routes will be handed over to the Republic's local defense fleet, and the Trade Federation needs to pay a lot of money to maintain the work of the local defense fleet.
For the Fourth Group, Chancellor Palpatine also proposed a direct fine of 5 billion credits, free post-war reconstruction of the planet Naboo, the withdrawal of insulting advertisements to the Republic, and the disbandment of the defense fleet, stopping the production and production of combat ships. Sale.
If these sanctions are implemented, it will basically be the death sentence for the Trade Alliance and the Fourth Group.
But the two companies have no intention of accepting sanctions at all. Not only that, their representatives Lott Dude and Rosanna Goodes did not withdraw from the Galactic Parliament as many people imagined, but continued to stay in All kinds of wrangling in the parliament.
And at this time, a very delicate situation also emerged in the Galactic Parliament.
Those who strongly demand severe punishment of the Trade Alliance and the Fourth Group are mostly representatives of the inner ring and core area planets, while most of the representatives of the outer ring planets have ambiguous attitudes, or simply openly support the Trade Alliance and them.
But Speaker Palpatine was also very straightforward. He publicly declared at a meeting that those planets that support corporate giants such as the Trade Federation are bribed by them and are the source of corruption in the Galactic Parliament.
He attributed all the corruption during Finis Valorum's tenure to the bribery and bribery of corporate giants such as the Trade Alliance, and he began to guide the direction of the parliament. All members who supported the Trade Alliance were bribed and corrupted. Yes, he is a sinner of the Republic.
Chancellor Palpatine intentionally or unintentionally ignored the fact that the economic lifeline of many planets in the Outer Rim Stars depends on corporate giants such as the Trade Federation. Some planets that are not capable of interstellar navigation also rely on trade alliances to connect with the Republic.
Even if there is exploitation in this process, it is at least a guarantee for their economic development and star domain security, which is precisely what the Republic cannot provide. These planets support the trade alliance, which is actually understandable and is a normal political behavior.
But Palpatine's approach is to please those developed planets in the inner and core circles that are truly profound, while labeling the backward planets in the outer ring and kick them aside.
Soon, the Outer Rim Star District Councilors, including Councilor Ainle-Tim, began to find that they were becoming more and more isolated in the parliament, and their voices became smaller and smaller. The former Ring faction also fell apart due to the betrayal of leader Orn Free-Tower.
But at this moment, a person stood up.
Dawn Planet Councilor, Francis Underwood.
