1086. Slaughter the fattened sheep
Immediately afterwards, a salarian fleet suddenly appeared on the planet Felucia. The power of 10 Overlord-class drone carriers, 5 Doomsday Arena-class battlecruisers, and 20 Enforcer-class heavy destroyers made the commercial industry... He would not dare to act rashly at all.
However, this fleet just stopped here and made no further moves. It had no intention of blocking the planet, and it paid no attention to the spacecraft coming and going on the planet.
Shu-Mai sent a representative to try to talk to the Salarian fleet, but there was no response at all. Shu-Mai had no choice but to prepare the planet for all emergencies.
Of course, the commercial guilds now have fleets in their hands, but these fleets have not been recalled yet, and some of them were destroyed by the Galactic Republic defenders during the battle in the Delon system.
But in the end, Shu-Mai didn't dare to really recall the fleet, because if he did, he would openly confront the Confederation of Independent Systems.
The planet Felucia where she is located is within the control of the Confederacy and does not have a direct hyperspace channel connected to the control area of the Galactic Republic. Once they really have to go into battle with the Confederacy of Independent Systems, they will probably be crushed within a few days.
Shu-Mai was not willing to sit still and wait for death. She began to continuously send contacts to super corporate giants such as the Interstellar Banking Association, Trade Alliance, Enterprise Alliance, and Technology Alliance, hoping to find help, but all these communications came to nothing.
So she contacted the Galactic Republic...
The Galactic Republic has given a very positive response, but water from afar cannot quench the thirst for nearness. The Galactic Republic is currently struggling with the destruction of the clone factory on the planet Kamino. How can it find the power to penetrate all the way to the planet Felucia? go?
Where is the planet Felucia? In the northeast corner of the flat star map of the Milky Way, if you go deeper, you will reach the planet Dark in the corner!
In the original plot, the Galactic Republic was able to launch the Felucia Planet War because they had already pushed the front to the outer ring of the galaxy at that time, but now? The two sides are still fighting to the death in the Delong Galaxy on the edge of the inner ring, and there is an entire middle ring separated from the outer ring!
The Intelligence Department of the Galactic Republic did a very good job. On the one hand, they comforted Shu-Mai and told her not to be anxious and not to offend Count Dooku easily. Then they quietly prepared their troops for war, and waited until the King of the Galactic Republic arrived, and then jumped into the counterattack. Cooperate inside and outside, and return directly to the embrace of the Republic.
On the other hand, they also offered very attractive prices to the commercial guilds, such as trade privileges in the outer ring star area, exemption agreements for specific goods from competitors, tax privileges, etc. As long as they betray the Confederation of Independent Systems and join the Galactic Republic, The benefits are huge.
But at least Shu-Mai was not stupid enough to be deceived by these empty promises, so she began to make secret arrangements with the Republic, and on the other hand, she started to make a fuss with the Confederacy of Independent Systems, trying to fight both sides and win the prize. Return to your former position.
But what she didn't know was that she had already become a lamb to be slaughtered in the eyes of Tang Xiao and Count Dooku.
Just like the early days of the Galactic Empire established more than a year later in the plot, some benefits need to be provided to satisfy the appetites of the vested interests, so that they can come up with other things.
No matter how you balance and compensate for this military reform, after all, it has touched the interests of super corporate giants such as the Interstellar Banking Association and the Trade Federation. It cannot be so simple and ignored.
The Masonic Alliance naturally plays a role, but it is impossible for them to lose money directly. In the final analysis, all big principles are just floating clouds, and they have to come down to interests in the end. Moreover, these corporate giants cannot have the final say only by their leaders. There are still too many factions and interest disputes that need to be dealt with.
Therefore, it is the best way to kill the commercial guilds as fat sheep.
But is it really the best? If you kill and eat one of the five most powerful corporate giants when you founded the Confederation of Independent Systems, what will the other giants think? Will everyone be in danger?
Therefore, whether it is politics, economy, or interests, these things cannot be explained in one sentence. The struggle and art involved can fill a whole bookshelf.
And these are the situations that Tang Xiao needs to face.
The current level of political struggle within the Confederation of Independent Systems can be said to be beyond imagination. Apart from anything else, it would be no problem for the 12 core members of the Confederation to form a group with each other.
How to kill and eat up the commercial guilds now is also a matter that requires careful consideration and balance.
After the Confederation of Independent Systems announced military reforms and the Commercial Guild failed to even get a piece of the soup, problems began to arise in the factories and shipyards invested by the Commercial Guild. Managers and technical staff resigned and changed jobs. In order to retain these talents and preserve the possibility of a comeback as much as possible, the commercial guilds began to counterattack.
They significantly increased the wages and benefits of core employees, and then opened multiple new projects and established multiple new departments, all of which were industries that had nothing to do with the war.
Afterwards, the commercial guilds began to take the initiative to maliciously acquire small and medium-sized enterprises in the Confederation of Independent Systems, and purchased them all at a premium, creating a large financial deficit and liabilities and disrupting the market.
Then, commercial guilds began to dilute their own equity by issuing new equity in large quantities, and repurchased the originally issued equity at a large premium, causing a huge bubble in market value as they entered and exited.
But Tang Xiao and the others also had the support of a large group of senior actuaries from the Interstellar Banking Association. They bypassed the equity market and began to exert influence on low-level employees, and focused on the planets to which the commercial guilds belonged.
Count Dooku did not stop either. First, in the name of supporting the battle of the Eriadu system, he placed the planet Sullest under the Western Theater Zone where the Dawn planet is located, and accepted the unified jurisdiction of the Dawn planet.
Planet Salest can be said to be one of the top three large-scale industrial planets among commercial guilds!
The Salustians also discovered that something was wrong. In addition, they had been fighting Tarkin's 18th Army for a long time, but they were beaten by Tarkin in a fancy way. The planet was even directly landed by the 18th Army at one time. It can be said that In a life or death situation.
Now that the Dawn Planet army has arrived, they can finally feel proud.
Naturally, they are also happy to hug the thick legs of Dawn Planet.
So Planet Salust unilaterally announced its withdrawal from the commercial guild, and the planet's previous debts were passed on to Planet Dawn. For Tang Xiao, it is impossible to pay back the money. It only depends on his mood, so for now, let's accept the planet Salest.
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