Chapter 2137. The Beginning and Ending of the Trade Alliance (5)
2138. The Beginning and Ending of the Trade Alliance (5)
The military and police of the Galactic Empire were dispatched everywhere and began to hunt down the top executives of the Trade Alliance. personnel. But those high-level officials all run as fast as loaches. Don't doubt it, they are Neimoidians. When it comes to being cowardly and timid, no one can compare with them.
They can't even talk about bullying the weak and being afraid of the strong, because many times they don't even dare to bully the weak, and they run away as soon as others struggle.
Police and agents from various departments across the Empire began arresting everyone associated with the Trade Federation. However, they also found that this job was not easy to handle - because if you really want to count them in detail, even in the center of the empire, the number of people who have more or less business dealings with the Trade Federation is probably one or two billion, if not 30 billion.
And when asked about these people, they all had serious jobs and only had dealings with the trade alliance. Otherwise, they are doing business in partnership with a high-ranking official from the Trade Alliance, or they are holding shares in the Trade Alliance, or they have a merchant fleet entrusted to the Trade Alliance for escort.
Even if these people really need to be dealt with, how can they be convicted? Make it a crime to do business with the Trade Federation? Moreover, when pulling out the carrot and bringing out the mud, the Imperial Security Bureau would often invite someone to the bureau to drink tea, and then a message from a certain boss would come over and ask for their release.
But do you think they really have no problem? Not really. Because they have interests related to the Trade Alliance, these people are definitely not willing to deal with the Trade Alliance, and they are causing obstacles overtly and covertly.
Therefore, not many people were actually arrested, and they were all low-level staff with little background or connections.
But people can run away, but industries cannot.
After the Supreme Court of the Galactic Empire found the Trade Federation guilty of treason in absentia, the Imperial Intelligence Department and the Imperial Security Bureau immediately dispatched a large number of troops to seize all the Trade Federation's industries in the center of the empire.
But this is just a drop in the bucket. The Trade Federation only set up an office in the center of the capital empire, on the former planet Coruscant. There was some liquidity used for bribery, but it was not much.
But it doesn't matter, there are also the spaceports, shipyards, transit centers built by the Trade Federation around the center of the empire, and all the goods that stay in the cargo transit centers. With the tacit approval of Emperor Palpatine, Darth Vader did not have time to wait for the fleet to assemble, and directly led a garrison fleet to surround all these places, and then confiscated all assets.
This is basically equivalent to stealing! Because the trade alliance is essentially a logistics and transportation company, and then expands other industries on this basis. Therefore, 99% of the goods staying in the Trade Federation spaceport belong to other companies, consortiums or individuals.
But now, Darth Vader doesn't care about this at all. Since you park the goods in the Trade Federation's spaceport, then this is slandering the enemy and treason! All must be confiscated! This move immediately set off a turmoil in the center of the empire. Many people cried out for injustice. Moreover, they mobilized various connections to get their goods and investments back, but it was to no avail! The people who planned all of this were the Emperor himself and the second-in-command of the Imperial Military, Darth Vader!
In front of these two people, it is useless to look for anyone.
Soon, such robbery operations began to spread from the center of the empire to other star regions, especially the planets in the core circle and inner ring.
Almost everyone related to the Trade Alliance quickly wanted to withdraw all their investments in the Trade Alliance, including funds and goods.
However, they were horrified to find that they had also hit a wall with the Trade Alliance!
Because at the same time that the Galactic Empire began robbing the Trade Federation's industries, the Trade Federation was robbing their own customers. Anyway, they are all in trouble. The Trade Federation is in a shameless state and has detained all the goods in their spaceport.
A super giant at the level of the Trade Alliance naturally has its own financial system for payment of goods, mortgages, loan issuance, etc. But now after the breakup, the Trade Federation directly froze all the assets of the Galactic Empire on their side!
And compared with the Galactic Empire, it is much more convenient for the Trade Federation to rob its own customers. A large number of combat robots immediately began to take action. The B-1 combat robot and the B-2 super combat robot, which were harmlessly helping customers carry supplies one second, picked up blaster rifles and shot everyone present in the next second!
Then these combat robots turned around and transported all the goods to their own spaceships. Not only that, in some places, when they found that the Galactic Empire's fleet had arrived and had no time to escape, these robots even directly set fire to the cargo or simply turned their turrets and fired wildly! !
The resistance of the Trade Federation is so fierce, it is completely different from the first few days! At that time, they seemed to want to leave some leeway, but now, the Trade Alliance is simply showing that everything is in danger!
Galactic Empire, do you want to eat us? Then if you take this bite, we will have to chip out a few of your teeth!
At this time, the people in the Galactic Empire woke up from their dreams. They originally thought that this was just the Galactic Empire trying to clean up a company. If it sent out the army to deal with a group of businessmen, could there be any other twists and turns?
But now they know that this is basically a war! An all-out war between the Galactic Empire and the Trade Federation!
Of course the Galactic Empire has its own armada and its own powerful military. But the Trade Federation also has weapons of their own!
The Trade Federation began to compete with the Galactic Empire for speed. Both sides began to rob the various resources and goods staying in the Trade Federation's spaceports or warehouses. They would rather destroy them if they could not grab them.
Moreover, the Trade Alliance began to fly all cargo ships full of goods towards its core planet, and also took back almost all of its escort fleet, assuming a cowering posture.
Not only that, the Trade Federation has also cut off all channels to the Middle and Outer Rim.
The specific navigation coordinates of these many waterways are in the hands of the Trade Federation itself. Once they delete all these waterway coordinates and stop sharing data with the Galactic Empire, the Galactic Empire's spaceships can only pass through that Several major large hyperspace channels provide transportation.
However, how many star systems can the largest hyperspace channels such as the Hydia Channel and the Corellian Trade Channel cover? So for the many other branching passages, the Galactic Empire could only start calculating and groping again with the expired star map in its hand.