Chapter 2204 Political Turmoil
2204: Political turmoil
Tang Yu was still hanging out on the planet Geonosis, and went to get in touch with Ganzo Dosola when he had nothing to do. There was news from Chen Gang, and it seemed that everything was going well, so he had no more scruples. Now on the side of the Death Star construction project, he has also used the mechanical field to control the mainframes of those computers, so that the Death Star construction project is under his own monitoring. But for now, it's just monitoring, and it can affect the construction period of the Death Star to a certain extent. According to the development of the specific situation, the completion date of the Death Star can be advanced or delayed. As for whether we can do more in the future, we can only follow the fate for the time being.
Grand Duke Pogle also really put forward an application, wanting to let the Geonosians join the next phase of the Death Star construction project, and at the same time need to replace those rigid B-1 robots with smarter intelligent robots-this It is the name within the confederation for Tang Yu's mechanical life. However, at the same time that this application was submitted, Earl Dooku would also know that Tang Yu went to the Death Star in private, and it might be another showdown.
Tang Yu smiled slightly. It was as if two people were playing cards between him and Earl Dooku. They both threw out their cards one by one, but the difference was that Earl Dooku's cards were in his hands. The front is transparent.
Now the peace talks between the Confederation of Independent Systems and the Galactic Republic are still going on, and the negotiator sent by the Confederation is Minna Buntelli. It seems that Earl Dooku also wants this congressman to understand the nature of war. However, Minna is indeed doing her best to sit and work hard for peace. She argues hard at the negotiating table, neither humble nor overbearing, and has no intention of sacrificing the interests of the Confederacy just because she wants peace. On the other hand, the representative sent by the Republic was full of arrogance. His words completely looked down on the muddy legs of the Confederacy, and when Minna robbed him of nothing to say during the first day of negotiations, he even wanted to To jump up and hit people.
This negotiation was destined to be just a farce, because the Republic did not stop the pace of war during this period. The countless huge manufacturing factories in the Kuat Power Dock were working day and night, and hundreds of battleships were gradually taking shape in the interstellar dock. A large number of tanks, walkers, and fighter jets rolled off the production line non-stop, and batch after batch of clone soldiers walked out of the Kamino planet and joined the ranks of the Great Republic Army.
Moreover, the Republic also invested heavily in the production of a large number of mechanized exoskeletons, gradually equipping the clone army. Various new types of equipment and warships are also being intensively designed. Sienar Fleet Systems (corporation) proposed a plan called "Project Titanium", which included the production of a new series of starfighters, and reduced production costs while maintaining the performance of this new fighter as much as possible. Increase production. This new type of fighter is planned to gradually replace the higher-cost V-wing fighter and expand the air force of the Grand Republic Army at a lower cost. The "Titanium Project" program is still in the design stage, and it is expected to complete the initial prototype manufacturing within 5 years.
The industrial capacity of the Republic is naturally extremely strong. In the period after the failure of the Battle of Murkana, the Republic could not even draw out a complete mobile fleet, and now the number of warships they can mobilize has gradually begun to increase.
Politically, the impact of this peace talk is also very far-reaching, first of all because of the tacit understanding between Palpatine and Earl Dooku, and finally because of the request for peace talks first put forward by the Republic. In this way, the Republic, which took the initiative to make a peaceful gesture, diluted a lot of the negative impact of the previous orbital bombing on the planet Murkana. Although the news of this orbital bombing was strictly blocked, some forces still learned about it through their own channels. At least this peace talk will prevent those forces from completely despairing of the Republic.
Moreover, this peace talk has also deterred the Hutts who had been leaning towards the Confederation of Independent Galaxies before. The peace talks will make it impossible for the Hutts to grasp the true intentions of the warring parties. Will rashly bet on the Confederation of Independent Galaxies.
It can be said that this peace talks gave the Republic a very rare respite. Just as Tang Yu was annoyed before, most of the results of their bloody battles were offset by this peace talks. Politicians like Minna Bontieri think about their own political ideals, but they don't think about the soldiers who are fighting for it. In the eyes of these politicians, war is just a numbers game. Therefore, the sharp contradiction between civil servants and generals since ancient times is really not unreasonable.
Of course, the Confederation of Independent Galaxies is not idle here. It is necessary to prepare the army for war, but greater actions have appeared internally. The cause of the incident was a massacre on the planet Asmeru. The commercial guilds imposed additional taxes on the planet and occupied a large number of companies and factories run by indigenous people, which eventually triggered a riot . In the face of this riot, the commercial guild did not hesitate to dispatch robot troops to suppress it. Countless B-1 robots marched forward step by step, crushing the crowd with sticks and shovels to pieces. Countless casualties!
In fact, this kind of situation often occurs on planets occupied by the Confederation of Independent Galaxies, but this time it became a big mess. The Confederate Sheriff of Planet Asmeru didn't know what was wrong. After the massacre, he immediately asked the commercial guild to stop the massacre, and then carefully investigated the collection of illegal taxes and the forcible occupation of residents' property. The commercial guild naturally rejected this request, but then, the sheriff actually pulled up the local army and fought with the commercial guild!
So the battle between the B-1 robot and the B-1 robot went on for a whole day, and the entire Asmeru planet was in chaos. Earl Dooku was furious when he learned of this, and immediately summoned Shu Mai, the president of the commercial guild, and asked her to give an explanation immediately.
But what explanation can be given? These business tycoons have long been used to being arrogant on the land of the Confederacy of Independent Galaxy. In Shu-Mai's opinion, it should be the vile sheriff who should give her an explanation, and it is best to shoot her directly! But unexpectedly, Earl Dooku, who had turned a blind eye to these things before, was more serious this time. He announced on the spot that Shu Mai and the commercial guild would be deprived of all military positions, and the commercial guild was prohibited from managing and command any Confederate army. At the same time, all the planets handed over to the commercial guild for management were also taken away, and handed over to several other commercial giants to share and manage.
Shu-Mc immediately said that the Merchant Guild would withdraw its capital and withdraw from the Confederacy of Independent Galaxies, but Earl Dooku just told her lightly that if you want to withdraw, you can do whatever you want, but the dividends from the war are not a penny, and you will also receive the previous investment. If you don’t come back, then go to the Republic to make money by yourself. Only then did Shu-Mai realize that he was already on the same boat as the Federation of Independent Galaxies, and it was impossible to get off the boat unless he drowned himself.
Will the Republic accept Shu-Mai's refuge? Of course she would, but she would definitely sweep her property to the end, and then kick her away and give her a job.
This is a war, and betting on both ends has always been a false proposition.