The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

Chapter 2137 The Beginning and End of the Trade Alliance (V)

2138. The Beginning and End of the Trade Alliance (V)

The Galactic Empire's military and police were dispatched everywhere, and began to hunt down the Trade Federation's high-ranking officials. However, those high-ranking officials ran as fast as loaches. Don't doubt it, they are Neimoidians. When it comes to being cowardly and timid, no one can compare to them.

They can't even be said to be bullies of the weak and 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 all departments of the Empire began to arrest all those who were related to the Trade Union. However, they also found that this task was not easy to do - because if you really want to count, even in the center of the Empire, there are at least 10 or 20 billion people who have more or less business dealings with the Trade Union.

Moreover, when asked, all of these people had proper jobs and just had dealings with the Trade Union. Or they were doing business in partnership with some high-ranking official of the Trade Union, or they held shares of the Trade Union, or they had merchant fleets entrusted by the Trade Union to escort them.

Even if these people really need to be dealt with, how can they be convicted? A crime of doing business with the Trade Union? And pulling out the carrot brings out the mud. The Imperial Security Bureau often invites someone to the bureau for tea, and the next moment a big boss calls and asks to release the person.

But do you think they are really okay? Not necessarily. Because they have interests related to the Trade Union. If we want to deal with the Trade Union, these people will definitely not be willing to do so. They are trying to make things difficult for us, both openly and covertly.

Therefore, there were actually not many people who were actually arrested, and they were all low-level staff with no background or connections.

But people can run away, but industries cannot.

After the Galactic Supreme Court convicted the Trade Union of treason in absentia, the Imperial Intelligence Department and the Imperial Security Bureau immediately dispatched a large number of troops to seal off all of the Trade Union's industries in the center of the empire.

But this is just a drop in the bucket. The Trade Federation has set up only an office in the center of the capital empire, on the former planet Coruscant. There is some liquid funds in it for bribes, but it is not much.

However, it didn't matter, there were also spaceports, docks, and transit centers built by the Trade Federation around the center of the empire, as well as all the goods that stayed 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 the garrison fleet to surround all these places and then confiscated all the assets.

This is basically equivalent to robbery! Because the Trade Union is essentially a logistics and transportation company, and then other industries have been expanded on this basis. Therefore, 99% of the goods staying in the Trade Union spaceport belong to other companies, consortiums or individuals.

But now, Darth Vader doesn't care about that at all. Since you parked your goods in the Trade Federation's spaceport, then this is aiding the enemy and treason! All of it must be confiscated! This move immediately set off a storm in the center of the empire. Many people cried out for injustice, and they used various relationships and connections to try to get back their goods and investments, but it was useless! The one who planned all this was the emperor of the empire himself and Darth Vader, the second in command of the imperial military!

In front of these two people, it's useless no matter who you look for.

Soon, such robberies 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 who had connection with the Trade Union quickly wanted to withdraw all their investments in the Trade Union, including funds and goods.

  However, they were horrified to find that they had also hit a wall with the Trade Alliance!

Because while the Galactic Empire began to rob the Trade Federation's industries, the Trade Federation was also robbing their own customers. Anyway, they had already torn their faces apart, and the Trade Federation was simply in a shameless and lifeless state, and all the goods in their spaceports were detained.

  A giant like the Trade Union naturally has its own financial system for payment, mortgage, loan issuance, etc. But now that the relationship has fallen out, the Trade Union has directly frozen all of the Galactic Empire's assets on their side!

Moreover, compared with the Galactic Empire, it is much easier for the Trade Federation to rob its own customers. A large number of battle robots immediately began to act. The B-1 battle robots and B-2 super battle robots that were harmlessly helping customers carry supplies a second ago, 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 spacecraft. Not only that, in some places, when they found that the fleet of the Galactic Empire had arrived and there was no time to escape, these robots even set fire to the goods or simply turned their turrets to fire wildly! !

The Trade Union's resistance was so fierce, it was completely different from the first few days! At that time, they seemed to want to leave some room, but now, the Trade Union directly put on a desperate posture!

Galactic Empire, do you want to eat us? If you bite us, we will definitely break a few of your teeth!

At this point, the people in the Galactic Empire finally woke up from their dreams. They originally thought that the Galactic Empire just wanted to clean up a company, and sending troops to deal with a group of businessmen, what other twists and turns could there be?

  But now they know that this is actually a war! A full-scale war between the Galactic Empire and the Trade Federation!

The Galactic Empire certainly has its own invincible fleet and its own powerful military, but the Trade Federation also has their own weapons!

The Trade Federation began to compete with the Galactic Empire in speed. Both sides began to rob the various resources and goods that were stored in the Trade Federation's spaceports or warehouses. If they could not rob them, they would rather destroy them.

Moreover, the Trade Federation began to fly all cargo ships loaded with goods toward its core planet, and also withdrew almost all of its escort fleets, adopting a defensive posture.

Not only that, the Trade Federation also cut off all shipping routes to the Middle and Outer Rings.

The specific navigation coordinates of these many routes are in the hands of the Trade Federation itself. Once they delete all these route coordinates and stop sharing data with the Galactic Empire, the Galactic Empire's ships can only travel through those most important large-scale hyperspace routes.

However, how many galaxies can the largest hyperspace routes such as the Hydia Route and the Corellian Trade Route cover? Therefore, the Galactic Empire could only start calculating and exploring the many other branch channels with the expired star maps in its hands.