Thousands of sparks

Chapter 180 Trading
Grand Duke Hall is not a brainless person. He has been in charge of the empire's finances for 20 years. Of course, he can understand how high energy prices will cause huge losses to the entire empire's economy.

But now is not a good time to prevent economic losses for the entire empire. After completing the devastating blow to the sanctuary... The empire did not quickly start to surrender the remaining remnants of the alliance as the planners of the agency expected , and feast on this monster.

Contrary to what they estimated, the use of Project Alpha did not directly destroy the alliance's will to resist, and their resistance strength even increased.

After the implementation of Project Alpha, not all the fleets that were directly under the Sanctuary were wiped out—nearly half of the fleets were performing missions elsewhere at the time.

After paying for two planets, a quarter of the alliance's fleet, and the lives of hundreds of millions of people on the two planets, not only did the alliance members not lose their courage to resist, they were even more "unified" than before.

As the armed force of the Sanctuary, the half of the Sanctuary Fleet recognized the status quo very rationally, and then announced that the entire fleet of the Sanctuary would serve the interests of the alliance—they would not obey the orders of any force, but would serve for the benefit of the alliance. Fight to the death for the good of the whole league.

This "high-sounding" statement was not taken seriously by other forces in the alliance at the beginning. The Zoige people did not like to deal with the Sanctuary Fleet, and the Tasbars were not too happy to provide supplies for the Sanctuary Fleet-the academy had some ideas , but their support capabilities are difficult to provide services for all sanctuary fleets.

At the same time, the other two colonial stars in the Sanctuary are still at war—they both believe that they are the only legal heirs to inherit the military and political resources of the Sanctuary, and they keep issuing orders to the Sanctuary Fleet, asking them to quickly participate in their own battles. Come on one side and eliminate the "traitors" on the other side.

In this chaotic situation, an organization called the "People's League" suddenly appeared on the political stage of the alliance.They occupied two agricultural stars in Zoige, one mining star in Tasbar, and they also had the support from the academy.

The academy completely stopped research on phrenology and racial differences, and instead began to promote a very complicated theory of political economy.They called it "dialectical materialism".

If a student of Newsale reached the League College through some channels, he would be surprised to find that the "dialectical materialism" proposed by the League College and the "Dusanderism" taught in Newsale's school Almost identical.

The academy spoke highly of the People’s League. They believed that the People’s League would be the future and the only way out of the League—a government jointly established by all the people of the League and for the sake of all the people of the League. And protect the interests of allies.

The Academy has always been a relatively independent political entity throughout the league's history.Before the League was functioning as a "state," the Academy had always existed in the El Salvador fleet—they were an institution composed of a group of scholars on board the fleet.

The history of the college is almost as old as the sanctuary, and it can even be said to be longer than the alliance.In the past hundreds of years, the Academy has maintained a highly close cooperative relationship with the Sanctuary, but at the same time it has also dominated the political, economic and cultural development of the entire alliance in a relatively independent manner.

Without the Academy, it is impossible for Sanctuary to become the dominant player in the entire alliance by virtue of its own strength.And without the Sanctuary, the power of the Academy is not enough to maintain their huge influence on the alliance's political economy and culture.

According to the estimates of the empire, after the collapse of the sanctuary, the academy will choose one of Zoige or Tasbar to attach to, and no matter which side the academy chooses, the other side will launch a civil war in an attempt to seize power.

When one of the parties is clearly weak, the empire can take the opportunity to intervene to support the weaker party.As long as you jump back and forth a few times, the strength of the alliance can be basically wiped out in the civil war.

But... the academy's move really caught the empire by surprise.The empire did not expect that the academy suddenly launched a brand new force to support it.What they didn't expect was that the People's League had such a strong appeal within the alliance.

According to the news from the Imperial Intelligence Department, Tasbar has announced that they will stop their attacks on the People's League. They will conduct peaceful political negotiations with the People's League and strive to resolve the conflicts between the two parties through peaceful means.

Zoige, who focuses on agriculture, does not have such a "pattern". After all, the People's League "made a fortune" from their colonial planet, and Zoige's agricultural star is the main planet occupied.The development and growth of the People's League poses the greatest threat to Zoige.

What is even more unbelievable is the attitude of the Sanctuary Fleet.They sent a special envoy directly to Zoige, and then announced the fleet's decision.

The fleet will provide protection to the People's League to ensure that "the war heroes of the alliance and other allies will not die under the weapons of their compatriots", and then proposed to use the fleet floating in space as a negotiation site, inviting Zoige Dadu Nong officials and the Awami League Secretary for peace negotiations.

In this situation where the power of the two sides is seriously unbalanced, the seemingly fair move of the Sanctuary Fleet is essentially pulling the fence.After all, it is impossible for the People's League to have the possibility of attacking Zoige on a large scale, preventing the two sides from fighting, which is essentially protecting the People's League.

From this we can also see the inclination of the Sanctuary Fleet-they really believe that the People's League is a more suitable choice for becoming the politically dominant faction within the alliance than Zoige and Tasbar.

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Grand Duke Hall has a headache, a very bad headache.The emergence of the People's League completely disrupted the organization's arrangements for the alliance.The league has been spiraling out of control ever since Sanctuary and the Academy teamed up to try to shape a national consensus through phrenology and racial difference.

Project Alpha is the ultimate means for the empire to control the alliance, and it is a insurance rope to ensure that the foreign enemy of the alliance will not really pose a fatal threat to the empire.The loose political alliance structure within the alliance itself is an important means for the empire to ensure that the alliance will not pose a danger to the empire.

Right now, the last resort isn't working so well, and the important one looks utterly broken.Grand Duke Hall had to start seriously dealing with the threat of the alliance, and began to arrange corresponding financial expenditures.

But the problem is that in a short period of time, the empire cannot spend so many gold pounds to continue strengthening its armed forces.In fact, the empire had difficulty even maintaining the size of its current navy.

The navy's equipment is very expensive, and they need to ensure that the ship can still maintain normal operation in the harsh working environment of deep space jump.

A capital ship needs to spend at least 30 gold pounds for a normal equipment maintenance and replacement of faulty parts, and it takes at least two months for a maintenance shipyard.

If you want to temporarily increase the shipbuilding budget, you need to arrange new ship plans of the same size for at least the four Royal Guard Fleets.The Garrison Navy can use the Guard Navy to use the remaining old ships, but the equipment of the Royal Guard Fleet must not be sloppy-the commanders of these fleets take "strengthening themselves" as their own responsibility.It seems that the meaning of their existence is to obtain resources for their squadron.

Any unfairness will cause strong protests and even rebounds from other fleets.It is not unheard of for those old and cunning fleet commanders to instruct young officers to come to the door of the Finance Office to make trouble.

At this time, the large sum of cash sent suddenly by Schultz became a good thing that could really lower Duke Hall's blood pressure.He even did not hesitate to extort extra money, and got a lot of extra cash.As for the rise in fuel prices... Grand Duke Hall really doesn't really care about it.

After all, the empire still has a mining complex, and some planets that are not suitable for colonization also have coal deposits.No matter how expensive the coal mines of the local nobles are, the mining association can still provide the imperial navy and military factories with adequately priced coal.

Since energy prices do not affect the military industry, there is nothing to worry about.

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Grand Duke Hall is not worried about rising coal prices, while Dusand, as far away as Newsail, is troubled by rising prices of another important product.

Smugglers are a bunch of greedy bastards, they are the most loyal lackeys of capital in the world.As long as they can make money, smugglers never care what the goods they transport are, and they don't mind that their smuggling will seriously damage the interests of their old customers and even compatriots on the same planet.

Food prices in Newsail are relatively stable, which is the result of countless days and nights of insomnia and repeated negotiations by Du Sande.In order to ensure that the Niusal people who were still expanding their arable land would not starve to death, Dusand even created a special exemption decree "pioneering".

As long as more than 90% of the volume of the cabin is carrying food, and the "trading ship" that is ready to unload in Newsail, it can receive free supply and maintenance services at the Newsail interstellar landing site.At the same time, all goods in the cabin are exempt from tax when coming, and the tax on reloaded goods is levied according to one-third of the original tax table.

With the "support" of this kind of strength, a large number of smuggling ships gathered in Niusal, and brought a lot of food imports to Niusal—the total share was about half of the support given by the Star Sea Federation.

When the time entered August and the Olympian Development Bank began to raise coal prices crazily, the number of smuggling ships willing to go to Newsare decreased rapidly.Most of them choose to go to Tasbar in the alliance to load coal, and then transport it to Olin for sale.The price of Aolin coal is too high, so high that even normal customs declaration and transportation, the profit is so high that it is comparable to smuggling luxury goods.

The number of food imports in Newsale has dropped rapidly, and the most immediate consequence of this change is the increase in food prices - the price of meat products and condiments in Newsale has increased by 30% in the past month.Among the [-] kinds of meat that are common in the market, except for the price of turtle, which remains stable, the prices of other meats have seen a huge rise.

The fastest-rising prices were beef and pork, which saw prices rise by an average of 60%.

Unlike Grand Duke Hall, Du Sande believed in the saying "Food is paramount to the people" as a creed in life.In order to curb the rapidly rising food prices, Dusand even considered using the people's army to strategically stockpile food.But then I thought about it, those dry corned beef that looked like sawdust probably wouldn't be liked by commoners, so I reluctantly gave up.

Instead, the solution was an order from Dusand to the Expeditionary Fleet, and a letter to the Alliance Academy.

The order required the expeditionary fleet to quickly suspend or terminate military operations on Saxony, and immediately go to Bomir to investigate.As the famous agricultural star of the empire, Bomir should still have a large amount of food reserves despite the planned massacre by the allies.If Bomier can be accepted, perhaps the food shortage problem in Newsail can be significantly alleviated.

The letter was addressed to Finn von Steinberg.In the letter, Dusand asked his friend to implement the grain trade plan between the People's League and Niusal one month in advance. In exchange, he could hand over the design of the gas internal combustion engine to the People's League.

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