Tai Yu did not pay much attention to this field. He only knew these things because Mo Jia had let them slip during their "small talk."
Of course, that was Tai Yu's interpretation. Mo Jia's words had not been so blunt. Even behind her superior's back, she had maintained the most basic degree of respect, just as she had in the Red Silicon Star System. She had a good sense of propriety.
Mo Jia did not hide the fact that her visit to the Boundary Curtain district served both public and private purposes.
Besides the duties attached to her position as secretary-general, she had also come to handle several Xi Corporation investment projects in the Boundary Curtain district.
"The Star Alliance capital is a complicated place. No project is easy to carry out... The resources everyone can find are limited, and as for connections, after going around in circles, it still comes down to the old Circumference and Red Silicon relationships. Those are the ones more worthy of trust."
Mo Jia used this to bring up Colonel Kaosede. "No matter what happened before, here in the Boundary Curtain, outsiders must ultimately stick together."
There was theoretically nothing wrong with what she said:
Though Xi Corporation held some weight in the Circumference Star System and even in the Star Alliance, with three Great Monarchs in one family, and was a major regional conglomerate more influential than many Covenant States, it was still merely an "outsider" in the Boundary Curtain district when facing the great clans and powerful families here.
Under such circumstances, Xi Corporation's so-called "investment projects" were never expected to make money. On the contrary, they were vehicles for spending it.
They supported certain lobbying groups in the Boundary Curtain district, provided several retired officials with positions where they could