1087. Extreme means
After Salust switched to Dawn Star Planet, an uprising broke out on Merchant Guilds's most important planet Forge World Kastel.
Kastel is rich in resources. After being spotted by Merchant Guilds, he purchased it directly at a low price through clever plunder.
Then, Merchant Guilds directly turned the people on the entire planet into slaves, only ensuring their most basic living conditions, exploiting them like crazy, opening a large number of mines and factories on the planet, and making everyone work for them day and night.
At the cost of completely destroying the planet's environment and people's livelihood, the planet's industrial output value skyrocketed, assuming a large amount of Merchant Guilds's industrial production capacity during the war.
The people of Kastel hated Merchant Guilds so much that, under the deliberate instigation of Tang Xiao, large-scale uprisings and strikes broke out almost immediately.
Arms dealers Yuri-Orlov have also been operating secretly, providing Kastel entrepreneurs with a large number of weapons so that they can compete with Merchant Guilds's robot garrison.
The situation on the planet began to get out of control. In several industrial cities, angry workers armed with weapons and without fear of casualties broke through the defense lines of robots, rushed into the city hall, captured all the fat-minded Merchant Guilds officials, and hung up street lights.
Problems occurred in two important industrial worlds one after another, causing Shu-Mai to be in chaos. She then went to Count Dooku and expressed her willingness to support Confederacy of Independent Systems's military reform, but asked Count Dooku to retain part of the profits for Merchant Guilds, and hoped to regain the two industrial worlds Celestia and Castel.
Count Dooku directly and cold-bloodedly used the choices of the people of these two planets as an excuse to prevaricate the past.
At the same time, the process of Confederacy of Independent Systems military reform began to be implemented unstoppably. All factories and production lines must be adjusted and transformed according to unified specifications. But how could Merchant Guilds have the energy to carry out this work at this time? Therefore, Count Dooku requested that all enterprises and factories affiliated to Merchant Guilds be supervised.
A large number of supervisors were stationed in these factories to prevent them from doing anything, and in the name of transformation, they began to squeeze out Merchant Guilds's own capital.
Soon after, Merchant Guilds's last ally Sothropp Corporation announced that he would accept Confederacy of Independent Systems's military reform conditions as Salust defected and began to integrate its own factories.
Shu-Mai almost lost his most important strength within a few days.
Although Merchant Guilds still has strong strength and has many companies and industries that have joined, these capitals no longer have the conditions to exert political influence. And as Confederacy of Independent Systems sends out supervisors to supervise more and more factories, even if these industries are still within the scope of Merchant Guilds's assets, they will actually become Confederacy of Independent Systems's.
At the same time, other corporate giants took action one after another and began to systematically acquire industries under Merchant Guilds. Even though Merchant Guilds has many countermeasures, the acquisition plan is still proceeding in an orderly manner.
Dawn Star Planet peripheral, Glory mothership, Governor's Office.
Tang Xiao said calmly to the person in the holographic projection in front of him, "I'll give you a task. Go and kill someone for me."
On the other side of the holographic projection is a Duros with blue skin and red eyes, wearing a windbreaker and a big-brimmed hat. It is the notorious bounty Hunter - Cade-Bane!
"Ah, it is really rare to receive a commission from Governor of Dawn Star Planet. There have been rumors in the dark world that you have several forces in your hands, all of which can carry out various levels of assassination work." Cade-Bane said coldly.
"My power is not suitable to appear there." Tang Xiao said.
"Hehehe... What makes the Governor so afraid?"
"Hutt Space." Tang Xiao said lightly.
"Hutt Space... You want me to kill a Hutt? Hahahaha, the price of killing Hutt is very high. Although I know you are definitely not short of that little money." Cade-Bane said.
"Hutt Soergg Vosadii Bezhin." Tang Xiao said a name.
Cade-Bane sneered, "It turns out to be Merchant Guilds's middleman. To be honest, you might as well add an extra 2 million and I'll just help you kill Shu-Mai. Because of the recent situation, the value of killing Shu-Mai on the black market has dropped by 15%."
"Now Shu-Mai is more useful alive than dead." Tang Xiao said, "You don't need to know anything else."
"Very good, I'll take this job." Cade-Bane bowed casually as a salute, "Whenever you want to take off Shu-Mai's head, remember to come to me, hehehehe!"
The projection of Cade-Bane disappeared. At this time, another person sitting on the sofa opposite Tang Xiao said in a deep voice, "Actually, if it is to kill Bei Jin, my people can also do it. Although Vosadii kajidic is ancient, it has long since declined. It is not difficult to kill Bei Jin."
The speaker was a very handsome oriental man. He looked very gentle with glasses on, but the sharpness in his eyes showed his majestic temperament.
Ni Yongxiao, the gang leader supported by Fourth Civilization, also serves as the secret Intelligence Department Minister, serving Fourth Civilization in the dark world.
Over the past ten years, Ni Yongxiao has looked more mature and mature. Although he still shaves his beard cleanly, the vicissitudes of life on his face cannot be concealed, which makes him more flavorful.
Tang Xiao glanced at him and said, "A bounty Hunter gang like Cade-Bane will not leave any excuses when doing things. Although everyone will know the reason for Bei Jin's death, some things still need a layer of paper to wrap them up. Now I need to cut off Shu-Mai's wings, and at the same time keep her alive as a cover. This work must be completed."
"Okay, you have the final say on these matters. However, you specifically came to see me, what are your orders?" Ni Yongxiao asked.
"It's still about Hutt Space."
"Now Besadi kajidic and Desilijic kajidic have been fighting openly and secretly, and Hutt Space is as chaotic as ever. If you want to ask how much benefit you can get from it, I would say it is difficult, because both parties have already invested too much and there is no more spare energy."
"After Delon system's victory in the battle, Galactic Republic is bound to launch a large-scale counterattack. In the case of Kamino's clone factory being destroyed, their best choice Just take advantage of the fact that there are still enough Clone Trooper to cause enough damage to us," Tang Xiao said, "And Confederacy of Independent Systems is undergoing arms reform."
"It is impossible for Hutt to send a fleet to join the war." Ni Yongxiao said.
"But they can reject Republic Fleet through Hutt Space, and they can also reject Confederacy of Independent Systems's fleet. Anyway, we don't have many fleets now. Then..." Tang Xiao He walked behind Ni Yongxiao, leaned over and held his shoulders, and said calmly, "Hutt Space's civil strife should be over. The winner will not be Besadi kajidic, nor Desilijic kajidic..."