1496. Uncomfortable Palpatine
"His Excellency the Chancellor, this is the preliminary intention survey of parliament members that you want." Galactic Republic Vice Chancellor Mas-Amedda curled up his burly body and respectfully submitted a document to Sheev-Palpatine.
His attitude now is completely different from that when Palpatine first took office.
Once upon a time, Mas-Amedda was also a very strong politician. He took office as Vice Chancellor about 2 years longer than Palpatine took office as speaker.
After 2 years of operation, when Palpatine ascended to the throne of speaker after the Naboo battle, Mas-Amedda once hoped to rely on his older qualifications to exert influence on Palpatine, and even turned him into a puppet.
But Sheev-Palpatine used very sophisticated political skills and excellent political wisdom to easily defeat him and seize his handle. Mas-Amedda has since become Palpatine's first loyal dog.
He has always been afraid of Palpatine, and he is also one of the few people who knows the other true face of Palpatine. After witnessing the terrifying power that Palpatine revealed inadvertently or perhaps deliberately, Mas-Amedda was unable to produce the slightest feeling of resistance.
Because of this, he also had a prosperous official career under Palpatine. Although the position is still Vice Chancellor, in fact, the power and resources he holds are no longer the same as before.
Palpatine has always been generous to his loyal dogs, and he never grudges rewards.
Therefore, from such a high position, Mas-Amedda really watched step by step how Palpatine turned Galactic Republic into his own private property, and then forced Jedi Order to become a loner. Such terrible political tactics made Mas-Amedda, who is also a politician, even more frightened.
After Palpatine directly admitted his identity as Sith Lord, Mas-Amedda didn't even have the courage to look at Palpatine.
At this moment, he kept his bent posture and did not dare to straighten up. He only dared to take a sneak peek. From his current angle, he could only see Palpatine's mouth, and he no longer dared to raise his eyes any further, because if he looked further up, he would see those eyes that he did not dare to face!
But at this moment, Palpatine was looking at the investigation report with a relaxed and warm smile, but he had no intention of letting Mas-Amedda get up.
This survey report details the political leanings of at least half of the current Galactic Senate members, as well as their views on recent events.
Palpatine read at an extremely fast speed, but it did not affect his careful review and understanding of every piece of information. However, the content shown in this intelligence is not so optimistic.
That's right, he didn't take control of Jedi Order as easily as it seemed. On the contrary, now he is suffering the huge backlash from his attack on Jedi Order.
Among Galactic Senate, more than 70% of people opposed this matter! For the parliamentary structure of a political power, this is already an extremely fatal number!
Fortunately, many of these people are still intimidated by Palpatine's current power and dare not take any substantive action. But some of them have already started their own actions.
For example, the group of congressmen headed by Padmé-Amidala and Bail-Organa, according to intelligence, are brewing a political disturbance as a way to fight back.
In fact, this is exactly what Palpatine is worried about.
His political foundation is still too shallow. Compared with those wealthy Noble House who have been operating in Inner Rim and Core Worlds for tens of thousands of years, he still lacks the foundation and accumulation.
In the original plan, if his master Das-Pregas was still there, with the reputation Pregas had accumulated in the InterGalactic Banking Clan, the two would cooperate internally and externally, and the accumulation of political capital would be faster and better.
But the problem is that at that time Palpatine himself was ready to take action. Because if Darth-Pregas is not killed, he will ask himself to nominate him as Co-Chancellor. This condition is absolutely unacceptable...
This is the shortcoming of the relationship between two people who use each other. The result of mutual use is that once their interests conflict, it will turn into stabbing each other.
Because of this, even if he knew that people like Bail-Organa and Padmé-Amidala were plotting against him behind his back, he would never dare to attack them directly. In the original plot, he became Emperor of the Galactic Empire for 20 years, and only after completing the construction of Death Star did he dare to directly blow up Alderaan, killing Bail-Organa, which he had always regarded as a thorn in his side.
From this point of view, we can understand how profound the powerful planets Core Worlds and Inner Rim are in this galaxy. This foundation is not necessarily how many fleets or tanks they have, but the resources and connections they have.
Maybe you ignored the rules of the game today and directly killed one of them, and the backlash you received might be that dozens or hundreds of planets would jump up and fall out with you. Even if they don't directly set off an anti-flag rebellion, their mere manipulation on the tax issue would be enough for Palpatine to drink a pot.
And don't forget, even Palpatine himself was able to ascend to the position of Speaker with the support of those Core Worlds bosses.
Looking at the contents of the document Mas-Amedda gave him, Palpatine was already filled with rage!
It's too early!
That's right! Too early!
Now is not the time at all!
His control over Parliament is not yet complete! In the current parliament, there are still several disobedient factions that have not been dealt with, but he had to forcibly eliminate Jedi Order.
And in order to achieve this goal, he even sent 100,000 troops to Jedi Temple!
Don't look at how majestic and powerful the 100,000-strong army is, but you must know that this is Coruscant! And the place where Jedi Temple is located is the core of Coruscant!
If you directly mobilize troops in such a place, Galactic Republic all the nobles and wealthy families will watch! This is equivalent to shitting on their faces!
When a family controls wealth measured in galaxies, what do they care about most? One is safety, the other is Immortality! Directly using force at the core of Coruscant, how would these nobles view themselves as the Speaker?
But the thing is, he has to be too. Because Jedi Order has already mastered very critical evidence, and they must not be allowed to continue investigating along this evidence! Because if you follow this evidence and investigate further, he and Count Dooku once colluded to trigger a civil war in the galaxy, and their behavior will be made public!