1731. Dawn Accord (下下下) will satisfy you.
"So, this is your plan..." The expression on Palpatine's face gradually turned ferocious, "The ten-year peace agreement is just a cover. What do you want, is to completely digest Rendili StarDrive's industrial production capacity?"
"The conditions are here, His Majesty the Emperor. Next, it depends on your decision..." Tang Xiao said with a cold smile.
"Do you think that even if you get Rendili Interstellar Company, you can compete with me?" Palpatine asked.
"How do you know if you don't give it a try?" Tang Xiao stared tit-for-tat into Palpatine's eyes. In this galaxy, there are definitely only single digits of people who can do this. "Anyway, that will be ten years later, but your current problem is really a big trouble if it is not solved."
In fact, even though he said that, if Rendili trade route doesn't let go, it will also be a big trouble for his Duchy of Dawn, and both parties are relative.
Because of Rendili trade route's blockade, this is simply not something that Duchy of Dawn is capable of breaking through now. After all, this route runs through the Milky Way from Core Worlds to Outer Rim Territories, and is a very large route. To open up this route is equivalent to moving the fleet from Outer Rim Territories to Core Worlds!
And if this blockade is not broken, Rendili Planet 600 billion people and Rendili StarDrive 3,600 or so large interstellar shipyards will all have to stay in the Milky Way Core Worlds, surrounded by the Galactic Empire, unable to play any role.
Even if Rendili system is not captured in the future, in just a few years or more, these interstellar shipyards will become old and backward, and they will be really useless.
If Rendili Trade Route can be opened to navigation this time, then we only need to continuously dispatch specific ships to patrol. Once we find a place to set up Interdictor, we can destroy it immediately. Such ships already existed.
Therefore, in the subsequent reconstruction work of Duchy of Dawn, Rendili StarDrive's industrial capacity and population are very important. If these resources cannot be obtained, then even if Galactic Empire stops development, let alone ten years, and Duchy of Dawn is given another twenty years, it will not be able to catch up.
Therefore, the conditions and difficulties of both parties are now open to the public. You know it and I know it, so there is no need to hide it.
So next, Tang Xiao and Palpatine talked alone for nearly an hour, and finally negotiated the relevant conditions. The next negotiation was left to Galactic Republic's Vice Chancellor Mas-Amedda and Liming Prime Minister of the Duchy Francis-Underwood.
On the next day, August 9th, 20BBY.
The two parties formally signed an agreement. According to the content of the agreement, Duchy of Dawn surrendered to Galactic Republic, oh no, it is the 'Coruscant current government headed by Palpatine' and accepted the leadership of Palpatine.
Then Palpatine recognizes the political system of Duchy of Dawn, and also recognizes Tang Xiao's status as Grand Duke of Dawn, and recognizes Duchy of Dawn's right to rule over all existing jurisdictions. And Duchy of Dawn can retain its own army and military command rights, as well as legislative power, but Duchy of Dawn also needs to recognize the constitution of the current government of Palpatine.
According to this clause, Rendili Planet is calculated to enter the domain of Duchy of Dawn and is recognized.
Then the two sides will carry out trade exchanges and establish an extensive bilateral trade mechanism for mutual benefit. Under this clause, Rendili Trade Route will be released.
Next is some talk about cooperative development, cooperative scientific research and the like. Neither Tang Xiao nor Palpatine expects these terms to actually come into effect.
To put it bluntly, this agreement means that Palpatine paid a price in exchange for Duchy of Dawn's nominal surrender. Then Palpatine got the political achievements he wanted, and was able to survive the two crises of Modell Sector Raid and Yago Dur Planet Campaign, allowing him to launch his plan to become emperor.
Tang Xiao has gained substantial benefits from this agreement, which is mutually beneficial.
After the treaty was officially signed, it was named "Dawn Accord".
The signing of Dawn Accord is of great significance. First of all, this agreement is regarded as Duchy of Dawn making peace with Palpatine alone, but it leaves Count Dooku and Confederacy of Independent Systems aside. In this way, Count Dooku, who just took office as Chairman of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, becomes the same existence as Joker.
To put it bluntly, Count Dooku was betrayed by Tang Xiao.
Because in any case, as Confederacy of Independent Systems's most powerful military entity and Confederacy of Independent Systems's second-in-command suddenly announced its surrender, it was a huge blow to Confederacy of Independent Systems. It can even be said that it is a stretch!
Although even if Duchy of Dawn does not surrender to Galactic Republic, the current situation is that Confederacy of Independent Systems is in Eastern Outer Rim and Duchy of Dawn is in Southwest Territory. It is impossible for the two sides to have any military cooperation and contact. But after all, the political impact of such a result would still be too great.
This will cause many Confederacy of Independent Systems-affiliated planets to believe that the war has failed, and thus break away from Confederacy of Independent Systems and find their own way out.
Confederacy of Independent Systems will therefore usher in a wave of turmoil, and the withdrawal of Xu Draon Planet will further weaken their strength. And after Palpatine solves the problem on Duchy of Dawn's side, he can send all the fleets in the direction of Duchy of Dawn to Eastern Territory and continue to strengthen the offensive against Confederacy of Independent Systems.
Adding the two together, the pressure on Count Dooku will be huge.
But this does not affect Palpatine and Tang Xiao to start their respective actions immediately after the agreement takes effect.
First, Galactic Republic released the blockade on Rendili Trade Route, shutting down hundreds of millions of Interdictor along the way. Then Duchy of Dawn immediately sent out a spaceship to recover or destroy all these Interdictor.
Then immediately began a large-scale relocation of Rendili StarDrive's materials, especially the more than 3,600 interstellar shipyards.
And a large-scale immigration operation also began. He gathered almost all the spaceships to gradually relocate the 600 billion people on Rendili Planet to Outer Rim Territories.
All of this is striking while the iron is hot, because as time goes by, there is no guarantee that Palpatine will not make small moves behind his back. It is best to take this opportunity to move Rendili's things out quickly.
Palpatine also had the same intention. On August 10, 20BBY, the day after the treaty came into effect, he immediately took advantage of the opportunity of Bail-Organa to submit Petition of 2000, convened a plenary meeting of the parliament, and then directly announced that Galactic Republic would be reorganized into the Galactic Empire.
And in this process, "Dawn Accord" indeed played an important role in his becoming emperor.
It's really just... everyone gets what he needs.