374. Loser's liquidation
After the celebration and recognition of the winners, the losers naturally have to stand on the Judgment stage to Judgment.
In this vicious incident of Trade Federation's invasion of Naboo, several direct Joiners have been captured. Among them, Trade Federation Senior Sector Viceroy Dortai Dauphin died during the battle when the robot control ship was destroyed. Trade Federation Governor Newt Gunray and his adjutant Rune Harkou were captured in the palace of Naboo.
Also captured at the same time were military observers Xiao Guanghua and Fourth Civilization.
Of course, the term Fourth Civilization is not used for Galactic Republic. At this time, Xiao Guanghua's identity is Fourth Group's action consultant. He appeared in this battle, and according to the confession of Commander of the Gungan army, Xiao Guanghua appeared as Commander of the robot army.
This situation immediately made Fourth Group passive in terms of public opinion in the parliament.
It was also because of this incident that Tang Xiao originally wanted to visit Naboo and participate in Naboo's celebration and have a meal, but because of Dawn Star Planet and Fourth Group The ambiguous relationship between was directly rejected by Queen Amidala, which made Tang Xiao, who thought he was extremely handsome, a little disappointed, so he dismissed Xiao Guanghua's position in anger.
During the trial against Newt Gunray, Rune Harkou and Xiao Guanghua, the Speaker Sheev-Palpatine immediately took out the same as the previous Phineas-Valorum came out with completely different courage. He decisively demanded that the three people be prosecuted for war crimes, and Trade Federation and Fourth Group paid huge compensation.
However, the corruption of Galactic Republic cannot be solved in a day or two. Trade Federation refuses to admit that Newt Gunray is guilty of his actions. Their representative Lot Dude has repeatedly emphasized that Naboo breached the contract first and Trade Federation's behavior is just a normal business behavior.
He also took out the unequal treaty signed by Naboo's former king Als-Veruna as evidence, showing that Naboo has failed to fulfill its treaty obligations in the past year, causing Trade Federation a loss of 1.24 billion credit points.
However, Naboo refused to recognize the validity of this treaty. Queen Amidala said that this treaty was signed under the pressure of strong power, and the treaty itself violated Republic Constitution.
Then several parties started wrangling over the treaty without end.
Fourth Group's attitude towards Xiao Guanghua was even simpler. Glosse-Shelbia, who had been promoted to director of Fourth Group, did not attend the hearing. Instead, Fourth Group representatives Rosana-Goodes, who had also been promoted, attended the hearing.
Rosana just said lightly, "Xiao Guanghua went on vacation. He didn't do anything. He was just watching for fun."
Gungan represented Jar Jar Binks and said loudly, "I also participated in this battle as Grand General. I saw Xiao Guanghua commanding the robot army with my own eyes!" However, his appearance was not very convincing.
"As we all know, Trade Federation's robots are controlled by the robot control ship. What do you think Xiao Guanghua should do to command this battle?" Rosana looked at Jia coldly. - Jar Binks, "And you are actually Grand General of Gungan? Haha, I think I can imagine why Gungan's army of one hundred thousand was beaten to pieces and lost its armor."
Now even the good-tempered Jar-Jar Binks was angry. He jumped and said, "Gungan There are no cowards! Battle of the Great Grasslands We have more than 10,000 warriors who lost their lives! I won't allow you to insult Gungan like this!"
"No offense intended, I'm just stating the facts." Rosana said.
Her sharp words made Jar Jar Binks, who had never seen such a big scene before, almost collapse emotionally. He tried to hit Xiao Guanghua with a water glass but was stopped, and the hearing once again ended in vain.
Finally, because the 48-hour detention time has expired, Galactic Republic law enforcement agencies have no reason to continue to detain the three people. They can only temporarily release them and require them to be on call at all times. They are not allowed to leave Coruscant and must be on call.
Then Xiao Guanghua got on Newt Gunray's spaceship that day, and the three of them left directly and went back to their respective homes.
But the matter was not over yet. Speaker Sheev-Palpatine convened an enlarged meeting the next day and immediately put a bill to impose sanctions on Trade Federation and Fourth Group on the table.
According to the sanctions, Trade Federation will be completely deprived of trade privileges. Trade Federation who have lost trade privileges will no longer be members of Free Trade Zone, and all their business activities in Outer Rim Territories will be levied a large amount of taxes.
Not only that, this bill requires Trade Federation to completely disband their defense fleet, and the job of protecting their routes will be handed over to Galactic Republic local defense fleet, and Trade Federation needs to pay a lot of money to maintain the work of the local defense fleet.
For Fourth Group, Chancellor Palpatine also proposed a direct fine of 5 billion credits, free post-war reconstruction for Naboo, the cancellation of the insulting advertisement for Galactic Republic, the disbandment of the defense fleet, and the suspension of the production and sale of combat ships.
If these sanctions are implemented, Trade Federation and Fourth Group can basically be pronounced dead.
However, the two companies have no intention of accepting sanctions at all. Not only that, their representatives Lott-Dude and Rosana-Goodes did not withdraw from Galactic Senate as many people imagined, but continued to stay in the parliament and engage in various wranglings.
And at this time, a very delicate situation also emerged among Galactic Senate.
Those who strongly demand severe punishment for Trade Federation and Fourth Group are mostly representatives of planets Inner Rim and Core Worlds, while most of the representatives of Outer Rim planets have ambiguous attitudes, or simply openly support Trade Federation and them.
But Speaker Palpatine is also very straightforward. He publicly declared at a meeting that the planets that support corporate giants like Trade Federation are all planets bribed by them and are the source of Galactic Senate's corruption.
He attributed all the corruption during Phineas-Valorum to the bribery and bribery of corporate giants like Trade Federation, and he began to guide the direction of the parliament. All the members who supported Trade Federation were bribed and corrupted, and were the sinners of Galactic Republic.
Chancellor Palpatine has intentionally or unintentionally ignored the fact that many Outer Rim Territories planets rely on corporate giants like Trade Federation for their economic lifeline. Some planets that are not capable of interstellar navigation also rely on Trade Federation for their connection with Galactic Republic.
Even if there is exploitation in this process, it is at least a guarantee for their economic development and star domain security, which is exactly what Galactic Republic cannot provide. These planets support Trade Federation, which is actually understandable and is a normal political behavior.
But Palpatine's approach is to please the developed planets Inner Rim and Core Worlds that have truly profound foundations, and to label Outer Rim's backward planets and kick them aside.
Soon, members of Outer Rim Territories, including Ainlee-Senator Tim, began to find that they were becoming more and more isolated in the parliament, and their voices became smaller and smaller. The former Rim Faction Group also fell apart due to the betrayal of its leader Orn Free Tower.
But at this moment, a person stood up.
Dawn Star Planet MP, Francis-Underwood.
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