Everyone across the Federation watching Li John's livestream was furious!
Even the members of the Kalaya Provincial Council were grinding their teeth with hatred over Li John adding two B-Class Battleships.
Although Li John was the Governor of Kalaya Province, he had seized that position through force. The members of the Kalaya Provincial Council wished they could kill Li John and take his fleet for themselves.
As for the Federation President and Vice President, they were hopping mad.
Because both the Federation President and Vice President had once contacted King Chu Jiang.
Not only had he made excuse after excuse, but he had also demanded exorbitant kickbacks.
That was why they had used civilian ships to transport Energy Stones and rare ores last time!
Those goods were easy to sell off and left no trace whatsoever.
But when it came to Li John!
"That bastard!"
"When we wanted to buy battleships, they kept giving us the runaround!"
"Looks like the Empire can't wait for our Federation to fall apart!"
"And that bastard Li John!"
"If the pirates hadn't interfered, we would have killed that bastard long ago."
"Why didn't those idiots in the intelligence department give us any warning?"
"Where does all that annual funding even go?!" The Federation President cursed furiously in his office.
Central State's situation was simply too difficult right now.
Although it had achieved a minor military victory against the Pirate Groups,
the financial consortiums had suffered enormous losses!
Central State's military spending had skyrocketed.
Moreover, the Mineral Stars and Transport Spaceships belonging to Central State's major consortiums had suffered attacks one after another.
Meanwhile, the other provinces of the Federation had stopped paying taxes to the central government.
If this continued, Central State's finances would collapse.
Furthermore, Central State itself was riddled with internal conflicts.