The widely circulated Legendary Opera contained a scene about a Prince who ate the Empress's melons and ultimately died a horrible death.
Because both the melons and their vines were poisonous, the more he ate, the faster he died.
This might have been the climax of the entire opera, but it had not appeared out of nowhere.
There had been plenty of buildup beforehand: the story between the Prince and the Empress, the story between the Prince, the Emperor, and the Empress, the story between the Prince and the Emperor...
Everything had to progress from a small incident to the arrival of the climax.
That process was necessary and indispensable.
Just as Lin Qi and Wo Delike had discussed how to move against the Federation's heavy industries, they would not simply step forward and make a few statements about the matter.
That would not work.
Nor would it achieve the desired effect.
The most formidable aspect of the major capitalists, especially the conglomerates, was their extraordinarily extensive networks—far more extensive than ordinary people could imagine.
A single idea from the Duncan Family could make everyone in Congress show them respect. Even if the people in the heavy-industrial groups could not be quite that terrifying, they would not be far behind.
The history of the Federation's industrial development could also be called the history of the Federation's founding. From the very day the Federation came into existence, its industries—especially its heavy industries—had begun to take shape and develop rapidly.
As one of the most important components of a nation, heavy industry had received considerable policy and technological support during the Federal Government's two or three centuries of development.
Although North Heavy Industries was not particularly prominent in the eyes of most people in the Federation, it was certainly not some obscure