The issue Li Yifei raised might indeed exist, but it certainly was not without a solution.
They had already discovered a New Star System. How could those capitalist conglomerates possibly sit idly by?
Afraid of being discovered by the Blue Star Federation government?
What a joke. A few of them could join forces and build warship factories directly in the New Star System. Self-production and self-supply were entirely feasible.
The Blue Star Federation could monitor the movement of warships, but how could it possibly regulate warships that were neither on the registered list nor active within the Blue Star Federation?
They had put the matter before List for no reason other than to test Duke Palmer's sincerity.
Both sides were fully aware of each other's probing, yet both pretended not to know. That was probably the hypocrisy of adults.
After the cordial exchange ended, all that remained were some matters of detail.
Over the past year or two, the conglomerates across the Blue Star Federation had trained more than a thousand knights. Although most of them progressed slowly after entering the Transcendent realm, they did not need to divide their attention among other fields, so nearly all of them were combat personnel.
They could easily assemble a standard knight order.
Those knights now all needed Knight Mechs.
Li Yifei represented all the conglomerates in the negotiations, and this was also an important part of them.
Of course, this was a negotiation conducted in the name of the Dark Faction of the Blue Star Federation. As for private demands, that would depend on what each party could manage on their own.
After the meeting with List ended, Virut was responsible for receiving the delegation.
There were no unnecessary activities. Both sides eagerly began the first round of negotiations.
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