"Empress Dowager Xiao and Tuoba Kuohai had been locked in a tug-of-war over whether to cooperate with the Three Harmony Group.
"But just recently, that puppet king suddenly declared his support for Tuoba Kuohai's side.
"This had caused the balance of the struggle to shift rapidly in Tuoba Kuohai's favor.
"Cooperation between the Xitu Federation and the Three Harmony Group was likely to begin soon."
Mada said indifferently.
Just a few simple sentences.
Yet they sent a chill through everyone who heard them.
This was genuine political infighting.
For Empress Dowager Xiao to have regented the vast Xitu Federation for thirty years, she had to be a formidable woman.
In the central disk region of the Changpan River System,
the North Party Kingdom, the Nanli Principality, and the Xitu Federation were roughly equal in strength.
But geographically, the Xitu Federation lay between the other two nations.
It had always faced the threat of a tacit alliance between the Nanli Principality and the North Party Kingdom.
Over the course of several centuries,
the Xitu Federation had suffered far greater losses than the other two nations.
In recent years, the Xitu Federation had gradually fallen out of the Changpan River System's "one superpower, three great powers" balance.
Yet under Empress Dowager Xiao,
the Xitu Federation not only stopped falling behind, but had also gained the upper hand over the North Party Kingdom in several open and covert struggles.
As a result, the North Party Kingdom had effectively fallen out of the original "one superpower, three great powers" balance.
As Wang Dong's strength grew, he invested more and more in the intelligence network in the Changpan River System.
The intelligence Mada had access to
was no longer as superficial as it had once been.
He had learned more and more about the secrets