Yu Lian knew that this Morley Space City was also one of the autonomous space cities in the Three-Pronged Star Domain. Its backing was even stronger than that of the Toswa Autonomous Dominion, where the Icebreaker Expeditionary Fleets had entered—because its sovereignty was held in trust by the Alliance.
In fact, the city's main investor was none other than the Rainbow Rose Merchant Association. Most of its fiscal surplus and property rental income went to the Foundation's headquarters.
In a sense, all the citizens of the space city were employees of the Bei family.
Of course, the spirit of working across star rivers and tens of thousands of light-years was certainly touching, but it wasn't the end goal. The point was that autonomous space cities at major transportation hubs like this were often gathering places for all sorts of rumors and underground intelligence.
It was no surprise that Tan Jize could get information here.
Of course, anyone with even a little social savvy and connections in the underworld could easily collect all kinds of underground intelligence, true or false. The real test lay in distinguishing, analyzing, compiling, and summarizing all that information.
Throughout history, more than a few incompetent intelligence agencies had been left dizzy and disoriented by a mess of false and unreliable reports, leaving their decision-makers to make the wrong calls.
And yet there had always been intelligence experts who could find the clearest, most important truths amid a maze of clues.
On that front, Yu Lian was quite confident.
In the timeline of his previous life, Tan Jize had been one of the founders and leaders of the Volunteer Army, as well as its intelligence director. Despite extremely limited resources, he had built an intelligence network that spanned the entire occupied territory of the Commonwealth. He had