Through the thick metal walls, you can hear the noise of the upper bar and the casino next door, and the merchants' eyes can faintly see the forward base suspended in the dark universe in the extreme distance through the floor-to-ceiling portholes.
In order to deal with the threat of the Imperials, especially the terrifying prospect of the other side after mastering the law of the giant torsion rate hollow, the federal political axe began to advance the base plan decades ago, and after President Pabur took office, the plan was strongly promoted, and the political axe deployed a lot of resources and money, and with the full efforts of the Fruit Shell Mobile Company, the base was finally perfectly presented to the people.
This is the closest space station to the forward base, Pingli is responsible for the entertainment life of the officers and soldiers on rotation, has a well-equipped entertainment venue, and even has a casino that does not know the legality, on the verandah, you can see many federal soldiers on leave chatting with wine glasses relaxedly, but in the quiet coffee house at the moment, except for a few groups of officers gathered together, most of them look like businessmen, and their accents when talking are obviously Bermuda.
The appearance of Bermuda's merchants in the Federal Military Space Station, which is very close to the front line, is a very incredible picture, especially not far in front of the boundless Evening Scorpion Nebula space passage in Haohan, these merchants must be related to the Imperial smuggling channel.
However, for some reason, the Federation officers who were silently drinking tea did not show any consternation.
There is a federal proverb: money is everything.
But being able to make the federal military tolerate these strangers who don't have chips behind their necks in the military space station has little to do with this proverb, and the reason why these Bermuda smugglers have this privilege is not only because of their slightest connection with the big federal families, but more importantly, for some reason, the federal political axe has been acquiescing and even conniving at this smuggling for many years.
The quiet café was filled with soft music, but the atmosphere was not so relaxed, whether it was the Bermuda businessmen waiting for the arrival of the smuggling boats, and the silent Federation officers, their expressions were extremely serious and depressed, the Federation officers were worried about the situation at the front, and the businessmen were worried about the damage that the situation at the front would cause to their goods.
"The battle on the front line is becoming more and more fierce, the fleets on both sides are working more vigorously to clear out, and there are fewer and fewer Monga in the last three months, and the two sides have been doing business for seventy years, and now the Ming Ming Empire's accuracy rate of torsion rate is getting higher and higher, and the cargo loss ratio is unprecedentedly large."
A curly-haired middle-aged businessman shook his head, refused his companion's gesture to pour coffee, and said in a depressed mood: "You are all playing hard currency, and you can also go to the mine to find a spare source of goods, at most the cost is higher, but you all know that my family owner has been dealing in silk for many years, and this is going to be out of stock, and I am very worried that it will not be able to slow down." ” The so-called Monga refers to the unmanned cargo spacecraft on the imperial side, because of the lack of large fleets through the technical ability to pass the torsion rate, the smuggling transactions between the two sides in the past few decades have been carried out through this clumsy and even gambling method, but fortunately, the terrifying profits of smuggling goods are enough to offset the loss of space channels by more than 40%.
The businessmen in the café knew each other well, knew where the curly-haired businessman represented Bermuda, and they themselves were just little people who had been pushed to the hardest fronts, and in this federal military space station, far from Bermuda, they naturally spoke much more relaxed.
Someone comforted: "Although Bermuda has not found a suitable environment for the life of that kind of small meat worms, but artificial cultivation can always be replaced, by the way, I heard that S3 has a companion star that is very suitable for planting mulberry trees, and your owner has not considered it" "I didn't even think about raising it in the federal territory.
You also know that although our partner in the Federation has some strength, how can the HTD Bureau agree to such a big face?"
The curly-haired silk smuggler lit a cigarette, shook his head with a wry smile and said: "I don't really care about my side, but I am away from Hanxing, I heard that the economy is getting worse and worse, I am really worried that those noble lords will destroy the mulberry and move back to Tianjingxing in a fit of anger, so what will be the price of the goods next year and the next year?"
His companion said with a gloomy expression: "The number of Monga sent to us from Hanxing's side has decreased sharply, and we can't get a sufficient number of returns, plus what kind of new life movement is their royal family is now promoting, vigorously suppressing luxury consumption, those aristocratic lords on Hanxing will definitely be withdrawn, don't say next year, I dare to say that the asking price of the next batch of goods will be doubled." ” The people who do private business are still businessmen, and the prospect of rising costs and decreasing profits or even losing money is like a leather whip tied to a tightrope, pumping their cold hearts bloody, and all businessmen are silently thinking about the future prospects, and the discussion suddenly becomes quieter.
The bottle in front of a merchant was half empty, presumably under the dual effect of alcohol and a bleak outlook, and he slammed the table and shouted angrily, "It's all wars" As soon as the words fell, he noticed that the silent federal officer at the table in front of him seemed to be listening to the conversation here, his mood suddenly froze, and he woke up most of the wine, remembering that he was not on the bed in Bermuda at this time, but in the space station of the federal military, he coughed twice with an unnatural expression, and said: "I really hope that the federal forces will win quickly." ” Looking at the merchants around him with a smile, he explained embarrassedly: "Anyway, the Federation and Bermuda are also a family, although we do business with the group of orcs in the Empire, just to earn their money, our feelings and positions will definitely be on the side of the Federation." ” There is no hypocrisy, the Commonwealth and Bermuda are like two separate brothers, and the Empire is a bad neighbor across the street, whether in terms of race, blood, language, or culture.
The silk smuggler from before looked at him with an embarrassed expression, relieved him of the siege and said: "How can it be so easy to win, I don't understand the military deployment on the front line, but the internal political situation of the federation has become like this, I don't think the federation can achieve a decisive victory in a short time." ” "Isn't the federal political situation very stable" someone asked in surprise: "Last month, the Parliament Hill passed the Inheritance Tax Bill, the Limited Information Disclosure Bill, and the Foundation Cleanup Ordinance, and even the Sanlin Union Bank is now silent, who else dares to go against President Pabul?"
"The re-election of the Federal Council of Management, the presidential series won a big victory, and anyone could have predicted the passage of these bills and regulations, but the prince suddenly did such an earth-shattering thing, I don't believe that he really just wants to give back to the society, and has no other ideas, I see, President Pabul is now in real difficulty."
"Which prince?"
someone asked with a frown.
There was a dead silence in the café, as if the man had mentioned a name that should never have been mentioned, and the silk smuggler put down the coffee cup in his hand and explained with a wry smile: "Don't get me wrong, I'm talking about the prince of the Tai family." ” Hearing the explanation, the atmosphere in the room suddenly loosened a little, and the buzzing and discussion sounded again, and the businessmen who didn't know much about the latest information asked what the prince of the Tai family had done.
The smuggler who almost said the wrong thing because he was drunk before, slumped on the chair weakly, looked at the peers around him with a sad face and said: "The silk is out of stock, at most it is to lose some money, the big people wear a few less silk underwear, the jewelry is out of stock, and the problem is not big, but the goods to be received by my master are super hard graphite, and the goods are husk mobile, but there has been no goods for forty-two days, what do you say I should do?"
The smugglers next to them were stunned when they heard this.
In the past, this smuggling business was undoubtedly the most profitable and guaranteed category, and it is no exaggeration to say that when he went to pick up the Monga carrying super-hard graphite, the Federal Political Axe would send a Whitewater combat team to escort him throughout the journey.
But if the supply is not available and the loss of the federal military is caused, then no matter what kind of power this person has in Bermuda, I am afraid that he will instantly become ashes in the anger of the federal bigwigs, no wonder this person is so sad and drinks cup after cup.
"Filter-grade super hard graphite can only be found on the Imperial Ink Flower Planet, and those mines seem to be still under the control of the Imperial forces."
Hearing the words of the Ink Flower Planet, the audience fell silent again, the expressions on the faces of the merchants became extremely strange, and the shock, emotion and fear were intertwined together, as if they heard the name of hell, and even the federal officers who had been silent at the tables in front of them couldn't help but slowly straighten up.
Ink Flower Planet, an ordinary administrative star in the empire's nearby galaxy, has now become a hell on earth, a cruel and cold-blooded meat grinder because of its important strategic location, and because of one of the most powerful declarations in this cosmic war.
On the surface of hundreds of millions of square kilometers of the planet, the Federation and the Empire have put unprecedented military power into it without hesitation, and under the indifferent gaze of hundreds of various space warships outside the atmosphere, millions of ground troops, hundreds of thousands of various equipment, and thousands of the latest military mechas, like two huge waves of different colors, silently and tirelessly collide together, shattering and gathering and then striking again, leaving countless blood-stained corpses and charred mecha wreckage on the battlefield.
This is the bloodiest and most brutal battlefield in the seventy years of the war between the Federation and the Empire, where there is only victory and defeat, life and death, and there is always only one way to practice these words, and that is killing.
The Federation needs a stable jump point in the galaxy, and it needs to protect the crystal ore mining of the X galaxy in exchange for the final victory, the reason why the Imperial Team fought so fiercely, in addition to the opposite reason, is more important because of the great retreat of the Empire in exchange for strategic space, Her Royal Highness the Princess once controlled Peach Blossom to kill the commander of a certain group army of the Federation under the gun, and announced to the entire universe in the twilight: The empire has never retreated To be continued: