Chapter 8: Still There

After leaving Taimei WH, the "Storm" went straight to the M320 star field non-stop. www.biquge.info Only in this way can Fengyu catch the Kimek escort by surprise, lest the UAC Federation get the news of the return of the "Tempest" to the new American galaxy and transfer the GMP fleet ahead of schedule.

Before entering the M320 space, the "Tempest" first carried out a simple resupply in the adjacent M318 field. In fact, the supply is only incidental, and the main thing is to exchange information.

The supply ship that brought the latest information about the new American system to Fengyu belonged to Leonardo's commercial intelligence network, and was also Awa-Ker's backup intelligence system. Perhaps this intelligence system will be weaker for the infiltration of the UAC Federal Army than Captain Morgan's New Americas Intelligence Department, but this time Fengyu is not fighting against the regular fleet of the Federal Army, but to deal with the Kimek Escort and GMP people hiding in the shadows, but Leonardo's side is more convenient.

While the "Tempest" was still preparing for the Awa-Ker headquarters, Leonardo had already returned to New America to preside over the work, and arranged for personnel to keep a close eye on the M320 star field. At the same time, he also began an economic war against the new American plutocracy and infiltration of the UAC federal politics, in accordance with the promise he made at the plenary session of the Council.

According to the prior agreement, the supply ship was moored at a designated location on the periphery of the M318 star field to wait for the arrival of the "Tempest", which was almost a week earlier than Fengyu and them. When the two ships joined here, the opposite direction Fengyu informed the wind of the recent situation of the new American galaxy.

The first is that the general environment of the UAC Federation is still under the anti-Awakened ideology, and the KWSA not only holds high the banner of anti-"Storm", but also assumes the identity of the executor of the "Awakened Act", tracking down the whereabouts of the Awakened everywhere, making the New American galaxy jump.

In this case, it is basically impossible for Leonardo to directly buy a part of the politicians to speak for the awakened by means of gold dollars, and no politician dares to risk going against the trend. However, the fight over the Awakened Act is not a matter that can be resolved in a few months, nor is it within the scope of the one-year covenant, and the Council has given Leonardo plenty of time to deal with it slowly.

After all, the most direct victims of the "Awakened Act" are the UAC awakened people, and the impact on Awa-Ker is not as serious as the GMP project, and Leonardo can't handle it without care.

So the Awa-Ker Minister of Commerce and Trade is now dealing with two main things, one is to help Fengyu keep an eye on the GMP project, and the other is to start a trade war with the big conglomerates that stand behind the KWSA. He cut the price of the finished products of the Awa-Ker industry in the New American Galaxy to seize the market share of the other party and squeeze the profits of these large conglomerates.

With his initiative, the other party can only compete with the same vicious price reduction, which has caused a situation of declining profits or even losses. When the big conglomerates are dragged into the quagmire of the trade war, they naturally don't have the financial resources to support politicians and the KWSA non-profit organization.

Once the KWSA loses the financial support of these consortia, it will not be able to jump up and down as it is now, relying only on the "patriotic enthusiasm" of the members of the organization. Adequate activity funding is the lifeblood of any organization. The reason why Awa-Ker has been able to stand so strong for a hundred years is also because the Awakened have a strong economic backing.

Similarly, when these conglomerates reduce their financial investment in politics and public opinion because of their own economic difficulties, then politicians and the media will not be so keen to suppress the awakened, after all, there is no short-term benefit from doing such things.

The awakened people who were exposed at the beginning of the promulgation of the "Awakened Act" were all small fish and shrimp with low social status, and the real high-end awakened people had long had a good social status and network resources in the UAC Federation, and they were not something that an unofficial organization like KWSA could move.

To use the simplest analogy, Leonardo, who has the ability to awaken "Hermes", is known as the "God of Investment" in the UAC Federation, and how many celebrities and politicians have entrusted their assets to his "Hermes Investment Group Trust" to take care of, and he has both prosperity and loss. Even if KWSA suspected that he was an Awakened One, he didn't dare to touch a single hair of his hair.

And Leonardo is also very shrewd, in this trade war, he used the property under Awa-Ker, and did not touch the cake of the trust fund. In the decline in the overall earnings of most industries in the New American Galaxy, only his investment group remains strong and is more favored.

Trade war is a normal phenomenon that must be experienced in the peaceful alternation of old and new forces in capitalist countries, and it can be regarded as an unspoken rule of this form of government. Even as politicians who speak for the old chaebols, they cannot interfere by administrative means, and can only intervene privately when the trade war goes on to a certain extent, acting as an intermediary to mediate the two sides and help redivide the forces.

It's also a shuffling process. The established conglomerates, which have been at a disadvantage in the trade war, have been forced to relinquish some of their political interests, and the new conglomerates, which have more financial resources, will take over this part of the power, thus achieving a change of power behind the scenes.

The core members of this organization are basically the old era old conglomerates that were defeated in the previous trade wars of power changes, and the new era conglomerates that will defeat them today will also be challenged by the Awakened conglomerates. As long as Awa-Ker's many holding consortia can grab a certain political voice in this trade war, they can quickly weaken the "Awakened Act" and even gradually repeal it.

And now this cold war without gunpowder has just begun, and the old conglomerates that hold the power of the UAC federal state have not yet come to surrender and admit defeat. It will take at least a year or two of financial competition, and the fight will be to the extent that it hurts the muscles and bones, and only then will some consortiums that cannot support it take the initiative to bow their heads.

Relinquishing power in order to save themselves from a complete collapse, these conglomerates will let politicians who speak for them help coordinate. And those who speak for the politicians will naturally switch to the winner's side, and then readjust their political philosophy according to the interests of the new owner.

To put it bluntly, politics is just the superstructure of the economy, and it is nothing without an economic base.

This kind of thing is too much brain-draining for Feng Yu, and he doesn't care very much. So after listening to the progress of this area, I focused on the gmp project.

Compared to the troublesome and abstract matter of a trade war, the situation in the M320 star field is much simpler. Because of the particularity of the Kimek Escort Team, the UAC Federal Government did not dare to arbitrarily adjust the location of this special fleet, and still let them be stationed at the L4 base of the first planet of M320.

You must know that the pilots of the Kimek Escort are all GMP-Trons, and although there are as many as one or two dozen genotypes, there are still too many duplicate faces compared to the total number of hundreds.

If such a fleet moves to other star fields as a whole, first of all, not to mention that the secrecy work in the process of migration is not easy to do, even if it changes to a new place, it will not expose the gmp people to the general public's field of vision, and they will still have to divide a separate space city as a station.

And whether it is to build a new space city for the Kimek escort team, or to free up a space city for them, it is a big move that cannot be concealed, and those who are interested can find it with a little effort, not to mention the mature business intelligence network under Leonardo. Whether it is the transportation of personnel and materials or the contracting of projects, they all belong to the commercial field and will be known by him.

Since this kind of thing is difficult to hide, there is no reason for the UAC Convoy to mess with the Kimek escort until it is confirmed that the Tempest will attack the M320 again.

So the gmp people are still there, and they're always there.