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The captain immediately retracted his gaze, "Yes, yes, Your Excellency the two officers, I am the ...... in charge of this fleet", the captain took out the cigarette in his jacket pocket and walked over, and before he could get close, he was pushed away by two soldiers, this action made the captain faintly feel abnormal, because this is different from before!

The shipping company they belong to is not an ordinary small company, there are more than 100 freighters running from top to bottom, and they are also among the best in the entire empire, and they have great prestige in shipping. The company's board of directors maintains a close relationship with the Navy's top brass throughout the year, and it is said that there are also family members of the Navy's top brass on the company's board of directors to ensure that the company is not deliberately harassed by the Navy during transportation. And every year, the company will take out no less than 500,000 funds as a "patriotic donation" to the navy, and the relationship between the two sides has always been very harmonious.

It is not uncommon to encounter similar boarding inspections before, but most of the time it is just a formality, where the boarding soldiers smoke cigarettes, play a few cards with the sailors, and then take some souvenirs and leave soon, never with such a different attitude than today.

The captain's brain was still thinking slowly, and one of the soldiers showed him the "Imperial Coastal Defense Search and Inspection Notice", "According to the latest requirements of the Imperial Ministry of Defense, the West Coast will strictly crack down on all kinds of smuggling, please notify the staff of the other two ships to concentrate on their respective decks and cooperate with our inspection work." If there is any wrong behavior that causes us to think that you are rebelling against our mission, we have the right to sink your ship!"

The captain's gaze rested on the notice, which contained the seals of the Imperial Ministry of Defense, the Imperial Navy Headquarters, the Imperial Western Front Navy Headquarters and a string of signatures. It can be seen that the Imperial Navy attaches great importance to this notice, and it is difficult to see the seal of the Imperial Military Department from the Navy's notice now, but it actually exists on this notice!

The captain took back the hand that handed the cigarette, and he was able to be the captain of the ship, and he was also the leader of the fleet, relying not on his physical fitness, but on his experience. He immediately made a decision, nodded with a smile, "No problem, no problem at all, I'll let them cooperate with the actions of the Imperial Navy, can I go to the control room to contact them?", he leaned slightly sideways, with a tentative look.

The two soldiers did not stop him, and he immediately returned to the control room and began to try to contact the nearby telegraph office by radio, which was soon connected and transferred to the headquarters of the Empire.

The person who answered the phone is the person in charge of the company's emergency response office, and no one can say what kind of situation the ship will encounter on the sea surface, so every shipping company has such a department to deal with any emergency and give the most appropriate way to deal with it.

The captain recounted what he had encountered and what he was worried about, and there was silence in the earpiece for a moment, and then he gave him an answer that shocked him!

Early the next morning, most of the Empire's newspapers were reprinted, and people's attention had begun to shift from the assassination of Doolin to the scandals of several big stars, but the news of this day once again drew people's attention to the other side of Doolin's assassination, the Capetian family and the Anthem Foundation.

According to newspaper reports, just yesterday, the Navy on the West Coast spotted three smuggling ships from the Federation destined for Eternal Winter Harbor, the northernmost part of the Empire, during a routine smuggling random inspection of passing ships. These smuggling ships smuggled a large amount of goods from the Federation, and what is even more unexpected is that the owner of this batch of goods is actually the famous Tri-Forks Heavy Industry of the Empire, and the amount involved is as high as 7 million!

During the interrogation of the smugglers, the leader of the smuggling fleet confessed an even more astonishing inside story: On average, every two months, Tridentines would ask them to smuggle a batch of goods of similar value from the Federation to smuggle into the country no less than 60 times until they were discovered this time! This will be the smuggling case involving the highest value of smuggled goods, the longest time span, the widest number of people involved, and the highest social status of the mastermind in the history of the empire!

The newspaper also revealed that the Imperial Ministry of Justice was planning to investigate and prosecute the shipping company and Tri-Pronged Heavy Industries, especially since Tri-Heavy Industries had been ordered to stop production, seal all the contents of the material warehouse, and submit them to inspection.

It took less than two hours for the news to come out, and the shares of Tri-Pronged Heavy Industries were directly cut in half, and at the same time, the trading of the three major exchanges on Tri-Pronged Heavy Industries was stopped, and the shares were temporarily removed from the trading board, and Xie Lisi Street was in mourning.

The accident of Trigemins Heavy Industry triggered its related listed companies, 27 stocks related to the Song Group plummeted at the same time, plus Trigeminal Heavy Industries, 28 stocks evaporated 710 million funds in one morning, driving the Imperial Industrial Index to plummet for the first time in the new year, and the entire industry is facing a huge crisis.

Analysts believe that the illegal behavior of Trident Heavy Industry is very likely not to be an isolated case, once Trident Heavy Industry cannot face the current investigation, it is determined that there are a large number of illegal facts, and it is very likely to affect other heavy industries. Heavy industry enterprises have issued statements one after another, assuring the society that their enterprises do not have any illegal acts, and strongly condemning the shameful behavior of Trident Heavy Industries not hesitating to trample on the law in order to seek huge profits.......

At noon on the same day, the old Capet suddenly fell into a coma and was sent to the San Martil Hospital for rescue, the Capet family has become a mess, and the staff of the Anthem Consortium also broke the inside story of the fierce quarrel between the top management.

Back in the West, Durin put down the newspaper in his hand, and Maggs shot much faster than he thought, which may have something to do with the quick reaction of the Anthem Consortium to pull up the stock price and divert people's attention.

Any news hotspot will not last long, and the lawsuit against him has not yet reached a conclusion, and public opinion is tilted in his favor, but it is not entirely one-sided. The Capetian family, who reacted, bought a large number of newspapers to continue to launder them, and they also discovered the importance of those social activists, and bought a large number of social activists who represented the trend of public opinion to carry out activities for them. Coupled with a series of scandals involving three film and television stars a few days ago, the focus of public opinion has begun to shift.

Once this matter subsides, it will take more effort to mobilize the support of public opinion again, and at the same time, repeated incitement of public opinion will also have the opposite effect, and people will feel bored, fatigued, and even too lazy to pay attention to this matter in the end. Once the heat goes down, the follow-up plan will have a fatal effect, and the Anthem Consortium's method is simple and effective, replacing the past news with new hot spots, and they may pay a lot for it, but all the effort is worth it.

It's just that I didn't expect Maggs not to make a move, and as soon as he made a move, it was a thunderous blow, and the Song Consortium, which had just climbed from the quagmire to the shore, fell into the quagmire again.

This time, it will not be so simple to get out of the current predicament.

But this was a departure from Maggs's original plan, which he hoped would involve more capitalists...... , Suddenly, Du Lin vaguely guessed something, which made him feel a sense of horror for a moment. Because he found that Maggs seemed to be aiming at all the capitalists, but the actual spearhead was pointed at the remnants of the Empire's stubborn power, the northern aristocracy.

The aristocracy of the north still maintains the old ways, they buy all the land in their own territory, and the people living in their territory still call these people nobles, which is hardly the same as in the past. In the realm of these nobility, the lives of the people did not change much from the past, and it can be seen from the fact that the north has always lagged far behind the south in the economic construction, and it seems that there is a force that is controlling the "innovative" forces in the north, which gradually makes the north very different from the rest of the world.

This force is called "aristocracy"!

What Magus really has to deal with is not exactly the capitalists and the forces of capital, what he hides under all the surfaces is to deal with the remaining aristocratic forces!

Judging from the current situation, the northern aristocratic forces have "divided" the northern regions of the empire in a way that is not easy for people to detect, where they have their own system, and anyone who wants to make changes to the current situation in the north can only end up in the sand. Without destroying these nobles and their systems, the empire will never be complete.

What happened to the Capet family is just the bell for the beginning of the game, and judging from the current situation, if the Capet family, which is facing many difficulties, wants to stand up as soon as possible, they must rely on the power of other nobles, because Magus is also a nobleman, and he is also a big nobleman. The network of relationships between these big nobles is layered and intricate, maybe whoever has a good relationship with Mags's family, what if they talk about Mags?

Once the Capetian family did this, they really fell into the trap of Mags, because "complicity" violated the legal ...... of the empire as much as "shielding".

Dühring thought of some of the things that had happened before, such as the fact that he had mentioned to Maggs that officials were corrupted by the power of capital, giving the green light to the capitalists' investment, and causing the loss of imperial property. At that time, Maggs seemed very dissatisfied with the practices of these officials, and he also mentioned to Dühring that he had an idea to rein in the problem of too close ties between officials and capitalists through legislation. At that time, Dühring put forward the idea of creating a new department and legislating to pave the way for this department, with the ultimate goal of finding and sending them to prison those bastard officials who did not hesitate to sell the interests of the state and the people for the sake of profit.

Maggs also said with a smile that not only the officials should be arrested, but also those who convey benefits should be arrest......ed.

Now that counted, this department should be almost built, right?!

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