Chapter 26: A dilemma
"Hmph, ignorant fool!" The official residence of Marshal Star Carylrank, the capital of the Tammy Empire, Marshal Wall closed the curtain on the windowsill with a gloomy face.
Outside the marshal's residence, tens of thousands of people held signs such as "thoroughly investigate the Thai mine scandal" and "punish the traitors", and there is no doubt that they all pointed the Thai mine scandal at Marshal Wall, all of which was caused by the public statement of King Cameron XI, as Nancy had guessed, completely dismissing the incident.
As the protagonists of this Thai mine scandal, the commander of the 44th Fleet, Kukasle, the commander of the 39th Fleet, and Karin, the flagship commander of the 44th Fleet, have become the targets of the spearhead. And these three people have a striking similarity, that is, they are all direct subordinates of Marshal Wall, and Karin is the son of Wall, so this matter Wall is not related to it in any way.
Not to mention that Marshal Wall can't get rid of the relationship, even now, although Cameron XI has issued a statement saying that the Thai mine scandal has nothing to do with him, not many people actually believe it, but the supremacy of imperial power has been deeply rooted in the entire Tammy Empire, and Cameron's rulers have accumulated power for tens of thousands of years, so the people dare not challenge the dignity of the royal family, so they all pointed the finger at Wall, one of the new six marshals.
Speaking of which, it is too desperate for Nancy to let the commander of the J710 star garrison, who has been controlled by himself, commit suicide directly after completing all the tasks.
On the one hand, Leta's suicide can completely cut off the evidence that the Zerg once controlled Leta, making the Zerg completely dissociate themselves from this matter, and destroying all evidence of the existence of parasites. On the other hand, it drove Cameron XI to a dead end.
Nowadays, most people in the country believe that Leta's death is related to Cameron, and as for the later royal spokesman who said that Leta and the Great Chu Empire colluded, basically no one believes it, and even later the batch of materials was found to be mysteriously missing, and the people pointed the finger at the royal family of the Tammy Empire. This makes Cameron extremely passive.
If Leta is still alive, Cameron has many ways to downplay the Thai mine scandal this time, narrow the scope of influence, participate in the water and other means perfunctory, but his death has cast a strong conspiracy on the whole incident, so that the people no longer believe in the words of the royal family, and the credibility of the royal family has been reduced to a very low level.
Cameron wouldn't have cared too much if all this was just these fools, the Empire was in control of absolute force, and any attempt to subvert the Empire would be almost impossible. But this time, the Thai mine scandal was able to ferment so quickly and spread so widely, and it was inseparable from the small actions of those aristocrats. So what Cameron is really wary of is these aristocrats.
Now in the overall situation, Cameron has an advantage in the struggle with the nobles, but this advantage cannot completely crush the other party, and at this time, Cameron's biggest reliance on the support of the people and the support of the low-level sergeants is undoubtedly a heavy blow to him because of the Thai mine scandal. At this delicate time, Cameron had to be cautious about any blow from the aristocracy.
"There is no need for the marshal to be angry, all this is only temporary, and His Majesty has already thought of a countermeasure." At this time, in the same room as Marshal Wall was another core member of Cameron's faction, Energy Secretary Finn.
"Is Your Majesty really going to do this? Isn't this right in the hands of the enemy? After hearing Finn's words, Wall frowned and said with some reluctance.
"There's no way around it. Now His Majesty has no other way than this trick. Now those aristocrats have become more and more lawless, and they have even instigated students to storm the government on some planets. At this point, Finn's words were also filled with anger.
Most of the Cameron factions were gathered together because of Cameron XI's iron-blooded attitude when he was young, so these hot-blooded factions still valued the interests of the empire, and they hated the nobles who would do whatever it took to achieve their own ends.
As for the method that Marshal Wall said, it is naturally to open up hundreds of thousands of years of Thai mine stocks to conduct a thorough inventory, this matter has always been secretly promoted by an invisible hand, although Cameron's intelligence organization did not catch the evidence, but they are not dry, all kinds of evidence show that the root cause of all this incident is to force Cameron to this step.
But even though Cameron knew it was a hidden enemy, he bared his fangs. But he had to follow his pace, because Cameron really couldn't think of any other way to regain the trust of the low-level sergeants and the people.
The reason why those aristocrats are still fighting with Cameron today instead of committing a military operation to strike a thunderous blow at Cameron is not because they do not have enough military power to compete with Cameron. You must know that four of the six marshals are now on their side, and the real reason is that they are afraid of Cameron XI's prestige among the lower soldiers, and they are afraid that their actions will not be supported by these soldiers.
Cameron also knows this, so he must be desperate to maintain his image, without any stains, and let those soldiers stand with him without wavering, only then those nobles will not dare to act rashly, and he can have more time to slowly clean them up.
"What do you say is the attitude of the four marshals in this incident? Do you think this has something to do with them? "The four marshals Wall has always been very respectful, these marshals were also hot-blooded in the army when they were young, and they were classified as Cameron's faction, and when they were young, they also followed Cameron and fought against the old marshals, but unfortunately they were gradually corrupted by power and desire over time, and now they have become Cameron's enemies.
There are too many such examples in the Tammy Empire, not only Langtesmig, but even the most cunning Andrea was a loyal fan of Cameron when he was young, but unfortunately as their power grew larger and their families became larger and larger, their blood slowly cooled down and slowly sank. Although they have not yet become the minions of the nobility, they are not even fully aristocratic factions, but after the outbreak of this incident, they have completely lost Cameron's trust.
"I don't know Marshal Andrea, after all, I was not born at his most glorious time, but Marshal Langtesmig is an upright man, and his loyalty to His Majesty is unquestionable, so it is difficult for me to understand why such a person would do such a thing that disregards the interests of the Empire, is it more important for them to overthrow His Majesty's rule than the interests of the Empire?" Fein shook his head and sighed.
"It's not that that I'm really worried about, it's the invisible hand that's pushing it all in." Wall said abruptly changing the subject.
"You mean......" Finn's pupils narrowed.
Seeing that Fain understood what he meant, Wall nodded and sneered: "Inventory the Tai Mine Reserve Base? It seems that some people just can't sit still. ”
As the most strictly controlled strategic material in the empire, Thai mines have always been firmly controlled by the empire, and even if some nobles mine privately, most of them are petty and cannot be put on the table. And now that someone has set their sights on the Thai mine reserve base, Marshal Wall has to be alerted, and he, like Cameron, thinks that this is the ghost of those nobles.
Although the empire explicitly forbade the nobles to keep private soldiers, this kind of thing could not be completely stopped under any circumstances, after all, vested interests need some armament to ensure their interests. Just like some nobles will privately fight over a remote mineral star, because the encroachment of this resource star by the nobles itself is not in accordance with the laws of the empire, so they will not put it on the table for Cameron to judge, but fight for it by privately raising arms.
These aristocratic armed forces used for private fighting only obeyed the orders of the noble family and ignored the orders of the empire, but because of the strict control of the Thai mines, the armed forces of the nobles were not strong, and this incident made Wall and Cameron mistakenly think that there were some nobles who could not sit still and wanted to take risks and develop their own private soldiers by meddling in the Thai mines of the Thai mine reserve base to achieve the purpose of competing with the empire.
The rampant behavior of the nobles provided an excellent cover for the Zerg's purposes, but even if Cameron was now explicitly told of the Zerg's plans, he would not believe it. After all, the Zerg had already shown their national strength in the last performance, and they did not have an overwhelming advantage over the Tammy Empire, or even a disadvantage, so Cameron would not believe that the Zerg would have such a crazy plan to destroy the Tammy Empire within a few months, because as long as you get energy, it can be completely converted into combat power in just a few hours, which is too incredible for the fourth-level civilization of the Tammy Empire.
After six days of fermentation in the Thai mine scandal, Cameron finally couldn't bear the uneasiness in his heart and decided to rebuild his image in the empire, so he issued a statement again to clarify that this matter had nothing to do with him, and said that this batch of materials was not taken out from the resource reserve base managed by the royal family, and in order to prove that this matter had nothing to do with him, Cameron XI was willing to open all Thai mine reserve bases for inventory.
For a while, a thousand waves were stirred, and the nobles turned their eyes to the massive materials that they had been unable to interfere with, thinking about how to earn benefits for themselves, and the four marshals finally changed color after getting the news.
"We have gone further and further away from Your Majesty, and now Your Majesty must hate us to death, thinking that we are leading all this." Marshal Andrea's official residence, Marshal Langtesmig, who was discussing things with Andria, sighed after receiving the news and said with a lonely face. (To be continued......)