"Well, so you don't plan to run the spaceship modification business for a long time, you just want to meet the needs of your own mining team" It may be that Hong Tao is quite similar, and Station Commander Alfonso is not surprised by the clone pilot's behavior, and accepts this set of arguments, and asks a more specific question.

"I'm not going to stay on your space station for long, I'm just passing by to sell minerals and buy supplies. Coincidentally, I met an acquaintance here, and his situation was not very good, so I formed a mining team to help him, and that's it. ”

There is no need to make up nonsense about this problem, Hong Tao has no intention of engaging in the spaceship modification industry at all, and he has not even inquired about the tax rates for short-term and long-term operations.

"Mr. John is a friend of my family, and for his sake, I promised to help you once. But this time, I didn't ask about someone else's ship, and Mr. John had to be the first to get it. If that's fine, I'll send someone to take you to the Federal Navy Smelter to pick up ship parts. So be it, remember what you said, don't sell modified ships in my space station for a long time, that will get you in trouble! ”

But Alfonso's answer made Hong Tao a little confused, not because of the tax rate, but because he didn't want to be in this business for a long time.

"No wonder you can't even keep your family business, the pattern is too small!" I wanted to ask what the trouble was, but the other party had already disconnected. Hong Tao could only continue to scold, and he could guess without asking, someone should have taken the lead in the ship modification industry, and it was likely to be the relationship between Alfonso's family.

Come to think of it, the space station is barely sustained by the gaseous clouds in the galaxy, and the people who come here are all poor ghost miners, and the possible large consumption is not only gambling but second-hand spaceship trading. It's strange that a space station master is mixed up to such an extent, and he really uses mosquito legs as meat.

Although the stationmaster is a bit petty, his credit is still quite good, and it didn't take long for a guy claiming to be the captain of the space station to send out a communication request, and he was the one who led the way to the naval space station.

To be on the safe side, in addition to the industrial ship piloted by Nuel, Hong Tao deliberately brought Anhaka and Old John with him. One is responsible for chatting with himself to satisfy his gossip desires, and the other is responsible for negotiating and bargaining.

That's the territory of the Federal Navy, so you'd better show your face less. At that time, the matter of the blood raiders' kidnapping of themselves had not yet been clarified, and there were shadows of various governments behind it.

Of course, Hong Tao is not afraid of being recognized, and the New Eden people have long since given up the means of identifying themselves by their appearance, and switched to DNA scanning technology. With the development of biotechnology and medical technology, people can change their appearance at will, although it is not legal, but no one is more serious.

"Old John, I didn't expect you to have a friend like the stationmaster, but why didn't Mr. Alfonso help you find a lighter errand" The captain of the space station guard was also reluctant to deal with the arrogant clone pilot, and after sending the destination coordinate point, he drove the frigate and ran away alone. This is better, Hong Tao simply connected the barge and the industrial ship and let Nuel be in charge, and he concentrated on gossiping.

"I'm sorry, this matter involves other people's honor, it's inconvenient for me to say ......" It was very unsmooth at the beginning, and Old John put on a posture that a dead pig was not afraid of boiling water.

"In that case, I'd love to hear the story of your participation in the Federal Navy. Let's have a drink and talk! "It doesn't matter if you don't say it, Hong Tao also has a relatively high attainment in how to talk about technology. If you can't get an answer to ask directly, then let's knock on the side, and we have to add some ingredients, such as the Kufei drink with the Snake Nerve Synergist.

The journey was not long, and when the spaceship passed through the sixth stargate, Old John's excitement had not yet passed, and his mouth was babbling, let him say what he said, and let him say what he didn't say.

It turned out that he and Alfonso's father were comrades-in-arms, and they served as soldiers under Alfonso Sr. Because he was a fellow countryman and received a lot of care, he quickly blended into the wheelhouse of a battleship from an ordinary shipbuilder and became a glorious second lieutenant officer of the Federal Navy.

At that time Alfonso Sr. was already a major and commanded a battle cruiser of the Union Navy. Old John is naturally also one of the pilots of this battleship, and the two also participated in the self-discipline drone war together, which is really a charge, a fight to the death, and no reservations.

Friendships forged on the battlefield are usually stronger, and are not too affected by race, status, wealth or poverty, and if there is no last emergency, two people can be honorably discharged together after a few decades in the navy, and return to their hometown with a considerable amount of discharge money to live a worry-free life.

But in the same year that the autonomous drone was destroyed by the virus, the task of covering the electronic warfare ship to rush into the drone brood fell to their detachment, and due to intelligence deviations, they ran into twice as many enemies as previously estimated.

In order to complete the mission of the electronic warfare ship, Alfonso Sr.'s companion launched a decisive charge in the wounded ship, using the hull to prop up a shield for the electronic warfare ship. The mission was eventually completed, and the autonomous drone stopped attacking after the brood was implanted with a virus.

But John Sr. then left the fleet and continued his service on the Navy's logistics space station. Why didn't the old man say it, even after taking the synergist, he still kept the secret, and he could be called old and strong.

The rest of the matter was very simple, the work was easy and safe, but old John contracted the problem of gambling, and left him penniless, who was not rich in the first place. At first, Alfonso Sr. often helped him, but two years later, Alfonso Sr. died in an operation to destroy Sasha's ideal country to cover his teammates, and John Sr. lost his only financial support and became more and more depressed.

Just a year before John Sr. was about to retire, a major scandal broke out on the space station, and someone secretly sold the standard equipment of the Federal Navy to the Gustas pirates.

The leader of this group of pirates himself defected from the Federal Navy, and there were many former Navy members among the members, so the federal government naturally focused its investigation on the federal naval forces stationed on the space station.

As a result, John Sr. became a major suspect, but no conclusive evidence was found, so he was removed from the navy on the grounds of illegal gambling. Now Old John is miserable, not to mention that he didn't get his pension, and he got a bad reputation of being expelled from the army, and it is difficult to find a serious job.

Is it true that he took black money and secretly sold the navy's scrapped warships to pirates Old John firmly denied it, he said that the director of the space station was the culprit, and this is no longer a big secret, there are often scrapped warships in good condition that are transferred by him, and their whereabouts are unknown.

It's a pity that they are the direct descendants of the Olise family, backed by the Karajita Group, the largest arms manufacturing company in the Federation, and even if someone reports it, they are unscathed, and this whistleblower is John Sr. As a result, not only did he not sue others, but he became a scapegoat.

After returning to Alfonso's space station, Alfonso thought of helping his father's friendship, but as the saying goes, saving the emergency is not helping the poor, and in the face of a person who always gambles and always loses, his parents may not be able to help for a lifetime, not to mention the love of the next generation. Slowly, Alfonso became less generous, but still exempted John Sr. from all taxes and rents on the space station.

"You haven't inherited the advantages at all, but you've learned a lot about this bad problem." What Old John said is unreliable or not, Hong Tao feels that it is more credible.

If these words were said when he was sober, it is really possible that he made it up, but ordinary people drinking Kufei are like earthlings drinking liquor, plus a drop of nerve synergist, that is, even drinking with pumping, and in this state, it is not possible for ordinary people to make up nonsense so smoothly.

Believe it or not, Hong Tao is okay anyway, he was helpless against this kind of thing in the Earth era. This thing is also human nature, as long as there is a crowd, there will be a struggle for power and wealth, and there will also be injustice caused by status.

It seems that the old horse on the earth is wrong, it seems unlikely that human beings will be able to achieve a social model of great material abundance and need-based income, otherwise tens of thousands of years have passed, and science and technology are so developed, why is there still cruel exploitation and squeezing of surplus value.