Chapter 66: To Each His Own Need (Part II)
Gablel was eventually convinced, and, in this profound conversation, he clearly felt Martina's determination to take revenge. Therefore, the powerful force possessed by Robin and his fleet was not a threat in her eyes, but a much-needed boost for her revenge, and for this reason, she was ready to tie Robin to herself at any cost.
Shortly thereafter, the fleet, led by Martina, arrived at the headquarters of the Byron Heavy Metals Trading Company: the Georgia Space Station.
The Georgia Space Station is a large space station with a hexagonal shape, and the overall appearance is like a hexagonal Rubik's Cube. And the production lines, laboratories, warehouses and so on of the Byron Heavy Metals Trading Company are concentrated in the space station.
At this moment, after the arrival of the fleet, the crew of the space station has already prepared for the reception of the fleet, and all kinds of loading and unloading equipment are also ready. When the ships opened the cargo doors under Robin's order, the staff who had been out of work for a long time rushed up like a robbery, eagerly moving the cargo from the cargo hold of each ship, and quickly dragging it into the workshop, seizing the time to purify and process these rare substances that had been preliminarily classified.
"If it weren't for the fact that I still had the contract we had signed, this scene in front of me would have looked like a robbery."
"I'm sorry!" Martina, who was standing in the window of the ship with Robin to watch the handover process, blushed when she heard this: "My employees have been eager to work for a long time, so please understand their urgency." ”
"Huh...... Of course. Robin smiled and nodded, he saw that the space station had begun to send supplies and fuel to the fleet, and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in his heart, turned his head to look at Martina and said, "Should we go to the Hermes spaceport now and go through the formalities?" ”
"Won't you sit in my office for a while?"
"There will be time in the future, but it's important to get down to business now." Robin politely declined Martina's offer.
"As you wish."
Martina immediately arranged for an assistant to contact the Hermes spaceport and apply for a special berthing module. Immediately, the two shuttles flew away from the TR-735 and headed in the direction of the Hermes spaceport.
Compared to arriving at the Hermes spaceport as a freeman a few hours ago, Robin can be said to have enjoyed the special treatment given by the Hermes spaceport this time. Since Martina had requested a special berthing pod, Robin and Martina's space shuttle avoided the crowded public berthing port and parked the space shuttle directly in the VIP cabin of the second ring of the Hermes spaceport. After stepping out of the cabin, the staff of the Byron Heavy Metals Trading Company stationed at the Hermes spaceport had already rented a luxury maglev and waited for Robin and Martina to arrive at the hatch.
"Wow! ~That's pretty cool! Angus, who had come with Robin, couldn't help but whistle excitedly.
"Please come in."
Gabriel, a tall cool old man, took on the job of a driver, politely opening the door for Robin.
Robin and Martina then sat in the back of the car, while Angus sat in the co-pilot seat of the maglev.
Driving away from the hangar area, Gabriel drove away from the crowded commercial area and drove onto the elevated track dedicated to maglev vehicles in the spaceport, speeding to the administrative area of the inner ring of the spaceport.
In contrast to the third ring, which concentrates scattered transactions, and the second ring, which concentrates large transactions, the inner ring of the Hermes spaceport is purely administrative. In the area of 300,000 square meters in the inner ring, there are many departments such as the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Taxation, and the Ministry of Police, and the shareholders of the Hermes spaceport have set up corresponding offices in the administrative area of the inner ring to deal with various matters in the spaceport.
At the beginning, Robin mistakenly thought that the Hermes spaceport was a political axe industry, but now through Martina's introduction, he learned that the Osvid family, the federal tycoons who invisibly ruled Othello, were the real majority shareholders of the Hermes spaceport. Recently, another wealthy family, the Morgan family, has also begun to acquire a large number of scattered shares in the Hermes spaceport, and has vaguely become the second largest shareholder of the spaceport.
Robin's eyes were wide open to the business of these federal tycoons, and he couldn't imagine why the federal political axe would tolerate such a large star field becoming the private property of a certain family and some people. Moreover, the Federation does not seem to be very united, but why the national strength displayed is so strong, which makes Robin puzzled.
But soon, he gave up thinking about these too esoteric national events. In the current situation, ensuring the survival and security of the fleet is the most important thing. Therefore, after figuring out the environment of the spaceport through Martina's introduction, Robin began to ask Martina for the details of the establishment of a logistics company, and wrote down the main points one by one.
Legal Department of Hermes Spaceport.
A few minutes later, Gablill drove to the legal department of the spaceport, which specializes in registering freemen. Robin, on the other hand, is accompanied by Martina to obtain legal status for himself and the entire fleet.
Due to the complexity of the personnel at the Hermes spaceport, the investigation of personal information related to household registration is actually quite sloppy. In other words, just take a photo, give your name, age, and pay the money.
This sloppy identity system undoubtedly surprised Robin, who even made up a whole set of stories about his identity and why he came to the Hermes spaceport when he was in the car. Unexpectedly, the chubby household registration administrator didn't think to ask him about this at all, and after Martina paid the relevant fees, he directly gave Robin a legal identity with permanent residency in the northern star field of Proxima Centauri.
Robin was born in the Nine-Star Republic, which has a strict personal household registration system, and every citizen of the Nine-Star Republic keeps a detailed personal file in a database on a central computer. With sufficient permissions, others can even investigate the details of any citizen of the Nine Star Republic through a central computer. Therefore, the Nine-Star Republic is actually a country where there are no personal secrets. The Raymond Federation is different, because it believes in the principle of the supremacy of interests, and the federation is quite lenient in the management of household registration and identity.
Just like Robin's current permanent residency in the northern star region of Proxima Centauri, in the constitution of the Federation, this permanent residency does not belong to the real citizens of the Federation, so there is only the right to vote and not the right to be elected, and when you want to go to the capital circle of the core of the Federation Alpha Planet, you will also be restricted accordingly. However, in the remote northern star field of Proxima Centauri, free people with permanent residency can be regarded as high-class people.
According to the laws of Proxima Centauri's northern star, freedmen with permanent residency are privileged people protected by the spaceport, and their personal business credit is very different from that of ordinary freemen, not only will they not be subject to commercial restrictions, but they will also be protected by the spaceport Ministry of Commerce, and they can even take out loans in federal banks like real federal citizens, and if the amount of taxes is met, free citizens with permanent residency can even have formal citizenship under the guarantee of a federal citizen.
So, for the freedmen who are like lonely ghosts, permanent residency is their dream status. Not to mention permanent residence, even temporary residency is a sign of a freeman's status and personal strength. After all, the vast majority of the freedmen active in the Northern Star Domain do not have legal status, and in the Hermes spaceport, they do not even have personal accounts, and they can only trade in cash.
At this moment, after learning more about the difference between permanent residency, temporary residency, and undocumented freedmen, Robin immediately realized the value of this status. Because after having the right of permanent residence, as long as the company is established, Robin has the right to privately apply for temporary residency rights for the employees under his command, so in this way, Robin can instantly let the more than 1,000 officers and soldiers of the Republic under his command have a protected legal identity, and no longer have to worry about the identity being recognized.
After completing all the formalities, Robin left the legal department with his new identity, but was about to go to the spaceport business department with Martina, but Martina suddenly stopped and stared up at the group of people who were walking towards the legal department.
"Oh! ~ Who did I see, it was actually our little Marty! ~”
In the crowd, a large man in a silver-black uniform greeted Martina with a surprised face after seeing Martina who had stopped, and made a gesture to hug Martina.
Martina resisted the disgust in her heart, stepped back and saluted, "It's a pleasure to meet you, Uncle Arnold. ”
Being rejected by Martina in person made the man named Arnold obviously show an unhappy look, and his originally enthusiastic attitude cooled down instantly.
"I regret what happened to your father. You seem to have recovered from your grief, though. Arnold glanced at Robin, who was standing next to Martina, and said contemptuously.
Hearing Arnold so lightly skip her father's murder, Martina clenched her fists in anger, and the sharp nails had even pierced her palms, oozing a striking red between her white fingers.
Seeing Martina's instantly pale face, Gabriel hurriedly stood beside Martina, glaring at Arnold and the thin middle-aged man behind Arnold with a wicked smile.
"Thank you so much for remembering my father......"
After a short silence, Martina suppressed the anger in her heart and forced a far-fetched smile and said, "I'm sorry, my friend and I still have urgent things to do, so let's take our leave." ”
"In a hurry?"
Suddenly, the thin middle-aged man who had been hiding behind Arnold stood up, squinted his eyes and said to Martina: "The contract between you and Alex is almost up, how is the progress?" If you need help, you can ask, for your father's sake, and I will help you through this. ”
“……”
As soon as these words came out, Martina's moving eyes were suddenly bloodshot with anger, and she could no longer maintain the posture of a lady, and said coldly: "Don't bother Mr. Lloyot, I will manage the company left to me by my father." ”
With that, without waiting for everyone to speak again, Martina took Robin's arm and walked away quickly.
Watching Martina and Robin get into the carriage, Arnold and Elliot glanced at each other, and ordered the entourage behind them with an unkind face, "Go and find out what they have done in the legal department." ”
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(To be continued)