The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

1731. Dawn Agreement (Part 2) will satisfy you

"It turns out that this is your plan..." The expression on Palpatine's face gradually became ferocious, "The ten-year peace agreement is just a cover. What you want is to completely digest the Rendili Interstellar Power Company. industrial production capacity?”

"The conditions are here, His Majesty the Emperor. From now on, it depends on your decision..." Tang Xiao sneered coldly.

"Do you think you can compete with me even if you get Rendili Interstellar Company?" Palpatine asked.

"How do you know if you don't try it?" Tang Xiao stared into Palpatine's eyes. In this galaxy, there are definitely only single digits of people who can do this. "Anyway, that will be ten years later." Well, your current problem, if not solved, will really be a big trouble."

In fact, even though he said that, if the Lundili trade route is not liberalized, it will also be a big trouble for his Dawn Principality, and both sides are opposite.

Because of the blockade of Lundili's trade route, this is simply not something that the current Dawn Principality is capable of breaking through. After all, this route runs from the core circle of the Milky Way to the outer star region, and is a very large route. To open up this route is equivalent to moving the fleet from the outer ring star area all the way to the core circle!

And if this blockade is not broken, the 600 billion people of Rendili Planet and the more than 3,600 large-scale interstellar shipyards of Rendili Interstellar Power Company will all be able to stay in the core circle of the Milky Way, surrounded by the Galactic Empire, unable to exert any influence. effect.

Even if the Lundili Galaxy is not captured in the future, in just a few years or more, these interstellar shipyards will become old and backward, and they will be really useless.

If the Rendili trade channel can be opened to navigation this time, then only specific ships will be sent to patrol. Once a hyperspace blocker is found to be erected somewhere, it will be destroyed immediately. Such ships already existed.

Therefore, in the subsequent reconstruction work of the Dawn Principality, the industrial capabilities and population of Lundili Interstellar Power Company are very important. If these resources cannot be obtained, then even if the Galactic Empire stops developing, let alone ten years, and the Principality of Dawn is given another twenty years, it will not be able to catch up.

Therefore, the conditions and difficulties of both parties are now obvious. You know it and I know it, so there is no need to hide it.

So next, Tang Xiao and Palpatine talked alone for nearly an hour, and finally reached an agreement on the relevant conditions. The next negotiation was left to the Deputy Speaker of the Galactic Republic, Mas Ameda, and the Prime Minister of the Dawn Principality, Francis Underwood.

On the next day, August 9th, 20BBY.

The two parties formally signed an agreement. According to the content of the agreement, the Principality of Dawn surrendered to the Galactic Republic, oh no, the 'current government of Coruscant headed by Palpatine' and accepted Palpatine's leadership.

Then Palpatine recognized the political system of the Principality of Dawn, and also recognized Tang Xiao's status as the Grand Duke of Dawn, and recognized the rule of the Principality of Dawn over all existing jurisdictions. And the Principality of Dawn can retain its own army and military command rights, as well as legislative power, but the Principality of Dawn also needs to recognize the constitution of Palpatine's current government.

According to this clause, the planet Rendili was calculated to be recognized within the jurisdiction of the Dawn Principality.

Then the two sides will carry out trade exchanges and establish an extensive bilateral trade mechanism for mutual benefit. Under this provision, the Rendili trade channel would be liberalized.

Next is some talk about cooperative development, cooperative scientific research and the like. Neither Tang Xiao nor Palpatine expected these clauses to actually come into effect.

To put it bluntly, this agreement is that Palpatine pays a price in exchange for the nominal surrender of the Dawn Principality, and then Palpatine gets the political achievements he wants, and can also survive the Model Sector Raid and Yagodul The crisis of two disastrous defeats in the Planet Battle allowed him to launch his plan to become emperor.

Tang Xiao gained substantial benefits from this agreement, which was mutually beneficial.

After the treaty was officially signed, it was named the "Dawn Agreement."

The signing of the Dawn Agreement is of great significance. First of all, this agreement is regarded as a separate peace agreement between the Principality of Dawn and Palpatine, but it leaves Count Dooku and the Confederation of Independent Systems aside. In this way, Count Dooku, who has just assumed the chairmanship of the Confederation of Independent Systems, becomes a clown-like existence. .

To put it bluntly, Count Dooku was betrayed by Tang Xiao.

Because in any case, as the most powerful military entity of the Confederation of Independent Systems and the second-largest figure in the Confederacy, the sudden surrender was a huge blow to the Confederacy. It can even be said that it is a stretch!

Although even if the Principality of Dawn does not surrender to the Galactic Republic, the current situation is that the Confederation of Independent Systems is in the eastern border of the Milky Way and the Principality of Dawn is in the southwest border of the Milky Way. It is impossible for the two sides to have any military cooperation and contact. But after all, the political impact of such a result would still be too great.

This will cause many planets that have joined the Confederation of Independent Systems to believe that the war has failed, and thus break away from the Confederation and find their own way out.

The Federation of Independent Systems will therefore usher in a wave of turmoil, and the withdrawal of many planets will further weaken their strength. And after Palpatine solves the problem on the Principality of Dawn's side, he can send all the fleets in the direction of the Principality of Dawn to the east and continue to strengthen the offensive against the Confederation of Independent Systems.

Add the two together, and the pressure on Count Dooku will be enormous.

But this did not affect Palpatine and Tang Xiao from starting their respective actions immediately after the agreement came into effect.

First, the Galactic Republic relaxed its blockade of the Rendili trade lanes and shut down the billions of hyperspace blockers along the way. Then the Dawn Principality immediately sent out spacecraft to recover or destroy all these hyperspace blockers.

Then immediately began a large-scale relocation of Rendili Interstellar Power Company's materials, especially the more than 3,600 interstellar docks.

And a large-scale immigration operation also began. He assembled almost all spaceships to gradually relocate the 600 billion people on the planet Rendili to the outer ring star area.

All of this is striking while the iron is hot, because as time goes by, there is no guarantee that Palpatine will not make small moves behind his back. It is best to take this opportunity to move Rendili's things out quickly.

Palpatine also had the same intention. On the second day after the treaty came into effect, August 10, 20BBY, ​​he immediately took advantage of Bail Organa and others' submission of the two thousand people's letter to convene a plenary meeting of the Parliament. Then directly announced that the Galactic Republic would be reorganized into the Galactic Empire.

And in this process, the "Dawn Agreement" indeed played an important role in his becoming emperor.

It's really just...everyone gets what he needs. (End of chapter)