The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

2138. The Beginning and End of the Trade Union (V)

The military and police of the Galactic Empire went out to hunt down the high-ranking officials of the Trade Union. However, those high-ranking officials ran as fast as loaches. Don't doubt it, they are Neimoidians. When it comes to being cowardly and timid, no one can compare to them.

They can't even be called bullies who are afraid of the strong, because many times they dare not even bully the weak, and they run away as soon as others struggle.

The police and agents of various departments of the Empire began to arrest all those who were related to the Trade Union. However, they also found that this task was not easy to do - because if you really want to count them, even in the center of the Empire, there are at least 10 or 20 billion people who have more or less business dealings with the Trade Union.

And when these people are asked, they all have proper jobs and just have some dealings with the Trade Union. Or they are doing business in partnership with some high-ranking official of the Trade Union, or they hold shares in the Trade Union, or they have merchant fleets in their hands and entrust the Trade Union to escort them.

Even if these people really need to be dealt with, how can they be convicted? Convict them of doing business with the Trade Union? Moreover, if you pull out the carrot, you will bring out the mud. The Imperial Security Bureau often invites someone to the bureau for tea, and then a big boss calls and asks to release the person.

But do you think they are really okay? Not necessarily. Because they have interests related to the Trade Union, these people are definitely unwilling to deal with the Trade Union, and they are making trouble openly and secretly.

Therefore, there are not many people who are actually arrested, and they are all low-level staff with no background and connections.

But people can run away, but industries cannot.

After the Supreme Court of the Galactic Empire found the Trade Union guilty of treason in absentia, the Imperial Intelligence Department and the Imperial Security Bureau immediately sent a large number of troops to seal off all the industries of the Trade Union in the center of the empire.

But this is just a drop in the bucket. The Trade Union only set up an office in the capital center of the empire, on the former planet Coruscant, which has some liquid funds for bribery, but it is not much.

However, it doesn't matter. There are also spaceports, docks, transit centers built by the Trade Union around the center of the empire, as well as all the goods that stay in the cargo transit centers. With the tacit consent of Emperor Palpatine, Darth Vader did not have time to wait for the fleet to assemble, and directly led the garrison fleet to surround all these places, and then confiscated all the assets.

This is basically equivalent to robbery! Because the Trade Union is essentially a logistics and transportation company, and then other industries are expanded on this basis. Therefore, 99% of the goods staying in the Trade Union spaceport belong to other companies, consortiums or individuals.

But now, Darth Vader doesn't care about these at all. Since you park the goods in the Trade Union's spaceport, then this is aiding the enemy and treason! All must be confiscated!

This move immediately set off a storm in the center of the empire. Many people cried out for injustice, and they used various relationships and mobilized various connections to get back their goods and investments, but it was useless! The one who planned all this was the emperor of the empire himself and Darth Vader, the second in command of the imperial military!

In front of these two people, it is useless to find anyone.

Soon, such robbery operations began to spread from the center of the empire to other star regions, especially the planets in the core circle and the inner ring.

Almost all people associated with the Trade Union hurriedly wanted to withdraw all their investments in the Trade Union, including funds and goods.

However, they were horrified to find that they had also hit a wall on the Trade Union side!

Because while the Galactic Empire began to rob the Trade Union's industry, the Trade Union was also robbing their own customers. Anyway, they had torn their faces, and the Trade Union was simply in a state of shamelessness and lifelessness, and all the goods in their spaceports were detained.

A super giant of the level of the Trade Union naturally has its own financial system for payment of goods, mortgages, loan issuance, etc. But now that the face has been torn, the Trade Union has directly frozen all the assets of the Galactic Empire on their side!

And compared with the Galactic Empire, it is much easier for the Trade Union to rob its own customers. A large number of combat robots immediately began to move. The B-1 combat robots and B-2 super combat robots, which were harmlessly helping customers carry supplies a second ago, picked up blaster rifles and shot everyone present in the next second!

Then these combat robots turned around and transported all the goods to their own spacecraft. Not only that, in some places, when they found that the fleet of the Galactic Empire had arrived and there was no time to escape, these robots even set fire to these goods or simply turned their turrets and fired wildly! !

The resistance of the Trade Union was so fierce, which was completely different from the first few days! At that time, they seemed to want to leave some room, but now, the Trade Union directly put on a posture of fighting to the death!

Galactic Empire, do you want to eat us? Then if you bite us, we will definitely break a few of your teeth!

At this time, the people in the Galactic Empire woke up from their dreams. They originally thought that this was just the Galactic Empire wanting to clean up a company. What other twists and turns could there be when sending troops to deal with a group of businessmen?

But now they know that this is basically a war! An all-out war between the Galactic Empire and the Trade Federation!

The Galactic Empire certainly has its own invincible fleet and its own powerful military. But the Trade Union also has their own weapons!

The Trade Union began to compete with the Galactic Empire in speed. Both sides began to rob the various resources and goods that stayed in the Trade Union spaceports or warehouses. If they couldn't rob them, they would rather destroy them.

Moreover, the Trade Union began to fly all the cargo ships full of goods to its core planets, and also took back almost all the escort fleets, showing a shrinking posture.

Not only that, the Trade Union also cut off all the routes to the middle and outer rings.

The specific navigation coordinates of these many routes are in the hands of the Trade Union itself. Once they delete all these route coordinates and stop sharing data with the Galactic Empire, the Galactic Empire's spacecraft can only travel through the most important large hyperspace routes.

However, how many galaxies can the largest hyperspace routes such as the Hydia Channel and the Corellian Trade Channel cover? So for the many other branch channels, the Galactic Empire can only start calculating and exploring again with the expired star map in its hands.