Chapter 386, The Time is Ripe
"It was Gu Hang who instigated me to rebel!"
From a certain perspective, what Minnick shouted out is indeed true.
Salihovic is the executor.
He started this work more than a year ago after arriving in the Faches system and taking over the previous diplomatic ambassador.
He had met with many high-ranking members of the Fats family in various semi-public and secret meetings, and declared to them that the Alliance also hated the current sector government and was very sympathetic to the situation of the Fats family.
Few people questioned his lying, at most they thought there was some diplomatic rhetoric in his words.
The Alliance is indeed at odds with the Star District Government. Ever since Pedes' death, the 'Pegasus Iron Triangle' has ceased to exist, and after Gu and Fofana came together to create a third neutral party, the relationship has directly turned into a cold one.
The Fats family was celebrating at that time. The enemy's power was weakened and a neutral faction emerged, which was certainly a good thing.
The Fats, who have a thousand-year history of rule, look down on the "upstart" Alliance. However, they also think that the Alliance is quite similar to them in some ways - both are multi-planetary political entities that have a bad relationship with the star zone government.
This kind of political entity must have a bad relationship with the star zone government, Fachs has no doubt about it.
On this basis, Salihovic will further lead these senior officials to imagine that the Alliance and Fats have a complete basis for cooperation, either by undermining the star sector government or by adopting some more drastic and tougher means to drive away the current star sector heads.
These words are usually said in private and in a joking manner. This is not a specific policy, it is just something everyone thinks about together, so what's the big deal?
However, didn’t these activities slowly instill a concept in the minds of the senior members of the Fats family?
Of course, if it’s just a concept, it doesn’t mean much.
During these conversations, Salihovic will look for people with whom he can really communicate in depth, and have more in-depth discussions in private to determine whether cooperation between the two sides is feasible. He also hopes that these senior officials can push the Fats family to take tougher measures against the district government.
To put it bluntly, Salihovic is stirring up the hawks within Fats and making them more emotional.
Even further, urging these hawks to take some action.
In fact, he was not the only one taking action.
After all, Salihovic is a diplomat, and this is already the limit. Many of his actions will still be monitored.
But besides him, the alliance has another group of people taking action on Fats.
That's someone from the Alliance Intelligence Agency.
Their actions were more covert and brazen than Salihovic's, including bribery, seizing evidence, and even assassinating people who would have a significant impact on their plans and disguising them as accidents.
But to be honest, their early actions were not smooth and were full of difficulties.
However, their work suddenly became smooth after the huge fine demanded by the league was announced.
The Fats family, whether radical or conservative, hawk or dove, was in an uproar over this huge sum of money, and they were extremely dissatisfied with Minnick, the patriarch who had taken over the family for seven years, caused the failure of Koroja and brought a huge fine.
In such an environment, the Alliance Intelligence Agency was able to deal with quite a few people.
Then, under Salihovic's direct instigation, a large number of middle and high-level officials of the Fats family began to have the clear idea of starting a war.
On the one hand, they were severely oppressed and a tough attitude was indeed a solution; on the other hand, the alliance said it stood with them, and they really believed it.
They thought this was a solution and believed that the league would stand with them, so they kept proposing and lobbying. Minnick heard this and believed it.
Therefore, under the diplomatic work and the secret efforts of the intelligence agents, coupled with the fact that Fachers might have had some thoughts in this regard, Fachers' rebellion was eventually led to.
Then, the alliance turned against us.
Fats was dumbfounded.
The person who was originally considered the greatest foreign aid has now become a death warrant!
This is the end of it!
Salihovic is under tremendous pressure as an ambassador of the alliance.
But this also led to two effects.
The most superficial one, of course, is the anger of being betrayed by an 'ally'.
But hidden beneath this anger is great panic.
After the rebellion began, the conservatives in the Fachers family were extremely dissatisfied, and some compromisers and surrenderists were in constant fear of the empire.
Although Minnick seemed to have shifted the conflict externally through this action, in fact, the dissatisfaction was not completely eliminated, but was hidden because people did not dare and could not.
All of these became opportunities that the Foreign Intelligence Agency could seek out.
The foreign aid that Fachers relied on turned into an army to suppress the rebellion. How could Fachers resist?
The Alliance's capabilities were fully demonstrated in the Battle of Koroja; the Pegasus Fleet stood on their side; even the former pride of the Facherians, the 3rd Dragon Eagle Legion, became the vanguard to attack them.
Can the Fachers Defense Force withstand such an opponent?
Indeed, landing operations are not easy, especially since the three stars have relatively complete orbital defenses. However, no matter how much damage they can cause to the opponent, the final failure seems inevitable.
At that time, the more people in your alliance die, the more unlucky you will be.
If it was an alien invasion or a cult rebellion, there would be no compromise, and they would not give you favorable surrender terms just because you surrendered. No matter how difficult the war of genocide was, you had to fight it, just to survive.
But what the hell is the point of fighting to the death with the Alliance and the Empire?
In the early stage, the intelligence collected by Salihovic and the Foreign Intelligence Agency played a role. They quickly identified which people would waver, and even which of them could be won over or even turned against the government.
Up to now, many people have had vague contacts with the CIA and Salihovic.
Moreover, with the blockade of the Pegasus Fleet and the arrival of the Alliance Army, many people who were not originally on the list came over.
They couldn't find the agents, and had never even had contact with them. They didn't know that Fats had been infiltrated so deeply. They had no other choice but to take the risk and meet Salihovic secretly.
They often express that they are loyal subjects of the empire and never want to rebel. Fachers is also loyal, but the head of the Minnick family is not very loyal.
At this point, Salihovic felt that the time was ripe.
(End of this chapter)
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
