Chapter 676, Business Thinking
Yalina was pacing on her warship, feeling anxious.
She has been in this state ever since the meeting with Marshal Xi Rui.
She looked young and beautiful, but in fact she was already 120 years old. She came from Yinghu Universe, which was part of the northern border of the empire, in the north of the Devouring Star Universe.
This Iron Armor War, including the subsequent war against the Void Zerg, strictly speaking, has little to do with Yinghu Universe. If you want to attack Yinghu, it is still a long way to go.
However, the call from the central government of the empire could not be ignored. After discussing with each other, the many bigwigs in Yinghu Universe decided to assign the task of sending troops to support the star region where Yalina was.
She was originally the owner of an imperial chamber of commerce in the star field, but her chamber of commerce was different from other imperial chambers of commerce. She did business and transportation, of course, but she also controlled many ships that were named as merchant ships but were actually warships.
The reason for this is that the star field she is in has a relatively wide path to explore the outside world. Although that area is not connected by a star tunnel and is outside the empire's territory, it is actually quite densely populated.
Some of them are human colonies, but they are not brought under the rule of the empire, of course, in order to evade taxes.
Some are alien, but they are communicative, local indigenous elements.
Doing business and dealing with these non-imperial forces actually requires special permission, and it just so happens that Yalina's Chamber of Commerce has such permission.
If she wants to do business, she has to maintain a strong fleet, while also serving as the star domain navy.
Now, when troops need to be sent, the responsibility falls on her.
To be honest, she certainly didn't want to come.
Yalina had experience in war, but not much. The wars she had experienced were nothing more than escorting ships and fighting against pirates, or becoming a pirate and plundering non-imperial forces.
More importantly, the wars she participated in were all small in scale, and all of them had clear benefits.
People are even less willing to fight a battle that brings no benefits.
In her opinion, responding to the Empire's call, joining the Northern Front Legion, and coming to the Spider Web Universe to fight was a huge risk with unclear benefits.
Of course, it's not that there is no benefit, or even that the benefit is small. If she can gain merit in it, the huge political benefits will allow her chamber of commerce and herself to move to a higher level in the political arena of Yinghu Universe.
This also made clear her goal in participating in the war.
Unfortunately, she suffered a tragic defeat and lost all her money.
Not only did she lose a lot of ships and suffer heavy losses, but the defeat also made the profits she expected come to nothing.
I thought that was the end of it, but unexpectedly, I was saved by the Alliance.
That not only stopped her losses, but also allowed her to see the possibility of winning, gaining political capital, recovering her losses, and even making huge profits.
But the prerequisite is to rebuild the northern front army.
She was the one who connected many people who had similar ideas to her and finally gave Xi Rui advice, hoping that he could take on the responsibility.
After the last meeting, although Xi Rui did not say it explicitly, she felt that things were more stable from her attitude.
The marshal of the Black Crusaders was also unwilling to be lonely.
From her point of view, that was perfectly normal.
What is his identity?
A great marshal!
Before this, he was the second-in-command of the Northern Front Corps and took over as the commander-in-chief of the Northern Front!
If you come to the Alliance, you can only be an ordinary chapter leader and obey the command of Gu Hang.
How could I be willing?
In fact, Yalina also thought that the alliance was quite powerful. If the two sides were closer, she was also eager to establish a good relationship with the alliance, so that it would be easier to do business in the future.
But unfortunately, her base was too far away from the alliance's territory, so she had to give up regretfully.
It is better to think carefully about the independence of the Northern Front Legion.
After returning, her orders were sent to every ship under her control, asking her men to prepare.
Although she didn't want the situation to get ugly, she thought that Governor Gu Hang was not a good person. It was impossible to easily resolve this struggle that directly affected the actual power.
At the critical moment, even if we don't resort to violence, at least we have to show enough muscle to force Gu Hang to make concessions.
After all, Commander-in-Chief Gu wouldn't want to cause internal strife before the war, right?
While making preparations internally, she was also closely following the movements of Marshal Xi Rui.
This is exactly why she is anxious at the moment.
As agreed, the time is almost up.
At this moment, her adjutant suddenly came in and reported to her: "President! Marshal Xi Rui has gone to the 'Golden Pass'!"
"Is he alone?"
"Bring a squadron of Space Marines!"
Take a deep breath, this is the first step.
Logically, Xi Rui should have gone to confront Gu Hang.
He will be protected by a large number of Space Marines, and if necessary, their Black Crusade think tank can teleport the marshal back to the warship, so his safety should be guaranteed.
Moreover, from the beginning to the end, they never really thought about resorting to armed confrontation.
Therefore, the safety of Marshal Xi Rui and the demands of this group of people cannot be achieved by words alone.
"We have to prepare to launch the attack as well." Yalina said to the adjutant, "Get all the ships ready and notify the other leaders. We must support Marshal Xi Rui when necessary, so that we can negotiate what we want."
"yes!"
The adjutant responded and added, "By the way, there is another spaceship coming to us from the Cross Black Star. The Cross Black Star has already said hello. It is Marshal Xi Rui's envoy who wants to see you."
Yalina was not surprised. She said, "I will wait here for the messenger of the Black Crusaders. You go down and prepare first."
"yes!"
A moment later, heavy footsteps were heard outside the door.
The door was pushed open, and a dozen Space Marines walked in.
The people who came were Space Marines, which did not surprise Yalina. But the fact that more than a dozen of them came at once was a little unexpected.
Logically speaking, Marshal Xi Rui only has 300 Space Marines around him, which is not enough.
But she thought that it should be Marshal Xi Rui's emphasis on the troops under her control. After all, judging from the size of the fleet, the part she controlled should be the largest and most numerous of the remaining remnants of the northern front.
In addition, there is one more thing that is a little strange: why are these Space Marines all wearing robes?
She stood up and prepared to greet him.
However, the next moment, her expression suddenly changed.
She saw these Space Marines, who were wearing robes and had not revealed their Chapter insignia at first, take off their robes.
The various chapter emblems on their exposed right shoulders symbolize that they come from different chapters; on their left arms, the uniform silver skull and dense prayers symbolize their identities:
Silver Watch!
The Space Marines stepped aside, revealing a mortal behind them.
Qin Zhiping took off his hood: "Hello, Ms. Yalina."
(End of this chapter)
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