Grand Duke Hall was not a brainless person. He had been in charge of the empire's finances for twenty years. Of course, he could understand how huge losses high energy prices would cause to the entire empire's economy.

But now is not a good time to prevent economic losses for the entire empire. After completing the devastating blow to the holy realm... the empire did not quickly begin to subdue the remaining remnants of the alliance as the planners expected, and feasted on the monster.

In contrast to what they estimated, using the Alpha Plan did not directly destroy the alliance's will to resist, and their resistance intensity even increased.

After the Alpha Plan was implemented, the fleets that originally belonged to the Sanctuary were not completely destroyed - nearly half of the fleets were carrying out missions elsewhere at the time.

After paying for two planets, one quarter of the entire alliance fleet, and hundreds of millions of lives on the two planets, the alliance not only did not lose the courage to resist, but they were even more "unified" than before.

As the armed forces of the Holy Land, the half of the Holy Land fleet recognized the status quo very rationally, and then announced that all the fleets in the Holy Land would serve for the interests of the alliance - they would not obey the orders of any force, but would fight to death for the interests of the entire alliance.

This "high-sounding" statement was not taken seriously by other forces in the alliance at the beginning. The Ruoergai did not like to deal with the Sacred Fleet, and the Tasbars were not willing to provide supplies to the Sacred Fleet. The academy had some ideas, but their support ability was difficult to provide services to all Sacred Fleets.

At the same time, the other two colonial stars in the Holy Realm are still fighting - they all think that they are the only legal heirs to inherit the military and political resources of the Holy Realm, and constantly issue orders to the Holy Realm fleet, requiring them to quickly participate in their own side and eliminate the "rebels" on the other side.

In this chaotic situation, an organization called the People's Alliance suddenly appeared on the political stage of the alliance. They occupied two Rhoergai agricultural stars, one of Tasbar's mining stars, and also had support from the academy.

The college completely stopped studying phraology and racial differences, and instead began to promote a very complex political and economic theory. They called it "dialectical materialism."

If a student of Nuozar arrived at the Alliance Academy through some channel, he would be surprised to find that the "dialectical materialism" proposed by the Alliance Academy is almost exactly the same as the "Dusandism" taught in Nuozar's school.

The college highly praised the People's Alliance. They believed that the People's Alliance would be the future and only way out of the Alliance - established by all people in the Alliance, and for the government of all people in the Alliance, they can safeguard and guarantee the interests of the Alliance in the face of the powerful enemy empire.

In the history of the alliance, the Academy has always been a relatively independent political entity. Before the alliance became operational as a "country", the Academy always existed in the fleet in El Salvador - they were an institution composed of a group of scholars carried by the fleet.

The history of the college is almost as old as the sacred land, and it can be said that it is even longer than the alliance. In the past few hundred years, the college has maintained a highly close cooperative relationship with the sacred land, but at the same time it has dominated the political, economic and cultural development of the entire alliance in a relatively independent way.

Without the Academy, the Sanctuary could not become the dominant player in the entire alliance with its own power. Without the Sanctuary, the strength of the Academy would not be enough to maintain their huge influence on the political, economic and cultural aspects of the Alliance.

According to the imperial estimates, after the collapse of the Sanctuary, the academy will choose one force in Jorge or Tasbar to rely on it, and no matter which side the academy chooses, the other party will launch a civil war to try to seize power.

When one of the sides is obviously weak, the Empire can take the opportunity to intervene and support the weak. As long as you jump back and forth a few times, the strength of the alliance will be basically wiped out in the civil war.

But... the Academy's actions did catch the Empire off guard. The Empire did not expect that the Academy suddenly launched a brand new force to support it. What they did not expect was that the People's Alliance actually had such a strong appeal within the Alliance.

According to the Imperial Intelligence Department, Tasbar has announced that it will stop attacking the People's Alliance. They will conduct peaceful political negotiations with the People's Alliance, striving to resolve the conflicts between the two sides through peaceful means.

Ruoergai, who focuses on agriculture, does not have such a "format". After all, the People's Alliance "makes wealth" from their colonial stars, and the planets occupied are mainly Ruoergai's agricultural stars. The development and growth of the People's Alliance poses the greatest threat to Ruoergai.

What makes people even more incredible is the attitude of the Sacred Land Fleet. They directly sent a special envoy to Ruoergai and then announced the fleet's decision.

The fleet will provide protection to the People's Alliance to ensure that "the alliance's war heroes and other alliance members will not die under the weapons of their compatriots." Then, it proposed to use the fleet floating in the universe as the negotiation site and invite the Grand Governor of the Ruoergai and the Secretary of the People's Alliance to conduct peace negotiations.

In this situation where the strength of both sides is seriously unbalanced, the seemingly fair behavior of the Sacred Domain Fleet is essentially a skewer. After all, the People's Alliance cannot have the possibility of a large-scale attack on Ruoergai to prevent the two sides from fighting, which is essentially protecting the People's Alliance.

This also shows the tendency of the Sacred Fleet - they do believe that the People's Alliance is more suitable for the choice of Bejorge and Tasbar to become the political dominant factions within the alliance.

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Grand Duke Hall had a headache, very headache. The emergence of the People's Alliance completely disrupted the organization's arrangements for the alliance. Since the Holy Land and the Academy cooperated to try to form a national consensus through phraology and racial differences, the alliance has begun to lose control.

The Alpha Plan is the ultimate means for the Empire to control the Alliance, and is a safety rope to ensure that the Alliance, the foreign enemy, does not really pose a fatal threat to the Empire. The loose political alliance structure within the Alliance itself is an important means for the Empire to ensure that the Alliance does not pose a danger to the Empire.

Now, the final method is not very effective, and the important method seems to be completely fragmented. Grand Duke Hall had to begin to seriously deal with the threat of the alliance and began to arrange corresponding fiscal expenditures.

But the problem is that in a short period of time, the empire could not afford so much gold pounds to continue to strengthen its armed forces. In fact, it was very difficult for the empire to even maintain its existing naval scale.

Navy equipment is very expensive, and they need to ensure that ships can still maintain normal operation in the harsh working environment of deep space transitions.

A battleship performs a normal equipment maintenance and replacement of faulty parts, which costs at least 300,000 pounds, and takes at least two months to maintain a shipyard.

If the shipbuilding budget is to be temporarily increased, at least four Royal Guards need to arrange new ship plans of the same size for the four Royal Guards fleets. The garrison navy can use the Guards navy to use the remaining old ships, but the equipment of the Royal Guards must not be careless - the commanders of these fleets take "strengthening themselves" as their mission, as if the meaning of their existence is to ask for resources for their own squadrons.

Any unfairness will cause strong protests or even rebound from other fleets. The cunning fleet commanders instructed young officers to come to the door of the Finance Department to make trouble.

At this time, the large amount of cash that Schultz suddenly sent became a good thing that could really reduce the blood pressure of Grand Duke Hall. He even extorted extra money and got a lot of more cash. As for the rise in fuel prices... Grand Duke Hall really didn't care much.

After all, the Empire also has mining complexes, and some of the planets that are not suitable for colonization also have coal deposits. Even if the coal mines of local nobles are at high prices, the mining complex can provide coal at a sufficient price to the Imperial Navy and military factories.

Since energy prices do not affect the military industry, there is nothing to worry about.

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Grand Duke Hall was not worried about the price of coal, while Dusand, far away in Newar, was very troubled by the price of another important product.

Smugglers are a group of greedy bastards, the most loyal capital lackeys in the world. As long as they can make money, smugglers never care what the goods they transport are, and they don’t mind that their smuggling will seriously damage the interests of their old customers and even their compatriots on the same planet.

The relatively stable food prices in Nuosaar were the result of Dusand's exchange for countless days and nights of insomnia and repeated negotiations. In order to ensure that the Nuosaar people who are still expanding the area of ​​arable land will not be starved to death, Dusand even "created" created a special exemption decree.

Any "trading ship" that carries more than 90% of the volume in the cabin and is ready to conduct unloading and trading in Nuozar can receive free supply and maintenance services at the Nuozar interstellar landing site. At the same time, all goods in the cabin are exempt from taxes when they come, and the tax on the reloaded cargo is levied according to one-third of the original tax form.

With this strength of "support", a large number of smuggling ships gathered in Nuozar and brought a lot of food import share to Nuozar - the total share is about half of the support provided by Xinghai Federation.

When August entered the time and the Olin Development Bank began to rush to raise coal prices, the number of smuggling ships willing to run to Newar quickly decreased. Most of them chose to load coal in the alliance's Tasbar and then transport it to Olin for sale. The price of Olin coal is so high that even if it is normal customs declaration and transportation, the profit is so high that it is comparable to smuggling luxury goods.

The import volume of food in Nuozar has dropped rapidly, and the most direct consequence of this change is the rise in food prices - in the past month, the prices of meat products and condiments in Nuozar have risen by 30%. Among the twelve common meats on the market, except for the price of grouped fish remains stable, the prices of other meats have risen sharply.

The fastest price increase is beef and pork, and the average price of these two types of meat has risen by 60%.

Unlike Grand Duke Hall, Dusand regarded the saying "food is the most important thing for the people" as a life creed. In order to curb the rapid increase in food prices, Dusand even considered the plan to use the People's Army to strategically reserve food. But later, he thought that the dried corned beef that looked like sawdust would probably not be liked by civilians, so he reluctantly gave up.

The solution instead was a command from Doosand to the Expeditionary Fleet and a letter sent to the Confederate Academy.

The order required the expeditionary fleet to quickly suspend or terminate military operations in Saxony and go to Bomier to investigate immediately. As a famous agricultural star in the empire, despite being massacred by the Allies, Bomier should still have a large amount of food reserves. If Bomier can be accepted, perhaps the food shortage in Nusar could be significantly alleviated.

The letter was sent to Fion von Steinberg. In the letter, Dusand asked his friend to implement the food trading plan of the People's League and Nuesar one month in advance. In exchange, he could hand over the design drawings of the gas internal combustion engine to the People's League.

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