Stellaris: Earth Alliance

Chapter 157 Criminal Group Enterprises
"Lord Consul, this is all the information we can collect from the official level using the power of the embassy."

His subordinates sent the encrypted and decrypted USB flash drive to Chief Blade.

Because of Portman's dominant influence in artificial intelligence technology, the firewalls of all Internet-connected devices are ineffective, so any information that does not want to be monitored by the other party must be processed through traditional methods.

As for other Internet-connected devices, Quillak has already put them out there. Take a look if you want.

Along with the information from the Human Complex, there is also the sudden serious drug epidemic problem in the Republic of Quillak.

"What does Portman want to do? When he signed the contract, he made it clear that he would not allow criminals to come in..."

Brad looked at the information on the computer. The police were arresting more and more people involved in drug crimes, and he almost went directly to Portman's diplomat to reason.

But after calming down, I felt a deep sense of powerlessness.

There are also formal and criminal enterprises among the giants of the world.

Criminal enterprises never say that they are criminal enterprises. They pretend to be good on the outside and do regular business.

However, as soon as their branch was established, a large number of guns and drugs would suddenly appear in the surrounding area.

As a result, the crime rate in the surrounding area soared.

The original transformation of the Republic of Quillak was partly due to the belief in Portman's words that as long as the market was liberalized and liberalism was implemented, everything would be fine.

But there is a bottom line. Among them, the six governors headed by Brad are trying their best to resist the establishment of criminal enterprises and crack down on drug crimes.

Although the local gangs generally reach an agreement with the government after the establishment of this cooperative criminal enterprise, social stability remains unchanged while the crime rate increases, and the gangs will pay taxes to the government on part of the proceeds generated from drugs.

However, the six consuls strongly opposed it due to personal reasons, and Brad opposed it the most fiercely because his mother died of a drug overdose when he was 10 years old.

In the end, Portman agreed in order to seize this neutral territory from Field as soon as possible. It was written in black and white that the criminal enterprises on Portman's side were not allowed to establish branches in the Quillac territory.

But after so long, Quillac has been completely established by Portman.

I built it, how can you get it.

If you dare to object, you will kill all eleven consuls of the Republic of Quilac, and declare to the outside world that it was a terrorist organization that had nothing to do with Portman.

The longer they stay in contact, the more Brad understands that Portman and others are willing to resort to any means to achieve their goals, and then become bitches and set up a memorial.

The consortium supported by Portman has gradually replaced the status of executives. With them or without them, this country will not be any different.

The only thing the Archon can mobilize is the national fleet, and their national fleet cannot even defeat the private armed forces of the Borgia Consortium, which is currently ranked number one...

Did i do something wrong?
Brad had asked himself countless times whether they should not have listened to Portman's theory from the beginning.

It's just that it's useless to say these now.

Brad has always had the idea of ​​​​wanting the country to turn back.

In other words, they don’t want the Republic of Quillac to continue to maintain its liberal ideology and allow Portman to exploit it.

Brad quickly browsed through the collected information on the human unity while thinking about the future of the Kulac Republic.

If you want to wash away the current trend of thought, you must either revolutionize yourself or use external forces.

The most direct and effective way, of course, is to choose an alliance with Field.

If a country in the alliance has an egalitarian ideological trend, it will have a strong appeal to other countries with non-egalitarian ideological trends.

This is also the reason why Field's alliance members are very mixed, with all civilizations and ideological trends, but there are not many conflicts.

Because under the long-term alliance exchanges, Field's egalitarian thoughts have washed away all other thoughts of other countries that later joined.

But if you choose to alliance with Field at this time, there will be another big question, and that is what will Portman do?
You must know that Quillac has been infiltrated into a sieve by Portman. Not to mention CIA agents, their number has almost become a garrison here.

A bunch of other heavily equipped robots, armed helicopters, F35 and other heavy weapons are also placed here.If you really want to join Field, if you announce your joining on the first day, the Republic of Quillak will cease to exist the next day.

At present, Brad is considering forming an alliance with the human unity, and then through frequent civil and official exchanges between the two sides, let the other party's thoughts wash away his own thoughts.

Not long after, Brad finished browsing the information and sighed.

Sure enough, just by collecting official information, we can't know the reason why the Earth United Nations defeated the Bazadi Empire.

Like Field, the Earth United Nations also has an egalitarian ethos.

Unlike Field, the United Nations of the Earth is located in the center of Portman's ruled area, and its geographical location is similar to that of Cuba to the United States.

The alliance between Quillac, who was puppeted by Portman, and the human unity in Portman's hinterland will not provoke Portman's revenge, but may be happy to see it happen.

After all, this way they can send CIA agents through Quillak to collect information, sabotage and cleanse their minds.

After weighing again and again, Brad still felt that he should take a gamble and not let Quillac be led by Portman's nose all the time.

If they continue on the road to freedom that Portman gave them, they will only be enslaved and oppressed in the end.

However, this matter should not be made public. If someone is overheard, they may secretly sabotage it.

First send someone to ask for the opinion of the human unity, and then directly announce the news of the alliance to the outside world.

Not long after, the diplomats went to the earth to negotiate with the human integration with many favorable conditions.

Also returning at the same time as them was Qin Xu with a mission.

Because things on Sirius are too weird, everyone in the past does not come back due to inexplicable reasons.

Qin Xu saw that Chen Xiaomeng also wanted to come over and have a look, so he casually applied to his superiors.

The superior thought it was quite good, it happened to be a latent investigation task, and it was better to bring more people to disguise, so they also made a fake identity for the other party.

The two took the civil transportation hub of the Earth-Sun space station to Sirius to conduct a latent investigation of the local situation under the false identity of husband and wife.

On a civilian interstellar spacecraft, it seemed like this was the first time for the two of them to travel like this.

Although it is still a mission, it also feels a little different.

Qin Xu took two bottles of drinks from the stewardess pushing the trolley and handed one to Chen Xiaomeng who was sitting next to him.

"How dare you take the drinks on the spaceship?"

Chen Xiaomeng took it with a smile and took a sip. It tasted exactly like the outside.

"poisonous?"

Qin Xu was puzzled.

"Very expensive."

"How expensive is it?"

"It's about 10 times what you buy from outside."

"..."

Qin Xugang was about to put the two bottles of drinks back, but saw Chen Xiaomeng take a sip first.

Qin Xu sighed, and only returned the bottle in his hand, and then snatched the bottle from Chen Xiaomeng's hand to drink, "I suddenly want to drink what you drank, so I don't want that bottle."

Chen Xiaomeng gave the other party a roll of his eyes.

(End of this chapter)