Interstellar: Start as a cleaner.

Chapter 1292 Schemes (6000+ words)

The Federal President continued: "Our soldiers are fighting the enemy on the front lines, while that despicable thief John Lee has taken the greatest spoils of this war."

We strongly condemn this act of theft, and we strongly condemn John Lee's act of theft!

This shameless act is a betrayal of the Union!
John Lee's actions have deeply hurt everyone in the Federation!

He is not fit to be the governor!

Our next step is to impose sanctions on John Lee!

Furthermore, our federation should unite to deal with pirates.

Here we urge Governor John Lee to return our spoils of war as soon as possible!
We have applied to the Supreme Court for an investigation into John Lee.

The federal president's remarks confirmed the speculations of others.

The response to the federal president's remarks was quite strong in Madhya Pradesh.

"Is this guy out of his mind?" Yang Bo thought to himself as he read the Federal President's speech.

Because the president's remarks will not only fail to bring good results, but will also bring many negative results.

What should have been a major victory!

Now I've been outdone by myself again!

The prestige that had just been painstakingly built up vanished in an instant.

Therefore, Yang Bo is prepared to express his opinion on the federal president's speech.

So Yang Bo became John Lee and came to Karaya.

Yang Bo then put on the uniform of the federal governor.

Then he gave a live public address: "I am John Lee, the Governor of Karaya. Regarding the slander and defamation against me by the Federal President, I have entrusted my lawyer to handle this matter."

As the Governor-General of Karaya, I am only responsible for Karaya.

I believe anyone can see how different Karaya's strength is today compared to before.

On the contrary, it is the federal president who, during the term of such an idiot, has made such a mess of the federal government.

Even if a pig were president, it wouldn't have turned out like this.

And it was a cloned pig!

Because pigs don't transfer taxes from other states into their own pockets through any means!
Of course, comparing a pig to him is an insult to the pig!
I am stating the facts, unlike some people who falsely accuse me of being a thief.

Here, on behalf of the headquarters in Karaya, I hereby sign a new administrative order granting the Karaya Fleet the authority to investigate and seize all spaceships engaged in trade with the Madhya Pradesh conglomerate within Karaya and the international space domain!
In addition, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Justice of Karaya State were authorized to conduct open, fair and just auctions of the assets of several major conglomerates in Madhya Pradesh!
In addition, tax audits will be conducted on all companies registered in Madhya Pradesh!

In addition, Karaya state has closed its shipping lanes to and from Madhya Pradesh.

In addition, I have issued an order on behalf of the Governor of Karaya to launch a corruption investigation into the President of the Union.

Furthermore, Karaya's attitude towards piracy has remained consistent!

We strongly condemn this act of the pirate alliance that infringes upon federal sovereignty.

Yang Bo's remarks were largely ignored, such as the corruption investigation into the federal president, which Karaya state found absolutely nothing about.

Because the federal president didn't even come to Karaya.

The most devastating blow was the Kalaya State fleet's crackdown on all trade and airships related to the Madhya Pradesh conglomerate.

Because the commander of the Kalaya fleet was John Lee himself.

Moreover, John Lee and his fleet appeared and disappeared like ghosts!
As for the final, stern condemnation of the pirates, it was a joke.

Condemnation is just empty talk; it's utterly useless.

John Lee's remarks caused the president and vice president to fly into a rage and curse!

It wasn't just John Lee who said the federal president was worse than a pig.

More importantly, John Lee said that so much has happened in the federal government during the current president's term.

The federal state of Madhya Pradesh is also divided into several factions, with the president representing one of the more powerful factions.

There is also an opposition.

John Lee’s words gave the opposition an excuse.

Therefore, these opposition groups are now preparing a proposal to impeach the current president!
More importantly, other states that originally promised to pay taxes are now using the excuse of not having the money!

All the states within the federation are running budget deficits!
The finances of each state have absolutely no surplus.

This is also the operating model of each state, treating the entire planet as a company, and the company can pay less tax by operating with debt.

Furthermore, the governors-general of each state in the federation are different each year!
During the governor's term, spend as much as possible, even if it means taking out loans!
Of course, this also has advantages in controlling planets!
Because these loans are borrowed from other financial companies, and these loans generate interest every moment.

Because if there is no fiscal deficit, how do these financial companies make money?

And the fiscal deficit is like a huge loan from these financial companies, which generates interest every moment.

So who bears these interest payments? Of course, it's the people of each state.

A large portion of the taxes paid by these people goes towards interest, so the remaining tax revenue is unlikely to be used for much purpose.

This infuriated the federal president and vice president, who were furious and yelled at them. But the other states didn't say they wouldn't give it; they just said they didn't have it and told the president to come and check the accounts if he didn't believe them!

At that very moment, a federal news outlet broke another story.

That was the federal army slaughtering the pirates who had entered the escape pods.

This is radar data and communication data from the pirate warship.

Because escape pods have fixed communication channels, and the escape pods themselves release energy fluctuations to the surrounding area.

Therefore, the data displayed on the radar is consistent.

Since the escape pod is meant to be discovered by someone, it will actively release energy fluctuations.

At the same time, the desperate voices of the pirates could be heard: "Damn it, those Federation butchers are blowing up the escape pods!"

"I saw it, right next to me..."

"Help!"

Although the pirates' warships were on the verge of exploding, they hadn't exploded yet, so some systems were still functioning.

At this time, the warship's quantum communication module was connected to the pirate base!

Furthermore, the Alliance has deduced from the war report issued by the Federal President that the Federal military operation killed at least 100,000 pirates.

Twelve Class C warships, each with 2,500 crew members, totaling at least 30,000.

Seventeen Class D warships, each with at least 1,500 people, that's at least 25,000 people.

In addition, there are 28 E-class warships, each with at least 800 people, which adds up to more than 20,000 people!
There are also other, even lower-class warships!

The Federation only captured a few thousand pirates.

The Alliance and the Empire had already dispatched fast reconnaissance ships at the start of the war.

Used to monitor the dynamics of interstellar warfare, these reconnaissance ships have a detection range greater than that of ordinary main warships.

This type of electronic reconnaissance ship is not only fast, but also powerful, making it much better at energy monitoring than ordinary warships.

Five days after the war ended, several Imperial and Alliance scout ships arrived at the site of the conflict.

They also found a number of pirate escape pods, but even more were various warship fragments!

There are also many pieces of escape pod debris.

This type of electronic reconnaissance ship can identify what something is by detecting energy fluctuations.

Moreover, the escape pod is made of special materials.

Although the fragments of a warship will be rapidly propelled by the force of the explosion after its energy field is destroyed, their speed is far from matching the speed of the energy fluctuations.

Therefore, electronic reconnaissance ships can observe all debris on the entire battlefield and build data models.

Because these warship fragments could potentially affect shipping lanes in other areas.

Based on big data models, some larger warship fragments may arrive near certain shipping lanes decades or even centuries later.

This would allow for early warning, enabling the dispatch of specialized cleanup ships or ensuring that all ships avoid the debris.

The reason why the Alliance's news media broke this news was mainly because the losses that the Federation had caused to the Pirate Alliance this time were too great.

Behind the pirate alliance and pirate groups are some financial groups from the alliance and the empire.

These conglomerates have suffered heavy losses and are bound to want to vent their anger.

While breaking this news, the news outlet also released video footage of John Lee's robbery of the warship.

First, John Lee robbed two pirate crews that were cooperating with the Seventh Pirate Crew.

These two pirate groups have just robbed a Federation transport fleet!
Then it turned and rammed into John Lee. The media also analyzed the location of John Lee's fleet using data from the warship and the public communication records between the two sides.

Everyone laughed when they heard John Lee's voice, because John Lee's first words were: Get out of my C-class warship.

Of course, John Lee also opened fire on the other warships at the same time.

Of course, there's nothing to criticize about this, because pirates themselves don't have any sense of martial ethics.

Then, when John Lee was in control of the warship and the pirates were escaping on the communication ship, these pirates were cursing and swearing that John Lee of the Federation was more of a pirate than the pirates themselves.

Then John Lee hijacked four Class C warships for the second time.

It's the same old trick: they immediately tell others to get off their warship.

Moreover, the league's news media slavished praise on John Lee, saying he was more like a gentleman.

He also said that the federal president, vice president, and other high-ranking officials were all executioners.

This news then caused a huge reaction within the league.

According to the treaty on war, once people have entered the escape pod, further attacks are not permitted.

Then the Empire also shared this news.

Imperial and Alliance media outlets alike condemned the Federation's act of massacre.

Then the politicians of the alliance united against external forces, demanding that the alliance government impose sanctions on the federal government and on several major conglomerates in Madhya Pradesh.

Some nobles in the empire also came forward to declare that they would impose sanctions on the federation.

The Federal President's face turned green: "The Alliance and the Empire, those scum and despicable villains, are using such methods to divert attention from their domestic problems!"

"Those damn politicians!"

"Our federation's style and structure didn't form overnight!"

"These damn guys!"

The Federal Vice President's face was also very grim, because the Alliance and the Empire, if they were to impose sanctions on Madhya Pradesh and its major conglomerates!

Then life will be even worse for Madhya Pradesh!

"It seems someone has to take responsibility!"

"Are you crazy? The Seventh Fleet commander has just achieved a major victory!" "You saw his command abilities yourself!"

"Then what should we do? Should we make you or me take the responsibility?!"

"Removing someone from office and then coming back under a different identity is the same thing!"

"Pah! Do you think you can possibly come back after being dismissed?!" The commander of the Federal Seventh Fleet is on the president's side!
The president is now starting to suspect that the vice president may have betrayed him!

Although the president and vice president are in the same camp, there are various factions within that camp.

"Someone has to step in to calm international public opinion!"

"Then it'll be the Chief of the General Staff!"

"no!"

"Then let's have the Minister of Defense!"

"Neither."

"If this won't work, and that won't work, then you do it!"

Conflicts have also arisen within Madhya Pradesh, and the federal president and vice president are not afraid of international public opinion.

It's not that they're afraid of sanctions!
Because Madhya Pradesh is now quite dependent on external forces!
The Federation's main warships are the worst performing among the three nations.

The main problem is that the states within the federation are not united.

The federal central government wants to develop warships and other technologies, but the other states simply don't support it!

Because other states know that these developed technologies are all in the hands of Madhya Pradesh!

For other states, it's better to buy technology from abroad than to expect Madhya Pradesh to develop technology that benefits them.

However, relying solely on Madhya Pradesh will not allow for the development of more advanced technologies; the focus will be on developing only the more important ones.

Many internal conglomerates in other states of the Federation have ties to the Empire and the Alliance, so they can easily acquire a lot of advanced technology.

This has led to the Federation's significant dependence on the Empire and the Alliance.

In addition, the Federation also knows who is behind the pirates, and it also knows that the Alliance and the Empire are involved. Some people want to take advantage of this situation, so they need to find someone to quell public opinion!

However, such a big matter is not something that a small person can handle.

As important figures, they all have many supporters behind them.

As a result, intense conflicts erupted within Madhya Pradesh.

Yang Bo just chuckled when he found out.

Yang Bo never expected that Li John's reputation would actually improve because of this incident.

It's not that Yang Bo didn't want to exterminate those pirates.

On the one hand, the more fiercely you kill, the stronger the enemy will resist in the future.

In addition, pirates are all genetically modified humans, so they don't have any skills.

Because pirates have a small population, but operating warships requires superpowers, many of them directly use genetic modification technology.

Superpowered individuals created through genetic modification technology have no potential for further growth.

However, pirates don't have many options, and the same is true for many other states in the Federation.

Of course, John Lee also had a pretty good reputation among pirates.

Especially among the lower ranks of the pirates.

Because John Lee only robbed warships, and warships did not belong to all pirates, but only to pirate captains or the management of pirate crews.

Yang Bo is currently disguised as Lee John and is attending a meeting in Karaya!
Karaya faces many problems in manufacturing warships.

The most important of these are various intelligent systems.

Shipyards that manufacture warships require numerous intelligent systems from the start of manufacturing to operation.

First, we need intelligent manufacturing robots, which come in many varieties and can manufacture equipment in space day and night.

In addition, there are the shipyard's energy engines, energy systems, and defense systems!
Because the dock needs to move freely in space.

Warship docks come in various forms, and both the Imperial and Alliance docks are enclosed.

The main reason is confidentiality requirements.

The shipyard rebuilt by the Empire is, to be precise, a large airport with a very powerful energy system and a defense system.

You could say that the dock is like a space base.

Moreover, its defensive and offensive capabilities are far superior to those of a space base.

These docks can be shrunk down, and when shrunk, they resemble a super-large transport ship.

However, these are not suitable for Karaya, because Karaya does not have that much money.

The entire Federation has only one warship manufacturing dock.

Both the Alliance and the Empire have multiple warship manufacturing docks.

The companies on the planet Karaya do not have that much financial resources, nor could they possibly use that much money to support the development of Karaya, because these companies are mainly in Karaya to make money.

"Everyone!"

"This is a design I put together—a warship manufacturing dock." Yang Bo had already prepared for these things!
Yang Bo attended the Karaya State Senate meeting.

Yang Bo directly displayed a virtual projection.

The virtual projection looks like a round box standing up.

"I'll name this kind of dock '3D Printed Dock'!"

"This shipyard can build a warship from start to finish."

"Instead of the Empire and the Alliance, with their enclosed shipyards."

“Of course, our shipyard is also enclosed, only the cross-section of the structure is enclosed.” Yang Bo then demonstrated the virtual animation.

In the virtual animation, a round, box-like object stands up and moves continuously, while on the other side is a completed warship.

"Your Excellency the Governor."

"Excuse my frankness, but I think the investment in the warship dock is too large. We can't build warships with just two hundred engineers from the Empire!"

"Warship docks can be said to be the most cutting-edge technology of this era."

"There are too many technologies involved!"

"Your Excellency, the House of Representatives of Karaya has been arguing about the warship dock for half a month without any results." These people in the Senate actually have great concerns about the warship dock.

This concern mainly stems from two aspects: the first is the construction of the shipyard, and the second is the design of the warship.

Although John Lee had two hundred Imperial warship manufacturing engineers.

These manufacturing engineers are mostly only responsible for a part of the work, such as the engineers in charge of the energy system of the energy cannon!

There are only two engineers like this, but behind the energy cannon energy system is a huge technology company!

The warship's energy system uses technology from this company.

This company has many R&D personnel and testing personnel.

Therefore, more people are needed to obtain the energy system for the entire warship's energy cannon.

These are just the engineers needed for the final manufacturing stage.

Upstream in the entire industry chain, there are numerous material and component suppliers.

A large portion of these components are manufactured in-house by the respective companies.

It's not that these components can't be manufactured in space using smart manufacturing equipment, but rather that the manufacturing technology is kept secret or patented!

Just like the core materials and components of an energy engine, these are all controlled by high-tech companies!

These items are manufactured in the confidential facilities of these companies and then sent to the shipyard for assembly.

However, this only applies to warship manufacturing engineers; shipyard manufacturing technology is far more advanced.

Therefore, people in Karaya are somewhat worried because the amount of money invested is too large.

“Everyone!!”

"If that's the case, I'll build the dock myself, but I'd like to order some materials from you all!"

"On the one hand, I have my own funds."

"On the other hand, I will use the warships in the Karaya fleet as collateral to borrow money from you all." Yang Bo had long known that these people had such ideas.

Yang Bo had this kind of ulterior motive in mind when he first started talking about warship manufacturing.

But at the beginning, I couldn't say I would do it myself, because people would think I was being too greedy.

Once these people truly understand the entire process of warship manufacturing, these businessmen will definitely not invest due to their own risk-taking!
Now their risk is much lower, because they can provide their own funds and also take out mortgage loans.

Moreover, these funds were also used to purchase their materials.

Of course, Yang Bo had even more ideas up his sleeve, namely that he definitely wouldn't repay the loan.

They can use the warships to settle the debt, and as the client, Yang Bo will definitely demand a premium for the debt settlement.

This is like settling project payments; they give you a car to offset hundreds of thousands of yuan, take it or leave it!
Repaying the loan is impossible!

Don't force me to talk to you with warships!
The federal government is a dog-eat-dog world. If a loan is taken out based on ability, why shouldn't it be used to pay off the debt?

The senators' eyes lit up when they heard this; John Lee had a lot of cash.

Moreover, John Lee has many ways to make money; such a person would be working like a slave for others if he took out a loan!
As for the warship dock, these people simply did not believe that John Lee could accomplish it.

And even if he succeeds, so what? The materials were provided by us. If he succeeds, we'll all work together to make him give up his shares!
If he doesn't give up his shares, then we won't provide him with the materials.

There are also various business tactics that can make John Lee obediently give up his shares.

As for the threat of the fleet, the fleet of the planet Calayabon will be in everyone's hands by then.

Because by then, everyone on the warship will belong to everyone.

“Since Your Excellency the Governor says so, then there’s no problem. Shall we sign a long-term supply contract?” the Speaker of the Kalaya State Senate asked eagerly.

"Your Excellency, please rest assured, we will offer the most favorable price!"

“If Your Excellency applies for a loan through us, we will offer you the highest possible terms,” the senators said one after another.

Behind these people are actually individual companies.

"There are still some legal issues, because none of the warship docks are currently privately owned."

“If the Karaya government invests, there will be no legal issues!” Yang Bo stated directly.

Yang Bo wants to change the law, but if he directly proposes to change the law, these people will make exorbitant demands, because any proposal in the federal government requires an exchange of benefits.

Of course, Yang Bo's main goal was to give Lee John a legitimate right to own a private warship dock.

(End of this chapter)