It had been a few days since Cruzet and El Erf led their teams to Earth and New Guyon respectively. Xiao Ran had been holed up in Katyas' mansion and did not reveal the fact that he had returned. He only sent Moses and Billy out to cooperate with Katyas' internal investigation.
He had nothing to do. All he did every day was listen to Katyas, Moses, and Billy's reports and understand the daily news. As the bridge crew, Mary, Sherry Dew, and Bobby naturally had nothing to do. It was inconvenient for them to leave Katyas' mansion, so they rested and relaxed for the past few days.
Law and Bassac were both restless. Bassac could not enter the city, and Law was bored. The two simply returned to the Galaxy Songstress. One fiddled with machinery every day, and from time to time practiced the martial arts he inherited from Invincible East with Bassac. The other spent every day dancing and fooling around with the people in the base to kill time.
Xiao Ran had absolute reason to believe that once the news of his return was leaked out, the Federation's higher-ups and some envious people would definitely not let him go easily. They would either capture and imprison him, or deal with him secretly. Although Xiao Ran was not afraid, it would be troublesome to face them.
After Kreutzer and the others left for Earth, both sides had temporarily lost contact with each other. Therefore, Xiao Ran was not clear about what kind of results Kreutzer had obtained over the past few days. If one were to talk about the three separate operations, the most important mission would be Kreutzer's side.
As long as Cruzet could smoothly contact the people on Katyas' list, get the support of these people, and find General Rabir and confirm the official time of action, then the Moon and New Guyon could take advantage of the situation at any time and clean up the Federation's personnel without scruples. They could also announce the identity of the current Federation's higher-ups and a series of personnel behind them as traitors, and then officially declare war on the Federation.
And how much territory and military strength could be eaten by the Federation before they reacted would depend on how far Cruzet could go on this trip to Earth.
But in just a few days, even if Cruzet had detailed contact information and information, he did not blindly start to act. Instead, he waited until he landed on Earth. He chose a place where the list of personnel was more concentrated and began to observe some of them. After careful observation for several days, Cruzet finally determined the first batch of personnel to contact from these people and began to prepare for the meeting with these people.
According to Cruzet's own calculations. It would take at least two months to contact all the people on the list because the people on the list were almost all over the world. Among these people, there were businessmen and government officials. There were underground forces, high-ranking military officers, and commanders from military bases all over the world. Although compared to the current strength of the Federation, the combined strength of these people was not considered a huge force. At most, it was just a toddler. However, it was unknown how Katyas managed to compile this list and where did he find so many supporters.
Most of the people on the list did not need to be directly contacted. They only needed to contact about a dozen important personnel on the list. Who was trustworthy and who needed to be vigilant? Katyas had marked them on the list, but Cruzet also hoped to distinguish the problem based on his own judgment.
Especially the moderate faction and the civilian faction that had completely leaned towards the Anaheim Company and Xiao Ran. Although Katyas saw them as staunch allies, Cruzet was not willing to contact them in such an unsafe way. He was more willing to personally observe these people on the list and confirm if they still had other ideas. Otherwise, as long as there was a problem with one of them, the implications would be quite huge.
From Cruzet's point of view, most of them were downright profit followers and fence-sitters. They would choose to follow whichever side could give them more benefits. Cruzet liked and hated people like this the most because this kind of people were the easiest to deal with. As long as they were given enough benefits, they would follow by your side like the most obedient dog. But this kind of people had the least principles and bottom line. Even if the benefits were enough, when the risk exceeded a certain level, they would even betray their own father.
Therefore, Cruzet directly crossed out most of the members on the list. Apart from letting Luca maintain surveillance through technical means, he did not even have the intention to contact these people. He only needed to confirm everything and inform these people at the last moment of the operation. By then, Cruzet would naturally have a way to turn these people into a group of obedient dogs, fighting to be the first to open their mouths and bite people.
After observing for a while, in addition to the information collected by Luca and the information bought by Cruzet from the intelligence dealer, Cruzet quickly decided on the first 3 targets to contact. They were the moderate members who had cooperated with Xiao Ran, Jose and Bill, and the representative of the civilian party, General Maxi.
During this period, in addition to understanding these people, Cruzet also had some understanding of the factions within the Federation. From Cruzet's understanding, the differences between the several factions were not so clear. Usually, there were people in each other. The faction that seemed scattered but supported each other the most was the moderate faction. It was also a business alliance formed by huge families, consortiums, and enterprises. Most of them adhered to the attitude of harmony and wealth. Just like Bill and Jose, they were the typical kind of people who did things without leaving a line. They did not really have a world conflict with other factions. Everything could be negotiated with the exchange of benefits.
Of course, in the moderate faction, there was also a group of people and families who were ruthless. They would do anything for benefits, and they liked to eliminate the root of the problem. Because of their style of doing things, this group of people in the moderate faction was closer to the privileged faction. They were the representatives of the privileged faction in the moderate faction.
Of course, the moderation of the moderate faction was only relative. To the real enemy, the moderate faction was not gentle at all.
As for the civilian party, they were very united. However, due to many reasons, Maxi was not the only leader in this faction. It was just like how although they belonged to a country, they were divided into regions. Different regions had different leaders. Maxi was the boss behind the leader, and General Rabir was the same. However, they belonged to the more powerful faction of the civilian party. Although there might be some internal conflicts, the attitude of the entire civilian party was very consistent. They had no money and no benefits. If you want to mess with them, they will bite you no matter what.
Therefore, in the eyes of the moderate faction and the privileged faction, the people of the civilian party were a bunch of helpless bastards. However, when it came to a real war, they had no choice but to rely on these people. Who asked for 99 out of a thousand soldiers of the Federation to be made up of civilians? The remaining 10 might be members of the Federation's privileged class.
But if he could get Rabir and Maxi to join Xiao Ran's side, then 75% of the civilian party would be under Xiao Ran's control. He would have a great advantage in dealing with the Federation.
After deciding on the three people to contact for the first time, Cruzet very graciously handed over visiting cards to the moderate faction's Bill and Joss in fact. The contents of the visiting cards were very simple. It appeared to be a business partner coming to visit, but in fact, it was a secret signal to contact Katyas.
On Maxi's side, Cruzet chose to directly sneak in to meet with Maxi. The reason for this difference was entirely because Cruzet could see that the three people had different personalities and the way they dealt with people was also different. Apart from being part of the upper echelons of the Federation and holding a seat in the Federation, Bill and Joss were also businessmen. In fact, they were more open and generous, with a mixture of truth and falsehood. On the other hand, Maxi was the kind of person who liked to hide his secrets in the shadows. Regardless of whether he fully trusted the people around him or not, he absolutely did not like to expose his secrets to others. Therefore, sneaking in to meet with Maxi was not only a way to show off the strength of this side, but also in line with Maxi's dark thoughts.
Cruzet was able to see this point and choose different ways to meet according to the different personalities of the three people. This was also one of Cruzet's strong points. His ability to read other people's inner thoughts and see other people's weak points allowed him, who was originally a clone, to climb to the level of being above tens of thousands of people in the adjuster camp in the SEED world.
While Cruzet was happily beginning to formally meet with the three people, El Erf was also in the new Guyon, bringing all the important officials of the new Guyon's departments, the commanders of the various fleets, as well as all the personnel on the personnel list given to him by Xiaya into his supervision. Every day, he sat in a secret monitoring department established by people Xiaya absolutely trusted, monitoring everything about these people. Little by little, he removed some people from the list of suspects and added people who originally did not exist on the list. He monitored all the communications of the entire capital's satellites and paid attention to the movements around Xiaya. (To be continued.)
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