Starting from the Planetary Governor

Chapter 1360: Chapter 776: Damn, What a Loss

The long-term strategy of the Alliance is to peacefully transform the Eastern Cosmos Domain.

Through powerful economic and cultural influence, infiltrate the political and military sectors.

There’s no talk of ’winning without fighting,’ it’s about directly taking over the entire Cosmos Domain.

And Yinbasim is here to change all of that.

However, when he first arrived, he was full of confidence, but after a few years, he became increasingly haggard.

Much more difficult than imagined!

He brought strong troops with him.

Of course, not to clash with the Alliance.

Even if he wanted to, the Central Empire wouldn’t allow it.

And they wouldn’t win anyway. Who doesn’t know the Alliance can fight?

But using them to deal with local forces in the Eastern Cosmos Domain poses no problem.

The troops he brought are here for this purpose, to see who dares to resist.

With military force guaranteed, whatever he plans to do next, wouldn’t it be smooth sailing?

As for the possibility of Alliance interference… it is possible, but after analysis, it is unlikely to be military interference.

The Alliance has no reasonable justification for doing this.

A large-scale invasion, directly forming military confrontation in the Eastern Cosmos Domain with the Central Empire, would be too outrageous.

In the following years, the development direction of events was roughly as Yinbasim expected.

The Alliance indeed had no way to carry out direct military intervention, and even political intervention was difficult, they could only strengthen economic trade and enhance the binding effect between the two sides.

However, the problem lies precisely here.

The Alliance and the Eastern Cosmos Domain’s elites are too deeply bound in economic interests. The reform that Yinbasim promoted to de-ally is undoubtedly cutting off people’s livelihoods.

That’s akin to killing their parents.

Unrest is inevitable.

This was within his expectations.

But those elites did not resist openly; instead, they continuously engaged in underhanded maneuvers.

Yinbasim initially tried appeasement, but when that didn’t work, he resorted to heavy-handed suppression.

Amid pulling and unrest, even the Imperial Tax of the Eastern Cosmos Domain began to be affected.

The supporters of the Galaraldo faction in the Alliance continually attacked him over the Empire’s tax reduction, which became the biggest leverage against him.

He was under significant pressure, but fortunately, he also had supporters, keeping his position temporarily stable and even providing him additional manpower.

In such a situation, he began to suppress more harshly, to the extent of breaking ties and killing to establish authority.

However, he then found it was not so easy to kill people.

Many times, he couldn’t kill them at all!

Once he made a move, he found the person missing.

There are two layers to this problem:

How did people get advance notice and then flee?

How did people flee, leaving no trace to be found?

These two problems point to two essentials.

Firstly, his subordinates are likely thoroughly infiltrated, with decisions leaking out immediately once an order is given.

Secondly, the Alliance must have already interfered. Their elite agents probably already entered various core areas of the Eastern Cosmos Domain. With the cooperation of locally infiltrated personnel, they can quickly transfer people away and send them into the Alliance’s territory.

On the covert battlefield, the people he brought suffered a complete defeat.

Even when Yinbasim decided to completely abandon local personnel and use only those he brought from Holy Terra, this problem still wasn’t resolved well.

Staying in the Eastern Cosmos Domain long enough, even the people from Holy Terra couldn’t maintain high loyalty.

After all, this is not elsewhere; they also need to eat, drink, and interact with local people in the Eastern Cosmos Domain, inevitably having contact with the ubiquitous Alliance agents, making infiltration common.

Furthermore, perhaps before they arrived in the Eastern Cosmos Domain, when they set out from Holy Terra, there were already some informants among them.

Even if Yinbasim insists on using his own people, he inevitably has to rely on locals for obtaining intelligence, familiarizing with the local environment, local supplies… all depend on locals.

His personnel is at a disadvantage compared to the Alliance’s agents’ front line.

Indeed, Yinbasim gradually realized: all this is formed under the Alliance’s restraint. If the Alliance stops restraining itself, they might even take his life.

The so-called experts he brought from Holy Terra, whether psychic or dozens of assassins from the Assassin Court, were all useless, unable to save his life.

Frustrated, Yinbasim even considered letting it all go.

The pressure from Holy Terra is immense, and the work in the Eastern Cosmos Domain is not going well. He was criticized from above and below, making the job truly unpleasant.

He thought it might be better to be dismissed, return to Holy Terra to find another opportunity, and leave this mess in the Eastern Cosmos Domain to whoever wants it, he wasn’t willing to serve it anymore.

But he couldn’t do that.

Recently, someone he couldn’t refuse in Holy Terra gave him a clear demand.

With a bitter face, he could only keep working.

Then, the Alliance received a message: Yinbasim, in his capacity as the Cosmic Domain Chair, issued orders prohibiting trade with the Alliance and enforcing a trade ban.