Chapter 1567: Chapter 587: A Warrior Dies for His True Friend (Part 2)

Of course, not everyone within the Red Peak Earl Mansion could understand Ren Zhong’s decision.

Especially Xiao Xingyue, who was responsible for psychological evaluations, urgently awakened.

She contacted Ren Zhong and raised her doubts.

She said, "I believe Han Zhixin is relatively reliable, but since what you intend to achieve is fraught with such risks, you should be more cautious. How can you let him bypass the psychological evaluation and succeed Jin Simin?"

Ren Zhong laughed and said, "If it were just an ordinary position, it wouldn’t matter, but because this duty is particularly important, I don’t want to evaluate him. Besides, don’t people change? For positions like the Chief Governor, is psychological evaluation truly effective? Look at me, having undergone so many evaluations by the Empire, what of it? Xiao Xingyue, you should observe more, see how the Red Blade Clan and others in the Empire differ."

A moment later, Xiao Xingyue hung up the communication and began to ponder along the lines provided by Ren Zhong, continuously reviewing psychological analysis reports of the Red Blade Clan people while comparing intelligence about thousands collected by Sun Ai from other factions within the Empire.

Time passed unknowingly for a long time, and Xiao Xingyue finally turned off the holographic projection.

She reclined in her chair, hands behind her head, eyes closed in contemplation.

"This Ren Zhong fellow, he has something infectious about him, causing those who approach him to become more unpredictable, yielding more possibilities, and no longer easily deciphered by the Super Network. This guy is practically a virus source!"

"But it’s also strange, why does the Empire Super Network show no reaction to anomalies that even I can perceive?"

"Forget it, since he has nothing to fear, he must have his reason."

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Eleven months passed, and after a long journey, the administrative hub of the Red Peak Earl Mansion and the Red Blade Science Academy finally arrived at the Liao Yuan Star System.

This was an exceptionally large fleet.

There were as many as eight planet-level main ships.

The Southern Nine Star System was practically emptied out, with only a solitary star and a few smaller asteroids left.

Over in the Liao Yuan Star System, things immediately became bustling.

The administrative institutions of the Earl Mansion and the Red Blade Science Academy quickly began integrating into the Liao Yuan Star System.

Ren Zhong also appeared before the public once more, personally presiding over the power transition ceremony between the aging Jin Simin and Han Zhixin.

There wasn’t much ceremonial sense, nor a grand ceremony, with less than two hundred attendees at the scene of the ceremony.

The Earl Mansion only issued a brief report to the public after the ceremony concluded.

On the surface, it seemed like a trivial matter, just a power transition within an Earl civilization.

Like in Nanxiang’s Earldom, Liu An’s proxies have changed several times over the centuries.

But soon, others within the Nanxiang Star Cluster noticed something amiss.

Upon Han Zhixin’s appointment, the Red Blade Clan suddenly accelerated its pace of external infiltration and expansion.

Previously, when authorizing the three core technologies externally, contracts were promoted under a ten-year term, but Han Zhixin proposed a buyout contract lasting a thousand years.

This means that buyers only need to pay a large sum once to hold the technology until its thousand-year patent expires.

Although the core technology remains controlled by the Red Blade Clan and in practical applications, still relies on technical support from the Red Blade Clan personnel, along with a certain fee, this one-time buyout system immediately attracted numerous buyers.

Following a round of intense high-level negotiations, the Red Blade Clan secured cooperation orders from dozens of Dukes, hundreds of Marquises, and thousands of Earls within just a few months, and even reached mega contracts with several subordinate production enterprises of the Royal Family.

A vast amount of Contribution Points funds flooded through the Super Network’s information network towards the Nanxiang Star Cluster.

Then, the Red Blade Clan immediately offered a seemingly doomed proposal, simultaneously leasing numerous star systems near the Star Gate passages of other Star Clusters and the Empire Central Star Domain.

These outward expansion activities were largely facilitated by the connections of the Wen Yuanbo family and the Marquis Zhenjiang Mansion.

Within the Nanxiang Star Cluster, the Red Blade Clan did not stop its pace of territorial expansion either.

One by one, enterprises within the Nanxiang Star Cluster were annexed; one by one, the use rights of territories owned by nobles were sold and exchanged.

In the Nanxiang Star Cluster, the newly appointed Chief Governor of the Star Cluster, Wen Zaiyin, was quite attuned, not only refraining from hindering the Red Blade Clan’s expansion but actively stepping into the fray, acting as their accomplice.

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