Chapter 750, High Leader's Position
After the death of the Sun Lord, Governor Qi gradually centralized power and is now the de facto prime minister of the empire.
In the history of the empire, there were not many such prime ministers. It is not easy for a centralizer to appear in the empire's power structure. There have been many times in history, but on the scale of ten thousand years, overall it is not a long time.
Normally, the number of government departments that the Prime Minister can control is more or less. The four prime ministers are theoretically his subordinates, but powerful departments, especially the Ministry of Military Affairs and the Ministry of Justice, are often outside the control of the prime minister. A strong prime minister can often pose a great challenge to the authority of the prime minister.
This is just the situation of the imperial government. Most prime ministers in history may not be able to completely balance it, not to mention that there are many high-ranking chairs outside the government departments. , both represent a strong independent political faction.
It is not unheard of for some prime ministers to become completely mere decorations, and in turn be treated as positional mascots by certain powerful departments within the government.
It is not easy for Qi Bodu to reach this point.
Currently, he has basically gathered the power of the imperial government, not to mention the four major prime ministerial departments, such as the two major military departments of the Imperial Navy and the Imperial Astra Militarum, which he also controls.
With these alone, there are already seven seats among the thirteen high leaders.
In addition, plus Yasdai who was supported by him, there are eight seats.
Already an absolute majority in the Supreme Council.
Not to mention, other high lords, even Mars, the National Religion, the Inquisition, the Assassin's Court, etc., must remain respectful to Qi Bodu under the current general trend.
It is not an exaggeration to say that he is a centralized prime minister who is rare.
However, within the political situation of the empire, even if you reach the status of Sun Lord, there will be no shortage of challengers, let alone Governor Qi.
When a faction becomes large, new factions will be divided into new factions based on interests and positions. This is inevitable and is also the most important thing that Qi Bodu has to deal with.
This is where the debate over whether the Alliance should survive comes into play.
Outside of his own faction, Mars has always been very independent and strong, and the internal environment is relatively closed, making it difficult to get involved; the Tribunal has many mysterious internal affairs, although it is not No matter how obedient he is, he still goes to the police when there is something he needs to do, and he doesn't challenge Qi Bodu's authority very much.
Qi Bodu treated these two families with courtesy for the time being.
But only the state religion poses the greatest challenge to Qibotu.
Of course, although it is said to be the biggest, in fact the difference in strength between the two sides in the imperial political arena is still relatively large. However, there are many conflicts, and the state religion's small actions in private are quite frequent.
To be honest, the state religion is not an easy target to deal with. After being weakened by some historical factors, the strength of the state religion has long been far inferior to that of the time when the pope could also serve as the prime minister of the empire.
However, this does not prevent them from being the spiritual supreme rulers of most people in the empire today.
His Holiness the Pope has been in the religious world ‘Minstoria’ all year round, but he also often comes to Holy Terra. Every time it comes, it always attracts crowds of people.
Speaking of which, the state religion does not seem to directly control any specific power. However, no one can underestimate them. They do not collect taxes directly, but everyone from the dignitaries to the common people willingly donate money to the state religion; the various legions, who may not be archbishops or bishops, will follow the call for jihad. The clergy went to kill the rebels.
The state religion also cooperates very closely with the major tribunals. A large number of Sisters of Battle are taking orders from two families at the same time.
The relationship between Qi Bodu and the current Pope, Innocent XVIII, is not very good. They have had many conflicts in the High Lords Council. The imperial government was also quite dissatisfied with the several so-called 'holy wars' that the state religion had launched on its own by calling on legions and local princes.
There has always been a lot of overt and covert fighting between the two sides.
However, Qi Bodu did not expect that the extent of the state religion's actions would be so shocking.
At the same time, he was a little confused.
What is Asdai’s situation now? Was he corrupted by the aliens, or was he attracted by the state religion?
These two pieces of information are very contradictory.
According to the information obtained during Gu Hang’s interrogation, these two things seemed to exist at the same time.
The Dark Eldar are quite active in the Galactus Universe. Their high-level spies have persevered and infiltrated into the Universe Government on a large scale, with great results.
The leader is the top family in the Dark Eldar Tribe - Blood Curse.
He belongs to the same family as the one who was caught by the Alliance in the Spider Web Domain.
Gu Hang still remembered that they had a long-term goal - to siege and harass the Infinite Battle Group.
As for Asdai being attracted by the state church, this happened more recently. It would be exposed - the state religion also has some special mysterious methods, and the Dark Eldar did not interfere in this process. Yasdai accepted the invitation of the State Religion, and in accordance with the wishes of the State Religion, issued an order to the Assassin's Court to assassinate Gu Hang.
What is the purpose?
It was not reflected in the results of the interrogation, but Gu Hang could probably guess it and told Qi Bodu in a more embellished way.
Their core goal in doing this is to create a rift between the Alliance and the Central Empire.
They clearly knew that this assassination operation would not succeed.
The Assassin Court is not stupid.
Even if the Assassin Court is working, it may not be possible to actually assassinate.
But as long as this matter is exposed, it will have several effects.
First, does Gu Hang have distrust in the central government of the empire? After the assassination incident, he received an order from the Empire Central Committee to come to Holy Terra alone. Would he dare to come?
Secondly, the assassination incident was in the Supreme Council at the time. After Gallardo made a big fuss, the already not bright future of the "Alliance Plan" was cast even more shadow.
Third, as long as the mastermind of the assassination is not exposed for a day, there will always be doubts about who this person is. Among them, Luo Fei is the most suspected. This is analyzed from the motive. Even if there is no evidence, Gallardo has used this matter to make a fuss at the Supreme Council, which will cause internal divisions in Qibedu's political faction.
Some of these purposes are effective, and some are of no use.
Especially when Gu Hang came to Holy Terra in person and vigorously promoted the "Alliance Plan", many problems were solved.
But what?
The cost of doing things in the state religion and Asdai is not high.
The Assassin Court cannot betray them out of its own responsibilities and the traditions it relies on to survive.
As long as they don't have any problems and the news doesn't leak out, there will be almost no cost.
But, something happened.
It is possible that the state religion did not know that Yasdai they had roped in, or Yasdai's close confidant Yu Jinwen, had been secretly controlled by the Dark Eldar.
What's even more incredible is how did Caul, the great sage of the Mechanicum, know about this?
Gu Hang is also very curious.
But when he told Gu Hang the news, and Gu Hang personally took action to expose the entire incident to the light, the biggest trouble for the state religion came. It was originally just a small dirty trick, but since you dare to do it, you must be prepared to cause a huge wave after it is exposed.
Is the state religion ready for this?
Then it has nothing to do with Gu Hang.
Actually, Gu Hang doesn’t care that much about the fight between the Pope and the Prime Minister.
He now considers himself the Prime Minister's disciple every day, and says all day long that I am following the lead of Governor Qi, but this is pure deception.
But if you fight, you will fight. Don’t use me as a tool in your struggle.
I will kill anyone who involves me!
This is Gu Hang's first and biggest goal.
He is already strong personally, but the alliance he represents is not strong enough on the big stage of the entire empire. When you are weak, it is necessary to show your teeth and claws to show that you are not easy to deal with.
Being too weak is not keeping a low profile, but causing trouble.
If you don’t fight back once you start trouble, you won’t know how many people will want to use the alliance as a convenient tool later.
The person must be beaten painfully!
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Goals other than the first time can actually be regarded as follow-up matters.
Asdai’s downfall is doomed. Even Gu Hang, who has mastered the Spider Web Space Domain and is a neighbor of the Swallowing Star Space Domain, has to put on some war alerts to prevent Asdai from jumping over the wall in a hurry.
Gu Hang probably couldn’t jump up.
If it just colludes with the state religion, there may still be some risks, but the main battlefield is probably the exchange of interests in the political field. If Innocent XVIII was determined to protect him, it would be difficult to retain the position of high lord, but he might be able to retain the position of chairman of the universe.
In this case, Asdai also has the possibility of overturning the table in the Galactus universe, which will make Holy Terra throw a trap.
However, if you add in the corruption of the Dark Eldar, it is no longer safe, and the ability to lift the table is also very low. Even if the Dark Eldar have completely infiltrated the Eternal Government, as long as everyone from the army to the government to the grassroots is corrupted, then let the soldiers and civilians of the human empire be armed and work with the imperial officials under the leadership of the aliens. It is almost impossible to start a war.
In this regard, the parasitic infection of the Void Zerg and the soul corruption of the Chaos Cult are both very scary things. Once formed, they can truly corrupt an entire planet and billions of people.
The Dark Eldar's secret corruption of individual key figures is stronger and more covert, but they do not have such large-scale corruption methods.
The National Religion fought against Qi Bodu, but it would not help them deceive the military and civilians and launch a rebellion when the upper levels of the Galactus Universe were corrupted.
Of course, it is difficult to say so absolutely. What if there are powerful ones among the corrupted senior officials who can deceive the middle and lower classes, or even the general public, into following suit? What if some of the top officials in the state religion system in the Star-Eating Universe are corrupted? What if...
The situation will be complicated.
But fortunately, the Forbidden Army said they would intervene directly. I guess there must be dozens of people there. Accompanying him were soldiers from the Forbidden Palace Guards.
The so-called Forbidden Palace Guards refer to the mortal auxiliary army trained by the Forbidden Army itself. The Forbidden Army is as powerful as it is powerful, with a total of tens of thousands of people, and the range it can control is limited. Fixed garrisoning can only be done at key locations. The Imperial Palace, said to be a palace, is actually a magnificent building complex covering the largest and highest world roof plateau in Holy Terra. Ten thousand people cannot see it.
Just as the Space Marines need auxiliaries, so do the Custodes.
To sum up, Gu Hang concluded that Yasdai could not make big waves.
The alliance is prepared for war just in case.
And Asdai steps down, who will step in?
Gu Hang was actually more interested in the position of chairman of the Swallowing Universe, but he knew it was impossible.
On the premise of preserving the alliance, allowing him to actually control the spider web space has already paid a huge political price and took a lot of effort to get it done. If you want to eat another swallowing space domain, it is impossible no matter what.
So, settle for the next best thing.
If you can’t eat real fat, you can eat a weak one.
Seat of the High Lord.
This is quite difficult, but relatively speaking it is not that impossible.
What's more, there is the Mars Sect.
Although, up to now, Gu Hang is still worried about Kaul's prediction and the price that will be paid next. However, one is a long-term thing that may be good or bad, and the other is the meat that is in front of you in the near future, so let’s take a bite first.
Whether Mars really supports it or not, then let them go and follow the normal attitude and normal process to fight for it, and you won’t lose anything.
Gu Hang does not plan to invest a lot of money in it, and the reason is obvious.
If it is a powerful and completely independent high-ranking chairmanship, it will of course be of extraordinary value. It can directly influence the policies of the central empire and gain many benefits for his alliance and the Spider Web Space.
However, he estimated that even with Martian's support, he would still need Qi Bodu's nod. Otherwise, this matter will become a hard fight between Mars and the Prime Minister's faction.
After all, Yasdai, who used to be in this position, belonged to the Qi Bodu faction.
Mars is fierce again, and it would be too difficult to snatch a high-ranking position from Governor Qi in the Supreme Council.
And even if he succeeds, then Gu Hang’s body can be regarded as firmly bearing the mark of the Mars Sect.
This is something Gu Hang doesn’t want to see.
Mars is too far away, too isolated in the political environment of the empire, and has too little to offer.
Qi Bodu still has to nod.
But will he nod?
......
"Do you want to run for high lord?" Qi Bodu, who was deep in thought, was suddenly awakened by Gu Hang's voice.
He was immediately amused, and even Asdai's gloomy mood of being won over by the State Church and corrupted by the Dark Eldar was dispelled.
It was as if Gu Hang told him a very funny joke.
Asdai will definitely go down, and the next question is who will take his place. That’s right.
However, Governor Qi had thought of a hundred people for this candidate, but he would not have thought of Gu Hang.
The reason is simple, Gu Hang is not one of his own.
(End of this chapter)