Chapter 752, this is business
Gu Hang was waiting for the results of this meeting, and the content of the discussion was of course related to Asdai.
In fact, this is not the first time a meeting on this topic has been held.
In the previous meeting, Asdai had been removed from his status as high lord of the empire. At the same time, a delegation of envoys, composed of joint members of the Inquisition, the Imperial Government, and the State Church, were dispatched to hold accountable and investigate. The accompanying personnel are all elites, including the hunter group of the Inquisition, the stormtroopers drawn from the elite of the Astra Militarum, and the battle sisters of the State Church also participate.
The total number of people exceeds 100,000.
A force of this scale is definitely not enough to fight an interstellar war. However, looking at their personnel composition, we can also know that they are not going to fight, but a group of teams performing special operations.
And the reason why this kind of 'small' scale operation requires 100,000 people is because the area covered by small-scale operations may reach the whole world, or even many planets.
Then it must be of this scale.
If the situation in the Galactus Space Domain is relatively good, and the local Imperial Navy and Astra Militarum can still obey orders; and the local troops can obey after receiving clear instructions from the Imperial Central Committee, then it should be possible to dispatch these elite special forces. That's enough.
It is nothing more than used to deal with those corruptors, alien lurkers, high-ranking officials, and traitors who refuse to be captured...
Of course, if the situation in the Star-Eating Space Territory is really bad enough to cause a large-scale rebellion and the local army has a big problem, then these 100,000 elites can also rely on their strong individual combat capabilities to ensure certain areas on the planet. , do not fall, hold on and wait for support.
As for what the support is... the empire has ordered several surrounding regions to urgently mobilize troops and prepare.
There are even six Space Marine Chapters included.
In a hurry, there is definitely no way to get out in full force. But with attack arrows from multiple directions, there is no problem after all.
The Star Swallowing Universe won't involve thousands of worlds, and all of them will rebel, right?
The Iron Armor Rebellion is not that exaggerated.
There will not be a military center group in the Star Swallowing Universe that can quickly sweep the entire Universe like Iron Armor in a year or two.
If Iron Armor can do this, there are actually twenty or more battleships and aircraft carriers, plus tens of thousands of interstellar warriors. What is there in the Star-Eating Space Domain?
All in all, even if there is a risk of war in the Star-Eating Space Domain, it should not be too large in scale.
What's more, the core goal of this envoy sent by the central empire is to calm down the situation in the universe and reduce the risk of war as much as possible.
Although the Forbidden Army has already gone and even set off, the Imperial Army belongs to the Imperial Army, and the imperial official belongs to the imperial official.
Although there is no such thing as the corruption of high lords in history - there are even quite a few records. But just because there are many does not mean that this kind of thing is not serious.
When the Forbidden Forces work, they usually only do their own business - investigating the cause of the accident, punishing the murderers behind the scenes, and dealing with the traitors.
After it was done, they came back.
But if you deal with a powerful prince like a high lord and chairman of the universe, and deal with the chief culprit, then you're done?
No, no, no, that's just the beginning, there are still a lot of troubles ahead.
The Imperial Guard doesn't care, the Empire has to.
Moreover, there is another advantage to holding on to the past now, that is, you can use the power of the Forbidden Army to do things.
If there is no team from the central government, the Forbidden Army will probably come back after finishing their own affairs. Even if there is a local rebellion, the Forbidden Army will probably not care.
However, the central government has sent an envoy, and the mission is highly related to the Forbidden Army. With hard work, local requests for help, and on-the-spot cooperation, the Forbidden Army will most likely not be able to stand idly by under their noses.
It is said that this time the Imperial Army will go to a whole company of golden spears.
One hundred Forbidden Soldiers!
The Space Marines have always felt that they are the same level of top warriors as the Custodes. We are all extraordinary human beings. Even if there is a gap, it cannot be too different, at least not by one level!
Aren't there examples in history of Space Marines defeating the Custodes?
What the traitor wins, what he wins in a contest...
However, the more emphasis is placed on it, the more it proves that there is actually a very significant gap between the two.
According to Cai Hang's estimation, the combat effectiveness of an ordinary Forbidden Army soldier can roughly defeat a company champion, but lose to a battle group champion.
It’s already very exaggerated!
This is just the strength of ordinary imperial troops!
Among the Forbidden Army, there were also masters compared to themselves. For example, those captains of Golden Shield and Golden Spear who lead their companies will surely win the general championship of the war group. Even the top warriors like Martins and Salius, who have almost reached the level of Emperor's Chosen, In a confrontation with the Forbidden Army Captain, I can only say that I have a 60% winning rate.
Above the company commander, there is also the level of tribune of the Imperial Guard.
The strength of Marshal Yan Xinzhen of the Forbidden Army is even more unfathomable.
Although he had never seen him take action, after seeing him in person, Gu Hang could feel the threat from him.
Perhaps, compared with the Marshal of the Forbidden Army, those Sons of God can win, but they dare not say that they will definitely win, right?
It's hard to say, after all, Gu Hang has never seen the ancient Sons of God with his own eyes who have long since disappeared.
But no matter what, the value that those hundred forbidden troops can exert is extraordinary, and there is no pressure to kill one or two ordinary battle groups.
With them holding the line, that is real peace of mind.
Generally speaking, the previous meeting about the Galactus Universe was about how to ensure that the Galactus Universe itself could survive this storm relatively smoothly. If you can do it without fighting, don't fight. If you can handle it on a small scale, do it on a small scale. If you can use political means, don't use violent means.
But at the same time, we must be prepared for the worst case scenario where the situation cannot be controlled. The elite of the envoy group, the forbidden army, and the war preparation notice sent to the surrounding space areas... are all preparations for this.
This is business.
As for the second meeting, the discussion was just...
This is more serious business!
Within the Star Swallowing Space Domain, even considering the slightest situation, many positions must be cleared up and down.
And these vacant positions, aren't those big guys going to share the food?
This is not just a battle between political factions. For example, Qi Bodu is now considered the largest faction, but within his faction, all the small hills have their own interests and want to take a bite.
Although under Qi Bodu's request, his faction's cohesion is still good and they can deal with the outside world unanimously. But in private, no one can tell if there is any collusion.
Even if Qi Bodu himself knows it vaguely in his heart, sometimes he has to turn a blind eye. He is the leader of the faction, the leader, and sometimes unity is more important.
Among these positions, the most coveted are the two positions left by Asdai - the chairman of the Swallowing Universe and the chairman of Gaoling.
These two positions are of course detachable and everyone wants them.
Of course, in fact, other political factions should have expectations, and they will not be able to get it. These two positions were originally leaked from the hands of Qi Bodu. With the ability of this centralized prime minister, how could they be given to others?
However, it doesn't matter if they can't get it, it doesn't stop them from using these two things as weapons to constantly poke at Governor Qi Bodu. On the surface, they are rejecting Governor Qi Bodu's proposal for various reasons that do not meet the conditions and are inappropriate. Candidates, recommend your own candidates; secretly, this is asking Qi Bodu for other benefits. If you don't give them to me, then I will continue to cause trouble for you on this matter.
Unless Governor Qi wants to use his greatest authority to directly execute the High Lords Council to vote when they cannot reach an agreement. As long as he gets more than half of the votes, he can impose any rule. And in his hands, he holds seven seats, more than an absolute majority, and can push anything.
But this is a nuclear weapon, a table-topping tactic that should never be used easily.
In name, with these seven votes, you can do anything; but in fact, this is not the case.
Voting itself is not strength, but strength brings voting. These seven votes represent the power that Qi Bodu can mobilize, which is more than half of the empire's total power. Therefore, when Qi Bodu comes up with this trick, everyone has to weigh it and hold their noses to admit it.
But if the proposal is too extreme, even half of it will be useless.
For example, Qi Bodu had a fit one day and decided to dissolve the state religion, which he despised most, and demanded that all special political powers of the state religion be banned throughout the empire. With seven votes, it was passed by the Supreme Council. Can this be done?
Impossible.
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The lightest thing is that the state religion doesn't care about you at all. It directly refuses to recognize Qi Bodu's order, and then declares a holy war in the entire empire, announcing that Qi Bodu has betrayed the God Emperor.
What to do? To fight an empire-wide civil war?
Can high lords such as the Inquisition, Mars, and Assassins allow Governor Qi to do this? Which side will they be on?
If it comes to this point, the seven seats of Qi Bodu will be shaken immediately. No matter how the Grand Marshal of the Astral Army and Navy belongs to Qi Bodu's faction, he will go crazy. Will they really follow up with loyalty and follow Qi Bodu? Did Bodu go to the entire empire to wipe out the state religion?
That's impossible.
The only outcome of Qi Bodu's madness is to kill himself, and his own seven seats will fall apart.
It's the same thing when it comes to this matter. If he carries out the voting forcefully and relies on seven votes to force it through, then his influence will not be to the point of driving others crazy, but I am afraid that people will not hold their noses and admit it.
They will think that this is Qi Bodu overturning the table and destroying the tacit political understanding. The Inquisition may keep an eye on the people on Governor Qi Bo's side every day, trying to catch a heretic, traitor, or corrupt criminal; the State Church may ferociously seek trouble every day; the Mechanicus may protest by rejecting orders from the forces under Governor Qi Bo's command. ;The Assassin's Court began to take up some assassination missions that it originally did not accept...
Everyone has means.
Politics is not a child's play, let alone forced. Politics is the art of benefit distribution and requires wisdom.
Qi Bodu is familiar with this.
He first hid the exposed problems of the state religion and remained silent. When the representative of the Pope, at the first meeting, attacked the Prime Minister, saying that Asdai was pushed to him by Governor Qibo, and that Governor Qibo needed to bear joint and several responsibility for this, he treated this matter as an attack on Governor Qibo. When the bullet was fired, Governor Qi held his nerve first.
After getting the interrogation information endorsed by the Forbidden Army from the Forbidden Army, which was completely consistent with what Gu Hang said, and the matter was confirmed, at the beginning of the second meeting, he took it out directly and smashed it. On the face of the state religion.
The state religion colluded with Asdai. It was the state religion who instructed Asdai to issue the despicable assassination order to Gu Hang, who was already a war hero and the commander-in-chief of the empire.
This issue has been discussed before. When Gu Hang was assassinated, Gallardo made a big fuss in the Supreme Council, and it was already determined that the order had not been discussed by the Supreme Council and the target was sensitive. The person who issued the order behind the scenes must be responsible and apologize.
I just didn't find out who it was.
Now take it out and the state religion suddenly becomes passive.
Then, the unexplained issues under Governor Qi Bo became the same dirty water at this time, pouring a basin on the head of the state religion. Did the state religion let it go, or even let it lead to Asdai's death? Was Dai corrupted?
It's a bit of a stretch, but at least the Prime Minister is pushing back on Asdai being the Prime Minister's man, so the Prime Minister is responsible.
Well, now that Asdai is both Prime Minister and Pope, everyone has to bear the blame together.
If we further investigate the matter of assassinating Gu Hang, will the National Religion have to go one step further and give some explanation?
The interrogation results given by the Forbidden Army even showed the purpose of the state religion's order to assassinate Gu Hang: they knew that the probability of success was very low, but what they wanted was to use an unsuccessful assassination order to drive a wedge between Gu Hang and the central government of the empire.
According to Qi Bodu, the nature of this matter was "an extremely heinous crime" and it was a terrible conspiracy that disregarded the overall interests of the empire.
The state religion is quite embarrassed and cannot stand up to the verbal attacks.
In this matter, it is impossible for other factions to speak for the state religion.
Qi Bodu has defeated the state religion in this wave. If you share the benefits this time, you, the state religion, can't even think about dividing it up, and you have to spit out some of it.
In the end, the Ecclesiarchy handed over a cardinal as a price. These were all orders from this man. Unbeknownst to the Pope, this cardinal advocated without authorization and was probably corrupt.
The Inquisition went to do it.
The new cardinal may even be selected by the Tribunal, not necessarily by the state church itself.
The Inquisition has a very good relationship with the State Religion, and the State Religion can barely accept it; if the Inquisition Tribunal takes this benefit, it will have to take less, or even none, from the interests of the Star-Eating Universe.
A cardinal is no worse than the head of the star field in the Galaxing universe.
The Inquisition and the State Religion were dealt with through a combination of suppression and elimination.
Logically speaking, the rest is easy to handle.
Give the Court of Assassins more funding and symbolically release the political authority of some agents to them; get some orders for Mars; and Su Lie, who is now the representative of the Space Marines, submitted a series of budgets for rebuilding the Phoenix Chapter, which were originally stuck. Those are all approved, and by the way, we will expand a few more battle groups, including more Phoenix sub-groups. After all, the Phoenix lineage suffered serious losses in the Iron Armor War...
With such a set, it should be almost normal.
Most of the benefits of the Swallowing Universe Domain were taken back, including the two highest positions.
As for the interests within your own faction, it will be much easier to redistribute them internally.
Qi Bodu was even thinking about how to divide the internal divisions so that he could better unite his faction or attract more forces into his faction.
However, unexpectedly, new changes suddenly occurred during this second meeting.
Mars, who usually kept a low profile and didn't make much noise unless he was involved, suddenly showed up.
They strongly opposed every new high lord and chairman of Galactus proposed by Qi Bodu, and attacked many internal high-level personnel transfers that needed to be discussed in the Supreme Council!
(End of chapter)