Chapter 593 Leman Russ’s views on Wang Ming
The reconstruction work of this world is ongoing. Huge buildings are rising from the ground. Wang Ming looks at those buildings rising from the ground. They are all the work of the First Engineer Regiment. To be honest, the construction capabilities of the First Engineer Regiment have been reduced for a while after Xu Zheng left, but the development in recent years has brought these capabilities back.
Wang Ming is still very concerned about this change in the First Engineer Regiment. After all, the First Engineer Regiment is already an important part of the 21st Army Corps. The technological creations of the First Engineer Regiment have already It is an existence that can replace Mars. Except that their production capacity is not enough to replace the Mechanicus, other things can completely replace the Mechanicus. Even in terms of some technological creations, they are of better quality than the Mechanicus.
To be honest, Wang Ming actually has a plan to have the First Engineer Regiment replace the Mechanicus. However, given the current expansion of the Mechanicus throughout the galaxy and its importance to the empire, it is still There were some political considerations, so this plan was dropped. However, Wang Ming never stopped restraining the Mechanicus.
After all, he doesn’t want to see these guys completely degenerate. Today’s Mechanicus no longer has the enterprising spirit of the Great Expedition era. Between the archeology of those technologies and the infinite conservatism of technology, In my heart, the general situation of the entire Mechanicus today is that the ancestral laws are immutable. It is more uncomfortable for them to come up with something new than to kill them. Even Caul has been manipulated by these Mechanicus in some aspects. What fundamentalists call heresy exists.
"So, what do you want to transform this world into?"
Leman Russ looked at Wang Ming. He asked Wang Ming about his plan to transform this world. This world is a rare nest. Compared with other hive worlds that are like death worlds, the ecological environment of this world is very well preserved. I don’t know if the colonists did it intentionally. The forests and mountains of this world have been destroyed. It is very well preserved and the local ecology has hardly changed.
The human nest is located in the forest of this world, just like the man-made objects that suddenly appear in this forest, although they have existed in this forest for a long time. No matter how many years have passed, they still seem out of place compared to the surrounding natural environment.
“I want to transform this world into a fortress world, so that humans on this world do not have to worry about threats from the outside, and at the same time, I want to establish a strong planetary government on this world. , so that there is no ground for rebellions like the previous ones to occur."
Wang Ming turned to look at Leman Russ, and he told him his vision of the world. In fact, every time. A world conquered by the 21st Legion is like this, because as time travelers, they know why those planets rebelled. The pollution of Chaos is a large part of it, but the other large part is the local people's livelihood. The problem is that the imperial aristocrats are notorious for being imbecile, plundering the people for their wealth, and even treating the common people as a group of consumables that can be wasted.
Some worlds even treat civilians as commodities that can be traded. These things are not what Wang Ming wants to see, and it is because of these things that Chaos has the possibility to corrupt the entire world, because as the cornerstone of this world The civilian population is the most susceptible to corruption, and the corruption of something often starts from the most basic place.
That’s why Wang Ming is unwilling to play so-called political games with the high-ranking officials of the empire. He has only one approach to those high-ranking officials, and that is to kill all the disobedient ones. The high lords have now changed. Another crop, just like leeks. Anyway, the most indispensable thing in the empire is people. If you don’t do it, people will do it.
"Then, how are you going to deal with the imperial nobles of this world?"
Leman Russ looked at Wang Ming. He had already heard what Wang Ming meant. The corner of his mouth curled up a little, and then he asked Wang Ming about the solution to the nobles of this world. The biggest reason for the rebellion in this world was because of the inappropriate behavior of those nobles. Originally, this world used local unique tithes for the empire. A large number of the local population are basically lumberjacks, and the way the planetary government collects taxes is to purchase these timbers that have a certain role for the empire from lumberjacks at low prices, and then tithe them One batch is turned over, and the rest is a share of trade with other worlds.
This situation is actually very stable, but I don’t know one day when the nobles in this world suddenly decide that they will lower the purchase price again, from one person’s ration to half Personal rations, yes, purchases in this world are not carried out using traditional currencies, but using rations. Although the ecological environment of this world is extremely beautiful, the purely natural plants in this world... , as we have said before, the plants in this world are all aggressive to a certain extent.
Their aggression is not only on the physical level, but also the toxins in their bodies. After countless years of evolution, the creatures in this world have been able to filter out those toxins, but the humans in this world cannot. Toxins are still very deadly after being absorbed by humans, so it is ironic that a world with such a beautiful ecological environment needs to import its food from other worlds.
Of course, food has become the common currency of this world, and the behavior of the nobles in this world undoubtedly forced the local civilians to rebel. After all, at the purchase price of those nobles , I don’t know how many people have starved to death this year.
"Just clean up all the nobles in this world. I will re-establish a planetary government. There is no need to keep the local dross. Moreover, there are clearly areas in this world that can be developed into agriculture. The nobles in this world don’t contact the Mechanicus to do these things. I probably know what they think.”
Wang Ming looked at Leman Russ and raised the corners of his mouth, and he also smiled at him. said.
Wang Ming knows what the nobles in this world are thinking. They are just squeezing the common people and exchanging more value from the common people at the lowest price. This kind of thing is considered a very common thing in the empire. Wang Ming once saw the explanation of the rebellion by the nobles of this world. When Wang Ming asked them why they lowered the price of timber purchase, they actually told Wang Ming that it was because of the instability of the subspace routes. They obtained it from the stars. There was too little food, so the purchase price was reduced.
After Wang Ming heard this explanation, he almost laughed angrily. These damn insects still don’t know that the empire’s trade no longer requires subspace channels. Now the empire The widely used navigation modes are all sailing in the galaxy through the webway, which has nothing to do with subspace channels. These guys don't know the changes in the empire at all, and they are still telling lies with their eyes open, and even trying to deceive. A Primarch.
"My brother, I have heard about what you did in Terra, and I like your methods very much."
Leman Russ looked at Wang Ming. He put his arm around Wang Ming's shoulders, then smiled at Wang Ming and said that when he saw the changes in the empire, he was almost crazy about his popularity. At that time, he wanted to tear Guilliman to pieces, an Aspen. The Tate Sacred Code almost caused the entire empire to lose half of its military strength. This kind of thing is something that even their enemies cannot do.
Then what the hell was Guilliman writing? Today's empire's military system has been dismantled to pieces. Why was it Sanguinius who died instead of that guy?
However, after this rage, Leman Russ calmed down for a while, and then he began to analyze how many things had been changed in the Holy Code. Although he didn't want to admit it, the things Guilliman wrote had indeed put an end to the Empire's influence. The possibility of a large-scale civil war, but he also completely eliminated the empire's ability to conduct another Great Expedition, because according to the current military deployment of the empire, an expedition as grand as the Great Expedition can no longer be quickly reorganized.
After he read what Guilliman had written, he then looked at the revival expeditions and the empire's reform policies carried out by Wang Ming, which happened to make up for what Guilliman had written. Most of Ming's policies were to improve people's livelihood and the army, such as improving the empire's people's livelihood system, and then changing the empire's army composition to legions.
It’s just that these improvements are not a liberation of the Holy Code for those legions without original titles. Because of the traditions of each legion, the sub-legions separated from those legions have already Having formed some of their own culture, it is already difficult to get them to return to the embrace of the Legion, unless there is a original body operating within it.
Otherwise those sub-groups want to return to the parent group, or those parent groups want the sub-groups to return, these are very difficult things. After all, for each sub-group, they have formed their own The cultural system has been changed, and returning to the parent group is not something that can be done overnight. This also continues to implement the purpose of restricting the Astartes Legion in the Astartes Festival from the side.
Furthermore, Wang Ming was also very good at improving the empire's policies. He allowed a large number of bloated imperial departments to be cleaned up or transformed, and at the same time, all the conservatives in the empire were cleared out, and then the empire was upgraded on a large scale. At the same time, he even obtained technology from aliens such as the Eldar, the Webway, that could safely travel at faster than light speeds in the real universe without resorting to subspace.
This will greatly improve the entire empire, so he likes his new brother very much. At the same time, he also likes the technologies and weapons in his brother's hands very much, including the transformation technology of the New Astartes. It has been shared with various legions, but due to cost and technical problems, the transformation of the New Astartes has not been much. Now, Leman Russ has finally met Wang Ming, so of course he must start from Wang Ming I have some new Astartes transformation methods in my hands.
"My brother, if you have something to say, just say it, okay? That smile of yours..."
Wang Ming looked at the Leman Russ in front of him, with those two like-like eyes exposed from his mouth. He already had a premonition that this guy was definitely going to blackmail him again.
"Um..., my brother, look at the transformation surgery of the new Astartes, can you help me."
Leneman Russ smiled towards the king. Ming directly expressed his thoughts, while Wang Ming looked at him speechlessly, and then nodded helplessly towards him. He knew that Leman Russ wanted to get something else from his hand, alas, wasn't it? Transformation surgery for the New Astartes? At worst, we can just ask the biological priests of the fleet and the masters and apprentices in the medical area to work overtime. It's not a big problem.
And while Wang Ming and Leman Russ were talking, in the capital hive of this world, on the top of this hive, in the magnificent planetary governor's palace, now all the nobles of this world have Gathered here, they all talked about the changes in the world, the transformation of their world by the 21st Legion, and the policies that the 21st Legion told them about improving people's livelihood.
They all have a very strong resistance to these things. After all, the 21st Legion wants to cultivate fields in their world, which means that they have always monopolized the food supply. If it is broken, how can they continue to use food to coerce the civilians?
These guys are now talking about how to prevent these things from happening. They have even begun to plan a crazy plan, which is to disguise all their family private soldiers as a group of Bandits, and then let them use their family's treasured weapons that can equip an entire Astral Legion to directly attack the field being cultivated, so that their plan can be blocked for a while, and then use local political games to take advantage of it. Circling, let the 21st Legion stop the land reclamation of this world.
While they were talking in a hurry, they did not notice one thing, that is, in a shadow that they could not see, several people wearing black tactical power armor The Astartes were listening to them quietly. The weapons in their hands were ready at the nobles they were talking about. Now they only needed their team leader to contact Wang Ming to see if he would take action. , then all the nobles in this world will be wiped out by them in an instant, and the plans of those nobles will be completely put to rest.