Chapter 388, After the war, the contradictions in the Rat Empire
The Rat Empire entered a stage of rapid development.
After this war.
Resource cities were built one after another.
More and more prosperous, more and more prosperous.
The exploration of the sky is launched together.
In rounds of negotiations, the rat assassins got what they wanted, and the rat people also started their own attempts.
This is not a good phenomenon.
In order to cooperate with the war, the rat assassins also expanded their size.
But this also made them less independent after the war.
This is inevitable, and rat assassins also need a variety of resources.
Just no longer being independent means having a bias. Having a bias is undoubtedly a dangerous thing, especially for these rat assassins hiding in the shadows.
But unfortunately, no one in the Skaven Empire can prevent the Skaven Assassins from deviating from that impartial state.
Until now, Sheng Qi’s integration of the Rat Empire is still so far away.
You can't help but acknowledge his efforts.
In the mediation, Sheng Qi has actually accomplished a lot.
Redistribution of Blood Mushrooms in the Original Temple.
Draw the Big Claw Priest closer to him.
Relying on the black water, he rebuilt a private army of his own in the sewers of the underground rat city.
Mediating in the divided Western Fleet, and still maintaining his right as the commander of the Western Fleet.
Hold the Gear Sect and those ocean ports in your own hands.
He has done a lot, but it is still not enough.
How can I put it, everything seems to be back to where it started.
He went from a rat warlord with real power to a rat high priest with only a name, and now, he has become a rat high priest with the power of a rat warlord.
Over the years, everything has gone round and round, as if it has returned to the starting point again.
And he also noticed something even more terrifying.
The short hair on his body, the thick short hair, they are losing their luster and even starting to fall off.
No, he has not accomplished anything yet, only accomplished a little. He has not yet become the guy in memory, he is still far inferior to him.
It’s just that time fell on him fairly.
In panic, he pushed forward all the matters today, the meeting, all those things.
Sheng Qi summoned a group of guys, those guys from the distortion school.
Not because of anything else, just because these guys claim that they can create things that can increase life span.
After today, the newly established school of distortion has one more supporter.
In fact, Sheng Qi is not the only one betting on these crazy guys.
Many people have put their chips on them.
All of them are important figures in the rat-man empire.
It’s not surprising, after all, the life span of rat people is not long, and these big shots despise their short lives.
The pursuit of a longer life is a normal thing.
Of course, besides relying on these unreliable guys, there is another way, a way to extend your life, and that way is not illusory, because it has actually happened. .
That is the gift of God.
If the gods give you a gift, then you will naturally be able to live longer.
It's a pity that even though the gods just gave a revelation not long ago, they are not already confident that they can obtain such a gift.
Sheng Qi is no exception.
Although since that encounter on the sea, he felt that he had also received divine grace. On the day he took office as the Ratman High Priest, he felt that he had received divine enlightenment.
But in this matter, he also has no confidence.
Does he believe in gods? Does he believe in that great God? He probably does, but does he have the absolute confidence to obtain the gift from that god?
That’s not necessarily the case.
Believe it, but not believe it that way.
Everyone is fighting with each other in this increasingly complex power structure.
Use a show-like mode to show your contribution to the gods.
So naturally, it became like this, believing, but not believing in that way.
"In the grand sacrifice not long ago, the great gods did not lose any gifts."
After doing all this, Sheng Qi began to mutter to himself, Seems a little uneasy.
The reason why you are so uneasy is that everyone knows it.
What those guys from the deformed faction want to do, what they are doing, is not that upright, or it absolutely cannot be brought to light.
Their research may be somewhat blasphemous.
This is why Sheng Qi is speculating and uneasy at this time, and also why Sheng Qi is murmuring in a low voice.
But there is no way.
He also has many guys who can be called big shots in the Rat Man Empire.
They want to live.
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The Ratmen's exploration of the starry sky has just begun, and it is inevitable that it is a bit rough.
Based on the complex drawing that was like a heavenly book, Gray Stone began his own exploration.
It’s just that it’s not easy, and Gray Stone didn’t have a clue for a long time.
But fortunately, in that pile of complicated information, there is not only one feasible way, compared to this complicated magic engine that is like a heavenly book.
But it is another kind of appetite for rat people.
That is a solution that relies on flames and explosions to provide kinetic energy.
The Big Claw priests quickly produced the first batch of test products.
A long tube is filled with various flammable substances and then ignited, followed by a booming explosion.
Well, the first experiment was not very successful. Even the Great Claw Priest who participated in the first experiment did not survive much.
Of course, this is just a minor setback, and they will not give up so simply.
After all, the blue Soul Moon is still hanging high in the sky, and the Death Comet will still streak across the sky at a fixed time.
Just how to say it. Their journey to the starry sky will have many twists and turns, or in other words, a lot of twists and turns.
The task is long and the road ahead is long.
The second experiment with the rocket by the Skaven was still not that successful, and even caused an even more exaggerated explosion.
Another group of big-clawed priests were sent to the sky.
The task is long and the road ahead is long.
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After the fall of the human empire, the rat people experienced peace without war for a long time.
But this is not a good thing. After all the resources, land, and huge sacrifices were consumed, chaos began to appear.
Obviously that huge piece of land has not been completely consumed, and technology and those super cities are also making continuous progress.
But the signs of chaos still reared their heads regardless.
Many questions popped up.
The rat warlords who lost the war, the huge rat army, the large and small rat mercenary groups formed during the war, and the sacrifices that gradually stagnated and became tight. , the terrorist industrial zone that gradually began to stagnate because of the loss of the war.
This twisted, deformed excess is simply inseparable from war.
As soon as the war came to a standstill, all kinds of problems, large and small, emerged, and they quickly became acute.
A huge number of idle troops, a large number of rat warlords who want to be kicked away after losing the war, but are difficult to get rid of.
A variety of super-standard rat-man mercenary groups.
There are also those huge industrial areas that began to shut down after losing orders.
These problems do not exist alone, but are intertwined with each other, creating a huge trouble.
Now it is no different than before. During the Rat War, the rat warlords owned their own land. Even if there was no war, they could stay in their own territory and sphere of influence until later. This right Just being deprived.
These guys have become completely needy beings.
Whether there is a war or not, you have to support them.
Now, these rat warlords and those rat mercenary groups are entrenched in the main continent, becoming a veritable bottomless abyss.
The rat lords really want to kick these guys away at this time.
And they are indeed doing so.
As for what those rat warriors would do in the face of such treatment, it seems that there is no need to have any more doubts.
Don’t believe in the Rat Man’s bottom line and so-called loyalty.
These guys can beat heretics and humans, and they have no problem beating rats.
If most of the high-level rat people's industries had not been swallowed up and dissipated by those super cities, attacking ordinary rat people cities would now become a worthless thing, and it would not even be possible to obtain enough killing food supplies. It's hard to say.
Even if these guys really rebel, as long as they. Once those steam trains are stopped, these rat warlords will probably not be able to break through the Scarlet Grassland without enough supplies
In such a situation, those big shots can still do it for the time being. Relax, more control belongs to them.
Otherwise, they may immediately prepare countermeasures.
It’s just that it’s best not to reach such a situation, otherwise the rebellious rat warlords may be able to free the main continent from the control of the rat empire in an instant. In this way, the rat warlords who have just finished the holy war will I am afraid that the Human Empire will immediately launch a counter-insurgency war of equally large scale.
And it’s not impossible that this exists.
What those rat lords did was really a bit wicked.
After the victory of the war, the backbone and elite of the huge army were transferred away, but the main group of rat warriors were left behind without hesitation.
No more resources are sent.
The huge Western Expeditionary Force was abandoned in this way.
Even the rat lords planned to stuff these lucky guys who had just emerged from the cruel war into mines one after another and sell them as slave rats at low prices.
This is just a hornet's nest.
Amidst the chaos, hunger, and fear of becoming slave rats, these rat men turned the area they were stationed into a chaotic quagmire in an instant.
Attack the newly established resource city, attack the passing steam trains, and rob various resources.
More than half of the rat warriors quickly degenerated into rebels, while the other half maintained their apparent sincerity.
This made the temple guards extremely dissatisfied, but the other rat warlords who were also left on the main continent directly chose to obey the suppression order.
They even began to actively promote chaos in this place.
The rat lords, this group of greedy vampires, shameless guys, disgusting rats, they really took it to the extreme to burn bridges across rivers.
This made all the rat warlords feel the sadness of the rabbit dying and the fox dying.
It also completely ignited this potentially explosive powder keg.
The rat warlords did not want their armies to be split up, and the rat warriors did not want to be reduced to slave rats after fighting this cruel war.
Discussions arise again and again in the Underground Rat City.
It is not easy to get these greedy vampires to give up the blood mushrooms in their hands.
In fact, these guys have already completed half of the disarmament process, because all the elites and commanders in the army have been transferred away by them on the condition of more generous rewards.
As for raising the huge rat warriors, this matter has become a complete loss for them.
They didn't care at all about the corruption of the main continent by the out-of-control rat warriors, and they were indifferent even when the temple guards threatened to open the Twin Fortresses.
It's normal, because they are not afraid of the out-of-control rat warriors coming back to bite them.
Although the number of these guys is so huge.
But so what, to suppress them, they only need to give out a huge amount of blood mushrooms, recruit enough rat mercenaries, and then bring back the elites who have just retreated from the battlefield. If you push it up, then all this can be done easily.
But if they choose to support these guys, then they will have to pay a huge amount of blood mushrooms every once in a while.
With simple calculations and a longer view, the blood mushrooms naturally helped the rat lords make their choice.
Until the temple guards said something lightly after facing these rogues.
"If you are not willing to accept it, then they will all belong to us."
Well, they are not willing to continue investing in blood mushrooms, they no longer need those despicable guys, So it was all handed over to those temple guards.
No! This is absolutely not allowed!
Just after thinking about this possibility, these greedy vampires quickly changed their minds.
It is important to save expenses, but this does not mean that they are willing to continue to allow the temple guards to expand.
After the rat priests once again began the unstoppable division, the temple guards have essentially become the largest force in the rat empire.
No matter the other guys, no matter what conflicts they have, except for the rat assassins, all other factions have reached the same consensus.
That is to suppress the temple guards.
During this meeting, the rat lords relaxed and were willing to give blood mushrooms to appease and maintain the stability of the rioters.
It also prevents the situation from going to the worst possibility.
(End of this chapter)