Chapter 416, Corrupted Skaven Bureaucrats
There is nothing in this garbage dump. On the contrary, many Skaven live here.
The density of Ratmen in this garbage dump is very high. A lot of Ratmen live on this pile of garbage, like a group of maggots living in a dark manure pit.
To this day, this towering new holy city collapsed, as if the sky was falling, and it was like fire coming from heaven.
A twisted frame wrapped in flames fell from the sky, and a crack was torn open in the dark sky. The sun returned to this place, and the flames ignited, followed by the spread of another death.
He raised his head and stared at the dazzling sunlight. He lowered his head and saw flames rising from the piles of garbage. Black smoke, pungent stench, and the running rat-men poured out from the piles of garbage. It was the rat people who looked like cockroaches, running wildly in terror.
The flame burning in the garbage pile rose higher and higher in the endless fuel, and finally gave the final blow to the rat-man's new holy city that was gradually stabilizing.
Pushing this tragedy to its final climax.
It’s not that good things happened, such as the rat scavenger boy who huddled in the industrial area of the underground rat city.
He was able to witness the happening of this person, the falling flames, and the overturned city. Amidst the huge sound and the flames not far away, a huge beam fell down, as if It is like a bridge, a bridge leading to a new world.
The rat-man scavenger stared at all this with his mouth open, until he came to his senses in a daze. He seemed to have made some determination and ran towards the flaming bridge resolutely
If If he can be lucky enough to break through the flames, climb up the fallen metal beam, and break into the new holy city, even if it is a collapsed new holy city, then there is no doubt that his destiny will be changed.
Even though this towering city has fallen and is about to lose its value to the big guys, it can still become an opportunity that the humble guys can reach.
Everything that happened on Shenqi Star quickly spread throughout the entire Rat Man Empire, causing an uproar. Obviously, this was a major event, affecting all aspects.
In this turmoil, the most important point is the private fleet of the temple priests. These things that could not be put on the table in the past are now swaggering on the star port of God Qi Star. The words are arranged.
The tacit understanding was broken, and something began to become unbalanced.
This is an extremely dangerous omen. Skaven have already begun to bear the ripples caused by this storm. The first to bear the brunt is a group of logistics officers, because of a very simple reason.
At this time, among the many Skaven warships displayed in the Star Port of God's Qi City, many of them looked very familiar.
A severe investigation began.
Usually, such things are naturally insignificant. After all, there is no shortage of greedy guys in the Rat Man Empire, and there is no shortage of guys who are bold enough. In the repeated increases of the temple priests, not to mention just It would be stress-free to subcontract several Skaven warships that had been retired or were about to be retired, and even let them raise their butts and dance in front of these temple priests.
This battleship leak incident contains an extremely complete chain.
The Great Emperor's personal bodyguards have begun investigating the matter.
Fortress Star suddenly became agitated.
On the huge ring star port, in an extremely remote area, in a small office, a rather fat rat man collected everything in the office in fear.
This office is quite luxurious, with blood gold pendants, fur carpets, and carved walls. Each of these things requires the support of extremely huge wealth, but now, they are all displayed in a small In the caretaker's office at Little Star Harbor.
The rat people's star port is not just a port. In fact, the location of the star port is extremely critical. It can almost be regarded as a steel portal stuck at the node of that great passage.
All the rat warships that shuttle through the great passage and finally arrive at the fortress star will appear around the star port. All it takes is to set up some giant cannons on this cosmic port and station a powerful enough patrol. The fleet can easily hold one of the nodes of this great passage in its hands.
Of course, under normal circumstances, the warships arriving by jumping will not be destroyed at will. The rat warships arriving at the star port for the first time only need to choose to accept the care of the patrol fleet and complete the processing of the pass. , then you can travel smoothly through this star port.
As the two centers of the empire, the Fortress Star Port has to accept the visits of an uncountable number of rat ships every day, and the Fortress Star Port and the Divine Star Port do not have any garrison due to historical reasons. It is different to show off the huge power of the starry sky.
The Skaven’s first and second expeditionary fleets, the third expeditionary fleet under preparation, and the port patrol fleet that, coupled with the heavy firepower of the star port, can almost rival a main expeditionary fleet. .
Most of the rat empire's military forces are gathered here, and they are not afraid of sudden attacks.
If the attackers can completely defeat the Skaven fleet here, then they can almost completely destroy the Skaven Empire's offensive power.
The rest is very simple.
The Skaven will use endless ground troops to fight the enemies trying to land on the colonized planet, or they will simply be wiped out with anti-planet weapons.
The Rat Empire, which only has eight planets, is not considered a big empire in the universe. It only needs to be defeated once and it will be difficult to get up again.
Qi was particularly angry after learning about the chaos that occurred on the God Star. He had been preparing for the expedition for a long time. The two strange star fields would be the direction for the Rat people to explore. In his opinion, this path, It is not the future of the rat people, but continued development and exploration that is the most important thing. But now, when I look back, I see the rat priests pulling back.
For a moment, everything had to be suspended, and what made him even more unhappy was that the group of damn bed bugs not only started surging, but also stretched out their tentacles. Traces appeared under his nose unknowingly.
A general cleaning is about to begin, and it will be a thorough cleaning.
Gatekeeper, a transit registrar at the Fortress Star Port, what he has to do every day is very simple, which is to punch holes in the steaming computer with pieces of special paper tape. Then, record sheets are punched out one by one based on these holes, and these records are used to decide whether to issue a pass to the person in front of him.
A very simple job, it seems tedious but in fact all you have to do is to place the paper tape, punch holes, and then print the pass, and then repeat it like this. He has always felt that no matter who Everything can be done easily.
But what can he complain about? At least as a moderate imperial official, he can at least go to the mid-level rat bar in Starport to have a drink every day and listen to the music apprentice. Ratman music played hard.
It took him a long time to find this rat bar. It was far away from his workplace, but it was all worth it. Even the blood-red bad wine inside was at least better than other ones. The Rat Man Bar is twice as expensive. Damn it, the boss with his head cocked all the time really thinks he hasn't had a good drink.
A year ago, at the banquet held by the minister, he spent a full 20,000 blood gold coins in exchange for an invitation. The wine in it was said to be high-end wine shipped from the God Qi Star. goods. Although even after spending such a huge amount of blood gold coins, he still did not get promotion or appreciation.
But this one is still worth it. The important thing is style, which is a very important thing, although it makes him somewhat unable to make ends meet.
The bureaucracy established by Qijian is corrupting at an unimaginably fast rate. This is not surprising, after all, the rat people have always had obvious class barriers.
The new bureaucrats of the Skaven Empire learned this without reservation.
They flaunt style and style, and are keen on holding various salons and forming associations based on various interests.
This is not unusual. It is essentially the same as what the rat priests did in the barbaric era. In the past, the style of doing things was called meritorious deeds and achievements. As for the practice of forming cliques, it is even more No one is more enthusiastic than the group of rat priests.
They formed a group with the senior rat priest as the center, with the rat city as the center, with the two categories of big claw priest and rat priest, with the war they experienced, and with the common sacrificial ceremony. Hold together.
It can be said that the organizational structure of this group of guys is like an endless nesting of dolls, with large groups nesting within small groups, and small groups connecting with smaller groups.
A structure of disorder within order.
Essentially, it is no different from what the current group of rat-man bureaucrats are playing, and they even have to go a little more extreme. After all, in the era when rat-man priests ruled everything, conflicts arose between various groups. But it's not as particular as it is now.
There is also a dedicated salon for mediation or socializing.
At that time, the rat priests used physical means to solve these problems. Find a good time, find a good place, and then find a good opportunity to kill all the guys on the opposite side. In this way, All problems are solved.
All of these people, whether in the past or now, play the same role, that is, to set a threshold, in order to distinguish themselves from those despicable guys who make up the vast majority, and to distinguish themselves from the despicable guys who make up the majority. Separate the young guys who are just coming into the area.
The gatekeeper maintains such a style, so it is possible that other bureaucratic circles are willing to accept it. This is a ticket. Only when you have it can you climb up better.
Of course, has the gatekeeper been appreciated? No, these are just tickets. Whether it will work or not depends on the intentions of the big shots above.
This may be the reason why the former rat priests and the current rat bureaucrats are fond of this kind of gameplay. After all, the right of interpretation belongs to themselves.
No matter to what extent, the gatekeeper is extremely mediocre, which is not surprising, but he also has something that makes him proud.
He is a rat man who adheres to the concept of total parenting. He has a total of five rat children. These five rat children were raised by him one by one. Although in the end, only one could inherit his name, he Wouldn't give up on the other four.
If he is smart, he will send him to a rat school; if he is not smart, he will give him an adult fund after he becomes an adult.
It is not an easy task to raise these children one by one.
But he was quite proud.
It’s just that after maintaining the style again and again, the blood gold coins in my hand became exhausted.
Occasionally, he will collect some blood gold coins that are not very visible, and some guys who transport gray items will give him a sum of money to seek faster approval.
But such things are just a small matter. After all, the guys who can get involved in these gray businesses are never irregular guys. On the contrary, only the largest and most formal chambers of commerce. It’s the ability to dabble in these things.
Life became increasingly difficult, especially when another gifted child appeared among his five children.
The situation changed a year ago. One night, he received a sum of blood gold coins neatly packed in a box, and what he had to do was also very simple, that is, issue a pass regardless of .
He needed such a blood gold coin very much at that time.
From that day on, his life changed dramatically.
The wanton squandering of money, all kinds of things that were unimaginable before, the most upscale salon, the blood gold coins wantonly squandered in the casino.
In just one year, his life has undergone tremendous changes. It turns out that the rat people are indeed not a race that is good at resisting temptation.
Abandoned his wife, played and drank every night, bought real estate, and smoked that special blue mushroom powder.
Absurd things happen one after another. All you have to do is show your passes without any scruples.
Of course, unwarranted gifts have already been secretly marked with a price.
He was a part of the battleship leak incident, and he was also the white glove that was carefully prepared. From the beginning to the end, he had never seen the master who sent money to him, and he didn’t know who he was. Where did the randomly stamped passes go?
An excellent scapegoat.
Until all this happened, the great emperor was furious. He felt something was wrong. After all, he was also a smart guy who once studied at the Imperial Military Academy. He wanted to escape, but unfortunately, he was the perfect scapegoat. Can't really be run away.
Wearing black half-covered combat attire and holding electric energy clubs in their hands, the Starport Patrol rushed into this office.
Soon after, the overweight ratman struggled in extreme panic and was loaded onto the patrol ship, along with all kinds of luxurious items found in his office, the access list, and the large box of Box of blood gold coins.
(End of this chapter)