Chapter 1985 Heinous Crime
For the state religion, the relics of saints are very important, because they can not only attract more believers and believers, increase their influence, but even serve as a basis for opening new dioceses and connecting with Thailand when necessary. Use it as a bargaining chip in negotiations with the State Education Headquarters.
In fact, the State Church of the Maelstrom has also been working hard to recover a large number of holy relics lost during the Badab War. However, since the Badab sector soon became a pirate home, many holy relics either fell into the hands of pirates. , either fell into the hands of the red pirates, or were still buried in the ruins.
"Lord Soshyan, you."
However, after being excited, Saint Dalton, as a person, immediately realized that the other party would not say these things without reason, and there must be something in them. reason.
Sure enough, Soshyan sighed, shook his head and said:
“But several religious groups from the Extreme Star Territory and the Sun Star Territory have arrived in the Badab sector in advance, and they hope to recover those The holy relics and the remains of the saints were reburied.”
“Sir, that belongs to this diocese.”
“Ah, is there such a thing? Isn’t it the state religion? , Patriarch, I am not a professional religious person, I thought it would be enough to leave it to the state church."
Looking at Soshyan's innocent look, Saint Dalton knew very well that this was probably not the case. True, but if you don’t do something, it will come true soon.
After all, the sale of sacred objects is legal in the empire, and he can't say anything even if he does sell himself.
At this point, there is no need to say any more polite words.
“In order to prove this diocese’s eternal loyalty and piety to the emperor, we will open the door to relief, and part of the national church’s holy treasury and salvation treasury will be directly handed over to you for disposal, how about it?”
Soshiyang immediately clapped his hands and said with a smile:
"Okay, okay, okay! Patriarch St. Dalton understands justice well and is worthy of being the most devout servant of the emperor. Even I feel ashamed. I immediately ordered that all the sacred relics and relics of the state religion collected in the war zone must be returned to the Guardian Star of the Holy Relics as soon as possible to show the love and protection of the state religion to all living beings in the empire."
Although he said this, Soshyan became even more fed up with all this. The so-called "faith" turned out to be a business in the end.
What should he say?
What can he say?
Then Soshyan looked at the person in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
“Please respond to this matter as soon as possible and distribute supplies to the most severely affected areas nearby.”
"Yes!"
"Next, Reza's factory ship will arrive at the Maelstrom soon. They will provide additional energy supply. I hope that all hive facilities will recover quickly, but priority must be given Restoring the food processing plant will at least ensure that everyone can take a bite of synthetic protein powder, and increase the supply of medicines and daily necessities. Of course, I also consider that every hive city and world has its own real difficulties, and it depends entirely on local organizations. Self-rescue is indeed unrealistic. At present, the Badab sector has been basically recovered, and the habitable worlds there have basically been cleaned up. In addition, many destroyed worlds in Endymion also need to be rebuilt. The Ministry of Interior should organize and coordinate immigration as soon as possible. In order to solve the problem, some immigrants will be transferred from the world with tight resources to the new world or the world that has been damaged by war, and the new immigrants will be provided with the necessities of life through work-for-work relief. "
This is what Soshyan can think of. The most realistic way is to reduce the resource pressure on the hive city through immigration, and at the same time reduce the possibility and intensity of riots and disturbances. Even if the population is dispersed, it will not be so troublesome, and the rulers of the hive city don't care much about the bottom line. How many people are there in the nest and the lower nest? Anyway, with the fertility rate of the empire, the nest city will soon be overcrowded again.
But this will also have a problem, that is, the taxation and military recruitment of the nest city will be temporarily affected, and Soshyan has decided not to increase the number of troops. After obtaining part of the resources of the state religion, he only needs to maintain Lower taxes than before would allow the war to continue.
What’s more important is that he doesn’t intend to quarrel with the Red Pirates any longer.
"Lord Soshiyan, there is one more thing."
Rory Figueiredo dropped another bombshell at this time. "Regarding the follow-up investigation of the Hoyland family, the Ministry of Justice has confirmed that many chambers of commerce and nobles have had illegal trade with them in the past. Can a large-scale manhunt be conducted? Due to the current shortage of manpower in the Ministry of Justice, I hope that Apply for the assistance of some armed forces."
Soshiyang frowned slightly. He had previously pardoned people related to the Hoyland family, but he did not take into account his previous relationship with the family. The Chamber of Commerce and the local nobles, who had a lot of business dealings with each other, did not expect that the Ministry of Justice had begun to take action on their own.
As part of a huge and corrupt bureaucracy, at least the legal department of the Maelstrom is relatively clean and efficient, but what Soshyan needs now is stability, and setting off a big prison is obviously contrary to this direction.
Most of the people present also showed a certain degree of uneasiness because of the legal marshal's heavy blow again.
"Approximately how many people are involved?"
"According to the statistics of evidence from all parties currently seized, there are more than 100 million people involved in the case, and they are all major criminals, those who were coerced and low-level Personnel are not included.”
“Ah, so many?”
“How many people are going to be arrested?”
"Will there be many unjust, false and wrong cases?"
As soon as the Legal Marshal's words came out, there was a lot of discussion around him, and even the Patriarch of St. Dalton looked worried.
Soshiyang thought for a moment and said:
“Let’s stop this matter for the time being. The Ministry of Justice can focus on rectifying the local order first.”
“Commander-in-Chief Officer! This matter cannot be delayed. Once it is delayed for a long time, those violators will find ways to destroy evidence, transfer property, or even hide, and it will be difficult to investigate and arrest them again!"
Rory Figueiredo's words were already a little angry. Apparently, Soshiyan's previous "lenient approach" to corrupt elements had made him dissatisfied.
"Sir, I'm afraid you don't know what a sinful transaction those people are involved in! Not only do they collaborate with the Hoyland family to traffic humans, they take many children from the bottom of the nest away from their parents and send them to I don’t know where, but there are even crazy people kidnapping children on the street!”
In fact, this Soshyan knows that the Hoyland family has been providing Huron with healthy school-age children to satisfy Chaos! The death rate of the new recruits of the Space Marines was astonishingly high. After all, the Chaos corruption in the area occupied by the Red Pirates was relatively serious, and it was not easy to find children who were not contaminated.
". Not only that, some drug dealers under the name of the Hoyland family also sold all kinds of extremely dangerous heretical illegal drugs to the hive! How many people died because of this! There was also Lunt who was wiped out before After our investigation, we found out that their evil 'nectar' manufacturing process comes from the Hoyland family! They even use human bodies to make evil life-extending drugs! How many masterminds are behind the scenes to protect them! How many high-ranking adults turn a blind eye! If we can’t get to the bottom of it and bring these bastards to justice, how can we ask for endless taxes from the citizens of the empire?”
Soshiyang? At this time, his back was turned, and no one could see his expression, but at least his silent attitude showed everything.
So someone immediately understood and said:
"It's enough to capture a group of ringleaders as punishment. Wasn't the Hoylander family almost killed by the aliens? They deserved it."
Hearing the words of Bornhard Morales, Rory Figueiredo turned around, his eyes seemed to be able to spit out fire.
“The Hoyland family is just acquirers and resellers, but shouldn’t those who really create evil be punished? How big is this web of evil? I think Mr. Bornhard is more powerful than Everyone knows it! It has enveloped the entire Maelstrom area for five hundred years! Even those priest families still teach-"
"Heresy!"
(End of this chapter)