Chapter 2850 Reorganization of the Deacons


Chapter 2850 Reorganization of the Deacons

But the large number of remnants has brought huge hidden dangers. According to Deacon Libra, in addition to the cardinal world, the archdiocese has a total of 47 inhabited planets and 13 asteroids/space stations. There have been genestealer riots of varying sizes in 12 settlements, and they have not been resolved until now. Moreover, after the Tyranid invasion, the communications of the entire archdiocese were disrupted. Now there is chaos everywhere, and there is no power to suppress the genes. Stealer.

What followed the chaos was the suspension of production and transportation, which triggered the issue that Soshyan was most concerned about -

food.

As an industrially underdeveloped region, the main heavy industries of the Archdiocese are concentrated in the system where the Cardinal World is located, including the only shipyard, the only arsenal, the only promethium refinery, and the only large-scale civilian machinery manufacturing plant. Wait, maybe the large heavy industries in the entire archdiocese combined are not as many as one hive, and they are all managed by Griffin IV. There are only some scattered light industries in other galaxies, which also makes many worlds at a relatively low-tech level. , Fortunately, there are many livable worlds in the archdiocese, and the relatively dispersed population reduces the pressure on resources caused by concentration, but even so, most of the worlds are pastoral agricultural worlds.

The agricultural world of the archdiocese is quite different from the agricultural world in the general sense of the empire. Because of its backwardness, both mechanical capabilities and planting levels are relatively primitive. They are generally at the level of using simple tractors to cultivate land. Chemical fertilizers are mainly organic fertilizers and Some small fertilizer factories mainly produce single-product fertilizers, which do not have the terrifying production-increasing ability of compound fertilizers like those of the Adeptus Mechanicus. Most of the time, land area determines food output. In this case, the output cannot be too high. , part of it is consumed by the inhabitants of the planet themselves, part of it is taken away by the local landowners and nobles, and part of it is collected by the tithe to supply the religious world. There is little left that can really be used for reserves.

As for the empire’s more efficient food processing products, such as corpse starch, this is not a mainstream food source in the archdiocese. The reason is industry. First of all, corpse starch is very cheap for most people in the empire. thing, but its production is not cheap. As a by-product of promethium refining, it is directly linked to the refinery, but the archdiocese has a large promethium refinery, and those small promethium refineries have no reprocessing capabilities. It means that the entire archdiocese is essentially "depending on the weather".

So, what Soshyan was most worried about happened.

The food supply chain is already extremely fragile. After an agricultural world is devoured, the entire Archdiocese is immediately faced with the threat of famine. Even in the Cardinal World, news of the Tyranid invasion spread across the world. Food prices have soared by 30%, and now they have soared to 400% of their original levels!

This also made Soshyan realize that this war was completely different from the Maelstrom Expedition.

The Maelstrom is one of the most developed regions in the empire, and its trade is extremely prosperous. This saves him a lot of logistics and internal affairs. The main thing he does is actually resource allocation, but this place...

There is no way. , it’s come, all we can do is find a way to solve it.

Soshiyan immediately noticed keenly that the sudden increase in food in the cardinal world was not just a lack of food. The agricultural world was swallowed up not long ago. It should not have been fed back so quickly. It is not that the archdiocese has no reserves at all, that is, It is said that this is a purely man-made disaster, and someone wants to make war fortune.

This is simple. Generally, those who dare to engage in this kind of hoarding business are not ordinary people. Maybe the patriarch would not dare to move if he knew about it.

But the so-called powerful people are just a knife bug in his eyes. He can convict people, arrest people, and confiscate their homes. There is nothing that cannot be solved.

Of course, to solve the problem, we have to come from the source. Soshiyang has already understood that these deacons are the representatives of the interests of various powerful families. If you want to take action, you must first attack them. Soshiyang, in the name of "in-depth reporting" He had them detained on the spot and escorted all to the flagship, where someone would "review" them one by one to determine who among them could be used and who could not be used. Then he "requested" an edict from the Patriarch. Order, due to war needs, in addition to the original two deputy deacons of the senior deacon, an additional wartime deacon will be added to each department to increase efficiency. "Temporarily" they perform the duties of senior deacons, and these people are naturally the followers of the Holy Flame Order brought by Soshyan.

If you just airborne like this, of course there will be problems. After all, there are so many agencies and departments under the Deacon Corps, and there are nearly one million administrative personnel of all types. If you just airborne 24 people, they will be easily ignored. Soshyan equipped them all with knives - the War Steward can directly apply for the deployment of troops stationed in the Cardinal World, and has the power to punish and arrest someone under temporary war regulations.

This reflects the "benefits" of the weak military force of the priesthood. They are different from the ordinary nobles in the nest. They may only have a few servants and thugs on hand. They do not have a real private armed force. In the political environment of the empire, they have the moral high ground with the right to speak religiously, and only with the powerful weapon of excommunication can they make many violent institutions bow their heads, but the Astartes are one of the few that they have no ability to resist violence at all. Institution, because Astartes is already the commanding heights of the empire's religious system, and if it is higher, it must be a living saint or even the original body.

However, Soshyan's focus is still on the military, so the main leader of the deacons after the change will not be him, but a mysterious lady, and she will also be under the influence of powerful forces. With the support, he will eat away at the College of Cardinals bit by bit, and eventually completely control the two brains of the archdiocese, the College of Cardinals and the College of Deacons. Only in this way can Soshyan be guaranteed to have no worries during the battle.

In addition, in order to facilitate the mobilization of manpower and material resources in the war, Soshyan even moved the well-established promethium coin system in the Nessen galaxy. After all, the military coupons produced for the war during the last Maelstrom Expedition, After the expedition, everything was a mess. According to Sorge, it has not been cleaned up more than ten years after the war ended. Many people lost their money because of this incident. Soshyan has always felt guilty about this, so the economic foundation in this country is even more fragile. The archdiocese must be more cautious, so the already very mature promethium coin system is a good choice, and the factory ships supported by Zhao Akada and the large refineries in the system where the Cardinal World is located are also enough to support the operation of promethium coins. . In fact, in other areas, Soshyan might not dare to make such a bold move. After all, he knew very well that he was on the yellow list of the Heretic Tribunal. Those people would definitely be trying to track him down, and it was normal for him to do so. The Imperial Administrative District is "overcrowded" and has many forces, so be careful what you do.

Previous Details Next