Start with Planetary Governor - Chapter 754

After the death of the Sun Lord, Qi Bodu gradually centralized power and is now the de facto prime minister of the empire.

In the history of the empire, there are not many such prime ministers. It is not easy for a centralizer to appear in the power structure of the empire. There have been many times in history, but on the scale of 10,000 years, it is not long in general.

Usually, the prime minister can control more or less government departments. The four prime ministers are theoretically his subordinates, but often powerful departments, especially the military and legal departments, are often out of the control of the prime minister. A strong prime minister can often pose a great challenge to the prime minister’s authority.

This is just the situation of the imperial government. Most prime ministers in history may not be able to completely deal with it, not to mention that there are many high-ranking chairmen outside the government departments, each of which represents a strong independent political faction.

Even some prime ministers have become completely a decoration, and in turn, they are regarded as mascots in their positions by some powerful departments in the government. It is not uncommon.

It is not easy for Qi Bo Du to reach this point.

At present, he has basically gathered the power of the imperial government. Not to mention the four prime ministerial departments, he also controls the two major military departments, such as the Imperial Navy and the Imperial Star Army.

These alone have seven of the thirteen high-ranking chairmen.

In addition, with Yasdai, who was supported by him, there are eight seats.

It is already an absolute majority in the Supreme Council.

Not to mention that other high lords, even Mars, the State Church, the Inquisition, the Assassin’s Court, etc., must be respectful to Qi Bo Du under the current situation.

It is not an exaggeration to say that he is a rare centralized prime minister.

However, in the political situation of the empire, even if you reach the position of the Sun Lord, there are no shortage of challengers, let alone Qi Bo Du.

Once a faction is large, it will divide itself into new factions due to interests and positions. This is inevitable and the most important thing for Qi Bo Du to deal with.

The debate on whether the alliance should continue to exist is here.

Outside of his own faction, Mars has always been independent and strong, and its internal environment is relatively closed, making it difficult to get involved; the Inquisition has many mysterious internal affairs, and although it is not very obedient, it will still go to the front when there is something to do, and it will not challenge Qi Bodu’s authority.

Qi Bodu treated these two families with courtesy for the time being.

But only the State Church, they are the biggest challenge to Qi Bodu.

Of course, it is said to be the biggest, in fact, the difference in strength between the two sides in the imperial political arena is still quite large. It’s just that there are many contradictions, and the State Church’s small actions in private are quite frequent.

To be honest, the State Church is not an easy target to deal with. After being weakened by some historical factors, the strength of the State Church has long been far inferior to the period when the Pope could also serve as the Prime Minister of the Empire.

However, this does not prevent them from being the spiritual supreme rulers of most people in the empire today.

His Holiness the Pope has been in the religious world “Minstoria” all year round, but he also often comes to Holy Terra. Every time he comes, it always attracts thousands of people.

Speaking of which, the state religion does not seem to have direct control over any specific power. However, no one can underestimate them. They do not collect taxes directly, but from the dignitaries to the common people, they are willing to donate money to the state religion; the various legions, who may be archbishops and bishops, will follow the clergy to kill the rebels with a call for a holy war.

The state religion also has very close cooperation with the major inquisitions. A large number of combat nuns obey the orders of the two families at the same time.

Qi Bodu and the current Pope, Innocent XVIII, do not have a good relationship. They have had many conflicts in the High Lords’ Council. The imperial government is also very dissatisfied with the state religion’s so-called “holy wars” launched by the legions and local princes.

There has never been a lack of open and covert struggles on both sides.

However, Qi Bodu did not expect that the extent of the state religion’s actions would be so shocking.

At the same time, he was a little confused.

So what is the situation of Yasdai now? Was he corrupted by the aliens, or was he lured by the state religion?

These two pieces of information are very contradictory.

According to the information obtained by Gu Hang during the interrogation, these two things seem to exist at the same time.

The Dark Eldar are quite active in the Devouring Star Universe. Their high-level spies have been infiltrating the Universe government on a large scale with great success.

The leader is the top family of the Dark Eldar – Blood Curse.

The one who was arrested by the Alliance in the Spider Web Universe belongs to the same family.

Gu Hang still remembers that they have a long-term goal – to besiege and harass the Infinite War Group.

As for Yasdai being lured by the state religion, this happened in a more recent period of time. It is not too exposed – the state religion also has some special mysterious means, and the Dark Eldar did not interfere in this process. Yasdai accepted the luring of the state religion, and according to the state religion’s intentions, issued an order to assassinate Gu Hang to the Assassin Court.

What is the purpose?

It was not reflected in the interrogation results, but Gu Hang could roughly guess it, and told Qi Bodu about it with exaggeration.

The core purpose of their doing this is to create a rift between the Alliance and the Imperial Center.

They clearly know that this assassination will not succeed.

The Assassin Court is not stupid.

Even if the Assassin’s Court did the work, it might not be able to really assassinate.

But as long as this matter is exposed, there will be several effects.

First, will Gu Hang distrust the Imperial Central Government? After the assassination, would he dare to come to Holy Terra alone after receiving the order from the Imperial Central Government?

Second, the assassination was at the Supreme Council at the time, and after Gallardo made a big fuss, the “Alliance Plan”, which was not very bright to begin with, was even more overshadowed.

Third, as long as the mastermind of the assassination is not exposed, the mystery of who this person is will always exist. Among them, Luo Fei is the most suspected, which is analyzed from the perspective of motivation. Even if there is no evidence, Gallardo has used this matter to make sarcastic remarks at the Supreme Council, which will cause internal rifts in Qi Bodu’s political faction.

Some of these purposes have worked, and some are useless.

Especially when Gu Hang came to Holy Terra in person and strongly promoted the “Alliance Plan”, many problems were solved.

But what about it?

The cost of doing something for the State Church and Asdai is not high.

The Assassin’s Court would not betray them due to their own duties and the traditions on which they depend for survival.

As long as they do not have any problems here and the news does not leak out, there is almost no cost.

However, something happened.

The State Church may not know that Asdai, whom they have won over, or Yu Jinwen, Asdai’s confidant, has been secretly controlled by the Dark Eldar.

What is even more incredible is how did the great sage Cawl of the Mechanicus know about this?

Gu Hang was also very curious.

But when he told Gu Hang the news, and Gu Hang took action personally and exposed the whole incident to the light, the State Church’s biggest trouble came.

It was originally just a small trick, but since they dared to do it, they had to be prepared to cause a huge wave after it was exposed.

Has the State Church made such preparations?

That has nothing to do with Gu Hang.

In fact, Gu Hang does not care that much about the struggle between the Pope and the Prime Minister.

He now regards himself as the Prime Minister’s disciple, saying all day long that he follows Qi Bodu’s lead, but it’s pure deception.

However, you can fight, but don’t use me as a tool for the struggle.

Whoever involves me, I will fight him!

This is Gu Hang’s first and biggest target.

He is already very strong, but the alliance he represents is not strong enough on the big stage of the entire empire. When he is weak, it is necessary to show that he is not easy to mess with.

Acting too weak is not low-key, but trouble.

If you don’t fight back once, there will be no one who wants to use the alliance as a handy tool.

You must hurt people!

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Chop off your hand if you reach out!

And the goals other than the first time can actually be regarded as follow-up things.

Yasdai’s resignation is inevitable. Even Gu Hang, who controls the Spider Web Universe and is a neighbor of the Devouring Star Universe, has to raise some war preparedness alerts to prevent Asdai from jumping off the wall.

Gu Hang estimated that he could not jump.

If he only flirts with the state religion, there may be some risks, but the main battlefield is probably still the exchange of interests in the political arena. If Innocent XVIII is determined to protect him, it will be difficult to keep the position of high lord, but he may be able to keep the position of chairman of the Universe.

In this case, Asdai still has the possibility of turning the table in the Devouring Star Universe, which will make Holy Terra cautious.

However, if the factor of the corruption of the Dark Eldar is added, it will not be possible to save it, and the ability to turn the table is also very low. Even if the Dark Eldar infiltrates the internal government of the Universe, as long as everyone from the army to the government to the grassroots people is not corrupt, it is almost impossible for the military and civilians of the Human Empire to arm themselves and start a war with the imperial officials under the leadership of the aliens.

In this regard, the parasitic infection of the Void Zerg and the soul corruption of the Chaos Cult are both very scary things. Once formed, they can really corrupt billions of people on an entire planet.

The Dark Eldar are more capable of secretly corrupting a single key figure, but they do not have such large-scale corruption methods.

The State Religion may fight with Qi Bo Du, but it will not help them deceive the military and civilians and launch a rebellion when the upper echelons of the Devouring Star Universe are corrupted.

Of course, it is difficult to say that things are so absolute. What if there are powerful senior officials among the corrupted officials who can fool the middle and lower levels, or even the general public, and follow them? What if there are also high-level corrupted people in the State Religion system of the Devouring Star Universe? What if…

The situation will be very complicated.

But fortunately, the Imperial Guard said that they would intervene directly. It is estimated that there will definitely be dozens of people going. Accompanying them are the soldiers of the Forbidden Palace Guard.

The so-called Forbidden Palace Guard refers to the mortal auxiliary army trained by the Imperial Guard itself. Although the Imperial Guards are powerful, they only have tens of thousands of people, and the scope they can control is limited. Fixed garrisons can only be done in key locations. The Imperial Palace is called a palace, but in fact it is a magnificent complex covering the largest and highest roof of the world plateau in Holy Terra. Ten thousand people can’t cover it all.

Just like the Space Marines also need auxiliary troops, the Imperial Guards also need them.

In summary, Gu Hang judged that Yasdai could not make a big wave.

The Alliance is well prepared for war just in case.

And if Yasdai stepped down, who will take over?

Gu Hang is actually more interested in the position of the chairman of the Star Devouring Universe, but he knows it is impossible.

Under the premise of preserving the alliance, letting him actually control the Spider Web Universe has already paid a huge political price and took a lot of effort to get it done. It is impossible to eat the Star Devouring Universe again.

So, let’s settle for the second best.

If you can’t get the real fat meat, you can eat the virtual one.

The seat of the high lord.

This is also difficult, but relatively speaking, it is not so impossible.

What’s more, there is the Mars sect.

Although, up to now, Gu Hang still has some concerns about Kaul’s prophecy and the price to be paid next. However, one is a long-term thing that may be good or bad, and the other is the meat in front of him in the near future, so let’s take a bite first.

Whether Mars really supports it or not, let them go, and you will not lose anything if you fight for it with a normal attitude and normal process.

Gu Hang didn’t plan to invest a lot of money in it, and the reason was obvious.

If it was a powerful and completely independent high-leadership position, it would certainly be of extraordinary value. It could directly influence the policies of the central government of the empire and bring many benefits to his alliance and the Spider Web Universe.

However, he estimated that even with the support of Mars, he would have to get Qi Bo Du’s nod. Otherwise, this matter would become a hard fight between Mars and the Prime Minister’s faction.

After all, the previous Asdai, who held this position, belonged to Qi Bo Du’s faction.

Mars is fierce, but it is too difficult to snatch a high-leadership position from Qi Bo Du in the Supreme Council.

Even if it succeeds, Gu Hang will be firmly marked with the mark of the Mars sect.

This is what Gu Hang is not willing to see.

Mars is too far away, and too isolated in the political environment of the empire, and can give too little.

Qi Bo Du still has to nod.

But will he nod?

…

“Do you want to run for the high lord?” Qi Bodu, who was deep in thought, was suddenly awakened by Gu Hang’s voice.

He was immediately amused, and even the gloomy mood of Yasdai being lured by the state religion and corrupted by the dark elves was dispelled.

It was as if Gu Hang told him a very funny joke.

Yasdai must go down, and the next question is who will replace him, that’s right.

However, Qi Bodu would not think of Gu Hang even if he thought of a hundred people for this candidate.

The reason is very simple, Gu Hang is not his own.