Start with Planetary Governor - Chapter 756

The meeting where Gu Hang was waiting for the result was of course about Yasdai.

In fact, this was not the first meeting on this topic.

In the previous meeting, Yasdai had been stripped of his status as the High Lord of the Empire. At the same time, a delegation of envoys was sent, consisting of members from the Inquisition, the Imperial Government, and the State Religion, to hold him accountable and investigate. The accompanying personnel were all elite, including the Hunter Group of the Inquisition, the Stormtroopers drawn from the elite of the Star Army, and the Battle Sisters of the State Religion.

The total number of people exceeded 100,000.

This scale of force is definitely not enough to fight an interstellar war. However, looking at their personnel composition, we can also know that they are not going to fight, but a group of special operations teams.

The reason why this “small” scale operation requires 100,000 people is that the coverage area may be global or even many planets in a small-scale combat mode.

Then it must be of this scale.

If the situation in the Devouring Stars Universe is still good, and the local Imperial Navy and Astra Militarum can still obey orders; and the local troops can obey after receiving clear instructions from the Imperial Central Government, then sending these elite special forces should be enough.

It is nothing more than to deal with those corrupted, alien lurkers, senior officials, and traitors who are unwilling to surrender…

Of course, if the situation in the Devouring Stars Universe is really bad enough to cause a large-scale rebellion, and the local army has a big problem, then these 100,000 elites can also rely on their strong individual combat strength to ensure that certain areas on the planet do not fall and hold on to wait for support.

As for what support is… The Empire has ordered several surrounding universes to urgently draw troops and make preparations.

Even including six Space Marine regiments.

In a hurry, there is definitely no way to go all out. But with offensive arrows from multiple directions, there is no problem after all.

The Devouring Stars Universe is not so big that thousands of worlds will rebel, right?

The Iron Armor Rebellion is not that exaggerated.

The Devouring Stars Universe will not have a military center group that can quickly sweep the entire universe in one or two years like Iron Armor.

Iron Armor can do it with more than 20 battleships and aircraft carriers, plus tens of thousands of space warriors, what does the Devouring Stars Universe have?

In short, even if there is a risk of war in the Devouring Stars Universe, it should not be too large in scale.

What’s more, the core goal of this envoy group sent by the central government of the empire is to pacify the situation in the universe and reduce the risk of war as much as possible.

Although the imperial guards have gone there and even set off, the imperial guards belong to the imperial guards and the imperial officials belong to the imperial officials.

There are cases of high lords being corrupted in history – there are even many records. But the fact that there are many cases does not mean that such things are not serious.

When the imperial guards do things, they usually only do their own things – investigate the cause of the accident, punish the murderer behind the scenes, and deal with traitors.

After they are done, they come back.

But is it enough to deal with a powerful lord like the High Lord and the Chairman of the Universe, and to deal with the main culprit?

No, no, no, that’s just the beginning, there are still a lot of troubles to come.

The Imperial Guards don’t care, but the Empire does.

Moreover, there is another advantage to hurrying over now, that is, we can use the power of the Imperial Guards to do things.

If there is no team from the central government, the Imperial Guards will probably come back after doing their own things, and even if there is a rebellion in the local area, the Imperial Guards will probably not care.

But the central government has sent an envoy group, and the mission is highly related to the Imperial Guards. Under the soft and hard grinding, on-site requests for help, and on-site cooperation, the Imperial Guards are likely to be reluctant to stand by and watch.

It is said that this time the Imperial Guards will go with an entire Golden Spear Company.

One hundred Imperial Guards!

Space Marines have always felt that they are top fighters at the same level as the Imperial Guards. Everyone is an extraordinary human being, even if there is a gap, it can’t be too big, at least it can’t be a level away!

Isn’t there an example of Space Marines defeating the Imperial Guards in history!

The traitors won, the ones won in the duel…

However, the more this is emphasized, the more it proves that there is actually a very significant gap between the two.

According to Gu Hang’s estimation, the combat effectiveness of an ordinary Imperial Guard soldier can roughly win a company champion, but lose to a regiment champion.

It’s already very exaggerated!

This is just the strength of ordinary Imperial Guards!

There are also masters among the Imperial Guards relative to themselves. For example, those captains of the Golden Shield and Golden Spear who lead the company will surely win the general regiment champion. Even the top warriors like Martins and Salilius, who are almost at the level of the Emperor’s Chosen, can only say that they have a 60% chance of winning against the captain of the Imperial Guards.

Above the captain, there is the level of the Imperial Guards tribune.

The strength of the Imperial Guards Marshal Yan Xinzhen is even more unfathomable.

Although he has never seen him take action, after seeing him in person, Gu Hang can feel the threat from him.

Perhaps, compared with the Imperial Guard Marshal, those Sons of God can win but they are not sure to win, right?

It’s hard to say, after all, Gu Hang has never seen the ancient Sons of God who have long disappeared.

But in any case, the value that the one hundred Imperial Guards can play is extraordinary, and there is no pressure to kill one or two ordinary war groups.

With them in the lead, it is really reassuring.

In general, the last meeting on the Devouring Star Universe was about how to ensure that the Devouring Star Universe itself could get through this storm relatively smoothly. Don’t fight if you can avoid it, deal with it on a small scale if you can, and don’t use violent means if you can use political means.

But at the same time, we must also be prepared for the worst situation that cannot be controlled. The elite of the envoy group, the imperial guards, and the notice of preparation for war issued to the surrounding universes… are all preparations for this.

This is business.

And the second meeting was about…

Even more business!

In the Devouring Star Universe, even if we consider the mildest situation, many positions must be cleared up from top to bottom.

And these vacant positions, aren’t they what the big guys want to share?

This is not just a struggle between political factions. For example, Qi Bo Du is now the largest faction, but within his faction, the small hills also have their own interests and demands, and they all want to have a bite.

Although under Qi Bo Du’s request, his faction’s cohesion is good and they can face the outside world in unison. But in private, if there is any dirty collusion, no one can say it.

Even Qi Bo Du himself, even if he knows it vaguely in his heart, sometimes he has to turn a blind eye.

He is the leader of the faction, the leader, and sometimes he has to pay more attention to unity.

Among these positions, the most coveted ones are the two positions left by Yasdai – the chairman of the Swallowing Star Universe and the chairman of the High Leader.

These two positions can of course be separated, and everyone wants them.

Of course, other political factions should have expected that they would not be able to get them. These two positions originally leaked from Qi Bo Du’s hands. With the ability of this centralized prime minister, how could he give them to others?

However, it doesn’t matter if they can’t get them. It doesn’t prevent them from using these two things as weapons to irritate Qi Bodu. On the surface, they use various reasons that the conditions are not met and they are not suitable to reject the candidates proposed by Qi Bodu and recommend their own candidates; secretly, this is to ask Qi Bodu for other benefits. If you don’t satisfy me, then I will continue to make trouble for you in this matter.

Unless Qi Bodu wants to use his greatest authority to directly implement the High Lords’ Council to vote when they cannot reach a consensus. As long as he gets more than half of the votes, he can force any regulation. And he holds seven seats in his hands, more than an absolute half, and can push anything.

But this is a nuclear weapon, a trick to overturn the table, and it must not be used easily.

In name, with these seven votes, you can do anything; but in fact, it is not the case.

Voting itself is not strength, but strength brings voting. These seven votes represent the power that Qi Bodu can mobilize, which is more than half of the total power of the empire. So when Qi Bodu takes out this trick, everyone has to weigh it and accept it with a pinch of the nose.

But if the proposal is too extreme, it will be useless even if more than half of the votes are cast.

For example, Qi Bodu has a fit one day and decides to dissolve the state religion that he hates the most, and demands that all special political powers of the state religion be banned throughout the empire. With seven votes, it is passed in the Supreme Council. Then can this thing be done?

Impossible.

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The lightest is that the state religion does not care about you at all, directly refuses to recognize Qi Bodu’s orders, and then declares a holy war throughout the empire, declaring that Qi Bodu has betrayed the God-Emperor.

What should we do? Go to fight a civil war across the entire empire?

Can the high lords such as the Inquisition, Mars, and the Assassin’s Court allow Qi Bodu to do this? Which side will they stand on?

If it really comes to this, Qi Bodu’s seven seats will immediately waver. No matter how much the Grand Marshals of the Astra Militarum and the Navy belong to Qi Bodu’s faction, if he goes crazy, will they really follow Qi Bodu loyally and follow him to wipe out the state religion throughout the empire?

That’s impossible.

The only outcome of Qi Bodu going crazy is that he will kill himself, and his seven seats will fall apart.

It’s the same with this matter. If he enforces the vote forcefully and forces it through with seven votes, then the influence will not be enough to drive others crazy, but I’m afraid no one will accept it with a pinch of the nose.

They will think that this is Qi Bodu turning the table and destroying the political tacit understanding. The Inquisition may keep an eye on Qi Bodu’s people every day, catching heretics, traitors, and corrupt officials; the state religion may fiercely look for trouble every day; the Mechanicus may protest by refusing orders from Qi Bodu’s forces; some assassination missions that the Assassin’s Court originally did not accept will begin to be accepted…

Everyone has means.

Politics cannot be played with, and it cannot be forced. Politics is the art of distributing benefits, and it requires wisdom.

Qi Bodu is familiar with this.

He first hid the problems exposed by the state religion and did not say anything. When the representative of the Pope attacked the Prime Minister at the first meeting, saying that Asdai was pushed up by Qi Bodu and Qi Bodu needed to bear joint responsibility for this, and used this matter as a bullet to Qi Bodu, Qi Bodu first held back.

When he got the interrogation information endorsed by the Imperial Guards from the Imperial Guards, which completely matched the information said by Gu Hang, and the matter was confirmed, he took it out directly at the beginning of the second meeting and smashed it in the face of the state religion.

The state religion colluded with Asdai, and it was the state religion that instructed Asdai to issue a despicable assassination order to Gu Hang, who was already a war hero and the commander of the empire at that time.

This issue has been discussed before. When Gu Hang was assassinated, Gallardo made a big fuss in the Supreme Council, and it has been determined that: the order was not discussed by the Supreme Council, the target was sensitive, and the person who issued the order behind the scenes should be responsible and apologize.

It’s just that they haven’t found out who it is.

Now that it’s brought up, the state religion has suddenly become passive.

Then, the unclear issues under the supervision of Qi Bo have also become the same dirty water at this time, pouring a basin of dirty water on the head of the state religion. Did the state religion let it go, or even let it go and even caused Asdai to be corrupted in order to collude with Asdai?

This is a bit far-fetched, but at least the prime minister is fighting back that Asdai is the prime minister’s man, so the prime minister should be responsible.

Well, now Asdai is the prime minister and the pope’s man, everyone should bear the blame together.

If we investigate the matter of the assassination of Gu Hang again, should the state religion give a further explanation?

The interrogation results given by the Imperial Guards even showed the purpose of the State Church’s order to assassinate Gu Hang: they knew that the probability of success was very low, but they wanted to use an unsuccessful assassination order to alienate Gu Hang from the central government of the empire.

According to Qi Bodu, the nature of this matter was “extremely evil”, and it was a terrible conspiracy that disregarded the overall situation of the empire.

The State Church was quite embarrassed, and it could not stand up under the verbal battle.

In this matter, other factions could not speak for the State Church.

Qi Bodu defeated the State Church in this wave. This time, the State Church will not want to share anything, and you have to spit out some.

In the end, the State Church handed over a cardinal as a price. These were all orders from this person, and the Pope did not know that the cardinal acted on his own and might be corrupt.

The Inquisition went to do it.

The new cardinal may even be nominated by the Inquisition, not necessarily by the State Church itself.

The Inquisition has a good relationship with the State Church, and the State Church can barely accept it; if the Inquisition takes this benefit, it will have to take less or even nothing from the benefits of the Devouring Star Universe.

A cardinal is no worse than a star domain head in the Devouring Star Universe.

By fighting and eliminating, the Inquisition and the State Church were dealt with.

In theory, the rest should be easy to handle.

Give more funds to the Assassin Court, symbolically release some secret political powers to them; get some orders for Mars; approve all the budgets submitted by Su Lie, who is now the representative of the Space Marines, to rebuild the Phoenix Regiment, and expand a few more regiments, with more Phoenix sub-regiments, after all, the Phoenix lineage suffered heavy losses in the Iron Armor War…

After all this, it should be about the same as normal.

Most of the benefits of the Devouring Star Universe were taken back, including the two highest positions.

As for the benefits within one’s own faction, it will be much easier to redistribute them internally.

Qi Bo Du was even thinking about how to divide the internal forces so as to better unite his faction or attract more forces to join his faction.

However, unexpectedly, a new change suddenly occurred in this second meeting.

Mars, who usually kept a low profile and did not make much noise unless they were involved, suddenly showed up.

They strongly opposed every new candidate for high lord and chairman of the Devouring Star proposed by Qi Bo Du, and attacked many high-level personnel transfers within the party that needed to be discussed at the Supreme Council!