The Emperor’s Angel of Death

Seeing Veronica, Arik took off his military cap, revealing his gray hair.屵

"Please, Ms. Veronica."

With a warm smile on her face, Veronica pulled back the large chair that belonged to Soshyan.

"Should be done."

Breakfast is very simple, a bowl of porridge for each person, plus some dairy products, eggs of some kind of animal, and freshly baked bread. Knowing that Arik will not drink alcohol or tea when he is getting old, I specially prepared it for him Drink a glass of warm water.

Then Soshyan peeled an egg for Yarek who had only one hand, which surprised Yarek. On the one hand, he couldn't imagine that a giant's fingers could be so flexible, and the egg looked only the size of his thumb. On the other hand, an Astartes doing it for himself, probably no one would believe it.

"It's been really hard these days."

Looking at the boiled egg as white as jade, Arik stood up and carefully pinched it between his fingertips with his remaining hand.屵

"You are very kind."

After eating two bites, Yarek suddenly put down the half of the egg left.

"Commander, there is actually a group of people. Although this expedition has made some efforts, it has only sent a bunch of hard-to-control fanatics to make trouble on the front line. In fact, they have huge wealth and supplies in their hands. They don’t take out any money, and they don’t collect taxes from them.”

Hearing what Yarek said, Soshyan immediately realized what it was.

The state religion, and only the state religion.

However, the state religion is the topic that Soshyan is least willing to touch. After all, in the political system and legal system of the empire, the state religion is a very independent force. Weakened, but their economic status has never been shaken. No one can force the state religion to hand over the believers' "dedication" to the emperor, not even the space warriors.

And from a practical point of view, in the vast and boundless territory of the human empire, the state religion is also one of the few things that can connect people on different planets for several light years, and its role in stabilizing the place is even stronger than the institutions and governors of the empire. Small fluctuations will have a huge impact on the local area, which is why Soshyan would rather ask for the resources of the nobles indefinitely, and has never turned his attention to the state religion.屵

If the nobility is a mound, then the state religion is a mountain, and it is also a mountain that the empire has to rely on, and the same is true for the expeditionary army.

"Although, my work is all in the military, and I can also learn from the local military officers in the maelstrom that the state religion has a huge influence here...the agricultural world and the primitive world of the maelstrom have a considerable part of cultivated land and farmland It belongs to the "relief field" of the state religion. In addition, although the teachings of the state religion do not allow them to own specific businesses and industries, many noble families in the maelstrom have deep ties with the state religion. Many members of the family are senior priests of the state religion. The family is also known as the priest family. It has huge power and controls a large number of religious groups, including groups of extremist sects. In the name of Salvation, many food processing factories in the world have been controlled. Although some of the output is indeed used to relieve believers, the whereabouts of most of the products are unknown... At the same time, I also heard some things about the profit of the state religion. The huge sale of holy relics, through the sale of those holy relics that do not know the authenticity, it is said that the guardian of the holy relics can earn enough to buy the wealth of a world every month, and the state religion does not pay tithes or war taxes , Even trade tax and commercial tax are not paid, yet countless believers are struggling on the death line."

Although during the Apostasy Rebellion, the original corrupt system of the church was terminated, Sebastian drastically reorganized the state religion, accepted new ideas, advocated frugality and self-discipline, and changed from the idea of ​​the Illuminati to win the favor of the emperor The idea of ​​the ultimate goal, emphasizing the spiritual purity of believers, with compassion and self-sacrifice as their creed, rather than the unlimited demands of material and politics in the past, but with the aftermath of the apostasy era gradually flattening, and Sebastian et al. Religious reformers passed away one by one, and many old customs and bad habits reappeared again in a short time. The state religion self-censorship institution established by Sebastian gradually became useless, and the corrupt priests who were fought and cleaned up began to fill the state religion. of all levels.

After more than 4,000 years of ups and downs, the state religion seems to have returned to the old path before the apostasy era.

These things, as Soshyan said, everyone knows, but everyone seems to have nothing to do.

Listening to Yarek's narration, Soshyan took a sip of clear water calmly, put down the cup and said softly:

"Understood, I will talk to that Patriarch." Xie

Eric nodded and said nothing.

After breakfast, Soshyan talked to Yarik about the previous battle in Angstrom, and Yarik was taken aback for a while. After all, his main business is the land battlefield, and he is not proficient in naval warfare. .

But he still heard some tricks.

"... Then after taking Angstrom, it means that we have gained the strategic initiative? Now, as long as the enemies of Badab are solved, we can launch a full-scale attack on the Red Pirates and take the war The fire has reached the area occupied by heretics, but this also means that we have to fight in the enemy's home field, the battle may be more intense, and the casualties will be even greater."

Soshyan nodded.

"Commander Yarek, do you think more troops are needed?"

After thinking for a moment, Alec said:

"Now the fifth theater has stockpiled about 300 million troops, the sixth theater has stockpiled 400 million troops~www.readwn.com~ Badab theater has stockpiled more than 500 million troops, and the third and fourth theaters have about 200 million troops , Judging from the current situation, it is basically enough, but the progress of the fifth and sixth theaters is not very fast. The theater led by Arash has launched an attack on the Lamptan galaxy since four months ago, but now all The enemy's stronghold has not been completely captured, and the Salamander's offensive in the Rook galaxy is not very smooth. Due to the heavy troops gathered on the front line, the biggest problem in these two theaters now is logistics, and the continuous harassment of the Red Pirate's small force also affects the logistics. Transportation has brought a lot of pressure, and the **** fleet cannot protect all routes... According to the original plan, only by occupying the Lamptan galaxy and the Vulture galaxy can we march towards the core of the Red Pirates, the Mag star cluster .”

"Do you think the problem at the front is not the strength of the troops?"

Alec nodded.

"The problem should be less about troop strength and more about logistics and coordination."

"I see. I'm going to meet with the special envoy of Terra in a while. Commissar Arak, you can come too."

"yes."

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