The fact that Soshyan "subdued" the Minotaur warband with thunderous means and warned the Terran envoys quickly spread throughout Sagan's top brass. The nobles and bureaucrats who had previously tried to use the authority of the envoys to recover their "losses" He immediately realized who was really in charge here, and immediately changed the previously changed policies back at extremely fast speed, and loudly publicized the great achievements of the expeditionary force and the great victory led by Soshyan.
It's just that he didn't hold his thigh and call him daddy - mainly because everyone knew that Astartes didn't accept this trick, otherwise someone would definitely do it.
But things didn't end there. Soshyan still started to "optimize" the rear.
The first is the problem of the Huo Yinland family. Not only did Soshiyang catch them secretly trading with the Red Pirates, but through the unremitting efforts of the Inquisition during this period, and even at the expense of some personnel, some information about this ancient The problem of the Hongshang family.
The most important one is Ernst Mare Hoyland. After a series of investigations by the Heretic Tribunal, they got the terrible fact that this old man lived under different names for a full 490 years!
This also explains why the Huo Yinland family has been able to occupy the Maelstrom trade route for a long time. Their patriarch only changed his name. In fact, he has been the same person for nearly five centuries, and a non-transformed person and non-spiritual person No matter what means of life extension a capable person uses, it is impossible to live that long under normal circumstances.
The situation is obvious. Ernst Marley Hoyland either used illegal technology or even alien technology, or he was exposed to evil witchcraft.
But how to deal with this merchant family is quite tricky. They have 16 merchant cruisers, 3 "retired" battleships, and a large number of small ships and armed transport ships. Their fleet strength is one of the best in the entire Maelstrom area. , and after the expedition, the main members of the family basically stayed in their hometown, the Holy Point Star located in the Kliman Drift Zone. Ernst Marley Hoyland even hid at home for several years. Obviously, once the empire If there is any disturbance on the front, they may run away or even join the Red Pirates. With their strong financial resources and connections, it is difficult to hide any military or arrest operations by the empire from them.
Even the Inquisition has different opinions on this, but most of them prefer to wait until after the war.
But Soshyan was not willing to wait that long.
Then a shocking incident broke out when no one expected it.
An Eldar fleet of unknown origin suddenly appeared and attacked the Holy Point Star. They approached the galaxy without being detected by any detection equipment, and used powerful warships to destroy the Huo Yinland family's deployment on the Holy Point Star almost instantly. Orbital defense facilities, and then a large number of Eldar troops poured into the hive spire where the Merchant family was located, massacred the family's personnel and guards, and those people were unable to fight against the powerful, fast and heavily weaponized aliens.
In less than an hour after the attack began, nearly one million people were killed, and all members of the Huo Yinland family, regardless of gender, age or child, were killed until only three children survived.
The once-prominent Huo Yinlande family was wiped out in this way!
When the surrounding imperial fleets and the judges of the Alien Tribunal hurriedly arrived, they saw only a large number of wreckage surrounding the planet and some battleships that had not been destroyed. The Huo Yinland family's former large fleet, except for those still active outside, Only 3 of the 7 merchant cruisers and 1 battleship left defending their homeland were destroyed, and the Eldar had long since disappeared.
When the Imperial troops cautiously entered the hive spire, they saw only corpses on the ground. The word "Revenge" was written in alien characters everywhere on the walls. There were almost no living people in the family territory, and the only ones moving were servitors. , the search team only found three surviving children in a small house, who were confirmed to be the last bloodline of the Huo Yinland family.
It took three hours for the planet's defense forces to react to the attack, but by the time they slowly ran to the scene, the Empire's reinforcements had already arrived.
Later, the judges of the Alien Tribunal discovered a huge secret space under the Huo Yinlande family territory. It was filled with blasphemous demonic decorations and a large number of sacrifices. A large number of direct members of the Huoyinlande family lay dead here. Obviously This was their last refuge, but it failed to protect them, and the Eldar tore them apart with shurikens and blades.
Deep in this space there is a huge altar surrounded by a large amount of blood. The patriarch of the Hoyinland family, Ernst Mare Hoyinland, was cut into pieces by five horses. His limbs and torso were nailed to the altar with five spears, and there were still words in his mouth. Holding in his mouth is a letter he wrote to Huron that has not yet been sent. The content is very shocking.
He has realized that Soshyan is beginning to prepare to deal with him, so he plans to transfer the family wealth and troops to the Bloody Skeleton Galaxy before the other party takes action. After that, he will serve the Red Pirates wholeheartedly and is willing to provide some secret information that he has spent a lot of money to collect. , seems to be related to Soshyan, but the latter part has been destroyed.
When other people took inventory of the Huo Yinlande family's warehouse, they found that the Spirit Clan only took away some items, mainly things related to the Spirit Clan such as soul stones, and did not take away other property and treasures. Therefore, most people thought that this was As a revenge, the Huo Yinland family's long-term illegal alien weapons trade angered the other party, which eventually led to a bloody and cruel revenge. This kind of thing is not without precedent in the empire.
Most of the time, the Eldar are not the priority enemies of the Empire, and they rarely attack the Empire for no reason. Therefore, in order to reduce trouble, the Empire prohibits all transactions and research related to Soul Stones.
The Huo Yinlande family learned from the secret accounts they searched that they began smuggling spirit soul stones on a large scale after the Huron rebellion, ranging from hundreds to thousands at a time, and their destinations were unknown. You must know that the empire has strict orders. It is forbidden to trade this object, and even the Inquisition is not allowed to have easy access to it, so it is obvious that there is only one kind of "customer" who needs so many soul stones-Chaos traitors.
The Inquisition judged that a large number of soul stones smuggled by the Huoyinland family must have flowed to the Red Pirates for use by their evil wizards. After all, soul stones are materials required for many forbidden chaos rituals, and are also important items to please the demons of Slaanesh. .
After a more in-depth investigation, the Inquisition found that Ernst Marley Hoyinland had been in contact with Huron when he first became the leader of the Star Claw Chapter. The Hoyinland family "grew bigger" in the subsequent Star Claws. They made a lot of efforts on the road to being the "strongest". Also relying on their cooperation with Huron, the Huo Yinland family began to overwhelm the Clemont family and became the overlord of the trade routes in the Maelstrom region.
