For the state church, the relics of saints are very important, because they can not only attract more believers and believers, increase their influence, but can even be used as a bargaining chip to open new dioceses and negotiate with the headquarters of the Terran state church when necessary.
In fact, the State Church of the Maelstrom has also been working hard to recover a large number of holy relics lost during the Badab War. However, since the Badab sector soon became a pirate home, many holy relics either fell into the hands of pirates or fell into the hands of the Red Army. In the hands of pirates, or still buried in the ruins.
"Lord Soshyan, you..."
However, after getting excited, Saint-Dalton, as a human being, immediately realized that the other party would not say these things without reason, there must be a reason.
Sure enough, Soshyan sighed, shook his head and said:
"But several religious groups from the Extreme Star Territory and the Sun Star Territory have arrived in the Badab sector in advance. They hope to recover those holy objects and saints' remains and rebury them."
"My lord, that...that belongs to this parish."
"Ah, is there such a thing? Aren't they all the state religion? Sorry, Patriarch, I am not a professional religious person. I thought it would be enough to leave it to the state religion."
Looking at Soshyan's innocent face, Saint Dalton knew very well that this was probably not true, but if he didn't do something, it would become true soon.
After all, the sale of sacred objects is legal in the empire, and he can't say anything even if he does sell himself.
At this point, there is no need to say any more polite words.
"In order to prove this diocese's eternal loyalty and piety to the emperor, we will open the door to relief, and part of the national church's holy treasury and salvation treasury will be directly handed over to you for disposal, how about it?"
Soshyan immediately clapped his hands and said with a smile:
"Okay, okay, okay! Patriarch St. Dolton understands the righteousness well and is worthy of being the most devout loyal servant of the emperor. Even I feel inferior to him. I immediately ordered that all the sacred relics and relics of the state religion collected in the war zone must be collected first. Send it back to the Guardian Star of Sacred Relics for a short period of time to show the love and protection of the state religion to all living beings in the empire."
Although he said this, Soshyan became even more fed up with all this. The so-called "faith" turned out to be a business in the end.
What should he say?
What could he say?
Soshyan then looked at the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
"Please respond to this matter as soon as possible and distribute supplies to the most severely affected areas nearby."
"yes!"
"Next, Reza's factory ship will arrive at the Maelstrom soon. They will provide additional energy supply. I hope that all the hive facilities will recover quickly, but priority must be given to restoring the food processing plant, which can at least ensure that everyone Being able to take a bite of synthetic protein powder and increase the supply of medicines and daily necessities... Of course, I also consider that every hive city and world has its own real difficulties. It is really unrealistic to rely entirely on local organizations to save themselves. At present, Pakistan The Dabu sector has been basically recovered, and most of the habitable worlds there have been cleaned up. In addition, many of the destroyed worlds in Endymion also need to be rebuilt. The Ministry of Internal Affairs should organize and coordinate immigration-related matters as soon as possible, starting from those with tight resources. The world shifted some immigrants to new worlds or worlds devastated by war, and the new immigrants adopted the method of food-for-work to provide them with the necessities of life.”
This is also the most realistic method that Soshyan can think of, which is to reduce the resource pressure on the hive city through immigration, and at the same time reduce the possibility and intensity of riots and disturbances. Even if the population is dispersed, it will not be so troublesome, and the hive city The rulers of the empire don't care much about the population of the bottom nest and the lower nest. Anyway, with the empire's fertility rate, the nest capital will soon be overcrowded again.
But this will also have a problem, that is, the taxation and military recruitment of the hive city will be temporarily affected, and Soshyan has decided not to increase the number of troops. After obtaining part of the resources of the state religion, he only needs to maintain a lower tax than before. You can continue the war.
More importantly, he didn't intend to quarrel with the Red Pirates any longer.
"Lord Soshyan, there is one more thing."
Rory Figueiredo dropped another bombshell at this time.
"Regarding the follow-up investigation of the Huo Yinland family, the Ministry of Justice has confirmed that many chambers of commerce and nobles have had illegal trade with them in the past. Can a large-scale manhunt be carried out? Since the Ministry of Justice is currently short of manpower, I hope to apply. Assistance from some armed forces.”
Soshiyang frowned slightly. He had pardoned relevant personnel of the Huo Yinland family before, but he did not take into account the chamber of commerce and local nobles who had a lot of business dealings with the family. Unexpectedly, the Ministry of Justice had already started to take action on its own.
As part of a huge and corrupt bureaucracy, at least the Maelstrom's legal department is relatively clean and efficient, but what Soshyan needs now is stability, and setting off a big prison is obviously contrary to this direction.
Most of the people present also showed a certain degree of uneasiness because of the legal marshal's heavy blow again.
"Approximately... how many people are involved?"
"According to the statistics of evidence seized from all parties so far, there are more than 100 million people involved in the crime, and they are all major criminals. Those who were coerced and low-level personnel are not included."
"Ah, so many?"
"How many people are going to be arrested?"
"Will there be many unjust, false and wrong cases..."
As soon as the legal marshal's words came out, there was a lot of discussion around him, and even the patriarch of St. Dalton looked worried.
Soshyan thought for a moment and said:
"Let's put this matter on hold for the time being. The Ministry of Justice can focus on rectifying the local order first."
"Commander in chief! This matter cannot be delayed. Once it is delayed for a long time, those lawbreakers will find ways to destroy evidence, transfer property, or even escape and hide. It will be difficult to investigate and arrest them!"
Rory Figueiredo's words were already a little angry. Apparently, Soshiyan's previous "lenient approach" to corrupt elements had made him dissatisfied.
"Sir, I'm afraid you don't know what a sinful transaction those people are involved in! Not only do they collaborate with the Huo Yinlande family to engage in human trafficking, they take many children from the bottom of the family away from their parents and send them to unknown places, they are even more insane. They kidnapped children from the street!"
In fact, Soshyan knew that the Huo Yinland family had been providing Huron with healthy school-age children to meet the Chaos Space Marines' recruitment transformation with an astonishingly high mortality rate. After all, the Chaos corrosion in the area occupied by the Red Pirates was relatively serious. It is too easy to find children who are not contaminated.
"...Not only that, some drug dealers under the name of the Huo Yinland family also sold all kinds of extremely dangerous heretical illegal drugs to the hive city! How many people died because of this! There was also the Renteria family that was wiped out before. After our investigation, we found that their evil 'nectar' manufacturing process comes from the Huo Yinland family! They even use human bodies to make evil life-extending drugs! How many masterminds behind the scenes are protecting them! How many high-ranking adults are there? They turn a blind eye! If we can’t get to the bottom of it and bring these bastards to justice, how can we have the face to demand endless taxes from the citizens of the empire!?”
Soshyan had turned his back at this time, and no one could see his expression, but at least his silent attitude said everything.
So someone immediately understood and said:
"It's enough to capture a group of ringleaders as punishment. Wasn't Huo Yinlande's family almost all killed by the aliens? They deserved it."
After hearing the words of Bornhard Morales, Rory Figueiredo turned around, his eyes seemed to be able to spit out fire.
"The Huo Yinland family is just acquirers and resellers, but shouldn't those who really create evil be punished? How big this web of evil is, I think Mr. Bornhard knows better than anyone else! It has already enveloped It has occupied the entire Maelstrom area for five hundred years! Even those priest families still teach——"
"Heresy!"
