Seeing Veronica, Yarik took off his military cap and showed his white hair.
"Please trouble you, Ms. Veronica."
Veronica's face was filled with a warm smile and pulled the large chair belonging to Soshiyan back for a distance.
“What should be done.”
Breakfast is very simple, each person has a bowl of cereal porridge, some dairy products, some animal eggs, and freshly baked bread. Knowing that Arrek doesn't drink alcohol or tea when he gets older, he specially prepared a cup of warm water for him.
Then Soshyan personally peeled an egg for Yarik, who had only one hand, which surprised Yarik. On the one hand, he didn't expect that a giant's finger was so flexible, and the egg looked just the size of his thumb. On the other hand, Astarte did this for himself, and no one believed him if he said it.
“It’s been so hard for these days.”
Looking at the white and white cooked egg handed over, Arik stood up and carefully pinched it to his fingertips with his remaining hand.
"You are so kind."
After a few bites, Arik suddenly put down half of the egg left.
"The commander-in-chief, there is actually a group of people. Although this expedition has made some efforts, it has only sent a bunch of hard-to-command believers to make trouble on the front line. In fact, they have huge wealth and materials in their hands, and they have never lost a penny and can't collect taxes on them."
Hearing Arik say this, Soshiyan immediately realized what it was.
The state religion is only the state religion.
However, the state religion is the most unwilling topic of Soshiyan. After all, in the political system and legal system of the empire, the state religion is a very independent force. Although it was deprived of military power and its political status was weakened during the apostate rebellion, their economic status has never been shaken. No one can force the state religion to hand over the "dedication" of believers to the emperor, even the space warriors cannot do it.
Moreover, from a practical perspective, in the vast territory of the human empire, the National Church is also one of the few things that can connect humans on different planets over light years. Its role in stabilizing the local area is even stronger than the institutions and governors of the empire. Any slight fluctuation will have a huge impact on the local area. This is why Soshiyang would rather ask for unlimited resources from the nobles, and never turned his attention to the National Church.
If the nobles were a mound, then the state religion was a mountain, and it was a mountain that the empire had to rely on, and the same was true for the expeditionary army.
"Although my work is military, I can also learn from the officers of the local vortex that the great influence of the state religion here... The agricultural world and the primitive world of the Great Vortex have a considerable part of the arable land and farmland belong to the "relief fields" of the state religion. In addition, although the doctrine of the state religion does not allow them to have specific businesses and industries, many of the aristocratic families in the Great Vortex have deep connections with the state religion. Many of the members of the family are senior priests of the state religion. These families are also called priest families, with huge power and control a large number of religious groups, including many groups of extreme sects, and they are on the one hand.
In the name of judgment, the Nest has occupied a large area and forced religious donations. While mastering many world food processing plants in the name of relief and salvation, some of the outputs are indeed used to save believers, but most of the products are unknown... At the same time, I have also heard about the huge profits of the sacred relics of the State Church. By selling those sacred objects that do not know the true or false, it is said that the guardians of the sacred objects can earn enough to buy the wealth of a world every month. The State Church does not pay tithes, nor does it pay war taxes, nor does it pay trade taxes or commercial taxes, but countless believers are struggling on the brink of death."
Although during the apostasy, the original corrupt system of the church was ended, Sebastian drastically reorganized the state religion, accepted new ideas, advocated thrift and self-discipline, and dominated the Illuminati philosophy to become the idea of ​​gaining the favor of the emperor as its ultimate goal, emphasizing the spiritual purity of believers, taking mercy and self-sacrifice as the creed, rather than the unlimited demands of material and politics in the past, as the aftermath of the apostasy era gradually subsided and the passing of religious reformers such as Sebastian, many of the old norms and habits made a comeback in a short time. The self-censorship agency of the state religion established by Sebastian gradually became useless, and the corrupt clergy who were fought and swept up again.
After more than four thousand years of ups and downs, the state religion seems to have returned to the old path before the apostate era.
As Soshiyan said, everyone knows these things, but everyone seems to have no way to do so.
Listening to Yarik's narration, Soshiyang calmly took a sip of water, put down the cup and said softly:
"I understand, I will talk to the patriarch."
Yarik nodded and stopped talking.
After breakfast, Soshyan talked to Yarik about the battle situation in Angustorm before. Yarik was stunned. After all, his main business was on the land battlefield and he was not proficient in naval battles.
But he still heard some tricks.
"... Then after taking Angustorm, we have gained the initiative in strategy? Now, as long as we resolve the enemy of Badab, we can launch a comprehensive attack on the Red Pirates and burn the war to the area occupied by heresy. However, this also means that we have to fight at the enemy's home court, the battle will probably be more intense and the casualties will be even greater."
Soshiyang nodded.
"Political Commissar Yarik, do you think you still need to increase your troops?"
After thinking for a moment, Arik said:
"Now the Fifth War Zone has hoarded about 300 million troops, the Sixth War Zone has hoarded 400 million troops, the Badabu War Zone has hoarded more than 500 million troops, and the Third and Fourth War Zones have about 200 million troops. Judging from the current situation, it is basically enough, but the progress of the Fifth War Zone is not very fast. The war zone led by Alash has launched an attack on the Lamptan galaxy four months ago, but it has not yet completely captured the enemy strongholds. The Salamander's attack on the Bald Nose Crow Galaxy was not very smooth. Since heavy troops gathered on the front line, the biggest problem of these two war zones is logistics. The continuous harassment of small Red Pirate troops has also put a lot of pressure on logistics transportation, and the escort fleet cannot protect all routes... According to the original plan, only by occupying the Lamptan galaxy and Bald Nose Crow Galaxy can we march towards the core Marg Clue, the Red Pirates."
"Do you think the problem on the front line is not the force?"
Yarik nodded.
"The problem should not be about the force, but more about the logistics and coordination."
"I understand. I will meet with the envoy of Terra in a while. Come on the political commissar of Arrick."
Chapter completed!