But a large number of remnants brought huge hidden dangers. According to the Deacon of Balance, in addition to the Cardinal World, there are 12 settlements in the total of 47 inhabited planets and 13 asteroids/space station settlements. There are riots of gene stealers of different sizes in 12 settlements, and it has not been solved until now. After the invasion of Tyron, the communications of the entire diocese were disturbed. Now there is chaos everywhere, and there is no power to suppress gene stealers.
What followed the chaos was the shutdown of production and transportation, which in turn triggered the most concerned issue of Soshiyan.
food.
As an underdeveloped industrial area, the main heavy industries of the Catholic diocese are concentrated in the galaxy where the Cardinal World is located, including the only shipyard, the only arsenal, the only proge refinery, the only large civil machinery manufacturing plant, etc. The large heavy industries in the entire Catholic diocese are not as many as one nest, and they are all managed by Griffin IV. Other galaxies have only some scattered light industries, which also put many worlds at a relatively low-tech level. Fortunately, the Catholic diocese has a lot of livable worlds, and the relatively scattered population has reduced the resource pressure caused by concentration, but even so, most of the worlds are pastoral agricultural worlds.
The agricultural world of the cathedral and the agricultural world in general meaning of the empire are quite different. Because of its backwardness, both mechanical capabilities and planting levels are relatively primitive. They are generally at the level of farming land with simple tractors. The fertilizers are mainly organic fertilizers and single-product fertilizers produced by some small fertilizer plants. They do not have the terrifying ability of compound fertilizers to increase production by mechanical cultivation. Most of the time, the land area determines the grain output. In this case, the output cannot be too high. Some of them are consumed by the residents on the planet themselves, and some of them are taken away by the local landlords and nobles themselves. The tithing is collected and then supplied to the religious world. They can really be used to reserve the little left.
As for the more efficient food processing products of the empire, such as corpse starch, this is not the mainstream food source in the cathedral. The reason is industry. First of all, corpse starch is very cheap for most imperial people, but its production is not cheap. As a by-product of progesterone refining, it is directly linked to the refinery. However, the cathedral is only a large progesterone refinery, while those small progesterone refineries have no reprocessing capabilities, which means that the entire cathedral is essentially "just look at the weather and eat."
So, what Soshiyan is most worried about is still happening.
The food supply chain was originally extremely fragile. After an agricultural world was swallowed up, the entire cathedral immediately faced the threat of famine. Even in the Cardinal world, the news of the Tyron invasion was reported, global food prices soared by 30%, and now it has soared to the original 400%!
This also made Soshiyan realize that this war is completely different from the Great Vortex Expedition.
The Great Vortex is one of the most developed areas in the empires, and the trade is extremely prosperous, which saves him a lot of logistics and internal affairs. His main purpose is to allocate resources, but this place is...
But there is no way, I have come, I can only find a way to solve it.
Soshiyang immediately noticed keenly that the surge in food in the Cardinal World is not simply a shortage of food, and it was not long before the agricultural world was swallowed up. It should not be so quick to report it. The Cathedral is not without any reserves, which means that this is a simple man-made disaster, and some people want to make money in war.
This is simple. Generally, no ordinary person dares to do such hoarding business. Maybe the patriarch dares not move even if he knows it.
But in his eyes, the so-called powerful people are just a knife worm. If you convict, arrest people, and search the house, there is nothing that cannot be solved.
Of course, the problem must be solved from the source. Soshiyang has already seen it. These deacons are the representatives of the interests of various powerful families. If you want to use the sword, you must first move from them. Soshiyang has someone to detain them on the spot in the name of "in-depth report", and then escort them all to the flagship. There will be people there to "examine" them one by one to determine who can use them and who cannot use them. Then he "please" a decree from the patriarch. For the needs of war, in addition to the two original deputy deacons of the senior deacons, each department will add an additional wartime deacon to increase efficiency. The wartime deacons have the right to "temporarily" perform the duties of the senior deacons when the senior deacons are "unable to work for some reason". These people are naturally believers of the Holy Flame Clan brought by Soshiyang.
If it is just airborne like this, of course there will be problems. After all, there are so many institutions and departments under the Deacons. There are nearly one million administrative personnel of all kinds, and twenty-four people are easily overturned. So Soshiyan gave them all the swords. War deacons can directly apply to mobilize troops stationed in the Cardinal World and have the power to punish and arrest someone under the provisions of temporary war regulations.
This reflects the "benefits" of weak force of the priest class. They are different from ordinary nobles. They may have only some servants and thugs on hand, and there are no real private armed forces. It is just that in the political environment of the empire, they have the right to speak in religious discourse, and they occupy the moral commanding heights, and there are also the killing weapons of extortion orders, which can make many violent institutions bow their heads. However, Astart is one of their few violent institutions that have no resistance at all, because Astart is already the commanding heights of the imperial religious system. No matter how high it is, they must be a living saint or even the primordial body.
However, Soshiyang's energy focus should be on military affairs, so the main leader of the deacon after the blood exchange was not him, but a mysterious lady. With the support of powerful forces, she will erode the Cardinals little by little, and finally completely control the two brains of the Cathedral, the Cardinals and the Deacons. Only in this way can Soshiyang have no worries when fighting.
In addition, in order to facilitate mobilizing manpower and material resources in the war, Soshiyang even brought over the proge coin system that has been established in the Naisen Galaxy. After all, the military tickets created for the war last time were in a mess after the expedition. According to Zorge, the war has not been cleaned up for more than ten years since the end of the war. Many people have lost all their money because of this matter. Soshiyang has always been deeply guilty of this. Therefore, in this cathedral with a more fragile economic foundation, it is necessary to be more cautious. Therefore, the already mature proge coin system is a good choice. The factory ships supported by Zhao Akada and the large refinery in the galaxy where the cardinal world is located are also enough to support the operation of proge coin.
Chapter completed!