But the large number of remnants has brought huge hidden dangers. According to Deacon Libra, apart from the cardinal world, there are 12 settlements of different sizes among the 47 inhabited planets and 13 asteroid/space station settlements in the archdiocese.
The Genestealers rioted, and it has not been resolved until now. Moreover, after the Tyranid invasion, the entire archdiocese's communications were disrupted. Now there is chaos everywhere, and there is no power to suppress the Genestealers.
Following the chaos came the suspension of production and transportation, which triggered the issue that Soshyan was most concerned about -
food.
As an industrially underdeveloped area, the main heavy industries of the Archdiocese are concentrated in the system where the Cardinal World is located, including the only shipyard, the only arsenal, the only promethium refinery, the only large-scale civilian machinery manufacturing plant, etc., possibly the entire Archdiocese.
The combined large-scale heavy industries in the parish are not as many as one hive, and they are all managed by Griffin IV. There are only some scattered light industries in other galaxies, which also makes many worlds at a relatively low-tech level. Fortunately, the archdiocese's
There are many habitable worlds, and the relatively dispersed population reduces the pressure on resources caused by concentration, but even so, most of the worlds are pastoral agricultural worlds.
The agricultural world of the archdiocese is quite different from the agricultural world in the general sense of the empire. Because of its backwardness, both mechanical capabilities and planting levels are relatively primitive. They are generally at the level of using simple tractors to cultivate the land. Chemical fertilizers are mainly organic fertilizers and
Some small fertilizer factories mainly produce single-product fertilizers, which do not have the terrifying production-increasing ability of compound fertilizers like those of the Adeptus Mechanicus. Most of the time, land area determines food output. In this case, the output cannot be too high.
, part of it is consumed by the inhabitants of the planet themselves, part of it is taken away by the local landowners and nobles, and part of it is collected by tithes and supplied to the religious world. There is not much left that can really be used for reserves.
As for the empire's more efficient food processing products, such as corpse starch, this is not a mainstream food source in the archdiocese. The reason is industry. First, corpse starch is a very cheap thing for most people in the empire, but its
It is not cheap to produce. As a by-product of promethium refining, it is directly linked to the refinery. However, the archdiocese only has one large promethium refinery, and those small promethium refineries have no reprocessing capabilities, which means that the entire archdiocese is essentially
It’s all about “eating based on the weather”.
Therefore, what Soshyan was most worried about happened.
The food supply chain was already extremely fragile. After an agricultural world was swallowed up, the entire Archdiocese immediately faced the threat of famine. Even in the Cardinal World, the news of the Tyranid invasion spread, and global food prices soared by 30%.
%, and now it has soared to 400% of the original!
This also made Soshyan realize that this war was completely different from the Maelstrom Expedition.
The Maelstrom is one of the most developed regions in the empire, and trade is extremely prosperous. This saves him a lot of logistics and internal affairs. The main thing he does is actually resource allocation, but this place...
But there is no other way. It has come and gone, so we can only find a way to solve it.
Soshyan immediately noticed keenly that the sudden increase in food in the cardinal world was not just a lack of food. The agricultural world was devoured not long ago. It should not have been reported so quickly. The archdiocese did not have any reserves at all, which meant that this was a simple man-made disaster.
, someone wants to make war fortune.
This is simple. People who dare to engage in this kind of hoarding business are generally not ordinary people. Maybe the patriarch would not dare to touch it even if he knew about it.
But in his eyes, the so-called powerful people are nothing more than a knife bug. He can convict people, arrest people, and confiscate their homes. There is nothing that cannot be solved.
Of course, to solve the problem, we have to come from the source. Soshiyang has already understood that these deacons are the representatives of the interests of various powerful families. If you want to take action, you must first attack them. Soshiyang, in the name of "in-depth reporting"
He had them detained on the spot and escorted all to the flagship, where someone would "review" them one by one to determine who among them could be used and who could not be used. Then he "requested" an edict from the Patriarch.
Order, due to war needs, in addition to the original two deputy deacons of the senior deacon, an additional wartime deacon will be added to each department to increase efficiency.
"Temporarily" they perform the duties of senior deacons, and these people are naturally the followers of the Holy Flame Order brought by Soshyan.
If you just airborne like this, of course there will be problems. After all, there are so many agencies and departments under the Deacons, and there are nearly a million administrative staff of all types. If you just airborne 24 people, they will be easily ignored, so Soshiyang gave them all
Equipped with a knife - the War Steward can directly apply for the deployment of troops stationed in the Cardinal World, and has the power to punish and arrest someone according to the provisions of temporary war regulations.
This reflects the "benefits" of the weak military force of the priesthood. They are different from the ordinary nobles in the nest. They may only have a few servants and thugs on hand. There is no real private armed force. It is just that in the political environment of the empire,
With the right to speak religiously, they occupy the moral high ground, and only with the powerful weapon of excommunication can they make many violent organizations bow their heads, but Astartes is one of the few violent organizations that they have no ability to resist at all, because Asta
Te is already the commanding heights of the empire's religious system. If it is higher, it would be a living saint or even the original body.
However, Soshyan's focus is still on the military, so the main leader of the deacons after the change will not be him, but a mysterious lady, and she will also encroach little by little with the support of powerful forces.
The College of Cardinals will eventually completely control the two brains of the archdiocese, the College of Cardinals and the College of Deacons. Only in this way can Soshiyan be guaranteed to have no worries during the battle.
In addition, in order to facilitate the mobilization of manpower and material resources in the war, Soshyan even moved the well-established promethium coin system in the Nessen galaxy. After all, the military coupons produced for the war during the last Maelstrom expedition were nowhere to be found after the expedition.
According to Sorge, the chicken feathers have not been cleaned up more than ten years after the war ended. Many people went bankrupt because of this incident. Soshyan has always felt guilty about this. Therefore, in this archdiocese with a more fragile economic foundation, it is necessary to
It is more cautious, so the already very mature promethium coin system is a good choice, and the factory ships supported by Zhao Akada and the large refinery in the system where the Cardinal World is located are also enough to support the operation of promethium coins.
In fact, in other areas, Soshyan might not dare to make such a bold move. After all, he knew very well that he was on the yellow list of the Heretic Tribunal. Those people would definitely be trying to track him down, and it was normal for him to do so.
The Imperial Administrative District is "overcrowded" and has many forces, so be careful what you do.