Chapter 489: If the game doesn’t work, it will cost you your life

Chapter 489: If the game doesn’t work, it will cost you your life
Ou Juren wanted to do the 'Iron Fury Stone', and Gu Hang thought it was natural.

This is consistent with their centralized political philosophy.

At the same time, after Gu Hang came to Holy Terra, he discovered that working on the 'Iron Fury Stone' also had huge political dividends. Someone was able to rise to prominence by 'quelling' the rebellion a hundred years ago. Then, of course, someone will be able to quell the rebellion a hundred years later and achieve great success.

In fact, this will not be promoted by Ou Cure, Gallardo and others alone. What they said about 'many ways', Gu Hang thought it was true.

Behind the scenes, the shadow of the Imperial Prime Minister cannot be ignored.

After the death of the Sun Lord, the current Prime Minister is named Qi Bodu, and he is the theoretical one with the highest status in the empire. The position of prime minister is not only one of the thirteen high lords, but also the highest person in charge of the imperial government. All four prime ministers have to report to him.

Once the Iron Wrath Stone is finished, the Silver Tribunal will either stand on the wrong side or die, or even if it is on the right side, it will inevitably suffer heavy losses. Ou Kyuren can take back many of the powers of the Ministry of Justice that overlap with the Tribunal in many cosmic regions throughout the East.

At the same time, Norberto, the Prime Minister of the Ministry of Military Affairs who rose to prominence through the Bauhinia Rebellion, will also be liquidated, and his entire faction may have to be uprooted.

The large number of vacant positions are the spoils that the participating factions can compete for. Among them, the most dazzling one is the position of Prime Minister of the Ministry of Military Affairs, which Gallardo covets.

Everyone has a bright future, they just need 'Iron Fury Stone', Silver Tribunal and Norberto to 'contribute' themselves.

But their ending is also their own fault. The expansion and domineering behavior of 'Iron Fury Stone' is really outrageous.

In this matter, Gu Hang was a pawn, a knife in the hands of the 'big shots' behind the game.

The huge benefits were taken away by them, but it was themselves who were desperate?

Gu Hang didn't feel too unbalanced in his heart.

First of all, he will not be, nor will he be, the front line against the Iron Armored Legion.

Beating the wrathful flames and beating the iron armor are two different things.

Entering the Queen's Star Territory, which is run like an iron barrel, to face perhaps tens of thousands of Space Marines, as well as billions of auxiliary troops who specialize in cooperating with the Space Marines in combat?

Gu Hang definitely won’t do it.

According to intelligence from all parties, Iron Armor's auxiliary army may be of better quality than the Imperial Astra Militarum. As for the navy, on the bright side, there are 18 battleships and 3 Zhuge-class star aircraft carriers, which is extremely powerful.

In the current alliance, take the lead?
However, we don't have to do it right now to do the 'Iron Fury Stone'. The big bosses of Holy Terra still need time to unify their thoughts, eradicate the protective umbrella of Iron Fury Stone, and mobilize their forces to prepare for war.

Perhaps the alliance's army will be one of the participants in the war, but it should not be the main force, and Gu Hang is not willing to be the main force.

Need to pay more.

However, the first to fire should be the Alliance.

In the secret meeting, after Gu Hang said it was "obligatory", Ou Curen and Gallardo had given clear instructions that before taking action against the Iron Wrath Stone, they must first eradicate the Wrath Flame.

It just so happens that their main force, at least the main force on the surface, is in the Dragon Eagle Star Region.

It just so happens that they are fighting against the alliance.

It just so happens that they have ready-made charges of 'manipulating the star region government' and 'fabricating evidence to slander the loyal ministers of the empire'.

It was indeed duty-bound for Gu Hang to kill Fury Yan, and he would do it even without being paid.

What's more, it's money.

Everything else can be ignored. Once the alliance becomes a formal government recognized by a higher level and is no longer the temporary government established by Gallardo before, its legitimacy will rise immediately.

At least, no one can cause him trouble in this regard - unless the central government of the empire issues a decree to terminate his position.

If this situation really happened, then either Gu Hang had a falling out with Ou Curen, Gallardo and their political faction, or this political faction was overthrown.

At present, it should not be possible.

At this point, Gu Hang's goal of coming to Holy Terra this time has almost been achieved.

All that's left is to wait for the marshal conferment ceremony that will take place some time later.

After he's done, he can take his marshal's scepter, return home in glory, and then beat up Fury Flame.

……

The marshal's investiture ceremony was grand and quickly prepared.

Mainly because, although the Imperial Marshal said there were few, the number was actually quite large. Each space domain, together with the navy and the Astra Militarum, ranges from two or three to five or six, and there may be more in some key areas. There are still three to five hundred marshals in the entire empire.

Don't overestimate it, this corresponds to the empire's infinite territory, infinite population, and infinite army. Judging from the proportion, it is quite rare.

At least, the status of a single marshal is no worse than that of a senior member of the four central ministries of the empire.

Moreover, most of these marshals have military merits, so a special and grand conferring ceremony is a matter of course.

It is a grand event but can be prepared very quickly, naturally because there is a dedicated team in Holy Terrali responsible for this work. There is a special magnificent wonder building in the Terra Palace: 'Jianxing Terrace', which was built for this purpose.

Everything that needs to be done has already been prepared. Even if necessary, this set of things can be taken out immediately and arranged quickly.

Today, Gu Hang has put on a full set of marshal uniforms. A bright red gorgeous and serious military uniform, paired with black boots and white trousers, with many medals pinned to the chest, a ribbon across the torso, and golden tassels and ribbons, making the clothing extremely complex.

Gu Hang has become very accustomed to wearing similar clothes.

As the most powerful person in the league, he inevitably wears this kind of clothing when attending many formal occasions.

Whether he likes it or not.

Sitting on the floating car heading to 'Jiangxingdae', the speed is not very fast and it takes a while to get there.

Gu Hang began to think about the process of becoming a marshal.

Despite Ou Curen's protection, in fact, the matter had some twists and turns in the past few days.

According to Gallardo, his boss, Mr. Norberto, the military prime minister, firmly opposed this matter with a very fierce attitude.

Norberto gave Gu Hang the title of Imperial Marshal because he was young, had never really led a serious Astra Militarum, had never fought for the Astra Militarum, was just a local power, and whose legitimacy was even questioned, so he gave him the title of Imperial Marshal. What a joke!
Even someone like Gu Hang can be given the title of Marshal of the Astral Empire Army, so let those veteran generals in the Astral Empire Army who have stayed at the general level for who knows how many years and have fought countless battles across the entire empire's territory cross countless battlefields. What do you think?
From a certain perspective, what he said makes sense.

Compared with most generals of the Astra Militarum, who have led the army in battles in the south and north for countless years, they can only achieve the rank of general or general. The war that Gu Hang participated in was limited to one star region and one battle. Although his contribution was very great, was he really worthy of the rank of Marshal of the Astral Army?

That's certainly not enough.

If Gu Hang was really a simple Astral Army general, his achievements would have allowed him to be promoted from general to general, and there could be no more. If he is a general, then at most he should be given an honorary military rank.

Now, Gu Hang's military rank will be directly promoted from lieutenant general to marshal.

Gu Hang did not deny this.

But he certainly deserves it.

His marshal rank and military exploits are only a small part of it. What is more important is the strength he possesses.

This is different from the Astra Militarum generals, whose power comes from the Empire. If the central government of the empire, such as the Ministry of Military Affairs or the Central Headquarters of the Astra Militarum, deems you unsuitable and withdraws you, no power will be left at all. But Gu Hang was different. Because he had actual power and could command billions of alliance troops reaching the level of the Astra Militarum, as well as tens of billions of defense troops, the empire needed to ratify this and gave him the title of marshal.

The two are completely different in nature. If the empire removes Gu Hang's position as marshal one day, it will not have any impact on the troops under Gu Hang's command.

So Gu Hang won't feel guilty about this.

Doesn’t the Prime Minister of the Ministry of Military Affairs understand this truth?

Understand, he understands so well.

But for this reason, it must also be opposed.

If you have the real thing and give it the name, don't you want to go to heaven?
Still hostile elements.

Of course he would object to it to the death.

The conferment of the title of marshal cannot avoid the military prime minister.

This matter even reached the Supreme Council.

In the Supreme Council, according to Gallardo, after a fierce debate, everyone finally approved Gu Hang's promotion to marshal with six votes in favor, four abstentions, and three votes against.

It is quite rare for the conferment of a marshal to be voted on by the Supreme Council.

Gu Hang carefully asked about the composition of these thirteen votes.

Those who voted in favor were: the Prime Minister of the Empire, the Prime Minister of the Ministry of Justice, the Prime Minister of the Ministry of Taxation, the representatives of the State Church, the Grand Admiral of the Imperial Navy, and the representatives of the Space Marines.

The four who abstained from voting are: the Prime Minister of the Executive Yuan, the Supreme Judge of the Inquisition, the Mars representative of the Mechanicus, and the President of the Provence Space Region. The three who voted against were: the Prime Minister of the Ministry of Military Affairs, the Supreme Marshal of the Imperial Guard, and the representative of the Chairman of the Northern Xinjiang Galactus Space Territory.

From these compositions, Gu Hang can probably get a glimpse of the attitude of the major forces in the central empire towards dealing with the issue of the 'Iron Fury Stone'.

Speaking of which, we have to mention the origin of these Supreme Council seats.

It is true that there are only thirteen seats in the Supreme Council, but in fact there are about twenty types of them. Some seats are fixed. Although there are no clear regulations, they are available in every issue, such as the Prime Minister of the Empire, representatives of Mars, representatives of the State Church, and representatives of the Tribunal.

But there are relatively few such seats. Most of them are representatives of the Imperial Chamber of Commerce, the four prime ministers of the government, representatives of Space Marines, representatives of the Psychic Order, etc. Sometimes there are, sometimes there are not.

Regardless of whether it is a fixed seat or a non-fixed seat, if he can occupy one of the thirteen seats, it must be because he is strong enough. You must first have strength and influence before you can have a seat.

Fixed seats must mean that these forces are strong enough and have continued to be strong; changes in non-fixed seats may show changes in the influence of certain forces.

Those who voted in favor were not necessarily well-intentioned towards him, and were even disgusted with Gu Hang's excessive promotion of military rank. However, they must be working on the 'Iron Fury Stone' next, or they must share interests in this matter, and have reached a certain tacit understanding of interests with the political factions of Ou Cure, Tang Mili, and Gallardo. of.

The representative of the Space Marines is usually a Chapter Master elected by each Chapter when the Space Marines have a seat. The current one is the leader of the Death Angel Chapter, Jerry Earl Steelon. His battle group was reorganized from the First Legion in the past legion period and was a start-up battle group.

It's hard to say how much political benefit the Space Marines can gain from this matter, but it is definitely their political will to get rid of guys like Iron Armor who seriously affect the reputation of the Space Marines and clearly violate the regulations of the Space Marine Codex.

Space Marines have always been a rather subtle role in the heart of the Imperium of Man, and their existence makes people both love and fear them. They are superhuman beings who were created based on the Emperor's genes. When the Empire was established, they were led by the Emperor's adopted sons and established this huge country in the form of a legion; but they were also created after the Emperor's ascension. , because of a great rebellion and mutual antagonism, the empire was torn apart and almost destroyed.

Since then, the Space Marines have been subject to various restrictions in the "Space Marine Codex" and have almost withdrawn from the power field at the center of the Empire.

Of course, all the war groups will be disgusted by something like iron armor that ruins the situation and harms the overall situation.

The same goes for the Prime Minister of the Department of Taxation and the State Religion. In the several star regions that you occupy, the taxes are all made up for me to pay depending on my mood. So I am not allowed to do it to you? You didn't let me preach, you had a big conflict with my church, and you even drove out the clergy. So far, the churches in the Queen's Star Territory are all wrong and continue to be demolished. Their attitude towards the state religion is far worse than that of the Alliance.

The other votes in favor were basically to gain benefits from this matter, such as the Imperial Prime Minister Qi Bodu, the Ministry of Justice Ou Kyuren, and the Imperial Navy.

Those who abstained from voting were probably people who had nothing to do with this matter, such as the Chairman of the Provence Universe.

In addition to the Supreme Council, there is another parliament with a strong presence in the empire, and that is the Presidium Council. The entire team is composed of more than 50 space domain presidents from the empire, representing the largest collection of local forces. They will elect some members to become one of the high lords. As for the specific number of seats, depending on the situation at the time, there are two this year.

Of course, like the Space Marines, these space presidents or chapter leaders cannot personally perform the duties of high lords in Holy Terra. They will send people to represent them.

The Provence universe is in the western frontier of the empire and has nothing to do with the eastern frontier of the empire, so I just abstained.

The Mars representatives and the Executive Yuan are similar.

The Tribunal has to say that it is true that the Silver Tribunal is on the side of the Iron Wrath Stone, but the Tribunal is a loose organization. For example, the Heretic Tribunal is very dissatisfied with the behavior of the Iron Armor Chapter; there is also the Internal Affairs Tribunal The Tribunal, a faction that specializes in supervising judges, is also investigating many of the Silver Tribunal's transgressions, secretly trying to make big news.

The chaotic and loose internal structure made it impossible for the Supreme Judge to give a clear position.

Of the three who objected, it goes without saying that Norberto was the big fish who was going to be eaten, so he definitely had to resist.

The Grand Marshal of the Astra Militarum does not stand on the side of the Iron Wrath Stone. He just needs this vote of disapproval to express his stance to the countless marshals and generals under his command. Otherwise, it would definitely not be good for Gu Hang, a person who has never been in the Astral Army system, to become the marshal of the Astral Army without saying a word.

However, Gallardo also told Gu Hang that this was just a statement. In fact, they had communicated in private. The Supreme Generalissimo will not actually stop it.

However, the attitude of the chairman of the Swallowing Star Universe is worth pondering. They are not far away from the Spider Web Universe and have a certain relationship with the 'Iron Fury Stone', but are their relationships good enough to support the Iron Fury Stone?

Gu Hang analyzed that he probably didn’t want to fight a big war.

In a fight, their swallowing space domain might become part of the front line, and a large amount of resources would have to be recruited from the local area. If the Iron Armor Chapter strikes preemptively, the main force of the empire may not be fully assembled yet, and the Star Swallowing Space Territory may suffer.

But his attitude doesn't matter anymore.

Three votes against it can no longer stop the overall situation.

The formal procedures for Gu Hang to become the Marshal of the Empire have also been completed, and it is quite hard: the Thirteen Lords Council voted and approved it!
How many things in the entire vast empire can be voted on by this parliament?
Very few! And each one is a big deal!
Ordinary marshals don't get this kind of treatment. The Ministry of Military Affairs and the Navy or the Astra Militarum approve it.

And Marshal Gu Hang also has his embarrassment.

The only two departments that were logically the most relevant, the Ministry of War and the Supreme Marshal of the Astra Militarum, were opposed to his appointment.

However, Gallardo also conveyed a situation. During the awarding ceremony, the Supreme Marshal of the Astra Militarum will attend and confer the title in person.

After expressing his position, he already explained the following: This is the decision of the highest authority of the empire, and there is nothing I can do about it.

Then you can happily deal with the upstart Gu Hang.

Gu Hang fully understood this.

Norberto, who was supposed to be there as well, will definitely not come. For the two positions of deputy prime minister, Wang Shuan, the former chairman of Eastern Universe and deputy prime minister of the Ministry of Military Affairs, has already retired. It is said that he is seriously ill and may only have one or two years left in his life. The other deputy prime minister is a close confidant of Norberto. Will not come either. But Gallardo will come, as executive minister, barely enough.

……

While thinking about it, the tall General Star Tower had already appeared in front of him.

Arrive on site quickly.

Gu Hang finally tidied up his instrument with the help of the waiter who was in the same car to make sure everything was fine.

However, at this moment, Gu Hang's heart tightened, and he felt a sudden wave of heart palpitations.

He sensed great danger, and his spirituality was warning him crazily.

He instinctively opened his psychic shield, but the black stone bracelet on his wrist suppressed his psychic power.

But he didn't hesitate at all.

Although the consequences would be somewhat troublesome, he still called and opened a small rift in the subspace.

Of course he chose to believe his own spiritual warning. No matter how serious the consequences were, they would not be more serious than his own death.

It is very difficult to tear open the subspace rift. The Terra Palace is obviously a place that seriously rejects the power of subspace, and Gu Hang's psychic energy is also suppressed by the black stone bracelet.

But just a tiny subspace crack was enough to give him a certain enhancement, making his psychic strength, which was already close to the threshold, exceed the limit of the Black Stone Bracelet.

The black stone bracelet shattered, and a psychic shield appeared on Gu Hang's body.

The next moment, the car window broke and a bullet shot into Gu Hang's head.

The bullet, captured by his psychic power, stayed less than three centimeters away from his temple.

He used his spiritual power to gently move the bullet to his eyes.

This is a bullet about the length of your hand and the thickness of your thumb. The warhead is made of some kind of patina metal, and the tail is a complex mechanical device that supports a transparent tube with some green liquid inside.

Gu Hang had no doubt that if this bullet hit, he would definitely die.

In fact, this sniper bullet that flew from nowhere put him under tremendous pressure.

This is no ordinary sniper attack. After breaking free from the black stone bracelet, and blessed by the power of subspace, his spiritual strength suddenly reached the Alpha level. It is impossible for a conventional sniper rifle to break through his protective measures.

A term flashed through Gu Hang's mind:
Court of Assassins.

This is a mysterious organization within the empire. As its name suggests, it specializes in assassinations. Most of their assassination targets are disloyal elements within the empire; occasionally they will assassinate alien or Chaos leaders.

They act mysteriously, and anyone in the empire, including the high lords of Terra, may die suddenly on the spot at any time, with varying circumstances. Whenever these things happen, it's probably the Assassin's Court who are out to do their work.

The assassins in the Assassin's Court all have special skills and have undergone a large number of biological enhancements. In addition, because the Assassin's Court has a special permission to "use any means or tools to complete the task," they always have various kinds of weapons in their hands. Black technology or alien equipment.

This bullet, and the gun that fired it, is most likely one of them. It has a strong penetrating effect on psychic protection and physical armor, and contains a deadly poison.

If only Gu Hang's spiritual power was weaker and had not reached the Alpha level; if he just hesitated because he was worried that tearing open the subspace to reveal his power would lead to uncontrollable consequences; if he even doubted his spiritual warning...he They are all dead now.

However, the crisis is not completely over yet.

The driver of the float vehicle stopped in panic and tried to land; the same was true for several accompanying vehicles.

But Gu Hang, who was completely unsealed, could detect multiple powerful auras appearing on the ground through his spiritual energy. Moreover, another bullet was fired from a distance.

This time the bullet was not highly poisonous, but a high-explosive bomb.

The bullet directly triggered a violent explosion, blowing the armored floating vehicle Gu Hang was riding into pieces in the air.

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6K!

Still owe 68k
Stay up too late...

(End of this chapter)