511, Minotaur in Holy Terra: Shadow of the Regent! (IX

Chapter 501 Minotaur in Holy Terra: Shadow of the Regent! (IX) (Happy New Year!)

[At the same time, in the low-Earth orbit of Holy Terra.

[The huge steel fortress with various traces of war damage between its broken exterior, the Phalanx gradually activated a large number of subspace engines inside, and headed towards the naval fleet approaching Terra. ]

[Marshal Perez, one of the traitor high lords and the only female high lord in the six-man alliance, is inside the Navy Emperor-class battleship "Supreme Bloodline". ]

[And in order to successfully take off the other party's head and play with it at will, you have arranged several insurance measures in advance. ]

[The first insurance measure is that before the conservatives launched the rebellion, a team of Terminator guards who secretly received your orders boarded the bridge in advance in the name of protecting the Navy Marshal, and should now be standing quietly beside the Navy Marshal. 】

【The second insurance measure, if the Terminator Guards fail to chop off the opponent's head in the first place due to the influence of many factors, and the Imperial Fists' Phalanx still engages in a firefight with the navy fleet. 】

【Then the Terminator Guards' mission will automatically become to slaughter the entire bridge of the "Supreme Bloodline" and shut down the void shield. 】

【And use this to attract the Terminator squad from the Imperial Fists to jump into the battle, so that the Astartes of both sides can unite and completely eliminate the crew and guards loyal to the Admiral inside the ship.

【Moreover, according to the political manipulation methods of Regent Guilliman. 】

【In the sixth month, with the fine acid rain falling from the dark sky again. 】

【To some extent, this is one of the means by which the commander of the Imperial Guards, Trajan, chooses to stand. 】

【Otherwise, the opponent's head will definitely be successfully delivered to you by the Terminator Guards after a few hours. 】

【As for another commander-in-chief of the Astra Militarum who also participated in the Six-Man Alliance, Field Marshal Asariel. 】

【There must be a Callidus assassin from the Inquisition next to Admiral Perez. 】

【Not long after arriving, this unknown Primarch killed five high lords who instigated the rebellion and massacred hundreds of thousands of conservative officials. This is not something that a Primarch who would listen to others would do. 】

【So, do you think that unless this Admiral chooses to join the Chaos forces on the spot and successfully ascends to magic and obtains immortality, it will be possible to have a face-to-face, head-on duel with the two Terminator teams. 】

【If it weren't for the fact that even the Prime Minister of the Reform Party and the legendary Lord of the Astronomical Language Hall came to you for several talks in person, you would probably have to continue to clean up more people.

【Hundreds of thousands of conservative officials were used by you to sacrifice to the Emperor, and the ground of the City of Prayers belonging to the Ministry of the Interior was soaked in blood. ]

[In the eighth month, you successfully obtained the power to fill the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of the Interior with officials at will through the newly reorganized reformist Terra Supreme Council, which had suffered the most personnel losses. ]

[A returning Primarch is enough to torment Holy Terra, and the Regent Lord can also listen to the persuasion and suggestions of others, which is convenient for everyone to use political means. ]

[Although the other party has doubts about your identity as the Primarch, they are unwilling to take the responsibility of asking you to go to the throne room to meet the Emperor in person to test your soul. ]

[In addition, a group of low-level officials with a number of up to one million people who have no effect on the efficiency of the Empire's administrative departments were dismissed on the spot and thrown into major hives to receive life re-education like ordinary civilians. ]

[Rather than saying that this is a compromise between the reformists and the Imperial Guards, or the Imperial Fists and the Minotaurs, it is better to say that it is simply to find something for you to do to prevent you from being bored and killing people for fun. ]

[Because the rumor that the Minotaurs' Chapter Captain Moloch is not his real body, but is possessed by the soul of an unknown Primarch has spread throughout the aristocracy of Holy Terra, and after the current Pope of the State Church visited you several times, the smile that never disappeared from his face and the increasingly fanatical parades of loyal believers also made everyone's thoughts more cautious. ]

[However, even if all your plans fail, the commander of the Imperial Guards can explain to the Six-Man Alliance that the death of the Field Marshal was just the reckless and out-of-control behavior of a captain of the Imperial Guards, and the Six-Man Alliance will not be able to force the Imperial Guards too hard. ]

[Wait until this bloody storm lasts for the seventh day. ]

[In the seventh month, the reason why you announced the suspension of the cleanup operation is actually very simple, that is, the number of middle and low-level officials in the administrative department is indeed insufficient. ]

[There will inevitably be false cases and wrongful convictions, but such a minor loss of personnel is not worth mentioning at all compared to the chaos and disaster brought to Holy Terra by the Six-Man Alliance for power. 】

【The reason why the Terra Supreme Council is unwilling to streamline the excess manpower is that the middle, low-level and even high-level officials of the Human Empire are completely consumables, not pure negative assets. 】

【Before the offensive operation at the Ascension Cathedral began, this high lord was personally stabbed to pieces by the shield captain Valerian from the Imperial Guard and his Sisters of Silence, and successfully seized the ground command of the Terran Star Army. 】

【In the end, facing the continuous influence of various realistic factors, you had to stop this "cleansing the court" operation that you had finally found a suitable excuse for. 】

【Supervised by the Ten Thousands of the Imperial Guard and the Imperial Fists, the Minotaurs occasionally went out to attack, and most of the other operations were carried out by your Hive Astra Militarum and some of the reorganized Terra Astra Militarum, which successfully achieved amazing progress. 】

【Countless security fortresses belonging to the Ministry of Justice were breached by your Hive Astra Militarum. 】

【Many captured low-level and middle-level officials of the Ministry of Justice will be executed on the spot or stripped of their positions after their identities are identified according to the closeness of their relationship with the conservatives. 】

【And you yourself seem to be indifferent to these complicated news circulating among the nobles. 】

【The fierce battle on the entire Holy Terra swept by like waves. 】

【But the opponent, who is one of the high lords of the parliament, finally made the Imperial Guard successfully join the right side. 】

【It was not until this time that you vaguely understood. 】

【Your mind is completely focused on how to rectify the bureaucracy of Holy Terra and try to provide necessary help for Guilliman's Indomitable Crusade. 】

【So, after you selected the loyal elites in the major hives to fill the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Justice, you submitted some proposals to the Supreme Council of Terra. 】

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Happy New Year everyone.