Warhammer: My Brother Is the Emperor.

Chapter 143 Fandral and the Battle Nun
Gao Zhi-Fandal?

Said's eyes froze, and he immediately thought of the culprit in the apostasy era. Counting the time, it should be the one in front of him.

In history, Fandral became the Minister of the Interior and then concurrently served as the Pope of the State Church. Like Wangerich, he enslaved the High Lords Council and established a dictatorship.

But unlike Wangerich who does practical things for the empire, Fandral is purely selfish. He only does one thing after he takes office:

Use various means to strengthen personal power!
Forming secret agents, engaging in a personality cult, forming a private army (combat nuns), purging the opposition... Anyway, it is all kinds of internal fighting, and nothing beneficial has been done.

Before the mad criticism, Wangerich worked diligently in logistics, providing material guarantee for Astartes to clear the green skins.

On the other hand, instead of ignoring the battle situation on the front line, Wangerich searched for the resources of the empire everywhere, armed his personal troops, and sharpened his knives against the uncontrolled interstellar warriors and Mechanicians.

His ultimate goal is to build an undead empire, or a Gestalt civilization like Said.

However...he was just a mortal, but he did things that even the emperor couldn't do, the ending can be imagined.

Resisting the urge to shoot him, Saeed asked, "Why a new army? Are the current troops not enough?"

Fandral bowed respectfully and said: "You are right, Your Royal Highness, as we all know, the civil war between Nova Terra and the Mechanicus stems from the disunity of beliefs within the empire!"

"So the empire must have a force dedicated to correcting beliefs, the current armed forces can't do it!"

Said calmly said: "Heretics are one of the three evils of the empire. The Inquisition is responsible for combating the three evils internally. Mortal agents travel around the world of the empire. Once the three evils are found, they will call Deathwatch or Gray Knights to attack!"

Fandral replied: "God Emperor, if it really worked, why would there be a rebellion between Nova Terra and Mechanicus?"

Said's breath faltered, and he suddenly remembered that although the state religion was established, it also made great efforts to carry out ideological propaganda, but the focus was only on literary combat, ignoring military combat.

It's not that there were no military battles. Malcador's purge of mortal political elites, and Said's authorization of Ryan to purge the Pacific Starfield after the Nova Terra rebellion were all part of the fighting.

But this is only a short-term, rapid military action, and there is no agency responsible for it, causing heresy to grow like weeds in spring.

Fandral continued: "The Death Watch's expertise lies in dealing with aliens, and the Gray Knights' expertise in dealing with demons. They may believe in the state religion, but they may not be pious. There must be a normalized and pious enough purge force."

Deathwatch and Gray Knights do not require faith to deal with aliens and demons, but ideological struggle requires fanatical beliefs, which Deathwatch and Gray Knights cannot do.

Said probably understood what Fandral meant, and asked, "So this organization is the Battle Sisters, why is it a nun?"

Fandral nodded and said, "Because they are fanatical enough and innocent enough. When I was a military chaplain, I saw too many girls in single clothes and shackled feet charging towards the enemies of the God-Emperor."

"They did this voluntarily, just to atone for the sins on their bodies, even though the sins they said were insignificant in the eyes of others!"

When a woman becomes fanatical, men have nothing to do. Through the puppet, Said knows the facts that Fandral said, and if he continues to dig deeper, it will still be shocking.

Said thought about it and said, "So you want to arm them and become a special purge force against heresy?"

Fandral nodded and said: "Exactly, praise the emperor, His Royal Highness is wise!"

After speaking, he handed over a document, which described in detail the formation plan, organizational structure, material consumption, etc. of the Battle Sisters.

Said didn't agree immediately, and said to Fandral: "You go down first, I have something to discuss with Ma Xiang!"

After Fandral left, Said asked Malcador: "The reward you want is to let me promote Fandral? Let him control the Battle Sister?"

Malcador said with a smile: "How does His Royal Highness feel about him?"

Said shook his head: "I don't have a good impression. He has a strong desire for power. He is just a mortal, and Terra can't give him the position he desires!"

"The fact that he didn't hang out with Rising Star Tyra is incredible to me!"

Malcador truthfully said: "Fandar was ill at the time, and his body did not allow him to mix with the rebels. After he recovered, the rebellion had been suppressed."

Said sneered: "Then he is so lucky, do you want to promote him? Use the favor I owe you!"

Malcador shook his head: "No, no, Your Royal Highness, how could I shoot myself in the foot, Fandral is irrelevant, the point is the battle nun?"

Said smiled and said, "Does the Ministry of the Interior have any ideas about this army? Can't the Ministry of Justice and the Assassin Court satisfy you?"

Malcador shook his head again: "No, the God Emperor sent me a message, telling me that there are very important divine candidates in the nuns!"

Said was taken aback for a moment, and said in disbelief: "Liar, why did Brother Huang tell you, not me!"

Malcador said with a smile: "His Royal Highness forgot that churches and nuns in various places are under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Interior. If His Majesty wants to find someone, of course it will be more convenient for him to find me!"

"Could it be that you think that only you in the entire empire can connect with His Majesty!"

Said gritted his teeth. He really thought so before. After confirming it to the Emperor in his heart, he found that besides Ma Xiang, there were many people who could talk to the Emperor.

Not to mention, Sanguinius can also communicate with the Emperor, and Jaghatai, Leman Russ, and Vulkan can occasionally.

For a moment, Said was full of reluctance: "Hmph! I thought I was the only one who was special!"

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Malcador was still smiling, and seemed to enjoy Said's appearance, and he said after a while:
"The Sisters are a group of fanatical female believers. Since His Majesty attaches great importance to it, you might as well invest more resources to form a fighting force."

Saeed nodded, and said with some frustration: "Okay, I agree to form it, and the Superman Council will be held in a few days, and I will speak for you!"

Then he picked up Fandral's army building plan, curled his lips and said:
"Fandral actually intends to make this army independent of the War Council. He is the founder. After that, the Battle Sister alone has the final say!"

Said continued to read. The super computing power of the gestalt allowed him to read ten lines at a glance. He read a thick stack of plans in more than ten seconds, and then said:

"Except for taking power, the other parts of this plan are well written. It can allow Fandral to form a battle nun, but he cannot be given the command right!"

Malcador nodded: "Understood, I also don't like him, but his plan is really good. After the organization is on the right track, the Assassin Court will kill him!"

The next day, Saeed convened the Superman Council and came up with a proposal from the Battle Sisters, proposing to form a force against heresy.

In any organization, there are only two most sensitive issues, one is personnel and the other is finance.

When it comes to the Battle Sisters proposal, the empire has no shortage of supplies, so the command power has become the focus of debate, but after the empire's military reform, there is no need to argue about this issue.

The war committee is in charge, the theater is the main battle, and the military is the main construction. The battle nuns are the subordinate arms of the trial court. The military department is responsible for the logistics construction and belongs to the command of the theater command.

And Fandral will become a member of the military department, responsible for building the army, but has no command power, and it is even more impossible to intervene in the combat command of various theater commands.

In the current body, it is very difficult for Fandral to have a chance to reach the top. The reason Said wants to kill him is simply because he is unhappy.

Originally in history, Fandral used the Battle Sisters as maids and bodyguards, changing their identities from the Emperor's Daughters to the Emperor's Bride.

what is this?To find a wife for the emperor, but also make him a tauren?It's just so heresy!Even if it hasn't happened yet, this person can't stay!

So Said decided in his heart that after the establishment of the Military Department of the Battle Sisters, he would send more puppets to supervise Fandral, especially in terms of life style.

Since no major changes have been made to the existing system, coupled with the lessons of Nova Terra, all Primarchs understand the importance of ideological struggle, and have agreed to form Battle Sisters.

Subsequently, the Superman Council discussed the future direction of governance, and unanimously agreed to repair the war wounds of the Beast War and Nova Terra and restore the strength of the empire.

Guilliman concluded on behalf of the Interior Committee:
"Everyone, the God Emperor blesses, in the previous war, the battle was limited to a certain star area, and the trauma of the empire in the war was far less than expected!"

"Except for the warring areas, most planets in the galaxy were not affected by the war, and even a considerable part of the losses were caused by the Great Cleansing."

After finishing speaking, he glanced vaguely at Lion King Ryan, who looked indifferent, and Guilliman continued:
"It is estimated that it will take 50 years for the empire to return to its pre-war level and start the third centennial plan. This is the plan of the Internal Affairs Committee for the centennial plan!"

After speaking, a copy was distributed to each person, and the supermen quickly flipped through it, read and analyzed it with super-computing brains, and put down the plans one after another in less than a minute.

Lion King Ryan first objected: "You plan to upgrade the entire empire on the basis of electrification? With all due respect, Guilliman, this is unrealistic!"

Guilliman asked suspiciously, "Please tell me!"

Ryan said calmly: "I don't know when the next war will come. We should regroup and prepare for the next war!"

Guilliman argued: "Industrial upgrading does not conflict with military expansion and war preparations, and it can enhance industrial output in backward areas, especially military industries!"

Ryan said calmly: "With gunpowder weapons and primitive cannons, how will it help to eliminate aliens and chaos?"

Guilliman resolutely said: "It is helpful. Gunpowder guns can also kill greenskins, and primitive artillery can also banish Chaos. If these backward worlds are armed, it will be a great help to the war!"

Ryan didn't speak anymore. He always advocated cannons instead of butter. As the beast war progressed, the number of Primarchs who held the same idea gradually increased.

They gradually see a truth: In the burning galaxy, there is only war, and human beings have no chance of peaceful development at all!

Human beings have only two choices: fight or prepare for war!
Even Guilliman's Third Centennial Plan gave priority to the development of heavy industry, especially military industry, and civilian consumer goods only accounted for a very small part.

The meeting quickly reached a consensus, and a few primarchs who supported peaceful development hesitated to speak, and chose to shut up in the face of iron-like facts.

With the end of the meeting, the empire ushered in the era of forging, which is generally considered to be another golden age of the empire after the era of rebirth.

Under the unified deployment of the Internal Affairs Committee, the industries of each world are gradually upgraded, from steam engines to internal combustion engines, from only producing light bulbs and cables to being able to produce bird divination instruments.

In the following 500 years, the productivity of the empire ushered in a huge leap, as if returning to the age of rebirth.

However, few people have noticed that with the expansion of production capacity and wealth, military expenditures are also rising year by year, new legions are constantly being formed, new fleets leave the dock, and new battle groups are formed...

In deep space, military fortresses and fleet homeports were built one after another, and some key worlds were completely fortified.

Those who are interested can easily see that the top management of the empire implements a philosophy: cannons not butter!
Learning from the lessons of Beast Wars and Nova Terra, the human empire is militaristic and ready to attack, and the development results are given priority to the military rather than the production of consumer goods to improve people's lives.

On a certain day, Fandral contacted Said and said: "Can you let the Battle Sisters see you in person, you are the pope of the state religion, meeting in person will help increase loyalty!"

Said was stunned for a moment, not knowing what Fandral was planning. He is now in charge of the formation of the Battle Sisters, and under the supervision of the puppets, the work has been done exceptionally well.

If it weren't for those bad things in history, Said would hardly be willing to kill the donkey.

Saeed asked: "They are loyal to the Emperor, not the Pope, why bother!"

Fandral flattered: "The Pope is the embodiment of the Emperor, and your words are the words of the Emperor. To be loyal to you, the Pope, is to be loyal to the Emperor!"

"The Emperor needs someone to act on his behalf, and the nuns need a more specific object of allegiance. If Your Royal Highness refuses, you may be taken advantage of by heretics!"

Said complained in his heart: "The heresy is talking about you!"

Fandral didn't notice that Said was unhappy, so he lowered his voice and said:
"These first batch of battle nuns are all from remote and backward agricultural planets. They have never even seen a rosary. If you show them off, they will treat them as miracles and become your loyal servants!"

This is equivalent to saying that they are easy to deceive, if you don't deceive them, someone else will!
Said's blood pressure soared when he heard that, Fandral hired the strongest auxiliary army instructors to train them, but did not let them see the imperial technology, just to make them ignorant and easy to control!

How heretical!Said hesitated for a moment, and said, "I'll let the Primarch puppet inspect them!"

Fandral quickly waved his hand and said: "No, no, puppets are not human beings, and the effect of loyalty is not good. It is best to let them see you in person!"

Fandral didn't know about the Golden Cage Treaty. The only human beings Said saw were the Imperial Army and the Sister of Silence, and he couldn't leave the palace at all.

Said was about to reject this boring trick and let the Battle Sisters receive normal training and instruction, when the Emperor suddenly said in his mind:

"Saeed promised him that the inspection site will be in the palace, and the Imperial Army will let them in at that time!"

Said was surprised and asked: "Brother Huang, what is the value of a nun? It deserves your attention! Is it Saint Celestine?"

The emperor was silent for a while, and then slowly said: "My brother, a woman, can maintain your humanity!"

　What would happen to the Battle Sisters?May wish to guess~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)