Immortal, My Desperate Journey at 40k

Chapter 593 Leman Russ's Opinion on Wang Ming

The reconstruction of this world is underway, and huge buildings are rising from the ground. Wang Ming looked at those buildings, which were all the work of the First Engineer Corps. To be honest, after Xu Zheng left, the construction capacity of the First Engineer Corps decreased for a period of time, but the development in recent years has brought this capacity back.

Wang Ming is still very concerned about the changes in the First Engineer Corps. After all, the First Engineer Corps is already an important part of the 21st Legion. The technological creations of the First Engineer Corps can already replace the existence of Mars. Except that their production capacity is not enough to replace the Mechanicus, other things can completely replace the Mechanicus. Even in terms of some technological creations, their quality is better than that of the Mechanicus.

To be honest, Wang Ming actually had a plan to replace the Mechanicus with the First Engineer Regiment, but given the Mechanicus' current expansion throughout the galaxy, its importance to the Empire, and some political considerations, this plan was shelved. However, Wang Ming never stopped restraining the Mechanicus.

After all, he didn't want to see these guys completely degenerate. The Mechanicus today no longer has the enterprising spirit of the Great Crusade era. Under the archaeological study of those technologies and the infinite conservatism towards technology, the general situation of the entire Mechanicus now is that the ancestral laws cannot be changed. Asking them to come up with something new is more painful than killing them. Even Cawl is called a heretic by these Mechanicus fundamentalists in some aspects.

"So, what do you want to change this world into?"

Leman Russ looked at Wang Ming and asked Wang Ming about the transformation plan for this world. This world was a rare hive world. Compared with other hive worlds that were like death worlds, the ecological environment of this world was very well preserved. I don’t know if it was intentional by the colonists back then. The forests and mountains in this world were preserved very intact, and the local ecology had hardly changed.

The human nest is located in the forest of this world, like a man-made building that suddenly appears in this forest. Although they have existed in this forest for many years, they still seem rather out of place compared to the surrounding natural environment.

"I want to transform this world into a fortress world, so that the humans in this world don't have to worry about external threats. At the same time, I want to establish a strong planetary government in this world, so that there will be no soil for rebellions like the previous one to happen."

Wang Ming turned his head and glanced at Leman Russ. He told him his vision of this world. In fact, every world conquered by the 21st Legion was like this, because as time travelers, they knew why those planets rebelled. Chaos pollution was a big part of it, but another big part of it was local livelihood issues. The imperial nobles were notoriously inhumane, plundering the people's wealth and even treating civilians as a group of consumables that could be wasted.

In some worlds, civilians are even treated as commodities that can be traded. These are not what Wang Ming wants to see. Moreover, it is because of these things that chaos has the possibility of corrupting the entire world. Because civilians, as the cornerstone of this world, are the most easily corrupted part, the decay of a thing often starts from the most basic place.

That's why Wang Ming is unwilling to play those so-called political games with the high-ranking officials of the empire. He has only one approach to those high-ranking officials, and that is to kill all those who are disobedient. The high lords have been replaced one after another now, just like leeks. Anyway, what the empire lacks the least is people. If you don't do it, there are plenty of people who will do it.

"Then, how are you going to deal with the imperial nobles in this world?"

Leman Russ looked at Wang Ming. He had already understood what Wang Ming meant by this sentence. The corners of his mouth curled up a little, and then he asked Wang Ming about the solution for the nobles of this world. The biggest reason for the rebellion in this world was because of the improper behavior of those nobles. Originally, this world used local unique wood to pay the empire's tithe. The large local population was basically lumberjacks, and the way the planetary government paid taxes was to buy these woods that were of certain use to the empire from the lumberjacks at a low price, and then hand over a batch of them in the form of tithes, and the rest were trade shares with other worlds.

This situation is actually very stable, but one day, the nobles in this world suddenly decide to lower the purchase price again, from one person's ration to half a person's ration. That's right, the purchase in this world is not carried out using traditional currencies, but rations. Although the ecological environment of this world is incomparably beautiful, the pure natural plants in this world... As we said before, the plants in this world are all somewhat aggressive.

Their aggressiveness is not just on the physical level, but also because of the toxins in their bodies. After countless years of evolution, the creatures in this world can now filter out those toxins, but humans in this world cannot. After these toxins are absorbed by humans, they are still very deadly. So it is very ironic that a world with such a beautiful ecological environment actually needs to import its food from other worlds.

It is natural that food has become the universal currency of this world, and the behavior of the nobles in this world is undoubtedly forcing the local civilians to rebel. After all, based on the purchase prices of those nobles, no one knows how many people will starve to death in this year.

"As for the nobles in this world, we just need to clear them all out. I will re-establish a planetary government, and there is no need for the local dregs to stay. Moreover, this world clearly has the potential to be developed into agriculture, but the nobles in this world do not contact the Mechanicus to do these things. I roughly know what they are thinking."

Wang Ming looked at Leman Russ and curled up the corner of his mouth. He also spoke to him with a smile.

Wang Ming knew what the nobles in this world were thinking. They were just squeezing the common people and using the lowest price to get more value from them. This was already a very common thing in the empire. Wang Ming had read the explanation of the nobles in this world for the rebellion. When Wang Ming asked them why they wanted to lower the price of timber purchases, they actually told Wang Ming that it was because of the instability of the subspace routes. They got too little food from the starry sky, so they reduced the purchase price.

After hearing this explanation, Wang Ming almost laughed out of anger. These damn insects didn't know that the Empire's trade no longer needed the Warp Channels. The navigation mode now widely used by the Empire was all through the Webway to navigate the Milky Way. This had nothing to do with the Warp Channels. These guys had no idea of ​​the changes in the Empire and were still lying with their eyes open, even trying to deceive a Primarch.

"My brother, I have heard about what you did in Terra, and I like your methods very much."

Leman Russ looked at Wang Ming, put his arm around Wang Ming's shoulders, and then smiled at Wang Ming and said that when he was watching the changes in the empire before, he was almost driven crazy by anger. He wanted to tear Guilliman to pieces at that time. A Codex Astartes almost caused the entire empire to lose half of its military strength. Even their enemies could not do this.

What the hell was that that Guilliman wrote? The Empire's military system has been torn to pieces now. Why was it Sanguinius who died instead of that guy?
However, after this outburst of rage, Leman Russ calmed down for a while, and then he began to analyze how much the Codex had changed. Although he was reluctant to admit it, what Guilliman wrote did eliminate the possibility of a large-scale civil war in the Empire, but he also completely deprived the Empire of the ability to launch another Great Crusade, because according to the current military mobilization of the Empire, a grand expedition like the Great Crusade can no longer be quickly reorganized.

And after he finished reading those things written by Guilliman and others, he looked at the revival expedition and the reform policies of the empire that Wang Ming had carried out, which happened to make up for what Guilliman had written. Most of Wang Ming's policies were about improving people's livelihood and the army, such as improving the empire's livelihood system a little bit, and then changing the empire's troop composition back to the legion.

However, these improvements are not a liberation of the Holy Code for those legions without original titles. Due to the traditions of each legion, the sub-legions separated from those legions have formed their own culture. It is very difficult to get them to return to the embrace of the legion again, unless there is a Primarch operating in it.

Otherwise, it would be very difficult for those sub-groups to return to the parent group, or for those parent groups to let the sub-groups return. After all, each sub-group has formed its own cultural system, and returning to the parent group is not something that can be done overnight. This also indirectly continues the purpose of restricting the Astartes Legion in the Astartes Festival.

Moreover, Wang Ming's policy improvements for the empire were also very good. A large number of bloated imperial departments were cleaned up or transformed, and all the conservatives in the empire were cleared out. Then, he greatly improved the administrative efficiency of the empire. At the same time, he even obtained the Webway from the aliens such as the Eldar, which allowed safe superluminal travel in the real universe without the help of the subspace.

This will be a huge boost to the entire empire, so he likes his new brother very much. At the same time, he also likes the technology and weapons in his brother's hands. The transformation technology of the New Astartes has been shared with various legions, but due to cost and technical issues, there are not many transformations of the New Astartes. Now, Leman Russ has finally met Wang Ming, so of course he has to get some transformation methods of the New Astartes from Wang Ming.

"My brother, if you have something to say, just say it directly. Your smile..."

Wang Ming looked at the two wolf-like fangs sticking out of the mouth of Leman Russ in front of him. He had a premonition that this guy was definitely going to blackmail him again.

"Um... my brother, can you help me with the transformation surgery of the new Astartes?"

Leman Russ told Wang Ming his thoughts with a smile on his face, while Wang Ming looked at him speechlessly, then nodded helplessly. He knew that Leman Russ wanted to get something from him again. Well, isn't it just the transformation surgery of the New Astartes? At most, he could ask the biological priests of the fleet and the master and apprentice in the medical area to work overtime. It's not a big problem.

While Wang Ming was talking with Leman Russ, in the capital hive of this world, on the top nest of this hive, in the magnificent palace of the planetary governor, all the nobles of this world had gathered here. They were talking about the changes in this world, the transformation of their world by the 21st Legion, and the policies that the 21st Legion told them about to improve people's livelihood.

They have a strong resistance to these things. After all, the 21st Legion is going to open up fields on their world, which means that their monopoly on food supply has been broken. How can they continue to use food to coerce the civilians?

These guys are now talking about how to stop these things from happening. They have even started planning a crazy plan, which is to disguise all of their family's private soldiers as a group of bandits, and then let them take their family's treasured weapons that can equip an entire star legion, and directly attack the field that is being cultivated, so that their plans will be stopped, and then use the local political games to manipulate it and make the 21st Legion stop cultivating the fields in this world.

While they were talking at once, they did not notice one thing. That was that in a shadow that they could not see, several Astartes wearing black tactical power armor were listening to them quietly. The weapons in the hands of the nobles who were talking at once were ready. Now they only needed their team leader to contact Wang Ming to decide whether to take action. Then all the nobles in this world would be wiped out in an instant, and the plans of those nobles would be completely unsuccessful.