God Emperor’s Angel of Death

"This..."

The general manager hesitated for a moment, and finally, under Space Marine's gaze, trembled and told the matter.

"My lord, it has been three months since I have added new qualified workers. All the women and children who got off the transport ship are sick and disabled. We, we can't help it—"

With that, the manager lowered the data board in front of Space Marine.

"The accidents caused by unqualified workers have also risen sharply recently. We have tried our best..."

As a result, I will only watch one minute, Uth Tad immediately turned off the data board anxiously, then turned to the foreman and said:

"On behalf of Chapter, thank you for your contribution. This situation will not continue, I promise."

"My lord, we are relieved if we have and have you."

After getting the desired data, Ustad hurriedly returned to Chapter monastery.

At this moment, Soshian is also busy in the long room of Chapter.

"If necessary, you can use the Gene-seed of the eighth Legion to form a secret company."

Soshian examined the message left by the Said cultivator before going to sleep.

This idea has to be said to be too bold, so that Astral Knight, who is already on the edge of heresy, can almost be completely characterized as a traitor, but he knows that this is respect for practical considerations.

After all, it is more than one hundred precious Gene-seed, but after strict inspection, it is confirmed that there is no contamination of Gene-seed.

Although Valer is a damn heretical traitor, but I have to say that his technique of preserving and processing Gene-seed is first-class, much better than any Primaris Apothecary Soshian currently has on hand.

But he must also assess the risks of doing so.

Soshian turned the pen in his hand, lost in thought.

"To be determined first."

It was difficult to make a decision for a while, so he planned to postpone the matter first.

Another thing is to hire professional explorers to find the planet described by Talos-Imperium has countless worlds, many of which have similar characteristics, so professionals are required to find them.

After dealing with this matter, Soshian, who was not wearing his armor, leaned back on the chair and let his body relax for a while.

But on the desktop, there are piles of files and approvals waiting for him to go one after another to look through and write down his own opinions.

So he only allowed himself to relax for ten seconds, and then picked up the pen again.

The room is very quiet. Through the two huge dark glass windows behind you, you can see the outcropping training ground where the warriors gather outside.

They are training in tactical coordination, and Soshian wanted to see it in person.

But at the moment there are so many things that Soshian can only be forced to do work that he is not very good at.

Suddenly, the doorbell rang, and then the voice of the servant came from the brass horn.

"Your Excellency Chapter, Captain Ustad has requested a meeting."

"Let him come in."

Thirty seconds later, a room The door was knocked.

"Come in."

The door was pushed open, Ustad strode in, and then stopped one meter in front of the desk, with his legs close together, and a standard military salute .

"Report the Chapter Chief, Second Company Commander, Ustad, that you have completed the task you have assigned, and went to Xinggang to build the dock, and understand the reason and details of the delay. This is what I got The data and my report are also in it."

After speaking, he handed a data board to the table.

"Thanks for your hard work."

Soshian smiled slightly at him, then leaned out and took the data board in his hand and activated it.

Ten seconds later, the smile on his face disappeared.

Five minutes later, he put the data board on the desktop and leaned back, looking very depressed.

"It seems that the problem is with us."

Ustad still stood straight.

"You did a good job. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't understand how things got to this point."

Soshian squeezed out a smile and waved his hand.

"Go back to Lianli first."

"Yes."

After Ustad left, Soshian heave a long sigh, right hand covered Hold your eyes, tilt your head back, leaning against the back of the chair.

Actually, the data and reports collected by Ustad can be summed up in one sentence--

The rapidly growing Astral Knight Chapter is about to squeeze out this planet.

Soshian had a premonition in this aspect very early. Nathan 4 is his homeland. He knows this very well. Although this planet has a long history, it is by no means the kind of world with very developed productivity. ——Just look at the natural environment.

The planetary governors did not aim to vigorously develop industry, and planet does not have too many minerals in the area. The main trading products of Nathan 4 are mostly small commodities, such as the textile industry. The main economic pillar.

Astral Knight, as a military organization, is naturally boundless in terms of material and manpower requirements. If it is a normal and fully-edited Chapter, it would be okay. It will not cause huge pressure on planet in a short period of time.

But the current Astral Knight is a broken and recovering Chapter. Naturally, what a wounded patient needs is much more than a normal person.

To make an inappropriate analogy, Astral Knight is a wounded warrior, lying on a cow, while squeezing blood, while cutting and eating meat with a knife to restore strength and wounds.

The materials needed to maintain a Chapter and rebuild a Chapter are not of the same order of magnitude at all.

A long time ago, Governor Planet had hinted with Soshian that in order to supply Chapter, he had repeatedly increased taxes on civilians and nobles.

Furthermore, the Astarte Order has a lot of daily supplies, and the equipment and maintenance materials needed for the Nathan 4 can not be produced at all. They must be imported from other planets and castings at high prices. This has caused the planet’s original trading system to almost collapse. The large deficit has caused the government's fiscal deficit to soar.

But this is not over yet. If it is a normal Chapter home planet, Nathan 4 is not yet so burdened-according to the usual practice, a normal colony planet is enough to support a Chapter

According to the law of Imperium, once a world becomes the home star of Chapter, it will be granted a special tax exemption, exempting all tithes.

The key point is that although Nathan 4 became the home star of Astral Knight Chapter, Astral Knight was removed from the Terra Council a long time ago, and they are no longer in the active Chapter record. Nathan 4 is naturally impossible to apply for special tax exemption rights.

This is equivalent to the people of Nathan 4 who have to bear the Imperium tax while also supporting Chapter.

Ustad’s report shows that the planetary government has not even made up the large number of qualified workers that the shipyard needs, and can only make up the number of women and teenagers between the ages of twelve and fifteen!

In this case, even if the working hours are increased, the progress will inevitably slow down.

Not only that, due to the repeated increase in planet taxation, the trade deficit is getting bigger and bigger, and the scarlet of the government's finances keeps rising. As a result, the rations that can be provided to workers have not increased but decreased!

Ustad called out the ration quota for the shipyard workers before Astral Knight came, and found that the current ration quota was nearly 40% less than in the past.

Many workers died because of starvation and fatigue, which also led to many accidents and even more serious casualties.

Moreover, he also investigated some child labor deaths, and it was extremely horrible to see.

The manpower and material resources of Nathan 4 have been pushed to the limit.

The Xinggang Shipyard is still like this. Soshian can't imagine what the planet ground looks like.

"What did I do..."

Soshian muttered painfully while covering his eyes.

Pictures of children with disabilities, the sad faces of women who have lost their husbands, the numb and desperate expressions of the workers... all of them are like sharp knives pierced into Soshian’s two hearts superior.

As the head of Chapter, he naturally hopes that Chapter will be restored as soon as possible, because this is his responsibility.

But this is also his hometown. He never wants to see the beautiful homeland of the past become a purgatory on earth.

Soshian began to reflect. He realized that he was too impatient. Many things that would take twenty, thirty, or even fifty years to complete, he wanted to complete within three to five years.

The price of such a leap forward is layer after layer of the corpses of the people in the hometown.

After about ten minutes of silence, Soshian put down his hand, straightened up and picked up the data board on the table, and wrote a series of commands.

"All battleships whose construction progress is less than 70% are suspended, the collection of materials is suspended, the recruitment of mortal auxiliary troops is suspended, the armory is maintained at a minimum combat readiness, all exercises that have not entered the execution stage are cancelled, and mortal servants and assistance are reduced The army has one third quota of rations, and distributes excess rations to workers as overtime labor compensation. All the disabled at work earn Chapter monastery as servants and only engage in low-intensity labor..."

After writing this, Soshian almost Collapsing on the chair, he realized that Astral Knight must have a more stable source of supplies.