Chapter 493, Never Worry About Gu Hang’s Loyalty!

Ou Juren's worry is justified.

Which is the most powerful military force in the entire Holy Terra?

That is undoubtedly the Imperial Guards.

The 'Ten Thousand Men' is no joke. At least tens of thousands of Guards are here. Each of them is extremely powerful. If each one is taken out alone, the Space Marines are almost vulnerable in front of them.

Only some top fighters among the Space Marines can compete with the Nameless Guards.

What's more, this group of Guards is not only powerful individually, but their equipment is also almost the most powerful in the entire empire.

No one knows how much black technology is in the many secret laboratories of the empire they guard. Anyway, their power armor, weapons in their hands, and vehicles they use are not mass-produced goods, but single-made precision products.

In addition to their own combat effectiveness, the influence they have is also unparalleled.

Which armed force loyal to the empire dares to point its guns at the Guards of the Emperor's spokesperson?

These Guards can mobilize almost all military forces in Holy Terra.

There is no explicit provision for this, nor is there any law that says they have the right to do so, nor is there a clear command level. However, no one doubts that they can do this either.

Even the Golden Knights, one of the founding chapters stationed in Holy Terra, has a very good relationship with the Imperial Guard. Once something goes wrong, they will definitely stand on the side of the Imperial Guard.

In this case, who dares to fight the Imperial Guard in Holy Terra?

Fortunately, the Imperial Guard does not interfere in politics and has never thought of subverting the Imperial Government.

They are even the defenders of the existing political framework.

Because the political framework of the Supreme Council and the government of the Human Empire was left by the Emperor, then maintaining this framework is to maintain the will of the Emperor, and the Imperial Guard has an obligation to do so.

But this does not mean that they cannot!

We don't care about the struggles between you, but no one is allowed to make a scene in the open, otherwise, the High Lords will be useless, I say!

In this context, no matter how powerful the High Lords are, they always have a line in their hearts and dare not play too much.

There is also the big guillotine of the Imperial Guard on their heads.

From this perspective, the existence of the Imperial Guards also objectively played a certain supervisory role on these high lords - although this was not their original intention.

No one can ignore the existence of the Imperial Guards, and everyone is afraid of the Imperial Guards. Naturally, no one wants such Imperial Guards to become a weapon for the opponent.

The Imperial Guards do not interfere in politics, and no one should provoke the Imperial Guards. This is also a tacit rule among the high lords when they engage in political struggles.

Norberto broke the rules and paid a huge price.

Now, Ou Juren is worried that he has broken the rules and will also pay the price.

The Supreme Council is in a meeting. Who dares to push the door in without permission?

No matter who does this, they must bear the wrath of the high lords! This kind of disloyal and disrespectful behavior will surely be punished by the highest powers in this empire!

It's the Imperial Guards... It's okay.

Is it really okay?

All the thirteen high lords were shocked at the time.

Someone must be responsible for this matter. They didn't dare to vent their anger on the Imperial Guards, but someone had to be the target of the high lords' anger.

Ou Juren didn't want that person to be himself.

However, Gallardo disagreed with Ou Juren's concerns.

"This is not our problem, but Norberto's problem. We never wanted to involve the Imperial Guards. It was Norberto's means of crossing the line that attracted the attention of the Imperial Guards. We must emphasize to other factions that it was the Imperial Guards who took us to capture Naldo and broke into the parliament, not our initiative. I believe that other high lords can understand this."

After Gallardo finished speaking, Gu Hang also added: "The behavior of the Imperial Guards is actually a very obvious warning. This warning does come from Norberto, not us. Don't worry that we will be hated for it."

Ou Juren nodded slightly.

Indeed, there is no problem in pushing it to Norberto.

It was Norberto who did it, and we are the victims.

However, even so, Ou Juren's mood did not completely improve.

"That's all, but there's another key point. Alas... Norberto fell too quickly."

At this point, Gu Hang and Gallardo fell silent.

Norberto's fall is indeed what they have been working towards, but it shouldn't be so fast.

If it's so fast, many of the original plans will be disrupted.

Originally they planned to nibble away at it step by step, but all of a sudden, a huge pie was exposed. Other people around them immediately surrounded it like jackals, and the situation became chaotic. Many people who originally had no chance of benefiting from this matter suddenly had a chance.

This will damage the political benefits of Ou Juren's faction.

In addition, there is another huge disadvantage: how will the Iron Fury Stone react?

Norberto is the protective umbrella of Iron Fury Stone, and he indulges Iron Fury Stone's expansion and development in local power. But objectively, he is also a bridge of communication between Iron Fury Stone and the central government of the empire, and a buffer between the two sides.

Before Norberto was finished, Iron Fury Stone could at least listen to Holy Terra's words a little; now that Norberto is finished, can Iron Fury Stone still listen to anything?

Iron Fury Stone certainly understands that they are a thorn in the eyes of Holy Terra. They have also made political efforts, and Norberto tried his best to reconcile the relationship between the two sides. And now that this mediator is gone, will Iron Fury Stone think that this is a sign that the empire is about to take action against them? Will they think that the option of peace has completely disappeared and only war is available?

This is the biggest reason why Norberto cannot be eliminated at the speed of light: I am afraid that Iron Fury Stone will be forced to rebel directly!

The empire has not made all preparations to quell the rebellion!

Troops, materials, personnel, propaganda, policies... everything is still in preparation.

If Iron Fury Stone rebels first now, the entire eastern territory of the empire will probably be in big trouble!

Thinking of this, not only the high lords who were shocked in the previous parliament, but even ordinary politicians, all understood that this matter had already slipped a long way into the uncontrollable abyss.

Everyone complained in their hearts that this group of golden corn spirits were really useless and had no political wisdom at all, and they only knew how to make trouble!

If you have the ability to make trouble, you can kill Terra and go to the eastern border of the empire to flatten the iron armor yourself?

Staying in the palace every day, the emperor has ascended, and you don’t know what you are defending!

But complaining is complaining, resentment is resentment, and you said you didn’t dare to go to the imperial guards to tell them.

The various departments of the central government of the empire can only seize the time and try to make the bloated system work as much as possible to deal with the crisis that may be greatly advanced.

...

After the assassination, Gu Hang stayed in Holy Terra for about a month.

During this period, his previous awarding ceremony, which was forced to be terminated due to an accident, was launched again. This time, he got the golden scepter that symbolized his status as the Imperial Marshal without any accidents.

He became the person with the highest military rank in the entire Dragon Eagle Star Region.

Although, he actually had a direct command relationship with the only one that originally belonged to him, the Angry Bear Legion, and his title as a marshal was also "Marshal of the Angry Bear Legion". He had no command power over the corps-level organization of other Star Army.

However, the Star Army was, after all, a unified military group of the entire Empire. Unlike the defense forces under the jurisdiction of different planets, there was really no jurisdiction over each other.

According to the unified regulations of the Star Army, within a war zone, unless there is a special order, the person with the highest military rank will automatically obtain the wartime command of the Star Army in that area.

This means that Gu Hang really cannot go outside the Angry Bear Legion to exercise his power. He cannot decide the editing, personnel appointments, and military mobilization of other legions.

But if there is a war, and there is no order from a higher level than Gu Hang in this war zone, and no other command system is established, then all the Star Army in this battlefield area need to obey the orders of him as the marshal.

In the Dragon Eagle Star Region, that means the entire Dragon Eagle Corps, not only the Dragon Eagle 3 Corps under his command, but also the other 8 army groups of the Dragon Eagle Corps under the jurisdiction of the Star Region Government, which must also listen to him.

Although there is another Dragon Eagle Corps commander in the Dragon Eagle Star Region, the commander Michelle Oliqi is only a general, and there is a general between him and Gu Hang.

If the Alliance and the Fury Flame Corps go to war, the Dragon Eagle Corps fighting under the Fury Flame Corps will become very embarrassed-everyone is a Star Army, and will they listen to the orders from a marshal?

Want to betray the country, right?

The same reason, Ye Lixia had been in trouble before. The Pegasus Fleet she led always received orders from the fleet commander of the Yunluo Fleet under the Star Region Government, who was also the highest person in charge of the Imperial Navy in the Dragon Eagle Star Region.

And now, thanks to Gu Hang, she was promoted to the admiral of the Imperial Navy.

Now that everyone has the same rank, Ye Lixia can openly ignore the other side.

Of course, just like Ye Lixia shirked her responsibility and did not listen to the admiral's orders before, in fact, the commander of the Dragon Eagle Corps, Admiral Aoliki, can also ignore Gu Hang.

But the difference is that Ye Lixia is determined to follow Gu Hang, and the relationship between the two is here.

Is Aoliki determined to listen to the Fury Flame Corps? Risking treason?

I'm afraid not.

At the same time, Gu Hang also got another benefit.

This one is more complicated.

It is about his proposal to become the highest executive of the Dragon Eagle Star Region - the Star Region Head.

The appointment process of the Star Region Head is that the superior government, that is, the Cosmic Region Government, proposes it, reports it to Holy Terra, and the Imperial Executive Council approves it, so that it will take effect.

The proposal for Gu Hang to be appointed as the Dragon Eagle Head of State also followed this most normal and reasonable process. Zuo Zhaofeng submitted the appointment proposal at the suggestion of Gallardo.

Generally speaking, the Imperial Executive Council rarely vetoes proposals from the Cosmic Domain Government.

But it is a little different for Gu Hang.

He is now the Marshal of the Imperial Star Army, his wife is the Admiral of the Imperial Navy, and he has a Space Marine regiment under his command. He is also the Head of the Dragon Eagle Star Domain Government... He is in charge of both military and political affairs, right?

The Empire is still thinking about how to get rid of the ‘Iron Fury Stone’, and then it raises an independent local warlord?

Some people do have concerns in this regard.

The Prime Minister of the Executive Council is blocking it.

Everyone knows that he is the man of the Imperial Prime Minister Qi Bodu, which, to some extent, represents Qi Bodu's ideas.

At this point, Ou Juren played his role.

The appointment of a star domain head does not need to be voted on by the Supreme Council. Ou Juren made alliances, especially personally visited Qi Bodu, made promises, and convinced the prime minister.

Although he didn't say it explicitly, Gu Hang could actually guess what these big guys were thinking.

Of course, they were afraid of raising another Iron Armor.

But on the one hand, although Gu Hang had Space Marines serving him, the difference from the situation in the Princess Star Region was that the Iron Armored Regiment was in charge of itself, while the Phoenix was not. In the eyes of the Supreme Council, there were many ways to separate Gu Hang and the Phoenix.

They were more afraid of Space Marines than a mortal political leader.

In the history of the Empire, there were many turmoils caused by Space Marines. A mortal who started from a local position and then became too powerful to be eliminated?

It has never happened yet.

It is not that there were no "turmoils" caused by mortal political leaders, but they all happened in the central government. Including the end of the Sun Lord Era, which lasted only a dozen years, Sola Keim first became the Supreme Marshal of the Star Army and became one of the thirteen high lords before launching the Sun Expedition and gaining power.

What's more, compared to Tiekai's bad deeds, Gu Hang paid taxes properly. When he didn't pay taxes, he was given a clear tax exemption policy, which he didn't even want, but was given to him for various reasons. He took those tax exemptions and clearly did more work than the tax exemption.

For example, saving a nest city, such as winning the Iron Tooth War.

Gu Hang's reputation in this regard is much better.

Gu Hang is in power because there is a big enemy like Tiekai in front of him.

There is an enemy that gives the central government of the empire a headache.

Let them bite first, and after the fight, Gu Hang's alliance will surely suffer heavy losses. At that time, it will become much easier to split it up.

In response, Gu Hang just smiled and explained to everyone he met over and over again how honest he was and that his lifelong wish was to make some achievements in the local area and then be transferred to Holy Terra to work with everyone.

His statement really made many people believe it.

Because this really fits the concept in the minds of most imperial officials: Holy Terra is the best in the world, better than any other place. I would rather have a bed in Terra than a palace in the Garden World.

Being able to be transferred to Holy Terra to become a senior official is enough to make people give up all their accumulation in the local area.

Many high-ranking officials in the empire came this way.

After the battle of Iron Armor, Gu Hang will be successful and famous. When he is given an official position in Terra, won’t he naturally let go of the so-called alliance and come here happily?

There is no fear that Gu Hang will become bigger and stronger in the local area and then become too powerful to be removed!

You never have to worry about Gu Hang’s loyalty!

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