Chapter 521, Veto Power

It may not be possible to "steal" Jindi Star overnight.

But the value brought by Wu Jiarong as a main sage in the Mingyang Sect does not need to be reflected so far, and it can be put into effect right now.

Gu Hang came to Jindi Star in person to negotiate with the top leaders of the Mingyang Sect. His main goals are actually two:

First, to take back the three star regions and forty worlds that should not be controlled by Jindi Star in legal terms.

Second, to allow Jindi Star to accept equipment manufacturing orders from the Alliance, especially starship orders.

Both conditions are quite difficult.

Even though Gu Hang, the big boss who has been in the limelight recently, came in person, and there was Wu Jiarong as an insider, the sages of Jindi Star still did not give him face.

After all, Wu Jiarong is an outsider, and she has just been promoted. The most important thing is that everyone knows that she came from the Alliance and received a lot of help from Gu Hang, so they naturally have doubts about her position.

The first round of negotiations ended in vain, but Gu Hang was not annoyed.

Although the Mingyang Sect did not agree to his conditions, after his visit, the attitude shown by these oil men was quite good, and they were respectful to Gu Hang.

For a period of time afterwards, he stayed in Jindi Star, visited several different key factories, and met many main business sages.

...

Chen Haixu, the foundry general of Jindi Star, has been in his studio for several days.

The external statement is that he has a very important product that requires him to build it in seclusion. For this reason, he politely attended the first meeting of the alliance delegation brought by Governor Gu, and then personally hosted the welcoming banquet for Gu Hang, and then stayed at home.

But in fact, anyone with a discerning eye could probably see that he was hiding from Gu Hang.

Of course, even if he stayed at home, the foundry general was of course clear about what happened in the outside world.

"Who did Gu Hang meet today?"

Chen Haixu asked while controlling more than a dozen robotic arms.

There was no one beside him, but there was a servo skull connected by a mechanical spinal cord, floating in the air in his laboratory, with a speaker in its mouth.

"Report to the general, Gu Hang met the main sage Ke Zonggang today. This is the seventh main sage Gu Hang has met in recent times. At present, only you and Jing Yiming are left, and he has not met yet."

The Mingyang sect now has a total of nine main sages, and even the original eleven people have not been filled.

Chen Haixu nodded slightly, and his already inhuman face barely managed a smile, and continued: "Let him go and slowly get in touch. Is there anything else to report?"

"Sage Wu Jiarong requested the convening of the second Sage Conference, which is still the topic discussed in the last conference."

"Hmph, the thief is still not dead." Chen Haixu sneered, and then sighed: "Wu Jiarong, I still have high hopes for this young junior, and I have also given her a lot of support. But why is she so stubborn and insists on getting involved with the alliance?"

The servo skull floating beside him continued to speak: "So, Casting General, do we need to do anything? For example, prevent the second meeting, such as warning Sage Wu Jiarong, such as..."

"No." Chen Haixu stopped his servo skull assistant from continuing to speak, "Let them toss, is there any result?"

Under the words of the master, the servo skull closed his mouth, leaving only the red light in his eyes flashing continuously.

As the Casting General of Jin Dixing, Chen Haixu certainly has the confidence to say this.

Although Gu Hang proposed some exchange conditions, such as the alliance wanted to take back all the remaining planets except Jindi Star. To this end, the alliance guaranteed that the raw materials produced by these worlds would be supplied to Jindi Star first.

All conditions are the same as before the Iron Teeth Green Tide.

However, now they can no longer accept such conditions.

They had to "pay" to receive raw materials before. Although, this payment is generally to take some low-end products, or accept a few orders, which can pay for these raw materials.

The same is true for human resources.

To put it bluntly, those mineral resources and human resources are not "valuable". In contrast, the various products produced by Jindi Star are more valued.

And now, Jindi Star is no longer as wealthy as it used to be. After internal discussions, the sages of the Mingyang Sect did not even want to pay the raw material costs and manpower introduction costs that were not worth mentioning compared to their added value.

The Mingyang Sect, which is licking its wounds and replenishing its blood, is determined not to be generous anymore.

The same is true for external sales orders.

Some other things are fine. If the alliance takes out some extra resources in exchange, they can accept orders; but they will definitely not accept orders for starships. All productivity will be used to satisfy the sect fleet first.

They plan to build a new mechanical ark, and also need to build eight battlecruisers and more than 40 cruisers to match them and build a powerful fleet of the Mingyang Sect.

After experiencing the Iron Teeth Green Tide, the Mingyang Sect agreed that the sect must have enough self-protection power and cannot rely on others. At least they escaped a disaster this time, but who knows if they can still escape the next disaster?

In order to build the fleet and the supporting religious army, the Mingyang Sect's production capacity has been fully occupied. Even if all the docks are fully operational, it will take about 25 years to complete the fleet construction.

Time and production capacity are fully utilized, and there are huge external resources and manpower requirements.

To put it bluntly, our Mingyang Sect has not continued to occupy more territory and grab more benefits, which is already quite good. You, Gu Hang, still want to spit out the places we have occupied and take our full orders?

Dream on.

Gu Hang proposed on behalf of the alliance to provide Jin Dixing with a wider range of resource support and full military support. They are not interested at all.

In other words, the former, that is, resource support, is of interest; the premise is that the alliance can accept these supports and investments, at least until 25 years later, when Jin Dixing completes its own construction and guarantees its own security, and then pays the alliance.

That is obviously impossible.

As for the military security provided by the alliance?

I don't believe it!

The Star Domain Government and the Cosmic Domain Government said so before.

During the Iron Teeth War, didn’t we have to fight on our own?

After this, they deeply realized that no matter how many interests are connected and how many solemn guarantees are pledged, when life and death are at stake, the most reliable person is only themselves.

Military guarantee of the alliance?

The alliance does look quite capable, much more capable than the previous star domain government.

But... sorry, if it’s not me, then I can’t trust it.

Besides, don’t your alliance face more enemies?

Your Governor Gu is not a quiet person. He does this today and that tomorrow. Right now, he is involved in the confrontation with the Iron Fury Stone.

The Mingyang Sect considers itself a small sect, with only one forging world. It is not in good condition now, and has no intention of getting involved.

This opinion was discussed and decided by all the main business sages in the sect, as well as a considerable number of ruling bishops with relatively core status.

Oh, except for Wu Jiarong, the traitor.

But her opinion on this matter is not important. She should just honestly contribute the fantastic technologies she has mastered. It is not the turn of this traitor and ungrateful person to intervene in the major event that determines the future direction of the Mingyang Sect.

With such a unanimous decision made by the entire sect's top leaders, Chen Haixu is really not worried about Gu Hang's activities on Jindi Star.

After all, he is the head of the star field. Jindi Star is within the alliance. The attitudes of both sides should not be awkward. The respect and attitude that should be given must be given.

But forget about the rest.

When the governor of the alliance is frustrated in front of one main business sage after another, he should know that he should not waste time any more.

As for the second meeting that will be called for next?

Then just open it.

It's just another collective veto anyway.

...

Chen Haixu's mechanical face was full of shock.

His modified ears were even emitting white air.

The Sage Council, composed of a total of nine main business sages, is the nominal highest authority of the Mingyang Sect.

And now, eight mechanical arms were raised in front of him.

Sitting opposite the round table of sages was Gu Hang, who had been active on Jindi Star for more than half a month.

Half an hour ago, the second Sage Council was held, and Gu Hang began to introduce the alliance's policies as he did last time.

Compared with the first proposal, this time, Gu Hang made greater concessions. Although the requirements were still the same, the control of the three star regions except Jindi Star, and various construction orders for Jindi Star.

However, the alliance would increase the purchase price of the order and provide more raw material resources; and the alliance could also accept the production orders of the Mingyang Sect in return. That means that the Mingyang Sect has some low-level and low-value component production, which can be transferred to other planets controlled by the alliance.

According to Gu Hang, this is a "win-win" situation.

The places that accept technology transfer and capacity transfer have achieved economic growth; the ownership of these transferred capacities is calculated according to the proportion of investment and technology value of both parties; the corresponding management rights can be handed over to the Mingyang Sect...

Correspondingly, the Mingyang Sect can expand its influence and control through technology and capacity transfer, through economic and political means, and further ensure the control of raw materials and low-value-added industrial components.

In addition, the capacity liberated from some low-end industries on Jindi Star can be better invested in high-end industries.

However, these conditions are still not beyond the situation discussed by the main business sages of the Mingyang Sect earlier.

In theory, after listening to Gu Hang's proposal "politely", when it comes to the voting stage, everyone should sit quietly when they hear the vote of "agreeing to the proposal"; when the vote of "opposing the proposal" is heard, they should raise their hands in unison.

However, what happened next was completely beyond Chen Haixu's expectations.

When the vote of approval was carried out, he first saw Wu Jiarong raise her hand.

Well, very good, as expected.

Then, another main business sage raised his hand.

This made Chen Haixu look at him with a bit of awe.

Gu Hang, this kid, has the activities in the past half month really produced any results for him?

You kid, you took advantage of Gu Hang, didn't you?

Chen Haixu was not very happy.

Although it was just one more vote, which was meaningless, in fact, according to the hint Chen Haixu gave to other sages before, no vote should be given to Gu Hang to avoid any unrealistic fantasies in the heart of the governor of the alliance.

It would be better to get beaten and bleed as soon as possible and get out of here as soon as possible.

At this time, he could only comfort himself, maybe the sage Ke Zonggang who raised his hand was just raising his hand after receiving the benefit, to save some face for the governor Gu?

With this mentality, Chen Haixu immediately saw the third, fourth, and fifth mechanical arms raised.

Just a few minutes later, among the nine main sages of the Mingyang Sect, only he did not raise his hand...

No, what the hell is going on!

Even though the body has undergone a large-scale mechanical transformation, many emotions that are produced by the body's secretion of hormones have been annihilated, but Chen Haixu still felt a burst of anger at the moment.

What are you going to do?

Collective rebellion, right?

But he soon calmed down, and the brain that had not been completely transformed and still belonged to humans began to think carefully.

Things have not reached the point where they cannot be reversed.

Among the nine votes, although eight votes have been cast in favor, it does not mean that Gu Hang's proposal has been passed.

He is the Casting General. Although he has only one vote in the parliament like other main business sages, the most special thing about the Casting General is that he has a veto.

If he wants to promote any major policies, strategies, or decisions, he also needs to win the consent of the four main business sages; but if he opposes a decision, he only needs one vote.

The current situation is very suitable for using this veto.

However, do you really want to do this?

Voting seems to be a rule, but any rule must consider the meaning behind the rule.

He is not able to veto any proposal he does not want to agree to because he has a veto.

On the contrary, he has the ability to prevent the implementation of any decision he disagrees with, so he has this veto.

However, the current situation is too complicated.