Chapter 735, Interfere with the Entire Empire?

The Psychic Order is in bulk.

In name, the Psychic Order is a powerful organization. They have the right to manage all psychics in the entire empire, and organize psychic groups to provide all the necessary psychic support for other imperial organizations, from the army to the Inquisition to civil institutions.

However, this matter was only realized when the Psychic Order was just established, and later it became a dead letter.

For a long time, the power of psychic energy was a taboo in the empire and could not be mastered. Psychic awakeners were severely persecuted, mainly by the Inquisition. Most psychics would be imprisoned or simply executed.

Later, the Imperial Chancellor who followed the Emperor to establish the Human Empire and was called the Immortal believed that although psychic energy was a dangerous power, it could still be mastered. He personally established the Psychic Order and used the Psychic Order to cultivate and master the psychic power of the entire empire.

At that stage, the Psychic Order performed its duties powerfully, trained a large number of psychics, and sent them to various units. The psychic experts of the Inquisition, the psychic troops of the Astra Militarum, the navigators and contemplators of the navy, and even the think tanks of the Space Marines, would communicate with the Imperial Psychic Order.

That was an extremely glorious era for the Psychic Order.

The Psychic Order controlled a large number of psychic academies, screened people, and trained psychics. After training, all parties begged the Psychic Order to dispatch personnel. The Chief Grand Master was directly led by the Imperial Chancellor and was a very important member of the Supreme Council. He controlled the extraordinary power that the mortals of the Empire could control.

The dispatched psychics were led by the Psychic Order and their own units according to their colleges of origin and their ranking in the Psychic Order. The Grand Master of the Order could draw out all the psychic power of a certain unit or assign it to a certain team with just one word.

At the same time, the Psychic Order also had its own direct troops, which were mainly psychic, but also had a large number of professional anti-psychic units. Use psychic energy to counter psychic energy, or assist the Mechanicus in developing anti-psychic weapons and equipment, deploy elite soldiers, and form a legion.

Such a Psychic Order is certainly worthy of the status of a high lord.

But the good times did not last long. The Imperial Chancellor, who was supposed to be an immortal, died in a huge civil strife in the era after the Emperor's ascension. Without his support, the Psychic Order lost its most fundamental political power.

Of course, it would not be so miserable just like that.

But in the following time, their base was constantly eroded.

The core problem lies in the dual leadership of psychics.

In theory, any psychic in any unit should be under the jurisdiction of the Psychic Order. However, the first thing is that the Inquisition is not willing to do it.

There are so many confidential matters in our Inquisition, many of which are also related to various supernatural powers. Psychics are needed to deal with those matters, but how can you let the Psychic Order lead? Wouldn't that leak secrets?

Even, you psychics, listening to the whispers of the warp every day, might be corrupted or exploded one day, which is very harmful and must be supervised.

With the Inquisition as the main force, the Psychic Order has been constantly challenged and suppressed in the long years that followed.

Other imperial forces also have sufficient motivations and do not want their psychic teams to be controlled by the Psychic Order.

After all, it is not comfortable to have a single line of control when there are two lines of control.

The Assassin's Court does not want the psychic troops to be transferred away by the Order one day; the Navy cannot accept the navigators and contemplators being withdrawn from their ships. The Assassin's Court is such a mysterious place, and the psychic assassins they train have never been allowed to be interfered by the Psychic Order.

The Psychic Order will certainly not relax its power, and has formed a long struggle with all parties, which has even continued to this day.

However, the result of the struggle is obviously not very good.

The main reason is that in this matter, the Psychic Order is almost the enemy of everyone.

If that were all, it would only be a leg cut off.

They still have a large number of psychic academies. As long as they can control the training and allocation of psychics, they still have considerable say.

But at this point, they are also constantly being deprived of their rights.

Psychics are useful to everyone, so how can they be willing to be strangled by the order?

The training of psychics is not a patent, and they must be trained in psychic academies. In the past, this was forced to be done mainly for easy control, and the empire had relevant mandatory administrative orders.

Administrative orders can be overturned and changed.

Each family began to train specific psychics on their own and according to their own needs.

For this purpose, they constantly made openings in the past psychic system.

If too many openings are made, the rules themselves will become riddled with holes.

Then, the financial budget of the Psychic Order was cut, and the Psychic Academies gradually could not continue to operate, and were forced to close one by one; each family had its own special psychic troops and anti-psychic experts, and the Psychic Order's own direct troops also gradually withered due to budget problems...

To this day, there are still some Psychic Academies, but their proportion in the overall training of psychics in the empire is already very low; there are still direct forces, but their strength is really not enough to support the Psychic Order to eat at the table.

The Psychic Order is now becoming more and more like a club-like place where Empire psykers come together to communicate and learn. Without strong enough actual power, it is naturally difficult to obtain a particularly strong political status.

The Chief Grand Instructor theoretically still has the qualifications to enter the Vocational High Council, but in the past one or two thousand years, the Psychic Order has not been seen among the high lords.

This is the present situation of the Psychic Order.

They are certainly not content with this.

Otherwise, there would be no such thing as finding Gu Hang.

But it was also because they were unwilling to give up and wanted to maintain the posture of a powerful central institution of the empire that Salikhovich made some subsequent comments about them.

They remain aloof, as if the Psychic Order has never declined, and work hard to maintain their dignity; but they are often very soft-bodied, and as long as there is a slight chance that they can get involved with them, they will stick to it and show off. own value.

How could others let such an easy-to-use target go?

All kinds of dirty things, just drag this group of spiritual cultivators to come over.

If an important person is missing, then the Psychic Order will send out a consultant to see if it is related to psionic energy. It is a credit to find the person. You are just a consultant. What other benefits do you want? If the person is not found, then you will bear the blame;

There's a war, so the psionic cultivators should send out some direct psionic troops. No? You have to send more or less out, otherwise even the remaining budget will be deducted from you later.

These are still relatively extra things. Once a psychic disaster occurs somewhere, you won't even run away, you'll just be waiting to take the blame.

It's like a trash can where all bad things can be thrown into it, destitute, at the mercy of others, and depressed...

sad.

That is to say, the foundation is quite strong. Within the empire and in Holy Terra, there are still some psionic academies that serve as the foundation to forcefully continue to live.

However, if this trend continues, the ultimate outcome of the Psychic Society may be inevitable collapse in the foreseeable future.

After listening to this, Gu Hang recalled that one of the paths Gallardo had arranged for him was to come and become the leader of the Psychic Order.

At that time, he was still thinking that the Psychic Cult was a top force after all, so why did Gu Hang, an outsider, become its leader?

I didn't expect it to be that simple.

There is no need to fight for it at all, people will eagerly give it to you with both hands!

However, if you want to push the Chief Grand Instructor to the position of high lord, it is not a matter of helping others, but it is extremely difficult.

Of course, Gu Hang didn't think Gallardo was talking nonsense at that time. In fact, Gu Hang could guess how this was going to work: it was just to 'sell' his military exploits in the Iron Armor War.

That's not okay.

Turning back to the matter at hand, Gu Hang asked: "So, do you have any suggestions? My ambassador."

In his gradual narration, Salihovich had actually stated his preferred position: "I suggest you stay away from them, Your Excellency the Governor. It will become unfortunate if you get too close to them."

After a moment of pause, he continued to add the reason: "The Psychic Order now only has a name and a framework. If you want to lead them to recovery, you will not only have to invest a lot of resources, but also face many difficulties. The worst thing is that as long as it becomes more and more If things get better, the greater the resistance you will encounter. The more powerful the spiritual society is, the more likely it will be a conflict of interest with many parties, which will be detrimental to your cause."

Gu Hang asked further: "What if I only want his name and framework?"

After all, it was given for free.

As long as Gu Hang nods, he can get the so-called 'chief mentor' title at almost no cost.

Not to mention it is a top-level title, one who can enter the High Lords Council.

To take a step back, there are still three pounds of nails in a broken ship. The remaining strength of the Psychic Order is still more or less; it can still get tens of billions of dollars from the empire every year, and sometimes it can reach tens of billions; in the central position of the empire, Holding a trash can, you can more or less win over a lot of people...

"No, that's unrealistic." Salikhovich said, "Let's not talk about other factors. There are also big problems within the Psychic Order. They invited you to be the chief master because they hope you will lead They are reviving. If you delay in making key moves, it will be difficult for them to continue to comply with your will. At that time, not only will they not be able to help you, but they may actually hinder you."

Gu Hang touched his chin and agreed with Salihovich's statement.

But, in between conversations, he also had his own thoughts.

"What if I go to build a spiritual order?"

"Huh?" Salikhovich was a little confused.

Haven't we talked about it?

"Isn't giving up the power of the Psionic Order over the psykers of the entire empire the biggest conflict between the Psionic Order and other imperial factions?"

Salikhovich is also a very smart person. He reacted immediately: "You mean... focus on building the Psychic Academy and the troops directly under the Order?"

"Yes." Gu Hang said, "In the future, the Psychic Religion will be transformed into a training base for Psychics. The existing Psychic Academy is a good foundation, and they also have enough talents. As long as the resources keep up, Psychic The academy can expand rapidly. It can increase its efforts in cultivating psykers. It can either accept commissions from other imperial factions to train them, or it can train them themselves and then send them to directly affiliated psionic troops and anti-psionic troops. "

"As one of the highest-level independent institutions in the empire, the Psychic Order's direct troops, as I remember, can perform tasks that only require accountability to the Grand Master without the consent of anyone, as long as the order of the Chief Grand Master is given, anywhere in the empire, right?"

Salihovich nodded: "Yes."

"Does that mean that I have the power to intervene in any affairs of the entire empire?"

Salihovich reminded calmly: "I'm afraid it's not that simple. Putting aside the strength and the adverse effects of excessive intervention, even from a legal perspective, the Psychic Order's power to handle affairs throughout the empire is limited to psychic matters. Although the action does not require approval from others and is only responsible to the Grand Master, the Grand Master must have a reasonable reason."

"Ah, that's a problem." Gu Hang's smile became more and more intense, "Everything in this world can be related to psychic power, right?"

"... As long as you want, it's true."

A Governor General who can't even be described as Alpha-level, a professional psychic organization, what can't they make into something related to psychic power?

In other words, what in this universe cannot be related to the subspace?

However, Salihovic was still worried.

"Will the Psychic Order agree? They have been clinging to their glory for thousands of years, and the heyday they dream of returning to is the era when all the psychics in the empire are united in the Psychic Order. It will be difficult for them to accept giving up this claim. You will face great resistance if you want to push this matter forward."

Gu Hang restrained his smile: "That is the task of Grand Master Dou. Why should I go directly to be the villain? I hope he can clear out the old stubborn people in the Psychic Order and hand over a clean order to me."

"Let's delay the matter of joining the Psychic Order as the Grand Master for now. However, before Dou Zhao left, he said that he wanted me to go to the Psychic Order to communicate?"

"Promise him, is three days of preparation enough?"

"I will clean up his house for him and provide some help."

At this point, Gu Hang waved his hand and cancelled the mental blindness of the monitor.

Gu Hang usually tries to be as honest as possible. But when there is sensitive content in the conversation, it is better not to let them hear it.

These monitors with anti-psychic means have no idea who they are monitoring.

As long as Gu Hang wants, what they can hear and see are what Gu Hang wants them to hear and see.

It's nothing more than using it as little as possible and with a lower intensity to avoid being detected.