Warhammer 40,000: Mortal Gods

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same moment.

On Holy Terra, people who had no idea that someone had entered the Mars Labyrinth to take away the Void Dragon were having a meeting.

The Supreme Minister of the High Lords Council sat on an equal footing with Qin Mo and his party.

Opposite the twelve supreme ministers are the senior officials of the Tailong Star District, and the two sides are facing each other.

On the north side of the building of the High Lords Council, facing south, are the Imperial Regent and Warmaster, namely Lion and Guilliman.

And behind the Sons of God, regarded as the Primarchs, is the golden statue of the Emperor of Mankind.

Qin Mo's body is not here.

Qin Mo, who was thought to be the Lord of Tailong in front of him, was actually just an illusory projection.

What is a very illusory projection for Qin Mo's body is actually an illusory shadow projected onto everyone's senses, but there is no difference between this shadow and the body in the eyes of others.

When the projection made the action of picking up the water glass, the water glass did not move, but in the eyes of others, it was a person who picked up the water glass and took a sip, which was extremely real.

Qin Mo can also observe through projection. Qin Mo, who is returning to Terra, dedicates part of his consciousness for observation.

On the opposite side of the High Lords Council, there were a total of twelve supreme ministers.

Under normal circumstances, there are twelve supreme ministers, but under special circumstances, there will be thirteen, such as when welcoming Guilliman and the Lion King.

Not treating the current situation as a special situation is a way for the High Lords Council to gain dignity.

"Collecting engines as tithes was a practice ten years ago. The empire will change the content of tithes."

"We accept it. But the question is how much will the tithe be collected after the change?"

"The Ministry of Internal Affairs is discussing it and the results will be available within at least a year."

"We recommend that the empire discuss a specific plan as soon as possible. However, we also have a requirement, that is, the empire must have a 30% utilization rate of the dimension engine after the tithe change."

The discussion of taxes was anticipated at the intra-sector meeting, and Talon could accept changes to the tithes.

The reason is that Guilliman is about to start drastic changes in the empire, and he needs resources and chips.

As for the issue of tax payment, with the support of Tai Lung's management model and technological level, the amount of tax paid to the sectors in the twenty worlds is equal to the amount paid by the sector with the highest tithe tax in the empire today. Even Tai Lung can't. Paying the highest tithe, evenly distributed among Tai Lung's three hundred worlds would be nothing more than drizzle.

But in fact, the empire will definitely not set the highest tithe for the sector.

Even if Guilliman doesn't care about this matter, he won't pay too much.

Because Agrippina forged the world to rule the sage Vic, and somehow found a way to get a special tax exemption for the sector, and now even the dimensional engine can't deliver much.

As for the empire asking the sector to pay real tithes, that is, taking a commission based on the total output of the sector...

Don't even think about it.

"Fifty percent Dimension Engine usage..."

The Navigator representative looked at Guilliman.

They had never expected that Tai Lung would have this request, which was very difficult to handle.

But the others didn't react, and Guilliman didn't say a word either.

"Let's discuss it slowly. Anyway, we haven't even discussed whether to change the tithe yet."

"We have to discuss it slowly, but you must be clear about our requirements. If you don't accept the engine usage rate, you can also use it to monitor the tithe. Choose one of the two."

Speaking on behalf of the sector was Anruida.

Qin Mo remained silent.

In the eyes of others, the Lord of Tyrone must be meditating on the future of the sector.

But it's not.

Qin Mo looked at the twelve supreme ministers of the High Lords Council, and suddenly thought of the Ratman with the medieval war hammer next door.

Humanity has a thirteen-member Council of High Lords.

The Skaven have a council of thirteen.

The High Lords Council normally consists of twelve people.

The rat people's thirteen-member council is also twelve people, because the thirteenth seat is the horned rat, and the horned rat's sacred number is thirteen.

The Skaven are huge in number and extremely hostile to foreign races.

Humans are huge in number and extremely hostile to aliens.

so……

Qin Mo who was participating in the meeting was still expressionless, but the Qin Mo who controlled him was already smiling.

"There is nothing more to say about the expansion of your star sector."

The High Lords unanimously decided to skip the topic of Talon's expansion.

This was the only thing that could be agreed upon in discussions within the High Lords' Council and with Guilliman.

The Tyrone Sector has expanded, both when it was first established and now, without ever consulting the Empire or getting its permission.

As for what happened during the Tyron integration period ten years ago, it was a bad debt. The things that happened in the annexed sectors were just self-defeating.

However, not everyone wants to skip this topic at this time.

The Imperial Warmaster expressed his wish to speak.

"You guys will definitely expand next, but there is a world you cannot annex."

"That is the home planet of my Lion Guards."

Ryan mentioned the planet he was inexplicably teleported to after waking up, and he also led the people there to resist the Deceiver Fragment. Qin Mo came down three times to take down the Deceiver Fragment, which was also an important reason why Ryan suspected him.

"Why, respected Warmaster?" Anruida asked respectfully.

A helpful expression flashed across Ryan's face, and he replied: "Because that world is protected by me."

"With all due respect, that's not the case." Anreda said, taking out a stack of paper and handing it to the slaves of the High Lords Council, asking them to distribute it.

That's a record of Tyrone's naval operations.

"As you can see, in the past time, the planet the Warmaster mentioned has suffered two crises, one was the Genestealers, and the other was the Eldar pirate raid."

"The two crises were resolved by the patrol fleet of the First Fleet stationed in the eastern part of the Tyrone sector. So obviously, Warmaster, you did not protect that world as you said."

After Anreda explained the facts calmly, Ryan was not angry, but fell into troubled contemplation.

For some reason, Ryan remembered what happened to his brothers' home planet.

Those encounters were just like now, even if the world he had visited was still a piece of chicken feathers.

The place where Corax grew up in the Primarch was a mining world. Most of the people on the planet were miners, struggling under the brutal management of the overseers.

Although Corax did not have adoptive parents like Guilliman, he had workers to take care of him and grow up. Everyone squeezed in some food and clothing to raise Corax and taught him principles.

But when Corax returned to his home planet after participating in the Great Crusade, he found that the home planet had not changed much and was still the same.

Workers are still struggling in their labor.

The uprising also failed.

The same goes for Curze. The fear he created curbed the evil on the home planet, but once he left, everything continued as usual.

As for Angron's home planet, the Emperor compromised with the slavers, and the revolting gladiators were considered rebels by both the slavers and the Empire.

Ryan knew these things well, and he was very proud that he killed the giant beasts on Caliban before his unkind father came to find him, and created a peaceful environment for the Calibans - although afterwards The discovery of the Behemoth could insulate Caliban to some extent from the effects of Chaos.

Ryan believed that his father had his own reasons.

After all, the Great Crusade was too urgent.

But whatever the truth, most of the Primarchs' homeworlds were not very good, so it was obvious that it was best not to lose ownership of the world outside the Tyron Sector to the Imperial hands.

Lion originally wanted that world to become the world of the Dark Angels Chapter, because the subordinate worlds of the Astartes Chapter did not have heavy taxes.

That's what he originally thought.

But he didn't think so after returning to Terra.

"I changed my mind." Ryan rubbed his white hair and shook his head, "For my sake, be nice to them."