Chapter 1007, Don’t Block the Road
When Angel left the Kafiola family, she had a smile on her face.
They surrendered.
Of course, this was as it should be. After all, whether the other party truly surrendered or was preparing to pretend to obey and secretly engage in confrontation later, their choice now would be to agree.
Unless they want to die.
But that probability is too low.
As for what they will choose next... Angel actually doesn't care as much as she says.
After all, if the Kafiola family did not truly obey, there would be troubles in the future, and all of them would be the troubles of her, the special deacon.
Although she believed that she would be the victor in the subsequent battles, after all, she was experienced in this type of "liquidation" work and had a powerful alliance behind her, so victory was inevitable.
However, it will still take a lot of time, which will seriously slow down her efficiency.
What she has to deal with is not just the native families of the hive city of Indinia, but the entire Holy Terra, thousands of hive cities.
Of course, not every one of these nests had a powerful local noble family, and not every one of them needed her to deal with.
There were dozens of "Special Deacons" or "Senior Deacons" like her, specifically responsible for dismantling the local powerful on Holy Terra. Their authority, in this matter, was actually quite similar, and their duties were also the same.
But apart from being colleagues who need to cooperate with each other and share intelligence, it is undeniable that there is also strong competition between them.
After all, there may only be two or three people promoted to the position of Deputy Minister of the Imperial Central Ministry of Justice this time, so the competition is very fierce.
Moreover, Angel also knew that this promotion was not just about who had more brutal methods, who could do it faster, or who could do it more, even if that meant winning.
They were vying for the position of Vice Minister, a high-ranking official in the empire. If the competition was simply about who was faster and who had more, then at best it would be nothing more than a sharp knife.
If you want to get promoted, you must have enough political sensitivity and be able to do the job at hand well.
Even though one has a sharp knife in hand, one cannot really cause bloodshed wherever he goes, as that would cause the higher-ups to seriously doubt one's political ability.
But you can't be soft-hearted everywhere, otherwise the mess will follow, which will directly lead to the end of your political career.
The scale is quite difficult to grasp.
But Angel had some insights.
The key point is to know what the alliance or the new empire wants.
Are you after the lives and money of these powerful families?
No.
Money means nothing to the new empire.
It wouldn't be necessary to kill those powerful people. After all, the powerful families and local interest groups that were still active in the Imperial political arena had either shed blood and fought hard during the Terran War, or at least had drawn a clear line between themselves and Chaos and not fallen to the dark side.
During the Terran Wars, when the hives fell on a large scale and Chaos corruption was rampant, it was actually quite rare. The powerful people in the Imperial capital more or less showed some human spirit.
The stereotype of them being corrupt, indulgent, and extravagant is true. At the same time, it does not prevent them from being the elite among human beings. When it comes to major issues, although there are some who have fallen, there is still a high proportion of people who maintain the bottom line.
It is inappropriate to directly raise the butcher knife against these people.
Even without mentioning their past achievements, these people who have received the best education since childhood, have seen the world, and have been baptized by the Terran War are actually talents - the premise is that their intelligence and talents are not used in the wrong place.
If we kill all these people, it will be a huge loss.
What's more, the alliance never kills people who have made contributions.
But the premise is that it cannot block the road.
If you want to be an official, you can;
If you want to start a business, you can;
Even if you simply want to be a parasite, relying on the historical achievements and economy, you can live a good life without doing anything, which is barely acceptable.
But what the alliance absolutely cannot accept is that these families are still at the grassroots and lower levels of society, controlling the means of production and forming interest groups with a stable economic and political cycle.
In the long run, this will pose a serious threat to the regime of the new empire.
It's not obvious yet, because these families have just experienced the baptism of war, and their vitality has been severely damaged. Politically, due to the entry of the Alliance and the pressure from the Infinite Star Domain, they lack positions and appear to be declining. But over time, they will slowly rely on their own control over the lower levels of society to climb back up.
Whoever controls productivity is the grassroots master of this society.
The alliance system must also operate in Holy Terra. If we don't want it to just operate as an empty shell, we must eliminate all these interest groups.
This has nothing to do with whether these families are obedient or not.
They were indeed very obedient now, because the war had just ended and the new empire had just been established. They had not yet figured out and established the new social rules of the game. The authority established by the alliance was also very profound.
But who can guarantee that they will always be obedient?
What's more, their so-called "obedience" now is actually something the alliance can no longer tolerate.
Take the conflict between development and expedition with the central government of the new empire, for example. The positions of these local interest groups are very wavering.
Some people quickly became active, using their influence in the hive city to try to make political moves. They might join the Alliance but demand benefits, or they might join the Regent under the pretext of supporting the expedition...
This situation cannot be tolerated.
What's more, even if these local interest groups produce according to the requirements of the central government, they still have many ulterior motives.
They like to accept government orders, but they do so under certain conditions.
If the profit is high and the business is easy, then let your own company do it.
Generally, they subcontracted the work out layer by layer, deducted the profits and let peripheral enterprises do the work, and then these ordinary entrepreneurs had to sing their praises and beg for food.
They also subcontract those jobs with low profits, difficult operations, and potential losses, forcing them onto companies and factories they have no connection with, or even have no dealings with. They exploit them wherever possible, causing product quality to decline or even failing to fulfill orders, thus shifting the blame. The individual is convicted, the factory is fined, and if operations fail, they are merged...
This results in a waste of overall efficiency and hinders the alliance's development strategy.
If we don't take action now and get rid of these powerful people who have made contributions but are now blocking our way, the problem will only become more and more serious and more and more difficult to solve in the future.
At the same time, "eating" them, improving efficiency and increasing production capacity is also the key to alleviating the contradiction between the current development strategy of the imperial government and the expedition strategy of the Regent's Palace.
With more resources and more production capacity, the scale of the expedition requested by His Royal Highness the Regent can be achieved more quickly.
It was also because of this that Gu Hang was able to convince him.
Those who filed complaints with the Ministry of Justice and brought them to the Prince Regent's Palace fell on deaf ears. Even those of high status who approached him were told that the Prince Regent was supervising fleet training.
(End of this chapter)
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