Chapter 521, Veto Power
Stealing Jin Dixing may not be accomplished overnight.
However, the value that Wu Jiarong brought by becoming a main sage in the Mingyang Sect does not need to take so long to be reflected, and it can play a role right now.
Gu Hang came to Jindi Star in person to negotiate with the high-level leaders of the Mingyang Sect. His main goals were actually two:
First, take back the three star regions and forty worlds that should not be controlled by Jindixing according to legal principles.
The second is to allow Jindixing to accept the alliance’s equipment manufacturing orders, especially starship orders.
Both of these conditions are difficult.
Even though Gu Hang, a big shot who has been in the limelight recently, showed up in person, and had Wu Jiarong as an insider, the sages of Jin Dixing still did not give him face.
Wu Jiarong is an outsider after all, 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 everyone will naturally doubt her position.
The first round of negotiations ended in failure, but Gu Hang was not angry.
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 some time afterwards, he stayed in Jindi Star, visited several different key factories, and met many sages in the main business.
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Jin Dixing's casting general Chen Haixu has been in his studio for several days.
To the outside world, he had a very important product that he needed to build in seclusion. For this reason, he politely attended the first meeting with the alliance delegation brought by Governor Gu, and then personally hosted a welcoming banquet for Gu Hang, and then stayed indoors.
But in fact, anyone with a discerning eye could see that he was just avoiding Gu Hang.
Of course, even if he stayed indoors, the Casting General knew exactly what was happening 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 attached by a mechanical spinal cord, floating in mid-air in his laboratory, with a speaker in its mouth.
"Report to the general, Gu Hang met the master sage Ke Zonggang today. This is the seventh master sage Gu Hang has met in recent times. Currently, there are only you and the sage Jing Yiming, who he has not met yet."
The Mingyang sect now has a total of nine main sages, and even the original eleven have not been filled.
Chen Haixu nodded slightly, and his already inhuman face barely managed a smile, and continued: "Let him get in touch slowly. Is there anything else you want to report?"
"Sage Wu Jiarong requested that a second Sages' Conference be held, and the topic discussed at the last conference will still be the same."
"Humph, you're still harboring evil intentions." Chen Haixu sneered, then sighed, "Wu Jiarong, I'm still very optimistic about this young junior, and I've 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, "So, General Casting, do we need to do something? For example, prevent the second meeting, warn Sage Wu Jiarong, or..."
"No need." Chen Haixu stopped his servo skull assistant from continuing, "Let them do whatever they want. Can they expect any result?"
Following the master's words, the servo skull closed his mouth, leaving only the red light flashing in his eyes.
As Jin Dixing's casting general, 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, they can no longer accept such conditions.
They previously received raw materials and had to pay for them. However, this payment was usually for some low-end products or a few orders, which was enough to pay for the raw materials.
The same goes for human resources.
To put it bluntly, those mineral resources and human resources are not "valuable". In comparison, the various products produced by Jindixing are more valued.
But 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 for the raw materials and manpower costs, which were not worth mentioning compared to their added value.
The Mingyang sect, which is currently licking its wounds and replenishing its blood, is determined not to be generous anymore.
The same applies to external sales orders.
It's fine for some other things, if the Alliance takes out some extra resources in exchange, they can accept orders; but they definitely won't accept orders for starships. All productivity will be given priority to satisfying the sect's fleet.
They planned to build a new mechanical ark, as well as eight battlecruisers and more than forty cruisers to match them and build a powerful Ming Yang Sect fleet.
After experiencing the Iron Teeth Green Tide, everyone in the Mingyang Sect agreed that the sect must have enough self-defense 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 guard army, the Mingyang sect's production capacity was fully utilized. Even if all the docks were fully operational, it would take about 25 years to complete the fleet construction.
All time and production capacity are fully utilized, and there is also a huge demand for external resources and manpower.
To put it bluntly, it's already quite good that our Mingyang Sect has not continued to occupy more territory and grab more profits. Do you, Gu Hang, still want to give up the territory we have occupied and take back our full orders?
Dream on.
They were not interested at all in the conditions proposed by Gu Hang on behalf of the alliance, which would provide Jin Dixing with greater resource support and full military support.
In other words, the former, that is, resource support, is what they are interested in; the prerequisite is that the alliance can accept this support and investment. It will take at least twenty-five years until Jin Dixing completes its own construction and ensures its own safety before paying the alliance's remuneration.
That's obviously impossible.
As for the military security provided by the alliance?
Don't believe it!
This is what the star domain government and the universe domain government said before.
During the Iron Teeth War, don't we have to fight on our own?
After this incident, they deeply realized that no matter how many interests are connected or how many solemn guarantees are given, when life and death are at stake, the person they can rely on most is themselves.
Military protection of the alliance?
The alliance does seem to be quite capable, much more capable than the previous star domain government.
But... I'm sorry, if it's not me, I can't believe it.
Besides, doesn't your alliance face more enemies?
Your Governor Gu is not a quiet person. He is always doing this today and that tomorrow. Now, he is involved in the confrontation with Iron Fury Stone.
The Mingyang Sect considers itself a small sect with only one forging world. It is not in good condition right now and has no intention of getting involved.
This opinion was discussed and decided upon by all the sages of the main profession within the sect, as well as a considerable number of ruling bishops who hold relatively core positions.
Oh, except for Wu Jiarong, the traitor.
But her opinion on this matter is not important. She just needs to honestly contribute the ingenious techniques she has mastered. It is not the turn of this traitor and ungrateful person to interfere in the major event that will determine the future direction of the Mingyang Sect.
With such a unanimous decision made by the entire sect's top leadership, Chen Haixu was really not worried about Gu Hang's activities on Jindi Star.
After all, he is the head of the star field, and Jindi Star is within the alliance. The attitudes of both sides should not become awkward, and the respect and attitude that are due must be given.
But for the rest, forget it.
After the governor of the alliance has been turned down by one sage after another, he should have known that he should not continue wasting time.
As for the second meeting that will be called for next?
Then just open it.
Anyway, it's just another collective veto.
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Chen Haixu's mechanical face was full of shock.
White steam was even emitting from his modified ears.
The Council of Sages, composed of nine main sages, is the nominal highest authority of the Mingyang Sect.
And now, eight mechanical arms were raised in front of him.
The person sitting opposite the Sages' Round Table was Gu Hang, who had been active on Jindi Star for more than half a month.
Half an hour ago, the second Sages' Council was convened, and Gu Hang began to introduce the alliance's policies, just like last time.
Compared with the first proposal, this time, Gu Hang made a bigger concession. 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 will increase the purchase price of the order and provide more raw materials; and the Alliance can also accept the production orders of the Ming Yang Sect in return. That means that the Ming Yang Sect has some low-level and low-value parts 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 accepted technology transfer and capacity transfer achieved economic growth; the ownership of these transferred capacity was calculated according to the proportion of both parties' investment and the value of the technology; all management rights could be handed over to the Mingyang Sect...
Correspondingly, the Ming Yang Sect can expand its influence and control outward through technology and production capacity transfer, through economic and political means, and further ensure control over raw materials and low-value-added industrial components.
Moreover, the production capacity freed up from some low-end industries on Jindi Star can be better invested in high-end industries.
However, these conditions did not actually go beyond what the main practitioners of the Ming Yang sect had discussed earlier.
Logically speaking, after "politely" listening to Gu Hang's proposal, when it came to the voting stage, everyone should sit quietly when they heard the vote "in favor of the proposal"; and when it came to the vote "against the proposal", they should all raise their hands.
However, what happened next was completely beyond Chen Haixu's expectations.
When the vote of approval was being taken, he first saw Wu Jiarong raise her hand.
Well, good, as expected.
Then, another main-job sage raised his hand.
This made Chen Haixu look sideways.
This kid Gu Hang, have all these half-month activities really produced any results for him?
You kid, you took advantage of Gu Hang, right?
Chen Haixu was not very happy.
Although it was just one extra vote and was meaningless, in fact, according to the hint Chen Haixu had given to other sages before, not a single vote should be given to Gu Hang to avoid any unrealistic fantasies in the governor of the alliance.
It would be better if you get beaten to a pulp sooner or later and get out of here sooner.
At this point, he could only comfort himself that perhaps the wise man Ke Zonggang who raised his hand was just doing it as a token of appreciation after receiving the benefit, in order to save some face for Governor Gu?
With this mentality, Chen Haixu immediately saw the third, fourth, and fifth robotic arms being raised.
Just a few minutes later, among the nine main sages of the Mingyang Sect, I was the only one who didn't raise my hand...
No, what the fuck is going on!
Even though his body had undergone extensive mechanical transformation, many emotions produced by the body's hormone secretions had been eliminated. However, Chen Haixu still felt a surge of anger at the moment.
What are you going to do?
Collective rebellion, right?
But he soon calmed down, and his brain, which had not yet been completely transformed and still belonged to the human race, began to think carefully.
Things are not yet at the point of no return.
Although eight out of nine votes were in favor, it did not mean that Gu Hang's proposal was passed.
He is the Forging General. Although he only has one vote in the parliament like other Sages of the Main Occupation, the most special thing about the Forging General is that he has a veto power.
If he wants to promote any major policies, strategies or decisions, he will also need to obtain the consent of the four main sages; but if he opposes a decision, he only needs his own vote.
The current situation is very suitable for using this veto power.
However, do we really need to do this?
Voting seems to be a rule, but any rule must consider the meaning behind the rule.
He does not have the power of veto, which means he has the ability to veto any proposal he does not want to agree to.
On the contrary, he has the veto power because he has the ability to prevent the implementation of any decision he disagrees with.
However, the current situation is too complicated.
(End of this chapter)
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