Chapter 522, I want it too!!!
Chen Haixu could use his veto power and, at this meeting, forcefully reject Gu Hang's proposal despite the agreement of the other eight main business sages.
But if he did this, what would he face next?
What kind of secret agreement did Gu Hang reach with these eight people that could make them all defect?
Will these secret agreements go further and threaten him?
The eight main sages may not be able to directly threaten his position, but if a powerful foreign aid like Gu Hang is introduced, can he keep his position as the Casting General?
All these factors were in front of Chen Haixu. He saw the smile on Gu Hang's face. That smile seemed to be asking him:
Do you really have the ability to veto this proposal?
He hesitated.
He was indeed a little afraid.
The situation was beyond his imagination.
But it is equally impossible to force him to vote in favor without knowing anything.
Not daring to veto nor to agree, under the gaze of everyone, Chen Haixu, the Forging General and the supreme leader of a mechanical sect, was actually embarrassed for a moment.
After a long while, he slowly said: "The meeting will be suspended for a while, and Governor Gu will be asked to step aside temporarily. We need to discuss this with each other for a while..."
Gu Hang stood up and said, "Okay, but please don't make me wait too long."
Chen Haixu finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Although the matter has not been resolved yet, what he is most worried about is that Gu Hang will take advantage of the current voting situation to force him to make a decision immediately.
The situation would become very ugly, and might even push both parties into a situation that could not be resolved.
Fortunately, this did not happen. Gu Hang was very... 'considerate'.
He was somewhat grateful to Gu Hang.
After Gu Hang left, Chen Haixu's eyes swept over the sages.
Everyone has a different attitude, but most people are embarrassed to look him in the eye.
But when his gaze finally fell on Wu Jiarong, he clearly saw that this youngest master of the main business, whom he had promoted, was looking at him fearlessly.
It seems that this is the key.
"Tell me, what's going on!" Chen Haixu stared at Wu Jiarong.
Wu Jiarong smiled: "Actually, the situation is not complicated at all..."
…
It’s really not complicated.
Just a black box.
Gu Hang is extremely charming and possesses the ability of mental psychic powers. However, Gu Hang has always been relatively restrained in his use of the latter.
Because if you want to achieve a better control effect, then the target's mental manipulation will be more obvious and very easy to detect;
If you want to avoid detection, then the idea of implantation and transformation needs to be very similar to the target's own idea, and have a certain degree of fit, and it also takes a relatively long time to control the other party to perform a "psychic surgery." It's similar to what Gu Hang did to Gallardo.
Gu Hang could neither use his psychic powers in a crude way to influence the thoughts of these main-business sages, nor did he have the conditions to control these main-business sages and perform psychic surgery on them.
Actually, there is no need for that.
To convince them, Gu Hang did not and did not bother to use any special means.
All we need to do is take out a top-notch weapon like the black box.
For these senior members of the Mechanicus, the many plans for the reconstruction and revival of the sect that they considered were of course very important and they cared about them very much. However, in their eyes, the importance of all these was not as great as "technology".
The more senior the Mechanicus member is, the deeper and more irresistible his inner thirst for technology is.
And how do new technologies come about?
Low-level members of the Mechanicus may still have a way to learn and inherit, but for high-level members of the Mechanicus, the room for learning and inheritance is very, very small.
Perhaps everyone has different unique skills. However, on the one hand, these unique skills are sometimes just small tricks, some unique precision product designs that cannot be mass-produced; on the other hand, because they are "unique" skills, they will naturally not be easily passed on to others, even to colleagues.
The Mechanicus is prone to cherishing its own possessions. No matter how much they promote it internally and try to break this situation, the central government of the empire and governments at all levels are also trying to continuously cooperate and exchange various technologies with the Mechanicus.
However, this atmosphere within the Mechanicus has continued for thousands or tens of thousands of years. How could it be easily changed?
It is difficult to learn and pass on some unique technologies, which not only causes serious problems in the internal circulation of technology, but also leads to very serious constraints on the Mechanicus' research and innovation of technology, as well as a large amount of waste of resources.
There are many technologies that may have already existed, and even many people have mastered them. However, due to the lack of transmission, when the person who mastered the technology dies, it means that the technology is lost; even if they are not dead, as long as they are unwilling to spread the technology, if other people have similar technical needs, they will have to spend resources to research it again.
What's more, the Mechanicus itself is quite resistant to the concept of "innovation".
Technology is the ancestral method, a routine method that has been effective for tens of thousands of years, so it is best not to change it. Even if a small change is effective, it may be a temptation from the abyss, and it will eventually lead to some bad problems. Not to mention some real big innovations, the production of some new products, it is very likely that it is the unclean knowledge and taboo knowledge from the abyss, and the final product is likely to be a conspiracy from the devil, which will lead to very, very bad consequences.
This has a very tragic record in the history of the Mechanicus.
There is no need for others to do it, as they will be very strict in their own internal review of similar situations.
With all these factors working together, it becomes extremely difficult for a Mechanicus to acquire new technologies, especially safe new technologies.
Learning, inheritance, research and development... when these are no longer reliable, what is left?
Archaeology and looting.
The latter means plundering some alien races' technology to see if it can be used for one's own benefit. But this is also something that requires considerable caution.
It is difficult to analyze alien technology. For example, how do humans use the technology of green skins? Even the reference value is very weak.
However, the technology of some alien races is quite advanced, such as the so-called Eldar and Omnics.
However, these technologies also have adaptability issues and are very difficult to obtain.
Some small races discovered during space exploration, or even some abandoned, independently developed human colonies, may have some special technologies. However, these technologies also need to be carefully identified. After all, who knows how those who mastered the technology obtained it? Is this technology itself contaminated by demonic knowledge?
It's not impossible.
In this way, the only remaining "archaeology" is the safest and most profitable source of technology.
The empire's technological capabilities have not improved at all over the past thousands or tens of thousands of years, let alone regressed.
Even many of the technologies used in the founding war that was organized and led by the Emperor himself when the empire was first established tens of thousands of years ago have been lost after ten thousand years of confused inheritance.
Not to mention, going back further, before the establishment of the empire, in the so-called "golden age" before that dark age, the ancient technology mastered by humans was even more exaggerated.
If one could find an ancient relic from the golden age, even if it was just some lost technical equipment from the founding expedition period ten thousand years ago, it would be a huge gain.
In fact, the technology that the human empire possesses now, including the technology of the more advanced and rational human empire ten thousand years ago, is largely based on the legacy left over from the Golden Age.
The black box is a product of the golden age.
The Human Empire is still unable to produce this kind of thing, and has not even fully analyzed its working principles.
But that doesn't stop the Mechanicus from fanatically collecting all the black boxes.
On the one hand, these black boxes can be used as the core of an industry. Obtaining them means that a production line can be quickly built from scratch.
On the other hand, the enormous technological value contained therein is enough to bring great inspiration to high-level members of the Mechanicus.
This kind of technical inspiration is not only reliable but also safe.
Technology left over from humanity's golden age is usually fine.
If you simply find a relic, you still have to worry about whether it is a 'wisdom trap' or a knowledge demon disguised as ancient technology, which requires careful identification; the black box has no such concerns at all, it is absolutely safe and is absolutely authentically passed down from the golden age.
Therefore, when Gu Hang took out the black box as a reward to these main business sages, he deeply moved these people.
Gu Hang could see deep desire and greed in their mechanical eyes.
They agreed to Gu Hang's conditions almost instantly.
Isn't it just a few dozen resource stars? Give it to me!
It originally belonged to the star domain government, and giving it to the alliance does not mean that they will be cut off from supply. On the contrary, the alliance has promised to increase mining efforts and import raw materials from resource stars controlled by other alliances.
Isn't it just taking orders? Take, take, take!
The starships we built were meant to be used. Seeing that the greenskins had been driven away, our Mingyang Sect couldn't use them for a while, so we might as well give them to the Alliance first. After all, the Alliance didn't get the ships for free, they had to pay for them.
What's more, what would happen if I alone raised my hand to vote in agreement?
There are nine people in the Council of Sages, and my one vote in favor will not affect the overall situation at all.
It’s better to get the black box first.
Driven by greed and desire, the appearance of the black box instantly reversed the balance in their hearts.
As for what would happen if Gu Hang really managed to get most of the main business sages to pass these proposals at the Sage Council...
Isn't there also the Casting General?
You, Chen Haixu, have a veto power, so you must use it well.
What if Chen Haixu doesn’t veto?
Since you, the general, have voted in favor or abstained, what qualifications do you have to criticize us?
Under this guiding ideology, Gu Hang visited the homes of eight main business sages and won their consent.
It’s not that he was unwilling to find Chen Haixu, but the casting general had been in seclusion for some time and Gu Hang couldn’t see him at all.
…
After understanding the whole story, Chen Haixu's expression became extremely gloomy.
It was even more gloomy than when he first saw eight votes in favor besides him.
His anger had already been felt by everyone else.
"In other words, you were bought by the alliance just like that?"
“Ahem…” Sage Ke Zonggang coughed twice and said, “It can’t be considered bribery, right? I haven’t done anything to let down the sect or Jin Dixing! They have made a proposal, and the process has been submitted to the parliament. I just cast a vote.”
“Yes, yes, yes!”
“We’re just voting!”
"Don't you still have me?"
"If you don't agree, just veto it!"
The sages spoke up one after another.
Chen Haixu became even angrier: "That means each of you got a black box, right?"
"Well……"
"I'm the only one who doesn't have it?!"
"Well……"
"You took all the benefits, and then expected me to be the bad guy, only to get nothing in the end?"
"Well……"
"How ridiculous!" Chen Haixu finally stood up in anger. The red cast general robe fell off his body. The octopus-like mechanical limbs supported him very tall. The booming white steam filled the entire mechanical throne.
The remaining eight main sages were all trembling with fear.
It's still a bit scary when the Casting General gets angry.
Although everyone was at the level of a sage of the main occupation, there was a reason why Chen Haixu could become a casting general. He was almost the longest-lived person in the entire Mingyang sect, at over 900 years old. It had been at least 600 years since he became a sage of the main occupation.
Although he has never taken, or even seen, the opportunity to become a great sage, such a long period of accumulation has given him profound strength, enough to pose a great threat to the other eight.
Then, the eight sages heard the furious order from the Casting General:
"Hand over all the black boxes that Gu Hang gave you!"
?
Everything else is fine, but this won’t do!
The eight main sages all stood up, revealing their mechanical bodies that were originally hidden under their red robes.
"That's absolutely impossible!"
“This is private property!”
"The black box was rented by Gu Hang, and he has to return it in a few years. He has to abide by the agreement!"
The wise man who said the last sentence completely ignored the fact that when he first signed the lease agreement, he had a hundred ways to breach the contract in his mind.
Chen Haixu was furious.
"I don't care! I absolutely cannot accept that I don't have a black box!"
"Governor Gu! Come in!"
His voice penetrated beyond the conference room.
"I want three black boxes! At least three! Otherwise I will veto it!"
(End of this chapter)
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