Augustus really felt how much Kerrigan said she missed him when he saw the mountains of documents. This was more frightening than thousands of insect swarms roaring and charging. He was willing to
Fighting with the fanatical templar with swords and unwilling to face the cruel reality in front of him.
But despite the mountain of government affairs, Augustus was still happy to stay in the palace.
The walls of the room he uses as his office are inlaid with mahogany wainscoting, the warm fireplace exudes a pleasant aroma, and there is a clear sky outside the half-open window. It is very quiet here, giving people a comfortable and comfortable sense of security.
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Augustus had a good sleep yesterday. When he woke up, he felt energetic and had a good appetite. Augustus's little daughter Charlotte could already speak, which made him feel a lot better.
After returning, the first thing Augustus dealt with was the payment of pensions and various subsidies after the Battle of Ayr. At the same time, he ensured that the people below could meticulously carry out the pensions for soldiers' widows and the resettlement of a large number of disabled soldiers.
Because the number of casualties is almost impossible to publish, the difficulty of follow-up work is also extremely staggering.
Dealing with these things made Augustus extremely tired and always felt sad.
But just yesterday, a lot of government affairs accumulated that I had no time to deal with.
In the Tyran Empire, the emperor is also called the head of state and has overall political and military power. These matters must be decided by him personally.
Governors from various parts of the empire would also report their work directly to the emperor, and the matters they talked about would vary in size and importance, and Augustus would have to review them one by one. Therefore, no matter whether it was important or not, these imperial officials had to focus on the key points.
Augustus once called Governor Vygoire to Augustgrad and beat him up because he couldn't stand his nonsense.
Regarding these "memorials", he actually wanted to reply like this: Sirs, please stop memorializing. I already know these issues, but I am not God, let alone a wishing machine.
The situation of each empire planet is different, and the efforts of various local governments in implementing policies are also different, and the problems encountered are even more diverse. Some planetary governors can solve the problems easily, while other governors do a mess.
For example, the governor of the lunar colony of Meinhof 426 (Colony 426) handled the influx of hundreds of millions of refugees very well, but only a few hundred thousand refugees brought the order of New Venice to the verge of collapse.
On the other hand, the Terran Empire is a vast interstellar empire. The backward areas are often very different from the core worlds that were first established. Many planets are extremely xenophobic, and there are even old enemies between each other, which further tests the ability of the Governor-General's government.
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Mar Sara is a world similar to the American West, where criminals and police chiefs riding vultures battle wits in the wilderness all day long, while the imperial dignitaries of Terrador enjoy swimming pools, ski resorts and yachts.
The government is full of sycophants.
Many planets are not of the same mind as the imperial government due to historical issues. Today, the Minister of Autonomous Territory Affairs of the Empire reported to Augustus that the situation in Abaddon and Santee was in turmoil, and the locals were bringing up the matter of independence from the empire again.
There are also many colonies in the empire that are seeking independence, or at least demanding the power of internal autonomy. After all, the last person to take the lead in doing so was Korhal.
But there is nothing to worry about. As long as the threat of the swarm remains, they will not dare to leave the empire. Moreover, the Free Territory enjoys chartered religious freedom and independent economic policies, but they still have to pay taxes and perform military service.
Augustus could give it, but they couldn't force him to give it, otherwise it would cause chaos.
With a sigh, Augustus picked up the documents on the table and read them.
All in all, there are a lot of troubles in the empire now. There are powerful enemies outside and a lot of internal conflicts. Some problems cannot be solved at all under the current situation. It can be said that they are hard to recover from.
The empire's highly centralized power system and solid and strong industrial foundation enabled them to successfully complete the transition from a peaceful economic system to a wartime system in response to foreign invasion. With experience in previous total war periods, both the government and the people have demonstrated
Amazingly calm and extremely efficient.
During the Doomsday War, the Terran Empire government placed far more orders for large-scale military projects, weapons and warships than during the Brood War and the Second Total War. This led to unprecedented prosperity in the military and civilian industries, and forging machines in factories were
The sound of machine hammering roared all night long, and every tank, every chariot, and every walking mecha driven out of the heavy factory would eventually converge into a rolling torrent of steel.
The empire's military technology has advanced by leaps and bounds in these years. They drew inspiration and learned technology from the earthlings, protoss, zerg and xel'naga. Any veteran who has served in the empire since its establishment can feel this.
The armor they wore became stronger and their firepower became more powerful.
Augustus saw that Archer, the current Minister of Munitions of the Empire, mentioned in the report that the Empire should increase the output of Widow Mines and restart the production lines of Iron Crow point defense drones and hunting missiles to meet the needs of the front line.
Soldiers' needs.
He thought it made sense, but he did not want to occupy the production space of other weapons and asked the other party to give a more detailed report and list the data.
The Imperial Munitions Department is responsible for coordinating the efforts of the various Imperial production departments to fulfill orders for the planetary armies, marines, and navies.
Of course, according to the rules, Minister Archer cannot deal with people in the Finance Department, or even have any contact. He only considers whether the empire's production capacity can keep up with order demand, and never considers how much military expenditure this will generate. For example, if there is an urgent need
For more siege tanks, you have to choose to reduce the production of Wolf Warrior and Goliath armed robots.
On the positive side, the demand for the military industry can significantly solve the employment problem and boost the economy. However, in the long run, this is not a good thing. Maintaining the wartime system for a long time will cause irreparable damage to the economy.
Because of this, Augustus pursued a quick resolution of the battle on the Ayr battlefield while stabilizing the front.
After approving the report of the Ministry of Munitions, Augustus met with the Minister of the Interior and reported that cases in Korhal and other imperial worlds had increased significantly. At the same time, the number of pirate organizations had also increased significantly. He listed the Angels of Hels (Hels).
The names of the two forces, Angels (hel means Hela) and Tyrador blood-shrike, indicate that they frequently attack the empire's fleets transporting goods and seek protection from the imperial navy.
The intensity of the Doomsday War is also far greater than before. It can be said that the Empire was jointly attacked by the protoss and the main force of the swarm at the same time. Therefore, the Empire needs to summon more reservists, build more fleets, and ensure that they
supplies to maintain combat effectiveness in long-term preparations for war.
It is one thing to build a huge military force, and it is another thing to maintain this force. Behind every imperial soldier fighting on the front line are two to three support staff and workers. This is still before productivity.
In case of damage.
In order to maximize its war potential, the empire must undergo industrial transformation to ensure the supply of military supplies, while also requiring workers to work more hours.
The government needs to intervene in the market economy, control prices, moderate consumption, and ensure that the salaries distributed to workers and soldiers will not shrink significantly due to inflation.
But just like in the past, the living standards of neither them nor the common people are much higher. Especially when they are repeatedly defeated, the social atmosphere is obviously depressing and dull. The people can tolerate the decline in living standards, but cannot tolerate them
While the army continued to make sacrifices, it failed one after another, and there was no hope at all.
Previously, when facing the Golden Fleet and the Insect Swarm, the Empire adopted a strategy of avoiding their sharp edges and shrinking the defense line. Although it achieved many local victories, it still continued to lose ground overall, and a large number of resentful refugees began to pour into the core world.
, causing a lot of chaos and unrest, and criminal incidents also increased significantly. As public security declined, mercenaries and pirates also increased.
This situation did not ease until the Golden Fleet and the Insect Swarm suddenly withdrew from the Imperial World and the Battle of Aiur was won.
However, the concentrated influx of these people solved the empire's growing shortage of personnel during the war to a certain extent. After all, so many people became workers, soldiers, miners and even employees of the empire's wartime bureaucracy.
All of these require manpower.
But compared with the loss of losing these edge worlds, this is far from making up for it.
It is easy to destroy a world, but it takes a lot of time and money to terraform a planet and make it habitable, sometimes even several generations of efforts. Even with perseverance and wisdom, humans can survive in extremely harsh environments
However, for them, habitable planets are still as precious as flowers in the desert in the universe.
During the First Contact War, the protoss only burned those planets that had been infected by the zerg, but this time they treated them equally, reducing their own and human homes to ashes.
In his reply to the Minister of the Interior, Augustus said that the police and border security systems are allowed to recruit more people and increase funding, but whether they can recruit people depends on them. As for the problem of piracy, there has been a shortage in the mines recently.
Man, this is a sleepy pillow.
At the same time, Augustus was pleased to note that the Minister of Agriculture reported that food production had steadily increased recently, a large part of which came from the newly opened colonies in the Sigma Sector.
The most important industrial areas of the empire are basically in the core world, but the outer fringe world also provides a large amount of food and raw materials. The direct impact of this is a food crisis and a reduction in industrial production.
Thanks to the grain storage system that Augustus attached great importance to since the establishment of the empire, a large amount of affordable food entered the market by the imperial government, which suppressed the rise in grain prices due to extreme panic and maintained price stability. The war at the end of the old federation
Famine did not happen again.
In order to solve the shortage of raw materials, build fleets, and extract more crystal minerals and high-energy gas in a shorter time, the Tyran Empire's ever-expanding mining industry has hollowed out more than one planet, and the damage it has caused is no less than
The Kaimorian Federation, known as the interstellar locusts.
During this period, there was great chaos within the empire, especially in the fringe worlds where the empire's control was weak. Merchants who had benefited from the country's financial difficulties took the opportunity to hoard goods and buy large quantities of grain and other in-demand goods, causing prices to skyrocket. This was a routine operation.
At the same time, entrepreneurs refuse to raise wages, and even fire local workers who demand higher wages, and hire refugees from other worlds to increase profits with lower labor costs. Then, they will pass on the conflicts between unemployed workers and themselves to
As a result, the locals have become increasingly disgusted with the refugees who caused them to lose their jobs, but few people remember who actually fired them.
Things like this are common in chaotic times.
When Augustus overthrew the Old Federation, he eliminated the senatorial families of Tarsonis in one fell swoop, killing many people. These long-standing families controlled the politics of the Old Federation and most of the wealth. But after that,
Another group of families quickly filled the vacancies of the elder families. They were the upstarts of the empire world, military families and another group of owners of large conglomerates and large enterprises.
Even before the war broke out, these entrepreneurs with large amounts of money began to try to re-meddle in politics, infiltrate and bribe local planetary parliament members, induce them to propose policies that are more beneficial to them, and even indirectly use the Marine Corps to protect their assets.
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When the war broke out, these conglomerate families naturally regarded their own interests as more important than the empire and imperial power. However, they did not dare to disobey Augustus. After all, this emperor had killed the senatorial families that had been rooted in the Federation for centuries.
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Augustus had been watching this with a cold eye, waiting for someone to jump out and oppose him so that he could reap a wave of wealth and regain his blood.
A few compliments were given to the Minister of Agriculture, and a report from a diplomat made Augustus laugh out loud.
After the Battle of Aiur, the United Umoyan Republic claimed that they had reopened the border with the Duram Protoss, but they had not received any response from the other party. In fact, the Umoyan people themselves knew that no one knew whether the border was closed or not.
No matter what, the golden fleet and the zerg are still taken care of.
Rather than being sad, it is better to say that the Umoyan government made one thing wrong, that is, the method they used to deal with the Tyranid Empire did not work on the protoss. In the Koprulu sector, strength
, to put it more directly, military strength is the most important.
At present, Umoyan is still an independent regime, but Augustus abides by the promise made during the Revolutionary Army, but the Umoyan people always feel that Augustus will take action against them sooner or later.
After Augustus read it, he issued another order to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, that is, in addition to the original cooperation project, a certain amount of arms can be sold to Umoyan. If they are willing to negotiate, the Imperial Navy can
Provides protection against zerg invasion.
In short, Augustus did not intend to sit back and watch Umoyan's demise, but the protection fee had to be collected, so his help could not be in vain, and the Tyranids could not die in vain.
The following reports were more military-related, such as a border planet experiencing a rapidly spreading infection crisis, and all infected houses must be destroyed before the infection spreads further.
Stukov said that the Void Ripper appeared in Char again and was launching an attack on the Imperial Fortress. Everything seemed to be a repeat of the Korhal Rift incident, and Amon's power was recovering.
General Davis reported that the environment of Validia is rapidly deteriorating, and the extremely increased tectonic movement is destroying the planet. Psykers loyal to the Imperial government believe that this is the work of the Dark God.
Amon's army reactivated several protoss space-time channels in the ruins of Ka'adir to transport their military power. The nearest imperial world is in danger ()