Chapter 421

"This..."

The manager hesitated for a moment, and finally said something trembling under the gaze of the Star Warrior.

"My Lord, there have been no new qualified workers here for three months. Women and children are sick and disabled from the transport ship. We, we can't help it -"

With that, the manager lowered the data board to the starfighter.

"Accidents caused by unqualified workers have also increased sharply recently, and we have done our best..."

As a result, after only watching for a minute, Ustad then closed the data board anxiously, then turned to the foreman and said:

"On behalf of the war corps, I thank you for your efforts. This situation will not continue, I promise."

"Sir, we can rest assured with you."

After getting the data he wanted, Ustad hurried back to the regiment monastery.

At the moment, soshyan is also busy in the room of the commander of the war.

"If necessary, use the genetic seeds of the eighth Legion to form a secret company."

Soshyan examined the message left by friar Sid before he went into sleep.

This idea has to be said boldly, so that the star knight who has stood on the edge of heresy can be almost completely characterized as a traitor, but he knows that this is respect for practical considerations.

After all, it was more than 100 precious gene seeds, but after strict inspection, it was confirmed that there was no pollution.

Although Valle is a damned heretic traitor, it has to be said that his technology of saving and processing gene seeds is first-class, which is much better than any pharmacist in soshyan's hand.

But he must also assess the risks of doing so.

Soshyan turned his pen in his hand, lost in thought.

"Let's wait."

It was difficult to make a decision at that time, so he planned to postpone the matter first.

Another thing is to hire professional explorers to find the planet described by Talos - the countless worlds of the Empire, many of which have similar characteristics, so professionals are needed to find it.

After dealing with this, soshyan, who was not wearing armor, sat back in his chair and relaxed his body for a moment.

But on the desktop, there are still mountains of files and approvals waiting for him to read them one by one and write down his opinions.

So he only allowed himself to relax for ten seconds and then picked up the pen again.

The room is very quiet. Through the two huge dark glass windows behind you, you can see the soldiers gathered outside the outcrop training ground.

They were training in tactical coordination, and soshyan wanted to see it himself.

But there are so many things at the moment that soshyan can only be forced to do what he is not very good at.

Suddenly the doorbell rang, and then the servant's voice came from the brass horn.

"Your Excellency, commander Ustad asked for a meeting."

"Let him in."

Thirty seconds later, the door of a room was knocked.

"Come in."

The gate was pushed open, Ustad strode in, then stopped one meter in front of the desk, his legs together and saluted a standard military salute.

"Report that the commander of the war, the second company commander, Ustad, has completed the task you assigned, went to Xinggang to build the dock, and understood the reasons and details of the delay. This is the data I got, and my report is also in it."

With that, he handed a data board to the table.

"It's hard for you."

Soshyang smiled at him, then leaned out, took the data board into his hand and activated it.

Ten seconds later, the smile on his face disappeared.

Five minutes later, he put the data board on the desktop and leaned back, looking very depressed.

"It seems that the problem is with us."

Ustad stood upright.

"You did a good job. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be able to understand things to this extent."

Soshyan squeezed out a smile and waved.

"Go back to LIANLI first."

"Yes."

After Ustad left, soshyan sighed, covered his eyes with his right hand, tilted his head back and leaned against the back of his chair.

In fact, the data and reports collected by Ustad are summarized in one sentence——

The rapidly growing star knights are about to drain the planet.

Soshyan had a premonition in this regard for a long time. Nathan IV is his home. He knows very well that although this planet has a long history, it is not a world with very developed productivity - just look at the natural environment.

The past governors of the planet did not aim to vigorously develop industry, and there were not many minerals on the planet. Most of the main trade products of Nathan IV were small commodities, such as textile industry, which were the main economic pillars.

As a military organization, the demand for materials and manpower of star knights is boundless. It's ok if it's a normal full combat group, which won't put great pressure on the planet in a short time.

But now the star knight is a broken and recovering battle group. Naturally, a wounded patient needs much more than a normal person.

As an inappropriate metaphor, the star knight is a wounded soldier, lying on a cow, squeezing * * while cutting and eating meat with a knife to recover strength and wounds.

The materials needed to maintain a regiment and rebuild a regiment are not of the same order of magnitude.

Long ago, the planet governor and soshyan hinted that he had repeatedly increased taxes on civilians and nobles in order to supply the regiment.

Moreover, there are many daily supplies and materials needed for equipment maintenance of astate. Nathan IV cannot be produced at all. It must be imported from other planets and foundry at a high price, which leads to the collapse of the original trading system of the planet, and a large deficit makes the government's fiscal deficit soar.

But that's not the end. If it's normal, as the battle group's parent star, Nathan IV doesn't have such a big burden - according to normal practice, a normal colonial planet is enough to support a battle group

According to imperial law, once a world becomes the battle group's parent star, it will get a special tax exemption from all tithes.

The key is that, although in fact, Nathan IV has become the parent star of the star knights, the star Knights have long been removed from the Tara Council. They are no longer in the records of the active regiment, so Nathan IV is naturally impossible to apply for special tax exemption.

This means that the people of Nathan IV have to pay imperial taxes and support the regiment.

Ustad's report shows that the planetary government can't even get together a large number of qualified workers needed by the shipyard. Only women and teenagers aged 12 to 15 can make up!

In this case, even if the working hours are increased, the progress will inevitably slow down.

Not only that, because the tax revenue of the planet has increased again and again, the trade deficit is becoming larger and larger, and the red color of the government's finance is rising, the rations that can be provided to workers have decreased instead of increased!

Ustad called out the ration quota of shipyard workers before the star Knight came, and found that the current ration quota was nearly 40% less than in the past.

Many workers died of hunger and fatigue, which led to many accidents and even more serious casualties.

Moreover, he also investigated the deaths of some child workers, which looked very shocking.

The manpower and material resources of Nathan IV have been pushed to the limit.

The Xinggang shipyard is still like this. Soshyan dare not imagine what the planet's ground looks like.

"What have I done..."

Soshyan, who covered his eyes, muttered in pain.

The photos of children who were injured and disabled, the sad faces of women who lost their husbands, the numb and desperate expressions of workers... All these are like a sharp knife stabbing soshyan's two hearts.

As a war commander, he naturally hopes that the regiment will recover as soon as possible, because this is his responsibility.

But this is also his hometown. He would never want to see his beautiful home turn into Purgatory on earth.

Soshyan began to reflect. He realized that he was too anxious. He wanted to finish many things that took 20, 30, or even 50 years, but he wanted to finish them in three or five years.

The price of such a leap forward is the remains of the people in their hometown layer after layer.

After about ten minutes of silence, soshyang put down his hand, straightened up, picked up the data board on the table and wrote a series of commands.

"All warships whose construction progress is less than 70% will be stopped, the collection of materials will be suspended, the recruitment of mortal auxiliary forces will be suspended, the armory will maintain the minimum combat readiness, all exercises that have not entered the implementation stage will be cancelled, the ration quota of mortal servants and auxiliary forces will be reduced by one-third, the excess rations will be distributed to workers as overtime labor remuneration, and all work-related disabilities will be included in the regiment monastery As a servant, only engaged in low-intensity labor... "

After writing this, soshyan almost collapsed in his chair. He realized that the star knight must have a more stable source of materials.