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Chapter 522, I want it too! ! !

Chen Haixu could use his veto power to veto Gu Hang's proposal at this meeting despite the unanimous consent of the other eight main industry sages.

But if he does this, what will he face next?
What secret agreement did Gu Hang reach with these eight people that could make them all jump back?

Will these secret agreements go further and threaten him?

The eight main industry sages may not be able to directly threaten his position, but if a powerful foreign aid like Gu Hang is introduced, will he, the foundry general, be able to sit firmly?
All these factors were placed before Chen Haixu's eyes. He saw the smile on Gu Hang's face, which seemed to be asking him:

Do you really have the ability to forcefully veto this proposal?

He hesitated.

He really didn't dare.

The situation was beyond his imagination.

But it is equally impossible for him to be coerced into voting in favor without knowing anything.

Not daring to veto or agree, under the gaze of everyone, General Chen Haixu, the supreme leader of a mechanical sect, was embarrassed for a moment.

After a while, he slowly said: "The meeting will be suspended for a while, and Governor Gu will also be asked to avoid it for a while. We need to discuss 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 yet been resolved, what he is most worried about is that Gu Hang will use the current voting situation to force him to make a decision immediately.

The scene will become ugly and even push both parties into a situation where there is no way to resolve it.

Fortunately, this did not happen. Gu Hang is very...' considerate'.

He was somewhat grateful to Gu Hang.

After Gu Hang went out, Chen Haixu glanced at the sages.

Everyone's attitude was different, but most of them were too embarrassed to look at him.

Only when his eyes finally fell on Wu Jiarong, he could clearly see that the youngest sage who was the main business sage whom he had single-handedly supported was looking at him fearlessly.

It seems that the key lies here.

"Tell me, what's going on!" Chen Haixu stared at Wu Jiarong closely.

Wu Jiarong smiled: "Actually, the situation is not complicated at all..."

……

It's really not complicated.

Just a black box.

Gu Hang has extraordinary charm and also possesses mental and psychic abilities. However, Gu Hang's use of the latter has always been relatively restrained.

If Gein wants to achieve a better control effect, then the manifestation of the target being mentally controlled will be more obvious and very easy to detect;
If you want to avoid detection, then the idea of ​​implanting the transformation needs to be very similar and consistent with the target's own ideas, and it also needs to be controlled for a relatively long time to perform a 'psychic surgery'. Just like what Gu Hang did to Gallardo.

Gu Hang could neither use his psychic powers too crudely to influence the thoughts of these sages, nor could he control these sages to perform psychic surgery.

In fact, there is no need.

Convince them that Gu Hang really does not have and does not bother to use any special means.

Just take out the top killer weapon like the black box, that's enough.

For these senior members of the Mechanicus, the many reconstruction and revival plans they consider for the sect are of course very important and they care about them very much. However, the importance of all this is not as important as 'technology' in their eyes.

The more advanced the Mechanicus members are, the deeper and more irresistible their desire for technology is.

And how will new technology come about?
Low-level members of the Mechanicus may still have a way to learn and inherit. But for high-level Mechanicus members, there is very little room for learning and inheritance.

Perhaps everyone has different unique technologies. However, on the one hand, these unique technologies are sometimes just a small trick, some unique precision product designs that cannot be mass-produced; on the other hand, the reason why they are 'unique' technologies , then naturally they will not be handed over to others easily, even colleagues.

Preserving one's own broom is a problem that can easily arise within the Mechanicus. No matter how much they publicize internally and try to break this status quo, the central government of the empire and governments at all levels are still trying to continue various technical cooperation and exchanges with the Mechanicus.

However, this trend within the Mechanicus has lasted for thousands of years, how could it be easily changed?

It is difficult to learn and inherit some unique technologies. This not only causes serious problems in the internal circulation of technology, but also causes the Mechanics to be severely restricted when researching and innovating technologies, and a large amount of resources are wasted. .

There are many technologies that probably already exist and are even mastered by many people. However, due to the lack of dissemination, in many cases, when the person who mastered the technology dies, it means that the technology is lost; even if he is not dead, as long as he is unwilling to spread the technology to others and other people have similar technical needs, resources will still be consumed. Go and research again.

What's more, the Mechanicus itself is quite resistant to 'innovation'.

Technology is an ancestral method, a method that has been effective for tens of thousands of years, so it is best not to touch it. Even if a small change is effective, it may be a temptation from the abyss, which will eventually lead to some bad problems. Not to mention some truly big innovations and the production of a new product, it is very likely that it comes from unclean knowledge and taboo knowledge from the abyss, and the final product is very likely to come from the conspiracy of the devil, leading to Very, very bad consequences.

This point has a very painful record in the history of the Mechanicus.

There is no need for others to do it. Their own internal review of similar situations will be very strict.

Under the combined effect of these factors, it is very difficult for a Mechanicus to obtain new technologies, especially safe new technologies.

Learning, inheritance, research and development... After these are not reliable, what is left?

Archeology and looting.

The latter refers to plundering the technologies of some alien races to see if they can be used for their own use. But this is something that requires considerable caution.

It is difficult to analyze alien technology. For example, how can humans use the green-skin technology? Even the reference is weak.

And some alien races have quite powerful technologies, such as the so-called Eldar and omnics.

However, these technologies also have adaptability problems and are very difficult to obtain.

However, some small races discovered during space exploration, and even some left-out human colonies that developed independently, may have some special technologies. However, these technologies also need to be carefully screened. After all, who knows how those who have mastered the technologies obtained them? Is the technology itself tainted by demonic knowledge?

It's not impossible.

In this way, the only remaining 'archeology' is the safest and most profitable source of technology.

The empire's technological capabilities have not made any progress over the past millennium or ten thousand years, not to mention whether they have regressed or not.

Even ten thousand years ago, when the empire was first established, many of the technologies used in the founding war organized and led by the emperor himself have been passed down in confusion for ten thousand years, and have now been lost.

Not to mention, going back further, before the establishment of the empire, in the so-called "golden age" in the dark era, the ancient technology mastered by mankind at that time was even more exaggerated.

If we could find an ancient relic from the golden age, even if it was just some lost technical equipment from the founding expedition ten thousand years ago, it would be a huge gain.

In fact, the technology possessed by the human empire now, including the technology of the more developed and rational human empire ten thousand years ago, is generally 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 it has not even fully analyzed its working principle.

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 built from scratch very quickly;
On the other hand, the huge technical value contained in it is enough to bring great inspiration to high-level Mechanicus members.

This kind of technical inspiration is not only reliable, but also very safe.

Technology left over from humanity's golden age is usually problem-free.

If you simply find a relic, you still have to worry about whether it is a 'trap of wisdom' or whether it is the devil of knowledge disguised as ancient technology. You need to distinguish it carefully. The black box has no worries in this regard at all. It is absolutely safe and is absolutely truly made from gold. handed down from time to time.

Therefore, when Gu Hang took out the black box as reward for these sages in their main business, he deeply moved these people.

Gu Hang could see the deep desire and greed in their mechanical eyes.

They agreed to Gu Hang's conditions almost instantly.

Isn’t it just dozens of resource stars? Give, give, give!

It originally belonged to the star region government. Giving it to the alliance did not mean that they would be out of stock. On the contrary, the alliance also promised to increase mining efforts and import raw materials from resource stars controlled by other alliances.

Isn’t it just to take orders? After another!
The starships that were built were meant to be used, but seeing that the greenskins were also driven away, our Mingyang Sect wouldn't be able to use them for a while, so why not give them to the Alliance first? Anyway, the Alliance doesn't get the ships for free, they also have to pay for them.

What's more, what can I do if I vote with a show of hands and agree?

There are nine people in the Council of Sages, and my single vote will not hinder 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 reversed the balance in their hearts in an instant.

As for what if Gu Hang really takes care of most of the main business sages and passes these proposals at the Council of Sages...

Isn’t there also the founding general?

You, Chen Haixu, have a veto power, so you have to use it well.

What if Chen Haixu doesn't veto it?
Then if your founding generals voted in favor or abstained from voting, then what qualifications do you have to criticize us?
Under this guiding ideology, Gu Hang visited the homes of eight sages in the main industry and won their consent.

It's not that he doesn't want to go to Chen Haixu, it's actually that the foundry general has been in seclusion for some time in the past, and Gu Hang can't see him at all.

……

After learning the whole story, Chen Haixu's expression became extremely gloomy.

It was even more gloomy than when I first saw the eight votes in favor except for him.

His anger was felt by everyone else.

"In other words, you were bribed by the alliance like this?"

"Ahem..." Sage Ke Zonggang coughed twice and said, "It's not considered bribery, right? I haven't done anything to disgrace the sect or Jin Dixing! They have proposals and the process has been submitted to the parliament. I Just cast your vote.”

"Yeah!"

"We just cast a vote!"

"Isn't there still you?"

"If you don't agree, just reject it!"

The sages spoke one after another.

Chen Haixu became even more angry: "In other words, each of you got a black box, right?"

"Uh……"

"It's just me?!"

"Uh……"

"You took all the benefits and then expected me to be the bad guy and got nothing in the end?"

"Uh……"

"That's unreasonable!" Chen Haixu finally stood up angrily. The red forged general's robe separated from his body. The octopus-like mechanical limbs held him up very tall. The vigorous white steam filled the entire mechanical throne.

The remaining eight main business sages were all trembling.

The Foundry General was angry, which was still a bit scary.

Although everyone is at the level of a master sage, there is a reason why Chen Haixu can become a foundry general. He is almost the longest living person in the entire Mingyang Sect, and is over 900 years old. It has been at least six hundred years since he became a sage.

Although he has never crossed over or even seen the opportunity to cross over and become a great sage, such a long accumulation has given him profound strength, enough to pose a great threat to the other eight.

Then, the eight sages heard the Forge General’s furious order:

"Hand over all the black boxes that Gu Hang gave you!"

?

Everything else is easy to say, but this won’t work!

The eight main business sages all stood up, each 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. It will have to be returned in a few years. We must abide by the agreement!"

The sage who said the last words completely ignored the hundreds of ways he could break the contract in his mind when he first signed the lease contract.

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 hall.

"I want three black boxes! At least three! Otherwise I will vote no!"

(End of this chapter)