The giant corporations that started from Night City

Chapter 438: A time-tested capital warrior! Building momentum for reform!

Facing Paul's kind reminder, the emperor behaved very calmly. It was just power, he just gave it.

Power belongs to those who are capable, otherwise there will be backlash sooner or later.

The governor of a global giant company has achieved so much and is obviously a "capitalist" warrior who has stood the test of time.

"I know what you said, but I will still do it." The emperor's answer was very straightforward.

"Why do you have so much confidence in us?"

Paul couldn't help but ask, how much trust is needed to be able to hand over the fate of mankind in the Warhammer universe to a giant company.

"I see countless chaotic and vague futures in my mind, some good and some bad, but generally good."

The Emperor explained to Paul with a smile on his face.

His deep gaze seemed to pierce through the distant galaxy, and his deep voice penetrated the future: "I have seen countless timelines, and only the one involving the world's giant enterprise is bright."

Paul looked at the Emperor thoughtfully. The Universal Corporation controlled a lot of intelligence information about the Warhammer universe, and of course it was easier for it to make a series of correct choices based on the situation of the Human Empire.

"Whether from a practical or future perspective, your performance is enough to gain my trust," said the emperor.

The New Channel is the future of the human empire. To entrust this great and arduous task to the giant corporation is equivalent to entrusting the future of the human empire to the rulers of the giant corporation.

The Emperor knew what impact this would bring, but he was not stingy with his power. Whether it was the Human Empire or the world's giant corporation, whoever could lead human civilization to revival would take over this power.

In fact, the Emperor did not like to be the savior of mankind. He hated but had to accept this identity. Compared to being an emperor, he preferred to be a happy hermit in the Golden Age.

If the supreme emperor wants to avoid falling, he must always work diligently to find a way out for mankind. This painful feeling makes the emperor feel exhausted all the time.

It is like old investors who are trapped in the stock market and have been unable to get rid of it, and the entry of global giants is equivalent to a large number of novice investors coming in to take over.

The emperor can just get out of the predicament and leave.

Leave all the Warp evil gods, demons, and primarchs to the giant corporations and let them deal with the troubles!

"Allowing you to supervise the new route is only the first step. I will gradually give you more authority in the future."

As soon as he finished speaking, the emperor felt more relaxed and happy than ever before.

The Universal Corporation must take over his own foundation, but the Corporation has just arrived in the Milky Way and does not know a lot of information yet. He still needs to keep an eye on the operation of the empire himself.

Once the giant corporation is fully familiar with the affairs of the empire, he will be able to put down the heavy responsibility of saving human civilization and continue to be his own happy otaku, doing scientific research and comprehending the truth.

At this moment, Paul has completely understood the emperor's thoughts. It seems that the emperor does not want this year's Jingyefu and is ready to quit.

"I will convey your message to our headquarters."

Paul nodded. Since the Emperor didn't want this family business, he would leave it to the Universal Corporation. It just so happened that their governor was an out-and-out workaholic who would accept any universe that came his way.

"I will contact you as soon as I receive a reply from headquarters. Do you have any other important matters now?" Paul continued to ask.

If nothing unexpected happens, the headquarters of the Universal Corporation will most likely agree to the Emperor's request and gradually take control of the Empire by helping the Empire build and maintain new waterways.

After all, doing so is the fastest and cheapest way to unify the Warhammer universe.

However, those Primarchs and High Lords may not necessarily agree with the Emperor's actions. The Human Empire also has their share of power and resources. If the giant corporations are not satisfied with what they receive, there is no guarantee that there will not be some trouble.

Even the Emperor himself failed to discipline the warlord sons of the Primarch. If they had any conflict with the Universal Corporation, would the Corporation turn a blind eye or punish them severely?

This will depend on the Emperor's attitude.

After Paul's conversation with the Emperor, the news quickly spread back to the headquarters of the Ten Thousand Worlds Base, and executives from various departments had a heated discussion about taking over the empire.

The hotly debated point is simple, and that is the cost of taking over the human empire now.

"Build new shipping lanes, send out garrisons, and continue the Great Crusade to purge the galaxy of aliens. These three urgent tasks alone will consume a lot of our material resources and energy."

Lucius Lane made an analysis from the perspective of resource coordination, indicating that taking over the empire now would be quite expensive, but the upside was that the integration process could be accelerated significantly.

It is estimated that the integration time will be more than half faster than the headquarters initially planned!

Spending money to speed up the level clearance is not very necessary for advanced players. It would be even better if the cost could be reduced to take over the empire directly.

"The Emperor's condition now is to build and maintain the new waterway and slowly transfer the power of the empire to us. During this period, he can regret it at any time."

Song Zhaomei saw through the emperor's little tricks at a glance.

This is just like a woman asking a man for a house, a car, and money. All of them must be in place before he can win the beauty. If there is any mistake in between, the woman has the final right of explanation.

What the Emperor wants is for the Universal Corporation to restore the human empire to its peak state during the Golden Age before he is willing to hand over power to the Universal Corporation.

However, if this process is to be accomplished in a short period of time, it is bound to consume a large amount of resources of the giant enterprise, which is not in line with the high-efficiency, low-cost integration strategy that Li Ang wants.

In Li Ang's previous integration operations, he would first make things a done deal and then slowly cultivate feelings. If Bai Yueguang didn't kick him hard first, she would be kicked away by Huangmao.

If the cosmic corporation had developed each universe to perfection one by one before starting the next universe copy, it would probably still be stuck in the world of "Edge of Tomorrow".

Whether it is an individual or a civilization-level entity, we often have to run fast to avoid being overtaken by difficult problems and troubles. Maintaining rapid technological development will cover up and hide many hidden dangers.

Or even disperse it.

Therefore, the Human Empire must have it, but the giant corporations cannot wait until the empire develops to the golden age before getting the property deeds from the emperor. They must take over completely right away!
"In addition, the current political system of the human empire is too backward and inefficient, with a large number of corrupt nobles and bureaucrats just sitting there doing nothing."

"Even if we want to help the empire develop, we have to get rid of these pests first. Otherwise, no matter how many resources we have, it will not be enough to fill the stomachs of these termites."

Morgan Blackhand also pointed out the problem very clearly.

Since the Universal Corporation is going to engage in production and technological development in the Human Empire, of course it has to extend the benefits to every citizen of the Empire.

The allocability issue is the most core point throughout the ages.

The imperial court allocated 30 million silver coins to give the people winter clothes, but when the cold winter came, people still starved to death. Where did the money go? Didn't it still end up in the hands of the rich and powerful? To develop the empire, we must first drag out these corrupt nobles and bureaucrats and chop them off, break the original political system, and replace it with the management system of giant enterprises.

The Transcendental AI Europa monitors every imperial official, verifies every property of theirs, and their work performance.

Otherwise, if the giant corporations in the universe help the human empire in making decisions, it would be like letting others suck their own blood, which would only fatten a bunch of greedy pests in the end.

"The human empire regards AI as hateful intelligence. I am afraid that just changing the political system will cause countless conflicts, which will touch too many vested interests."

"Don't forget that those Primarchs are old nobles. They are all sons of the Emperor. If we want to change the system of the Empire, we cannot avoid these Primarchs."

Xu Shiming said earnestly.

As an interstellar governor with experience in political management in multiple universes, he knew very well how many people would die if a drastic institutional reform was carried out.

In addition, the humans in the Empire are extremely resistant to AI artificial intelligence, which will also lead to the failure to promote AI Europe. In this case, it will still be rule by man in the end, and the proportion of rule of law will still be smaller than that of rule by man.

Difficult, too difficult!
You know, when the world's giant corporations unified the previous universes, they established the new regime with real swords and guns.

Building a new city on wasteland is always easier than demolishing it.

Relying on the system of giant enterprises, after integrating the new universe, the giant enterprises can quickly draw resources from it, coordinate development, and deal with anyone who has different opinions.

But when it comes to the Human Empire, it's all expenses without any obvious benefits. This deal seems to be a definite loss at the moment.

Either the Human Empire will just accept the assistance from the giant corporations for the new waterway project, give them money, resources and power, and let the giant corporations help take care of it, so that the giant corporations will consume less.

Or, just do it in one step and hand over all power to giant enterprises, smash the old system and replace it with the giant enterprises' new power system!
The only thing that cannot happen is that giant enterprises pay and help with construction and development while offending the nobles of the empire and then not getting any substantial benefits in the end.

The emperor's light promise is not a trust.

"I agree with the opinions of all the supervisors. This matter needs to be considered carefully, and the terms of cooperation must be clearly discussed with the Emperor."

V, who rarely expresses his opinions, also expressed his personal opinion at this time, believing that helping the Human Empire now would result in excessive expenditure.

In fact, with the current financial resources of the World Giant Corporation, it would be no problem to support ten more human empires into the golden age, but the reason why the Giant Corporation can have such conditions now is its great material wealth.

It just so happens that it comes from the promotion of Li Ang’s “high efficiency and low cost” concept. Everyone will brainstorm and try to do the biggest thing with the smallest cost.

Spendthrift behavior is not desirable.

"However, from the Emperor's perspective, his actions are understandable. After all, he gave us the entire human empire. If he doesn't let humans live a good life, he will definitely not be willing to leave easily."

V added one more sentence and gave an objective comment on the Emperor.

Watching the executives below express their opinions, Governor Li Ang remained silent throughout and listened calmly to the views of all parties.

After so many years of hands-on training, the way these executives of giant companies think has almost become similar to Li Ang's.

What each of them can think of is what Li Ang has already thought of, and what Li Ang has to do is to make a decision and choose one from the many options.

This is the daily "question type" of high-level leaders. They either have to answer multiple-choice questions or unprecedented and groundbreaking questions. The general fill-in-the-blank questions can be left to their subordinates.

At this moment, Leon turned his gaze to Palpatine, signaling him to express his opinion.

Since Palpatine resumed his ruling career in anonymity, his outstanding abilities quickly enabled him to rise rapidly to the position of governor of the Star Wars universe.

Now he has been transferred to a senior position in a giant company, participating in the integration of the Warhammer universe.

Seeing that Leon "named" him to speak, Palpatine no longer kept a low profile and immediately gave his own advice: "The backbone of the human empire is the emperor, and the rest are just chickens and dogs."

"If we can win him over to the Megacorp camp and give him a position similar to Amon and Quentinsa, this will not only cut off the source of the problem and directly weaken the resistance of the human empire, but also give us ready-made benefits."

No matter what era it is, talent is always the most valuable!

When human civilization was on the verge of collapse and destruction, the Emperor took up the banner and led mankind on the road to revival. His prestige in the Empire is self-evident.

If the Emperor could be brought to the side of Megacorp, at least half of the Primarchs and high-ranking Imperial figures would join Megacorp, leaving only a small number of diehards.

Of course, those who have chosen the wrong side will be liquidated one by one.

In politics, things are often black and white.

Either stand on the left or on the right. Those who don't stand on either side are often the first to die. By pulling the emperor to the side of the giant enterprise, we can quickly distinguish who is the enemy and who is the friend.

After listening to Palpatine's suggestion, all the executives of the giant companies present suddenly had their eyes brightened up. This idea was indeed wonderful!

But the only question is, will the Emperor really join the camp of the Universal Corporation?

"The Emperor doesn't care about power or the affairs of the system. It may not be easy, or even impossible, for him to join our Universal Corporation."

Morgan Blackhand shook his head, thinking that this suggestion was a bit too presumptuous.

Given the Emperor's deep love for humanity, if he wants him to join Megacorp, he can probably only wait until Megacorp helps the human empire return to the peak of its golden age.

"We don't need the Emperor to actually join the Megacorp. We just need him to take a concrete action to show his stance."

At this time, Leon, who had been silent for a long time, finally spoke. He understood what Palpatine meant. The so-called letting the Emperor join the giant enterprise was really just to win over those humans who supported the Emperor.

As long as there is a group of people willing to support the institutional reform of the giant corporation, the resistance faced by the giant corporation will be greatly reduced.

How can we get these people to support giant companies? The best way is to have a respected person "lead" them to do so.

As long as the emperor shows his willingness to get close to the world's giant enterprises, such as visiting the ideal city, accepting a position in the giant enterprise, and expressing his support for the construction of certain engineering projects of the giant enterprise.

that's enough!
Political implications are something that can only be understood but not expressed in words. As long as some people interpret it as the emperor joining the giant corporation and the corporation reforming, this "trend" will be established.

All that remains is to add fuel to the flames, triggering a series of chain reactions and attracting more people who are on the sidelines to come in and support the giant companies. Once the trend is formed, even an emperor will have to accept it.

This is what Palpatine really meant.

(End of this chapter)