I'm in Warhammer, please don't praise Doraemon

Chapter 421 Skaven. Oh no, the Imperial Council of Thirteen
Tirian was stunned for seven or eight seconds before he reacted and looked at Uwula with a little fear.

Uula did not consider assassinating the leaders of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Justice, and the Navy for political reasons.
He did this purely to punish the enemies of Saint Doraemon from a religious perspective.

Creating an accident to crash a high-ranking admiral's flagship on Terra, assassinating three high lords at once, and destroying the Judgment Hall, the headquarters of the Ministry of Justice, can only bring about a disaster politically, and no one will believe that this was an accident.

"What? What are you in a daze about?" Wuula tilted her head slightly and continued to say to Tirian: "Isn't this great? Isn't this what Sanguinius did to the Pope of the Ecclesiarchy?"

Tirian felt that his back had begun to sweat.

Many people could guess that the sudden death of Bardo Straight was caused by Saint Gilles, but no one except Saint Doraemon dared to speak out this guess.

Moreover, Uvula's plan was completely different from what Lord Sanguinius did to the Pope of the Ecclesiarchy, Bardo Straight.

Rather than being independent individuals, the high lords are representatives of the giant institutions behind them, the embodiment of interest groups, and the aggregate of hundreds of millions of bureaucrats.
Using such an obvious, brutal, and horrific method to assassinate three high lords would only further stimulate the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Justice, and the Navy, and might even turn a large number of centrists who were originally wavering towards the conservatives.
Moreover, the High Lords have a lot of important and unavoidable information in their minds - such as the complete departmental structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs - their death will only cause this information to be lost, affecting the power transition of the new High Lords' departments.
The reason why it was possible for Sanguinius to kill the Pope directly was because the conservatives of the State Church behind Bardo Straight would never question that it was Sanguinius who assassinated the Pope.
Questioning the Archangel's assassination of the Pope of the State Religion, not to mention whether hundreds of millions of believers would believe it, this matter itself is equivalent to questioning Saint Gilles, the second most believed object in the State Religion, and also questioning whether Bardo Straight's faith was sincere and fervent enough to die suddenly on the spot.

More importantly, the power base of the state religion is the faith of its followers. Will the followers worship the Pope more or Saint Guillemin more? Just think about it and you will know.

Another point is that even the conservatives of the state religion still have devout beliefs and are not opposed to Sanguinius. The Pope's death for his sincere faith in Sanguinius is an acceptable and decent reason for them.

Of course, these are not the biggest problems in the Uwula plan.

His biggest problem is that as a Martian forging general, he actually tried to bomb Terra. Does he want Mars and Terra to go to war? !
Obviously, in Wuwula's mind, faith is more important than anything else.

"This is totally unnecessary. We can remove them from their posts through the High Lords Council."

"This will allow for a smooth transition of power, allowing our people to take charge of the three ministries of interior, justice and the navy."

Tyrion explained hastily.

"Irtu and the others are not cooperating?" asked Uwula's two dwarf heads with frowns.

He knew this was impossible, he asked this only because he was more inclined to end the natural lives of the heads of the Ministry of Internal Affairs than to end their political lives.

But Tirian explained anyway.

"No." Tyrian shook his head slightly: "They and the conservatives behind them aim to maintain the old imperial laws."

"Removing them from their posts through the High Lords Council is entirely in compliance with Imperial law. Their refusal to cooperate is a violation of Imperial law and their own faction."

"The High Lord is, after all, just a spokesperson for a faction."

Wuula nodded at the same time: "Will the High Lords' Council dismiss all three of them at once this time?"

"No, we'll use the salami-slicing tactic."

Tirian shook his head and said:
"One slice after another, one small slice at a time."

"If we eat them whole, they will certainly fight back, but if we eat them piece by piece, in small bites, they won't react violently."

"This time we will remove Irtu from his position as the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but retain the weaker Minister of Justice and the high-ranking admiral on the High Lords' Council."

"It could also create rifts between their factions."

"Actually, I also have an excellent killing team." Uwula seemed a little unwilling to speak.

"Lord Guilliman would rather use a gentle and gradual approach to carry out reforms and minimize the internal friction of the empire."

Tirian reminded:

"This is something that Saint Doraemon agrees with. He hopes that we won't waste resources and energy on this kind of thing."

"'This is my money!' Saint Doraemon said this through the incarnation of Nobita Nobi."

"So it's the holy words! It has been stored in the database. I feel that the operating efficiency of the Thinker Array has been improved." Wuwula nodded repeatedly.

Then, Wu Wuzi continued to ask: "What about Fadix? Our Grand Master of the Assassin's Court." He is indeed the key. Fadix holds the entire Assassin's Court in his hands.
I can still vividly remember how Grand Master Wangorich during the Beast War killed all the High Lords in one day and replaced them with himself.

Most of the time, Fadix followed the tradition of the Assassin's Court and abstained from the High Lords' meetings, neither agreeing nor dissenting.

But what does he really think? Is he a reformer or a conservative? What are his plans and aspirations? What kind of person is he?

It was all a mystery, and even Tyrion didn't know which temple in the Assassin's Court he belonged to.

It's not that Tirian hasn't tried to explore the secrets of Phaddix and collect information about him.
He believed that other high lords had done similar things, which was normal. The high lords had a lot of spies under their command.
But every spy Tyrion sent into the Assassin's Court would be found in a bloody coffin on the doorstep of his private sitting room the next morning.

"The Harlequins tried to infiltrate the Assassin's Court."

Tirian considered his tone and said:

"But even though they escaped unscathed, no valuable information was found."

"I don't know what Fadix's political leanings are, but the three adults don't seem to care much about it."

"That must be what Saint Doraemon has arranged," Uwula said confidently.

Tirian nodded slightly, he believed the same as Uvula.

"Well, now let my poor old Tyrion start rebuilding this council chamber."

Tirian said with a bit of depression as he looked at the dilapidated Great Council Hall that had been torn down in order to squeeze Uvula in.

Terra, the palace, the great council hall of the high lords,
Zhou Yun propped his chin with his hand and looked at everything in front of him with interest.
The theoretical supreme rulers of the empire, the high lords, sat around a heavy, hollow round table made of solid wood.

Directly placed at the round table are thirteen seats.
Nine of the seats are engraved with the coat of arms of the departments they represent, namely the Minister of the Interior, the Minister of Justice, the Pope of the State Religion, the Chief of the Astronomican Court, the Representative of the Inquisition, the Mars Casting General, the Grand Master of the Assassin's Court, the Chief of the Astronomican Court, and the Ambassador of the Navigator.

These are nine permanent seats.

The positions of the Chief of the Star Torch Court and the Ambassador of the Navigator are vacant.
The chief steward of the Astronomican Court accidentally destroyed the entire Astronomican Court while trying to relight the Astronomican.

The Navigator Ambassador was a reformist, but his ideas were so radical that even Guilliman called them too extreme, and he was dismissed.

But because they are permanent seats, their positions are still symbolically retained.

In addition, the remaining three positions belong to the Battle Sisters Grand Sister Morwen Val, the Guards Commander Trajan, and the High Admiral Merida Perez. These are three non-permanent seats and do not always belong to a certain department, but their voting rights are the same as those of other high lords.

Generally speaking, the high lords are these twelve seats.
But at today's meeting, a thirteenth seat was added, belonging to the Imperial Regent and Imperial Commander-in-Chief Robert Guilliman.
The Regent represents the Emperor's will and is the Emperor's agent. He should be able to attend and vote among the High Lords.

Zhou Yun and Sanguinius' seats were behind Guilliman and they were considered eligible to attend, but they shared one vote with Guilliman.

In addition, there was another person who was also present but had no voting rights. He was the Prime Minister of the Empire, Tirian, who was standing in the center of the hollow round table. He was the host of the High Lords' Council.

Hmm. The Council of Thirteen, the thirteenth seat represents the will of God, represented by a human. Looks familiar, very familiar.
Zhou Yun couldn't help but complain in his heart,
How is this the same as the Skaven Council of Thirteen in Warhammer? The thirteenth seat of the Skaven also belongs to their god, the Horned Rat.

No wonder Zhou Yun always felt that Emperor was his nemesis. It turned out that he was a rat.
It's so bad that it has to be destroyed with an earth-destroying bomb.

The same goes for Guilliman. To round it off, he is also a rat. No wonder he always makes Zhou Yun work overtime.

Thinking of this, Zhou Yun looked at Guilliman beside him, but his eyes were attracted by Irtu, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
As the former chief of the High Lords' Council, Irtu sat right next to Guilliman, and was so far away from Zhou Yun that Zhou Yun could slap him with just a stretch of his hand.
Hilandri. Veilwalker reported Irtu's situation to Zhou Yun. Zhou Yun knew that this unlucky head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs had been fed a lot of neurotoxins by his obviously evil assistant Nessus.

Although I don't know why Nessus did this, the effect of the poison is obvious.
Half of Irtu's body twitched slightly uncontrollably, as did his head.
"Director of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, why is your head so pointy?" Zhou Yun couldn't help but say to Irtu, the Director of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who had a small pointy head.

"My spikes may have affected my work as a high lord, but my spikes have not affected my performance of my duties as a high lord."

"Although I'm not in a hurry, let's not delay any longer. I'm anxious to start the first topic."

(I haven’t been in good health recently, so I’ll update at 7:07, dedicated to the blessing.)
(Actually, I was feeling dizzy and uncomfortable and couldn't hold on any longer. I updated early to see the feedback.)
(End of this chapter)