At the Terra Imperial Palace, in Khan's room… Khan sat amidst a sea of documents, holding his head, processing paperwork.
For the past ten thousand years, the Imperium's administrative efficiency has been shockingly low; previously, Malcador maintained it, shielding the Imperium's governance from difficulties.
Now, the Imperium of Man's administrative efficiency is extremely low and chaotic.
Despite the Imperium's vast scale, ruling millions of planets and possessing countless resources and armies, its administrative system is extremely bureaucratic, corrupt, and rigid.
This inefficient administrative operation leads to many problems, often delaying critical decisions and even causing disasters.
Within the Imperium's bureaucratic system, every decision must go through layers of approval.
The High Lords Council often needs months or even years of discussion to reach a consensus on a single decision.
Due to political interests, factional struggles, and mutual suspicion, many critical decisions are shelved or postponed.
For example, a border Star Sector might face an alien invasion, but the request for aid might need to pass through dozens of administrative departments before reaching the appropriate military branch.
By the time reinforcements arrive, the planet would have long been destroyed.
However, this phenomenon has improved since the Empress's 'Star Chain' was born.
Now, Terra receives daily information from various Star Chains and Star Sectors, which, while increasing administrative efficiency by 300%, has led to administrative pressure on Terra, the political center.
Because documents that used to take a month, or even years or decades, to arrive, now appear on the desk the next day, undoubtedly increasing Terra's workload.
At the same time, corruption is widespread within the Imperium, especially among civilian bureaucrats and the nobility, where bribery and favoritism are common.
Many officials are more concerned with personal or religious interests than the Imperium's actual survival.
Furthermore, the Imperium's administrative efficiency is constrained by its intensely fervent religious beliefs.
The worship of the Emperor holds a crucial position in the Imperium, and many administrative decisions must conform to the Church's doctrines, even including the development of science and technology.
This has led to many technologies being prohibited or lost, further hindering the Imperium's progress.
In fact, Khan often found that a planet, perfectly fine, would have its entire population slaughtered without a second thought just because they struggled to pay taxes due to genuine difficulties, resulting in the planet needing decades to resume production activities.
Internal factional struggles within the Imperium also severely impact administrative efficiency.
The various members of the High Lords Council often have different interests and goals, and they frequently oppose each other in their struggle for power.
This power struggle not only weakens the Imperium's unity but also further delays the execution of decisions.
Overall, the Imperium of Man's administrative efficiency can be described as extremely low; its immensely vast and corrupt bureaucratic system, severe information lag, internal divisions, religious extremism, and corruption all make the Imperium appear extremely slow and powerless in responding to external invasions and internal turmoil.
It is this inefficient operation that is gradually bringing the current Imperium to the brink of decline in endless wars, with its rule barely maintained by the elites among humanity.
Several times, Khan dragged Russ, both wearing Custodes power armour and helmets, to the High Lords Council, wanting to kill all the worms inside.
But seeing the ordinary High Lords with even more documents to process on their desks than himself, Khan still softened.
Russ, on the other hand, had initially planned to slack off, chatting with Old Man Huang on the throne every day, following Stepfather Li Feng to the Adeptus Mechanicus to tinker with new gadgets, and finally asking his 'mother,' Her Majesty the Empress Sanguinius, for an iPad to watch shows, as he was currently binge-watching 'Vikings.'
But now, seeing Khan's haggard appearance every day, Russ couldn't bear it and started taking on one-third of his work daily.
There was no other choice; ever since that hotpot meal, Khan had aged what seemed like hundreds of years and had lost weight.
Fortunately, Li Feng gave Khan a CD player, along with his 'Grassland Golden Hits CD' from his car, which brought a glimmer of solace to Khan's heart.
At least every day he could listen to 'Phoenix Legend' and 'Tengger' to make him 'ponder his homeland.'
♪ ~ A horse-herding man, you are mighty and strong... A galloping steed, like the wind... ~ ♪
...921.M41, Women's Day.
As the date approached, the Mars shipyard had prepared Li Feng's battleship and accompanying fleet.
Li Feng's flagship was an 18-kilometer-long battleship.
The emperor's lash.
Yes, Sanguinius named it; she did it on purpose.
Indeed, this battleship was custom-designed for Li Feng, and on this battleship, Li Feng also provided Mars with a large number of STCs.
And! This ship has an extra slot where Li Feng's space yacht can dock.
The ship's armaments include numerous vertical missile launch bays, quantum lances, plasma cannons, firestorm gatling cannons, and cyclone torpedoes... among them, 8 main gigantic macro cannons, four of which are Li Feng's STC technology: 'Phase Disintegration Cannons.'
For defense, the entire ship is made of regenerative metal, combined with high-energy shields and regenerative armor...
However, there's a terrifying aspect to the regenerative armor... if someone happens to be at a breach during armor regeneration, that person will be sealed into the armor plating.
Indeed, Li Feng recently completed many achievements, including unlocking numerous panel functions, which encompassed 'some technologies from Stellaris' and 'CT modification of production requirements & time.'
Of course, 'infinite bullets & no reload' are already child's play.
Now, as long as Li Feng places his hand on a factory, CT can modify production requirements and time.
When Li Feng placed his hand on a factory on Mars, the factory automatically operated and quickly produced four Phase Disintegration Cannons.
The battleship, which originally would have taken several years to build, was completed in just one month.
Li Feng found that this ability of his had a limitation: he couldn't mass-produce and manufacture; he had to wait for the queue.
Moreover, the manufacturing time couldn't be instantaneous; it required an extreme time, meaning the time was on the unreasonable edge...
Sanguinius looked at the battleship in the sky; she knew that once Li Feng left, he might not return for at least several months.
Celestine, meanwhile, saw through her best friend's thoughts.
"It's fine; anyway, if you miss him, just let me teleport him back.
I'll help keep an eye on those new Battle Sisters."
Hearing Celestine's words, Sanguinius squinted at her best friend; she now knew that her best friend was bisexual, not a pure lesbian at all.
"You think I don't know what you're planning.
While I agreed, it doesn't mean I'm happy about it."
Celestine laughed, "It's fine; anyway, when he comes back later, we two will make sure he can't even think about it for at least a few months."
At this moment, Li Feng, who was touring his new battleship in the sky, had no idea that tonight he would suffer the "ultimate humiliation" of his life!
Fides, who was accompanying Li Feng on the ship tour, was extremely excited because she would soon be alone with Li Feng again.
She had already secured the guest bedroom next to Li Feng's master suite in the yacht.
Of course, this was under the pretext of "ensuring Li Feng's safety."
However, Miss Sanguinius actually agreed...
When Fides and Grand Sister Margaret approached Sanguinius with the approval form, Sanguinius merely glanced at Fides, then, as the "main wife," approved Fides' request for close protection of Li Feng.
What Fides didn't know was... this was never Li Feng's harem... but Sanguinius, Her Majesty the Empress's harem...---
Imperial Palace,
Li Feng dragged his exhausted body back to his room; he had been running back and forth between Mars and Terra today, utterly spent.
All he wanted now was to return to his room, take a good bath, and then collapse onto the bed for a sound sleep.
Li Feng opened the door, and the first thing that caught his eye was Celestine, lying on the chaise lounge in the room, playing with Li Feng's iPad.
Celestine wasn't wearing her golden power armour; instead, she had on tight yoga shorts and a sports bra.
Celestine actually wore that golden power armour as work attire, because she was already a Living Saint now; no one could harm her unless it was a Great Daemon of the Warp.
She could easily tear apart a Chaos Space Marines even if she were naked.
During this period, they spent every day browsing Taobao online from that other world, then had Li Feng generate relevant STCs, and then manufactured them; Celestine also acquired many clothes.
Actually, Li Feng wasn't surprised by Celestine's presence here; after all, she was his girlfriend's best friend, so it wasn't strange.
"Celestine, where is Sanguinius?"
Celestine crossed her legs and, without looking, pointed towards the bathroom...
Li Feng also began to undress; he first took off his shirt and threw it on the bed.
Celestine, meanwhile, had already started secretly watching Li Feng undress.
Li Feng, wearing only his pants after taking off his shirt, entered the bathroom to wash with Sanguinius.
Seeing Li Feng enter the bathroom, Celestine tiptoed, put down her tablet, and quietly followed him in...
Upon entering the bathroom, Li Feng saw Sanguinius with a towel covering her face, soaking in a bubble-filled bathtub.
So, Li Feng slipped off his pants, tossed them aside, and then directly entered the bathtub, sitting opposite Sanguinius.
"Ah! It feels so good to have a hot bath after coming home!"
Sanguinius didn't speak, just nodded.
She had just finished applying a face mask and was now hot compressing her face.
The bathtub in the bathroom was very large, enough to accommodate 5-6 people, and Li Feng found it quite spacious while soaking in it.
Li Feng noticed the inscription on the bathtub... 'Gift to Father --- Fulgrim.'
"Let me tell you something…" a voice emerged from under Sanguinius's towel…
Upon hearing Sanguinius's words, Li Feng immediately became fully alert; he knew that nothing good ever came from his little girlfriend's opening remark.
"Wife? Tell me…"
"You're going on a long trip tomorrow, and you're taking so many girls with you… I'm very worried about you."
Li Feng felt a little guilty after hearing that and said, "I won't die now, what are you afraid of? Plus, I have the fleet protecting me…"
"You know I'm not talking about that… To keep you from flirting, I've decided to make you hand over all your 'stock' tonight, so that when you leave, you'll be 'willing but powerless'."
No sooner had Sanguinius finished speaking than the bathroom door opened… The person who walked in was none other than Celestine… (Below is the director's cut content…)
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