Chapter 416, Corrupted Rat Bureaucrats
This garbage dump is not empty. On the contrary, many ratmen live here.
The density of ratmen in this garbage dump is very high. Many ratmen live on this pile of garbage, like a group of maggots living in a dark cesspool.
Until today, the towering new holy city collapsed, as if the sky fell, and it was like a fire from the sky.
A twisted frame wrapped with flames fell from the sky, and a crack was torn in the dark sky. The sun fell on this place again, and the flames ignited, followed by another spread of death.
Looking up, staring at the dazzling sunlight, lowering my head, the flames rose in the piles of garbage, black smoke, pungent stench, and the running ratmen, who rushed out of the garbage dump like cockroaches, running wildly in fear.
The flames burning in the garbage dump rose higher and higher in such endless fuel, and finally gave the gradually stabilized ratman new holy city the final blow.
Pushing this tragedy to the final climax.
It's not that nothing good happened, like the ratman scavenger boy who was curled up in the location of the underground rat city industrial zone.
He was able to witness this incident, the falling flames, and the overturned city. A huge beam fell from the flames not far away, just like a bridge, a bridge to a new world.
The ratman scavenger boy stared at all this in amazement, until he came to his senses in a trance. He seemed to have made up his mind and resolutely ran towards the bridge in the flames.
If he could get through the flames by luck, climb up the fallen metal beam, and break into the new holy city, even if it was the collapsed new holy city, then undoubtedly, his fate would be changed.
Even if this towering city has fallen and is about to lose its value to those big men, it can still be an opportunity that those lowly guys can reach.
Everything that happened on Shenqi Star soon spread throughout the entire Rat Empire, causing an uproar. Obviously, this was a big event that affected all aspects.
The most important point in this storm was the private fleets of the temple priests. These things that could not be put on the table in the past were now lined up in a row in the star port of Shenqi Star.
The tacit understanding was broken, and some things began to lose balance.
This was an extremely dangerous omen. Some rats had begun to bear the ripples of this storm, and the first to bear the brunt were a group of logistics officers, because of a very simple reason.
At this time, among the many rat warships displayed in the star port of Shenqi City, many of them were very familiar.
A severe investigation began.
In the past, such things were naturally insignificant. After all, there was no shortage of greedy guys in the Rat Empire, and there was no shortage of those who were bold enough. With the repeated increases in the stakes by the temple priests, not to mention just swapping out a few retired or about to be retired Rat warships, even if they raised their butts and danced in front of these temple priests, it would be a stress-free thing.
This warship outflow incident contains a very complete chain.
The great emperor's personal guards have begun to investigate this matter.
The Fortress Star suddenly became a mess.
In a very remote area on the huge ring star port, in a small office, a rather fat Ratman was collecting everything in the office in fear.
This office is quite luxurious, blood gold pendants, fur carpets, carved walls, any of these things require extremely huge wealth to support, but now, they are all displayed in a small star port caretaker's office.
The Ratman Star Port is not just a port. In fact, the location of the Star Port is extremely critical, and it can almost be regarded as a steel portal stuck on the node of the great passage.
All the Ratman warships that shuttle through the great passage and finally arrive at the Fortress Star will appear around the Star Port. It only needs to set up some giant cannons on this space port and station a sufficiently powerful patrol fleet, so that one of the nodes of this great passage can be easily controlled.
Of course, under normal circumstances, the warships that jump to the Star Port will definitely not be destroyed at will. The Ratman warships that arrive at the Star Port for the first time only need to choose to accept the care of the patrol fleet and complete the processing of the pass, so that they can smoothly pass through this Star Port.
As the two centers of the empire, the Fortress Star Port has to accept the visits of countless Ratman ships every day, and the Fortress Star Port is different from the Shenqi Star Port, which is not stationed with too much star power due to historical reasons.
The first and second expeditionary fleets of the rat people, the third expeditionary fleet under construction, and the port patrol fleet, which is almost comparable to a main expeditionary fleet with the heavy firepower of the star port.
Most of the military forces of the rat empire are gathered here, and they are not afraid of the sudden attack.
If the attackers can completely defeat the rat fleet here, then the offensive force of the rat empire can be completely destroyed.
The rest is very simple.
The rats will fight with the enemies who try to land on the colonized planet with endless ground troops, or be cleaned up with anti-star weapons.
The Ratman Empire, with only eight planets, is not a big empire in the universe. It is difficult to get up again after being defeated once.
Qi was particularly angry after learning about the chaos on the God Qi Star. He had been preparing for the expedition for a long time. The two strange star fields would be the direction for the rats to explore. In his opinion, this passage was not the future of the rats. Continuing to explore and explore was the most important thing. But now, when he turned around, he saw the ratman priests who were holding back.
All of a sudden, everything had to be suspended, and what made him even more unhappy was that the damn bugs not only began to surge, but also stretched out their tentacles, and appeared under his nose without knowing it.
A big cleanup is about to begin, and it will be a thorough cleanup.
The gatekeeper, a transit registrar at the Fortress Star Port, has a simple job every day, which is to use special paper tapes to punch holes in the steaming computer, and then use these holes to type out record sheets and decide whether to issue passes to the people in front of him.
It's a very simple job, it looks tedious, but in fact, all you have to do is to place the paper tape, punch holes, and then print the pass, and then repeat it like this. He has always felt that such things can be easily completed by anyone.
But what can he complain about? At least as an imperial official of medium grade, he can at least go to the Star Port's medium-grade Ratman Bar to have a drink every day and listen to the Ratman music played by the music apprentice.
It took him a long time to find this rat bar. It was far from his workplace, but it was all worth it, even though the blood-red inferior wine inside was at least twice as expensive as other rat bars. Damn it, the boss who always tilted his head really thought he had never drunk good wine.
A year ago, at the banquet held by the minister, he spent a full 20,000 blood gold coins to get an invitation. The wine inside was said to be high-end goods shipped from Shenqi Star.
Although he still did not get promoted or appreciated even after spending such a huge amount of blood gold coins.
But this one was still worth it. The important thing was the style, which was a very important thing, although it made him a little out of his income.
The speed at which the bureaucratic system built by Qi was corrupted was unimaginably fast, which was not surprising. After all, the rats have always had obvious class barriers.
The new bureaucrats of the Rat Empire learned this set without reservation.
They flaunted their style and style, and were keen on holding various salons, and forming associations with various interests as a link.
This is not unusual. In essence, it is no different from what the rat priests did in the wild era. In the past, this style of behavior was called merit and achievement. As for the practice of forming associations, no one is more enthusiastic than the rat priests.
They form groups around senior rat priests, rat cities, big claw priests and rat priests, wars they have experienced, and common sacrificial rituals.
It can be said that the organizational structure of this group of guys is an endless nesting of dolls, with large groups nesting small groups, and small groups contacting smaller groups.
A structure of disorder in order.
In essence, it is no different from what these rat bureaucrats are doing now, and they are even more extreme. After all, in the era when rat priests ruled everything, conflicts between groups were not as particular as they are now.
There is also a special salon for mediation or socializing.
At that time, the rat priests used physical means to solve these problems. They found a good time and a good place, and then found a good opportunity to kill all the guys on the opposite side. In this way, all the problems were solved.
All of these, whether in the past or now, play the same role, that is, setting a threshold to distinguish themselves from the humble guys who occupy the majority, and to distinguish themselves from the young guys who have just entered this area.
The gatekeeper mouse maintained this style, so it is possible that other bureaucratic circles are willing to accept it. This is a ticket. You can climb up better with it.
Of course, did the gatekeeper mouse get appreciated? No, these are just a ticket. Whether it really works or not depends on the opinions of the big guys above.
This may be the reason why the rat priests in the past and the rat bureaucrats now are fond of this kind of gameplay. After all, the right of interpretation belongs to themselves.
No matter from which degree, the gatekeeper mouse is particularly mediocre, which is not surprising, but he himself is also proud of that himself.
He is a ratman who insists on the concept of full upbringing. He has a total of five ratman children, all of whom were raised by him one by one. Although in the end, only one can inherit his name, but he will not give up the other four.
He will send them to the ratman school if he is smart, and he will give them a sum of money for adulthood after they become adults if he is not smart.
It is not an easy task to raise these children one by one.
But he is quite proud of it.
However, after maintaining the style again and again, the blood gold coins in his hand are stretched to the limit.
Occasionally, he would receive some blood gold coins that were not very visible. Some guys who transported gray goods would give him a sum of money to seek faster approval.
But such things were just small fights. After all, the guys who could get involved in these gray businesses were never irregular guys. On the contrary, only the largest and most formal chambers of commerce were able to get involved in these things.
Life became stretched, especially since there was another gifted child among his five children.
The situation changed a year ago. One night, he received a sum of blood gold coins neatly stacked in a box, and what he had to do was very simple, that is, to issue a pass regardless of anything.
He needed such a sum of blood gold coins at that time.
It was also from that day that his life changed greatly.
The wanton squandering of money, all kinds of things that he had never dared to imagine before, the most upper-class salons, and the wanton squandering of blood gold coins in the casino.
In just one year, his life has changed dramatically. It turns out that the rat people are indeed not a race that is good at resisting temptation.
Abandoning his wife, partying every night, spending money like water, buying real estate, and taking the special blue mushroom powder.
Ridiculous things happened one after another, and all he had to do was to show the passes without any scruples.
Of course, the unwarranted gifts had already been secretly marked with a price.
He was a part of the warship outflow incident, and he was also the carefully prepared white glove. From beginning to end, he had never seen the boss who sent him money, and he didn't know where the passes he had randomly stamped went.
An excellent scapegoat.
Until all this happened, the great emperor was furious. He felt something was wrong. After all, he was a smart guy who had studied at the Imperial Military Academy. He wanted to escape, but unfortunately, he, an excellent scapegoat, couldn't really run away.
The Starport Patrol, wearing black semi-covered combat uniforms and holding electric sticks in their hands, rushed into the office.
Not long after, the overweight ratman was forced onto the patrol ship while struggling in extreme fear, along with all kinds of luxury items found in his office, the pass list, and boxes of blood gold coins.