Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1536: Chapter 577: Detail-Oriented

Many of the changes Ren Zhong was facing were, in fact, like "silent spring rain that moistens everything without a sound."

For example, the potential positive impact brought by Heavenly Selection Guard’s evaluation of his reliability would not immediately turn into tangible benefits you could see with the naked eye.

He himself could hardly even notice it, but once he began dispatching Red Blade Clan’s trade caravans to the Empire Core, this higher reliability rating together with his own identity as a Sequence Chosen One would, just like that silent spring rain, quietly create all kinds of conveniences for him and his people.

However, the post of Director of the Nanxiang Star Cluster Science Management Office gave him benefits that were visible instantly, like a rod that casts a shadow the moment it’s raised.

First of all, the technology reserve vault of the Nanxiang secondary branch of the Royal Academy of Sciences was now completely open to him.

Nanxiang’s secondary branch certainly could not compare to the Far Border Branch, but it still had plenty of accumulated heritage and some of its own unique specialties.

All these years, although the output of the Nanxiang secondary branch had to be directly reported upwards to the main Royal Academy of Sciences headquartered at the Empire Core, the profits from locally converting those results in the Nanxiang Star Cluster were mostly locked firmly in Liu An’s hands, as he colluded with several other scholarly Earl families with deep roots in Nanxiang’s intellectual circles, turning them into private property for a small minority to line their own pockets.

Although these achievements ultimately did benefit the entire Nanxiang Star Cluster, once they passed through the hands of power blocs like Nanxiang’s Earldom, the biggest beneficiaries were naturally the old Earl gangs headed by the Liu family.

But now Ren Zhong, who was shouldering the role of Director and concurrently serving as Dean of the secondary branch, slammed hard into this little interest clique and started swallowing and siphoning like a whale drawing in a rainbow.

What made it especially hateful was that this Director-and-Dean Ren Zhong was no gullible "naive sweetheart" who could be easily muddled. His other identity was that of a true academic heavyweight officially stamped by the Far Border Branch and the distant Empire Main Academy. He actually understood the field, and he had a pair of Sharingan eyes—in many cases, even with some very complex technologies, he only had to glance at them and could basically "freeload" them on the spot.

Even more hateful, he was also a blazing-hot Sequence Chosen One, bearing a "Death Exemption Token" and an "Imperial Sword" bestowed by the royal core, someone you really could not afford to offend lightly.

And to make it worse, even if someone did harbor delusions of taking a desperate risk and coming for his life, the fact that he possessed the strength of the number one fighter in the entire Empire made it hard for anyone to truly make up their mind—afraid that if they failed to kill with one strike, the future consequences would be endless. Besides, although the Red Blade Clan had not been developing in the Nanxiang Star Cluster for very long, both their battle against a fourth-level Mother Empress before they entered the Star Cluster, and the multiple wars they fought after arriving against the Shattered Star Ring Pirates secretly orchestrated by Nanxiang’s Earldom, fully proved just how terrifyingly powerful the Red Blade Clan was. A single faction on its own would find it hard to bear the devastating cost represented by a Red Blade Clan revenge. You’d need someone from the real power bloc to step up and take the lead.

And then came the truly tragic part: the Nanxiang Marquis Liu An, who by rights ought to step out again and unite the various vested interests to resist Ren Zhong, instead chose to reach a compromise with him. The two bros were all "you’re good, I’m good, everyone’s good," getting along as harmoniously as if they were family. Faced with Ren Zhong’s entirely expected aggressive reach of his hands and rampant long-arm jurisdiction after taking office, Nanxiang’s Earldom not only did not resist, but instead handed over many interests with both hands.

The batch of second-tier Earl families who had once circled around the Nanxiang Marquis now felt a bitter sense of "We ministers were just about to fight to the death—why did Your Majesty surrender first?"

In short, after Ren Zhong took office he, unusually, did not go back into "cold sleep." Instead he spent a full three months "getting close" to the subordinates in the Science Management Office and the secondary branch.

After being "gotten close to" for three months, the scholars in these two departments, who had once strutted proudly through the Star Cluster and become big names in their respective regions, all felt as if they had been drained dry.

Not only that, upon his arrival Ren Zhong immediately grabbed everything in a big scoop, practically extending his hand into every sub-project. He further used technology disclosure to strip away the private benefits they had originally held in their grasp, taking the technologies created by the Nanxiang secondary branch—which by rights should have broadly benefited most of the people in the Star Cluster—and making them freely available, only for the Red Blade Clan to absorb and digest them at the fastest possible speed.

Everyone knew that the new superior was, on the surface, trying to benefit everyone, but who could possibly compete with his Red Blade Clan?

Currently the Red Blade Clan had a population nearing thirty billion. Aside from a small portion scattered in various places, most were concentrated on Red Blade Star and within the 150 feudal Star Systems under the Earl Mansion’s command.

Within the universal education system established by Earl Red Blade, among these more than twenty billion people, there was practically not a single illiterate. Everyone had a diploma, everyone had knowledge.

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