Sisters and Grapes

After Chen Xi invested the Canoness and Palatine into Rostov II, the formation of the Sisters of Battle began.

Having obtained the construction quota for the convent and some weapons and equipment through the Adeptus Ministorum, Chen Xi's Canoness had already begun recruiting suitable young women in the Adeptus Ministorum cities on Rostov II.

The Adeptus Ministorum forces on Rostov II provided strong support for this, with some of the sisters being local Adeptus Ministorum sisters.

These young sisters were not Sisters of Battle. Although they had received some combat training before, it was only ordinary sister training and ordinary combat training.

Therefore, after being selected as Sisters of Battle initiates, they still needed a lot of training to become qualified Sisters of Battle.

Due to the special habits of the Order of the Sacred Rose, these Adeptus Ministorum sisters and other selected trainees, in addition to various military training and willpower exercises, also needed to learn hymn-singing skills.

After all, the Sisters of Battle of the Order of the Sacred Rose sing hymns on the battlefield to kill enemies.

While visiting the initiates' training, Chen Xi suddenly had a whim and asked the sisters to sing hymns in the vineyards that had now begun to be planted.

The Canoness carried out this order, and at Gutierrez's suggestion, she also had the initiates take charge of all the work in the vineyard, learning how to take care of the grapevines and make wine with their own hands.

"Grapes that grow listening to hymns, cared for and made into wine by devout Adeptus Ministorum sisters, even without any bonuses, this is a very good selling point and gimmick, which can effectively increase the sales and reputation of the wine." Gutierrez, displaying the professional qualities of a wine merchant, said to Chen Xi, "Moreover, this is the Warhammer world. The hymns of the Order of the Sacred Rose have various special abilities and can even be called miracle spells.

Who knows if these grapes will develop any special attributes after listening to so many hymns? If the wine brewed has any special attributes, you'll make a fortune!"

"Uh, are you saying that Big E had this in mind when he had girls stomp the grapes and insisted on ancient winemaking methods?" Chen Xi recalled the brewing recipe and couldn't help but suspect that Big E had some calculations in it.

"Who knows? Having girls crush grapes to make wine is indeed an ancient method. Having the monastery in charge of winemaking is also an ancient method! Recreating the ancient winemaking methods of the 1K era, the brewing method personally granted by the Emperor, do you believe there's nothing to it?" Gutierrez looked at the vineyard in the valley, took off his helmet, and showed a very yearning expression.

Gutierrez loved wine very much, and his greatest ideal used to be to earn enough money to buy a vineyard to retire in.

Now that he saw this vineyard, he naturally yearned for it very much.

Looking at his face, Chen Xi shook his head and said, "Never mind, at least Big E wouldn't harm us. Even if he has some calculations, they won't be harmful to us, right?"

Chen Xi and Gutierrez were both veteran Warhammer fans, having witnessed at least four official rules updates and seen how much GW had retconned.

Because of this, they had a full understanding of what kind of image the Emperor was.

To say that their transmigration to this world was not due to the Emperor's calculations? They wouldn't dare to believe it!

However, for them, some things didn't need to be made so clear.

"Loyalty to Big E, at least we're still human. If you go and believe in those four Chaos things, you probably won't even be able to be human." Gutierrez sighed.

Just like that Warhammer hell joke says, for humans, there are four Chaos Gods, but for this galaxy, there have always been five.

Their identity as humans naturally made their position biased towards the Emperor's side.

"The Imperium may not be a good thing, but at least you can still exist as a human. If you believe in those four Chaos things, you won't even be able to be livestock." Chen Xi also shook his head and sighed in the same way.

As Warhammer fans, in the 3K era, they could indeed say that they wanted to be Khorne berserkers, believe in Slaanesh to do big Do's, and even feel that believing in Nurgle was the only way out in the Warhammer world.

But if you really transmigrated here, anyone who dared to believe in those four Chaos things would only be waiting for a fate worse than death.

As for the 'T'au are strong' that some armchair generals tout? No one really thinks that the space caste system is a good thing, right?

Although the T'au do treat the lower classes better than the Imperium, and if you look at it from the perspective of an ordinary person, joining the T'au Empire would indeed allow you to live a life that is very happy for the Imperium's citizens.

But the premise is that you can tolerate the T'au Empire's strict hierarchy.

The Fire Caste can only be warriors, the Earth Caste can only be scientists, and the Water Caste are 'naturally' diplomats...

The core T'au and the Ethereals are above other vassal races. Although they will work with you, it is impossible for a human to command a T'au.

All of this can be regarded as a space version of the caste system.

Although it is still beautiful compared to the Imperium's cruelty, all of this is on the premise that the T'au have not seen the true cruelty of this galaxy.

They have not used all their resources for warmongering, and they have not had to do all kinds of extreme things in order to resist the erosion of Chaos.

Oh no, the Ethereals have done it, such as the famous Farsight Enclaves, which was caused by the T'au finally seeing the T'au hero's betrayal caused by Chaos demons.

To some extent, all the beauty of the T'au Empire is only because they are still in the stage of expansion and rise, and can have enough resources and benefits to meet the needs of everyone.

Moreover, their territory is too small, so small that they can maintain their development even without faster-than-light travel.

In fact, before the Third Sphere Expansion in 997.M41, the T'au Empire's territory was only about a dozen Sub-sectors, which, when put together, was only equivalent to 1.7 Imperial Sectors.

With such a small area, there is naturally no need to consider the various problems caused by over-expansion of the territory, and it is also more convenient to mobilize resources for development.

If it were the Imperium, let alone 1.5 Sectors, even if it was only the scale of the Macragge Five Hundred Worlds, the Imperium of Man's situation would be countless times better than it is now.

After all, the straight-line distance from Holy Terra to Macragge is really tens of thousands of light-years, and it needs to span the entire galaxy.

(The hexagon at the end of the Great Rift in the lower right corner is the T'au Empire)

However, these things are not of great significance to Chen Xi now. Developing his own planet and developing the Sub-sector where he is located before the Great Rift opens, and building it into his own back garden, is the main task at hand.