The reforms Li Qinwu intended to carry out would have an enormous impact on the lives of this planet's primitive inhabitants.
Whether they wanted to follow tradition and continue their savage existence, or listen to Li Qinwu and leap straight into an interstellar industrial society, remained open to discussion.
If Li Qinwu launched his reforms with great fanfare while the Barbarians refused to go along with them, wouldn't he look like a clown?
So Li Qinwu gave the Barbarians a choice. He asked them to gather a dozen or so of their cleverest seers, psykers, and tribal chiefs as representatives to discuss their future with him.
Li Qinwu received these ten of the cleverest Barbarians in the Hive City's most luxurious noble palace.
He told them all about the Imperium, the Astartes, industrialization, and the planet's current pollution, then let them choose for themselves.
Li Qinwu said:
"All right, that's the situation.
If you don't take the path of industrialization, given the extent of the planet's chemical contamination, you may have to endure three or four generations of suffering. Your children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren will produce large numbers of babies with birth defects.
But if you take the path of industrialization, you can use industry to avoid exposure to those chemicals.
You could even actively eliminate those chemicals through certain methods. So what will you choose?"
The ten cleverest Barbarians exchanged glances. The Bear Priest, the one who had spoken to Li Qinwu earlier, stepped forward and asked:
"Crocodile... no, Lord Inquisitor, if we take the path of industrialization, will those Astartes giants come and cause trouble?
According to the information you gave us, it was pressure from the Astartes Chapter Master that made that man called the planetary bishop scatter contraceptives over our planet!
He wanted us to keep