Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 184 The mastermind behind the scenes

Perficott did not ignore the information told to her by the Assassin Brotherhood. Although she did not need the Assassin Brotherhood to help her eliminate dissidents, she would not waste the information she knew, or ignore those who opposed her.

She handed the news back to Princess Anne and the military department, and also told the news to the Duke of Gloucester.

The three parties had different reactions after receiving the news, but it was obvious that they had no intention of letting this matter go.

The military's reaction was the most direct and fierce. Purficott had just helped them win a national war and won a glorious victory.

At this time, saying that Purficott did something wrong, does it mean that the military should not win? Or do you think no one in the army died this time?

No matter which answer is given, the military will be completely offended.

In particular, the military's attitude was not to publish a few innocuous articles in newspapers, but to directly dispatch the Guards to smash several newspapers that published articles criticizing Perficott.

Under normal circumstances, such drastic measures would definitely be condemned by the aristocratic parliament, and would even be strongly criticized by the democratically elected parliament.

But what is strange this time is that both the aristocratic parliament and the democratically elected parliament have maintained unanimous silence on the military's wanton behavior.

Not only that, at the suggestion of the royal family, a press control law was submitted to the Parliament of Nobles for discussion, and passed the review of the Parliament of Nobles in an incredible process. Even the democratically elected Parliament only issued a few indignant comments about it. It was passed with the itchy revision comments.

This efficiency can be called one of the fastest laws passed in the history of Victoria. This can only be compared with the past feudal era when the emperor wanted to enact some new policy.

However, this did not exceed the expectations of the mastermind behind the scenes. After all, Purficott had just won a war for Victoya before, and the development of the northern border involved a lot of interests, so she deserved to be supported.

And this undoubtedly gave everyone a signal, that is, the aristocratic parliament, the democratically elected parliament and the royal family all support the military in doing this.

Furthermore, Purficott has the unanimous support of the current Victoria government, and the military is a solid backing behind her.

Obviously, this made the person who secretly plotted this matter dumbfounded, and he did not even realize that this matter would actually cause such a strong reaction from the noble assembly and the democratically elected assembly.

Since the establishment of the aristocratic parliament and the democratically elected parliament, this is the first time that a law has been unanimously passed so quickly and can be quickly promulgated and implemented.

It is precisely because of this consideration that the mastermind behind the scenes wanted to start by ruining her reputation.

I want to target Purficott from an angle that does not have a great impact on her, rather than start a tit-for-tat confrontation.

But he didn't expect that even so, he would provoke such a strong reaction from the military and the two-level parliaments, which made him confused for a while whether to continue or to stop.

But soon, the mastermind decided to continue.

After all, Purficott now has such a huge reputation and support from all parties. If she develops the Northern Territory, becomes more entangled with the interests of all parties, and gains more support, it will be even more difficult. Targeted at her. And if she cannot be solved, she will become Princess Anne's greatest help in the future regarding the succession of the throne.

After all, the title of Guardian of the North is completely different from that of ordinary nobles. As Guardian of the North, Perficott not only has the right to own private soldiers, but also can mobilize them without restraint.

Although large-scale military operations are definitely impossible, if she only mobilizes one or two knights to support the fight for the throne, then according to imperial law no one can stop her.

If it was in the past, it would be okay. You had the Knights, but I didn’t?

In order to prevent this kind of situation, all the members of the Imperial Guard Knights are high knights.

Not to mention that every member of the royal family will have a knighthood nominally under their command.

When a fight really breaks out, the support of a lord is indeed important, but one or two knights cannot make the final decision.

But things are different now. The knights in Purficott's hands are all steam knights!

Five steam knights can crush a regiment of guards. This knights group should start with at least 60 to 80 steam knights, and at the extreme end, the full strength is 120. That is a military force that can defeat an army group head-on. strength.

Especially since Purficott was the inventor of the Steam Knights, she wanted to arm her own knights, which was easier than anything else.

Now the industrial production capacity of the North is not good, so the expansion of the force under her command is not very fast. This time, she only saw forty Steam Knights.

However, now Purficott is already discussing with the Minister of Industry and Commerce about establishing a factory in the north. If this gives the north enough industrial production capacity, who can guarantee that Purficott will not directly use hundreds of units next time? Steam knights directly occupy the entire Longton?

You must know that she has an airship. With the airship and the steam knight, there is no fortress in this world that can stop her.

So a few days later, at the door of the democratically elected parliament building, the already gray-haired Professor East stood angrily on a step and loudly condemned the government's interference in freedom of speech, criticized Perficott's cruelty, and accused the thermobaric bomb of This weapon turned the war into a massacre. The victory won by the empire this time had no glory at all. A mere woman should not become the president of the Imperial Academy of Sciences by relying on the merits of massacre...

Because of Professor East's identity and his gray-haired appearance as a rigorous scholar, many uninformed people are still influenced by him. Although they do not express their support explicitly, they will stop and listen to Professor East's words. speech.

Suddenly, a large number of people gathered in the square outside the democratically elected parliament building.

Professor East's speech was only one of them, and the people behind the scenes were the second. They instigated and incited the people to support Professor East's speech, and the impact of this incident began to spread widely. , and led many people to mistakenly believe that Perficott had really done something unworthy of his moral integrity.

Faced with this situation, it was not easy for the military to intervene directly. After all, smashing the newspaper office and suppressing the gathered people were two completely different concepts.

At this time, it is not easy for the aristocratic parliament and the democratically elected parliament to disperse the crowd directly. It is not even easy to arrest Professor East. After all, he is too old. If something happens, a young man will be arrested. A highly respected university professor died unexpectedly, but no one could bear the blame.

(End of this chapter)