Tome of Blood Chapter 206

  Chapter 206-56-Squad

  Charlotte moves quickly.

After summoning the Lien-Castell family, she announced the review plan for the entire Earldom, officially appointed Viscount Lien-Castell as the reviewer, and made her own direct jurisdiction the review plan first stop.

Overnight, the situation in the viscount of Beigang changed. Nice led the Castel guards to raid every house based on Maddock's confession list. A large number of city officials and low-level nobles under the direct jurisdiction were arrested by their families and escorted to prison. .

Such a large-scale censorship action naturally caused an uproar among the nobles in the territory. The nobles who stayed in Beigang not long after the dinner in the Earl's Mansion almost broke through the gate of the Earl's Mansion. Some dissuaded, some opposed, and some reprimanded Well, there are tempters...

  The singing and dancing at the banquet was good, and the nobles who didn't tear their faces maintained at least superficial respect, and they were obedient and loyal to the new earl.

But when the false calm was broken, when Charlotte finally started to attack the nobles, when she finally tried to win over the declining authority of the Castel family over the past ten years... the nobles finally revealed their true manner.

be opposed to.

   Unanimous disapproval.

  Charlotte suddenly realized that she still underestimated the intricate nobles in her own territory. The day after the review plan was announced, the nobles who were still stranded in Beigang even made a joint petition.

  The nobles have been asking Charlotte to take back the review plan. For this reason, they also proved the various disadvantages brought about by the review plan, and by the way, scolded the Len-Castel family.

   "The property and privacy of the nobles are sacred and inviolable. Even the lord is not qualified to conduct such strict inspections on the vassals, let alone check the property!"

   "This is a contempt for the "Holy Code"! It is the foundation of self-destructive rule! It is the work of a tyrant!"

   "The assassination at the banquet should indeed be investigated for the truth, but this should never be a reason to anger the vassals!"

   "After all, she is an ignorant child. Sooner or later, Castel will be destroyed in her hands..."

   "Hmph, she's just a **** with Luoxing bloodline. No matter how well the Castel family hides it, they can't hide the fact of bloodline. Maybe she doesn't have Beidi in her heart, only herself!"

  Public opinion is almost one-sided.

  Overnight, it seemed that in the eyes of all the citizens, Charlotte transformed from a young and promising lord into a tyrant who did all kinds of evil.

  Looking at the petition signed by the nobles, and listening to the attacks and comments of the nobles heard in various parts of Beigang reported by the guards, Charlotte's expression was not very good either.

  However, she more or less expected the reaction of the nobles. The bad face at this time was more because of the presumptuous remarks made by the nobles when they attacked her.

   It's fine to ridicule her as an ignorant child, those who talk about gender are really intolerable.

  However, although she was so angry that she wanted to immediately hang these **** with bad mouths at the gate of the city, Charlotte was still calm.

  She knew that the public opinion that had blown up in the city that night seemed to be full of turmoil and public grievances, but in fact it was nothing more than being bitten by nobles who violated their interests.

   It is the aristocrats who control public opinion, and it is the aristocrats who create momentum. As for the vast majority of citizens, they did not respond to the censorship plan so quickly.

   Not to mention, Charlotte didn't target them either.

  However, Charlotte knew that this matter could not be delayed.

  Since the decision is made to take action, it is necessary to suppress it with a thunderbolt. Otherwise, the nobles have a lot of ways to incite the people, and then things will become troublesome.

   "Nice, have you found out which family is the leader?"

   Charlotte asked calmly.

   "Hey, the leaders should be a few upstarts who made their fortunes from workshops and caravans. In addition, there are also many low-level nobles from direct-controlled territories."

  Nice said.

   "Upstarts who made their fortunes from workshops and caravans? How many other viscounts and barons didn't participate?"

  Charlotte was a little surprised.

   "Meow, no."

  Nice shook his head.

  Charlotte frowned.

  However, after a little thought, she recalled:

   "It turned out to be a group of idiots who were used as arrows..."

  Although the emerging nobles in Castel are rich, their influence is not that high, and it is impossible to gather so many nobles overnight.

   This is probably being used by those veteran nobles, who want to take advantage of this to force her to compromise and test her bottom line.

  As for why these upstarts are willing to stand out, Charlotte probably guessed a lot based on her family's experience.

  In recent years, the industry and commerce in Castel have developed rapidly. These upstarts who started their business by taking advantage of the wind may not have less tax evasion. Compared with the inspection of blood clans, they are more likely to oppose property inspections.

"My lord Charlotte, what are you going to do? Although you have a noble status,... mortals may be much more difficult than you imagined. You stooped to fight them, in my opinion, you just lowered yourself to their level , and then it is easy to get entangled in their rich experience of infighting..."

   "In my opinion, our purpose is to restore your strength as soon as possible, not to play tricks with these guys here."

  Nice couldn't help but said.

  Charlotte understood what this guy meant, and it was tactfully persuading her to use the power of the "god" to find a way to deal with these people directly.

  The gods are best at brainwashing, not to mention that Charlotte is also the "true ancestor of blood".

   It is estimated that from Nice's point of view, Charlotte can easily control the thoughts of nobles as long as she thinks about it.

   But Charlotte is also helpless.

  Her cheating is effective. She neither wants nor can use magic to control the minds of all the nobles in the territory, and she doesn't know how to "quickly restore strength".

  The only thing she can be sure of now is that she must firmly control the territory in her hands and make it her strong backing.

  After this, she will be able to draw it slowly, and then it will be more convenient whether it is preaching or collecting the broken pages of the holy scriptures.

   "Continue to act according to the original plan, combine the reported materials and the list of confessions, and arrest those leading instigators."

  Charlotte thought for a while and ordered.

   "Ah... are you really not afraid of rebellion?"

  Nice couldn't help asking.

  Charlotte took a look at it:

   "Even if it is a rebellion, the direct-controlled territories cannot rebel. If they really want to rebel, it is those vassal nobles with private soldiers."

   "Aren't you afraid of your reputation? If you go on like this, you will really be called a tyrant."

   "Don't worry, someone will worry about it for me."

   Charlotte said.

   After finishing speaking, she looked at the maid Shirley who was accompanying her, and ordered:

   "Shirley, send someone to the Len-Castel family's mansion and tell them that it's time for me to see their influence among the nobles."

  Professional things need professional people to operate.

Although the nobles of Castel shouted loudly, how many of them are determined to oppose Charlotte, how many are fishing in troubled waters, how many are secretly observing the situation, or simply Belonging to the silent side, I am afraid that no one can fully explain.

   But one thing is certain, Charlotte chose the Len-Castel family as the executors to review the nobles, and it was indeed the right choice.

  Following Charlotte's order, the guards of the Castel family came out and directly suppressed the resisting nobles.

  As the owner of the Northland, Castel maintains a standing guard of 3,000 people, which may not be able to compete with the combined noble private soldiers, but it is more than enough to suppress the riots in the small direct-controlled territory.

   At the same time, the Leon-Castel family finally stood up.

  The elderly Viscount personally stood on the platform, reprimanded the nobles who resisted, and promoted the legitimacy of the review from the perspective of territorial security.

   I have to say that the head of the Leon-Castel family does have something.

  Charlotte originally thought that he would support this review from the starting point of resisting the various crimes of the nobles.

   After all, after a dramatic report, few of the aristocratic families who attended the banquet were completely clean. If we really want to investigate carefully, we can catch all of them.

  However, the old Viscount did not use the pile of criminal evidence on Charlotte's desk, but directly started from the harm of blood infiltration to demonstrate the necessity of review.

  The Northland is the territory of the New Moon Kingdom after all. Although there are a large number of immigrants in the Northland, the most important ones are the citizens of the New Moon Kingdom who moved north.

In the history of the New Moon Kingdom, the Shedete clan overthrew the political power, and almost destroyed the country because of it. As the New Moon people who grew up under the influence of the "Legend of the Blood Demon", they naturally have a deep understanding of the "Blood Court" of the blood clan. Be vigilant.

Ordinary people can't tell the difference between the "lawful" Ness clan and the "chaotic" Shedete clan. They think they are all blood clans. The terror that reigns behind the veil.

  Public opinion reversed almost instantly, at least among civilians.

Reviewing the nobles is a joy for the common people. In many cases, it can even be called a complete joy. The feelings of the common people towards the lords are also very simple. In addition to the most instinctive awe, their perception of the lords more often comes from the nobles. publicity.

At this moment, Charlotte's review plan put a cloak of sacred justice on the mouth of Viscount Lane-Castel, and the brutal tyrant in the mouth of the nobles soon became the new lord of justice in the eyes of the common people .

  Being able to serve as the foreign affairs chief in Castel for decades, the old Viscount is indeed capable.

And after the Len-Castell family publicly expressed their support for Charlotte, some families who had good relations with Len-Castel, or those traditional loyalist families, began to express their support for Charlotte. Support for this review.

   Among them, there are even four barons including the Valais family of Baron Angus.

   What surprised Charlotte the most was that the nemesis of the Len-Castell family, the Viscountess of the Legris family, even vaguely expressed support for the review plan.

However, the Viscountess didn't trust Leon Castel. She visited Charlotte at night and met with Charlotte again, vaguely expressing her willingness to support, but she demanded that Castel personally examine Legg. The Leith family also requested to replace the Leon-Castell family as the executor of the review plan.

  Charlotte naturally refused.

  Employees are not suspicious, and suspects are not. Since the Leon-Castel family has decided to review, she will not change overnight. She needs the influence of the Leon family to implement the policy.

   Not to mention that the Legris family is already strong enough, and delegating power to them will only further fuel their ambitions.

  As far as Charlotte knows, their standing cavalry has more than a thousand people. Although most of them are light cavalry, they are already a powerful force in the Northland.

  If you add the nobles who followed them, Charlotte estimates that just pulling out the private soldier Legris can pull out two or three thousand people, which is not considered a temporary conscript.

   What's more, these data are still old data in the data. According to the information in the reported data, the military power of the Legris family may be even greater.

  In this case, Charlotte will naturally not hand over the review power to them.

Of course, considering the relationship between the two viscounts, she thought it would be inappropriate for the Len-Castel family to review, but she didn't plan to go there in person, but decided to wait for Sebastian to finish raiding Earl Lachlan's house. Let's talk about the hiding place later.

  Lola Legris is already a blood clan. Charlotte has some other ideas about how to deal with the Legris family and how to win over the Viscount.

  As for the other family of the "Three Royal Families", the Roman-Fore family has kept silent about it, and left silently by boat after the banquet.

  The Roman-Fore family's land strength is not strong, and their main strength is at sea. The number of warships of their family accounts for half of Castel's.

  Recalling the various performances of the Roman-Fore family at the banquet, Charlotte always felt that this family had a secret.

  As soon as Viscount Lien-Castel made his move, the nobles were clearly divided into two factions.

  However, supporters are a minority after all.

  Even the Legris family showed conditional acceptance, and after Charlotte didn't respond immediately, the Legris family left North Port and returned to the territory just like Roman Furr.

After hearing the news, Charlotte sighed softly. She knew that this meant that the Legris family would no longer support her. Between Len Castel and Legris, she might only have to choose one, at least For now...

  Viscount Lien-Castel overturned public opinion and successfully muddied the situation in Castel's territory. After Charlotte dispatched the family guard, those clamoring nobles were quickly suppressed one by one.

  As for the remaining nobles, they left Beigang one after another and returned to their own territories.

   However, Charlotte knows this is just the beginning.

  The departure of the nobles does not mean that they are not involved in this matter, but represents their dissatisfaction and opposition to the review, and perhaps there is still the influence of the Ness clan behind it.

  The riots in the Beigang Territory have been suppressed, but next... I am afraid that they may really have to prepare for a few battles.

  However, not long after the riots in the territory were suppressed, the communication crystal Charlotte seized from Agnes suddenly responded.

  Charlotte's heart moved slightly.

  Clan Ness... It seems that they are going to communicate remotely in advance.

  (end of this chapter)

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