Chapter 712 Great Purge
Although Purficott had already eliminated a wave of coup d'etat during the invasion of Beloberg, that was only the direct participants.
Indirect participants related to them, dissatisfied opponents, and other people closely related to this matter for various other reasons, as well as people who usually oppose Perfectcott and the North...
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The presence of these people put a knot in Purficott's throat.
Although she tolerated the existence of these people generously in the past, and believed that their existence was also a necessity.
After all, the existence of opposing opinions allows you to check whether you have any omissions and avoid becoming a tyrant and dictator who cannot listen to opinions and act arbitrarily.
But what happened this time made Purficott realize that sometimes leaving a group of opponents would not bring any benefits except adding trouble to himself.
Perhaps the existence of the opposition can indeed provide you with different thinking, and it can also be a way to get more inspiration.
But with the occurrence of this coup, Purficott clearly realized that the greatest significance of the existence of these opponents was to create obstacles and hindrances for himself.
If they are smart enough, they will clearly realize that they should cooperate with Perficott, so that everyone can live a better life and the Victoria Empire can become better.
It is a pity that they are not aware of this, or even if they are aware of it, they will deliberately ignore it for various reasons.
That's why this coup happened this time and led to such irreversible and serious consequences.
This also made Purficott clearly realize that he should not keep this group of opponents, but should completely eliminate them.
Although doing so did put him on a path that he least wanted to embark on, things had already developed to this point and there was no room for Purficott to have other ideas.
In other words, the moment the royalists launched a coup, she actually had no choice.
As a result, a huge purge was launched, and for the first time the intelligence organization in the north appeared openly on stage together with the Assassin Brotherhood.
Based on the intelligence they had previously tortured from the royalists, they arrested relevant people one after another according to the plot, and either executed them on the spot or threw them into prison. For a while, the entire Beloberg was shrouded in white terror. , the whole city was shaking.
The Great Purge began, and it even had a tendency to spread to other cities as more and more people were arrested.
This time the great purge was completely different from any previous purges carried out by Purficott in the north.
Although Purficott had also purged the nobles in the north before, it was to eliminate potential descendants and believers of the evil god among the nobles in the north.
For this reason, Purficott very carefully controlled the scale of the purge to avoid the situation from escalating.
Even when she was impeached before, she did not involve herself in anything to exclude dissidents.
But this time, Purficott obviously lost the patience to restrain his men, and these released hyenas, together with the supervision department originally used to search for cults in the north, became implicated.
Anyone associated with the previous royalist or opposition factions was thrown into prison.
Here, after three rounds of interrogation, if they confirm that there are no other problems, they can basically be released.
But as long as there is any issue that can lead to conviction, what awaits them is severe and severe punishment. Don't think they are being kind. They are just making room in the prison. After all, there are too many people arrested and the prison can no longer hold them.
So the new punishment camp was activated and established, and their first task was to build themselves a prison that could fit everyone in.
However, we have to admit that those who can be thrown into the punishment camp are lucky, at least they can survive.
Those whose 'crimes' were worthy of the death penalty basically received their own death penalty.
Moreover, in order to execute prisoners more efficiently, Purficott even developed a new torture instrument specifically for this purpose.
After all, hanging is too time-consuming and requires too high a technical level on the part of the executioner (the rope used to hang a criminal must be of the most appropriate length, so that it will not break the prisoner's neck at once, nor will he be unable to hang to death). This is a real technique. live).
Referring to the guillotine invented by the French king in the original world, Perficott reproduced this simple and efficient execution method and made improvements.
Although this execution device improved by her is similar to the guillotine in terms of principle and shape, its efficiency is completely different.
Purficott's invention could execute ten prisoners at once.
A huge guillotine was pulled up by the mechanical structure, and ten prisoners were fixed under the knife holder. As the mechanism was activated, the huge guillotine fell freely and would cut off the prisoners' heads in 0.1 seconds to prevent them from suffering. pain.
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Simple, efficient, and even a little bit kind.
But this is still scary, even the people of Beloberg are afraid of it.
They feared that the purge would spread to them, even though they did not consider themselves worthy of the guillotine.
In such a terrifying atmosphere, Purficott once again convened the National Assembly to discuss the next step for the Victoria Empire.
In everyone's eyes, this is the end of Victoria's freedom and democracy, and Perficott will use this as an opportunity to launch his own dictatorship.
Contrary to everyone's expectations, Perficot did not dissolve the National Assembly and the Cabinet, but retained both institutions and simply asked them to be re-elected as soon as possible to fill the vacancies that occurred.
One-third of the members of the National Assembly were executed on the spot in the previous coup, and about a quarter of the members were implicated afterwards. Even many members of the northern border faction were implicated. The National Assembly was half empty. Many, indeed urgent re-election is needed to fill the parliament.
The cabinet on the other side was actually relatively less affected. After all, the royalists did not previously occupy half of the seats in the cabinet, and the cabinet was not actually involved in this coup.
Although two cabinet members were implicated and the royalists were purged from the cabinet, more than three-quarters of the cabinet remained.
Therefore, compared to the National Assembly, the cabinet can still function normally.
As for Purficott herself, she was appointed regent of the Victoria Empire by the Queen's decree, and her power had no restrictions.
This can be regarded as fulfilling Purficott's previous request in another form. She has become a presence above the cabinet and the National Assembly.
(End of chapter)