Chapter 184 The Master Behind the Scenes
Perfict did not ignore the information the Assassin Brotherhood told her. 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 oppose you.
She handed the news back to Princess Anne and the military department, and also told the Duke of Gloucester the news.
After receiving the news, the three parties had different reactions, but it was obvious that they had no intention of letting this matter go.
The military's reaction was the most direct and fierce. Perficott 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 what kind of answer it is, the military will be completely offended.
In particular, the military's attitude was not to publish a few indifferent articles in newspapers, but to directly dispatch the Guards to several newspapers that had published articles criticizing Perfectcott. Smashed directly.
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 Viktoria. This can only be compared with the past feudal era when the emperor wanted to enact some new policy.
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.
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.
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. She deserves to be supported by others. .
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, instead of being tit-for-tat from the beginning.
But he did not 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 waits to develop the Northern Territory, her interests will become more entangled with all parties and she will gain more Support, then it will be harder to target her. And if she cannot be solved, she will be the biggest helper for Princess Anne to succeed to the throne in the future.
After all, the title of Guardian of the North is completely different from that of ordinary nobles. As a guardian, Perficott not only has the right to own private soldiers, but also can mobilize them without restriction.
Although large-scale military operations are definitely impossible, if only one or two knights are mobilized to support the fight for the throne, then according to the laws of the empire, no one can stop her.
If it was in the past, it would be okay. You had the Knights, but I didn’t?
To prevent this situation, all the members of the Royal Guard Knights are high knights.
Not to mention that every member of the royal family has 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 is the inventor of the Steam Knights, she wants to arm her own knights, which is easier than anything else.
Right now, the industrial production capacity in the North is not good enough, so the force under her command is not expanding very fast. This time, she only saw forty Steam Knights.
However, 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 be able to do it next time? Will they use hundreds of steam knights to directly occupy the entire Langton?
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 empire won this victory without any glory. A mere woman should not rely on the merits of massacre to become the president of the Imperial Academy of Sciences...
Because of Iraq Professor East's identity and his gray-haired appearance as a rigorous scholar still influenced many uninformed people. Although they did not express their support clearly, they would stop and listen to Professor East's speech.
Suddenly a large number of people gathered in the square outside the democratically elected parliament building.
Professor East’s speech is only one of them, and the people behind the scenes who arranged it among the crowd are the second. They incited and incited the people to express support for Professor East’s speech, and suddenly this incident was The impact of the incident began to spread widely, and many people mistakenly believed that Perfectcott had really done something unworthy of his morality.
Faced with this situation, it is not easy for the military to intervene directly. After all, smashing a newspaper office and suppressing the gathered people are two completely different concepts.
At this time, it is not easy for the aristocratic parliament and the democratically elected parliament to directly disperse the crowd, and even the arrest of Professor East is not easy to carry out. 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)