Chapter 315 Wanton Acts
"What have I done to make you disrespect me so much that you are not even willing to call me lord." Purficott stretched out his hand to the bald head and made She lifted up the bald head from the sofa where he was sitting, and the matches and cigars in his hands fell to the ground: "You are so unscrupulous in attacking my orders in my office, and you are so unbridled." , what gave you the courage to act so recklessly in front of an empire-expanding earl?
I don’t care whether what you say is right or wrong, I just want you to know that only I have the right to make it. Decision, because I am the lord of the North, and only I can deny my order except Her Majesty the Queen. "
" Sir... Please spare me! Wrong!" The bald man grabbed his neck with both hands and struggled to beg for mercy.
But it's too late.
"Crack." Purficott let go of his hand, took out a white handkerchief from his body and wiped his hands, then threw the handkerchief on the face of the bald head who had lost his breath, and then said to the man who broke in after hearing the sound. The guard said: "Drag him out and hang him at the highest point of Eagle Beak Cliff. I want everyone to see his body! Then tell everyone that this is the consequences of violating my will."
"Yes, Lord Lord!" The guards immediately dragged the body out quickly.
But the old housekeeper arrived belatedly, looking at the body being dragged away, he couldn't help but frown.
He was the one who brought this bald man to see Perficott. He just left to arrange for the maids to prepare tea for the reception.
In the end, just for a moment, the bald head turned into a corpse carried out, which inevitably made Foster think too much.
However, he did not accuse Purficott of anything. Regardless of his identity or position, he had no reason to do so.
The loyal old butler just asked Purficott: "Miss, did Mr. Thomas offend you in any way? So that you did such a thing."
In the old housekeeper's opinion, it was somewhat inappropriate for Purficott to kill a big businessman like this.
Although as Purficott, in the feudal era, she would have been fine even if she killed this kind of businessman for fun, but the times are different now, and she should still pay attention to some effects.
However, the reasons given by Purficott are very sufficient: "He criticized my policies in my laboratory and showed no respect for me. More importantly, he violated The law I just enacted.”
"Okay, I understand, I will take care of the rest." The old housekeeper instantly understood that this was just to scare the monkeys, rather than simply venting his emotions.
"Well, please forgive me, Grandpa Afu." Purficott nodded, and then asked: "Who is this guy? The status of someone who can come to see me should not be too low, so This is the first time I have seen someone who has no quality.”
When Foster brought this man here just now, he introduced his identity, but for Perfectcott, the identity of this kind of person is unknown. It wasn't worth her attention at all, so she didn't listen at all.
“A wealthy businessman from the New World, maybe the colonists lack education.” Foster shrugged, stating the common stereotypes of the native residents of the empire about the New World colonies.
Foster doesn't think this kind of person is very important, and his death can only be said to be his own fault.
After all, in the empire, although the consequences of disrespecting nobles are no longer as serious as in the feudal era, when any noble feels that he has been offended, according to the laws of the empire, he still has the right to take any action he deems necessary against the person who offended him. action.
This "necessary action" includes but is not limited to killing the offender on the spot until the offended noble feels that his noble face has been maintained.
Perficott was not surprised by this, he just nodded and said: "Well, it seems that the matter of popularizing education in the north is really urgent!
Lao'a Grandpa Fu, please inform me that all pioneer knights must establish schools in the settlements they are responsible for and enroll all children between the ages of four and twelve in the settlements. If someone fails to do so after one month, I will withdraw his pioneering documents. ! ”
"Okay, miss, I will pass on your order." Foster nodded, then turned around and left to convey Perfectcott's order.
The Northern Lord has the right to do whatever she wants in the North. Although taking back the development documents is a very important matter, since Purficott said so, Foster must Her will carries through.
When he conveyed Purficott's new order to the civilian officials in the north, not surprisingly, these civilian officials expressed their incomprehension.
Of course, they just didn’t understand why Purficott issued such an order, not that they had any objections.
In this era when the feudal royal power is still strong, although everyone is gradually starting to talk about civilization, this does not mean that the noble lords cannot do some willful things.
For these civilian officials, the lord's orders are still as absolute as in the past. They must be implemented if they understand them, and they must still be implemented if they do not understand them.
You can choose to resign and leave your job with your head.
This is not a joke, because the northern territory belongs to the pioneering earl territory. As the lord, Perficott enjoys all military and political power in his territory, including but not limited to depriving someone of his life.
Although according to imperial law, the laws and orders issued by Perficott in the north must not conflict with the current laws of the empire, she cannot really do whatever she wants.
But if only a few people were killed, no one, whether it was the noble assembly or the democratically elected assembly, would come to trouble Perficott for such a trivial matter.
They still have brains and reason, and they don't want to have the steam knight smash the windows of their manor in the middle of the night for a few unrelated people.
Well, Purficott wouldn't let Steam Rider smash the windows of their manor.
That is too inefficient. Directly using an airship to throw thermobaric bombs is a very clean and efficient option.
What Purficott needs is a government that can implement her will and assist her in completing the construction and development of the northern border, not a group of politicians who only know how to hold her back and cause trouble. If someone really doesn't open their eyes, she will It does choose to eradicate it in a physical sense.
As for whether doing this will arouse public dissatisfaction? If Purficott cared about this, she would not choose to completely drain the three countries of the Old World that declared war on the Empire.
You must know that in other countries in the old world, her reputation is almost the same as that of an evil ghost.
Even in the empire itself, although many people support and admire her, her folk reputation can still be described as mixed.
(End of this chapter)