Chapter 375: In the Royal Council
Perficott’s massacre of the noble council did not cause any irreparable consequences, let alone a huge impact.
In other words, the impact of this incident was only limited to the upper echelons of the empire and the aristocratic circles. Even in the aristocratic circles, everyone remained silent and kept secrets.
And outside this circle, the people at the bottom have no idea what is happening.
That is, those who have some dealings or contact with the killed noble councilor will be surprised by the disappearance of the other party.
But this kind of thing is really not worth mentioning for the empire.
After all, there were less than a hundred nobles from beginning to end. Although their deaths were not insignificant to the empire, they were not harmful.
At least for the imperial center, this is really not a big deal. It only needs to suppress public opinion and influence. The rest is to replace these cleared noble councilors and let their family descendants Or a side branch inherited the title.
The former may still require some effort. In any case, the identity of the members of the Noble Parliament is still of certain importance, especially in the current situation. The supplements will still be a group of drunkards, which will make everyone Everyone is troubled.
Relatively speaking, it is much simpler to select heirs for these cleared nobles.
On the one hand, these nobles all have families and their own heirs. Even if a few of them have a small family, they still have side branches or distant relatives, so no one will inherit the title.
On the other hand, there are not that many people who want to inherit the title.
You must know that honorary titles such as knights and barons cannot be hereditary. Among the ninety-two nobles killed this time, the only ones that can really be hereditary are seven earls, twelve viscounts, There are twenty-six barons, with a total of forty-five titles.
For an empire that has been at peace for a long time, this may be a relatively big loss. After all, in peaceful times, the death of so many nobles at once is indeed a big deal.
But if we put things into the war years, this number of casualties is nothing at all. That is to say, the seven earls may have a greater influence. As for the remaining viscounts and barons, between the empire and France In the Hundred Years' War between the two countries, which major battle did not kill so many people?
So when the new royal council was convened, no one brought this matter up to embarrass Perfectcott.
On the contrary, more people are concerned about whether Purficott's mental state is normal and whether she can continue to serve the empire as usual.
"Little Purficott, although I don't really support your approach, since it has already happened, there is no point in discussing it afterwards. I just hope that you have not suffered anything in this matter. "Negative impact." Although Princess Anne did not agree with Purfict's move to massacre the noble council, she also understood how much pressure Purfict was under, and it was allowed to occasionally vent and do some extreme things. of.
Compared with the lives of a group of less important nobles, Princess Anne is more concerned about the current state of Perfectcott.
“Thank you for your concern, Aunt Anne.” Of course Purficott understood what Princess Anne meant. She just spread her hands and said: “I can only say that without those noisy voices, I feel completely lost. She felt refreshed and had a rare good sleep." Of course Purficott's words were a joke, but she had to admit that she did feel a lot more refreshed after the nobles were no longer in trouble.
As for how much of this was due to the relief brought about by the act of massacre, only she knew.
"Since there is no problem with Mr. Purfico, let's end this matter. Can you handle the remaining follow-up issues, Mr. Gloucester?" The Queen naturally heard what Purfico said. With her special answer, she immediately concluded the matter.
The Duke of Gloucester will naturally not express any objection to this. In fact, he has completed the follow-up finishing work. This matter will not cause any trouble to Perfectcott, nor will it Any negative impact on the empire.
In comparison, what is really worthy of concern is the problems the empire is currently facing.
"Speaking of when does the empire plan to announce the end of winter? Although we need time to prepare, there is only one year left before the end. Should the empire consider making this public and then move the local residents to the north? Are you in trouble?" Purficott spoke first, bringing the discussion of the imperial meeting to the key issue: "Although I don't mind if you abandon some people at the bottom, or abandon the burdens and encumbrances to the empire, but if the grassroots of society If the labor force is too small, it will still bother me.
You don’t want to let those nobles go to the factory to tighten screws, right? It’s not enough!”
Perfect’s words were not pleasant, even a bit sarcastic, but the problems she pointed out were real.
So Princess Anne quickly responded: "Based on the results of the previous discussions at the Royal Council where you were absent, we are considering announcing the matter this winter, and then starting the migration next year.
All departments in the empire have evaluated this operation and concluded that if the migration operation is carried out now, it will cause a series of social problems
Little Purficott, you have put so much effort into this matter, and you don’t want to fall short when the matter reaches the last step, right? ”
Although Purficott was absent from the imperial meeting before, the results of each meeting and related meeting minutes were recorded by a dedicated person and sent to the North via airship for her to read.
Not only that, any of her opinions will be sent back to Langton as soon as possible and made known to the imperial ministers in the Imperial Council.
So Perficott’s opinion of the imperial center. The decision is actually made with knowledge.
The reason why she said this was just to open up the topic and express an attitude at the same time.
Princess Anne's statement actually answered her question, but Purficott was still not satisfied with the answer. She thought about it and said: "Is there any way to move a large number of people to the north now? I don't want to Everything has to be piled up and dealt with when the problem comes, and relocating a part of the population in advance will also help expand the infrastructure of the northern border, so that social problems will not be caused by the influx of a large number of people.”
"Regarding this issue, the Ministry of Interior believes that..." The Interior Secretary who participated in the meeting spoke and explained the opinions of the Ministry of Interior to Purficott.
(End of this chapter)