Chapter 478 The So-Called Ambition
“Your Majesty, I don’t understand why you want to keep this traitor’s head.” After the Governor of the New World left Perfectcott’s room, Samantha asked her puzzled Asking for advice.
Based on Purficott’s identity and power, as well as the evidence she possesses, whether it is directly cutting off the head of the governor of the New World, or removing him from office and replacing him with a new governor, it is Something about her words.
According to Purficott's past practice, the body of the governor of the New World should have been built into a particularly conspicuous wall as a public decoration.
But this time Purficott oddly indulged the governor of the New World, which could be regarded as betrayal of the empire, just as she strangely negotiated peace with the revolutionary army this time instead of crushing them.
As a knight who follows Purfict, Samantha is very familiar with Purfict's style of doing things.
Although this Earl is not as cruel as the outside world spreads, and likes to build people into walls when there is nothing wrong, she has never shied away from doing so, nor will she be stingy in doing so when necessary.
This is easy to understand for Purficott, because it is efficient enough.
If you want to make a person work efficiently, in addition to providing sufficient rewards and benefits to tempt the other person, the simplest and most direct way is to intimidate through fear.
Let him learn to be in awe, and then he will naturally work efficiently for you under the threat of death.
Although this kind of pressure often brings some hidden dangers, if you have strong enough force to ensure that sufficient deterrence is always maintained, then these are not problems.
In Samantha's view, there is no doubt that Purficott is the person with absolute intimidation.
What's more, even if Purficott's deterrence is not enough, she has the entire Victoria Empire behind her. I am afraid there are no people or organizations in this world who dare to ignore the threat of the Victoria Empire.
"Samantha, we can't hold a hammer in our hands and everything looks like a nail." Purficott didn't explain that much, just using a sentence that sounded reasonable, but actually didn't. Samantha was prevaricated by words explaining the logic of her actions.
Faced with Purficott's attitude, Samantha did not ask further questions. After all, she was only a knight of the guard, and she was not qualified to ask about Purficott, the imperial earl.
Purficott's willingness to explain is already a big deal, otherwise the entire empire, perhaps the Queen herself, would be qualified enough for Purficott to explain her reasons for doing this.
"You go down first, I want to be alone for a while." Purficott glanced at the balcony of the room and signaled to Samantha that she could leave.
Samantha didn't ask any questions, just nodded to indicate that she was outside the door, and then left the room.
Although the place where Purficott is now is not as good as her lord's mansion, it is surrounded by two standard squadrons of elite steam knights taking turns guarding it, and there is also a team of flying knights on standby at any time, Samantha As her personal bodyguard, although he needed to ensure Purficott's safety at all times, he didn't need to be by her side at all times.
What's more, Befa, the personal maid, is always guarding Purficott. She is the last line of security around Purficott.
Under such security protection, Purficott's safety is still sufficiently guaranteed. If you want to attack her with evil intentions, you will need to dispatch at least one guard regiment. Only with the cooperation of heavy firepower can you threaten her safety. .
To put it a bit too much, even if it is an attack by a Guards Division, without the cooperation of a transcendent or without enough heavy firepower, it will be difficult to hurt Purficott. .
To put it mildly, it is almost impossible for even a fly to fly from outside the defensive circle to Perficott.
Of course, for some people who are specially placed in the defensive circle, it is not difficult to come to Perficott.
"Claudia, how is the investigation going?" Purficott watched as his assassin opened the balcony window, walked in and closed the window before asking her.
Purficott had previously learned about the various crimes of the governor of the New World that Claudia had discovered, so he asked her to work with the intelligence agency in the north to collect more information.
The purpose is naturally to completely crucify the governor of the New World.
However, although Claudia helped Purficott collect a large amount of information, she was also curious at this time and asked: "Why don't you just kill him? Even if you can't kill him publicly, You can also leave this matter to the Brotherhood, and I guarantee that he will disappear silently, or disappear from this world in any way you wish."
"We discussed this. Isn't that the topic? "The Three No's Principle." Purficott always adhered to his bottom line and did not intend to use assassination.
For this point, Claudia also had to express her admiration: "You have the best assassins in the world, but you have only used them for intelligence collection, and have always refrained from using them. Even I have to praise this method of assassination. You really stick to the bottom line you set for yourself
But occasionally you can make an exception. Guys like this are not worthy of your embarrassment, right? "
"Yes, he is not worthy of my embarrassment, but he is also not qualified enough for me to break the bottom line. Purficott smiled nonchalantly, and then asked Samantha: "How is the intelligence I asked you to collect?" Are there any results from the investigation? ”
Although the evidence in hand about the governor of the New World’s betrayal of the empire is sufficient, at most it will cause him to dishonorably lose his position as governor. This evidence alone is not enough to completely nail him.
Purficott didn't want to lay a minefield for herself, so when she couldn't eliminate the person through assassination, she tried to collect more evidence to achieve the goal of completely nailing him.
" Judging from the current situation, the Governor-General has indeed carried out quite a lot of illegal operations. We have found a lot of evidence of his dealings with the Independent Party and the Revolutionary Army, including his bribery of members of the Independent Party and the Revolutionary Army. relevant evidence. "Claudia saw that Purficott didn't want to use assassination, so she didn't dwell on it anymore. Instead, she reported the information she found to Purficott: "In addition, I also found out that the other party had raised Private soldier, although as the governor of the New World, he can indeed cultivate his own forces and confidants to control the army, but this governor seems to want to have an army that will absolutely obey him.
Although this army bears the designation of a colonial garrison, the quality of its soldiers and weapons and equipment have reached the level of the imperial standing army, and the weapons and equipment are vaguely on par with the Guards.
Although this incident can be explained as the formation of an army in response to a possible rebellion, his behavior itself is undoubtedly beyond his authority.
Moreover, the military expenditure and number of the army he has raised are questionable in all aspects. If you submit the evidence to the military department, you can easily kill him with the support of the military. "
"Really? If that were the case, he wouldn't be able to be killed at this juncture. Purfict shook his head and signaled Befa to pour her tea while explaining to Claudia: "Under normal circumstances, I can indeed put pressure on the Empire Center and the Noble Council through the military department, directly Kill this traitor to the empire.
But now, the empire's center is about to move from Langton to the North, and the doomsday winter has begun to show its power. At this time, there are too many complicated things and tasks, and the empire cannot do this. If something happens, replace the colonial governor with a colonial governor who is familiar with the situation and has deep-rooted local influence. "What Purficott said is indeed the truth, but it is not entirely true.
If it is really necessary, she can still use her influence to directly ask the empire center to execute the governor.
Although the empire would not easily deal with a governor who is very familiar with local affairs under normal circumstances, this does not mean that the empire will not kill him.
Although the colonial governor is also a feudal official, for the empire, especially for the world's most powerful country like the Victoria Empire, even if the end of the world comes, you can still change it if you want. And a qualified successor can be found at any time.
Yes, the empire is so powerful, or outrageous.
Although the colonial governor is a key position, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the feudal official has a high position, but for the Victoria Empire, because of this, the term of each colonial governor is only five years.
Although in some special circumstances the governor will be asked by the Queen and the Imperial Center to extend his term, it is only five years under normal circumstances, and only under very special circumstances will the term be extended.
For example, a special event such as a war occurred in the colony.
So the previous behavior of the governor of the New World is easy to understand. He hoped to influence the empire's appointment by provoking a war, thereby extending his term as governor in the New World.
After all, when he was the governor of the New World, he could still claim to have a high position of power. Once he resigned and returned to the empire, he would be nothing.
Generally speaking, the outgoing colonial governor can obtain an honorary title of nobility and then seek a good position in the huge civil service system at the center of the empire, but that's about it.
This is actually not bad for a person who can only be a colonial governor. After all, they are just colonial governors, and they are not really in a high position in the empire's huge civil service system.
But for the center of the empire, this position is actually slightly higher than the status of the empire's middle-level nobles and bureaucrats.
Once they took off the cloak of colonial governors, they really seemed inconspicuous among the empire's huge civil service system and aristocratic class.
Under normal circumstances, a colonial governor would not be very nostalgic for his position. After all, he is just a colonial governor. Who would want to watch animals baring their teeth in the colony when they can return to the empire and enjoy the blessings?
But now is a special situation.
The crisis of the doomsday winter has caused everyone to try every means to find a life for themselves. It has long been confirmed that the mainland of the empire will be abandoned, and the center of the empire and the center of power will be transferred to the north. information.
In this case, as the governor of the New World colony adjacent to the north, he will undoubtedly find that his position will become very delicate in the future, or that his importance to the entire empire will be reduced. Straight up.
Because in the final winter, the connection between the empire center and other colonies will inevitably be greatly affected.
After land and sea transportation is cut off, it will also become very difficult for the empire to control or contact other colonies.
But the northern border and the New World are directly connected by land. Not only have new railways been built in recent years, there are also roads that can travel between them, but these roads are not official highways.
In other words, after the end of winter arrives and the empire center moves to the north, the New World colonies will be closely connected with the empire center.
At this time, the position of colonial governor of the New World will also become particularly important due to the improvement of the status of the New World colonies.
Faced with such changes, should the governor-general go back to being an ordinary middle-level civil servant plus an honorary nobleman, or should he find ways to stay in this position and continue to hold power?
The truth is very simple, and the answer is naturally obvious.
And according to Purficott's investigation by Claudia, the governor-general's ambitions are not small at all. What he wants is not to continue to hold power, but to seal the territory.
To do something like this at such a critical moment will have a huge impact on the empire.
After all, after the end of the world, even if the empire does not abandon its homeland, it will be difficult for effective exchanges between the homeland and the northern border across the ocean. If the New World colonies are divided again...
In short, this The governor-general made a big plan, planning to extend his term through war, and then wait until the end of winter really comes to make the New World colonies completely independent.
As long as there are no problems with his plan, in the future he will be a national leader who can be on an equal footing with the Queen of the Empire, instead of being a colonial governor who can be replaced at any time by the Empire.
But it was clear that all his plans had failed as a result of Purficott.
"I hope this idiot won't disappoint me. I'm just waiting for him to jump over the wall!" The expression on Purficott's face was playful, and there was a trace of expectation in his eyes.
In any case, this is a colonial governor who has been planning for a long time. It is not an exaggeration to say that he has deep-rooted influence in the New World.
Although Purficott can kill him, what she hopes is to completely uproot this force from the New World colonies.
As mentioned before, after the arrival of the doomsday winter, the New World will be very important to the empire center and the northern border. Purficott does not want her to face the pressure of the God War in the future. It also added unnecessary trouble to her.
(End of this chapter)