Chapter 528: The Great Purge
With the cooperation of Duke Collins, there will naturally be no disturbances in the subsequent handling of this matter.
But the impact of this incident does not stop there.
In any case, the Collins family is one of the three major duke families. Even if they are illegitimate children, they are still ordinary nobles who are difficult to reach.
After all, the Duke himself and the Duke's legitimate son are not people that ordinary nobles can easily come into contact with, and many times some people need to deal with matters that are inconvenient for the Duke himself to come forward.
At such times, a dishonorable illegitimate son with no inheritance rights became the spokesperson for the Duke himself.
This is also the reason why even a dishonorable illegitimate child can obtain a noble title. In many cases, even an illegitimate child needs an identity that can reasonably appear in aristocratic social situations.
And such a somewhat crucial illegitimate child was suddenly dealt with, which will undoubtedly have a considerable impact on the aristocratic group.
For the big nobles, it is natural to quickly check the children of their own family to ensure that no one among them has made the same mistake.
Although the return of the old gods seems to be an inevitable event, investing in the evil sect at this time can be regarded as an early investment, but the premise is that you can survive until the day when the gods come and defeat the empire and the church. .
And this is based on the premise that the evil sect has the ability to defeat the empire and the church.
If these nobles cannot see that the Evil God Sect has any hope of winning, how can they invest their wealth and lives in it?
Nobles may have all kinds of exaggeration and vanity in other aspects, but when faced with issues related to family life and death, they are very pragmatic.
It’s just that it’s okay if we don’t conduct a self-examination. A lot of problems were found during the self-examination.
The original vassals and nobles in the north were okay. Only a very small part of them had anything to do with the Evil God Sect and had infiltrated into some settlements.
This is not a big problem for the Northern Territory, and the problem can be solved by sending a working team from the supervision department to clean up at the door.
But various problems within the nobility made it difficult for everyone.
The Evil God Sect is a problem that has existed since ancient times. It was once the ruler of the old world, and the nobles naturally had deep contacts and contacts with them.
It’s just that with the silence of the old gods, the former rulers were also kicked off their thrones, and the nobles also cut themselves off from them.
But this does not mean that the connection between the nobles and the evil sect is completely lost.
Many of the imperial nobles who migrated to the north were involved with the Evil God Sect, and many were very closely related.
Some people only occasionally attend gatherings related to the Evil God Sect. Many of these gatherings are just under the banner of the Evil God Sect or are just imitations by some extremely boring nobles.
It is naturally harmless to attend such gatherings. Even the church will not take action because of such behavior. At most, it only requires participants to repent or make atonement.
But some are not that simple. The relationship between them and the evil sect is much deeper and closer.
Some noble families can even be traced back to the time when the Evil God Sect was still called the Church of the Gods. The blessings of the old gods are hidden in the blood of their families, and some can even be called so-called "descendants of gods".
The relationship between these families and the Evil God Sect is extraordinary, and many of them can even be considered members of the Evil God Sect. There are also some children in the family who are unworthy, which is very different from the situation encountered by Duke Collins.
Faced with such an uncomfortable situation within the nobility, Purficott could only order the supervisory department to work with the church to liquidate.
Although she did not want to engage in this kind of purge, in the face of these nobles who were involved with the evil sect, Purficott really could not say a word of forgiveness.
After all, those who just believed in the lies of the evil god sect and lost their minds for a while could still be saved, but those whose bodies themselves have blessings from the gods of the past, or are simply descendants of the evil god , then there is absolutely no hope of salvation.
They are often the ideal containers or sacrifices for the coming of evil gods. Even worse, they are easily influenced and bewitched by evil gods due to various reasons of their own.
No matter how upright and noble a person is, it is difficult to resist when faced with the bewitchment and temptation of the evil god from deep within his bloodline.
This has nothing to do with whether one's beliefs or beliefs are firm or not, but this kind of bewitchment and temptation from blood will directly distort a person from the physiological level.
Just like the illegitimate son of Duke Collins, he was originally a handsome young man. With the protection of the Duke and some efforts of his own, he can be said to be young and promising, with a bright future.
But such an originally positive young man fell out of control after being exposed to the beliefs of the Evil God Sect.
And his body was also twisted into the shape of a mangy baby with octopus legs that Purficott had seen before.
It was an irreversible distortion and depravity. The distortion of the physical level led to the depravity of the psychological level, and his soul has been irreparably contaminated.
This is just a change after being exposed to the beliefs of the evil god sect and being blessed by the so-called evil god.
Those who are born with the blessing of the evil god in their blood or are simply descendants of gods, they do not even need to come into contact with the beliefs of the evil god sect. As long as the evil god revives, they will be directly distorted from the physiological level.
Because of this, the church has carried out large-scale cleansing of these people who have been blessed by evil gods or have bloodline in the past years, but there are still some who have slipped through the net.
Now, the empire had to replicate the church's operation and eliminate all problematic parts of the aristocratic group.
There is no doubt that this has set off another bloody storm in the north, and many people even think that this is Purficott's attempt to eliminate dissidents.
But these remarks had no impact on Purficott, because she knew exactly what she was doing, and both the royal family and the aristocratic group themselves supported her in doing so.
So the newly formed supervisory department in the north sent a large number of capable forces to carry out a wave of purges of the nobles in the north. Suddenly, the prisons in the north were overcrowded, and a large number of nobles and their families and relatives , and related personnel were all thrown into prison.
Those who have minor problems can still be released after trial, while those who have problems will not be imprisoned this time. The only two options waiting for them are beheading and hanging.
There are no amnesties, no commutations, no exceptions, and no extrajudicial mercy.
With the permission of the Queen and the support from the Noble Council, Perficott was simply going on a killing spree this time.
But just cleaning up the nobles does not solve the problem, because the evil god sect has penetrated so deeply among the nobles, you can imagine what the situation is like among the civilians.
(End of this chapter)