Chapter 529 The Black Dog in the North
However, when Purficott sent people to investigate and summarize the situation of the Evil God Sect among the civilians, the conclusion reached was that the spread of the Evil God Sect among the civilians was not at all. It's not that bad.
Although it is true that some evil god sects entered the north with the migration of the native nobles of the empire, their spread was not exaggerated.
And a very important point is that the lower class people are, the less they believe in these evil sects. Most of the people who are bewitched by them are nobles, businessmen and wealthy citizens.
These people originally lived a good life. After moving to the Northern Territory due to the Doomsday Crisis, their quality of life declined. They were dissatisfied with the Empire, the Northern Territory, and their current living conditions, so they were influenced by the Evil God Sect. of bewitchment and seduction.
In contrast, the people at the bottom are more immigrants who took the initiative to migrate to the north. They know what kind of life they will face and are fully psychologically prepared for it.
And after settling in the north, thanks to the various policies formulated by Perficott, their lives are better and more hopeful than before.
In contrast, the aristocrats and wealthy classes are naturally more likely to fall to the evil god sect, trying to change their current unsatisfactory living conditions through belief in the evil god.
What’s more, some of them are still thinking about having their identity or status elevated beyond what it should be.
In contrast, ordinary people at the bottom are more content with the status quo and more willing to maintain their existing lives.
They do not believe in the fallacies and heresies propagated by the Evil God Sect. They only believe that the North has brought them a better life and a better life than they had before, so they want to maintain the order of the North.
So although some people are indeed bewitched, there are really not many people at the bottom of the northern border who believe in the evil sect.
Even if there was no church in the north before, what the people believed in was Perficott, the northern lord who could bring them a better new life, not some unknown god.
With such a mass base, the cleanup of the Evil God Sect in the North went more smoothly than expected.
After all, the eyes of the public are almost everywhere, and they are often easier to spot problems than spies from official agencies.
When they feed back various issues to the supervision department, the supervision department can sort out the content they need based on the reported information.
The rest is to follow the plan and uproot those evil sects that dare to spread all kinds of fallacies and heresies in the north.
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“Lord Earl, so far we have eradicated and destroyed one hundred and six strongholds related to the Evil God Sect, most of which Some of them involve nobles and capitalists. Most of the relevant persons have been brought to justice. The remaining relevant persons with less serious crimes are undergoing further interrogation and investigation. After the relevant guilt is confirmed, they will be punished according to their crimes." A dresser. The inspector of the inspection department in a long black trench coat reported the situation to Purficott.
In the past few days, the supervisory department has been in the limelight. A large number of nobles and wealthy businessmen have been thrown directly into prison by them, either directly executed or tortured.
So much so that these guys from the supervisory department were called the black dogs of the North, saying that they were all lackeys raised by Purficott.
In this regard, these members of the supervisory department have no resentment or dissatisfaction. On the contrary, they are happy to call themselves Purficott's lackeys. This is mainly because most of the people who can join this department are die-hard fans of Perfectcott, but if they are not, there is no way to join this department.
These people were already extremely loyal to Purfico, and now they see what they were capturing and dealing with. Te's loyalty and trust naturally increased to a higher level, and he became more and more admired by Perfect Cote.
Under such circumstances, the lackey named Purficott can even be said to be a compliment to them.
Purficott also heard about this, but she did not interfere with it.
On the one hand, these members of the supervision department are indeed loyal enough to her. Why should she care about things that they themselves don’t care about?
On the other hand, the current public opinion situation in the northern border is not suitable for any major actions.
Although this time the purge of the evil sect received unexpected support from the people at the bottom, and overall it did not cause any social unrest, the tension was still rising.
The people trust Purficott, but this does not mean that they are not afraid of black dogs and tin cans filling the streets.
Especially when they encounter objects who are stubbornly resisting during the arrest process, those steam knights who cooperate with the inspectors often like to use 75mm portable recoilless rifles to send those stubborn cultists into the sky together with their bunkers.
In a sense, the northern border is almost like a war now. Even at night, you can hear continuous gunshots coming from the streets.
Under such circumstances, if Purficott continues to crack down on the spread of rumors in a big way, it will really set off a white terror that is even more serious than the current problem.
Especially since the church’s referee knights have already cleaned up major cities in the north, it would be really unbearable to do it again.
Perfect didn’t want things to slip to this point, so she tried her best to restrain her desire to launch a larger-scale purge. At the same time, she told relevant people that things needed to be controlled within a limited scope. The attack range cannot be expanded at will.
Especially when dealing with the people, we must focus on stabilizing people's hearts and uniting them.
If they are civil servants in the empire, they will be more or less obsessive about this, especially for the two basic requirements of stabilizing the people and uniting the people. Many imperial civil servants will habitually look down upon them. of the upper and lower classes.
But this is not the case with the supervisory department established by Purficott. Most of them were originally from poor backgrounds, and their sense of good and evil was formed earlier than they obtained their current positions, and they were paid to support them. They did not exploit the people as much as the military and police did in the past.
Now that there is a strict order from Purficott, they naturally strictly abide by Purficott's orders and requirements.
Such a result made Purficott very satisfied, and it also gave her time to shift her energy to the settlement where the plague broke out before, to figure out the current situation, and to research the plague. Whether she has achieved results that satisfy her.
(End of this chapter)