Release that Witch - Chapter 460

[Chapter 453 Disposal Afterwards]

The castle study in the fortress is much more spacious than the small town office. The tall bookcases occupy the left and right walls, and the edges of the cabinet legs are inlaid with gold-plated metal edging, filled with all kinds of books.

Looking at it all the way, there are everything from miscellaneous epics to historical travel notes.

In order to facilitate access to the books on the top floor, a wooden escalator is placed beside the bookcase.

Probably out of safety considerations, the only window in the study was only half the height of a person, and iron railings were installed on the outside.

When the light enters the house from the outside, a narrow beam of light can be clearly seen falling on the old plush carpet, which feels somewhat isolated from the world.

If it was Anna, she would definitely like this place, Roland couldn’t help thinking, but for him, a small town office with floor-to-ceiling windows and always bright rooms was more to his liking.

Even though it is small, it is full of comfort.

As for Nightingale, the way she often dozed off by the fireplace showed how much she didn’t like it here.

At this time, there was a knock on the door outside the house.

“Come in,” Roland put the “Secret History of the West” back into the cabinet.

“Your Highness,” Pei Luo Hermon walked into the study and put a stack of white papers on the table. “The statistics you asked me to do have been completed.”

Roland returned to the desk and carefully looked at the paper he handed over. List of nobles, “This is all the remaining nobles in the western region, right?”

“Yes,” Pei Luo briefly explained, “I divided them into two categories: guilty and innocent, and then sorted them by family name. There are a total of 64 guilty nobles, and 137 who refused to participate in the rebellion, or who did not know about it, and the latter are mostly free knights, knights, and minor nobles.”

Roland opened the front page of the list and listed it in The first place is Roman Candy, Earl of Maple Leaf.

According to Iron Ax’s report, this great nobleman hid in a wine barrel in the basement after the mansion was breached. When he was searched out by soldiers of the First Army, his pants were wet with fear. of the rebels.

The next entire page is devoted to the nobles of the Maple Leaf family, such as the two sons, other relatives, and the enfeoffed knights.

Roland quickly turned to the end, and then folded the statistical table with satisfaction, “Good job.”

In general, the six major families in the western region have become history—the Lion Lion, Maple Leaf, Benlang and Wild Rose. There may be another chance to turn around. Although the honeysuckle and the elk survived, they are no longer the feudal nobles in the past. All the power in the western region will belong to him alone.

“Your Highness…” Pei Luo hesitated for a moment before saying, “The verdicts of guilt and innocence on the list were all given to me by Mr. Iron Axe. Could there be… maybe a misjudgment?”

Roland couldn’t help chuckling twice. He said, “He is very good at interrogation, and he didn’t use torture to extract confessions, so I think the final verdict can be trusted.”

In fact, this is just a cover. Nightingale was in charge of identifying it—just ask a few simple questions to know whether the other party was involved in the rebellion.

This was also the reason why Roland dared to clean up the nobles. With Nightingale’s assistance, he could truly never let a bad guy go, and never wrong a good guy.

They neither play tricks like Zhulian, nor pretend to be open-minded, and let the troublemakers go.

“Then…how do you plan to deal with these guilty nobles?”

“What’s the matter,” Roland raised his head and glanced at Pei Luo, “you still have friends here?”

“No, Your Highness,” the latter shook his head, “I just thought that if you executed them all, it might be detrimental to your future rule.”

“You demanded blood for blood a week ago,” the prince raised his eyebrows with great interest, “now you want to let go Are they?”

“I really want these people to go to hell, but even if I strangle them one by one, nothing can be saved… On the contrary, it may arouse other nobles’ resentment towards honeysuckle. And the reputation of executing nobles wantonly If it gets out, other cities may also set off a wave of opposition to your rule.”

Hearing these words, Roland was a little surprised. This kind of thinking is indeed the way of thinking of mature politicians, putting aside personal emotions, and focusing more on weighing interests… It seems that this change did not make him hate fighting more, but made him He has matured.

“It’s okay to tell you in advance.” He stood up and walked to the small window, “I will announce the ins and outs of this matter to everyone, and then publicly sentence all the conspirators in the square, including nobles, guards, retinues and servants.” Soldiers… The chief culprit, that is, the direct initiator of the rebellion, and the villains with the blood of the people on their hands, will be sentenced to hang, while the accomplices will be deprived of their titles and sent to the North Slope Mine for labor reform.”

“According to this method of disposal, There were only five or six nobles who were hanged. Earl Elk and Viscount Benlang had already died on the battlefield, and the rest of them saved their lives with their titles. After the news spread, I don’t think anyone would I think this sentence is too harsh—after all, betraying the royal family is a felony.”

Pei Luo breathed a sigh of relief, “Your Highness is kind.”

When the eldest son of the Honeysuckle family left, Roland felt an unprecedented sense of fulfillment.

This action has completely cleared the obstacles for him to integrate the western territory. In the future, whether it is the enactment of laws or the promulgation of policies, it will be unimpeded in this vast land.

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com He has gained the support of a large number of people and nobles – after eliminating the opponents, the rest are naturally potential supporters.

Especially the nobles – after losing the enfeoffment power and territorial legal power, if they want to live a comfortable life, they must closely follow their own policies and spare no effort to promote them.

Since the resources in the hands of the nobles are far more than those of the common people, it is not difficult to obtain benefits from them as long as they use their brains a little.

And once they have tasted the sweetness, they will never want to go back to the kind of hard life they used to-after all, these little nobles have not enjoyed the benefits brought by the territory very much. If the operation is not good, they will have to pay back money.

Soon they will realize that simply playing chess according to the rules can easily lead a life they never imagined before.

There is no doubt that the city building plan has taken another big step forward.

Roland wiped off the condensed moisture on the windows, and looked at the city covered in snow through the blurred windows—since he would stay here for a while, he would often come to Longsong Stronghold to deal with government affairs in the future. Transform this study into an office dedicated to the prince according to your own preferences.

Like…start with the floor-to-ceiling windows.

(To be continued.)

[End of this Chapter]