Chapter 70: Trial for 8 People
The capital, Cardinal, was stable; it was hard to believe that aristocrats had just been purged.
There were several reasons for this. I had spent a week interrogating the aristocrats. If I had only wanted to punish the aristocrats for convenience then I would have conducted a formal interrogation and held a trial immediately, but because I had interrogated them privately and didn’t hold the trial… the barons and knights who couldn’t attend my coronation ceremony has decided to sit back and watch.
The merchants were doing the same. I should call them former Chancellor and Chief of the Ministry of Ceremonies now since they’ve been stripped of their title. The merchants who were influenced by them are potential enemies. They are still not cooperating with the emperor, but I haven’t taken any action against them since they have value.
And the citizens. They are very cooperative with the emperor because of my speech, but I was also most careful with them since one mistake can turn them against me.
Only the Western Church was hectic, but interfering with them now would be like putting myself in harm’s way for someone else. I’ll just leave them alone for a while.
… The Western Church would need to be completely reformed… To cure the corruption within it. They would have to fight it out until they acknowledge that they need the intervention of the emperor.
Two major pieces of news arrived almost at the same time in the otherwise peaceful capital.
The first son of the former Duke Raul, Sigmund du van Raul, the Cavalry Chief, declared his succession.
The second piece of news was that Augusto de Aquicurl, the second son of the former Duke Aquicurl and the current Marquis Aquicurl Diederich, has declared his succession.