Warlords of the witcher world

Chapter 141 He Changed Kaedwin

After the assassination, Herme chose to rest in Ban Ade for a while.

On the one hand, it was to rectify the team, and to arrest people in Ban Ade, and on the other hand, it was to prepare for the issuance of new orders.

And what happened in Ban Ader, like a storm, quickly swept across the land of Kaedwen.

Anyone with a political sensibility immediately realized what a political ramifications this would have.

Smart people just choose to hide in the countryside, to the villages and towns in the wilderness.

At least the people of Aedirn have not been able to extend their hand into these areas, only to maintain their existence.

And most people still stay in the city and continue to live their lives, completely unaware of what kind of storm will follow.

In Ben Ard, Herme recruited the Marquess of Mandelfis.

The next thing needs to be carried out by this Kaedwenian.

Hme had received the Kaedwenian's audience at Ben Ard College.

In the office at the top of that tall tower, Lord Protector had just received the outstanding students of Ben Ade College.

The students who were selected to meet Herme were mainly from Adian. These young people had a kind of fanatical support for Herme, and they were extremely enthusiastic about meeting Herme.

After all, for young people, especially those who have enough food and clothing, Lord Protector is a perfect object of worship.

After all, in this era, the most admired are undoubtedly war heroes, and the Duke Protector has never been defeated, but he is a famous general in the north and even in the entire continent.

But in the face of such enthusiastic admiration, Duke Protector can only talk about the scene, let them study hard, and serve the country in the future, but these are enough.

And even though Lord Protector was following the formality, it still made these young people crazy.

After all, the form of Lord Protector is going very well, making these young men so exciting.

This kind of thing made the Lord Protector have a very strong sense of sight. He had seen such a scene in his previous life, but he never thought that one day he would become the protagonist in this scene.

Next, it was time to meet Kaedwin's former intelligence chief.

In front of the Duke Protector, the Marquis looked very flustered.

His face, which is usually invisible in the crowd, is now full of tension and fear.

In the room where the Lord Protector was, there was a portrait of all the members of the Talent and Skill Association of the Warlock Order. Against the backdrop of this mural, the Lord Protector looked quite majestic.

"I salute you, Lord Protector."

"I think you already know what happened in Ban Ader, so, Lord Mandelphis, you should understand what I summoned you to do."

"I don't understand, Lord Protector."

Herme saw beads of sweat appear on Mandelvis' forehead, which made him very satisfied.

This kind of feeling that others are trembling in front of me, and the direction of fate depends only on a word from myself... It's really great.

But Herme had an unreasonable feeling in front of this person, that he was actually pretending.

The protector feels that the person in front of him is definitely not as mediocre as he looks.

But even if he was pretending, he still pretended to be very similar, which made Herme's senses very good.

The Duke Protector thought about it for a while, but he didn't get entangled anymore.

Anyway, he was pretending enough, why did he have to think about exposing him?When the time comes, the one who exposes the unhappiness is myself.

And digging too deep into the secrets of his subordinates is not something a ruler should do.

But this was a wake-up call to the Lord Protector. This Marquis of Kaedwen looks very mediocre, but is he really like this?
He had been doing intelligence work for Henselt before. Could it be a simple person who was in charge of intelligence work?

So I still have to send some more people to keep an eye on the Marquis of Kaedwen.

"I know, you are Henselt's spies. I want you to gather all the spies who have worked for Kaedwen's intelligence department. I need their services. Do you understand?"

"I see, that means you're going to start making moves about Kaedwin's ups and downs."

Homer was very satisfied with Mandelvis's debut, and he nodded.

"I need a purge, and I must respond to this assassination. At the same time, this is also an opportunity to clean up Kaedwin. And the executor I have chosen is you."

"Yes, I will obey your orders, Lord Protector."

Mansfield hesitated for a moment, then said decisively.

It is estimated that he also thought that it was impossible for him to refuse, so he simply felt happier.

"Then go down, go and carry out my order, and arrest the traitors and rebels."

Seeing this, Herme didn't say anything more.

Since he understands everything, that's good, talking too much would be superfluous.

After leaving Ben Ard's tower, Mansfield got into his carriage, where his assistant waited.

The Marquis's carriage was very gorgeous, with all kinds of gold-painted decorations on it, and the price of its craftsmanship was not affordable by ordinary people. God knows how much the Marquis spent for it.

The current Marquis has undergone a great change from the previous image of a mediocre bureaucrat who was extremely nervous when facing the Lord Protector.

Instead of panicking, he seemed much calmer.

"Huh, facing the Lord Protector is really different from facing Henselt. This time, I have always had a strong feeling that I have leaked something in front of the Lord Protector."

Recalling the previous experience with the Duke Protector, Mansfield breathed a sigh of relief.

Speaking of it, he didn't know why, his performance was obviously perfect, but it seemed that he couldn't hide it from the Duke Protector.

Mansfield has always disguised himself as a mediocre person to avoid various disputes within Kaedwen.

And it works, Mansfield is happy with everyone, no one has a bad relationship with him, and he will not refuse everyone's request.

No matter who it is, as long as a request is made to him, he will try his best to complete it.

As for the king's order, it has to be fulfilled.

But, he would always hold back a few hands, and then said that his ability was limited, anyway, it was enough to pass the pass, so much that he didn't ask for it at all.

Then no one would do anything to Mansfield, no one would care about him.

Henselt wouldn't touch him either, after all, he had a passing standard anyway.

It was also because of him that no one cared about him.

It is precisely because of this that when everyone did not take him, the governor of Ade Kale, into their eyes, he decisively launched a purge and chopped off the heads of those who disobeyed him.

"How about it, Lord Marquis."

Asked by Mansfield's assistant, he was one of the few people who knew what the Marquis was like, and he was also a close friend of the Marquis.

"The Lord Protector wants me to hand in the name certificate, so what else can I do, it's not just handing in."

Mansfield said angrily, "Damn it, if it was possible, he really didn't want to do this kind of thing. It would be too offensive, but since Herme appointed him to go to Ben Ard, then he had to do it."

"So, can we... use the old method?"

The assistant tentatively hinted that they had the experience of being forced to do something that offended others, and Mansfield made it through with no effort at all.

That is to say, show mercy at critical moments.

"It won't work this time. If I don't bring out hundreds or even thousands of heads that are heavy enough, the Guardian Guild will take care of me. Alas, it seems that we can only really board the ship of the Aedian people this time."

Mansfield was very reluctant to do such a thing, but the form was such that it had to be done.

"Get ready, go gather all the old guys, and vote for the national defense bus, starting with Ben Ade first. By the way, is there any movement for that Marcius?"

"It's still safe now. He didn't rashly send his people to various key positions. He just let his people control the appointment of personnel. He should still be observing the factions and interest groups within Kaedwen."

"As expected of Aden's chief civil officer, he seized the right to be appointed as soon as he came up. It seems that getting along with this colleague will not be easy in the future."

"Master Marquis, shall we..."

"What do you want? Now it is the world of the Aedian people. We are all working for the Aedian people. Just do our own thing. Well, let the coachman move, we have to return to Ade Kalai as soon as possible."

"Yes."

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Mansfield moved very quickly.

With great speed, he summoned members of Kaedweni's intelligence agency that he had dismissed, and then launched a manhunt that swept across Kaedwen.

The place where the storm began was Ben Adah, the place where the assassination took place.

Mansfield first led the nearby garrison into the city, then surrounded the college and the city hall, and then began to arrest people.

At Ben Ard Academy, when hordes of soldiers rushed in, those scholars and warlocks tried to stop them.

However, Mansfield transferred all the soldiers from the tribes in the Kaedwen Mountains. These barbarians always obeyed the orders of whoever took the money.

Regardless of whether they participated in the assassination or not, those who had close ties to the Unicorn Dynasty were immediately arrested.

Among these people, most of them have relatively important interests with the Unicorn Dynasty, and there are also downcasts who have lost power due to the change of dynasty, and some Kaedweni nobles.

Then came the torture. Herme dispatched a group of interrogators and executioners from Charon, and asked them to torture all the connections behind it all.

Many people were indeed ignorant of the rebellion, but under the torture of the torturers, they could only confess their crimes in the end.

After all, interrogators are best at making them remember what they forgot.

And these reports were soon placed on the Duke Protector's table, and the Protector was very satisfied with this.

After a brief reading of the report, he ordered them all to be executed and the family exiled to Hackland.

As for his family property, it is all owned by the state treasury.

As for whether any of these people were wronged, to be honest, those things are not important at all, and no one cares, let alone the Duke Protector.

The Lord Protector has been assassinated in this way, so the Adian people must react violently, otherwise they may be judged as weak and incompetent.

And being regarded as weak and incompetent can easily lead to the outbreak of rebellion, which the Lord Protector cannot tolerate.

So it must be killed here, it must be killed until rivers of blood flow, it must be killed so that the Kaedwenians are extremely terrified when they mention this matter.

The people of Ban Ade also realized how terrifying things they were facing. Those traitors who were locked in prisons naturally had to bite everywhere under torture, just to reduce some of their own pain.

Once someone is bitten out, someone will be taken to prison.

And this prison is easy to get in, but hard to get out. It is very easy to go in and go in forever.

So Ben Ade soon became deserted, and everyone was afraid that those Cossacks would knock on their door, because knocking meant being taken away.

However, this frenzy will eventually come to an end, and the manhunt is finally over, and there are a total of 200 traitors who were arrested because of this.

In order to execute so many traitors, the market on the Miner's Square was forced to stop operating for a day, so that the firing squad beheaded.

That day, the whole square was filled with blood, and the blood was like a lake. Human heads and corpses were dragged off the guillotine and thrown aside like garbage, which left a deep impression on many people.

But what impressed them even more was the indifferent look at the Duke Protector who was executing the execution.

Herme found that she no longer had any resistance to such a scene.

He knew that there were many people who were wronged and tortured, but so what?What is this.

In this cruel era, the people live in hardship and heavy taxes. Monsters, tax collectors, and rebels, any one of them may kill them.

Even in the so-called peaceful era, they are just struggling on the line of food and clothing.

Cruel times naturally have cruel methods. To be honest, these killings are just an integral part of this era.

To be honest, Lord Protector is used to seeing death, and he has seen even more tragic situations on the battlefield. He even personally directed the suppression of desperate villages.

To put it bluntly, what is this? Emperors, kings, and nobles have done countless things that disregard human lives. Isn’t this the case in this era?

Once the majesty of the feudal monarch is violated, it often requires countless blood to maintain it. The Guardian believes that he is already very merciful. He just arrested a group of people and beheaded him, but he didn't relocate the entire city.

And for the family members of those traitors, I didn't kill them all, but just moved them to Hackland.

As a city that gathers a large number of miners and students, the Ban Ade people are very rebellious and known for causing trouble.

But now they are very honest in front of the protector, as honest as dogs, for fear that the protector will continue to wield his butcher knife.

The heads of the traitors were hung on the gate of Ban Ade, and the dense crowd of heads left a deep impression on everyone who passed through this place.

On the day when the Duke Protector's team left, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. The God of Killing had finally left, and they could finally say they were relieved.

And the purge of Lord Protector is spreading to the outside world.

The loyalists of the Unicorn Dynasty, the Kaedweni nobles who violated the order of the Lord Protector, and the local powerful people who listened to the instructions and did not listen to the announcement, all of them were on the death list of the Lord Protector.

The Cossacks played a role in the capture of these people.

If it weren't for these agile and swift cavalry, it would not be easy to catch so many people so quickly.

Even if those people are in a hurry to jump over the wall to launch a rebellion, their fate is often suppressed in an instant. The advantage of the protector is overwhelming.

The Cossacks were very active in this work, because they smelled an opportunity in it.

If the Lord Protector cleans up the Kaedwenians on such a large scale, other people will have to replace them in many places in the future, and they think they are very suitable.

After all, they didn't see so many Cossacks entrusted to South Yadian. This time they came to Yadian, and they were able to meet these fellow villagers several times.

The Cossacks learned about their current affluent life from fellow villagers, which made the Cossacks quite envious.

The ancestors of the Cossacks had fled the king's tax collectors for a better life and came to Hackland.

Now that they can return to their ancestors' hometown as a privileged class, they naturally want to come to the Northern Territory.

As for why they didn't settle here directly, it was meaningless to be an ordinary farmer.

If you become a resident Cossack recognized by the Lord Protector, you will be exempt from taxes.

Yes, tax exemption, this is the privilege Heme gave these Cossacks.

Tax officials would not come to knock on their doors. Often they would knock on the doors of farmers with the tax officials, and then hang up and beat the farmers who did not pay enough taxes.

By the way, they are also responsible for some local law and order, beating up robbers, catching fugitives and so on, and they also get a lot of money. These days are really cool.

Going back to the present, for these arrested persons, the Duke Protector's method is also very simple, they execute them on the spot.

As for his family members and loyal vassals, they will all be assigned to Hackland, because Hackland is short of people everywhere.

However, the execution was not carried out immediately, but after the arrival of the Duke Protector.

After the Lord Protector had executed these people, the moment the Cossacks had been waiting for came.

Heme would appoint some Cossacks and Ardians to take over what was left of some of the slain.

As for what was left by the other part of the slain, then promote the local Kaedwenians who actively leaned towards the Lord Protector.

The Lord Protector does not intend to allow the Ardians and Cossacks to fully absorb Kaedweni's rulership, which is very bad for future unity.

The northern elites all agree with the northern concept, but under the northern concept, they also have their own small concepts.

For these small concepts, there is not much Duke Protector can do, and he can only adapt.

Counting only the four northern countries, everyone is equally divided in terms of cultural level and the number of elite groups. The Protector of the Kingdom does not have the ability to build a super government within a few years. Therefore, the Protector of the Kingdom knows that he cannot change this situation.

Of course, the distribution of these assets is also carried out according to the distance.

Heme's direct descendants can naturally get the best, and then there are Cossack Oman and Aden nobles. Of course, there are also Kaedwenians here. They are very valuable in the united front, and they still have to give something, and finally the meritorious Cossacks and Aedirn soldiers.

As for the series of actions of Lord Protector, the Kaedwenians were full of fear, but there was nothing they could do.

Under the current situation, who would dare to resist the Lord Protector?And they don't have anyone to lead

Back then, Henselt wiped out almost all the great nobles in the country, and executed the Kaedwenians who might threaten his prestige, creating his own exclusive status.

This has led to the fact that Kaedwen's elite group can't come up with a person who has enough power to speak, and everyone refuses to accept anyone—or to be more precise, no one knows anyone.

Moreover, the Lord Protector will announce a one-year tax exemption after the cleaning of each place, which is enough to calm down the restless people.

After all, for ordinary people, nothing is more important than tax exemption. It is not easy for everyone under Henselt's rule. Kaedwen's output is not as good as that of Aarden, but he bears heavy taxes for Biadian.

Kaedwen's elite and the people are powerless against the Lord Protector's actions, and the new elites he has established in various places are also very loyal to the Lord Protector, so naturally nothing will cause any twists and turns.

While killing people, enfeoffing them, and promoting them, Herme walked through the vast land of Kaedwen.

Speaking of which, in Duke Protector's original plan, such a large-scale purge should not be carried out now, but who asked those people to provide him with such a good reason?

For such a large-scale assassination, it was completely natural for the Lord Protector to let Kaedwen's blood flow like a river, because every feudal ruler would do this when faced with such a thing.

With the arrival of the Lord Protector, these areas that were either chaotic or obedient to the announcement also calmed down.

In the storm set off by Lord Protector, a full 3000 people were executed and relocated.

Some of them are Kaedweni nobles, some are ordinary people, and some are soldiers...involving all aspects of Kaedweni society, and facing the Lord Protector's will, their fate is the same.

Sometimes, the Protectorate Guild would sigh for what he had done. He knew what he was doing, and he knew that many people had a tragic fate because of him.

However, he has no regrets at all.

However, the Lord Protector knew that the current peace was only temporary, and it would take a lot of time for Kaedwin to recover from the aftermath of the war.

Moreover, he had to deal with the test from abroad. While he was doing so many movements, Philippa couldn't be idle.

And Hermi was very much looking forward to what kind of work that woman could do.

(End of this chapter)