Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 712 Great Purge

Although Perfect had cleared out a wave of coup plotters during the attack on Beloberg, that only eliminated the direct participants.

Indirect participants related to them, dissatisfied opponents, and people who are closely related to this matter for various other reasons, as well as people who are against Perfectcot and the North on a daily basis...

The existence of these people was a thorn in Perfecto's side.

Although in the past she had generously tolerated the existence of these people and believed that their existence was necessary.

After all, the existence of opposing opinions can allow one to examine whether there are any omissions in oneself, and avoid becoming a tyrant or dictator who refuses to listen to other opinions and acts arbitrarily.

But this incident made Perfecto realize that sometimes keeping a group of opponents around would bring no benefits other than causing trouble for himself.

Perhaps the existence of the opposition can indeed provide us with different ways of thinking and can also be a means for us to gain more inspiration.

However, with the occurrence of this coup, Perfecto clearly realized that the greatest significance of the existence of these opposition groups was to cause trouble and hinder him.

If they were smart enough, they would clearly realize that they should cooperate with Perfectoct, so that everyone can live better and the Victoria Empire can become better.

Unfortunately, they don’t realize this, or even if they do, they will deliberately ignore it for various reasons.

That is why this coup happened this time and caused such irreversible serious consequences.

This also made Perfecto clearly realize that he should not keep this group of opponents, but should completely eliminate them.

Although doing so did indeed lead him down a path he was most reluctant to take, things had already developed to this point and Perfecto could not afford to have any other ideas.

In other words, the moment the royalists launched the coup, she actually had no choice.

As a result, a massive purge was launched, and for the first time, the intelligence organizations in the North appeared on the stage together with the Assassin Brotherhood.

Based on the intelligence they had previously tortured the royalists, they arrested one relevant person after another and either executed them on the spot or threw them into prison. For a time, the entire Beloberg was shrouded in white terror, and the whole city was in a state of panic.

The Great Purge had begun, and as more and more people were arrested, it even had a tendency to spread to other cities.

This purge was completely different from any previous purge Perfecto had carried out in the North.

Although Perfect had previously carried out a purge of the nobles in the North, that was to eliminate the potential descendants and believers of the evil god among the nobles in the North.

For this reason, Perfect was very careful to control the scale of the purge to prevent the situation from escalating.

Even when she was impeached before, she did not make extensive inquiries or try to eliminate dissidents.

But this time, Perfecto had obviously lost his patience in restraining his men, and these released hyenas, together with the supervisory department in the North that was originally used to hunt down cults, started to punish the whole group.

Anyone with any connection to the former royalists or oppositionists was thrown into prison.

Here, after three rounds of interrogation, if it is confirmed that there are no other problems, they can basically be released.

But as long as there is any problem that can be convicted, they will be faced with severe and harsh punishment. Don't think they are kind-hearted, this is just to make room for the prison, after all, there are too many people arrested at the moment, and the prison can no longer accommodate them.

So the new punishment camp was activated and formed, and their first task was to build themselves a prison that could accommodate everyone.

However, it must be admitted that those who are thrown into the punishment camp are lucky, at least they can survive.

Those whose "crimes" were worthy of the death penalty basically received their own death sentences.

In order to execute prisoners more efficiently, Perfect even developed a new torture instrument.

After all, hanging is too time-consuming and requires too high a level of technical skill from the executioner (the rope used to hang the criminal must be of the most appropriate length so as not to break the prisoner's neck in one go, nor to leave him unable to die. This is a real technical job).

With reference to the guillotine invented by the King of France in the original world, Perfectcote replicated this simple and efficient method of execution and made improvements.

Although this execution device that she improved is very similar to the guillotine in principle and appearance, its efficiency is completely different.

Perfecto's invention could execute ten prisoners at a time.

A huge guillotine is pulled up by a mechanical structure, and ten prisoners are fixed under the knife holder. As the mechanism is activated, the huge guillotine falls freely and cuts off the prisoners' heads within 0.1 seconds, preventing them from suffering.

Simple, efficient, and even a little kind.

But it was still frightening, even to the people of Beloberg.

They feared that the purge would extend to them, even though they did not consider themselves worthy of the guillotine.

In such a terrifying atmosphere, Perfecto convened the National Assembly again to discuss the next steps for the Victoria Empire.

In everyone's opinion, this is the end of freedom and democracy in Victoria, and Perfect will use this as an opportunity to launch his own dictatorship.

Contrary to everyone's expectations, Perfect did not dissolve the National Assembly and the Cabinet, but retained both institutions, only requiring them to hold new elections as soon as possible to fill the vacancies that had arisen.

One-third of the National Assembly members were executed on the spot in the previous coup, and about a quarter of the members were implicated afterwards. Even many members of the Northern Faction were implicated. More than half of the National Assembly is empty, and it is indeed necessary to hold a new election as soon as possible to fill the parliament.

The cabinet on the other hand was actually relatively less affected. After all, the royalists did not hold half of the seats in the cabinet before, and the cabinet was not actually involved in the coup.

Although two cabinet members were implicated and the royalists were purged from the cabinet, the cabinet still retained more than three-quarters of its members.

Therefore, compared with the National Assembly, the cabinet can still function normally.

As for Perfecto herself, she became the regent of the Victorian Empire under the Queen's will, and her power was unlimited.

This can be regarded as another form of fulfilling Perfecto's previous request, and she became an entity above the cabinet and the National Assembly.

(End of this chapter)