When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

Chapter 1108 The War Is About to Accelerate
Under the joint trial of the Tribunal, the Purification Court, and the Truth Court, Zelson and others were sentenced to death.

But this is just the beginning.

The next period of time was spent by the Cheka mobilizing personnel to the Holy See to begin handling cases intensively.

The judges of the tribunal, accompanied by military police, began visiting each department to conduct interviews.

Before long, all the elephants in those rooms were pulled out one by one.

The result was more serious than what René submitted to Horn.

Leaving aside the corruption and embezzlement, most of these are still old bureaucrats, and the issues are mostly economic.

Even without Horn, Cheka could have resolved the issue step by step on its own; it was simply a matter of waiting for Carrie to return and sign the papers.

Few of the faithful heirs and devout "believers" of the Church of Jesus Christ have fallen as depraved as Zelson.

Their most important problem is their conduct.

Some helped the Chamber of Commerce suppress strikes, some used their status to oppress ordinary people in secret, and some priests in wealthy areas rebelled against their superiors.

Horn had clearly established that the minority in the priestly order should obey the majority, and the branches should obey the main body. Now, this has reversed the natural order.

Not to mention the ever-increasing standards for procurement outsourcing and the increasingly outrageous standards for travel and dining.

Priests used to be able to work in grey robes, but now they feel ashamed to be seen without a close-fitting, thin woolen monastic uniform.

The traveling monk who rode in a sedan chair was a typical example.

Previously, most itinerant monks rode donkeys or even walked, but now itinerant monks are equipped with a horse as standard, and monks of the senior rank also ride in carriages.

Horn wasn't trying to stop them from pursuing a better material life, but rather that things had gone too far.

Changes in material living standards are acceptable; this is a benefit provided by the Holy Alliance.

But just because you want to match the material life of the nobility doesn't mean you should actually consider yourself one.

Because Horn has made economic development his primary political achievement, and the Holy Alliance has tacitly agreed to use the remaining funds for departmental welfare.

The living standards of these monks and owners of sacred property have created a significant gap and divide between them and ordinary people.

Before anything has even happened, he's already acting like a new aristocrat.

For many Cheka and gendarmes, these faithful followers and believers in the Father were "one of their own" and "old brothers".

These behaviors are a bit excessive, but they don't warrant being grouped with embezzlement and bribery, do they?

Not so much.

As with corruption, Horne found this equally intolerable.

If internal struggles are not addressed, and the country grows stronger, this small purge will turn into a major counter-revolutionary purge.

At that time, the number of people killed will be considered large.

The experience of those who came before Horne taught him that it was better to take risks and unite the entire Holy Alliance through internal struggle.

Surprisingly, the Cheka, which is known for its ruthlessness and speed, began to delay at this stage.

There were even cases where only those cases initiated by René would proceed, while those not initiated by René would always proceed slowly.

It wasn't René and other high-ranking Cheka officials who were resisting; they had always been absolutely devout to the saint's grandson.

Rather, it's the lower-level managers in the branches who like to procrastinate.

After all, they are old brothers; the grandson of the emperor overreacted.

Seeing this, Horn stopped pretending and said, "Okay, okay, is this how you play it?"
Horn proposed at the weekly meeting that week:
If a case cannot be completed within the stipulated time, it will be transferred to the gendarmes and judges of the adjudication court.

If the tribunal can handle it, then all similar cases in the future will be handled by the tribunal.

When it comes to their own power, the Chekas no longer care about sentimentality.

To prevent the loss of departmental power, officials at all levels began to exert all their efforts in investigation and arrest.

Horn also gave the tribunal an opportunity, allowing them to crack a number of cases from the Cheka.

They not only cracked cases from the Cheka, but also cracked many cases that implicated the Cheka.

Because the tribunal was established relatively late, it is relatively clean and operates in a relatively open and aboveboard manner, with virtually no cases.

This naturally attracted a large number of newspapers to report and praise it, making the new department famous overnight.

As a result, the tribunal received even more complaints and cases.

This has made the Chekas furious. They bore the bitterness and infamy, while the Tribunal snatched away the benefits and reputation.

They remembered this grudge. Setting up the Purification Court was the right thing to do; otherwise, how could Horn have so easily dealt with the Cheka?
However, he was well aware that political trends could easily spill over and eventually become tools for partisan struggles and power games.

Therefore, his orders often involve punishing the ringleader excessively, rather than pursuing the others too much.

This certainly resulted in some escaping, but it was a price that had to be paid.

The Holy Alliance gave them a chance, but it's unclear whether they're willing to give themselves another chance.

Amidst this bloody storm, which lasted for three whole months starting at the beginning of the year, a large number of officials were brought down.

With batches of people being beheaded, exiled, suspended, or transferred, the Trinity Education Corps was once again overcrowded.

After more than two years of leisure, Horn is finally busy again.

Besides this rectification campaign, he has another important task to do.

With a group of high-ranking monks leaving, many positions naturally became vacant.

In some departments, deputy positions or ordinary staff members can be filled in order of succession.

However, in some departments, six out of seven were removed, resulting in a recurrence of the bizarre situation of one person leading only one department, a situation reminiscent of the Gulag era.

Fortunately, Horn also has three backup hidden talent systems: the army, the Holy Produce Bureau, and the Holy Church.

Many of the original early officers had relatively low levels of education and some found it difficult to adapt to the new tactics.

They are too old to attend military academy like young people.

In that case, the Exorcism Court conducted civil service examinations in the army, transferring a large number of officers to local positions to replace the old bureaucrats.

They may not be as skilled as formally trained wandering monks, but in terms of obedience and execution, they are definitely superior to wandering monks.

At the same time, Horn also urgently held several more examinations for itinerant monks, not just for the Holy Church universities.

Even in middle schools and artisan schools, Horn held exams to fill the remaining positions.

It was only at this point that Horn had to admit how right it was to have spent huge sums of money to forcefully promote education.

Horn might need to put some thought into the matter of the eminent monk.

However, there are plenty of ordinary, low-ranking monks who are responsible for low-level administrative affairs.

Compared to those who came from the old imperial melting pot, this group of people is much more reliable and idealistic.

They suffered hardships in the Empire when they were young, attended Holy Alliance Elementary School in their childhood and Holy Alliance Middle School in their adolescence, and were cultivated purely within the Holy Alliance system.

Although Horn knew that similar incidents would inevitably occur, he believed they would be better than those of the old bureaucrats cultivated by the old empire or church system.

Remove the bad apples to prevent the whole pot of porridge from being spoiled.

After three months of bloodshed, the situation finally calmed down.

It's not that the movement has stopped, it's just that major cases have either been resolved or entered the legal process, so there's not much news about them anymore.

What's left are just scraps.

As for Horn, after three months of busy work, he finally had some free time.

Unfortunately, his period of leisure lasted less than a week before he received new news from the Zealand Islands.

Standing in front of the firing range, holding the letter, Horn glanced at it briefly, but his brows were furrowed.

During these three months, while Horn was purging internal affairs, the royal court was also undergoing dramatic changes.

Moonlight Bay fell, Black Tower Port fell, and the coastal areas of the Southern Clan Alliance of the Flesh and Blood Kingdom almost entirely fell.

Only some fragmented islands and desert wastelands in the south remained unconquered, as the sun was too intense, giving vampires an inherent disadvantage.

The royal clan alliance, with nearly ten times the strength, was defeated.

However, Cephalus did not continue his southward or westward advance, but instead began negotiations, indicating that he was also exhausted.

According to the information gathered by these Sacred Tree Vampires, several clans are very likely to submit.

After all, Serfaye swore to the Immortal Lord at the crater that as long as they submitted, he would never lay a hand on them, much less dismember their clans.

Swearing an oath to Lilith at the crater is a noble vow of the royal court, and no vampire dares to mess with it.

Has it been a year? Serfaye acted so quickly?
Horn had originally been thinking about whether he could cooperate with Fran and play a proxy war in the royal court.

Was it that Serfaye was too strong, or that the southern clan alliance was too useless?

Horn closed the intelligence report and, after a long pause, finally spoke: "The Dawn Island War needs to be accelerated!"

(End of this chapter)