Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 315 Acting wantonly
"What on earth have I done to make you disrespect me so much? You don't even want to call me Lord." Purficott's hand reached out to the bald head and made a gesture of holding it, while the bald head was held by her. Picking it up from the sofa where he was sitting, the matches and cigars in his hands also rolled to the ground: "You criticize my orders so unscrupulously in my office, and you are so presumptuous. What gave you the courage to do this in an imperial office?" Acting so recklessly in front of the Earl of Kaiyuan?
I don't care whether what you say is right or wrong, I just want you to know that only I have the right to make a decision, because I am the Lord of the North, only me! Except for Her Majesty, only death can negate my command. "

"Uncle... Lord Earl! Please forgive me! I... I... know I was wrong!" The bald man grabbed his neck with both hands and struggled to say begging for mercy.

But it's too late.

"Crack." Purficott let go of his hand, took out a white handkerchief from his body and wiped his hands, then threw the handkerchief on the lifeless bald face, and then said to the man who broke in after hearing the sound. The guard said: "Drag him out and hang him at the highest point of Eagle Beak Cliff. I want everyone to see his body! Then tell everyone that this is the consequences of violating my will."

"Yes, Lord Lord!" The guards immediately dragged the body out quickly.

But the old housekeeper came late to this matter. Looking at the body being dragged away, he couldn't help but frown.

He had brought this bald man to see Perficott. He had just left to arrange for the maids to prepare tea for the reception.

In the end, just for a moment, the bald head turned into a corpse that was carried out, which inevitably made Foster think too much.

However, he did not accuse Purficott of anything. Regardless of his identity or position, he had no reason to do so.

The loyal old butler just asked Purficott: "Miss, did Mr. Thomas offend you in any way? So that you did such a thing."

"Well, please forgive me, Grandpa Afu." Purficott nodded, and then asked: "Who is this guy? The status of the person who can come to see me should not be too low. I am the third person with such lack of quality. Once met.”

However, the reasons given by Purficott are very sufficient: "He criticized my policies in my laboratory and showed no respect for me. More importantly, he violated the law I just promulgated. "

When Foster brought this man here just now, he introduced his identity, but to Purficott, this kind of man's identity was not worthy of her concern at all, so she didn't listen at all.

In the old butler's view, it was somewhat inappropriate for Purficott to kill a big businessman like this.

Foster didn't think this kind of person was very important, and his death could only be blamed on himself.

Although as Purficott, in the feudal era, she would have been fine even if she killed this kind of businessman for fun, but times are different now, and she should still pay attention to some effects.

"A wealthy businessman from the New World, maybe the colonists are uneducated." Foster shrugged, stating the common stereotypes of the native residents of the empire about the New World colonies.

"Okay, I understand, I will take care of the rest." The old housekeeper instantly understood that this was just to scare the monkeys, rather than simply venting his emotions.

After all, in the empire, although the consequences of disrespecting nobles are no longer as serious as in the feudal era, when any noble feels that he has been offended, according to the laws of the empire, he still has the right to take any action he deems necessary against the person who offended him. action.

This "necessary action" includes but is not limited to beheading the offender on the spot until the offended noble feels that his noble face has been maintained.

Purficott was not surprised by this, and just nodded and said: "Well, it seems that the matter of popularizing education in the north is really urgent!
Grandpa Lauafo, please inform me that all pioneer knights must establish schools in the settlements they are responsible for and enroll all children between the ages of four and twelve in the settlements. If someone doesn't do it after a month, I will take back their pioneering paperwork! "

"Okay, miss, I will pass on your order." Foster nodded, then turned around and left to convey Perfectcott's order.

The Northern Lord has the right to do whatever she wants in the North. Although taking back the development documents is a very important matter, since Purficott said so, Foster must implement her will.

When he conveyed Purficott's new order to the civilian officials in the north, not surprisingly, these civilian officials expressed their incomprehension.

Of course, they just didn't understand why Purficott issued such an order, not that they had any objections.

In this era when the feudal royal power was still strong, although everyone gradually began to be civilized, it did not mean that the noble lords could not do some willful things.

For these civilian officials, the lord's orders are still as absolute as in the past. They must be implemented if they understand them, and they must still be implemented if they do not understand them.

You can choose to resign and leave your job with your head.

This is no joke, because the northern territory belongs to the pioneering earl territory, and as the lord, Perficott enjoys all military and political powers in his territory, including but not limited to depriving someone of his life.

Although according to imperial law, the laws and orders issued by Purficott in the north must not conflict with the current laws of the empire, she cannot really do whatever she wants.

But if only a few people were killed, then no one, whether it was the noble assembly or the democratically elected assembly, would come to trouble Perficott for such a trivial matter.

They still have brains and reason, and they don't want to have the steam knight smash the windows of their manor in the middle of the night for a few unrelated people.

Well, Purficott wasn't going to let Steam Rider smash the windows of their estate.

That would be too inefficient. Directly using an airship to throw thermobaric bombs is a very clean and efficient option.

What Purficott needs is a government that can implement her will and assist her in completing the construction and development of the northern border, rather than a group of politicians who only know how to hold her back and cause trouble. If someone really doesn't open their eyes, she will indeed choose to physically eradicate it.

As for whether doing so will arouse public dissatisfaction? If Purficott cared about this, she would not choose to completely drain the three countries of the Old World that declared war on the Empire.

You must know that in other countries in the old world, her reputation is almost the same as that of an evil ghost.

Even in the empire itself, although many people support and admire her, her folk reputation can still be described as mixed.

(End of this chapter)