Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 428 Corruption Issue
The royal family. If you are not from the Victoria Empire, or even if you are not a Victorian who knows the inside story, you may not know what this name specifically refers to.

Most people would probably equate it with the royal family, thinking that it should mean the emperor’s own relatives or family.

Although the difference is not that big in theory, there are still obvious differences.

Simply put, the relatives of the Emperor of the Victoria Empire are divided into two parts: the royal family and the royal family. The royal family refers to the relatives of the emperor himself in the traditional sense. Generally speaking, as long as there is a blood relationship within three generations, they can be regarded as the royal family.

To give a simple example, taking Perfecto as an example, if her grandfather is related to the royal family or her grandmother is related to the royal family within three generations of direct descent, then she and her parents can both be considered royals.

But in the next generation of Perfecto, if she herself did not marry a member of the royal family within three generations of direct descent, her descendants would no longer be considered royal.

The royal family refers to people who can trace their blood ties to the royal family outside the royal family. Most of them no longer have noble titles, but if their bloodlines are traced, they can still be traced back to the royal family. Therefore, in order to distinguish them from ordinary citizens of the empire, this group of people is called the royal family.

Generally speaking, the empire does not give any special treatment to the royal family. At most, when a royal family member can't make ends meet, he or she can apply for a subsidy or a job from the imperial civil affairs department.

However, the prerequisite for this is that there must be solid evidence of royal identity, the bloodline must be traced clearly, and it is best to have a complete family tree, so that the application can be approved.

Otherwise, if someone comes and says he is a member of the royal family, the empire will not have enough energy to identify and arrange them one by one.

Precisely because anyone who has a blood relationship with the royal family can be considered royal family, the royal family is a very large group. In the past, most of them were placed in some royal industries. They were not rich, but at least they had a stable job and a good income, which was a little better than ordinary people.

However, even so, it is difficult to conceal the fact that they are a special group.

For example, now the Queen personally asked Perfectoct how she wanted to arrange the royal family.

Facing the Queen's question, Perfect hesitated for a moment and then said, "Your Majesty, I have not given any special treatment to the royal family, but if you give the order, I can prepare three shelters for them in the North."

"That's enough." The Queen nodded with satisfaction after hearing Perfecto's answer.

For the Queen, she needs to consider the affairs of the royal family, but that's all she needs to consider.

"Thank you for your understanding, Your Majesty. All resources are very precious at the moment, and we really can't squeeze out more surplus." Perfect explained, and at the same time looked at the others and asked again: "Do you have any questions? If not, please carry out your work according to the documents and requirements issued! At this critical moment, the empire needs everyone to perform their duties conscientiously."

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Perfect didn't know whether the officials and nobles fulfilled their duties, and she didn't want to investigate these details. But in order to ensure that all plans went smoothly and no unexpected problems occurred, Perfect organized an inspection team and gave it to Princess Anne to lead to inspect various situations within the empire to prevent corruption and dereliction of duty.

After all, Perfect knew very well what kind of people the nobles and bureaucrats of the empire were like.

To say that they are incompetent is to underestimate them, but to say that they are anthropomorphic is to overestimate them.

The nobility of the empire generally has a feeling of "I have abilities, but my abilities are all used to figure out how to be a bad person."

Perfect was too lazy to deal with this herd of cattle and horses, so he handed this troublesome matter over to Princess Anne.

Given the current situation, it is appropriate for Princess Anne to be in charge of these matters. After all, given the current circumstances, only the authority of the royal family and the swords of the Knights Templar can make those fools who think that the end of the world is coming and everything is going to end restrain themselves.

Yes, Perfect didn't even expect them to do their job well. He just hoped that these idiots could use some brains and know what time it was.

If they really had brains, they would understand that as long as they cooperate with the empire's policies and do their own jobs well, they would have a chance to survive.

But if they make trouble or act badly, what awaits them will be the swords of the Supervisory Knights.

In times of chaos, severe punishments must be used. At this time, even Princess Anne had lost her former mercy. She would execute any corrupt or dereliction of duty officials she caught, and even skipped the trial process. As long as the evidence was conclusive, the officials would be executed directly without any room for negotiation.

"In the past I didn't quite understand why you killed so many people, but now I finally understand..." In Perfectcot's office, Princess Anne took off her armor and weapons with a tired look on her face and threw them on the table. She sighed to Perfectcot: "Some people really don't have the right to live! I can't imagine that at this moment there are still people in the empire who dare to embezzle, and unscrupulously embezzle the key materials used to build shelters!
And how dare they do that? It's fine if they embezzled the money allocated by the royal family to comfort and relieve the poor, but why did they embezzle the food as well? Do they really not want ordinary people to survive?"

In response, Perfect continued to review the documents with a calm expression, and replied in a flat tone: "Aunt Annie, you haven't seen enough. If you are like me, you will understand that the nobles and officials of the empire are really not human when they are not human most of the time."

"But they even embezzle the food for the poor. What's the point of this?" Princess Anne still didn't understand.

"They embezzled grain used for disaster relief in the empire, and then sold it at a high price. They could make a lot of profit from the ins and outs." This level of embezzlement was nothing in Perfecto's eyes. The history of the original world had already proved that the greater the disaster, the more people wanted to profit from it: "Those who have a conscience, or who need to deal with the inspections of their superiors, will use the embezzled money to buy inferior grain and pass it off as good grain, so that at least the people at the bottom can have something to fill their stomachs.

If you don't even do this superficial work, I can only say that the officials of the empire can always come up with new tricks for you in terms of being unhuman."

"Is there no way to stop this?" Princess Anne looked at Perfectoct, hoping that this man, whom she considered to be the smartest genius in the empire, could come up with a solution.

(End of this chapter)