Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 478 The So-called Ambition
"My Lord Earl, I don't understand why you want to keep this traitor's head." After the Governor of the New World left Perfecto's room, Samantha asked her in confusion.

With Perfecto's status and power, as well as the evidence she had, it would only take a word for her to decide whether to chop off the governor of the New World or to dismiss him and replace him with a new governor.

According to Perfect's past practice, the body of the New World Governor should have been built into a particularly conspicuous wall as a decoration for public display.

But this time, Perfect was particularly strange in indulging the Governor of the New World in actions that could be considered betrayal of the empire, just as she strangely negotiated with the revolutionary army this time instead of crushing them.

As a knight following Perfect, Samantha is very familiar with Perfect's style of doing things.

Although this Earl is not as cruel as the outside world says, and she doesn't like to put people behind walls for no reason, she never shy away from or hesitate to do so when necessary.

This is understandable to Perfect because it is efficient enough.

If you want someone to work efficiently, besides offering sufficiently generous rewards and benefits to tempt him, the simplest and most direct way is to intimidate him through fear.

Make him learn to fear, and then he will naturally work efficiently for you under the threat of death.

Although this kind of strong pressure can often bring some hidden dangers, these are not a problem if you have a strong enough military force to ensure that sufficient deterrence is maintained at all times.

In Samantha's opinion, Perfect is undoubtedly the man with absolute deterrent power.

What's more, even if Perfecto's deterrent power is insufficient, she still has the entire Victoria Empire behind her. There is probably no one or organization in this world who dares to ignore the threat of the Victoria Empire.

"Samantha, we can't hold a hammer in our hands and see everything as a nail." Perfect didn't explain much, but just evaded Samantha with a sentence that sounded reasonable, but actually did not explain the logic of his behavior.

Faced with Perfectcot's attitude, Samantha did not ask any further questions. After all, she was just a royal knight and had no right to ask about the actions of Perfectcot, the Imperial Earl.

It was a great honor that Perfectok was willing to explain. Otherwise, perhaps only the Queen herself in the entire empire would be qualified enough to ask Perfectok to explain why she did so.

"You go down first. I want to be alone for a while." Perfecto glanced at the balcony of the room and signaled Samantha that she could leave.

Samantha didn't ask any more questions, just nodded to indicate that she was just outside the door, and then left the room.

Although the place where Perfectcot is now is not as good as her lord's palace, there are two flag teams of elite steam knights guarding it in turns, and a team of flying knights are on standby at all times. Although Samantha, as her personal bodyguard, needs to ensure Perfectcot's safety at all times, she does not need to stay by her side all the time.

What's more, Perfectok is always protected by his personal maid, Befa, who is the last line of defense for Perfectok.

With such security protection, Perfecto's safety is sufficiently guaranteed. If anyone wants to do something bad to her, at least one Guards Regiment must be deployed, and only with the support of heavy firepower can her safety be threatened.

To put it a little too exaggeratedly, even if it was an attack by a Guards Division, it would be difficult to hurt Perfectot without the cooperation of the Superhumans or sufficient heavy firepower.

To put it bluntly, it is almost impossible for even a fly to fly from outside the defense circle to Perfectoct's front.

Of course, for some people who are specially placed in the defense circle, it is not difficult to get in front of Perfect.

"Claudia, how's the investigation going?" Perfecto watched his assassin open the balcony window, come in and close the window before he asked her.

Previously, Perfect had learned about the various crimes committed by the Governor of the New World that Claudia had discovered, so he asked her to work with the intelligence agencies in the North to collect more complete information.

The purpose is naturally to completely nail the Governor of the New World to death.

Although Claudia had helped Perfect collect a lot of information, she was also curious and asked, "Why don't you just kill him? Even if you can't kill him publicly, you can hand it over to the Brotherhood. I guarantee that he will disappear silently, or disappear from this world in any way you want."

"We have discussed this topic, haven't we? The three no principles." Perfecto always adhered to his bottom line and did not intend to use assassination as a method.

Claudia had to express her admiration for this: "You have the best assassins in the world, but you only use them for intelligence gathering and always refrain from using assassination. Even I have to praise you for sticking to the bottom line you set for yourself.

But sometimes you can make an exception, and a guy like this isn't worth the hassle, right?"

"Yes, he is not worthy of me making things difficult for myself, but he is also not qualified for me to break the bottom line." Perfect smiled indifferently, and then asked Samantha: "How is the intelligence I asked you to collect? Is there any result in the investigation?"

Although there is sufficient evidence in hand that the Governor of the New World has betrayed the empire, this can only result in him losing his position in disgrace. These evidences alone are not enough to completely convict him.

Perfect didn't want to set a trap for herself, so when she couldn't eliminate this person by assassination, she tried to collect more evidence to completely nail the other person down.

"From what we can see so far, the Governor has indeed conducted quite a lot of illegal operations. We have found a lot of evidence of his dealings with the Independence Party and the Revolutionary Army, including evidence of him bribing members of the Independence Party and the Revolutionary Army." Claudia saw that Perfect did not want to use assassination as a means, so she did not say any more words, but reported the information she had found to Perfect: "In addition, I also found that he has private soldiers. Although as the Governor of the New World, he can indeed legitimately cultivate his own power and have his confidants in charge of the army, but the Governor seems to want to have an army that absolutely obeys him.

Although this army was designated as a colonial garrison, the quality of its soldiers and its weapons and equipment had already reached the level of the Empire's regular army, and its weapons and equipment were vaguely comparable to those of the Guards.

Although this incident could be explained as an army formed to deal with possible rebellion, his behavior itself was undoubtedly an overstepping of authority.

Moreover, the military budget and numbers of the army he maintains are problematic in every aspect. If you submit the evidence to the military, you can easily kill him with the support of the military."

“Really? If that’s the case, we can’t kill him at this critical moment.” Perfect shook his head and motioned for Befa to pour her some tea while explaining to Claudia, “Under normal circumstances, I could put pressure on the Imperial Center and the Noble Council through the military and kill this guy who betrayed the Empire.

But now, the Empire's center is about to be transferred from Langton to the North, and the doomsday winter has begun to show its power. At this time, there are too many things and tasks to deal with. The Empire cannot replace a colonial governor who is familiar with the situation and has deep-rooted local power for such a thing. "What Perfectcot said is indeed true, but not entirely.

If it is really necessary, she can still use her influence to have the imperial center execute the governor directly.

Although the Empire would not easily deal with a governor who was very familiar with local affairs under normal circumstances, it did not mean that the Empire would not really kill him.

Although the colonial governor is a frontier official, for the empire, especially the world's number one power like the Victoria Empire, even if the end of the world comes, it can be replaced if necessary, and a qualified successor can be found at any time.

Yes, the empire is so powerful, or rather, outrageous.

Although the colonial governor is a key position, and it is no exaggeration to say that the governor of a frontier province holds great power, for the Victoria Empire, and precisely because of this, the term of office of each colonial governor is only five years.

Although in some special circumstances the Governor-General may be asked by the Queen and the Imperial Center to extend his term of office, normally it is only five years, and the term of office will only be extended in very special circumstances.

For example, a special event such as a war occurred in the colonies.

Therefore, the previous behavior of the Governor of the New World is easy to understand. He hoped to influence the Empire's appointment of him by provoking a war, thereby extending his term as Governor of the New World.

After all, when he was the governor of the New World, he could still be said to be in a high position of power, but once he stepped down and returned to the empire, he would be nothing.

Generally speaking, a retired colonial governor could obtain an honorary noble title and then seek a good position in the huge civil service system at the center of the empire, but that was all.

This is actually not bad for someone who can only be a colonial governor. After all, they are only colonial governors, which is not a very high position in the empire's huge civil service system.

But for the core of the empire, this position is actually only slightly higher than that of the middle-level aristocratic bureaucrats in the empire.

Once they took off the cloak of colonial governors, they seemed inconspicuous among the empire's vast civil service system and aristocracy.

Under normal circumstances, the colonial governor would not be too attached to his position. After all, he was just a colonial governor. Who would want to watch animals grinning in the colonies when they could return to the empire to enjoy themselves?

But now is a special situation.

The crisis of the doomsday winter has made everyone try their best to seek a chance for themselves, and it has long been confirmed that the empire's homeland will be abandoned, and the empire's core and power center will be transferred to the north.

In this case, as the governor of the New World colonies adjacent to the north, he would undoubtedly find that his position would become very delicate in the future, or that his importance to the entire empire would increase sharply.

Because when the doomsday winter comes, the connection between the imperial center and other colonies will inevitably be greatly affected.

After the sea and land transportation are cut off, it will become very difficult for the empire to control or contact other colonies.

But the North and the New World are directly connected by land. Not only have new railways been built in recent years, but there were also originally roads for travel. It's just that these roads were not considered formal highways.

In other words, after the end of the winter and the relocation of the imperial center to the north, the New World colonies will be closely connected with the imperial center.

At this time, the position of governor of the New World colonies will become particularly important due to the improvement of the status of the New World colonies.

Let me ask, in the face of such changes, will the Governor go back to being an ordinary middle-level civil servant and honorary nobleman, or will he find ways to stay in this position and continue to hold power?

The reason is very simple, and the answer is naturally obvious.

And according to the investigation that Perfecto had Claudia conduct, the Governor-General is very ambitious. He does not want to continue to hold power, but to establish new territories.

Doing this kind of thing at such a critical moment would have a huge impact on the empire.

After all, after the apocalypse, even if the empire did not abandon its homeland, it would be difficult to conduct effective exchanges between the homeland and the northern border due to the ocean. If the New World colonies were to split away again...

All in all, the Governor had made a great plan. He planned to extend his term of office through war, and then make the New World colonies completely independent when the doomsday winter really came.

As long as his plan goes well, he will be a national leader on an equal footing with the Empress of the Empire in the future, and no longer a colonial governor who can be replaced at any time by the Empire.

But it was obvious that Perfectoct had frustrated all his plans.

"I hope this idiot won't let me down. I'm waiting for him to do something desperate!" There was a playful expression on Perfectot's face, and a hint of anticipation flashed across his eyes.

In any case, this was a colonial governor who had been planning for a long time, and it is no exaggeration to say that he had a deep-rooted influence in the New World.

Although Perfect was able to kill him, what she wanted was to completely eradicate this force from the New World colonies.

As mentioned before, after the arrival of the doomsday winter, the New World will be very important to the center of the empire and the north. Perfect doesn't want the backyard to add unnecessary trouble to her when she faces the pressure of the war of gods in the future.

(End of this chapter)