Do you know? Hogarth's household's Lord's Wife was actually a spy.
What!?
Yes, the Soldiers sent by Queen Evane entered Hogarth's Household, the House Head tried to convince them that his wife was innocent, however, the soldiers were adamant and had to force themselves in when the House Head didn't agree to their request.
However, when they walked into the wife's room, she had already consumed poison and was dead.
What!? Doesn't that mean she was actually a spy!?
Of course, she was! The Queen's soldiers must have thought of something if they wanted to capture her. Do you think they would just capture a completely innocent person?
As they say, there is no smoke without a fire.
Indeed indeed.
Actually, my friend works in Baron Fendel house, something similar happened there as well. The House Head's brother took his own life when the guards walked into the house. He must be a spy as well.
This is so unbelievable, right? To think there are so many spies in our Kingdom and in the noble households at that.
Just think how dangerous it is.
I truly support Queen Evane who is hunting all these spies.
Indeed.
If only she could capture these spies alive… won't that be good?
But to do that, they have to use force and barge into a house, but the household heads won't allow it…
Tsk… this must be so annoying for someone like Queen Evane, who is actually trying to do something kind…
I wish I could help… but we are just powerless commoners…
Indeed…
These were the types of gossip Evane and others needed.
Actually, Evane even sent some people to flare these gossips. Of course, normal people did their own thing and added more spice to these gossips.
Soon, these gossips spread all over the Capital city and as they did, Evane's smile widened.
They finally achieved their goal.
The next day, another announcement was made.
"The Queen has declared 'Emergency State' all over the Kingdom for the next month.
During this Emergency State, no one is allowed to question the Royal Guards' moves, resistance will be seen as a capital offense.
Innocents captured during the Emergency State will be compensated by Queen Evane herself."
This was it.
Something like an 'Emergency State' cannot be declared without a proper reason, otherwise, it would cause a big issue.
However, now many people could understand why the Emergency Stage was declared and had no reason to go against it.
The commoners did feel a little insecure about this, however, they weren't against it either.
The only ones against it were…
The corrupt officials.
And since it was a Kingdom, there was a large number of them.
Queen Evane lost the support of many nobles.
Many nobles started wishing to see Prince Raguel, the one who actually deserved to be the King.
However, the well-informed nobles stayed silent.
They knew what had happened.
They knew Princess Evane would soon be crowned as the next Queen no matter what happens, therefore, they just decided to give up on the spies and even started capturing them themselves.
Did they know there were spies?
Of course they did.
The number of spies couldn't grow to this extent if they weren't helped by the nobles, the nobles helped them for various reasons, however, no amount of bribes could compensate for one's life.
The informed nobles quickly cleaned themselves.
As for the uninformed nobles who were on about how Queen Evane was a bad ruler and were repeatedly going against her, filing more and more complaints in the Royal Court and wishing to see King Ricardus,
Well…
Somehow, all the bribes they had taken, all the commoners they had harassed, all the Kingdom's Funds that they had eaten up… reports of all these crimes, with their proof were found in front of the Royal Court the next day…
And all those nobles were arrested and stripped of their titles.
A total of 143 Nobles were arrested this way and a total of 7 Noble Households, filled with corrupt nobles were destroyed in the process.
And all of this happened within 4 days…
The Kingdom was being cleaned and in the process of capturing spies, corrupt nobles were also being captured.
There were no nobles who were free from any sort of crime, everyone had their hands dirty, and honestly, capturing all of them was impossible, however, the ones who had committed the gravest of offenses were all captured.
The Capital City was actually being cleaned as each day, more and more nobles and spies were captured.
Royal Guards could be seen moving around every day, even the Army was involved, the 'Emergency State' really looked like an emergency.
However, at the same time, the Royal Treasury was filled up to the brim.
All the corrupt nobles, all of their properties were confiscated. These greedy nobles had filled up their treasury with huge amounts of gold, and once all this gold was sent back to Royal Treasury…
The people from Management Division who were focused on dealing with the Palace's funds had big smiles on their faces all the time.
At the same time, Queen Evane also provided countless benefits to commoners.
Some taxes were called off as well.
Due to all this,
The Popularity of Queen Evane amongst the common people increased at a frightening pace.
As for the nobles…
Well, the Nobles who still had a shred of righteousness in their hearts were happy, the fully corrupt nobles were arrested, and the other nobles were scared.
However, most of them still supported Queen Evane.
They understood the pattern.
Only the completely rotten nobles were arrested.
The nobles who were corrupt to the core, the nobles who had committed countless offenses like murder, ****, or the nobles who were helping the spies and were going against the Kingdom were arrested.
The rest were given a chance.
Most of the nobles were corrupt, however, not all of them committed crimes like these, therefore, they knew they were safe.
Actually, most of the nobles wanted these rotten nobles to disappear.
This would increase the Kingdom's security after all.
And who didn't wish to feel safe?
Queen Evane was capable of providing them with this atmosphere, therefore, they supported her.
As the cleanup process became more and more stable, the forces moved out of the Capital and repeated the process in the surrounding cities.
Everything was going just like Queen Evane had said.
All the spies, who had not taken her warning seriously,
All of them were being hunted down.
Do you know? Hogarth's household's Lord's Wife was actually a spy.
What!?
Yes, the Soldiers sent by Queen Evane entered Hogarth's Household, the House Head tried to convince them that his wife was innocent, however, the soldiers were adamant and had to force themselves in when the House Head didn't agree to their request.
However, when they walked into the wife's room, she had already consumed poison and was dead.
What!? Doesn't that mean she was actually a spy!?
Of course, she was! The Queen's soldiers must have thought of something if they wanted to capture her. Do you think they would just capture a completely innocent person?
As they say, there is no smoke without a fire.
Indeed indeed.
Actually, my friend works in Baron Fendel house, something similar happened there as well. The House Head's brother took his own life when the guards walked into the house. He must be a spy as well.
This is so unbelievable, right? To think there are so many spies in our Kingdom and in the noble households at that.
Just think how dangerous it is.
I truly support Queen Evane who is hunting all these spies.
Indeed.
If only she could capture these spies alive… won't that be good?
But to do that, they have to use force and barge into a house, but the household heads won't allow it…
Tsk… this must be so annoying for someone like Queen Evane, who is actually trying to do something kind…
I wish I could help… but we are just powerless commoners…
Indeed…
These were the types of gossip Evane and others needed.
Actually, Evane even sent some people to flare these gossips. Of course, normal people did their own thing and added more spice to these gossips.
Soon, these gossips spread all over the Capital city and as they did, Evane's smile widened.
They finally achieved their goal.
The next day, another announcement was made.
"The Queen has declared 'Emergency State' all over the Kingdom for the next month.
During this Emergency State, no one is allowed to question the Royal Guards' moves, resistance will be seen as a capital offense.
Innocents captured during the Emergency State will be compensated by Queen Evane herself."
This was it.
Something like an 'Emergency State' cannot be declared without a proper reason, otherwise, it would cause a big issue.
However, now many people could understand why the Emergency Stage was declared and had no reason to go against it.
The commoners did feel a little insecure about this, however, they weren't against it either.
The only ones against it were…
The corrupt officials.
And since it was a Kingdom, there was a large number of them.
Queen Evane lost the support of many nobles.
Many nobles started wishing to see Prince Raguel, the one who actually deserved to be the King.
However, the well-informed nobles stayed silent.
They knew what had happened.
They knew Princess Evane would soon be crowned as the next Queen no matter what happens, therefore, they just decided to give up on the spies and even started capturing them themselves.
Did they know there were spies?
Of course they did.
The number of spies couldn't grow to this extent if they weren't helped by the nobles, the nobles helped them for various reasons, however, no amount of bribes could compensate for one's life.
The informed nobles quickly cleaned themselves.
As for the uninformed nobles who were on about how Queen Evane was a bad ruler and were repeatedly going against her, filing more and more complaints in the Royal Court and wishing to see King Ricardus,
Well…
Somehow, all the bribes they had taken, all the commoners they had harassed, all the Kingdom's Funds that they had eaten up… reports of all these crimes, with their proof were found in front of the Royal Court the next day…
And all those nobles were arrested and stripped of their titles.
A total of 143 Nobles were arrested this way and a total of 7 Noble Households, filled with corrupt nobles were destroyed in the process.
And all of this happened within 4 days…
The Kingdom was being cleaned and in the process of capturing spies, corrupt nobles were also being captured.
There were no nobles who were free from any sort of crime, everyone had their hands dirty, and honestly, capturing all of them was impossible, however, the ones who had committed the gravest of offenses were all captured.
The Capital City was actually being cleaned as each day, more and more nobles and spies were captured.
Royal Guards could be seen moving around every day, even the Army was involved, the 'Emergency State' really looked like an emergency.
However, at the same time, the Royal Treasury was filled up to the brim.
All the corrupt nobles, all of their properties were confiscated. These greedy nobles had filled up their treasury with huge amounts of gold, and once all this gold was sent back to Royal Treasury…
The people from Management Division who were focused on dealing with the Palace's funds had big smiles on their faces all the time.
At the same time, Queen Evane also provided countless benefits to commoners.
Some taxes were called off as well.
Due to all this,
The Popularity of Queen Evane amongst the common people increased at a frightening pace.
As for the nobles…
Well, the Nobles who still had a shred of righteousness in their hearts were happy, the fully corrupt nobles were arrested, and the other nobles were scared.
However, most of them still supported Queen Evane.
They understood the pattern.
Only the completely rotten nobles were arrested.
The nobles who were corrupt to the core, the nobles who had committed countless offenses like murder, ****, or the nobles who were helping the spies and were going against the Kingdom were arrested.
The rest were given a chance.
Most of the nobles were corrupt, however, not all of them committed crimes like these, therefore, they knew they were safe.
Actually, most of the nobles wanted these rotten nobles to disappear.
This would increase the Kingdom's security after all.
And who didn't wish to feel safe?
Queen Evane was capable of providing them with this atmosphere, therefore, they supported her.
As the cleanup process became more and more stable, the forces moved out of the Capital and repeated the process in the surrounding cities.
Everything was going just like Queen Evane had said.
All the spies, who had not taken her warning seriously,
All of them were being hunted down.
