This is no longer a family affair, and the three days of manhunting have put the Spaniards at risk.

With the exception of a few economically backward rural areas, people in other places have invariably chosen to protect themselves, not to mention participating in demonstrations against arrests, and simply refraining from going out or communicating with others unless necessary.

Some of the fish that slipped through the net fell into even greater fear, because the king had no scruples to influence them and caught their heads, which no one expected.

In their plan, the government and the royal family should first pass the proposal in parliament, and then use public opinion and disturb the social order to force the government and the royal family to make concessions.

This plan was almost foolproof, because in the minds of the nobles, they did not use force, so Alfonso could not use force.

Even if there is a royal police like the Progressive Guard, it will not be enough to arrest them all, how much impact will it have.

Before it happened, they even had some hope that the king would arrest more people so that they could better give him the name of a tyrant.

But I never expected that the king would not catch a few, a dozen, but see one and catch one!

How can they still use them to promote Alfonso as a tyrant, if there is no turning point in this matter, the people themselves have eyes.

But now, the nobles and clergy are sadly finding that they have nothing to fight back.

Force will definitely not be able to fight, and public opinion ...... The king was able to do such a thing because he made it clear that he did not care about public opinion.

Regardless of what these hostile or neutral parties think, not all those close to Alfonso approve of his approach.

Among them were Alfonso's mother, Isabella, and Prime Minister Campos.

One of them is from the perspective of faith and feelings, and the other is from the perspective of social stability.

The others were a little scared, but the two men came to Alfonso two or three times a day.

Isabella was fortunate to be dismissed, and Alfonso gained her trust by falsifying evidence of Claryt's involvement in the opposition, making her reluctantly accept the fact that Clarit had been plotting to harm the Bourbon royal family.

Campos, on the other hand, was not easy to solve, and the two had many disagreements about how to deal with the nobles and the clergy.

On this day, the Prime Minister came to Alfonso's office again, and he did not say anything superfluous, but piled a large stack of letters in his arms on the small table beside him.

"These signatories are at least earls, and they also cover more than 70 percent of the country's grand dukes." Campos said calmly.

"Oh? Is it. Alfonso said casually: "These people don't dare to send it to me, but they all send it to you, Prime Minister, you are tired." ”

Alfonso's understatement annoyed Campos even more.

"Your Majesty, are you really going to kill them? Don't forget that you're a nobleman, too! Campos said in a deep voice.

"We've talked about this issue many times in the past few days, and it's okay to kill it." Alfonso smiled:

"At present, there are 90,000 people in Spain who have the title of viscount and above, and counting barons, Spanish aristocrats account for 5% of the population.

This is still a heavily diluted figure after the Carlos War and the annexation of Italy.

Don't you feel like there are too many nobles? I need nobles who can help me stay in power, not a bunch of useless rice buckets, let alone so many. ”

Campos was speechless for a while, and he was stuck when he talked about it before.

In the 19th century, European countries generally had a large number of aristocrats, but Spain was clearly one of the most serious of them.

The main source of these nobles was the Great Voyage and the reconquest much earlier, when the kings were knighted and suffered to the detriment of later generations.

European titles are hereditary again, and the nobility will only become more and more sealed.

Fortunately, barons and knights were not considered nobles, otherwise the Spanish nobility would probably account for 20% of the country.

"In any case, the massacre of nobles is unprecedented, and it is not in line with European tradition!"

Alfonso shook his head when he heard this, and asked rhetorically, "Campos, do you know why I'm so eager?" ”

Campos was stunned, this is also something that their gang is puzzled about, Spain has just been stable for a long time, but the king's reforms are one after another.

Alfonso did not expect him to answer, and asked himself: "The power of the Spanish nobility and the church is too great, and Catalonia was dealt with by us at the beginning, and it is considered a pure land, but the rest of the place is all their people.

As long as we recruit civil servants and soldiers from the various autonomous regions, the government and the army will inevitably be influenced by them.

Today, the Spanish infantry is in two-year service, which means that the first Catalans will soon be discharged.

If I don't reform now, I won't be able to change it later.

I'm not the only one who wants to weaken the nobility, I'm just finishing Philip V's unfinished business. ”

Alfonso's words were reassuring, and Campos obviously softened a lot, but he still hesitated: "But ...... But killing tens of thousands of people still has too much impact. ”

"I didn't say that I would kill them all, I must be sentenced first."

Alfonso muttered for a while: "If they simply participated in the march, they would be revoked from public office and fined according to their titles, and they would be forced to work for two months to make them remember for a long time." ”

If you are the organizer of marches, riots, etc., you should be killed. ”

"Of course, if you really don't want to die," Alfonso said lightly: "Revoke the title and pay the fine, you can exchange it for exile and see if foreign countries recognize their noble status." ”

Campos listened to it with a twitch, according to this game, at least tens of thousands of nobles will disappear this time.

In fact, a lot of European aristocrats have died recently, such as the Franco-Prussian War, the Italian-Austrian War, and the Austro-Prussian War, and at least more than 50,000 nobles or heirs have died on several sides.

But it was all folded on the battlefield, and in the past hundred years, the aristocracy of Europe who died in political activities probably did not have as many as this one.

"What about the priests?"

"Same."

“……”

Campos was finally persuaded by Alfonso to stop obstructing the disposition of the nobles and clergy.

This kind of thing, either don't do it, or do it absolutely.

Arresting so many people, if you kill one or two or kill a few, those who don't know will think that Alfonso is afraid of them.

In fact, there are basically no consequences in this matter, and now the domestic armed forces are all in the hands of the royal family, and France, Austria and Hungary have a good relationship with Spain, and have just finished the war, so it is impossible to interfere in Spain's internal affairs.

The only one who could take advantage of this is the United Kingdom, but Alfonso thinks there is a high probability that there will be no reaction.

After all, Spain is now also a naval power with 17 ironclad ships, second only to Britain in terms of number and second only to Britain and France in terms of combat effectiveness.

Britain could not have fought with Spain for such a thing, and it would not have enough interests and would not have passed the parliamentary hurdle.

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