At that time, the empire's money was still very profitable.

Compared with making money, it seems that some peculiar hobbies have become more pursued by these aristocratic officials.

Compared with money, the power brought by power can give these people more satisfaction.

This is what really makes the empire a purgatory.

Buying and selling children, organ trafficking, addictive drugs, framing, massacres.

With the passage of time, the perverted hobby in the hearts of human beings has been developed more and more, and the demons locked in the heart have been completely released.

Blood, brutality, slewdness, hypocrisy, this is what is hidden deep in the bones of the people of the empire.

This is what the real elite and aristocrats enjoy.

It wasn't until two years later that bad news came.

The Chancellor is dead.

The minister who had never cared about it was dead.

The emperor returned to power.

The officials and nobles of the imperial capital finally got on good terms with the ministers, and all their previous efforts turned into bubbles.

When the minister first fell, the people were terrified, and no one was not afraid.

But the imaginary cleansing did not take place.

The emperor only captured the imperial capital and the troops from all over the border.

Although from time to time, officials, nobles or merchants who are implicated with them die unexpectedly, or their homes are raided.

But on the surface it is peaceful.

To be able to survive is to be much more restrained, to be what the emperor wants, and to continue to live in the imperial capital.

Until...

Contacts with officials outside the imperial capital.

Rebels... It's not like it's a way out.

But how could the nobles of the imperial capital be so easily in the same league as the cheap rural nobles outside.

Rebels? What's even more impossible, the imperial capital here is always under the emperor's surveillance.

During the minister's reign, there were four number one lackeys.

Cai Jiu, height, Yang Gang, Tong Qian.

However, none of these four are alive except for Cai Jiu.

How did Cai Jiu survive, it is clear that he is the one who has done the most bad things.

The bad thing here refers to a series of policies that oppress the people and kill hostile people, which is the worst in the eyes of an aristocracy.

Anything like height, which is nothing more than framing opponents, killing commoners for fun, etc., is really not a bad thing for the aristocracy.

Isn't the empire short of money, then make money and do business!

Why the empire has been in a financial crisis, the Imperial Fist Temple and the army, as well as the research institute, account for a huge proportion.

However, it is also extremely difficult to reduce expenditures in these three areas.

First of all, the Huangquan Temple, seventy percent of the officials of the empire are all from the Huangquan Temple, or they have studied in it for a period of time.

There are also countless students who have taken up the role of bodyguards after walking out of the Imperial Power Temple.

On top of it, there are also important people such as the Rakshasa Four Ghosts who obey the imperial power.

Heaton has always wanted to cut the huge expenditure of the Imperial Fist Temple, but this is not a small project, because even if it is himself, he is also learning the secret methods of the Imperial Fist Temple.

This is an organization second only to the imperial power, and although it is loyal to the imperial power, the people it has cultivated are not necessarily.

Army, which is more concerned with the thousands of ordinary people in the empire.

How many families who can't survive join the army because of this, and this is still in the case of some selection, every soldier is a family, and the livelihood of four or five people is guaranteed.

They are not poor people who can't survive to join the rebels, in the past three years, empty salaries, military ruffians, and people who are messing around have long been sorted out, and the rest are real imperial soldiers with quality.

Disarmament reductions, which are the opposite of the empire pushing these people to the empire.

The Institute's funding has been repeatedly compressed, or it would not be a one-man fashion doctor who has an overview of the overall situation.

Heaton loves and hates these three.

Raiding the house? Didn't you think that you could really meet the expenses of these three?

The minister's years of accumulation of wealth are just a drop in the bucket for these.

How many people were there in the Imperial Army?

The Northern Army led by Estes, two hundred and fifty thousand.

Najeta's former Western Army, now Reva's temporary generation, is 150,000.

The Southern Army, led by the former Southern Army general Liwa, and the southern part of the empire, which had the most serious rebels, had a full 300,000 people.

The navy is okay, because there is no threat from the sea, there are only 50,000 people.

Imperial capital guards, 50,000 people.

There are a total of 800,000 soldiers, and the funds they want are less than those of the Huangquan Temple.

It seems that the aristocratic officials who only copy the imperial capital are not satisfied, and it is almost the same to copy all the officials in the country.

It's not that he didn't think about letting the army and Estes kill him in a river of blood.

May I?

Estes would have liked Heaton's idea a little.

Rebels, innocent paupers, nobles, officials.

Can Killing Be the Solution?

But now, a small opportunity has quietly emerged.

An opportunity for Heaton and these nobles.

Not to mention Heaton, these nobles have been much more honest since Heaton came to power.

The worst and most greedy minister and his lackeys are gone, and when the minister was in power, the nobles were also like grass on the wall, standing in a position, who wouldn't.

The emperor asked for money and developed the economy.

Many merchants backed by the aristocracy appeared in this way.

The high commercial tax is high, and we pay it.

Under the emperor's nose, they didn't dare to steal chickens and dogs.

Everyone in the imperial capital is very honest, but outside the imperial capital, it is not necessarily.

The money earned from doing business is taxed normally, but secretly, with the rebels, and the officials and nobles outside, and the black money of the underground forces, it will go into their own pockets.

However, money is not the main purpose for the nobles of the imperial capital, most of these nobles have their own industries in the imperial capital and are never short of money.

All they wanted was to catch the rebels' line, or to take it decently.

The oil merchant Jamal was one of them, and he didn't even know who the nobles behind him were, who helped him get through the relationship.

The difference in level made him only have access to low-level officials such as gangsters, slums, and garrison captains, and the head of the western district was already the biggest official position he had ever seen.

Coaxing some fools from the slums to deliver oil to the imperial capital is actually selling their organs, and the physically stronger ones are sent to be slaves, and the women and children of the slums can nominally join the caravan.

said to the outside world that he went to the imperial capital to make a fortune, which attracted more people to flock to it.

As everyone knows, in the secret of his caravan, there is a message transmission of nobles and rebels.

Even Gozzi could not know how secretive it was.

The aristocracy is not stupid, and is even more shrewd than he thinks.

Retainers, private soldiers, guards, bodyguards, these are all allowed by the Empire.

I don't think that the rest of the nobles are fools, fools have already been killed by Heaton and the ministers!

Just like General Nangakidd and General Hinhermi, if it weren't for his own exposure, Gozzi would not have been able to detect that they were still in contact with the rebels.

A general of the Empire, with ties to the rebels!

You know, even when the ministers were in power, they were all good generals who were dedicated to the country!