Chapter 251: Less Than Seven Days
"In the history of the Holy Dynasty, the first imperial inheritance ceremony was forced to suspend halfway"
Augustine the Great was summoned by the Inquisition for Investigation
"The London Airship Fall Incident Makes a Comeback"
Is it the Tardiness of Justice, or the Conspiracy of Politics
Falsehood, Slander and Persecution
No one could have imagined that such a scene would happen on the Inheritance Canon, where several Inquisition officials entered the ancient Roman city and marched all the way to the Hall of the Council of Elders, and then after more than two hours of 'negotiations' with the elders of the Council, finally Emperor Augustine said that he was willing to accept the investigation of the Inquisition.
It is true that the Council of Elders does not have any rights of its own, and he cannot interfere in any of the summons processes of the Inquisition.
Adhering to the principle of openness of the Legion Ceremony, which has been adhered to for centuries, no one can use force to prevent these judicial officials from entering the council halls.
In the laws of the Empire, it is certainly not said that the Emperor will have any possibility of immunity if he violates the law.
So, Augustine the Great was taken away like this.
Theoretically, it does make sense, but from any other direction, this matter is undoubtedly absurd and unreasonable
So, yesterday, when Augustine the Great walked out of the Council of Elders, the crowd began to boil.
And when he saw his seriously ill body, which had worked hard for the empire for 60 years, the infusion bottle behind the wheelchair, and his extremely uncomfortable eyes after seeing the sun, and the tired cough, the excitement of the crowd was naturally stirred to an extremely terrifying level, and people began to shout the name of the great emperor, angrily shouting words such as 'persecution' and 'shady', and threw the things in their hands at the judicial officers, and crashed into the human wall erected by the security personnel.
At this time, the old man did not speak, but on the way to be escorted, he turned his head slightly, looked at the boiling crowd, and then raised his hand tiredly, pressed it down, and made a 'don't make noise' gesture.
Because of this gesture, the roar of the people gradually subsided, but the anger in their hearts burned even more vigorously.
Again, as a great emperor who had been in charge of the empire for 60 years, his name had become a part of the empire to this day, so when he was helped into the steam locomotive that came with the officials of the Inquisition.
The populace went crazy.
Journalists went crazy.
The politicians, the financial groups, the military at the front, the large corporations, the aristocracy, and some high-ranking interests of the Holy See who are waiting for the succession to take over are all crazy.
It doesn't matter if you're crazy with excitement or crazy with horror.
In short, the whole empire began to go crazy!
The night before, Mansfield, the current justice of the trial court, ——— Mansfield, had an inconclusive debate with his student, Hopkins, in the antechamber of a church.
Mansfield emphasized that although the law is the representative of justice, justice and fairness are only tools to maintain social stability, and if social stability is undermined in order to maintain the law, then the law and crime will not end up in the same way.
Hopkins disagreed with this argument, and he failed to convince his teacher, because, when he left, he asked if his teacher would appear in court to try Augustine the Great.
The other party did not give a positive answer.
But when he forcibly ordered a group of officials of the Third Division under his command to go to the ancient Roman law city to carry out the investigation process under countless pressures, his teacher did not stop him.
Hopkins didn't know why his most respected division commander suddenly chose an attitude of silence and inaction in this matter, but the ending was exactly as the other party said.
The impact of this investigation is indeed a little too great.
Numerous newspapers, letters, telephone calls, and oral accounts were disseminated, and the situation at the scene of the Rite of Transmission was soon known to every citizen of the empire, and that night a procession broke out in front of the inquisition of each diocese.
In fact, it is also called no march, because under the faith of the majority of the people, few people can organize mass demonstrations against the subordinate bodies of the Holy See.
However, the fact that the pious people, dressed in the most dignified costumes, knelt at the door of the Judicial Hall, and bowed in the most reverent posture for the Holy Light, for five or six hours, really put great pressure on the staff of the court.
During this long period of kneeling, some people fainted, some relapsed due to fatigue and serious illness, and some people with young children let out bursts of baby cries because they did not breastfeed in time. It was as if these people felt that the people of the Inquisition must have been bewitched by some evil force to make such an abominable and absurd act, and that they themselves were representing the identity of the followers of the Holy Light, and in this way purifying the evil that had corrupted the Holy See.
Of course, compared to the moderate manifestations of these devout believers, the hard-line socialists, especially among the veterans of the government army, have set off wave after wave of real violent demonstrations!
These people don't go straight to the Inquisition, which has a distinctly papal nature, they don't believe in the rhetoric that has been embellished by faith, they simply vent their anger on the relevant departments of the government, they are looking for a fast, direct and they need an explanation, an answer.
As a result, the entrance to the government's Supreme Court was overcrowded, banners of all colors hung on almost every treetop, and the mayor's office was so enclosed that government workers had to pull down the fence gate so that the angry crowd would not rush in.
Confusion breeds more chaos
In the middle of the march, the doors of some shops were smashed open and the contents were looted, but the police who maintained law and order were simply not available.
A corpse appeared on the side of the street, dead from a throat cut, and the murderer was in the crowd, but no one noticed the scene.
A few small demons appeared in the harbor and bit eleven freight workers to death, and under normal circumstances, the city security administration would send a few contractors to take care of this, but no one has the time to do it now.
The demonstrators grew louder and louder, and some people walked forward with the flow of people, feeling as if they had stepped on something, and when they looked down, they saw that it was a corpse whose head had been crushed.
On the third day, more than one-third of the imperial administrative states could not withstand the pressure, and even several city leaders who did not have the belief in the Holy Light directly faced the people, publicly stating that they questioned the judicial process of this trial court, and in order to calm the anger of the people in the city, he began to make angry accusations, including words such as "framing", "ugly", "slander", "someone trying to disturb the empire", and even more sharply reprimanded the newspaper editor who caused social chaos with his reports. Claim that they are the sinners and that they should be imprisoned in that horrific blood prison.
On the fourth day, the newspaper announced that all the staff were closed, and for the first time in history, the newspaper that had been printing during the second invasion of the demons had been closed, and some schools had proposed to suspend the school because they were afraid of the safety of their students, and the goods at the docks were stranded, because no workers came to work yesterday, and the machinery in the mine roared and idled for a day, and the momentum of the general strike became more and more obvious, and in just a few days, the loss of the empire's output value reached an unpredictable situation.
And in the cries of hundreds of millions of people in the empire, that so-called evidence can only play a small role in appeasing.
Before the opening of the Sacred Calendar, there was a legend that a product of faith called God created the world in seven days.
It is not known if this product of faith really has such terrible power, but at this moment, it seems that an old man really has the ability to destroy an empire in seven days
(End of chapter)