Blood Holy Scripture: True Ancestor Charlotte de Castel
Chapter 292: Stand by Team -56-

Chapter 292: Stand by Team -56-

Charlotte’s actions were swift.

After summoning the Lien-Castel family, she announced the inspection plan for the entire Count Territory, officially appointing Viscount Lien-Castel as the inspector and designating her own Directly Administered Domain as the first stop of the inspection plan.

Overnight, the atmosphere in North Port Viscount Domain changed dramatically, and with a list of names confessed by Madoc, Nisi led the Castel Guard Team to raid one family after another. A large number of City Officials and low-ranking nobles from the Directly Administered Domain were arrested with their families and sent to prison.

Such a large-scale inspection operation naturally caused an uproar among the territory nobles. The nobles, who were still lingering in North Port shortly after the Count Mansion’s dinner party ended, almost broke down the doors of the Count Mansion. There were those who advised, those who objected, those who denounced, those who probed...

The peace and joy of the banquet were one thing, the without-face-to-face nobles maintained at least a superficial respect, and faced with the newly appointed Countess, they were all obedient and loyal.

But when the false tranquility was shattered, when Charlotte finally started to take action against the nobles, when she finally began to attempt to reclaim the fading authority the Castel family had lost over the last ten years... the nobles finally made their true attitudes clear.

Opposition.

Unanimous opposition.

Charlotte suddenly realized she had slightly underestimated the deeply entrenched nobles of her territory. The day after the inspection plan was announced, the nobles still staying in North Port had even come up with a jointly signed petition.

The nobles constantly demanded that Charlotte retract the inspection plan and justified various disadvantages brought about by the plan, and incidentally, they severely berated the Lien-Castel family.

"The property and privacy of nobles are sacred and inviolable, even a Lord has no right to subject vassals to such rigorous inspections, let alone scrutinize their property!"

"This is a contempt for the Holy Code! It is a self-destruction of the foundation of rule! The act of a tyrant!"

"The assassination at the banquet should indeed be investigated for the truth, but it should never be a reason for venting anger on vassals!"

"She is just an ignorant child after all. Castel is bound to ruin in her hands..."

"Hmph, nothing but a harlot with Falling Star bloodline. The Castel family can conceal it all they want, but they can’t hide the truth of the bloodline. Perhaps in her heart, there is no Northern Land, only herself!"

The public opinion was almost unanimously against her.

Overnight, it seemed that in the eyes of all subjects, Charlotte had transformed from a young and promising Lord to a tyrant who committed all evils.

Looking at the jointly signed petition from the nobles, listening to the guards reporting the criticisms and discussions of the nobles heard all over North Port. Charlotte’s face did not look very good.

However, she had anticipated the nobles’ reactions to some extent, and her bad complexion at that moment was more due to the unrestrained comments made by the nobles when criticizing her.

Mocking her as an ignorant child was one thing, but she truly couldn’t tolerate those who brought gender into the matter.

Although the New Moon Kingdom was not without female Lords, it was still generally a patriarchal society. All sorts of unsightly curses nearly breached Charlotte’s defenses as they blew into her ears along with the wind.

Nonetheless, although she was seething inside and wished she could immediately hang those loose-tongued bastards on the city gates, Charlotte remained relatively calm.

She knew that the overnight uproar in the city seemed tumultuous, that the common resentment was boiling, but in reality, it was nothing more than the nobles whose interests were offended, snapping and biting at each other.

The nobles controlled public opinion, and they were also behind the creation of momentum. As for the vast majority of subjects, they hadn’t reacted so quickly to the inspection plan.

Not to mention, Charlotte wasn’t targeting them.

But, Charlotte knew this matter couldn’t drag on.

Since she had decided to act, she must suppress the situation with thunderous force; otherwise, the nobles had plenty of ways to stir up the people, which could make things troublesome.

"Nisi, have you identified which families are leading this?" Charlotte asked calmly.

"Heh, it seems like the leaders are a few nouveau riche who made their fortunes with workshops and merchant caravans. Additionally, quite a few low-ranking nobles from the Directly Administered Domain are involved," Nisi said.

"Nouveau riche who made their fortunes with workshops and merchant caravans? Are the other Viscounts and Barons not involved?" Charlotte was somewhat surprised.

"Meow, no," Nisi shook her head.

Charlotte furrowed her brows.

However, after a brief reflection, she figured it out:

"So it’s a bunch of fools being used as pawns..."

The newly emerged nobles of Castel might be wealthy, but their influence wasn’t so great that they could gather so many nobles overnight.

It was most likely that the old nobility was using them as pawns to force her to compromise and probe her limits.

As for why these nouveaux riche were willing to take the lead, Charlotte could guess the reasons considering her family’s experiences.

Over the years, Castel’s industrial and commercial development had boomed, and these nouveaux riche who started on the tides of change probably hadn’t paid less in dodging taxes; more than the inspection of the Bloodline, perhaps what they feared the most was the financial scrutiny.

"Lord Charlotte, what do you plan to do? Although you hold a high status, mortals might be more troublesome than you think. Stooping to fight with them, in my view, is just bringing yourself down to their level, and then they could easily entangle you with their rich experience in internal strife," Nisi spoke openly.

"In my view, our goal should allow you to recover your power sooner, rather than playing house here with these people."

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