The Sun Never Sets In Spain - Chapter 214

The conversation between the two never involves civilians, because Alfonso and Campos have the same attitude towards them, that is, a small punishment and a big punishment.

These guys are either hired or simply bored, which is not a serious crime in any way.

If it is the future generations, it is convenient, you can keep a file for them, and you and your children cannot join the government or anything.

But it is definitely not realistic to record files for civilians in this era, and any problems can only be dealt with on the spot.

Finally, after discussion by the cabinet, it was decided that the marchers would be sentenced to imprisonment ranging from 7 days to 3 months, and the prison food expenses should be paid by themselves.

If you desperately want to be free, pay the extra fine and get out as early as three days.

Of course, specific issues are discussed in detail.

In the case of the agricultural company, the farmers of the subordinate farms beat the staff and seized the land. This is too bad.

Similar incidents will be subject to formal judicial trials, and I am afraid that they will be locked up for several years.

A few days later, the most light-hearted group had been released from prison.

Don’t look at them only for a few days, but for the poorest poor people, a few days of not working is enough to have quite far-reaching effects, and it is not enough to live a hard life for a period of time.

At this time, it was exactly ten days since the first arrest.

These days, the number of arrests has soared to 40,000, spurred by mutual whistleblowers and reduced sentences.

20% of them were nobles, and a small number of priests.

At this moment, it is no longer a power struggle between the church and the king, but Alfonso is dealing with those old conservative forces whose interests have been damaged because of the reform, and gradually become not aligned with his own side.

The whole process didn’t cause too many waves, and when the parliamentary proposal failed, it was impossible for everyone to win this war.

The current situation is that the nobles have no force to protect them, and in the face of the king’s cruel disposal plan, they can only choose to bear it silently.

It is even more impossible for the aristocrats who are free to stand out for these relatives. They have seen how powerful the royal family is. Jumping out now is pure gift.

Those who are not the main organizers, but only get the same treatment plan as the civilians, are naturally happy.

But more nobles still have to face the end of being forcibly deprived of their titles.

It is roughly estimated that there are at least nearly 5,000 members of this part of the nobles.

With so many people arrested, the main charge was not organizing riots and demonstrations, or even spreading rumors.

It’s more that as long as it’s involved, let’s say you’ve had correspondence with Cardinal Peregrina, Speaker Bustillo, etc., and the Progressive Guard has determined between the lines that you’re dissatisfied with the king and the government , it will start directly.

Of course, this is not convincing, because it is equivalent to the Progressive Guards arresting whoever they want.

But Alfonso had no intention of correcting them, after all, it was the truth.

Those who have assisted the free government, assisted the Carlos, those who hindered the process of centralization, and hindered the development of the economy will all take this opportunity to strike a thunderous blow. Who cares if you participated in this incident or not.

At the beginning, it was a vicious treasonous act that shook the Bourbon rule and involved the change of the dynasty.

When Alfonso first ascended the throne, he let it go, and he did not take the nobles as the main object of treatment, which did not mean that he would not settle accounts in the autumn.

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Inside the Royal Palace of Madrid,

“It’s still too little.” Alfonso frowned and looked at the report sent by Adolf.

The purge these days even reached St. Petersburg, where the stunned Tsar, speechless, reacted and exclaimed: “This is the king!”

But in Alfonso’s view, it is still not enough. There is no other reason. There are too many Spanish nobles, and the conservative forces are too deep-rooted.

These 5,000 people are just the tip of the iceberg for the entire opposition of priests and nobles.

Alfonso is sure there are more opponents who haven’t jumped out.

If they can’t find out all of them this time, at least they will be killed and they will not dare to fight against themselves again.

“Adolph, is there anything you can do?” Alfonso turned to look at the confidant who was accompanying him.

Speaking of which, Adolph was really miserable by Alfonso these days. He was a member of the ordinary noble group, but he was pushed to the opposite side of the group by the king.

“Your Majesty, how many nobles do you plan to keep?” Adolph did not answer directly, but instead asked, this question is a question that many people are concerned about recently.

Alfonso shook his head and said: “I want to correct some of your recent thoughts, my purpose is not to retain many nobles, but to eliminate my opponents and potential opponents.

The purpose of this operation is to destroy all the noble powers that cannot be used by me, and reducing the number of nobles is only a means and by-product, not the ultimate goal, can you understand? ”

Adolf breathed a sigh of relief and nodded: “Then I propose to directly implement the abolition of the autonomous region, and then restart the process of clergy officialization that failed before.”

Adolph’s simple words made Alfonso smile, because they both thought of going to the same place.

Simply put, the purpose of this is to provoke the people who will provoke in the future.

“Very well, the Progressive Guards can’t be idle for a while.” Alfonso waved his hand and said, “Haven’t you been complaining about the lack of manpower recently? I allow you to expand 2,000 people to the intelligence department and the field department. I’ll be there later. Will talk to Garcia about it.”

“Thank you, Your Majesty.” Adolf raised his eyebrows with joy. Despite the fact that there are many people in the Progressive Guard, most of them are in the army to help maintain military discipline, and only a small number of them can walk outside.

For the recent actions, it is not an exaggeration to say that one person is broken into two.

Although the Progressive Guards in the army can also be used for field duty in an emergency, how can there be professionals who come readily.

After sending Adolf away, Alfonso called Campos to discuss with him the details of the abolition of the autonomous region. This is a very big project and must be prepared in advance. Alfonso will not do it easily in a short time.

But this is not the case with the officialization of priests. This project Alfonso has tried to implement, but it was unsuccessful under the resistance of Rome.

On the original basis, only after two days of discussion, this matter has a clear look.

To put it simply, Alfonso did not intend to rule on the behavior and promotion of priests through the government, but only to regulate and supervise the behavior within the church.

In Spain at present, no one knows how many donations the church has received, how many properties it has, and how much income it has generated through business activities such as lending.

How much money each bishop can make depends on his own ability. Not only does it occupy a lot of social resources, but it also becomes a source of corruption. It is really chaotic.

Alfonso simply wanted to collect the wealth of the church, and then give the clergy at all levels a fixed salary, and would not lose them.