Court Baron Damian did not linger long in Northwind Province. There were not that many land disputes in this territory, and he was the first to return to Imperial Capital.
But the land disputes across the Empire's provinces also made the nobles in Imperial Capital feel their scalps go numb.
Half a month after Baron Damian returned to Imperial Capital, only then did the second court noble envoy come back. With people returning one after another, even two months might not be enough to fully investigate everything.
It was still the same point: the investigation was not the goal. The most important thing was to make every noble admit, in black and white, that that wealth belonged to the Empire and to His Majesty the Emperor.
Of course the nobles understood that too. Once they pressed their fingerprints down, the property they had poured enormous effort into would be easily handed over to other nobles. The nobles did not dare openly defy the emperor's will either, so within this extreme time limit, many nobles within the provinces began taking extreme measures to pocket the wealth for themselves.
Rivers dried up and split apart, forests were felled without end, and at last Emperor Columbus IV grew furious.
The Temple Knights, the Extraordinary Legion belonging to the imperial palace, personally left Imperial Capital and began inspecting every province of the Empire. "Any thief who destroys the Empire's wealth should face judgment."
When the golden Temple Knights appeared at the nobles' doorsteps, all the clamor fell silent. Every noble shut the gates of their territory tight until this Extraordinary Legion had gone far away.
They had already lost their elite soldiers because of the imperial army reforms, and they had no ability at all to resist the Temple Knights' suppression. At last, those