Vienna, Hofburg Palace.
"Your Majesty, something is wrong. More and more people are being arrested. Even if every prison in Prague were filled to capacity, they could only hold a tenth of them.
"They're still denouncing people like mad. These people have gone insane.
"If this continues, all of Bohemia will be paralyzed."
Prince Schwarzenberg was truly at a loss now. He had originally transferred a group of officials from Vienna and promoted another batch of alternates.
In Prince Schwarzenberg's view, these people should have been enough to stabilize the situation. After all, Vienna's experience had come first.
Yet once it was actually put into practice, he discovered that this handful of people was nothing more than a drop in the bucket.
Before the Ministry of Interior could even reassign personnel, reports of victory kept arriving from the front. The shortage was growing exponentially, and Bohemia's entire officialdom looked as though it had suffered a landslide.
There was not even one person in Bohemia's entire police system who could barely be called mediocre. Every last fucking one of them was wicked, rotten to the bone.
The suppression had been completed, but small-scale riots had never stopped.
Because Franz had slaughtered too ruthlessly in Vienna before, this bunch in Bohemia had no intention of waiting helplessly for death.
At first, it had merely been the academic warlords and charlatans building momentum, trying to win sympathy for that trash.
A theology professor spoke to his students with heartfelt grief.
"Students! Our great principal has been arrested, and our beloved patron, Mr. Geller, was even murdered out in the wilderness!
"Why have they suffered such a fate? Not because they were guilty! It is because they represent tradition and order. They represent us, and all of Bohemia!
"This is murder! This is a