Charlotte's feat of sweeping through Strasbourg quickly spread across the entire Old Continent.
His methods for dealing with the Axels were fairly conventional, but his treatment of the noblemen who had rebelled with their vassals opened the eyes of monarchs everywhere. Almost everyone became interested in the indulgences Charlotte had invented.
Whether it was the rulers of Inglima, Byron, or the Lionheart Dynasty, all of them found themselves entertaining the bizarre thought: Why doesn't anyone rebel in my territory?
Nearly every monarch on the Old Continent envied Emperor Brittany for being able to clean out noble fiefs on such a grand scale.
One had to know that the taxes from noble fiefs almost all went to the nobles who held them. Emperors could barely collect any taxes at all, yet they still had to pay the nobles annuities and support their Knights. To every ruler of the Old Continent, the fewer nobles within their territory, the better. At the very least, they preferred titular nobles with no land and no right to levy taxes privately.
Charlotte's greatest achievement was not dealing with so many nobles, but dealing with so many of them without provoking resentment from the nobility.
The Axel family was almost entirely grateful to Charlotte. According to the "law," they should all have been sent to the gallows, but Charlotte had spared them. The nobles who bought indulgences were even more tearfully grateful, because purchasing one allowed them to remain in Fars instead of being exiled to the Agres Sea Islands.
The nobles who had not been implicated had almost all benefited from the turmoil. Those who had spoken up for Axel had gained a great deal of prestige, while even those who had done nothing picked up quite a few bargains when the implicated rebel nobles sold