"Lady Sophia, what did the church say?" Irene asked while sitting on his throne.
"To answer His Majesty, the church is not very sincere and seems to be planning to sacrifice their Pope." Sophia's tone was very respectful.
The past was before and the present is now.
In the past, when Irene was still Princess, of course she could call her little Irene without restraint, but now that Irene is her monarch, she has to become respectful.
"Oh? Really?" Irene replied calmly, "Then let them see if they can solve all the problems by sacrificing a so-called pope."
"Claire gave us some dirty information about the church before he left, right?" Irene asked.
Most of the dirty information was secretly passed on to Claire by Irene's father, who planned to use Claire to deal with the church. But I didn't expect that this thing would become a boost that Irene could use.
"Yes." Sophia nodded. Before Claire left, in addition to asking them to take care of Irene, he also gave them a lot of useful things.
But now it seems that Irene no longer needs their care after only a few months. Irene's growth rate has exceeded Sophia's imagination, and it is completely different from the gentle temperament before.
"Then choose some news that hurts their vital organs and spread it."
"Then let them judge whether they feel that using a scapegoat can make up for the matter."
Sophia nodded slightly, "I understand, Your Majesty Irene."
While Claire was having breakfast, Regan hurried in with a roll of paper.
"Master, there is new news."
"Huh?" Claire put down the spoon in his hand and looked over.
"It's about the church. Suddenly there's a lot of negative news about the church. And the intelligence officers have verified that information and it's mostly true."
Claire asked Regan to develop his own intelligence network a long time ago, so now some information about what happened in the kingdom will be sent back to him as a reference.
"This is the information." Regan took a few steps forward and placed the roll of paper on the dining table.
Claire picked it up and took a look at it, and then he realized that he had seen all the negative information about the church. And it is so comprehensive, it should be spread by Sophia and others on their own initiative.
"Let's go, we have something to do." Claire stopped eating breakfast and started fighting and walked towards the door. Regan quickly followed.
Claire doesn't need to help with the spread of the news. Since Sophia and the others have taken action, it means they have a certain degree of confidence. All they have to do is add fuel to the fire, and they can also take advantage of this opportunity to clear some obstacles for themselves.
"Count Evan, there is news outside that you have a close relationship with the church!"
"What's wrong with the close relationship?" Count Evan frowned. This is nothing at all. A close relationship is often a good thing. The people below will feel that they are a kind lord because of this.
"No, there is news out there now that His Majesty Irene was attacked and killed by the church before he took office, and now the Pope is still imprisoned in the Kingdom dungeon!"
Count Evan stood up in shock, "Is this happening?"
"Yeah! And for some reason, there is a wave of negative news about the church outside. Some nobles who are closely related to the church have also revealed negative news about secretly colluding with the church."
After Evan's eyes changed a few times, he waved his hand and said, "Don't worry about them, these things will stop automatically after a while."
He does have some dealings with the church, otherwise he would not have a close relationship with the church, but he is not panicking. The behemoth of the church cannot fall so easily. As long as the church does not fall, then he has nothing to fear.
Let the people below make trouble, isn't it just the pressure of public opinion? He didn't care at all. Anyway, the people at the bottom below couldn't do anything harmful to him.
The next day...
Count Evan looked at the knights in heavy armor in his bedroom and fell into deep thought.
I'm afraid I'm not dreaming, this is my Earl's Mansion, how could someone come in, and it looks like he's fully armed.
"Count Evan, you are suspected of colluding with the church, providing weapons to Church of Light, and attacking and killing Her Majesty the Queen. Please come with us."
"Ah?" Evan looked confused, "How is that possible! Who sent you! I will not follow you!"
"This is a detention order under the Noble Law court. Now that you have been deprived of your noble status, if you still dare to resist, then don't blame the rude outsiders."
After saying that, two knights made a move. One of them lifted one of Count Evan's arms and lifted it up from the bed.
After going down to the hall of the mansion, Evan also saw his wife and children. They were also handcuffed and looked confused.
There were also the heavily armored knights standing beside them, each of them looked like a machine, without any emotion at all.
Evan was really panicking now, this was serious.
"Let me go!" Evan suddenly struggled, "Let me go! I really never did it!"
If it was really him who did it, he would admit it, but he really never did the assassination of Queen!
He colluded with the church to squeeze the rest of the class, and then evaded taxes and other things, and asked him to assassinate Queen. He didn't have the courage!
The efficiency of the state machinery in action is astonishing. Just when Sophia spread some news, and after a few days of fermentation, negative news about the church spread overwhelmingly.
Among them, the most explosive news is that the pope of the kingdom actually participated in the assassination of Princess Irene.
In addition, there are all kinds of negative news about the church, and it is not just Irene who is spreading it, she has played a leading role. There was also Claire behind the scenes, who kept uncovering or fabricating specific and detailed incidents that were detrimental to the church in each town. This allows local residents to relate to the negative news about the church and feel that these things are not so far away from them.
And those people in various towns who were originally at odds with the church and had a lot of dirty information about the local church, after the matter became fermented, also spontaneously spread the word about the church's shameful activities.
After the emotions reached a certain point, Claire sent people to hold demonstrations outside churches in some cities. Throwing rotten eggs and rotten vegetable leaves into it made things worse and pushed the matter to a new climax.
"Have you heard? The Pope actually assassinated Her Majesty the Queen. He would do this to such a good person as Her Majesty the Queen. It seems that he has betrayed the Lord. He will definitely not be able to get along with the Divine Kingdom."
"I'm just telling you, why haven't I seen him for several days? It turns out he was kidnapped by Her Majesty the Queen."
"Also, have you heard all the bad news about local churches?"
"The cardinal from Mixic City actually likes men..."
"The one in Gambia is even more outrageous. He likes little boys, the kind who are underage."
"Not only that, but also for the expansion of the church, dozens of families were killed, so that we didn't have to pay those people demolition fees."
"This is really terrible... I didn't expect that these pastors, who usually look glamorous, are actually such people behind their backs. I don't even have a good impression of Church of Light now."
"No, we must be devout in our faith in the Lord. The mistakes these people made have nothing to do with the Lord. The Lord will punish them."
"But... these people who claim to be closest to the Lord all have this kind of virtue, and there are so many examples. I'm really shaken..."
The news spread by Irene has really hit the church's weakness. They don't even know that they and others have done so many bad things.