Purging the ranks has always been the simplest and most effective way to help everyone discard their prejudices and unite as one.
Under this kind of high pressure, no one wants to be the "odd one out." Everyone will desperately cling to the core of the organization and desperately try to behave like a model of unity and enthusiasm.
The Duke's few sentences made the council chamber seem filled with a thick, bloody stench; there was no doubt those few "traitors to the nation" were in for a very rough time.
As a powerful Empire, whether it's the Secretariat or the Prime Minister, they at least have to maintain "justice on the surface."
They will not take the initiative to frame someone; that would be a disaster for politics!
If right and wrong both become tools of politics, then this country is surely beyond saving. Whoever grasps such a tool can turn black into white—what salvation could there be then?
