Having competent subordinates, Hudson was too pleased to shuffle off responsibility.
"Transfer the accounts as soon as possible and have another accidental fire to destroy all traces!"
Hudson sighed.
At other times, he could resist investigations and even withstand political storms, but now he could not.
The assassination of the Crown Prince was neither a common case of crony corruption nor merely internal factional strife; it had crossed the King's bottom line.
Anyone daring to obstruct the investigation on this matter would be challenging the sovereign authority of Caesar IV, leading to a fight to the death.
With the King's authority restraining, direct confrontation between a subject and the Monarch usually never ended well.
Those Nobles who explicitly opposed the King might have their moment of grandeur, but after their glory, the fate of their descendants usually was not favorable.
Even if the Clan remained strong, once signs of decay appeared, calamity swiftly followed.
