Chapter 679, Intelligence Department

intelligence services? Aurora is okay, but Teresa went through it in her heart. The sorceress immediately began to think about the pros and cons of helping Ryan build an intelligence department. There is no doubt that Aurora and Teresa have become people who need Ryan. Shelter and wizards who need his resources.

Aurora's eyes lit up when she heard Ryan's words. What she was most afraid of was that Ryan said that I don't need your help at all. Wherever I come and go, things will be really troublesome. On the contrary, if Ryan needs her and Te With the help of Teresa, then they can naturally rely on Ryan's order and the identity of Teresa's female courtier to automatically obtain part of the authority belonging to Ryan and enter Ryan's court, which is very important to Aurora.

Teresa thought for a while, and she said softly: "But Ryan, don't you already have an intelligence department under your command?"

Ryan nodded slightly, Teresa was right.

Ryan's forces have their own intelligence department, which is mainly divided into two parts.

The first part is jointly managed by Suria and Ryan. Relying on the Oliver Chamber of Commerce, it is responsible for collecting the major forces and major trends in the old world. There are not many things that this department can do. At most, it can only collect intelligence and Delivering messages, and sometimes providing a place to hide.

The second part is managed by the dark elf Olika, a small team that closely monitors the chaos, corruption and cult activities in the territory, including vampire activities and Skaven activities. The God of Hand Kane Assassin's method specially trained a few maids and established a peripheral structure. There are not many people in this part, and they all obey Olika's command.

"All the Oliver Chamber of Commerce can do is to collect intelligence, they can't carry out deeper work, and what I need is not a source that passively receives information, what I want is a source that can actively help me conduct intelligence in the Kingdom of Britannia The organization of the work, after much deliberation, I think you are the most suitable, my initial plan is that you can send your men to Poldero and Helen Hilde to establish branches first." Ryan pointed his plan to Teresa And Aurora's mother and daughter said in detail: "As for the housing and the opening of the store, you don't have to worry about it. I will naturally prepare it for you."

Ice witches are indeed a special kind of existence. This kind of magic is a kind of chaos magic but it will not produce mutations. It only makes the caster cold. The earliest Kislev queen Miska Queen The mysteries and tricks of cultivating ice magic were obtained from the ruins of the ancient saints. Due to the characteristics of ice magic, these witches practice magic indifferently, do not like to participate in politics, and are not easy to be corrupted by chaos. The ice sculptures died silently, which would not affect the citizens and cause panic. They are very suitable for hiding in cities or suburbs. Compared with many wizards who abuse magic to cause panic or cause explosions and other bad effects, ice witches will not be so Trouble, they are quiet and like to do their own thing behind closed doors.

The only thing that makes the ice witches feel extremely disgusted is the male mage, because after reading the mysteries in the ancient relics, Miska, the first Kislev female tsar, came to the conclusion that men cannot practice ice magic. Therefore, there are only ice-type witches and no ice-type wizards. Ice-type witches are naturally hostile to other male wizards and are prone to conflicts. The secrets passed down by the ancient sages clearly stated that they are too much with male wizards. Approaching or combining will cause the ice magic to gradually weaken until it disappears forever,

Therefore, when a male wizard tries to approach the Ice Witch, a battle is often inevitable (this is one of the reasons why Aurora is so afraid of Gelt).

In this regard, Britannia has a natural and excellent environment. As we all know, if all young children with magical potential cannot be sent to the Imperial Academy of Wizards or the Southern Kingdom Wizards Union when they reach the age, they will be headed by Morgiana. The boys will disappear forever, and the girls will be trained as new lake gods to return. Therefore, in Brittania, the number of male wizards is very small, only some of the great nobles. The presence of male wizards within the court, hired or invited from the Imperial College of Wizards, minimizes the chance of conflict.

What Ryan said, both Aurora and Teresa nodded repeatedly. Aurora, the sanctuary witch and the female elder of the Garland Council, suddenly felt that the dangerous place of the Garland Council might indeed have nothing to do with it. He had already started to figure out how to move the several female congressmen under his command, hundreds of formal witches and witch apprentices here, but he felt a bit reluctant to give up the relationship network and wizard tower that he had built up with great difficulty over the past few decades.

Aurora was still thinking, but Teresa had already asked her own question: "Ryan, it's not that I don't want to help you, I want to ask you first, why didn't you find Suria or Orika?"

"Su Liya... is not suitable. She has basically taken charge of most of the internal affairs in the territory. When I am not around, major and minor matters are decided by her. If this kind of matter is left to her to handle, one is that she does not have enough energy. , she also wants to bring Devonhill, the second one is not suitable."

"As for Olika...she's too cruel." Ryan couldn't help but smile wryly when he talked about this incident: "It's better for her to deal with non-human beings such as chaos cultists and vampires. Her methods are too vicious to deal with her own people." No, I don't want that, that's not what I want."

Even though the dark elf is a soft and fragrant pillow in front of Ryan, and he likes to act like a spoiled child and give him advice, he thinks Olika is a harmless maid. This dark elf from Naggaroth is quite cruel by nature. To kill the enemy is often to cut a human stick a few times, hang it with a butcher's hook, and let the opponent bleed until death. She also proposed to Ryan more than once to implement slavery and capture prisoners as coolies.

"I'm worried about handing over this kind of internal work to Olika." Ryan said frankly: "I'll keep her by my side to take care of her, at least she listens to me."

"Understood." Teresa and Aurora exchanged glances, and after getting a positive look from her mother, Teresa still hesitated: "Ryan, we have no problem with your request, and we are willing to help you , but is it really okay for you to entrust such an important matter to us?"

"Then who else can I give it to?" Ryan asked back. The Crown Prince of the Knight Kingdom, Duke Musillon, and the God's Choice Champion of the Fairy in the Lake shook his head with a wry smile: "I can choose, who else can I choose? Nothing more It is to choose one of the three types of knights, churches, and wizards. The knights and nobles headed by Suria control the administration, and the church headed by Morgiana controls the legislation and judiciary. Then only you wizards can supervise it.”

Speaking of this, Aurora and Teresa have no objections.

At the end of the evening chat, the attendants also heated up the hot water. Ryan asked Aurora and Teresa to take a bath first. He brought greetings from the Holy Grail Knight, and at the same time took out a few bags of wheat and a few slings of pork from the remaining rations, specially rewarding the serf guards in the village.

Seeing the generosity of the legendary His Excellency Ryan, the serf villagers present were moved to tears, but Ryan also noticed that they were not particularly excited, they just expressed their gratitude and kowtowed in a normal way, and checked the grain reserves in the villagers' homes a little bit. Ryan is relatively satisfied. Most of the villagers still have surplus food for the winter in their homes, and a few Ryan ignored it. This is not his principality.

Most of the lords of the Duchy of Bastogne are Holy Grail Knights. This duchy is famous for its piety and low administrative efficiency. Will be so ruthless, and because the Holy Grail Knight spent most of his life practicing martial arts and pursuing virtue, the Principality of Bastogne is famous for its low administrative efficiency. Weak chicken in internal affairs.

Therefore, when Ryan carried out the reform of changing the tithe tax into a fixed tax, the promotion of the Principality of Bastogne was hardly hindered. The Holy Grail knights thought that since this is in line with the virtues of chivalry and will not harm their interests too much, then so Let's do it. After that, many of Ryan's reforms have been successfully implemented here, and the entire principality has become vigorous again, and the serfs are at least guaranteed to have enough food and clothing.

Ryan walked to the streets of the village, and in the dark night, he exhaled a white breath.

Yeah, who else can I use?

As a duke, his subordinates are nothing more than knights, nobles, churches, and wizards. They are all those people.

Didn't he know about the infiltration of the Suria family into his territory? Didn't Aurora's bachelor party proposal also infiltrate his territory? Even Morgiana, the witch of the lake god, built the Holy Grail Church in Mousilon everywhere, which is a kind of infiltration, doesn't he know? Don't he know that the tax bureaucrats trained by the church are also infiltrating?

So what can we do? Besides these people, who else could Ryan use? In this kingdom, who has read books? Who received an orthodox education? It's not these people, it's not knights, nobles, wizards or churches, these three kinds of people are chosen.

old guard? The Old Guard is still a fledgling force for the time being. This army is born with military merits and has a low level of education. At most, it can only recognize a few hundred characters and can read and write. If you want to transfer to an administration, at least not now. , these serf-born soldiers are not suitable for immediate transformation into bureaucrats, there will be very serious consequences, as for the consequences, you know.

What Ryan has done so far is only a small step in the evolution of the entire Brittany from aristocratic politics to powerful politics. He opened a channel for class advancement, that's all, and the empire is already in Luther, the savior. This step was taken after the restructuring of Vichy.

"I'm ashamed, I just did a little work." Ryan looked at the rising smoke from the village, and his blue eyes gradually became firm: "I can't stop yet, I still have a lot to do."

Wandering around the village and returning to the big house, the fire has been lit in the warm room, the windows are tightly closed, dispelling the chill of the midwinter season, Ryan took a beautiful bath and changed into a light Clothes, opened the door of the back room, his eyes lit up immediately.

Teresa was sitting on the bed reading a book and taking a shower. Her previous black swan coat and breeches had been replaced by a violet retro gothic court dress, showing her beautiful figure There is still some moisture on the standard oval face and shimmering black long hair, and it is obvious that she has put on makeup. The lavender eye shadow and bright eyelashes are charming and full of charming style.

A pair of slender beautiful legs are exposed like two jade pillars, and the thin black velvet stockings are wrapped on the slender and fair legs, which are crystal and attractive, and the pink silk stockings with purple nail polish are stepping on a pair of Simple fairy sandals. Seeing Ryan coming in, Teresa raised her head from the pages of the magic book. She reached out and adjusted her black-framed purple butterfly-patterned glasses: "Washed?"

"Well, it's finished." Ryan nodded with a smile. He walked to Teresa and embraced the sorceress in his arms: "It's so comfortable."

The room was filled with the scent of lavender, and Teresa's face gradually turned red. She reached out and held Ryan's hand: "Ren, what do you think if I let my mother come over to your place?"

"Ms. Aurora? She is willing to give up her decades of accumulation?" Ryan hugged Teresa and said with a half-smile: "I know her, she is reluctant."

"You sound like you know my mother better than I do." The sorceress rolled her eyes at Ryan, and she sighed softly: "You're right, my mother is a bit reluctant, and she is still hesitating."

"It's okay, she still has a lot of time to think about it." Ryan shook his head, and he kissed Teresa's red lips lightly: "I promised, I'm welcome at any time, but since you've come to my territory, you have to obey me rules, rather than occupying the mountain as king in Skydome."

"Forget it, let's not talk about this, that... Ryan, my mother told me, let me give you a baby, it's best... the surname is Trovik, this is our family's surname, it must be Pass it on." Teresa leaned on Ryan's shoulder, she blushed when she mentioned this question, but she was indescribably firm: "What do you think?"

Ryan thought that even if we have children, it is impossible for your child to want my surname Malcador. Only the child of Suria and I can be named Malcador.

The man pretended to ponder for a while, and finally his face was not good-looking, and he seemed to nod very reluctantly: "Okay, if you insist."

"Great, thank you!" Teresa could feel Ryan's embarrassment, and thinking that Ryan still agreed to herself, the sorceress felt sweet in her heart: "Then, have you decided what to name the child?"

"Name~" Ryan put his arm around Teresa's waist, and he said with some mischief: "If it's a man, it's called Siegfried, and if it's a woman, how about Teresa or Karen? Kiyana also."

"What kind of strange names are these?" Teresa obviously didn't like these names: "Cecilia is better, but I don't like it either, so I don't want any of them."

"If you don't like it, you can discuss it again." Ryan said with a smirk: "The premise is that we want to have one."

"Well... let's have a baby."

………I am now the dividing line of Kiyana’s time………

It took a few days for the army to pass through the Sharon Forest and arrive at Ryan's territory. Both Ryan and Teresa were in good spirits, but Aurora's spirit was not very good. She was obviously in a state of anger and dissatisfaction. State, and Ryan always pretended not to see.

On the way back to the territory, the lake goddess Morgiana was already waiting with a team of Holy Grail guards. Seeing Ryan and Teresa appearing, Morgiana frowned first, and then arranged her long golden hair unnaturally : "Ryan? Are you back?"

"Yes, what happened, why did you come in person?" Ryan asked strangely.

"The regents of the kingdom, the Duke of Lawn and the Duke of Lyonnaise, Adehad, the Duke of Bastogne, the Duke of Bastogne, François, the Duke of Winford, and the Duke of Boldroux, Boderick, have all arrived. They have just stayed at you. Castle." Mogiana nodded: "They have something to ask for you."

"Very well, it's finally here."

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