"Zheng clang clang..." The sound of sword strikes became one.
After a long while, Lorist put his sword back into its sheath and nodded in satisfaction: "Yes, you have made great progress. With your current sword skills, you can withstand the attack of a gold one-star swordsman. You still have to work harder, you know?"
Reddy on the opposite side bowed his head respectfully: "Yes, teacher."
After a year, Lorist discovered that Reddy had made great progress. He had been practicing hard in closed doors at the back mountain training ground of the Rock Castle. Not only did he break through the third level of the Danhai Yinqi technique, he also successfully reached the peak of Mingjin , Even his swordsmanship has improved a lot.
"You stabilize the realm of the third layer again, and then go out for a walk and look around. What you need to break through the fourth layer of Danhai Qi Yin Technique is not hard training, but some insight to break through, and even more Experience the experience of life and death. Usually you have to use your brain and think more, keep a peaceful state of mind, and don't get angry easily, understand?"
"Understood, thank you teacher for your guidance."
After leaving the training ground in the back mountain, Lorist took Schwader back to the central castle, and El greeted him: "My lord, Knight Tagle and Chief Camorra are already waiting in the reception room..."
Lorist nodded: "Let them go to the study, and you come too."
How time flies, when I left Dawn Academy and my friends organized a convoy northward to return to the family territory, when passing through the northwest region of the Kingdom of Ridleys, I was attacked by Earl Cobili's spear cavalry, and finally I led the convoy armed to defeat Count Cobili occupied its main city, which is the capital of the Northwest Province, Gerdos City.
At that time, Tager was just a warden of the forced labor camp in Gerdos City, a black iron two-star grudge, and as timid as a mouse. But Lorist somehow felt that he was a talent, so he forced him to take his family and follow the convoy northward. Then, due to time constraints, Lorist went north with light clothes, but Tagle was miserable without Lorist's care. He also fought hard for the sake of his family and joined Yuri's scout light cavalry battalion.
After becoming a scout light cavalryman, Tager changed his old temperament of being greedy for life and fear of death. Several life-and-death experiences also made his fighting spirit reach the peak of black iron, and he became more calm and generous. Then, when he arrived at the family territory, he met Lorist, and was accepted by Lorist as his personal attendant. A year later, he was promoted to the silver rank, and was accepted as a family knight by Lorist.
Lorist's use of Tager in the past two years is very surprising. He always transfers Tager's envoys around. Write a report for each of his positions and give it to him to read, no matter what experience or feeling you have, you must write it down in detail.
Rock Castle, study room on the second floor.
"My lord, I salute you." Tagle made a knightly salute, and the head of Camorra next to him made a half-bow.
"Very good, Tagle, you have done well in the past two years, huh? Your battle qi cultivation is also very fast, and now you are already a silver star?" Lorist was really a little surprised.
"Yes, my lord, after I got the high-level battle qi cheat book that you rewarded, I found that it is much faster than the previous military battle qi." Tager replied gratefully.
"That's because your battle qi attributes match." Lorist said with a smile, and looked at the silent Kamora beside him: "Camora, if you want to awaken your battle qi, maybe I can help you."
Manager Camorra smiled wryly: "My lord, don't be kidding me. I'm almost forty-five. Didn't you say that you can't awaken fighting spirit if you're over thirty-five?"
"That's a fallacy. When I was studying in Morente City ten years ago, I heard that the oldest person who awakened fighting qi was forty-eight years old. Of course, it is said that he used very precious medicine, which is priceless. But if you want to awaken fighting qi I can help you, it's just that you have to endure a period of hardships, as short as three months and as long as half a year, and you must strictly abide by my requirements to live in order to awaken your fighting spirit, do you want to try?" Lorist also came out of nowhere interest.
Manager Camorra's expression changed for a long time, and finally he bowed his head in front of Lorist: "My lord, please grant me..."
Lorist began to feel the pulse of Chief Camorra: "You were poor in childhood, your body was a little underdeveloped, and you were tired from running around in your youth, and your foundation was very weak. After middle age, your life improved. Well, you did not indulge. You restrained yourself and maintained a good health. Living habits, the body is very healthy. In addition to some laborious hair loss, I also have some anxiety, and I don’t sleep well at night, and I tend to suffer from insomnia after waking up in the middle of the night... "
Manager Camorra turned pale with shock as if he had seen a ghost: "My lord, you just put my hand on my hand and you know that I can't sleep well at night?"
"Nonsense." Lorist laughed, "I'm lying to you. You can't sleep well at night. You can ask the guards at your side about the situation when you wake up to read in the middle of the night. The shadow on the window when you read a book..."
"To be honest, Camorra, your body is not bad, but you may be too anxious to sleep well, how about this, you hand over the matter at hand to your deputy, and give yourself half a year's leave. During this half year, you will go to the new barracks and The recruits receive training together, of course the amount of training must be halved. In addition, I will give you a prescription for diet and nourishing potions, and strictly follow the life regulations formulated in the recruit camp. In this way, I guarantee that you will be able to awaken your battle qi with a 80% chance. Try it."
Camorra pondered for a while: "Okay, my lord, I will do as you say."
Lorist clapped his hands: "Okay, I have recruited you here today because I need you to do something. El, come forward, don't stand in the corner."
"Our family can be said to be prospering day by day, but we still have a shortcoming, that is, the transmission of intelligence and news. Sometimes we stay in the Northland, and we don't know anything about what is happening outside. But now we have opened The sea route to Hilovas Island is like opening a window to the outside world, where you can get a lot of information, such as the Glass War between the Business Alliance and the Kingdom of Trimble and the Second Highness’s surprise attack on King Federica over the Snow Mountain.
But we have to be soberly aware that we passively receive this information, and it has already happened for a period of time when it reaches our ears, which will bring great inconvenience and inconvenience to our family. time delay. So I want to set up such a department, take the initiative to understand and discover the major events that happened on the Galintia continent, and pass them on to the family as soon as possible, so that the family can consider the impact of this upcoming event, and respond appropriately. Did you understand what I said? "
The three were silent, and after a while Camorra opened his mouth: "My lord, you mean to send spies to various places, and then pass back the news?"
Loris nodded.
Tager smiled wryly: "My lord, this is very difficult to do. Among other things, the cost of sending this secret agent is a huge amount of money. Take the twenty-nine provinces of the former Krissen Empire as an example, Every province needs a spy team, and they need to break into the upper class of that place to get more information, and all of this requires a lot of money."
El thought for a while and said, "My lord, if it's in the family territory, I can guarantee that nothing will escape our ears, just like what I did in Morente City. But going outside, it's a mess , it is difficult to guarantee the safety of the spies. It is not cost-effective to send the life of a spies for an unimportant piece of information."
Lorist stood up and shook his head: "You are wrong, I don't want this kind of spies. Now the spies in the Gallentia continent are just like you imagined, either as nobles who deal with the upper class in various countries or regions. Classes, holding dances, banquets, etc., looking for news or rumors as intelligence. Or, as El said, recruiting those idle bastards to wander around pubs and hotels every day, and report strangers or suspicious people when they find them.
This is not what I want. Tager, do you know why I was interested in you when I was in Gerdos City? I thought you were the only one who forced you to follow the convoy north with your family? "
Tager shook his head: "My lord, I don't know. I didn't even know that I would be promoted to the silver rank. At that time, I would just eat and wait for death. I thought my life would be like this, really. I really don’t know why your lord is optimistic about me, of course, I am very grateful for your kindness now, if your lord hadn’t forced me to go north, I would never have become a knight like I am now.”
Lorist laughed: "Do you know that your boastful talk back then moved me? I really didn't expect that you would know the city of Gerdos like the back of your hand, and you could answer everything. , What materials arrived two days ago and where are they stored? You must know that you were just the warden of a small hard labor camp back then, not the acting lord of Gerdos City or the chief steward of Count Cobili. I think you are born to be A material to be a secret agent, that's why your family was forced to go north."
"You can't deny that you are naturally curious about inquiring about things, right? Tager, I have changed you to a dozen positions in two years, but every time I find that you can get familiar with new positions without much time. Working environment, meeting new friends, you will feel like a duck to water in your new job within a month, and you can build a good relationship with anyone. Those who don’t know will think that you have been working for ten or eight years...
This is your talent, so I say you are a born spy. And your mouth is very tight, every time you get a new position, you don't talk about your old job, which I am very relieved.
What I want to form this time is not a secret agent organization, but an intelligence department, or an investigation bureau or something like that. Although there are spies, they are officially called intelligence investigators.
I believe that in many places, there are people who are well-informed or interested in all local news like you used to be in Gerdos City, Tager, your task is to discover and dig them out, and bring them Develop into our intelligence investigators, and pass on the major events that happened in those places to the family.
As for the upper class in a place, we don't need any noble spies to buy the entourage and attendants of those nobles, then the information we get is more reliable and detailed. Just like Camorra bought Viscount Kenmes's followers back then.
I think a qualified intelligence investigator should be a person with a legitimate job and a certain influence in the local area, such as a tailor, a tavern owner, a fish vendor, or a garrison captain. People will not suspect that they are our family's intelligence personnel, so those nobles' personal followers or attendants will not care if they pass on information to them. At most, they will only think that they are normal contacts, chatting like friends...
If no one meets our requirements, then we can also cultivate ourselves. For example, those loyal and brave soldiers of our family who retired due to disabilities, if they are willing to serve the family again, then we can train them how to listen to intelligence, master a craft, and then help them return to their hometown and open a small shop, where become a source of intelligence for our family..."
Lorist paused, opened the drawer, and took out a thick animal skin folder: "Here are some ideas I have for this intelligence investigation department. You can go back and have a look, and tell me what you think." .
The three of you are here because I hope that the three of you will be in charge of this new department together. Tager is responsible for the arrangement and deployment of intelligence personnel, Camora is responsible for checking and sorting out the intelligence, and El is in charge of the Operations Department to cooperate with Tager's work. "
"Operation?" El asked suspiciously, "What is that for?"
Lorist made a throat-slitting motion: "During the process of Tagle arranging or selecting intelligence personnel, there is a high possibility that some troubles will be encountered, such as local thugs, provocations by gang members, or those The intelligence personnel selected by us have their own grievances and so on.
Those local gangsters who have hindered our intelligence work have Tagle's list, and you, El, are responsible for eliminating them. By the way, your operations staff will be selected from the guard battalion, and the number of people will be tentatively set at three teams. "
"Understood, my lord," said Al.
"My lord, then I won't go to the new barracks. I'll first sort out the intelligence investigation department." Director Camorra said.
"No, the surveillance of your intelligence department is not in a hurry. You go to the new barracks first. On the one hand, you will prepare for your awakening of fighting spirit. On the other hand, you should pay attention to the new barracks and select some clever ones or those who you think are suitable to become For the recruits of intelligence investigators, observe for a period of time to confirm that they are reliable, then transfer them out for training, become the team of this intelligence investigation bureau, and then send them out later. After all, Tager can't go all over the place before selecting And arrange intelligence investigators?" Lorist rejected Camorra's proposal.
"It's not urgent. You can take it step by step. I'm satisfied with establishing a rough intelligence network on the territory of the former empire within three years. The family will provide you with all the funds and materials you need. But At present, we are still facing the biggest problem, that is, how do we pass the information back to the family after we get it? There is chaos outside, and it is not very safe to use people as messengers, as El said, and the time limit is too slow. It's been a while since I came back. Is there anything you can do?" Lorist asked.
"My lord, can petrels be raised on a large scale, just like using petrels to send messages between ships on the sea?" El said.
"No." Lorist shook his head: "I asked Semba Wood, this kind of messenger petrel is too limited. First, it has to be hatched and raised on a ship, and then it will be sent to that ship. As a family, if you want to communicate with other ships, you need to put it in a black cage and take it there. It will find that ship at sea and return after it is released on another ship, and the distance should not be too far, more than sixty or seventy. It's over."
"My lord, I read it in a book before. It is said that ancient magicians used crows or owls to deliver letters. Can we also experiment?" Tagle suggested.
Lorist rolled his eyes straight away: "You're not a magician, do you know how to train crows and owls to deliver letters? Or is there any ruins that have dug up information about this?"
Tagle fell silent.
"My lord, we may use the hawk to deliver the message," Camorra said.
"Harrier Eagle?"
"Yes, my lord, I know an old hunter who can tame a hawk. I once saw him tie several medicinal herbs to the eagle's claws and send the hawk to his son's residence in a city hundreds of miles away, so I thought maybe You can use the Harrier Eagle to send messages," Camorra said.
"Well, go to someone and ask someone. If the Harrier Eagle can send messages, we will vigorously domesticate the Harrier Eagle. The family can invest a lot of money for this. Maybe with the Harrier Eagle that can deliver letters, the family's armed forces can be more sensitive to changes in the situation on the battlefield. .” Lorist really hoped that Harrier Eagle could deliver the letter, so that it would be worth the money the family spent.
"My lord, I have another question." Tager said, "What should our intelligence investigation department be called?"
"Name? KGB? Central Intelligence Agency? National Security Agency? Stasi? Gestapo? Mossad? MI6?" All the names of famous intelligence agencies in previous lives flashed through Lorist's mind, but These are all irrelevant, and finally he remembered the pronunciation of Angry Bear in English.
"Volibear, let's call it Volibear."
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