Baron Christon came to submit a report on the establishment plan of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to Lorist. Lorist thought that Baron Christon would start anew, asking for money and people to form a brand new department. But he didn't expect Baron Christon to give him a big surprise.
"Baron Christon, how did you come up with the idea of using the patrol force to weave a network to monitor the family territory?" Lorist asked appreciatively.
Baron Christon replied respectfully: "Your Highness, in the former empire, Christen III specially formed a security force to patrol the city and maintain the tranquility of the noble residential area because he disliked the recklessness and incompetence of the city defense force. The origin of the police force. By the time of Christen IV, the patrol force was given the functions of solving criminal cases, combating urban crimes and underground gang organizations.
After Christen VI came to the throne, the patrol team once again increased the responsibilities of city management, assisting in tax collection, and maintaining the order of market transactions. At the same time, they also received a secret mission to monitor any organizations and individuals who opposed the royal family of Christen. In a sense, there is no big difference in function between the patrol team during the Christian Empire period and the Ministry of Internal Affairs that His Highness is planning to form, so the humble officer thought of using the patrol team that had already taken shape in the family territory to form the Ministry of Internal Affairs. department. This is the fastest and only way to form a monitoring network covering the entire family territory. "
Lorist smiled and shook his head: "Baron Christon, have you forgotten the incident of the patrol team's cage in the imperial capital in the last years of Christon VI? It is precisely because the imperial capital's patrol team has too many responsibilities and powers. It was so big that it grew into a greedy monster after losing effective supervision. At that time, the residents of the imperial capital were all pale when they heard the name of the patrol team, and they were afraid that the patrol team would come to their homes and cause their families to be destroyed.
After the police cage incident was exposed, the residents of the entire imperial capital took to the streets to protest, and the nobles in the imperial capital united to write a letter to King Krissen VI demanding that the official organization of the police be banned. King Christen VI, who was kept in the dark, was furious when he learned of the atrocities committed by the patrol team. It was not until Christen VII came to the throne ten years later that the patrol team was reset due to the inconvenience of city management.
Your idea is very good, but I cannot agree to bring the Patrol Force under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Interior. Baron Christon, there are three main purposes for setting up the Ministry of Internal Affairs. One is to prevent external spies from prying into the family territory, the second is to prevent rebels from conspiring against the family territory, and the third is to monitor the family's internal management system and prevent corruption and malfeasance. officials to be punished.
To put it simply, if our Norton family is a towering tree, then I hope that the Ministry of Internal Affairs will become a woodpecker flying around the tree. It will catch all kinds of pests growing on the body of the tree and ensure the health of the tree. grow. In my vision, the Ministry of Internal Affairs is the family's eyes for internal self-examination. It only investigates and detects. As for the plans that need to be implemented, the guard battalion is responsible. "
The police cage incident was also a well-known public protest in the history of the Krissen Empire. The reason is that the patrol team of the imperial capital has become a veritable king of the imperial capital because of too much power. Just like the arrogant and invincible secret service organizations recorded in the history books of Lorist's previous life, the power is overwhelming, and the people will be accused of treason against the empire if they are even slightly disrespectful. .
When such a behemoth turns its greedy eyes to innocent people in order to extort money, one can imagine how cruel the consequences will be. Countless wealthy residents and businessmen in the imperial capital often disappear in one night, and their properties are seized. From time to time, there are good news that the patrol team has cracked some conspiracy against the empire, and a large number of so-called criminals have been hanged on the gallows. The residents of the imperial capital are precarious, and they dare not even say hello when they meet on the road. The entire imperial capital is shrouded in a bloody storm.
Several aristocratic children who were studying in the imperial capital heard the servants say that ghosts would cry in the sewer every midnight, so they became curious and organized an adventure team to catch ghosts in the sewer. As a result, following the shrill cry, they arrived at a large underground space. This underground space was full of iron cages, and countless dying people were imprisoned in the cages. It turns out that these people are the family members and relatives of the so-called traitors who have fled without a trace and are wanted by the patrol team...
The truth was soon exposed to the residents of the imperial capital. The imperial capital's patrol team can arrest people for interrogation, but they do not have the power to imprison prisoners, so criminals must be transferred to the prison department after being interrogated. The patrol team has arrested so many civilians and businessmen to extort money, they can't hand over these innocent people who have been wronged to the prison department, but use the crime of absconding and disappearing to achieve the purpose of embezzling the property of these innocent people.
So the patrol team secretly dug an underground space in the basement of the station as their own prison, custom-made cages to imprison prisoners, and those who have value can live for a while, and those who have no value will starve to death. Everyone who has seen the underground cage space is angry that there is such a hell on earth in the underground of the imperial capital. After the incident was exposed, the end of the patrol team came. More than 100,000 residents of the entire imperial capital took to the streets to protest, and the city defense army took over the imperial capital. The nobles jointly wrote a letter requesting that the patrol team be punished.
King Christen VI was very angry. The patrol team he had always trusted had been deceiving him, so he ordered the banning of the patrol team. More than 3,000 patrol officers involved in the case were beheaded for public display. This is the Cage Incident of the Krissen Empire Patrol Team. But the most ridiculous thing is that after the patrol team was banned, the imperial capital did not become safer in the next ten years, but became the most chaotic ten years, with gangsters rampant, crimes occurred frequently, and street fights continued. It is very common to encounter dead bodies on the road. Residents of the imperial capital have to carry weapons and find a companion to ensure safety when they go to buy a piece of bread.
It wasn't until Christen VII came to the throne ten years later that the patrol team was reorganized in order to rectify the serious security and environmental problems in the imperial capital. However, most of the duties of the patrol team were cut. Apart from patrolling and maintaining city order, it was responsible for the detection of criminal cases. and interrogated. It is precisely because the patrol team lost the power to monitor the conspirators who rebelled against the empire, so the imperial civil war broke out as soon as Christen VII died.
Baron Christon was a little discouraged because Lorist rejected his plan to form the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but he still wanted to persuade Lorist: "Your Highness, you are right, the incident of the patrol team's cage in the former Empire era It is indeed worthy of our vigilance, but as long as we strengthen supervision, we can avoid the same unfortunate incident from happening again. In fact, if the patrol team is brought under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, then the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ surveillance network on the family territory can be launched in the shortest possible time... "
Lorist stood up, walked to Baron Christon's side and patted him on the shoulder: "Baron Christon, I don't think your idea of forming the Ministry of Internal Affairs is wrong, it's just that you misunderstood what I said. Meaning. Although I am opposed to bringing the patrol team under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, you can definitely choose personnel from the patrol team and use cooperative or part-time methods to weave this network of monitoring family territories.
I have other arrangements for the patrol team. At present, the population of the entire Northland has reached more than 3.2 million, and the public security environment will be the focus of the family's next rectification. The patrol team will also be independent from the family management to form another security system. You can imagine that the police force will also be a network in the future, but it is on the bright side. The Ministry of Internal Affairs is another net, hidden in the dark. All the criminals who have been overlooked by the ostensible net of the patrol team cannot escape the arrest of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Do you understand what I mean? "
Baron Christon suddenly realized: "Your Highness, I understand. What you mean is that in the future, the patrol team will be a shield on the surface, while our Ministry of Internal Affairs will be a sword in the dark. We can cooperate with the patrol team to monitor the entire family territory. The suspects that make the patrol team helpless on the surface are the real monitoring targets of our Ministry of Internal Affairs... I will go back immediately and formulate a new plan for the establishment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs... "
"Wait, Baron Christon, I still have a task for you." Lorist hesitated for a while, then returned to the desk, opened the drawer and took out a black folder.
"This matter annoys me, but I don't know how to solve it. Take it and have a look, and don't disclose it to others. If you have any good solution, you can ask Reddy of the guards to help you , if there is no good way, then return this folder to me... "
Baron Christon took the black folder and opened it, he couldn't help but tremble. But he still put away the folder, and then bowed to Lorist who had his back turned to him: "Your Highness, I'll go back and think of a way."
Lorist didn't make a sound, and waved his hand to signal Baron Christon to step back. It wasn't until he was the only one left in the study that Lorist let out a long and faint sigh, sitting on the chair with an unsteady expression on his face.
Three days later, a message from Feiying came from Fenglin Villa, and Mrs. Elina, who was imprisoned there, died of a sudden illness...
Since Lorist had to preside over the family's military system reform meeting and couldn't escape, he had no choice but to ask his cousin Chrisya to go to Fenglin Villa to take care of Mrs. Irina's funeral, and send him and Mrs. Irina The second son of life, Wilward, was brought back to Bear City.
The family's military system reform meeting was held for five days, and the name of the new department was also decided, it was called the Armed Forces Department. In the case of the transfer order stamped with the Great Seal of the Ministry of Armed Forces, the transfer of more than ten soldiers from the Norton family will be regarded as an act of rebellion. Even the top chief executives of the family headed by Fatty Shi must obtain permission from the Ministry of Armed Forces to mobilize the family's armed forces.
Except for the 220,000 family armed main force determined by Lorist, who still maintained generous treatment, the rest of the troops were all reduced to a local garrison with 24,000 people and two garrison corps in the North. , Winston Province, Dremke Province, and Makinohara Province each have a local garrison corps, a garrison corps on Shilovas Island, and a garrison corps on Haneyabada Islands. What is different from the past is that this time all town and village garrison teams have been incorporated into the establishment of the local garrison corps. This alone has cut the total number of family armed forces by almost half.
Director Speer was delighted with the order of Lorist's major disarmament, so that the family's financial expenditure on armaments would be less than one-third in the future. But then the protests of Fatty Shi, Baron Camorra and others also made Director Speer sober, and he also joined the ranks of opposing this disarmament order.
The civil servants of the administrative system protested mainly against the reduction of the size of the garrison battalion. Although the garrison battalion was involved in the family civil strife initiated by Chief Hansk, in all honesty, the garrison battalion with only five battalions belonged to the family. An indispensable armed force. Because it is responsible for the security of the family's warehouses, the secret industrial and mining workshops, the guards of prisons and captive labor, and the transportation of logistics and supplies.
Strictly speaking, the garrison battalion is only under the jurisdiction of the family's civil service administrative system, and does not belong to the military force that can be deployed in the family's armed forces. Lorist seldom thought that there were still five garrison battalions in the family's armed forces when he dispatched troops before. At most, he recruited a few town garrison teams to form a temporary garrison battalion to be responsible for the transportation of logistics and supplies, and disbanded immediately after the war. If Director Hanske hadn't used the retired veterans of the five garrison battalions to start the family civil strife this time, Lorist would have completely forgotten about the five garrison battalions.
"The reduction of the garrison battalion from the family's armed forces is a must, and I'm not giving up because of fear." Lorist patted the table and stopped the quarrel among the civilian officials: "Military and political separation, if the garrison battalion is not reduced, then the Ministry of Armed Forces must accept it." Command, so that the administrative system has to obtain permission from the Ministry of Armed Forces when supplies are supplied and out of the warehouse. This will only add countless troubles and contradictions to us, and even increase administrative costs and expenses due to the long distance.
The garrison battalions were reduced, and the responsibilities they would have assumed would henceforth be given to the armed patrols. After the separation of government and military, the garrison teams in various towns and villages will no longer be dispatched by civilian officials of the administrative system. They are only responsible for maintaining the safety of towns and villages, unless they are suppressing riots. In the future, these town garrison teams will no longer be responsible for local security activities , unless ordered by the Ministry of Armed Forces.
As for the maintenance of local public security and order, it will be handed over to the patrol police in the future. I plan to set up a police department in the family, a police station in the city, a police station in the town, and a police station in the village, and be responsible for the patrol and security work of the entire family territory. This is the only armed unit in the family's administrative system. As for the armed patrols, they are responsible for the same work as the five garrison battalions that were cut down. "
Lorist's words finally stopped the quarrel among the civilian officials in the administrative system. However, Lorist emphasized that the expenses of this police department will be included in the family's administrative expenses and calculated separately in the future, and will no longer belong to military expenses. Therefore, how large a security system and armed patrols need to be established requires detailed accounting. The current officer in charge of this security agency was designated by Lorist as the director of Kedan.
After the five-day military system reform conference, the Norton family's armed forces immediately started to reorganize and downsize, hoping to complete most of the work before the arrival of the new year. Lorist was so busy that he didn't have any free time until mid-November.
When she returned to Raging Bear City, Chrisya had already returned from Maple Forest Villa, and she reported to Lorist that Mrs. Elina must have died of a heart attack. Because Lesket's attack greatly stimulated Mrs. Irina, she was imprisoned in the building of Maplewood Villa and cried day and night, often crying and cursing Lorist and lamenting Leske With her special name, the guards guarding her privately thought that Mrs. Irina had gone mad.
The day Mrs. Elina died was around eight o'clock in the evening, and she started cursing Lorist as usual, and at the same time called Master Lescott's name. After crying for about half an hour, Mrs. Elina's voice suddenly stopped. At that time, the guards were not used to it, so it felt strange to stop so early tonight. But Mrs. Elina sometimes fell asleep directly because of exhaustion, so everyone didn't care.
At around ten o'clock, when the guards patrolled outside the door as usual, they found that they did not hear Mrs. Elina's breathing. They hurried in to have a look, only to find that her face was blue and she had died of breath. After examination by the pharmacist, it was determined that the death was caused by an acute heart attack due to excessive emotion. When Krisya went there, she checked the body and found that the body was well preserved. Mrs. Elina had no injuries on her body, and she was determined to have died of a heart attack...
But Krisya made a request to Lorist, she wanted to adopt Lorist and Elena's second son Wilward. Because of the changes during this period, Wilward was terrified. He was just a child under thirteen years old, and Chrisya wanted to take this poor child with her. Lorist pondered over and over again, and finally agreed to Chrisya's request.
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