Intelligence department? Aurora was okay, but Theresa thought about it in her mind. The sorceress immediately began to think about the gains and losses of helping Ryan build the intelligence department. There is no doubt that Aurora and Theresa have become
There are wizards who need Ryan's protection and the resources he provides.
Aurora's eyes lit up after hearing what Ryan said. What she was most afraid of was that Ryan said that I don't need your help at all. If I go back and forth from wherever I go, then things would be really troublesome. On the contrary, if Ryan needs her and Te
With Teresa's help, they can naturally rely on Ryan's orders and Teresa's identity as a female courtier to automatically obtain part of Ryan's authority and enter Ryan's court. This is very important to Aurora.
Theresa thought for a while, then she said softly: "But Ryan, don't you already have an intelligence department under your command?"
Ryan nodded lightly, Theresa was right.
Ryan's power has its own intelligence department, which is mainly divided into two parts.
The first department is jointly managed by Sulia and Ryan, relying on the Oliver Chamber of Commerce, and is responsible for collecting the major forces and major trends in the old world. There are not many things this department can do. At most, it can only collect intelligence and
To convey messages and sometimes provide a place to hide.
The second part is managed by the dark elf Orika, a small team that closely monitors the chaos corruption and cultist activities in the territory, including vampire activities and Skaven activities. The dark elf cultivates blood according to
The Hand God Kane Assassin specially trained a few maids and established a peripheral structure. There are not many people in this group, and they all obey Orica's command.
"All the Oliver Chamber of Commerce can do is collect intelligence. They cannot carry out deeper work. What I need is not a source that passively accepts intelligence. What I want is someone who can actively help me conduct intelligence in the Kingdom of Britannia.
As for the organization of work, I have thought about it and I think you are the most
It's appropriate. My initial plan is that you can send your men to Bordeleau and Helen Hilde to establish branches first." Ryan explained his plan in detail to Teresa and Aurora: "
As for the house and opening a store, you don’t have to worry about it, I will naturally help you prepare it.”
Ice witches are indeed a special kind of existence. This kind of magic is a kind of chaos magic but does not cause mutation. It only makes the caster become cold-hearted. Queen Miska, the earliest female tsar of Kislev,
The secrets and tips for practicing ice magic were obtained from the ruins of the ancient saint. Due to the characteristics of ice magic, these witches practice magic indifferently and do not like to participate in it.
With politics, they are not easily corrupted by chaos. Even if they fail to practice, they will turn into ice sculptures and die silently. They will not affect the citizens or cause panic very much. They are very suitable for hiding in cities or suburbs. Compared with many wizards who abuse magic to cause panic or cause explosions.
Ice witches will not be so troublesome due to such bad influences. They are very quiet and like to do their own thing behind closed doors.
The only thing that makes ice witches extremely disgusted is male mages, because Miska, the first female tsarina of Kislev, came to the conclusion after reading the mysteries in the ancient holy ruins that men cannot practice ice magic.
Therefore, there are only ice witches and no ice wizards. Ice witches are naturally very powerful towards other male wizards.
Hostility and easy to cause conflicts. The secrets passed down by the ancient saints clearly stated that being too close to or combined with a male wizard will cause the ice magic to gradually weaken until it disappears forever. Therefore, when a male wizard tries to get close to the Ice Witch,
A battle is often inevitable (this is one of the reasons why Aurora is so afraid of Gelt).
Britannia has a natural excellent environment in this regard. As we all know, all children with magical potential will be sent to the Imperial Royal Wizarding Academy or the Southern Kingdoms Wizarding Alliance when they reach the age, headed by Morgiana.
Taken away by the prophets of the Lake God, the boys will be forever
disappear, the girls will be trained to return as new prophets of the Lake God. Therefore, the number of male wizards in Britannia is very small. Only some of the palaces of big nobles hire or invite from the Imperial Royal Wizarding Academy.
of male wizards, minimizing the possibility of conflict.
Both Aurora and Theresa nodded at what Ryan said. Aurora, the Holy Witch and the female elder of the Gloria Council, suddenly felt that there might indeed be nothing left to stay in the dangerous place of the Gloria Council. She
He has already begun to figure out how to move several female congressmen under his command, as well as hundreds of official witches and witch apprentices, but he is reluctant to give up the relationship network and wizard tower he has built over 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 don't you find Sulia or Olica?"
"Lidya Su... is inappropriate. She has basically taken charge of most of the internal affairs in the territory. She will decide all major and minor matters when I am not around. If this kind of matter is left to her to handle again, one is that she does not have enough energy."
, she also has to take Devon Hill with her, and the second one is not suitable either."
"As for Orica...she is too cruel." Ryan couldn't help but smile bitterly when talking about this matter: "It would be better to let her deal with non-human beings such as Chaos cultists and vampires. Her methods are too cruel to deal with her own people.
Yes, I don’t want this, this is not what I want.”
Although the dark elf is like a soft and fragrant pillow in front of Ryan, and she also likes to act coquettishly and make suggestions to him, you think Orica is a harmless maid. This dark elf from Nagaros is quite cruel by nature.
To capture the enemy, they would often cut it into a stick and hang it with a butcher's hook, letting the enemy bleed until death. She also proposed to Lane more than once to implement slavery and capture prisoners as coolies.
"I don't feel comfortable leaving this kind of internal situation to Olika." Ryan said calmly: "I still keep her by my side to take care of her. At least she listens to me."
"I understand." Teresa and Aurora exchanged glances. 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 leave such an important matter to us?"
"Then who else can I leave it to?" Ryan asked rhetorically. The crown prince of the Knight Kingdom, Duke Mousilon, the divine champion of the Fairy of the Lake smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I have to choose, who else can I choose? Nothing more than that.
Just choose one of three types: knights and nobles, the church, and wizards. The knights and nobles headed by Sulia control the administration, and the church headed by Morgiana controls the legislation and justice. Then you wizards can only supervise it."
When it comes to this matter, Aurora and Teresa have no objections.
The evening chat was over, and the attendants had heated up the hot water. Ryan asked Aurora and Theresa to take a bath first, and then he walked around the small village, walked to the grassroots, and paid homage to the villagers.
He brought greetings from the Knights of the Holy Grail, and at the same time took out a few bags of wheat and some pork belly from the remaining military rations, specifically to reward the serf guards in the village.
Seeing the generosity of the legendary Lord Lane, the serf villagers present were moved to tears. However, Lane also noticed that they were not particularly excited. They just expressed their gratitude and kowtowed in general, and briefly checked the food reserves in the villagers' homes.
Ryan was relatively satisfied. Most of the villagers still had enough food for the winter. A few of them ignored it because this was not his principality.
Most of the lords of the Principality of Bastogne are Holy Grail Knights. This principality is famous for its piety and low administrative efficiency. The result of the Holy Grail Knights being lords is that they are relatively more sympathetic to the hard work of the people, so they are not willing to oppress the serfs.
Would be so ruthless. At the same time, 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. The typical character is Kalad, a fierce man on the battlefield and an unparalleled general.
A weakling in domestic affairs.
Therefore, when Ryan's reform of changing the tithe to a fixed tax was promoted in the Principality of Bastogne, there was almost no obstacle. The Holy Grail Knights all believed that since this was in line with the virtues of chivalry and would not harm their interests too much, then so
Let's do it. After that, many of Lane's reforms were successfully implemented here. The entire principality has become energetic again, and the serfs are at least guaranteed to have enough food and clothing.
Ryan walked to the village street, and in the dark night, he exhaled a white breath.
Yeah, who else could I use?
As a duke, his subordinates are nothing more than knights, nobles, church and wizards, and they are all the same people he chooses.
Didn't he know about the Surya family's infiltration into his territory? Didn't he know that Aurora's bachelor party proposal was also an infiltration into his territory? Even Morgiana, the Lake God Witch, built the Holy Grail Church in Mousilon everywhere.
Doesn’t he know about this kind of infiltration? Doesn’t he know that the tax collection bureaucrats trained by the church also infiltrate?
What can we do? Besides these people, who else can Ryan use? In this kingdom, who has read books? Who has received an orthodox education? It’s not these people, either knights, nobles, wizards or churches, you can choose
Those are the three kinds of people.
The Old Guard? The Old Guard is still just a nascent force for the time being. This army has a military background and a low level of education. At most, it can only recognize a few hundred words and can read and write. It is impossible to switch to administration.
, at least not now. These soldiers who were born as serfs are not suitable to immediately transform into bureaucrats. There will be very serious consequences. As for what the consequences are, you know.
What Ryan has done so far is only a small step in the evolution of the entire Britannia from aristocratic politics to clan politics. He has opened a channel for class ascent, nothing more, and the empire has already been transformed by Luther the savior.
This step was taken after the Vichy restructuring.
"I'm ashamed, I just did a small job." Ryan looked at the smoke rising from the village, his blue eyes gradually became firm: "I can't stop yet, I still have many things to complete."
After wandering around the village and returning to the big house, the fire was lit in the warm room and the windows were closed tightly to dispel the chill in the middle of winter. Ryan took a nice bath and put on light clothes.
After putting on his clothes and opening the door to the back room, his eyes immediately lit up.
Teresa was sitting on the bed reading a book and had taken a bath. Her previous black swan coat and leg-fitting breeches had been replaced by a violet retro Gothic palace dress, showing off her beautiful figure.
She has a straight line, a standard oval face and long shimmering black hair that still has some moisture on it, and she has obviously been wearing makeup. Her lavender eye shadow and bright eyelashes are charming and full of moving style.
A pair of slender beautiful legs are exposed like two jade pillars. Thin black velvet stockings are wrapped on the slender white legs, which are crystal clear and attractive. The pink stockings painted with purple nail polish are stepped on a pair of feet.
Simple elf sandals. Seeing Ryan come in, Theresa raised her head from the pages of the magic book. She reached out and adjusted her black-framed purple butterfly pattern glasses: "Are they washed?"
"Yes, it's washed." Ryan nodded with a smile. He walked to Teresa and hugged the sorceress into his arms: "It's so comfortable."
The room was filled with the scent of lavender. Teresa's face gradually turned red. She reached out and held Ryan's hand: "Lian, what do you think if I let my mother come over to your place to develop?"
"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 to give up."
"You sound like you know my mother better than I do." The sorceress rolled her eyes at Ryan and sighed softly: "You are right, my mother is a little reluctant to let go, and she is still hesitating."
"It doesn't matter, she still has a lot of time to think." Ryan shook his head, and he kissed Teresa gently on her red lips: "I promised that I will welcome you at any time, but since you have come to my territory, you must abide by me.
rules, rather than occupying the mountain and becoming the king in the Sky Castle."
"Forget it, let's not talk about this for now, that... Ryan, my mother told me that if I give you a child, it is best... it is best to have a surname of Trovik. This is our family's surname. It must be
Pass it on." Teresa leaned on Ryan's shoulder. She blushed when talking about this issue, but she was indescribably firm: "What do you think?"
Ryan thought to himself that even if we had a child, it would be impossible for your child to be named Macado. Only the child of Sulia and I could be named Macado.
The man pretended to ponder for a moment, and finally looked unhappy and nodded reluctantly: "Okay, if you insist."
"Great, thank you!" Teresa could feel Ryan's embarrassment. Thinking that Ryan still agreed to her, the sorceress felt sweet in her heart: "Then, have you decided what to name the child?"
"What's your name~" Ryan put his arm around Theresa's waist and said with some evil humor: "If it's a boy, let's call him Siegfried, and if the girl is called Theresa or Kallen, how about she call her Kiana?
That’s okay.”
"What kind of weird names are these?" Teresa obviously didn't like these names: "Only Cecilia sounds better, but I don't like them either. I don't want any of them."
"If you don't like it, you can discuss it later." Ryan said with a bad smile, "The premise is that we want to have one."
"Well... let's have one."
…………I am now the dividing line of Kiana’s time…………
It took a few days for the army to pass through the Chalon Forest and arrive at Ryan's territory. Both Ryan and Theresa were in good spirits, but Aurora's spirit was not very good. She was obviously angry and dissatisfied.
In this state, Ryan always pretended not to see it.
On the way back to the territory, the Lake God Witch Morgiana was already waiting with a team of Holy Grail guards. Seeing Ryan and Theresa appearing, Morgiana first frowned, 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, Duke Laune and Duke Adehard of Lyonnaise, Duke Bohemond of Bastogne, Duke François of Winford, and Duke Boderick of Bordeaux are all here. They have just stayed with you.
Castle." Morgiana nodded: "They have something to ask you for."