Public trial?You deserve it too!

"But don't worry, according to the director's intentions, the Imperial Intelligence Bureau is probably about to be reorganized. It should be almost done when this wave of anti-revolutionaries is over. At that time, if old people like us apply to retire, His Majesty should It will still end well.”

The woman nodded slightly.

But her heart sank more and more into the abyss.

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Now Claude is sitting opposite Nicholas in Nicholas' office.

"Well, it seems that there is really no help in the Imperial Intelligence Agency. I only have a special operations team in my hand-of course there are a few secretaries and administrators who follow me, but the rest will be Here you go, Claude."

Nicholas sighed a little frowningly. He could not spare himself, the head of the Imperial Intelligence Bureau. He had to admit that the Theocracy had already gained a crushing advantage over them.

"My soldiers are fine, but we are all just killing people, and we don't know anything about intelligence, secret disks, conspiracy and the like."

Claude bullied honest people by relying on his own personality, telling nonsense with his eyes open.

"And I always feel that the role of my side overlaps with the special operations team that you can still use in your hand-I don't think that the eradication of counter-revolutionaries can be done by killing alone, especially since His Majesty wants to maintain the stability of the empire. If so, purely murderous response should not work, right?"

Nicholas also nodded. He also thought about this question, but since the emperor did not give other support, then it was probably because of that?

"So, I think the final article should fall on the position of Director of the First Division you just got."

He expressed his conjecture.

"For a long time, there has been only personnel records in various places, and a personnel review every three years when you return to the imperial capital—so there is likely to be a list that His Majesty has personally reviewed, and a list that will hand over the secrets to you. list."

Claude immediately understood, the good boy and the bad boy of a loving father.

"Moreover, the personnel appointments over there are all in the hands of His Majesty. I think it should be the reason why I have disappointed His Majesty this time, so His Majesty is unwilling to let me control more power, but Crowe De you, you can get people under the name of one place."

Nicola looked at Claude seriously.

"As long as His Majesty is willing, anyone can be a member of one department—in other words, you, the chief of the first department, can have all kinds of manpower, and His Majesty must have intelligence personnel. After all, the Army That military intelligence group has as many talents as us."

"So next, you go back to the palace to go to a resident, and you must find a way to get some help from His Majesty, especially with regard to review and intelligence. These are talent gaps that we urgently need and cannot find a way to fill."

Claude nodded lightly. Through Nicholas' explanation, all his doubts were answered, and the questions he didn't ask were just figured out——

About why the emperor asked himself to be in charge of the purge.

In the final analysis, this is actually the fault of Claude himself...

Because the outbreak of the Brittany rebellion was the most important reason for this situation.

Because the original emperor calculated very clearly that Claude's military exploits completed the conquest of the originally planned aristocratic territories, and basically reached the minimum level of the Mithril Knights—but the rebellion broke out and the Merchant Alliance entered , This prevented the emperor from waiting slowly for Claude to occupy, but directly carried out a rapid occupation across the country.

As a result, Claude has not yet won half of the credit assigned to him in the original plan, and the rebel territories of the entire empire have been occupied, leaving only the Brittany Peninsula, where the two armies are facing each other. .

No matter how much the emperor wanted to support Claude, he had to talk about the basic FA. If the credit is not enough, it is not enough. Then Claude's plan to upgrade the Ninth Guards Knights will come to naught.

This is not the biggest problem, the biggest problem is - the expansion of the entire Jiujinqi is stuck.

Because now the 4000 people in his hands have been equipped with mithril armor, and the construction of the mithril magic net has been put on the agenda.This means that if the establishment is to be expanded, the Nine Near Cavalry will inevitably be forcibly divided into two combat units-this is basically equivalent to the endorsement of poor command in battle

And in the future, when the Nine Near Cavalry is upgraded, the knights that have been expanded may have to be stripped out for training again—it’s better to recruit some newcomers to train on the spot. Negative bonus to combat power...

So the emperor had to start looking for credit for Claude in the empire - the orcs in the north were almost killed, and there was no credit to be squeezed; while the east was too slow, and the elves were determined to drag it out.

As for the newly opened Breton front to the west...

Claude has a guess, that is, when the emperor is keeping calm and all the previous emperors are present, their thinking about this rebellion may become closer to Claude's idea-that is, to give the entire merchant alliance of.

Otherwise, it doesn't make sense that Brittany's progress would be so ambiguous, because Gorman should have been fighting to defend the port of Brest in response to the trash of the Merchant Alliance, not as it is now, and the front line will be maintained. In the Principality of Brittany, there are still two hundred kilometers away from Brest.

Yes, even Claude didn't expect that he had already helped the Merchant Alliance to prepare to this point, and the other party was still arguing-so that Claude didn't bother to go to Gutenberg to go to the Brittany Peninsula, but He threw a standby instruction to the other party, and then left the imperial capital to kill people.

Then, when the Theocracy in the south has not yet entered the arena, it is a very good choice to suppress the hidden rebellion in the country.

However, he disagreed with Nicholas' final speculation. The emperor probably wouldn't give him any extra support, and one point should be the biggest support given by the other party.

So now there is only one question left -

Who are the group of "clerks" in one place?

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While figuring it out by himself, Claude chatted with Nicholas one after another.

Until someone knocked on the office door.

"Your Excellency, there is a carriage from the palace outside, and it is said that it is here to pick up Your Excellency Claude."

Claude changed his expression, stood up, and Nicholas also stood up.

"Then I'll leave it to you, Claude."

"I see."

Claude nodded, opened the door and walked out, followed the people outside the door, and walked out of the Intelligence Bureau's resident.

The carriage outside was plain and unpretentious, and it didn't seem like the carriage used in the palace - but Claude recognized someone's carriage.

Sure enough, when the door was opened, it was Heinrich sitting inside.

"Come on, I'll take you to a place."

Concise and concise.

Claude jumped into the carriage, closed the doors and windows, and there was no sound in the carriage as usual.

"...can I ask questions?"

Claude can't do anything about it. He really has nothing to do with such a guy who has no desires and desires.

"can."

This time, Heinrich actually nodded very definitely.

"What exactly does His Majesty want me to do? If one place is the clerical office, it shouldn't be easy to assist me in dealing with the intelligence agency issue this time?"

Claude asked the most direct question directly.

Heinrich should be His Majesty's most loyal mouthpiece, not one of them, as can be seen from the power of the old man Karl who stayed in this position before - but he just took himself to an intelligence bureau, and he needed such a person to pick him up ?

So, does the emperor have anything to say?

"His Majesty wants you to clean up the Imperial Intelligence Bureau, and the intelligence bureau is indeed a clerical office—but he can assist you."

"why?"

Heinrich shook his head.

"That's a question that requires going to a station to answer."

Claude scratched his head, he didn't expect to be so strictly guarded, but Miyagi is already close in front of him, so it doesn't matter if he wants to wait a little longer.

Not long after, the carriage stopped, and the two got out of the carriage, looking at this unremarkable building complex.

"This is one place?"

"This is a residential area, and the real office is underground."

Heinrich led the way.

Until the two walked into this slightly facade-looking building, bypassed the two walls in front, and walked into a long staircase.

"Now, I can tell you a secret."

Heinrich whispered.

Claude looked at him, holding his breath slightly.

"One is indeed the clerical office, which is its function, and the entire Imperial Intelligence Bureau is only because it is set up in the palace, and it is declared to be the highest intelligence and personnel file management facility in the empire, but in fact, this is not what it is called. The reason for hiding."

"The only reason it is hidden in the palace is that all the people in the whole place are mages—a total of more than [-] people."

Heinrich looked at Claude who "showed horror".

"This number is equivalent to the sum of the number of all serving mages, including the court mages, Turin mages, northern mages, North Sea Fleet mages and Volga mages, that is to say, the number of mages in the empire , is equal to the number of mages in a place."

...Awesome.

Claude's heart twitched, it really deserves to be an empire that gathers the wisdom of all emperors - you can really hide your cards.

When Jung told him that the empire could not win the Theocracy because of the suppression of the number of mages, he really believed it. After all, there is no strong grassroots structure like the Holy See, and things like censuses cannot be handled. Naturally, it is impossible to find out who is Master talent, who is knight talent.

In the end, I was waiting here, no wonder it was the clerical office - the one who didn't wear armor was of course a clerical one, just holding a solid mithril stick in his hand for self-defense...

"Most people in one place are actually traveling around the empire, because mages and mages are attracted to each other, so they go back to find those who have the talent of a mage—if they are children, they will be sent to one place, if If you are a teenager, you will be sent to the court mage group."

Claude immediately understood that children can be educated from an early age and instilled with knowledge, while teenagers let the other party enter the group and use the environment to subtly change the other party - in short, there is only one purpose, and that is to ensure absolute loyalty to the emperor.

"So you are not from the court mage group, but from one place? Teacher Karl too?"

"Yes, I do come from one place. Of course, Mr. Carl also started to guide me from one place."

Heinrich gave Claude a strange look. He obviously hadn't said this yet—but it didn't matter, His Majesty had already allowed the other party to come here, so it didn't matter to tell him such things.

"One is a very large organization, but as the chief of the Imperial Intelligence Bureau, you can actually use only a mage group of 1500 people, and the others are only in name. Humans are the ones who really work on the side of the Imperial Intelligence Service."

Claude nodded. This is reasonable. It is impossible for the emperor to hand over the whole place to him. This is not a matter of trust. This is the cornerstone of the royal family's existence. How can it be controlled by outsiders?

But this is also a great trust-you must know that apart from the court mages, the other three mages, except the Volga mages, have an establishment of 3000 people, and the Turin mages and the North Sea Fleet mages are only 1500 people.

As for the most miserable group of mages in the north, because the main fighting method was not suitable and the decline of the orcs and other reasons, the establishment was cut again and again, and now there are only 500 people left.

"I understand, this is already a great grace."

Claude's heart is no longer disturbed - he is not a man with a huge advantage, now he has 1500 mages, 4000 knights, and the same number of cavalry. Support the intelligence agency's own assassin unit...

What kind of bicycle does this need? The flying dragon won by riding on the face.

The process went very quickly, and he just recognized a familiar face, which made Claude realize that the emperor still used the same old style-this mage group is just like the Nine Near Cavalry in his hand, it is easy to use, but it does not belong to Own.

The person they are loyal to will always be the emperor.

"Great, this is really great!"

Claude looked at the mage troops gathering in front of him with great interest, just like an old farmer seeing the thriving crops he planted.

【...I don't understand, what's so good about this?Shouldn't the army be best in its own hands? 】

"The reason is very simple. The emperor has really helped me a lot by doing this. I just need the emperor to have confidence in my command, but in order to restrict me from only giving to the legions loyal to the royal family - so that I can get the command of other troops." The possibility is much greater!"

Claude was full of joy. What he was afraid of was not that he didn't have his own people in his hands, but that the emperor would not let him touch those few real elite troops because he was reluctant to let go.

Now the mage group has directly allocated one to himself—won't the wind knight also think about it?

"It contains personnel information related to the Imperial Intelligence Agency, as well as records of suspicious elements in certain areas."

Heinrich gestured to the two wooden boxes beside him.

Claude nodded subtly, isn't this list a little... long?

"Are these the records of the time?"

"Some yes, after all, the heads of the various regions of the Imperial Intelligence Bureau return to the imperial capital every three years after recruitment, and accept a re-registration in one place, and then you know, of course they use the lie detection magic all the time, so All problems have been recorded."

Heinrich pointed to one of the boxes.

"The other was discovered by other mages who were looking for mage gifted children from all over the empire. They also took on the task of surprise inspections and secret visits to various places. There were tricky, unfavorable, and ulterior motives. These are all recorded On the record."

"Of course, there will be some overlap between the number of people and areas, but considering that you need to clean up thoroughly, we didn't cut them out, put them all in, and leave it to you and Chief Nicholas to decide how many people to arrest."

Claude nodded. It is worthy of being used to counter the entire Imperial Intelligence Agency. It really counts everything that can be counted.

"Do you have any other questions?"

Heinrich asked.

"When can I take these people?"

Claude looked at the man.

"They'll be in your barracks tonight."

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Nicholas was sitting in the office with Claude, reading the anti-revolutionary materials stuffed into two boxes.

Although the director of the Imperial Intelligence Bureau is also a ruthless person with a long-term memory, compared to some cheaters, his speed is obviously not enough.

But Claude also wanted to pretend to be a little bit human, so they were just confirming what was going on in the first place to eliminate counter-revolutionaries, and after the rest of the place was on the road, they sat in the carriage and continued to watch.