While Franz was driving the cattle down to the field with the prime laborers of the estate, on the Roman road by the Ames River, not far west of the village of Klost, the sheriff of the town of Mormåland, Ricky, was patrolling the road with five regular policemen on not too tall Eastern European Mongolian horses.

Behind them, there were 20 auxiliary police officers on slightly taller horses. Of course, despite the fact that the horses they ride are taller, they are ordinary pull-backs, not professional riding horses. The horses ridden by Sergeant Ricky and 5 regular policemen in front of him are professional riding horses, Mongolian horses from Eastern Europe imported from the Crimean Khanate. The horses ridden by the auxiliary police are tall Western European breeds, but they are just ordinary horses pulling carts, and the speed of carrying people is not fast.

However, when there is a patrol duty, the auxiliary police can also borrow 20 horses from the town's transportation center and ride them to follow the regular police on patrol.

And the spring ploughing season coincides with the peak of patrols by the police of Beihai State. Because Marin needs to protect the secret of the high agricultural yield of the Beihai Kingdom, he naturally needs to dispatch a large number of men and horses to patrol to avoid foreign spies from getting involved.

For the past 10 years, this task has actually been the responsibility of the military. But scattering the army of the North Sea Country all over the country made the soldiers miserable. Moreover, it is a bit difficult to gather the power when it is sprinkled. If someone were to launch a surprise attack on the North Sea Country, the consequences would be terrible.

It just so happened that Marin had set up a police force last year, with police officers deployed in every town. Therefore, Marin decided to take this opportunity and gradually hand over the task of patrolling to the local police. The patrol area of the army is placed on the border of the North Sea State, rather than scattered throughout the country.

However, if you want to patrol the countryside, you will not be able to see enough people to patrol an entire town with the help of the local sheriff, the sheriff, and five official mounted police. Therefore, Marin later ordered that during the spring ploughing period, especially during the fertilization period, all the police in the town should go out on patrol, leaving only the sheriff in charge to deal with all kinds of cases. The auxiliary police did not have horses to match, so Marin asked the local transportation department, or horse farms and estates with surplus horses, to lend horses to 20 auxiliary police officers to patrol with the sheriff and mounted police. In this way, the sheriff with 25 men can barely patrol the villages of the town.

According to the plan, each regular police officer was supposed to be in a group of four auxiliary police officers to be responsible for patrolling several villages in one direction. 5 full-fledged police officers, which can be divided into 5 groups. Four of the teams will patrol in four directions, south, east and west. But there is a team in the town of Mormorland to prepare for emergencies and cooperate with the sheriff to maintain law and order. Of course, who stays in the town is rotated every day, and the squad that stays in the town is actually equivalent to a half-rest.

However, this is the first year that the police force has begun to try patrolling, and the police force, which was formed only last year, has no experience in patrolling. So Marin asked retired veteran-turned-sheriffs to take the newcomers and teach them how to patrol and interrogate suspicious people, including chasing and surrounding them.

Therefore, the first time he participated in the spring ploughing patrol, Sergeant Ricky, a veteran who participated in the spring ploughing patrol ten years ago, began to instruct the newly recruited police officers on how to patrol and investigate. Moreover, there are still troops to assist in patrols this year, so as not to make mistakes due to the inexperience of novice police.

"You're fine, it's a busy spring season, and the farmers are very busy, so they don't usually go out. Even if you go out to run errands, you will definitely drive the village carriage to save time. After all, spring plowing is very busy, and there is no time to waste......"

Then, Ricky raised his voice:

"So, boys! If you see someone walking leisurely on the land during the spring ploughing or autumn harvest, who does not seem to be in a hurry, and someone who is looking left and right, you must come forward and interrogate. According to the laws of the Beihai Kingdom, during the spring ploughing and autumn harvest periods, even merchants with the right of way will have their usual passes invalidated and are prohibited from going on the road. Nobles are also forbidden to go to the countryside casually, unless they have a special pass...... In short, at this time period, no matter who you see, even if it is a nobleman, you must come forward to interrogate to avoid foreign spies from getting involved! ”

The new police officers nodded their heads one after another, indicating that they remembered ......

This is the characteristic of the Beihai Kingdom, during the spring ploughing and autumn harvest periods, it is forbidden for unrelated people to wander the road casually. Those who cannot be identified or come from without a special permit are to be detained for interrogation.

It is precisely because of this harsh regulation that the secrets of Beihai's high agricultural yield have not been leaked for more than ten years, which cannot but be said to be a miracle.

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The Ames is an "international waterway" that connects the Lipper and Rhine rivers. Therefore, the identity of the boats on the river is complicated. Although navigation on the river was also restricted during the spring ploughing and autumn harvest periods, it was also necessary to prevent enemy spies from sneaking in through ships in the middle of the night and landing on shore to inquire for information.

Therefore, the Roman Avenue by the Ames River is a key patrol area of the North Sea State. In addition to the police, the army is also distributed. No, when Sergeant Ricky was patrolling with 25 budding cops, he met with two groups of patrolling sergeants. After greeting each other, Ricky and his 25 men left the main road and went out to patrol the country roads.

Ricky explained to his men as he walked:

"When you are a police officer, you have to look differently than others. For example, when an ordinary person's gaze sweeps over each other, it may only be a faint glance. But the police are different, the police's eyes must be sharp, so that people don't look easy to mess with. Moreover, there must be suspicion and scrutiny in the eyes...... Well, look at me, that's it......"

After saying that, Ricky looked at an auxiliary police officer with suspicion and scrutiny......

"Sheriff, I feel a little hairy in my heart when you look at me like this......" The auxiliary police officer who was looked at him said fearfully.

Ricky snapped his fingers and said:

"That's right, it's hairy to be seen, this is the eyes of qualified policemen! The Grand Duke said this when he trained us, when we met a stranger, whether he was a good person or a bad person, first look up and down with the professional suspicion and scrutiny of the police. Maybe you don't have any idea in your heart, but if the criminal who committed the crime is looked at by the police like this, you must be nervous. Sometimes, under some strong psychological pressure, someone will have an emotional breakdown and will involuntarily want to run away. As soon as you see someone running away, you must immediately chase after him without hesitation and knock him to the ground with a baton......"

"Huh? Knocked to the ground? "A group of new police officers are a little dumbfounded, and they haven't found out that anyone is guilty......

"Yes, knock me to the ground! If you don't have a ghost in your heart, what do you see the police running? Let's put it down first! Also, after being looked at by the professional eyes of our police, those who look very uncomfortable and too nervous must also come forward to interrogate well, and must not let go of a suspicious person! Ricky continued to educate.

"Sheriff, what do you mean by looking very uncomfortable? What do you mean to be too nervous? I can't judge this. And, as far as I know, anyone would not be comfortable with such a skeptical gaze, right? A full-fledged police officer asked, confused.

Ricky thought for a moment and said:

"I don't quite understand either, this is what the Grand Duke taught us, what kind of psychological deterrence. The policeman's gaze should be like that of a falcon, so that the prey will be scared when he sees it...... However, the Grand Duke said that when we are usually fine, we can try it with ordinary people. If you look at ordinary people through the eyes of the police, you can see the reactions of ordinary people. When we see more reactions from ordinary people, and then we see reactions that are different from ordinary people, we can judge that it is abnormal. In that case, we will have to interrogate carefully......"

"Oh, I see, the police's eyes turned out to be bluffers...... one of the auxiliary police officers concluded.

Ricky was so angry that he struck his baton on the helmet on the head of the carthing, and reprimanded:

"You know a p, the Grand Duke said, this is called psychological tactics! In addition, this kind of police scrutiny is the basic professional quality of our police. When they got back, everyone practiced this kind of bluffing...... Ahh If you don't practice well, you won't have meat to eat! Only eat brown bread! ”

"Ahh......h