What does a single, centralized, powerful secret service with no checks and balances represent?

Smooth information transfer?

A surveillance system that goes anywhere?

Deterrence in the shadows?

Wrong! It's a disaster!

This terrifying monster doesn't know when it will get out of control, so out of control that even its own master can't control it well, and even be devoured by the out-of-control monster.

So the next question is, what is the most effective way to check and balance a secret service?

The so-called Seiryushi doctor? The so-called imperial power? Military or judiciary?

Wrong! It's another secret service!

Factory Guard, Central Command, Military Command......

But what about the candidates?

Do you really want an immature wolf cub like Talleyrand to control such an important department?

Randy rested his head on the back of his chair, spun around for a moment, and quickly had an idea.

Standing up, he walked behind Sonia and whispered, "If I send you to manage a spy killer mechanism, will you be up to it?" ”

Randy asked in a deep, magnetic voice, as if a couple were talking.

When Sonia heard this, her eyes immediately cleared, and she knelt down on one knee, bowing her head in front of Randy.

"Master, please order!" Sonia looks businesslike, but it startles Randy.

"Get up!" Randy went back to her chair and sat down, since she wanted to get things done, then get things done.

Randy quickly drafted an appointment report, appointing Sonia as a brand new, also accountable only to the Emperor, this agency has a very deceptive, sound-sounding, but actually not so much name, like Nemulis's intelligence system, which sounds like scout spies, but in fact also includes assassination, threats, blackmail, and the like, and Sonia took over, a new agency called the Royal Consultation Service, which also includes a lot of very meanings.

Listening to this name, it seems to be similar to the Royal Advisory Council, which now acts as the central government of the Empire, but the actual situation is not like this, Randy's meaning is very clear, since there is to have consultation, there must be intelligence, and since there is information, there must be people who have obtained information, so there is an intelligence section under the Royal Consultation Office, and Sonia is the head of this intelligence section.

In fact, the so-called Royal Consultation Office is just a cover for this spy agency, an empty shell and disguise, although it looks high-sounding, and there is also a data department and analysis department, but in fact it is just an embellishment, just hire two illiterate idiot aristocrats to wear official uniforms, and the identities of those people can also have a protective effect on the intelligence agencies hidden in it, and can also take advantage of the situation to arrange some frustrated nobles to let them stop a little.

Randy thought about it further, he should be able to set up more in the future, which sounded good, but in fact there was no effective institution as a means of appeasing the aristocracy, not asking them to contribute anything, as long as they could not cause trouble.

"Like the Palace of Versailles, Louis XIV was indeed a genius."

So the matter was settled, and Randy quickly wrote the whole draft with a quill, looked at it and added it, and then showed it to his cheap sister Aurora, and finally got a positive answer after asking her opinion.

Randy is very satisfied with his own idea, and feels that this institution can not only satisfy the mood of those frustrated nobles participating in politics, but also quietly set up another spy agency, because this is not obvious, so it will not attract attention when this institution is still relatively weak, and when this institution is strong, it will be too late for the other party to stop it.

"Sure enough, I'm a genius!" Randy deserves to praise himself for this, and then tells Sonia the truth, of course, only telling her the mission, not telling her the reason for the mission, and Randy has gradually learned how to get along with Sonia in recent times.

"I see, master! It's just that the establishment of such an institution, both manpower and cost, is expensive, and the problem is ......"

"As for the money, I will give you a part, and as for the funds, I can also pay a part, if it is not enough, you have to figure it out yourself, personnel...... I'll assign you some in a moment, and you should know some reliable people yourself, just let them come and help. ”

Without further ado, Sonia left for a while, went to her grandparents to tell her about the recent events, and asked for help, while Randy did not stop after dinner, and went to the suburbs to meet with some nobles and chiefs of nomadic tribes in northern Ukraine and southern Belarus to appease and appease.

"The gifts are ready, aren't they?" After eating, Randy says goodbye to Sonia and returns to his office to see Talleyrand again.

"Yes, Your Majesty, you are quite well prepared." At this time, the middle-aged bureaucrat's face was as usual, and he could no longer see the angry and ruined appearance of the morning.

"The recovery is quite fast, forget it, I have to give this guy a little sweetness." Randy snorted softly in his heart, knowing that there would be a place for Talelang to be used in the future, and it was not good to cold this guy's heart, and his face eased.

"Sir, you've been doing things with me for nearly two years, haven't you?"

"Two years, three months and seven days!" Talleyrand replied quietly.

"Now that the commanders of the various garrison regiments, hussar regiments, and detachment fleets are all viscounts, and you are still a knight, do you think I have treated you a little badly?"

"How could it be! The generals and commanders are all experienced in a hundred battles, and the merits of the fight between blood and fire are naturally outstanding and conspicuous, and their subordinates are just helping His Majesty deal with some chores, how can they be called meritorious. ”

"Listening to you, I still think I'm unfair!"

Randy stretched out his hand to stop Talleyrand's further distinction: "Okay, Sir, I can see how much you have done, and you don't need to say the difference between civil and military officials, and I am not a person who values military force over civil affairs. ”

After Randy finished speaking, he quickly drafted a document, stamped the heraldic ring that he had now replaced with a three-legged white phoenix, and handed it to Talleyrand.

Talleyrand's mouth trembled, and he immediately knelt down in fear: "Your Majesty, the minister has the emperor's grace, and he will be loyal in the future, and he will die with all his might." ”

"Hahaha, I don't want you to die, as long as you live, just do what I tell you, what is a baron, Aiqing is talented, I know it, and I will take it as a heavy responsibility in the future."

Randy laughed and helped Talleyrand to his feet, and for a moment the monarch and the ministers were happy, but they didn't know what to think behind their backs. Randy also knew that Talleyrand was not the kind of person who would be grateful, and giving him a little sweetness now would only satisfy his desires a little, so as not to make him do something bad.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Talleyrand tried to kneel again, but was pulled by Randy.

"There is no need for so much courtesy, there are still things waiting for me to do, and now I am going to meet the nobles of Ukraine and Belarus, and it is up to you to bother with it here, baron."

Talleyrand lifted his monocle and saw that it read:

Charles Maurice de Taleurand Périgord, a Norman nobleman, has been in the government for more than two years, serving the king with sincerity and meritorious service, and is now crowned a baron.

"Subordinates obey!" Talleyrand had returned to normal at the moment, but his face was still a little red, proving that he was still in a state of agitation.

After that, Randy left the office, Talleyrand didn't dare to sit on the chair on the south side, he only dared to sit next to him and look smaller, and the unadorned desk waited for someone to send information, national affairs advice, etc., sorted into categories, labeled and pointed out the key points, and studied and gave opinions on some less important documents, while some important and taboo things were not commented on.

Of course, Baron Talleyrand's specialty was only internal affairs, and he didn't know anything about military affairs, and military documents were just put aside and completely untouched.

Although there are some problems, Talleyrand is indeed a very good helper, and with his help, it is more convenient and faster for Randy to deal with government affairs, which is why Randy will not do him so easily.

But not necessarily for others!

It's like being in front of Randy now, a person who is trying to slap his ass in broken Norman language, but he can't shoot the idea from beginning to end, which makes people feel extremely stupid, extremely disgusting, and he wants to pull out his saber and stab him ten times or eight times, if it weren't for the existence of many people with the same status and idiots as him, Randy might have really done it, this group of idiot nobles.

Randy scolded in his heart, but he pretended to smile on the surface, reminding himself again and again to be tolerant, his current reputation is not bad, but he can't smash the sign.

It's just that after this series of performances, Randy felt a little physically and mentally exhausted, and was very disgusted, especially when the group of nobles introduced their daughters and even their wives to themselves, Randy almost threw up.

"Damn! Do you want to kill the king? All rolled out to chop! ”

But in the end, Randy didn't say such a thing, but with a nobleman in northern Ukraine, a hunting activity for an afternoon, and a bonfire party in the forest at night, barbecue and eat the prey hunted during the day, in order not to show his specialization, Randy rarely ate a barbecue without pepper, just followed the example of other nobles and sprinkled a handful of salt, almost spoiled the Norman emperor who had been pampered for a long time, and that night, he was bitten by a dead mosquito that had not died in October. Randy counted the bitten bags on his body, fiddling with the mosquito repellent that didn't work at all, while thinking about the future:

As long as Ukraine is annexed, in addition to adding nearly 400,000 square kilometers of land, it can also obtain the city of Kiev, which is most valued by the Slavs and Rus' in Eastern Europe.

The city of Kiev was originally the capital of the Kingdom of Kievan Rus, the largest country in Eastern Europe.

During the period of the strong national power of the Kingdom of Kievan Rus, it reached the Baltic Sea in the north, the Black Sea in the south, the Cuman in the east, Poland and Hungary in the west, and the population was vast, and it could even compete with the Eastern Roman Empire.

Subsequently, the northern city-states formed a loose alliance and restored the name of Novgorod.

The central part was occupied by Ivan III, the founding king of the Grand Duchy of Moscow.

The rest, Belarus, Ukraine, are perennially in a state of chaos.

The Crimea region was originally a gathering place of Tatar tribes, and later was conquered by Cossack exiles to form the Zaporozhye Khanate, although the huge kingdom of the year was divided, but in the minds of all Rus' people, all Slavs, the restoration of the great status of Kievan Rus' is still the goal of every Rus' duke, and Kiev has also become a city with strong symbolic significance and represents the glorious history of the Rus' people.

So this city is very important in every sense, the population of 50,000 in Kyiv, as well as the large farmsteads formed outside the city, the population of the town is nearly 500,000, and it can provide nearly 5,000 gold in taxes every month, which is very attractive, so Randy hopes to be able to take the city bloodlessly, so that Ross can think that he is a liberator of the same race as them, not a conqueror of a foreign race, which is why Randy Fee tried his best to win over this group of vulgar Rus Boyer, It seems to be working out quite well now, Randy's generous and open-minded temperament, coupled with the strength and eloquence shown in the previous series of wars, make these Ukrainian Rus' nobles feel that they should submit to him, not confrontation.

Especially after the Battle of Krakow, many Rus' nobles who sent troops to participate in the war were frightened enough, afraid that the famous Norman Empress would settle accounts and slaughter their entire families, and immediately sent messengers to Randy to swear allegiance.

It's like a more knowledgeable Rus nobleman, who wrote in a letter!

"Millions of miles of mountains and rivers in Ukraine, tens of millions of Li Shu, all looking forward to the early arrival of His Majesty."

Although he hasn't arrived in Ukraine yet, Randy is already a little flustered.

This is the so-called Qi food pot pulp to welcome the king, I didn't expect that I could still enjoy this kind of treatment in my lifetime.

Under the influence of Randy's mood, the Norman 60,000 soldiers relaxed and went straight to Kiev like an outing.

After a day in the wilderness, Randy finally didn't have to put up with mosquitoes in the wild, and half-cooked meat roasted without seasoning, but the bad breath of those idiots like the Rus nobles, and their strong body odor still had to endure for a while, damn, why didn't every nation in this world love cleanliness as much as the Normans?

Randy's meeting with some of the nobles of Ukraine and Belarus is divided into the following two steps.

First of all, they met in the suburbs, and the two sides talked about getting to the bottom of it, and by the way, they also dissolved the taboo psychology of these nobles, letting them know that Randy didn't want to take this opportunity to eliminate them, and then annex their land, and it would be easier to escape if they couldn't talk in the suburbs.

In the second step, Randy pats his chest and vouches for the vested interests of these guys.

"I don't care about the affairs of your territory, I just need you to send troops when I need it, and pay tribute during the New Year's holidays."

The Rus nobles all felt that Randy's conditions were not too much, in fact, the relationship between the king and the vassal in the feudal era was basically like this, although Randy had also done a job of destroying people in his early years, but he was in England, 108,000 miles away from Ukraine, so the Rus nobles heard more, or when Randy led the crusade against the Eastern Roman Empire, the kind of fair and just public rumors, I saw Randy's real person yesterday, and compared it with the rumors, I came to a conclusion, which shows that it maintains a better reputation, It was necessary for the monarch.

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