"I, my master, you're not kidding......

Raja fell to his knees trembling and looked at the black dragon in front of him in disbelief.

Although it is said that as the Grand Imam of the Yanlong Church and the leader of the many believers who are directly responsible to Ello, he really shouldn't say such words that are almost equivalent to questioning Ello's decision, but the order just now is indeed too unexpected.

"Didn't I make it clear?"

Iroh repeated firmly, "It must be defended. I knew that Stasi's army was already massing, that they could attack at any moment, and that I knew what it meant to give up the first opportunity, but—"

He raised his voice slightly: "Anyone is forbidden to attack first, so convey it to Vess, my servant." ”

"Your Will ......"

As if sensing the subtle change in Eloh's tone, Raja suddenly did not dare to continue speaking. The ability to read words and colors is a necessary skill for most goblins, let alone an old goblin like Raja who has entered his twilight years and has experienced much more than his own people.

And if you think about it, it seems that there has been no major mistake in Ayroh's decision-making all along, so this time it should be right, right?

Thinking like this, Raja completely extinguished the thought in his heart that he wanted to admonish him a little more.

One of the main reasons for the current situation is the dictatorship that Iello has constructed: whether it is in the Tokamak Pie, or in the Icourt Valley, or even in the whole of Falkenridge, his will is paramount, and once he has made up his mind, he will not allow anyone to oppose it.

In fact, looking at the countries of the Western Continent, there is really no second country that has adopted such a dictatorial method of rule, except for the current Falkenridge.

This is not only due to the fact that the hundreds of tribes on the continent today are living side by side, and a variety of skills are emerging one after another, and the wisdom of the people is more civilized than at the beginning of the glorious era, but also because of the consideration of the gods.

Whether it is the mainstream belief of the Western Continent - the God of Light, or the mainstream belief of the Eastern Continent - the Eternal God, their church cannot rule a country alone, and the degree to which the divine power and the imperial power can be coexisted with the Dawn Holy See, and the church can almost influence the movement of the country is basically the limit, and the divine power on the Eastern Continent has even been under the imperial power.

The next step is the **** state system that even the gods can't achieve.

The so-called **** is a unified idea formed on the basis of rationality and the integration of politics, religion, science and technology and other fields. These are different logical thinking, and the requirements for perfect integration are too harsh, and although the gods are strong, they cannot unify people's hearts, so this has always been just an ideal concept.

However, relatively speaking, the imperial power cannot really override the divine power, except for a very small number of small forces, none of the forces can really ignore the existence of the gods, so there is no way to talk about dictatorship.

Even in a special case like Iroh, it is hidden behind the scenes, and the operation of the country is controlled through Weiss.

And this control is weakening year by year - not because of Ves's disobedience, but because Falkenridge is gradually starting to recover.

Twelve years ago, Falkenridge suffered a great change, the three nobles, the king, and the royal family all died, and it can be said that the dragons were leaderless for a while.

However, as twelve years have passed, the original trauma is gradually recovering, Falkenridge has been injected with new blood, new nobles have been born, and the courtiers in the court are gradually headed by them.

Therefore, Iroh also knows that even if Weiss accepts the orders he is giving now, it is not up to him to control whether the ministers and nobles under him will obey the yang and the yin.

In the end, it's because Iroh can't really appear in front of the public.

Fortunately, Iroh will not let the situation go completely bad like this, and one of the most important items in his continental strategy for the past twelve years is Falkenridge's domination plan.

What identity can secretly control the whole country, or influence the movement of the country as much as possible?

Iroh believes to be the head of the intelligence department.

Of course, this was not something he thought of as soon as his mind was hot, in the countries of the Western Continent, especially among the four empires, the intelligence department was such an existence.

For example, the Dragon Flame Empire's intelligence system is entirely in the hands of the Blue Sky Venerable and the bronze dragons under him. As long as the Blue Sky Venerable was in an open air, his thinking speed could be increased tenfold, which was undoubtedly a great weapon for the screening and sorting of intelligence.

Another example is the Tadoya Empire, strictly speaking, this country has no intelligence services, and the role in this regard is played by the two major organizations of the Holy See's Supreme Inquisition and the Inquisition, and there is almost no wind and grass in the whole country to hide from them, and some people even believe that today a peasant in a remote village casually said a sarcastic word to the Pope, and tomorrow the law enforcement knights will appear at his doorstep.

Even the Haval Empire, which is the most lightly regulated, has a government agency in the shadow of the Secret Intelligence Society.

It can be said that the head of the intelligence service, who has considerable power in a country, and although he cannot directly participate in decision-making, can in many cases influence those who actually make decisions.

Therefore, with the help of the power of the Yanlong Church, which has been expanding over the years, Iroh made a false identity for himself as a core believer, and then asked Weiss to speak, conspiring all the way together, and finally became the top person in charge of the "comprehensive intelligence department" that Falkenridge had just set up a year ago.

As the ruler of the dark side of the kingdom now, Iroh often has to force himself to hold back his disgust with the human form, secretly go to the new capital of Zakif, and use the wisdom of the dragons to try his best to analyze a large amount of information from the territory of Falkenridge and beyond the borders, and make his own assessment and judgment on the many pieces of information that cannot be distinguished, and then take the next countermeasures based on this information.

It does sound like a lot of work, but fortunately, this allows Iroh to reinforce his grip on Falkenridge without exposing himself.

All this is because there is so little time left for Iro......

If he could grow up to old age, or even the ancient dragon stage, Iroh believed that he would not need to be so careful at all. You must know that in history, a random ancient dragon has the ability to influence the entire country, and even control a country.

Even if the current changes in the world environment have caused even an ancient dragon like Alfred to be unable to control the country, Iroh feels that if he reaches the ancient dragon stage, his strength will definitely far surpass Alfred!

When the time comes, you can crush everything with hard power. Even a metal dragon clan with at least five invincible dragons would not want to easily provoke a colored ancient dragon - the latter was indeed inferior to the metal dragon clan purely in terms of combat effectiveness, but its destructive power could not be ignored by the subordinates and servants of those metal dragons......

So, don't look at the colored dragons being suppressed so badly now, in fact, those really powerful ancient dragons and primeval dragons are developing silently in unknown places, and the colored dragons that metal dragons can catch and show off are often some young and impulsive guys.

All in all, Iroh had barely returned to Icourt's Valley for a year, and had little time to really rest: he was wielding his power on the road, Falkenridge's General Intelligence Service had become a dictator as he wished, and the bloated institution had been cut back into the rudiments of the country that Iroh wanted to rule in the future.

Like the original plan of the analysis department, the evaluation department, the personnel department and other subordinate agencies, all of them are not needed! Iroh alone, at most a few deputies responsible for screening useful information is enough.

The Integrated Intelligence Unit, which Iroh has been reduced to the extreme, has become an efficient, deadly, and terrifying agency.

After all, if a group of people analyze and hold a seminar to take measures after receiving the information, it may consume a lot of unnecessary time, so the timeliness of the information will undoubtedly be lost, but if the dictatorship ...... Then it may only take a few minutes for Eloh's order to be issued.

Therefore, while dictatorship may bring bias in decision-making, its incomparable efficiency is also an advantage that cannot be ignored. A wise, far-sighted, even genius decision-maker, when paired with a dictatorship, can be terrifyingly powerful than anyone can imagine!

It can be asserted that today's General Intelligence Unit is a killing machine, silent and cold, with the utmost efficiency, and under the leadership of Elloh, it monitors every move in Falkenridge's country to ensure that any orders of the de facto ruler are carried out to the letter.

Coupled with the Yanlong Church's full infiltration of Falkenridge over the years, nearly one-tenth of the people in this country have now become potential followers of Ello, and the number of believers who can actually provide him with faith points is also growing day by day - the result of all this is that Ello's control over Falkenridge is about to reach an extreme.

On the surface, Weiss can help solve political matters, but on the dark side you can use the comprehensive intelligence department, and if you can't solve them, you can use the power of faith.

I have to say that Iroh, who now controls the three major forces of the royal family, the comprehensive intelligence department and the Yanlong Church at the same time, has grasped most of the advantages of royal power and divine power in his hands, and there is no need to worry about his authority in the upper society, even among the lower people, the growing church power will subtly change their thinking.

Although the process will take a long time, Iroh knows it very well......

This was the basis of his future reign.