Chapter 494: Something Finally Came to an End

Baron Christon had come to Lorist to present a report on the formation of the Ministry of the Interior. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Lorist thought that Baron Criston would start a new business and ask for money to form a whole new department. But he didn't expect Baron Christon to give him a big surprise.

"Baron Christon, how did you come up with the idea of using the Patrol to weave a network of surveillance over the family territory?" asked Lorist appreciatively.

Baron Christon replied respectfully: "Your Highness, in the former imperial era, because of his dislike for the recklessness and incompetence of the city defense forces, he specially formed a guard force to patrol the city to maintain the tranquility of the aristocratic residential areas, which is the reason for the patrol team. By the time of Crisson IV, the patrol force was entrusted with the functions of solving criminal cases, fighting urban crime and underground criminal organizations.

After the accession of Kerison VI to the throne, the patrol once again increased the responsibilities of the city to manage and assist in the collection of taxes and maintain the order of market transactions, and also received a secret mission to spy on any organizations and individuals who opposed the royal family of Cleison. In a sense, there was no big difference in the functions between the patrol team during the Clison Empire and the Ministry of the Interior that His Highness was preparing to form, so he thought of using the patrol force that had already taken shape in the family domain to form the Ministry of the Interior. This is the fastest way to form a surveillance network that covers the entire family territory. ”

Lorist smiled and shook his head: "Baron Christon, have you forgotten the incident that happened in the cage of the patrol team in the imperial capital in the last years of Christon VI? At that time, everyone in the imperial capital changed color when they heard the name of the patrol team, for fear that the patrol team would find them and their families would be ruined.

After the Patrol Cage Incident was exposed, the entire population of the Imperial Capital took to the streets in protest, and the nobles of the Imperial Capital united in a letter to Cleison VI demanding that the Patrol be abolished as an official organization. Cleison VI, who was in the dark, was furious when he learned of the atrocities committed by the patrol team, and issued a strict investigation and trial, and finally the patrol team was banned, and more than 3,000 people involved in the case were beheaded for public display. It was not until Cleison VII ascended the throne ten years later that the patrol was re-established due to the inconvenience of city management.

Your idea is good, but I cannot agree with the inclusion of the patrol force under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Baron Christon, the main purpose of the establishment of the Ministry of the Interior is threefold, one is to prevent outside agents from prying eyes on the family domain, the second is to prevent the rebels from plotting against the family territory, and the third is to monitor the internal management system of the family and punish corrupt and derelict officials.

To put it simply, if the Norton family is a towering tree, then I hope that the Ministry of the Interior will become a woodpecker that flies around this tree, and it will catch all kinds of pests that grow on the body of the tree and ensure the healthy growth of the tree. In my vision, the Ministry of Internal Affairs is the family's internal self-examining eyes, which only investigate and detect, and leave the plans that need to be carried out to the guard battalion. ”

The patrol cage incident is also a famous popular protest in the history of the Krisson Empire. The reason is that the patrol team of the imperial capital has become a veritable king of the imperial capital because they have too much power. Just like the arrogant spy organizations recorded in the history books in Lorlist's previous life, the power is monstrous, and the slightest disadvantage of the people will be accused of rebellion in the empire, not to mention the destruction of the family, and they are often beaten to extract confessions, and fabricated crimes to affect relatives.

When such a giant beast turns its greedy gaze to innocent people in order to extort money, one can imagine how cruel the consequences will be, countless wealthy residents and merchants of the imperial capital often disappear in one night, family property is seized, street notices appear from time to time to patrol the good news that some conspiracy against the empire has been cracked, and a large number of so-called criminals are hung on the gallows. The residents of the imperial capital are in danger, and they don't even dare to say hello when they meet them on the road, and the entire imperial capital is shrouded in a bloody storm.

Several noble children who went to school in the imperial capital heard the servants say that the sound of ghosts crying would come from the sewers in the middle of the night, so they became curious and organized an adventure team to go to the sewers to catch ghosts. As a result, following the terrible cry, I reached a large underground space, which was full of iron cages, and countless dying people were imprisoned in the cages. It turned out that these people were the so-called rebellious family members and relatives who had absconded and were wanted by the patrol force......

The truth was soon revealed to the inhabitants of the Imperial Capital, whose patrol forces could arrest and interrogate people, but they did not have the power to imprison prisoners, so criminals had to be handed over to the prison authorities after being interrogated. With so many civilians and businessmen arrested and extorted money, the patrol could not hand over these innocent people to the prison department, but instead resorted to the crime of absconding and disappearing to achieve the goal of embezzling the innocents' property.

Therefore, the patrol team secretly dug an underground space in the underground of the station as its own prison, customized cages to imprison prisoners, and those with use value can survive for a period of time, and those without use value are directly starved to death. All the people who have been to see the underground cage space are angry that there is such a hell on earth under the imperial capital, and the end of the patrol team has come after the incident is exposed, and more than 100,000 residents of the entire imperial capital have taken to the streets to protest, and the city defense army has taken over the defense of the imperial capital, and the nobles have jointly written to demand that the patrol team be punished.

Crisson VI was furious, and the patrol force he had always trusted had been deceiving him, so he ordered the patrol to be banned, and more than 3,000 patrol officers involved in the case were beheaded for public display. This is the Cage Incident of the Crison Imperial Patrol. But the most ridiculous thing is that after the ban on the patrol force, the imperial capital did not become safer in the next ten years, but became the most chaotic ten years, gangs were rampant, crimes occurred frequently, and street fires continued. It was very common to encounter dead bodies on the road, and the residents of the imperial capital had to carry weapons and find a companion to ensure their safety when they went to buy bread.

It was not until Cleison VII ascended the throne ten years later that the patrol team was re-established in order to rectify the serious security and environmental problems in the imperial capital, but most of the duties of the patrol team were reduced, in addition to patrolling to maintain order in the city, it was responsible for the detection and trial of criminal cases. It was precisely because the patrol team lost the power to monitor the conspirators who rebelled against the empire that the death of Christen VII broke out the imperial civil war between the three kings for the throne.

Baron Christon was a little discouraged because his plan to form a Ministry of the Interior was rejected by Lorlist, but he still tried to convince Lorlist: "Your Highness, you are right, the incident of the prison cage of the patrol in the pre-imperial era is indeed worthy of our vigilance, but as long as we strengthen supervision, we can avoid the same unfortunate incident from happening again." In fact, if the patrol force is brought under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Interior, then the network of the Ministry of the Interior's monitoring of the family domain can be carried out in the shortest possible time......"

Lorist stood up, walked over to Baron Christon and patted him on the shoulder: "Baron Christon, I don't think your idea of forming the Ministry of Internal Affairs is wrong, it's just that you misunderstood what I meant. While I am opposed to bringing the Patrol Force under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Interior, you can choose from the patrol force and weave together this network of surveillance family domains in a cooperative or part-time manner.

At present, the population of the entire northern region has reached more than 3.2 million, and the public security environment will be the focus of the family's next rectification. The patrol force will also be separated from the family management to form a separate security system. You can imagine that the Patrol will also be a network in the future, but it will be on the bright side. And the Ministry of Internal Affairs is another net, which hides in the shadows. Do you understand what I mean by all the criminals who have been missed by the net of the patrol force and the past cannot escape the net of the Ministry of Internal Affairs?"

Baron Christon suddenly realized: "Your Highness, I understand. What you mean is that in the future, the patrol team will be a shield on the surface, and our Ministry of Internal Affairs will be a sword in the shadows, and we can cooperate with the patrol team to monitor the entire family territory, but those objects of suspicion that make the patrol team helpless on the surface are the real targets of our Ministry of Internal Affairs...... I'll go back and rework the new plan for the formation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs right away......"

"Wait, Baron Christon, I have a task for you. Lorist hesitated for a moment, returned to his desk, and opened the drawer to take out a black folder.

"It's a matter that bothers me, but I don't know how to fix it, so you can take it and see it, and don't leak it to anyone else. If you have a good solution, you can go to Reddy of the Guards to help you, and if you can't do that, then return this folder to me......"

Baron Christon took the black folder and opened it, and his whole body shuddered. But he still put the folder away, and then bowed to his back to his Lorist: "Your Highness, I'll go back and think of a way." ”

Lorist was silent, and waved his hand to signal Baron Christon to step back on his own. It wasn't until he was alone in the study that Lorist let out a long sigh and sat down in his chair with a changing face.

Three days later, a message from Maple Grove Villa revealed that Lady Irina, who had been confined there, fell ill and died......

Since Lorist was unable to get out of presiding over the family's military reform meeting, he had no choice but to ask his cousin Chrisia to go to Maple Grove Villa to take care of Lady Elena's funeral and bring his second son, Velward, born to Lady Irina, back to Angry Bear City.

The family's military reform meeting lasted for five days, and the name of the new department was decided, which was called the Ministry of Armed Forces, which was a very local name, but from this day on, anyone who transferred more than ten soldiers of the Norton family without an order from Lorist and an order from the Ministry of Armed Forces with a large seal would be regarded as a rebellion. Even the highest administrators of the family headed by Shi Fatzi must obtain the permission of the Ministry of Armed Forces to mobilize the family's armed forces.

In addition to the 220,000 main army of the family armed forces determined by Lorist, which still maintained a favorable salary, the remaining troops were all reduced to half the salary, the local garrison corps of 24,000 men, two garrison corps in the Northland, one local garrison corps in Winston Province, one garrison corps in Rimke Province, and one local garrison corps in Makinohara Province, one garrison corps on Hilois Island, and one garrison corps in Haneyabada Islands. Unlike in the past, this time all the town and village garrisons were included in the formation of the local garrison corps, and this alone reduced the total number of family armies by almost half.

The order of the great disarmament of Lorist made the director Speer excited, so that in the future, the family treasury would spend less than a third of its armaments. But then the protests of Fat Man, Baron Camorra and others also sobered up Director Speer, who also joined the ranks of opposition to this disarmament order.

The protest of the civil servants of the administrative system was mainly against the reduction of the size of the garrison battalion, and although the garrison battalion was involved in the family civil strife initiated by the Hansk governor, it was considered by heart that the garrison battalion with only five battalions was an indispensable part of the family's armed forces. Because it was responsible for the security of the family's treasury, the secret industrial and mining farms, the guard of prisons and prisoners, and the transportation of logistics and supplies.

Strictly speaking, the garrison battalion is only under the jurisdiction of the family's civilian administrative system, and does not belong to the military force that can be deployed in the family's armed forces. When Lorist used to transfer troops and generals, he rarely thought that there were five garrison battalions in the family army, and at most a few town garrisons were recruited to form a temporary garrison battalion to be responsible for the transportation of logistics and supplies, and they were disbanded immediately after the war. If it weren't for the fact that Supervisor Hansk used the retired veterans of the five garrison battalions to start a family civil strife, Lorist would have forgotten about these five garrison battalions a long time ago.

"The reduction of the garrison battalion from the family armed forces is necessary, and I am not choking. Lorist slapped the table and stopped the quarrel between the civilian officials: "The separation of military and government, if the garrison battalion is not reduced, it must be under the command of the Ministry of Armed Forces, so that the administrative system will have to obtain permission from the Ministry of Armed Forces when supplies and goods are sent out and put into storage, which will only add countless troubles and contradictions to us, and even increase greater administrative costs and expenses because of the long distance."

The garrison battalions have been downsized, and their responsibilities will then be assigned to armed patrols. After the separation of the military and the government, the garrisons of various towns and villages will no longer be subject to the deployment of civilian officials of the administrative system, and they will only be responsible for maintaining the security of towns and villages, unless they are to suppress riots, and these town garrisons will no longer be responsible for local security activities unless ordered by the Ministry of Armed Forces.

As for the maintenance of local law and order, it will be handed over to the patrol police in the future. I plan to set up a garrison in the family, a garrison in the city, a garrison in the town, and a garrison station in the village, and be responsible for patrolling and policing the entire family territory. It was the only armed unit in the family administration, and as for the armed patrols, they were responsible for the same work as the five garrison battalions that had been reduced. ”

Lorlist's remark finally put an end to the quarrel among the civilian officials of the administrative system. However, Lorist stressed that the expenses of this garrison will be included in the family's administrative expenses in the future, and will no longer be military expenses. Therefore, the scale of the security system and armed patrol police that need to be formed also needs to go through detailed calculations. At present, the head of this security department is appointed by Lorist as the head of Kodan.

Immediately after the five-day military reform meeting, the Norton family began to reorganize and downsize, hoping to complete most of the work by the new year. Lorist was so busy that he didn't have a little time to spake until mid-November.

When she returned to Bear City, Chrisia had already returned from Maple Grove Lodge, and she reported to Lorist that Lady Irina must have died of a heart attack. Because Lesquete's vows irritated Lady Irina so much, she was confined to the mansion of Maple Grove and cried day and night, often crying and cursing Lorlist, and wailing Lesquete's name, and the guards who guarded her privately thought that Lady Irina had gone mad.

It was about eight o'clock in the evening on the day of Lady Elena's death, and she began to curse Lorist as usual, while also calling out the name of Master Lesket. After about half an hour of crying, Lady Irina's voice suddenly stopped. At that time, the guards were not used to it, and it was a little strange to stop so early tonight. But usually Mrs. Irina sometimes falls asleep directly because she is tired, so everyone doesn't care.

At about ten o'clock, when the guards patrolled to the door as usual, they found that they did not hear the sound of Mrs. Irina's breathing, and hurriedly went in to take a look, only to find that her face was blue and purple, and she had already died. After examination by a pharmacist, it was determined that he was too emotionally agitated and died of an acute heart attack. When Christia went there, she also made a special examination, and the body was well preserved, and Lady Irina had no scars on her body, and she was sure that she had died of a heart attack......

However, Chrisia makes a request to Lorlist, and she wants to adopt Lorist and Irina's second son, Villeward. Because of the changes during this time, Villeward was frightened, he was only a child under the age of thirteen, and Chrisia wanted to take this poor child with her. Lorist pondered for a long time, and finally agreed to Chrisya's request.

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