Chapter 260: Volibel

"Zheng Zheng Zheng ......" the sound of sword strikes was continuous.

After a while, Lorist put the sword back into its sheath, nodded and was very satisfied: "Yes, it has made great progress, with your current swordsmanship, you can take the attack of the golden one-star swordsman, and you still have to work hard, you know?"

Reddy on the other side bowed respectfully: "Yes, teacher." ”

After a year, Lorist found that Reddy had made rapid progress, and he had been practicing hard in retreat in the back mountain practice ground of Rock Castle, not only breaking through the third layer of Danhai Qi Induction Technique, and successfully reaching the peak of Ming Jin, but even his swordsmanship had greatly improved.

"You stabilize the third layer again, and then go out for a walk and look around. If you want to break through the fourth layer of the Danhai Qi Induction Technique, what you need is not hard training, but you have to have some understanding to break through, and even go through the experience of life and death for a moment. You have to use your brain more and think more, keep your mind calm, and don't get angry easily, understand?"

"Understood, thank you for your advice. ”

Leaving the training ground in the back mountain, Lorist took Schward back to the central castle, and El greeted him: "My lord, the two of Knights Tagger and the head of the Camorra are already waiting in the reception room......"

Loris nodded: "Let them go to the study, and you will come too." ”

Time flies so fast, when he left Dawn Academy and his friends organized a northbound convoy to return to his family territory, he was attacked by the spear cavalry under Count Cobilly when he passed through the northwest region of the Kingdom of Redlis, and finally he led the convoy to defeat Count Cobili and occupy his main city, which is the capital of the Northwest Province, Gerdos City.

At that time, Tagar was only a warden in the hard labor camp of Gerdos City, a two-star black iron fighting rank, and he was as timid as a mouse. But Lorist inexplicably felt that he was a talent, so he forced him to follow his family north with the convoy. Then due to time constraints, Lorist traveled north first, but Targer, who was not taken care of by Lorlist, was miserable, and he fought hard for the sake of his family, joining Yuri's scout light cavalry battalion.

After becoming a scout light cavalry, Tagar changed his greed for life and fear of death, and the experience of being born and dying several times also made his fighting spirit reach the peak of black iron, and he was more calm and generous. Then he met Lorist after arriving at the family territory, and was selected by Lorist Jane as his personal attendant. A year later, he was promoted to the silver rank and was accepted by Lorist as a family knight.

In the past two years, Lorlist's use of Tagel is very surprising, he always transfers the Tugger envoys, and the longest position is transferred after staying for three months, and he also asks Tagel to write a report on each of his posts and give it to him, no matter what he feels or feels, he must write it in detail.

Rock Castle, 2nd floor study.

"My lord, I salute you. Tagger made a knightly salute, and the Camorra steward next to him bowed halfway.

"Very good, Targer, you've done well in the past two years, huh, your Dou Qi cultivation is also very fast, and now you're two silver stars?"

"Yes, my lord, after receiving the high-level Dou Qi secret book you rewarded, I found that my cultivation was much faster than the previous military Dou Qi entering the realm. Tugger replied gratefully.

"That's because your fighting attributes are compatible. Lorist said with a smile, looking at the silent Camorra next to him: "Camorra, if you want to awaken your fighting spirit, I may be able to help you." ”

The head of the Camorra smiled bitterly: "My lord, don't be kidding, I'm almost forty-five, didn't I say that I can't awaken my fighting spirit if I am over thirty-five years old?"

"That's a fallacy, I heard ten years ago when I was a student in the city of Morente that the oldest person who had awakened his vindictive spirit was forty-eight years old, and of course it was said that he had used very precious medicines, which were of great value. But if you want to awaken your fighting spirit, I can help you, but you have to endure a hard life, as short as three months or as long as half a year, and you must live strictly according to my requirements, so that it is possible to awaken your fighting spirit, do you want to try?"

Manager Camorra's face changed for a long time, and finally lowered his head in front of Lorlist: "Please fulfill ...... Your Excellency"

Lorist began to check the pulse of the head of Camorra: "You were poor in your childhood, your body bone development was a little poor, you were tired from running around in your youth, your foundation was very weak, and your life improved after middle age, well, you are not indulgent, you are very restrained, you have maintained good living habits, and your body is very healthy." In addition to some hard work and hair loss, I am also a little anxious, and I don't sleep well at night, and I am prone to insomnia after waking up in the middle of the night......"

The head of the Camorra was shocked as if he had seen a ghost: "My lord, you, just like that, you know that I can't sleep well at night as soon as you take my hand?"

"Nonsense. Lorist laughed: "Lied to you, you can't sleep well at night, and when you get up in the middle of the night to read, they will know that they will know that they have seen the lights on in your house and the shadow of you in the window when you read......

"To be honest, Camorra, your body is okay, but you may be too anxious and don't sleep well, so let's do it, you hand over the matter at hand to the deputy, give yourself half a year off, you go to the recruit camp to train with the recruits in this half year, of course, the amount of training should be halved, and I will give you a prescription for diet and tonic medicine, and strictly follow the living rules formulated in the recruit camp, so I guarantee that you are eighty percent sure that you can awaken your fighting spirit, go and try it." ”

Camorra pondered for a while: "Okay, my lord, I will do as you say." ”

Lorist clapped his hands: "Okay, I have summoned you here today because I need you to do something." El, come forward, don't stand in the corner. ”

"Our family can be said to be thriving day by day, but we still have a shortcoming, and that is the transmission of intelligence and information. Sometimes we stay in the Northland and don't know what's going on outside. But now that we have opened the sea route to the island of Hilovas, it is like opening a window to the outside world, and we can get a lot of information. For example, the glass war between the business alliance and the Trimber Kingdom and the surprise attack on the royal city of Fedeliga by the Second Highness over the Great Snow Mountain.

However, we must be soberly aware that this information is passively received by us, and by the time it reaches our ears, it has already happened for a period of time, which has brought great inconvenience and time delay to our family's response. Therefore, I want to set up such a department to take the initiative to understand and discover the major events that are happening on the Gelinthia continent, and pass them on to the family as soon as possible, so that the family can consider what impact this will happen and make appropriate responses. Do you understand what I'm saying?"

The three of them were silent, and after a while Camorra spoke: "My lord, you mean to send secret agents to various places, get the news and then send it back?"

Lorist nodded.

Targar smiled bitterly, "My lord, this is very difficult to do. If nothing else, the cost of sending this agent out alone is a huge amount of money. For example, in the twenty-nine provinces of the former Krisson Empire, each province needs a secret agent team, and they need to break into the upper class of that place to get more information, and all this requires a lot of money. ”

El thought for a moment and said, "My lord, if you are in the family domain, I can guarantee that nothing will escape our ears, just as I did in the city of Morente. But when you go outside, it's messy, and it's hard to keep the spies safe. It doesn't make sense to send a spy to his life for an unimportant piece of information. ”

Lorist stood up and shook his head: "You are wrong, I don't want such an agent. Now the spies of the Garentia continent are either aristocrats roaming the upper classes of various countries or regions as you think, holding balls, banquets, parties and so on, and listening for news or rumors as information. Or, as El said, recruit those idle bastards to wander around taverns and inns every day, and report strangers or suspicious people when they find them.

It's not what I want. Tagger, do you know why I was interested in you back then in the city of Gerdos, thinking that you were a talent who forced you to follow your family north with your family?"

Tagger shook his head: "My lord, I don't know, I didn't even know that I would be promoted to the silver rank back then, at that time I would only eat and wait for death, and I would work hard and indulge." I thought my whole life had passed like this, and I really don't know why adults are optimistic about me, but of course I am very grateful for the kindness of my acquaintance, and if I hadn't been forced to go north, I would never have become a knight as I am now. ”

Lorist laughed: "Do you know that your rhetoric back then moved me, I really didn't expect that you would know everything about Gerdos City, and you can answer anything, who has grievances with whom, what materials arrived two days ago, and where they were stored, you must know that you were just the chief of a small hard labor camp back then, and you were not the acting city lord of Gerdos City or the chief administrator of Count Cobilly." I think you were born to be a secret agent, that's why I forced your family to go north. ”

"You can't deny that you're naturally curious, right? Targer, I've changed you to almost a dozen positions in two years, but each time I find that it doesn't take much time for you to get acquainted with the new work environment, meet new people, and in less than a month you're at home in your new position, and you can build relationships with anyone. Those who don't know will think you've been doing it for ten or eight years......

It's your talent, so I say you're a natural agent. And you're very tight-mouthed, and I feel good that you don't talk about your old job every time you get to a new position.

What I want to form this time is not a spy organization, but an intelligence department, or an investigation bureau or something. Although there are also secret agents, the official title is intelligence investigator.

I believe that there are many people in many places who are as well-informed or interested in all the local information as you did in the city of Gerdos, and your task is to discover and excavate them, to develop them into our intelligence investigators, and to spread the great events that happened in those places to the family.

As for the upper class of a place, we don't need any aristocratic spies to buy off the nobles' personal entourage and attendants, so the information we get is more reliable and detailed. Just like Camorra bought Viscount Kenmez in the first place.

I believe that a good intelligence investigator should be someone who has a legitimate occupation and has some influence in the local area, such as a tailor, a tavernkeeper, a fish seller, or a garrison captain. People will not suspect that they are our family's intelligence agents, so no one cares if the nobles' relatives or attendants ask them to pass on intelligence news, and at most they will only think that they are normal interactions, chatting like friends......

If no one meets our requirements, then we can train ourselves. For example, if the loyal soldiers of our family who have retired due to disability are willing to serve the family again, then we can train them how to listen to information, master a craft, and then help them return to their hometowns and open a small shop, which will become a source of information for our family......"

Lorist paused, opened the drawer, and took out a thick folder of animal skin paper: "Here are some of my ideas for this intelligence investigation department, you can go back and take a slow look, and tell me if you feel anything."

I asked the three of you to come together to take charge of this new department. Tagger is responsible for the arrangement and deployment of intelligence officers, Camorra is responsible for the inspection and collation of intelligence, and El is in charge of the Operations Department, cooperating with Tagger's work. ”

"Operations?" El asked, confused, "what did that do?"

Lorist made a throat-slitting motion: "In the process of arranging or selecting intelligence agents in Tagger, there is a high probability that there will be some trouble, such as local ruffians, provocations by gang members, or the fact that the intelligence agents we have selected have a grudge or something like that.

The local thugs who are hindering our intelligence work have a list of Tagar, and you are responsible for eliminating them. By the way, your Operations Department personnel will be selected from the guard battalion, and the number of people will be tentatively set to three squads. ”

"Understood, sir. El said.

"My lord, then I won't go to the boot camp, I'll sort out this intelligence investigation department first. Director Camorra said.

"No, the matter of your intelligence department's supervision is not urgent, you go to the recruit camp first, on the one hand, to prepare for your awakening of vindictiveness, on the other hand, you pay attention to the recruit camp, select some clever recruits or recruits that you think are suitable to become intelligence investigators, observe them for a period of time and confirm that they are reliable, and then transfer them out for training, become the team of this intelligence investigation bureau, and then send them out later. After all, Targer can't just go from place to place and then select and arrange intelligence investigators, right?" Lorist vetoed Camorra's proposal.

"This matter is not urgent, you can take it step by step, and I am very satisfied with the establishment of a rough intelligence network on the territory of the former empire within three years. All the funds and materials you need, the family will provide you. But at the moment we are still facing one of the biggest problems, that is, how do we pass on a piece of information back to the family? There is chaos outside, and it is really not very safe to use people as messengers as El said, and the time limit is too slow, and even if it is transmitted, it will be a while ago. Is there anything you can do?" asked Lorlist.

"My lord, can we raise petrels on a large scale, like using petrels to send messages from ship to ship on the sea?" said El.

"No, I can't. Lorist shook his head: "I asked Sambawood about the limitations of this kind of messenger Petrel. First of all, it has to be hatched and raised on a ship, and then it will treat that ship as its home, and if you want to contact other ships, you need to put it in a black cage and bring it over, and when it is released on other ships, it will find that ship at sea and come back, and the distance cannot be too far, more than sixty or seventy miles will be over. ”

"My lord, I've read in books before that it is said that ancient magicians used crows or owls to deliver letters, so could we experiment with that?" Targar suggested.

Lorist rolled his eyes directly: "You're not a magician, do you know how to train crows and owls to deliver letters, or are there any ruins dug up to reveal information about this?"

Targer was silent.

"My lord, we may be able to use a harrier eagle to deliver a letter. Camorra said.

"Harrier Eagle?"

"Yes, my lord, I know an old hunter who can domesticate harrier eagles. I had seen him tie several herbs to the talons of an eagle and have the harrier eagle deliver to his son's house in a city a hundred miles away, so I thought maybe he could use the harrier eagle to deliver the message. Camorra said.

"Okay, go find someone to ask, if the harrier eagle can send a message, vigorously domesticate the harrier eagle, the family can invest a lot of money in this. Perhaps with the Harrier Eagle that can deliver letters, the family armed forces can also be more keenly aware of the changes in the situation on the battlefield. "Lorist really hopes that Harrier Eagle will deliver the letter, so that the family will be worth the extra money.

"My lord, I have one more question. Tagger said, "What should we call this intelligence investigation unit?"

"Names?KGB?CIA?NSA?Stasi?Gestapo?Mossad?MI6?" Lorlist's mind flashed through the names of the most famous intelligence agencies in his previous life, but none of them were compatible, and finally he remembered the pronunciation of angry bear in English.

"Volibel, let's call Walibel. ”

...... (To be continued.) )