85_85536 Merchant employees and clerics suspected of having an alchemist background are not very reliable. First of all, their future is only partially in William's hands. Like the children of the common people, only William can support them, give them glory and social status.

William had to take into account one thing, and that was that the Polotsk Business Alliance, the Church of the Radiant Lord, and the Alchemist Alliance looming behind them were all powerful behemoths, or even latent forces.

If they wanted to, they would be able to come up with a bargaining chip that people - at least the merchant employees, and the clergy suspected of having an alchemist background couldn't refuse...... Or threaten to let them steal William's secrets.

Don't worry about these things though, for now. But as William, or the Hereford family, grows stronger, their desire to get information, their desire to know what they want to know, and*, naturally, get stronger. In this case, why don't they use the foreshadowing of these clergy and employees?

So, in order to reduce the possibility of leaks. William was a little more diminished in his use of the clergy and merchant employees.

Business employees are usually engaged in statistics, calculations, bookkeeping, and accounting, but are not involved in specific tasks. At the same time, the clergy are responsible for the overall planning, management, and deployment of personnel and materials. Likewise not involved in specific matters.

When encountering such a work that "does not participate in specific affairs", William first thought of them. If you don't participate, you won't be engaged. If you don't touch, you won't learn, and if you don't learn, you can't understand. If you don't understand, naturally there is no way to leak secrets.

Of course, these "non-involvement" jobs were not enough to arrange all the merchants and clergy. And William will not give up eating because of choking, and he will not use these people because he is worried about leaking secrets. In terms of general affairs, you can still see many civil servants who were businessmen and clergy.

At the same time, William didn't want these people to know his concerns, let alone let them know that they were being targeted, so they would have a rebellious mentality.

William tried to give the impression of being assigned positions according to merit. In fact, from an objective point of view, he did the right thing.

A businessman-turned-clerical clerk is a master of calculations. It's okay to arrange for them to do those jobs.

In the same way, the education of the clergy is that management is the most important thing, and it is also the best use of their talents to arrange for them to carry out those tasks.

In fact, William made an impression. And that's exactly what happened. That's what he wants to leave behind. This little trick in employing people has been a bit successful.

Of course, this does not mean that clergymen and businessmen are absolutely unreliable. It does not mean that the squires and commoner-born clerks will be dead set on William and Mystia.

So in terms of those specific "technical". William also used a little trick.

New farming techniques, nouns, just one. But there are a lot of specific things involved.

Soil improvement, fertilizer application, fine management and intensive farming methods, new ploughing, ox ploughing, and new agricultural tools...... William divided these specific tasks into several points, and at the same time put thought into the grouping of the people who managed the farm.

In general, there are four to six managers per farm. Clerks of all four origins are included, and the distribution is equal, rather than concentrating people of the same origin.

At the same time, each of them has only been exposed to some of the new farming techniques, but not all of them.

In this way, one, they can only master a part of the technology. Second, because of the different classes they live in, the contradictions arise. The relationship between the civilian staff is not very good. So they won't communicate much either.

In this case, the probability of leakage is greatly reduced.

Of course, William also knew that this was only a stopgap measure, and a stopgap measure with great side effects.

The contradictions between colleagues provoked by the behind-the-scenes promoters, as well as the biased way of employing people, will cause the clerks to be centrifuged, tear each other down, and lead to a decline in work efficiency. At the same time, what is worse is that such a thief-like defense of one's own people, at least in name, is itself a kind of unself-confidence.

As the de facto founder of Mystia, and the de facto supreme power of the entire duchy, William wanted his heart to be complete and free of holes. At least, it shouldn't be such a big, obvious loophole.

Therefore, William hopes that in the next one to two years, he will try to build up his own intelligence agency. Use a "national security system" with the functions of intelligence gathering, sabotage, assassination, bribery, internal surveillance, leakage prevention and counterintelligence, and a group of professional counterintelligence and counterintelligence personnel to reduce the possibility of leakage. If necessary, they will also use assassinations, threats, etc., to deal with those traitors.

Speaking of which, William couldn't be clearer about the importance of a professional modern intelligence agency.

At the same time, he also knows that many concepts such as intelligence, espionage, and confidential affairs are not widely known in this world, like many new things.

William did not have a system that could obtain information quickly and effectively, so he also did not know if someone in this world had formed a modern espionage organization.

However, based on the level of development of society and productive forces, this is not very likely.

Or single, fragmented spies, as well as the rudiments of spy organizations, and some part-time intelligence dealers, shoplifters have been saving zài, or even zài for a long time. However, most of the modern espionage organizations in modern times are unlikely to exist.

The reason is very simple, a mature modern espionage organization needs to spend money, materials, manpower and energy that ordinary people can hardly imagine.

How could kings and lords do this when the vast majority of countries were still feudal and fragmented?

Comparatively speaking, there are many more important places than espionage organizations or something. Kings just want to spend money, and it's unlikely to spend it there.

Although in recent history, with the development of social productive forces, scientific and philosophical ideas and forms of state organization. Some so-called "powerful countries" with financial and human resources far exceeding those of traditional feudal countries appeared.

However, in the absence of a reference and a theoretical basis, William did not think that these countries could independently develop modern espionage organizations in a short period of time.

"Maybe I'm the first...... Well, no, maybe I'm the first. William thought to himself.

It's like a lot of useful or useless knowledge. Knowledge about modern espionage, intelligence, espionage and secrecy training is also available in his psychic reading room, and it is very complete.

With these books as a theoretical basis, William can easily see a modern system of espionage. At least easier than his potential opponents and enemies.

He even had the name of the institution in mind, and it was called the Cheka - he wouldn't dislike the name that had been used by others, nor would he dislike that the name was a bit old. Because classics never go out of style.

So, now there is only one problem left.

That's the candidate.

Yes, the importance of a modern espionage intelligence system cannot be overstated. If it is not entrusted to people, then the danger to national security, and even to one's own security, is absolutely huge.

Therefore, the person in charge of the espionage system must meet two conditions. One is loyalty, and the other is competence. If there is really no suitable candidate, then loyalty can be ranked ahead of ability.

The problem is still the same old problem. William was understaffed. In the final analysis, Duke Otto is the only person under William who can take charge of himself. And Duke Otto is definitely not a good candidate for an intelligence chief. This kind of darker thing did not correspond to the mentality of Duke Otto, and it was not easy for him not to oppose it. It is absolutely impossible for him to condescend to take charge of this.

So, Willian has three other options on hand. Constantine, John the Squire, and Charlumie.

After a little thought, William decided to hand over the Cheka to Shalumi.

To put it simply, because Charlumi is the most reliable, and Charlumi is the most idle and has nothing to do. As mentioned earlier, Duke Otto revoked Charlumi from the military on the grounds that he did not want women to go to war.

Although William felt that this reason was nonsense.

Although it sounds like that, it's quite gentlemanly, and high-spirited. But William still thinks it's.

He was a loyal supporter of total warfare, all-people warfare, and unrestricted warfare. He has a natural affection for national mobilization, wartime production, and universal compulsory military service for all*.

It's completely wrong for a war to make a woman walk away or something. It's a huge, manpower waste. In a period of all-out war, no amount of manpower can be overstated. After all, the number of men is limited, soldiers, soldiers, industrial workers, farmers, these jobs have to be done.

Once the army is expanded, it will naturally lead to a reduction in industrial and agricultural production.

In this case, it would be a terrible, wrong, and irresponsible way to send a large number of adult women out of the war and industrial system.

Despite not being able to go to the front, serve as a combatant on the front line. However, women can still serve in civilian service, technical services and caregivers. The use of female soldiers in these positions as much as possible will increase the actual combat strength of the side