Really!

After listening to Leon's words, the old man frowned slightly, and then asked:

"Why did you kill him?"

"Because of work."

Since he didn't know much about the old man's knowledge of the "underwater world", Leon didn't directly tell his nonsense, but asked rhetorically:

"How much do you know about the Cleanup Bureau?"

"I know a little bit about it."

Now that he has carefully investigated Leon's file, it is natural that he will not fail to learn about his work, and after a moment of silence, the old man waved his hand to let the two officers leave, and then said in a low voice:

"The royal family has a handbook on which you can keep your soul 'silent' even though you know the existence of the anomaly, and you won't incur an attack on the anomaly, and my name is on it.

Also, since you mentioned the Cleanup Bureau, that means that this time it wasn't actually the Lane family that had civil unrest, but something to do with the 'work content' of your Cleanup Bureau?"

A manual that keeps the soul "silent"? It seems that not all "ordinary people" are unaware of the existence of anomalies, but there are only a small number of them.

After keeping the news in mind, Leon nodded and said:

"Yes, Bobby Lane has become one with an anomaly, not only trying to snatch the anomaly from my custody, but even threatening the lives of ordinary people to force me to tell the secrets of the Cleanup.

Although the Clean-up Bureau had a request that it was not allowed to attack ordinary people unless necessary, the situation was urgent at the time, and he was no longer a human being, so I had no choice but to kill him."

……

I see......

After learning the "truth" about Ryan's bloody night from Leon's mouth, compared with the other situations he knew, the old man's tightly knit brows couldn't help but stretch slightly.

If Leon had given the answer at the beginning of the question, he might have grasped a few doubts and continued to ask questions.

However, Leon first "embarrassed" him with two questions, and after confirming his understanding of the Clean-up Bureau, he "reluctantly" confided in the "true" situation of Ryan's bloody night.

As the saying goes, a wife is not as good as a concubine, a concubine is not as good as stealing, and stealing is better than stealing, and the current situation is similar to this.

Compared with the low-hanging fruit answers, this kind of hard-won intelligence is naturally much more credible, at least the Secretary of State for Defense, who only knows a little about the Clean-up Bureau, has basically believed Leon's words, but it is just ......

"If you could, I'd like you to say it differently."

In Leon's somewhat surprised gaze, the old man said with a serious face:

"Naturally, I should say whatever I want to say about your Clean-up Bureau, but when someone other than the Clean-up Bureau asks, I hope you can cooperate with us and characterize the affairs of the Lane family as a civil unrest."

We?

Although as an "ordinary person", Leon did not know much about the situation in the kingdom, but he still vaguely heard about who stood behind the Minister of Defense.

"The Princess...... Ready to take advantage of the opportunity to do something to the old aristocracy?"

"Yes."

Frankly admitting Leon's judgment, the gray-haired old man spoke:

"It wouldn't hurt to be more blunt, if you wanted...... This is a planting!"

After saying what he wanted to do, the old man's eagle-like eyes stared at Leon's eyes, and while carefully observing his expression, he explained very quickly:

"Whether it's a party rebellion or civil strife, the Ryan family, which has lost so many important members, is completely finished. However, the old nobles are a whole, even if the Lane family completely loses power, the positions he vacated will not fall into the hands of others, but will only be quickly divided by other nobles.

At that time, except for the Lane Arms Company that became the Masseni Arms Company, the Ministry of Highways, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Agriculture all became people with the surname York, or something else

Except for the people with the last name, everything will go as usual, and there will still be no change in the country."

After talking as briefly as possible about the possible situation, looking at Leon in front of him, who was listening attentively, the old man's tone was slightly raised, and he said with a serious face:

"But now it's different, as long as you're willing to cooperate and prove that the Lane family's affairs are a civil strife, you can create a great opportunity for the princess to take a big step forward in a better direction!"

"I didn't understand."

Hearing this, Leon frowned, and asked with some puzzlement:

"Regardless of civil strife or rebellious attacks, aren't they all the people of the Lane family who die? Why can you give the princess a good chance?"

"Because the kingdom needs to be stable, there cannot, and should not, be a mass vacancy in any ministry at once."

Looking at Leon, who obviously didn't know much about the Zhengzhi game, and was not even as good as his own daughter, the old man thought about it and explained as plainly as possible:

"Of the more than 200 people killed and injured in the Lane family this time, more than 100 of them are middle-level officials in various ministries of the kingdom, especially the Ministry of Highway Administration and the Ministry of War, and these two ministries alone are short of nearly 80 people at one time.

As a result, a quarter of the 47 subordinate departments of the military department began to accumulate working documents, and two small sub-bureaus were temporarily suspended because of the loss of their managers.

Although the old aristocracy will send someone to make up for it as soon as possible, it will take at least one or two months to wait for the new officials to take over and familiarize themselves with the work, and it may take more than three months to completely deal with the backlog of work, and even the relevant departments will not operate smoothly because they are not familiar with it for most of the next half a year."

After briefly talking about the direct effects caused by Ryan's bloody night, the old man continued with a serious expression:

"It's just that one nobleman has a civil strife, which can cause such serious consequences, so what if two, three, or even more nobles have accidents one after another within half a year? That's the best excuse to do it!"

As long as this incident can be characterized as civil strife, the princess will be able to demand in parliament that the number of old nobles in the various departments be reduced on the grounds of ensuring the normal functioning of the kingdom, and that their excessive power be checked.

Even if it doesn't succeed in the end, you can ask the old nobles to cede power and ensure that the number of nobles in a certain department is not too large, so as not to cause a complete shutdown of the relevant departments after similar problems.

And when these nobles have no way to have a large number of clansmen in a certain department, those who fall to the princess have room to operate, and they can try to unite with others to check and balance, and even take back control of the key affairs of this department!"

When he said this, he seemed to see the successful reform of the princess and the bright future of the kingdom that had accumulated for many years, and the old man couldn't help but blush slightly, and his eyes were full of excitement:

"Take the Lane family as an example, think about it, if the number of officials in the Lane family in the Ministry of Highways is reduced to half or even one-third, will they still be able to control the construction of the old city as before?

If the number of people in the military department's procurement in the Lane family is also reduced to half of the original, can the Lane Arms Company still eat up so much money from the military department every year? If...... What's the matter?"

"Your Highness's Someone's Coming......

One of the two young officers walked into the ward with a warrant and said with a somewhat strange expression:

"The man sent by the princess said...... The old duke of the Ryan family is going to die, and he asks the person who is in the top five in the line of succession to rush over as soon as possible......

Duke Lionheart is no longer good?

After hearing the young officer's words, the old man's expression was slightly happy, and then he immediately stood up from the side of the hospital bed, and said vigorously:

"Anyway, you think about my words first, there really won't be a second chance like Ryan's Blood Night, and your choice may become a ...... What's wrong?"

"The ......"

After looking at Leon, who was covered in bandages on the bed, the young officer spoke somewhat helplessly:

"The one on the bed is the fifth heir to the Lane family......

「……」

Yes?!?!?!