Chapter 22.
Chapter 22 The Leak
When Paul returned to the hall, the officers were still enthusiastically discussing the next phase of the operation.
He shouted out without any good humor, “Stop! Stop it all!”
The crowd looked at him in puzzlement, the Lord Earl had been out for some time, it was hard not to have eaten the gunpowder he had invented.
“All our old secrets are known, it pisses me off.” Only heard the Earl-sama said indignantly, then added fuel to the fire by describing to the crowd the meeting with the two clergymen, how the other party was suspicious and probing, and how he himself had committed himself to proving his innocence.
“What? These two guys are also too rude, relying on their priesthood status to not even look at their own lord?”
“Lord Earl, you have the authority to drive them out of the territory, let the bishopric send a priest who knows how to be polite.”
“Strange, Father Anderson doesn’t seem like this kind of person ah, my family is very kind when it comes to attaching **** to the church.”
“Yeah, Dean Leonard I know too, a bit curmudgeonly but quite a nice person.”
Knight Schroeder vigorously tapped the table, the crowd immediately stopped talking to look at him.
“Gentlemen, I think your focus is mistaken. It is surprising that there are soldiers who disregarded the prohibition and revealed the secrets of the army to others without authorization, even if the other party is a clergyman, who can guarantee that there are no degenerates among the religious people? In case of taking our secrets and exchanging certain benefits with our enemies, it would cause incalculable losses to our army. That’s what Lord Earl is worried about, am I right?”
“Right! Right! You …… you guys na!” Paul was painfully aware, with a look of hatred, how could his own promoted group of officers be so unguarded.
All the officers you look at me, I look at you, one by one all red face, a time the hall is awkward.
In the end it was Bryce who broke the silence, “My lord, you see, how should this matter be dealt with?”
“How else can I handle it, this matter absolutely can’t be left unattended, investigate! We must find out who leaked the secret, anyone who has been to the church after the battle is suspected, we’d rather kill a thousand by mistake than let one go.”
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Two days later, the person who leaked the secret was uncovered, the public trial was quickly held, to make good use of this negative example, to all officers and soldiers of the heart to draw a red line.
“…… The danger of leaking secrets, the secrecy regulations say very clearly …… Mouthless, is not to take the lives of comrades seriously …… Even the clergy, there are inevitably degenerates ……”
In front of the whole army, the Lord Earl spat and lectured for two hours.
Finally, he looked towards the leaker who was shivering on his knees.
“Now, I pronounce the sentence …… “Seeing that the leaker was shaking even more, he hesitated and finally failed to be ruthless, “Considering that the first time this type of incident occurred, he is temporarily sentenced to 10 years of hard labor, but if a similar incident, I will absolutely hang the offender for violating the ban, I’ll do it when I say so.”
All the officers and soldiers listen to all creeped out, the leaker is as if amnestied, pounding garlic in general kowtow vigorously, “Thank you for not killing the grace of the Lord.”
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The leakage incident is to Paul Gleiman raised a wake-up call, it is time to set up an intelligence agency, not only military, in the future, with the development and construction of the territory, outside the political and economic information is essential, in addition to the defense of their own secrets, to prevent the other forces of the dark prying eyes.
He approached Philip, the most loyal and reliable butler, to discuss this matter, but the old butler said he could not handle the task and recommended another person to take charge of this matter.
He was surprised: “Cecil? I don’t think this person is very trustworthy, I remember on the day I succeeded the lordship, that guy said that I was ‘just a kid, what do I know’.” “Can’t you see that? He was cooperating with Bryce then, and Bryce’s performance later deterred those with bad intentions.”
So that’s how it was? One sings the red face, the other the white face.
“The Cecil’s have also been serving the Gladman family for generations, following your ancestors before they migrated to the Northwest Bay, Cecil Sr. used to be your grandfather’s head of intelligence, and was quite skilled in espionage, Cecil learned a lot of skills from his father, but after your father succeeded to the lordship, he deemed espionage unnecessary, and sent him to manage the forestry industry. “
“Oh?” Paul was interested, this was a real snoozefest.
“Tell you what, you call him in and I’ll see how the man is first.”
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In the afternoon, Cecil, the head forester, came to the lord’s castle, Paul tried in the conversation and found nothing wrong, surely that day was a deliberate pretense to match Bryce?
So he announced the appointment of Cecil as the head of intelligence of the territory, and until a suitable handover is found, he will continue to hold the occupation of head of forestry on the side.
“It’s hard work, but I’ll pay you double your salary.”
“Serving His Excellency is my duty, I dare not speak of hard work.” Cecil knelt down on one knee, sweeping away his previous obscure appearance and said solemnly and solemnly.
“Very well, get up, let’s go to my study together and talk in detail about how the future work should unfold.”
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Paul and Cecil in the study discussed in detail the formation of the intelligence agency and the protection of secret matters within the territory, he did not know how the spy technology in this world, so he put his previous life in the network of the ground in the text of some of the things he had seen a brain all put forward to give as a reference, Cecil endorsed the following several measures:
1, the secret matters in the territory are divided into three levels: secret level, classified level, top secret level. “Top Secret” is the most important secret, the disclosure of which will cause the security and interests of the territory to suffer particularly serious damage. “Confidential” is an important secret, the disclosure of which may cause significant damage to the security and interests of the territory. “Secret” is a general secret, the disclosure of which could jeopardize the security and interests of the territory.
(2) Classified personnel are divided into three levels, namely, “core classified personnel”, “important classified personnel” and “general classified personnel”. Core classified personnel have access to top secrets, secrets and secrets, important classified personnel have access to secrets and secrets, and general classified personnel have access to secrets only.
3. It is necessary to establish a specialized agency to manage secret matters, responsible for the classification of secret matters and the classification of classified personnel, and the name of the agency is tentatively set as “Confidentiality Bureau”.
4. Even highly classified personnel may not have access to low-classified matters outside their sphere of competence without the permission of the relevant authorities.
5. A system of coded language specifically for intelligence work shall be established.
In the course of the discussion, Paul learned that some of the similar measures in the above points had actually been in the world for a long time, except that Cecil was very surprised that a half-grown child could know about them.
In the end, Paul requested that the focus of the recent intelligence work be put into the acquisition of information on pirates, especially the shark gangs that had occupied the port of Zealand, and he planned to completely clear all the pirates in his own territory and open up the access to the sea within three months.
Cecil asked for a piece of parchment and recorded the details of the count’s orders in detail.
(End of chapter)