Chapter 420 Ministry of Education

Chapter 420 Ministry of Instruction

Cecil was still very efficient in matters that Paul had to personally go over.

“Geez! Look at this, look at this, you guys, this kind of thing is happening in my territory, right under my nose. Goddamn rogues, thieves, and villains!”

Paul slammed the report Cecil had given him down hard on the table.

Apart from Cecil, the group of officials participating in the meeting underneath looked at each other in disbelief, they saw their lord’s face intertwined with all kinds of expressions such as sadness, anger, and horror, and they actually almost tore the paper apart while reading the report.

The document was quickly circulated by the officials.

It turned out to be that a manor owner named Fubinen from Totor village had used usury to forcibly seize the pension fields of several families of fallen soldiers.

Cecil sent out his capable men to get to the bottom of the matter, Fubinen was the tax collector of Totor village, and with this identity he had tampered with the taxes, then lured these families into borrowing usurious loans, and with the use of interest to inflate the debt to the point where they could not pay it off, and eventually forced them to use their fields to cover the debt.

What is this? Is this what happened? That’s it?
That’s it? These are the thoughts of most people who are used to the daily life of this world.

But ……

“This is just too much, Earl-sama.”

“This one called Fubinen is really not a human being, and even more in vain as a gentleman.”

“The gods will punish him.”

The people present all looked like they were filled with righteous indignation.

Seeing that the officials under his command stood on the same side as himself, Paul felt a little better in his heart.

“Why don’t these victimized families appeal to our political officials there?”

Paul looked to Old Ford, the chief administrator of the Council of State.

“This …… cough!” Old Ford had a jolt.

“Lord Gleeman, our manpower is still too small, in recent years, the construction of government affairs have been concentrated in the city, as for the villages around the countryside, they are all divided into several villages by a single official, so it must be that they have not heard of this kind of small matter …… this kind of thing, and… . the key thing is …… that those peasants in the countryside also don’t have the habit of looking for the lord’s officials to appeal.”

Paul pounded the table fiercely, “We have to penetrate our power into every village, into every settlement, this is the future focus of government building.”

“Yes, Lord Earl.”

In fact, Chief Ford had always known the lord’s thoughts, in recent years, the earl had vigorously invested in education and recruited political officials year after year, wasn’t it just to strengthen his own administrative power, the lord’s recruiting requirements for certain non-core positions were even as low as just recognizing words.

Paul said with a face of indignation, “As for that Fubinen, I’m going to arrest him and try him! Execute!”

The crowd’s mouths all opened into an O shape one by one. “Lord Gleeman, isn’t this …… this too harsh? According to the previous practice, just confiscate half of his family’s property.”

“Previous practice? Is it referring to the Baden one?”

Paul became even more angry, and he blurted out with an intensity that bordered on yelling:

“What I regret most now is being too merciful at that time. I’m surprised they haven’t learned their lesson after the last time they fiddled with the tax collection and ended up in a riot. At that time I still had loyal soldiers to go and pacify the riots for me, but now they have put their hands in the soldiers’ rice bowls, if I put them down gently again, then there will be a third and fourth time, will the soldiers still be loyal to me then, I guess they will wake up in the middle of the night one day and have a gun pointed at their heads.”

“This …… you …… you too much words.”

The crowd was stunned by the horrific scene Paul described, a lord being killed by his own soldiers? It was simply unheard of.

Because it involves the army, Chief of Staff Schroeder also attended the meeting, he first stood up and thanked Paul on behalf of the soldiers, then reminded the crowd, “Gentlemen, our soldiers in Arda are not ordinary soldiers, Lord Gleiman taught them to recognize words and know some culture, so they will correspond with their family, correspond with their retired comrades, and will tandem with each other, the key is that they have a finger in their hand. The key is that they have weapons in their hands that can take out a heavily armed knight lord with the move of a finger, and they have been training their combat skills for years and years, which gives them a boldness that their counterparts elsewhere don’t have. So Lord Graiman’s concerns are not alarmist, once our armies are in disarray that’s a big problem.”

Ruth Hayden, the head of the Department of Public Safety, stood up with a mischievous cry, “Lord Gleiman, the police force is willing to serve you! Please let me personally lead a team to Totor to apprehend this Fubinne.”

Since the Public Safety Department had expanded its police force, it had yet to handle any major cases, and he was determined to perform well this time.

“Good, then you’ll be in charge of bringing that bastard to Lakewood, and I’ll try him in front of the soldiers.”

Paul was just thinking of sending the army to Totor so that the soldiers could vent their anger, but Hayden’s initiative made him change his mind, this should really be a matter for the police to arrest, the army is supposed to be used to defend against foreign enemies, it’s best not to do too much work on internal affairs.

The matter settled, Paul brought up another matter that concerned him greatly.

“Cecil’s words just now reminded me that our soldiers really aren’t ordinary soldiers, so we can’t treat them as idly as other territories. We should firmly grasp the soldiers’ thought dynamics. So I have an idea.”

The officials made a show of listening with an open mind and waited for the earl’s tall tale.

“I’m going to set up the fourth department of the army – the Department of Instruction – in addition to the Department of Staff, the Department of Equipment, and the Department of Logistics.”

Department of Instruction? Everyone was confused, what was that for? It sounded like it was in charge of education, but that kind of thing was already done by military chiefs at all levels.

Paul explained his idea to them, “In the future, the cultural and educational activities of the army will be the responsibility of the Department of Instruction, and this department will have its own officers at each level of the army – for the time being, let’s call them instructors, who, in addition to educating the soldiers, will also have the important task of knowing the ideological dynamics of the soldiers, and of preventing the army unit they are in charge of from not rebelling. understand the dynamics of the soldiers’ minds, to always prevent that the army unit they are responsible for will not rebel, and to be absolutely loyal to their commander-in-chief (that is, me).”

Oh, rightfully so, everyone’s mind was made up.

Then Paul’s words changed, “The Department of Instruction will be vertically managed in such a way that the instructor at all levels will be equal to the military commander of his unit and will be responsible only to the instructor at the level above him, while the head of the Department of Instruction will be directly responsible to me.”

Huh? Doesn’t that imply surveillance?
The crowd looked with some embarrassment at the equally embarrassed-looking Chief of Staff Schroeder.

Is this the Count being uneasy about the loyalty of the army?

(End of chapter)