In the Name of the Queen

The speech was a success.

To be fair, the beautiful and noble countess stood on the stage in bright and beautiful armor, holding high the flag and telling the glorious history of the country, and her voice was particularly pleasant, so everyone must like to listen.

Moreover, the speech of the countess was polished by a time traveler, with both grand epic narratives and stories of ordinary people.

When Sif ended her speech with "National interests are your interests, your interests are national interests, and the white rose flag will always be with you", the young people present were all infected.

Of course, no speech can infect everyone.

Roland, who was sharp-eyed, saw that several new students reacted indifferently, and even disagreed.

Roland silently memorized the appearance of these people, and planned to let Raikkonen check their composition afterwards.

There was something wrong with not being able to fit into this atmosphere.

Just as he was silently memorizing people, Sif came over after finishing her speech.

"Roland, there are a few students who are not right."

"The ones who didn't get any positive feedback from your speech?" Roland was startled. Sif would not guess randomly. She was really insightful.

"Not only them, there are more than a dozen people who are hostile to me."

Sif said softly: "It's just a speech. It stands to reason that even if they can't resonate, they won't be hostile. And they don't know my true identity, so their target of hatred is"

Queen Sylph.

However, the queen is the earl, so these people's hatred for the queen is transferred to Sif.

Roland and Sif looked at each other and saw the fierce murderous intent in each other's eyes.

These people have big problems.

There is no strict political review in this era, and Roland is under the slogan of meritocracy, so it is inevitable that some fish will slip through the net and sneak into the military academy.

It is normal for nearly a thousand students to have selfishness and disloyalty, but how can they have a clear hatred for the queen?

Roland calmly called Borne and asked him to take the students to conduct simple queue training first, and then arrange a dinner in the evening.

After the arrangement, he immediately found Raikkonen.

As a professional paparazzi, he has a very good memory for people and can remember them clearly after just one look.

At the dinner later, he will remember suspicious people like a hound and check them one by one.

Roland was a little curious about who the guy who ate the Queen's meal and wanted to harm the Queen was.

Insight is indeed a very useful supernatural ability.

Although it can only distinguish hostility and kindness, loyalty and treachery at present, it is already very strong.

Insight is simply a supernatural ability tailored for authoritarian professions, which completely solves the problem that the master does not know what the minister is thinking.

Raikkonen received the task and became excited.

He has not had the opportunity to make merit during this period, and he is a little gloomy.

His main task is to be responsible for the construction of the intelligence system. However, this is a long-term system project. Although Roland gave him authority and funds, he is really short of people.

Intelligence personnel cannot be caught by anyone on the street. They must have strong professional capabilities and be loyal.

The construction of the intelligence system is not going smoothly, and it mainly relies on the Golden Kite Wanderer. But the wanderer is a foreigner after all, and he will have to go back sooner or later, and he has to do it on his own.

He was very empty during this period of time. If he hadn't been doing the work of maintaining discipline, he would have been bored.

He finally had a chance to make merit, and of course he wouldn't miss it.

In the evening, the sun was setting, and the students who had been busy for most of the day happily walked into the collective restaurant.

Dry food is the most simple enjoyment, no matter what plane.

What's more, tonight the earl and the governor invited them to dinner.

This is a supreme honor.

Many of them have only seen the highest officials in their lives, such as the mayor, tax collector and sheriff.

Hearing that the governor is higher than the senior officials, many people even trembled with excitement and fidgeted.

The goddess-like beautiful countess made them want to look more, but they were afraid that looking more would be blasphemy.

Roland saw the uneasiness in these people's eyes clearly.

This is the normal mentality.

His criteria for selecting soldiers came from Qi Jiguang's "Records of Military Training", and these young students were the best among them. Most of them came from farmers, miners, hunters and industrial workers.

These people rarely had not seen big people, so it was normal for them to be trembling.

Those who could remain calm from the inside out in such an occasion had either seen big scenes or had ulterior motives.

The dinner was very sumptuous.

After all, this might be the last big meal for some ulterior motives, so they couldn't be careless.

Before the meal started, Roland stood in the middle of the hall and gave a speech with a smile.

After the speech, he looked serious and glanced at everyone.

"Students, you all volunteered to join the new army and voluntarily pledged allegiance to the queen, right?"

Even the honest farmers knew the answer to this question, and all the staff answered loudly.

Roland raised his right hand and said in a deep voice: "I can give you the opportunity to improve, and give you the stage to get promoted and make money, but the premise of all this is loyalty and courage!"

"If anyone is disloyal and does not want to serve the Queen, you can stand up now. This dinner is my farewell to you. I promise that I will never pursue it."

These people may come from the cabinet faction or other countries. It is best to persuade them not to make trouble. There is no need to make a river of blood.

If they still don't leave after saying this, they are enemies, no need to be polite.

The whole audience was silent, and no one moved.

A few people in the crowd looked around, not daring to look at Roland.

They were also a little frightened, but they had no room to retreat, so they could only try their best to pretend.

Roland smiled and raised his glass and said loudly: "I knew that everyone was loyal to the empire, cheers!"

The opportunity was given, but I didn't cherish it, so I closed the net!

Sif narrowed her eyes, and there was a little more crimson in her pupils.

Damn it. Eat her food, take her money, and don't do things for her well, but you are still hostile to her?

If she didn't want to catch more fish, she would want to kill all these guys with ulterior motives now.

Roland and Sif toasted all the students three times and left the dinner scene, telling Raikkonen the badge numbers of the abnormal people.

They don't need to worry about the next thing, the professionals will handle it.

Raikkonen will of course do this kind of open-book exam.

He doesn't want a high score, but a full score.

Taking the opportunity to toast the students, he carefully observed the targets that were discovered.

Although these people are well hidden, they still have flaws after all.

No matter how good the Hansa dialect is, the tongue-twisting sounds that have been used for twenty years cannot be hidden!

Under the toasts of the Knights of the Knights, most of the students who attended the dinner today were drunk.

Some woke up in the dormitory, and some woke up in the interrogation room.

What awaited these people were non-stop fatigue interrogations and angry interrogators.

There were no supermen with faith as firm as the sun in this era. Even the toughest men could not withstand multiple attacks.

Three days later, Raikkonen put a detailed and complete interrogation report in front of Sif and Roland.

There were eleven suspicious persons in total, from the Cabinet, the Vladimir Empire, the Golden Kite Republic, and the Kingdom of Tyrol.

But this was just the tip of the iceberg. They confessed to hundreds of related personnel.

Sif's eyes were red, and murderous intent filled the whole room.

But she still controlled her emotions and said coldly: "Raikkonen, this matter is up to you. Dig out all the people behind them, no one can be left behind!"

The goal of no one can be left behind is a bit idealistic. Any intelligence organization has a stop-loss mechanism. After the intelligence personnel lose contact, how the intelligence organization can reduce losses is also an important part.

In the following week, Raikkonen took the intelligence pried out from the intelligence officers and arrested people according to the map. He soon found nearly a hundred lurking personnel.

The largest number of them came from the Vladimir Empire and the Golden Kite Republic, followed by the Kingdom of Tyrol.

The cabinet ministers had few intelligence officers, and they were not sent by William, but by Finance Minister Smith.

Maybe he knew that Norton had joined Roland, or maybe he had other reasons. In short, he stood firmly against the Queen and became the most die-hard party to restrict the royal power.

The three intelligence officers he sent were thrown into prison and enjoyed unlimited single-room treatment.

These three people were not easy to kill or release, so they could only be detained temporarily.

After learning the news, although she did not have an attack on the spot, Sif had silently blacklisted Finance Minister Smith.

When he returned to the imperial capital for settlement, he was the first one.

A group of intelligence officers from several other countries were arrested.

Such a large number of intelligence officers were arrested at the same time, which also brought new troubles. How to deal with them?

Killing them all would definitely not work, and it would be meaningless.

The captured intelligence personnel are important resources and can be exchanged for things.

However, some countries are willing to exchange, while others may not.

Sif sighed helplessly: "Unfortunately, we can't get much benefit. The current president of the Golden Kite Republic, Desire, is a ruthless man. He would rather give up the prisoners than compromise easily. The Kingdom of Tyrol may shed some blood, but it is definitely not much."

"As for the Ruriks, failure is almost the same as death in their place. Don't expect them to pay much for the dead."

Roland smiled and said: "I don't think so. If they are asking for the ownership of the magic crystal vein, they will definitely not be willing to give in. If we just exchange for food, they are most likely willing."

"Food?"

Sif's eyes lit up.

This year's climate is very abnormal, and it can be predicted that there will be a poor harvest at the end of the year.

The Golden Kite Republic doesn't care.

They have the most large plains and high-quality arable land. Even if more than half of the land in the country is barren, it will not affect anything.

Even if the climate is bad, at most the poor farmers will suffer.

As long as there is no large-scale starvation, the lower-class people of the Golden Kite will not rebel.

The Tyrol Kingdom does not produce that much grain, but they are neighbors with the grain-producing country Talia, and their military strength is far stronger than that of the internally divided Talia.

My neighbor has grain and I have guns, so they are not panicked at all.

They don't care about grain, so it's not a big problem to exchange hostages for grain.

The Vladimir Empire has the best grain-producing area in Eastern Rodinia. Although the agricultural level is very low, the total grain output is not small.

They are also a major grain exporter, exporting millions of tons of grain to various countries on the Rodinian continent every year.

It will definitely be no problem for them to exchange grain for hostages.