Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 585 Three Major Intelligence Agencies

Claude decided to re-establish the intelligence services of the autonomous military region, which originally had only one military intelligence headquarters and was responsible for matters that were too comprehensive and confusing. Such as clearing up spying groups in other countries in the Overseas Self-Governing Territories, spying on military intelligence from enemy countries, keeping abreast of the latest battlefield situation, etc. It is precisely because the scope of responsibility is so great that it is often impossible to respond in a timely manner. As was the case this time with the royal navy in the mainland of the Kingdom, the Military Intelligence Department knew nothing.

Claude intends to establish two additional intelligence services, one external to the other, called the Intelligence Agency, which is responsible for gathering intelligence, both military and economic, from the countries of the Farea continent, including the Kingdom itself, so that they do not know the details of each other. Another interior, called the Security Bureau, is responsible for counterintelligence in the overseas autonomous territories to clean up the affairs of secret agents of other countries, defend the technical and intelligence work related to military secrets in the autonomous territories, avoid overseas autonomous territories as a screen, and the military regions of the autonomous territories know exactly what is happening to the enemy.

As for the Military Intelligence Service, which was formerly part of the Autonomous Territorial Military Region, it was divided into two parts, the Ministry of Land Intelligence and the Ministry of Maritime Affairs. By definition, the Army Intelligence Department and the Navy Intelligence Department are targeted in a variety of ways. Army intelligence is responsible for enemy and battlefield military reconnaissance, as is the case with the ongoing wildfire programme, and the West Coast colonial Power is the object and target of intelligence investigations by the Army Intelligence Department. The Naval Intelligence Department, on the other hand, is responsible for detecting the information of the naval forces and the distribution of the pirate forces.

However, Claude, after finishing the structure of the two additional intelligence services, the Intelligence Agency and the Security Agency, suddenly found that the Military Region headquarters would suffer if both the Intelligence Agency and the Security Service were funded by the autonomous territorial military region. The financial requirements for the completion of the deployment of these two one-to-one, one-to-one intelligence services are not small. Moreover, the two intelligence services are responsible for security intelligence services for the entire Overseas Autonomous Territories and should be organized with funds from the Autonomous Territorial Assembly…

The Army Intelligence and Naval Intelligence Departments under the Autonomous Territorial Regions are sufficient, and military intelligence investigations are taken for granted by the military headquarters. Without the silent and sudden deployment of the two external and internal intelligence services, the Autonomous Council of Claude would not have defied his intentions, but it was inevitable that Claude would have felt too strong and uncomfortable. In view of the financial implications, Claude felt that it would be better to consult with the Autonomous Territorial Council on the creation of the Intelligence Agency and the Security Service, and that it would be more honorable to greet everyone.

Claude then went to Acting Speaker Marshal Bolognick, and Speaker Bennett of the Autonomous Territorial Council stayed in the Northern Bay Territory of the Kanas Prairie to liaise with Wangdu on official business. The Overseas Autonomous Territorial Council is presided over by Marshal Bolognick and, as Acting Speaker, administers the day-to-day administration of the Executive Council. Seriously, the Overseas Autonomous Territories are currently pursuing a two-track system of two-way administration, with both sides. The Executive Committee of the Autonomous Territories Council is responsible for local administration, and the Autonomous Territories are responsible for military and security...

The supreme authority of nominal overseas autonomous territories is the Autonomous Territorial Council, and all matters relating to autonomous territories require parliamentary approval. But the truth is that the Autonomous Territorial Council is actually a rubber stamp, responsible for stamping it. Executive authority is vested in the Executive Council, each of the twelve members of which is responsible for an administrative aspect, and all local administrations of the autonomous territories are subject to the management and administrative direction of the Executive Council.

The only higher authority in the Autonomous Territorial Regions is the Autonomous Territorial Council, whose de facto management is the Executive Council, which, in parallel with the Autonomous Territorial Regions, must first obtain Claude's approval for any initiative. To a certain extent, Claude has actually become the first person in the Overseas Autonomous Territories, and the ministers of Wang Du are well aware that in order to solve the problems of Overseas Autonomous Territories, Claude must be dealt with first...

When Claude met Marshal Bolognick, he found himself looking sad and seeing Claude coming, he couldn't help but rejoice and put a stack of papers in front of Claude.

“What is this?” Claude was surprised.

It wasn't until Marshal Bolognick explained that Claude understood that he was saddened by the rule of self-government. The system of officials of the local administrations of the original overseas autonomous territories was implemented in accordance with the Kingdom's homeland, and most local officials were elected and inspected by local authorities. An election is a guarantee given by a local eminent person to recommend a person to a local public office, which is approved by the Executive Committee of the Autonomous Territorial Council. Instead of going through the Executive Committee, the head of the local administration is responsible for examining the qualifications of the public official recruited for the public office.

Just as Claude's father, Mr. Morsan, became a public official in White Deer Town when he was younger, through censorship. After more than a decade of hard work and diligence, Mr. Morsan, who lacked clerical staff at Bai Lu Town Hall, obtained a public position with outstanding Chinese Language Department graduation, not only obtained national qualifications, but also promoted to Bai Lu Town's chief of administration, fully inspiring life.

Turning over a large stack of documents before, it was nothing more than embezzlement, corruption and collusion by local public officials in a town. "If there is evidence, then just punish it according to the system, why bother with these things...?

Marshal Bolognick sighed and told Claude about his difficulties. Originally under the direct overseas jurisdiction of the Kingdom, these magistrates were subordinate to the Governor and Governor of the Kingdom. Thereafter, war zones and locals cooperated with each other, sweeping away the governors and governors and removing those local officials who were not guilty. The change of territorial authority to autonomous territory resulted in the acquisition of autonomous powers and the formation of autonomous territorial assemblies and military districts.

When the Autonomous Territories were first established, they were transformed into cantons, forming local administrative offices of the cantons. Local governance was also rehabilitated to remove unjustices, with local dignitaries and members of parliament electing local town officials to take charge of local affairs. That would cut off the relationship with the Kingdom, the future was uncertain, and the elected local town chiefs were also fair-minded and neighbouring townships, but they were also clean and honest. The implementation of the policy measures issued by Parliament was still very strong.

However, with the development of the autonomous territorial economy and the increase in immigration, there are a number of administrative and public vacancies in municipal administrations. Many intelligent people have targeted these administrative public positions and have tried to become administrative public officials. The administrative efficiency of the Overseas Autonomous Territories as a whole began to diminish following the emergence of these uneven individuals as administrative public officials. In short, there is some bureaucracy in the administrative boards of every town...

Over the years, the people of the Autonomous Territories have become accustomed to it. Like a town policeman, taking apples from street fruit vendors on patrol, grabbing green vegetables from a vegetable vendor car, it has become customary for vendors to scold themselves in the stomach. Anyway, these public officials are brilliant and they do not offend the upper echelons, but there is no problem in oppressing the lower echelons of the autonomous territories.

Had it not been for the massive emigration of overseas self-governing territories from the Kingdom of Hicks, perhaps these bureaucratic corrupt and corrupt self-governing councils would have been unaware. However, more than 2 million Hicks military immigrants were transported to the country, where bloodshed occurred as a result of governance problems. Some black-hearted town officials deceived and colluded in the resettlement process, greedily appropriated resettlement funds by the Autonomous Council of Mo, and extorted Hicks military immigrants, eventually resulting in violent clashes, which could not be concealed before reporting to the Executive Committee...

The most important task of this year's Executive Committee of the Autonomous Territorial Assembly is to accommodate these military immigrants from the Kingdom of Hicks. After such a bloodshed, Marshal Bolognick rushed down to deal with the officials who caused the violent conflict, and secretly asked people to investigate the administrative offices and official systems of the towns throughout the Overseas Autonomous Territories, which revealed that the governance below was rotten, and that the papers on the table reflected the corrupt practices of the local officials witnessed by the investigators and the results of the investigation of the alleged repression of the city residents...

It is not to say that the local administrations of the overseas autonomous territories do not have clean and clean administrators, but only a small number. More of them are followers or accomplices, and Marshal Bolognick is outraged that some magistrates are almost riding on the heads of the townspeople for good, or even organizing gangsters to collect protection fees from the townspeople...

Marshal Bolognick was angry that he had originally come from a civilian family and had been living in the military brigade since then, cultivating a hateful character, most hateful of all of these corrupt administrators. Before he went to military school, his parents were often subjected to extortion and extortion by local officials on farms outside Wangdu, which cast a shadow on his adolescence and increased his hatred for these corrupt and unjust magistrates.

As he says to Claude now, what's the difference between an overseas autonomous territory like this and the kingdom itself? Local administrators were a virtue, deceiving, colluding with each other, embezzling the law and perpetuating it, and the autonomous councils would lose all credibility in the eyes of the people. He was interested in setting off a storm throughout the Overseas Autonomous Territories to heal the illegal magistrates, but was afraid of causing a major disturbance to the Overseas Autonomous Territories.

The most distressing thing about Marshal Bolognick is that if he decides to punish the entire Overseas Autonomous Territories for their lack of judges, it is easy to put the administrative affairs of the local towns and cities of the Autonomous Territories at a standstill and untouchable position. According to the results of the investigation he had sent, a number of administrative public officials in local towns and cities could be accommodated. Easy to catch, but who's in charge of the local administration? What he also needed to consider was how, if there were replacement public officials, to prevent them from repeating their mistakes after that date.

And Claude nagged for over an hour before Marshal Bolognick remembered why he hadn't asked Claude to come. Marshal Bolognick nodded his appreciation for the document he had before him on the structure of the two intelligence services, the Additional Intelligence Agency and the Security Service for the Autonomous Territories, which were easily adopted by the Autonomous Territorial Assembly.

Claude, however, was not prepared to place the two intelligence services directly under the authority of the Autonomous Territorial Assembly, which would be abolished if more than a hundred members of the entire parliament could intervene in both. As for placing it under the authority of the Executive Council, Claude was also reluctant, and the Executive Council was powerful enough to play a greater role and influence in peacetime than the Autonomous Territory...

Claude intends to establish an additional intelligence monitoring committee, similarly composed of twelve members, to serve as the immediate authority of both intelligence services. Thereafter, the Intelligence Monitoring Committee, in parallel with the Executive Committee and the Autonomous Territory Military Region, is the subordinate unit of the Autonomous Territory Council and is accountable only to the Autonomous Territory Council. However, under the leadership of the autonomous territorial military region, funds shall be allocated by the Executive Committee. Twelve members of the Committee, five nominated by the Autonomous Territories, four nominated by the Executive Committee and three nominated by Parliament.

Turning over the previous pile of corruption-investigation papers on local and municipal administrative public officials in the states, Claude laughed: “Actually, the people below you are very capable, and perhaps you can set up another Bureau of Investigation as an autonomous integrity agency that specializes in investigating administrative public officials in local towns and cities in the states, avoiding them from going down the corrupt path and finding a punishment. At the same time, civil society organizations can be combated and organized criminal activities investigated..."

Marshal Bolognick laughed, naturally he knew what Claude meant. Thus, the Intelligence Agency of the three main intelligence agencies of the Overseas Autonomous Territories, the Security Service, and the Bureau of Investigation set the tone of their formation in two words. The list of the twelve members of the Intelligence Monitoring Committee, for which Claude is chairman, Marshal Bolognick as deputy chairman, and General McJackie as executive secretary-general for day-to-day administrative matters, will soon be finalized.

The names of the five members recommended by the Autonomous Territory are General Claude, General Bitchlin, General Magic, General Bockall (and Director of Intelligence) and General Fordless (and Director of Defense). The four members recommended by the Executive Committee of Autonomous Territories are Marshal Bolognick, Chairman Henderman, Mr. Vibran, and the head of the police patrol, Shazorak. As for the post of Director of Investigation, it was arranged by Marshal Bolognick. In addition, the three recommended members of Parliament, who are also elected by their own members, need to swear that they will not be allowed to disclose any information...

On the issue of governance, which Marshal Bolognick was concerned about, Claude made two recommendations, the introduction of a civil service appraisal system and the discontinuation of the recommendatory and prosecutorial system. Each administrative civil servant serving in a local municipality is required to pass a uniform civil service examination at the corresponding level. The examinations are divided into written examinations and interviews. The examinations are then interviewed in writing to determine whether the results have been passed before becoming a full-fledged administrative public official. They will also be investigated by the Bureau of Investigation and arrested as soon as they are found guilty of an offence.

Secondly, strict action was taken in the autonomous territories to combat organized criminal groups and to strengthen local security order. With regard to the most worrying governance issues of Marshal Bolognick, the strategy of relocating and re-arresting corrupt local municipal administrators could be concealed behind this rigorous operation. This would allow these captured administrative public officials to play a part in this intense operation and would allow them to be apprehended off-site without causing local instability.

Marshal Bolognick's headache is that these corrupt administrative public officials are at odds at the local level, and if apprehended and punished locally, they are likely to resist arrest or resist using various local forces, with the potential for a great deal of wind waves at the local level.

But now Claude came up with a fantastic idea, borrowing heavy action, letting local administrative public officials in Town A go to Town B for official business, letting people in Town B go to Town C, letting people in Town C go to Town A, on the pretext that they were handling cases elsewhere, not tied to local circumstances, and doing business. So no one would suspect that when these local administrative public officials go, they can conduct a screening investigation, the arrest, the verdict, even if they want to resist...

General Bolognick was delighted and decided to adopt both of Claude's proposals. First, a public service appraisal system has been developed to release the message and declare that an appraisal system is to be applied to administrative public officials in all local towns and cities throughout the Overseas Autonomous Territories in order to determine the qualifications of official public officials. Strict action will then be taken to inform local administrative public officials that this action will also be included in the actual office proficiency test for civil servants so that those local administrative public officials will not refuse to go to another town to work...

Immediately after the end of the intensive action, a civil service examination will be conducted in the local towns and cities of the autonomous territories to select persons from the private sector who are innocent of their families into the ranks of civil servants to fill the vacancies of the arrested local administrative public officials. However, the executive committee chaired by Marshal Bolognick needs the cooperation of the autonomous military regions if it is to carry out a serious operation for the entire Overseas Autonomous Territories.

Claude believed that when the Legion of Thunder returned, the military region would have enough troops to carry out a serious operation against the nine autonomous states at the same time. By the end of the year, the most important task for Marshal Bolognick was to adopt the plan for the formation of the three main intelligence agencies and intelligence monitoring committees in the Autonomous Territorial Assembly. After all, the establishment of the Bureau of Investigation had been instrumental in the ensuing intense operations and the rectification of the rule of law.

On 15 October 2006, the Holy See marked a commemorative day for the Overseas Autonomous Territories. At its regular quarterly meetings, the Autonomous Council adopted a plan for the formation of the three main intelligence agencies of the Autonomous Territories and elected the members of the Intelligence Monitoring Committee, authorizing the Executive Committee to allocate KK 3 million to the three main intelligence agencies to carry out their formation tasks.

From this moment on, the three main intelligence agencies of the Autonomous Territories began to reveal their fangs, both internally and externally, which frightened the hidden enemies of the Autonomous Territories, who were the most sharp daggers and sturdy shields of the Autonomous Territories...