The Ominous Lord of the Skaven

Chapter 71 The Work of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
Arrow was furious at the Ratman's treachery, but Ickert didn't care.

He asked these questions, not to get a definite answer, but to understand what kind of rat it was.

Ickert was actually quite happy to have drawn such an easy-to-use mouse as Mrom for the first time.

"Yaro, this mouse is quite suitable, write him down."

"Write it down? But my lord, this mouse is not loyal at all. Your knight servants have said that he is a monster with no credibility at all!"

Yarrow said, he didn't see any benefit in bringing such a guy into an institution like the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Ickert doesn't blame him, which shows that Yarrow isn't bad enough to understand that the intelligence agencies will be handicapped if they are all their own.

"Listen Yarrow, I'm not here to teach you how to judge loyalty, I'm here to teach you how to work,
Like Mrom the rat, a piece of bread can pry his mouth open, and his political stance is leaning towards Genil, which makes him look like a terrible ratman.

But you don't need to recruit him into the Ministry of Internal Affairs, you just need to use bread to let him monitor the camp, betray his companions, develop him as an outside line,

By the way, he can be used to send false information to Genil, a messenger who exposes his political position, haha, that is a joke. "

Ickert said, and Yarrow immediately realized that this guy had the potential to be a spy leader, and Ickert could see it from the beginning.

Even if he is not a spy chief, he has a lot of potential as a loyal and corrupt official, and it is this trait that makes Ickert willing to let him run the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

It is a very good tool while being convenient to knock down at any time.

This young man from the countryside is very smart, and Ickert is very optimistic about him.

Yarrow recalled Ickert's words carefully, and began to try to explain his work context to Ickert.

"My lord, if you say so, then I need to establish a Ministry of Internal Affairs that only trusts core members and severely squeezes and uses outside intelligence personnel?"

"That's right Yarrow, but the premise of trusting the Ratman is that you have trained a trustworthy Ratman,
But I'm still happy that you've got the hang of the housekeeping, but the specific problems are often more complex, and you have to keep working on understanding the architecture. "

Ickert patted Yarrow on the shoulder. With such an understanding, Ickert would not have to do the next work himself.

"Come on, continue to talk about how you plan to recruit your members."

"Regarding this, my lord, I have already understood your intentions. I will understand the characteristics of each ratman through conversation, and use appropriate methods to seduce them to work for us and do things that are beneficial to you and the territory." .”

"Well, you really understand."

Ickert nodded in satisfaction again. This kind of work requires not only loyal subordinates, but also traitors who are willing to sell information for profit.

Even if there are no traitors, then find a way to create traitors.

In the end, he only needed to constrain the framework and tasks of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to ensure the smooth operation of the education camp.

"Pay attention again, the most basic structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is still required, and you are not only responsible for intelligence,

I also ask you to be able to arrest and execute those restless guys, to keep an eye on and prevent all possible subversive activities in advance,

Therefore, you need four squads of ratmen as an armed force, and you need enough clan rats and storm rats to help you analyze intelligence, carry out arrests and punishments, and solve the threat to the territory.
You are the ultimate goal of collecting intelligence, and you must handle these well. "

"Yes, my lord, I will take care of it."

Yarrow replied, taking notes on what Ickert said by the way.

"Finally, I will define the scope of power of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. For the rebel rat people you identify, you can follow up, investigate, and arrest them after the application is approved. Interrogation and torture also need my approval.
Minister Yarrow, do you understand your mandate? "

"Yes, my lord, I understand very well."

Internal affairs work has great power and is full of risks. Although Ickert has set these rules for him, he also understands that as long as the lord is still alive, as long as the lord thinks he is loyal, he can actually do whatever he wants.

"Well, I trust you. You will preside over the rest of the work. I will only stay here for the whole morning. If you don't understand anything, just ask me."

The conversation between the two left Aris on the side stunned. He has been loyal to the Shaprao family for many years, but he has never been exposed to such a terrible thing.

Ickert is very clear that a loyal person like Aris may not be able to play with this system, so he only needs to understand it. Aris's characteristics are suitable for more important work.

In the following time, Ickert and Yarrow interviewed 40 Clan Rat captains, as well as some Clan Rats and Storm Rats from the battalion and brigade headquarters.

With Mrom's precedent, Yarrow quickly finalized more than half of the candidates for the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the remaining unsatisfactory positions required him to interview one by one in the next time.

The final list of rats submitted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs was less than the original establishment, but the establishment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ickert, would not be abolished. Instead, they would continue to discover rat talents, and the extra materials would be used for development and offline.

In the evening, Yarrow gathered the group of Ratmen and selected the team with higher execution ability from the four brigades to form the execution force of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

However, the establishment of these squads has been changed according to the needs of the Ministry of the Interior.

In normal times, the squad only exists as an administrative unit, and the clan rats will deploy slave rat soldiers to perform tasks as needed, including arrest and execution.

Clan rats and pacesetter rats are the daily action forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. They are collectively called "operators" by Ickert. They are divided into one to six stars according to their respective abilities and enjoy different treatment.

At present, there are generally only one-star operators in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The operatives are managed by rat people called "cadres", who are usually clever and cunning clan rats or storm rats.

Seeing that Yarrow organized the Ministry of Internal Affairs so efficiently, Ickert also took the initiative to work overtime at night, and wrote down the code of conduct of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the requirements for operators. At the same time, he allocated a batch of " Activities Fund".

Naturally, the sources of food and treatment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs cannot be the same as those of the Ratman Army. Members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs must be strictly separated from the army, including subsequent residences, offices, and dining venues.

At a time when the territory was facing serious foreign invasion, Ickert asked the Ministry of Internal Affairs to focus on surveillance work and not to stir up the tense nerves of the army.

If you have something to do, you can record it first, and settle the accounts after the autumn.

The construction of the territory has taken another step forward, and during the gap between the establishment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ickert also solved a crucial matter incidentally.

(End of this chapter)