The Working Emperor starts with Conan

Chapter 448 Rum continues to fool people
“Even if Spiatus is not a reliable partner, Gin and I are still very happy with our cooperation now.

There's absolutely no need to take that risk, Rum."

Ireland quickly put down the glorious record of Yuanshanfei, then raised his eyebrows and said to Rum.

The fact that they can sit here and talk proves that Ireland is not wholeheartedly committed to cooperating with Gin. Now it is just waiting for a better price.

Ireland is aware of this, and so is Rum.

Now it's time for Rum to show his chips.

"Yeah, there's no risk and the reward is pitifully small, am I right, Ireland?" Rum sneered and said sarcastically:

"What can Gin give you? It's nothing more than the position of deputy in the action team. Ask yourself if you really need to be the second in command of this action team?"

Ireland sneered when he heard this. Gin is not a good thing, but your rum is the good stuff?
How did he, Ireland, get brought back to Tokyo? Wasn't it because of that damn second-in-command, Rum?

As a result, Rum lost power as soon as he came back. To be honest, if Rum had recalled Ireland in this situation, Ireland would not have even glanced at him.

The so-called deputy of the action team is, after all, just a deputy. A quick calculation using the formula for the weight of a position shows that the weight of the deputy of the action team is not as high as that of the original head of the Irish branch.

Although Gin is the general leader of the entire organization's action team, his activities are mostly concentrated in Tokyo.

When you do the math, it's no different from being a deputy in a branch operations team.

To put it bluntly, it is a kind of apparent promotion and concealed demotion.

Can Ireland accept this?
"What? After cooperating with you, can you let me go back to my original branch?" Ireland is no longer the ignorant person he was when he first came to Japan.

He was well aware of the shortage of senior officials in the Tokyo branch. As the de facto headquarters, the Tokyo branch in name only would be very dangerous if it did not have a certain number of senior officials stationed there permanently.

Rum shook his head honestly and said, "Don't even think about sending you back. You know very well that the branch in Ireland is very short of manpower right now.

We are short of senior officials, but Gin may not be able to give you what I can give you."

When it comes to maximizing the utilization of the organization's resources, Rum can pat his chest and say that Gin is a stinky little brother.

Gin is a reckless man who spends all his time either killing people, setting fires, or causing huge explosions.

Now the Big Bang has become exclusive to Toyama Tobi, while Gin's can only be considered a small explosion.

Gin, who focuses on action, has a natural weakness in resource allocation. To put it bluntly, Rum's resources are now directly thrown at Gin. It's not that Gin can't use them, but he just can't use them to the maximum extent.

This kind of thing can never be developed by just talking about it on paper without actual practice.

What's more, Gin has become accustomed to commanding the action team over the years. Even if he is asked to work in the direction of Rum, there may not be any progress.

This is Rum’s most fundamental reliance. As long as there is no “Little Rum” in the organization, he, Rum, is irreplaceable.

As long as he has enough merits, he will be able to return to the core of the organization sooner or later and regain the trust of Karasuma Renya.

But he couldn't say this directly to Ireland, so Rum began to paint a pie-in-the-sky picture:

“Although I can’t let you go back, I can find a way to help you regain real power.

How about I let you be the leader of a large group in Tokyo?"

This piece of cake is very tempting. Tokyo is almost like the capital of a country. The so-called big group is the key department, such as the intelligence group, action group, arms group, logistics group, and scientific research group.

This is equivalent to being the head of a key department at the headquarters. To be honest, Ireland is really tempted.

Becoming the deputy of the task force is a waste of time for Ireland, and is a promotion in name only but a demotion in reality.

But if he becomes the head of some "big group" in the Tokyo branch, it would be a demotion in public but a promotion in private.

Ireland can see clearly.

"Do you still have the ability to run a large group?" Although Ireland was tempted, he suspected that this was a pie in the sky that Rum had painted for him that he could never get.

The power structure of the Tokyo branch is actually very simple. Gin is responsible for scientific research and operations, and Rum is responsible for intelligence and arms.

The logistics team is neutral and provides assistance in three areas: intelligence, operations, and scientific research.

Because of Shirley's disappearance, the research team was separated from Gin by Karasuma Renya and is currently operating independently.

The arms group was assigned to Yuanshan Fei by Rum, and was immediately turned into an iron barrel by Yuanshan Fei through both defense and attack.

Rum's original idea of ​​using the Yuanshan Gate to remotely control the arms group has failed, but Rum can only grit his teeth and swallow it.

Now Gin and Rum are in charge of the operations and intelligence groups respectively. There is even a Vermouth who occasionally shows up as Rum's intelligence channel.

When Ireland heard that Rum was going to appoint him as the head of a large group, his first reaction was to the intelligence group.

But when he thought about it carefully, he felt something was wrong. The intelligence group was like Rum's lifeblood. With the intelligence group in hand, Rum had a chance to turn the tables.

Unless Rum becomes the boss of the organization one day, he did not relax the work of the intelligence team even when he was the second in command.

Seeing Ireland's eyes, Rum immediately understood that this thief Sun Chunchun was overthinking. He really dared to think that even if he handed over the intelligence team to Ireland, would Ireland dare to take it?

Not to mention anything else, it would take at least a year and a half for the two of them to hand over the work. There are simply too many things to do in the intelligence group.

What's more, Ireland has never done any intelligence work and has always been hanging around in the operations team. It would be better to split up directly than to let him be in charge of the intelligence team.

"Don't even think about the intelligence team. That's definitely impossible. But I can help you run the operations team."

"What about gin?"

"Gin, of course, is the general manager." Rum said as a matter of course: "But since you are the general manager, it is not appropriate for you to interfere too much in the affairs of the branch, right?

As the general manager, isn't it enough for me to just stand at the top and give my own guidance? "

It was still a common practice of promotion in name only and demotion in reality. Rum's intention was to have Ireland become the operations leader of the Tokyo branch and sideline Gin.

"It's not that simple. The action team is full of Gin's people. Besides, if you can really do it, won't you be sidelined by others?"

Ireland is outspoken.

"Who said that? You should know that the head of the Tokyo branch's intelligence team has long been Curacao. I just occasionally offer some constructive suggestions."

Rum's smile at this moment was pure, he was simply looking down on Gin, a poor guy who could only do things by himself.

(End of this chapter)