I, transformed into a vampire girl, sparked the Industrial Revolution.

Chapter 113 Amelanxi Counter-Espionage and Intra-Domain Surveillance System

The establishment of a joint operations command led by a powerful government agency was not only for the purpose of coordination, but Alice also hoped to use this team to build an all-encompassing surveillance system for Amelansi, a system that would not only be responsible for counter-espionage but also for counter-terrorism.

Alice, together with Brett Carter and Lavinia Olicarts, drafted a joint operations command that would coordinate the resources of the National Police and the Secret Intelligence Service to achieve a high-low mix and jointly carry out security and counter-espionage missions throughout Amelansie.

A two-tiered system will be established between the central and local governments. The Secret Intelligence Service and the National Police will establish special task forces within local administrative departments. These special task forces will be independent of local authorities and will only be under the command of their direct superior, the Central Joint Operations Command. They will maintain a high level of secrecy and will have higher authority than local national police departments, coordinating the activities of agents within their local jurisdictions.

On the legal front, Alice will enact the Amelansi National Counter-Espionage Act, under which espionage activities will be criminalized in detail, and Amelansi citizens who act as informants for foreign or enemy spies will be subject to strict legal sanctions.

Of course, laws and law enforcement agencies only play a deterrent role. To truly control the grassroots, it is necessary to start with the household registration system. Alice thought about it and decided to take advantage of this opportunity to instruct the Civil Affairs Committee to develop a comprehensive household registration system that requires everyone to have a household registration and an ID card.

After all, the most widely used document now is actually the driver's license. Since the introduction of automobiles, the driver's license has served as a basic form of identification for citizens. However, automobiles are still a distant prospect for rural residents. Although the Ford Model T is relatively inexpensive, not everyone can afford it.

The farms also have a large number of low-income people who are unwilling to merge their land into state-owned farms. There are also many individual farmers who have not organized agricultural cooperatives. As state-owned farms and agricultural cooperatives collectivize by using chemical fertilizers and agricultural machinery extensively, the prices of the agricultural products they produce have rapidly decreased.

This has led to a decline in the income of these individual business owners year by year, and the phenomenon of abandoning land has occurred from time to time. If it weren't for the implementation of the anti-abandonment regulations, farmers would have started to contract their land to cooperatives and go to the city to work. It is foreseeable that the rural security environment would have become worse and worse. After all, an administrative village only has three rotating mobile police officers and one local resident police officer. The occasional rural brawls are not easy to deal with.

Controlling cities and controlling rural areas are two different concepts. Historically, power has not extended to the countryside. Alice must break this pattern and establish a strong lower-level local government.

However, the most important thing is to cultivate civic awareness. Urban residents do have a higher level of civic awareness than rural residents, but this is far from enough. The ratio of urban to rural population in the entire Amelia is about 3:1. The rural population, which accounts for a quarter of the country, is widely distributed throughout the country. If you control the rural population, you control the rural areas of the country.

Education is necessary, Alice thought, and educating the rural youth is absolutely necessary, but what is even more important is improving the living standards of rural residents.

But that's not possible right now. Most of the country's resources have been invested in manufacturing and military industries. The national economic system has paid too high a price in order to unify the country and defeat the rebels in the south.

Alice's assassination eventually made it into the American Times, marked in bold on the first page, and newsboys hawked their wares everywhere in the streets.

"Breaking News! Breaking News! Princess Alice has been attacked by assassins from the Southern rebels! Princess Alice fought back bravely, and the assassins were captured!"

"The Provisional Government of Amerinsis despises this immoral act of assassination and calls on all citizens to be vigilant. Any suspicious Southerner must be reported to the local police station!"

"Give me a newspaper."

"Okay, sir, 5 cents."

A person wearing a robe pulls a coin out of their pocket. Despite the numerous difficulties of last year's currency reform, the currency system was still implemented thanks to the industrial goods they held. The currency, known as Amerlansis Gold (abbreviated as Amerlansis Gold) and Amerlansis Cent (abbreviated as Amerlansis Cent), included both banknotes and coins, each with a corresponding denomination. The obverse of these stamped coins featured the denomination and unit in common numbers, while the reverse had different patterns depending on the denomination: steam forging hammers, chimney factories, automobiles, and workers.

The man took the newspaper from the newsboy and walked to a roadside café. The explorations of the New World brought many novel drinks to the continent. The transplantation of cocoa beans and coffee beans to the continent brought entirely new consumer products and cultures.

"As I expected, such an assassination attempt was bound to fail, but I never imagined that the South's reliance, the master assassin, would be captured so easily! If the great Caliph knew about this, he would laugh his head off!"

Across from the man sat an unremarkable demon male with a serious expression. The Southern operation in Trian had failed; the lurking organization had been wiped out, and even the legendary assassin master had been imprisoned.

"Does the Caliph still support His Majesty? I want an answer."

The demon leaned closer to the robed man and asked in a lowered voice.

"Whether you support me or not depends on what use you are to the Great Caliph. It seems that you are not only useless but also incompetent. The Caliph cannot get what he wants from you, and what he has given you will be taken back."

"Unless you can offer more, such as the secrets of the capital."

"Tsk! Cunning desert man."

The demon left in anger, unaware that on the three-story building opposite, a telescope was pointed at him, and two men in gray coats nodded, one of them pressing the switch on a magical communicator.

"This is post A-87. Target has ended the meeting. Target 01, head north onto Lexler Street. Target 02, head west onto Wes Street. Over."

"Received, A-87. Someone will take over your duties and withdraw from the surveillance location."

"Received, A-87 cleared."

The man put down the communicator, and the two packed up the surveillance equipment, including a film camera, all of which were put into a backpack. Under the jacket, the slide of a 1903 Browning automatic pistol was visible, and the Secret Service badge could be faintly seen on the inside of the jacket.

"It's not good news that the desert people are colluding with the southern rebels."

Lavinia Olicarts stared at the incoming report. Dozens of people were sitting or standing in the joint operations command center. Several magical communicator receivers and switches were operating, emitting a soft beeping sound. On the table was a huge national map, including the southern control area.

"Give this intelligence to Her Majesty Alicia and Princess Alice."