Chapter 141 Secret Society?

141 Secret Society?

By the time Vijay waited for the arrival of Roshan and the rest of the military generals, he took out a paper and wrote down all the intellectuals' names he could recall from his memory who were still alive. Unfortunately, the really famous ones have already passed away, but there were still a few. After fully writing down whoever came to mind, he called for Vinod.

"Hey, Vinod. Send someone to fetch these people on the list. The matter is very important. So, first, invite them to Vijayanagara with hospitality. But if they resist, just pick them up with their families and quietly send them to the Vijayanagara Empire. Make sure that the Mughals catch no wind of it."

Although this approach seems excessive, Vijay is running out of time. He wants to fully integrate the Empire as soon as possible. If A longer time is taken, and the newly occupied territories will no longer be able to be suppressed by peaceful means. Violence will have to be used, and once violence is used, a clear line will be drawn between the newly occupied territories and the Vijayanagara Empire. Obviously, Vijay does not want that to happen.

Vinod, the butler, looked at the list and quickly accepted the orders. New novel chapters are published at novelhall.com

"It will be done, Your Highness."

"Oh yes, Vinod. Make sure to send only the people working in the castle on this mission. I don't want even the Secret Service to know of this news. Alright?"

"It will be done, Your Majesty."

The people Vijay wrote on the list were renowned intellectuals he could find in the current era, including great sages like Tukaram, who was supposed to be dead in 1650 due to an assassination. But given that the timeline has changed a lot, he is positive that there is a high chance this great man is still alive. Even people from other faiths, like Sikhism, were invited. Even the potential scholars who are yet to show their colours, like Bhai Mati Das, who was still 13 years old, and Bhai Nandlal, who was still 21 years old, were also invited. Along with religious and cultural saints from Parsi, Jain, and Buddhist cultures.

He even invited major language scholars throughout the nation. Scholars of the 22 recognized languages of India in the 21st century were invited. Scholars of Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Maithili, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi, Telugu, Tamil, and instead of Urdu, more tribal communities were invited. While Vijay may say that he is inviting them, it is basically closer to kidnapping. All these things should be done under the radar of the Mughal Empire, and he is on a tight schedule. Fortunately, Vijayanagara still has a good intelligence network in the Mughal Empire.

While the most important figures were left for Vinod to deal with, the rest of the scholars were left to the Secret Service to deal with. Going through all the details, he finally confirmed his plan and needed to wait at least a month until all the people arrived.

This revelation took everyone by surprise. Even the generals were shocked, glaring at him, as claiming that there was a secret organization lurking in their army was tantamount to accusing them of harbouring criminals. Vijay, on the other hand, raised his eyebrows, taken aback. However, Selvan soon continued his speech.

"The secret organization was not formed under anyone's leadership. It originated during the one-year battle. Some greedy officials, soldiers, and agents of the army and the Secret Service wanted to enjoy more benefits than they had at the moment. The amount of money they were seeing every day, which was confiscated from the Mughals and did not belong to them, fueled their lust for money. So, spontaneously, they started to form a huge network of contacts within a certain part of the army to successfully steal money, jewels, and property. This society started within the army, but when the Secret Service got wind of the news, unfortunately, it did not reach the ears of Master Roshan. On the contrary, even the Secret Service was getting corrupted.

With the availability of both information and power, these activities became more rampant. However, they were still controlled during the war. But just after the war, they saw an opportunity and started to rob the nobles on their own. This granted them more wealth than they could imagine. Seeing the wealth, the greed to overpower their senses was stimulated highly. Because of this, they started to rob villages and even commoners' homes. Since there was still no judicial or police force in the newly occupied areas, they took it as an opportunity to run rampant.

I've looked into the matter with the civilians in the occupied territories, and many of them reported incidents of their neighbours' homes being robbed by the Vijayanagara army. There are also distressing reports of Rape of a few girls in their town, and the wrongdoers were identified as individuals wearing the Vijayanagar emblem on their uniform. Your Majesty, from what I've gathered, it appears that due to the lack of direct oversight in their society, lower-level soldiers and officers believed they could go unnoticed, especially with the assistance of The Secret Service agents. Typically, these agents are the first collectors of news, so by cutting off information about the society and filtering out complaints from the people, they made it easier for these actions to occur without immediate detection.

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I've looked into the matter with the civilians in the occupied territories, and many of them reported incidents of their neighbours' homes being robbed by the Vijayanagara army. There are also distressing reports of Rape of a few girls in their town, and the wrongdoers were identified as individuals wearing the Vijayanagar emblem on their uniform. Your Majesty, from what I've gathered, it appears that due to the lack of direct oversight in their society, lower-level soldiers and officers believed they could go unnoticed, especially with the assistance of The Secret Service agents. Typically, these agents are the first collectors of news, so by cutting off information about the society and filtering out complaints from the people, they made it easier for these actions to occur without immediate detection.

Fortunately, with the help of Sir Aditya, who had a lot of subordinates who were very local to the occupied areas, we noticed this problem soon. And collected all the information about the members of this hidden society. If left alone, this could form into a real organization that is completely entrenched inside the armed forces of the Vijayanagara Empire, including both the army and intelligence."

After hearing the whole news, Vijay was shocked as he couldn't help but remember a similar organization in his previous timeline. It was none other than the KGB of the Soviet Union, which had the power of intelligence collection, assassination, espionage, and in some cases, the ability to arrest anyone without proper evidence. At one point, the KGB was so powerful that even the Secretary General of the Soviet Union had to get the support of the head of the KGB to secure his position. Vijay really did not want such an organization to appear in Vijayanagara, so he fully decided to take strict measures. He quickly opened the document Selvan gave him and was relieved that only 5000 people in the army were part of the secret society, along with 445 Secret Service agents. Although it is a lot, now that they have successfully identified this cancer growing inside the Armed Forces and Security Agency, by taking swift action, the problem should be solved for the moment. But to ensure that this kind of thing does not happen again, there should be a department to check and balance the intelligence department. Thinking of all this, a plan started to run in his mind.

"Roshan, this is your responsibility. Your six-month salary will be cut. As for you, generals, the same punishment. Six months of your salary will be cut."

Everyone sighed in relief, as the punishment was acceptable. It's not that Vijay was going easy on them, but by further reading the report, he got to know that top officials were really clean and were not involved in this event. On top of that, he could not make this disaster public, as the newly occupied territory would get restless. So he decided to let the news be that they were punished because of corrupt officials in their ranks.

That night, Vijay ordered the execution of the top members of the secret society and the arrest of all the participants in the looting and massacring of civilians in the One-year battle.