To be honest, Carlo was also very curious about who was behind the assassination attempt on Prime Minister Primo.
Anyone bold enough to assassinate the prime minister must have prepared long in advance; it could not have been a spur-of-the-moment decision.
After all, if the assassination failed, someone without preparations would find it difficult to escape the government's rigorous screening.
Archbishop Pedro chose to yield when faced with the government's challenge, which also meant that the Church was most likely not the mastermind behind the assassination.
The only forces left that might have planned the assassination were the nobles and the Republicans. This also meant that the Royal Council Carlo had established might not have been an iron plate after all.
But that was good news as well. Once the government and the Church jointly uncovered the mastermind, it would be time for Carlo to kick the traitors disloyal to him out of the Royal Council.
The Royal Council was one of Carlo's means of controlling Spain's noble class, so naturally he would not allow disloyal rebels to cause trouble within it.
Carlo left the investigation to Primo and Archbishop Pedro. He had no time to concern himself with such matters and only needed to wait for the final result.
For Carlo, the most important matter was still his own enterprises. After all, having money in hand was the true principle.
On May 17, 1870, an utterly ordinary-looking day, the mysterious organization Carlo had placed great hopes upon was officially established and named the Royal Security Intelligence Agency.
As its name suggested, it was a new organization dedicated to intelligence and espionage, training professional intelligence personnel—so-called agents.
Carlo found the choice of director for the Intelligence Agency quite difficult. As the head of an organization crucial to Carlo's acquisition of