At the end of the 19th century, it was a period of rapid expansion of the human telegraph network, and the transmission of information was really thousands of miles away, and the telegraph transmission between Europe and Asia, although it had to be transmitted through several relay stations, but a telegram could also fly from London to Beijing within three days. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

This is the efficiency of information transmission that human beings dare not imagine, and the intelligence system of the entire world has undergone profound changes because of telegraph technology.

But what is very surprising is that at this critical moment of great change, the Chinese led by Xiao Letian have come to the forefront of the times, and Europe has lagged behind.

The CIA has invested the most in telegraph technology in the country, and the various encryption technologies have made the Chinese intelligence system the safest place in the world.

Not only that, but the CIA also has a large number of code-breaking experts, including a large number of mathematicians and engineers poached from Europe.

The first to fall was the Russian telegraph codebook, and now the telegram of the Tsarist Russian Legation in Beijing is unguarded in front of the CIA, and no secret can be kept.

At present, the CIA's degree of decipherment of the British telegraph codebook is only about 8%, and now it has only cracked the title of the telegram on the head and end, that is to say, a British government telegram, Wang Huaiyuan and they can only judge that this telegram was sent by the government agency in London to a certain unit or individual.

For example, the British Treasury sent a telegram to Eric Guo, and neither the sender nor the recipient were secret, but the content of the telegram could not be known, unless a spy directly stole a copy of the code, or relied entirely on human research to decipher it.

However, in 1869 such a method was already regarded as a god-level against the sky, do not forget that the largest telegraph company in Asia is now controlled by Xiao Letian, from the Ryukyus to Shanghai, to Tanggu to Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Fuso, Korea and all the way to the South Seas submarine cable system is laid by Chinese capital.

Controlling the submarine cable actually controlled the main information transmission artery in Asia, and although the telegraph company had British and American shares, the control was always in the hands of the Chinese.

Since the departure of the Tsarist Russian expeditionary force, the British intelligence station against the Chinese has not stopped, and they have cooperated with the French intelligence agencies to begin to collect a large amount of intelligence on both sides by taking advantage of the chaos of the war.

The most typical is the operation against Sakamoto Ryoma in Hong Kong, although in the end it was still stabbed by Ryomajun, but it was not the British who suffered but France and Tsarist Russia.

After that, British spies flocked to the Ryukyus to find out the secrets of the Chinese people, the secrets of the Zhiyuan, all kinds of military intelligence, all kinds of civil affairs information, and they were extremely arrogant.

With Xiao Letian's character, how could he tolerate these people being rampant, the CIA's counterattack has been secretly continuing, and it has been concealed very deeply, and even Ai Liguo has fallen into the urn until now.

In the month of the outbreak of the war, the telegraph system from Europe to Asia, especially the submarine cables, failed several times in a row, sometimes interrupting communications for more than eight hours.

The British intelligence officer analyzed that this may be because the impact of the war disrupted the daily maintenance work of the telegraph company, which caused a series of telegraph failures, and Ai Liguo, Wei Tuma and others did not pay too much attention.

But what they don't know is that this is actually a conspiracy of the CIA, with only one purpose to make it impossible for some of the latest news from Europe to be transmitted to Asia in time, so that the normal intelligence communication mechanism will be confused, and finally there will be underreporting or loss.

Unbeknownst to him, when they were plotting to attack the Chinese and the Zhiyuan, there was a diplomatic conflict on the European continent that was destined to go down in history, that is, the 'Ames Telegram' incident.

The Franco-Prussian War was destined to start, not only did Xiao Letian know the historical development in advance, but more importantly, the time when the war was launched, Bismarck did not hide it from Xiao Letian, and now a secret alliance has been reached between the Chinese and Prussia, and the cooperation between the two sides has already reached the level of allies.

If Prussia wants to unify Germany, France will absolutely not allow this kind of thing to happen, and the conflict cannot be bridged, and the final outcome can only be a bloody battle.

Prussia sought German reunification and demanded Alsace and Lorraine, which required a victory in the war. The French saw it clearly, but the French were a little too arrogant, they had always underestimated the Prussian determination to go to war, and at the last moment the French still thought that they could bring Bismarck to their knees with high-handed diplomacy.

The Prussian-Danish War and the Austro-Prussian War were not stopped by France, and Bismarck's deceptive tactics were very successful, while he used military forces to recover a large amount of land, and on the other hand, he carefully lowered his posture in front of the French Emperor, which gave the whole of France a delusion.

They felt that the Prussians were just picking soft persimmons and pinching cowards, bullying Denmark and Austria was okay, and in the face of France, the world's first army power and the second most economically powerful country, these northern barbarians would never dare to show their bayonets against France.

Let's not forget that Napoleon defeated Prussia several times, and these people were all over the place.

Before the Franco-Prussian War, the diplomatic conflict lasted for more than two years, and the deep conflict was, of course, land, colonies, ethnic hatred, etc., but the outward conflict was the crisis of the Spanish throne.

France and Prussia both had their own supporters, both of which also had de jure rights to the Spanish throne, and the two countries were at loggerheads with each other, and diplomatic conflicts attracted the attention of all of Europe.

The Spanish question is France's unshakable bottom line, and France did not directly intervene in the Prussian-Danish War and the Austro-Prussian War, because the conflict of interests for France in these places is not very large.

But Spain was different, this was the traditional rear of France, and Napoleon III would never allow France to be in danger of being attacked on its back.

It is the consensus of France that the core interests cannot be challenged, so in this diplomatic conflict, the French side is very aggressive and very strong.

In contrast, Bismarck's flexible diplomacy is a combination of toughness and weakness, just as a shrewd sea angler and a big fish boil his physical strength.

Gradually, the patience of the French was exhausted first, and a French diplomat named Benedetti lit the fuse of the conflict.

King William I of Prussia at the time was on vacation at the Ames Spa in Koblenz, and many Spanish newspapers broke the news that William I once again supported his cousin to inherit the Spanish throne.

Enraged, the French emperor ordered the diplomat Benedetti to ask the King of Prussia in person why he was always going back on his word as a king, and hadn't he already expressed his disapproval of his cousin's accession to the throne?

Why is there so much contrary news at this moment, is it a conspiracy or have you really changed your mind?

The Emperor was anxious for a clear answer from the King of Prussia.