Chapter 112: Treachery and Trustworthiness
There is a problem with the passport.
When the group of gunmen walked into the room with unkind expressions, the old man finally realized the problem and understood the source of his uneasiness.
Maybe it's fake, maybe it's some special mark made in the middle, anyway, the customs people found out at the first time and then reported it.
He didn't quite understand why the Frenchmen had captured them without being in port, but he knew that they must have been targeted by them from that moment on.
Secret arrests?
Why?
Do you want to trap yourself and sacrifice them to the Tsar for benefits? Or is there something else going on?
In any case, the reality now in front of him proves that his group has just escaped from the tiger's mouth and entered the wolf's den, and finally escaped from the territory of the tsar, but has already fallen into the hands of the French.
Treville! The old man scolded in his heart.
He was not unprepared for this outcome, as French politics had been in turmoil in recent years, with Louis Bonaparte and the political clique loyal to him rising at an astonishing pace, followed by a military coup d'état that usurped French rule. Judging from the information described by the exiles they expelled and by well-informed sources everywhere, Treville, like his benefactor Bonaparte, was a sinister, cruel, ruthless villain, a villain who did all kinds of evil, and even more common in his untrustworthy words, almost like the unscrupulous Talleyrand.
However, the situation forced him to find this way to try his luck.
However. God did not favor him, and Tréville did not hesitate to cheat after receiving the money. As soon as their group came to France, they were arrested.
Now that they are surrounded by them, and this group of people is fully armed. There is no point in resisting.
"I've got a good helper for myself!" The chubby old man sighed, then reached out and took his own eyes and gently wiped them with a silk handkerchief.
Then, he raised his hand, signaling that he had no weapon in his hand and that he had no intention of resisting, "However, I think I have the right to demand a reasonable treatment for me and my friends. ”
"Your treatment is not something I can decide." Kong Ze replied indifferently, "But I don't think you will suffer much. ”
Then, he waved his hand. The people behind him also walked out of the two people, and then took out some ropes that had been prepared long ago, and tied the hands of the group one by one. Under the threat of Agnes and the guns, no one dared to resist.
"It's much more boring than you think." Seeing that the capture was completed so smoothly, Agnes seemed a little disappointed, "I thought there was something more fun going to happen......
"I'm here to get things done, not to have fun." Kong Ze said coldly, trying his best to express his dissatisfaction in this way.
Because he promised Charles, he would not show his face for the time being. Waiting for Marshal Trevil to come out of the grief of losing his brother, so as not to be crushed by the continuous blows, Agnes has only been moving around in a small area lately, and she feels very bored.
It just so happened to be at this time. Charles came across the problem that the Russians were trying to bribe him to obtain fake passports. Charles first pretended to agree to their request, and then secretly instructed the person who made the passport to leave a special mark on the passport, and then. He instructed Kong Ze to take people to the south and secretly arrest this group of people who were bound to sneak into France.
Where to know. Agnes has been too bored lately, so after learning the news. Immediately ask Charles to go with him, to help his nephew - in fact, to relieve his boredom. She didn't know the mystery, she just knew that Kong Ze was going to arrest someone.
Charles felt guilty about his aunt, so he agreed to her request without much thought, and the group almost followed Fran and the others by train to Marseille.
Because the customs personnel were informed in advance, under the careful search of the staff, the fake passports held by this group of people were quickly discovered, and Kong Ze and others, who were on standby at any time, were notified from the beginning.
As soon as he got the news, Kong Ze immediately led people to target this group of people, but he didn't expect Agnes to be playful and actually act on his own, as if he regarded this kind of serious action as a child's game, which made the strict Kong Ze feel very impatient.
But what can be done...... Whoever makes people can't afford to mess with her, let her be, as long as it doesn't spoil my business. He thought to himself with a little sadness.
"You're so boring, you're always stiff-faced." Agnes shrugged her shoulders, muttered a small sigh, and walked away.
Kong Ze didn't care about her, and walked directly in front of the old man.
At this time, the two kidnappers also walked to the old man's side.
"I refuse to humiliate me like this!" The old man suddenly shouted, "I am a gentleman, I have reason, and I have fallen to such a point, I will not make senseless resistance, but you can't humiliate my dignity like this!" I gave Tréville so much money that even if he was treacherous, he couldn't tie me up! ”
Hearing him shout like this, not only Kong Ze was slightly stunned, but even Agnes walked back with great interest.
"You're a nobleman?" She asked curiously.
"Yes, I am a Russian aristocrat." The old man straightened his back and tried to make himself appear more dignified, "I am Count Pierre-Bezukhov, the one who made this deal with Monsieur Treville and was treacherously betrayed by him. ”
"You're the Count himself?" Agnes was taken aback, and continued to look at the Count in amazement.
She didn't expect that one of the richest aristocratic landowners in Russia was actually this old man who looked more like a pedant, and she didn't expect that the count would not only buy some passports for others, but also come over himself.
"Interesting...... Agnes waved her hand, motioning for the two men to stop. Since you're a nobleman, you can be treated accordingly, but you'd better not try to rebel because of it. ”
"Don't try to repeat what you just said." Kong Ze coldly picked up the conversation, "There are some things that my employer doesn't want to get out. ”
"Why, Treville can accept bribes, be treacherous, and not allow anyone to say it?" Count Bezukhov sneered mockingly, and his white hair trembled slightly, "Okay, if he wants to keep it a secret, I can keep it a secret, but I ask him to spare these friends of mine and give them a way to live, and as for me, he can do whatever he likes!" ”
"You seem to have forgotten that you're just a prisoner now." Kong Ze replied indifferently, "But, at least for now, I can guarantee that your lives are not in danger. My employer only wants to send you to Paris secretly, he doesn't like you running around in France, and he doesn't intend to hand you over to the Russian embassy. If he really wants to do this, it won't be us who will arrest you, but the regular military police. ”
Upon hearing Kong Ze say this, the group of Russians looked at each other, and then hope rekindled in their eyes.
"What the hell does Mr. Tréville want to do?" Count Bezukhov asked again, "We have said before, and we can guarantee in the future, that we have no ill will towards France...... On the contrary, we are full of good feelings. ”
"Maybe so, but who knows?" Kong Ze shrugged his shoulders, "My task is to capture you all and send them to Paris, I don't care about anything else, your ideas don't mean much to me." ”
His impersonal answer made the group of Russians angry again.
However, such an outcome is better than being betrayed directly to the Russian embassy by Treville and then taken back to Russia.
"I want to see him." Count Bezukhov said after a moment of silence.
"If he wants to see you, then he will." Kong Ze still replied indifferently.
Then, with a wave of his hand, his men behind him escorted the group of Russians who had already tied their hands out one by one and sent them into the carriage that had already been prepared.
"These Russians are interesting...... Looks like they're all against the Tsar, right? When they were captured, Agnes asked curiously.
"Yes, they were all extremely opposed to the tsarist government." Kong Ze nodded, "That's why they were forced to flee their homeland." However, Count Bezukhov had not yet heard of being hunted by the Tsar...... It seems that he came to France for another business, so he just came with him by the way. ”
"It's strange that I've been to Russia, and there I've heard that he's one of the richest men in Russia! Such a person would risk his life to rebel......" Agnes pursed her lips, "When my father was alive, he said that the great aristocrats of Russia either spent their days drunk and dreamed of death in Petersburg and Moscow, or they thought about making a revolution to make themselves nobles, and there were few serious people...... It seems that he is really right. ”
"They are in a superior position, so they have the right to be indecent." Kong Ze frowned, then glanced at Agnes.
Just like you - of course he didn't dare to say it.
To be honest, he really felt that Agnes had a strange personality, not at all like the duchess he had seen, so he didn't know how to deal with it, so he simply stayed away.
Then, he left Agnes behind, walked out of the box, and walked straight to the shopkeeper who was waiting outside.
"Sir, we're on a secret mission from the government, and whatever you see, you'd better forget about it all, or else—"
He gestured with his finger to shoot a gun.
"Understood, understood!" The shopkeeper was sweating profusely and hurriedly agreed.
Then, Kong Ze took out a few gold coins from his pocket and threw them at the shopkeeper's feet.
"It's their meal!"
Then, without looking back, he walked out of the restaurant and boarded the carriage. (To be continued.) )