There are many official offices in Nanjing, in addition to the well-known ministries and yamen, such as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Culture are all unique subordinates of the Chinese Dynasty. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Among these departments, there are also some departments that are not well known, and these departments, except for their headquarters, often use the existing buildings in the city as offices.

In the outer city of Nanjing, there is a mansion that once belonged to a certain "bandit" high-ranking official, and unlike other government offices, the gate of this government office is closed every day, and there is no plaque in front of the door to indicate its name, and at the side door, there are also several guards with loaded guns, but they are not wearing military uniforms.

As far as its security is concerned, I am afraid that even the imperial palace in Nanjing City cannot be compared with it. And this is the General Intelligence Directorate, which was established just a few years ago, and its predecessor was the Second Investigation Division of the Military Police Command, but it is not subordinate to the Military Police Command. Instead, it was directly subordinate to the Governor's Office, and after the establishment of the General Intelligence Bureau, it still maintained the detachment of its status and directly obeyed the orders of the Emperor himself.

Despite this, few people in Nanjing know about this department, and perhaps his low profile has a lot to do with it. However, this low-key did not affect the work of the General Intelligence Bureau, and the reason why it remained low-key was because Zhang Shen, as the director of the General Intelligence Bureau, knew very well that Jinyiwei, who had the same identity as him, and the East Factory and the West Factory were notorious in the history books, and the reason why they were promoted by civilian officials and their salaries were more important was because they were too high-profile.

Do things in a low-key way, be a low-key person.

This is the most basic principle of engaging in intelligence work. Like many of the informants he was recruiting, most of them were very ordinary-looking, the kind of people who were thrown on the street and no one would notice. It is these people who have established intelligence networks throughout the country.

Those intelligence networks that had served the country had done a lot of good work now, and now, with the change of the situation, the role of these intelligence networks has been greatly reduced, and only a few of the elites have been sent overseas by him in order to establish intelligence networks overseas and collect intelligence from other countries. Moreover, among the intelligence networks that are still playing a role in the country, the most important is probably the intelligence network of the Beijing Division, which was established a few years ago, and not only recruited many officials to be downline, but even put their hands into the palace.

It is precisely the existence of this intelligence network that allows Zhang Sen to obtain a large amount of information, so that His Majesty can calmly face the changes in the situation in the north and make corresponding deployment adjustments.

"The Russians actually agreed to borrow troops!"

Looking at the secret telegram sent from the north, Zhang Sen's brows furrowed violently, and he immediately realized the seriousness of this matter. So he immediately picked up the phone and instructed the attendant outside the door.

"Prepare the car immediately and enter the palace!"

In a few minutes, Zhang Sen got into a two-seater light carriage, and as the carriage headed in the direction of the palace, Zhang Sen sat on the carriage, his hands tapping his briefcase at his knees from time to time, his brow furrowed.

The question that came to mind was about overseas intelligence deployment.

Russia's sudden intervention made Zhang Sen, who was in charge of intelligence work, realize that the crisis was not just the crisis that the country was about to face, but the crisis in intelligence. This shows that the General Intelligence Directorate has very inadequacies in collecting overseas intelligence.

"It seems that more people should be sent overseas ......"

It's easy to send intelligence officers overseas, but it's not easy to collect them through them. In addition to the differences in language, the natural differences in appearance and skin color make it impossible for them to penetrate into the interior of the enemy as easily as they do at home, and to obtain a large amount of information.

If this problem is not resolved, it will be impossible to make fundamental progress in overseas intelligence deployment.

Thinking so in his heart, Zhang Sen thought that three years ago, according to His Majesty's will, the intelligence school established in the hinterland of the mountainous area of northwest Hubei Province, in that filling school, there were thousands of orphans who came from various European countries, and they received education and training in the intelligence school, and their teachers were all from Britain, France, Italy, Russia, and other places, so as to ensure that they received the most authentic Western education.

Of course, those teachers from the West were paid very well. However, the teachers did not know that they were training intelligence officers, because the cultural and professional classes were conducted in two areas of the school, and the teachers were also under surveillance.

After completing their studies, students there will be sent overseas, where they will study at universities, and then infiltrate other countries' governments and business and financial institutions, where they will build intelligence networks.

But all this will take time, and it will not be possible to build such an intelligence network for at least the next four or five years. However, if there is no overseas intelligence network, it will be impossible to collect military and political information from various countries and thus ensure national security.

Intelligence gathering is directly related to the survival of the country!

When he started to engage in this work five years ago, His Majesty advised Zhang Sen not to dare to slack off in the slightest, not to mention, this is also his foundation.

"It seems that we still have to think of some way!"

What else can be done?

"Looks like they're going to increase their spending."

The easiest way is money, and it is the simplest and most effective way to use money to bribe the officials of the host country to make them happy to sell information, and of course, to use money to build an intelligence network.

However, this needs sufficient funds as a backing, Zhang Sen did not think of increasing the budget of the Congdu branch at all, and the General Intelligence Bureau must have its own way to make money, which was His Majesty's original suggestion, because a lot of the work of the General Intelligence Bureau is underground and secret, and this means that the bureau needs secret funds.

So the General Intelligence Service has always had its own way of making money, such as dealing in special goods with Jewish merchants, although in the past most of the profits were handed over to the government, but now to the royal family. But the General Administration can still get millions of dollars in returns. It is this money that supports their work at home and abroad, and even the funding of those intelligence schools is also thanks to this.

It is precisely because of this financial semi-independence that the outside world does not notice their existence at all. In the eyes of many, the Second Investigation Division is nothing more than a department engaged in "criminal investigation" under the command of the gendarmerie.

"Maybe the General Administration should be directly involved in the special cargo business!"

What's the most lucrative business right now?

Naturally, it is a special goods business, if the Crimean War brought anything to Britain and France, it is to bring them hundreds of thousands of "addicts", and it is under their influence that not only the sales of warship brand cigarettes are increasing day by day, but even the sales of special goods are dozens of times higher than in the past.

"Go back and leave the Jews out of the way......"

When I made up my mind in my heart, the carriage had stopped outside the palace, although there was no "dismount monument" now, but there were still some rules that everyone abided by, such as dismounting in front of the Chinese archway, and then walking into the palace, which is the minimum rule.

As a minister, Zhang Sen can enter the palace directly, and does not need to petition through the Ministry of Internal Affairs like a foreign minister, and can only enter the camp after His Majesty's consent, but despite this, he only does not need to petition.

After entering the palace, under the guidance of the palace attendants, Zhang Sen came to Wuying Pavilion, although most of the time, His Majesty was in Wenhua Pavilion to deal with affairs, but now because the country is at war, the Northern Expedition is imminent, His Majesty is more often in Wuying Pavilion, and some rules of the new dynasty are made invisibly.

"Bow to your majesty!"

Although he enjoyed the "reward of sitting", Zhang Sen still bowed respectfully and deeply, and then sat down when the chamberlain brought a chair.

"Well, Zhang Sen, is there something going on in the north?"

Zhang Sen's sudden arrival made Zhu Yifeng immediately realize that something must have happened in the north. Otherwise, he would not have entered the palace at this time, after all, every day there would be a "Daily Bulletin" sent to the palace, telling himself to follow the regulations of later generations, this "Bulletin" contains the most sensitive intelligence reports and analyses in the country and even in the world, providing accurate, timely and objective information from classified and unclassified sources to help him make judgments and decisions on some matters.

It can be said that Zhu Yifeng has always attached great importance to intelligence work and is more aware of the importance of intelligence work. It is precisely because of this that he established the intelligence agency in the first place, and after several years of development, he established the current General Intelligence Bureau, and learned from the experience of later generations to build this agency with his own hands, making it the most advanced intelligence organization in the world in this era.

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

As he spoke, Zhang Sen got up and handed out the information.

"Oh, what happened yesterday? Just received? ”

Taking over the folder, Zhu Yifeng said with a smile, he really wanted to thank those American businessmen for being able to get the information of the Beijing division so quickly, if they hadn't established a telegraph line from the Shanghai Concession to Tianjin, this information would probably have to wait a few days to reach him.

If there had been a radio station, it might have been possible to get information in a much shorter time. Well, I can give them a wake-up call and look into this area.

However, the smile on his face quickly disappeared when he saw the contents of the telegram.

"Damn it!"

Spit out these two words hatefully, Zhu Yifeng only felt a cloud of anger in his chest, and this anger wanted to burn even more.

"For the selfish interests of his family who love Xinjueluo, he did not hesitate to sell the land and collude with foreign enemies......"

Now, Zhu Yifeng seems to have found the root of the Manchu Qing traitor, and the so-called last emperor a few decades later, as well as Tongzhi, who is known as "to rule the world with Hanchen". As long as they can keep their banner family, they can keep the glory and wealth of his love for Xinjueluo's family. Not to mention the land reparation, it is the land of their ancestors that they keep talking about. There is nothing wrong with ceding to outsiders.

"If you don't kill him, it will be difficult to vent the hatred in my heart!"

The reason why Zhu Yifeng is so angry is because for him, territory is the last bottom line he can endure, he can accept everything, but he can't accept the Manchu Qing ceding China's land to foreign countries.

For any one, the Chinese of later generations. Territory is where they are most sensitive, and it is also their final bottom line.

And now Tongzhi has touched this bottom line.

The land they wanted to cede was not only the coastal and Amur regions that were well known to later generations, but also Heilongjiang and Jilin, and the entire northeast, except for Liaoning, which was not ceded because of the ancestral tombs of the Manchu Dynasty. Everything else was ceded to the Russians in exchange for 200,000 Russian reinforcements.

"200,000, 200,000!"

With this number in his mouth, Zhu Yifeng sneered.

"Doesn't he have a little brain? He believes everything the Russians say! 200,000, if the Russians can send 20,000, I'll ...... this"

He scolded resentfully, and then continued

"These people are a bunch of pig brains! None of them saw that the Russians were just taking advantage of the fire, and they didn't want to send troops at all. 200,000, look at the map and know that this is impossible. ”

His Majesty's words made Zhang Sen stunned, and he looked at His Majesty a little puzzled.

"The Russians won't send troops?"

"Of course they want to send, they even want to take Kamchatka from us, but is it possible?"

Of course, there is no possibility, now it is not the post-50s, and without the Trans-Siberian Railway, Russia wants to increase troops in the Far East, it is simply a dream. Unless they have the UK's shipping capabilities or have the full support of the UK, which is absolutely impossible. As for sending hundreds of thousands of troops from Europe to the Far East thousands of miles away by land, it is equally impossible, for any army, no, without the help of railways or roads, without the help of trains or automobiles, relying on animal power or manpower, crossing uninhabited Siberia is a disaster, let alone an army of 200,000 men.

"From Petersburg to the Far East, there are almost 20,000 miles, if they had the ability to send 200,000 troops over, they would have driven us out of Kamchatka long ago, 200,000 people, the current wall along the Siberian line, can allow 10,000 troops to pass, it is already the limit, no matter how much, we don't have to fight, we will have to starve to death on the road. 200,000, even a pig, also knows that this is impossible. ”

His Majesty's words made Zhang Sen's heart suddenly overflow, just now he was really worried about the 200,000 troops of the Russians, and now ...... It seems that you really have to study geography well when you go back, otherwise you will have to make a fool of yourself sooner or later.

"Your Majesty, what now? What if the Manchus ceded all those places to the Russians? ”

"What should I do?"

Zhang Sen's question made Zhu Yifeng's eyebrows furrow, and he said angrily.

"Do you still need to ask what to do? Fight, Lao Maozi wants to take advantage of the fire to rob, they really think that Lao Tzu and the Manchus are a virtue, the Manchus will recognize it, I won't recognize it, they can cede it, and we can fight it back. When the time comes, we will not only fight back the places that were lost, but also take back more places with interest. ”

When the words fell, Zhu Yifeng looked at Zhang Sen and asked.

"Now, is the canal ready for use?"

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