Chapter 24: New Year's Gifts (Part II)

Early the morning after the New Year's dinner, Witte appeared as usual in the office of the Royal Intelligence Service at 2 Hovaya Street, Petersburg, where he was so often that Nicholas II had to send someone to him several times to find him. As soon as www.biquge.info arrived at the office that morning, the secretary came in and said: "Director, according to your instructions, we have begun to monitor Pyotr Dmitrievich Svyatopolk-Mirsky and others. ”

Witte motioned for the secretary to put the report on the table, and then asked, "How is the integration of our intelligence agencies in the states, provinces, cities, and governor's palaces now?" ”

"At present, the intelligence bureau has completed the integration of the direct states, provinces, and viceroyalty districts, as well as the former secret police services of the Kingdom of Poland and the Principality of Finland, and at present, the heads of the intelligence bureaus of the Don Oblast, Volhynia Province, the Caucasus Governorate, the Principality of Finland, and the Kingdom of Poland have not yet been determined, and the intelligence bureaus at the municipal level are further promoting the integration work." The secretary said slowly.

Witt thought for a while and said: "I will arrange for the heads of the intelligence bureaus in Don Prefecture and other places to be in place as soon as possible, and tell the intelligence bureaus below that the integration and formation of all intelligence bureaus must be completed this month, and the heads of the city-level intelligence bureaus will be reported to me by drawing up a list by them, and if there is no problem after review, they will be directly appointed." ”

The secretary responded: "Director, I will inform you as soon as possible." ”

Witte looked at the report in his hand and nodded, and then asked: "Did Romanlov from the Moscow branch and Arkhipov from the Kyiv branch report?" ”

"There's no news from the office yet." The secretary replied

Witt replied, "Well, I see. If the two of them come, bring them to my office immediately. I don't have anything to do here, you can inform me of what I just asked for as soon as possible. The secretary answered and left Werther's office.

"Hello, I'm here to report, my name is Ned. Mark Novich. Romanoff. Leonid and Viktor stood in front of an office worker in the office of the Royal Intelligence Service at 2 Hovaya Street, Petersburg.

The man looked up at Victor and asked, "You're here to report too?" ”

"Yes, my name is Eric. Anjipovich. Arkhipov. Victor replied.

As soon as the staff member heard this, he looked through the personnel list in front of him, and when he saw the names of the two people, he immediately stood up and saluted and said: "Captain Romanlov, Captain Arkhipov, hello, the director has been waiting for you in his office for a long time, please come with me." ”

Leonid and Viktor looked at each other, then followed the clerk to Witt's office and knocked on the door, "Report." There was a voice from inside, "Come in!" The clerk walked in and said, "Director, Captain Romanov and Arkhipov have arrived. ”

"Oh, let them in, you go out and tell the others that I have important things on my schedule and don't want anyone to disturb me." Witt said expressionlessly. After the people had left, Leonid and Victor came in and closed the door, at which point Witt said, "Come, sit down." You're here, I can finally relax a little. ”

"Zero, what are the arrangements for me and Malkovich to come here?" Victor asked first as he sat down.

Witte divided a cigarette between the two, then lit it himself and said: "First of all, from now on forget the original names of the two of you, now you are Romanov, Muscovite; Arkhipov, a native of Kiev. Seeing the seriousness of the two of them, Witte continued: "From today onwards, Romanov is in charge of the work of the intelligence team of the Intelligence Bureau, and Arkhipov is in charge of the work of the Intelligence Department of the Intelligence Bureau. ”

After listening to this, Arkhipov asked, "Zero, do we need to arrange more people to enter the intelligence bureau?" ”

Witt looked at him with a smile and nodded, "Yes, we are weak now, and we want to use this intelligence bureau to train our own intelligence officers." The other side will arrange for the corresponding personnel to enter according to the instructions, and I will also replace all the main people in other departments with our people according to the arrangement, so that this intelligence bureau can fully serve us. ”

After hearing this, Romanloff said: "Number 0, what is our main job now?" ”

"Our main job at this stage is to direct all the results of our actions to the populists and liberals, so that we can fundamentally cover our organization's actions. In addition to this, we must keep a close eye on the movements of Marxists all over the country, and all we have to do is try to create a safe situation for them. Witte said slowly, then looked at Arkhipov and said, "On your side, you want to establish a channel of contact with Ulyanov, and appoint our own people around him, one is to take care of him, and the other is to establish an information channel between me and Ulyanov." ”

Arkhipov replied: "I see, No. 0. After finishing speaking, he looked at Romanloff and then said: "No. 0, has the action plan we reported to you some time ago passed?" ”

"I'll explain this matter directly to Krupskaya, don't ask about it." Witt said a little angrily, "You must remember the principle of the secret front, don't inquire about things that you shouldn't ask, just do your job well." Okay, you two go down and get familiar with the work of the intelligence bureau as soon as possible, the burden for both of you is not light. ”

Arkhipov and Romanov had no choice but to withdraw from the office, and the two of them looked at each other as soon as they walked out of Werther's office, obviously they also knew that the question just now was a bit too hasty, but from the reply, the two of them still judged something, so the two of them started their new work with smiles.

On the night of January 2, 1896, Petersburg was very quiet, and since the "Hermitage Incident", curfews have been imposed in all major districts of Petersburg, but due to the arrival of the Nativity and New Year, the curfew is not very strict. On this evening, Pobedonozev, who was the personal teacher of Tsar Nicholas II, had just come out of the Winter Palace and was riding in a carriage that drove slowly down the streets of Petersburg. Pobedonoszev recalled the conversation that Nicholas II had just talked to him, and he felt more and more arrogant as a student, as if everything was under his control, but Pobedonozev knew that it was all empty. Now the entire empire is very strong on the surface, but on the inside it can be said that it is an internal and external trouble.

The relationship between the external empire and Germany deteriorated, because the Balkan question caused Austria-Hungary to be very hostile to the empire, and Germany was obviously on the side of Austria-Hungary, which was of the same race as itself, and England and France were using the empire to disperse German power, and once the war broke out, the empire would definitely suffer heavy losses, while Britain and France would not give much help. The internal populists, liberals, and Marxists are all active, and they are pulling the cornerstones of the country little by little, and His Majesty is in a hurry, keeping his eyes on the officials, the nobles, and the ministers, and where will the great Rus go?

Just as Pobedonozzev was thinking about contacting a few veteran nobles and ministers to write a book after he returned, the carriage suddenly stopped and threw the unsuspecting Pobedonozzev into the carriage. When the groom heard the movement in the carriage, he immediately turned to the car and asked, "Sir, are you okay?" ”

Pobedonozev angrily shouted at the groom, "What's the matter? ”

The groom replied, "Sir, a drunkard rushed out of the blue, struck a horse, and blocked the way, and I will immediately let him get out of the way." ”

"Hurry up! Damn it! Pobedonoszev rubbed his aching forehead and roared.

The guards and grooms listened to the roar of Pobedonozev and immediately went to move the drunken man who did not know whether he was alive or dead, and at that moment suddenly a dozen people rushed out from the side, all dressed in black and holding short guns in their hands, which could not be seen clearly if it were not for the faint light of the street. Seeing such a scene, the guards immediately prepared to draw their guns, but before they could get ready, the gun of the man in black rang out first.

Pobedonoszev in the carriage heard the gunshot, and was immediately startled, remembering the assassination of Goremykin, but now he didn't dare to get out of the car at all, if he dared to open the door then he would definitely be shot and killed at the first time, just when Pobedonozev was thinking about where he should go, suddenly the door was opened, and a man in black looked at him with a short gun, and then said: "Your Excellency Pobedonozev, if you go to heaven, please insist on those who died in the Winter Palace on my behalf." Without waiting for Pobedonoszev to say a word, he fired three shots in succession, and Pobedonoszev felt that his mental power was slowly disappearing, while the blood in his chest was flowing more and more.

The man in black who shot at Pobedonoszev stepped forward to investigate, and after confirming that Pobedonozev was dead, he leaned out of the carriage and said to the people around him: "Check to see if there is any alive, evacuate immediately after the solution is cleaned, the police should be coming soon when they hear the gunshots." Then he looked at the dead Pobedonoszev and muttered, "This New Year's gift is a little late, but it's wonderful!" ”

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