Chapter 975: Secret Agent Director

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The noise on the ceiling stopped, and then there were two "meow" sounds, Zeng Boheng realized that it was a cat passing by the roof, and he breathed a sigh of relief and retracted the pistol. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Sir, what are you...... Yes! - My lord spares his life! - "A Mei Ji woke up and saw the gun in Zeng Boheng's hand, her eyes widened at first, and then she let out a piercing scream.

Zeng Boheng was startled, his hand unconsciously pulled the trigger, the gun rang out suddenly, and with a "bang", the bullet came out of the chamber and hit a vase on the multi-treasure shelf, shattering the vase at once.

The gunfire woke up another Mei Ji, and she screamed in fright at the sight of the still smoking muzzle.

"Shut up Lao Tzu!" Zeng Boheng roared with a look of frustration on his face, and the screams of the two Meiji stopped abruptly.

The servants and guards outside heard the sound and saw Zeng Boheng sitting there with a pistol, looking at each other one by one, not knowing what was going on.

"Sir, ......," the butler asked in surprise.

"Didn't you see the gun go off! Pack it all up and go down! Zeng Boheng waved his hand in annoyance.

The butler did not dare to ask him why he was sitting on the bed in the middle of the night fiddling with his gun, but waved his hand, and several servants stepped forward quickly, quickly picked up the broken vase, and then withdrew from the room and closed the door.

Zeng Boheng threw the pistol on a few cases next to the bed on the shelf, making a "clang" sound, which scared the two Meiji for a while.

"It's okay, it's okay! Sleep sleep! Zeng Boheng yelled irritably, then lay down with his head upside down, and the two Meiji didn't dare to say much, so they could only snuggle up to him carefully, caressing his chest with their hands.

After experiencing this turmoil, Zeng Boheng finally fell asleep this time.

In his sleep, he returned to that bloody era and met Li Xiucheng......

Somehow, Li Xiucheng's face became Lin Yiqing's......

Russian Empire, St. Petersburg, Tsarskoye Village.

Tsar Alexander III at the moment is reprimanding Petrovich, the head of the "Spy Agency"? Rachkovsky.

"Do you know how bad the impact of this is? What a good idea to assassinate the envoy of the Emperor of Qianguo on British soil! Yes, if it succeeds, the most terrible enemy of the Russian Empire is gone, but what if it fails? Haven't you thought about what to do if the plot to blame the Irish is exposed? ”

"Your Majesty, I really don't know about this matter, and I have never approved such an action." Rachkovsky tried to speak in a sincere tone, making his justification sound credible.

"You say you don't know about it? There is no approval? Can you tell me who did this without permission? Alexander III said angrily.

"Your Majesty, based on investigations and feedback from all sides, I believe that Vasilyev, the head of the branch in Paris, planned this operation." Rachkovsky replied.

"They were sent to Paris to spy on the abominable Jews! It's not for them to stare at the Qianguoren! Alexander III roared angrily.

In Tsarist Russia, it was the Jews who were most persecuted. Pervasive anti-Semitism, state-connived Holocaust, restrictive laws, and various forms of discrimination culminated in the reign of Alexander III, with the result that millions of Russian Jews were forced into exile, primarily in the United States.

The persecution of Jews is an ancient tradition in which Jews are used as scapegoats to divert the people's displeasure with the rulers, and can be said to be an important policy of the tsarist government to maintain its rule. Just this year, nearly 30,000 Jews were expelled from Moscow at once, setting a precedent for even larger deportations of minorities under Alexander III. Although the "Spy Bureau" was not an advocate of anti-Semitism in the state, it played a role in the implementation of this policy. A staff member of the "Secret Agent Bureau", who was awarded 10,000 rubles for the anti-Semitic campaign he had sparked for a critical pamphlet printed at the National Police Department, pretended to be indignant and called the "indignant articles" in Western newspapers accusing the tsarist government and the "Secret Agent Bureau" of posturing massacres as "despicable slander". In his diary, he wrote, "the root of evil" was that "the Jews were incapable of even normal productive labour." …… There is no reason for the government to take anti-Semitic ......measures if it were not for the need to protect Russians, especially farmers. There was some form of repression of Jews in Russia, but unfortunately this form did not work as well as it should. The government did want to protect the peasants from the brutal oppression of the Jews, but these efforts had little effect."

The state's anti-Semitic policy also allowed revolutionary ideas to spread faster among the Jews than among other peoples living on the territory of the Russian Empire. In turn, the active participation of the Jewish elite in the revolutionary movement contributed to the anti-Semitic sentiment of the "Secret Agents".

The "Secret Agent Bureau" attaches special importance to foreign intelligence work. The main task of its spies abroad is to spy on the Russian diaspora. Today, these tasks are carried out by the counterintelligence agencies set up by the various foreign intelligence stations of the Spy Agency. The exile of dissidents began in 9047, and by the time Alexander III ascended the throne, 5,000 revolutionaries had gone into exile. They used a variety of methods, from dropping homemade bombs to conducting research in the reading rooms of British museums, in preparation for the overthrow of Tsarism. The headquarters of the office of the "Secret Agent" to monitor these exiles abroad was located in the Russian embassy in Paris, which was the center of the exiles. This foreign office was established in Paris in 9082. By 9084, under the leadership of Rachkovsky, the scope of its activities had greatly expanded, and soon a powerful intelligence network had been established in all the major European powers.

But Ratchkowski never dreamed that the intelligence network based in London would one day be uprooted by the British.

"You know what? Petrovich, the beautiful sister of the Empress, the British Crown Princess wrote her a letter. Alexander III said, taking out a piece of paper from his pocket, on which was a copy of a letter, "Look what she has written!" ”

Rachkovsky carefully took the paper and looked at it.

“…… Dear Maria, go and see what your husband has done! Ask him where he wants to take two of Europe's greatest nations. My dear sister Maria, please do not forget our mission of leaving our home country, Denmark, to marry a foreign land, and what it means for Europe if relations between England and Russia are tense or even frictional because of this? …… Do you know what my dear mother-in-law, Her Majesty the great Queen Victoria, said to me, after learning that it was the Russians who had instigated the assassination of the Irish? 'Oh, my dear Alexandra, your sister Maria is a good brother-in-law! 'I will never forget her snarky tone and sarcastic expression......

After reading the letter, Rachkovsky understood why the Tsar was so angry.

"You'd better figure this out right away! Don't let me see the same thing again! The Tsar slammed the table hard, "Understand? I don't want to see any of that again! ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, your wish is an order." Rachkovsky replied in an extremely humble tone, hoping that such words would reduce the anger of the tsar.

"You tell me now, what's the solution!" The Tsar shouted angrily.

"Your Majesty, we can state that this is the work of those hateful revolutionaries who have bought our people with the intention of causing friction and even war between the two countries in order to carry out their plot." Rachkovsky thought for a moment and immediately replied.

"Then act quickly!"

"Yes!"

When he returned to his office, Rachkovsky found his shirt soaked.

It made him feel as if he had returned to the days when he first came to the Spy Agency.

At the time of the "Narodniks", Rachkovsky, who was then a small civil servant, was quite sympathetic to revolutionary ideas. In 9079 he fell into the hands of the police, where he had two options: exile to Siberia or work for the political police. After making his choice, Rachkovsky became one of the most influential officers in the history of Tsarist Russian intelligence. Unlike the intelligence chiefs sent to Paris by the Secret Agents later, he was a prominent figure in the highest echelons of Petersburg and made a fortune on the Paris Stock Exchange, so he often held lavish receptions in his villa and had close ties with many high-ranking people. Les Echos de Paris described his situation: "If you had seen him in public, I am sure you would have no doubt about him, for there is no indication from his appearance that he had such a dangerous mission." Chubby, intolerant of loneliness, always with a smile on his face...... He seems to be a kind person. Happy lads, the central characters of the guys...... He had a great weakness - he was smitten at the sight of our petite Parisian woman. In fact, he was the most competent of the people working in the capitals of the ten European countries."

The person who heads foreign offices has the same status and freedom of action as the head of the "spy bureau" in St. Petersburg. As with the activities of the "spy bureau" in Russia, the staff of foreign offices carried out both "external" surveillance (agents in civilian clothes, janitors, etc.) and "internal" infiltration of Russian exiles (spy police, some of whom were revolutionaries), and the security agencies of various countries failed to obstruct the activities of this office in their own countries.

The Agency's foreign office in Paris controlled those who monitored Russian exiles in England, Germany, and Italy. In Switzerland, an increasingly important center of exile for revolutionaries, there are three spy organizations under the jurisdiction of the foreign office. The surveillance of exiles in Belgium and the Scandinavian countries was carried out by local spy organizations, as were the spies of the "Secret Agent Service" sent from Paris on a special mission.

As Russian espionage activities became more and more rampant, the foreign offices of the "Secret Agent Bureau" were constantly under attack by Socialists and radical foreign parliamentarians because of their actions abroad. However, the activities of foreign offices have never stopped, only to be more cautious.

The activities of the foreign office are not limited to the collection of intelligence, but also the development of various programs of action, which the agents call "active activities" and "special measures", in order to exert pressure on foreign governments and public opinion, and to carry out various forms of violence. Just last year, Rachkovsky's men blew up the Narodnaya Narodnaya publishing house in Geneva and did it so cleverly that everything looked like it was the work of disappointed revolutionaries. In the same year, Rachkovsky "exposed" a group of Russian exiles who had made bombs in Paris. After an uproar, many of the conspirators were sentenced to prison, one of them, Landzan, fled abroad and was tried in absentia, while the rest were deported. In France, the police arrested 63 revolutionaries who appeared to be implicated in the incident. In fact, the conspiracy was planned and carried out under the leadership of Rachkovsky by a man named Landzan. This person was specially planted by the "Secret Agent Bureau" in the foreign department, ostensibly he financed the construction of an arms factory (to make bombs), and the money was given to him by the staff of the foreign department.

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