Petrograd,

In the office building of the Chinese Embassy in Russia, Tuesday gradually picks up its work at an unchanging pace. People put aside their personal chores for a while and devote their main energies to official business. At first, they were bound to do some routine work such as opening mail, collecting and sorting out all kinds of short notes, notes, and messages, but of course, more staff members were dealing with the affairs of overseas Chinese, and now Russia can almost be said to be China's most important trading partner, and hundreds of thousands of Chinese businessmen are running all kinds of businesses in Russia, and the gathering of a large number of businessmen naturally brings about an inevitable thing -- an increase in overseas Chinese affairs.

Because of the increase in overseas Chinese affairs, the embassy in Russia has had to repeatedly ask for more staff in the country, and at the same time, it has increased the number of employees and even mobilized other personnel in the embassy to deal with these overseas Chinese affairs.

However, for some staff members in the embassy, they will never devote all their time to dealing with ordinary affairs, or in other words, it is impossible for them to participate in "ordinary embassy affairs" such as overseas Chinese objects, such as the intelligence department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as the "master", the intelligence office of the Imperial Intelligence Agency in Russia, and the military attaché office of the Imperial Affairs Bureau in Russia. They collect military, political, economic information, and so on in the countries where they are stationed, and they collect any information that is useful to the country, and in the same way, they will develop an intelligence network in Russia and use this intelligence network to serve themselves, and their work is much busier than that of many ordinary foreign ministry staff, and they almost never have any time to rest.

At 9:30 a.m., Wang Qingfeng was walking up to the floor where Hu Kexun of the Military Intelligence Department worked, and he looked out the window at the square outside the embassy. I saw that the late staff were lazily walking towards their respective destinations. The weather is sunny and cloudy. A few clouds rushed high in the blue sky, followed by dark clouds rolling.

He looked at the scene in front of him. Unconsciously stopped going upstairs. The square looks ...... Wrong?

The "caretaker" is gone.

"Caretaker" is his name for the "spies" of the Russian Spy Agency. Because of the "reputation" of China's intelligence community, countries often strictly "guard" Chinese embassies abroad, and outside embassies, almost every day. There will always be a "warden", just like every "warden". They always hope that through this kind of guarding, they will be able to catch some of China's handles, especially those engaged in intelligence work. in order to undermine China's intelligence network.

Today's anomaly. He stopped in front of the closed door in front of Hu Kexun's office, and after thinking for a moment, he knocked on the door, paused, pushed the door in, and entered Hu Khoun, the ostensible military attache in Russia. In fact, it was the office of an intelligence officer of the Military Intelligence Bureau, and he saw that Hu Kexun's brow was furrowed.

"Good morning. Aomine. ”

Hu Khoon greeted him.

"What's the latest news on the Praying Mantis?"

In the past few months, the intelligence services in Russia have jointly carried out a new strategy, and the protagonist of this strategy is the "praying mantis", and now, things have finally made great progress.

"Let's not talk about that. Did something happen today? ”

"Huh?"

Hu Kexun was stunned for a moment, and then asked in surprise.

"What? Any rumors? ”

"I just saw—"

Wang Qingfeng wanted to speak and stopped.

He found that although there is cooperation, but the Colonel Hu in front of him is a guy who is difficult to really cooperate, after all, they do not belong to a system, as an intelligence officer, he clearly knows that the seemingly huge intelligence system, in fact, because it belongs to multiple systems, and there will always be some intelligence entanglements, even if it is cooperation, it is difficult to really let go of cooperation, if not every month, His Majesty will personally preside over an intelligence meeting, and there is also an intelligence staff office in the palace, responsible for coordination, By aggregating intelligence from all sides, I am afraid that intelligence resources will be a serious waste of resources because they belong to at least three systems. …,

"I just noticed." Wang Qingfeng mentioned the strange appearance he had seen earlier.

"That caretaker in the square is gone? It's that old man from the Caucasus! ”

"Oh...... That's it! ”

Hu Kexun just replied softly, and then said.

"You should know that now we are allies with the Russians?"

"I remember, he was there yesterday!"

Wang Qingfeng frowned at him, as an intelligence officer, he had to suspect all anomalies.

"Now, he's gone, it's doubtful."

"Perhaps, they don't have enough manpower!"

Compared with Wang Qingfeng's cautiousness, Hu Kexun seems to be very indifferent!

"That weird old man with a sign."

He turned and stood up in his chair, then walked towards the window, and looked out, and sure enough, he couldn't see the agent.

"But just an object that doesn't deserve attention?"

"Anything out of the ordinary must arouse our vigilance!"

Wang Qingfeng reminded loudly.

"Concern? Of course, maybe! We need to pay attention to some unusual things, but, my friend, don't forget, now we have more important things, how is the infiltration program that was carried out two years ago, how is the "praying mantis" thing going? And our people, why haven't they been to the "praying mantis" until now? I think that's what we need to focus on right now! ”

Hu Kexun whispered slowly, while he put his concerns on the table from time to time.

"As for that old man from the Caucasus, it's just a secret agent, you know, what's the use of those Russian spies? We've built our network here, but they don't find out, don't forget, what kind of country it is. ”

After a pause, Hu Kexun said:

"This is just a big prison for all nationalities, and there are too many disgruntled people in such a prison, and now they need to pay more attention to those revolutionaries than we do. For example, in Umilyanov, who was in Switzerland, I remember the intelligence officer at the embassy in Switzerland telling us. Germany's intelligence services. You've started to make contact with them, haven't you? ”

As he spoke, Mr. Hu raised his voice slightly, and for the past two years, the tasks have been almost one after the other. Just a few weeks ago, a new task was pressed upon him. The Intelligence Bureau asked him to get a new version of the map, not one, not several. It's all. The latest version of the military maps of the Surveying and Mapping Department of the Russian Imperial War Department can be obtained as much as you can, and some of these maps have been obtained through the Expeditionary Force Command, but compared to Russia, those maps are not worth mentioning at all.

"Yes."

Breaking the silence loudly, Wang Qingfeng said.

"Germany clearly wants to take a different approach. At the end of the conflict with Russia, the German emperor had praised General Akashi Genjiro for his strategic actions in Russia during the Russo-Japanese War, so it is not surprising that the Germans would try to do the same. ”

"Doesn't sound strange, but ......"

Raising his voice, Hu Kexun smiled, then squeezed his eyes and said.

"But why do we have to do the same thing?"

A rhetorical question, but Wang Qingfeng was stunned, he looked at Colonel Hu in surprise, how could this officer, who seemed to be honest on the surface, think about this problem? As an intelligence officer, he needs to be questioned, but never questioned, his mission, and he is also a royal officer.

"What else?"

Wang Qingfeng asked tentatively.

"These issues are not what we need to consider, but as intelligence officers stationed abroad, we must fully consider every possibility, although we don't know exactly what Nanjing is going to do, but I believe that one thing is ........."...,

Hu Kexun's hand pointed out the window.

"Compared to our current mission and Nanjing's strategy, that spy is not worth mentioning, perhaps, we are creating an unprecedented history, of course, this may be different from Akashi, our name is unknown."

At this time, Hu Kexun's voice revealed a thick mission.

"But believe me, our deeds will live on forever, and you, me, and everyone here will surely witness an unprecedented history, believe me, I have this intuition!"

A sense of mission and ideals, it can be said that for many royal officers, in addition to loyalty, they are more full of ideals and missions, and it is by virtue of the sense of mission and ideals that the army has created this country!

"Witness a history like never before?"

His words only made Wang Qingfeng stunned, but in his mind, when he was studying in Germany, his teacher, a former official of the German Foreign Office, said what he said, to be precise, the words of the German Emperor Wilhelm II during the Russo-Japanese War.

“…… The conclusion of peace after successive defeats would have destroyed the prestige of its court, and it might have killed the Tsar, and perhaps led to the end of the monarchy, and the creation of a new system in barbaric and backward Russia...... will show a horrific face completely different from that of civilized society......"

Don't...... Thinking of the current chaos in Russia and the propaganda of the Bolsheviks to "defeat their own government", and considering the government's position on the "praying mantis", he seemed to understand something, and on the word "praying mantis", he instinctively reacted "praying mantis catches cicadas!" Well, perhaps......

Suddenly, Wang Qingfeng seemed to understand something, so he said to Hu Kexun.

"Colonel, according to the information we received last night" Praying Mantis "has already gone to Finland by train, and if it is expected to be good, they will go from Finland to Sweden! ”

After hearing Wang Qingfeng's report, Hu Kexun was silent for a moment, as if he was thinking about something, and after a while, he said.

"It seems that our move has been successful, and that matter must be arranged as soon as possible, Qingfeng, you have to bother with this matter!"

After several days of turbulence, Kita and his party finally arrived in Stockholm, and almost on the same day they arrived in Stockholm, a neutral country, he began to operate according to plan. First, they visited the intermediary Kastoran, who was openly a lawyer, but in fact he was a member of the German intelligence agency in Stockholm, but they were in the position of illegal activities, and suddenly Kita Kazuki met with a foreigner whom he had never met. It is quite possible to arouse suspicion from the outside world.

As part of the previous arrangement, Kita did not go to Kastoran's home. Instead, he went straight to his law firm. He is a lawyer, and as a lawyer, he naturally needs to receive some clients, especially when it comes to financial entanglements. So, he did as promised. Went straight to the lawyer's office, when he, like a regular client, waited. After explaining his "case" to him. Kastoran, a Swedish lawyer who looked to be in his fifties, replied directly after receiving the explanation of the case:

"Mr. Feng."

Here Kita Ikki identifies as a Chinese businessman, not a Japanese.

"This case is beyond the scope of my ability to solve, I'm very sorry to disappoint you!"

The other party's answer. only made Bei Yihui stunned, he didn't know what was going on at all. Didn't he know what he was here for?

After leaving the lawyer's office, Kita Yihui felt a sense of discouragement in his heart, and he silently pondered as he went, thinking about how to sustain his revolution in the future, the Russian revolutionaries were not necessarily richer than him, and there might be more money to support his revolution, and they also needed others to support their revolution. …,

Walking down the street, it was already dark outside, and it always felt as if someone was following me. Kita Kazuki, who knows that he is the most wanted criminal of the Japanese government, is in the heart of a while! What matters is how to get rid of the other party's stalking ......, while thinking, while walking. Suddenly, a wine room appeared in front of him, and without thinking, Kita Yihui pushed the door in.

As soon as he entered, and as soon as he sat down and ordered a glass of wine in English, a man pushed open the door and walked in, and the man sat down peacefully next to him. Kita Yihui took a closer look, this was a gentleman-like man with a jaw and beard, and he seemed to be somewhat familiar...... Yes, he had met this man in Castorlan's lawyer's business, and he seemed to be a client as well. He faced forward and whispered:

"Mr. Ikki, in this city, there is a dense intelligence network of Russian spies, so everything must be careful ......."

After a moment of silence, the man continued to drink while observing the surroundings, at which point he took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, then took out one, and after lighting a cigarette with a match, before Kita Yihui could figure out what was going on, the man drank the wine in the glass, and then left the bar without hesitation.

"What's going on?"

Seeing that person leave, Bei Yihui didn't even understand what was going on, he wanted to call the other party down, but he knew that he must not shout here, even if it was for his own safety, but this person just left, and didn't even leave him any contact information, what was going on? Shouldn't he ...... At this moment, he saw the box of matches on the bar, looking at the box of half-open matches, Bei Yihui suddenly took out a cigarette, took the match and stroked one, and then smoked the cigarette with satisfaction, the man left, but left him a message, to be precise, the information of the next meeting.

This is a match prepared for guests in a hotel in Stockholm, and if Kita Ikki expects it to be good, he is told that the real meeting place is in this hotel.

Smoking a cigarette, although he didn't know where the meeting took place in the hotel, Kita Ikki still seemed very relaxed, at least this time he did not come to Stockholm in vain, no matter what, as long as he could meet those Germans, he was sure to persuade the Germans to support his revolution.

As for when, Kita Yihui believed that as long as he arrived at the hotel, everything was in place, and the other party would naturally prepare everything, and after smoking a cigarette, he left the bar, stopped a carriage, and after telling the coachman the name of the hotel, he took the carriage towards the hotel.

As soon as he entered the hotel, Kita Yihui, like many foreigners, first opened a room, and then walked towards the third floor under the guidance of a waiter, and when he went up to the third floor, the waiter directly opened a room for him, and when the room door opened, Kita Yihui smelled the tobacco in the room.

"Hello, Mr. Kita Ikki!"

With the sound of greetings, a Westerner in his thirties walked up to him.

"I'm Kabu, an official at the German embassy in Sweden? Feng? Tolman! ”

"Hello, Mr. Tolman!"

Then the two sat down on the couch, and then the two began to talk, and like most conversations with strangers in the past, Kita Yihui talked about his ideals and beliefs, while Tolman listened more and talked less, until Kita Yihui finally stopped, Tolman looked at him and said:

"Mr. Kita Ikki, can you answer me a question?"

Tolman's words made Kita Yihui stunned, and he looked at the other party and said. 、

"Of course!"

"Why should we finance your revolution, the strength of Japan and the revolution in Japan have nothing to do with Germany!"

"Mr. Tolman, do you know how many Japanese troops there are in Russia?"

Kita Yihui asked rhetorically, and before Tolman could speak, he said.

"There were close to a million troops, and if these armies refused to fight Germany, what would have happened to the Eastern Front? I think Mr. Tolman knows better than I do! ”

Then, Kita Yihui said again.

"At the headquarters of the expeditionary force, there are also our comrades, and I think we have the ability to provide your country with some military intelligence, and perhaps, at that time, when you fight the Japanese army, it will be smoother!"

When making this proposal, Kita Ikki did not consider that this is related to the prestige of a political party, once exposed, he must bear the bad reputation of betraying the country, for him, the most important thing is the revolution, as for the country...... Well, to paraphrase the Russian revolutionary, "the proletarian revolutionaries have no Fatherland!" Since there is no motherland, how can there be such a traitor?