Chapter 180: Deployment Before Departure
Alpas's original intention was to kill the emperor as quickly as possible, causing the fact, in this way, the officials and generals of the emperor's family will definitely take refuge in him because of his power, so that his strength will be doubled, and then he will clean up the queen, and he will ascend the throne again, before their father and son wanted to do this, but the time was not ripe, and their father and son have Alanish blood, many officials look down on their father and son, now it is different, the emperor has been arrested, and the queen's power is not as great as before, as long as he acts quickly, He has a high probability of success, this kind of thing is gambling, if you win the bet, you will win a big victory, and if you lose the bet, everything will stop, and everyone who plays politics is a gambler.
But Alpas didn't expect the queen to unite with the emperor's family so soon, if it was just the Guards, the Seventh Legion and the Ninth Legion under him didn't need to worry too much, these two legions were field legions, and their combat effectiveness was much stronger than the Guards, an army that had not fought for a long time, but if the Guards and the City Guards together, the Seventh Legion and the Ninth Legion would be a little hanging, and they were at an absolute disadvantage in terms of strength.
At dawn, the city guards soon surrounded the Prime Minister's Mansion and began to attack, after a fierce battle, the City Guards broke through the Prime Minister's Palace, and Alpas and his family were killed by the sword, and then the queen sent people to take Alpas's head to persuade him to surrender, and in the afternoon, the Seventh and Ninth Legions surrendered one after another, and the Guards were ordered to escort the surrendered Seventh and Ninth Legions back to the camp, and the City Guards were ordered to maintain law and order. Arrest the villains who took advantage of the opportunity to cause chaos, and the city gradually calmed down.
After the city calmed down, Qin Dong and the others did not leave the Aya Sophia Cathedral immediately. Anadorius was in a hurry, if Qin Dong and the others stayed here and were known by the authorities, wouldn't he be suspected of rioting with Qin Dong? Even if there is no such a serious crime, a crime of harboring a criminal will not escape.
After dinner, Anatorius immediately went to Qin Dong and urged him to leave the church as much as possible, and if he stayed here, it would be troublesome if anyone found out.
Qin Dong sat down Anatorius and asked, "Have you prepared all the equipment I asked you to prepare last time?" If you're not ready, forget it. I don't embarrass you anymore! ”
The reason why he didn't want this batch of equipment was because Qin Dong had already extorted 10,000 sets from Empress Pulkariya, if those 10,000 sets of cavalry equipment were in place. It doesn't matter if you want the thousand sets that Anatorius has prepared.
As soon as Anadorius heard that Qin Dong didn't want it, how could this work, he had raised seven or eight hundred sets, and it was only two or three hundred sets away from the one thousand sets that Qin Dong requested. It will all be in place in a few more days. If Qin Dong didn't want this batch of armor, then wouldn't he have to rot in his hands, this is all money!
He hurriedly said: "Don't, I've already got eight hundred sets, if you don't want it, don't I want to lose my underwear?" ”
Qin Dong shrugged his shoulders and said, "Who made you so inefficient?" If you have a thousand sets now, I'll ask for it right away, but unfortunately you don't! ”
Anadolius was so anxious that he was about to cry. "Qin, with the relationship between the two of us. You can't fool me, you know, I bought these 800 sets of cavalry equipment with all my savings and the savings of the whole church, so if you wait one night, I will get you a thousand sets tomorrow morning, okay? ”
Qin Dong looked at Anatorius and wanted to laugh, but he couldn't help laughing, he thought for a while and said, "Okay, if you can get together a thousand sets tomorrow morning, I'll ask for them all, but I don't have that much cash for you, how about giving half first?" ”
Anatorius immediately jumped to his feet in a hurry: "Qin, this is not right, why do you only give half of the money when you have money, don't think that I don't know how much money you made on this trip to Constantinople, 20,000 gold coins must have been earned, don't lie to me!" ”
Qin Dong said: "Of course, if I sell all my goods, I will definitely be able to sell them for at least 40,000 gold coins, but you know that a large part of my goods is still being seized by the city guards, if I pay you all the money, then what will I eat and drink on the way back with my subordinates?" Right? You can't let us starve to death, you are a priest, you should have a merciful heart! By the way, how much is a set of cavalry armor you bought? ”
Anatorius stretched out three fingers and said: "Thirty gold coins in a set, this is the cheapest price, you must know that this thing is serious military equipment, and it is generally not allowed to be taken out, and I also secretly did so much through a lot of connections!" ”
"Make it up, you keep making it up!" Qin Dong glanced at Anatorius and said, "Do you think I don't know the market?" Since takeaway is not allowed, this thing is black when it appears on the black market, who dares to ask for it? Of course, the price is lower than the normal price, generally only three percent of the normal price, and the price of selling a set of armor to your military is about fifteen gold coins. I look at this batch of armor, you better keep it for yourself! ”
"Don't don't, don't, you're ruthless, I'm afraid of you!" Anatorius was very helpless, it was really difficult to meet Qin Dong, a person who had long known the market and could do business, so he had to say: "In this way, you also let me earn a little bit, ten gold coins for you, how about it?" ”
Qin Dong said: "I'll want all six gold coins for a set!" ”
"Nine gold coins is always fine, right?"
Qin Dong said again: "Forget it, eight gold coins, let's not talk about it, just a set of eight gold coins!" ”
"Deal!"
In fact, Qin Dong also knew that if he only made a few sets, it was very easy, and the price was also very cheap, just like he just said, black goods were generally only thirty percent of the normal price, and it was not easy to get such a large number of cavalry armor, and it was not a loss to buy it at the price of eight gold coins, if it was bought at the normal price, it would cost twice as much, but the Eastern Roman Empire would definitely not be able to buy it, and the Eastern Roman Empire would not sell it to him, after all, the cavalry units of the Eastern Roman Empire had just been formed, That's when a lot of gear is needed. Although their cavalry combat effectiveness needs to be improved, the equipment of the cavalry is much better than that of the Hun cavalry, and the two cannot be compared at all. I have to admit that in terms of smelting and casting technology, the Eastern Roman Empire was more than a cut above the Hun Empire.
After finalizing this matter, the two discussed the time and place of delivery, and after a thousand sets of cavalry armor were assembled, Anatorius was responsible for transporting the armor outside the city. Tomorrow at about two o'clock in the afternoon, I will pick up outside the city, pay the money with one hand and deliver the goods with the other, but neither of them will show up. The two sides sent another person to contact them, so as not to be found by the authorities that the two of them were together to the detriment of Anatorius.
After doing this, Qin Dong was ready to leave Constantinople with his men and horses, but before leaving. He had one more important thing to do. That is to meet the famous Countess, this is what the two of them said before, and Qin Dong must establish the ways and channels to contact the Countess, and he must be able to control the intelligence team of the Black Mist Organization in Constantinople before leaving.
Late at night, Qin Dong quietly left the church with his entourage and secretly went to Meknejelina's manor, this solemnity was so famous, Qin Dong just asked a priest at random to get the route to the manor.
The estate of Count Meknejelina is easy to find. This manor was very conspicuous in the city, and Qin Dong knew that it was the place he was looking for just by seeing it.
Due to the fact that the weather is somewhat hot. And it was a secret to see Meknejie Lina, she couldn't wear too much, it was very hot to wear too much, but she couldn't be discovered by others, so Qin Dong and another subordinate only wore a black cloak on their upper body, which was bare and slippery, and they didn't wear anything.
After the two arrived at the door, they were stopped by the guards at the gate of the manor, Qin Dong pulled his throat and said in a hoarse voice: "Lord Earl asked me to come, she should know who I am!" ”
One of the guards looked at Qin Dong and dropped a sentence: "Wait!" So he turned around and went in to report.
It didn't take long for the guard to come out and invite Qin Dong and the two in, and the two were taken to a very secret room.
When Count Mekniejelina turned around and saw that it was Qin Dong, he smiled: "I guessed that it was you, I didn't expect you to come out so quickly, and you made such a big noise, I heard that the emperor is in your hands, aren't you afraid that I will tell the official?" ”
Qin Dong took off his hood, untied the strap of his cloak, took off the cloak and threw it on a chair, and did not treat himself as an outsider, went to the table and poured two glasses of wine, handed one of them to the entourage, picked up another cup and took a sip, after tasting it, he said: "Of course, you can go and tell the truth, no one will stop you!" ”
Count Meknezylina laughed, "Okay, just kidding, let's get down to business, who is this?" She asked, pointing to the entourage behind Qin Dong.
Qin Dong said: "His name is Holman and he is a German, from now on, he is your direct contact, you can only contact him, and only he can contact you, in the future he will be stationed in Constantinople, you still have command of your group, I need you to report to him at any time the major events that happened in Constantinople, especially about the political measures and army movements, as well as the transfer of generals and personnel of various legions of the military!" The intelligence collection above the court will be handed over to you, and you don't have to worry about the information on the market, someone else will be in charge! If you have anything that you don't come forward to solve, or can't solve it, you can contact him, but I remind you that we are an espionage organization, not a killer organization, and you should understand what I mean."
After hearing this, Count Meknezylina nodded and said, "Well, since the day I joined the organization, I have asked for no reason, and I can only obey orders!" I would like to ask, what is going on within the organization, why hasn't anyone contacted me for months? ”
Qin Dong came to a conclusion from Meknezelena's words, I am afraid that the main persons in charge of the Black Mist Organization's cities all over Europe are directly in contact with Constantius, and they only receive instructions, and then put the information they get into a fixed place, and someone will pick it up, otherwise there will not be a situation where no one has contacted her for several months.
The news that the supreme leader of the Black Mist Organization, Constantius, has died, I'm afraid that no one else knows yet, otherwise someone within the organization must have grabbed power a long time ago, from this point of view, the Black Mist Organization is a very tight organization, only the superiors know the subordinates, and the subordinates don't know the superiors. Otherwise, it is impossible for the news of Constantius's death not to be known by others in the organization for such a long time, and now it is necessary to take advantage of the fact that this news has not been known by other people in the organization, and it is necessary to take over the intelligence teams in various places as much as possible, and directly leave aside the personnel who transmit the intelligence, and the personnel who transmit the intelligence can be sent again, but if they cannot take over the team that collects the intelligence, then it will be time-consuming and laborious and troublesome to retrain the intelligence personnel.
Qin Dong saw Count Mekniejelina asking about this matter, and muttered for a while and said the plot that had been done for a long time: "There are indeed some problems within the organization, after all these years of development, the high-level personnel of the organization have also found that there are big loopholes in the structure of the organization, and they want to make some changes, but it is very difficult to change the existing structure, and there are differences between the high-level leaders, but now the problem has been solved, the previous contact method is abandoned, and the previous contact code will appear again in the future, and the leader spoke, If you find someone, you will be killed! ”
"Yes!" Meknejelina stood up and agreed.
Qin Dong took out a small piece of cloth and handed it over: "This is a new contact method and code, a total of two sets, first use the main one, if the main contact method and password are discovered by any of the forces, immediately use the alternate contact information and code, and the relevant instructions will be conveyed by Holman in the future, and the information collected by your team will also be handed over to him, and he will pass it to the leader, and burn it after reading and remembering!" ”
Meknejelina took the strip of cloth and looked at it a few times, then lit it with a candle and burned it, and then asked, "What should I do if Holman is caught, or if something goes wrong with him?" ”
Qin Dong nodded: "That's a good question, no matter which of you is caught, the other party must do everything to rescue you, you have to use all your means to find out the news, if you learn that the arrested person has confessed, the other party must immediately transfer, if the other party's confession is too big a danger to the organization, you have to get rid of him, this is to punish the traitor, if something happens to Holman and someone will take the initiative to contact you, this is the final contact information, you must remember that unless I contact you personally, otherwise you will become duckweed, and it doesn't matter where you go!" After saying that, he handed over a small piece of cloth again.
Mekne, Jelina took the piece of cloth, looked up and said, "Understood!" ”
"Okay, now you hand over the list of team members in your hand, the organization has to file it, once you have an accident, we can send someone to contact the rest of your team!"
"Yes!" Meknejielina immediately found a pen and a sheepskin to write out the names and addresses of the people in her group and handed them to Qin Dong. (To be continued......)