Qitad secretly returned to Kiev.

It was October when I got back here, and the first heavy snowfall in Ukraine happened to come.

By chance, he had just arrived in Kiev and received a telegram from Spy Truchin.

There are only three words on the telegram.

"Gomeli"

He quickly asked someone to bring the map, and several staff members searched on the map for a long time before they discovered the place.

It turns out that north of Kiev, the Dnieper River is in the middle, the Pripyat River to the west, and the Jesna River to the east. The current territory is different from later generations. At this time, the dividing line between Truchen and Belarus is Prie.

Piati River.

But the dividing line to the east is still the same as in later generations. Truchen set up a major town in Chernigov on the north bank of the Jesner River, and placed a regular army of the division there.

There are dense forests to the north, northwest and west. If the Russians make any moves, they can send troops from there. Once Chernigov is taken down, they can reach Kiev.

Gomel is an important town on the right bank of the Sori River, a tributary on the north side of the Dnieper River, and belongs to Belarus.

According to previous information, there are endless farmlands and manors north of Gomel, and it is impossible to hide soldiers at all. What is the intention of secret spies sending this information?

Fortunately, the Truchens' map is very different from the European map at this time. Europeans have already started to use contour lines to identify the terrain, and the Russians are the same. However, in addition to the contour lines, the Truchens' topographic map also has

Detailed map content depicted with special signs.

There is a large delta between the Dnieper River and the Sori River. The two rivers form the Great Dnieper River after converging at the southern end of the delta.

This delta covers an area of ​​two or three thousand square kilometers, but only three trees are drawn on the map.

For the Truchens, one tree represents one thousand square kilometers, and three trees means that the Delta south of Gomel is a forest with an area of ​​about three thousand square kilometers!

Gomel is a commercial center of the Eastern Slavs, similar to Kaluga in the west of Tula. Later, a large amount of natural open-pit lignite was discovered here, so it became a coal mining center.

A forest of 3,000 square kilometers is surrounded by rivers on both sides and an important town to the north. It would make sense if the soldiers were hidden there.

Such an important place, both the Russians and the Truchens obviously attach great importance to it. In addition to the large farmland near Gomel, there is a vast forest, which reminds Qitad suddenly of something.

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In the past, when relations with Russia were still acceptable, Truchen had not yet taken over all Ukraine, but there were already plungers hanging on a sail against the Dnieper River to buy high-quality wood and honey.

There are naturally large forests in the Truqin Empire itself, but because the ship material requirements for tree material are too high, and the Truqin Navy's ships are very wide, and ship materials that meet the requirements are not everywhere.

There are large tracts of oak forests throughout Eastern and Central Europe, but the fewer the further south. When you arrive near the Caspian Sea, it is completely savanna, which is not like Voronezh and Tula, although there are also savannas in later generations.

There are actually many trees.

But near the Caspian Sea, it is completely desert grassland, which shows the progressive level of vegetation.

The same is true for Ukraine. Although there are some oak forests, it is obviously not true for Belarus and Poland.

Of course, when it comes to wood, the richest one is naturally Russia. Until now, they exported two major foreign exchange-making items, one is various fur, and the other is various high-quality wood. There are a lot of them that can be directly used without splicing.

Ship material used as keel of a large ship.

It can be said that in the past three hundred years, Russia's wood, fur, and Polish food have supplied the entire Europe, allowing Europeans to build a large number of warships on the basis of having enough food.

At that time, Truchen was still in the sailing era, and there was naturally a large demand for ship materials. The procurement ship had also arrived in Gomel. At that time, Gomel was just a commercial town. Apart from the roads, there was only a small amount of farmland.

Now there are such vast farmlands nearby!

This shows that the Russians have regarded this place as a forward base. With food and fuel (lignite), it is obvious that a medium-sized military base can be built.

Not to mention anything else, the food produced near Gomel is enough to support more than 100,000 troops. If the rivers are used to control all the places, no, no, no, the Russians implemented strict serfdom in Belarus, and the situation of serfs is worse than that of the Russians.

Can squeeze out a lot of food.

They can completely mobilize the excess food in Belarus here!

Such a major city, there are naturally spies from the Truchens.

After Truchen took over the entire Ukraine, his trust in the Ukrainians on the east and west banks of the Dnieper River was obviously different. Western Ukrainians were ruled by Poland for a long time and were not interested in the Tsarist Russian Empire, while Eastern Ukrainians had accepted the Tsarist Russian Empire.

Rule for at least fifty years.

Although most of them are serfs, the situation is obviously different.

For Kitard, the appearance of the three words "Gomeli" is not simple.

"It is definitely not just a Gomel, such a vast forest area, ghosts know how many more there are"

"The spy only sent three words, which means that this person encountered danger when sending the telegram. Once the telegram plane was seized by the Russians, then..."

Nowadays, two top leaders of the Imperial Intelligence Agency, Deng Ce, Norbu, and two top military chiefs against Russia, Chu Huer, and Techina were all present. After reading the telegram, Qitad handed them to them.

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"You guys talk about it too"

Director of the CIA Deng Ce said: "From the eyes of the empress, it is certain that the forest in the south of Gomel has hidden heavy troops, but the Golden Bear only issued three words, and there are two possibilities here."

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"First, the Golden Bear was in danger and only sent three words in a hurry. If he was in temporary danger, he would resend it in Gomel, but it has been a while since we have not received any more telegrams.

, This shows that if the Golden Bear was either in danger, or if there were major things he had to deal with would appear"

"Secondly, Golden Bear is a novice. Although he is a camel hunter, he lacks experience after all. He traveled through the north forest for a month and actually sent only one piece of information"

"But this cannot be blamed for this. Among the camel hunters who have graduated in recent years, he is the only one who has lived in Russia. If he is too risky to arrange others, he is also the only one."

Norb continued: "We are not playing Gomel's store in the name of Truchen, but the name of the Russian nobles who were bribed by us. Unless something happens to this noble, there will be no problem there."

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"Which aristocrat is it?"

"Ivanovic, the commander of the Cossack brigade who was stationed in Orsk, after our country broke through the city of Kulisare, where the tent of the Kazakh Xiaoyuz king was located, in order to win over this person, he gave all the ten golden statues he found to him.

He, at that time, each of these ten gold statues weighed ten pounds"

"Ten lords are 100 pounds, 100 pounds of gold, which was a lot of money at that time. Ivanovic immediately resigned from his military post and went to Estonia to buy land in a newly acquired place like Russia. According to Russian regulations,

Local land can be bought and sold freely, but that is limited to people above Russian civilians”

"At that time, Ivanovic was already a little nobleman, so he was naturally qualified. After obtaining that land, he made a business and obtained the care of our country. Half of the Truqin industrial products in the entire Estonian were made by him

Distributed”

"He has definitely made a lot of money over the years. Although our relationship with Russia has not been good in recent years, the trade relations have not been cut off. He must have become a tycoon like Kurakin"

"And the title of Russian aristocrat can be bought and sold. Ivanovic also spent 10,000 Russian silver coins to buy the title of a hereditary baron. In addition, the Cossacks who followed him also expanded their territory in Estonia, and they were still deeply rooted in the upper class of Russia.

Favorite"

"Actually, such a person shouldn't have any trouble"

"Then is the Golden Bear's unsecret behavior and was discovered by the spies under Governor Gomel?"

Deng Ce also had a stern look, "It's not impossible. Since Paul I came to power, diplomacy has been appointed to the Prussians and internal affairs have been handed over to noble ministers, but he still grabbed the secret police force in his hands. In the past, Romanov

The dynasty has been mingling the institution with the ordnance minister to hide its eyes and ears”

"After Peter III came to power, the chef and groom who favored him changed the position to 'Cooking Stable Minister'. How could such a person be the chief of the police secretly? This is also what he almost made Ekaterina's conspiracy succeed in success.

One reason”

"After Paul I came to power, he obviously learned this lesson. He reused the people of the Salticov family, a secret police force family of the Empire, and officially used the Minister of the Interior to carry out this matter. You must know that Salticov

The family is the Romanov family’s in-law family”

"After Salticov came to power, he quickly arranged a large number of spies across the country. They had special passes issued by the Tsar, and they could ignore the local official uniform and arrest people at will."

"My business bank in Gomel has always had a harmonious relationship with the local government. If something happened to the Golden Bear, then it must be Salticov's spies who discovered something"

"This also confirms that there is something strange about the forest in southern Gomel. Otherwise, Salticov's spies would not appear there in large numbers. If there were only one or two, according to the ability of the camel seeker, there would be no problem."

"Even if Golden Bear is caught, there are our people in the store. No news is coming now, so it can only explain one problem"

"The Golden Bear was taken down in one fell swoop"

"This is indeed a bit strange. What I fear most is that the telegraph machine was also seized"

Qitade also looked grim. After a while, he still smiled: "What are you afraid of? Even if the telegraph machine falls into the hands of the enemy, they will not use it. Moreover, I still believe in the camel hunter. So far, all the camel hunter in our country

No agent from the family was betrayed the country, and they all completed the task well”

"Wait a little longer. If he is really caught, according to the rules of the Huohunter, he should run away halfway and then run to another big city to send a telegram again"

Three days later, a new telegram was indeed sent.

"There are heavy troops hidden in the south of Gomel, all of which are regular troops. I was discovered by nearby Russian spies while snooping. They came to the door when they were about to send a telegram. The telegram was safe and hidden, but the storehouse was sealed."

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Chapter completed!