Chapter 1092： Spy sea

Any open secret is not a secret. It's nothing more than hoarding ordinary strategic materials and labeling them as aid to Russia. Big guys like warships can't keep secrets at all.

Finding a hidden port, secret production is even more a joke. Today is different from the past. The battleships now move tens of thousands of tons, requiring a lot of manpower and material resources to be mobilized.

Unless Shenluo is playing in a closed state, otherwise, once the normal flow of goods is scaled up, the secret cannot be kept at all.

Hidden and tucked, those are all children's ideas. In reality, this is simply impossible.

The era of free trade accelerated the circulation of commodities and capital, and at the same time created conditions for spies to lurch.

Since the signing of the Russian-Austrian naval agreement, the major shipyards of Shinra have become the focus of spies.

It is naturally impossible to enter directly to view. Such a stupid spy was eliminated in the last century.

Now everyone has learned to attack from the sidelines, for example: by counting the number of workers entering and leaving the shipyard every day, transportation vehicles, and price fluctuations in the raw material market, analyzing and drawing conclusions.

Needless to say, the accuracy rate is not much higher than that of riddles. The raw materials have been shipped in, but the outside world can't know what they are used for.

Shipyards not only build warships, they also build merchant ships. Even if it is to build warships, it is also impossible to determine what specifications of warships to build.

Because of intelligence errors and wrong judgments, Britain has not experienced it once or twice. Except for a few real mistakes, more often the Royal Navy made deliberate mistakes.

Thinking back to the previous arms races, the Vienna government has an ambitious shipbuilding plan every time. Although there is no anticlimactic, the shipbuilding time will be extended by so much.

The same shipbuilding plan, completed in two or three years and completed in more than ten years, are completely different concepts.

Technology is constantly advancing. The later a warship is built, the better its performance.

For a certain period of time, the building of warships in a group seemed very prestigious, but in fact they gave up the opportunity to optimize the performance of warships.

learn from mistakes.

There have been more fools, and the British government has also learned a lesson. No matter how serious the Royal Navy's words are, the London government must first investigate clearly before deciding whether to follow up.

This time is no exception. After receiving the naval treaty signed between Russia and Austria, the British government immediately ordered an investigation.

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Hamburg, since the completion of the unification of the Holy Roman Empire, this ancient port city has become one of the shipbuilding centers of Shinra.

Especially after the formation of the North Sea Fleet by Shinra, the importance of Hamburg has been further enhanced, and it has become the production and maintenance site of the North Sea Fleet.

The strategic position has gone up, and more attention has been paid. As a member of the Naval Intelligence Service, Kabbah was stationed in the Free City of Hamburg to collect information on the construction of the Shinra Navy's warships.

There is no doubt that, compared to most of its peers, Kabbah is responsible for collecting information on warship construction, which is definitely a beautiful task.

Unlike ordinary people, Kabbah did not stare at the shipyard directly, but chose to open a cafe in the steel wholesale market.

At the beginning, Kabbah was still very serious about recording data, carefully studying and analyzing. As a result, due to misjudgment, the information submitted was distorted, and the superior was appalled.

After several consecutive failures, Kabbah, who was hit, also became passive. It is too risky to make a judgment in advance, so just wait for the warship to launch before reporting.

The news did lag a little bit, but the accuracy rate reached 100%. Besides, no matter how slow it is, it is faster than the London newspaper, isn't it?

Although he has not been praised, Kabbah has not been criticized. Realizing that in the eyes of superiors, no fault is merit, Kaba's fighting spirit is completely gone.

Benefiting from the rapid development of the Shinra economy, Kabbah did not make much progress in intelligence collection, but the coffee shop it operated was booming.

If it weren't for the Naval Intelligence Service to issue a subsidy, and report the news once in a while, it is estimated that he would have forgotten that he was an intelligence officer.

It's a pity that things always backfire. When Kabbah didn't want to work hard, orders from his superiors came.

In theory, if the Russian-Austrian naval treaty is true, in order to facilitate delivery, then most of the warships should be built in the north.

As an intelligence officer stationed in Hamburg, Kabbah received the order: to find out whether several local shipyards have undertaken the construction of warships, and the specifications of the warships.

In short, the more detailed information, the better. As for how to obtain intelligence, that is the matter of the intelligence personnel below, and the superiors do not care about it.

After closing the bible and burning the translated small note, Kabbah only had a bitter face.

In Hamburg for so many years, he is naturally not in vain. The offline development is natural, but it has never been activated.

To be precise, these downlines themselves do not know when they became British intelligence agents. The connection with Kabbah is just an ordinary friendship.

The only difference is that these people are mostly shipyard staff, or people who can enter and leave the shipyard for various reasons.

Well, just to get some more salary. Those who do intelligence work generally have a one-line contact. London simply doesn't know how many people are there.

You can't do it if you want to verify, because an investigation will result in the disclosure of the identity of the hidden personnel. Those who are a little more flexible will receive a few more salaries.

Fake is cool, afterwards crematorium.

Now Kabbah feels a bit rushing to the "crematorium", perhaps because his usual performance is so good that his superiors overestimated his abilities and gave this almost impossible order.

Did the Hamburg shipyard undertake the task of building warships?

Kabbah can answer without thinking about it-yes. There are orders for warships every year, and the difference lies in the size of the order.

Even to find out, the number of warships is not difficult to build, there will always be clues from the surrounding areas.

The trouble lies in figuring out the specifications and parameters of the warship, this thing can't be done. It is estimated that the police will come to the door first before finding out the parameters.

Don't say it's outside, even the workers at the shipyard don't know the specific parameters of the warship. Before the warship was launched, the insiders were single digits, and they knew where to start if they wanted to buy it.

No matter how difficult the difficulty is, Kabbah must be investigated. This is a dead order.

The salary that has been given to the Naval Intelligence Service for so many years, now it is time to throw his head and shed blood for Britain, how could he be allowed to shrink back.

Looking at his sleeping wife and children, Kabbah sighed helplessly. I can't escape, and no organization will be soft on the traitors.

Sleepless all night.

The next day, Kabaqiang cheered up, picked up the abandoned old business, and began to pay attention to the entry and exit of vehicles.

It is a pity that today is different from the past. With the booming development of the navigation industry, the shipbuilding industry has also risen with the tide.

The most prominent is the demand for steel. The Hamburg Steel Wholesale Center has thousands of tons of steel entering and leaving every day, most of which flow into the shipyard.

Nowadays, civil merchant ships are also using a lot of steel. It is no longer appropriate to judge whether to build warships purely from steel consumption.

Intelligence work is most taboo to be impetuous, but it is professionally trained. Kabbah's mentality is still very calm.

...

Holding his little son and teasing for a while, Kabbah pretended to be calm and said: "My dear, there is a cocktail party in the evening. I need to socialize, so I don't need to leave a meal."

He usually took his wife with him in such social entertainment. But it doesn't work now. After resuming his old business, Kabak does not want to involve his family.

Although a little confused, but after looking at the child, the wife didn't say anything, but just told: "Come back early and don't drink too much."

"understood."

Kaba replied.

The feelings of middle-aged couples are often so unpretentious. A few simple conversations are actually full of endless concern.

Driving his car slowly out, Kabbah's heart became uneasy. Although Hamburg is a free city, it does not mean that Shinra's anti-espionage capabilities are weak.

Everyone knows that now is a critical moment for Shinra and Britain to compete. If you win, everyone will enjoy the bonus, if you lose, you will have to live a hard life together.

In a sense, this is also the time when the Holy Roman Empire is the most united, and all classes of society are waiting to receive British heritage.

The Free City is no exception. Many people who have missed the great development of Shinra are grappling with their hands, preparing to make a big splash in this last wave.

In this context, the spy's life is naturally difficult. Once a clue is revealed, it may be taken for credit at any time.

You must know that meritorious service in the Holy Roman Empire can be accumulated, and no one will have too much of this stuff.

No matter how good friends are, they can't stand the temptation of interest, especially when it involves the national and national interests, let alone.

As night fell, the reception also kicked off. Kabbah was absent-minded, holding the wine glass motionless, as if in a demon.

"boom".

The clash of wine glasses brought Kabbalah back to the real world. A familiar voice rang in my ears.

"What's wrong, my friend. Your mental state is very wrong today. Could it be that you are in trouble?"

After looking at the people, Kabbah calmly replied: "It's okay, I just didn't sleep well last night, and I'm not doing well today.

Nothing better than before, people are getting too old and have no energy to do anything.

I wanted to stay up for three days and three nights, and I could cheer up, but now I can't stand it all night.

By the way, White. What have you been up to lately? I haven't seen you for a long time. "

After such an interruption, White was embarrassed to ask the bottom line: "Then you have to take care of your body. We can't afford to toss in middle age.

Look at me, no matter how busy I am, I never forget to take a vacation. Recently, the shipyard’s tasks are more urgent than the other, so I don’t want to take time out to relax. "

The speaker is unintentional, listening intentionally.

The phrase "the shipyard has heavy tasks" reminds Kabbah a lot. It's just that he knew that this seemingly carefree friend, once the confidentiality clause was involved, the tone was absolutely tight.

In order not to arouse people's suspicion, Kabbah pretended to be a layman and said: "Don't worry, I know to pay attention to the body. If it weren't for the child's noise in the middle of the night, I wouldn't have insomnia.

On the contrary, it's you, the task is heavy, so give more to the apprentices.

It happens that young people need opportunities to exercise. Give them more opportunities and you can relax.

Don't be nervous, and don't even participate in daily activities. "

Assign the work to the apprentices, and White wants to do the same. Everyone wants to be the shopkeeper, but the reality is cruel.

Students who have just graduated from school have no work experience and important tasks, so White can't rest assured to hand it over to these fledgling boys.

Rolling his eyes, White made a helpless expression: "You mean to make coffee, and everyone can do it.

My job is shipbuilding, building the most advanced ship in the world. Every technology and every plan adopted was finally determined after many verifications and scrutiny.

Don't say it's those guys, even my old engineer, many times can only follow the soy sauce and take care of some simple processes.

..."

Before White could finish speaking, Kabbah interrupted: "Stop talking, it doesn't make any sense to talk to me about these professional things.

With these efforts, we might as well study it..."

I ended the topic ahead of time. That was the news that could be inquired, and now I know it, and White would never say anything deeper.

Rather than taking the risk of exposure to in-depth discussions, it is better to accept it and continue to play his role as the cafe owner.

As for the task, an in-depth interpretation of the conversation just now is enough to write a report.

After making friends for so many years, Kabbah still knows a little bit about White's position in the shipyard.

Although he is not one of the best, he is also an absolute core engineer. For most ships, White is independently presided over the construction.

There is only one situation for him, the core engineer, to build a warship, and it is not an ordinary warship.

Determine the construction site of a super battleship, this information has been sufficient for a while. As for the specific parameters, it can be deduced as "not yet determined."

It's not a joke. At the beginning of the construction of many warships, only the designers and the senior officials of the Navy know about the parameters and performance.

Experience is undoubtedly unreliable. Shipbuilding technology is advancing, and for the same size of warship, the displacement is often very different.

When it comes to tonnage utilization, even if it only increases by a few percentage points, the parameters of the final warship are very different.

Kabbah can say responsibly that if he finds professionals for analysis and judgment, the accuracy rate will not be much higher than his calculation with two knives.

After returning home, after some thoughtful thoughts, Kabbah wrote on the paper that the Crut Shipyard was suspected of receiving an order for a super battleship with a displacement of approximately "25,000 to 28,000 tons."

After a pause, Kabbah crossed out the displacement judgment, leaving only one suspected super battleship.

Information, certainly can't be submitted all at once. Only the long flow of water can let superiors know their suffering.

Not asking for a lot of bonuses, Kabbah just looked forward to taking fewer tasks and reducing the risk of his exposure so that he could retreat safely.

As for the "intelligence elites" who are often praised internally, it seems that they are indeed boundless and promising, but Kabbah knows that these intelligence stars will change people every once in a while.

Although no explanation was given above, Kabbah also knew what was going on. It was nothing more than working too hard at work and was exposed in the process of collecting intelligence.

As an organization that is not seen, once the intelligence personnel reveal their identity, it not only means that the mission has failed, but also means that their lives have ended.

If it is a small or weak country, it may be fished out by virtue of Britain's reputation.

If it falls into the hands of a big country, unless it is a boss with a conscience, perhaps it is possible to return to China during the exchange of intelligence personnel, otherwise it is a question of when to step into the gate of hell.

In his intelligence career for many years, Kabbah has seen too much cruelty in the world and does not want to give his fate to others.

...

There are Xianyu intelligence personnel, as well as struggling intelligence personnel. Following an order from the London government, several major intelligence organizations in Britain became active.

The specific manifestation is that in the recent period, the number of spies arrested by the Shinra police has repeatedly hit new highs.

Facts once again proved the truth of "doing more wrong and not doing good".

Don't say that in the early 20th century, even in the 21st century, it is very easy for spies to lurk.

It can be said that there is no way to identify who is a spy as long as you don't do things. There is often only one reason for exposure, and that is "moved."

There is a reward for what you pay. Although the intelligence personnel have exposed a lot, it is worth it compared with the information sent back.

Downing Street, in the Prime Minister's residence.

Looking at the intelligence gathered from various places in his hand, Prime Minister Campbell's face became more and more ugly.

The most worrying situation still happened. Shinra did indeed start building crazy ships, but the number of ships built was not the 8 super battleships on the surface, but 13 ships.

There is no way to verify the authenticity of this number for a while. But whether it is 8 or 13, once so many super battleships are put into service, they will break Britain's sea power advantage.

Shinra is different from Britain. As a land-powered country, the Vienna government dares to play stud at sea as long as it has five points of confidence.

The gambling won the world hegemony, the gambling lost the big deal, and I will stay in the Mediterranean for five years and then come to the second decisive battle.

This is absolutely impossible for Britain, not to mention the defeat of the Royal Navy, even if it only hurts both sides, Britain will fall from heaven to hell.

After confirming that Shinra started to explode warships, there was only one option left to the British government-follow up.

Not only to keep up, but also to build more warships out to protect the dominance of the Royal Navy.

As for the Russian-Austrian naval agreement, Campbell is just farting. Even if the agreement is true, the Vienna government will fulfill the agreement.

But once a hegemonic war breaks out, the Shenluo Navy can also be requisitioned first, and then handed over to the Russians after the fight is over. Could the tsarist government still say "no"?

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