Chapter 1092： Spy sea (1/2)

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.

...

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.