C1456 intelligence war (1/2)

At the end of the 19th century, human telegraph network expanded rapidly, and their messages reached a distance of 1000 miles fast. Although teleportation between Europe and Asia needed to pass through several transition stations, a telegram could still be sent from London to Beijing within three days.

This was a rate that humans could not even imagine. The entire world's intelligence system had undergone a profound change because of the telegraphic technique.

However, what was surprising was that at this critical juncture of the major change, the Chinese clan led by Xiao Letian had advanced to the forefront of the times, and Europe had fallen behind.

The CIA's investment in the telegraphic technique was the largest in the current nation. With all sorts of encryption techniques, the Chinese intelligence system became the safest place in the world.

Not only that, the CIA also had a large number of experts, including a large number of mathematicians and engineers from Europe.

The first thing to fall into enemy territory was the Russian's telegraph codebook. Right now, there was no way to guard against the telegram from Beijing's Sha Russia Legation, since there was no way to keep any secrets from the CIA.

The current CIA only managed to decipher around 8% of the British Telegraph codebook s. Right now, they were only able to decipher the title of the head and the end of the telegram, that is to say, a copy of the British Government Telegraph. Wang Huaiyuan and the others could only determine that this telegram was sent to a certain unit or individual by the government agency in London.

For example, the British Treasury sent a telegram to Ai Liguo. The sender and recipient weren't secret, but the contents of the telegram were unknown, unless a spy stole a copy of the codebook or completely relied on manpower to decipher the message.

Don't forget that the biggest telegraph company in Asia right now is controlled by Xiao Letian. From Ryukyu to Shanghai, to Tanggu, then to Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Fusang and Korea, all the way to the seabed cable system in Nanyang, it is all built with Chinese capital.

Control of the submarine cable actually controls the main information transmission road in Asia. Although the telegraph company has a British and American share, the control is always in the hands of the Chinese.

Since the departure of the Russian Expeditionary forces, the British intelligence station for the Chinese never stopped working. They cooperated with the French intelligence agencies to gather information from both sides, taking advantage of the chaos of the war.

The most typical case was the operation against Sakamoto Ryoma in Hong Kong. Although they were deceived by the Mr. Ryoma in the end, the ones who suffered were not the British but France and Russia.

After that, British spies flocked to the Ryukyu to find out the secrets of the Chinese, the secrets of the Zhiyuan Warship, all kinds of military information, all kinds of civilian information, and they were all extremely arrogant.

With Xiao Letian's personality, how could he tolerate these people's arrogance? The CIA's counterattack had always been kept a secret, and had even concealed it extremely deeply. Until now, even Ai Liguo had fallen into a jar.

During the month of the outbreak of war, the European telegraph system to Asia, especially the submarine cables, had broken down several times, sometimes for more than eight hours.

The British intelligence officer thought that the war might have messed up the telegraph company's daily maintenance work, which caused a series of telegraph failures, and Ai Liguo, Wei Tuoma and the rest did not care too much.

However, what they did not know was that this was actually a conspiracy of the CIA s. Their only goal was to prevent the latest news from Europe from reaching Asia in time and cause chaos with the normal intelligence communication mechanism.

Ai Liguo and Wei Tuoma did not know that when they were plotting to assassinate the Chinese and the Zhiyuan Warship, a diplomatic conflict that was destined to go down in history happened in continental Europe.