C2812 Sell off the master (1/2)
As the base of the French Emperor, there was more than one telegraph here. There were a total of 25 of them, and each of them had their own duties.
As for the inconspicuous thing in the corner, it was actually the highest level. This was because the telegraph was connected to the Intelligence of the Empire, and all the spies were sent through this telegraph.
The operator handed the cryptographic messages to the special decoder, who turned pale and broke out in a cold sweat as the top secret messages turned into strings of French words.
”God... God! ”
He had just cried out when he covered his mouth with his hand. Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, the intelligence officer quickly ran over to the crown prince's side.
”Your Highness!” Important information! There's been a big report from Berlin... ”
Crown Prince Eugén snatched the electric newspaper away, but just by looking at it, he was completely dumbfounded. Is this for real? ”
”Your subordinate doesn't know either. In any case, all the code words of this telegram have been matched. The six code words are only known by the highest level of spies …”
”Even if the Prussian can find out one or two of the words in the language, it's not possible for them to find six!”
”Also …” And how could the Prussian use this person as bait? Bismark would definitely not dare to do so! ”
Prince Eugen suddenly reached out his hand and stopped his mouth, ”Don't say anymore, forget about it immediately …” With that, the Crown Prince turned around and walked towards the hall of the city council.
Pushing open the door to the Town Hall meeting room, the crown prince ignored the gazes of the surrounding people and suddenly shouted, ”All commanders below the soldier level at the scene, withdraw …”
”All the shorthand reporters, withdraw!” All the shorthand reporters, withdraw!
”What are you standing there for!?” Execute the command! ”Immediately!”
He had never seen the crown prince this strict. His eyes were like they were spewing fire. Everyone who was targeted by him hurriedly packed up their things and left the meeting room.
In the end, there was only the Supreme Military Leadership Group formed by Marshall McMahon, Marshall Ba Zan, Chief of Staff Marshal Lebuf and the four commanders left in the conference room.
Chief of Staff Lebov rubbed his numb temples. ”Your Highness, what happened?” ”We don't have much time to waste. This morning, the Prussian vanguard unit and our defense troops have started fighting. They are increasing in numbers …”
”I understand, Chief of Staff, please give me some time … royal father, the loyal marshals and generals of the various empires! ”There's important information from Berlin...”
Prince Eugen clearly felt his voice start to tremble, and such a loss of manners made him, who was trying his best to suppress the pain in his appetite, raise his head as well.
The Crown Prince placed the telegram on the table. ”royal father! Berlin, our intelligence officer has contacted the Emperor of Tongzhi! That little emperor made a bid … He has important information on us! ”
”What?” Tongzhi has come into contact with our people? ”What did he say …”
”The Tongzhi Emperor called out a price of twenty million Gold franc in cash, and a large amount of Qing Guo's lost treasures! ”As long as we can agree to his conditions, he will have the important information that we need …”
”Oh right, he wants another Steel plant! When the war is over, we need to help finance a Steel plant! ”
”There is absolutely no problem with the intelligence. The Prussian would not use the emperor of Qing Kingdom as bait! Furthermore, the spies sent out this time are the ones with the highest levels in the system, all six of them matching each other's names! ”
Bang! The conference room was filled with whispers. Marshal Ba Zan said in a low voice, ”Didn't you specifically tell me what kind of information it was? ”Could it be a strategic deployment plan for Prussia?”
”What if Emperor Tongzhi wants to extort us? If we don't see the goods, how can we promise him that? ”