Chapter 45 Fate
"Oil.
The fountain gushed out of the ground at an altitude of 70 feet. Thick, black, wet, odorous, sulfur-containing oil. Seven people were spilled by it. Their hair, clothes and eyes are full of thick oil. The oil that has been hiding from them for so long is spewing out of the dense stream through the dust. It filled the small pit where the two goats died - the two goats were poisoned by deadly natural gas from the oil well.
The driller danced in the dark fountain like a madman. They splashed this magical substance on each other. They are rolling inside. They catch it with both hands and sprinkle it on the sky..."
The Times said on August 21, 1907 that the Anglo-Poland Oil Company found oil in Persia
"Maybe! They kept saying that Yingbo Oil Company was based on British privileges in Persia to have today's Yingbo Oil Company, but they should not forget that Yingbo Oil Company was invested and built by our Queen. Yingbo Oil Company is one of the royal assets of China, although this company and its The exploitation privilege of Persia is private. Please note that it is about to be renamed "China-Plopetic Petroleum Company". However, China is a modern national state. The state will be responsible for every citizen. Whether they are nobles or civilians, they are entitled to protection from the state. This is the responsibility and obligation of the state. Therefore, if Britain tries to deal with any abnormal and non-commercial action - our great admiral will lead our powerful fleet in the Indian Ocean, it is not difficult to break Britain's stubborn dream..."
"China Times" Empire's "Black Gold: Sino-British Contradiction" on May 15 of the third year
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Chinese Empire is the highest command body of the Chinese armed forces. This agency is different from the Army Staff or the Navy Staff or the Air Force Staff. This is the comprehensive command of the Chinese Armed Forces. According to the usual understanding, it can be regarded as that all countries are only in war. Only then will the base camp be set up.
To some extent, the Supreme Staff also reflects China's very alternative military color. This country has always been preparing for war. Of course, this is only to some extent. In most of the time, only a group of staff officers will be the Army Chief of Staff only in times of war. After taking over as the Chief of General Staff, the staff of the three armed forces will gather here to work.
However, the "Intelligence Bureau of the General Staff" under the General Staff of the Armed Forces is a permanent agency. There are too many intelligence agencies in China's political axe. In addition to the Imperial Investigation Bureau and the Imperial Intelligence Bureau, there are also the Intelligence Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Intelligence Department of Trade Commission, etc. The General Staff Intelligence Bureau is also One of the many intelligence agencies.
Most of the time, the General Staff Intelligence Bureau is engaged in intelligence analysis, but they will also send a large number of agents to collect military intelligence. However, unlike the service intelligence bureau, which focuses on major countries, the General Staff Intelligence Bureau is more inclined to "complen the leaks", that is, the "secondary area" group ignored by the Service Intelligence Bureau. Agent out.
As a lieutenant officer of the General Staff Intelligence Bureau, Sang Pingzhi has always been eager to be able to perform expatriate tasks. As early as he was in college, he set his life goal - to become an excellent spy. In high school, he read several stories about spies from the East and the West. Book. He knew how dangerous the espionage work they were engaged in was for spies, and he also knew that their end was either a heroic or tragic death. But for the sake of the motherland, they know that there are tigers in the mountains and prefer tigers. They think that this is the ambition of a man.
Therefore, for Sang Pingzhi, he hopes that he can become the protagonist in spy novels, which is the reason why he joined the General Staff Intelligence Bureau after graduation. In his opinion, as a soldier, he should dedicate everything to the motherland to fulfill his military duty.
"Pack up and get ready to go!"
When Sang Pingzhi received a year of training in the General Staff Intelligence Bureau, when he accepted the task, the officer's words were very simple, but there were only eight characters, and there were no other words.
Two months later, Sang Pingzhi received a business travel passport and visa issued by the Japanese government axe in the intelligence agency. This is the most common method used by Chinese intelligence agencies. It often uses the Japanese passport instead of the Chinese passport, in order to avoid the tension between China and other countries due to the problem of espionage.
At the same time, Sang Pingzhi also received several other passports, such as those issued by the Straits Settlements, the Dutch East India, French Central and South, and even the Russian Empire. Of course, these passports are for the needs of time. His real identity is a Japanese businessman.
Subsequently, Sang Pingzhi, as a Japanese businessman, first booked a first-class ticket at the China Postal Company, and then began to sort out the clothes he carried with him. In order to be cautious, all the things to take abroad are new, and you can't take any old things with you. The reason is that his original suit and shirt were decorated with names, lest his identity be revealed by the local laundry room.
Although it is like this, not only small bags and large suitcases, but also the abbreviations of pseudonyms are carefully written on them, and even the clothes are specially sent to the laundry room for several rinsing after writing the abbreviations.
After making all the preparations, he went to the third direct director of the Intelligence Agency to resign. When he gave Sang Pingzhi 20 new pounds and 51 pieces as temporary activity expenses, and told him that this was money that could only be used after arriving in Kuwait. In China, he needed to concentrate foreign exchange on the purchase machine. So foreign exchange is regulated, a thousand pounds, which is a huge sum of money for anyone.
In this way, a Japanese businessman "Village Zhengyi" was born, and then "Sang Pingzhi" disappeared from Nanjing.
The "Oriental" cruise ship is a 15,000-ton luxury cruise ship built by the Ma'anshan Shipyard in the five years of the Empire. Unlike Britain and Germany competing to build luxury cruise ships in the Atlantic Ocean, in the past few years, China has built 10 million tons of quasi-luxury cruise ships. Compared with luxury cruise ships in Europe and the United States, China Post Wheels focus more on practical surnames. In fact, these cruise ships are often built for overseas immigration.
For China, which has a population of 500 million and an average arable land area of less than four mu, developing overseas immigration is the only and inevitable choice. Although for China at that time, there was no overseas colony, it was still inevitable to choose to move overseas. The people serve as a way to relieve the pressure on the domestic population.
At this time, the "Orient" cruise ship has docked at Huangpu Pier. As soon as Sen Tengqing finished the boating procedures in advance, he entered the "Xinhai Hotel" and waited for the departure time at two o'clock, so as to experience the customs of the motherland at this last moment. A few hours later, Sen Tengqing took a taxi to the dock. Of course, no one came to see him off, but he did not feel lonely. As soon as he stepped on the deck, a sense of nameless courage came from the soles of his feet, and he said to himself in his heart.
"Good, look at me, Sen Teng Qingyi. I must do my best and never humiliate the Royal Guards Navy soldiers!"
It goes without saying that if it fails, you will never see this port again. But isn't that your own vow? ... The terminal of the "Orient" is German Central Africa. Although German Central Africa is not a Chinese colony, thanks to the immigration treaty signed between China and Germany, there are still many Chinese immigrants who go to German Central Africa every year. For this reason, there are many children running on the deck, and teenagers and children are there. Once on board the ship and shouting, on the dock, thousands of relatives waved their hands to the cruise ship.
Listening to the cheers of the children, suddenly, an unprecedented sense of mission surged up in Sen Tengqingyi's heart. Yes, it's a sense of mission. Isn't he going abroad for them? As a soldier, isn't the sacrifice and dedication of soldiers for the happy life of citizens?
In his thoughts, the whistle sounded to inform him to start the ship. The huge hull of the Orient quietly sailed away from the Huangpu wharf. The paper tapes broke one after another, and sobs could be heard everywhere on the deck. Looking at the people who saw them off on the dock, they were waving their hands and handkerchiefs vigorously.
When Sen Tengqing was holding the railing of the ship in one or two hands and staring at the prosperity of Eastern Paris, which may not be seen again for a few years or even longer, he suddenly heard someone shouting behind him.
"Mr. Senteng!"
At this time, he was feeling a little sad about leaving his motherland, but he was shocked by this shout. Who knows him? And do you know that his name is Senteng?
He suddenly turned around.
"I'm sorry, you're Mr. Senteng!"
It turned out that the waiter came over respectfully.
"I have made tea for you!"
"Well, thank you!"
When thanking him, as anyone said himself, he gently bowed his head and returned the salute.
"Also, I changed another room for you. Please!"
Then Sen Teng went down to the cabin with him, and it was not until then that he took a long breath. Yes, he is already "Sen Teng". From now on, no one will call him "Li E". In the eyes of many people, he is East Asian, but he is himself. He was born with the face of another person - didn't he throw the photo of "her" that he had been carrying around and reluctant to throw it into the waves just now?
How ironic she and herself were teased by the god of fate! This morning, at the last farewell, he went to her school and looked at her from afar! When she came out of the school gate, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, as if he had stopped breathing. Before he could think about it, she left the school with her classmates.
Knowing that he might be destined to be with her in this life, he had to close his eyes and pray for her happiness... Under the leadership of the waiter, the room he was brought into was the most advanced. This may be someone from the General Staff who called to take care of him! He had to accept this kind of "adness" silently, but he didn't feel good in his heart. He always felt as if he was sending him to death.
What the heer!
Turning to my mind, I thought of another saying - "Agents, don't indulge in money and women." As a special type of stationed abroad, if you can't keep this precept, you will fail. There are too many precedents in this regard. It's hard to get rid of the charming thing of money and beauty. Didn't you remember her and go away just now? Be vigilant, be vigilant! ...He lay on his back with his clothes, and he fell into meditation.
After nightfall, the ship may have entered the ocean and shake horizontally.
In order to practice Arabic conversation, Sen Teng often goes to the deck below. There are many children and teenagers on the deck. They sit on the cable and take a light bath, some looking at the sea, and some are reading a book. After a night's voyage, after dawn, I looked around the ship. The waves were tight and the water was the same. No matter which direction I looked at, it was like a horizontal line. Perhaps because of the sense of emptiness caused by the sea, people quickly warm up.
But for Sen Teng, he prefers to talk to businessmen who return to Iraq and other places, because he can practice Arabic with them. They are mostly Jews. To some extent, China does not like Jews. In the eyes of the outside world, this has something to do with His Majesty's early business experience, but as a Agent, Senteng knows that the most fundamental reason is that Jews do not have a motherland. For Jews, there is only money in their eyes. Even if they live in a country for hundreds of years, Jews without a motherland will not have any sense of belonging to that country. Because of this, after the establishment of the empire, it will be like any Like a European country, Jews were ostracized. A large number of rich Jewish merchants were heavily fined by the IRS for tax evasion. Jewish rich people such as Haton and Sassoon were also fined more than 100 million yuan or even hundreds of millions of yuan.
But even so, every year, Jews still come to China to do business in China, and most of them are Middle Eastern Jews, which is the area he is going to.
"Haha, Sen Teng, I'm really jealous of you!"
A Jew who was talking to him looked at Senten and said.
"How to say it?"
"After the European War, you said that I might have been defeated in those years, but now you are following the Chinese. When Chinese businessmen go there, you will follow them. Those who don't know will only regard you as Chinese. Like the Chinese, Chinese businessmen bring goods to various places, and you say that I But it's a retailer. Now Chinese businessmen can't live without you at all, but one day, you can leave the Chinese..."
When this Jew praised me there, Sen Teng was secretly vigilant. He never realized that China's commercial trade would be dependent on me. Isn't the retail industry what Chinese people are good at? He remembers that when he was in the military academy, there were some overseas Chinese from Nanyang. Their families often did retail, once!
At this time, Sen Teng remembered why the Ministry gave him a passport. Now there are thousands of Japanese retailers in the Middle East selling goods made in China and Japan in various places. In contrast, there are only more than a hundred Chinese businessmen. What does this mean? This means that Japanese businessmen have established a retail network in the Middle East. .
"Actually, you don't realize your potential at all,..."
The Jew, who was in his fifties, then said with some exclamation.
"You don't understand how powerful you have. If one day you refuse to sell Chinese goods, then...!"
Finally, he pointed to the invisible continental shoreline.
"Stocks in this country will fall immediately!"
Although he was surprised, Sen Teng didn't say anything. He just looked at the sea quietly. These are not what he needs to care about, at least not what he needs to care about now. For him, the most important thing is to complete the task and complete the task assigned to him by the general staff officer. That's all right.
In the following voyage, the passengers on the "Orient" cruise ship, like Wu Yue in the same boat, have their own thoughts and their own fates. If the ship sails straight to the south, almost everyone is full of longing for the unknown future.
On July 2nd of the tenth year of the Empire, the "Orient" quietly came to the dock of the port of Aden, which is located at the junction of the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. This is the last port of the "Orient" after sailing to German Central Africa. This is a British colony, but there are not many passengers disembarking here.
After getting off the boat with a suitcase, Sen Teng looked at this strange Arab city. There were bustling Arabs in Arab robes and Arab teenagers walking back and forth in the crowd to bring vitality to the dock in the morning. He clearly knew that this would be his first to come to Arabia. Before he got off the ship, he saw the person picking him up on the deck. There was an oriental man standing next to a dilapidated Tianma car, holding a sign in his hand, as if no one else could see it, and raised it above his head.
"Hello, you are from the village club, right? I'm Sen Teng."
The village club is a Japanese business company he wants to enter. He wants to carry out activities at the destination in the name of the village club.
"Welcome, welcome! Thank you for your hard work!"
"Everyone, please take care of me!"
After a simple greeting, Sen Teng was still worried about whether his manners would be seen as a soldier, but in the end, he found that no one seemed to notice him here.
I got on the car sent by the consulate. Along the way, Senten only felt that this Arab city was full of freshness. There are khaki everywhere, khaki houses, khaki mosques, white robes everywhere, and masked women in robes everywhere. This port city is completely different from the city he once lived in.
"Sen Tengjun, it's very fresh! Just adapt. We're here to make money!"
The clerk driving the car blinked as he spoke, and then he suddenly smiled and whispered in a joking tone:
"How about it? Are you interested in finding an Arab woman here?"
"I... I'm still going to Baghdad!"
(to be continued)