Greece’s Roman Road

Volgaris took Kuros into the warehouse, visited the entire warehouse, and introduced to Kuros: "This warehouse stores the goods of the Greek Congo Corporation, such as sugar, cocoa, wood and other commodities, which will be stored in the warehouse. Here, the goods here are mostly supplied to the market in Thessaloniki area”

"Although your clear identity, the clerk of the Greek Congo head office in Thessaloniki, is a layer of disguise, but after all, you also received a salary, and the company's work is usually handled", Volga Reese walked in front and introduced to Kuros who was following behind.

For employees like Kulos, although their real identities are spies of the Intelligence Department, the Greek Congo Corporation will also pay them a salary, so the company's responsibilities still have to be fulfilled.

"Your clerk's job is to record and verify the information of these goods, such as how much sugar arrives on a certain day, how much to withdraw, etc. It's just a bit cumbersome, just be careful."

The two walked among the stacked sacks, and quickly introduced the work on the bright side of Kuros.

The two walked to the depths of the warehouse and saw that there was no one else here. After looking around, Kuros said to Volgaris, "Then what about the intelligence work?"

Seeing Kuros' cautious look, Volgaris smiled and said, "You don't have to be so careful. The Ottoman Turks don't have tight control over this place, so relax."

"Intelligence collection is my main responsibility. You just need to pay attention to it. Your main job is to draw a map of the Thessaloniki area."

Kuros nodded, thinking that after disembarking, there were Jews with small round hats everywhere on the street, and asked, "Why are there so many Jews in Thessaloniki? I always thought that there would be many Greeks in Thessaloniki."

"There are hundreds of thousands of Jews in this city. Thessaloniki is probably the city with the most Jews in Europe. These Jews are said to have originally come from Spain."

Speaking of this, he was angry: "This city was originally mostly Greeks, and the Ottoman government probably deliberately led Jews to settle here, diluting the number of local Greeks."

As a native of Thessaloniki, Volgaris is naturally concerned about the growing number of Jews.

He completed his secondary education in a parochial school under the auspices of the Orthodox Church in Thessaloniki, and naturally he was more inclined towards Greece emotionally.

In the days that followed, Volgaris led the way and led Kuros to travel around the city of Thessaloniki, drawing the surrounding ports, cities, roads, and surrounding topographical maps on a piece of blueprint.

After the ship of the Greek Congolese Corporation arrived at the case, the espionage team hidden in the warehouse in Thessaloniki handed over the collected information to the personnel who came to respond on the ship and fed it back to the Intelligence Department.

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With the abundance of funds, the Intelligence Department has dispatched a large number of espionage personnel. These espionage personnel are either locally recruited natives or professionals dispatched from Greece. These intelligence personnel are widely distributed in the major cities of the Ottoman Empire. , such as Constantinople and Smyrna, a large amount of information about the politics, economy, and military of the Ottoman Empire was continuously sent back to Greece.

As the information was continuously collected to a certain department of the General Staff, a certain department of the General Staff with sufficient intelligence support also began to try to conceive a military plan to deal with the Ottoman Turkish threat at the request of Constantine.

In the Athens Ministry of Defense Building, Chief of Staff Emma Inur showed Constantine a military plan drawn up by the General Staff Headquarters in 1892, taking the Ottoman Empire as an imaginary enemy.

Constantine flipped through the stack of papers in front of him and glanced at it. The military plan that was quite satisfactory was nothing more than to replenish the Epirus Army and Thessaly Army on the front line after the emergency mobilization when a conflict broke out between the two countries. , after the two main forces of the Greek army, went to the border and fought defensively.

There isn't much bells and whistles.

Seeing that Constantine had finished reading, Emanuel stepped forward and explained, "Your Highness, the enemy is strong and we are weak. Once the war really breaks out, Greece will not have much choice."

"Understandable, but Emmanuel, you are the chief of staff of Greece and an important high-level executive of the Greek army. You can't just focus on the army."

"You also said that Greece is weak to the Ottoman Turks, so in the military plan of the General Staff, it is natural to gather all the strength of Greece and defeat the Ottoman Turks at all costs."

"Does the strength of the navy also contribute to the plan?"

It's not that Emanuel doesn't look down on the current Greek navy, but the current Greek navy is indeed relatively weak. Except for a few destroyers (torpedo boats) purchased from the United Kingdom, there are only a few "civilian armed ships" built by Greece. .

These warships only patrol the waters around Greece on weekdays. It is indeed difficult for these warships built according to the technical standards of civilian ships to perform in the future Greek-Turkish war.

Constantine could have expected that, no matter how detailed the intelligence support, the battle plan formulated by the General Staff headed by Emmanuel Emanuel was nothing more than revising the details of this plan. Hard to change anything.

Therefore, he reminded: "This year, the two Esmeralda-class cruisers and several destroyers (torpedo boats) ordered by the Congolese fleet will be delivered."

"After obtaining this part of the naval power, at least the Greek navy still has some advantages in the Aegean Sea."

Since the financial bankruptcy of the Ottoman Turkish government in 1875, the Ottoman Turkish Navy has not purchased new warships in recent years, and its strength has fallen off a cliff.

Speaking of this, Constantine looked at Emma Enor and said solemnly, "The battleship that was purchased with a huge amount of money must be of due value in the plan formulated by your general staff, right?"

Looking at Constantine who was talking eloquently~www.novelmt.com~ Emmanuel asked, "Your Highness, do you have other plans in your heart?"

Constantine stood up and saw that there were no other irrelevant people in the room. He walked to Emanuel's equipment, leaned over and whispered, "..."

Emma Enor was greatly surprised after hearing this, "Your Highness, isn't this kind of plan too risky? Plans with too harsh conditions will have a higher failure rate."

Looking at the embarrassed chief of staff in front of him, Constantine explained: "When the war happens, if the preconditions for this plan are not mature, then we will immediately switch to your current plan."

"If this plan fails, we won't have much loss, but if it succeeds, we will have a great chance of success in this war," Constantine was tempted.

Emanuel stood on the spot with a fluctuating expression on his face. After a while, he said, "What you said makes sense. Although it is a bit risky, after careful consideration, it is not without the possibility of success. If the plan fails, , you can also go back to the original track. Speaking of which, your new plan is more like taking more active actions in the early stage of the current relatively conservative plan.”

"I will organize the officers of the General Staff Headquarters to improve the specific details of this concept."

"What is the code name of the new plan you conceived, Your Highness?"

"Let's call it "Project Athena"

Before Emmanuel left Constantine's office, he turned and glanced at Constantine, who had returned to the desk, and secretly said, "I hope this plan is really like the goddess Athena, protect the Greeks."

Athena, the goddess of wisdom and war in Greek mythology, the protector of Athens.

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