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Volgaris took Koulos into the warehouse, visited the entire warehouse, and introduced to Koulos: "This warehouse stores goods from the Greek Congo Corporation, such as sugar, cocoa, wood and other commodities. It will be stored Most of the goods here are supplied to the market in Thessaloniki."

"Although your apparent identity as a clerk of the Greek Congo Corporation in Salonika is just a disguise, you still get a salary after all, and you still have to deal with the company's work." Volga Reese walked in front and introduced Kuros who was following behind.

Employees like Kouros, although their real identity is intelligence personnel of the Intelligence Service, the Greek Congo Corporation will also pay them a salary, so the company's responsibilities must still be fulfilled.

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is to record and verify the information of these goods, such as how much sugar arrived on a certain day, how much was withdrawn, etc.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

The two walked among the piled sacks and quickly introduced Kuros's apparent job.

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

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

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

Kuros nodded, thinking of the Jews wearing small round hats who could be seen everywhere on the streets after getting off the boat, and asked: "Why are there so many Jews in Salonika? I always thought that there would be many Greeks in Salonika."

"There are now hundreds of thousands of Jews in this city. Thessaloniki is probably the city with the largest number of Jews in Europe. It is said that these Jews originally came from Spain."

Speaking of this, he said angrily: "This city was originally mostly Greek, and the Ottoman government probably intentionally guided Jews to settle here to dilute the number of local Greeks."

As a native of Salonika, Volgaris was naturally concerned about the growing number of Jews.

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

In the days that followed, Volgaris led the way and led Kuros around the city of Salonika, drawing the surrounding ports, cities, roads, and surrounding topography on each drawing.

After the ship from the Greek Congo Corporation arrived at the case, the intelligence team hidden in the Salonika warehouse handed the collected information to the personnel on the ship who came to respond and fed it back to the intelligence office.

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With abundant funds, the Intelligence Service dispatched a large number of spies. These spies were either indigenous people recruited locally or professionals sent from Greece. These spies were widely distributed in various major cities in the Ottoman Empire. , such as Constantinople and Smyrna, a large amount of political, economic, and military information about the Ottoman Empire was continuously transmitted back to Greece.

As information continued to be aggregated to a certain department of the General Staff, with sufficient intelligence support, a certain department of the General Staff also began to try to conceive a military plan to deal with the threat of Ottoman Turkey at the request of Constantine.

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

Constantine flipped through the pile of paper in front of him and briefly browsed it. The quite satisfactory military plan was nothing more than emergency mobilization to replenish the Epirus Army and the Thessaly Army on the front line when a conflict broke out between the two countries. After that, the two main forces of the Greek army headed to the border to fight defensively.

Not a lot of bells and whistles.

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

"It's understandable, but Emmanuel, you are the Chief of General Staff of Greece and an important senior official of the Greek army. You cannot just focus on the army."

"You also said that Greece's confrontation with the Ottoman Turks is weak against strong, so in the military plan of the General Staff, it is natural to gather all the power of Greece to defeat the Ottoman Turks at all costs."

"Does the navy also have to contribute to the plan?"

It’s not that Emmanuel looks down on Greece’s current navy, but that Greece’s current navy is indeed relatively weak. Apart from a few destroyers (torpedo boats) purchased from the United Kingdom, there are only a few self-built “civilian armed ships” in Greece. .

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

Constantine could predict that no matter how detailed the intelligence support compiled by a certain department of the General Staff headed by Emmanuel, the combat plan formulated was nothing more than modifying the details of this plan, the general idea was very It's 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 acquiring this part of its 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 declined precipitously.

Having said this, Constantine looked at Emma Enol and said solemnly, "The warship that was purchased with a huge amount of money must reflect its due value in the plan formulated by your general staff, right?"

Looking at Constantine who was talking eloquently, Emmanuel asked: "Your Highness, do you have other plans in mind?"

Constantine stood up, saw that there were no other irrelevant people in the room, walked to the Emmanuel device, leaned forward and whispered: "········"

Emma Enol was greatly surprised after hearing this, "Your Highness, is this plan too risky? Plans with too stringent requirements will have a higher failure rate."

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

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

Emmanuel stood on the spot, his expression changing. 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, , or you can 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 officers from the General Staff Headquarters to perfect the specific details of this idea."

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

"Just call it "Project Athena""

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

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