Chapter 148: Disguise

When Prime Minister Primo learned that the so-called treasure was located in the Indian colony under British control, his first reaction was a little surprised, but then he felt it was reasonable.

The reason why Britain is so powerful is inseparable from the vast colonies. Among all the British colonies, the most dazzling one is India, which is known as the pearl of the British Empire and provides a lot of financial income and mineral resources for the British government.

But the British did not always rule this land. Before the British, this land had states of all sizes, and they were the real owners of this land.

The British can get a lot of income and mineral resources from India, so what about the original owners of these lands? Would their income be less?

Even if the annual income of these states of different sizes is not as much as imagined, the accumulation of dozens or hundreds of years is also very exaggerated.

What's more, the history of India as a country is definitely more than dozens or hundreds of years. Even if it is only hundreds of years of wealth accumulation, it is definitely a huge number that makes people excited.

Thinking of this, how can Prime Minister Primo sit still? He is full of curiosity about the legendary treasure of the Indian temple.

Since we are going to dig for treasure in the Indian colonies under British control, the most important thing is to choose the candidates who will be responsible for digging and transporting treasure to India.

There are not many teams participating in the operation. After all, it is not easy to hide from the Indian colonial government and the British government.

There are not many foreigners in India, and they are generally gathered in several larger colonial cities. If groups of foreigners suddenly appear in the indigenous cities of India, it will easily attract the attention of those Indians and the colonial government.

The team going to India must be elite soldiers, and there must be a reliable candidate to lead the team. In addition, when going to India, it must be dispersed, so as to avoid being discovered by the Indian colonial government and the British government to a greater extent.

The people selected by the government will be the main force, and the intelligence personnel of the Royal Security Intelligence Bureau will be helpers to complete this journey of searching for treasures across thousands of miles.

Carlo still trusts the people of the Royal Security Intelligence Bureau. It turns out that it is a very wise choice to let Kadir become the director of the Royal Security Intelligence Bureau. He attaches great importance to the establishment of the Royal Security Intelligence Bureau, and every intelligence personnel is carefully selected by him.

Especially for those elite intelligence personnel, in addition to mastering combat capabilities and lurking knowledge, they also need to have a full understanding of the customs and common sense of countries around the world.

In addition, they also need to be proficient in using weapons from various countries, including pistols, rifles, cannons, carriages, and some small warships that can be driven by a few people.

In order to prevent the specific examples of the Royal Security Intelligence Bureau from being exposed to Prime Minister Primo, these intelligence personnel who perform auxiliary work will participate in the name of palace guards.

As for whether Prime Minister Primo and others will doubt, that is not something Carlo has to consider.

February 1873, southern India.

Although February is still winter for most parts of the northern hemisphere, the climate in this area of ​​southern India is like midsummer.

The average temperature in January is above 24 degrees Celsius, and after February, the average temperature has even reached 28 degrees Celsius.

The target of Spain's operation this time is Kerala in southern India, which is across the sea from Sri Lanka and is the southernmost region of the Indian mainland.

This is one of the most densely populated areas in India, and naturally there are several large-scale colonial cities. There are hundreds of people participating in this operation, forming a group of two, coming to India in various ways, and finally meeting in Kerala.

Because the total number of people participating in the operation is only more than 100, and they are all scattered, the Indian colonial government and the British government are simply unable to react.

Although India is a British colony, it is open to foreign countries after all. Every year, thousands of tourists come from Europe, and the Indian colonial government naturally cannot distinguish whether they are foreign spies one by one.

On February 4, the weather was cloudy and there was no sun.

Precisely because there was no sun, the weather today was very cool, with an average temperature of only about 26 degrees.

Perhaps because it had just rained yesterday, there were few pedestrians walking on the muddy dirt road, and it was not strange for two intelligence officers to walk on such a dirt road disguised as foreign tourists.

Although the actions of these two people did not look like foreign tourists, their white skin and European appearance made Indians dare not pay too much attention.

Don't think that the British colonial policy is so good. Their colonial policy in India is still cruel. Simply put, they don't treat Indians as human beings at all.

This is mainly because there are too many people in this area of ​​India. Even if a few million people are lost, it will not have much impact on this area of ​​India.

The history of British colonization of India is actually the blood and tears of Indians. There are millions of Indians who died at the hands of British colonists, and tens of millions of them died indirectly.

In the colonial cities of India, if Indians dare to look at the British for a few more times, they may be beaten or even killed directly.

The British did not need to accept any punishment for killing an Indian, but if the Indian dared to fight back, perhaps even his family would not be able to escape British revenge.

Under such circumstances, unless they are the kind of people who dare to stand up and resist British colonial rule, no one will pay attention to the actions of these foreigners and wish to stay as far away as possible.

This situation made it easier for the personnel sent by the Spanish government to move. With their white skin and European faces, no matter how doubtful these Indians were, they did not dare to have the slightest dissatisfaction.

Of course, it is also possible that the weapons in the hands of these operators intimidated the Indians.

It is legal for foreigners to hold guns in India, but it is illegal for Indians to hold guns. If these Europeans are dissatisfied with the Indians, there is no point in giving the Indians a few bullets.

So after seeing that these foreigners all had European faces and carried firearms, no Indian dared to step forward stupidly.

"Scotty, are there really any temple treasures here?" One of the two foreign faces was slightly confused. Looking at the muddy road and those skinny Indians, he really couldn't believe that there would be buried here. With astonishing wealth.

"Who knows? Val." The operator named Scotty shook his head helplessly and reminded: "But this is an order, even if there is no one, we have to go through it again.

I hope we can find it. His Majesty the King has personally promised that if the temple treasure is found, everyone involved in the operation will receive generous rewards. "

To reward those who participated in the operation was a unanimous opinion reached by Carlo and Prime Minister Primo without much thought. Going to India under the control of the British to excavate temple treasures needs to be kept secret after all. After all, it is the British who are offended.

If the British find out, even if they won't face a war, there will still be a lot of trouble.

The best way to keep it secret is to benefit everyone involved in the operation, that is, to bribe them. Although there is no guarantee that everyone will strictly keep secrets, as long as the vast majority of them keep their mouths shut, there is no need to worry that the secret will be exposed.

What's more, the people participating in the operation have been carefully selected, and those who have big mouths and love to brag have long been eliminated in the first round of screening.

Those participating in the operation were either soldiers selected by Prime Minister Primo who were very loyal to Spain, or highly trained intelligence officers of the Royal Security Intelligence Service.

The possibility of these people leaking information is very slim. Even if someone eventually leaks the secret, Spain can kill him and refuse to admit it. As long as there are not many people leaking the secret, it will not have much impact.

Although these people involved in the operation were very confused about traveling thousands of miles to India to find the so-called temple treasures, they did not have too many dissatisfactions.

After all, these people are either soldiers or intelligence officers, and they naturally understand the need to obey orders.

"How come there are so many so-called temples in this damn place? We have looked for more than ten temples in the past few days, and none of them are large enough to hide treasures." The man named Val continued: "

Is the information given by these Indians reliable? What we are looking for is a temple, not a temple that is so dilapidated that it is about to collapse. "

"Let's wait until we find the last few." Scotty shook his head and said nonchalantly: "I hope these Indians are telling the truth. Otherwise, I wouldn't mind killing a few to vent my anger."

A few days ago, the two got a map from a local Indian villager. As for how to get it, of course it is by purchasing it.

After all, the entire operation needs to be kept completely confidential. If people kill people indiscriminately, it may attract the attention of the local indigenous people and be learned by the Indian colonial government.

There are still many tourists coming to India every year, and many of them are interested in places rich in local culture in India.

Their request did not arouse the Indian's suspicion, especially when they paid 1 pound for the purchase.

1 pound is not a particularly large amount of money in Europe, but it is still relatively large in India. These Indian natives may not be able to earn even 1 pound for a year's hard work. Faced with such huge wealth, of course they diligently listed all the nearby temples, no matter how big or small, no matter what time they were. .

There are many other action teams like Scotty and Val, but they all pretend to be different identities.

There are new immigrants to India, mining prospectors from European mining companies, employees of trading companies, tourists from Europe, and European nobles who go hunting, etc.

Regardless of their identity, those Indians dare not doubt it, and they have no right to doubt it.

After all, this land has an extremely strict caste system, and the British who rule India, as white people, are above the four major castes.

Regardless of whether the caste system here is weird or not, it still facilitates Spain's actions. As a white man from Europe, no one dared to mess with him in the Indian princely states.

After several days of investigation, teams of twos and threes finally targeted the larger local temple, Padmanabhaswamy Temple.

"If there is a so-called temple treasure, I think it is very likely to be hidden in the so-called Padmanabhaswamy Temple." Scotty said to Val.

"Damn, this is not good news." Val had a headache because the Padmanabhaswamy Temple is located between several Indian indigenous cities, where many believers go to worship every day.

This is not the small temples that were investigated before, with only scattered believers in nearby villages. If the treasure is really in the Padmanabhaswamy Temple, it will be more difficult than expected to steal the treasure without anyone noticing.

"Let's reunite with the main force first. We must formulate an extremely detailed action plan to ensure that it will not be known by the British." Val pondered for a long time and finally decided to discuss the action plan after reunion with the main force.

Long before departure, Carlo and Prime Minister Primo had repeatedly emphasized the importance of confidentiality.

It's no big deal to be discovered by the British. It's nothing more than giving the British a share. But this is exactly what Spain cannot afford, because according to the power comparison between Spain and the British, the big head will definitely be taken by the British.

What's more, the temple treasure was originally in the Indian colony under the control of the British. If it was discovered by the British before it was transported back to Spain, the British might take the treasure for themselves.

The British government will not be polite to Spain when it comes to important wealth. Unless it can be safely transported back to the country and the aftermath is done well, as long as the British do not have too much evidence, there is no need to worry about British retaliation.

When the large army arrived at the so-called Padwana Baswamy Temple, everyone realized that the investigation in recent days was in vain.

If there is a treasure, it must be in this so-called Padwana Baswamy Temple. The scale of this temple is larger than all the temples investigated before, and it also has its own guard force for the first time.

It would be strange if there was nothing strange in this temple. The biggest problem at present has changed from investigating where the temple is to how to steal the treasure from this temple.

The person who led the operation was a lieutenant colonel in the military and one of Prime Minister Primo's confidants. Kadir, director of the Royal Security Intelligence Bureau, disguised himself as one of Carlo's guards and served as the deputy commander of the operation.

After the two met and discussed briefly, they decided to send a few more agile people to sneak into the temple under the cover of night to investigate the structure of the temple and the buildings where the treasure might be buried.

Since the operation must be kept secret, it must be done once and for all. If the burial place of the treasure can be determined, then the next action will be simple.

But if it is not certain where the treasure is buried, the next action will be more difficult. To dig up the treasure, you must kill the guards of these temples, and even kill everyone in the temple.

This also means that the operation will not take too long, and all the treasures must be transported out before the local colonial government reacts.