ALL NOVEL Chapter 979 Target
Because of Liang En's analysis, Golden Dawn stopped its original plan to send personnel to Turkey to carry out excavation work. Instead, Turkey launched a large-scale investigation with an extremely cautious attitude.
When they decided to stop and take their time, the advantage naturally returned to their hands again. After all, when it comes to official relations, the Thule Association, which hides like thieves, is no match for the Golden Dawn.
So in just one week, they followed the clues and dug out the nails hidden in Turkey by the Thule Association. What was beyond everyone's imagination was that these nails were all Turks.
However, after conducting very careful investigations, they found that the families of these people had more or less cooperation with the Germans during World War II.
Obviously, although the Germans were defeated in World War II, the relationships and intelligence network they built around the world did not completely disappear. At least the Thule Association should have taken over part of it through its own relationships and put it into use.
This can also explain why the Thule Association has a way to continuously obtain a variety of illegal antiques as a source of wealth. After all, they can do all this easily with this network of relationships.
There is no doubt that these relationships are far more important to the Thule Association than other tangible things, so they will focus on preserving these core relationships under various circumstances.
However, this relationship could not be hidden when the Golden Dawn locked a rough area and launched a special investigation. Therefore, in just one week, the Golden Dawn dug out all the Turks on an entire line.
Most of these Turks are in inconspicuous positions, but sometimes they can play a key role, but there are a few who are in really uncomfortable positions.
Although none of those people are the chief officials of each department, their positions are able to veto the permissions issued previously.
"Sure enough, as we had guessed before, the group of people from the Thule Association did not simply want to excavate the ruins, but wanted to attract us and attack us through this method, and then complete their excavation plan."
When the Golden Dawn met again, President Charles said this to all the participants after completing the intelligence briefing.
"We are very grateful to Mr. Liang for the ideas he provided us before. We have successfully found the possible back-up of the Thule Association and adopted a simple solution."
"We can now be sure that in the next operations, Turkish officials will not pose any threat. Even if the Thule Association has any hidden back-ups, we don't have to worry about this."
"Wow -" After President Charles finished speaking, applause broke out in the small conference room. The most terrifying enemy for them is the unknown, so after figuring out the hidden secrets, the next action can begin.
"The next step is our work." After everyone's applause stopped, President Charles began to talk about the details, and he was the first to see Liang En. "Liang, have you found a specific target?"
"I have a specific target now, which is here." Liang En said, pointing to a point on the map on the edge of the Dardanelles Strait in northwest Turkey. "Canakkale."
Canakkale is a port city in western Türkiye and the capital of Canakkale Province. Located on the east bank of the narrowest section of the Dardanelles Strait, at the mouth of the Koca River, is a small city with a population of less than 200,000.
The city was originally the Sultaniye fortress used by the Ottoman Empire to control the strait, and is written in modern Turkish as Kale-i Sultaniye. It was built in the 15th century (1462) and was ordered to be built and named by Maimet II.
After the 17th century the city became famous for its fine pottery production, and in Byzantine Greek the city's name was Dardanelles, which is where the name of the Dardanelles comes from.
Today the city still plays a role in controlling the strait and is the largest canned fish production city in Turkey. Compared with other cities, the city has a high level of education, with 13 high schools and universities. Thirty percent of the population are university graduates.
"It seems that this excavation work is much easier than we imagined." President Charles nodded slightly, because excavation around the city is obviously much better than excavation in the wilderness.
"Can you tell me why you judged this way? Of course, it's okay if you don't say it. We will respect your privacy, but it will be difficult for us to support you."
"Of course, there is nothing that cannot be said. After all, I believe that everyone who can sit here is reliable." Liang En smiled, then took out a more detailed map and began to explain.
Different from the previous destinations of the Thule Association, because this place is close to the city, there is a very detailed map, which is very convenient for Liang En to start explaining on the map.
"This is my target, Hissarik Mountain. Unlike the place found by those idiots from the Thule Society, this place is only an hour away from the coast and consistent with Homer's description."
"Historically, a city named New Troy was built under this mountain, and its current name means "palace." At the same time, the overall terrain is very similar to that described in the epic."
"But there is already a ruin here." A member of the Golden Dawn asked curiously, "This is the ruins of a city from the ancient Roman era, but the overall appearance is not much different from other ruins in the entire area."
"You are right, Mr. Lyon." Liang En said looking at the member from France. “But have you ever considered the possibility that the ruins of ancient cities are stacked one on top of another?”
"I know this is not common in archeology, but we need to take into account the fact that this is the southern entrance to the Dardanelles that connects the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, and it has always been a prosperous place."
"So even if the city is completely destroyed like an epic, people will often choose to rebuild the city because they bring wealth."
"In fact, although the epic claims that Croix was completely destroyed, in fact the city was quickly rebuilt and became a great central city, while continuing its previous trading activities again."
"The most important thing is that I have found several ruins belonging to this era, and each ruin has a characteristic, that is, a large number of architectural structures of the ancient ruins have survived to this day."
After all, almost all important buildings in those ancient times were built of stone. At least the supporting structures are made of stone, which means those building components will last for a long time.
In this case, an entire city including huge and solid walls and gorgeous palaces could not completely disappear, even if the city was much smaller than today's city.
There may be many reasons why this ruins has never been discovered in the long years, of which there are only two most likely: it was completely destroyed or used for other purposes.
The former basically did not exist. The cost of completely destroying a city in that era was too high, and the victors of the war focused on the wealth gained rather than serving as meaningless demolition workers.
There are many ways to use it for other purposes. The less common one is to remove the building components and use them in other places, such as the use of the Colosseum in ancient Rome. The simplest is to use these items as other buildings. part of it, hidden in the new building.