Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 979 Goal
Because of Liang En's analysis, Golden Dawn stopped its original plan to send personnel to carry out excavation work in Turkey, and instead launched a large-scale investigation with an extremely cautious attitude.

When they decided to stop and take their time, the advantage naturally returned to them again.After all, when it comes to official relations, the Thule Association, which hides like a thief, is no match for the Golden Dawn.

So in just one week, they dug out the nails hidden in Turkey by the Thule Association. It was beyond everyone's imagination that these nails were all Turks.

However, after conducting a very careful investigation, they found that the families of these people had more or less cooperated with the Germans during World War II.

Obviously, although the Germans were defeated in World War II, the relationship and intelligence network they built around the world has not completely disappeared. At least the Thule Association should have taken over part of it through its own relationship and put it into use.

This can also explain why the Thule Association has a way to continuously obtain various illegal antiques as a source of wealth. After all, they can easily do all this with this network of relationships.

There is no doubt that these relationships are far more important than other tangible things to the Thule Association, so they will also focus on maintaining these core relationships in various situations.

However, this relationship couldn't be hidden when Golden Dawn locked down a general area and launched a special investigation. Therefore, in just one week, Golden Dawn dug out all the Turks on the entire line.

Most of these Turks are in unremarkable positions, but sometimes they can play a key role, but there are a few people who are indeed in uncomfortable positions.

Although none of those people are the chief officials of various departments, their positions are able to veto the permission issued before.

"Sure enough, as we guessed before, the group of people from the Thule Association didn't simply want to excavate the ruins, but wanted to use this method to attract us and attack them, and then complete their excavation plan."

When Golden Dawn met again, Chairman Charles said to all the participants at the venue after completing the intelligence briefing.

"I am very grateful to Mr. Liang for providing us with ideas before. We have successfully found the possible successor of the Thule Association and adopted a simple solution."

"We can now be sure that the Turkish officials will not pose any threat in the next operation, and we don't have to worry about it even if the Thule Association has any hidden backers."

"Wow——" After President Charles' voice fell, applause broke out in the small conference room.The most terrible enemy for them is the unknown, so after figuring out the hidden secrets, the next action can begin.

"The next step is our job." 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 while pointing his hand to a spot on the map that is also on the Dardanelles 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 part of the Dardanelles, at the mouth of the Koca River, it is a small city with a population of less than 20.

The city was originally the Sultaniye fortress used by the Ottoman Empire to control the strait, and it is written in modern Turkish as Kale-i Sultaniye.It was built in the fifteenth century (1462) and was ordered and named by Maimaiti II.

After the 17th century, the city became famous for its fine pottery production, and in Byzantine Greek the name of the city was Dardanlia, which is the origin of the name of the Dardanelles.

Today the city still has the role of controlling the strait, and at the same time 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.30.00% of the population are university graduates.

"It seems that this excavation work is much easier than we imagined." President Charles nodded slightly, because excavating around the city is obviously much better than digging in the wilderness.

"Can you tell me why you made this judgment? Of course, it's okay if you don't tell me. We will respect your privacy, but it will be difficult for us to support you."

"Of course, there's nothing you can't say. After all, I believe that those who can sit here are reliable people." Liang En smiled, then took out a more detailed map and began to explain.

Unlike the previous destination of the Thule Association, because this place is close to the urban area, there is a very detailed map, which is very convenient for Liang En to start explaining to the map.

"That's my target Hisarik Hill. Unlike the place those idiots in the Thule Association found, it's only an hour from the coastline, and it's consistent with Homer's description."

"Historically, a city called New Troy was built under this mountain, and the 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 Golden Dawn member asked curiously, "This is the ruins of an ancient Roman city, but the overall appearance is not much different from other ruins in the entire area."

"You are right, Mr. Lyon." Liang En looked at the member from France and said. "But have you ever considered the possibility that the remains of ancient cities are layered on top of each other?"

"I know that this kind of situation is not common in archaeology, but we need to take into account the fact that this is the southern entrance and exit of the Dardanelles connecting the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. It has always been a bustling place."

"So even if the city is destroyed as epic as it is, people will often choose to rebuild the city because they bring wealth."

"In fact, although the epic claims that Croy was completely destroyed, in fact the city was quickly rebuilt and became a great central city, while continuing its previous trade activities again."

"The most important thing is that I have found several relics belonging to this era, and each relic has a characteristic, that is, the ancient relics have a large number of architectural structures that have survived to this day."

After all, almost all important buildings in that ancient era were built of stone.At least the supporting structures are built of stone, which means that those building components can be preserved for a long time.

In this case, a whole city with its huge fortified walls and magnificent palaces, even if the city was much smaller than today's city, could not completely disappear.

There may be many reasons why this ruin 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 price paid for completely destroying a city in that era was too great, and for the victors of the war, they focused on the wealth they obtained, rather than serving as meaningless demolition workers.

There are many ways to use it for other purposes. It is not common to remove the building components and use them in other places, such as the usage of the ancient Roman Colosseum, and the simplest is to use these things as other buildings. part of it, hidden in the new building.

(End of this chapter)