Chapter 247: The End of the First War (Please Collect, Recommend, and Vote) 5300 Words Combined Chapter
"Kingsman? Secret service organization?" Kai looked at the plan in front of him and felt a little dizzy. He didn't quite understand Lao Fu's logic. He was still fighting for the status of aristocracy two days ago, how come he started a secret service organization in the blink of an eye? Is this a conspiracy to overthrow the British government? If this is true, Kai has no objection. →The British government is not his relative, so it can be overthrown. But the problem is that if it really does this, won't those ordinary people suffer?
Ah Fu knew from Kai's expression that he had thought wrong. So he quickly explained to Kai the position and program of this secret service organization. Finally, he also explained the inspiration for the establishment of this organization. "During the period of time following you, we have experienced a lot and understood many dark sides of this world, so we hope to do something within our power and not let the world fall into this crisis again."
Kai thought this was good. Kai, who was born in a military family, naturally didn't like politicians. Sometimes those people can appear to be very far-sighted, but there are many times when they can't figure out the situation. For example, when World War I broke out, these politicians did a lot of exaggeration, otherwise World War I would not have been so tragic.
"So what are your rules?" Kai asked with some interest.
As for the detailed structure of the Kingsman organization, Lao Fu and a group of nobles had already discussed it many times, so in the face of Kai's inquiry, Lao Fu started to talk without even a word. Not to mention, a group of people really took great pains for a great goal, and what they said was also very feasible.
The only thing is...
"Do you want my Holy Grail?"
"No, no, no, we just hope that you can be our leader. We believe that under your leadership, this organization will not deviate from our predetermined track." This sentence is true, but there is also some selfishness in it. "We will inherit the chivalry of you and our ancestors, and take the world as our responsibility to carry out this great cause!"
The greatness of the Holy Grail Ah Fu has the most say. Since he was resurrected by the Holy Grail, he has felt that he is different from others. Simply put, his strength is already two to three times that of an ordinary person, and his reaction ability is ridiculously high. Although he is not a superman, he is definitely far superior to ordinary people.
That's why they set their sights on the Holy Grail. Of course, they knew the drawbacks of the Holy Grail, but they didn't care. They could accept certain sacrifices for the great goal.
Kai didn't care much about leading this spy organization. Lending the Holy Grail was not a big deal for him. That thing didn't have any special meaning to Kai, and its role was not as big as imagined. Kai's physical fitness was destined, and there were few things in this world that could really hurt him.
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In the following days, Kingsman's organizational structure was quickly built, and all the agents were selected by Afu from the noble soldiers. In order to better form this organization, Afu borrowed almost all the manpower from Kai, including Bedouins and guardians, and even Americans O'Connor and Daniels were borrowed.
Only Raven and Catherine stayed with him.
In fact, it was useless for Kai to leave so many people around him. With the arrival of 1918, humans generally didn't have much energy to make trouble. Because everyone was concentrating on facing a bigger trouble.
Spanish flu.
When Kai first heard about the flu, he didn't take it seriously. As a time traveler, the flu was not uncommon in his time and space, and it basically came once or twice every year. →But Kai underestimated this flu, or overestimated the medical capabilities of this era.
What Kai didn't know was that in his original era, the Spanish flu was also famous, but it was rarely heard of in their era. Legend has it that it was because of this flu that the end of the war was accelerated.
On March 4, 1918, a military camp in Kansas, USA, broke out in the flu, followed by flu in China, Spain, and the UK. The symptoms at the time were only headache, high fever, muscle aches and loss of appetite. But in the fall of 1918, it broke out in large numbers around the world.
In August 1918, the flu spread in the UK. Unlike previous influenza, the Spanish flu had a particularly high mortality rate among young and middle-aged people aged 20 to 35. In addition to high fever and headache, its symptoms also included blue face and coughing up blood; influenza often caused complications and led to death, with pneumonia being the most common. By November, London had begun to restrict citizens from going to public places, and cinemas, dance halls, sports venues, etc. were all closed.
Now, almost everyone has started to stay at home with masks.
The London government was already overwhelmed by the flu and post-war negotiations, which gave the Kingsman organization an opportunity to develop. Although some people have noticed this organization, because of Kay's platform and the government's lack of energy to manage it, the organization was established in just over two months.
After the establishment of the Kingsman organization, it received its first task, which was to investigate the Spanish flu.
When the flu broke out in the UK, the main founder of Kingsman, the Duke of Oxford, had already formed experts to conduct research. They were surprised to find that there were more than 300 viruses among a thousand patients, which means that on average there was only 3/1000 of the virus overlap!
This brought the so-called special medicine research to a complete halt.
Not only did the special medicine not come out, but the expert group formed by the Duke of Oxford also gave a possibility that made all Kingsman gentlemen terrified.
This virus, named H1N1, is a brand new virus. It can replicate and recombine, and then evolve into a new virus. Such a strange virus has never been found in nature. Almost every time it replicates, it will recombine, instead of recombining and mutating after thousands of replications.
This is exactly what is so scary about it. Constant mutation means that it is impossible to develop a targeted special medicine. After extracting virus samples and conducting in-depth research, the expert group was surprised to find that this virus is very likely a semi-finished product! They seem to be incomplete and are still in the stage of continuous evolution. As the mystery continues to be revealed, the expert group made a bold assumption that this influenza virus does not come from nature, but is artificially developed by the outside world. Then all these unusual characteristics make sense, and these are all set up by humans!
This discovery made everyone think of biological warfare at the first time!
In the just-concluded World War I, Europeans had already seen the power of biological weapons. Germany has always been researching this aspect, which made the gentlemen of Kingsman think of it as a trick of the Germans at the first time.
But the following investigation made a group of people dumbfounded. Germans were also infected with the virus, and there were many infected people. If the virus was developed by the Germans, they seemed to have no reason to spread it in Germany. Wouldn't that be shooting themselves in the foot?
Then Kingsman turned his target to the place where the flu first appeared-the United States!
The first case of the Spanish flu was discovered in a military camp in Kansas, USA. Coincidentally, there was a chemical plant not far from this military camp. Not only that, but there was a leak in this chemical plant just before the flu broke out.
This forced Kingsman's gentlemen to look at the United States.
What made these gentlemen even more suspicious was that the United States had been stirring up trouble in Europe during this period, and it was very eager to overthrow Britain from its position as the world hegemon. They kept advocating the policy of "national self-determination" and wanted all colonies to be independent!
The Americans were digging up the foundation of their colonial empire! Once the colonies were allowed to become independent on a large scale, would Britain and France still be world empires? Without colonies, Britain and France may still be a great power, but they are definitely not great powers. Most of their strength is in their colonies!
The Americans' idea is really good. As long as they defeat the colonial empire, they will be the boss of the new era. With a move of national consciousness, they can disintegrate most of the powerful countries in the world. Unfortunately, they forgot that once the window paper is broken, the consequences will be very serious. Their proposals not only disgusted Britain and France, but also the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Belgium, and Japan. Now, which one is not glaring at them!
So in the later stage of the negotiations, the United States was excluded by the European group of countries, which is why many people say that the United States did not obtain the corresponding status after World War I.
Even Kai, a political idiot, thought that the Americans were crazy after seeing the information sent back from Versailles.
So if we talk about the mastermind behind this flu, the Americans really have this motive. After all, others have always wanted to compete for world hegemony.
Kai is a little skeptical about this conjecture. It's not that the US government has a high moral integrity, but that it feels that doing so is a bit of a loss. At this stage, the United States has the world's No. 1 economy, and the world's No. 1 industrial output and output value. As long as it develops patiently, it will become the world's No. 1 power one day. Why make so many things happen? You know, once this matter is exposed, the United States is very likely to be humanitarianly destroyed by all countries in the world.
It's totally unnecessary!
But Kai also agreed to Kingsman's request to investigate. It's more reassuring to investigate this kind of thing. What if there is really a madman who intends to do this? It's better to believe it than not to believe it.
In fact, at the beginning, Kai was going to investigate it himself. Unfortunately, Lao Fu disagreed. He thought that if Kai had to do everything, what were they for? Is it fun to leave it there?
In addition to promoting and ensuring that the aristocratic spirit is not corrupted, the establishment of Kingsman also means deepening the connection with Kai. To put it bluntly, the aristocrats use Kai as a cover to tell others that they are not easy to mess with. Weakening the aristocracy is a foregone conclusion. They have nothing to say. They can only say that they are not as good as others and have been caught by the capitalists. But if you still want to continue to weaken the power of the nobles, you have to think carefully.
In fact, due to the formation of Kingsman, the cabinet has been restrained a lot. Even the king has sent people to contact Kingsman. As for what to do... Politicians have complicated ideas, and ordinary people can't guess at all. Anyway, Kay doesn't know what George V is going to do. He didn't care. It's just some deals.
In this way, Kingsman's generation of agents began their first mission.
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The time is February 3, 1919.
Kingsman's investigation finally revealed part of the truth. The United States is indeed the main source of the virus! But according to Kingsman's investigation, the US government was not involved, and even they didn't know that someone was studying biochemical weapons under their noses.
The research was conducted by an underground organization called "Cobra", which has a very powerful force in the United States. In order to eliminate this underground organization, Kingsman's first generation of agents were almost completely lost. If Kingsman had not contacted the US intelligence agency through Daniels and O'Connor in the end, and attacked this organization together, Kingsman's action would have failed completely.
This time the US government was almost scared. If Kingsman had not found out about this underground organization, the United States would have been very likely to bear this big pot. At that time, let alone world hegemony, it would be unknown whether the United States could still exist in this world.
In order to deal with and eliminate the Cobra organization, the US government hired Daniels and O'Connor and Steve, who had just said goodbye to Diana and returned to the country, to jointly form a new intelligence agency. However, this intelligence organization soon split. Daniels and O'Connor wanted to copy Kingsman and set up a completely independent intelligence agency. They had an extremely unpleasant conflict with Steve and the US government.
So Daniels and O'Connor left the intelligence agency and went to Kentucky to open a distillery together.
In addition, after the war, Steve finally mustered up the courage to confess to Diana. Although Diana was very touched, she still rejected him. Well... Kai did not intervene in this matter at all. In fact, the relationship between Diana and Kai fell into a cold war after the Battle of Athens. She was still dissatisfied with Kai's sacrifice of those comrades. So Diana did not follow Kai back to London at all, but stayed in Greece.
The US government was very interested in Diana and once hoped that she could work for the US government, but in the end Diana disappeared, perhaps returning to Paradise Island. In short, Steve and the US government searched Paradise Island again, but unfortunately found nothing. The coordinates of Paradise Island saved by Steve before were proved to be invalid.
Anyway, let's get back to the point. Although the Cobra organization was defeated, according to Kingsman's investigation, it was only a branch of Cobra, and no one knew where their main body was. Kingsman investigated the source of funds for the chemical plant that studied chemical weapons and found that almost most of the funds came from Europe. When Kingsman came to Europe to investigate the source of funds.
All clues were cleared, and all insiders and information about the flow of funds were cleared.
All the clues were cut off at this time.
However, this also proves from the side that Kingsman's existence is necessary. Kai can deal with many human enemies, but he can't do anything about human's own death. For example, if Kingsman hadn't checked, Kai probably wouldn't have known about this organization in his life.
And the agents who survived this mission also got what they deserved, the baptism of the Holy Grail. They became the guardians of the world at the cost of their souls.
In order to reward Kingsman, Kai transferred his Bedouin warriors and guardian warriors to Kingsman. These warriors are definitely not good enough as agents, but they are more than enough as armed strike forces. In any case, agents are not omnipotent.
As for Daniels and O'Connor's winery in the United States, Kai didn't have a second Holy Grail to give them, so he simply gave them a lot of financial support, and Kingsman was also obliged to provide a lot of necessary support to the winery.
Yes, the winery is also an agent organization, but they are hiding deeper.
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On June 28, 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed at the Palace of Versailles in Paris. This treaty was recognized by the League of Nations and officially came into effect on January 10, 1920, marking the official end of World War I.
This treaty is similar to what Kai knew in his previous life. The only difference is that the United States really got nothing this time. Because of the Spanish flu, the United States did not have an easy time in the international arena this time, and even had to take the initiative to reduce debts for various countries. It was a big loss.
Not only did a lot of people die, but they also got everything. Not only did they not get the political voice, but they didn't even make much money economically.
This caused President Wilson to be impeached immediately after returning home. If the upper echelons of the United States hadn't known the whole story and saved Wilson. It is estimated that he would have become the first president of the United States to be impeached and removed from office.
There is no way, this time the United States was caught by the tail of the international community! The Spanish flu should have been called the American flu! This virus was manufactured in the United States and leaked in the United States. If there were no solid evidence that the US government was not involved, and if the US government had not made a lot of efforts in this matter, the US government would have been destroyed humanely long ago.
This also led to the US government's strong support for Germany, which made Germany rise earlier than in history, and also led to the fact that after the outbreak of World War II, the power of the Germans far exceeded the original historical trajectory.
However, Kai was not interested in these. After recuperating in London for two years, Kai began to think about action.
What he is most interested in now is the most popular photo in London.
This photo was brought back from the Amazon rainforest in South America by Professor George Challenger, who is controversial in London. It is a photo of a pterosaur! At the same time, he also brought back a diary, in which a prehistoric civilized world was described. George Challenger returned to London and wanted to persuade other scientists of the London Zoological Society to believe in the existence of this prehistoric civilized world.
Kay asked Kingsman to investigate, and Professor George Challenger did not lie, at least he himself firmly believed that this prehistoric world existed.
This aroused Kay's interest.
So Kay funded Professor George Challenger's expedition and planned to participate in the adventure himself. He was very curious about the place where dinosaurs could survive. The expedition team also consisted of "Hunter" Roston, "Reporter" Malone, "Female Millionaire" Margaret and "Atheist Scientist" Arthur Samray.
Originally, everyone thought it was just a ridiculous adventure game, and Kay was just curious.
Even Kay's personal maids Catherine and Raven thought it was just a temporary interest of Kay, so they did not insist on going with Kay. They thought Kay would be back soon.
But unexpectedly, the expedition team soon lost contact.
For one or two years, people were still looking forward to it. In any case, Kay was so powerful that nothing could hurt him. Everyone thought it was just an accident, or maybe there was really a major discovery, which made Kai obsessed with it.
But no one would have thought that in the next few decades, there would be no news from this expedition team.