睡前故事 | 乾隆的影子军队：清朝如何用情报网赢下与沙俄的无声战争？

睡前故事 | 乾隆的影子军队：清朝如何用情报网赢下与沙俄的无声战争？

Welcome back to Too Many Murals, Bedtime Stories. Tonight we’re going a little far. We ‘re not going to the seaside to enjoy the breeze , nor are we going to travel through time to the Tang Dynasty to eat supper. Instead, we’re quietly approaching a smokeless debate between empires. On the snowy ground of the border, a pair of footprints are leading us into a spy story between Emperor Qianlong and Tsarist Russia that almost no one knows about . Before you relax, please like and subscribe. Tell me which city you are in and what time it is. I’ll be waiting for you in the comment section. Now dim the lights and enter tonight’s story together. This is the winter of 1754. A bleak moon is over the Heilongjiang River, as cold as a knife. Somewhere in the Qing army’s quarters, a sentry on duty failed to return on time. At first, no one cared, thinking that he had been paralyzed in the straw hut for a long time. He fell asleep, but the next morning three lines of footprints appeared in the snow. They were not the boots of the Qing army , nor the felt boots of the nearby nomads , but a kind of boots that did not belong here . The foot shape was long and narrow , uneven, and very much like the military short boots of the Tsarist Russian border soldiers. The strangest thing was that these three lines of footprints only walked in and did not walk out . The captain of the border army immediately blocked the entire camp. At the same time , Fei Ge sent a letter to General Jilin, marking the location, time, wind direction and size of the footprints, as if piecing together a border puzzle for the court. And just a few hundred miles away in Beijing, Emperor Qianlong was in the study of the Forbidden City, looking at a picture of snow appreciation. As soon as the teacup was put down, the palace maid came quietly and handed the letter to the shore in a hurry. After reading it, Qianlong was not surprised or angry, but said lightly He knew that the real danger was not the footprints but the activities of the Russian spies behind them. The frequency of their activities was exceeding the tone. That year, the border between the Qing Dynasty and Russia was barely peaceful. The two countries moved across the Treaty of Nerchinsk , exchanged envoys, and set up post stations for trade. On the surface, everything seemed calm, but Qianlong knew in his heart that this was just a post-war testing period. One side had just recovered, and the other side had quietly died. He was reluctant to use force easily, but he also didn’t want to be a weak emperor who knew nothing. So a set of frontier spy system hidden under the surface was quietly activated. Unlike the Jinyiwei or the Da Nei Mi Die, these people were nameless, seamless, and mostly translators , merchants, monks, fools, or even beggars. They lived in the city for many years. The traces are between the border post, the ranch and the market. They can’t take out the waist badge but can exchange for a pack of fire. Seven secret letters. Some people will say that they are not ice , but they know where the danger is earlier than ice . This time, Qianlong decided to test the reaction speed of this silver network. He did not issue an imperial edict or mobilize the army. He just sent an official from the Ministry of Internal Affairs who was so low-key that he had no name to leave the capital with a few hand-painted maps, two strings of Siberian leather coins and a code. The smell of snow and fossils disappeared . This is not nonsense , but a starting signal. Whoever understands it will know that this invisible war has begun. Far away at the mouth of the Heilongjiang River, a scholar who grows vegetables was drying radishes by the river. He heard the wind and smelled the familiar smell of pine smoke. He knew that he should go to the crooked pine tree to dig out a Take out the paper package from Beijing to see what is hidden in the mission. That night, three lines of footprints were covered by heavy snow , but the real footsteps had just landed. Qianlong’s favorite was not the sound of swords and swords , but the enemy’s failure to discover that I was already in trouble . He was not panicked by the report of footprints from the border because he had known that this negotiation would start sooner or later. He just didn’t expect that Tsarist Russia would make the first move. The night in the Forbidden City was so quiet that it was obvious that the wind blew through the palace tiles like a feather brushing against a bronze gong, making a dripping tremor. Qianlong changed out of his court clothes and put on a gray fox robe and sat in front of the imperial desk , but his eyes were fixed on an old sheepskin map. This was not the Yulan map , but a sketch of the border he had privately collected in his early years. The circles and dots on it were all old wounds left by his grandfather Kangxi when he negotiated with Tsarist Russia many years ago. The central Heilongjiang Qianlong drew a circle with a pearl pen at the intersection with the Ergun River. He slowly closed the picture and said, “Call the military minister Fuheng in. Fuheng is Qianlong’s confidant and his cousin. He is not only extraordinary but also quick-witted. Qianlong trusts him not because of family affection , but because Fuheng always knows what to say and what to keep in mind. A moment later, Fuheng entered the store with his luggage . Qianlong didn’t beat around the bush and went straight to “I want you to send someone to quietly find out three things. First, whether there is a delegation from Tsarist Russia leaving the country recently. Second, whether there are any missing soldiers on my border. Third, he paused. Have you seen strange leather merchants coming from the north at each post station? Fuheng understood that the emperor was going to move the shadow flag minister. He understood that Fuheng whispered whether to mobilize the Shanyin list of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The Shanyin list is Qinggong is a code word used to refer to a special system. These people do not belong to the Ministry of War, the irregular army foundation , and even the Ministry of Revenue does not have their roster. They are the nameless chess pieces compiled by Qianlong himself, and they are not from the whip trade. They are usually straw hat vendors, horsemen , monks, and leather merchants , but they can become ears, eyes, and even hands at critical moments . The sound is still. Qianlong slowly stood up and moved to lead the rear line. Fuheng was slightly stunned, and then he understood that the emperor was going to use those deep traps who never showed their faces this time , those people who he did not even know all of them, outsiders. At the same time, in another corner of the palace, a long-haired eunuch in the Ministry of Internal Affairs was nodding to a small piece of paper. The shadow line started the secret code, the acupoint painting, the shadow disappeared, and the return period was forty days. The paper was sealed with wax and put into a normal-looking The sachet was then quietly sent into the bag of an interpreter who was about to be sent out to search for the border. No one noticed this interpreter , and his name was not even on the list of people to be sent out. He left the city through the tin foil door with the sachet , several blank books and a broken bronze mirror. A few days later, a fire was burning brightly in a wooden post station by the Heilongjiang River. An Yi man in a sheepskin coat was drinking spicy soup when he heard three knocks on the door outside the window. He opened the door and saw the interpreter standing in the snow. He took out the sachet and said, “I’m here to repair the chimney of the stove for someone.” Of course, the stove was not broken , but repairing the chimney was the second codeword to activate the border intelligence network. At the same time, thousands of miles away in Irkutsk, a Han merchant who sold fur hats took a second look at the Big Dipper when the shopkeeper was in trouble, and knew that he should prepare paper and ink. The Russian spy took one step and Qianlong took two steps back. This battle without gunpowder began to enter the real layout stage. It was not important who started first. What was important was who could hide the blade better. You walked into the Jincheng Imperial Examination Hall and saw a scholar wearing a round mirror and an old cloth robe sitting under a tree flipping through the university. He had a gentle look and a lot of scissors in his hands, like a poor boy who came from farming . Occasionally, someone would chat with him. He would always smile and say that he was a scholar from western Sichuan who had been in the country for two years. It sounded pitiful and not at all calm. But if you followed him in the middle of the night, you would find that after leaving the academy, he crossed two alleys and entered an inconspicuous oil-paper shop. After closing the shop, he would go into the backyard to the well, move the third brick under the well fence, and take out a copper box. Hidden inside was a miniature sheepskin map, two pages of coded line drawings , and a strange piece of cloth. It was a Russian military cloth sample brought back from Irkutsk. His name was Li Shenyan. There was no record of him in the court records , but he was called Qingling in the Yinghou County list of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He had been undercover at the border of Tsarist Russia for seven years. Now he returned to Beijing to wait for new orders. At first, he accompanied the court as a tribute translator. Others looked at treaties and etiquette, but he looked at road signs, signs to post stations, soldiers and details. He knew Russian , could draw pictures and write poems , but he was best at disappearing. In the seven years, he changed four names and three identities, opened a sweat shop, and worked as a city official in Kazan for a year. He hid the information in the paper umbrella valley , wrote it with grass script, and then gave the umbrellas to the travelers. The jewelry on the umbrellas represented the level of the instructions. A light tap of the thumb on the umbrella surface represented the level 2, and then the backhand grip showed a change. Now he finally returned to the capital, and his mission was to hide his identity and wait for departure. Why did Qianlong trust a fake scholar? Because this person personally delivered a traveler’s record in Irkutsk , which listed in detail the new artillery storage distribution of three important camps of the Tsarist Russia , and even the time of changing the port of ice was clearly marked. And that information later accurately confirmed the secret line of the Tsarist Russia on the tributaries of the Heilongjiang River, and mobilized his scholar shell to deceive After passing the Russian patrol and deceiving Qingting’s ordinary members, only Fuheng and Qianlong knew that this slow-talking scholar was actually one of their sharpest pens. That night, Li Shenyan was grinding an old letter on paper. It was the letter format he left when he was in Kazan City under a pseudonym and a map. He needed to use this method to reawaken the contact point over there . There was not a single Chinese word in the letter, only a paragraph of Russian jargon based on the price of fur merchants. For example, fox skin 5 before means that the Tsarist Russian army convoy will set off in three days, and water tower skin is priceless, which means that there is a change but it is not yet determined. After writing it, he put the envelope in a Gongyuan examination paper, wrapped it in kraft paper, and sent it to the south of the city to pay tribute. Outsiders in Wenpingle thought it was a supplementary test paper. Only two people knew that the letter would be transferred to a person who was injured by the road. In the end, it entered the small port of Kuye Island with the goods. This line was called Yanqiao. The transmission was slow and tortuous. It went through countless hands , but it never went wrong. Qianlong’s way did not need to be fast, but only stable. Intelligence stations were never invented today and used tomorrow. Instead , 10 years later, you suddenly discovered that the red dot on the sheepskin map on that page was exactly the blind spot of the enemy’s outpost. After Li Shenyan finished writing the letter, he looked up at the moon. He knew that he would never take the imperial examination again , nor would he wear an official uniform again. But he knew in his heart that Qianlong did not want the top scholar, but someone who could make Tsarist Russia hesitate for three steps. Shadow If you walked through the streets of Irkutsk in the 1750s, you would see a fur hat shop in the corner. The storefront was small , with fox fur , mink fur, and wolf ear hats on the shelves . Some of them were sewn with colored threads, and looked more delicate than other shops. The owner was a Han Chinese with a short beard, always holding a walnut and pork skewer in his hand, and smiling slowly. His surname was Du. He came from a merchant family and walked all the way from the mouth of Heilongjiang to Siberia 10 years ago . He said he was doing business, but in fact, the backyard of this small shop was a letter circled by Qianlong’s secret order. Irkutsk was the gateway to Siberia in Russia. Merchants, soldiers, envoys, and explorers all gathered here. Tsarist Russia set up a special military base here. The intelligence station and Dragonfly also knew the importance of this city , so they simply opened a shop here , but not for making money , but for watching the hidden hall . There was a movable floor under the cabinet of the fur hat shop . After pulling it open, there was a half-person-high secret room. What was piled up inside was not silver , but rolls of maps wrapped in kraft paper, cut Russian army shoulder badges , a few pages of incomplete engineering drawings , and a small compass needle wrapped with gold wire. There was a word “turn” engraved on it, which was the mark of the reply point. All the spies sent from the Qing Dynasty border could leave a message in the backyard of the fur hat shop in exchange for new instructions as long as they passed by Irkutsk. Boss Du was their street man and the entire The only key figure in the territory who knows the whole situation. That evening, a man who looked like a Russian officer walked into the store and took a private look and asked, “Do you have any southern tiger skins? ” Boss Du smiled and nodded. “Three of the top-quality goods have just arrived. Do you want to take a look ?” It has some black text. This is a code. Normal people can’t hear anything unusual , but people in the industry know that the southern tiger skins represent intelligence from the direction of Kazan. Dai Hewen said that the content involved the deployment of the Qing army. Boss Du pretended to be looking for leather, but his hand had actually touched a cloth bag in the cabinet. He lightly stuffed it in. A small wooden sign with a thread wrapped around it was a reply that the false words could be exchanged. After the visitor left in two days, Boss Du immediately closed the store and rested. Ye took out the intelligence on the new road from under the table and opened it. It was a hand-drawn drawing of the new road built by the Russian army. There were also several sets of digital coordinates on the side, which were probably the corresponding bunkers and firing points. What shocked him most was that there was a branch line that was close to the Lingdao near the Qing army’s western post station . What did this mean? It meant that the Tsarist Russia might be preparing for an informal contact. He didn’t delay any longer and immediately hid the drawing in a fur hat. Feng Shangkang also made a small stitching pattern on the brim of the hat that he could recognize. The next day, a Baltic merchant passed by the store and said that he was going into the mountains to hunt and wanted to wear a hat to block the wind. Boss Du didn’t say a word. He just smiled and handed him the hat with the blueprint sewn on it. A few weeks later, the hat was taken to Burqin and handed to a cook at the post station. A month later, it appeared in a camel’s pack on the way from Kashgar to Gansu. Finally , it was taken to a cellar in the Imperial Household Department in Beijing by a scholar named Youqing. When the blueprint was handed to Qianlong, the firepower coordinates on the map still had a little smell of Siberian soil. Qianlong only said one sentence after reading it: “They are sighing as expected.” He was not angry, but just picked up the pen and wrote two words on the blank space on the map. ” Change the line. ” At Boss Du’s place, all the fur hats were sold out and the fire was extinguished. He sat in the backyard and watched the small compass needle slowly stop rotating. He knew that the next map was still on the way. In the frontier legend, there is a kind of person wearing a gray cloth monk’s robe, holding a rosary in his hand and chanting scriptures in his mouth . He looks like an ordinary lama who travels around to pray for the people , but if you watch him carefully for a few days, you will find that the direction he walks is always along the intersection of different roads. Almost all the temples he visited were near Guanai. His scriptures are too new. The family is too close, the baggage is too heavy. This kind of person is called Yin Seng. He is a special mobility history of dragonflies, specially used for the most complicated routes, the most chaotic warriors, and the most undetectable message delivery missions. In Yinhou County under Qianlong, there is a man named Jianan, who is Lama You Seng. No one knows his real name. They only know that he started from Kashgar and went north to Ejin Kashan. Sometimes he turned back to the Mongolian grasslands. On the surface, he preached , but in fact he was transmitting the secret orders of the emperor. The rosary he carried was actually a string of secret codes. Each bead was engraved with different patterns, corresponding to different places on the landscape map. For example , the 7th bead is at the west pass of Labrang Monastery, and the 11th bead is at the west mile of Burqin Post Station. When sending a message, one only needs to slightly change the arrangement of the beads to represent the next delivery location and risk level. That night, he came to a mountain pass temple. The temple was not big and the incense was weak. Most of the monks were old and weak and had difficulties at home. He went to the side hall under the pretext of meditating, but in fact he went to the golden pavilion behind the temple. There was a fake Buddha statue hidden in the corner. He took out the key, opened the secret compartment , and took out a small piece of iron sheet with two words on it. Yilin Yilin was the code name for the enemy’s nearby. It was an emergency signal from another lurking personnel on the northern line, meaning that the Tsarist Russian team was approaching in the near future. The scumbag calmly hid the iron sheet back into the rosary bag and then took out another blog book from his bag. There were 16 rare characters written on it , all of which were secret codes used by dragonflies. Then he gently held the incense as if he was performing a blessing ritual, but in fact he was using smoke to cover the evaporation of the ink. After Bo Shu finished, he handed another yellow sandalwood bead to the only young monk in the temple. ” Brother, please bring it to the caravan going down the mountain for me,” he said, “it’s for offering to Buddha.” The young monk was confused but nodded. Yingxia didn’t know that he was sending an urgent letter directly to the capital regarding border adjustments. Not far from the Russian border, a small group of cavalrymen had indeed sneaked into the forest disguised as hunters. Their original intention was to avoid the eyes and ears of the Qing army and find a more concealed path into the mountain, but they didn’t know that they had been targeted by three lines. One was the Mu Ren County of Tacheng Post Station, one was Liangfu County of Burqin Post Station, and the last was a hermit monk county like Jianan . He walked slowly and didn’t talk much, occasionally chanting scriptures in a low voice , but there was always a circle of inexplicably devout listeners around him . These The man could be a merchant, a coolie , or another shadow. He never wrote letters or carried any paper along the way. He relied on his memory and beads for all his information . Sometimes when the snow and wind were too strong, he would preach in the temple, which was actually to pass on information. Sometimes he was deliberately driven out of the temple just to let a passing merchant see the rosary hanging southward in his hand . That was to restore his spirit. This time, the scumbag sat down to rest after the 28th temple. He knew that his mission was coming to an end. Before leaving, he buried a used hidden bead under a pine tree, as if burying a little experience , as if telling the later comers that I had been here. The snow and wind did not stop, and the information kept coming . Qianlong once said that the most difficult thing was not to break the enemy’s power but to desire the enemy’s heart. And these flowing shadows dressed as lamas were the heart that traveled through mountains and rivers. Sometimes the enemy’s flaws were not made by fighting but thrown out. That spring, the blood of Irkutsk had not yet melted into a The military camp was suddenly in chaos. The cause was that the topographic map of the camp disappeared. It was not a copy, but the original confidential map with the marks of artillery bunkers and infantry ticked by the Russian Youth League. When the news came out, the entire Siberian border defense line was on high alert. The Tsarist Russian high-level officials suspected that it was a dragonfly spy, but they could not find out who did it because the person who did it that night was not in the military camp , but on the roof . The story of how the map was lost started with an ordinary repair. The roof of a Russian warehouse had been in disrepair for a long time. A pair of local craftsmen were hired to repair the tiles and reinforce them. They worked quickly. One of the short carpenters opened the old wooden window leading to the attic while installing the tiles. He flicked his wrist and stuffed a small goose feather bag in it. No one noticed that the bag was not light and seemed to be filled with dried fruits , but in fact, it contained a reprinted reverse map of the camp. The so-called reverse map is to reverse the enemy map into several offensive and defensive perspectives. It is used for pre-war drills. The real identity of the short carpenter was a soldier sent by Dragonfly to Ejing. His name was He Chen . He settled in Irkutsk three years ago. On the surface, he was an auxiliary worker, but in fact he specialized in studying Russian calligraphy, stone formations and cartography. This time he did it very cleverly. The real map was not stolen. Instead, he borrowed it from an interpreter’s maid two months ago and used a plant to wave on the cloth. It took 47 days to complete the map. He hid it in the sole of his leather shoe and followed him into the city. That night he did not steal it but exchanged it for the real map. He did not bring it back but put it back to its original place. What he took away was a fake map that had been treated to look old. The fake map was approved by Emperor Qianlong. The map marked the Qing army’s defense points, troop deployment routes and artillery positions. They were all fake. His only intention was to confuse Russia and make them misjudge that Dragonfly’s troops were mainly deployed in the plains of Dongxian County. As a result, within a few months, Russian spies were indeed active in Dongxian County. They even deployed troops to build supply counties in the corresponding direction of Russia. However, Qianlong had already moved the main force to the northwest. All this originated from He Chen’s substitution on the roof. Although the Tsarist Russian military felt strange , they could not find any loopholes in the map. The people in Curry did not see anything unusual. The only suspicious thing was that a laundry worker named Elena suddenly resigned and left with her luggage. Before she left, she casually added a picture of a calf drinking water to the corner of the battalion commander’s desk. That was the code word that the information had been handed over . He Chen did not return to China. He knew that once his identity was exposed , it would be equivalent to giving up all the intelligence. He led the way to a sawmill on the outskirts of Irkutsk. He only exchanged glances with a hat shop clerk once a month. That meant I was still alive. The day Qianlong received the intelligence, he was admiring flowers in the Imperial Garden. He looked at the red line of the Russian army’s mobilization on the fake map and smiled faintly. Those who mislead us are false, and those who mislead the enemy are real. The deployment of the Tsarist Russia’s troops has not been noticed until now. Dragonfly has set up the grassland housing circle three steps in advance. The battle has not started, but the war has already begun , but there is no smoke of gunpowder , only silence. In Irkutsk, after the spring rain, a piece of black tile slightly turned up, as if telling the city that some war has already happened, but you didn’t notice it. Diplomatic occasions are always elegant scenes of serving tea and water and going back and forth. But the real secrets are often not popped up on the conference table, but are taken out at the wine party. During the Qianlong period, Dragonfly sent a small diplomatic mission to Kyakhta for routine meetings with Tsarist Russia on border trade details . It should be just a procedural matter. They talked about tariffs and repairs of different roads back and forth. There was no ignition point, but Qianlong specifically included it in the list of the mission. A translator with an insignificant status was added . His surname was Liang and his character was Ziyou. Outsiders called him Liang Tongshi. Liang Tongshi was an honest man. He bowed and nodded to everyone he met. His words were as soft as the wind blowing through the wallpaper. But only a few people knew that he was the wise ear appointed by Emperor Qianlong to listen to what others were unwilling to say. The winter in Kyakhta was cold and people did not want to talk, but the wine was warm. The conversation started more and more. Zaitsev, a Russian official, was a nobleman who loved drinking. They negotiated according to the rules during the day and drank and gossiped at night. When Liang went there, he would accompany him every night to drink. He also brought a few bottles of sorghum wine from outside the Great Wall. Zaitsev praised it as stronger than vodka. Once he started talking, he became more talkative. Three days later, one night, Liang deliberately got drunk and staggered , pretending to have mistaken the other party’s tent for his own room and was helped in by several Russian soldiers. Zaitsev was also drunk and laughed when he saw him breaking in . He asked casually, “Are you really planning to transfer troops to the mouth of the Kru River?” Liang Tongshi pretended to be crazy and smiled with narrowed eyes, saying, “Aren’t you also transferring troops? You have also secretly built two bunkers ? ” This sentence was a trick. He observed the other party’s expression and sure enough, Zaitsev immediately shut up. But the expression at that moment was enough. The next day, Liang didn’t ask any more questions. He just returned to the camp and whispered this sentence to the regiment commander , who immediately recorded it and reported it, and then sealed it with fire. The letter was handed to the groom Shaowang Jingshi who was about to leave the group and return home. The real content was not in the letter, but in the two small words “swimming” hidden on the envelope. It was a code word that the location of the bunker had been determined. In the next few days, Liang continued to drink, laugh, and pretend to be confused. After drinking a few times, he took the opportunity to sneak into Zaitsev’s room and gently scraped the wall with a tinder with copper wire to confirm that there was a mezzanine behind the wall of the storage room. He did not do anything, but only wrote down the size of the wooden beam and the track of entry and exit. A week later, he said goodbye and returned to his country . When he changed trains at the post station, he left an oil paper package to the foreigner and told him that it was a courtesy from Zaitsev and not to crush it. There was a very thin piece of painted leather hidden in his hat. On it was painted a section of building structure lines and gunpowder according to the forehead pattern with pine grease. After returning to the capital, he did not accept the reward or report , but quietly returned to his original position and continued to be the inconspicuous interpreter. Only Fu Heng smiled lightly when reviewing the report and said that this person was useful for drinking. Qianlong took When he got the painted skin map, he didn’t make a fuss. He just picked up a pen and wrote a sentence on the map: “When it’s warm for a long time, the snake will become soft and unusually loose.” So the Qing army began to set up three mine protection circles on the border. One year in advance, no arrows were fired to break the enemy’s plan . However, Liang Tong was still on the list of the next delegation . Qianlong personally circled a circle behind his name and used it again in the depths of the grassland. Some horse hoof sounds will never be recorded. The memorials are too light, too far, and too important. When Qianlong deployed the defense on the northern line, he never relied solely on the generals to mobilize troops. He relied more on a group of people who had no military status and did not wear armor but could ride horses for three days and nights without leaving the temple. This group of people was called Suolun horses. On the surface, they were Suolun Buzu herdsmen, but in fact they were dragonflies. The most secretive place on the grassland was Shao County. They were not dispatched by military aircraft, but only obeyed the orders of the Ministry of Internal Affairs or Qianlong’s Qing orders. Their only task was to watch, listen, and plan the ship. The core figure of this grassland ghost county was an old man called Mu Qing. He was a member of the Qing army cavalry in his early years, and retired due to injury and voluntarily stayed in Grazing in Outer Mongolia When Emperor Qianlong was inspecting Rehe, he happened to hear him retelling a section of the border, especially the details of the exchange of fire. He realized that this person had an amazing memory and a very accurate sense of direction, so he secretly received orders . His mother was given a whistle made of black-footed yang bones . It only has three frequencies , which represent enemy movements , retreats, and foreign objects . It sounds like wind blowing through the grass, but well-trained people will understand it as soon as they hear it. The Solon horses do not rely on personality or write secret letters. They rely on human flesh to jump to the point system. For example, if the enemy army has unusual movements, one person will ride a horse to the grave site 10 miles away and move out a sheep with a red tail in the sheepfold, which means there is a cave in the east. The next person will continue to take the sheep and exchange a few sheep. The message can be transmitted 500 miles a day. No one can come, and the enemy cannot understand it. In the early morning of that day, Mu Qing was lying on the sheepskin felt and taking a nap . Suddenly, he smelled a hint of burnt pine in the northwest wind. He immediately got up and blew the whistle for a season. The young shepherds inside and outside the beam heard it and rode out of the pen. In the middle of the night, they crossed the grass ridge and rushed to the small shed of their brothers behind the mountain. The brothers behind the mountain are not real brothers. They are code names given by the Ministry of Internal Affairs to several lead points. Each point has a nominal tomb owner who is actually a spy planted by Qingting. While herding sheep, guarding the border at the same time. The brothers behind the mountain mentioned by Mu Qing at this moment are the westernmost point. The terrain is dangerous and close to the Russian patrol track. The Shao sound he sent out means that the patrol team sent the abnormal direction two days in advance along the grass line back to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. After receiving the report, it was immediately reported to Emperor Qianlong. He only said one sentence , it seems that they are testing the border. On the second day, Qianlong was busy. The western section adjusted the wood and set up a tea shed ten miles away at the municipal level. This sentence is not a farming plan, but a border countermeasure. The tea shed represents popularity . Seeing this, the Russian side thought that a trade route would be set up here and did not dare to act rashly. In fact, the Qing army had quietly moved the real passage to the east for 20 miles. Mu Qing did not leave the grassland. He continued to plant. Cutting grass for wool and occasionally talking about fox hunting, but Qianlong once wrote in his diary his nickname “Dongfeng Muqing Ma Zhiluzhe Qingting Beijing” . The generals guard the pass and the soldiers patrol the border, but the people who really stand at the forefront and walk closest to the enemy’s footprints are often these ghosts without military bugles. They seem to be herding, but in fact they are the ears and eyes of the entire empire. Kazan is an important town in eastern Russia and also a secret intelligence site. It is not only the main road to Siberia , but also the distribution center of supplies for the Tsarist Russian army. What’s more, Qingting buried a live line contact point nearby. On the surface, the point is a public shed for repairing houses in a post station, but in fact it is a hidden The intelligence recovery den was hidden very deep and was operated by three craftsmen in turn. They did not know the secrets but could keep them. They usually mixed in the market where bricks were bought, tiles were unloaded, and ashes were burned. Once the intelligence recovery of a certain line failed, they would rely on them to clean up the mess. This bowl of Kazan suddenly caught fire. At first, people thought it was dry wood, but soon the fire spread to the backyard and there were two explosions. In the early morning, the whole warehouse area was charred. The officials of the Tsarist Russia came to check with a stern face because there were three volumes of confidential maps hidden in that area, the latest fortress location map, the defense hook and theft map , and a map marked with the dragonfly easy record The translated version of the diplomatic archives of the path , and these three volumes of maps have now turned into ash. The fire started unnaturally, but there was no way to trace it . Several sentries who were responsible for guarding that night fell asleep. After investigation, it was found that there was a sweet smell in their drinking water cans. It was suspicious, but there was no evidence . The real culprit was not there . He had already left Kazan City and got on a truck carrying coke. The driver was a Han Chinese wearing a worn leather coat, chewing a tree root in his mouth and looked like a coolie. In fact, his name was Taozi . He was the deepest burn scar in the county. He did not take intelligence or pass on secret orders . The only mission was to finish it off. This time, the order he received was that the firing point was about to be exposed. He had to deal with it immediately. The method was simple. Create a fire and burn the intelligence point and the archive files that might be exposed into ashes. That night, he sneaked into the kitchen while the others were scattered. He sprinkled a small amount of carbon oil in the woodshed and smeared chili oil and powder on the old drawings. A sesame oil fuse came out of the stove mouth. He did not light the fire , but waited until the early morning hours by the side of the stove before throwing in a small burning charcoal core. The flame licked the fuse from the bottom of the pot. It was inconspicuous, but it was enough to swallow a stove. Tao Zihou didn’t see the fire , but quietly withdrew. On the way, he changed carriages twice and clothes three times. After arriving in Tashkent, he used the pseudonym Bo Xi to continue his investigation. The starting point of all this was a letter from Qianlong half a month ago. The letter of approval from Qianlong, ” Fire can cover the invincible treasure, and the seven-word approval document was encrypted three times through the five lines of justice and finally reached Tao Zihou’s hands. He knew in his heart that this was a price to pay. What was burned was not only the intelligence , but also part of the transportation lines they carefully prepared. However, if it was not burned, the enemy would use this to lock on to the entire fuse layout of Qinglong. Afterwards, the Russian Empire really began to suspect that someone was lurking, but they could not find any list or any foreigners. In the end, it could only be attributed to an accident. The fire was extinguished, and the night in Kazan returned to peace. After the tube was renovated and converted into a small military camp, the blueprint was met again , but the accuracy of the original blueprint could no longer be confirmed. It was a mistake for the Russian Empire and a limitation for Qinglong. After seeing the report, Qianlong was silent for a long time. He did not reward him, but only wrote four words: “There is a bow in the emblem” , and Tao Zihou was still guarding his charcoal pile. There was a corner of the cloth strip in the flint box in his hand that was not burned. He gave a word. In this silent game, some No one has entered the scene, but they always clean up the mess at the end. He was once called Aguna. The name on the grassland means the soft light under the moon. But in the archives of the Tsarist Russian border, he was called another name, Maria, the wife of a border dweller, a woman who had lived in a small Russian village for 10 years. The story starts with a foreign marriage . In order to stabilize the northwest border, a group of female nurses were selected to marry into the families of border dwellers in order to soften the border . Many of them disappeared in the sandstorm of the border after they got married and were never heard from again . But Aguna was different. He was the chosen one. He had been married since he was a child. She is smart, full of Chinese and Mongolian, and can write regular script. At the age of 15, she was sent to Erguna. One of the candidates chosen by Emperor Qianlong for the Jingyuan mission. The mission is simple but difficult. She robs her relatives as a shell and floats in the life circle of Tsarist Russia. She weaves an unnoticed Hades. After marriage, she really gave birth to children and grew vegetables like other intermarried women. Her husband is a fur merchant with a gentle personality. He lost his father at an early age and obeyed him in everything. The neighbors said that he wove the densest wool with a gentle heart and baked the most fragrant bread. But no one knew that the brick plate under the stove in his home could be lifted up to reveal a piece of iron sheet underneath . Inside the dark box , behind the bronze mirror that was polished to a shine every day , was the echo line password that was used every three years. Whenever there were new soldiers or military equipment changes at the Tsarist Russian border, she would sneak into the Xiaodong Town Church in the west of the town while her husband was at the market . She would find a chipped brick behind the bell tower and stuff the small cloth bag written with persimmons into the gap. On a fixed day every month , an old man who looked like a craftsman would come to repair it and take the cloth bag away . He had never made a mistake in 10 years. This spring, the Russian army suddenly counted the household registration and conducted a background review of all intermarried households. Some people began to spread rumors that his Central Plains accent was too clear. The child’s Chinese is so pure that even the snacks he made are not as good as those of the locals. Aguna knew that the line was about to be exposed, but he did not panic. That night, he quietly took out the cloth bag from the secret box, lit a candle, and burned all of them , leaving only the last piece of thin cloth. On it were written four words: return line, stop crossing. He sewed these four words into the brim of his daughter’s hat. The next day , he took his daughter to the pasture at the edge of the town to bask in the sun. On the way, he deliberately talked to a passing merchant and praised his saddle, which was very similar to the Zhalantun style in his hometown. This compliment was actually a pass. After hearing this, the other party nodded and turned away. Three days later, the dragonfly sideline was withdrawn and the corresponding responders were completely interrupted. Two weeks later, the Russian side officially conducted a surprise inspection , but it was in vain. Later, Maria Qileva was unable to speak the language. Fu was expelled , and it was meaningless for him to take his daughter back to an unknown post station on the Sino-Russian border. He hid his identity and never asked to be picked up in Beijing. He took the initiative to ask to stay outside the border and turned into a rootless thread . When Qianlong knew that he had returned safely, he only sighed. Some people bid for the country, while others did not return for the country. This was not a fine line , nor was it the biography of women in history books , but a glimmer of light that truly pulled the entire intelligence network back from the edge of collapse. He had been undercover for ten years, not for glory , but for the empire to take one less risky move. While Aguna continued to make pancakes for passers-by at the post station, her back figure covered with a bun to cover her head from the sun. It seemed ordinary , but his family’s bronze mirror was polished to a shine, ready to reflect again whenever needed . The post station was the quietest artery of the empire. He did not It is as lively as a military camp , and not as majestic as a government office , but it is the center for the flow of intelligence, orders, forwarding of secret letters, and running. During the Qianlong period, dragonflies set up layers of hesitation in the Western Regions. From Kashgar in Xinjiang to Lanzhou in Gansu, camel caravans travel day and night. It only takes seven days for a letter to fly from the Western Regions to the capital. But something went wrong in this seemingly unbreakable system. In late spring of that year , an expedited letter sent from Kashgar was marked with the seal of Taiyi, and it should be sent immediately. Officials are not allowed to stop and travel day and night. The content is unknown, but it was written by the owner of the northern part of Jingyuan County. It should have a case seal, which shows its importance. However, this letter suddenly disappeared after arriving in Dihua and passing through Urumqi. A city and a big strategist immediately questioned the three lines and one rider, but they all insisted that The letter disappeared on the road without being seen. Normally, it might be considered a mistake or an accidental ceremony. But this time , the Ministry of Internal Affairs did not hesitate and immediately launched the non-sealing counter-inspection order, which means that this is not a mistake but a leak, because only five people know the specific time and route of the letter . One of them is Lu Nai, deputy general of Xi County, Yi Lu. He has never held a confidential position, but was suddenly transferred to the enemyization supervision and responsible for the transition security inspection five days before the letter disappeared. There are too many suspicious points , and from that day on, the Tsarist Russian border outpost suddenly changed its position and replaced soldiers. The location happened to be in the area mentioned in the letter. It was a coincidence that Fuheng did not write a long report when he reported the matter to Qianlong, but only replied with a sentence “lizard has snake Qianlong”. A month later, he wrote three words on it and cut off the tail. Cutting off the tail did not mean killing, but rather attacking the enemy from the right. Qianlong immediately ordered someone to write another imitation letter. The format was the same as before, with the same notes and wax seal , but the content was to be a wiring diagram, that is, to draw a fake Qing army’s westward route, deliberately marking that the troops would be deployed in the southern county of Tacheng. The letter was handed over to another channel to be sent to Lanzhou , and then transferred to the original end of the line by a controllable one. As a result, four days later, the Tsarist Russian border troops deployed Qing cavalry in the south of Tacheng and sent spies to try to approach the mountain pass. This time, there was no need to find evidence. The chief of the reconsideration, Lu, was immediately recalled for investigation. He did not confess, but his family servant Yi handed over a Russian postcard. Although the content was short , it stated that the silver coin had been placed for inspection. However, there was another coin at the end of the picture. The gray fingerprint was compared with Lu himself. In the end, the incident was not publicized. Qianlong did not punish him for his deformity. He just ordered him to enter the border and never return to his post. He would not kill him as long as he was alive and seen. The ending was a tour of the police academy. The post station communication system was urgently adjusted and 7 new items were added. The second anti-relocation system was added. The secret letter of Meifeng must be stamped by three people at each station. The most important thing is that Qianlong ordered the establishment of the Ya County system, that is, a fake letter was mixed in with the real letter. Even if the enemy stole the letter, they could not determine the authenticity. From then on, the Qing court’s Yilu became quieter and sharper . The original secret letter that disappeared that year was not found until many years later by a woman named Eji. The translator found that the handwriting of the BT enzyme was blurred in the cover of the Kazan rescue camp, but one sentence was still clearly identifiable. The third line of retreat was used incorrectly as the horse farm. It was this sentence that if the enemy knew it in advance , it might cut off the Qing army’s retreat. Fortunately, the empire had an extra alert that night. Some people went astray, some fell behind, and some made up. This is a letter of war. Some maps are not for their own use but for the enemy to see. Qianlong’s obsession with maps is almost paranoid. He reads dozens of frontier drafts every year, not to appreciate the mountains and rivers , but to know what is known. He often said that the way to guard the border is that the enemy knows my witch. So when the Tsarist Russia frequently probed the Qing army, the knots were being tested more and more transparently. Qianlong placed a very secret The plan was codenamed “Jianhuo”, which meant to let the enemy burn themselves in the false intelligence . The task of drawing the map was given to a man named Yang Ji. He was a serious geography student and was good at proportioning the real and the fake, that is, on a map, the real place was slightly misplaced and the key point was replaced by a similar terrain area, making people think that they had grasped the key point , but they could not find the pulse . After the map was drawn, it was processed into an old version. There were some water marks on the corners and the graphics , and the foreign seal and the Qing army seal were forged. Even the outer cover of the scroll was made of stubborn gray , which made it look very old. It was retrieved from the field. The key was how to retrieve it. So they arranged a secret agent who could accept the loss and a border guard to fill the communication room. He was assigned to a consultation office near Kyakhta for three months. In the second month , a robbery and car attack took place quietly. The spy was carrying documents and was attacked by horse thieves when passing through a grassy slope. The documents were robbed and the horses were taken away. Although the person was not injured , something in the car was stolen – a seemingly simple border map. The Tsarist Russian border troops took it over quickly. They thought it was a relic left by a Tongshi who had accidentally exposed it. The map was sent to Irkutsk for analysis as soon as possible . So a few weeks later, the Tsarist Russia began to send more troops to the Arzan Pass marked on the map, transport gunpowder and build bunkers , and even sent engineering teams to survey the route at night. The real direction of the Qing army’s troop movement was based on this. The equity corridor 130 miles away was quietly advanced. The Tsarist Russia did not realize until two years later that the Arzan Pass was impossible to transport troops. The terrain was narrow and dangerous, and the water source was insufficient . It was not an attack point at all. But at this time, they had already invested huge sums of money and mobilized 2,000 people in exchange for an absurdly quiet valley. After receiving the tip-off, Qianlong smiled slightly. These were the enemy’s men, not ours. He did not relax because of this, but instead ordered the map and objects to be remade. The enemy cannot be repeated . Later, Yang Ji was secretly awarded the Bai Qilin Wentong Alkali because of the fire-fighting map . This is a special reward from the Ministry of Internal Affairs for successful misleading tasks. However, there is no name on the alkali, only one word. After this incident, the Russian border troops began to distrust the dragonfly atlas. American goods must be suspected of being armor. In this way , even if they accidentally get the real map , they will make a wrong judgment due to excessive precautions. This trick is called the mystery enemy. The true and false of the three maps do not change, the true and false routes are opposite, and the true and false confidence is difficult to determine. So Qianlong used the armor map in front of the sand table to make the enemy recruit soldiers , while he always held the map without armor. People see a map without a map. This information game relies not on soldiers or generals, but on believing in the illusion you see. An officer in the Russian barracks once whispered to us whether we were attacking or defending or playing guessing games with them. No one could answer. The map of Arzan Pass is still hanging in the archives of the old military department in Irkutsk and is listed as a reference relic . There is an old fire mark in the center of the map , as if a war that has never been named was once started. Some maps are not for their own use but for the enemy to see. Qianlong’s obsession with maps is almost paranoid. He draws a map every year. The Qing Dynasty reviewed dozens of frontier drafts, not to appreciate the landscape , but to know what was known. He often said that the way to defend the border lies in what the enemy knows about us. So when the Russian Empire frequently probed the Qing army’s defense nodes and the Qing army’s defense nodes were being probed and became more and more transparent, Qianlong issued a very secret decree to create a fake map and let it fall into the hands of the Russian Empire. This matter was carried out by the Huaimen Division, a branch of the Ministry of Internal Affairs . They were not map collectors, nor were they soldiers , but a group of misleaders who were good at countering information. The code name of this A map plan was Jianhuo , which meant to let the enemy burn themselves in the false information. The task of drawing was given to a man named Yang Ji. He was a serious geography student and was good at proportioning the real and the fake , that is, on a map , the real place was slightly misplaced and the key point was replaced by a similar terrain area, making people think that they had grasped the key point , but they could not find the pulse . After the map was drawn, it was processed into an old version . There were some water characters on the corners and the center of the map , and the foreign seals and Qing army stamps were forged . Even the outer cover of the scroll was solidified with paper ash, which made it look very old and was retrieved from the field. The key was how to retrieve it , so they arranged an acceptable loss of spy, a frontier defense back-up communication room He was assigned to a consultation office near Kyakhta for three months. In the second month , a robbery and car attack took place quietly. The spy was carrying documents and was attacked by horse thieves when passing through a grassy slope. The documents were robbed and the horses were taken away. Although the person was not injured , something in the car was stolen – a seemingly simple border map. The Tsarist Russian border troops took it over quickly. They thought it was a relic left by a Tongshi who had accidentally exposed it. The map was sent to Irkutsk for analysis as soon as possible . So a few weeks later, the Tsarist Russia began to send more troops to the Arzan Pass marked on the map, transport gunpowder to build blockhouses, and even sent engineering teams to survey the route at night. The real direction of the Qing army’s troop movement was based on this. The equity corridor 130 miles away was quietly advanced. The Tsarist Russia did not realize until two years later that the Arzan Pass was impossible to transport troops. The terrain was narrow and dangerous, and the water source was insufficient. It was not an attack point at all. But at this time, they had already invested huge sums of money and mobilized 2,000 people in exchange for an absurdly quiet valley. After receiving the tip-off, Qianlong smiled slightly. These were the enemy’s men, not ours. He did not relax because of this, but instead ordered the map and objects to be remade. The enemy cannot be repeated . Later, Yang Ji was secretly awarded the Bai Qilin Wentong Alkali for the fire-fighting map . This is a special reward from the Ministry of Internal Affairs for successful misleading tasks. However, there is no name on the alkali, only one word. After this incident, the Russian border troops began to distrust the dragonfly atlas. American goods must be suspected of armor . In this way , even if they accidentally obtain the real map , they will make a wrong judgment due to excessive defense. This trick is called the mystery enemy. The true and false of the three maps do not change, the true and false routes are opposite, and the true and false confidence is difficult to determine. So Qianlong used the armor map in front of the sand table to make the enemy infantry recruit soldiers , while he always held the map without a map that no one saw. This information game does not rely on soldiers or generals, but only on a false image that you believe in what you see. An officer in the Russian barracks once whispered and asked us whether we were attacking and defending or playing guessing games with them. No one could answer. The map of the Arzan Pass is still hanging in the archives of the old military department in Irkutsk and is listed as a reference relic . There is an old fire mark in the center of the map, as if a fire had been burned. Most people know that Qianlong loves to appreciate paintings, write poems and visit gardens , but few know that there is an unknown general in his intelligence system who is not in the memorials and does not go to the court. This man’s surname is Wei , his given name is auspicious, and his nickname is Cang Ya. It sounds like a name that is very Jianghu , but in fact, he is neither a warrior nor a civil official . He is the only general matchmaker in Qianlong’s military book system who is stationed on the border and does not have a name . This unknown general lives in a shed called Yuyuling on the north road of Tianshan Mountain . It is said that there are only three houses. The appearance is dilapidated and no one goes in and out all year round. Whenever there is a dragonfly spy on the northern grassland , he will definitely find a way to pass the news to Mu Yulin, because only he can figure out the Qing court’s various positions in the three lines of Russia and Jing. Only he knows the connection points of the online intelligence, which are enlightenment reports , which are traps , which should be hidden, and which can be used. He has no soldiers, only three messengers, known as the Three Letter Passengers. These three people specialize in traveling between the border villages of the Western Region grasslands, and they don’t even take the strange roads. They rely on wild deer to drive the horses. They won’t stay for long. Each time they show up, they only take one type of intelligence summary. Qianlong never mentioned this cliff, but there is a very short record in the Autumn Jade Dew of the 35th year of Qianlong’s reign: ” The frost on the edge has been sent. The three colds are on the way. No blood on the teeth will be completed.” This line seems to be frustrated , but it is actually a honeyed word. It means that the winter ice route has been determined and the hub has returned. The letter can be implemented. There was a border crisis in the northwest that year. The Russian cavalry was suspected to be difficult to detect . Qingting originally planned to transfer troops from Urumqi to the west for assistance. However, the unknown general Wei Cangya asserted that this was a false move to attract troops from the east. Although Qianlong had some doubts , he decided to trust him. In the end, the Qing army’s troops did not move like a mountain. Instead, they shifted their attention to the small road north of Kashgar and quietly set up three layers of hidden troops at the mountain pass. Sure enough , half a month later, the Russians mobilized their main force to test the Kashan Pass, but all the lines failed. From then on, the four words “letter from Ya” became a symbol of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and other places that were equivalent to the emperor’s orders. But this unknown general was not proud of this. He never entered the court and received no rewards in his life . Yi Xin often used the word “Cang” in his seal and did not leave his surname. All his records were hidden in a long iron river. The content of the Xifeng Temple is a series of difficult phrases. Only the tree word identification method mastered by Qianlong and him can be deciphered. It is said that his last appearance was in the 41st year of Qianlong’s reign. In that year, a heavy snowstorm in the north interrupted the three leads to the complete loss of intelligence support for the border. The outside world began to panic and some even suggested to mobilize troops in advance. But on the 14th day, a horse relic came from the direction of Yuyuling with a wind-dried horse skin. There were only 16 words in the wind belt. The blood pressure did not collapse. He flew to the burial section and died. It was in me. After reading it, Qianlong pondered for half a day and nodded. He only said, ” The yamen is still there.” From then on , this general secretary of the army who was not involved in any border strategy was praised as an unseen general who could move the army . He had no general’s mansion and no land. He only guarded an old house, a map, a beehive, and a pot of wine. Occasionally, he would circle and dot in the snow to help the emperor see those invisible places and his existence. It is a dark vein of the empire. They are not generals, nor are they the Yuan Dynasty. They do not leave their names in the bright places of history books , but in Qianlong’s heart, these shadows in the images are the ones who truly guard the borders of the empire . The story of the last member of the shadow queen is not so thrilling , but the most moving. His name is Shi Erlang. He was originally a small alien from the Western Regions. There was a small earthen slope next to the post station. He would go there every morning to drink water, practice calligraphy and bask in the sun. Everyone thought he was a rough man who could not read a few words. No one expected that he could memorize a whole book of Western Regions Tongzhi and could write out a 80-mile border map from memory . What he was best at was not sending letters or revising records , but remembering people. He remembered that one winter, an officer with a crooked fur hat entered the city from Kashgar. He remembered the blacksmith shop at the entrance of which alley. He changed from a clerk with a wandering eye to one with hands as steady as a clock. He also remembered a man who came The woodcutter from Kuye Island always walks half a beat heavier than others because there is a secret hero hidden in his boots. During the Qianlong period, Shi Erlang was secretly assigned to fill in the gaps in the rear line. When he had no main job, he would only appear at the scene when all the intelligence personnel lost contact, and then pretend that he had always been there. His real role was to prevent the empire’s intelligence line from being cut off by the last break. He never asked about the mission, but only about the direction. He had a tattered line book. Every time he turned a page , he would silently recite a name in his mind. It was a shadow he had received. After each name, he would remember a dialect, a habit , and the basis for their last words. Shi Erlang’s last mission was to replace a person who had lost contact and went to the west of the Altai Mountains to bring back a letter that was suspected to be fake. He fell off his horse on the way and had a serious fracture , but he climbed 3 miles and tied his leg bone with a broken branch and dragged his injured leg. The remaining 60 miles were completed. The letter was eventually confirmed to be the Russian fuse. If he had not handed it back to the Qing army in person, he might have fallen into an ambush. After Qianlong learned about this, he did not express his gratitude. He only told him to stop and never travel far again. After returning to the post station, Shi Erlang did not set off again. He only basked in the sun at the door and raised two chickens and planted a few locust trees. But he still insisted on going to the small slope to drink water and practice calligraphy every morning. He said that he was afraid that one day there would be another line segment and someone would remember who had been there and who had not returned . Fuheng wrote to Qianlong in his later years. There was a passage that became “After watching the movie, the beads walked in the mud and sat in the wind . They were not gods or immortals, but were all mortal bodies. Qianlong used mortal bodies to accomplish extraordinary things. The story has been 15 chapters so far. Maybe you are tired of listening. Maybe you are just imagining that picture in your mind. Lines crossed the border, the wilderness, the snowfields and the dense forests , hidden in the brim of the hat, under the saddle, and in the fragrance of tea. After saving those shadows After all, they blocked too many unknown blades for this empire , but they themselves returned to the dust quietly. Their names turned into a word in the scroll, a sigh in the wind. The story was over and the night was deep. Imagine that the sound of horse hooves had faded away , the wind lifted the last corner of the scroll, the candles were extinguished , and only a faint light was left dancing on the paper. Those who walked on the border line had long returned to obscurity, like the stars falling into the night, far away but guiding the direction. You can close your eyes and listen to the sound of the wind blowing. It is no longer information , but tranquility. Let this quietness surround you, surround your dreams, and surround all those who have silently paid for the distant places.

🎯【乾隆皇帝的无声战争：清朝情报战中的暗影帝国】
你以为乾隆年间只是诗酒风雅？其实，在紫禁城之外，还有一张不属于任何军队、不写进史书、却悄然影响帝国走向的隐秘情报网。
本片为你还原乾隆亲手打造的“影后线”——没有番号、没有军功、没有姓名，却真实存在于边境、商道、寺庙、毛皮铺、翻译馆、贡院、驿站之中的幽灵战线。
这是一场没有硝烟的对弈，敌人是沙俄，武器是人、马、纸、图、词、酒、一串念珠，和一顶缝了情报的皮帽。
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0:00 – 开场：三行脚印引发的帝国情报战
8:10 – 傅恒动手，乾隆亲启“影后线”
17:25 – 李慎言：假秀才的七年卧底人生
26:45 – 皮帽铺老板：西伯利亚最危险的接头人
35:40 – 喇嘛游僧与念珠暗号：信仰掩护下的密使
45:00 – 情报掉包与“假地图”：不战而胜的布局
58:15 – 无名者的落幕：那些守住帝国边界的人