The next few days he kept the chosen mode of visiting noble encounters and remained absolutely calm, at least outwardly. Meanwhile, the agent network began to eat denarii and give its results. By the end of the week, by joint efforts, about three hundred people gathered information for him, most of them, however, were children. The tasks that were put before the agent network were somewhat vague and rather complicated - it was necessary to take control of all key players in the political arena of Venice and keep them under round the clock surveillance. In addition, the hand on the pulse in the criminal world was kept, and all more or less suspicious visitors were noted. As soon as the network began to operate the information went a very solid stream, from which, frankly, he had already lost the habit. I hastily started a kind of diary. For the first time he bought himself two clean scrolls of parchment, well, not quite clean, but cleaned. But it was not an option. It was very inconvenient to mess with this resource. It was necessary to urgently seek a way out. It was dangerous to make paper, as this would add suspicion. After suffering a little, he stopped on a thin fabric of bleached flax, which he cut into neat rectangles, and, at the time of writing, he inserted into simple homemade embroidery hoops made of wood. The size of the sheets was about 20 by 30 centimeters. I cut it myself, by measure, so that the sheets were almost identical. The edges of these improvised sheets were neatly sutured, in order to prevent their dissolution. He entrusted this fascinating business to the Drevlyanin, so as not to distract the others, loaded with agency work, subordinates. The organization of the disparate sheets of cloth he decided quite simply - numbering them and sewing twenty sheets in one notebook. For page numbering (and generally recording of digital information), he used a visually undeformed form of recording in the form of simple geometric figures expressing the decimal system, and the records themselves were in modern Russian. By these means he quite reliably saved from reading these texts his current contemporaries in case of theft or forcible seizure during a search. By the end of the second month he already had about one hundred and fifty carefully printed sheets with information and a fairly clear understanding of the situation. It all began with that strange precedent in Vienna, when he shot French knights. Before their suzerain, this information came through the Duke of Austria in the process of dismantling. Of course - this is the king interested, because the situation was quite unusual. In general, he sent his spies to Eric to find out what was what, and then decided to see what kind of person he was, the painfully ambiguous data was coming. I needed a provocation, but one that would be difficult to ignore. That's why on the scene appeared Baudouin, who was previously a very literate and completely uninformative performer. He was processed, inspired by some greatness, and then allocated Gaspar, who, incidentally, was the perfect pawn in that game. In general, Jean is dying. Duke, realizing that an interesting game had begun, puts his best spies on watch for von Lenzburg, who almost held him in an embrace with the people of Philip kept him under the hood. These crooked European rulers were expecting different surprises, but he was able to exceed all their expectations and made a furor. You just imagine - he sits at home, does nothing, sometimes pushes at the forge of the pear, sometimes he walks the market. And then suddenly Gaspard disappears in the evening, and next morning they find the corpse of Morel with a very beautiful dramatization. At the same time - none, absolutely no trace or thread to Eric was found, but to all interested persons it was clear that it was he who did it. And now, behind the baron, three curious glances are closely watched: the King of France Philip II Augustus, the Duke of Austria Frederick I Banberg and the Grand Master of the Knights Templar Order - Gilbert Eral. Not the most pleasant news. Although they were compensated for by the complete failure of their agents, since our cunning man had already figured out all the hunters, tracked them down and kept them under control, that is, all the information that came from them to the employers was known to him, too. A good trump card in the game. Yes, the picture of the personalities cleared up, it became clear who he was interested in. It is much more difficult to find out what. For these tasks, there must be someone from the house, for example Philippe, someone who is trusted, as with conventional agents this task could not be solved. Of the existing personalities of great interest was the same Thibaut III Champagne and his son-in-law Baldwin I of Flanders, since they had a direct relationship to the now reigning house in France. This caused a change in instructions for intelligence activities, and therefore, after two weeks, Eric paced next to the desk and pondered a further plan of action.