shadow of britain

Chapter 175

Greater Scotland Yard Headquarters, 4 Whitehall Street, Westminster, London.

Arthur was sitting in the office on the second floor, with a thick pile of police materials in his hand.

While every superintendent at Scotland Yard had to deal with such a pile of weekly police reports on Monday, there was no doubt that Arthur had to deal with the thickest pile.

As for why he has the thickest material, the reason is very simple. Who made his jurisdiction include Tower Hamlets, the most chaotic place in London?

In addition to handling day-to-day police work, he also had to submit work reports on last week's Hyde Park riots to Scotland Yard and the Home Office.

After finally finishing writing these things, Arthur leaned back on the chair and stretched. Through the sunlight shining through the window, he could find that his right hand holding the pen was stained with a lot of ink.

He turned sideways to look at the documents on the desk and the voluminous files in the file cabinet in the office, and couldn't help frowning.

When he was Inspector of Greenwich, he could handle the work.But now that he is a police superintendent, he should consider finding some police assistants who can help him, whether it is from the perspective of improving work efficiency or reducing his own burden.

Tom and Tony are certainly willing to help, but limited by their education level and personality, they are really unable to do this kind of clerical work.

Arthur pondered this matter, thinking that he might consider going to the school to do an on-site recruitment when the University of London graduates season?

Firstly, to reduce the burden on myself, and secondly, it can be regarded as giving back to my alma mater and solving the problem of the employment rate of the University of London.

But the only difficulty may be that the salary level of Scotland Yard's junior police assistant is not particularly competitive in the market.

Although the salary of ordinary police officers in Scotland Yard has now risen to [-] shillings per week, and the trend of high turnover rate has gradually slowed down, some police officers still choose to leave the police force in search of high salaries in recent months.

Perhaps because of the recent recovery of the economic situation and the fact that London is not very peaceful during this period, the private security market in London is in a stage of rapid expansion.

Saying 'private security' might be too lofty, it's actually jobs like janitor, bell ringer, etc.

Of course, in the 21st century, this kind of work is generally referred to as security.

But who can the security guard protect?

Arthur knew it well.

Security guards can't protect anyone.

But having said that, as long as there are police officers who have worked in Scotland Yard, they will be snapped up by the private security market after leaving the job. Most of the retired police officers will get a new job with a big salary increase.

Even the current British Prime Minister, the Duke of Wellington, has begun to consider hiring a private security team because the windows of his home have been smashed repeatedly.

Thinking of the Duke of Wellington, Arthur couldn't help feeling a little worried.

According to his understanding, a new parliamentary discussion will be held two weeks later. According to the news he learned from Dickens who interviewed the full-time parliament, the Whig Party is very likely to launch a general attack on Wellington’s cabinet in two weeks. .

Judging from the current situation, even the Duke of Wellington, who is the best at building defense lines in the whole of Great Britain, his fortifications will definitely suffer a decisive blow this time.

But it's useless to think about these things. Even if the Duke of Wellington collapses, at most he will retire early, and he will sleep peacefully in the House of Lords from now on.

After all, after Lianke four French marshals in the Iberian Peninsula, he received repeated awards from His Majesty the King and the government. Not only was he successfully promoted to Duke, he was awarded the Knight of the Garter, and he also received 50 rewards from His Majesty the King and the government.

There is no need to worry about him.

The most urgent task at the moment is to plan ahead and consider which new backer can be replaced after the Tories led by the Duke of Wellington and Sir Peel go down.

Arthur thought about it, but didn't have a clue for a while.

He stroked his sore palm, took out a clean white paper from the drawer, and planned to list all the things he planned to do or will do in the future.

1. Go to the London Conservatory of Music near Baker Street and discuss with Mr. Mocheles about part-time gigs as soon as possible
2. After setting the concert time, reserve several tickets for Mrs. Levin
3. Go to Greenwich and order gramophones and records from Mr. Charles Wheatstone

4. Contact Fiona and ask her "Cambridge's little brother" to find Elder's damn wallet and the Beagle's sea training supply receipt in the wallet

5. Go to Fleet Street to find a suitable newspaper to serially publish Alexander's masterpiece "The Count of Monte Cristo"

6. Go to University of London on Gower Street to hold a job fair for at least one civilian police assistant.If you have a suitable goal, you may consider transferring to LPS for development training

7. Analyze and investigate the LPS internal documents and archives provided by Elder, and see if you can find a Whig backer who can get online
With his hands behind his back, Agares leaned over and stood behind Arthur with his head down, pushing his monocle.

The Red Devil nodded in satisfaction and said, "Arthur, that's right. Keep running, and sooner or later you will climb up."

Unexpectedly, when Arthur heard this, he just raised his eyebrows: "Do you think I keep running to make progress?"

The Red Devil smiled and said, "Isn't it for the sake of making progress?"

Arthur just shook his head slightly: "No, no, running is just to not stay in place. You don't understand, Agares, this is a big era, if you can't keep up with the pace of the times, you will only be left behind by it in the end , others will not wait for you."

When Agares heard this, he felt a little familiar: "Why do I remember who you said this to? Oh! By the way, it's that crazy priest in Oxford. Don't you go check him out? I I read in the papers that the anti-Robert Peel movement at Oxford University has been in full swing lately, and that John Newman, the vicar of St Mary's, Oxford, which you know, is one of its leaders."

Arthur shrugged: "If they want to do it, let's do it. After all, for the sake of the "Catholic Emancipation Act", even the Archbishops of Canterbury and York are attacking Sir Peel in Parliament every day. One more group from Oxford Priest, it doesn't really matter, after all priests don't want to smash the windows of Sir Peel's house."

The Red Devil raised his eyebrows and said with a smirk: "Are you planning to disassociate yourself from the Tory Party? Oh! My dear Arthur, you are such a fickle little villain. But this is indeed beyond my expectation, I I thought it would be a psychological burden for you to do such a thing."

Arthur put his arms on the table with his fingers crossed, and he smiled: "Agares, I told you a long time ago, as a superintendent of Scotland Yard, I hold absolute political neutrality, and I am not opposed to partisan struggle. Not interested. Besides, didn't you once follow such a big man as King Solomon?

That being the case, you should understand that if you are not in position today, you will not be in position tomorrow.Taking turns to power is tantamount to castration, and power is forever.It looks like the end of the Tories' 30 years in power is coming to an end, and while I think they'll come back sooner or later, I'll have to find a reasonable path for myself to get me through this turbulent period until then. "

Hearing this, the Red Devil just smiled: "Then what are you going to do?"

Arthur just pinched his chin and looked at the two stacks of documents in front of him. One was Scotland Yard's police report, and the other was LPS' file analysis.

He stood up, picked up his tea cup and walked to the window. Outside the window was the bright sunshine and the busy road, and Downing Street was not far from his line of sight.

Arthur took a sip of lipstick tea and said lightly, "I believe that no matter which party is in power, they always need someone to help them with things. Whether it's business or private, I have to find an opportunity to solve something for them .”

The Red Devil nodded and walked to Arthur's side: "Then what if there is no chance?"

The corners of Arthur's mouth turned up, and there was only a cheerful smile on his face.

"Then find a way to create opportunities."

(End of this chapter)