At the same time that the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs received a telegram from the French Embassy, the telegraph office of the Times also received a telegram from the French Havas Agency...... Or the news in the name of the Hawass Society.

When the Times telegraph operator read through the Morse code into text, he immediately broke into the office of the editor-in-chief who had been left behind in the Times.

"Editor-in-chief, big news! Big news! The telegraph operator shook the telegram in his hand and shouted at the editor-in-chief who was lying on the table.

The editor-in-chief, who heard the telegraph operator's shout, opened his sleepy eyes, yawned and asked lazily, "What big news?" ”

"Look! You see! The telegraph operator hurriedly slapped the telegram in front of the editor-in-chief.

The editor-in-chief picked up the telegram and began to check its contents, and after a while, the originally lazy editor-in-chief unexpectedly "miraculously" stood up.

"Big news indeed!" The editor-in-chief clenched his fists excitedly and said, "It has to be on the front page, and it has to be an eye-catching headline...... It has to be in today's newspapers! ”

"However, the editor-in-chief of our newspaper today has already begun to print and typeset! Now, if you ask workers to revise the typesetting, I am afraid that it will waste a lot of costs. Why don't you wait a day! The telegraph operator, based on cost considerations, made a suggestion to the editor-in-chief.

"No! Can't wait until tomorrow! The editor-in-chief said resolutely, and then explained to the telegraph operator: "The most important thing in news is timeliness and timeliness!" The success of a newspaper depends on whether it has first-hand information! Late publication will save us a lot of money, but the impact is ten times the cost irreversible.

We must not allow our loyal subscribers to get information that falls behind the newspaper! ”

"Other newspapers? Do you mean that there are other newspapers besides us that have also received this news? The telegraph operator asked suspiciously.

"I'm sure of it! This news is definitely not only received by our family, many influential newspapers have probably received this news! The editor-in-chief replied to the telegraph operator in a firm tone.

"Why are they doing this?" The telegraph operator was still puzzled.

"We don't need to understand why! We just need to know that we already have competitors from the time we receive the telegram! The editor-in-chief replied to the telegraph operator, and then gave him an order: "You go to the printing house at once, and tell the workers of the printing house to stop printing at once and wait for the next move!" ”

"Yes!" The telegraph operator, who received the order, hurriedly replied.

"Go ahead!" The editor-in-chief waved his hand and reminded: "Remember to move quickly!" ”

The editor-in-chief, who watched the telegraph operator leave the office, opened the drawer and took out the paper and pen from the drawer, this time to polish the short piece of news and make it a readable article.

After sitting in the office for more than an hour, a brand new article jumped onto the page.

After reading the article carefully, the editor-in-chief is quite satisfied with the article he has written.

Although he said that he hadn't written an article for a long time, his pen power still hadn't declined.

"You have to have a title that fits the article!" The editor-in-chief muttered a phrase and then wrote one title after another on another piece of scratch paper.

However, he was dissatisfied with each of the headlines, and always felt that there was a lack of criticism.

"What's the title?" The editor-in-chief scratched his head vigorously.

The editor-in-chief who really couldn't think of the headline had to find all the recent domestic and foreign newspapers, and he hoped to find the answer from these newspapers.

It wasn't until he saw a headline in Le Bonaparte that inspiration immediately poured into his head like a fountain.

The editor-in-chief seized the opportunity to hurriedly write down his thoughts, and an article with the headline "A Letter to the Prime Minister of Britain" "appeared" on scratch paper.

After writing the article, the editor-in-chief glanced at the time, and there were still nearly 3 hours before dawn (5 o'clock), and he had to hurry.

As a result, the editor-in-chief prepared to go to the printing house in person to explain the task.

……

When the editor-in-chief arrived at the gate of the printing house, the entire printing house was eerily quiet, and all the workers in the printing house seemed to have left.

"No, it won't! Didn't I tell them to wait! Looking at the quiet printing house in front of him, the editor-in-chief felt a sense of anxiety in his heart.

Just when the editor-in-chief thought that the printing house was empty, a figure came out of the printing house.

The figure glanced at the editor-in-chief standing under the gaslight and hurriedly said, "Editor-in-chief, you're here!" ”

The editor-in-chief walked quickly in front of him, and it turned out that the figure was the telegraph operator he had photographed in the printing house, and he hurriedly asked, "What the hell is going on?" Why is there no movement in the printing house? ”

"Didn't you say don't start the work? So I didn't let the workers get started! The telegraph operator responded to the editor-in-chief,

"Look at my brain!" Only then did the editor-in-chief remember that he had indeed asked them not to do it.

Who would have thought that after writing an article, he would forget about this stubble.

"You give this to the workers in the printing house right now, and let them get to work quickly!" The editor-in-chief handed the article into the hands of the telegraph operator and said a word to him.

"Good!" The telegraph operator nodded and entered the printing house.

The editor-in-chief also followed suit.

"Wake up! Wake up! Still working! The sleeping workers woke up with a call in their ears, and they forced themselves to fall asleep and start working.

After nearly two and a half hours of work, tens of thousands of newspapers were produced by the hands of the printers.

Looking at the newspapers hanging from the rope without dry ink, the editor-in-chief nodded with satisfaction.

In another half an hour, the ink will solidify.

……

As the first rays of dawn appeared over the sparkling waters of the Thames, the editor-in-chief began to order the workers of the printing house to take all the newspapers off the ropes.

Exhausted printing factory workers were reluctant to put away tens of thousands of newspapers.

It was about six o'clock, and newsboys from all over London arrived at the door of the printing house as if they had agreed in advance, and they waited in a line for the newspaper.

"One by one!" The editor-in-chief enthusiastically instructed the workers to distribute the newspaper to the newsboy, and then instructed the newsboy to sell more copies.

After all the newsboys had divided into their own newspapers, the editor-in-chief looked at the rest of the newspapers.

It was 7 a.m. and the Times delivery man arrived at the printing house.

"It's yours...... It's your ......" The editor-in-chief puts the newspaper in the hands of the home delivery man and tells them to make sure it gets to the subscribers.

Although the newspaper delivery staff present wondered why the editor-in-chief was here, none of them dared to ask the editor-in-chief.

When all the newspapers were distributed, a sense of exhaustion swept through the editor-in-chief's body.

"I'm back to rest! You should go back early, too! The editor-in-chief yawned to the telegraph operator and left the printing house.

……

9 a.m., Mansion 10 Downing Street.

As Prime Minister, Palmerston has officially started his day.

He first asked his personal secretary about his itinerary for today, and the private secretary shook his head and told Palmerston that there was nothing planned for today.

If nothing unexpected happens......

"So, I can take a proper day off!" Palmerston smiled in response to the private secretary as he walked over to the couch and sat down.

"Your Excellency Prime Minister, of course!" The private secretary bowed respectfully.

"That's good!" Palmerston nodded, then ordered to the private secretary, "Can you help me get the Times on the table?" I'm going to take a look! ”

Palmerston, a loyal user of The Times, doesn't want to miss any issue.

Although the criticism of the Times is far greater than the praise of him, this has not dampened Palmerston's interest in the Times.

After all, what cabinet has not been criticized by the Times, and how can it be prime minister if it can't stand even a little criticism.

"Yes! Prime minister! The private secretary handed the newspaper to Palmerston.

After taking over the Times, Palmerston looked at the headline of the Times entitled "A Letter to the Prime Minister of Britain", and was convinced that the content of the Times was probably a criticism of a certain cabinet minister.

After all, who has nothing to write to the Prime Minister!

Thinking of this, Palmerston could not help but gloat, he was happy to see his ministers deflated.

After all, the vast majority of the ministers who formed the cabinet with him at the moment are not people who have much in common with him, and there are even some who oppose him.

After the defeat of the Aberdeen Cabinet, Palmerston's Cabinet, although nominally a hard-liner Cabinet, was in fact a Cabinet under the guise of a hard-liners.

The treatment of the Russian Empire by the members of the Cabinet was very different from that of Palmerston, and some of the Cabinet ministers believed that the Kingdom of Britain, which had occupied the fortress of Sevastopol, should stop in moderation and negotiate peace with Russia as soon as possible. The other part believes that the Kingdom of Britain should occupy Crimea before opening a dialogue with the Russian Empire.

Palmerston himself was unhappy with the people in both sections.

According to his ideas, the Russian Empire had to be completely direct, the Caucasus, the Crimea, and the coast (Odessa) should be restored to Ottoman rule, Finland should be handed over to Sweden, Poland should be established as a Grand Duchy of Poland, the Kingdom of Prussia could expand into the Baltics, and the Austrian Empire should expand into Bessarabia......

In short, in Palmerston's blueprint, the best outcome of the Russian Empire is to revert to the Grand Duchy of Moscow.

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