Outside the window, the rain was still falling, and the transparent glass was crawling with dense droplets.

Through the window, Arthur and Elder can be seen asking and answering.

Time flies, and it doesn't take long for the second page that Arthur brought with him today to be filled with information about the 'thief general' Fred.

Name: Fred Matthews

Gender: Male

Age: 40-50 years old

Experienced:

1. Speak a southern regional accent, presumably from a farming family in the Sussex or Kent countryside.

2. In his early years, he joined the army and knew a certain amount of knowledge of firearms, gunpowder and hand-to-hand combat, and his service corps was unknown for the time being.

3. After the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, he was dismissed and discharged, but due to the excessive disbandment of the corps in 1815, there was a shortage of jobs. During this time, Fred was active in the docks around London for a long time, making a living as a dock husband, and later organized a group of retired veterans to violently compete for the dock transportation business.

4. After 1820, it gradually turned to other industries, including but not limited to illegal acts such as selling stolen goods, theft, robbery, extortion, and extortion.

5. In 1825, after a complaint from the Dock Merchants Association, its group was severely cracked down, and several important members were hanged.

6. After disappearing for a while, Fred and his group opened a private detective agency called 'Blackpool' at 75 Brick Lane in Whitechapel District, East London, in 1828, and claimed to provide a variety of services, including arrest, investigation, and security.

7. But the day-to-day work of the firm was usually carried out by Fred's men, who himself seldom appeared in public after 1825, and few knew his true face.

When Arthur wrote this, he immediately felt that the problem was a little tricky.

Most of Fred's apparent crimes were committed before 1825, and most of those cases were too old to gather evidence to prosecute Fred.

Now, although he can be investigated by the private detective agency that spies on Fred, according to the information available so far, Fred has been relatively low-key since his comeback.

When engaging in gray business such as selling stolen goods, he will carefully choose the business partner.

Either they are very small one-on-one transactions, which are fast, small in value, and leave little to no trace, making them difficult to trace.

And when it comes to making big, easy-to-trace deals, Fred will only choose someone like Elder who has a Royal Navy endorsement or other strong background.

To put it bluntly, it is not easy to check his place. It's good to check his place, but you can't check it.

After all, Arthur can't go to the Admiralty in handcuffs to arrest someone, right?

Faced with a jumble of confusing information, Arthur felt uncomfortable anywhere.

This Fred is really not easy to catch.

Elder persuaded on the side: "Arthur, what are you doing with him?" He is a soldier who retired from the army, although he has no great skills, but there are too many people involved behind him.

Even if you want to arrest him, you can only catch him dead, not alive. If you put him alive in Scotland Yard, it is estimated that many people in London will not be able to sleep at night. ”

Arthur leaned back and leaned back in his chair: "Is that including you?" ”

"Me? Of course not. ”

Elder said nonchalantly: "I have my uncle to protect me, my uncle has the fleet commander to protect me, the fleet commander has the Admiralty to protect me, and the Admiralty has the council to protect me."

Everyone knows that the toilet is covered with and that it smells, but who has nothing to do to lift the lid?

Don't you still have to pinch your nose when you go to the toilet? Could it be that you really plan to blow up the manure pit?

To be honest, if you really pick up the big dung, even if you don't feel disgusting, are you going to pull it in the field when you turn around and have a stomach? ”

Elder was so full of and pee that Darwin couldn't help but put it back as soon as he picked up a piece of bread.

He complained, "Elder, are you really a graduate of the Department of Classics?" ”

Elder raised an eyebrow: "Why do you ask this question too?" ”

He picked up a piece of dried fish and put it in his mouth, chewing as he pointed.

"Charles, you can't do this! When you get on the boat later, if it floats for a long time and there are no supplies on board, you will have to swallow some kind of rotten fruit and musty cookie crumbs. ”

Just as the three of them were chatting, the door of the café was suddenly pushed open.

The bell hanging in the doorway jingled, and two soaking men in police uniforms walked up to Arthur.

Elder glanced at them for a moment, pondering them for a moment, and suddenly jumped up from his chair in fright.

He pointed at Arthur and scolded, "Arthur, are you really going to fucking kill me?" I'm afraid that one person won't be able to subdue me, so I specially called two helpers! ”

Arthur didn't know which nerve his friend had miswired, and he reluctantly explained, "Just sit down and eat your dried fish, they're not here to catch you." ”

Elder Fox wondered, "Then what are they here for?" ”

"I called them over so they could come to Charles' medical class."

With that, Arthur glanced at the clock in the café and said to the two officers, "Tom, Tony, you two are too late today." ”

Officer Tony said embarrassedly, "Arthur, we really didn't mean to. We're both used to working on the front line, and halfway through today's patrol, I suddenly remembered that we had been transferred to the district police station by you. ”

Tom also nodded with a red face and said, "Arthur, why don't Tony and I go back to the front line." Tony used to be a shoe-sewing, I used to be a shoeshine, and we couldn't do the paperwork. ”

"Who told you that I sent you to the district police station to do paperwork?"

Tony and Tom were stunned when they heard this, and they said in unison, "Then what did you call us over?" ”

Arthur said seriously: "Anyone can do the patrol work." But the work of solving the case is not something that everyone can play.

I transferred you here to train you from patrol police to police detectives.

Since you have decided to let you police detectives in the future, it is natural to strengthen the study of relevant knowledge.

Do you know the biggest difference between humans and monkeys?

The biggest difference between humans and monkeys is that they know how to keep learning and pursue more advanced skills.

And the Mr. Charles Darwin in front of me understands not only monkeys, but also people, and how monkeys evolve into humans.

Therefore, for the next three months from now on, your main task will be to study naturalism and medicine with Mr. Darwin. ”

As soon as Arthur finished speaking, Tom and Tony had not answered, and Darwin protested first.

"Arthur, I'm a Lamarckist, but I don't think there's any necessary connection between humans and monkeys."

Arthur didn't care about Darwin's protest, he waved his hand and said, "It's okay, you can think so in the future." ”

This time it was difficult to change Tony and Tom.

"Arthur, it's okay for you to let us patrol."

"But let's learn this......"

Arthur, of course, understood what his two colleagues were doing, so he didn't say anything, just raised three fingers at them.

Tony frowned and asked, "Arthur, what do you mean by that?" ”

Arthur said calmly: "You two, each of you will receive a temporary allowance of three shillings per week, and the allowance will come out of my salary. If, after three months, you pass the assessment, the allowance will be completely fixed in your weekly salary. ”

"Hiss......"

Tony and Tom looked at each other, and without even a moment's hesitation, they stood together and saluted Arthur.

"Yes, sir!"