Lionel stood on the trading floor, holding a cup of coffee as Arthur and his party left.

When he was sure that Arthur was far away, he waved at the gray-haired old servant standing behind him and asked, "Why did the Duke of Wellington suddenly requisition the rooms in the Regency Crescent Tower?" It's not like his personality, hasn't he always wanted to keep us at arm's length? ”

The old servant whispered, "Listen to your father, this time it was an emergency. The Duke of Wellington could not find a suitable house for a while, so he sent someone to us for a favor. ”

"Crossing the Strait?" Lionel took a sip of coffee, he thought for a moment and asked, "The guest is from France?" ”

The old servant nodded slightly: "Not only that, but that guest has just abdicated, so it is really unreasonable not to arrange a good room for him." ”

"Ah......" Lionel's mind slowly cleared: "It seems that the guest this time is the annoying Charlie?" Didn't he often give Uncle James a face in Paris? At the end of the day, he still has the face to seek our housing agency services? ”

The old servant shook his head and said, "Young Master, you'd better not call a former king like that. Although he has lost power, no one can guarantee whether he will make a comeback. ”

"Comeback?" Lionel said disdainfully: "He is not the only French who seeks to make a comeback in the Regency Crescent Building, by the way, what room does Joseph live in the Crescent Building?" ”

The old servant opened the document in his hand, and he looked through it, and then his face quickly turned strange.

Holding his forehead with a headache, he said, "Joseph Bonaparte lives next door to him." ”

Lionel laughed when he heard this, and his laughter startled all the guests on the trading floor to look at it in amazement.

Lionel pulled out his handkerchief and wiped the tears from the corner of his eyes as he spoke.

"Ahh......h Now there is a lot of fun to watch, one is the brother of Napoleon, and the other is the deposed king of the Bourbon dynasty of France, Charles. This must be God's arrangement, everything is predestined. To see where you need to go to Paris for the civil war, there is such a big drama every day in the Regency Crescent.

I really can't wait to see the expressions on the faces of the two of them when they meet, and no playwright can think of it as a genius. Arthur probably didn't know what kind of surprise his act of humbly giving to the Regency Crescent had brought to the world. ”

When the old servant heard this, he said: "In fact, even if Mr. Hastings is not humble, it is estimated that the follow-up plot will still be exciting." Have you forgotten? The Monsieur Dumas beside him, his father was the black devil who had followed Napoleon, General Thomas Alexandre Dumas. If he had met Joseph Napoleon, it would have been a real-life fantasy story. ”

When Lionel heard this, he suddenly raised his hand and snapped his fingers: "I almost forgot if you didn't mention this stubble." By the way, you help me write a letter to Uncle James, and you tell him for me that we are not going to continue to do it for the French government to contact the right person to kidnap Mr. Dumas back to China. Fred didn't do it, he didn't do it, and that was the end of it. ”

The old servant nodded slightly, "This is indeed a wise choice, in order to win the trust of the French King Louis Philippe, there should be many ways on the side of Paris, and there is no risk of doing such a thing." ”

Hearing this, Lionel shook his head and said, "What you said is true, but that's not the only reason. Most importantly, Superintendent Hastings, no, maybe it's better to call Superintendent Hastings. Well...... It's still not right, I should say that since my friend Arthur accepted my friendship calmly, I can't make it difficult for him, don't you? ”

The old servant was a little hesitant when he heard this: "But if you do this, will it conflict with the Rothschilds' consistent upper-class line?" The superintendent of Scotland Yard is certainly not low, but you can't afford to spend so much energy on him, can you? ”

When Lionel heard this, a smiling face couldn't help but slowly turn cold: "Do you know about my father going to the Duke of Wellington a while ago?" ”

"Yes." The old servant nodded slightly and said, "The master went to No. 10 Downing Street happily, but after coming back, he became sluggish, and I noticed that during the meal, the master's hand was shaking all the time, and he couldn't even hold the fork." I have not seen Mr. Nathan like this since I came to London with the Rothschilds. ”

Lionel took a deep breath and said, "Then do you know why he is like this?" ”

The old servant shook his head and said, "I don't know." ”

Lionel's face was filled with anger: "We have been trying to maintain good relations with the royal family and Tory Party members all these years, and we have given them all the financial support, but now, even the political restrictions on Catholics and Anglican dissidents have been lifted, but the rights and interests of the Jews remain in place."

So, some time ago, my father made a special trip to the Duke of Wellington with a Jewish liberation petition signed by tens of thousands of Jews to talk to him about this matter. But the result? Guess what the Duke of Wellington said to my father?

He said: 'I will not allow the government to make any commitment on the question of Jewish liberation, and solemnly recommend that the application for Jewish liberation be postponed to the Parliament.' If you insist on not doing so, the risks and consequences will be borne by the people involved, and I will not make any commitment to protect you." ”

Speaking of this, Lionel couldn't help but pause, he took a deep breath, looked at the servant and asked, "So, do you now understand why I'm betting on my new friend?" Rothschild's twenty or thirty years in Britain in the upper echelons of the business in exchange for this result. This shows that simply going down the upper class route will not work, at least in the UK.

We need not only the friendship of a big man like the Duke of Wellington, but also the friendship of a rising star like Arthur. To maintain the friendship of the big guys, we need to pay tens of thousands of pounds or even hundreds of thousands of pounds a year.

And for a rising star like Arthur, it may be just a 350 pound loan and a few small pieces of news, of course, maybe it will take me a little bit of emotion.

I've had enough of my father's groveling in front of the big guys, and I prefer to talk to someone like Arthur who is willing to be my equal, rather than ingratiating himself with them. ”

Lionel put on his hat, straightened his clothes, and spoke to the servant.

"I'll go and get Arthur's title papers in order this afternoon, and send them to the Greenwich Police Station by the evening. In two days' time, you will send me another letter to his mansion, and I intend to invite him to join my hunting club. I've had enough of complimenting the old hunters who are about to see God, and I prefer to spend time with younger friends than them. ”

The old servant asked, "Is this also to win the friendship of Mr. Hastings?" ”

"It's not!" Lionel seemed to be a little angry: "Just to play, can you not always be like my father, don't let my life always be so utilitarian." Arthur seems to be okay, it's better to hang out with him than with those swaggering old men, I've got to have some fun in my life! ”

With that, Lionel walked out of the trading floor with a huff.

"Young Master!" The old servant called out to him, but Lionel ignored him.

Seeing this situation, the old servant had to shake his head helplessly: "It's still not mature enough, the Rothschild man, can't be so childish." ”

……

At dusk and sunset, on a public carriage, the roof of which was full of luggage, and four large men in the carriage were huddled together.

Elder whistled and grinned, "Arthur! Your new home is at Lancaster Gate, not far from my uncle's house. ”

Arthur leaned against the window and replied, "Okay, okay, I know you live in Mayer, you can see Buckingham Palace two steps away, and you can see St. James's Park from the windowsill." ”

Elder glared when he heard this, "Arthur, I didn't want to show off today!" ”

Arthur glanced at him, "That means it used to be?" ”

Elder laughed and poked him in the chest: "Can you not be so stingy, that's my uncle's property, not mine." By the way, I'll discuss something with you, and I'll move in with you, okay? ”

"Yes!" Arthur agreed without even thinking about it.

Elder looked surprised: "Really? ”

Arthur nodded, then took out the loan documents and looked at them, then stretched out his hand to Elder and said, "Rent, 3 pounds 8 shillings per month." ”

"What are you kidding?" Elder glared, "I thought I was living in gold!" Two shillings a week, I couldn't have given more. ”

Arthur pouted: "It's okay, then you live in the bathroom." ”

Elder flattered: "Arthur, don't be so ruthless, for the sake of our friendship, every Wednesday shilling." ”

Arthur stared at him for a long time, and then nodded helplessly: "It's really not easy to bargain from you." ”

"You promised?" In a panic, Elder took out two one-pound tickets from his pocket and stuffed them into Arthur's hand: "I'll pay for thirteen weeks first, and I'll give you the extra shilling." ”

Seeing this, Darwin scratched his head, which was already showing some signs of failure, and also took out two tickets: "Is it so cheap?" Then I'll rent one too. ”

Arthur held four pound-pound tickets in his hand, and his eyes glanced at Alexandre Dumas: "Fatty, yours?" ”

Dumas heard: "Mine? It's your pleasure for me to live in your house, and don't be ignorant of it, you Englishman. ”

Arthur sighed when he heard this, he shook his head and said, "Do you know why the British hate France? ”

"Why?"

Arthur stuffed the ticket into his arms: "It's because the French don't know how to be modest." ”

"Humility?" Alexandre Dumas slapped his chest disdainfully: "No one knows how to be humble more than the French!" ”

When Elder saw this, he couldn't help but laugh and pointed at him and said, "Yes, yes, that's what we're talking about." ”

The four of them talked and laughed all the way, and suddenly, the carriage stopped suddenly, and Alexandre Dumas did not brake for a while, and directly pressed Elder under his body.

Elder couldn't stand it anymore and couldn't help but roar: "Fatty! Hurry up for me! ”

Arthur knocked on the front window and asked the driver, "Sir, what's the matter?" ”

The driver took off his hat embarrassedly and replied: "The front is a little blocked, and you may have to wait for a while." ”

"Where are you now?"

"Marble Arch, if you're in a hurry, you can get off here. I think the four gentlemen are in good health, and you should have no problem carrying this bit of luggage to Lancaster Gate. ”

Arthur stuck his head out to take a look, and sure enough, there was already a long queue in front of him.

He sighed and said to his brothers, "Okay, let's get off here." The rest of the way, let's walk over, it can be regarded as exercise. ”

The four opened the door and removed their luggage from the compartment.

No sooner had they unloaded their things than an impassioned speech rang out in Arthur's ears.

He turned his head to see a young man in a black tuxedo standing in Hyde Park, across the street across the guardrail, giving an enthusiastic speech to the audience.

It's just a pity that compared to his exceptional oratorial talent, his audience seems to be very small.

"I don't care what party is not a party, I have no party to rely on, and I stand here independently! But at the same time, I'm also a Conservative, and I'm an advocate of keeping everything good in our system safe. Moreover, I am also a radical party, and I am radical in demand that everything bad in our system be removed! Ladies and gentlemen, please vote for me, and to vote for me is to vote for the future of Great Britain! ”

(End of chapter)