London, Westminster, 4 Whitehall Street, Greater London Metropolitan Police.

Today, Scotland Yard is still bustling with activity, with police secretaries from various police stations in London carrying stacks of daily papers from office to office and hall.

It's just that everyone is busy, but when they pass by the office of the Police Intelligence Bureau, they will involuntarily slow down.

No one could figure out why the high-profile Superintendent Hastings was piling up clumps of metal wire in his office.

Everyone squatted outside and watched for a long time, and finally someone couldn't help but ask, "Is there any new equipment assigned to the Intelligence Bureau?" Superintendent Hastings doesn't look down on the officer's knife now, so he's going to get some materials to make some nine-tailed whips himself? ”

The retired police officers from the army couldn't help but shudder when they looked at the pile of metal wires: "Nine-tailed whip...... I haven't heard that word in years since I was discharged from the military. However, using this thing to deal with ruffians and hooligans is indeed much more practical than a police officer's knife. At the beginning, the hardest man in our 93rd regiment had to shout like a girl who called a bed after walking under the whip for less than ten times. ”

"Heh, it's really a tough guy to shout ten times. To say, if it was really just a nine-tailed whip to whip us, we would admit it. But I don't know which bitch raised the rules from the beginning, the one who uses the nine-tailed whip to execute must be the drummer in the regiment, and whoever really has the most hands will come, what a fucking bastard! ”

"Brothers, you can be content, at least we only need to take off our shirts when we are whipped by the Nine-Tails."

What do you mean by that? Is there still a bare ass that has been whipped by the nine-tailed whip? We're not kids, only those hairy boys will be pumped by the teacher! ”

"Huh! You guessed it! Have you forgotten? Many of our officers have graduated from regular military academies, and most of them have been greeted with such a bare-bottomed nine-tailed whip when they were young. It's just that children are weak and can't stand the nine-tailed whip, so I heard that birch branches dipped in water are generally used instead in military schools. ”

"Oh...... I said, why are those guys psychopaths racing one by one? It turns out that they still have such an unbearable past? ”

"There are actually quite few psychopaths in our army, after all, many of our officers here have not attended a serious military school, but graduated from a normal public school. Although most public schools will take off their pants and spank, but the degree is definitely not as severe as that of military schools.

But the Royal Navy's gang of sea rats are miserable, their officers there are a lot of military academy graduates, when they are in the military academy, who dares to pat their chests and say that their butts have never been pumped?

However, the Royal Navy is more decent than our Army, and those officer trainees who make a small mistake on board will be called to the cabin alone to be executed. Only when a big mistake is made will he be put on deck and executed in public. And if you commit that unpardonable sin, such as rebellion and mutiny, then you can ask for more blessings. ”

"What? Isn't it a big deal to be hanged? What could be more serious than that? ”

"Whether it's serious or not depends on your luck, specifically, how many ships were moored in the harbor at the time. They will sentence you to two hundred and fifty to three hundred lashes, and then use that number to wipe out all the ships in the harbor, and then they will drag you to all the ships of the entire fleet to be executed one by one over several months. ”

"Hmm...... That does sound like a jerk. ”

"It's not the most asshole. The most bastard thing is that according to the rules of the Royal Navy, you have to make up the whip yourself, if the whip is not of good quality and is broken during the execution, then it will not be counted before, and you have to start again. ”

"Hiss......"

The officers all gasped when they heard this, and some of them hurriedly interrupted.

"Don't say it, don't say it, I feel like my back is itching again. His grandmother's, when she used to be whipped, only thought that she would never come again. But I haven't eaten a whip in a long time, and I miss it a little......"

"Sam, do you think you're cheap?"

"Sam is actually right, whips are addictive sometimes. I know a guy who does this kind of business, I've been there a few times before, the price is fair, the service is good, and most importantly, the ladies are not as rough as our drummers, and the strength is just right. ”

"This ...... Scarlet, don't lead me astray, I've just been trying to save up lately. ”

"Sam, look at you poor sour, no wonder you're still stuck in the sheriff's rank. If you don't give yourself enough rewards, how can you have the motivation to keep climbing? Besides, it's just a shilling, and can you buy such a complete set of torture instruments and find such a skilled craftsman anywhere else with a shilling? Oh! You don't know that when the lady went down, I felt as if I had seen God! ”

"Scarlet, you don't need to spend a shilling to see God, you don't even need a whip, don't go to my precinct at night with your arms, and you'd better put on your gold pocket watch, and I promise you will go to God at once in the evening." Even if you haven't seen you yet, you're at least very close. ”

The police secretaries were standing in front of the office door with their mouths full of, when they suddenly heard the sound of hard footsteps coming from behind.

Everyone turned their heads to look, and immediately warmly stretched out their hands to greet the comer: "Officer Bonaparte." ”

Louis looked at the gathered police officers and asked, "What are you doing here?" ”

"Nothing." Officer Sam replied casually, "It's just that seeing the nine-section whip in the Hastings police office reminds us of the glorious days of gunfire in the past." ”

But as soon as he finished saying this, his foot was stepped on by the police officer next to him.

Sam then remembered that he had said the wrong thing, because it seemed that he had spent all his prosperous years in the war against the Bonapartes.

Sam hurriedly changed his words: "Your uncle is indeed an outstanding military genius, and I can even say that before Waterloo, his performance in military command was almost perfect. It's just that I didn't get to see it with my own eyes, which is really a pity in a sense. I beg your pardon, I joined the army relatively late.

But with you here, you might want to consider replicating Napoleon's tactics at Scotland Yard. I assure you that the Duke of Wellington is unlikely to be on the side of the London hooligans, and he will certainly be on our side this time. ”

When the police officers heard this, they couldn't help but coax: "Are you going to go straight to Paris with the Duke of Wellington?" ”

Officer Scarlet sneered at Sam, "Sam, I finally understand why you're making such slow progress." You don't deserve to be whipped. ”

Louis wasn't too angry when he heard this, on the contrary, he just felt a little helpless.

If he could, he certainly didn't want to mix with this group of British soldiers. But at a time when the Bonaparte family was losing power, Britain could be said to be the best place to settle down compared to other European powers such as Prussia and Austria.

Louis could only divert the subject and remind them, "Forgive me for taking the liberty of misunderstanding the things in the office. That's not the material from which the Nine-Tails Whip is made, but some insulated metal wires. These wires are one of the new technologies that the Police Intelligence Agency is trying to create a more efficient communication system between the headquarters and the police stations. ”

"New technology? Metal wires? ”

Illiterate Army veterans heard this and it took them a long time to understand what these fashionable new words meant.

"I see, everyone knows that Superintendent Hastings likes these new things. I remember that he used to give some lectures on ballistics and toxicology to our mid-level police officers? ”

And he seems to know Mr. Faraday. I read in the newspaper that Superintendent Hastings was quite accomplished in that electromagnetism? This new technology must also have something to do with electromagnetism, right? ”

"The use of electric shocks as punishment for those who refuse to confess? This technique is good! ”

Louie was so confused by their speculation that he didn't know where to start to explain, but if it didn't make sense, he simply didn't explain.

Anyway, Arthur had already informed him before, considering the cost and the immaturity of cable telegraph technology, so the technology would only be trialed between several police stations close to the headquarters for the time being.

In addition, several police stations that have been issued with cable telegraphs will assign specialists from the Police Intelligence Service to manage and commission telegraphs.

If the cable telegraph technology developed by Wheatstone and Mr. Cook passes the police intelligence agency's reliability test within a year, Arthur will consider a large-scale rollout at Scotland Yard.

In other words, all of the wired telegraph equipment that Arthur had built in advance had prostituted from Wheatstone.

Louie took out his pocket watch and glanced at it, and suddenly said: "Let's go to the conference room to report first, and the regular police meeting of each police district will start in a while." Sir Mayne will probably be furious if you are absent, after all, today is the first regular London metropolitan police meeting since the reshuffling of Scotland Yard. ”

"Oh! Worst! I almost forgot about it. ”

After being reminded by Louie, the officers realized that they had almost missed their business.

The crowd of people who were talking and laughing just now suddenly dispersed, and rushed down the spiral ladder to the conference room on the third floor one by one.

Louis glanced at the police officers, who were coming and raining, just snorted softly, and walked into the office with the papers.

He had just pulled out his chair to sit down, when he suddenly looked up and found Arthur behind the director's desk, hidden in a pile of wires.

Louis asked with a smile, "Arthur, so you are here?" ”

Arthur unhurriedly took out the humidor and ordered one slowly: "Otherwise?" Where else can I go during work hours? ”

Louis got up and took out the sherry from the wine cabinet and poured two glasses, one for himself and one for Arthur: "If those guys knew that you were sitting in the office, most of them wouldn't dare to talk too much outside." ”

Arthur nodded slightly, "You're right, that's why I can't let them see me." Louie, you don't know, when I was a patrol officer on the front line, it was always convenient and quick to inquire about the news in the hall, and the secretaries and guards at the headquarters were happy to chat with me.

But since I've been in this damn office, my channels of news at Scotland Yard have narrowed to a certain extent. Take the matter of Luo Wan's previous plan to use the knife in the Criminal Investigation Department, I, the person in charge, was actually the last one in the hall to know. ”

"So, you came up with such a bad move? But Arthur, with all due respect, you can't know everything. As the head of the Police Intelligence Bureau, you don't even know which pair of panties Mr. Disraeli is wearing when he goes out today, and you have reached this level, what more can you ask for? ”

Arthur sat in the pile of wires as if he had put a swimming ring on himself: "I'm not interested in what Benjamin wears, and if our agent can give me some more valuable information, I wouldn't mind knowing anything about what Benjamin was wearing."

But the truth is, they can't get anything else, so they can only stare at Benjamin and write something that is not there. After all, that guy is standing on the street like a colorful peacock, do you want to know what color the peacock's butt is, do you have to wait for him to open the screen? It's not a difficult thing to do. ”

Louis looked at Arthur's funny appearance, and said with a laugh: "Bury yourself in the wires, aren't you afraid of electromagnetic induction?" ”

Arthur took a sip of wine: "Louie, although I don't want to criticize your cultivation in electromagnetism, but the necessary condition for electromagnetic induction is that you must be active, and a motionless person like me cannot generate an induced electric field." ”

Louis put his elbow on Arthur's shoulder and said, "Arthur, don't say that, if you don't move, the ladies will be disappointed." ”

Arthur unfolded the newspaper and said, "It seems that you have recently made a major breakthrough in your work on the ban of books and newspapers, but as your boss, I also want to remind you that at your age, it is best not to ban too much. ”

Louis just pursed his lips and smiled when he heard this: "Instead of worrying about me, you should worry about Alexander." Checking out a few books won't be too taxing on my body, but if you get hands-on like Alexander, it's ......."

"Alexander?" Arthur turned his head to look at Louis: "What happened to our great writer?" ”

"I don't know, maybe it was "Red and Black" some time ago that inspired him, and he seems to have been addicted to playing Yu Lian recently. Of course, Alexander's purpose in doing this was much simpler than that of Yu Lian, or his means and ends were inherently highly consistent. ”

Arthur picked up his glass and said, "Wouldn't you just say that his amorous nature has exploded again?" But it's not a big deal, isn't the atmosphere in France very open in the first place? And as the author of "The Count of Monte Cristo", Alexander has always had no shortage of female supporters. This fat man attacked them, which I had expected in advance. ”

Louis smiled and said, "If it were just like this, I wouldn't have brought this matter out to you." In fact, I learned from the Astri Amphitheater, which co-adapted the play with "The British," that Alexander seemed to be using his authorial powers to hook up with actresses who wanted to get a chance to act. ”

(End of chapter)