Although in London, Arthur knew much more about Paris than Stendhal, who had just arrived in England from Paris.

The police intelligence chief, who was in charge of Scotland Yard, had long been in correspondence with Vidocq, the head of the Grand Paris Police Department. Moreover, after Heine and Chopin left for Paris, they often wrote to Arthur to share some of their experiences in Paris.

Of course, even if these people were willing to exchange information with Arthur, it wouldn't be of much use if the information wasn't delivered fast enough.

But fortunately, Arthur has a friend surnamed Rothschild, so he also deserves to enjoy the most time-sensitive postman courier service in Europe - Rothschild Express.

On the European continent, a large number of letters are sent every day from London, Paris, Vienna, Frankfurt and Naples, the five branches of the Rothschild family, and the most important part of the information that can affect the rise and fall of the European bond and stock markets is in the hands of the Rothschild family heads in three days.

Due to the long-term good reputation of the Rothschild family's messenger business, not only those businessmen who are extremely sensitive to news will choose to use Rothschild's messengers, but even the royal family and political leaders in various European countries also like to use Rothschild to send letters.

Even in the case of Britain, the long-term customers of the Rothschild courier business include King William IV, the Duke of Wellington, Sir Peel and others.

After the outbreak of cholera in Britain, Arthur told Vidocq about a series of bizarre phenomena during cholera in Britain, and also gave many kind reminders to this colleague.

But it turns out that the reminder is the reminder, and Paris is still what it should be in the end.

Most of the phenomena that occur in Britain have almost been reproduced in France.

However, due to the different national conditions of the two countries, there are still some differences in subtleties.

The citizens of Paris also denied the existence of cholera, and because most of them lacked trust in the government, many of them even believed that the so-called cholera was actually caused by the government's poisoning, fanned by the republicans and Bonapartists.

And the reason why they think so is that in the final analysis, they have to blame Arthur for a small suggestion to Vidocq.

In his letters, Arthur told Vidocq about his reversal of the situation in Liverpool after Liverpool closed a dirty well, and suggested that he could follow his example if necessary.

When Vidocq got the news, he immediately reported the suggestion to the head of the Grand Paris Police Agency, Henri Žesochey.

In the evening, he went to meet with the new Prime Minister, Casimir Perrier.

After a night of discussions with the members of France's Central Health Committee, the French showed their usual efficiency, applying the experience of Liverpool, which had not been fully implemented in the UK, to the cholera control in Paris.

It would have been a good thing if such a control program had been successfully implemented.

However, as soon as the order of the Grand Paris Police Department to close the well was announced, rumors began to spread in the streets of Paris that the police were closing the well to facilitate poisoning.

The Gazetteer in Paris put it bluntly: "At this time, there is not a single neighborhood that is not terrified by the poisoning narrative." ”

With the rumors of poisoning, the subsequent development of Paris has gradually converged with the situation in Britain in the past few months, and in some ways, the reaction of Parisian citizens has been more enthusiastic.

Some people began to point the finger at the government and the doctors, believing that cholera was nothing more than an invention of the government and the doctors to exterminate the poor.

A few days later, voices appeared on the streets of Paris calling for a popular uprising.

In the face of growing rumors and turmoil, Rao is countless times tougher than Scotland Yard, and the Paris Police Department cannot withstand the pressure.

The head of the department, Zhsokai, had to come forward several times to refute the rumors and issue internal orders to the sheriffs of the various police districts in Paris:

The permanent enemies of the social order are trying in vain to find a shameful excuse for the scourge afflicting our people at this very moment, in order to carry out their long-simmering plots. They try to take advantage of our misfortune and the suffering of our families to deceive the people.

They spread the word that the unfortunate victims of the sick were the result of poisoning. They tried to persuade the least enlightened of the people that cholera did not exist. They are trying to disrupt the assistance provided by the government and doctors to the sick. But thankfully, these dastardly conspiracies have not had much success so far.

The sporadic street violence and brutality that is currently taking place are the result of seducing and leading parts of the population astray. I command you to keep this situation under strict surveillance, and you are obliged to explain the situation to citizens who may have been misled and to give them wise advice.

All police officers should remind the public not to blindly believe the slander and shameless rumors of bad actors for their own benefit and for the public interest. Because the bad guys only want to intimidate the people, we can't quickly get out of the catastrophe that is ravaging the capital.

However, although Risokai tried his best to refute the rumors, in the eyes of the citizens of Paris, it was good that Risokai did not refute the rumors, and once the rumors were refuted, it would mean that this matter was true.

But the lack of trust in the government and the police cannot blame the citizens for their ignorance, but should be 'credited' to the 'good name' that the Paris police have accumulated little by little over the past half century.

After all, from a normal person's point of view, it's really hard for you to believe that a group of people who have fired guns, fired cannons, and brandished knives at you, and still look for you to fight the autumn wind every once in a while.

In this way, the Paris police debunked the rumors more and more, and the suspicious Parisian people became more and more convinced of the existence of the poisoning incident.

The rush to monitor and check anyone suspected of poisoning in taverns, pools, markets and intersections has led to bloody scenes of innocent people being suspected, beaten and even tortured on the streets of Paris.

Heine's letter to Arthur depicts such a phenomenon.

On the corner of the street where the red-painted tavern is located, people gather voluntarily. People are always looking for suspects in these places, and if they have suspicious items hidden in their pockets, they are in bad luck. The people will pounce on them like a beast, an angry army.

Many escaped because of their resourcefulness, and many survived because they were helped by the patrol on the day. Six people were mercilessly slaughtered. There is no scene more terrible than the wrath of the people, especially when it becomes bloodthirsty and stangles its unarmed victims.

In the streets, the crowds surged, and the workers in shirts roared and shouted mercilessly, like the devil, like white sprays crashing against each other. I heard someone shouting on Rue Saint-Denis: "Let's hang him on a lamppost!"

I saw through the window one of the unfortunate men dying, and the elderly woman took off her shoes and struck him on the head with the heel of her until he died. He was naked, covered in blood and covered in wounds. Not only did they strip him naked, but they also plucked out his eyebrows, hair, and nose.

Then a vicious man came, tied the corpse's feet with a rope, dragged it down the street, and kept shouting: "This is the cholera virus!"

And a noble and beautiful woman on the side of the road, her body and hands were covered with blood, and even she dealt a heavy blow to the corpse that passed by.

In order to set the record straight, Vidocq, on the orders of the director, had to go to various shops and wells in Paris, and send suspicious items such as wine, shochu, juice, water, bread, meat, candy, and water samples to the French Academy of Sciences for testing.

The results of the tests, which were published the next day in the pages of the major newspapers in Paris, showed that the items submitted for testing did not contain any poisons, and the physicians and surgeons of the main palace hospital issued a collective statement announcing that they had carried out a full examination of the patients admitted to the hospital and found no signs of poisoning.

However, this scientific evidence is not the main reason for dispelling the rumors.

What really convinced the citizens of Paris that cholera was not poisoning was the rising number of people who contracted the disease as one riot after another.

When cholera cases were first detected in Paris on March 26, only 16 people were infected and seven died in four days.

By 6 April, there were 1,851 new cases of cholera on that day alone, with 670 deaths, following violence sparked by scavenger riots, riots in Saint-Perage prison and rumours of poisoning.

And more recently, according to Vidocq, even conservative estimates put the death toll in Paris at around 800 per day.

If you add to that the patients who didn't have time to be taken to the hospital, at least 1,200 people in Paris could die every day from claws.

Although this is not polite, compared to Paris, even a cholera-plagued London can be considered orderly.

According to the UK's Central Health Board, last month saw a new peak in cholera deaths across the UK, with 1,519 people dying from cholera in 431 countable towns and villages in the UK.

Under the surging onslaught of cholera, the British Cabinet and the Central Health Commission finally had the courage to rush to the hospital and become a dead horse doctor.

At this time, they can't care about what is authoritarian or not.

Fourteen new health inspectors were stationed in the country's major industrial cities to enforce the control of unclean drinking water in the dioceses.

Lord Breham, on the other hand, issued an open letter that bordered on intimidation directly to the parish priests.

In that open letter, Lord Broughham claimed:

At this critical juncture, pastors should stand firm in their faith and put the health of their faithful above all else. If the priests insist on being as stubborn as the Diocese of Christchurch and insisting on not investing the poor tax on public health, he will have to consider using the legal power in the hands of the Chancellor to suspend the distribution of the priests' holy slabs.

And if their behaviour does not improve after the cessation of the Holy Rites, Broughham will not rule out the submission of the list to the Chief Bishop of England, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Vice-Bishop of England who govern the Church in the south of England, and the Archbishop of York, who governs the Church in the north of England.

Compared with Lord Broughham's rhetoric, Viscount Godrich, the Minister in charge of War and Colonial Affairs, was much more direct.

In view of the riots in many parts of Britain caused by parliamentary reform and the cholera epidemic, Viscount Godrich ordered that the army units stationed in the country could assist the local government in temporary control to the extent reasonable.

Home Secretary The Viscount of Melbourne is taking the opportunity to push forward with his Municipal Police Bill, which has gone much smoother than the resistance he faced last year.

If Arthur had been left to guess why, he would have thought that municipalities across Britain had finally found it more reassuring to have a police force run policing than an army dispatch.

What's more, the Viscount of Melbourne now no longer insists that the Home Office must fully control the leadership of the national police force, but is willing to run it together with the municipality.

Another reason for the municipality's willingness to budge is the recently passed British Town Renewal Plan. If obedience to central control of cholera can do such a good thing, then they don't mind thinking about it.

Just a few days ago, Mr. Disraeli, a rising Tory MP, won more than two-thirds of the votes in the House of Commons with a stunning speech, successfully convincing Parliament to pass the long-planned urban renewal project.

And Disraeli can succeed for two main reasons.

The first is the current cholera outbreak, which has left lawmakers feeling that they cannot afford to ignore urban sanitation.

Because even the Palace of Westminster, where the parliamentarians gather, can smell the stench wafting from the Thames River next door every summer, so that the upper and lower houses have to close the windows when they meet.

But in the past, because such plans were too expensive, legislators were still hesitant about urban renewal. But the arrival of cholera and other epidemics has given the city a good reason to renovate. On this point, it is easy for both the Whigs and the Tories to reach a consensus.

The second was some kind of secret document provided to him by a warm-hearted friend of Mr. Disraeli.

In other words, it was the propaganda document of the republicans and Bonapartists in Paris during the cholera period, the "Letter to the People", which called for a popular uprising.

The poor do not die of cholera, but of hunger! The rich are rarely threatened because they have fled. The unfortunate had less labor and bread, and relatives and friends of the deceased were forbidden to enter the hospital.

Why let cowards and egoists flee the border with the means of subsistence, but let the people live in Paris? Disease ravages densely populated neighborhoods because they are filthy and overcrowded.

Someone abandoned clean and spacious houses where the disease would not invade, they were empty, and the hospitals were overcrowded. The misery of the poor and the cramped dwelling devour the dying.

Yes! Let these useless mansions receive the unfortunate who have nowhere to live except the stinking streets. Yes! Since the rich masters have abandoned them, let the people live there!

When Disraeli read the document in the House of Commons, there was a half-minute dead silence in the House of Commons. Everyone smelled the breath of the French Revolution in their nostrils, and everyone's eyes could see a little solemnity and doubt.

And when Mr. Disraeli raised his arms and uttered the famous phrase that he thought would last for centuries, the House of Commons applauded.

"A divided kingdom cannot last long, and when the bottom of society is in turmoil, the superstructure cannot stand alone. When the thatched hut collapsed, the marble columns of St. James's Palace trembled. The external environment is often out of our control, but our own behavior is always under our control. And we, by our deeds, will prove the superiority of the British political system! ”

I have to say, this sentence sounds very imposing.

But the reason why Arthur is so clear about Disraeli's highlight moment in the House of Commons is naturally because this is the eighth time he has heard Disraeli mention his glorious deeds today.

Disraeli rested one hand on the back of the sofa in the editorial office, and held a wine glass in the other.

"Really, I really wished you were all there. And I don't just want you to be there, I want my father and my sister to be there. Let my father see if his son is as pompous as he thinks, and I can be a dignified and dignified man, but I don't like it. I was like Caesar, Augustus, Suleiman in the House of Commons that day, I was a natural leader, and everyone would listen to me. ”

Alexandre Dumas gave Arthur a strange look, and then turned his gaze back to Disraeli: "But I remember when you first appeared in the House of Commons, didn't you say that your ancestors were rabbis in the Jewish Temple?" Ling's role changed so quickly? ”

"No, Alexander, you don't understand, that the Jewish rabbis are, of course, an honor, but Caesar and Augustus are a greater honor."

Disraeli couldn't even close his mouth with a smile: "As you can see, I've evolved again. ”

He stood up and tugged at the hem of his tuxedo as if he were dancing: "Look at what I've done for the poor, as long as things go well, they will soon have a spacious and clean new house." Is there any country in the world that thinks so for the poor? Only Britain would do that. And Britain did it all because of me, Benjamin Disraeli, the conscience of Britain. In this country, I am the only one who thinks about the people wholeheartedly. ”

Dumas crossed Erlang's legs and sighed, he turned to Arthur and asked, "Where did you pick up this drama today?" ”

"I didn't pick it up, he found it himself." Arthur took a sip of tea: "Louie and I were walking to the editorial office in a car, when Benjamin suddenly jumped out of the crowd on the street and stopped in the middle of the road. I thought someone wanted my life again, so I was so scared that I almost pulled out a gun and shot him. ”

Louis said with a smile on the side: "To be able to accomplish such a big thing, Mr. Disraeli should be proud." If France could have a parliamentarian like Monsieur Disraeli, the situation in Paris would not be so bad. ”

At this point, Louis turned his head to Dumas and asked, "Anyway, Alexander, you haven't introduced us to these new guests?" ”

Dumas laughed evilly and said, "No, honorable Excellency, it is not me who introduces you to new guests, but who introduces them to you. ”

Then he put his arm around Stendhal's shoulder and asked, "I think you are a Bonapartist, right?" ”

Stendhal nodded slightly, "What, is the gentleman next to you too?" ”

Alexandre Dumas laughed and said, "Hmm...... You're not wrong about that, but you're only half right. ”

"What do you mean?"

Alexandre Dumas put his arm around Louis's shoulders and said to Stendhal: "Come, get to know me, this is my friend, Mr. Charles-Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte." ”

(End of chapter)