Chapter 94

Chapter 94

Did London Bridge Fall (4)

India will soon explode.

The Westerner most knowledgeable about the East, the best intellect Arthur Lee said early that Britain’s current policy is stimulating Indians too much so will soon cause a big disaster.

- Is the face skin thickness real?

No. Really.

Soon the time to explode has come.

Am I not a bit proficient in the mysteries of the East.

Like Joseon people secretly reading things like <​Jeonggamrok> through the back hole and believing the Jeong guy will found a new country on Gyeryong Mountain, Indians also have something their own faith? Prophecy-like. Whether when I was going in and out London and Joseon or when our Lee & Gladstone Company people were trading, even my stupid older brother knew bit by bit.

Anyway according to that prophecy Britain’s rule lasts 100 years.

But when did the East India Company’s India rule start? From the Battle of Plassey that broke France and accepted Bengal.

The Battle of Plassey was in 1757.

That is, according to this theory Britain is chased out of India in 1857! Precisely the year after next!

- Now doing doing believing all sorts of miscellaneous things? Huh?

No, plausible.

Although I don’t know exactly when the sepoy rebellion explodes I definitely know that it explodes and the East India Company shuts down. If the sepoy rebellion really explodes in 1857 the prophecy hits.

And one more.

Originally such prophecies are self-fulfilling.

If saying to friends groaning under the East India Company’s tyranny ‘you guys this year company collapses written so in Nostradamus Subakdo’ won’t even guys who endure usually explode?

Already the world-class scholar Arthur Lee has strived to cultivate correct knowledge for foolish Westerners by preaching <​Indian great rebellion theory>, <​Joseon great rise theory>, <​Chinese coin scam theory>, <​Napoleon secret base on the back of the moon theory> etc. several times. Such me conveying accurate and prompt news is the duty of the learned.

- Really such pure intention?

Correct.

If rebellion doesn’t explode in India a bit of problem arises in this my authority. Not collapsing, like shepherd 1 stack accumulates..

“Come to think of it, went around chattering India is dangerous?”

“Yes.”

“Still military supply corruption won’t do. Matter of regime collapsing.”

Palmerston said flatly and lit the cigarette.

“Young guy already colluding with politics and only thinking of sucking national money.”

“Young guy cannot insert into sucking everyone does?”

“Right. If wanted to suck young should have been born as a noble family son.”

Viscount Palmerston was not teasing me now.

- What?

Saying the natural principle that if not a family that originally ate and trying to eat too young the head breaks.

“A guy who already has irreplaceable products like dynamite, trying to eat what again attaching to the prime minister’s political power? You are not even my lackey, why must I use my precious power to protect you?”

“Those words also not particularly wrong.”

“Right.. Seeing those eyes still not convinced?”

The prime minister clicked his tongue.

“Keep the order, the order. Don’t come running clinging to me.”

“Then can’t tell me a bit what can give to me?”

“Why must I pay the price to a guy who doesn’t even know what can receive?”

“Wow. Daylight robbery.”

“Think I am already paying some price just by having a private meeting with the prime minister of the British Empire. You who cannot properly use this golden opportunity are the stupid one.”

This cannot deny.

He who exhaled smoke straight said as if curious.

“Why so urgent?”

“Urgent?”

“You now achieved enough to stand shoulder to shoulder with ordinary noble family young masters. Learning, fame, business, connections. A guy not even thirty achieving with own power alone is absurd. But why? Not the spirit of youth but acting like a guy dying of urgency?”

- Wow. Fine to spread a mat, old man.

Must add 20-30 more years from face value so not the spirit of youth, since the soul is mortgaged correct a guy dying of urgency. In heart want to really confess in detail saying ‘actually I’ but if doing that to this monster-like old man afraid the already mortgaged soul will be mortgaged even in this world so cannot.

I nodded.

“I am a bit urgent. Want to grow the size faster and do more things.”

“If falling while doing that will go hook. A walking guy even if falling ends at scraping the knee, but a carriage if accident can even lose life.”

This old man is hateful, treacherous, bloodless tearless, commits betrayal and backstabbing like eating rice if for profits, and if for power commits internal shooting and fraud without hesitation.

Nevertheless the reason he survived and seized party power and finally even became prime minister, now seemed to know faintly.

“Remember. Life is not a horse race.”

“Then what does the Prime Minister think?”

“Well. Business?”

Life is not a race but business. Seems somehow profound. As expected the view of life of one shouldering one country’s state affairs-

“Whether committing fraud or setting fire to competitor’s shop if only winning all resolves.”

As expected this bastard is a crazy old man.

Found out the reason the noble master who did politics from decades ago finally got to eat prime minister only when becoming seventy.

***

Even after Arthur withdrew Palmerston was in the garden.

“Why alone here? Everyone is dying of urgency to stamp face seal once to the Prime Minister.”

“Damn. The position of prime minister, was quite a troublesome position. Doing this mess wanting to do this absurd.”

Earl of Clarendon who was maintaining the foreign minister position as a Whig Party member from the last Aberdeen cabinet smiled at the prime minister’s grumbling.

“Good because doing?”

“Tearingly good. Feeling sharply that Her Majesty the Queen is displeased with me, what to do? No one else can do prime minister now. Hehehe.”

“So, what deep thoughts doing not doing the guest’s duty and blankly here.”

“That friend you brought. Was resting talking briefly with Robinson Crusoe.”

Earl of Clarendon was dispatched to the Far East as plenipotentiary at the time of the Opium War.

And he extraordinarily appointed Arthur Lee according to Palmerston’s intention and used him fully.

“That young person not that I brought, from the beginning the Prime Minister pointed?”

“If me couldn’t have done such bold appointment. Would have been more modest.”

“So how was it? Representative Lee.”

“A greedy ambitious guy. That guy will definitely come to this political board eventually. That stubborn Gladstone picked up a really bone-chilling guy.”

How can a guy not even thirty have such a full greed bag? Because passed too many crises of death when young became like that?

An ordinary young person would either live excitedly enjoying the fun things of life or be working like a dog to send a fun life ahead one of the two.

But Arthur Lee even though already grasped many things is still craving wealth and power. Truly the incarnation of greed.

And such guys usually come to politics.

“Come to think of it the sponsor was former Minister Gladstone. Practically teacher-student relationship?”

“Seems not that.”

The prime minister briefly stroked the chin then denied.

“The disciple of the most noble lawmaker being the most hypocritical human. Ironic.”

“Hypocrisy?”

“Right. That guy is pure hypocrite. If forcing the same kind as me.”

“When did the Prime Minister show hypocrisy? The whole world knows. ‘Nothing as foolish as believing Lord Palmerston’.”

“Right. So I am a more honest person than that guy. That guy is hiding his black insides for the day of recovering principal plus interest someday.”

A human less honest than the world’s Palmerston? Isn’t that just not human or something like Satan?

Earl of Clarendon was equipped with a gentleman’s appearance enough not to bring those words out of the mouth.

“Who was the friend in the military who listens well to our words?”

“If looking will be some.”

“Tell to accept that rookie’s military supply a bit. Don’t accept absurd items. If unit price and quality are okay tell not to reject saying not giving ‘sincerity display’.”

“Not even our party member yet taking care quite.”

“What did you hear the words I said until now as?”

Palmerston said smiling like a devil who received a stamp on the contract.

“Such excellent trash will of course come to our Whig Party.”

“Oh, my goodness. Please don’t describe our party like a trash can somewhere.”

“Then will that friend go to the Conservative Party? No title either?”

“That’s not.”

“Exactly that.”

He put out the cigarette.

Seemed no matter of being bored in old age.

***

The conversation with Palmerston gave me truly great impression.

Private meeting with a human possessing power and authority.

Things like lunch with Wall Street’s rich grandpas can occasionally buy if just giving money saying doing charity.

But politicians are different.

Politicians are easy to meet, but if really trying to do business really really hard to meet. Taking one photo with those friends is too easy so all sorts of scammers basically have about one photo cut, but if trying to do business will probably cut sharply.

Palmerston was also the same.

He ate and ran. Words good keep the order, actually meaning will not let me lose if I accumulate capability?

No fuck! Who uses politician connections for that! Of course use politician connections to suck free things that are not even! Shoddy construction! Supply corruption! Real estate cornering such things!

- Too. Trash-like idea?

All because I have no dad no mom. If parents were alive I wouldn’t have been looked down on like this.

I ran like flying to the club dad was in while alive and drank alcohol and squeezed juice. Meaning borrowed the alcohol energy and shed one stream of tears sorrowfully.

“No, Arthur! Why suddenly like that!”

“Right, your older sister also found a good husband candidate now!”

“Miss father... If mother was also alive. Would have been glad..?”

Of course some elders subtly revealed discomfort at me recently shouting <​India destruction theory>, but I revealed the principled position about that part ‘so must take measures so it doesn’t become like that’.

If the East India Company collapses what profit is there to me?

The alpha and omega of the connections I inherited from father are former and current East India Company executives, and most of the people who invested in Far East Company are also from East India Company executives.

Better for me too if the East India Company doesn’t collapse.

If the company collapses those people will definitely dump the Far East Company shares they hold into the market.

“Sorry. As a gentleman shouldn’t show such appearance, but today suddenly showed an ugly appearance.”

“There are times like that! Fine if not from now on!”

“Right, perhaps need help?”

“.Yes. Hope help a bit.”

Now is the Crimean War season.

Military supply is the best hot spot, and recklessly inserting here is too dangerous a matter. If trying to put hand into others’ honey jar the wrist flying is a natural fact even without saying.

Dynamite.

Rice polishing machine.

Asian market.

International rice trade.

Sepoy rebellion.

Pierce these disorderly keywords at once.

“If reinforcing Joseon sepoys a bit more, perhaps I can give help to that side’s military supply?”

“Troop reinforcement.”

“Since there is also the burden of Far East Russia occupation areas, this seems sufficiently worth trying.”

“Must raise our son’s rank more so let’s increase positions a bit.”

“The parliament surely won’t tick tick at this.”

These dad’s friends gentlemen seem like surplus humans killing time only playing cards and gambling at the club, but these people are also all those exerting large and small influence on the parliament, at least middle class or above.

Once public opinion secured.

Next is new weapon development.

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