Chapter 146: Humanized Devil
Chapter 146 – Humanized Devil
Robert Owen saw the crowds of people pouring outward and was startled by their movement.
He shouted in a loud voice, “Friends! Calm down! Calm down!”
But his exhortations had long since been drowned in the noisy shouts of the crowd, and the hot-blooded populace could not hear what he was saying.
Tom looked at the crowd of people who had lost control of the crowd, his head sweating anxiously, he asked Arthur beside him for advice: “What do we do now? There are already a few hundred people here now, if we follow it up and make it a few thousand, it’s going to be a big mess.”
Arthur did not say much, he pulled on Tom and Tony beside him and hurriedly stopped two public carriages at the roadside for them to stuff them in.
“Tom, you immediately return to Greenwich Police Station and tell them that Arthur Hastings, the Superintendent in charge of the Greenwich District of the Greater London Police Department, has urgently ordered the immediate mobilization of all the police forces in the district to the Royal Arsenal and the Royal Shipyard, which are located in the Woolwich area under Greenwich.
A guard post was set up at 10 paces on the road near Woolwich Arsenal, with three men at each post, to strengthen police patrols.
If you find any miscreants attempting to storm the arsenal, arrest them all without question! Whether they did it intentionally or unintentionally, we’ll interrogate them later.
In addition, go and communicate with the Royal Artillery Regiment stationed near the Woolwich Arsenal, and tell them not to rush out if they find anything unusual, as neither the Cabinet nor the War Office have issued any orders for suppression.
If there is a large-scale riot and the local police force is really not enough to maintain order on the spot, then first request the Royal Artillery Regiment to send a police company to assist.
Furthermore, I repeat, no guns will be allowed, and all flintlock muskets in Greenwich Police Station will be taken to Woolwich Arsenal for safekeeping. Anyone who dares to lose his gun to me at this juncture will be sent to a criminal court!”
Hearing this, Tom hurriedly rushed at Arthur and saluted, “Yes, sir!”
“Tony, you go to Tauerhamletts and inform the Coldstream Royal Close Guard Infantry Regiment, which is responsible for the Tower of London’s policing mission, of the emergency situation, and if the head of the Coldstream Royal Close Guard Infantry Regiment, Prince Adolphus, the Duke of Cambridge, happens to be there, then you will report directly to him, and draw in the local police force to assist them in reinforcing the Tower of London’s Armory’s guarding force.
In addition, all the prepared guns in the Tauer Hamlets police station are also transported to the Tower of London for me, I have a number of guns there in my heart, and if I find out that even one of them is missing in the inventory afterward, I’ll make them look good!”
Hearing this, Tony gritted his teeth and asked, “Arthur, Towers Hamlets and Greenwich are not the same. Greenwich is our lair, and Tom is familiar with them, so you can say whatever you want. But now I don’t have the official transfer order from Scotland Yard that you issued in hand, those guys may not be willing to listen to me!”
Hearing this, Arthur also understood what Tony meant.
After he was promoted to superintendent, the position of the new police inspector in Greenwich District has not been officially determined, and several of the local police chiefs are also his old subordinates, so Tom can easily gain the trust of the guys by showing his face in the past.
But the situation in Tauerhamletts is a bit complicated, because the police inspector in Tauerhamletts is from the same close-guard cavalry regiment as Clemens.
Although it couldn’t be determined that the two were on the same path just because they had the same origins, judging from the fact that Fred could open a detective agency in Tauerhamletz with a big bang, that police inspector was most likely not a good person either.
Arthur licked the corner of his mouth as he grabbed Tony by the shoulders and shoved the pipe in his pocket, then lowered his voice to whisper in his ear.
“If that police inspector in Tauerhamletts doesn’t listen, you go to Jones and give him my pipe, and he’ll know how to deal with that sort of thing.”
Tony exhaled slightly, then nodded gently at Arthur, “OK, Arthur, I know what to do, and you take care.”
Arthur watched the two of them leave in the carriage, and his hanging heart was sort of half put down.
He followed closely and stopped a public carriage at the back, and was about to step on it when he realized that Agareth was in front of him.
The red devil stretched his wings and blocked out the morning sunlight, casting a shadow over Arthur’s face.
He shook his head as he polished his nails with a file.
“Arthur, why are you doing this? They like to seek death, so let them go. Tsk, even after thousands of years, humans still only have this level of intelligence. Those religious texts of yours call me a devil, saying that I lured human souls with all sorts of favors. It’s not true that I tricked souls, but I at least gave things!
We are all in a fair contract and a fair deal, and humans enjoy the benefits I give them, so they naturally have to pay me the benefits they agreed to at the beginning.
But now, but just someone gave them some false promises, shouted a ‘down with Wellington, overthrow the Tories’, neither gave them guns nor cannons, they rushed to get killed with their bare hands.
To be honest, this is not as good as the crusaders of the year, at least after the crusaders won the battle, it is a real grab a large sum of money, and the top and bottom of the kingdom of Jerusalem also share the land and honor.
Gee, it seems easier to be in the business of human fraud than in the business of souls. Arthur, as I’ve said many times, don’t hang around with these fools. They probably really think they’re going to get something for themselves after they blow Wellington out of power.
So what if Wellington is out of power? It’s just another party in power. Public ownership of property and equal labor is a nice thing to say. If human beings were really so unselfish, there would be no heaven and hell.
Not to mention the public ownership of property, you go to the street to lead a random beggar, ask the workers if they are willing to let this stranger live in their homes, ten in ten are not willing.
In the end, I am willing to let the beggar into the home of the guy, on the contrary, has become the canonical ten evil devils.
The man who really does something is the devil, and the one who casually talks about the spirit of fraternity becomes an angel, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk.
Arthur, I advise you, don’t go down that old road, you don’t like to read the Bible but I still suggest you learn more about the stories in it.
Why is it that the image of God in the Bible is always raining down meteorites, starting fires, and setting off floods? Have you ever considered that God actually did such things?
No, that’s just the God they expect, and only calamities can make them learn something good.
So, do you know how that good person really felt when Jesus was crucified by them?
Only when humans know it hurts do they know how to appreciate it. Jesus was not resurrected or ascended to heaven, that was just a lie made up by a bunch of shameless people to comfort their poor conscience.
The thought of a bunch of murderers kneeling in penitence and mourning before the body of the Savior of the earth is sickening.
There’s a reason why angels are hard to find on earth, and you’ll only end up making them think you’re weak by being kind for no reason at all. Only when you put the barrel of a gun to their head will they fall to their knees and submit to you.
Arthur, listen to me. Don’t go. Just take care of your own precinct. What the others do is their business, even if they end up sending out the Army, these guys are asking for it. Isn’t this group clamoring not to talk about morality? So why are you saving them out of moral considerations again? Don’t be silly, Arthur, morality doesn’t sensitize people.”
However, Arthur smiled softly at his words, “Morality isn’t something you talk about to other people, it’s something you talk about to yourself. I don’t do what I do to penitentize anyone, but to be able to make myself feel better in my own heart. If you think I have morals, that only means you are becoming more and more like a human. For it is only in the eyes of humans that what constitutes good and evil in that rational social animal is not feelings, but behavior.”
With those words, Arthur stepped through the shadow of Agareth’s body and into the carriage.
“To 10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister’s residence.”
When the coachman heard this, he couldn’t help but take off his hat, and even his speech became cautious: “Sir, what are you doing there?”
Arthur smiled, “What else can I do? Of course it’s to meet our Prime Minister, the Duke of Wellington.”
The coachman shook the reins and the carriage drove slowly, “I mean why are you going where?”
Arthur fished two coins out of his pocket and handed them through the front window of the carriage, “To protect the property and lives of the public for the sake of the duties of the Greater London Constabulary police. So for the sake of that property, please hurry.”
(End of chapter)