Chapter 239: The Stars of the Humanoid Group Shine (K)

Chapter 238 – The Humanoid Stars Shine (5K)

Under Arthur’s gaze, the sweaty Mr. Rui Mysterious fulfilled his request to plug in and configure the cologne almost immediately.

Only, more than the cologne, Arthur was obviously more concerned about the popularity of the name Bernie Harrison in the perfumers’ circle.

Arthur uncapped the perfume bottle and took a gentle sniff, then nodded his head in satisfaction, “I have to admit, Mr. Rui Puzzle, the perfume you configured is almost about to be as good as Mr. Bernie Harrison. Do you know Mr. Harrison? He stepped into high society with this mastery of perfume configuration.”

Rui Mystery’s mood obviously softened considerably when she heard Arthur mention Bernie Harrison.

He smiled and responded, “You are really too kind, although I think I do have a little bit of knowledge in perfume configuration, but there is still a lot of distance from Mr. Harrison, who is a big name in the fashion circle who provides long-term perfume and cosmetic supplies for many big clients.”

Seeing that the conversation box had opened, Arthur smiled and coaxed, “Is that so? But not long ago, I also heard Mr. Harrison complaining that the number of people who went to him for orders had obviously decreased quite a bit recently. You French perfumers have brought him a lot of competitive pressure! But in my opinion, this is actually quite good, Britannia has always advocated free competition, and only by having a sufficient number of strong competitors in the same industry can we promote the progress of product quality.”

“Mr. Harrison has fewer customers?”

Rui Mystery couldn’t help but light up when he heard this, but soon he hurriedly collected his smile and waved his hand again and again, “But then again, don’t you have a proverb in England? Even a bankrupt rich man is richer than a beggar. Mr. Harrison’s family is big, even if he loses a few customers, it won’t hurt. Besides, as long as he holds on to big clients like Mr. Henry Drummond, Mr. Thomas Crocker, and the Earl of Eldon, there won’t be many people who can challenge his unshakable position in the perfume making world in a short period of time.”

Henry Drummond, Thomas Crocker and the Earl of Eldon?

Arthur only felt a feeling of cardiopulmonary arrest when he heard these names.

He now finally understood how Bernie Harrison’s position as MP had come about, and where the guy fell on the political spectrum.

The guy was definitely a die-hard Tory MP as it were, and even whether Sir Peel, the current Tory leader, could keep him in check had to be a big question mark first.

Among the great clients of Mr. Harrison’s supply was Mr. Henry Drummond, a member of the House of Commons and a banker, who was always known as an ‘old-school Tory,’ and who, among other things, was a prolific writer, but of course his writings were mostly in the field of religion.

Mr. Drummond was also a well-known loud-mouth, and he often made startling remarks in the House of Commons, which, while winning the cheers of his supporters, often provoked the Whigs to attack him with great fury, and caused the Tory Liberals to frown.

He is best known for arguing that the common people are uneducated and unruly, repeatedly threatening social order and the safety of property, and therefore should not be entitled to rights. And the socio-political elite must consolidate their position in many ways to prevent the lower classes from committing crimes. The British system of government was perfect and had a long history, reflecting ‘the union of Divine Providence and Civil Law’, and could not be changed at will. If a ruler were to change it in order to seek to win the admiration of those subjects who were guided by this spirit, the government would surely be destroyed.

As for Mr. Thomas Croker, though he was not so loud-mouthed as Mr. Drummond, his position in the Tory party was really of great importance. For no other reason than that Mr. Croker was Secretary of State for the Admiralty for twenty years, from 1810 until the Tories went out of power last year, and has always been on rather good personal terms with the Duke of Wellington.

Although Thomas Croker seldom expressed his opinions publicly during his term of office, there are a few minor incidents which show what political views he held. For example, when the Duke of Wellington decided to enact the Catholic Emancipation Act, Croker repeatedly warned his friend that the Act was not only undemocratic and unconstitutional, but would set a precedent for shaking the independence of the House of Commons.

And since going out of office last year, Croker, who had held back for twenty years, has been on fire in the Quarterly Review, the organ of the Tory Party, publishing a dozen articles attacking parliamentary reform in just six months’ time, and taking the initiative to take up the burden of the charge for the Tory Party.

As for the Earl of Eldon, a Tory hardliner who has served as Lord Chancellor for 26 years, there is no need to mention that, if the above two are mainly verbal, the Earl of Eldon has always been long for action. This veteran of five Tory prime ministers often used the Court of Equity, the highest court in Britain, to oppose a series of reforms, including amending the Grain Act, lowering import tariffs, amending the criminal law, etc., and did everything possible to enact regulations to limit the excesses of the ‘underclass mobs’. ‘ excesses.

Even a rough count of the various types of mobs that were tried and executed through his hands should have amounted to more than a thousand people.

Among them, the most well-known executed people were the Cato Street Conspiracy Five, who plotted to assassinate the cabinet members. These five men were convicted of treason at the trial of the Earl of Eldon, and were publicly executed on May 1, 1820, outside Newgate Prison.

When Arthur spoke to many Londoners who had witnessed that scene, they invariably mentioned that Mr. Ince, a member of the conspiracy, who had a noose around his neck at the time, was still laughing and singing at the top of his lungs, “Freedom or death!”

And when he was asked if he regretted it, Mr. Ince just winked and replied, “No, I don’t regret it at all. I hope posterity will realize that although I failed, at least my efforts were sincere.”

And in order to deter the ‘mob’, Earl Eldon also ordered that after hanging the five men, he had masked executioners cut off all of their heads and hang them.

Although many remnants of the Middle Ages still remain in the laws of Britain nowadays, this kind of beheading punishment has not been seen for a long time.

Count Eldon’s intention of deterring the ‘little ones’ was obviously defeated, and his beheading not only failed to deter anyone, but also provoked a stronger and stronger antagonism among the citizens of Britain, and even caused his cabinet colleagues to share the enormous public pressure with him.

Shelley, Byron and other liberal writers have written to attack the bloody policy of the cabinet, and once supported the Earl of Eldon to deal with the riots with an iron fist of the foreign minister, Viscount Castlereagh, is not long because of the huge pressure of public opinion can not withstand the mental disorders, and ultimately two years later with a letter opener to commit suicide.

It is not at all difficult to guess what thoughts were in the head of Mr. Bernie Harrison, if he had been mingling with these gentlemen all the year round.

As the witticisms of the hired farmers in the old country home of Arthur York used to be passed on, if you spend all day with a cripple, it won’t be long before you learn to walk with a limp.

Arthur frowned suddenly at the thought.

Mr. Harrison could now basically be classified as a die-hard Tory, and in a faction that advocated ‘toughness is everything, and invariance is strength’, would Mr. Harrison meekly accept the arrest of a few Scotland Yard mudbloods?
After all, according to Mr. Drummond of the same faction, as rulers, they have always looked down on such lowlifes as Scotland Yard.

From here, it could already be basically inferred that Mr. Harrison could never be a man of weak character, and that his acceptance of arrest that day was 100% staged.

As for why he was completely unperturbed by his arrest, it seems completely understandable now, as Earl Eldon’s friend and perfume supplier, the former Lord Chancellor, Earl Eldon, although out of power, but as an old man who reigned for 26 years, Britain’s judicial system is almost filled with disciples and officials who converge with his political views.

Now, whether it is the magistrate’s court, the court of appeal, or the court of equity, more than seventy percent of the judges are from the hands of the Earl of Eldon received the warrant, with their guarantee, want to knock the Earl of Eldon valued and there is no decisive evidence to prove that the crime of the members of the House of Commons is really more difficult than the sky.

Of course, this kind of situation is expected to happen only in Britain. Generally speaking, other countries cabinet change can come to a systematic blood change, this situation is typical of those barbarians in the North American colonies.

Arthur remembers that, at their place, there is also a quite artistic term for this phenomenon, called the two-party fat-sharing system.

But in Britain, and especially in the judicial system, such a situation was completely out of the question. For the Lord Chancellor had only the power to appoint to vacancies, regardless of the court, and not the power to remove judges from office.

In order to remove any judge from executive office, it must be reported directly to His Majesty’s Royal Council for approval, and if the King does not give his nod, there is no way to talk about this matter.

And as far as Arthur knew, the king rarely nodded his head on such matters. For nearly a century, every time the king took the initiative to order the removal of a judge from office, he could not escape the torture of public opinion afterward. In this regard, the various newspapers in Fleet Street could be said to be highly decorated, and they would often come up with such things as “The King interferes with judicial justice”, “A spark of despotism has been kindled in the skies over Britain”, “Shock: Louis XVI has taken up residence in Buckingham Palace”, “Does everyone think it would be good for Mr. Cromwell to be the Protector of the Realm?”, “His Majesty the King says: I’ve had it. “His Majesty the King Says: I’ve Decided! Big news like that.

Because of this, after being repeatedly molested by Fleet Street and realizing that they couldn’t be gagged anyway, the Kings, from the late George III onwards, resigned themselves to the fact that they simply swung straight for the fences on this piece.

Instead of some starry-eyed notion, the notion of successive kings slowly shifted to: there’s an old English saying that it’s best to be bored.

Therefore, even if the judge really made a mistake, as long as the problem is not too big and public opinion does not give him the upper intensity, then the king will most likely turn a blind eye as if he did not see it.

To put it bluntly, the king is not happy to take the blame for the ruling party’s resolution, the judicial piece of your own play go, who let you forced me to sign the Magna Carta?

Whoever has the problem, take it home.

Therefore, even now Lord Brougham has been inaugurated as Lord Chancellor, but to the judicial system, or a little bit slowly.

Because judges usually work until they die, which is why Viscount Melbourne is so grateful that Lord Brougham is willing to take the initiative to offer a vacancy to George Norton.

For a new Chancellor, every vacancy is precious.

After all, not every Chancellor could do 26 years like the Earl of Eldon, and if a Chancellor was in office for too short a time and coincidentally caught a time period when no one was retiring, it was likely that he or she wouldn’t be able to fit in more than a few people from the time they took office until they went down.

And speaking of which, another possibility sprang to Arthur’s mind.

As everyone knew, although the Tories and Whigs were nominally two unified political parties, there were still countless forested hills within the party.

For example, among the Tories were the Liberal faction represented by Sir Peel, the diehard faction represented by Earl Eldon, the train-battered Huskisson faction, and the once prominent Canning faction.

The reason why the Duke of Wellington was able to stabilize himself in the Tory party earlier was that His Excellency the Duke, besides having a very high prestige, was also a representative of the die-hard Tory faction, but when he leapt to become the Prime Minister, the old Duke began to cunningly steer hard to the left again and gained the support of the Liberal faction of the Tory party, which was represented by Sir Peel, in one fell swoop.

Of course, because of the Catholic Emancipation Act, the Duke of Wellington turned the steering wheel so hard that he crashed headlong into his own basic diehard yard wall and so had to step down to give thanks.

But nowadays, although the Duke of Wellington has stepped down, the Liberals and the Diehards in the Tory party are still in a fairy fight, and many people are not satisfied with Sir Peel’s resolution to take over as party leader.

From the standpoint of the die-hard faction, the arrest of Bernie Harrison not only disgusts the Whigs who are in power, but also the Scotland Yard that Sir Peel has built up with his own hands. When you think about it that way, it does seem like they have good reason, motive, and the power to carry out this plan.

When Arthur thought about this, although the logic seemed to flow, he always felt that the means used seemed a bit rough.

Just for the sake of disgusting others, they used such underhanded tactics, and even involved a human life, those diehards have always boasted that they are different from the lower class of the aristocratic spirit have been thrown to where?

Arthur thought about it left and right, and only felt that this matter revealed a hint of diaphragmatic flavor inside and out.

While he was pondering, Disraeli on the side suddenly spoke, ”Earl Eldon? It’s been a long time since I’ve heard that name, that old man has had a hard time these past few years! Ever since he went out of power, he’s been dragged out by the public opinion every now and then to be criticized and mocked, and a while ago he was planning to find a newspaper to publish an article in his own defense, but it turned out that there wasn’t even a single newspaper in Fleet Street willing to pick it up.”

Arthur sniffed and asked, “Is there more to this? How do you know about it?”

Disraeli replied back, “Of course it’s because he’s found our Cockney too, and he was going to offer fifty pounds, but I turned it down.”

When Arthur heard this, he just raised an eyebrow and said, “Fifty pounds? That’s not a bad price! I can’t see that you love your reputation.”

Disraeli said with a smug face, “Of course, I plan to continue electing councilors in the future. Although Earl Eldon still retains some influence in the political world, that old man is really getting old and his mind is getting dimmer and dimmer. If he finds someone who can speak well as a lobbyist, maybe I can help him out for the sake of fifty pounds.

But he’s so drunk on Thames water that he’s sent George Norton, that fool, with whom I had a bad time when I was a student at Lincoln’s Inn. If I hadn’t had to maintain the decency of a gentleman, I can’t say I’d have had to give him two sticks to his face.”

“George Norton?” Arthur’s face became quite odd when he heard about this guy who got into the position of Westminster magistrate by selling his wife, “You and him actually went to school together?”

Disraeli squeezed out a breath through his nose, “Hmph, more than classmates, the two of us can even be considered enemies. How about it, Arthur, surprise? But then again, why did you know his name?”

Arthur snorted, “The magistrate of Westminster, it would be hard for me to not recognize him even if I look like I don’t know him, there are so many cases in Scotland Yard that have to go through his hands to be decided.”

“Whoa! Yes, yes, yes! I’m getting mad at you for mentioning that!”

Disraeli spoke up, “He just kept circling around this magistrate thing with me the other day to show off. I saw how arrogant he was, so I shaded him about him losing his seat as a councilor, but the kid actually had the cheek to tell me that even though he lost the election, he was still a very popular marquee candidate, that the voters hated those he ran against, and that on the day of the vote, he saw that many of the voters voted against him with tears in their eyes. You see, what kind of insanity has he got to say such things?”

Arthur was also silent when he heard this, he lit his cigar, “Voting against him with tears in his eyes, well …… I have to admit that Mr. Norton has quite an imagination, maybe he should be a novelist, although his wife already is.”

Disraeli grunted, “That’s the thing about this Norton man, from the time he studied at the Law Society! Both optimistic and gullible, and on top of that, vain. To sum it up, he wants to save face, but has no brains. He really seems to think that the world revolves around him and that everyone owes him. If it weren’t for Earl Eldon’s sake, I’d have taken a broom and thrown him out of the editorial office.”

When Arthur heard this, a sudden light flashed in his head.

“Mr. George Norton? …… Perhaps I should go and see him, or perhaps I could approach Mrs. Norton first.”

Arthur fished his pocket watch out of his pocket and glanced at it, “She’ll probably be at the Home Office at this hour, won’t she?”

(End of chapter)