C3227 Benjamin in the shadows (1/2)

While Audrey was crossing the sea to England, in a beautiful farmhouse outside of London, a tall and thin old man with a goatee and a fitting waistcoat was quietly watching the intelligence report from the south of France.

Benjamin, the former prime minister of Great Britain, was impeached by Gladstone. However, this old man, who was supposed to be living in the countryside and write a novel, was surprisingly able to access many top secret information of Great Britain on the French spy.

Not only that, but the butler at his side even respectfully asked him for his plans for the next step.

”Master, do you need to waste so much effort on a woman? Our aim is to suppress the Chinese people. Since the Chinese naval officers have done such a thing, shouldn't we expose it directly? ”

Benjamin put down the telegram, removed his glasses and shook his head, ”No, no, no, no... I have to consider maximizing the benefits, and each card has to be meticulously calculated! ”

”There's no use in exposing him. In this world, let alone an ordinary rape case, even if it was a massacre for a million people, what can you do in the end?” The strong have immunity! ”

”To make public the sin that all men commit? The masses would definitely scold Xiang Ying for being shameless, but what happened after that? Would France dare to judge? ”Even if the trial is over, who would dare to execute it?”

”In the end, you just left it at that, and the Chinese can totally deny everything. What if they don't admit to it? ”There's no other way …”

”So, this matter needs to be done to maximize the benefits, so we have to let the long line catch the big fish …” Train Audrey properly, she will become the most outstanding spy in our British Empire! ”

In this era, no one dared to underestimate the influence of Britain. The top-notch splendor displayed by the British Empire had already surpassed that of all the large empires in the history of mankind.

It didn't matter if it was the Ancient Rome or the Han Dynasty, in terms of overall national power, they were far inferior to the British Empire.

France had always been the second largest competitor in Britain, so the number of spies they had in France was also very large. The size of the spy network Bismark had created was probably not even a fraction of the size of Britain's.

Not only in France, Spain was also the main concern of the United Kingdom. Queen Yi Suobeila had always had high-ranked spies by her side, so the matter of Xiang Ying going to see the Queen couldn't escape the eyes of the United Kingdom.

When did he arrive at Biarritz? When did he escape? When did he surround the village? When did he insult Audrey … All of this was sent back to London by British spies.

But she never would have thought that the Queen would use her own influence to make a copy of the information and hand it over to Benjamin who was at home.

What was the reason? In the end, it was still this damned war. As the entire British Parliament, including the Prime Minister, all the nobles and capitalists, they had all misjudged the Franco-Prussian War.

Yes, that was a very serious miscalculation. Originally, they thought that it was a war in which both sides were injured and they needed the British to mediate the transfusion of blood, but instead, it became the stage for Prussian and Chinese performances.

The French could not help it, they were like fragile eggs that shattered upon contact!

The failed France turned out to be a united Germany. This kind of ending made all the British politicians extremely embarrassed, many of them even shouted out, ”We were deceived by Bismark's strategy!” Such serious words.

The Queen was very disappointed. Faced with the Government's erroneous strategic judgement, she finally realised that Gladstone's diplomatic and colonial affairs were really slightly inferior to Benjamin's.

However, even if she knew the truth, there was no other way. The Queen could not force an elected Prime Minister to step down. Although she had the right to impeach him, it was not worth it to impeach him for this matter.