Chapter 189: Trying to do good

“It’s not good, is it?” Sir Barron looked at the German watch on his wrist and said with a twist of words, “You don’t say it fits.”

“It simply fits, it’s practically tailor-made.” Alan Wilson agreed with this, although he didn’t know exactly which German owned the watch.

“As you say, time is a precious thing. Among the civil servants of British India, I actually think very highly of you.” Sir Barron did not panic and pulled away from the topic, and said grudgingly to Alan Wilson, “A lot of your ideas are actually very reasonable, just like in whose hands the great British Empire should be in the end, and the colonies are really very important to the status of civil servants.”

“Of course, Sir Barron, it’s all under your tutelage that I’ve finally become one of us.” Alan Wilson expressed his gratitude for Sir Barron’s promotion, “The bedrock and order of the Empire, of course, depends on us, not them ……”

“They were selected by their constituency party organizations, by thirty-five men in dirty raincoats and thirty-five women with comically ridiculous hats on their heads. The subsequent selection process was equally absurd: there were only six hundred and thirty MPs in all, and a party of more than three hundred MPs formed the government; of these three hundred, one hundred were too old and too stupid to be ministers, and another one hundred were too pattered to be ministers. So the remaining one hundred MPs fill one hundred government offices. There was practically no choice to be made.”

Sir Barron nodded with a satisfied look on his face; that was the way it was; England was divided into more than six hundred constituencies, each of which elected a Member of Parliament. Ministers and Prime Ministers, including the Shadow Cabinet were all MPs as well, responsible for their own different constituencies.

General elections in the UK are partisan, with the party that wins a majority of seats in the House of Commons coming to power. The Queen invites the leader of the party with the majority to be the Prime Minister, who then chooses Cabinet Ministers from among the party’s MPs.

There is no doubt that as a colonial empire the British Empire was certainly successful, but what does that have to do with those parties? Focusing just on the tiny little part of the mainland, where thousands of square kilometers of colonies laid the foundations of the Empire of the Sunset, were any of the colonies unable to play without their ministers? No ……

Without Labor and the Tories, the British Empire wouldn’t be any different, maybe even better, as long as there was a mature system of civil administration.

“While this is a fact, it is important to remember that ministers represent public opinion. You couldn’t say that if you were on home soil.” Sir Barron reminded with a stern face despite his dark heart, “It’s a good thing this is a colony and you’re one of ours, otherwise things wouldn’t be so good. You talk to the Congress Party properly, in fact, since the beginning of the year I have been thinking about whether to work in a clean but contributing position.”

Alan Wilson knew that the so-called idle but contributing position was one that didn’t have so much shit to do every day, but the treatment that should be given couldn’t be less, but who knew how much credibility Sir Barron’s words really had.

What if it’s just a test? Allen Wilson did not even think of the opposition, “Sir Barron you do not have this idea, now is the country in the autumn, British India is extremely important to the economic revitalization of the mainland, can not appear a little error. If there is no you here to sit in the town, 100,000 civil servants is not a mess?”

“Even if I want to be idle but this environment really doesn’t allow it!” Sir Barron sighed in a half-true manner, rounding off his words in a smooth manner, just expressing his recognition and support for Alan Wilson.

I knew this was a test! Allen Wilson’s heart slandered, being the boss of 100,000 civil servants in British India, this day is equivalent to the native Sir Edward, how much must one think about retirement?

And British India is high in the mountains and far away, Sir Barron’s freedom is even more than the Cabinet Secretary, if it were Alan Wilson, surely stay until the independence of the colony, as long as the colony is not independent, he will not go, must stand the last post.

“He’s not testing me, is he?” It was not until Sir Barron left the Governor’s Mansion that Allen Wilson, as an afterthought, felt that the scene just now seemed to have a little bit of other meaning.

As a matter of fact Allen Wilson guessed correctly, although Sir Barron took more care of Allen Wilson, he did not expect that the little commissioner who had been ousted by Nehru with a single application of pressure, in just more than half a year’s time, had turned over a new leaf in Europe, and had finally been looked upon favorably by the Cabinet Secretary, and returned to Delhi in the capacity of assistant commissioner of British India.

Alan Wilson was so young and had such marvelous ideas that it had to give Sir Barron himself a sense of crisis. After all, an over-competent deputy who had also leapt up the ladder so quickly was not good news.

Now so young is already assistant commissioner, in the upward is not to replace him as the commissioner of British India?

However, just now Alan Wilson very on the road performance, or dispel Sir Barron’s doubts, although currently still looks a little young, but want to progress the heart is understandable.

As long as a glance was favorable, what before what posed a threat to its own existence, the same disappeared. Sir Barron himself, without being interfered with, considered things in a different light.

Although Alan Wilson is young, and jumped up extremely fast, but ultimately there is a limit, assistant commissioner and commissioner literally not much difference, but want to complete this leap is still not easy, seniority and connections are missing, a short time will not be a threat to him as a commissioner of British India.

“Really did not expect, today a small a Governor General’s Office, actually appeared crouching dragon phoenix chick.” Also off duty, back to Alan Wilson recalled today’s day’s work experience, clear that today encountered at least two masters of brainstorming, with a little bit of luck, both have a shock to muddle through.

It was the first time he had felt tried, if not too stupid before, that was not enough status to be a threat to these senior civil servants, and now at least being taken seriously.

Being belittled at the same time signaled insignificance, being taken seriously had such a way of being treated that everything was a mixed blessing.

In fact, the good and bad half can also be applied to the independence of British India above, the two major religions are in a country, after the independence of India’s natural strength is stronger, but the internal friction will also increase. He could remember that British India in the latter days was the paradise of 600 million pacifists and 900 million Hindus.

If all these people were in one country, it is expected that the world wars would again not make the Indians look up, because they were small scenes, which were played out from time to time within India.

Nehru went back to consult with the Congress party internally, this side Alan Wilson still maintains his 9 to 5 job. By the way, he enquired about what Ali Jinnah, a lifelong enemy of the Congress party, was doing.

As an advanced country that values human rights, it is very normal for civil servants in the British Empire to work five to fix two. Near New Year’s Day, the weather in New Delhi is not too cold, Allen Wilson then in the indomitable spirit, secretly go to find Pamela Mountbatten.

The little girl is still very simple, in New Delhi on the girl’s school, itself is the daughter of General Mountbatten, high status will not taste the hook, know nothing about the social evil.

Pamela Mountbatten sixteen years of life experience, the most can appreciate the sinister things in life, is to be Allen Wilson instilled the Indians can not be trusted.

Recently he had been sending out men to look for concentrations of floating corpses in the Ganges, in preparation for directing native opinion. Alan Wilson, after all, was not an Indian, and it would take some time to find it as an Englishman. But references to the Indians’ disrespect for women, mentioning all sorts of atrocities against females had already appeared in the London newspapers.

“It’s actually very normal for men and women to be attracted to each other and take that step. But men can’t force women!” Dunked more than excepted, Alan Wilson has not forgotten how he treated the Iron Maiden, which of course did not stop him from blabbing in front of Pamela Mountbatten.

Acting as a respect for the identity of women Allen Wilson, a moment a non-vegetarian jokes, so that Pamela Mountbatten blushed, reached out to cover her ears and shook her head, “Do not listen, do not listen, you do not always chat about this aspect. Indian men hurt women, why don’t you catch?”

“Don’t say, it’s really a good idea.” Alan Wilson sniffed and seriously considered for a moment, “But the implementation difficulty is very high, first of all this is a shameful thing. Almost all of the grassroots police officers are Indians, this kind of case is obviously to tarnish the image of the Indian people, the Indian police is likely to ignore it. How many of us Brits can we catch?”

“You just said you respect women, and now you say you can’t do it.” Pamela Mountbatten touched her fevered ears and hummed lightly, “This makes it hard for me not to feel that you just lied to me. Just trying to take advantage of me!”

“It should be fine to specifically pick a few big cities and borrow a bit of religious conflict, that’s the limit, the vast countryside is really out of the question.”

Faced with the embarrassing fact that Pamela Mountbatten was about to unmask himself as a hypocrite, Allen Wilson decided decisively to make a decisive decision for the policing of British India.

All at once Allen Wilson’s thoughts were clear, didn’t Hinduism have a group called the Goddesses?

The native citizenry did not yet know about it, and this could be an entry point for combing British India’s civil servants against bad practices, even if only in name, to impress native women against civil servants like Allen Wilson.

For every time the image of the British Indian civil servant is built up, in turn the image of British India is dealt a major blow. But it wasn’t his problem, it was the Indians’.

The solemn statement of the Assistant Commissioner of British India made Pamela Mountbatten nod her head, and finally his personal image was upheld.