Chapter 247, the conspiracy of the Ministry of Truth
Seeing that the "old thief" successfully entered the building of the Ministry of Truth, Deputy Director Oliveira not only was not upset, but became even more excited.
"It turns out that they are from the Ministry of Truth! What conspiracy are being made by the guys from the Ministry of Truth?" Deputy Director Oliveira thought. The Ministry of Truth and the Ministry of Public Security have not dealt with each other very well. After all, their business has overlapped a lot. Since ancient times, colleagues have been enemies. What's more, there is a problem of budget disputes between them. This has made the conflict between the two departments almost rise to an irreconcilable level, and it is almost comparable to the navy and army of an Eastern country in later generations.
If we can discover the secret activities being carried out by the Ministry of Truth, and even allow the Ministry of Public Security to intercept it, it will probably satisfy Minister Fouche.
Under normal circumstances, Deputy Director Oliveira has no chance to be promoted to director. But if he makes contributions in this matter, the position of director is not out of reach.
However, Deputy Director Oliveira did not try to investigate this matter alone. He was not so arrogant that he could investigate the activities of the Ministry of Truth by relying solely on himself. This matter must be reported first.
Deputy Director Oliveira turned around and went to the Ministry of Public Security - matters involving the "Ministry of Truth", the priority and confidentiality levels are very high, and relevant information can be directly reported to the Ministry of Public Security.
"What is the Ministry of Truth doing? Most of them have discovered something. But no matter what they are doing, it is definitely right to focus on them." Assistant Minister Leon quickly received the relevant report and immediately gave such instructions.
The "Ministry of Truth" is indeed engaged in conspiracy. This is very, very normal, because conspiracy is one of the most important tasks of the Ministry of Truth. They are promoting hundreds of conspiracies every day. However, the mistake is that the people of the Ministry of Truth did find that there were industrial espionage near the fifth factory, but they had not yet determined whether these industrial espionages were foreign industrial espionages or domestic industrial espionages. So the whole case is still being promoted according to procedures.
However, at this moment, the guy from the Ministry of Public Security suddenly came in. With lightning speed, the whole group suddenly dug out the spy gang. Lucien was very annoyed and even doubted whether he was a spy from the Ministry of Public Security.
So, Lucien carried out a departmental rectification in the Ministry of Truth, mobilizing the intelligence personnel who were ambushing the Ministry of Public Security. The whole family dug out several Erwuzi who were in the Ministry of Truth, with their hearts in the Ministry of Public Security, and at the same time received subsidies from the Ministry of Truth and the Ministry of Public Security. Then, Fouchy also began the rectification work of the Ministry of Public Security...
Although departmental rectification is important, the work of the main thing must not be delayed. After all, the Ministry of Public Security should be more professional just by just catching people. The Ministry of Truth can always be overwhelmed by the Public Security Department. In addition to the fact that Lucien's surname is Bonaparte, one more important reason is that the Ministry of Truth can also play some high-level conspiracies. (At least Lucien thinks so)
For example, in the UK, the conspiracy of the Ministry of Truth is being carried out in an orderly manner.
After the peace was achieved, the publishing industry in London was very lively. A large number of French newspapers and magazines began to publish their English versions one after another.
Among them are the "Science and Truth English Edition", which is famous for telling the truth, and there are also "The Businessman" that mainly provides various economic information, which is relatively reliable most of the time, and occasionally makes mistakes because of its rush to grab news, "The Public Entertainment English Edition" with the highest goal of entertainment, "The Sun" English Edition, which specializes in providing various gossip news, "The Woodpecker English Edition", a comic magazine "The Woodpecker English Edition", as well as "Nature" which is highly serious and professional, specialized in mathematics and basic science, "The Lancet", which specializes in medical treatment, etc.
The emergence of this series of newspapers greatly enriched the spiritual and cultural life of the people of London. More importantly, except for the last few, these newspapers are generally very cheap. For example, "Pravda" is a daily newspaper with four newspapers, and each one costs only four pennies. This is not bad to buy it back as packaging paper.
"Pravda" is not the most cost-effective, and "London Businessman" is the favorite of all kinds of people who need to sleep in a cold room. This newspaper has a sixteen-page page, but each one has eight. Of course, like "Pravda", except for the first one, the other pages are all deceptive (most) or non-deceptive (very few) advertisements. Moreover, it is cheaper, only three pennies are enough.
Because the price is low, these two newspapers became very popular as soon as they were published in London. London newspaper boys like to sell the two newspapers together. They put the two newspapers together and ran along the street to sell: "Today's news is really good, and two newspapers are sold for seven pennies!"
In addition to these two newspapers, the magazines "Popular Entertainment" and "The Woodpecker" were also widely praised. In particular, the latter, which published the political satirical cartoon "Yes, Bishop" set against Louis XIII's France, which made the British laugh from ear to ear.
As one of the results of years of war, the French and British people have always had a bad view of each other. The French and British upper classes hated each other for the dispute over interests, and the French and British lower classes also hated each other because of the propaganda above.
However, the satirical comic "Yes, Bishop" is based on the most powerful prime minister of France, Richelieu, but it is particularly fond of the British. The selfish Richelieu in the comics, the stupid nobles around Richelieu, the unconscious king, the greedy priest, the stupid knight, and the officials make a fool of themselves, which naturally makes British readers happy.
However, some sensitive British people also found that the jokes in "Yes, Bishop" seem to be quite in line with the current situation in Britain. Many plots and lines remind people of various things in Britain. Sometimes, the British Prime Minister just made a speech and made decisions last month. Next month, similar stories appeared in "Yes, Bishop", but the protagonist became the French Richelieu. Perhaps only a fool cannot see it. Richelieu, at least Richelieu in "Charlieu of Woodpecker", is not just the French Prime Minister more than a hundred years ago, he also serves as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom today. Not to mention anything else, the Bishop Richelieu in comics and some small actions are very similar to Prime Minister Addington.
Soon, the current Prime Minister Addington became nicknamed "Bike Richelieu". At the beginning, Prime Minister Addington was very proud. After all, Bishop Richelieu was a great figure in European history. But soon he understood what this meant.
After carefully watching "Yes, Bishop" serialized in "The Woodpecker", his face was so angry that he was distorted. He almost issued an order to immediately seize "The Woodpecker Charlie". If it weren't for the Whig guys who actually supported his ideas in private, he might have done so.
The Whig guy was very disappointed that Prime Minister Addington did not take any action - if he did, the big hat that destroyed freedom of speech would be immediately deducted.
Moreover, some Whig guys have long been thinking about "Charlie Woodpecker". If "Charlie Woodpecker" is sealed, they plan to immediately wrap up the editorial department of "Charlie Woodpecker" and then immediately make "Richard Woodpecker" come out. At that time, the serialized comics were probably not "Yes, Bishop", but directly turned into "Yes, Prime Minister".
"I won't be fooled!" Prime Minister Addington said to himself silently.
If "Charlie Woodpecker" was only hated by the Tories and the Whigs, the Sun was really loved by the British. Because spying on privacy, especially the privacy of public figures, is a common hobby of mankind. In this regard, there is no difference between the British and the French.
The Sun's style in the UK is no different from that in France. It has always focused on various gossip news, especially the gossip news of big names. For example, in the French version of The Sun, Lucien is the most frequent French official - he has more chances to appear in the Sun than all other officials above the ministers combined.
In the UK, the Tories can always find the romantic incident of a guy from the Whig in the English version of the Sun; and the Whigs should not think it is unfair, because they can always find unspeakable stories of Tories and some people in another place, or even in other places. And they are not easy to refute rumors, because the more they refute rumors, the more others believe it.
However, the effect of this newspaper in France and in Britain is different. In France, if you tell me that Lucien is a pervert and has illegitimate children with many women, everyone will only think that this means that Lucien is charming and a good man; but in the future, the UK, which has "the conversation in the upper class cannot involve the waist below the waist, even the piano feet should be covered up to avoid bad associations", these things may not be good. In the eyes of more conservative British people, such things only show one thing, that is moral corruption.
Chapter completed!