When he came back from Pete, Addington immediately found the Secretary of the Navy and asked the Admiralty to make a detailed and "thoughtful" plan on the blockade of the Irish coastline for his reference.

Then he wrote to the Duke of Norfolk to understand his attitude. The Duke of Norfolk naturally supported the blockade of Ireland, but he suggested that now is not the best time, and the best time should be one or two months before the harvest season. Of course, you should prepare now.

Two days later, at a gathering at the Royal Academy of Sciences in the UK, Prime Minister Addington's secretary revealed a secret to Matthew Bolton, who participated in the meeting: "The Navy has developed a new weapon that can be used to block the coast of Ireland..."

In the eyes of many people, the reason why Matthew Bolton was able to become a member of the Wang Academy of Sciences was largely due to the fact that although he was a good engineer himself, he probably had a little gap in his true level from being able to join the Wang Academy of Sciences.

But if you want to talk about the level of doing business, Bolton can really say in the Academy of Sciences, "I am not targeting any of you." After all, in this circle, "no one knows how to do business better than me."

After learning the news, Bolton immediately changed his face. After confirming the news again, he found an excuse and took Watt to leave early.

On the carriage back, Bolton told Watt the news. Watt immediately started yelling: "How can this work? We just...and our..."

"James, keep quiet." Bolton said, "Don't be excited. I see what Mr. Dowding means. The government has not made the final decision yet. You think, such a big thing involves not only us, but also more people, such as those who do textiles. Once we really start war with France, think about what kind of losses these people will suffer? I'm afraid that large factories will collapse immediately. At that time, the London Bridge will be filled with people who want to jump the Thames. Maybe because there are too many people, it will directly crush the London Bridge. Well, that's what my mother sang to me when I was a child: 'The London Bridge is about to collapse, it is about to collapse, it is about to collapse...'"

Speaking of this, Bolton actually started singing.

Although he was not satisfied with Bolton's humorousness at this time, Bolton's indifferent attitude still made Watt breathe a sigh of relief.

"Matthew, don't be like a little kid," Watt said. "The problem now is what we should do."

"Of course, it is the first thing to do is to let everyone know." Bolton replied.

...

Almost at the same time, in other places, some merchants who have close ties to the Admiralty also received similar news. Some people received even more detailed information, so detailed that they even had technical details.

Two days later, a news article called "The Wang Navy successfully developed a secret weapon, and the French exclaimed invincible" was published in the first issue of a newly established tabloid. What's more terrible is that this news directly stated that this weapon that made the French "exclamated invincible" was the water mine.

The London police immediately seized the newspaper and arrested all the editor-in-chief of the entire tabloid, the reporter, the printer, and the newspaper boy, Mr. Anderson Sobi. During the interrogation, Mr. Sobi claimed that his source of information was from God's revelation, which God appeared in his dream and gave him these revelations.

This statement certainly made the police angry because they felt that their IQ was insulted, so several policemen carefully repaired the guy, repairing him so much that he couldn't even recognize him. But Mr. Sobi did not give in, and whenever he had time, even when the police were tired of repairing him and had a temporary break, he kept preaching to the police:

"God said that the day is approaching, and you must repent! God is supreme, I am the messenger of God, and you will go to hell like this! Almighty and kind God, please mercy on them and forgive their sins, because they don't know what they are doing..."

This made several policemen depressed. This guy seemed to have some brain problems. But a psychopath would also run a newspaper? Moreover, the people sent by the Navy were very anxious and said that they must find out who was hiding behind this person.

However, not long after, people from the London Mad Asylum came to the door. According to them, the guy named Sobi was their patient.

"Ah, Sheriff John, this person is indeed our patient. He has always had paranoid problems. Half a year ago, when our hospital was relocating, a group of patients disappeared due to chaos. At that time, we had published a missing person notice in the newspaper and reported the case to your bureau." The staff member of the crazy asylum named Woolf said.

"How did you find this place?" Sheriff John asked.

"You know, we never gave up looking for them, especially Anderson Sobi. His uncle is a rich man and comes to see him every year...soon, he is coming to visit Sobi. Well, he is one of the important donors in our hospital. So we've been looking for him all the time, including through private detectives.

A few days ago, Detective Sherlock Moriarty told us that he had received news that there was a person who looked very much like the Anderson Soby we were portraying here, and we came here…”

"Are you sure this person is Anderson Soby? Is there any proof?"

"Of course there is." Woolf replied, "Sir, we brought a full set of information about Anderson Sobby since entering our hospital five years ago. Including his handprint record five years ago."

"Can we show it?" Sheriff John said.

After verification, the palm lines on the five-year-old record brought by Woolf did come from the same person as the palm lines of Anderson Sobbie who was imprisoned. Sheriff John informed the people of the Admiralty. But the people of the Admiralty believed that this was a conspiracy, and there must be spies and sabotage members behind this person.

"In other words, what this lunatic said is well-founded?" Sheriff John asked.

"Sheriff, I have to remind you that you crossed the border and asked questions you shouldn't have asked," said the Admiralty official named Charles.

At the same time, the merchants of the Textile Federation also became active. They kept visiting the members of parliament and inquire about the news, and asked them to honestly protect their interests if they took their money.
Chapter completed!