Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 26 Independence Movement
  As for James' identity, Princess Anne, who is one of the top military officials, can certainly easily identify him.

Although this little person's transfer did not need to alarm her, the special intelligence agency brooch worn by James to identify himself was obviously identifying himself to Her Royal Highness the Princess.

This kind of brooch is specially made by the Intelligence Bureau, with a special alchemy circle attached to it. Under normal circumstances, it is just an ordinary brooch, but when necessary, it is the identity certificate of the Intelligence Bureau's spies.

Of course, under special circumstances, it can also be used to transmit intelligence, or for espionage personnel to commit suicide to avoid intelligence leakage.

So when Princess Anne saw this brooch, she already knew James' identity.

And James' explanation makes sense. After all, the establishment of the crisis response committee does require comprehensive information from all aspects of the empire. An excellent espionage officer can indeed provide a lot of help to the Duke of Gloucester.

However, the purpose of sending people to Purfict's side is very thought-provoking.

So after Princess Anne figured out James' identity, she said nothing more and just turned her attention to Purficott to avoid affecting her judgment.

Purficott also understood at this time what the Duke of Gloucester meant by sending the person in front of her to her side, but she still felt somewhat disliked by the playboy appearance of James.

However, she was not a person who would let her personal likes and dislikes influence her judgment, so Purficott just thought about it for a moment and asked James: "Were you in the New World before? How many years did you stay there? Are you interested in the New World?" Are you familiar with the situation?"

"Dear Miss, I have stayed in the New World for seven years, and I am responsible for investigating the intelligence and movements of the independent elements in the New World. I am very familiar with it." James answered to Purficott, and at the same time a confident look appeared on his face. Expression: "I assure you, you won't find anyone in Longton who is more familiar with the New World than I am."

At this point, James does have enough confidence.

His understanding of the New World was not the kind of thing that he was exposed to in life, but he used the quality of a professional espionage officer to collect all kinds of intelligence and information, summarize them and analyze them to find out the valuable parts.

It can be said that even the aborigines who were born and raised in the New World did not have the familiarity and understanding of the New World that he did.

Perfectcott asked Princess Anne with her eyes. Seeing that the other party gave an affirmative answer, she nodded slightly, and then asked: "In that case, what do you think of the current situation in the New World? Those independent elements have the ability to threaten To imperial rule over the New World colonies?
  And most importantly, will they affect our plans? I don't want to have to deal with a bunch of independents starting a war while I'm trying to save the Empire. "

Purficott knew something about the colonial independence movement.

Although the colonies in the New World were not developed for a long time for the empire, the wave of independence still set off in this land.

Those independents called themselves Liberals. They incited the people of the colonies to rise up against the rule of the Victorian Empire and try to become independent from the empire's territory. That is why they were called independents.

Under normal circumstances, Purficott would never have any opinion on the independence of the colonies, and would even express his approval and support for them.

But now that the end is coming, these independent elements want to provoke a war to affect her plan at this time, which is not acceptable to Purficott.

Therefore, for the sake of his own plan, Purficott must learn more information about the New World, and the spy officer in front of him who has worked in the New World for many years is the best information target. Because of this reason, Purficott looked at James standing in front of him with less disgust.

"At present, the independence movement in the New World is still within control, but this is based on the premise that the empire uses force to suppress it." James considered his words and then gave a copy of his own Comment: “In the New World, the trend of independent thought has arisen. Although the upper class of the colonies have always been loyal to the empire, the lower class people, especially the new generation born in the New World, do not consider themselves to be subjects of the empire.

On the contrary, they believe that the empire has been oppressing and exploiting them, plundering their wealth, and not treating them as imperial subjects.

Therefore, after the rise of the independence movement, it spread quickly among the young people in the New World, and they also liked it. The previous wars also relied on these middle- and lower-class colonists as the main force.

Although I have no intention of criticizing the imperial policies, judging from my experience after returning to my homeland, the local people are indeed more discriminatory towards the colonial people. "

Listening to James's comments, Purficott didn't find anything strange.

Although the Victoria of this world is not the empire on which the sun never sets in the world before Purficott traveled, and the New World colonies did not have a French founding father to help them found their country, there are still many similarities between the two.

At least in terms of colonial resistance to the rule of the mother country, the colonial people in the New World and the thirteen North American states of that year must have a lot in common.

But for Purficott, these are obviously not the main points.

She solemnly asked James: "According to your assessment, if the empire wants to suppress the independence movement in the short term and ensure that they will not cause trouble to the empire in the next five years, what level of investment is needed?"

Obviously, Purficott wanted to eliminate this hidden danger that might threaten the establishment of the sanctuary.

However, before James could answer, Princess Anne took the lead and said: "Little Perfectcott, please don't get involved in the war. The military will handle this matter properly."

Obviously, Princess Anne did not want Purficott to be distracted by this incident.

Purficott frowned slightly, but still nodded and said: "Okay, but I hope these independent elements will not interfere with the construction of the shelter, even just a little bit, I don't want to see it.

If they affect the construction of the shelter, then I can only wipe them off the map. "

"Don't worry, although the empire will spend most of its energy on dealing with this disaster, it does not mean that the empire's army cannot deal with a group of colonial independents." Princess Anne's face showed strong confidence .

In addition to the vigorous development of productivity and social industrialization, the invention of the steam engine also brought about the rapid expansion of the military power of industrialized countries.

Without external intervention, it is almost impossible for the New World to defeat the empire's army and gain independence.

(End of this chapter)