Chapter 1229 The Empire's Submarine (First Update, Please Subscribe)
Mr. Watson is the mayor of the town and also the director of the secret agent school.
It is true that this is a school, but from the surface, there is no school color at all. It is an English town.
Smith would occasionally come across some nervous teenagers while walking on the street. Just by looking at their nervous appearance, he could tell that they were new students.
So Smith deliberately walked over to say hello to them, ask for directions or inquire about something, in short, to cause some trouble for these new students.
When Smith heard some new students speaking Chinese or other languages inadvertently, he frowned and then sternly warned them.
"Remember, you must speak English at all times here, okay? And your pronunciation, pay attention to your pronunciation, you should control your accent..."
While correcting their pronunciation, Smith couldn't help but sigh in his heart, how could these people make such low-level mistakes? Not to mention speaking with a British accent here, even when flirting with women or even having sex in bed, no matter how excited they were, they could not utter a word in Chinese or other languages. They could only speak English, and that with a local accent.
Because they are British - British people who grew up in Britain.
Smith obviously forgot that when he first came here, he would be corrected by the teachers here every day - the salespersons and waitresses. Because at that time, he would speak some street slang, his English grammar was simply the messy one of the lower class, without any educational grammar, and the pronunciation of some words was not accurate - although he was born in the UK, there is a clear difference between the English grammar and word pronunciation of ordinary poor people and upper class people in the UK.
And they are certainly not inferior people, the roles they play are those of educated people.
When he first arrived here, he, like those new students, was in a highly nervous state. He spent a lot of time every day learning the language and learning the British manners and accent. Now Smith has long become a standard British person.
Not only does he speak fluent and pure English, but he can also speak the dialect of his hometown, slang, and witty remarks that foreigners don't know, and his daily behavior and habits also show British characteristics and etiquette. He is exactly the same as any native British person, with no difference at all.
As a person who has been through this, Smith looked at the fearful looks of these teenagers. When he left, he smiled and knew that these little kids would slowly change and adapt to everything here.
They will get used to the British office hours, maintain the habit of afternoon tea, and become more British day by day. They will adapt to the British way of life.
After getting up every morning, he would have coffee, boiled eggs and toast for breakfast. He would hold the egg cup with boiled eggs in his left hand and a small spoon in his right hand, about to enjoy the eggs. He would enjoy breakfast politely and would never show any un-British habits.
And so began their British day.
Of course, what these new students have to do now is to adapt to all this.
Standing at the intersection, Pirling first looked to the right, then to the left, and finally to the right. He crossed the road only after he was sure there were no cars. It took Smith two years to get used to this detail, because unlike the Ming Dynasty, they drove on the left in Britain, and the British had been crossing the road this way since they were very young. If he didn't follow this habit, a shrewd spy could tell at a glance that this person was not British.
This kind of mistake in detail could easily lead to the arrest of an agent who has spent a lot of time and money to train.
Details determine success or failure, and this is also the purpose of setting up such a secret service school - to train a true British person.
Finally, they arrived at the mayor's office. Watson, who was over fifty years old, had been waiting for him for a long time. As soon as he saw him, he took out champagne. Then he poured two glasses, held the champagne in each hand, and handed one of the glasses to Smith.
"Congratulations! Smith, your performance over the past six months has proven that you have grown into a qualified agent. Congratulations, you've graduated!"
Smith, holding a champagne glass, looked at the mayor with surprise. Mr. Watson was Irish and he spoke with an Irish accent.
"In the past two years, you have achieved the best academic results. Not only do you have work experience in a bank, but you have also practiced routine business office work in a company. You understand accounting and business management, finance, import and export trade schedules, freight, and stock speculation. You are undoubtedly the best among the students. In the simulated market, you have earned 100,000 pounds with 5,000 pounds. All of this proves that you are ready for the next step. Of course, the most important thing is your loyalty to the empire. Because of this, your family will now assign you a task..."
The conversation between the two was very simple, and at the end Smith received his assignment, he would be sent to England as a businessman!
No, he was not sent to the UK. In fact, he had already arrived in the UK two years ago, and the company he ran in the UK had already started operating two years ago. All this was thanks to the advance arrangements made by the Imperial Investigation Department.
Of course, as a businessman, he is now doing business abroad, so he needs to take a ship to Cairo first, and then from Cairo - the merchant ships there can reach anywhere in the world, he will return to London from there and start his work.
When John Smith, a British businessman, arrived in Cairo, it was already early February 1876. In just over a week, this elegant and gentlemanly businessman successfully left a deep impression on many British people in Cairo. When he left Cairo, many people felt sorry for not knowing him earlier.
However, soon, John Smith finally returned to the UK after a long absence, where not only his company and his apartment, but also his upcoming career were waiting for him.
In the past nine years, Smith Trading Company has become a well-known trading company in London. Even John Smith, a young man from the upper class, has become a well-known young talent in London's upper society.
However, not many people know that this young talent has another identity.
That day, the postman delivered a telegram to Smith Trading Company.
"Your telegram, Mr. Smith. An urgent one from New York."
"From New York?"
"Yes, sir, it is the Hinds Stationery Company of New York,"
Hendricks Stationery Company?
When he heard the name, John Smith's heart moved slightly. After taking the telegram, he tore it open in front of the postman. The content of the telegram was very simple.
Hendricks Stationery Company wants to purchase a batch of stationery in the UK.
What the postman would never understand in his life was that just now, right in front of him, the Ming Empire spy "056", who had been lurking in the UK for nine years and had successfully penetrated the British upper-class social circles, received direct instructions from the empire after being buried deep for many years, which meant that "056" had been awakened...
(End of this chapter)
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