Carl McCasz is very happy with his recent life.

Although he was much busier than before, and from time to time a few British military officers were staring at him in disguise near the door of his house, he did not feel the slightest sense of fear.

At the beginning, when his son was seriously ill and had no money for medical treatment, and the whole family was so poor that he could not even pay the rent and was about to be evicted from his residence, Guo Songtao, the special envoy of the Chinese Empire in the East, was ordered to visit him in person and persuade him to become the editor-in-chief of the Workers' Times and a special correspondent for the New York Daily Tribune. With an annual salary of £500 and a spacious apartment, he was given a spacious apartment to settle his family, so that his family would no longer have to live in hardship.

It's not just about improving lives. His life had changed completely.

Busy and fulfilling! He used the platform of the Workers' Times to expose his greed and exploitation of capital, and as a result, he gained great fame, and was supported by many semi-unemployed and unemployed workers in England, including tens of thousands of workers in London alone.

Today, the Workers' Times has a circulation of more than 45,000 copies, and although it is still a little weak compared to the No. 1 Times and the No. 2 Daily Telegraph, which have a circulation of 200,000 or 100,000 copies, the rate of growth is very impressive! You must know that when the "Workers' Times" was first established and published, it was difficult to sell more than 1,000 copies of the newspaper, but six months later, the circulation reached 8,000 copies, and now it has reached an astonishing 45,000 copies just over two or three years after its launch. The impact is palpable. Moreover, this is because the information content in the "Workers' Times" is only set up for the poorer groups of British workers, and the content is relatively simple, but it is precisely because of this that the "Workers' Times" is loved by these homeless people and workers who are not well-off and live in poverty.

At first, most of them could not afford to buy a newspaper, but the editor-in-chief, Karl Maccas, was authorized by Guo Songtao to prefer that the Workers' Times lose money, and set the price of the Workers' Times, which was already a low-cost penny newspaper, even lower, and that a penny would sell a copy of the Workers' Times and give a piece of toasted bread for breakfast. As a result, the sales of the Workers' Times went up at once. Even some poor and unliterate workers will buy a copy of the Workers' Times with the intention of buying breakfast, and then ask their literate family members to help read the contents of the newspaper as a pastime.

Carl McCass did not make the Workers' Times boring, but on the contrary, he often used storytelling to tell the history of the Chartist movement to the workers, telling the mismatch between the value created by the workers and the wages, which resonated with many workers.

Some factory owners and mining owners were very hostile to Karl McCast, and applied to the London City Hall to send military police to arrest Carl McCast, but because of Guo Songtao's financial protection, they have been safe and sound, and even the police sent by the police department to keep an eye on him have become Carl McCaste's paid bodyguards.

That morning, Karl McCasz said goodbye to his wife and children, and left his apartment to go to the newspaper. As soon as I came to the street corner, I saw two plainclothes policemen approaching.

The two plainclothes policemen were two of the four old faces of the police, whom Carl McCasz knew were sent by the police department under the London City Hall to spy on him. Soon after he took over the Workers' Times, plainclothes police followed him and scared him for a while, but it didn't take long for him to realize that his worries were unfounded.

Just as he was thinking, plainclothes were already approaching him: "Thank you, Mr. Maccas!" Good things to say for us, this month Mr. Howard paid us £3 10 for 'hard money', which is 5 shillings more than last month! ”

Carl Mackas knew that Mr. Howard in their mouths was the translator of Guo Songtao, the special envoy of the Chinese Empire to Europe, and now Guo Songtao was fluent in English, French and Prussian, and Howard became Guo Songtao's assistant, and it was he who paid these plainclothes policemen who monitored him every month a "hardship fee" that was higher than the salary of their police work itself, and bribed all these policemen, not only did not report his problems to the top for two years, but also deliberately helped himself conceal them.

Carl McCuls was naturally happy to see this happen, and in return for doing more to help his fellow workers run the Workers' Times.

"Alright, what a lot of nonsense! Suffice it to know that both Mr. Maccass and Mr. Howard are very good people! Another plainclothes interrupted, smiled slyly at Carl McCas, and said, "Mr. McCas, turn left at the intersection ahead, there is a shoe store, Mr. Howard is waiting there, I guess there is something important to look for you." ”

"Thank you!" Carl McCass was not surprised by his rumors, saying that the two plainclothes men looked less like the officers of the Metropolitan Police and more like the private investigators hired by Howard. It makes sense, after all, the £3 a month that Howard paid them was much higher than the outrageous salary of their own police job – 8 shillings a week.

When he came to the shoe shop in plain clothes, a cobbler handed him a note, and Mackas took it, and saw that it was indeed Mr. Howard's handwriting, and told him to meet him at the Arc de Triomphe in Wellington.

Half an hour later, before Carl McChas could reach the Arc de Triomphe, Howard led a black-haired young man in a knight's hat to him.

"Sorry, Mr. McCas! Today I want to introduce an important person to you, so be a little cautious. Howard shook Carl Maccas's hand and began to introduce the black-haired young man next to him, who was obviously an Oriental face: "Come and get to know Mr. Zeng Jize from the East, the youngest official of the Chinese Empire's Secret Service Department, and the head of the London station. Mr. Tsang, this is what His Majesty has mentioned, and Mr. Special Envoy has praised Mr. Carl McCass, editor-in-chief of the Workers' Times, a special correspondent for the New York Daily Tribune, and honorary president of the London Dock Workers Union and the London Shoemakers' Union. ”

The Oriental young man named Zeng Jize was polite and said straight to the point: "Mr. Carl McCas, I am very amazed and admired by your research on the workers' movement. Now there is a wonderful opportunity, I wonder if Mr. Carl McChas is willing to fight for the freedom and equality of his fellow workers in London and England, and for the whole of Europe and the whole world, and contribute to their freedom from exploitation and oppression? ”

Carl McCass secretly said that this is not his ideal? However, this is just like Rousseau's utopian dream, and although Meccass expects it, he is not optimistic that this ideal will be realized in the short term. Isn't the Chartist movement, which was so vigorous at the beginning, about to disappear now? The Chartist brothers are now torn apart, and the capitalists and their government are too powerful.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Zeng, but I was only invited by Mr. Guo to be the editor-in-chief of the Workers' Times, and I didn't think about becoming a workers' leader or anything like that." Carl McCass shook his head in refusal.

"Mr. McCas, it's late! Ever since you became editor-in-chief of the Workers' Times, you have been tied to us. I have appointed you as the deputy station master of the London station of the Secret Service Department, and I am responsible for liaising with the workers and vagrants in London, and secretly organizing them to mobilize them, and when the time comes, to carry out a riot! Of course, you don't need to come forward, just use the platform of the Workers' Times to continue to publish the newspaper, and of course, we will use your reputation and borrow your name. ”

"You? What does that mean? Carl McCasz said in amazement.

"Monsieur Maccas, in order that you may work in peace of mind, and for the safety of your family, we are transferring your wife and children to Prussia today. By the way, I forgot to tell you that your homeland, the Kingdom of Prussia, has concluded a treaty of alliance with our Chinese Empire, and His Majesty has specially asked the King of Prussia to cancel the arrest warrant for you. The Special Envoy Guo Songtao Guo has applied to the Prussian Royal Police Department for the restoration of your Prussian nationality, and the Inspector General of the Royal Police, Baron von Zedritz, has agreed and approved the request. Today, you and your family can return to Prussia safely. ”

Zeng Jize's killer move shocked Carl McCas.

His face was full of excitement, did Prussia really cancel the arrest warrant against himself and restore his nationality? So, you can go back to your hometown?