I am a director in Ark. If I am not banned, I will be considered successful.

Now...let's finish watching "Yes, Prime Minister" first, they still need to study!

"Let everyone rest here first, and we will continue to move forward tomorrow."

Over at the Deep Pool, the leader Abrana gave the order to rest on the spot. Soon, under Abrana's arrangement, tents began to be built. Of course, along with it, there was also a small, portable TV.

After connecting to the signal from Londinium, Abrana, her sister, and several cadres from Shenchi sat together and began to look forward to what new knowledge they could learn from the last two episodes of "Yes, Prime Minister".

This scene was also being played out by the self-rescue army in Londinium. Under the command of their leader Aledae, they chose the day when Chen Qi left the city to take action - that was the most suitable day for action as there were many people around.

Moreover, they all simultaneously focused their attention on the TV station in Londinium. Although they did not plan to blow up the TV station, they planned to delete the information of "Yes, Prime Minister". In this way, even if Chen Qi left Londinium, "Yes, Prime Minister" would not be broadcast again.

Various forces approached Londinium at the same time, but stopped their actions at the same time and started watching "Yes, Prime Minister" which they either loved or hated. However, they themselves did not know that they had already become addicted to this unique TV series unknowingly.

This time, the penultimate episode of "Yes, Prime Minister" also quickly begins with an incident in which a Victorian nurse was sentenced to ten years in prison and forty lashes because she did not understand Iberian laws and secretly stored illegal drugs.

"It's really worrying, Humphrey. The public sympathy is very high." Prime Minister Harker, played by Tracy, asked anxiously, but Humphrey, played by the Blood Demon Lord, was not surprised by this and replied:

"I'm sure the Foreign Secretary will give you advice."

"——He suggested that I stand aside and watch." Tracys replied with a slight frown, while the Blood Demon Lord smiled and replied:

“I think that’s good advice.”

However, as the familiar canned laughter sounded, at this moment, Vina's expression darkened slightly again.

Slandering the Ministry of Foreign Affairs again! Damn it! If I really have a chance in the future, I must thoroughly clean up the Ministry of Foreign Affairs! Let's see how this guy can find more black spots!

But people in Shenchi were already laughing. Very good! The opening was to make fun of the Victorian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Good review!

Chapter 55: "Yes, Prime Minister" Has the Black Ratlan Begun?

"We are very close to the director Chen Qi who filmed "Yes, Prime Minister"."

On the other side of Londinium, at this moment, five "Emperor's Blades" came from the Ursus Empire. Each of them wore a black coat and covered his cheeks with a mask similar to a gas mask. Several pipes were connected to the devices on his back, and not a single piece of skin was exposed on his body.

Of course, they are no longer human, nor are they any Terran species, not even demons. They are just a group of deformed and powerful products created to fight against demons. Now, the five "Emperor's Blades" came to Londinium to carry out the mission assigned to them by the palace - assassinating Chen Qi.

Of course, the five "Emperor's Blades" are not death warriors in the hands of the nobles. Their loyalty is to Ursus and everything that is beneficial to Ursus.

And now, Chen Qi, who has caused turmoil in the rule of Ursus, is naturally their target to be eliminated - but they are not crazy people without reason. They know very well that it is difficult for the five of them to break through the layers of defense of Londinium, and they must find another way.

Coincidentally, they also received news that Chen Qi would complete his contract with Tracys tomorrow and then leave Londinium. This was a good time for them to take action.

"Whether Tracys lets Chen Qi go or not, that will be the closest we'll ever be to success."

"I detected that there are multiple life forms approaching Londinium. Obviously, their purpose is either to share ours or to rescue people. And the timing they chose is definitely the same as what we thought."

"...Then why not learn Victoria's diplomatic methods?" An internal guard also analyzed the situation: "Let them fight among themselves. When the time comes, we only need to make a few moves to resolve the current situation."

"Good idea, it saves us from having to come up with a plan."

So, after a brief exchange, the five internal guards immediately decided to use the "Victorian Diplomacy Law" in "Yes, Prime Minister" to deal with all kinds of changes. Now in Ursus, although civilians are not allowed to spread or watch "Yes, Prime Minister", it is still very easy for them at this level to watch it.

Moreover, the discussion about this drama has been going on for several days in the Ursus Palace. The nobles of the Ursus Palace have obviously discovered the potential of this drama and its analysis of Victorian politics. These values ​​are very useful.

Most of the time, the internal guards are not only high-end combat forces, but also generals, so when necessary, they must formulate tactics based on the thinking logic of politicians from other countries. "Yes, Prime Minister" provides them with a good template.

It can be said that several countries in this land now have a detailed analysis of the operation of Victoria’s civil service system and their internal problems thanks to this drama, and the Internal Guards naturally have to learn from them.

"So, now that the plan has been finalized, what should we do next?"

"—wait, and then watch the last two episodes of Yes, Prime Minister."

Soon, the guards took out their mobile phones, which they were not supposed to have, but had prepared in order to upload the last two episodes of "Yes, Prime Minister" to the palace in time, and immediately began to watch and study through the network of Londinium.

……

"If we stand aside and watch, we will appear both ruthless and incompetent." Tracy obviously disagreed with Humphrey's approach to the nurse, and immediately said:

"The Government cannot appear both heartless and incompetent at the same time—what do you think, Bernard?"

When faced with the Prime Minister's question, Manfred, who played the role of private secretary Bernard, didn't know how to answer for a moment, so he had to offer a suggestion: "Why don't you think of a way to make you appear either ruthless or incompetent?"

"Hahahahaha!"

This time, Manfred's answer once again caused everyone inside and outside the screen to burst into laughter. Now, with the popularity of "Yes, Prime Minister", the characters of these three leading actors have become familiar to the audience, and Chen Qi can often see comments about the character "Bernar" in the comment section.

“One tip for quitting a job every day.”

"I really like Bernard so much. He can always say things that I dare not say."

"I think every day that it's a miracle that Bernard can still be a private secretary when he talks like that. He must be very capable at his job, right?"

However, after everyone in Rhodes Island laughed, they realized that Vina was also on the land ship. But when they turned their eyes to Vina, they found that the crown prince was also trying to hold back his laughter. After looking at everyone, he said:

"...It's okay, you don't need to worry about me. I'm just an unofficial crown prince. In fact, I would laugh when I see these things."

Vina also forced herself to straighten her face. After adjusting her mentality during this period of time, she felt that the content of this episode so far was acceptable to her. Except for the fact that it criticized the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the beginning, she didn't say anything else.

After all... the overall tone of this drama is satirical comedy, and it would be abnormal if there were no bad comments about Victoria in a few sentences.

Vina calmed down and continued to watch. At this moment, Lord Blood Demon began to explain to Tracys the reasons why they had to stand aside and watch. Obviously, they did not intend to offend Iberia because of this matter. Iberia had many interests with them, and in the future, they would be wary of Gaul and Ursus. They would need the help of Iberia, a powerful land power, to guard against them.

Therefore, Lord Blood Demon only planned to ask the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to lodge a "solemn protest" as usual to calm the emotions of the people, and then their government's work would be considered "doing its best."

"How cruel." Tracy shook his head and replied.

"——It's better to be ruthless than to be brainless." The Blood Demon Lord had no shame at all. He slowly stood up and said to Tracys, which cheered up everyone watching:

“History is the triumph of ruthlessness over brainlessness.”

As soon as Lord Blood Demon finished speaking, the high-ranking officials, leaders, and chiefs of various forces in various countries all felt their eyes light up when they heard these words. They nodded and wrote them down.

"History is the history of the victory of the ruthless over the brainless..." In the deep pool, when the leader Abrana heard these words, her eyes lit up almost immediately. She immediately recorded them and kept muttering to herself:

"Well, that's a good point."

Why did she think this was a good saying? Because she herself had gone through this journey.

Abrana's Originium skills can control the bodies of dead people. Her Originium skills have greatly increased the combat effectiveness of [Deep Pool] and dealt a huge blow to the morale of their enemies. Although Abrana has used it a lot in the past, she actually has some alienation in her heart about it.

However, she still persisted all the way, and the words of the Blood Demon Lord seemed to completely dispel the last bit of barrier that Abrana had with her Originium skills.

It was only because of this sentence that Abrana believed that she and Shenchi would succeed, because she herself was a "ruthless" person, ruthless to her enemies. This sentence happened to be a portrayal of her and also a recognition of her.

This script was written by Chen Qi, and her purpose was to win over Chen Qi. As we all know, a work will naturally convey some of the creator's own subjective ideas.

Does this mean that... the Chen Qi that I want to pursue is actually the same type of person as me?

So, has your success rate increased significantly?

When she thought of this, a sick but confident smile emerged on Abrana's face, which made her disguised sister Lavishni and a group of Shenchi cadres feel extremely weird.

However, the drama on TV was still playing out, and with Humphrey's departure, the matter of the nurse tortured in Iberia seemed beyond redemption. However, Manfred took this opportunity to mention to Tracy the vacant position of bishop in a parish of the Lateran Anglican Church in Victoria.

Now all Tracy has to do is choose one of the two candidates from the Anglican Church.

"Eh? Anything else about Rutland?"

At this moment, Exiah, who was also following "Yes, Prime Minister" at Longmen, reacted immediately after hearing the first mention of Lateran and even the church in this drama, and felt something was wrong.

"Oh no, Director Chen Qi, you are not going to slander us Lateran and our doctrine, are you?! You can't do such a thing! You will be hunted down!"

Exia can believe that now that Longmen is broadcasting "Yes, Prime Minister", there must be countless people watching in Lateran. The information of Lateran is free, and everyone can watch anything, but the only thing they cannot do is question the teachings of Lateran!

In that case, even if the Sakotas of Lateran are all destructive and good-tempered by their ancestors, as long as you dare to insult the doctrine and the church, the Sakotas will definitely turn into judges and punish all enemies!

In the Lateran, just as Exia had expected, the current Pope of the Lateran, "Evangelista XI", who was eating a cactus fruit tart and had a dense beard and was fat, had a different reaction when he saw the mention of Lateran for the first time on "Yes, Prime Minister" on TV.

"There is such a thing as the Lateran? I wonder what this sharp-tongued young man will say about us." The Pope was not very nervous. He still had confidence in his teachings.

He simply didn't have much confidence in the church in Victoria...but no one there was from Lateran from top to bottom, so he didn't need to be nervous.

"How do I know who to vote for?" Tracy knew nothing about the two candidates, so naturally he didn't know how to choose.

Fortunately, Manfred also explained it for him at this moment: "It's a card trick, Prime Minister, just like selecting other civil servants."

However, Manfred's words made the Pope, who was mentally prepared, suddenly embarrassed, and Manfred in the play also explained:

"No matter what card you draw, you will always draw the card the magician wants you to draw."

"What if I don't smoke?" Tracy asked with a bit of disbelief. However, this time, Manfred, who was called "Sakta" in the play, smiled slightly and said:

"You will."

Obviously, there was something fishy going on here, but Tracys didn't know what it was at the moment, so he had to ask, "Which cards do you want to give me?"

"——The cards of the Victorian church are either J (villain) or Q (homosexual)."

"Cough, cough, cough!"

However, a word from Manfred in the play caused the Pope to spit out the fruit tart in one breath, and even choked his trachea, causing him to cough violently and almost choked to death in the room.

"Your Holiness?! What happened to you?! Are you scared by the explosion outside? But I don't think the sound was that loud, it just blew up a row of railings!"

"I, I'm fine. I just regret turning on the TV."

After a violent coughing fit, the Pope felt a rare surge of regret in his heart - although the Lateran said that he wanted to spread the doctrine to every corner of this suffering land as much as possible, and he would try his best to do it even if it was impossible, but there was no doubt that he began to regret placing the branch church in Victoria because of the line just now.

Although everyone knows that the Lateran Church in Victoria has strictly speaking become Victoria's own property, he was still furious when he thought about how the Lateran's teachings were being ruined by the Victorians.

Victoria! Our sacred teachings have come to your land, and have tainted the word sacred!

Chapter 56: Sakota's Anger at the Victoria Diocese

However, leaving aside the situation on the Pope's side, now in the play, Lord Blood Demon appeared at a very grand dinner, and there were only three people at the dinner. In addition to Lord Blood Demon, another person who deserves attention is the dean of Humphrey's alma mater.

During the conversation among several people, the dean revealed that he would retire in four or five years and hoped that the Blood Demon Lord could take over. The Blood Demon Lord quickly realized that this was a good job for him after retirement and naturally did not want to give it up.

But apparently, they had run into some trouble. The Dean of the Academy was somewhat dissatisfied with the Blood Demon Lord and refused to allow him to take over the position of Dean. Therefore, the three of them discussed at this banquet how to reasonably expel the Dean of the Academy.

"It's not easy, he's a lazy bum!" Another Dean of Academic Affairs who had a good relationship with Lord Blood Demon also spoke up:

"He only worked four hours a week, gave one class, and gave a few tutorials, and he got a tenured position. He only had two hobbies: cricket and steam engines."

“Never read a new book, never have a new idea.”

"——So teaching at our Royal Private University of Victoria is the best option." Lord Blood Demon mentioned this immediately, causing the audience outside the screen to burst into laughter again. They all felt relieved at once when Lord Blood Demon belittled his alma mater and the best university in Victoria that most of them couldn't even get to.

As for how to transfer the Provost, the three men apparently had an idea, which was to let him take over the vacant position of Bishop of the Lateran in Victoria Diocese. The bishop had a seat in the House of Lords, and the Provost, who was vain and yearned for an aristocratic life, would definitely not refuse.

However, in the play, the Blood Demon Lord and the others who suddenly chose such incompetent people as bishops made the Pope of the Lateran very angry.

"How can such a person be a bishop? I even doubt whether he understands the Lateran doctrine." The Pope, who had not been angry for many years, shook his head in dissatisfaction. At this moment, next to the Pope, the armored Papal Knight holding a huge revolver in his hand also comforted him:

"Your Holiness, rest assured that Victoria will not deceive us like this."

"The Lateran parish in Victoria is used to spread our doctrine and save more people. As long as this can be guaranteed, the Lateran doctrine will not be tainted."

"If even this cannot be guaranteed, I believe our brothers and sisters will immediately blow up the parish to pieces."

"I hope so..." However, the Pope was still not very optimistic after hearing this, especially when he knew the intensity of satire in the TV series "Yes, Prime Minister". He was even more worried that the show would reveal something he didn't want to know.

Back to the show, after hearing the decision, the Blood Demon Lord thought the plan was good, but still said reluctantly:

"Of course. However, it is not up to me to decide. The church wants to maintain a balance."

"Balance what?" the other two asked hurriedly. At this moment, the Pope's expression also eased a lot, and he nodded approvingly.

What does the church want to balance? Of course, it is the influence of the church's doctrine on the world. This is a sacred existence that cannot be tainted by money. Although the Pope believes that the doctrine cannot save everyone, it is still important to promote the doctrine and maintain the nobility of the doctrine.

This is certainly not something a Victorian civil servant can control. The Pope's expression eased somewhat, but in the play, the Blood Demon Lord immediately replied:

"Of course, both believing and non-believing members."

"Hahahahahaha!"

The pope's face darkened again as the play's own laughter sounded. The dean in the play also asked in surprise: "Are there any non-believers in the church?"

"Yes, most of the bishops."

The Blood Demon Lord nodded as a matter of course, but this made the Pope's face suddenly darken. He grabbed the corner of his rocking chair with his hand, almost breaking the wood of the rocking chair.

In the play, Lord Blood Demon also explained why he had no choice. It was because the position of bishop had already been decided to be Fellow Stanford, and the other candidate who seemed to give the Prime Minister a choice was simply impossible to be selected.

This also explains why Manfred said before that all this was a "card trick". He gave you an option and then gave you another option that you would definitely not choose, which was a disguised way of deciding the position of the bishop.

"Is there any vacancy in any parish?"

"This doesn't happen often." The Blood Demon Lord shook his head and answered absentmindedly:

"Older people don't have to retire at this age - bishops generally live long lives, and it's clear that the Lord is in no hurry to call them to accompany Him."

This is another sentence that almost ignited the anger of the Pope in front of the TV. The Pope's fat face first turned black and then red, and he was obviously very angry.