The corners of Alan Wilson's mouth quirked, and he wondered in his mind if it wasn't true that the world-famous rape label of modern India was now looming large.

    Thinking a little far ahead, the provincial governors and commissioners did not leave after the meeting, but took the opportunity to socialize, and Sir Barron had prepared wine and whiskey so that these officials, who had gone to great lengths to get to New Delhi, could relieve their fatigue and find their way home.

    The unprecedented World War was still raging, but these stalwarts of British India's civil service were carrying on the fine tradition of eating tightly in front and eating tightly in the back, displaying the gentlemanly demeanor that the British Empire could not afford to lose at any time.

    Alan Wilson, as Commissioner of Hyderabad, had just attracted the attention of a group of his peers by displaying his old-fashioned posture at the Senior Civil Service Conference; in normal times, Alan Wilson, with such a young face, would have been ostracized and ignored, but in British India in 1945, at such a special time, this was not the most important thing.

    For those who had reached the top of the civil service in British India, they were now more concerned with the question of whether British India existed or not, if British India became independent, as some voices in London claimed it would, with the inevitable return of 100,000 families of civil servants to the British mainland, how many of them would still be able to work in a respectable job?That was a big question!

    Compared to that big question, Allen Wilson's sudden appointment as Commissioner of Hyderabad was nothing important; it could only be regarded as a small matter in the midst of the coming process of great change.

    "Frankly, Ali Jinnah and Nehru should not be looking for trouble at this time.Bengal's High Commissioner, Officer Burke, was rather optimistic about Congress and PMLN support for the war.

    This said, many senior official commissioners nodded their heads, in recent years, although the Congress Party and the PMLN have made more and more trouble, but basically the British India Viceroyalty and they, the civil service, are still in control of the situation.Nehru and Ali Jinnah found each other a bit more trouble instead.

    "I also agree with Burke's idea, not cooperating with us at this point will only give us the opportunity to clean up after them, and the dislike between the two sides of the Congress and the PMLN is still on top of what it is towards us.The high officials of the United Provinces nodded without even thinking about it, dealing with these two major forces, Britain's long experience in politics came into play, and it was also what the British Empire was best at, divide and conquer, that's how everyone in Europe did it.

    The more at this time, the Congress Party and the PML-N, do not want the Governor's Office and the Ministry of Colonies, on the other side of the hostile to themselves, and thus suffer from the idea of not daring to appear tough.

    "Fairness and justice will be passed on from generation to generation, and that is the finest tradition of the British Empire," Burke suddenly raised his glass to Alan Wilson, "That Alan is so young and already has this insight, I am happy for old Wilson."

    "Thank you."Alan Wilson also raised his glass.In fact, the relationship between the two sides is not estranged.After arriving in India, the old Wilson worked in Calcutta, which is the center of the province of Bengal.

    Although there is a Bengal famine this tiny mistake, but if the seriousness of the root of the problem, the credit of the old Wilson certainly can not be swallowed alone, how to say that it should be part of the Burke.

    From the Bengal famine in the process of forming a precious friendship, so that today Burke this Bengal provincial officials, at a critical moment to step in, accepted Allen Wilson, also said that these senior officials of British India, officially accepted the Hyderabad commissioner candidate.

    Better late than never, even according to history, British India will still exist for at least two more years, this time everyone can be completely stuffed with banknotes thick suitcases, and then return home in style, besides, if British India can continue to exist? Isn't it okay to fantasize about it?

    But the most important thing for Alan Wilson now remained the duty of the Hyderabad monarch, and as an honest man he would never deny that he was now more attached to his relations with Ali Khan than to his work in British India, and that he still had to talk to the Commissioner of Junagadh's native State.

    For Sir Barron, he still had to communicate with the Congress and the PML-N in the hope of gaining the support of the two largest local forces in British India at a time when victory was already within reach.

    The occasion was then entirely one of communication between Sir Barron and the native forces of India, the chief commissioners of the provinces were in New Delhi to attend to their private affairs, and Alan Wilson, who had made this return to New Delhi a vacation, and John were chatting and loafing at the same time.

    "Although not very old, but Alan Wilson a mouth is the old imperialism, the two relaxed walk, and finally stopped in front of a stall, looking at the feet of leather shoes on top of some dust, he sat right in front of the shoeshine man, seize the time in the future capital of India to enjoy a little imperialist treatment.

    John saw also followed the example, sat down to solve the employment problem of the Indian people, two British gentlemen, in the colonial country, as if no one had a chat.

    "It's actually good that we're working in Tupang, the local Maharaja is skeptical of the Congress and the PMLN and needs our support at this time, and we can also use that support to solve our own problems."

    Satisfied with the shiny leather shoes, Alan Wilson pulled out the rupees in his hand as a reward for the shoe shiner with the modest smile, and thought to himself, "How did he get to the time of the decline of the British Empire?What a shame!The good times don't last much longer.

    You couldn't blame Alan Wilson himself for being backward thinking, who would go through the hard work of choosing to strive for something when you could clothe and feed yourself?

    "Ali Khan is trying to broker some sort of Turian alliance, and if this comes to fruition, you and I will both be thanked handsomely."Alan Wilson lowered his voice and said, "I'm sure John you are aware of the position of Junagadh, among these states, compared to Kashmir which is much larger, Junagadh is on the west coast, not far from Mumbai, such a good location is much better than remote Kashmir.The area is not small, the location is good, and Mr. Ali Khan is very keen to have the help of Junagadh Tupa in facing the Congress and the PMLN".

    John reached up and rubbed the freshly grown stubble on his chin and said without moving, "It's time to think about what kind of a way out we can get with the power in our hands."

    "Ali Khan was the richest man in the world a few years ago," Alan Wilson had a double entendre, there was something to talk about.

    In a few words, the two Turkish commissioners were in the looting of India's wealth to reach a consensus, to an unprecedented theft.

It could not be said; what went on between the commissioners of the Turkish States could not be called theft; it was all part of the business, and the two men had the right to work for the good of the Turkish States, which were on good terms with the British Empire.