One hundred and seventeenth the detective agency next door
John nodded noncommittally.
This place meets his requirements in terms of both location and building. It is popular but not too complicated. The area exceeds the three thousand square feet he mentioned before. The upstairs and downstairs seem to be at least five thousand square feet, which is the same as the one in the previous life.
One hundred eighty-nine square meters in size.
However, he couldn't let the mustache know what he was thinking, so he just asked him to take him to discuss the deal with his master face to face.
This was the first shop that John wanted to talk to the owner of, so Mustache carefully followed the location in his memory and found the owner's house not far from Daffodil Street.
After learning the purpose of the group's visit, the shop owner showed a hint of joy.
His business failed and he was in urgent need of cash flow, otherwise he would not be able to sell a store, a real estate asset that holds value.
One wanted to buy and the other wanted to sell, and the two parties hit it off immediately. John symbolically paid a low price, and then let the broker, Mustache Mara, be responsible for negotiating the price with the other party.
In the end, the two parties settled the deal at a price of 340 pounds, and Mustache happily received his reward. The commission from this transaction was enough for him to live for more than half a year.
The original owner was also eager to get cash, so a group of people took a car and rushed to the real estate management office of the city hall. Heisenser's name was still very useful here. John just said hello to the government employee who was doing the work.
They didn't have to queue up and signed the contract directly in an office. Then the other party got the money and left happily, and John also got the property certificate.
The group returned to Daffodil Street again, unlocked the door with the key, and John began to look at his first property.
Although he had his own rooms in the apartments in Heisensele Manor and Rem Town before, the properties were not his own.
As a Daxia native in his previous life, he still had special feelings for land and real estate.
The previous tenant of the shop opened a cafe, so the interior furnishings were quite elegant, but that was only in the eyes of the common people. In the eyes of John and Klaus, it was a bit shabby.
One of them has a past life experience. After the world entered the new century, the decoration of any restaurant or coffee shop was far ahead of this era, while the other was accustomed to the elegant and luxurious scenes of aristocrats since they were young. They were not interested in such simple and simple decorations.
The place is not attractive.
"It seems John you need to redecorate the side."
John nodded.
"It's really necessary. When you return to the manor, Arthur, tell the butler and ask him to send a team of people to help."
"Yes, sir!"
Arthur bowed and answered.
In this era, there are not as many professional decoration teams as there were in the previous life. Those craftsmen are generally supported by big families and the government, except for those who work for individual gangs.
So John had no intention of hiring craftsmen from outside to decorate it.
After briefly inspecting his first property, John took out the Jinsha Port detective list that the butler gave him. All of them were capable and well-known detectives with strict mouths who had been certified by the nobles in the Mid-Levels Mountains. They should still be
reliable.
Suddenly, he discovered that one of the detective agencies seemed to be located not far from his new property. It was across Wensley Street. It could be said that if the corner was not counted, there were three shops on both sides.
“Just come here and take a look!”
John pointed to the name of the Victoria Detective Agency on the list and said.
The term private detective originally came from Brooke itself. This profession probably has a history of several decades. As the initiator of the steam revolution and the second empire on which the sun never sets, Brooke's social development has been at the forefront of the times in the past hundred years.
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The development of society has also caused a sharp increase in internal conflicts and many more cases.
Originally, the term detective was a position within the Brooke Royal Police. Later, due to the limited police force, there were inevitably some professionals and non-professionals in the society who played a big role in assisting the police detectives in handling cases. The Brooke Kingdom felt that this kind of private detectives
The existence of such people not only saved police manpower and government expenditures, but also played a positive role in maintaining social stability. Therefore, such people were awarded the honorary title of consultant, and they gradually developed into private case investigators recognized by law.
That's where private detectives come from.
Compared with previous generations, the Song Dynasty had such classic forensic works as "The Clearing of Wrongs", which combined the theory of crime and investigation with actual cases. The whole book consists of 53 items including general examination, injury examination, autopsy, injury identification, and bone examination.
It also discusses in detail the procedures for solving crimes, criminal investigation, and protecting innocent people, as well as the formal procedures for judicial inspection.
In this world, it was not until the private detective industry flourished that a trend was formed among the people. There were novels with detectives as the background, and professional books related to criminal investigation and forensic examination were developed.
After all, in the Western world, divine power often trumps royal power, so autopsies and forensic dissections were completely taboo for desecrating corpses for a long time. It was not until the end of the Dark Ages in the Middle Ages that secular medicine in this world
From budding to rapid development, it is no longer the previous witch medicine method that only knew bloodletting and enemas or blindly feeding patients opium and other herbal medicine.
Of course, even today, experiments such as dissecting human bodies for medical purposes are still regarded as evil and unacceptable behavior by the church and many people, and slander these pioneers as evil necromancers, not to mention autopsies when investigating cases.
Dissected.
In this regard, the Holy Empire and the Brooke Empire have been developing well with the secret support of the government, and have already established a systematic preliminary medical system. However, the White Eagle Federation, a republic that claims to be democratic and free, has not treated the country because of the Puritan relations in the country.
This is particularly strictly prohibited by law. Fortunately, the New World is vast and sparsely populated. As long as you hide in your own manor, farm, or pasture and conduct research quietly, no one will see you even if you commit illegal activities.
In short, after Brooke formed the system, the private detective industry quickly developed in the European continent. Although it is inevitable that the good and the bad are mixed, it has to be said that it has indeed uncovered many unjust cases for the world, and for a time it has had a great impact on the stability and order of society.
improved.
There are constant exchanges between the New World and the Old World. Naturally, some novel gadgets spread across the ocean immediately. Even in the remote place of Rem Town, there are several people who are called private detectives. In fact, they are
There are brokers and intelligence dealers, and as the capital of the western region, Jinsha Port is naturally indispensable for the existence of real private detectives.
A competent private detective is a know-it-all who has connections with all religions and professions. At least in terms of gathering information, he has an advantage over ordinary people and even extraordinary people. So John decided to hire a suitable private detective to explore copper mines for him.
Case.
If he or Klaus is still the heir to the patriarch of the White Eagle Federation branch of the Hessenser family, then he can directly use the family's intelligence channels without taking the risk of asking outsiders for help.
However, the death of his father made Klaus' identity become embarrassing. The new patriarch obviously intended for his eldest son to inherit the position of head of the family. Klaus and John had previously accepted this reality and agreed to the family's
Arrange to be in charge of the industry in Rem Town.
So now John can't and doesn't want to trouble the family, especially things that may involve the extraordinary world, so it's better to handle it himself.