While Alexei and Li Xiao were accompanying the two envoys around Izmail, Crown Prince Alexander, who was far away in St. Petersburg, received a piece of news that he felt was not very good.
A summary of the cases related to the Viscount was finally sent to the Winter Palace.
In fact, at first, Crown Prince Alexander was really looking forward to sending this case to his father's desk as soon as possible, so that he could try to add fuel to the fire and cause trouble for Grand Duke Constantine.
So as soon as he received the relevant news, he found a few confidants and ordered them to apply eye drops to Grand Duke Constantine at the right time. He took it for granted that Alexei would definitely have a violent conflict with Grand Duke Constantine.
, the angry governor will definitely bite Grand Duke Constantine to the death, and with his father’s doting on Grand Duke Constantine, he will go astray and side with Grand Duke Constantine if he can’t help it, so he must help the poor man.
Alexey.
It was only when Crown Prince Alexander actually saw Alexei's report that he discovered that he was a little pretentious, because Alexei didn't mention Grand Duke Constantine much in the report, and threw all the blame on Prozo.
On the head of Viscount Love.
According to Alexei’s report, the viscount was completely audacious and thought he was Khlestakov who was swindling under the name of Grand Duke Constantine. However, after Grand Duke Constantine learned about Khlestakov, he did not know anything about it.
After what Viscount Prozolov did, it was a glorious moment.
Anyway, in the whole story, if Grand Duke Constantine hadn't been a little flawed because he didn't know people well, he should have been given a medal to commend him.
What Crown Prince Alexander wanted was nothing like the drama of Alexei denounced Grand Duke Constantine. This was completely different from what he wanted!
"Can any of you tell me what is going on?!"
After the half-dead Crown Prince Alexander returned to his office, he immediately summoned Duke Baryatinsky, Pobedonostsev and Dmitry Milyutin and all their confidants to lose his temper.
In fact, these people are even more confused than Crown Prince Alexander, because this really doesn't look like Alexei. The governor was not that easy to talk to in the past.
Yes, Crown Prince Alexander’s people also had an idea of Wallachia, but that time the people they sent hit a soft nail. Although they gained some benefits, the key things were not at all, and they were even
Lexie was shocked. All in all, he was very deflated.
And this time, Grand Duke Constantine’s behavior was countless times worse than theirs before. It stands to reason that Alexei should fight to the death, but why does the rhythm look like two brothers?
Prince Baryatinsky immediately spoke first without hesitation: "Your Highness, I have told you a long time ago that these liberals are all confused and unreliable. I think they are basically the same breed. As the saying goes, they have the same odor, so this
Let’s look like this!”
Obviously, Duke Baryatinsky put Alexei into the camp of the reformists, thinking that he and Grand Duke Constantine were completely in the same group, and they were both enemies!
His words made Crown Prince Alexander's face become even more ugly. What the Crown Prince was most worried about was that Grand Duke Constantine coveted his position. In the past few years, he had managed to stabilize his position slightly and could vaguely suppress the opponent. Once
Alexey has taken refuge with Grand Duke Constantine, and maybe Grand Duke Constantine will rise again!
Crown Prince Alexander is very aware of Alexei's influence on the reformists. As Speransky's son and the leader of the so-called Wallachian innovation, Alexei's status among the reformists has risen sharply in recent years.
His likes and dislikes can affect a large number of people.
Although Nicholas I was there to suppress the reformists, the reformists could not make any splash, but Crown Prince Alexander knew very well that the influence of the reformists had not declined over the years, but had become more and more prosperous with the iron-fisted rule of Nicholas I.
Already.
There are a large number of people in both the government and the public who sympathize with and identify with the reformists. Maybe they dare not express it for the time being, but as long as the mountain of Nicholas I falls, these guys who have been suppressed for a long time may explode!
This forced Crown Prince Alexander to worry about the possibility that the reformists would all unite under the banner of Grand Duke Constantine. As soon as Nicholas I died, they would immediately jump up and dance with him under the banner of supporting Grand Duke Constantine as emperor.
opposite.
Although Crown Prince Alexander was confident that he could suppress these rebellions, he had also witnessed the Decembrist uprising. Although he was still very young at the time, those thrilling scenes left a nightmare-like impression on him. Such
He really didn't want to experience this nightmare again!
So when Duke Baryatinsky said that Grand Duke Konstantin and Alexei were actually the same group, he immediately became nervous and wanted to rush forward and chop the two people.
He said nervously: "Then should we take action immediately? We can't let them continue to grow bigger!"
Baryatinsky likes to hear this. If he can defeat Grand Duke Constantine and Alexei, then he will not only be able to explain to Uvarov, but also his own status and prestige within the conservatives.
It will expand.
After all, Uvarov has done what he has not been able to do for so many years and he easily achieved it. It can only be said that he is more capable than Uvarov, right?
Of course, Baryatinsky also knew that this possibility was not very high. Even if Alexei was easier to deal with, Grand Duke Constantine was not a vegetarian. After all, this Grand Duke was Nicholas I's favorite.
, unless he made an unforgivable principled mistake, even Crown Prince Alexander would not be able to defeat the opponent.
However, it is enough for Baryatinsky to be able to deal with Alexei, because Alexei is also considered a powerful member of the reformist party. He has grown rapidly in the past few years and has vaguely become the successor to Grand Duke Constantine.
He is the reformist leader that conservatives fear the most.
It would be a great benefit if Alexei could be eliminated, and it would also boost his reputation. The most important thing is that Baryatinsky knew that Uvarov actually hated Alexei, and the old guy had long wanted to get rid of him.
Soon. If he can help Uvarov fulfill his long-cherished wish, it should be able to ease the tense relationship between the two parties due to cable telegrams.
Baryatinsky knew very well that he was not yet capable of replacing Uvarov as the leader of the conservatives, so he had to give Uvarov the face he needed, in case the insidious old guy got jealous of him.