Why do we say that Baryatinsky and Pobedonostsev gained more than Crown Prince Alexander? It’s very simple, it’s obvious when you look at the results.
This time, Baryatinsky and Pobedonostsev not only gained a large amount of money through the wired telegraph project, but also indirectly slapped Uvarov in the face. It was a lot of money.
But Crown Prince Alexander is different. Although he can also gain a lot of money from this project, the problem is that he is not short of money. To put it bluntly, the whole of Russia will be his sooner or later. What he does not lack most is money.
Secondly, he does not need to slap Uvarov in the face to show his status. To put it bluntly, it is not cost-effective for Crown Prince Alexander to do so. After all, Uvarov has always spared no effort to support him and can be regarded as loyal to him.
He does not need to slap Uvarov in the face. On the contrary, doing so may offend Uvarov, which may lead to the latter's support for him being compromised in the future.
From this point of view, Crown Prince Alexander has no reason to offend Uvarov, and the benefit to him is not that great. And this matter only benefits Baryatinsky and Pobedonostsev most directly.
The most obvious.
So as long as Crown Prince Alexander is not stupid, he will figure it out sooner or later. Maybe this time he will not have any objections to what Baryatinsky and Pobedonostsev did, but who can guarantee such a mistake?
It will only happen this once.
As long as Baryatinsky and Pobedonostsev are not stupid, they know that if they want to completely replace Uvarov's position in the future, they will have many opportunities to use Crown Prince Alexander. Once, twice, three times, they may
They have done similar things many times, so can you guarantee that Crown Prince Alexander will forgive them every time?
To put it bluntly, whenever they choose to do this, they are actually overdrafting their relationship with Crown Prince Alexander. When the overdraft reaches a certain level, Crown Prince Alexander will always be intolerable. At that time, Crown Prince Alexander will no longer think of them
They are all confidants and friends, but they will only think that their shameless use of themselves is completely unforgivable.
At that time, Crown Prince Alexander will completely explode and settle the accounts with them. It will be particularly cruel and fierce! Even the King of Heaven and I will not be able to save them.
In short, it is not easy to be a close minister of the emperor. The closer you get, the worse it will be when you are punished. Especially for a foreigner like Dmitry who only half-lived with Crown Prince Alexander, there is no such thing as
The closeness cultivated together, even if you gain trust for a while because of your outstanding abilities, it will not last long. Once you anger Crown Prince Alexander for something, the consequences will be particularly serious.
Therefore, it is better to keep a proper distance and not be a close minister of Crown Prince Alexander, but to stay aloof and make suggestions but not to be arrogant. This way, you can gain respect.
In fact, it was just like the relationship between Count Rostovtsev and Nicholas I. They were not too close and not particularly close, which was actually safer.
For example, now, Crown Prince Alexander has a name in his mind, and he will taste it himself. He will definitely have opinions on the actions of Baryatinsky and Pobedonostsev, even if they are not particularly big ones.
A little bit. However, Dmitry did not collude with them, but could always consider issues from the perspective of the crown prince. Isn't such a lovely minister?
Yes, Crown Prince Alexander felt that Dmitry was very cute at this time. He felt that although this person was sometimes cold and not so amiable, he always stood on the same front as him when doing things. Such a courtier was really cute!
"It makes sense. Count Speransky and Grand Duke Constantine are in the same group. If you deal with one of them, there is no guarantee that the other will react. You really should take precautions! Alexander Ivanovich, tell me, should you?
How to deal with them?"
Baryatinsky actually didn't want to take action against Grand Duke Constantine at this time, because after all, that man was Nicholas I's favorite son, and he had already had some taste of the previous cable telegraph project.
So the reason why he supported the cable telegraph project was probably because of Grand Duke Constantine.
Naturally, taking action against Grand Duke Constantine at this time might offend Nicholas I. This risk was relatively high.
However, Dmitry's analysis just now was very reasonable and reasonable. Wasn't the reason why he encouraged Crown Prince Alexander to deal with Alexei just now, isn't it because Alexei and Grand Duke Constantine are in the same group?
Since you yourself said that they are working together, you can't help but be on guard against attacking the smaller ones to provoke the bigger ones, right?
Anyway, from the perspective of logical relationships, Dmitri's analysis makes sense and is indeed worthy of vigilance. But let Baryatinsky speak his mind, are Grand Duke Constantine really that close to Alexei? They are really
In a group?
Hehe, this is worth debating and pondering. At least Baryatinsky himself knew that these two people were not completely on the same team. The reason why he encouraged Crown Prince Alexander to deal with Alexei was just to use excuses to kill people.
His purpose was just to ease the relationship with Uvarov. It was because Uvarov hated Alexei very much, so he deliberately used Alexei to attack the reformists of Grand Duke Constantine.
Circle it in.
But after Dmitry used a few words and used the reasons he gave to include Grand Duke Constantine, he was in trouble.
If you want to deal with Alexei now, you have to bring Grand Duke Constantine with you. If you do this, it will easily make things very big. With their ability, it is not impossible, but the price they have to pay will be very serious.
He really wasn't mentally prepared for that.
But he couldn't tell Crown Prince Alexander clearly, what would the Crown Prince think of them? Will he still trust them in the future?
What's even more annoying is that he can't say no, after all, the groundwork has been laid before, and he can't withdraw at all. After thinking for a while, he can only bite the bullet and answer:
"Grand Duke Constantine really has to defend himself. I think we must deal with Count Speransky quickly and violently, without giving Grand Duke Constantine a chance to intervene or react. As long as we act quickly, we should be able to succeed."
It can only be said that Baryatinsky is such a bad guy. He feels that he has finally had the opportunity to kill two birds with one stone, easing the relationship with Uvarov and attacking the reformists. Naturally, he cannot give up. But he really can't give it.
The way to prevent Grand Duke Constantine is to simply not take precautions and just use a blitzkrieg to solve the problem...