For Duke Mikhail, he no longer has much intention to continue to go to the battlefield. It is not that he is afraid of death, but that he has already achieved too many meritorious deeds, and there is no need to continue to fight for meritorious deeds to find something for himself.
Trouble.
Some people may ask, isn't meritorious service bad? How can it be causing trouble?
For ordinary people, making achievements is definitely a good thing, but Duke Mikhail is not an ordinary person. He has already made achievements. If you think about his current status, he is both a Duke and a field marshal. He is one of the best souls in the current Russian army.
, you are so awesome, what achievements can you make?
His achievements were a burden and waste to him. Considering his family background, it was absolutely impossible for Nicholas I to give him the title of prince. After all, he also had a brother from the same family who was a duke, and he had two dukes in the same family.
Holding real power is a bit of an eyesore, but adding the title of prince would be offensive!
Duke Mikhail is very self-aware. He knows that the marshal is his designated target, and it is probably useless to continue to fight and work hard. Unless he can achieve unparalleled achievements, but are unparalleled achievements so easy to achieve? Don't wait until the end of the year.
It would be better if the boat capsizes in the ditch!
What's more, since he is so prominent, he must always leave some opportunities for the young people behind him, and always give people a chance to get ahead. He is so old and still wants to compete with young people for opportunities. That will make people hate him!
Blocking other people's paths in the officialdom is a crime of killing his father and his wife, and he will be hated for the rest of his life. Duke Mikhail does not want to be targeted by those wolf-like young people behind him, even if these young people spend his whole life.
It may not be a threat to him, but he still has children and a bunch of descendants who want to make a living in Russia. If they can't take care of the old, they can't teach the younger ones a lesson?
Duke Mikhail has seen too many short-lived prominent figures with desolate deaths behind them. Why do their descendants fail to achieve the achievements of their ancestors and end up disappearing from the crowd or simply sinking? In addition to the fact that the descendants have limited IQ and ability, it is very important.
The reason is that there are too many enemies.
Think about it, your poor descendants are not as capable as you, but they are still cared about by so many people. How can they live an easy life?
Only people like Duke Mikhail, who come from a big family that has maintained wealth for several generations, understand the principle of going too far and not being equal. Families like theirs do not seek to reach the highest peak of power for a while. That does not mean much. Being famous for a few years or
What’s the use of more than ten years?
What they pursue is to be able to be at the top of the pyramid for generations to come. They don’t necessarily have to stand at the highest position, but they must definitely be in the first group. Therefore, when doing things, they will not choose to go to extremes and can make good friends.
As far as forming good relationships and being able to support and win over allies, he will spare no effort.
As the saying goes, a fence has three stakes and a hero has three gangs. Even if the descendants are less capable, as long as the relationship is good, there will always be noble people pulling in, and they can always maintain a relatively decent position. And as long as they are not useless from generation to generation,
As long as a few people with online IQ appear every now and then, wouldn't their position be stable?
So Duke Mikhail really has no interest in continuing to go to Bulgaria to make contributions. On the contrary, he thinks it is a hot potato and he has no interest in grabbing it. You can see that many veterans in the army are very interested in it, but he always
He kept silent and did not take the initiative to fight for it at all. Instead, he just hid when he could.
It's a pity that when faced with a tsar like Nicholas I who believed in his veterans, Duke Mikhail couldn't hide. He could only find ways to divert the hatred of the young generals away. He asked Aldo
The Duke Husband discussed this matter.
"If a war really breaks out, I guess I won't be able to escape, even though I really don't want to go!" Duke Mikhail lamented and said distressedly: "But if I go, some people will definitely be jealous and say something.
Weird words will incite a group of young people to be hostile to me, which makes me very embarrassed!"
Duke Ordorff never thought that Mikhail, Duke of Versailles, was worried about him. He could understand what his old friend was worried about. It was a taboo in officialdom to stand in the way of a disrespectful old man. Why he sought to escape from the third part was actually because of this.
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"How about you learn from Neserrode?"
Prince Mikhail gave another wry smile and sighed: "Pretending to be sick? Haven't I pretended enough? I have been pretending to be sick since I came back from Hungary, but what's the use? When the critical moment comes, His Majesty will always be thinking about it.
There are only so many names, it’s impossible to hide them!”
Duke Ordorf also felt the same way. Nicholas I would always only believe in people he wanted to believe, even if these people were getting older and changing and had different intentions day by day, he still accepted this dead truth.
Duke Mikhail continued: "What's more, I don't know if and when the war will break out. I can't stay seriously ill forever!"
Duke Ordorf chuckled in his heart. This is indeed a trouble. Pretending to be sick also requires means. Timing is very important. If you choose to pretend to be sick at the wrong time, not only will you not get what you want, but it will backfire.
Looking at Neserroddie now, he is a typical example of the opposite. The old fox was originally planning to pretend to be ill for a while, but who would have thought that Nicholas I would directly cut off his salary to prevent him from continuing to intervene in the negotiations with Turkey.
This is tantamount to driving him out of the game. He, the prime minister, can do nothing but stare at the Bulgaria and Turkey issues. This is tantamount to declaring that his previous new diplomatic strategy has completely failed, and may even jeopardize his position as prime minister.
Prince Mikhail didn't want to end up like Neserroddie, so he couldn't decide whether to pretend to be sick or not, so he was in a dilemma.
"I don't think pretending to be sick is of any use to you!" Duke Ordorff expressed his opinion bluntly. "Once we choose to pretend to be sick in an irreplaceable position like ours, it is equivalent to giving His Majesty eye drops."
, His Majesty will think that you are expressing dissatisfaction and negotiating terms with him. It would be strange if there is a good result!"
Duke Mikhail hesitated: "Then I will go? But if I take the initiative to ask for help, maybe the position of commander will really be mine. Can those green-eyed juniors let me go?"
Duke Ordorf sighed: "So you go back, but don't be too proactive. It's better to pass the position of commander-in-chief to Paskovich and let him top the tank!"
Prince Mikhail smiled bitterly and said: "Do you think Paskovich is a fool? How can he be willing to do it if he is asked to top the cylinder but not actually commanded!"
Duke Ordorff smiled mysteriously and said, "He has to do it even if he doesn't want to. Do you think it's up to him to choose?"