Anton felt that Cassinin had a god-given opportunity in front of him, and as long as he seized the opportunity, he would be able to open the door to a new world.
Yes, if you openly act as a low-income person, you will definitely find your own path as a secretary. You will never be able to work as a secretary for a big shot again in your life. No big shot is willing to trust a low-income person!
But, your lifelong wish, Kashinin, is to be a secretary to a big shot, to be a clown who does dirty work and never gets the spotlight?
Who doesn’t want to stand alone? Who doesn’t want to stand upright in front of the world and scold Fang Qiu?
Anton is not willing to be a slave anyway. He believes that Cassinin is also unwilling to play a ridiculous role like a servant forever.
He solemnly said to Kashinin: "If you just want to be a little secretary forever, you can completely report Ulanov covertly or not at all, but then you will always be just a little secretary? This is
Your ambition?"
Cassinin stopped talking. He frowned and sat there blankly, not saying a word, feeling very uneasy in his heart due to the war between heaven and man.
Anton continued: "The Kassinin I know and know well is a man with great ideals and ambitions, not a timid and ridiculous little secretary!"
Cassinin sighed and smiled bitterly: "But the risk is very high! You and I are no match for Ulanov. You don't know that although he doesn't have great abilities, he has a very developed network of connections. As long as he is willing to do whatever he wants,
He can destroy us casually! It’s too dangerous to rashly become his enemy!”
Anton replied contemptuously: "It's true that he has connections, but how do you know we don't?"
Kassinin looked at him and asked: "Do you mean Count Speransky?"
Anton smiled and said: "You don't need to test me. I can only tell you that many people are on our side, including Count Speransky, and many big shots who are more powerful than him. Compared with them
Ulanov is just a ridiculous clown!"
Cassinin looked at Anton in surprise, hesitating even more in his heart. If he said he was not moved, it must be a lie. However, after being a secretary for such a long time, he had mastered some official secrets and knew that some things were not as obvious as what he saw.
It's so simple.
After thinking for a while, he said: "How about this? I report him anonymously, so..."
Before he finished speaking, Anton interrupted rudely: "Anonymous reporting is a joke. Do you think that if you want to be anonymous, you will not be exposed? There are thousands of ways to find anonymous people in Russia. With me,
As long as they want to find you, they will definitely be able to find your understanding of the third part!"
After a pause, he added: "Besides, anonymity seems safe, but in fact it does not do you much good. What is your purpose in reporting him? Is it just to make him obey the law?"
Anton smiled and said: "If you have such great sentiments and don't care about personal gains and losses, then you can report anonymously. But I'm afraid it won't have much to do with you in terms of merit and rewards later!"
Cassinin was stunned, because these words were too straightforward and too simple, but the truth was very real. He took such a big risk just to uphold justice?
Nonsense!
He's not that great, okay? If you put in so much effort and get nothing in the end, what's the difference between this and taking advantage of someone?
After thinking for a long time, he sighed and said: "It seems that if you want to gain something, you have to work hard, and you will gain something if you work hard. There is no free lunch!"
An Dongxin said: You don’t know this truth just now, do you? No wonder you struggled with me for so long.
Of course, it was not the first day that Cassinin knew this truth, but he always subconsciously felt that he and Anton were too far apart from the governor-level big shots. It was too dangerous to be an enemy of such a big shot. It was better to avoid it naturally.
.
Unexpectedly, Anton told him that the governor was not a big shot, and they could completely defeat the governor without belittling themselves.
"How can Count Dmitry Milyutin arrive in Kiev?" Kashinin asked.
"It should be quick," Anton said worriedly: "It's just that there are rebels all around. Even if the count rushes here quickly, it won't be that easy to enter Kiev!"
This is indeed a big problem. Even Kassinin knows that there are rebels operating around Kiev. What if there is really the main force of the rebels?
Kassinin knew that the main force of the rebels was not so easy to deal with, otherwise the troops Ulanov sent to counter the rebellion would not have been beaten to a pulp, let alone allow the rebels to sweep through most of Ukraine.
It was precisely because the rebels were so powerful that they blocked Ulanov in Kiev, and that made this guy only want to make money by messing around.
Thinking of this, Cassinin asked worriedly: "Approximately how many troops does Count Dmitri have?"
Anton shook his head. Li Xiao only wrote a letter telling him that Dmitry was ordered to come to counter the rebellion and hoped that he would cooperate fully, but he did not tell him how many troops there were to counter the rebellion.
However, Anton also knows what the country is like now. There is a shortage of money everywhere. It is simply unrealistic to expect St. Petersburg to send hundreds of thousands of people to suppress the rebellion in one go.
He felt that it would be a blessing to have 100,000 troops to counter the rebellion.
So he warned: "Don't have too high expectations. The treasury has no money at all and it is impossible to dispatch too many troops to counter the rebellion. I estimate that the counter-insurgency operation will be very difficult. You'd better be mentally prepared for the worst."
Cassinin was stunned because he had no idea what the worst-case scenario would be.
"There will never be less than 100,000 troops, right?" he asked cautiously.
"I don't know, it's hard to say," Anton answered simply, "but I think it's the number at most!"
Kassinin was immediately chilled. How could he not know how many rebels there were in Ukraine if others didn't? According to the most optimistic estimates, the number of rebels was more than 300,000.
Although these rebels are distributed across the vast land of Ukraine, they may seem like nothing when spread out. But according to the intelligence obtained in the previous paragraph, most of the rebels are actually concentrated around important cities in Ukraine, such as Kharkiv, and
Like Kiev!
Even according to the most optimistic estimate, the number of rebels around Kiev is around 150,000, and the minimum will not be less than 100,000.
What, you said this is similar to Dmitry's troops, but you have to know that Dmitry's troops cannot all enter Ukraine at once. It takes time to mobilize troops and organize supplies. According to common sense, these 100,000 people can be deployed in 2 years in the next year.
If they all enter Ukraine in the next month, it will be considered very fast.
Therefore, Dmitri's troops will never be too large in the early stage. How can he deal with the rebels around Kiev with only such a small number of troops?
Kassinin is very aware of how great Kiev’s material needs are. Without the various materials constantly sent from surrounding areas, it will be a problem for the hundreds of thousands of people in Kiev to eat, okay?