Li Xiaozai was sitting leisurely on the sofa, drinking black tea, as comfortable as in his own living room. This surprised Captain Peter Mikhailovich Sobolev next to him.
You must know that this is the center of Chernihiv city, a core area where rebel leaders gather. Just next door, separated by a wall, more than a dozen rebel leaders are having a meeting, and downstairs there are hundreds of people looking at each other with disdain.
Rebel soldiers face off.
In a place like this, someone actually eats and drinks without caring, just as comfortable as having a tea party at home. How nervous is this!
"Peter Mikhailovich, relax, this place is not as dangerous as you think. If Dmitri finds out about your performance, he will probably scold you again!"
Li Xiao picked up a cookie, dipped it in black tea, put it in his mouth and chewed it.
"Your Excellency, you are really not worried at all. These guys outside are..."
Li Xiao waved his hand and replied easily: "You want to tell me that they are all rebels, they kill people without blinking an eye, and they can eat human flesh, right?"
The corner of Sobolev's mouth twitched. What he wanted to say was not so exaggerated, but the meaning was similar. No matter how he looked at it, it was too dangerous for an imperial prince to risk his own life and enter the core area controlled by the rebels.
Okay, no matter how you look at it, this is too rash!
Li Xiao explained with a smile: "Didn't I tell you already? That Sergey doesn't dare to do anything to us. He is a smart man and knows how to protect his interests. He will not allow us to lose anything.
So stupid, he even wanted to kneel down and kiss our insteps."
Sobolev was a little dumbfounded. He thought this was too exaggerated. Although the long-legged Sergei's attitude towards them was indeed a bit flattering, he would not kneel down and kiss their toes. And after all, this guy is a rebel.
Leader, there are some cowardly people who dare to raise their heads to rebel. The flattery he shows is probably just a disguise!
Li Xiao doesn't see it that way. The most terrifying thing in the world is a traitor. When a person goes all out to become a traitor, all his bottom lines and dignity no longer exist. In order to keep what he wants, he can give up all his dignity than the most.
The despicable bitch keeps getting despicable.
In order to please his new master, a person like him can't wait to show his fangs to his former partners, because he wants to use practical actions to tell his master that he is different from those people!
Traitors are the most shameless and have no bottom line. Since the long-legged Sergei is determined to become a traitor, he will only enshrine Li Xiao and others like their ancestors and use various means to please them.
Life-threatening?
It doesn't exist at all.
All I have left is nausea, because his shameless face is really disgusting!
Anyway, Li Xiao doesn't like the long-legged Sergey. Seeing this guy is as disgusting as seeing a traitor.
But he had to admit that for the time being, there was indeed a need for traitors like Sergei the Long-Legged.
After all, Dmitry Milyutin had limited troops, and Alexander II also had limited resources to counter the rebellion. It was impossible to quickly quell the rebels all over Ukraine with the existing strength.
possible.
Therefore, foolishly fighting head-on is the next best option. Li Xiao's suggestion is to divide the rebels from within, recruit a group of unsteady "long-legged Sergei", and use them to disintegrate the rebels' will to fight. At worst, they can also create
Chaos within the rebels.
As long as the rebels are in disarray, it will be much easier for Dmitri to fight, right?
Of course, this is the most basic goal. What Li Xiao really wants to do is to recruit smart people like Sergei the Long-Leggs and let them cooperate with Dmitry to eliminate the rebels.
This idea was initially considered impossible by Dmitry Milyutin, but Li Xiao was a living example of instigating the betrayal of Sergei the Long-Legged. He only used a small plan to eliminate Shalakov's troops, and even Shalakov
The husband himself was brought before Dmitri, and was now being sent to St. Petersburg in a prison car with other captured rebel leaders.
Li Xiao believes that St. Petersburg, especially Alexander II, will be very satisfied with this gift. After all, Shalakov is also a rebel leader on the official wanted list, and his head is worth three thousand rubles!
Compared with Shalakov's head, the reason why Dmitri let Li Xiaoshi go to Chernihiv was because of the gold and silver treasures sent by Sergey the Long Legs.
Two big cars! Worth at least 150,000 rubles!
This was not a small amount of money. For Dmitry, who was very nervous about the central government's finances and was reporting to St. Petersburg every day to press for money and grain, this was pie in the sky.
With this money, at least this month he doesn't have to worry about the army's food and military pay. And Li Xiao also told him that the money is just the beginning. As long as they give full play to the enthusiasm of the long-legged Sergey, there will be plenty of military pay in the future.
Similar people came forward on their own initiative.
"Your Majesty the Grand Duke, do you think this Sergei can persuade those rebels to surrender?" Sobolev asked anxiously.
Li Xiao took a sip of black tea and replied slowly: "If he can't even do this little thing well, then he obviously isn't worthy of cooperating with us... But, judging from his method of dealing with Shalakov, it shouldn't be anything.
question!"
Sobolev asked worriedly: "But I heard that the Chernihiv rebels are not monolithic. There are many people with very stubborn attitudes. What if they..."
Li Xiao waved his hand and said: "There is no such thing as a contingency. I believe Sergey is a smart man. He will deal with those thorny people. Even if he can't convince them, the worst he can do is destroy their bodies directly!"
Sobolev was shocked because he felt that the rebels should be more united, and the education he had received since childhood also told him that doing so was a bit too much.
To be honest, he couldn't accept it!
Li Xiao saw Sobolev's performance, and to be honest, he was not particularly optimistic about Dmitry, the new adjutant. This kid had a good background. His father was a marquis, his uncle was a count, and his ancestors had been in the upper class for generations.
People, and when they were studying, they worked too hard and believed too much in the dogma in the books.
It can be said that this child knows nothing about real human society, and has no impression of the ugliness of society at all. He is simply a harmless little white rabbit.
Such a rabbit will be exposed to a deal dirtier than a cesspit as soon as he comes into contact with it. Not to mention that his other three views will be shattered and he may even doubt his life.
Li Xiao doesn’t have that much time in the United States to help Little White Rabbit adjust its mentality!