All in all, as long as Grand Duke Constantine had a slightly better IQ, he would not have agreed to let Leonid be the leader of the 748th Regiment.
This is exactly what happened. After some bargaining, Grand Duke Constantine flatly rejected Li Xiao's "unreasonable request", laying the groundwork for further trouble with Li Xiao in the future. According to his plan, he had a fight with Menshikov.
After that, he would turn around and deal with Li Xiao.
"If that's the case? Then we shouldn't agree to cooperate!" Boris couldn't help but said, "He has all the good things to himself, and he won't let us go in the end. What does this mean?"
He couldn't help complaining to Vishnyak: "You should have stopped Andreyka at that time. How could you just watch him jump into the fire pit? What kind of friend is this?"
Li Xiao was a little touched. Boris is really an upright boy. As long as you are nice to him, he will treat you better. If you are a good friend to him, he will go out of his way to help you. It's like this these days.
Friends are really hard to find.
Li Xiao quickly advised: "Boriya, don't worry. It's not that bad! And Vishka also persuaded me at the time, but I convinced him!"
Boris still glared at Vishnyak, still complaining that he was not a friend enough. However, Vishnyak also understood his temper and just sat there with a smile, neither refuting nor getting angry.
Li Xiao explained: "My cousin wants to take advantage of us, and conversely, of course we can also take advantage of him!"
"The conflict between him and Menshikov is irreconcilable, and he can't help but want to settle accounts with the old eunuch. I'll give him a chance to clean up the old eunuch's bad temper."
"When the time comes, he beats the old eunuch to vent his anger, and we clean up Messadov for a while. Wouldn't it be nice for everyone to get their own place?"
Boris's facial features twisted into a ball, and he asked doubtfully: "Didn't you say that after he dealt with Menshikov, he would turn around and deal with us? What's there to be happy about?"
Li Xiao laughed and said: "Yes, he will come to deal with us after he takes care of Menshikov. The question is, is Menshikov so easy to take care of?"
Boris was stunned, and he couldn't turn around in his mind for a long time. Vishniak sneered and said with a smile: "I told you a long time ago, you shouldn't talk to Boria about such troublesome things.
Tell him, he won’t understand even if you tell him, it’s just a waste of saliva and time!”
Boris suddenly lost his temper and immediately got into a fight with Vishniak. The two friends had been doing this since they were young, and Li Xiao was even a little envious.
The window paper was worthless. Li Xiao had long known that Grand Duke Constantine could not bring down Menshikov. He was familiar with history, but he knew that Menshikov did not gradually withdraw from the stage of power until the death of Nicholas I.
Even after his death, he was still able to retire as commander of the Kronstadt Fortress. At that time, Archduke Constantine replaced him as Minister of the Navy.
You must know that this was the treatment Menshikov received after his poor performance in the Crimean War. That kind of poor performance can be treated with honor, and now such a trivial matter cannot hurt Menshikov at all.
Cove's fundamentals can only scratch his itch.
And Li Xiao just hopes that Grand Duke Constantine will touch Menshikov's tiger butt. As long as he can anger the old eunuch, these two big and small foxes will definitely bite each other. When they start biting, they will still have time to deal with him.
The mastermind?
At that time, these two people would definitely not miss any opportunity to embarrass each other, and would only dig holes and stumbling blocks for each other. The fight between snipe and clam would always give Li Xiao a chance to breathe.
As long as these two people fight each other, they will be indistinguishable for a year and a half. As long as Li Xiao waits until 1848, when the revolutionary storm sweeps across the continent of Europe again, Nicholas I's attention will be attracted by the revolution.
Transferred, I won't pay attention to this little shrimp like him anymore.
When all this calmed down again, the Crimean War was not far away, and Nicholas I, who was so anxious at that time, had no time to pay attention to him.
And then?
Then Nicholas I died. It was impossible for him to settle accounts with Li Xiao. As for Alexander II, what he took over was a super mess. How to end the Crimean War and face the turbulent domestic situation?
The calls for reform were enough to give him headaches for several years.
When Alexander II really recovered, Li Xiao also grew up and was no longer afraid of such despicable oppression.
Li Xiao's plan is quite good, but he is not completely sure. After all, there are great people in every era. Don't underestimate them. Li Xiao's little plan of sitting on the mountain and watching the tigers fight is not particularly clever, and it will be seen through.
Not surprisingly.
At least Li Xiao was not sure that he could hide it from Count Rostovtsev, so he simply handed over a letter to the count through the old housekeeper, asking the count to help tie up the finishing touches and not expose his plan.
Li Xiao's estimate was quite accurate. His design could not be hidden from Count Rostovtsev. However, the count had no intention of exposing him. He was happy to see Grand Duke Constantine and Menshikov fighting dogs.
It was also his wish to create divisions and confrontations within Nicholas I's ruling group. He admired someone's plan and helped make a small patch without leaving any trace:
He only pointed out to Grand Duke Constantine the fact that it was impossible to overthrow Menshikov in one fell swoop, but he very covertly expressed that if Grand Duke Constantine was willing to fight Menshikov, he would support it very covertly.
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With the acquiescence of Count Rostovtsev, Grand Duke Constantine dared to take action with all his strength. Otherwise, this suspicious prince would not make a big splash even if he wanted to deal with Menshikov. It can be said that if Li Xiao's plan succeeds, Rostov
Count Vtsev made a great contribution.
This count not only secretly encouraged Grand Duke Constantine, but also secretly exerted a little influence on Nicholas I. He hinted that the power-hungry emperor should beat his old ministers. Because some old ministers already had
If he continues to do so, when the crown prince ascends the throne, there may be a story about the shooting army!
The story of the so-called Shooting Army is that after the death of the Tsars of all dynasties, the powerful ministers in charge of military power will always use military power to cause trouble. When Peter the Great died, the Shooting Army, instigated by the old Menshikov, sent Catherine I to death.
Emperor Catherine the Great also had her husband Peter III killed and ascended to the throne of emperor with the support of the Shooting Army. Then Paul I was killed.
It can be said that after the death of almost every tsar, the powerful ministers in charge of the military power would cause trouble. This was also what Nicholas I was most afraid of, so after he became emperor, he embarked on "reforms" that greatly weakened the power of the powerful ministers to support the military.
But even so, he was not absolutely assured. After all, when he had just announced his accession to the throne, there was an uprising by the Decembrists.
So after Count Rostovtsev's reminder, Nicholas I also felt that some powerful officials were indeed unrewarded and unrewarded. If he didn't sound the alarm to remind him, he might really get up. So he
Only then did he acquiesce to Grand Duke Constantine's move to beat Menshikov...