"That's enough," Nicholas II said tiredly to the cabinet ministers gathered in the gorgeous conference room, "You go and leave me alone.**"
The ministers looked at each other. Finally, Prime Minister Stolypin stood up first and walked towards the door of the conference room. War Minister Vladimir Sukhomlinov followed Stolypin and turned his back.
The tsar suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. Sukhomlinov was a representative of a certain type of people in the tsarist system. They were born with a silver spoon in their mouths and were destined to become rich and powerful when they were born, so they never deliberately
To exercise their own abilities, and in the process of growing up extravagantly, they developed a brain full of fat intestines.
Natural selection is the survival of the fittest. If a country cannot eliminate the incompetent members of the ruling class as much as possible, then the country itself will be excluded - replaced by a new country, or even disappear.
Now, it is almost certain that the Romanov dynasty will be eliminated.
This is the flaw of the political system. It relies too much on the personal abilities of leaders. Under the control of capable leaders, a country can often do better than other countries. But if the ruler himself cannot
, then the du cai political system will make the situation extremely bad.
The Romanov dynasty was rich in highly capable tyrants and extremely poor pacifists. The two types of rulers came to power alternately, and the tsar's crown was alternately worn on the heads of geniuses and mediocrities. The cycle of reincarnation is endless. Because of this,
Russia's development over the past two hundred years has always alternated between rapid progress and stagnation or even regression.
Mikhail, the first tsar of the Romanov dynasty, was crowned in 1613. He was only sixteen years old at the time. He was able to get the crown because the previous dynasty had no heirs, and the Russian kingdom had been in a state of chaos without rule for fifteen years.
Years ago, everyone was tired of the endless fighting.
The only meritorious achievement of Mikhail during his reign was that Peter the Great obtained the right to inherit. Peter the Great was envious of the rapidly modernizing Europe and was determined to turn Russia into a European power, so he ordered the capital to be moved north from Moscow to
In a swamp on the Baltic coast, he built a new capital here and gave it a Western name "St. Petersburg". Peter the Great forced the Russians who still retained their distinctive national characteristics to cut their beards and wear Western styles.
clothing. And promote the modernization reform of the army.
When Peter the Great died, Russia was already a major European country.
Peter III, the Czar after Peter the Great, was cowardly and incompetent. He worshiped Frederick the Great crazily but had no achievements of his own. () His only achievement was to marry the German princess Catherine, who plotted to kill her husband not long after they got married.
Putting the crown on her head. This princess has a Russian name: Catherine II Alexeyevna.
Catherine the Great ruled Russia for thirty-six years, and gained new territory almost every year. In the last time and space, Catherine the Great was a reformer, conqueror and tyrant. In this time and space, there is one more: she
She was the most powerful goddess in Europe at the time. Under her governance, Russia expanded rapidly in this time and space, and once hoped to conquer Constantinople and become the legitimate successor to the Eastern Roman Empire.
But unfortunately, after the death of Catherine the Great, her son Paul succeeded to the throne. This was another weak and peaceful emperor, but Catherine the Great had expected this, so she gave herself
She gave her grandson Alexander a perfect education and arranged for his cronies to assassinate her son when Alexander was ready to inherit the throne.
This decision almost saved Russia, because in the first fifteen years of his rule, Alexander I had to face the power of Napoleon Bonaparte and his imperial guards. Not long after the fall of Napoleon, Alexander took his beloved
The goddess Mikhaina Ilarionovich Kutuzovna eloped. Her whereabouts are still unknown.
The successor of Alexander I was a complete tyrant. He abolished almost all the reforms of his predecessor. The next tsar boldly abolished serfdom and promoted capitalist reforms in Russia, making Russia a truly modern country.
This czar was Nicholas II's grandfather. By the way, Nicholas's father banned many of his grandfather's reform measures. He even wanted to restore serfdom at one point.
According to this reincarnation, Nicholas II should also be a capable tyrant. He should lead Russia to fight its way out of the chaos of the early twentieth century.
Nicholas II himself did think so when he succeeded to the throne, so he launched several wars. As a result, he was beaten to pieces.
He tried to carry out reforms, but had little success because he had too many fat-minded ministers.
But now, he has seen his own end, and his heart is filled with despair.
After all the ministers left, Nicholas II sat alone in the empty conference room. The splendor of the conference room showed the former prominence of the Romanov dynasty. At this time, he formed a relationship with the gloomy and melancholy Nicholas II.
A sharp contrast.
At this time Queen Alexandra opened the door and walked into the conference room.
Nicholas glanced at the Queen and became even more depressed. Alexandra frantically encouraged her husband to strengthen du cai's rule and hated all those who asked for reform. She did not like the commander-in-chief of the army, Grand Duke Nicholas, because the Grand Duke
She supports the establishment of the Duma, but she also doesn't like Stolypin because Stolypin can be paired with a goddess as a bodyguard - a treatment that only members of the royal family can enjoy.
Alexandra stubbornly regarded the goddesses as property and slaves of the Romanov dynasty, so her relationship with the goddesses was extremely tense, with the exception of Alexandra Rasputin.
In short, this queen never did anything to make her husband feel relieved after Nicholas II took the throne. No wonder Nicholas II became even more depressed when he saw her.
Alexandra ignored her husband's expression, came to the conference table, pretended to look through the documents on the table, and then asked seemingly casually: "What's wrong?"
"There is no oil." Nicholas II said concisely and concisely. "The goddesses on the front line consume a lot of kerosene every day to drive the internal combustion engines on their butts. If the general strike cannot be subsided within a week, the fuel reserves on the front line will be exhausted.
If we run out of them completely, we will lose the battle and the Red Army will capture the capital and hang us all from lampposts."
"No!" Alexandra exclaimed almost reflexively, "They can't do this!"
"They can." Nicholas II shook his head. He knew that in his wife's mind, Romanov's rule of Russia was a matter of course. This woman firmly believed in the divine right of kings. But Nicholas II did not believe it.
When he was only thirteen years old, his grandfather Alexander II was blown up completely by a Polish bomb. Alexander II returned to the palace and lingered for a long time before he died in great pain.
In the eyes of Ra II.
This made Nicholas II very clear about one thing: he and his family were not protected by any mysterious power. Even if he had all the goddesses in Russia in his hands, it would not change this fact.
And this is exactly what Queen Alexandra tried to deny.
Alexandra didn't know what her husband was thinking. She looked away from the documents, looked at her husband's face and asked: "As long as we have oil, we can get through this again, right?"
Nicholas II did not speak. He stood up and turned to the large window in the typical Romanov style of the conference room, with his back to the empress.
"Dear," Alexandra waited for a while and continued when her husband didn't respond, "you have to be strong. Russians need you to be strong. Every time you encounter problems, you always show love and tolerance. Now, you
To make the Russians feel your power, this is actually what they really want. Many people have told me recently that the Russians need whips. It's strange, but that's what Slavs are like."
Nicholas II remained silent.
I don't know how long it took before he said slowly in a tired voice: "But we have run out of oil. Everything will end. The Romanov dynasty will end in my hands."
"Don't give up," Alexandra encouraged her husband with enthusiasm. "If it doesn't work, just send a telegram to Berlin. His Majesty William is your cousin. He will not leave you alone. He will give us
Oil will support us through this difficult time."
"...Okay," Nicholas II said, rather than agreeing with Alexandra after careful consideration, he said that he had no other options. Sending a telegram was better than nothing, "I will give it to Willy.
The one who sent the telegram."
Later that day, Nicholas II sent a telegram signed "Nikki" to Berlin. In a rare low profile, he sent a telegram to his cousin Wilhelm II, praying for Germany to provide fuel assistance.
Surprisingly, Kaiser Wilhelm II responded quickly, and the content of the telegram was very brief: "You will get what you want."
It was signed "Your most sincere and loving friend and cousin Willy".
What the ecstatic Nicholas II did not know was that at the same time that his telegram arrived in Berlin, Catherine von Bismarck's report from Netherlands also arrived in Berlin.
In addition to Catherine's overview of Professor Wagner's terrible achievements, the report also included Lin Youde's suggestion: "The life of Tsarist Russia should be extended as much as possible, so that Tsarist Russia can consume more of the strength of Red Russia, and at the same time seize it in a planned and step-by-step manner.
The legacy of Romanov made it impossible for the unified Red Russia to significantly increase its strength in a short period of time. In particular, everything must be done to reduce the number of goddesses who fell into Wagner's hands."
Even before Nicholas II was hung on a lamppost, someone was already peeking at his legacy. (To be continued...)