Struggle in Russia - #2302 - Vol 3 Chapter 1350: shocked

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The issue of Prince Mikhail is indeed very important. Of course, the most important thing in the officialdom is to stand in line. If you stand in the right team, you will get twice the result with half the effort. On the contrary, the result will not be as simple as getting twice the result with half the effort. The most trivial thing is to lose your hat and damage your head. You may not be able to save it.

For giants like Prince Mikhail and Duke Alexander, the possibility of losing their heads and official titles is naturally non-existent.

It’s just a pity that I am on the wrong team and my interests have been damaged.

After all, they have been going smoothly for a while. If the good momentum is interrupted, it will not be easy to continue it later.

Duke Alexander has actually been thinking about this issue. From a pragmatic perspective, he said that he should be on the side of the winner.

And he felt that Li Xiao and Nikolai Milyuting were definitely the final winners, so he should stand with them.

However, he had to consider Alexander II’s attitude. After all, he was the emperor. As prime minister, it would be dangerous not to stand with the emperor!

However, standing with Alexander II will inevitably lead to failure, and in the long run, he must maintain good relations with the reformists.

Once the relationship with Nikolai Milyutin becomes tense over this matter, many simple things will become troublesome later on. He doesn’t like such variables!

Duke Alexander is somewhat undecided. One side is a reformist and the other is an emperor. Where to go and how to choose?

Just when he was extremely entangled, Leonid came back. He rushed into Duke Alexander’s study like a hurricane, and his vigorous and resolute style made Duke Alexander frown.

“What are you doing in such a panic?” Duke Alexander scolded him unhappily.

Leonid quickly lowered his head and admitted his mistake. His good boy look left Duke Alexander speechless for a while.

In fact, he hopes that his son can be a little “bad”, not so serious in everything, but also naughty when necessary, otherwise life will lose a lot of fun!

“What’s the matter?” Duke Alexander asked.

Leonid replied respectfully: “Father, I heard that many newspapers are attacking Archduke Andrei. I think this matter is not simple. I hope you can help find out the truth.”

Prince Mikhail laughed before Duke Alexander said anything: “Lyonia stands clearly on the side of Grand Duke Andrei. As a father, you can’t even ignore your son’s request!”

Prince Mikhail didn’t like Grand Duke Constantine very much. He made Moldavia a mess and almost got him involved.

After several interactions with him, he saw through the unreliability of that guy, and he had long been hoping that someone would teach him a profound lesson.

If this matter hadn’t involved Alexander II, he would have strongly asked Duke Alexander to side with Li Xiao.

Of course, he also saw that Duke Alexander tended to side with Alexander II. This had nothing to do with preferences and positions, it was only about interests. As prime minister, he really could not openly oppose the Tsar.

Therefore, after Leonid made the request, he hit the snake and followed the stick. Although it was mostly a joke, it was also a test.

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However, Duke Alexander’s attitude was obviously more decisive than him. He closed his eyes and thought for a moment before shaking his head and saying: “That’s not appropriate! As Prime Minister, I should try my best to be consistent with His Majesty as long as it does not involve the fundamental interests of the country. This time I should be consistent with His Majesty on this matter!”

Prince Mikhail was stunned immediately, and Leonid looked at his father in confusion. To be honest, he didn’t understand what it meant.

After a long while, he asked: “Father, is it His Majesty’s intention to instruct those newspapers to criticize Archduke Andrei?”

Duke Alexander and Prince Mikhail looked at each other, and then replied: “If you are talking about the attacks on Grand Duke Andrei a few days ago, it was Grand Duke Constantine who instigated them!”

Leonid became more and more confused. He had just returned to St. Petersburg and saw that many newspapers were criticizing his friend. And he knew what kind of person Li Xiao was. Naturally, he could not sit back and watch his friend being slandered. Then he hurriedly came to see Duke Alexander, hoping that his old father could provide support.

As a result, his old father told him that the man behind the scenes turned out to be Grand Duke Constantine, and according to what his old father meant, there was also the shadow of the Tsar behind him. What the **** is going on?

Duke Alexander sighed and explained: “The root cause of this matter is the struggle between Grand Duke Andrei and Grand Duke Constantine about how to carry out reforms. The former has the upper hand because he has the support of Count Nikolai Milyutin, and the latter The reporter was very unconvinced and mobilized the media to create public opinion…”

Leonid finally understood. After a long time of going on, Archduke Constantine went home and asked his “parents” for help after losing the battle and losing others… To be honest, Leonid really found this kind of thing boring.

In the past, he admired Archduke Constantine. Even if he did not completely agree with his reform stance, he still admired his enterprising attitude. UU reading www. ukanshu.net

However, this appreciation faded greatly after enjoying the poor performance of Archduke Constantine in Moldavia. Later, he discovered that the Archduke did not have any achievements or rules in doing things, and was completely random.

Now I heard that this guy would engage in conspiracy after losing a debate. Such behavior really made him despise him, so he naturally disliked him even more.

“Such behavior is completely unacceptable and if everyone is like him, what’s the point of having a debate?”

Leonid first expressed his attitude. He was firmly opposed to this approach!

“We should go to His Majesty and explain the reasons behind it, and we must not encourage this evil trend!”

But the solution he proposed left Duke Alexander and Prince Mikhail extremely speechless. What kind of **** is this? When trying to reason with His Majesty, let’s not talk about whether your reasoning makes sense, but let’s talk about whether your attitude is a bit too childish!

Duke Alexander sighed. This is what worries him the most. Officialdom is never a place for reasoning. If you try to be reasonable in everything, then in the end others will use unreasonable means to completely eliminate you.

He sighed and explained: “This matter is very complicated. Your Majesty does not know that Grand Duke Constantine’s behavior is unreasonable, but His Majesty does not want to see the reformists being harmonious. He does not want reform, so he hopes that the reformists will give way to internal strife.” Reform has failed, now you know where the trouble lies, right?”

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Leonid was shocked because no one had ever told him that Alexander II did not want reforms!