Chapter 38 The Russian coup
What happened in Russia is that Tsarist Russia had a coup. The second Tsarist Peter of Tsarist Russia launched a coup against Regent Sophia and gained power. The emperor and King Cheng had such an attitude because Li Junwei mentioned long ago that the worst case of Tsarist Russia in the empire was to make Peter the real Tsarist.
In fact, Li Junwei raised this question to the emperor as early as the signing of the Treaty of Moscow. Of course, he did not tell his brother that their father was from the future and knew that Peter would become the great emperor in Russian history. He just told the emperor that the Russian Tsar had no descendants, the first heir Ivan was a fool, and the second heir Peter was a strong and shrewd young man. The core area of Tsarist Russia, which was close to the empire, did not dare to do anything when Tsarist Russia was weak. Once Tsarist Russia became strong, they would inevitably launch a counterattack. In order to avoid a war with Tsarist Russia in twenty years, they should prepare for the future and deal with Peter. No matter what method is used, assassination or coup, it is OK.
At that time, Li Junhua had a fierce quarrel with Li Junwei over this matter. You should know that when Li Junwei raised this question, Peter was still a twelve-year-old child. Li Junhua didn't believe that his younger brother could see the future of a hero from a child.
At that time, Li Junwei convinced the emperor to mention the old story of Galdan. Li Junwei secretly ordered the Security Bureau to deal with Galdan, who was still in the empire. It was Li Junhua who caused trouble for him to escape, and later caused trouble for the Western Regions. But it was fine if he didn't mention this matter, but it hit the emperor's pain point.
Before becoming the emperor, he did not have this feeling. After becoming the emperor, he was always dissatisfied with his father's preference for his younger brother rather than himself. This is not only a matter of father-son relationship, but also related to power. The Supreme Emperor never hides his own affairs from King Yu. The Supreme Emperor always conceals himself from King Yu's affairs, and the Supreme Emperor always conspires with King Yu and does not let anyone know. Some words and some education, the Supreme Emperor always only talks to King Yu, rather than to his orthodox heir.
When he was a teenager, Li Junhua believed that this was because his father favored his younger son more. In the matter of Galdan, he truly realized that his father and his younger brother had a secret. Although he was willing to believe that this secret had nothing to do with him and the throne, there was no evidence to prove this, so Li Junhua always felt a little anxious. Because of this matter, Li Junhua, who has always been steady, always had some rebellious thoughts about such things, so he directly rejected King Yu's plan to target Peter.
It was precisely because of his refusal that the Supreme Emperor came forward to persuade him that there was no need to raise a tiger because of his will, but he was unwilling to explain why the young Peter was regarded as a threat to a powerful empire by the two. Although Li Junhua and the Supreme Emperor also had a quarrel over this matter, the secret operation against Peter was still carried out, but it was not smooth at the beginning.
The empire believed that if Peter was a threat, then the one who wanted to get rid of him most would definitely be the regent of the power, the regent of the power. So Li Junhua, as the emperor, instructed Pei Yuanqi to contact Sophia, implying that Peter was a threat. After getting rid of him, the tsar was left with the fool Ivan, and her status as the regent would be more stable. One day, the fool Ivan died, and the empire could support her to become the female czar.
But Sophia rejected this proposal for two important reasons. The first is that Sophia despises Peter very much and believes that Peter is not a threat at all. She chose to exile Peter to the countryside. In order to make him lose his ambition, she arranged fifty boys who love to play with him as his little friends. But she didn't know that these fifty people became Peter's young army. When Peter proposed to train real guns and cannons, Sophia also provided all the supplies, and she also felt that it would be better if Peter played with these dangerous toys and played them to death.
The second important reason is that Sophia does not believe in the sincerity of the Empire. She believes that this is the Empire's conspiracy, and she believes that this is Pei Yuanqi's own conspiracy.
After Sophia became the Regent, the Naresh family to which Peter belonged was still energetic. Although this family was not yet called a new noble, they had been committed to developing industry and commerce, especially with close contacts with the empire. The Naresh family even helped the empire to co-organize the Tsarist customs. The Miloslavsky family where Sophia was located was the orthodox old Tsarist Russian aristocrat. Because of the issues of serfs, land and Cossacks, their relationship with the empire has never been very good.
Sophia obviously thought too much. She thought this was a conspiracy, both against herself and against Tsarist Russia. If she assassinated the second Tsar Peter, the empire would immediately expose it, make herself lose her power, and support a more cowardly person to take charge of Tsarist Russia.
So, Sophia did not do it. Not only did she not do it, she also prevented others from doing it. In fact, after she became the Regent, the leader of the shooting army immediately developed a lover relationship with her. However, as time went by, the shooting army developed a sense of distrust of Sophia, because everyone knew that the Regent's status was unstable. If Sophia really wanted to form an alliance with the shooting army, she should directly become a female czar. The shooting army repeatedly proposed Sophia's coup, but Sophia did not agree, which eventually led to the generals of the shooting army being disunited from her. After discovering that Peter was young and promising, they joined him one after another.
During the Russian coup, the generals in the shooting army informed Sophia in advance of the plan and supported Peter.
After confirming that Sophia refused, the Security Bureau initiated an assassination itself, but all three assassinations failed. The closest success was when the sniper killed "Peter", but the news finally confirmed that it was just Peter's playmate. You should know that in Peter's youth army, each other's status is absolutely equal. Everyone depends on their ability to serve as generals. Therefore, the commander shot by the sniper was not Peter, but a young army with outstanding abilities.
Three assassinations failed. Just when the Security Bureau was preparing for the fourth time, it was news that the Regent of Sophia also realized Peter's threat and was seeking to become the Tsar. Pei Yuanqi was naturally willing to support it, but the ending was a coup in Moscow. Sophia failed to kill someone and was captured. Peter and the Naresh family controlled the entire Tsarist Russia.
The courage and military talent shown by seventeen-year-old Peter in the coup finally made Li Junhua realize that this was indeed a difficult opponent. He was a little regretful, but failure was failure. He thought that King Yu would laugh at him and tripped twice by the same stone, but King Yu didn't say anything, obviously just saving face for himself.
Two hours later, Lin Junhong received a secret text. King Yu explained his next plan, which was to form an alliance with France and earn geopolitical benefits for the empire. The plan was written in detail. Lin Junhong found a sentence in it. In his opinion, this was Li Junwei's view on the Tsarist Russian coup and Peter's seizure of power.
Great people can change the country, but only reasonable systems can achieve the country.
Peter is the great man Li Junwei said, and the so-called reasonable system in the second half is the "Bill of Rights" passed by the British Parliament, which is determined by the constitutional monarchy.
Peter's power seizure and the glorious revolution took place in the same year, but history has proved that Peter did change Russia, but the real achievement of the country was the new system of Britain. Li Junwei's power and resources were not enough to support him to kill the two. In the case of choosing one of two, he chose Britain rather than Tsarist Russia.
Although he was still a little unwilling to give up, after discussing with Lin Junhong, Li Junwei finally issued an order to decide the empire's diplomatic strategy against Tsarist Russia, on the grounds that Shen Jing was too far from Xijin. However, Nangang was also far from Xijin, but this indirectly reflected that Li Junhua realized his mistake and hoped that the wiser Li Junwei would make up for it.
In February of the 27th year of the empire, Li Junwei received an order from Shen Jing, but he said he was powerless and could not do anything.
The reason is that this is no longer the time when Sophia just took power. As early as three years ago, during the regent of Sophia, Tsarist Russia joined the sacred alliance against the Ottoman Empire, became one of them, and launched a war against the Ottomans. However, like Poland, Russia failed repeatedly in military operations with the Ottomans, which is also the reason why Sophia lost prestige at home.
From ancient times to the present, Russian leaders have not necessarily been wise and virtuous, but they must be a strong man, either tough on the outside or tough on the inside, otherwise their position will be unstable.
Because Tsarist Russia joined the European alliance, this means that the empire could not start a war against it, because the empire's main strategy in the European war was to take advantage of the war between major European countries, seize colonies and occupy a more favorable geographical position. The war between the Holy Alliance and the Ottomans allowed the empire to stabilize the empire against Xizin and Central Asia, and at the same time had the authority to open up the Suez Canal and railway. In the war between the Grand Alliance and France, the empire wanted to fight for the interests of the Americas. The empire just wanted to form an alliance with France, not to be enemies with the Grand Alliance. This principle seems a bit contradictory, but it is not at all contradictory.
The situation of Tsarist Russia does not need to be solved by launching war immediately. Although Peter showed wisdom and decisiveness in the coup, it does not mean that he is a hero. Peter was not interested in politics, and all state affairs were left to the Empress Dowager and his uncles to deal with, while he was obsessed with the reform and construction of the army. At least now it seems that Tsarist Russia after the coup did not have an wise monarch, but only a promising general.
Moreover, Pei Yuanqi, who was in charge of the local government, responded very appropriately to this coup. After the coup, it was obvious that the secret of the empire's attempt to assassinate Tsar Peter had been exposed, but Tsarist Russia did not make it public. First, they did not want to go to war with the empire, and second, there was no evidence. Although the Security Bureau failed three assassinations, it did a good job of finishing the assassination. The perpetrators involved in the assassination were either executed or transferred back to the country. (Because Peter lives in the Foreign Corner of Moscow, the participants were all hired foreigners, which is also the main reason for the failure.)
Before the coup, it was Sophia's regent who attempted to kill Peter and notified Pei Yuanqi in advance. Pei Yuanqi immediately contacted Wu Yifeng and assembled 25,000 troops from the Lifanyuan and the army in Zhenbeicheng in the name of exercise, mostly cavalry or mobile infantry, with the purpose of interfering when needed, but Sophia's failure was too fast. The shooting army's turnaround made the Moscow coup end soon and did not give the empire the opportunity to interfere.
However, Pei Yuanqi did not lift his vigilance, but instead demanded to enter a second-level combat readiness state. This means that the northern Xinjiang region in the far-karyotic areas that were in contact with Russia would have to mobilize certain wars, and the elite cavalry were drawn from the flag assistants of each appeasement zone and dispatched to the prescribed position. Therefore, in just one and a half months, the vassal soldiers and the army of the Lifanyuan had a scale of 40,000 people, and some of the mobilized troops gathered in various places and did not go to the border. Once needed, the empire could mobilize an army of 70,000 people within two months. The number was 120,000 in half a year.
The reason for his tough attitude was that Pei Yuanqi wanted to tell Russia that the coup could not affect the empire's interests in Russia, especially the business exchanges between the two sides, war reparations and customs authorization.
Russia also made preparations for war, but sent the front-line troops facing the Ottoman back to the capital Moscow. Obviously, the Russians still remembered the powerful combat effectiveness of the imperial army during the Western Expedition of King Yu. Later, the two sides had contact. The Naresh family in power was always friendly with the empire. They decided to adhere to a friendly policy and the Russians kept silent about the empire's participation in the Russian coup and even assassination of Tsar Peter.
The latest news is that the Moscow coup did not affect the relationship between the two countries. The only regret is that Tsar Peter refused the imperial envoys twice. Even though there were many differences on issues such as Cossacks, the overall relationship was still relatively friendly. Pei Yuanqi even personally led a business group to Moscow, and Tsar Peter also sent a diplomatic team of more than 500 people to Xijin. However, no one expected that Tsar Peter would mix in this team, lurking in Xijin, Suez and other places, and conducting a secret investigation of the empire's military and economy.
Because of this, Li Junwei did not complain to his brother that he could not do anything, but instead expressed humbly that he had no need to do anything.
Chapter completed!