Yakikov saluted respectfully and responded: "Yes, your Majesty, I think Mr. Messenger can give you a satisfactory reply."

Feodor nodded slightly and suddenly called Yakikov: "Yakikov, is this a conspiracy?"

"What conspiracy?" Yakikov was a little confused.

"A plan has been made and then rely on this messenger to deceive me?" Fedor said.

Yakikov said: "Your Majesty, I don't know if this would be a conspiracy, but I can guarantee that the messenger would not have anything to do with this matter. Since you told me to take care of him, the Chinese missions and caravans left Moscow one after another. When our Uralsk Fortress reported that the Chinese army entered the empire, I immediately took him into custody and was still in the embassy. All the servants, guards and chefs were dispatched from the Kremlin. They were all selected people. I would not say anything more to him on weekdays. When he said that life was boring, I sent him books and finally gave him two gypsy women, but the woman did not come out after entering."

"Maybe he can bribe one or several people to communicate with each other," Fedor guessed.

Yakikov shook his head: "There is no such possibility. Your Majesty. In fact, when he was in custody, all the property in the embassy, ​​including the valuable items on the messenger, were taken away by me and registered. He had no property on him. What should he use to bribe our guards? Moreover, everyone was replaced every ten days, and he was replaced before he had become familiar with them."

Feodor nodded: "Well, dear Yakikv, you have done a good job, better than I thought. Please bring him now, and contact Novgorod and inform Princess Sofia of these situations. I also need her wisdom."

"I am not a bitch, not what you want to use unless your Tsar can give me a state banquet meal." In the hall, U Yifeng did not directly agree with Yaqikv's request, but instead put forward the conditions, but obviously, the Tsar did not care about a state banquet meal, so the Tsar and U Yifeng met in the Tsar's restaurant.

As a person who has been tortured by illness since childhood, Tsar Fedor envied his appetite as he looked at Wu Yifeng who was feasting, while he himself only used a little meal and did not eat much.

"Okay, Lord Messenger, you should answer the Tsar's question." Yakikov said loudly when he saw that U Yifeng had been asking for two desserts endlessly.

Wu Yifeng sighed: "What a stingy country, a stingy czar."

Feodor shook his head and did not argue with U Yifeng, but said, "Tell me about those dates. The butts of dozens of Russian nobles were stained with soldering irons. These dates should have some special meanings."

Wu Yifeng nodded: "Of course, Your Highness Yu likes to do all kinds of interesting things, but there are deep arrangements behind each interesting matter, which is exactly the same as His Majesty the Supreme Emperor.

According to the classification of His Majesty, Russia, like England, the Netherlands, and France, belongs to the countries in the rising period, while Spain, Portugal, the Ottomans and Poland are the countries in the falling period. Of course, the empire also belongs to the former. Although the national conditions and systems under the imperial system, royal power and parliamentary system are different, the countries in the rising period have many common points, that is......."

"To be honest, Your Majesty the Czar, your Majesty has no time to listen to your nagging," Yakikov said angrily.

Wu Yifeng smiled: "Well, Your Highness Yu means to remind the Tsar and all the real nobles in Russia not to do stupid things."

"What a fool?" Yakikov asked.

Wu Yifeng said, "If you want to make this stupid thing clear, you have to continue the words just now. You think I'm nagging, so you and the respected Tsar Majesty themselves, you have infinite wisdom anyway, aren't you?"

Seeing U Yifeng fighting with Yaqikv, Feodor smiled: "His messenger, Yaqikv is very young, he is a little impulsive. Let me give you another dessert, so you can continue to say it."

"...In fact, countries like the rising period are in the stage of expanding territory, and in order to adapt to these, reform is inevitable. Of course, this has nothing to do with what we are going to talk about now... It is like this. Both of us belong to countries in the rising period, so some places are consistent, such as there are warlike young officer groups, emerging aristocrats who prefer expansion, and old aristocrats who are unwilling to accept the loss of power and losses of interests. These people will affect you all the time, His Majesty the Tsar.

It can be imagined that after the imperial army entered the land of Russia, you will never lack the advice to enter the decisive battle in your ears. The officers need glory and military achievements. The nobles need to protect the land and interests outside the city. Even war is a good way to weaken political enemies. The smoother the imperial army's battle in Russia, the more areas it plagued, the louder these sounds will be, and in the end they will reach the same level." Wu Yifeng explained with a smile while eating the third dessert.

Feodor nodded: "Yes, as the war progresses, the nobles of our country become more united, isn't this a good thing?"

"Unity is a good thing, but those who are united may not necessarily do good things. The top leaders of every country are not short of smart people, but when they are in conflicts of interests and compromises, these smart people will do some stupid things, such as asking you to lead the Moscow army to fight and drive the Imperial Expeditionary Force out of Russia's border." Wu Yifeng said.

Seeing that Feodor did not speak, U Yifeng said: "Once you lead your army out of the city and confront the Imperial Expeditionary Force, everything will no longer be controlled. Like your country, there are also officers and forces on our side who want to make achievements. His Majesty the Tsar will be like a sucking stone to absorb all the troops. The ending is nothing more than two types. The first is that you win and we fail. Obviously, this is not what His Highness Yu wants to see. The second possibility is that you fail and we win. This is not what His Highness Yu wants to see. I have explained before that we have no intention of destroying the Russian Empire at this stage, which is not in the interests of our country.

But His Highness Yu has put time on the butts of the Russian nobles, and through their mouths, tell the Tsar and all the nobles in Moscow that our strength is beyond your imagination. Through the mouths of these nobles, you can roughly guess the number and general composition of the Imperial Expeditionary Force. I don’t know how many of this number is, but it is enough for His Majesty to convince those warlike nobles that you will not do stupid things without leaving the city, and Russia will not perish. For you, the war is still within a controllable range."

"I think you are lying to me and lying to hand over the initiative in war to your Highness Yu," Tsar Feodor said with a narrow eyes.

Wu Yifeng said: "Maybe it is a deception, or it may be a righteous word, but there is a saying in China that it is hard to persuade the damn ghost. If a person wants to die, no one can stop it. His Majesty the noble Tsar, if you don't go to war, you may not be able to save your throne, but if you fail to fight, even this empire may not be saved."

Regardless of whether the "butt incident" was a conspiracy by King Yu Li Junwei, it is undeniable that after Feodor showed all the Duma nobles these butts and the numbers included on them, almost all the nobles were silent. Even the most warlike officers were not asking to go out of the city to fight. Everyone's previous fighting intention was for profit and glory. When facing a powerful enemy, all they could get was failure and death. Obviously, rational people would not like these.

So at the end of April, when the cavalry of the first Imperial Expeditionary Force appeared on the wheat fields outside Moscow to eat wheat seedlings, no army had left Moscow. By mid-May, the imperial troops gathered around Moscow had exceeded 30,000, and not just cavalry. They began to use the captured serfs to build fortifications and build camps. As the scale of the camp outside the city expanded, news from various places came, some fortresses surrendered, some fortresses were still defending, Ufa City was opened by traitors, and Kazan City was attacked by rockets, and the whole city was completely collapsed after being burned. Ryazan and Tula were around Moscow, but they were also surrounded.

The people caught by Kazan were sent to cities across Russia to promote the destructive ability of the Imperial rockets to the city. Indeed, the burning of Kazan City was mainly because the rockets were fired at night. The temperature was very low at that time, so low that besides the wells, the water in the water tanks and rivers were frozen into ice. People also lost their organization and did not effectively put out the fire, but the strength of the rockets was beyond doubt. The Imperial Expeditionary Force did not ask the main Russian city to surrender, but gave them a new choice and paid the redemption gold.

According to the size of the city, the number of personnel and the number and level of nobles in the city, the Expeditionary Force issued a redemption gold of varying prices. However, the redemption gold not only contains precious metals, but also military supplies such as war horses, saltpeter sulfur, gunpowder and muskets, especially war horses. The Expeditionary Force requires all war horses in the city, and is even willing to provide a portion of food for the city residents in exchange for the purpose of eliminating the resistance of these cities behind the expeditionary force. The Imperial Expeditionary Force is not afraid of any form of infantry.

At the end of May, King Yu's blue tent appeared on the Sparrow Slope outside Moscow City. It was originally the base of the Russian shooting army outside the city. The barracks and land were occupied by the expeditionary forces. At this time, more than 100,000 people had gathered around Moscow City, including the Kalmyk cavalry, that is, the Turguts.

"Your Majesty, Novgorod's letter, obviously, Princess Sofia also agreed with the envoy, and she thought it was a way to avoid war." Yakikov handed Fedor a late letter. Although the letter was late, luckily, the result was still good.

Like the late letters, Moscow was almost isolated from the world surrounded by tens of thousands of cavalry. For a month, many of the information sent were condoned by the enemy. No one stopped the information on the battlefield on the banks of the Dnieper River, allowing the Tsar and Duma nobles to know the current situation in Russia.

The Ottoman army and the betrayed Cossacks crossed the Dnieper River in mid-April. The main army on the front line was forced to retreat. The reason was very simple. Many Cossacks chose to flee the army because their hometown was attacked by the Crimean Tatars, and many people wanted to go home to protect their families. The Russian army lost the initiative he had accumulated for several years. Fortunately, the Polish king Sobesky made the right choice and sent troops to join the battlefield of the Dnieper River, restraining the Ottoman new army that had just arrived from the Ottoman local area. The battle situation of the Dnieper River was stalemate again, but the initiative of the Russian-Polish coalition forces had been lost because a large number of Crimean Tatar cavalry began to roam around and raid the hinterlands of the two countries.

In Sobesky's letter to Tsar Feodor, it was clear that neither Russia nor Poland would support it for too long. Russia must cease war with the new enemy as soon as possible and project energy onto the Dnieper River.

"Your Majesty, there is movement in the enemy outside the city. Some people say that the Chinese are going to attack the city and there is chaos in the city." Yakikov said.

Feodor lifted a flintlock and said, "Take a shooting army to occupy all street intersections, kill the mobs that are causing trouble, and let the residents go home!"

After saying that, Feodor left the Kremlin. Under the suppression of his own team, the chaos in the city quickly subsided. Feodor climbed to the top of the city and saw the Chinese Expeditionary Force outside the city. They built a new chest wall between Moscow City and the camp, several miles long, but only one person tall, and an army was lined up, but it was far away from the chest wall. It didn't look like a siege. Feodor took a look and felt that the formation looked familiar.

Yakikov whispered: "Your Majesty, this winter shooting military academy is exactly the same."

After hearing this, Feodor confirmed that as Russia's only professional army and guards, the shooting army represents the highest level of the Russian army. But even so, the shooting army only carried out live ammunition shooting twice in spring and winter, an ice-built chest wall, one mile long, six steps high and two steps wide, shooting military clamps with a continual shooting until the collapse.

Soon, the shooting of the Expeditionary Force simulated shooting also began. Yakikov pointed to the conspicuous army that had been arranged in a complete array and said, "That should be the imperial guards under King Yu, which is the most elite of this army. Perhaps that King Yu wanted to show us the strength gap between the two armies."

"Bang bang bang."

After only four rounds of volleys, the chest wall completely collapsed. When the shooting soldiers standing at the top of the city saw this scene, their faces changed drastically. After seeing this, Feodor said lightly: "Contact with the other party, the armistice negotiations can begin."

Feodor left the city, but in a small room on the city, a tall child came out, looked outside, murmured, "What a powerful army, why can't Russia have such an army?"
Chapter completed!