Chapter 144

Why is it said that Bariatinsky and Pobedonostsev have gained more than Crown Prince Alexander? It's simple, and it's obvious when you look at the results.

This time Bajatinsky and Pobedonostsev not only received a lot of money through the cable telegraph project, but also indirectly slapped Uvarov in the face. It can be regarded as full.

Crown Prince Alexander is different. Although he can earn a lot of money from this project, the problem is that he is not short of money. It is blunt to say that the whole of Russia will be his sooner or later. The last thing he lacks is money.

Secondly, he doesn't need to slap Uvarov in the face to show his status. To put it bluntly, it is not cost-effective for Crown Prince Alexander to do so. After all, Uvarov has spared no effort to support him, which can be regarded as loyal to him. He didn't need to slap Uvarov in the face at all. On the contrary, if he did so, he might offend Uvarov, and the latter's support for him in the future might be discounted.

From this point of view, Crown Prince Alexander has no reason to offend Uvarov at all, and this does not benefit him that much. And this matter is only the most direct and obvious benefit to Bariatinsky and Pobedonostsev.

So as long as Crown Prince Alexander is not stupid, he will figure it out sooner or later. Maybe this time he will not have any particular opinion on what Bariatinsky and Pobedonostsev did, but who can guarantee such a mistake? Just this once.

As long as Baryatinsky and Pobedonostsev are not stupid, they will know that they want to completely replace Uvarov in the future, and there will be many opportunities to use Crown Prince Alexander. Once, twice or three times, they may do similar things many times, so can you guarantee that Crown Prince Alexander will forgive them every time?

To put it bluntly, whenever they choose to do this, they are actually overdrafting their relationship with Crown Prince Alexander. When the overdraft reaches a certain level, Crown Prince Alexander will always be unbearable. At that time, Crown Prince Alexander would no longer think that they were all confidantes and friends, but would only think that their shameless use of him was unforgivable.

At that time, Crown Prince Alexander will completely explode and settle accounts with them together. It will be extremely cruel and intense! Even the Heavenly King and Lao Tzu can't save them.

In short, it is not so easy to be the emperor's close minister. The closer you are, the worse it will be when you are dealt with, especially for Dmitri, who has only followed Prince Alexander for a while. The sense of intimacy cultivated together by the big and the small, even if you gain trust because of your outstanding ability for a while, it will not last long. Once Crown Prince Alexander was annoyed by something, the consequences would be particularly serious.

So it's better to keep a proper distance, not to be a close minister of Crown Prince Alexander, but to stay away from each other, to make suggestions but not to be arrogant, so that you can gain respect instead.

In fact, it is the same as the relationship between Count Rostovtsev and Nicholas I.

Not too close, not too close, which is actually safer.

For example, now, Crown Prince Alexander has an idea in his heart, and he will taste it himself. There will definitely be some opinions on the actions of Bariatinsky and Pobedonostsev, even if they are not particularly big. But Dmitri did not collude with them, but he can always consider issues from the standpoint of his crown prince. Isn't such a courtier cute?

Yes, Crown Prince Alexander thought Dmitri was very cute at this time. He felt that although this person was sometimes cold and not so amiable, he always stood on the same front with him in doing things. Such a courtier is really cute!

"It makes sense. Count Speransky and Grand Duke Constantine are in the same group. If you deal with one of them, there is no guarantee that the other will react. You should really take precautions! Alexander Ivanovich, tell me, you should How to clean them up?"

Bariatinsky actually didn't want to take action against Grand Duke Constantine at this time, because that one was Nicholas I's favorite son after all. Therefore, it is very likely that the support for the cable telegraph project is because of Grand Duke Constantine.

Naturally, taking action against Grand Duke Constantine at this time may offend Nicholas I, and this risk is relatively high.

However, Dmitri's analysis just now is reasonable. Isn't the reason why he urged Crown Prince Alexander to deal with Alexei just now that Alexei and Grand Duke Constantine are in the same group?

Since you said that they belonged together, you can't help but be wary of beating the younger ones and attracting the older ones, right?

Anyway, from the perspective of logical relationship, Dmitry's analysis is very reasonable, and it is indeed worthy of vigilance. But let Bariatinsky speak from his heart, is Grand Duke Constantine really that close to Alexei? Are they really a gang?

Hey, this is worth discussing and pondering. At least Bariatinsky himself knew that the two were not completely in the same group. The reason why he encouraged Crown Prince Alexander to deal with Alexei was simply to make use of the excuse and kill someone with a knife.

His purpose was only to ease the relationship with Uvarov, because Uvarov hated Alexei very much, so he deliberately used the guise of attacking the reformist party of Grand Duke Constantine to kill Alexei. Circle it.

It's just that after Dmitri casually used the reasons he gave to enclose Grand Duke Constantine, he was embarrassed.

Now if you want to do Alexei, you have to do it together with Grand Duke Constantine, so it's easy to make things very big, okay? It is not impossible to do this with their ability, but the price to be paid will be particularly serious, and he is really not prepared for that.

But he couldn't tell Crown Prince Alexander, what would the Crown Prince think of them? Will you still trust them in the future?

What's even more painful is that he still can't say no to it. After all, the previous foreshadowing has been fully paved, and he is not allowed to retreat at all. After a little meditation, he can only bite the bullet and answer:

"The Grand Duke Constantine really has to guard against it. I think we must deal with Earl Speranski quickly and violently, without giving the Grand Duke Constantine a chance to intervene and react. As long as we move quickly, we should be able to succeed."

It can only be said that Bariatinsky is too bad a guy. He felt that he had a chance to kill two birds with one stone after a long time. He not only eased the relationship with Uvarov but also attacked the reformers. Naturally, he couldn't give up. But he really couldn't give a way to guard against Grand Duke Constantine, so he simply suggested not to guard against it, and let a blitzkrieg solve the problem...