Chapter 766: The End of Eight Hundred Forty-Nine

The summer of 1849 has already passed more than half of it without knowing it. Compared with the past, this year is not much different. Even in 1848, the revolutionary movement that shocked Europe occurred and almost overturned the traditional European order. But with the flames of the Hungarian revolution extinguished, everything seemed to return to the original state, the nobles began to live and dream again, and the poor were exhausted again without any hope, as if nothing had changed, it was still the same. While the rich wine and meat smell, the road with frozen bone.

Looking back on this year, Li Xiao has a lot of emotion. He has changed from a pauper bastard prince with no money to a rich man with 50,000 serfs. Now even if he lays down, eats and waits to die without doing anything, he will be comfortable for the rest of his life, and even his sons and grandchildren don't need to worry about him. The property under his name will never be squandered within three generations.

If it was him who was once a little rich and safe, he might really start to eat and wait to die, but after experiencing this ups and downs for a year, he is no longer willing to be mediocre, and even has a little contempt for the so-called bullies of this era mood.

In fact, everyone is the same, with one head, two hands and two feet. The difference is that everyone has a different starting point. In the past, not to mention being at the bottom of society, he was also a kind of social animal, and he worked hard to marry for others.

But now he has jumped to the top of the pyramid and has the ability to plan a completely different life. To put it bluntly, he also has the ability to control the lives and deaths of others. This kind of ability made him feel very happy. For the first time, he felt that power is indeed addictive. Once you get used to responding to everything, you will never go back to the past.

Of course, let Li Xiao go back to the past, and he doesn’t want to go back. If he still had the idea to go back to before the time when he was standing guard at the gate of the Winter Palace, he missed computer games and cars and high-speed rails, but now he would not hesitate to ask him to go back. I don't want to go back.

This era is bad, but he is more important in this era, and everyone wants to be more important, even if it is a bad era.

Standing by the Danube, looking at this small river that is neither blue nor turbulent at all, Li Xiao's mind is full of thoughts about the road ahead.

Duke Alexander had already told him the bottom line. Nicholas I did not want his annoying nephew to return to the country so soon. His attitude towards Nicholas I was out of sight and out of mind. The overconfident and fully The inflated tsar really doesn't want a bad guy dangling in front of him.

Not being able to return to St. Petersburg is not a big deal to Li Xiao. He didn't really want to go back. Although St. Petersburg is more prosperous than Bucharest, the prosperity does not belong to him. He is more like a stranger in that city. He hates the long nights of St. Petersburg in winter and the long days of St. Petersburg in summer. The rhythm of this city is always far from his, and the two sides are not on the same channel at all.

On the contrary, Bucharest, which has four distinct seasons at a lower latitude, is more like a place he is familiar with, where there is freedom without control,

With huge oil wealth and a higher status, he missed St. Petersburg when he was full!

Not only Li Xiao didn't want to leave, but Vishniak and Boris didn't want to leave either. The reason why the latter likes Bucharest is similar to his. Here they are indeed more important and more enjoyable.

The only one who misses St. Petersburg is Leonid. Compared with a few friends, he is a master no matter in St. Petersburg or Bucharest, and he does not appreciate the pleasure of status change. In contrast, Bucharest looks poorer. Naturally, he feels that St. Petersburg better.

It's just that Leonid can't go back, because Duke Alexander has made arrangements, and Leonid will stay in Bucharest as an important member of the garrison. This will elevate him to a first-level position. Although there is no way to immediately promote him to a major general, it is also a huge improvement from regimental commander to brigade commander.

Not only the brigade commander, Leonid was also appointed as the commander of the city defense of Bucharest, and all the garrisons in Bucharest were under his jurisdiction. This position is really not small.

If in China, with Leonid's age and seniority, he wants to get a similar position, even with the help of Duke Alexander and Duke Mikhail, it is impossible.

Because Leonid was promoted, the head of the 748th regiment naturally had to be replaced. As the commander-in-chief of the Wallachia and Moldavian garrisons, Duke Mikhail assigned this position to Viking with a stroke of a pen. Shniak, a fresh lieutenant colonel is fresh out of the oven again.

This made Vishniak very happy, because he thought that the post of regimental leader was more likely to belong to Li Xiao. After all, this was the deputy regimental leader before, and it was quite normal for him to take over as a matter of course. He thought that he might be able to be a deputy commander or something, but who would have thought that he would suddenly jump from battalion commander to regiment commander?

Also promoted was Boris, who was also promoted to be a battalion commander, and his military rank was also promoted to a major. In addition to the title of Baron of Wallachia he obtained before and his beautiful wife, this trip really made me feel happy. He grinned.

As for Li Xiao, the reason why he failed to take over as the head of the 748 regiment was not because his superiors deliberately obstructed him, but because he was really not interested, because he had already discovered that his talent was not on the military side, even if he had a time traveler In fact, the ability to really fight and lead troops is very average.

More of his talents are in politics, and he feels that he is better at and more comfortable in the officialdom. So he is naturally not interested in being a small regiment leader.

Of course, Li Xiao failed to completely leave the army. Although he will continue to act as a political adviser to Alexei, Duke Mikhail still reserved a position for him in the army—Gendarmerie of the Bucharest Garrison commander.

This position does not need to worry about fighting or training, and it has a lot of power, which is just right for Li Xiao to play. With him as the commander of the gendarmerie under pressure, all ghosts and monsters in Bucharest must behave with their tails between their legs. This will virtually relieve a lot of burden on Alexei and Leonid.

Li Xiao also has his own ideas about how to be the military police commander. He is not going to be a police officer honestly. His military police may be more like a secret service organization. He wants to develop his army into an intelligence agency. Information can allow him to see every step of the way in the future.

He can see this very clearly, why Count Rostovtsev is so good, because he is well-informed. So no matter what you do, intelligence must come first, and you must know yourself and your enemy! And only a reliable intelligence agency can assist Alexei to carry out a revolution to liberate the serfs,