Section 448 The King of Greece

It is not only the elegance of the ancient Chinese hermits that consumes people's minds, but also the life of the Russian aristocracy. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Shengge feasts and drinks at night, drunk with gold and dreams of life, leisure and pleasure do not want to forge ahead, this kind of culture is more consuming, Yang Chao lived this kind of day during this time, so he saw the heavy snow in Baikal, there will be so much interest.

Yang Chao knew that he couldn't play with this group of Russian exiled aristocrats.

But after returning from the lake, he did not change, and still held balls, banquets, and drinking parties in the palace with Olga every day, inviting all kinds of nobles from ancient origins, the kind of boyar nobles are not qualified to come to the palace, and those who come to the palace must be from the royal family, this kind of aristocracy has been inherited for hundreds of years, and there are many in Russia, where there is no inheritance limit.

In the Russian aristocracy, the prince's son must be the Grand Duke, no matter how many sons you have, you can all get the title of Grand Duke, and this rotten nobility makes the number of Russian nobles the highest in Europe.

Compared with the royal aristocracy, the boyar aristocracy refers to the nobles who are not from the royal family, such as the knights in the tsar's army, who are often from the boyar aristocracy, who used to be lords in the countryside and owned a large number of serfs, and after the abolition of serfdom, they became the large landlord class.

Of course, there are boyar nobles in Siberia, and there are many of them, no less than 10,000 people, but these people are often scattered in the countryside, and more or less run farms, which are much more reliable than the royal nobles, and most of the newly developed landed middle class in Siberia are these boyar nobles from exile.

The policy promulgated by the Grand Duke of Nicholas that a royal nobleman has at least three times more land than the boyar nobles, and a count can occupy at least 50,000 acres of land, which is not used at all, and does not know how to run it themselves, and they are contracted to the agricultural capitalists of China, and they do not care about it from the opening of the land to the harvest, and even many people know that their land has been seen once, the time when the border is confirmed, and then they have not been there, and you let these nobles who have been in and out of the court all the year round take you to their land, Most of them are afraid that they will not be able to find a place for themselves.

Of course, the number of such royal nobles is not much, only more than 300 people, of which more than 200 are noble women without heirs, and the real male nobles do not live in one-third, but those noble ladies bear the name of their husbands and fully enjoy the right to occupy the land, because the husbands of these noble ladies are very unfortunate, and those who were caught by the Bushviks and shot targets are better to say, and those widows who died on the battlefield for the Tsar dare to deduct it, the impact is really too bad.

Anyway, there was no shortage of land in Siberia, so the Nikolai government let a sufficient level of nobles encircle, even if it was just a noblewoman, and enjoyed the power conferred by the title.

Yang Chao regained his spirit again, and still interacted with these nobles, but his heart became different, but he seemed to be more energetic and firepower than before, just like a Russian, dancing and singing energetically all day long, but he didn't drink much vodka.

Because this is a big social field, these nobles socialize here, and behind them is the mutual communication of power, so if you don't dance with them, it really can't be.

Not only Russian aristocrats, but even nobles from other countries did not visit, such as the recently popular Greek prince George.

Prince George was the eldest son of King Constantine I of Greece, who was born into the royal family of Gluksburg in Herstein, who was also the Danish royal family.

The Greeks staged a coup d'état to overthrow their Wittelsbach dynasty, and the parliament chose the **** second son of the Danish royal family, Constantine I, as the king of Greece, and the second son of the Danish king was also chosen as the royal family of Norway, so this family is actually the ruling family of Denmark, Norway and Greece.

However, Constantine was unlucky, in World War I, he was on the side of Germany, as a result, Britain and France instigated the domestic political forces in Greece to launch a coup d'état to depose him, after a fierce political struggle, Constantine and the opposition reached an agreement, and the eldest son was sent abroad by Constantine, because the eldest son George had served in the army in Germany, Britain and France refused to let him inherit the throne, so that his second son inherited the throne.

But after the war, the new king was bitten by a monkey and died of infection, Constantine I was restored, and George became a **** again.

At this time, it is not involved in the severity of the war, Germany has been defeated, so Britain and France don't care about the history of George Cheng in Germany's army, he is destined to inherit the Greek throne, so he has become the object of royal marriage in some small and medium-sized European countries, and the more active is the Romanian royal family, hoping to marry their princess to George ****.

The declining Russian tsarist family also wanted to marry, so that the Russian royal family could continue to maintain influence among the aristocratic ruling families in Europe, and under the operation of Grand Duke Nicholas, he made several visits to Greece, which finally contributed to this, and Greece chose the tsarist family, although it had declined, but had a deeper background.

George is 32 years old, if it weren't for the world war, he suddenly lost his **** position, I'm afraid he would have married a royal family a long time ago.

The Russian Grand Duchess Tatyana is not small, 25 years old this year, and Grand Duke Nikolai, in order to continue the international influence of the Tsarist family, insisted that the Tsar's daughter adhere to the aristocratic tradition, and must marry influential nobles from other countries, and even preferably the royal families of other countries.

Tsar Nicholas II is gone, and the daughters he left behind are the most important bargaining chips in the hands of Grand Duke Nicholas, and the tsarist regime nested in Siberia can only maintain its position by marriage.

In addition, there is a more important reason, King Konstantin's mother is from a Russian aristocratic family, that is to say, Prince George's grandmother is a Russian nobleman.

Yang Chao can't understand the marriage culture of Europe, anyway, if it were him, he would rather choose Romania, after all, Romania is also the victor of the First World War, expanding its territory, and it is also the only oil-producing country on the European continent except Russia.

It's just that the Queen of Romania is an English princess, so in World War I, Romania chose Britain under the eyes of Germany and Austria, and was beaten and injured in the war. And Konstantin was obviously pro-German and had no good feelings for the British, so he chose the Tsarist family.

Of course, it is also possible that the Greeks are betting that the Russian tsar can restore his former majesty, after all, the whole of Europe has been rumored all day long that Soviet Russia will collapse sooner or later, and the newborn Soviet Russia is not as panicked by Europeans as the legends of later generations, after all, a country that starves to death, who would be afraid.

Of course, the famine in Soviet Russia has passed, because at that time, Yang Chao continued to put tens of millions of tons of grain into Soviet Russia, plus tens of millions of tons of grain from the Americans, which was enough for the Soviet Russians to survive the famine.

However, this famine gave a rather bad impression to the outside world, making Western countries think that Soviet Russia did not have sufficient organizational capacity, and it was impossible to maintain such a huge country, which would collapse at any time, and Britain and France both believed that Soviet Russia had been on the verge of collapse and civil war.

It's a pity that they all miscalculated, although Soviet Russia oppressed the peasants more harshly, but they got the support of the workers.

Of course, the workers did not get any benefits, but man is a very simple animal, when he feels comfortable, sometimes he can really not give money, when those workers see that the cadres of Soviet Russia are the same as them, wearing tattered clothes, eating pig and dog food, their hearts are really balanced, they really believe that the ideals in the mouths of these cadres can be realized, and there will be endless money and endless bread in the future.

Yang Chao knew very well when he saw the sheng song and Yan dance that Soviet Russia had gained a firm foothold in Eastern Europe, and then they would shake the whole world, just like a mud leg that picked up a hoe, which would make the rich people like Britain and France panic, and when they panicked, China's life would be better.

"Hello, Mr. Yang!"

At the ball, the Greek prince generously danced with the slightly shy Russian archduchess, and then suddenly walked towards Yang Chao.

Yang Chao didn't dance, he sat quietly with Origa and chatted, and suddenly the Greek prince came over, nodded lightly to Origa, and then greeted Yang Chao.

"Your Royal Highness, no, it should be His Majesty the King of Greece, hello, welcome to Russia, the real Russia."

Yang Chao stood up and shook his hand.

A few months before he was only a prince, his father Constantine I was fooled by Britain and France and launched an attack on the already revolutionary Turkey, when Constantine was still a prince, he fought against Turkey as the commander-in-chief of Greece and annihilated the Ottoman Turkish army many times.

So Konstantin didn't pay attention to the Turkish army at all, so as soon as Britain and France instigated, he ambitiously waged war on the Kemal government that refused to accept the relevant Turkish treaties signed at the Paris Peace Conference, and as a result, Kemal was stronger than the emperor of the Ottoman Empire, and defeated the Greek army, and in September this year, the Turkish army invaded the Turkish port of Smyrna, which the Greek army occupied in the first war, and slaughtered tens of thousands of Greeks.

Smyrna is an ancient city, where the Greeks established a city-state in Homer's epic time, and there was still a large Greek community at this time, so the Greeks wanted to occupy it so that they could have a stronghold to blockade the Turkish Straits in order to have it, but not only could they not hold it, but even the last Greek community was uprooted by the Turks.

After the defeat, Constantine disbanded the army, announced his abdication, and went into exile in Sicily, Italy, so George succeeded to the throne.

Kemal is close to Soviet Russia, and the Greeks have to be close to the sworn enemy of Soviet Russia, and Russia is a natural choice, so the marriage between the Greek royal family and the tsarist family is also an important reason.

But the Greeks clearly knew very well that the Tsarist family alone was no longer qualified to be the opponent of Soviet Russia, and the reason why the Tsarist family still existed was because they had a new giant behind them - China! (To be continued.) )