Chapter 207: The Princess's Compromise
"General Scherna, letter from Grand Duchess Tatyana."
The Russian Empire was re-established in Siberia, and Schellner, a descendant of the Russian Imperial family, was transferred to the border to confront the Soviet Union. To be honest, Schellner's position is not bad, at least he can rely on the local finances to maintain the daily life of more than 100,000 troops, and if the Russian cabinet can still have some allocation, then their life is not even much worse than that of the Soviet army opposite.
Now Schellner is a general and duke of the Russian Empire, and the 120,000 army is no different from his private army, which is the main reason why the cabinet of the Russian Empire compromises with him most of the time.
The Archduchess Tatyana sisters wanted to regain power in the Russian Empire, and they could not rely only on the incompetent Russian aristocracy, and only the support of Admiral Schellner could give them any hope of victory. Contacting Schellner has been around for a long time, but Schellner has been paying little attention to them all the time.
At this time, Maria suddenly went to the Czech principality, everything in the Russian Empire was managed by officials of Czech origin, and Grand Duke Tatyana thought that this was their chance, and they only needed to give enough benefits not to be afraid that Schellner would not be on their side. After all, Schellner's position is not stable, and once the officials from the Czech principality take full control of the country, then it will be time for them to clean up Schellner.
The city of Tyumen, which is the border between the Soviet Union and the Russian Empire, has been living here for several years, and for a few years the local mayor has run it well. It was with the financial support of the city of Tyumen that Schellna and his 120,000 army held out until now, and it can be said that Tyumen is everything to Scherna.
The most luxurious mansion here is naturally not the office of the mayor of Tyumen, but the estate of the Duke of Schellna, the imperial admiral, with a construction area of more than 15 acres that is unique in Tyumen City, in fact, not to mention that in Tyumen City, it is estimated to be the largest and most luxurious mansion in the entire Russian Empire.
As the second largest force in the Russian Empire, Schellner naturally had his own staff team, and his staff team gathered at the place where they held their daily meetings. In front of Schellna was the letter from the city of Siberia, written by Grand Duchess Tatyana, a princess of the Russian Empire.
The silence in the conference room was a little nervous, and an officer with the rank of major general on his shoulder couldn't help but say the first proposal: "This is our chance, the cabinet of the Russian Empire has always been controlled by officials of Czech origin, and now that Her Majesty Empress Maria is not in Russia, we should ......"
"No, we shouldn't be doing anything, it's an internal matter of the royal family, and I don't think we should be involved."
These are the words of the mayor of Tyumen, who, naturally, wanted peace, and at the same time he was also an official of the Russian Empire and not a personal official of Scherna. What the major general said just now was very clear, what he wanted to say was that Empress Maria was not in the Russian Empire, so they could use the reason of the cabinet to deceive Empress Maria to attack the city of Siberia, and then find an opportunity to elect Tatyana as the Empress of the Empire.
Such an outcome was not what the mayor of Tyumen wanted to see, even if he also considered the Russian Empire to be more like a younger brother of the Czech principality than an independent state. But they must not forget that it was because of Ernst Siberia that it was preserved and that the Russian Empire survived.
The fruit is ripe, and now Tatyana wants to pick it directly, how can it be justified? Even the mayor of Tyumen, an official from the Russian Empire, was a little unpleasant, and the main thing was ...... The Czech principality, or the Grand Duke of Ernst, did not do anything bad to them.
The Russian Empire did not discriminate equally, and officials from the Czech principalities were not superior to local officials because they were in a certain way. The Czech principality has always controlled the cabinet only because the Russian aristocracy has no capable people, and they are in the way of the overall situation.
What is the big picture, the Russian Empire is still in the big picture. For example, the major general who just spoke, his mind is only personal interests and the struggle for power, if he is allowed to control power, it is estimated that the Russian Empire itself will disintegrate without the Soviet Union. Ernst's rule over the Russian Empire was not unjustifiable, and he was indeed the most suitable person. Of course, officials such as the mayor of Tyumen also have a bottom line, that is, the future emperor of the Russian Empire must be the heir of Empress Maria.
In fact, there is no need to worry about such a thing at all, Ernst is not a fool, he will not see the seriousness of the matter clearly? It was clearer than anyone else how illegitimate children and descendants should treat him, and the heirs inherited his throne and power, while illegitimate children inherited his wealth, something that Ernst had arranged from the beginning.
The following quarreled over the question of choice, and Schellner, who was sitting in the first place, never spoke, he just watched and waited quietly, and his expressionless face made it unclear what he was thinking in his heart. Soon the officials and generals remembered that it was Schellner who was in charge here, not them, and especially when they saw Schellner's expressionless face, the conference room instantly fell silent.
"Opposite the city of Tyumen is the Soviet army, and if we go to Siberia then the most likely outcome is the end of the Russian Empire, if you want to see such an outcome."
No one wants to see such a result, their interests have been entangled with the Russian Empire, and if the Russian Empire is strong, they will be strong, and when the Russian Empire is destroyed, they will naturally no longer have any interests. But they were unwilling to give up like this, and in the end they could only continue to focus on Schellner.
"The intelligence agents of the Czech principalities are all over Eastern Europe, and they were able to open the way to the Soviet Union, and I don't believe there would be no such thing as their intelligence officers. Princess Tatyana? I'm sure she'll soon be out of luck, or the people who are secretly supporting her behind her back. ”
He took a deep look at his generals, and the meaning in his eyes made them very uneasy, as if something had been discovered.
How did Schellner know that Ernst had opened the passage to the Soviet Union? Taking control of a country is different from controlling a city, and the "transport" personnel arranged by Ernst to come to Tyumen naturally refused to continue to spend time in the wilderness, and it was at this time that Schellner learned that every once in a while people from the Soviet Union would actually go to Siberia.
The rest of the matter is much simpler after grasping the beginning, and after a little fumbling it turns out that these "transports" are from the Czech principality, and the resting place in the city of Tyumen is also arranged by his own generals. How clear things were, how did Schellner not know that he had already been infiltrated by the Czech intelligence service, and that it was his own high-level who had been infiltrated.
Siberia is a vast and sparsely populated place, with no more than 20 large cities in the entire Russian Empire, and even their overall economy combined is only one Prague. Of course, in terms of potential, Bhullar is naturally not as good as here, after all, there are huge underground resources here.
Lake Belga in winter is not a good place to see, but Grand Duchess Tatyana is still here, but her mood is as cold as Lake Belga in winter. The emissaries of Tyumen have returned, but the news they have brought back is very emotional.
Today, Tatyana and her sister Grand Duchess Olga are here to meet with a duke from the Russian Empire, who is an important member of the team behind the desire to support Tatyana as the new Empress of the Russian Empire.
"Why did Schellner refuse? Isn't it enough for him to dislike our sincerity? ”
The duke was very curious, and in his opinion this was the best opportunity, what he needed to do was to quickly send troops and take control of the city of Siberia, and put all the officials of the Czech principality in the city under house arrest. It's that simple, and what he will get is the entire military power of the Russian Empire, or does he have other ambitions?
Leaving the duke to think nonsense here, Archduchess Tatyana glanced at her sister Archduchess Oujia with a wry smile, and then the result was spoken by Archduchess Oujia.
"It's not that he doesn't like us for not being sincere enough, it's that he thinks we can't succeed at all."
The meaning of the words is indeed like this, but in fact, Schellna's original words are much more ironic, simply put, Schellna thinks that the nobles behind Tatyana are a group of pigs, with a group of pigs, they cannot get any victory and power, and the only result is to be dragged into the abyss by this group of pigs.
The original words of the Grand Duchess Oujia were naturally embarrassed to say it directly, but the duke was also a smart person, and he could guess the general content from the attitude of the Grand Duchess Oujia. Now the Grand Duchess Oujia must be a lot more tactful, but these are no longer important, the important thing is that the duke already knows the other party's attitude.
"Your Royal Highness Princess, it doesn't matter, but we can still succeed, and we just wanted to increase the chances by inviting Schellna before......"
"No, I also think the same way, we don't know what hole cards the other side has, it's too early to do it, and we don't have military power in our hands."
"We have, 300 policemen in Siberian City are the vanguard of our arrest of those rebels, and we can recruit more than 2,000 private soldiers, you have to trust us, Your Highness Princess Tatyana."
There was a dangerous look in the duke's eyes, and the archduchess Tatyana, who was already in a dilemma, had no choice but to temporarily agree to the duke's request, and the archduchess Oujia couldn't help but sigh secretly on the side.