284 Substitution & Cleaning
The Russian Empire can be said to be the most akin to the ancient Eastern state of government, and among the European countries that pay attention to aristocratic nations everywhere and centralized power is always not mentioned, it can be regarded as the country with the greatest monarchical power.
The other dictatorships on the European continent were either constrained by the aristocracy or too weak to be worthless, so it was natural that Hong Tiancheng aimed at Tsar Alexei, who had just recovered power and achieved his word in the Russian Empire.
Even if it fails, Hong Tiancheng is just losing a thousand faces, and this deal is not a loss!
More than an hour, just the approximate time for Hong Tiancheng and Alexei Tsar to negotiate agreed upon, completed the thousand faces of the change of face and body shape, and took off the robe of the Heavenly Emperor he was wearing, which was the same as the yellow robe of Tsar Alex who was soaked in blood on the ground!
Thousand Faces only needs to take off Tsar Alexei's shoes and put them on for himself, which is why Thousand Faces took off the shoes of Tsar Alexei's corpse for the first time to prevent bloodstains.
However, even if it is stained with blood, it can be wiped off.
After completing a series of disguises, Senmian took one last closer look at himself in front of the mirror of the secret room, recalling in his mind the behavior and habits of Tsar Alexei in public that he had collected on weekdays, and walked out towards the outside of the secret room.
The guards of the Moscow Praetorian Guard guarding outside the manor couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they saw the 'Alexei Tsar' come out, they didn't really want to go to the last step, and they could know with their butts that once they killed Hong Tiancheng, their lives would be counted as being here.
Therefore, after seeing his own tsar come out intact, he opened the façade of the royal carriage for him in high spirits, and rushed back under the order of a thousand faces.
The Taiping guards standing in place watched the royal carriage of Tsar Alexei drift away, and it didn't take long for several Taiping guards to walk into the manor with their guns raised.
When the Taiping guards entered the manor, one of the Taiping soldiers wearing a helmet and mask looked at the body of Tsar Alexei in the secret room, and couldn't help but smile, and then began to take off his soldier armor and change clothes.
Yes, one of these soldiers is Hong Tiancheng pretending!
The Taiping Army's personal guard battalion is all helmet and armor, and after putting down the mask, you can't see your face at all, and the Taiping soldiers are also Han figures, which are almost the same as Hong Tiancheng, and there is not much difference between them, and no one will pay attention to the behavior of a small soldier.
Soon, Hong Tiancheng, who came out wearing the gilded imperial robe left by a thousand faces, also walked out of the secret room with the Taiping army guards, this scene was seen by many foreign spies who were secretly monitoring from afar, presumably it would not be long before the news that the Russian Imperial Tsar and the Taiping Heavenly King's secret secret agents were happy to cooperate would spread.
Once the Russian Empire, an old Eastern European power, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, a newly rising star, cease fighting, it will have a series of chain effects on the entire situation in Eastern Europe, and even the Swedish legion, which is advancing all the way and beating the local garrison of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, will probably face danger.
Clear-eyed people know that the reason why the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was violently beaten by the Kingdom of Sweden was only because Hong Tiancheng transferred all the main forces of the Heavenly Kingdom to fight with the Russian Empire.
After the complacent Hong Tiancheng and the expressionless 'Alexei Tsar' returned to their troops, they drove to their respective stations in a very low-key manner without saying a word, the Russian Tsar naturally returned to Moscow City, and Hong Tiancheng went to the main camp of the Taiping Army.
Sure enough, after returning to the camp, Hong Tiancheng immediately sent people to publicly announce the conclusion of a friendly alliance with the Russian Empire, and promised to return the city of Tula to the Russian Empire and restore it to the 'pre-war' border.
The pre-war period in Hong Tiancheng's mouth is naturally the pre-war period when the Russian Empire did not counterattack, which means that the Smolensk region and the Verkhov region conquered by the Taiping Army are still the territory of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!
This kind of declaration could not help but make most of the nobles in Russia breathe a sigh of relief, they did not want to fight to the death with Hong Tiancheng, defeated the common sense of the reparators who ceded the land, and many Russian nobles whose own territories were not in Smolensk and Verkhov felt that this time Alexei Tsar saved the fate of the empire.
However, the Russian aristocracy, who had interests in Smolensk and Verkhov, did not think so!
After returning to Moscow, the disguised Tsar Alexei convened a Duma meeting in the wake of Hong Tiancheng's declaration, at which the 'details' of the reconciliation between the two sides were announced.
In Qianmiankou, the alliance is just an excuse, the agreement with Hong Tiancheng is just a delaying tactic, and the treaty is used to deceive people, because now the Russian Empire needs time to rebuild its strength and train new soldiers!
In this way, the majority of the aristocrats in the Duma parliament took it very seriously, and after a thousand faces made a verbal promise and a certain amount of wealth compensation to appease those nobles who had lost their interests in Smolensk and Verkhov, the Duma parliament's decision to support peace immediately took an absolute advantage.
After all, most of the great Russian nobles did not want the city of Moscow to fall, and it was exactly what they hoped for a period of peace and preparation.
It's just that the fake tsar of Thousand Faces seems to be a little too positive, and in order to show his 'sincerity', he pushed out Andrei, who was idle at home, as a scapegoat, and secretly sent someone to kill his whole family at home.
At the same time, Andrei's henchmen who were planted in the Moscow Janissaries were summoned one by one.
The reason why these Andrei's henchmen are willing to work for Andrei is mainly because they take a fancy to the big tree of the tsar, although the tsar's move of losing the car to protect the commander is a little chilling, but at least the big tree has no signs of falling, although it is embarrassing to cut the land, but for the peace and security of Moscow City, it has also increased the reputation of the fake tsar of Qianmian among the nobles a lot.
Therefore, it was not difficult for a thousand faces to quickly regain control of the Moscow Praetorian Guard, which was loyal to His Majesty the Tsar, and not Andrey!
After the false tsar of Thousand Faces appeased the nobles and knew that Andrei, the closest person to the Tsar, he also carried out a large-scale purge of the palace where he lived, and the personal maids and attendants commonly used by the Tsar in the past were expelled by Thousand Faces in the name of avoiding the revenge of Andrei's diehards, and a new group of maids and waiters were transferred, all of whom did not know the existence of Tsar Alexei.
This kind of thing didn't make a difference, no one cared about the fate of a group of lowly maids, but the next thing Thousand Faces did made the entire Moscow court feel weird.
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