In the Kremlin in Moscow, Hong Tiancheng and the Russian tsar in disguise were alone in a secret room, and the palace guards outside were all replaced by Hong Tiancheng's personal guard battalion soldiers with the permission of the Russian tsar, which further confirmed the rumor that the Russian tsar bowed his head to the king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Of course, in this period of the collapse of the Russian Empire, the confirmation of such rumors has become meaningless, and the independent and autonomous aristocratic domains in the Russian Empire have caused a certain number of large nobles in Moscow to leave the Russian capital, and in disguise, thousands of faces have completely controlled the entire city of Moscow.

This was perhaps the only benefit that the pseudo-tsar of Thousand Faces gained after the collapse of the Russian Empire......

"A thousand faces! Why did the originally good Russian Empire suddenly disintegrate to this point, I need a reasonable explanation! ”

In a secret room where no outsiders could snoop into, Hong Tiancheng resumed his primary and secondary status with the thousand-faced pseudo-tsar, and questioned him in a low tone.

Hong Tiancheng does not doubt the loyalty of a thousand faces, but questions his ability to command an empire, Hong Tiancheng does not need a wise and martial monarch to help him manage the Russian Empire, as long as there are no leaks in the rules, it is enough, however, the entire Russian Empire was shattered into pieces in less than a year and became an accomplice in the Swedish Civil War!

The upheaval in Eastern Europe directly disrupted Hong Tiancheng's aggressive plan against the Holy Roman Empire and the territory of East Prussia, and it is absolutely impossible to say that Hong Tiancheng was not angry.

From an employee's point of view, Thousand Faces clearly messed up her job......

Although the identity of the Russian puppet tsar played by Thousand Faces is not questioned, the name Alexei can only be used in the Moscow region, except for the Moscow region, and the decree of the puppet tsar with a thousand faces is ignored......

In addition to the territory of Moscow, the only remaining use of the thousand-faced puppet tsar is that at this time, when the war just started, most of the low-level Russian civilians still have their hearts towards the Russian Imperial Tsar, no matter how fanciful the rebels are propaganda, they are always so far behind orthodoxy among the people, especially the status of the capital of Moscow City has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the Russian nation, as long as the thousand-faced puppet tsar still owns Moscow City, his legitimacy is difficult to be completely shaken.

This is the reason why Hong Tiancheng did not directly ask Qianmian to remove the mask and let the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom directly annex the Russian Empire.

Although Hong Tiancheng, who lives in Kiev City, occasionally learns some Russian news from Jinyiwei, he is far less aware of Qianmian who is sitting in Moscow City, which is why Hong Tiancheng questioned Qianmian.

In such a big change in the Russian Empire, the one who knows the inside story best is undoubtedly this Russian puppet tsar, at least, the person who stands on Hong Tiancheng's side is the one who knows the most.

"Your Majesty, in order to conceal my identity, I executed the imperial concubine and dismissed most of the people in the court, and completely offended the pro-tsarist nobles in the Russian Empire, coupled with our blatant erection of the Duma Council, even that group of relatively neutral nobles have become dissatisfied and even hated us!

Andrei's death shattered the intelligence system originally in the hands of the Tsar, and the departure of the pro-Tsarist nobles exacerbated the dismemberment of the internal intelligence system of the Russian Empire.

However, I am well aware of the importance of military power, and at the beginning I recruited a lot of regular troops directly under the Russian Empire and assigned them to various places to guard and monitor, but in order to complete the task of encircling and suppressing the Christian Brotherhood assigned by His Majesty the Emperor, I had to send these regular troops loyal to Moscow to the battlefield, and at the same time pull in the noble private soldiers and conscription militias in various places.

Your Majesty, your subordinates are ashamed of your trust! ”

The Thousand-Faced Pseudo-Tsar explained on his knees.

Hong Tiancheng couldn't help but fall silent after hearing this, Qianmian had to do something to offend the powerful nobles of the Russian Tsar in order to cover up his identity, otherwise with the empress's understanding of Tsar Alexei, it would be a matter of time before he was exposed.

It's just that Hong Tiancheng didn't expect that nepotism within Russia could have the effect of overthrowing dominoes!

Coupled with the elevation and seizure of power over the Duma Council, it has offended all the Russian nobles who can offend, the Duma Council can exist in the Russian Empire for so long, and its own foundation is very strong, and it is obviously not as simple as dropping the bag to a tsar if you want to usurp the supreme power of the Russian Empire......

It was precisely because of his contempt for the Duma that Hong Tiancheng thought that he could treat the Russian Empire as a free thug and let Qianmian send the Russian regular army to cooperate in the encirclement and suppression of the Christian Brotherhood, but after the First World War, the last chains on the Duma nobles were completely broken!

One ring after another, it's all the fault of power.

"Forget it, now that things have happened, there's no point in complaining about past mistakes, Thousand Faces, how much power do you still have to use now?"

Hong Tiancheng sighed.

"Your Majesty, after the rebellion of the Duma League, I carried out a political purge of the city of Moscow, and now the entire Moscow Region has been under my control, but the guard corps of the Moscow Region was executed during the purge, so it was impossible to fight at all, and could only barely maintain the work of local security and security, and the only field troops I could mobilize were one Moscow Praetorian Guard, and the other troops were more or less connected with the Duma League, and after the rebellion broke out, it was not that they fled from Moscow City to join their masters, that is, it disbanded itself. ”

Thousand Faces replied solemnly.

"How many people can the Moscow Praetorian Guard pull out?"

"After the purge, the Moscow Janissaries can pull out more than 10,000 field troops, and if you add the tsar's personal soldiers guarding the palace, there will be about a thousand more, these troops are very well equipped, all flintlock muskets and have used modified bayonets, and there are complete military workshops in the city of Moscow, which can meet the ammunition consumption of front-line operations.

Your Majesty, the prestige of my Tsar title among the people of the Russian Empire is not low, and the interests of the Russian commoners have not been harmed during my reign, and they are generally dissatisfied with the rebellion of the noble lords and the act of pulling them into the whirlpool of war, according to my estimate, we only need to defeat the army in the hands of the Russian rebellious nobles, and we can properly recover the lost territory.

In the name of me, the Tsar, of course. ”