119 Situation analysis
In the royal palace of Moscow City, Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, wearing a bright yellow robe and wearing the crown of the Russian Empire, looked at the documents in his hand indifferently, and couldn't help but say: "That old guy of Jan Kazimierz Vasa is almost finished, and the Poles are planted in their own hands this time."
Unexpectedly, a Khmelnitsky Cossack fell, and such a strong Tatar rose in the Polish-Lithuanian kingdom.
Hong Tiancheng, this name is interesting, it seems that he should be a descendant of a Mongol, the disintegrating Mongol Empire was not revitalized by its successor, the Crimean Khanate, but let this sudden Hong Tiancheng fight out of the world, presumably, the expression of the Grei Crimean Khan must be very exciting.
That group of Mongol barbarians has long lost the tradition of respecting blood, even if it is a wild seed that emerges from the horns, as long as the scenery of the Mongols can be reproduced, there will be a group of fools with brains on the ass in the Crimean Khanate, the vulgar guy of Grei, except for the palace conspiracy, is useless, if it were not for the support of the Sultan of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, the Crimean Khanate would have become a province of our Great Russian Empire, just like the Kazan Khanate and the Siberian Khanate back then, The Astra Khanate, like the Nogai Khanate, became the land of survival and reproduction of our Great Russian nation. ”
Standing in front of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, a young officer with an octagonal beard, Boyer, asked solemnly: "Your Majesty, how should we react to the establishment of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom?" ”
The young officer Boyer who questioned him was the confidant general of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, a young talent from the Moscow aristocracy, who was trained by Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich and has now become the commander of the Moscow Janissary, equivalent to Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich's mouthpiece in the Russian Empire, and is also responsible for part of the external intelligence collection work.
In this era, the Russian Empire did not have a special intelligence agency, and the eyes and ears of successive tsars were personally promoted and trained by personal generals.
"Andrey, what do you think?" Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich's eyes narrowed slightly, and his eyes looked at the young general Boyer, whom he had high hopes for.
To be promoted to this position by His Majesty the Tsar of the Russian Empire, naturally there is no lack of his own talent, Andrei Khovansky can sit in the current position, but he has made a lot of contributions, and it can even be said that Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, who ascended the throne by a conspiracy coup, half of the help was to rely on the military support of this Andrei general, I don't know how many nobles and magnates in Moscow City died in the hands of the cunning Andrei.
Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich himself did not have any outstanding talents, except for the ruthless, cruel and bloody idea of repression, he could not be incompetent, and the position of tsar was quite strange.
Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich had the same ruthlessness as Ivan the Terrible, but did not have the political and military talent of Ivan the Terrible, so the Russian Empire did not develop in the hands of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, only because of the political assassination purge, which accelerated the progress bar of the centralization of power in the Russian Empire by a few points.
However, this kind of assassination and purge of political opponents has always been tolerated by everyone, and what Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich does not know is that while he has won the victory on the surface, he has privately offended most of the magnates of the Russian Empire, but now he controls the commanders of the Russian Imperial Shooting Army, the Moscow Praetorian Guard and most of the cavalry units of the Moscow nobility, all of whom are Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich's 'own people', so those dissatisfied Russian Imperial magnates dare not openly oppose them.
After hearing the questioning of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich's concerned subordinates, Andrei naturally knew that his master had committed the old mistake of hesitation.
Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich is very firm and murderous in his internal affairs, as long as there is a slight threat and dissatisfaction with his position, he will be eliminated by Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich without hesitation, and His Majesty the Tsar, who is not right, is even willing to risk a civil war in the Russian Empire!
Unfortunately, Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, who took a very firm position on internal issues, was very indecisive in foreign relations and war handling, for the simple reason that the Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich wanted to win the war and expand his territory, increase his prestige to make up for the lack of credibility of the Tsar's position, and was afraid that the Russian Empire would be defeated under his leadership.
Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich was well aware of how he got his position, and he was very afraid that if the Russian Empire was defeated, he would be scapegoated by the Russian Empire's elites.
In addition, Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich himself is not proficient in military affairs, that is, he is not very good at fighting, and has always stayed at the level of talking on paper, and he has no bottom in his heart, so he naturally does not have any clear views on national issues.
This is also the reason why Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich attached great importance to Andrei's advice, and now it has reached the point where Andrei has nothing to say about foreign issues, and Andrei, who is called the commander of the Moscow Janissaries, actually acts as an adviser to Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich on foreign international relations and head of internal intelligence......
Of course, Andrei was also very proud of the problems and trust of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, and now he has not reached the position of one person above ten thousand, and there are few people in Moscow who can shake his position, and he enjoys this feeling of scolding.
"Your Majesty, the Crimean Khanate is the thug of the Ottoman Sultan, and its own strength is not to be worried, this time Hong Tiancheng of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom stepped on the corpse of Khmelnitsky, an open ally of the Crimean Khanate, to seize the city of Kiev and establish the state, but the khans of the Crimean Khanate did not even dare to make a declaration of war, and obviously had already retreated first.
The remnants of Khmelnitsky's Cossack army hated the treachery of the Crimean Khanate, and now that relations between the Crimean Khanate and the Cossack rebels were broken, the threat of the Crimean Khanate could be ruled out for the time being. ”