The fourth update

The suggestion made by Foreign Minister Decaz gave Gochakov a new idea, and he ignored the outlandish title of the so-called People's Internal Council, but Gochakov, inspired by Foreign Minister Decaz, did have the idea of creating a special department to protect the country from assassination by the anti-government and radical democrats.

The manhunt continued, and the assassination of the Tsar set off a chain effect. Everyone in St. Petersburg is in danger, and many fear that Gochakov will use this incident to eradicate dissidents. However, he soon found that the other party's movements were not as loud as he imagined.

He's like a black mamba lurking in the shadows, ready to take a bite on his opponent's neck.

The Tsar woke up after two days in a coma in his hospital bed, and the first thing he did when he opened his eyes was to ask his entourage.

"Did the guys who tried to assassinate me get caught?"

After receiving a negative answer, he closed his eyes slightly, then turned to stare at the ceiling, and said in a calm tone, "Let Gochakov come to my hospital room." ”

Gochakov was still busy with various things in St. Petersburg, and immediately after receiving the Tsar's order, he put down what he was on and rushed to the hospital. At this time, Alexander III had just woken up, and when he saw the prime minister, he was very calm.

However, when Gochakov saw the eyes of Alexander III, his heart sank.

It was a calm that was unsettling, like a person who had been stripped of his emotions after a catastrophe of life and death, leaving only someone's uneasy calm. Gochakov opened his mouth, and just wanted to mention the honorific title of Tsar, but was rejected by the other party.

"I don't want to say those digressions, I just care that the people who assassinated me have found it? Have they paid a terrible price for what they have done? ”

Gochakov shook his head, and he whispered, "We have only arrested a few people, and we are still under torture, and I am afraid that we will not get the news until a few days." ”

Alexander III asked expressionlessly, "Torture to extract confessions?" Did you do anything to their families? ”

Gochakov was stunned, not expecting the tsar to ask this question.

"Going to their families will be more efficient. If they don't open their mouths, they will kill them one by one until they open their mouths. What happened to the French delegation? ”

Hearing that the Tsar had mentioned the French delegation, Gochakov hurriedly said, "Foreign Minister Dekaz met with me before, and they said that France can help Russia solve the problem of the increasingly revolutionary revolution. ”

"Tell me about it."

Lying on his hospital bed, Alexander III was at last a little interested in Gochakov's words, and he said unhurriedly, "I wonder how the French will solve these problems." ”

Gochakov then relayed to Alexander III what Foreign Minister Dekaz had said, including about the re-establishment of a secret police agency with power over the law. This includes the secret arrest of any suspect who can be considered a danger to national security.

Gochakov claimed that the plan would help the Tsar suppress the assassins and stabilize the crumbling Tsarist regime.

After listening to Gochakov's gushing story, Alexander III, who did not smile, finally only sighed.

"I didn't expect the French to be reliable and actually propose such a plan to solve the problem. How did it occur to me that it would be possible to propose an institution that would fight against any conspirators, and be completely loyal to the tsar? ”

Gochakov's eyes lit up, and Alexander III had relented, which showed that his plan had been settled, and he hurriedly asked, "Then Your Majesty agrees to this plan?" ”

"I agreed. Do what you say. ”

Alexander III nodded and agreed to the idea of re-establishing the Tsar's Guard, Opryniki, except that the Tsarist forces had now become a full-fledged secret service loyal to the Tsar.

After a moment of silence, Alexander III whispered, "Let's call it the Imperial Council of Internal Affairs." ”

"Sniff out and eradicate the maggots attached to the Empire."

At the behest of Alexander III, Gochakov began to work on the formation of such a team. They were loyal to the Romanov royal family and gave them great power to carry out certain covert operations. For example, it is possible to arbitrarily arrest those who can be targeted, and to return them to secret prisons for interrogation, and even to use a series of criminal law systems.

The selection was not easy, and it was difficult to find people who were absolutely loyal to the Tsar, and in order to prevent the ranks from becoming a tool for some nobles to suppress dissidents, it was not until Alexander III finally selected some of the fallen nobles, and the Tsar gave them great power to eradicate the men who had jeopardized the foundations of the Russian Empire.

They owe allegiance only to the Tsar, who can send them to eradicate anyone who threatens his rule if necessary.

From then on, St. Petersburg entered an era of self-endangerment, and these hidden eyes quickly followed the way, caught some of the people involved in the assassination, and then tortured them to extract confessions—the criminal law of the Imperial Internal Security Council was even more frenzied than what the police had done before.

They don't have to consider the restrictions of the law, and they put it into practice with the idea that they would rather kill by mistake than let it go.

All of a sudden, St. Petersburg was bleeding.

The suspected person was forcibly arrested from his home, and then arrested in a secret interrogation room to extract a confession. This time the Tsar was not as merciful as his father, and after the last bombing, Alexander III went from a weak lamb to a fierce hungry wolf.

He knew that there was no need to waste his mercy on these fools, and that all those suspected of being involved in the assassination should be dragged directly into the interrogation room, which was even more horrific than the Inquisition.

It is not uncommon to see people in non-standard police uniforms patrolling the streets, perhaps rushing into one of the families, indiscriminately snatching out the young man inside, and then taking him away in a police car despite his family's dissuasion. Even passers-by cast sympathetic glances at the family.

Sitting in the carriage with the dog's head and broom engraved on it, nine times out of ten you will not be able to come back.

This scene was seen by Foreign Minister Dekaz, who was standing at the hotel at the other end of the road, and he was somewhat surprised by Alexander III's swiftness - it was not easy to cobble together a group of minions loyal to the Tsar almost in a matter of weeks.

But it's understandable to think about it, Alexander III is now in the limelight, and he wishes to catch the bastards who assassinated him as soon as possible and hang them on the gallows, never to be heard.

"To be a tsar, he is the only one who is afraid of this."

The corners of Dekaz's mouth drew a mocking arc. Napoleon had previously discussed with him whether the Russian Empire could successfully survive the reform of serfdom, and Napoleon gave a negative answer.

That answer tribute still echoes in Foreign Minister Dekaz's mind.

"The extremism of the Slavic nation doomed either the monarch to rule these people by force, or there was a strongman political rule of the gray cattle, and there was no such thing as a parliament."

In order to protect the interests of his allies, and to prevent Russia from sliding into an unknown abyss in the future, Foreign Minister Dekaz put forward such a plan to quench his thirst. I didn't expect Russia to accept it in its entirety, and to make it more harsh on the basis of the original.

Just as Foreign Minister Dekaz was pondering, a gunshot interrupted his thoughts. The attendants around him hurriedly grabbed him by the back and pinned Dekaz to the ground.

It turned out that the young man who had just been caught didn't know how to break free from the secret police, and he grabbed a revolver and fired a shot at the interrogators around him.

The interrogator was shot in the abdomen and immediately fell to the ground, lying in a pool of blood.

However, to Dekaz's surprise, the young man did not run away, but grabbed the passers-by and held his gun to his temple, trying to resist.

Because it was too far away, and Dekaz was still pressed to the ground by the attendants, it was difficult to hear what he was saying. The two forces drew their swords and bows and confronted each other in the streets.

The passers-by around were so frightened that they ran around, completely ignoring their gentlemanly demeanor.

Only Dekaz calmly stayed where he was, thinking that he could see the highlights of the American West Cowboy Showdown, but the secret police seemed to ignore the hostages at all, and walked directly in the direction of the young man with his gun in his hand.

They were unmoved by the hostages.

The young man with an agitated expression knew that these people were cold-blooded animals, and he didn't care about the lives of others. Even if you threaten with hostages, you will not be moved.

Pale with a gun to his jaw, he would rather die than be caught by the secret police and tortured to extract a confession.

Another gunshot rang out, and the young man closed his mouth forever.

Instead of pacifying the hostage, the secret police ran directly to the body, took everything they could find from him, and then left in a carriage, leaving the body at the police who arrived next. Compared to France's national gendarmerie, this group of people is really a lot more domineering. Ignoring the existence of the laws of the country on the streets.

At this time, the young man's mother ran out of the house and fell on the corpse and wept bitterly. Beside the young man stood a child who was no more than thirteen or fourteen years old, and Dekaz saw hatred in his eyes.

Far away, Dekaz could only vaguely hear people around him calling him "Ulyanov".

The scene didn't take more than a few minutes, but it seemed to Foreign Minister Dekaz that it was as long as half a day. Looking at the carriage that was heading away, he finally opened his mouth, and said with emotion, "Sure enough, the Slavs can't guess what they are thinking with the thoughts of normal people. ”