The first update

Foreign Minister Dekaz finally did not have to brave a snowstorm and a cold wind of minus ten degrees Celsius, as before, and spent a long and boring time on the train. This trip to St. Petersburg was in late spring and early summer, and the scenery along the way was beautiful, but Foreign Minister Dekaz had no time to appreciate it, and his concern was the same as that of this country, whether the young tsar would be able to suppress the growing political power.

At this time, France was just preparing to make a new round of usury loans to Russia, and the annual income from Russia alone could allow the French government to cultivate a group of rentier classes. Anything that can be solved with money is not a problem.

At a time when the world is facing serious agricultural problems, especially in Russia, where modernization is not yet complete, this anxiety is even more overwhelming. At this time, the price of wheat was less than five percent higher than in 1867, which was a heavy blow to the peasants. The Portuguese insect epidemic of 1872 reduced French wine production by two-thirds, and Ireland, Spain, Sicily, and Romania all saw peasant revolts or riots that were considered riots. In the UK, nearly a third of the country's arable land has disappeared over the years.

For Russia, where peasants and agricultural wage workers account for more than 50 percent of the male working population in the industrial countries, this is a heavy disaster.

It is precisely because of this that Alexander II could not wait to borrow money from France, and tried his best to transform his country in the direction of industrial modernization, and the Russian court, which needed a large amount of money in the modernization process, relied on the generosity of France and regarded it as an important strategic ally, so as long as there was not too much political entanglement between France and Austria-Hungary, they did not care who they allied with.

By this time the clouds of war had begun to linger in the minds of the new tsar, and even in the hearts of world leaders there was such a feeling to a greater or lesser extent. From 1980 onwards, Engels began to analyse the possibility of a world war, and the philosopher you praised the gradual militarization of Europe in a frenzied but prescient tone, predicting that the future war "will beckon to the barbarians, and even arouse our bestiality".

The Tsar wanted to modernize Russia as soon as possible, so that he would not panic in the next possible war.

When the French Foreign Minister De Kaz traveled to St. Petersburg, Alexander III also made elaborate preparations. He had to greet the guest from afar at the Palazzo de l'East, and although he feared that he would be assassinated, the latter was more important than the loan offered by France.

It is precisely for this reason that Alexander III went out at great risk.

There is now a nationwide arrest of members of the Populist Party, so Alexander III thinks he is safe for the time being, and it should not be a problem to meet with French representatives in the Winter Palace.

And as the new Tsar, he had to show enough courage to convince his subjects.

What he did not expect, however, was that while Alexander III was hurrying from the palace to the Winter Palace, another assassination was carried out by the Narodnik extremists.

Far from stabilizing his regime, he enacted laws that led to fanatical hates who defined Alexander III as a perversion of history. It deserves justice and punishment.

The just punishment was that they intended to lay an ambush near the Winter Palace and drop bombs on Alexander III's carriage.

At this time, martial law was already in place in St. Petersburg, so even if they wanted to assassinate Alexander III, they would need to make another preparation, and the St. Petersburg court was hunting progressives on a large scale, and it would be too expensive to launch another assassination of Tsar Alexander III.

But this did not stop the determination of this group of fanatics, and from the beginning of the Decembrist events, there was no compromising in the dictionary of the Slavs, and in the eyes of progressives either the Russian tsar got out of the land, or the tsar hanged them all on the cross, constitutional monarchy? Inexistent.

So after the success of the October Revolution, the entire family of Tsar Nicholas II was sent to God.

In the delicate and elegant carriage, the newly succeeded Tsar watched the crowd outside through the gap in the window, and the once familiar scenery made him feel strange and frightened, and Alexander III had a gloomy look carved on his face after the death of his father.

"They are not my people, and there are a lot of opponents hidden among them."

Before leaving, Alexander III found Prime Minister Gochakov in the garden of the palace. He needs to talk to the other party, after all, not everyone can carry such a thrilling day.

In the eyes of Alexander III, the palace of Gatzina was very good, with strong guards, loyal servants, and it was absolutely impossible for the opposition to succeed in this place.

But at the same time, the Gatzena Palace was like a prison, trapping the Tsar's freedom.

Tormented by two contradictory emotions, the tsar himself was close to collapse. He needed an outlet. Gochakov is the nicest man.

And in the eyes of Prime Minister Gochakov, Alexander III was more of a madman. His hair was messy like a bird's nest of Glya finches made of branches and wheat stalks, and he wandered to and fro in the garden in disheveled clothes, barefoot.

If he weren't a tsar, anyone who saw this honor would have thought he was a complete lunatic.

But Gochakov was well aware that he was nothing more than a poor man who was shrouded in the shadow of his father's death.

"I don't know how to hunt down these enemies of the empire, but my father once gave in and gave them certain rights. But they have to inch in, and they want to get more benefits. This situation is unbearable for me. They are a swarm of moths, moths that gnaw at the foundations of the empire. From Muscovy to the current Russian Empire, one day it will destroy the century-old foundation that Peter the Great has painstakingly managed. ”

"Your Majesty, this is an important meeting at stake in Russia's next access to an abundant foreign exchange loan to achieve our modernization goals. If you choose to back down at this time. French Foreign Minister De Kaz will be disappointed that he was assassinated in the Winter Palace and is still coming back without hesitation. Do you want others to think that our tsar is not even the foreign minister of a French country? ”

The tsar was only then persuaded by Gochakov. It is true that as the ruler of an empire, it is indeed a very humiliating thing to be despised by the foreign envoys of other countries.

Gochakov persuaded Alexander III, who had retreated, into the carriage, and his second son, Nikolai, watched his father's cowardice and fear the whole time, and it was deeply engraved in his heart.

Nikolai, who was only twelve or thirteen years old, naturally could not understand the conversation between his father and the prime minister, but he could see the fear of being an emperor in his father's expression.

Will those Russian citizens who surrendered to their own fathers also turn into evil bad people one day?

The young prince grabbed the corner of his clothes, not yet realizing that this unconscious move would affect his future ruling philosophy.

For Alexander III, it was not a perfect outing. Even under the protection of the palace guards, he still felt that he was walking through a swamp full of poisonous scorpions and miasma, and those passing by, with respectful citizens, seemed to him to be nothing more than a demon killer, and he even suspected that such a role lurked in his guards and honor guards.

But according to Murphy's Law, the less you want it to happen to him, the more likely it is to happen.

Upstairs, several pairs of eyes were watching Alexander III's every move, and they were preparing to attack their ambush, and these people had prepared a special gift for the Tsar.

Everyone waited quietly, they did not speak, the only conspicuous thing was the arm of the taupe coat, with a red strap wrapped around it, and the dangerous round "toy" in the hand.

Drop bombs.

It is not known if it was a drop bomb left over from the time of the Crimean War, or a gadget made by the radicals themselves. The bombs were as rough as their owners' hands, and some even had patina attached to them.

They prepared four or five of these things, and when the tsar passed in front of them, they would throw them directly out of the window and fall in front of the tsar's carriage.

The Narodnik, blindfolded and blindfolded, slid a match as he watched the carriage approaching him. The originally gloomy room was lit up by the firelight, and everyone watched nervously as each other approached, and then slowly moved the faint flame closer to the lead.

Poof!

The ignited fuse flickered and was slowly shortening. The owner of the bomb rolled his Adam's apple, bent his arm slightly, and threw the bomb in front of the half-open window to a javelin-throwing warrior.

This is a signal that signifies the beginning of another assassination by the populists.

When the people in the other rooms saw that the bombs had been dropped, they also lit the bombs in their hands and threw them in the direction of the carriage.

With the anger of the liberals, all vented on the Tsar, a symbol of dictatorship and autocracy.

The iron ball crossed an arc in mid-air, and with a parabolic arc, it fell impartially in front of Tsar Alexander III. The guards around him had just figured out what was going on, and the lead for throwing the bomb had just burned to the end.

Rumble.

The first explosion of air directly overturned the Tsar's carriage to the ground!

(I suddenly found that I could only do it when I coded words in the bookstore without closing at 1200, and I completed 8,000 words in three hours, and sure enough, people can only realize their potential when they are disconnected.) ）