333 Alexander I ascends to the throne
“Damn it!
Bastard!
I don't understand why the great Russian Empire, even whether to launch and stop wars, must be controlled by the Anglo-Saxon barbarians who only recognize money and ignore honor!
What about the honor of the Russian Empire?
Could it be that we will always be under the baton of the London government?”
Paul I roared in anger in front of the cabinet ministers.
This is not the first time he is so angry. Since the London government used severance of aid, the Russian Empire might not have signed an armistice agreement, Paul I's mental state seemed to have been greatly stimulated, and it seemed that he regarded reprimanding cabinet ministers as a "daily matter."
The cabinet ministers present had obvious impatientness on their faces, and many people still had deep disgust in their eyes.
This is not the first time they stood here to eat Paul I's saliva. As the top nobles of the Russian Empire, they have had enough!
Even the minister who was once the most loyal to Paul I no longer supported him in his heart, and even acquiesced to some court conspiracies spread unscrupulously in St. Petersburg!
"Your Majesty, we have discussed this issue countless times. The Munich Peace Conference has ended. The Fourth Anti-French War has to admit that the tyrant Levi has won again.
This has become a fact that we cannot change, our finances and hungry army, cannot do anything.
Stop the war and return most of the serfs who joined the army to their farmland was the best way to stabilize the Russian Empire.
Without the support of the British, the Russian Empire could not do anything. The army of the tyrant Levi was a group of madmen. Facing the tyrant Levi, the Russian Empire could not fight alone!”
“It’s you again!
Every time you are here to preach to me, very good, my Chancellor of the Exchequer, from today on, you can return to your manor to retire!
I will tell you in the name of the Tsar of the Russian Empire.
Now!
immediately!
immediately!
Get out of here!"
The Chancellor of Finance, who was insulted by Paul I at the nose, looked in disappointment. He looked at Paul I's gradually crazy eyes in a plain tone and replied: "Your Majesty, you will regret your decision today, because you drove away the last minister who was loyal to you."
After this sentence was expressed, the cabinet ministers around him looked at him with a bad expression, and Paul I's angry face also became suspicious. After seeing Paul I's eyes scanned, the cabinet ministers entered a state of meditation again, looking at the nose and nose.
As long as Paul doesn't ask about himself, he will never waste his saliva.
After the Chancellor of the Exchequer was fired and driven away by Paul I, Paul I returned to his seat, seemed to be much calmer, and said in a low voice:
"The Fourth Anti-French War is over, and our goal is to restore domestic production and continue to have enough wealth to launch the next war.
Of course, there is also the corruption problem exposed in this war. I will set up a special anti-corruption supervision team that is directly responsible for me. I will never allow the wealth of the Russian Empire to be swallowed by a group of idiots who rely on noble blood but are mediocre and inaction!"
The cabinet ministers looked at each other and bowed together, "I am willing to obey your will, Your Majesty."
After the routine cabinet meeting, Paul I returned to his residence suspiciously.
Why can't you understand things as well as Emperor Yekaterina?"
"Serfs can produce food for Russia, and free people can produce various handicraft products for Russia. They are the key to the prosperity of the Russian Empire. I help them untie the shackles on them and let them exert higher production enthusiasm. What's wrong with it?
The mistake is that they are self-confidence and only know how to covet immediate interests and oppress and exploit the free people and serfs without any bottom line!
They did not produce anything valuable for the Russian Empire, but were enjoying more than 90% of the Russian Empire's resources!
Even the bureaucratic positions held by the nobles made their affairs messy. Apart from their wisdom of greed for money, how could they take advantage of it?
It's ridiculous. The Russian Empire, whose territory is vast and boundless and population is the most important in Europe, is actually a poor country in Europe!
As the Tsar of the Russian Empire, I should work hard to change all this!”
"Sorry, I'm a little too much to put the great and noble Tsar here for the first time. I'm talking a little bit, wasting a lot of time.
Out of courtesy to the Tsar, I will let you die faster.”
Obviously, the assassin did not want to hear Paul I preach.
Everyone understands the great truth, but if the truth can determine everything, there will be no creature like politicians...
In late 1803, less than a month after the fourth anti-French alliance collapsed, the Tsar Paul I of the Russian Empire was found dead in his bedroom. Paul I's son successfully succeeded to the throne with the support of the Duma Parliament!
The cause of Paul I's death given by St. Petersburg was an official fired by Paul I and sneaked into Paul I's bedroom for revenge to commit assassination.
Then he was shot dead by four royal guards who rushed over!
Well, the four royal guards were also praised for this and were awarded the Medal of Honor of the Russian Empire!
The name is to help Paul I kill the assassin!
The high-ranking nobles of the Russian Empire knew that the four so-called royal guards who were awarded the medal were the assassins who killed Paul I with their own hands!
The body of the assassin was just the body of an unsuccessful unlucky official...
After Alexander I ascended the throne, the first order was to move the capital!
The name is that St. Petersburg is too close to the "border" and has moved back to Moscow, the traditional capital of the Russian Empire.
Subsequently, a series of decrees issued by Paul I that harmed the interests of the nobles of the Russian Empire, such as the corporal punishment of the nobles of the Russian Empire against the free class, were all banned and restored to the laws of the era of Catherine!
All the reform efforts made by Paul I were wasted in an instant!
However, Paul I's death did not seem as perfect. All senior executives of European countries, including Levi, received information that Paul I died in the palace assassination, and the main messenger behind the assassination was the great nobles of the Duma Parliament!
However, the specific list cannot be found...
Paul I's death did not have much negative impact on the Russian Empire. Instead, because of the passing of this radical reform Paul I, the conflicts among the top leaders of the Russian Empire tended to ease, and there were obvious signs of reduction in internal strife.
Alexander I was not sure if he was frightened by Paul I's death in court conspiracy. After taking office, he had been trying to win over the great nobles who had been trying to win over the Duma Parliament, and soon attracted a group of staunch royalists.
For the Russian Empire, the Tsar had a great power. As long as the Tsar did not take the initiative to weaken the aristocratic class, it was still easy to win over the aristocratic.
While Paul I was assassinated, Livi of Vienna also rejected the Ottoman Empire's begging for peace.
The reason is very simple. The peace condition proposed by the Levi government is to demand that the Ottoman Empire give up Istanbul!
Levi wants to restore the glory of the Eastern Roman era!
Obviously, no matter how afraid of Li Wei, the Ottoman Empire is, it is impossible for it to hand over its capital!
That would cause the Ottoman Empire's Sultan prestige to fall to negative values.
The state of war between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy Alliance continued. The only difference was that with more and more French defense forces moving eastward, the Ottoman Empire had turned from offense to defense, and began to strengthen Istanbul's city defense at any cost.
Istanbul is known as the most solid fortress in the world and has convenient water transportation. It is impossible to force the subsidence by besieging hungry rice unless the Levi government has a powerful naval fleet!
This is why the Istanbul government dared to refuse the conditions proposed by Levi's government.
Li Wei also knew that if he wanted to win the Istanbul Fortress, he would inevitably ruin a large amount of troops. Even after the end of the Fourth Anti-French War, Li Wei obtained a full 200 glory points, but he was still unwilling to squander the lives of the brainwashing army like that.
At 200 points of glory, Li Wei allocated 30 points of glory to the Sharpshooter troops, increased the number of Sharpshooter troops to 103,000, and assigned 20 points of glory to the Guards Cavalry, and increased the number of Guards Cavalry to 51,000.
More than 50,000 elite multi-function cavalry can be regarded as a dominant force among European powers!
The remaining 150 glory points were all invested in the main combat troops of Guard Infantry, and Guard Infantry suddenly expanded to 365,000!
At this point, the total number of Li Wei's brainwashing troops reached more than 500,000!
Now Li Wei is confident that he can open a two-line battlefield and be invincible. This is the fundamental reason why he is eager to stop the Fourth Anti-French War!
As for the source of troops, it is not a problem for Li Wei now, because he relaxed the restrictions on recruiting soldiers and no longer just recruited the French to join the army. All vassal forces can join the brainwashing army, and even the vassals of many countries directly pulled them into the military camps to carry out adaptation.
After this reorganization, Li Wei planned to put a more dominant crown on himself - the Emperor of the Roman Empire!
Open the European map and you will know that the European region controlled by Livi is no less than the former Roman Empire, but it lacks the territory of the Ilibyan Peninsula, the British Isles, North Africa and Asia Minor.
However, the Central and European territory controlled by Li Wei is larger than during the Roman Empire.
Even at its peak, the Roman Empire failed to completely conquer the German barbarians.
The area where the German tribes occupied was now Central Europe.
In addition, there were support from the Holy See and the ‘requests’ of many nobles in the Italian region in the heart of the Roman Empire.
Of course, everyone knows that this kind of request is just a form.
It’s not that everyone wants to make Li Wei the Roman emperor, but that Li Wei himself wants to be!
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Chapter completed!