Chapter 361: Tsar in action

Palmerston? Isn't it Russell?

When Palmerston's name appeared in Albert's mouth, Canning immediately realized that Chancellor Russell was out.

Although Canning did not know that Palmerston did not know how to get Albert to favor him, Canning knew that the attitude of the royal family would play a decisive role in the battle for prime minister.

If Chancellor Russell can't convince Albert, then his prime ministership is doomed to be a distant dream, and his position as minister of state affairs will be in vain.

Just as Canning was thinking about it, Albert's gentle and elegant voice came to Canning's ears again: "I don't know what conditions Minister Russell promised you, but I can assure you. After the task you have undertaken, the royal family will continue your rich rewards!"

Canning immediately understood what Albert meant, and the information he said was probably the title.

In the United Kingdom, a knighthood expresses a person's contribution to the country.

Although the title granted by the royal family itself is only a low-level title such as baron and viscount, and there is no substantive canonization of land, but he undoubtedly represents the attitude of the royal family to the meritorious people.

In addition, the titles of titles in the 19th century still had a certain amount of gold, which led the royal family to be cautious every time they issued titles.

There is no such thing as the random distribution of titles in the 20th century, followed by devaluation.

Therefore, the position of the Minister of State is somewhat insignificant when compared with the title of title.

"Yes! Your Highness! I will do my best to serve the United Kingdom!" Canning replied excitedly to Albert.

"Mr. Canning, I believe in your loyalty to the United Kingdom!" Prince Albert still had a smile on his face, "It's getting late, I should also help Victoria sort out the information!"

Canning, who heard Albert's hint, hurriedly got up to say goodbye to Prince Albert.

In the cabinet meeting on December 21, 1852, British Foreign Secretary Russell and British Home Secretary Palmerston jointly launched an "offensive" against Prime Minister Aberdeen.

Russell claimed that the ruling of the Ottoman Empire was bound to cause an overreaction in the Russian Empire, and that Emperor Nicholas I of the Russian Empire was bound to transfer his troops to the Danube Principality.

In order to prevent the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after being attacked by the Russian Empire, the Royal Navy must send its fleet to the Bosphorus to prevent the Russian Empire from using warships to attack Constantinople.

Minister Russell's actions were also supported by Home Secretary Palmerston.

As an anti-Russian vanguard, Palmerston even called for a fleet to be dispatched into the Black Sea to warn the Russian Imperial fleet.

Facing the "offensive" of the second (foreign secretary) and third (home secretary) in the cabinet, the inexperienced Aberdeen showed poor political fighting skills, so that the cabinet meeting broke up on the hour end.

All the cabinet members present understood that this battle has only just begun, and the more intense battle will gradually become intensified after the Russian Empire marches into the Danube Principality.

December 23, 1852.

After the Russian Empire, one of the victims of the Ottoman Empire's Holy Inquisition, experienced an information delay of 11 days, the central nervous system of the Empire finally received news from the Ottoman Empire on this day.

Emperor Nicholas I, who received the news, looked sullen when he saw the news that had been delayed for nearly eleven days. He was not angry because of the ruling of the Ottoman Empire, but was angry because of the delay in the news.

Nicholas I did not understand how a good empire could become what it is now, for eleven days! It's been eleven days, and he didn't even hear a word.

This was the first time in his life that he felt the decay of the Russian court, the ministers he trusted (Karl Nescher Roddy, Minister of Foreign Affairs), the generals (Prince Dolgorukov, Minister of War), and even the intelligence organization he established ( Count Orlov, head of the "Third Section" of the political police, seems to be deliberately trying to deceive him.

The entire court seemed to have become an airtight wall surrounding Nicholas I himself, and no news could be passed on without their consent.

If it hadn't been for the fact that his attendant attaché overheard the conversation of the foreign ministry when he went to the foreign ministry in St. Petersburg and told him the news, I am afraid that the current Nicholas I would still be kept in the dark.

"What on earth are they trying to do! How dare they do this!" Nicholas I roared through gritted teeth, blue veins bulging on his forehead, and his palms clenched into fists in anger.

In the eyes of Nicholas I, there was no one person in the entire court that he could trust, and the ministers he appointed were deliberately deceiving him.

Nicholas I had to figure out a way to transmit his will to the army.

As long as his will can reach the army, then all the conspiracy of Karl Nescher Roddy and others will be in vain.

Nicholas I was confident that his army and his people would be loyal to him.

Those soldiers who didn't know anything and knew nothing in the military camp had only two things to do: obey their superiors and be loyal to the emperor.

It is precisely because they don't know anything, they don't know anything, that his mind is always at his feet.

In order to pass his will to the army, especially to the army of Bessarabia, Nicholas I set his sights on the squire attache prostrate under his throne.

Nicholas I put away his anger, and instead showed a majestic and loving expression to the attendant military officer who had been kneeling on the ground: "Get up! My loyal guard!"

After hearing Nicholas I's "Sound of Heaven", the attendant military officer lowered his head and got up quickly.

"Look up! Let me take a look at you!" Nicholas I's voice came from the throne again.

After hearing the order of Nicholas I, the attache slowly raised his head to look at Nicholas I on the throne and couldn't help but praised: "My esteemed majesty! My kind little father! Please forgive me for what I have done to you. Disrespectful!"

"You are a smart child!" Nicholas I still put on a majestic face, and said kind words in his mouth.

Nicholas I, who ruled the Russian Empire for more than two decades, knew that the Slavic beasts could only obey you if you showed a stern fatherly attitude to them.

The harder you treat them, the more they love you! On the contrary, if you show them a weak gesture, they will think you are a weak monarch and will kill you.

Nicholas I despised his father and respected his mother!

Only by being like his mother can control the entire Russian Empire.

"Your Majesty, I am willing to crawl at your feet..." The attendant attache respectfully responded to Nicholas I.

"My child, I recognize your loyalty!" Nicholas I got up and walked down from the throne, standing in front of the attendant military attache and said: "Now, I have a hard task for you! I don't know, you Will his loyalty make you not afraid of hardships to complete him!"

The attendant military officer looked at Nicholas I enthusiastically and said: "Your Majesty, I will do my best to serve you! Even if there is a sea of ​​fire in front of me, I will not hesitate!"

"Okay! I already know your loyalty!" Nicholas I took off the sapphire ring on his hand and said to the attendant military officer: "Stretch out your hand!"

The attendant attached his hand subconsciously, and Nicholas I placed the sapphire ring in his hand.

"Your Majesty, I..." The attendant wanted to reject Nicholas I.

"This is the reward for your loyalty! Once the king's gift is taken, it is absolutely impossible to take it back!" Nicholas I demanded the attendant's subordinates with a tough attitude.

Upon seeing this, the attendant attache prostrate once again in front of Nicholas I and said reverently: "My merciful majesty, you are more merciful than the Lord..."

The attendant attache searched his stomach and added all the words that could be praised to Nicholas I's head.

"Now I have a task for you!" Nicholas I said to the attaché with a serious face: "This is related to whether the entire Russian Empire can obtain Constantinople!"

"Constantine!!" The attendant groaned, every devout Orthodox Christian has a unique plot for Constantinople, especially for a nation like the Slavs: "Your Majesty, I must Will do my best!"

"Now, I order you to go to Bessarabia immediately, and order General Mikhail Drievich Gorchakov, who is stationed there, to lead 38,000 men of the Eighth and Ninth Corps to the two principalities of the Danube. , be sure to gain control of these two principalities as soon as possible..." Nicholas I, who knew the military deployment of the Russian Empire well, could even make strategic layouts without deploying maps in Nikolai In the layout of the I, in addition to Mikhail Gorchakov's 38,000 people, Paskevich, who was stationed in Poland, will also send 92,000 people from Poland to the Danube. Principality.

Nicholas I believed that with the Russian Empire's army of 130,000 people, it would be possible to defeat the Ottoman Empire and conquer Constantinople.

"Do you remember what I said?" After the military deployment, Nicholas I once again asked the attendant attaché.

"Your Majesty, isn't it..." The Attendant Attache repeated the words of Nicholas I once again.

"Yes! That's right!" Nicholas I's majestic face showed a smile, "You are a smart child!"

"Your Majesty, how can I confirm their trust?" the valet attache asked Nicholas I again.

Nicholas I handed over a blank piece of paper with the national seal in his heart to the attendant attaché, and gave him a dagger of his own collection.

With these things, it can be proved that it is the order of Nicholas I.