Chapter 629 Note
The fighting on the front line did not stop because of the negotiations. Andre seemed to be stimulated by some kind of stimulus. He fired 15,000 artillery shells into Budapest in one day, and fires broke out in many places in the city. This was strongly protested by Tissa Istvan.
What even George didn't expect was that someone brought Andre a note asking Andre to stop shelling Budapest.
The note was sent by an attendant general and was said to be sent from Nikolai's base camp.
Andre sent someone to give the note to George. George could tell at a glance that the note was definitely not written by Nicholas.
George was familiar with Nikolai's handwriting, and Nikolai would not give orders in such a rough way.
The key note not only had grammatical errors, but also spelling errors, which certainly could not happen to Nikolai.
"That is why I must retire from the Guards."
Demeter knew whose handiwork this was.
This kind of note called "God's will" must have been sent from the base camp, but it was not handwritten by Nikolai, or even the will of Queen Alex, but came from the mysterious Queen. Rasputin the Elder.
This is the first time such a note has appeared in the Balkans.
But in St. Petersburg, this kind of note has become seriously rampant, not only bringing benefits to countless people, but even affecting the appointment of important positions.
Rasputin once wrote a note to Mosolov, the director of the Palace Affairs Office, with the purpose of getting a woman to become a solo dancer at the Royal Opera House.
Early this year, the Queen sought a position for Protopopov, a nobleman from Novombisk. Soon after, Protopopov was appointed Minister of the Interior.
The incredible thing about this matter is that the queen did not summon Protopopov and knew nothing about him before seeking a position for him.
George really didn't know that the Queen's influence on St. Petersburg had reached such a serious level.
If it only affects St. Petersburg, that’s it.
Now the Queen and Rasputin actually tried to reach out to the front line, and George would never allow it.
George sent a telegram to Nicholas and asked what happened to the note?
Nicola called George back and downplayed the note as a "technical error."
"Everyone in St. Petersburg wanted to kill Rasputin, but he was under the close protection of the empress. The empress equipped him with four military cars and guards from the palace. He lived at No. 64 Grokhovaya Street, It is called the Little Winter Palace by the people of St. Petersburg——"
Demeter was completely disappointed with St. Petersburg, or in other words, with Nicholas. When talking about these things, he was as indifferent as if it had nothing to do with him.
Demeter was right, George also wanted to kill Rasputin.
After Crown Prince Alexei returned from Amur, his condition was under control for a time. Rasputin fell out of favor and was forced to leave St. Petersburg and return to his hometown.
After the war broke out, in order to enrich the front-line medical force, Alexei's private health team was sent to the front-line hospital, and Rasputin returned to St. Petersburg again.
Not just George, almost all the nobles in St. Petersburg wanted to kill Rasputin. Nicholas Jr. had repeatedly claimed that as long as he saw Rasputin appearing in his base camp, he would hang Rasputin. .
Rasputin was very smart and always stayed in St. Petersburg and never left.
Demeter didn’t know much about the Queen, and Anne explained to George why Alex had such a serious mental dependence on Rasputin.
“Sani is very lonely in St. Petersburg. The St. Petersburg nobles do not like Sani and think that Sani has brought disaster to the Romanov family. In some ways, Sani is a very stubborn person.”
Anne described it very euphemistically. Alex's problem cannot be explained by "stubbornness".
Alex is like a rebellious little girl. The more people around her don't let her do something, she will do whatever she wants.
This kind of rebellion is understandable in teenage girls.
The problem is that Alex is 43 years old and she is still the queen of the empire.
George could not control Alexi, and Andrei did not stop the bombardment of Budapest. The negotiations in St. Petersburg were not going well. Nicholas gradually became disappointed with the negotiations and left St. Petersburg with Alexei. Patrol the front lines.
This time the inspection started from Riga on the Baltic Sea coast and continued to the Black Sea, which lasted for 3 months.
During the inspection, the command of the Russian troops on the northern front was placed by General Yanushkevich, the former dean of the General Staff Academy who succeeded Suhomlinov as chief of the general staff. After Yanushkevich took over the defense line, he actively organized the defense and prepared to counterattack the German army and regain Warsaw.
Hindenburg is also shrinking its defense and actively ceding part of the area to the Russian army.
This act was immediately promoted by St. Petersburg as a great victory for the Tsar on the front line.
Okay, battle reports will lie, but the battle lines will not.
From the front, the Russian army took back some areas occupied by the German army, but this had nothing to do with Nikolai.
Under the rule of the Russian Empire, Poland rebelled one after another and was the most unstable region of the Russian Empire.
Under German rule, Poland did not fare much better.
During the rule of the Russian Empire, Poland still implemented some tolerant policies, including taxation, but it was not to the extent that the people were in dire straits as propagated by the Austrians.
Before the outbreak of the war, Germany imported a large amount of grain from Russia every year to meet domestic consumption.
Now that trade between the two countries has completely stopped, Germany is paying higher prices to import grain from the United States.
Importing from the United States either costs US dollars or gold directly.
Germany does not have much foreign exchange reserves. Once the gold is exhausted, Germany will be forced to withdraw from the war.
So Germany squeezed Poland more harshly than the Russian Empire.
This is why Hindenburg reduced his defenses. He wanted to devote more troops to suppressing resistance everywhere.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina occupied by the Russian-Bulgarian forces, there are also remnants of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, especially in the southern mountainous areas, where some remnants of the Austro-Hungarian Empire have not been eliminated.
Stamboliski, who was born in the Peasant Party, is very good at working with farmers and knows what farmers want most.
After the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary began negotiations, there were rumors in Bosnia and Herzegovina claiming that once the Russian-Bulgarian forces withdrew, the land that had been allocated to farmers might be taken back by the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
The news immediately triggered panic in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In Sarajevo, the place where Archduke Ferdinand and his wife died, Stamboliski met with peasant representatives from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
They are said to be peasant representatives, but in fact they are still members of the aristocracy and landlord class, because only they have the organizational power and appeal.
In the previous stage of land distribution, nobles and landowners who were unwilling to cooperate were liquidated one after another. Not only were all the land distributed to peasants, but all property was also confiscated.
Smart nobles and landowners will adopt a cooperative attitude and actively participate in a new round of wealth and power distribution.
Ilovic, who is from Teslic, studied in France in his youth. After the war broke out, he took the initiative to provide help to the Russian-Bulgarian coalition forces and was commended by Brusinov.
Ilovic firmly opposed the peace talks between the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary. He and other members of the delegation voluntarily joined the Kingdom of Bulgaria and no longer accepted the rule of the Kingdom of Hungary.
"Whether we are Serbs or Bosnians, we are all Slavs. In the Austro-Hungarian Empire, we are aliens. We have never gained the trust and acceptance of the Emperor of Vienna. The King of Hungary imposes heavy taxes on us. We are the only people in the Kingdom of Hungary who have to obey If His Majesty is not willing to protect us in the military service area, we would rather go to the mountains to be savages than be ruled by the Austrians and Hungarians again!”
Ilovic’s attitude was firm, and his words triggered all the peasant representatives. strong resonance.
“Yes, we want to join the Kingdom of Bulgaria!”
“We do it voluntarily!”
“We need the protection of Grand Duke Yuriev——”< br>
The out-of-time awkwardness caused a slight embarrassment in the venue, and then he was drowned out by enthusiastic "Ula"s.
If you can’t speak, don’t speak.
(End of this chapter)