New Shun 1730

After changing into a military uniform, Elizabeth walked out of the room slowly and firmly.

In the hall, the men around her stood up and saluted, dressed neatly, and were about to follow her to do something big enough to change the world.

Perhaps, the coup team around the princess who participated in this coup can be called the most powerless group of people in the history of Russian coups.

They are:

Lestock, a court gynecologist who was exiled to Siberia for several years by Peter because of his affair with the daughter of the court jester.

Razumovsky, a Cossack shepherd from Chernigov, Ukraine, who became an actor with a good voice and entered the Petersburg aristocratic circle.

The child of Elizabeth's mother's sister, a Polish rural woman who entered the aristocratic circle because her sister was favored by Peter, and a noble who was despised by the Russian aristocrats and did not even have a family emblem, Elizabeth's cousins, the Suvarovsky brothers.

Princess Elizabeth's music teacher, a Swiss violinist, Schwartz.

Anastasia was born during the Battle of Navarre in the Great Northern War, her parents were captured, she was in prison when she was born, she spent 17 years in prison in Sweden, now she is 41 years old and has been a widow twice, she had to marry a 48-year-old widower in her first marriage for property, she became Elizabeth's best friend by talking about how to wear clothes and skirts.

These people are the core team of the coup around Elizabeth, mainly singers, gynecologists, and widows.

In the tense atmosphere of the coup, these people did not speak, but followed Elizabeth silently, riding in a black carriage, heading towards the camp of the Preobrazhensky Corps.

In the Preobrazhensky Corps, a lieutenant who had helped Elizabeth recruit people before had been hanged. The only officer that Elizabeth could control was a second lieutenant, the captain of the Glenard Company. The rest of the people who had a good relationship with her were soldiers.

The carriage slowly drove to the legion camp, and Elizabeth, dressed in a cavalry uniform, got off the carriage and walked towards the soldiers standing guard there.

"Do you know me? Do you know who I am?"

The two soldiers saluted Elizabeth at the same time and called her "Mom".

"Of course, Mom. You are Princess Elizabeth, the daughter of Peter the Great. Of course we know you."

"Then, can you let me into the barracks?"

"Of course, Mom!"

The guards surrounded the princess, who was not aristocratic and often gave them money for tobacco and wine, and walked into the company's station.

The company commander had assembled the soldiers, and all the soldiers who were in contact with them on weekdays also gathered around.

"Mom! We are ready!"

Elizabeth raised the cross, knelt on one knee, and shouted to the soldiers: "My children, my friends. You followed my father. Now, are you willing to follow me like you served my father?"

Many of these soldiers did not serve Peter the Great, but they had heard many stories of that era.

Preobrazhensky of the Preobrazhensky Corps is the name of a village.

When Peter was a child, he lived in this village with his mother and formed a children's army in this village.

In the end, many of these child soldiers became members of Peter's gang and became Peter's most capable subordinates.

In the end, the child army was expanded into two regiments, the Preobrazhensky Corps and the Semenov Corps, which can be said to be the most direct line of the direct line.

As the predecessor of the Guards, the Semenov Corps was mainly the most elite troops on the battlefield.

The Preobrazhensky Corps was more like the Jinyiwei, with the power of investigation and arrest.

With the rise of the German Party, the Jinyiwei established by Peter gradually stepped aside. In order to check and balance these people, the Criminal Investigation Affairs Office was established. Not only did it take away the power of the Jinyiwei, but the Criminal Investigation Affairs Office also had its own armed forces and became the superior department of the Jinyiwei.

Most of the soldiers of the Jinyiwei were hereditary. They always heard their fathers mention the days of the past. What kind of days were they?

The little emperor formed a group of teenagers into an army, trained them himself, and served as the commander of the army himself. After the young emperor became Peter the Great, he would not forget the benefits of these old subordinates. He not only gave them the power and responsibilities of the Jinyiwei, but also gave them many preferential treatments.

At that time, becoming a soldier of the Preobrazhensky Corps was an honor and the most perfect origin. Many noble children would go to the Corps for training, starting as a second lieutenant. If the soldier is lucky, he can climb up the tree, starting as an adjutant or a messenger, and step by step become a low-level noble.

But now?

The Germans control almost everything. Queen Anna does not trust the people in this Corps at all. In order to prevent the bad origin from sticking to them, those noble children no longer go to the Preobrazhensky Corps to serve.

The soldiers' treatment has been reduced and the privileges are gone. Of course, they miss Peter the Great very much, and naturally transfer this nostalgic emotion to Peter's daughter.

Especially when seeing the princess in military uniform, many people remembered the story told by their father or grandfather: Peter the Great himself wore a military uniform and asked the soldiers to call him the company commander or the regiment commander.

All of this reminded the soldiers of the good old days their fathers had talked about.

When Princess Elizabeth asked if they were willing to follow, more than 200 soldiers shouted "yes" in unison!

The captain of Glenard Company looked at the princess who was kneeling on one knee and holding the cross high, and asked on behalf of the soldiers: "Mom! We are willing to die for you, are you willing to die for us too?"

Elizabeth kissed the cross, held it high, looked directly at those expectant eyes, and shouted loudly: "I swear, if you are willing to die for me, I will also be willing to die for you!"

"Hurrah!"

There were roars in the barracks, and the shouts of Hurrah were connected. When Elizabeth was about to stand up, the soldiers shouted a little manically: "Mom, let's do it now and kill those people! Those dirty foreign maggots will be hanged!"

Elizabeth's expression became serious. She didn't want this coup to turn into a large-scale purge.

This was not for religious reasons, and it had nothing to do with her wish in front of the statue of the Virgin Mary. A woman who dared to rely on a few singers, widows, and music teachers to think about a coup to seize power could not attach much importance to the so-called God, the Virgin Mary, morality, etc.

Everything must be due to political reasons.

The killing, strangulation, dismemberment, and harsh actions of the Byron era, as well as the exile of the whole family to Siberia, made Elizabeth very clear that Russia now needs a relaxed political environment.

Leniency and severity.

If you can win the heart, the rebellion will disappear. It has been known since ancient times that soldiers are not belligerent.

If you don't judge the situation, both leniency and severity will be wrong. You need to think deeply about governing Shu later.

Leniency and severity need to be judged by the situation.

Once too many people are killed in a coup, many people may be in danger and worry that Elizabeth will carry out a big purge in Russia.

Elizabeth does not have too many bases, nor does she have a group of German "Eight Banners" in Russia as her base like Queen Anna.

Russia itself is also divided into the old party and the new party. At this time, just out of opposition to the German party, the two groups may acquiesce to Elizabeth's accession to the throne.

In this case, if you want to be a tsar who will not be overthrown by another coup, you must consider governing the country with leniency.

Because since the time of Peter, it has been too strict, and it has been strict for decades.

People do not miss Peter's policy of suppressing the old nobles and even requiring people to pay taxes for growing beards. People only miss the atmosphere of the country's overall prosperity at that time, but they cannot miss those harsh policies of governing the country.

The subsequent chaos and the purge of the German Party made the Russian nobles deeply worried.

In order to show that she is the orthodoxy of Russia, Elizabeth knows very well what she wants to do when she comes to power. She wants to abolish the cabinet of the German Party's rule and replace it with the traditional Russian Privy Council, and give the nobles some power. Only in this way can she gain their loyalty and support.

Her father is very strong and an absolute strongman. He can rely on the members of Peter's gang and the same level of rule as the iron fist to overwhelm all opposition forces.

Queen Anna is very strong. She relies on the German "Eight Banners" as the base to purge the old nobles and maintain high-pressure rule with the secret police.

In her era, she must be soft.

She must rely on the technology of balance. After restoring the Privy Council of the Nobles, she must rely on her confidants and promoted newcomers around her to check and balance these nobles.

Relying on tolerance and not killing people, she gained the support and loyalty of the nobles; relying on the art of balance to govern the country; relying on confidants and promoted newcomers to complete her political ideas.

The Russian Orthodox definitely hopes to restore the power of the old nobles. And the mercy of not killing people can also prevent the Russian Orthodox from taking the opportunity to break the existing balance. She does not kill people, and those anti-Russian orthodox forces can also check and balance those who are under the banner of Russian orthodoxy but attempt to restore the decentralization of the nobles.

She has a very clear and clear positioning of her future governance.

A... transitioner.

Preserve all the legacy of her father's reforms and ensure the degree of Westernization of Russia.

Relying on the foundation of "ruling the country with confidants" laid by the previous two, the suppression of the old nobles was slightly relaxed, but the essence of ruling the country with confidants cannot be changed.

Gradually strengthen centralization, this centralization may not be concentrated in her hands, but in the hands of the "Privy Council" with a clear eye. That is, gradually concentrate the power of the local to the central government, as for the later generations, they can use the foundation she laid to return the power to the monarch himself.

She even wanted to thank Queen Anna.

If it weren't for Queen Anna, who relied on a group of Germans to constantly suppress the power of the old Russian aristocracy and consolidate centralization, Peter the Great's reforms might have been in vain.

Centralization is the most important achievement of the reform.

Although Anna made people angry and politically dark, Elizabeth had to admit that Queen Anna left behind a Russia where "the old aristocracy lived in fear".

On the surface, she had to resolutely oppose the dark rule of the Anna era, be tolerant and kind, and even abolish the death penalty for the aristocracy, and be the opposite of Anna.

Anna was a standard German Junker landlord, who liked court clowns, drinking, and a rough personality; she had to show the court elegance, balls, and gentle personality under French education.

Anna would dismember people at will, so she would not execute any aristocrats - only aristocrats, serfs were not considered human beings, and being good to aristocrats meant granting aristocrats the absolute right to dispose of serfs.

Apart from these superficial things, internally, she wanted to use this perfect foundation of decades of high-pressure rule and a "benevolent" face to achieve the redistribution and rebalancing of power, but it was impossible for her to redistribute the centralized power that she had achieved with great difficulty to the nobles.

None of these can be purged, because once the German party and foreigners are purged, no one will be able to control the Russian orthodox nobles who demand the restoration of the power of the nobility before Peter the Great - the power that the nobles can decide who will be the tsar by holding a meeting behind closed doors.

So when she heard the soldiers shouting frantically that they would crush all the maggots, Elizabeth's face was more solemn than ever.

With the cross raised high in her right hand and the flintlock pistol against her head in her left hand, she said gently to the stunned soldiers: "Children and friends, if you want to do this, I can't go with you. I have sworn in front of the Virgin Mary that I will rule Russia with mercy and will no longer allow the cruel punishments of the Byron era to appear."