Struggle in Russia

Tolstoy could not fully understand what Alexei said, but he could clearly feel that Alexei was a little different from before. The whole person seems to have opened up a lot, unlike before, even when he laughed heartily, there was bitterness in his smile.

Alexei at that time was always unhappy, always gloomy, always in an inexplicable mood of destruction. It's as if his sky is always gray, he can't see the sun, he can't see hope.

He is always under inexplicable pressure, the feeling of being pressed to the ground by this pressure and unable to move.

But now, he seems to have straightened his waist, and his eyes are bright and shining, no matter how dark the sky is, he doesn't care, because there is sunshine in his heart.

"You? You seem a little different?"

Alexei smiled slightly and said, "Maybe, maybe I have found something that I have lost for a long time!"

But Alexey didn't want to continue discussing his emotions, so he changed the topic: "So, my friend, if you still insist on going, you must do as I say. Otherwise, I will beat you hard , let you know the price of being mischievous!"

Tolstoy was even more confused. The previous Alexei could not tell such cold jokes. Before that, he was more like a block of ice and a stuffy gourd, and he couldn't fart with three sticks. Why did you suddenly break your mouth.

Tolstoy looked around and wondered if his friend had been stained with something unclean. This made Alexei laugh out loud, and he threw his arms around Tolstoy's shoulders, dragged him forward, and said as he went:

"Remember today, my friend. Remember you will be different today! Remember forever! Promise me!"

When Alexei and Tolstoy arrived at the Admiralty Building, the interrogation session was about to begin. However, the nature of the meeting was probably leaked by Grand Duke Constantine, and a large number of gossip enthusiasts, idlers and spies from other departments gathered together.

"Why are there so many people?"

Tolstoy was surprised, because the inquiry was still very professional. He didn't believe that so many people in St. Petersburg were interested in sailing and steamboats. In the short time just now, he saw a few acquaintances. And they are all gossip and gossip in the aristocratic circle, why did these guys come here?

Alexei sneered: "It's not that Grand Duke Constantine did it, it's probably because he wants to create public opinion!"

"Making public opinion? Why?"

Tolstoy was not particularly clear about the inside story of the St. Petersburg high-level,

He always thought that Grand Duke Constantine supported innovation and was an enlightened faction.

Alexei sighed and said: "There are many people who support innovation, and their character is hard to describe. The Grand Duke belongs to those whose motives and purposes are not pure. In short, he doesn't like Grand Duke Andrei very much, and his relationship is very bad. .”

Tolstoy said in a daze: "So, these people are all he deliberately asked to watch Grand Duke Andrew's jokes?"

Alexei sighed again: "I'm afraid he planned the entire questioning, what do you think?!"

Tolstoy was speechless, and his impression of Grand Duke Constantine plummeted. He couldn't figure out why a reformist would instigate a group of conservatives to deal with those who supported reform. This is the self-destructing Great Wall, okay?

Alexei could probably guess what Tolstoy was thinking. Once upon a time, he was so naive, naively thinking that people with the same interests would be friends, naively thinking that the same interests would lead to harmony.

Competition is everywhere. In order to seek greater benefits, some people will do whatever they can. For example, Grand Duke Constantine. Alexei could guess why the grand duke was so active and jumping up and down in this paragraph.

But Alexei did not think that the practice of Grand Duke Constantine was useful. Because his father, the old Count Speranski, once told him that Nicholas I was both conservative and principled. These two things have constituted his entire life, and as long as he is still alive, these two things will never change.

Based on this, Alexei can infer that it is absolutely impossible for Nicholas I to abolish the old and make the young. As long as Crown Prince Alexander is alive, he will be the crown prince, and Grand Duke Constantine has no chance of a dime.

And now these phenomena and benefits that are beneficial to Grand Duke Constantine are probably illusions deliberately created by the emperor. Although he still doesn't know why Nicholas I did this, Alexei knows that it is nothing more than the emperor's mind.

Nicholas I just used Grand Duke Constantine as a bait in order to achieve some of his goals.

Thinking of this, Alexei suddenly smiled. He felt that Grand Duke Constantine was so pitiful. This poor child never thought that his father was just using him. Everything he did now was completely meaningless. Nothing.

Seeing this clearly, Alexei's mood improved a lot, and he even had a leisurely mood of watching jokes. Of course, this is only for a moment. Because even if it's just a poor bait, Grand Duke Constantine is also a very poisonous bait, which can really poison people to death!

And now, his two friends are going to test the poison themselves, how dangerous it is!

"The third part handles the case!"

Facing the guards, Alexei threw away his ID with a cold face, and walked in with Tolstoy without waiting for their objection.

This kind of arrogance and arrogance made the guards swallow everything they wanted to say, and obediently handed over the documents and paid attention.

Tolstoy asked like a curious baby: "The third one is so powerful?"

Alexei smiled wryly: "Yes, it's very powerful, very scary. But it probably doesn't have a good reputation!"

The two of them strolled in and knew the location of the interrogation meeting without asking for directions. The reason is that there are too many people watching the excitement. The outside of the auditorium has three floors inside and three floors outside, but what is strange is that not many of them are wearing navy uniforms, and more are onlookers dressed up by the public.

"Today's scene is really lively!"

"The "Moscow Evening News" has sent people here, do the local leopards in the big countryside also want to grab news from us!"

"Ignore them, hurry up and find a way to enter the auditorium, you can't hear anything clearly in the corridor!"

"It seems that it was Admiral Lazarev who went in just now? Why is the old general here?"

"It's not just his old man, General Bellingshausen is here too! The show is getting better and better today!"

"Whisper, Grand Duke Constantine is here. Tsk tsk, why is his face so ugly?"

Alexei also saw Grand Duke Constantine, his complexion was indeed ugly, as if covered with a dark veil, as ugly as the bottom of a pot.

While Alexei was gloating, he suddenly saw a familiar face again...