Struggle in Russia

Vasily Matveyevich Muraviev-Apostol is a gendarme who enforces the law with integrity and impartiality. It's just that there are no gendarmes like him in Russia, but the number is definitely in the minority.

More gendarmes are bureaucrats who only flatter and flatter. They have no interest in fairness and justice, but are interested in adding officials to ranks. This also determines that they are only and will only be Nicholas I's henchmen.

Li Xiao is very grateful to this Major Muraviyov Gendarmerie, not only because of his last reminder, but also because of his impartial law enforcement and impartiality. When making plans to dig a hole for Gazinski and his group, Li Xiao knew that the biggest problem was not whether their plans were perfect enough or not, and whether their implementation was meticulous enough. Even if the things they could do were perfect, they could not guarantee the plan. It must be successful.

The reason is that Russia is not a legal and reasonable country. Russia under the control of the Romanov family has always been a country where the rule of man is greater than the rule of law, and power is above fairness, justice and the law.

When the tsar has the final say on everything, when the tsar's golden words are equivalent to the constitution of heaven, and everything must only serve the interests of the tsar and the few powerful officials around him. One sentence can affirm everything, and one sentence can also deny everything.

If there is no honest Muraviyov, a perfunctory gendarme who does not want to take responsibility will handle the case. The evidence that Li Xiao found was likely to be completely destroyed overnight, and no written records would be left, and there would be no files to prove Gazinski's crimes. The dog legs who please the tsar will instead pursue Li Xiao's unwarranted crimes, and finally hit him hard on the buttocks.

But it’s different with Major Muraviyov. Whether it’s his personal proof or detailed file records, those who try to make the evidence disappear can’t justify themselves. .

To tell the truth, this is not easy, and it is likely to affect the future of Major Muraviyov. It can be said that Li Xiao owed him a great favor, but it can only be said that someone was lucky enough to meet a crucial person at a critical moment.

With Major Muraviyov's endorsement, Kutepov and those Nicholas I's henchmen who were going to lay hands on Li Xiao were the ones who had a headache.

The first to bear the brunt was the deputy commander, Lieutenant Colonel Kutepov. Gazinski was in charge of the smuggling business of his department and was the main purse of Kutepov's gang. Now that the money bag is emptied, the entire smuggling network is in danger of being wiped out, which means huge economic losses. This allows them how to live a luxurious life, how to please their superiors, how to buy officials and become nobles?

This is not the worst, once Gazinski's mouth is not strict enough and shakes them out, then everything will be over, so Kutepov urgently needs to eliminate the impact of the incident and clean up Gazinski Take it out cleanly.

"What do the gendarmes say?" Kutepov walked up and down the room anxiously, even under the thick carpet, he could hear the irritability and restlessness in his footsteps.

"It's a bit troublesome," Kutepov's adjutant, Lieutenant Denis Ignashevich, replied cautiously. "The case is handled by Major Muraviyov. If you don’t buy your brains, you won’t be able to do your work at all.”

Kutepov's facial features are all twisted into a ball. He used to think that it would be nice to have Muraviyov, a dead-headed military policeman who doesn't buy into anyone's account, in the 748th regiment. Husband, so that the other party can't openly suppress him. And now he feels terrible.

After pondering for a while, he asked, "How far has the situation reached? Has Gazinski made a confession?"

Ignashevich lowered his head, because what he heard was not good: "The smuggling warehouse was discovered, and all the goods inside were seized by the military police, and it was also involved in the matter of arms. Now the arsenal Surrounded by gendarmes,

Searching and inventorying..."

"Damn it!" Kutepov kicked the wine cabinet fiercely, and said furiously, "Why is there still such a thing as ammunition? Didn't I tell them to be cautious and careful about ammunition!"

Ignashevich replied with a bitter face: "It is said that the road is not very stable now, and someone needs to deter those guys who are jealous of us and looking for trouble. It has been fine before, who would have thought that this time it would be caught by the military police... "

Ignashevich's voice became smaller and smaller, because he saw that Kutepov's face was already clouded. The deputy commander has a bad temper. It is said that he once beat a soldier to death in a fit of rage. The expression on his face is obviously furious. He doesn't want to be in trouble.

"Have you completed the relevant procedures? Can you evade the past in the name of training?"

Ignashevich swallowed, and replied with great difficulty: "As far as I know, because the relevant procedures are more... more cumbersome, in order to save trouble, generally...no one cares about the formalities, and it has been done before. No one was paying attention, so Major Shirokov didn't bother much, so... so..."

Kutepov exploded immediately, and sprayed Ignashevich with saliva: "So that idiot just turned a blind eye to fool things in order to save trouble, right!"

Ignashevich nodded with difficulty, and silently mourned for the director of the arsenal, Major Shirokov. It is hard to say, who should be held accountable if he is not held accountable?

This blow was too big for Kutepov. He was already in a weak position in the 748 regiment, and there were only two or three capable men. Now the commander of the second battalion, Gashinski, and the director of the arsenal, Shirokov, have all fallen one after another, which means that most of his martial arts have been abolished. How can he fight Mesadov in the future? Not even mentioning the future, what if those two bastards don't bite him tightly?

We must find a way to save those two idiots, or we must make those two idiots believe that he is rescuing them and can rescue them at all, and we must stabilize them!

Kutepov made a decision in an instant, and ordered: "You contact Shirokov again immediately, and tell him that the arms were released from the warehouse after Gazinsky's application, but the relevant documents were lost... Uh, or I don’t know where it went, but in short, the procedure is in compliance!”

"Then, then you find a way to contact Gazinski, so that he must insist that the arms were not transferred privately, but legally transferred... What, I hope it will be useful to fool the past..."

"And hurry up and find a way to get a decent application for live-fire shooting training... Well, by the way, don't come forward in person, find someone else who has nothing to do with it, and don't implicate you... Prepare the car immediately, I Go to Monsieur Pobedonostsev's house, hurry up!"