Xinshun 1730

Chapter 622 Dashun's First Appearance in Europe ([-])
After changing into her military uniform, Elizabeth walked out of the room slowly but firmly.

In the hall, the men around him stood up and saluted, all dressed neatly, and they 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:
The court gynecologist, Lestok, who was exiled to Siberia for several years by Peter for hooking up with the court jester's daughter.

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

A child of Elizabeth's mother's sister's family, a Polish rural woman who was favored by Peter by virtue of her sisters and joined the noble circle, a noble who was despised by the Russian nobles and did not even have a family badge, and Elizabeth's cousins, the Suwarovski brothers.

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

The day of my birth coincided with the Battle of Navarre in the Great Northern War. Both my parents were captured. I was born in prison and spent 17 years in prison in Sweden. Now at the age of 41, I have been a widow twice, and my first marriage was not allowed because of property. Anastasia, the court socialite who is not married to a 48-year-old widower, and who has become best friends with Elizabeth by talking about how clothes and skirts look good.

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

In the tense atmosphere where the coup d'etat was about to start, none of these people spoke, but followed Elizabeth silently, riding in a black carriage, heading for the camp of the Preobrazhensky Army.

In the Preobrazhensky Army, a lieutenant who had previously recruited personnel for Elizabeth had been hanged.The only officer that Elizabeth could control was a second lieutenant, the company commander of Glennard Company.The rest who have a good relationship with her are all soldiers.

The carriage drove slowly to the legion camp, and Elizabeth, dressed in cavalry uniform, got out of 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 "Mom".

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

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

"Of course, Mom!"

The guards surrounded the princess, who had no aristocratic airs on weekdays and often gave them tobacco and wine money, and walked into the company's garrison.

The company commander had already assembled the soldiers, and all the soldiers who were in contact with him on weekdays also surrounded him.

"Mom! We're ready!"

Elizabeth raised the cross, knelt on one knee, and shouted at the soldiers: "My children, my friends. You followed my father. Now, will you follow me as 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 Regiment is the name of a village.

Peter lived in this village with his mother when he was a child, and formed a child army in this village.

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

In the end, the Child Army was expanded into two regiments, the Preobrazhensky Army and the Semyonov Army, which can be said to be the direct line of the direct line.

As the predecessor of the Guards, the Semyonov Corps is mainly the most elite unit on the battlefield.

The Preobrazhensky Legion is more like a Jinyiwei, with powers such as censorship and arrest.

As the German Party came to power, the Jinyiwei built by Peter gradually stepped aside.In order to check and balance these people, the criminal investigation office was established, not to mention the power of the Jinyiwei was taken away, the criminal investigation office also had its own armed forces, and it became the superior department of the Jinyiwei.

Most of Jinyiwei's soldiers are hereditary.They always hear their parents mention the days back then, what kind of days were those back then?
The little emperor formed a group of teenagers into an army, trained himself, and became the commander of the army himself.After the little emperor became Peter the Great, he would not forget the benefits of these old ministries. Not only did he give them the power and responsibility of the Jinyiwei, but he also gave them many preferential treatment.

At that time, it was an honor and the most perfect birth to be a soldier in the Preobrazhensky regiment.Many noble children will go to the legion for training, starting as a second lieutenant.If a soldier is lucky, he can climb a big tree, starting from being an adjutant or an orderly, and gradually becoming a low-ranking nobleman.

But now?

The Germans controlled almost everything. Empress Anna didn't trust the members of this legion at all, and those noble children also stopped serving in the Preobrazhensky Legion in order to prevent their bad background from sticking to their bodies.

Soldiers were treated less and their privileges were gone.Of course, I miss Peter the Great very much, and naturally passed this nostalgia on to Peter's daughter.

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

All this reminded these soldiers of the good old days that their fathers had said.

When Princess Elizabeth asked if she was willing to follow, more than 200 soldiers shouted "yes" in unison!
The company commander of Glenard Company looked at the princess kneeling on one knee and holding a cross, 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 up high, looked directly into 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!"

"Ula!"

There were roars in the barracks, and Ula's shouts were joined together. When Elizabeth was about to stand up, the soldiers shouted a little maniacly: "Mom, let's do it now and kill those people! Those dirty Dirty foreign maggots must be hanged!"

Elizabeth's expression turned serious. She did not want this coup to turn into a large-scale purge.

This is not a religious reason, and it has nothing to do with her wish in front of the statue of the Virgin Mary. A woman who dares to rely on a few singers, widows, and music teachers to think about a coup d'etat and seize power cannot be against the so-called God, the Virgin Mary, and morality. How important is the class.

Everything is for political reasons.

The killings, strangulation, quartering by five horses, and exile of the whole family to Siberia in the Byron era made Elizabeth very clear that Russia now needs a relaxed political environment.

Leniency and strictness.

If you can attack the heart, it will disappear on its own side. It has been known since ancient times that soldiers are not warlike.

If you don't judge the situation, you will be wrong about leniency and strictness. Later, you must think deeply about governing Shu.

Leniency and strictness need to judge the situation.

Once too many people are killed in the coup, many people may feel in danger, worrying that Elizabeth will carry out a big purge in Russia.

And Elizabeth does not have too many basic boards, nor does she have a group of German "Eight Banners" in Russia as the basic board like Queen Anna.

Within Russia itself, it is also divided into the old party and the new party.At this time, only out of opposition to the German party, the two groups of people 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 ruling the country with leniency.

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

People didn't miss Peter's policy of suppressing the old nobles and paying taxes even if he grew a beard.People just miss the overall prosperous atmosphere of the country in that era, but it is impossible to miss those harsh governance policies.

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

In order to show that she is Russian orthodoxy, Elizabeth knew exactly what she was going to do when she came to power.It is necessary to abolish the cabinet of the era of German party rule, replace it with the traditional Russian Privy Council, and return some power to the nobles. Only in this way can they gain their loyalty and support.

Her father is very strong, an absolute strongman, he can rely on the members of the Peter gang, and he can rule at the same level as an iron fist, overwhelming all opposition forces.

Empress Anna is very strong. Relying on the German "Eight Banners" as the basic base, she cleaned up the old aristocrats and maintained the high-pressure rule with the secret police.

In her time, one must be soft.

Rely on balanced technology, after restoring the Privy Council of the nobles, rely on the cronies around you and the newcomers promoted to check and balance these nobles.

Rely on tolerance and not killing people to win the support and loyalty of nobles; rely on balance skills to govern the country; rely on cronies and promoted newcomers to complete their political ideas.

The Russian orthodox faction must hope to restore the power of the old aristocracy.The kindness of not killing people can also prevent Russian orthodox factions from taking the opportunity to upset the existing balance.If she doesn't kill people, those forces that oppose Russian orthodoxy can check and balance those who insist on Russian orthodoxy but try to restore the separation of powers among the nobles.

Her positioning for her future governance is very clear and definite.

A... transitioner.

Preserve the entire legacy of the father's reforms and guarantee the degree of Westernization of Russia.

Relying on the foundation of "ruling the country by cronies" laid by the previous two terms, the suppression of the old aristocrats has been slightly relaxed, but the essential rule of the country by cronies cannot be changed.

Gradually strengthen the centralization of power. This centralization of power may not necessarily be concentrated in her hands, but it must be concentrated in the hands of the "Privy Council" with bright eyes.That is to say, the local power is gradually concentrated to the central government. As for later generations, they can use the foundation she laid to bring the power back into the hands of the monarch himself.

Even, she would like to thank Queen Anna.

Had it not been for Empress Anna relying on a group of Germans to continuously suppress the power of the old Russian aristocrats and consolidate the centralization of power, Peter the Great's reforms might have been in vain.

Centralization is the most important achievement of reform.

Although Anna made people angry and politically dark, Elizabeth also had to admit that Queen Anna had left a Russia where "the old aristocrats behaved with their tails between their legs".

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

Anna is a standard German Junker landowner wife, who likes court clowns, drinks alcohol, and has a rough personality; she wants to show the appearance of court elegance, prom, and gentle personality under the French education.

Anna cut people into quarters at every turn, and she wanted to not execute any nobles—only nobles, serfs were not counted as human beings, and treating the nobles well meant granting the nobles the absolute right to dispose of the serfs.

These superficial things are outside and inside, she wants to use this perfect foundation of decades of high-handed rule, relying on the face of "benevolence" to complete the redistribution and rebalancing of power, but it is impossible to take the easy way out. The completed centralization was distributed to the nobles.

None of these can be cleaned up, because once the German party and foreigners are cleaned up, no one will be able to control the Russian orthodox nobles who demand the restoration of the power of the nobles before Peter the Great-close the door, and the nobles will hold a meeting , the kind of power that can decide who will be the tsar.

So when she heard the soldiers yelling frantically to crush the maggots, Elizabeth's face was more serious than ever.

He held the cross high in his right hand, and put the flintlock spear on top of his head with his left hand. Facing the astonished soldiers, he said softly, "Children and friends, if you want to do this, I can't go with you. I I have sworn before the Holy Mother that I will rule Russia mercifully, and will not allow cruel punishments like Byron's time to happen again."

(End of this chapter)