Struggle in Russia

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After appreciating Karl Alexander's aristocratic traditional performance, it was almost time for dinner. Generally speaking, to welcome a distinguished guest like Li Xiao, one must have a big banquet, and then a grand salon or dance. This is in line with the tradition of the nobility.

It's just that Li Xiao came back in a hurry, and his identity was sensitive, so it wasn't suitable for a salon, dance or banquet. Although the dinner was in line with the luxury of the nobility, the atmosphere was not particularly warm.

This is also normal, because it is impossible to change glasses like a Chinese-style banquet at a European-style banquet, especially for these nobles who want to keep their style, eating is even more serious. Although there can be chatting and toasting, they are more in the form of scenes. It is difficult to mobilize people's enthusiasm, most of the participants just chat with indifference.

Li Xiao doesn't like this kind of aristocratic banquet very much. It's really more boring than later generations eating banquets with other people in China. Anyway, the more you eat, the more you lose your appetite. I don't know if this style is for these nobles. Made it on purpose to save money. After all, the atmosphere is too warm, and the food and wine can't stand it!

The dinner lasted about an hour and a half, during which Li Xiao's cheap uncle also appeared, but he ate very little, only ate a little quail and drank a little red wine, and it ended hastily. It can be seen that his body is really not very good, not because he doesn't want to eat, but because he really can't eat.

Looking at Carl Alexander, who was sitting next to him, this silly boy had a good appetite. He ate a whole turtledove and half a smoked salmon. No wonder he was so strong and tall. It's just that his heartless appearance really makes people speechless. It can be seen that he hasn't realized how much responsibility he has. The next ten or twenty years will be an era of great change for the German states. The former loose German Federation will no longer exist, and grand duchies like Saxony will be unified into the territory of the Second German Empire. In other words, Grand Dukes like Karl Alexander will soon lose the last bit of control over the country and become completely idle Grand Dukes.

Perhaps this is not a bad thing for Karl Alexander. Anyway, he has no talent or interest in governing the country. It is good for him, a half-hearted monarch, to be an art lover honestly, and he will not be short of money anyway. , it's good to be an idle prince.

It's just that Li Xiao can't bear this kind of life. Although he has no worries about food and clothing, he looks like a rice bug no matter how you look at it. To put it bluntly, he is a burden to the country. The starting point of life is so high, not to mention doing a world-shattering career, how can you not be raised like a pig.

Anyway, he looked down on Karl Alexander. This is a flower in the greenhouse, which cannot withstand the wind and rain at all, but he is a grass in the wild, and he is not afraid of the wind and rain!

After the dinner, because there is no way to hold a salon or a dance, it is usually a nonsense and a small concert. In fact, Karl Alexander brought a few friends to hold a concert,

They had a great time, while Li Xiao was talking nonsense with Maria Pavlovna.

"Why, are you not used to such a leisurely life?" The old lady asked kindly.

Li Xiao is also very frank: "One thing, the main reason is that I have experienced too little of such scenes. In the past, apart from studying, I was standing guard every day. Since I left the Preobrazhensky Guards last year, I have been busy marching. War, such a warm and leisurely time, is really rare!"

Li Xiao could feel that Auntie Auntie's wariness and hostility towards him had decreased a lot, and it was rare to show a certain degree of warmth.

Li Xiao glanced at Carl Alexander, who was having a good time, and couldn't help but think: [Could it be that singing and dancing can make people more gentle? 】

"You don't need to look at Karl, I know what you probably think of this child," Maria Pavlovna said casually with a smile on her face, "Singing and dancing are probably meaningless to you." ? Only a carefree young man like Karl can... be so naive!"

Li Xiao was stunned, because he could see that this aunt was actually very precious to Karl Alexander, and occasionally he could see her affectionately, and it was a bit unexpected to directly say that someone was too naive.

Maria Pavlovna said with a smile: "Are you surprised? Didn't you expect me to say that about Karl? Yes, you must think that I am the kind of stubborn old lady who protects children in every possible way. Your own children are not bad at all, are they?"

Before Li Xiao could answer, she said to herself, "I'm sure I protect my children, but I don't want to be so extreme. I know Karl's problems very well. He likes art more than that damned politics!"

"To be honest, I hate politics too, it's bloody politics!"

Said the old lady sighed: "I still remember that year, yes! It was 1801, when I was just fifteen years old, it was a cold March, and Ekaterina and I were playing in the room. Piano, suddenly the entire Winter Palace became a mess, people shouted and screamed... News of the death of the father came, and then the Preobrazhensky Guards were under martial law, and the whole of St. A thick layer of dark clouds completely covered it, and Ekaterina and I were terrified, hiding under the bed and shivering, thinking that soon some vicious rebels would rush in to arrest us and execute us..."

Maria Pavlovna glanced at Li Xiao, then said with a bleak smile, "This is no joke, you should know how many of our ancestors died in the Winter Palace, right?"

Li Xiao nodded. His aunt was telling the story of Paul I being killed in a court coup in 1801. It was the first coup in the Russian court in the 19th century. The blood of a tsar was used as a sacrifice to mark the beginning of this century. A good start, such a thing is probably only available in Russia.

Maria Pavlovna continued to recall: "But soon Alexander came back, he became emperor, he took the crown, but I could see that he was not happy at all... From that day From now on, I feel that the former Alexander has disappeared, he has become more and more gloomy, more and more unhappy, and more and more sad..."

Maria Pavlovna took a deep breath: "Then I heard all kinds of horrific rumors. Some people said that Alexander murdered his father, and others said that it was all Alexander's conspiracy, because he It's so emperor...I don't know if it's true, really, I don't know, the only thing I know is that because of this damn politics, I lost my father and my brother..."

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