Struggle in Russia

It can only be said that Minih was too naive. How could Count Rostovtsev help him sincerely? When he happily returned to his office to wait for the news, Count Rostovtsev said to Alexander II:

"Your Majesty, Minih came here just now to complain. I have already sent him away."

Alexander II nodded. The last person he wanted to see now was Minih. This stupid guy couldn't help at all and was still complaining. Don't even think about it, if the Minister of Justice is so easy to be, where will it be your turn?

"He didn't say anything other than complaining?"

Count Rostovtsev shook his head and said: "No, he feels very wronged."

Alexander II suddenly became angry: "Is he still aggrieved? Such a small case cannot be solved now. It is his incompetence that has led to the collapse of the current situation! As long as his Ministry of Justice can be a little responsible, things will not become like this This is what it looks like now!”

Alexander II was still brooding over the fiasco at the St. Petersburg District Court. If the District Court had won the battle, where would the current mess be?

Now he is probably slapping the reformists and bringing all the rebellious officials like Nikolay Milyutin into obedience!

This made him regret very much. He should not have let this idiot Minih be the Minister of Justice in the first place. At that time, he only thought that he was more loyal and active in doing things, and he was still relatively young, so he helped him.

Who would have thought that this thing is just a donkey dung egg with a glossy surface, but it really does nothing but work!

If I had known that he was such a mess, I shouldn't have made a hasty decision. It seems that I will have to consider all aspects when appointing ministers in the future.

Alexander II was reflecting, and Count Rostovtsev suddenly said: "Your Majesty, although Minih's complaints are a bit of an act, the Ministry of Justice is indeed facing greater pressure now. Shouldn't it still be taken care of? One or two?”

Alexander II raised his head and looked at him with a smile: "How much benefit has Minih given you? Earl. Why did you suddenly speak for him?"

Count Rostovtsev replied seriously: "Your Majesty, you know, I am not a person who does not love money, but I know very well what money can and cannot be taken. What you have given me is what I should take. No one else can get involved... Minih did want to bribe me, but I refused sternly, and I even gave him a lesson. The reason why I wanted to speak for the Ministry of Justice was that they were too important at the moment. A slight mistake!”

Alexander II nodded happily. He hoped that there would be more courtiers like Count Rostovtsev. Instead of all of them just thinking about making money like a starving ghost, how about they do some real things when they have time? good.

He sighed: "It would be great if other people were like you. Hey, I know what the Ministry of Justice is doing, and they can still handle it. Besides, if we don't put some pressure on them through those liberal elements, they won't work honestly. !”

It seems that Alexander II is still very dissatisfied with the Ministry of Justice dragging the case of Archduke Constantine, and he wants to beat them.

Count Rostovtsev bowed and said: "But I feel that the pressure on them is indeed very great, isn't it..."

Alexander II stretched out his hand to stop him: "I am sensible. I must put some pressure on them now, otherwise other departments will follow their example in the future, and how can we govern the country?"

Seeing that his goal had been achieved, Count Rostovtsev naturally fell silent. To be honest, he was very dissatisfied with Alexander II's judgment. The czar was too self-righteous. He always felt that he knew everything and thought that everything would be fine if he drank according to his own ideas.

There is no actual understanding of how every screw of the huge state machine works, let alone what kind of bugs will arise when such a complex state machine is combined with the elusive human nature.

His idealized model always feels like it doesn't work when it encounters real problems, but he doesn't want to adjust the model yet and always takes it for granted. In the end, it's normal for problems with acclimatization to occur frequently.

Of course, this is not a big problem. Almost every new Tsar made similar mistakes in his first years on the throne. For example, Alexander I started major reforms with great enthusiasm. As a result, the reform model was completely out of touch with Russian social problems, and he was in trouble.

It was not that Nicholas I didn't mean to make trouble, but he was cautious by nature. After trying it for a while, he found something was wrong and quickly stopped the situation.

Alexander II obviously did not learn the lessons of his fathers, or his father's strength gave him a wrong example.

He mistakenly believed that the czar's power was infinite, and all monsters and demons who met his iron fist would be destroyed.

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According to Count Rostovtsev's estimate, it would take about three to five years for Alexander II's wisdom to understand this.

These three to five years are a period of opportunity for the reformists. If they can seize the opportunity to take the initiative while Alexander II does not know how to be a totalitarian tsar, then it will be difficult to do anything in the future.

Count Rostovtsev sighed unconsciously when he thought of this. There were many problems within the reformists, the biggest one being naivety.

Most people thought that persuading the Tsar to institute top-down reforms would solve all of Russia's current problems.

But there was no thought at all whether the Tsar was willing to do this. Nor did I think about what to do if the Tsar was not willing to do it.

Fortunately, there are still a few sober people inside who keep pulling the childish people forward, otherwise it would be impossible to tell what the reformists would be like now.

Sometimes Count Rostovtsev feels tired. He always has to worry about the giant babies and wipe their butts. Unfortunately, these giant babies are not conscious at all, and they still think that they are doing a good job and are awesome.

Count Rostovtsev couldn't figure out where they got this feeling. Didn't he see that the risks were getting bigger and bigger?

He can only think that there is something wrong with the concepts of the following generation, and they do not have a clear understanding of power and social issues. This deviation leads them down the wrong path, never to return.

Anyway, Count Rostovtsev has given up hope on the next generation, and what troubles him even more is that he has no idea how to cultivate a qualified new generation.

He has taken some measures, but with little success, and has not cultivated many young people who can be regarded as talents. How to train a successor in the future has become his most anxious issue...