Chapter 179: Wolves Scottair's words made Ovorov completely stunned, he couldn't ignore the threat implied in Scottal's words, thinking of the situation in Poland, if the Prussians joined forces with those Poles with the power of a great victory, then the situation in Poland could still be saved, thinking of this, Ovorov immediately said goodbye to Stockal, and he wanted to convey the news to Her Majesty the Empress as soon as possible.
Ovorov, who was in a hurry at the time, did not see the anxious gaze of Scottal behind him, and Scottal's performance just now was largely due to William's instructions, and in William's letter to him, he emphatically stated that Stockel must show a very tough stance towards the Russians.
As a veteran diplomat, Scottel has a very deep understanding of the Russian Empire, and this huge polar bear is not a joke once he gets angry, but he can't go against William's instructions, so after dealing with Ovorov, there is naturally an anxious look in his eyes.
In fact, William also had no bottom in his heart about how to treat the Russians, but he knew that he must not show cowardice, and how could Prussia, which was close to northern Poland, not know about the turbulence of the situation in Poland, and when he learned the news, William understood that his opportunity had come.
Russia has very rich interests in Poland, and the Russians will never sit idly by and watch Poland become turbulent, and now the Polish rebel army is getting bigger and bigger, and it looks like it is about to become a prairie fire, and if the Russians are still relatively sober at this time, they should not come to provoke Prussia.
And even if the Russians are determined to start a war with Prussia, then the first thing he has to do is to calm the situation in Poland, of course, it is not excluded that the Russians will directly send naval ships to carry troops to land on the Baltic coast of Prussia, but this will inevitably affect the size of the Russian army, and the logistics of the army cannot be guaranteed, and a stable logistics line in the war is worth tens of thousands of troops.
Therefore, before quelling the turmoil in Poland, the possibility of Russia declaring war on Prussia was almost zero, and this was Wilhelm's greatest reliance, and according to the situation in Russia, Wilhelm felt that it was necessary to make those Russians aware of the Prussian threat.
William told Scottel that if he could, if necessary, declare directly to the empress that Prussia would send reinforcements to support the just cause of the Polish people, depending on what the empress was willing to pay.
As for the Auguste king of Poland, William did not believe it, if one was not good, maybe Poland would once again stand by the side of Russia, but even so, William believed that the Polish uprising, which had been on fire, could not be changed because of the king's position.
Although there are many reasons for a fire to ignite, it is not so simple to extinguish it immediately, sometimes it only takes a spark to start a fire, but it takes a lot of effort to extinguish the fire.
Ovorov, after leaving the Prussian embassy in a hurry, immediately ordered the carriage to go to the palace, and this news was so important that he had to report it to Catherine II as soon as possible.
"Damn Kutuzov, I want his life, 20,000 troops, a whole 20,000 troops, he actually lost them to me" Catherine II, who heard Ovorov's report, was stunned at first, and then became angry.
"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that maybe the Prussians are talking nonsense to confuse us," Ovorov, who saw the Empress's rage, hurriedly persuaded.
But Ovorov's words did not calm the anger of the empress, who, while cursing Kutuzov, reprimanded: "Ovorov, use your brain, Kutuzov has not been in contact with St.
Petersburg for so long, of course, this can be said that he wants to hide from everyone, but will the Prussians joke with us about this news, and our intelligence agencies have not heard from Kutuzov for a long time, doesn't this say anything!"
Ovorov, who was choked by the empress, had to keep his mouth shut, in fact, in his heart, Ovorov also thought that the Prussian ambassador should not joke with him on this issue, and what he said just now was undoubtedly to comfort the empress.
After a moment of rage, Catherine II suppressed her emotions and said in a somewhat out-of-tune tone: "What else did the Prussians say" "The minister doesn't dare" "Don't talk nonsense, just say what you want!
Are you going to oppose me?
” "Your Majesty, the Prussian ambassador said that the little king of Prussia had entrusted him to ask you for an explanation, and if you did not give him an explanation, then he would give you an explanation."
Ovorov finished his words tremblingly, and his tone was very low, and he understood that this sentence was undoubtedly a provocation by the little king to Catherine II.
"Damn, now even a child dares to provoke me, okay, the little king wants me to give an explanation, then I will give it to him, Ovorov ordered St.
Petersburg and Moscow's army to get ready, and the word I gave him is iron and blood" After listening to Ovorov's words, Catherine II was already laughing angrily "Hehe, did he really dare not go to war against Prussia!"
Saying that, Catherine II looked at Ovorov, and under the forced gaze of Catherine II, Ovorov's standing body seemed to shake a little, and the coercion cultivated in a high position all year round made people tremble.
"Hehe, that kid, it's really accurate to see the timing, that's it, let him take advantage of it this time, Ovorov, you go and contact the Prussian ambassador again, if Prussia's conditions are not too outrageous, accept it, okay, you go down" With that, Catherine II gave the order to leave, and Ovorov respectfully saluted Catherine II and turned to leave the room.
"What an interesting little fellow, if only my child could have such guts," exclaimed Catherine II in a quiet voice after no one was around, and the tiger father and dog son had always been the deepest thorn in her heart.
When Catherine II lamented the tiger father and the dog, her son Crown Prince Paul was also thinking about her.
As a favorite of Catherine II, Ovorov naturally had Paul's eyes around him, and the news that Ovorov left the Prussian embassy in a hurry and went to the palace also reached his ears at the first time.
For one of the murderers of his father, except for that woman, Paul hates the Ovorov brothers the most, and whenever he sees that woman and Ovorov's evil seed, Paul wants to kill him, but he has always reminded himself not to be impulsive.
When Paul was young, one of his teachers once told him to be like a wolf, a creature that is not only cruel but also very united, and the wolf knows its own division of labor, and what to do and what not to do seems to be predestined, and every wolf pack can cooperate very tacitly.
More importantly, the wolf knows forbearance, for the sake of a prey, the wolf can lie quietly for a week, and the wolf will not give up the goal in his heart until the end.
When the young Paul asked the teacher what forbearance was, the teacher whispered in Paul's ear: "You are the only one of your mother's children with the blood of the Romanlov dynasty, and you will eventually rule the entire Russian Empire, but you must remember that the road to the throne is full of thorns, many of which will kill you, no matter what, you must learn to endure, only patience can ascend to those ten thousand people, and only patience can avenge your father" The teacher's words have been rooted in little Paul's mind since then, and until now, no matter what kind of provocation Paul has received on any occasion, he has always remembered what the teacher taught him to be patient!
Now it seems that Paul is weak and deceitful, but in fact it is all Paul's disguise, and this disguise has also won Paul the sympathy of some royalists, and the usurpation of Catherine II has made many people haunted even after a few decades, and many of them have been recruited by Paul.
On the surface, as long as you have enough favor from the empress, you can tease Paul at will, but if you want to deprive Paul of the crown prince, even Catherine II can't do this.
"Teacher, Ovorov just went to see that woman in a hurry, what did you say made our Count so anxious?"
In one room, Paul looked at the people around him and said, "Sitting next to Paul was also his teacher Penning.
"Your Highness, I think that the reason why His Excellency Ovorov is in such a hurry to go to the palace to meet His Majesty must have received some very important news."
Penning replied that as Paul's teacher, Penning had received the attention of everyone in the Russian Empire, and many people wanted to dismiss him, and some unknown people believed that Paul had become like this because Penning had not fulfilled his duties.
Of course, after the death of Paul's childhood teacher, Penning was sent by the empress to serve as Paul's mentor, so many people also think that Penning was wronged, but no matter what, only Penning knows how terrible the crown prince in front of him is.
In fact, when Penning was chosen as Paul's teacher, Paul was strongly opposed, and the only teacher who could be called his teacher in Paul's heart was always the teacher who told him to learn from the wolf.
Soon after Penning became Paul's teacher, he was arranged by Paul to set up a trap to seize Penning's handle and coerce Penning to do things for himself, and Penning could only reluctantly accept this fate, and at the same time, Penning also explained to Paul the task that the empress assigned to him to monitor Paul, but Paul was not surprised, but just said lightly: "There are people watching me everywhere except my closet, but there are many of them who are in the same situation as you."
This sentence made Penning creepy.