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Chapter 278: The Empress's Sixtieth Birthday


While Napoleon was escorting the gang back to the Brittany club, William was also returning to Brandenburg with Lilisa, and all in all William's trip to Copenhagen was a success, a victory.

Politically, Wilhelm determined the composition of the government of the Danish region, although on the surface Denmark still maintained the dignity of a ** kingdom, but in reality the so-called Danish parliament and cabinet were just empty shelves and decorations, and the actual power in Denmark was in the hands of the provincial officials of the three provinces, and these provincial officials were all held by Prussians.

In terms of jurisdiction, the three provinces are not under Danish jurisdiction but directly under Brandenburg, and the Danish Parliament and Cabinet have only the power to advise and not to have jurisdiction over the internal affairs of the three provinces.

However, the Danes did not clash violently over the Prussian seizure of power, partly because the Prussian army was stationed on Danish soil, and the Prussian army was strong enough to deter any unscrupulous people, and partly because of the wonderful misunderstanding.

Lilisa's existence made most of the nobles accept Prussian rule, because they saw hope in Lilisa, a person can have nothing, but just can't have hopeless, if there is no hope, then people can't be called human beings in the world, but walking dead.

The Danes' thoughts, William could understand, and at the same time William didn't mind giving them some hope.

William knew that Prussia had just conquered Denmark, and that the only way to show the Danes was that under Prussian rule, they could still have hope, such as that the future queen would be a Dane.

And the future king will also be half Danish, and the reverie must be for the best.

In this way, at least half of the Danes will be stable, and the remaining half will naturally not be a cause for concern.

When William was crowned in Copenhagen, far away in St.

Petersburg, a silent storm was about to sweep through the heart of the Russian Empire.

On April 21 of this year, the cities of the entire Russian Empire began to celebrate enthusiastically under the organization of the government, and St.

Petersburg, as the center of the Russian Empire, naturally celebrated vigorously.

Since April 19, the government has erected a long line of canopies on St.

Petersburg's central square, in which food and alcohol are served at any time, and from the 19th onwards, the entire city of St.

Petersburg pubs and restaurants and opera halls will be open to all citizens free of charge for five days.

The reason for this event is that April 21 of this year marks the 60th birthday of Her Majesty Catherine II, Empress of the Russian Empire!

Such a grand festival.

How could you make the officials of the Russian Empire not want to do everything possible to please the Empress?

But at odds with the pomp, Paul was standing at the top of the attic of his palace looking at the joyful crowd gathered not far away, his face gloomy.

"Teacher Pan Ning, do you know how much these celebrations cost?"

"This...

Your Highness, I don't think it will be less than a million rubles."

As he spoke, Penning glanced at Paul cautiously.

There was no other expression on Paul's face, but it was a stressful experience.

"Hmph, Penning, you really underestimate these officials, in order to curry favor with that one.

As far as I know, St.

Petersburg alone cost three million rubles, if you count all the cities of the Russian Empire as a whole.

Then the cost will be astronomical!

Now the environment around us is still not optimistic, and those officials actually spend a lot of money in such a place, it is simply worthy of death!

” Penning found that when Paul said that he should be killed, his hand was tightly gripping the wooden window frame on the wall, and the green tendons on the back of his hand were violently jumping, and it was obvious that Paul's heart was full of tyranny at this moment.

Seeing this, Penning's originally hunched waist bent down even more, obviously only she and Paul were with him now, if Paul used him as a punching bag at this time, then he would be finished.

Paul's heart felt a little better when he saw Penning, who seemed to be very afraid of him, although he was not a stingy person, but when he saw that those officials actually used the money from the treasury in such a place, he almost wanted to raise his sword and kill all those officials, but he knew that it was impossible for him to do this now.

"Your Highness, Her Majesty the Empress, please come over" There was a knock on the door, and before Paul could speak, a respectful word came in, and when he heard the empress's invitation, Paul's eyes were full of vigilance, and this look was seen by Penning on the side, and he couldn't help but feel helpless for the mother and son.

As Catherine II grew old and Paul matured, the Empress never became less wary of Paul, never allowing Paul to go out to inspect the army, nor did she allow Paul to approach the senior generals in the army, and even the cabinet did not allow Paul to sit in on the panel.

As the crown prince, you can imagine how aggrieved Paul is in his heart, but if it weren't for the Empress's 60th birthday, Paul would have even been happier, because he had received accurate news from the palace, that is, Her Majesty the Empress has often coughed up blood in recent months!

This was certainly not good news for the empress and her favored courtiers, but for Paul, it was simply the best news he had heard in decades, and although the whole court was taboo about whether the empress was sick and what she had, it was not a good thing to say that she coughed up blood a lot.

Last month, what Paul was able to confirm was that the empress coughed up blood three times, even if it is not unconfirmed news, just saying that these three coughing up blood, such a frequency is not necessarily a sign of good health, and if this disease is cured, then the empress has long been cured, but now although the empress often laughs, the sickly white on her face makes people understand that the empress's body is completely unhealthy.

Hearing that the Empress had summoned them, Paul and Penning hurriedly packed up their clothes, then Penning pushed the door open, and the two of them walked towards Catherine II's palace under the guidance of their attendants.

On the way to Catherine II's palace, Paul met many familiar faces, including a large number of powerful people in the upper echelons of the Russian Empire.

When Paul walked into the palace, the palace was already packed, and hundreds of heads were crowded in front of Paul, which made Paul's heart even more irritated, and this time the empress called him over to celebrate his sixtieth birthday, otherwise the empress would not have summoned him, a son who did not like her.

Except for a very small number of nobles and officials who greeted Paul with extremely hidden eyes, most of the nobles regarded Paul, the crown prince, as air.

And Paul, as if not surprised by this, went to his wife, Maria.

Feodorovna smiled at her beside her, and Feodorovna returned the salute when she saw her husband's smile, although the crown prince was alienated by the empress because she was not favored by the empress, but the crown princess had a high reputation in the aristocratic circle.

The reason for this is that the crown princess gave birth to a good son - Alexander I.

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Pavlovich, as Paul's eldest son and the heir to the future Russian Empire, Catherine II loved this grandson far more than her own, and when Alexander was more than a year old, he was taken away from Paul, and after that, apart from some celebrations, Paul did not even want to see his son.

Of course, Feodorovna, as Alexander's mother, was still looked at differently by the empress, who obviously did not want Alexander to lack maternal love.

And Alexander did not live up to the expectations of the empress, and as he grew up, Alexander made his voice heard in all aspects of the Russian Empire's upper echelons, although Alexander was only twelve years old at the moment, but this did not prevent him from gaining great influence in the Russian Empire.

Catherine II intended to portray Alexander as a perfect monarch, and even when Catherine II was in charge of political affairs, Alexander would be held aside by his mother and watch his grandmother handle government affairs.

What is even more unexpected is that under the organization of Catherine II, the little Alexander actually obtained the allegiance of the St.

Petersburg Royal Guard, which is a treatment that Paul did not get!

There are even rumors that the empress is ready to wait until Alexander comes of age to become the crown prince of the Russian Empire directly over Paul!

But fortunately, there is Feodorovna as a buffer between father and son, although in the eyes of outsiders, Crown Prince Paul is cowardly, shy, and even a little neurotic, but as Paul's pillow person, Feodorovna knows her husband better than her.

For her husband's deep secrets, Feodorovna sometimes admires it, and because when the two are alone, Paul behaves very unusually outside, which also makes the relationship between the husband and wife not broken but very harmonious.

"Alexander was arranged by Her Majesty the Empress to enter with us at the back, so we may have to wait a while" Feodorovna looked at her husband and said softly, she knew the distress in her husband's heart, so many times, Feodorovna would be very gentle.

Hearing his wife mention Alexander, Paul's face moved, saying that it was unrealistic for Paul not to want his eldest son, and as his eldest son and the heir to the future Romanov dynasty, Paul was worried about his child day and night.