Her Majesty the Empress is dead?
With this sentence, everyone began to be suspicious, although the fire was very strange, but as the empress of the Russian Empire, even if Catherine II was lying on the hospital bed and couldn't move, those guards would desperately carry Her Majesty out of the empress, but now, without warning, the empress would die mysteriously in the palace!
"Woo woo............."
Before everyone could react, Paul fell on his knees and hid his face and began to cry bitterly, and the crying seemed to be contagious, and in an instant, the sound of crying sounded throughout the clearing, especially the noble ladies who wept one by one.
While Paul was hiding his face and weeping, Penning came up to him and said in a loud voice: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!
Now that Her Majesty has gone to serve God due to an accident, you must shoulder your birthright as the crown prince of the empire!
Please also be able to get out of your grief as soon as possible, and you must not let the empire have a major change because of the grief you have passed at this time!
” After speaking, Pan Ning's eyes also glanced around, Pan Ning's words were very loud, and when those nobles heard Pan Ning's words, some of the nobles began to think.
Now Her Majesty the Empress has fallen into the fire, regardless of life or death, if there is a case, then Paul will become the next Tsar of the Empire, this is a fact that cannot be changed in any way, without the suppression of the Empress, then Paul is bound to become the existence that all people look up to.
"Your Excellency Penning, that's right.
It is imperative that Her Royal Highness Paul take charge of the overall situation, whether Her Majesty the Queen is fortunate or unfortunate.
Your Majesty, please come up with a charter."
Just as Penning finished speaking, Kalevsky's words also sounded in everyone's ears, and the words of the Guards officer were even more thought-provoking.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is also invited to preside over the overall situation............"
Some of the nobles woke up from a dream and bowed down to Paul one after another, but Paul did not express his position because of this, and Paul pretended to be alarmed and said: "Excellencies, I really love too much, and the empress doesn't know life and death.
It's really painful to live in the bottom, and it's really chaotic in my heart, and I think it's better to ask His Excellency Ovorov to preside over the situation here."
As he spoke, Paul turned his attention to Ovorov, as a former favorite who had been alienated by the empress, although Ovorov still held a high and ordinary position in the imperial court, but compared to Potemkin, he was undoubtedly a loser.
I watched everyone's eyes fall on myself.
Ovorov slowly gritted his teeth, if the empress was not dead, then his presiding over the rescue would at most make the empress's influence on him change, but no matter how the empress changed, in front of him and Potemkin, there was no doubt that the empress favored Potemkin.
And as long as there is Potemkin for a day, then Ovorov will never want to get ahead!
And if the empress is dead, then there is no doubt that the future ruler of the empire must be Paul with a sad face at the moment, so Ovorov just turned his heart and said: "His Royal Highness Paul as the Crown Prince of the Empire.
At a time when Her Majesty's life and death were unknown, his orders were the supreme of the entire empire.
Therefore, in the current situation, it is better for His Highness Paul to take the idea!
” Ovorov's active avoidance made Paul very satisfied, although Ovorov usually did not treat Paul very well, but after all, he did not offend Paul like some other ministers who wanted to invite favor, so Paul still did not have much bad feelings towards Ovorov, and now seeing Ovorov can be so wise, Paul's heart is also a little gratified.
"Well, since you are so affectionate, then you will pass below" As he spoke, Paul's momentum changed suddenly "Kalevsky, you immediately lead all the guards in the palace to extinguish the flames of the palace, and you are bound to find Her Majesty the Empress.
Torlev, you and your people must keep a cordon around the palace and blockade it, and make sure that no one is allowed to enter or leave the palace!
Penning, you have to bring all the people in the council here, and all the ministers in the government to come here quickly!
Ovorov, you go and pass on my order to keep the troops outside St.
Petersburg on first-class alert, and to ensure the stability of St.
Petersburg at all times if necessary!
...............”
With Paul's order, the nobles who received the task left the open space quickly, and when the task was arranged, Paul asked the attendants in the palace to lead the nobles to rest in other palaces, but for the time being, these nobles did not want to leave the palace.
Paul knew that if the news spread at this time, it would inevitably cause political turmoil in St.
Petersburg, and once the situation in St.
Petersburg, which was the heart of the empire, was unstable, then there would be no peace in the entire Russian Empire, so for a short time, he planned to keep these nobles in the palace and restrict their personal freedom.
After finishing his chores, Paul saw Alexander, led by his wife, and Alexander looked at his father with some horror and strangeness in his eyes.
Seeing Alexander's frightened appearance, Paul was a little helpless, but he still suppressed the discomfort in his heart, and said lightly to his wife: "Feodorovna, you take Alexander to my dormitory first, remember to watch Alexander and not let him run around, and watch the people around you!"
Paul's words shook Feodorovna's heart, although Paul didn't say much, but how could the intelligent Feodorovna not understand what her husband meant, but whether it was for her family or for the empire, Feodorovna nodded and then pulled Alexander, who didn't speak, into the distance.
Looking at the back of his wife and children in the distance, Paul shook his head and sighed in his heart, but after only a while, Paul recovered and began to direct the fire fighting in the palace. ..........................
Thanks to the unremitting efforts of the Guards, the fire was extinguished on the morning of the 22nd, and in the ruins of the palace only the body of Catherine II was found, and the reason why the empress was able to identify it was also because of the scepter in her hand, which symbolized the supreme power of the empire.
The damage counted after the fire showed that everyone except the Empress, Potemkin, and more than two dozen doctors and attendants survived, and after learning the news of the Empress's exact death, everyone looked at Paul differently!
Although people think that this fire started strangely, and in the next half a month, many people put this fire on Paul's head, and a considerable number of nobles think that there must be Paul's shadow behind this fire, but helplessly, there is no evidence in their hands.
And because of the death of Catherine II, although Paul postponed it repeatedly, the high-ranking officials of the imperial parliament and the government repeatedly petitioned in the palace, and for the sake of the eternal inheritance of the empire, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who was obsessed with the great grief caused by the death of the empress, had to stand up and preside over the overall work of the empire.
In fact, these high-ranking officials are very reluctant to ask Paul to come out to preside over the overall situation, most of the people who can get high positions in the imperial government are loyal believers of the empress, and for these politicians, it is an eternal common sense that once a son of heaven and a courtier, they will more or less cause some misunderstandings to Paul in their previous lives, so once Paul comes to power, it is inevitable that everyone will be in danger.
But the situation did not allow them to think too much, and the Empress had planned an offensive against the Turks after the sixtieth birthday, and even the emissaries sent to Constantinople to declare war were already on the way.
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But now, with the death of the Empress, the war plans against the Ottomans have come to naught.
That being said, the hundreds of thousands of troops deployed by Russia around the Black Sea are not a joke, not counting anything else, just the people of the army eating horses and chewing is a huge expense, if the empire can't make a quick decision, then once the two countries are officially at war, the empire that has lost its supreme command will even have a great chance of defeat.
Therefore, a series of reasons forced the top of the empire to accept Paul's position as soon as possible, and the reluctance of some people to make concessions in the face of the general interests of the empire was the consensus of everyone.
Not only that, but five days after the Empress's death, Paul handed over the post of commander of the Imperial Guard to Kalevsky on the pretext that it would be unfavorable to protect the Empress, and the post of commander of the Third Army stationed outside St.
Petersburg was replaced by Torlev.
Paul's actions naturally alerted some nobles, but now that Paul's accession to the throne is a foregone conclusion, everyone wants to improve relations with Paul, and no one dares to disobey Paul's orders for the time being.
On May 15, 1789, more than half a month after the death of the Empress, Paul was officially crowned in the Imperial Palace in St.
Petersburg, known as Paul I, and his eldest son, Alexander, was proclaimed Crown Prince of the Empire.
Immediately after his coronation, Paul sent people to Constantinople in the hope of improving relations with the Ottomans, and not only that, but Paul I also sent large delegations to Prussia and Austria, which were to work on improving the unfavorable external environment around the Russian Empire and to reach consensus with Prussia and Austria on some matters to avoid conflict.
In the military, Paul continued to make great strides in reform, not only by removing important generals from Catherine II's era and replacing them with his own, but also by using his power in the government to make considerable changes to the top of the government.
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