Struggle in Russia

Li Xiao tightened the stand-up collar of his military coat. Although autumn has just entered, the temperature in St. Petersburg is not much different from that of winter. The chill continuously surges from the soles of the feet to the top of the head, just like stepping on ice with bare feet. If you add the cold wind like a knife, the effect will be as cold as taking a cold bath for three or nine days.

As a southern dog, Li Xiao really can't adapt to the cold and dry north. In particular, St. Petersburg is known as the Venice of the North, and the waterways are full of humidity, which makes it colder and colder. Anyway, his thin body was already shivering in the cold wind, and his teeth were chattering constantly, as if his whole body had been electrocuted.

If it was the past, Li Xiao would not hesitate to find a warm place to warm up by the fire or turn on the air conditioner, or simply hide under the quilt of the electric blanket as a salted fish. But now, let alone warming up to the fire, this salted fish can't even avoid the wind.

The reason is very simple. Now he is a guard of the glorious Preobrazhensky Guards, and his duty is to guard the Saltykov Gate of the Winter Palace. As a sentinel standing at the gate, as the face of the entire Winter Palace, as a soldier, he cannot be avoided, because as long as he dares to skip work or fish, what awaits him will be the harsh punishment of the military court.

As long as he thinks that he will have to hang out in the howling cold wind for three or four hours, Li Xiao feels that there is really no way to pass this day. If God gives him another chance, he must not cross.

Yes, Li Xiao is a glorious time-traveling party, he accidentally arrived in Russia more than a hundred years ago, and got possessed by an unlucky ghost named Andrei Konstantinovich Romanov .

In the beginning, Li Xiao was happy, excited, almost ecstatic. He had been waiting for this day for many years. He is not the kind of unprepared crossing party. Over the years, he has made sufficient preparations. He has memorized the numbers of double-color ball and lottery for more than ten years, and studied in detail the history and unofficial history of various countries in the world from ancient times to the present. , stock ups and downs, technology background, outstanding talents, he is all well-versed.

Li Xiao believes that with these things, after time travel, no matter which era he is in, he will be able to stand out as a blockbuster no matter what situation he faces. Anyway, he has thought up all kinds of scripts to reach the pinnacle of life, and the only thing he lacks is the opportunity to actually operate.

Now the opportunity has come, but the pinnacle of life is so far away. Li Xiao traveled to the Russian Empire in the late autumn of 1847. His cheap father was Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich, his uncle was Tsar Alexander I, and his uncle was Tsar Nicholas I. As a member of the Romanov family, he is a nobleman of the heavenly family. It seems that even if he does nothing, the title of a hereditary grand duke with tens of thousands of hectares of land and tens of thousands of serfs seems to be enough for him to eat and die.

But the reality is just the opposite. Li Xiao's situation is quite bad. Let alone marrying Bai Fumei to reach the pinnacle of life, it seems very difficult to live a stable life. The reason is very simple, who made him time travel to become the cheap son of Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich? This cheap price is really not so good.

The late Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich was a wonderful flower of the Romanov family. Although there are quite a lot of wonderful things in the Romanov family, there are not many who love beauty and don't love country.

The thing is like this, Alexander I, the brother of Grand Duke Constantine, had no children (in fact, he had many illegitimate children but no right of inheritance), and Grand Duke Constantine was logically the first heir to the throne. Such a default, but the Grand Duke did something that his brother Alexander I could not tolerate-the Grand Duke married a Polish girl as his bride.

Is there a problem?

The problem is quite big. Poland, Russia, and the Romanov family are sworn enemies. After the death of Ivan the Terrible, Russia fell into civil strife. The Poles took advantage of this opportunity to press Russia to the ground and rub it with various gestures. Rubbing and rubbing,

Once the Russians were forced to support the Polish pseudo-tsar and looted Moscow by the way, and later imprisoned the father of Tsar Mikhail I, Filaret Romanov.

It can be said that the two sides have an enmity as deep as the sea. As a member of the Romanov family, how should he inherit the will of his ancestors and take revenge, not to mention giving Poland a whip and dripping wax, why can't he marry a Polish bride, right? Doesn't this tarnish the blood of the family?

Anyway, Alexander I couldn't understand and couldn't support his younger brother's decision, so he secretly disqualified Grand Duke Constantine from succession, and instead secretly made Nicholas I the crown prince. It's just that this decision Alexander I made was too concealed and airtight, and his death was too sudden, which caused a series of turmoil after his death.

Courtiers who did not know the truth thought that Grand Duke Constantine was the heir, while Alexander I's mother, the Empress Dowager, informed Nicholas I that he was going to succeed.

As a result, things became troublesome. Both Grand Duke Constantine and Nicholas I stated that they could not inherit the throne, and they expressed their allegiance to each other. For a while, the Russian throne turned into a hot potato that no one wanted. Seeing an opportunity, a group of advanced Russian nobles decided to launch an uprising to transform Russia. This was the famous Decembrist uprising.

Of course, the uprising was suppressed in the end, but for all Russians, the source of all this trouble was that Polish girl, that is, Li Xiao's cheap mother, Duchess Johanna Grudzinskavovich , even Li Xiao, the "hybrid bastard", was hated together.

The ministers and nobles did not like him, and the members of the Romanov family also looked at him as an eyesore. What was even worse was that his cheap father, Grand Duke Constantine, suddenly left Hexi in 1831 before he was born, and his mother was so anxious that she gave birth prematurely and with dystocia, and then died. Poor Li Xiao has become a weed that no one cares about and no one loves, it's really hard.

Li Xiao lamented the fate of his predecessor. He was not taken seriously since he was a child, and almost no one loved him. It doesn't look like a fighting nation at all, it's as weak as a bean sprout, and it's a miracle that it can grow so big.

If it was possible, Li Xiao hoped that his predecessor would continue his miracles and persevere till the end of the world. Why did he learn from others and challenge himself to join the Knights of St. Andrew, but he was miserably overdrawn during the entrance trial? His life was dying, and he, an unlucky traveler, took advantage of it.

It can be seen that it is really cheap and not good. He has a dog at the beginning of the difficult start, a better gift system or cheats. The only thing he has here is the attribute of sarcasm and hatred. The health is still in a mess, not much better than the third-grade tuberculosis. Li Xiao doubted that if the wind was a little stronger, he would be blown away directly.

After Li Xiao secretly took stock, he found that he had almost nothing to rely on. Apart from the title of grand duke, his predecessor had no body, no connections, no money, and even no money. Sincerely, he could only attract hatred. With nothing else, how does this allow him to open up wasteland, break the situation, and reach the pinnacle of his life?

Anyway, Li Xiao is secretly worried, it has been three days since he passed through, and he has nothing more to gain except standing guard and drinking to his stomach every day. He doesn't know if he can survive until the end of the month, because this day is getting colder every day , When the dripping water turned into ice, he suspected that he would be frozen to death.