Struggle in Russia

Ulanov was in a very unhappy mood. It took him a long time to reach the position of Governor of Ukraine. During this period, he spent a lot of money and owed so many favors. He thought he could make a fortune, but it seems that this time he will lose his pants. There are no more left.

The matter has become so serious that it is beyond control. If you think about it with your buttocks, you will know that he, the governor of Ukraine, is probably done.

But Ulanov is very unwilling to do so. If he steps down in such a dejected manner, he will lose all his money!

He doesn't want to live like those ruined nobles for the rest of his life, at least not worse than before he became the governor!

Suddenly a sense of urgency came up, and he knew he had to find a way to make money quickly! Otherwise, there wouldn’t be a shop like this in this village!

Yes, Ulanov's first priority was to make money. He never thought about how to turn the tide or clean up the situation.

These are not important to him at all, so what if he has the ability to be king Kuanglan? There are countless people in St. Petersburg who are coveting his position. These people will never speak well of his luxury, and they will seize this opportunity to shame him!

As the saying goes, three people make a tiger, even if he has 10,000 mouths, he will still take the blame. So since the future is already dark and everything is useless, why don't you care about him so much!

"What is the Governor doing?" Anton suddenly asked, "With such a big thing happening, it's impossible for him to do nothing, right?"

The person in question was Anton's spy, working in the Governor's Palace, specifically one of Ulanov's secretaries.

Yes, one of the secretaries! Because Ulanov's ostentation is not ordinary, there are more than a dozen secretaries around him, ranging from personal secretaries, work secretaries to confidential secretaries. He wishes he could have a secretariat together.

Vasily Nikolayevich Kasinin is one of his working secretaries, mainly responsible for handling various documents.

As for why he became Anton's spy, it has to start with his relationship with Anton. Let's put it this way, Kassinen has known Anton since they were young. The two are cousins, and Kassinin's mother is Anton's aunt.

It's just that the two brothers' career trajectories are completely different. Kassinen is better at reading and went to college. And Anton joined the army.

It's just that these two brothers are very capable. Anton is now the commander of the Kiev Gendarmerie, and Kashinin has become one of the governor's many secretaries. Strictly speaking, they are both considered to be the best in Russia.

Cassinin sneered: "Of course he can't do nothing. Everyone knows that he will not last long as governor. St. Petersburg may remove him from office at any time. Recently, in addition to busy writing letters to friends in St. Petersburg asking for help, Just busy making money.”

Anton said in shock: "Are you still making money?"

Cassinen snorted: "Of course, nothing is more important to him now than making money!"

To be honest, Anton sometimes can't understand the way of thinking of these bureaucrats. It's time to burn their butts. Instead of putting out the fire, they go to make money? Isn't this crazy?

Kassinen explained: "Putting out the fire? He ignited the fire. How can he put it out? What's the use of putting out the fire? The mistake is already there. No matter how hard he tries to remedy the situation, there will still be people who criticize him. It's better to make money quickly." It’s down to earth!”

At the end, he added: "What's more, if you make more money, you can give it to those good friends in St. Petersburg and ask them to help him speak. Not to mention keeping his official title, it can at least reduce his guilt, and maybe the big problem will be trivialized. !”

Anton shook his head. He knew that what Cassinin said was absolutely right. This kind of thing seemed like something that bureaucrats could do.

He sighed and said: "Then you collect the evidence that he made money. When Count Dmitry Milyutin arrives, hand it over and make that bastard spit out everything he has eaten!" M..

Cassinin looked at Anton in shock. To be honest, he couldn't understand this cousin. Their family backgrounds are very ordinary, and they can barely be regarded as poor little aristocrats. The future of children from their family is basically fixed. The most he can do is help big aristocrats like Ulanov become nobles and make them comfortable. Maybe I can change to an official, not big or small.

And Anton is even more pathetic. He will be nothing more than a colonel in this life. Even if you have outstanding abilities, it is unlikely that you will become a general.

But Anton broke this inherent trajectory and became a colonel in his early twenties, and he was also a colonel with great power like the commander of the Kiev Gendarmerie. Let's put it this way, as long as he doesn't make mistakes later, he will definitely become a general when he is forty years old, and it is possible to become a lieutenant general or even a general in the future.

When Kashinin first arrived in Kiev, he couldn't understand what kind of bad luck his cousin had got. But later he discovered that Anton had a close relationship with the reformists, and guessed that he must have hooked up with a big boss of the reformists. Boat.

It is very likely that he was Count Speransky, the former governor of Wallachia.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with Kassinen joining the reformists. At least the reformists are more willing to give opportunities to people of their background. Anton can have a bright future, so he must be the same!

This is also an important reason why he is willing to become Anton's spy to monitor Ulanov. After all, for Ulanov, he was just a little secretary who did dirty work with no connections and no backing. Kneeling and licking his anus wouldn't get anything out of him in the end.

But just now Anton asked him to collect evidence of Ulanov's corruption and encouraged him to report it. This seemed a bit out of line for Kassinen.

To do this would be to offend Ulanov to death. Yes, Ulanov is definitely doomed, but as the old saying goes, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse. With Ulanov's financial resources and connections, there is basically no hope of making a comeback, but it is not difficult to kill a little secretary like him.

Isn't this seeking death?

To put it bluntly, even if Dmitry Milyutin admires him and is willing to protect him, as Ulanov's secretary, he openly reports on his boss. In any case, he is a bastard!

Although he is indeed a kid, there is still a big difference between being a kid in secret and being a kid known to everyone.

The latter has simply cut himself off from the people. Who will dare to let him be his secretary in the future, and who will dare to trust him?

Isn’t this self-destructive?

Cassinin hesitated, and Anton also saw his hesitation and knew why he hesitated.

He was a little funny about this. He admitted that Kashinin was very smart and capable, but some things still looked at the problem from the perspective of a little person or a little secretary, and the conclusions he drew were naturally very different.

In his opinion, Kashinin's standing up to accuse Ulanov did have a bad reputation, but it could also open a door to a new world!