Struggle in Russia

Anton felt that Kassinen had a god-given opportunity in front of him, and as long as he seized the opportunity, he could open the door to a new world.

Yes, if you openly become a young person, you will definitely find your own path as a secretary. You will never be able to work as a secretary for a big shot again in this life. No big shot wants to trust a kid!

But, your lifelong wish, Kashinin, is to be a secretary to a big shot, to be a clown who does dirty work and never gets the spotlight?

Who doesn’t want to be alone? Who doesn’t want to stand upright in front of the world and scold Fang Qiu?

Anton doesn’t want to be a slave anyway. He believed that Kassinen was also unwilling to play a ridiculous role like a servant forever.

He solemnly said to Kashinin: "If you just want to be a little secretary forever, you can completely conceal Ulanov or not report Ulanov at all, but then you will always be just a little secretary? This is Your ambition?"

Cassinin stopped talking. He frowned and sat there blankly, not saying a word, feeling very uneasy at the war between heaven and man in his heart.

Anton continued: "The Kassinin I know and know well is a man with great ideals and ambitions, not a timid and ridiculous little secretary!"

Cassinin sighed and smiled bitterly: "But the risk is very high! You and I are no match for Ulanov. You don't know that although he doesn't have great abilities, he has a very developed network of connections. As long as he is willing to do whatever he wants, He can destroy us casually! It’s too dangerous to rashly become his enemy!”

Anton replied contemptuously: "It's true that he has connections, but how do you know we don't?"

Kassinin looked at him and asked: "Do you mean Count Speransky?"

Anton smiled and said: "You don't need to test me. I can only tell you that many people are on our side, including Count Speransky, and many big shots who are more powerful than him. Compared with them Ulanov is just a ridiculous clown!"

Cassinin looked at Anton in surprise, and he was even more hesitant in his heart. If he said he was not moved, it would definitely be a lie. However, after being a secretary for such a long time, he had mastered some official secrets and knew that some things were not as obvious as what he saw. It's so simple.

After thinking for a while, he said: "How about this? I report him anonymously, so..."

Before he finished speaking, Anton interrupted rudely: "Anonymous reporting is a joke. Do you think that if you want to be anonymous, you will not be exposed? There are thousands of ways to find anonymous people in Russia. With my As long as they want to find you, they will be able to find you if you know about the third part!”

After a pause, he continued: "Besides, anonymity seems safe, but in fact it does not do you much good. What is your purpose in reporting him? Is it just to make him obey the law?"

Anton smiled and said: "If you have such great sentiments and don't care about personal gains and losses, then you can report anonymously. But I'm afraid it won't have much to do with you in terms of rewards based on merit!"

Cassinen was stunned, because these words were too straightforward and too simple, but the truth was very real. He took such a big risk just to seek justice?

Nonsense!

He's not that great, okay? If you put in so much effort and get nothing in the end, what's the difference between this and being taken advantage of?

After thinking for a long time, he sighed and said: "It seems that if you want to gain something, you have to work hard, and you will gain something if you work hard. There is no free lunch!"

An Dongxin said you don’t know this truth until now, right? No wonder you struggled with me for so long.

Of course, it was not the first day that Cassinin knew this truth, but he always subconsciously felt that he was too far away from Anton and the governor-level big shots. It's too dangerous to be an enemy of such a big shot. It's better to avoid it if you can.

Unexpectedly, Anton told him that the governor was not a big shot, and they could completely defeat the governor without belittling themselves.

"How can Count Dmitry Milyutin arrive in Kiev?" Kashinin asked.

"It should be quick," Anton said worriedly: "It's just that there are rebels all around. Even if the count rushes here, it won't be that easy to enter Kiev!"

This is indeed a big problem. Even Kassinin knows that there are rebels operating around Kiev. What if there is really the main force of the rebels?

Cassinin knew that the main force of the rebels was not so easy to deal with, otherwise the troops Ulanov sent to counter the rebellion would not have been beaten to a pulp, let alone allow the rebels to sweep through most of Ukraine.

It was precisely because the rebels were so powerful that they blocked Ulanov in Kiev, and that made this guy only want to make money by messing around.

Thinking of this, Cassinin asked worriedly: "Approximately how many troops does Count Dmitri have?"

Anton shook his head. Li Xiao only sent a letter telling him that Dmitri had been ordered to come to counter the rebellion and hoped that he would cooperate fully, but he did not tell him how many troops there were to counter the rebellion.

However, Anton also knows what the country is like now. There is a shortage of money everywhere. It is simply unrealistic to expect St. Petersburg to send hundreds of thousands of people to quell the rebellion in one go.

He felt that it would be a blessing to have 100,000 people in the counter-rebellion army.

So he warned: "Don't have too high expectations. The treasury has no money at all and it is impossible to dispatch too many troops to counter the rebellion. I estimate that the counter-insurgency operation will be very difficult. You'd better be mentally prepared for the worst."

Cassinin was stunned because he had no idea what the worst-case scenario would be.

"There will never be less than 100,000 troops, right?" he asked cautiously.

"I don't know, it's hard to say," Anton answered simply, "But I think it's the number at most!"

Kassinin was instantly chilled. How could he not know how many rebels there were in Ukraine when others didn't? According to the most optimistic estimates, the number of rebels is more than 300,000.

Although these rebels are scattered across the vast land of Ukraine, they seem to be nothing when spread out. But according to the intelligence obtained in the previous paragraph, most of the rebels are actually concentrated around important cities in Ukraine, such as Kharkiv and Kiev!

Even according to the most optimistic estimate, the number of rebels around Kiev is around 150,000, and the minimum will not be less than 100,000.

What, you said this is similar to Dmitry's troops, but you have to know that Dmitry's troops cannot all enter Ukraine at once. It takes time to mobilize troops and organize supplies. According to common sense, these 100,000 people can be deployed in 2 years in the next year. All of them entering Ukraine in the month will be considered very fast.

Therefore, Dmitry will never have too many troops in the early stage. How can he deal with the rebels around Kiev with only such a small number of troops?

Kassinin is very aware of how great Kiev's material needs are. Without the various materials constantly sent from surrounding areas, it will be a problem for the hundreds of thousands of people in Kiev to eat, okay?