Chapter 433 Awakening
Count Uvarov was indeed very keen. He realized that the matter in Kiev was not that simple. If he was given enough time to investigate, both Li Xiao and Count Rostovtsev might be exposed.
It's a pity that Count Uvarov didn't have enough time to investigate. Basically, he couldn't get away in St. Petersburg, and he was about to fight another fierce battle with Bariatinsky and his gang. How long will this battle last? I don't know, let alone what it will look like after the fight is over. Maybe it will take a few months or even a year or two to clean up the mess.
So it was absolutely impossible for him to leave St. Petersburg during this time.
Didn't you say he had men? Doesn't it matter whether it is to send a few capable investigators or simply let Count Shuvalov investigate on the spot?
Well, I'm afraid this is also impossible. Send someone to Kyiv to investigate? At this moment when he is about to fight with Bariatinsky? Even if he is Count Uvarov, one of the most powerful people in Russia, he doesn't have such a spare manpower.
As for counting Shuvalov to investigate on the spot, it is not impossible, but do you think that Count Rostovtsev will let Count Shuvalov continue to stay in Kiev happily?
Although he seemed to let Count Shuvalov go with a high hand, he did not pursue the case of his conspiracy to frame Bestuzhev Ryumin. But his other problems reported by Grand Duke Constantine were investigated, and he was immediately dismissed.
How could Earl Shuvalov conduct an investigation without his authority? Even if he is unwilling to do everything himself, Count Rostovtsev will bring him back to St. Petersburg and will never allow him to stay in Kiev to do things.
So let's put it this way, even if Count Uvarov is keenly aware of the problem, he has no ability to explore the truth in the general environment. Even if he really tries to do it regardless, Count Rostovtsev will Will not stand idly by.
The count's method may not be a good way to deceive an old fox like Count Uvarov when the case has just ended and all the circumstances are relatively new. But as long as he is given enough time, he can definitely wipe out the relevant evidence if he cleans up.
And Count Rostovtsev will not let Count Uvarov idle, do you think he will watch Count Uvarov and Bariatinsky fight indifferently?
How could he let go of this opportunity to alienate and disintegrate the conservatives? I am afraid that Count Uvarov will not fight with Bariatinsky. As long as they fight, the destructive scale of the war will not be controlled by the two of them. Count Rostovtsev will definitely do his best to keep the two of them in the dark.
In fact, it is possible to mourn Count Uvarov in advance,
The starting point for him to teach Bariatinsky was to maintain his own position and the stability of the conservatives. But he never thought that this would backfire. After this battle, the conservatives might break their heads and turn them into a pot of boiling water.
It's a bit far away. While Count Uvarov was anxiously waiting for Count Shuvalov's latest report, Count Shuvalov, who was far away in Kiev, was also a little bit depressed.
Now he has not received the latest instructions from Count Uvarov, and he is a little bit idle. The case was found out, and Bestuzhev Liumin was indeed crushed by him as he wished, but the price he paid was a bit heavy.
Not only was he himself turned into a bare-bones commander, but also those close friends who followed him suffered heavy losses. In the third part, this long-running den was almost taken over in one go. Almost all the horses he placed in it were kicked out or transferred away, even if there were two three-legged cats left, they were sent to sit on the bench.
Not only did he suffer heavy losses in the third part, but also in other key municipal departments, not many people involved with him ran away, and Count Rostovtsev used various reasons to hold him accountable, either dismissed or demoted, all Kicked out of key departments.
After such an operation, Count Shuvalov's power in Kiev said that it would be light to be cut in half, and it was almost uprooted.
"This imperial envoy is really not ordinary ruthless!"
Count Shuvalov looked in the direction of the Governor's Palace and sighed. Before that, he thought that Count Rostovtsev would take gentle measures to solve the problem in Kiev. Even the culprits like him and Grand Duke Constantine were let go casually, so they shouldn't go to war.
But who would have thought that in the blink of an eye, the earl was slashing and killing with a butcher knife. Only then did Earl Shuvalov realize that he seemed to have misunderstood Earl Rostovtsev. of.
The only thing that made Count Shuvalov feel a little relieved was that it was not only his people who were unlucky, the people of Grand Duke Constantine were not pleased, and the henchmen of Bestuzhev Ryumin did not escape either. Count Rostovtsev's forty-meter machete has become a ghost.
Even the weeds newly recruited by the later Grand Duke Mikhail, who danced more happily in the previous section, were slaughtered and sacrificed to heaven. Anyway, after this hacking, Kiev or the Ukrainian nobles are all in danger, for fear that they will be caught and hacked by Count Rostovtsev if they are not careful.
This made them more honest than quails in an instant when people were changing their minds. No one dared to act recklessly, and no one dared to rely on relationships or spend money to buy Ukrainian officials. They could only hide at home and pray secretly, hoping that Count Rostovtsev, the murderous god, would leave quickly.
"Count Rostovtsev's nonsense, I'm afraid it will offend the public, and he will have no way to explain it then, right?"
Earl Shuvalov just snorted coldly, and lectured very bluntly: "Naive, do you think he did this nonsense? I'm afraid he was ordered by His Majesty to do it on purpose!"
The man was taken aback: "Your Majesty also supports this?"
Count Shuvalov sighed faintly, and he finally figured out what Count Rostovtsev had done. I am afraid that apart from the public report on the closing of the case, the earl should have reported the whole story and the truth to Nicholas I in private.
The reason why they were ashamed was not that Count Rostovtsev was afraid of Count Uvarov. They didn't want to mess with things at all, but to save the face of Nicholas I.
So don't look at him being punished publicly, it was just for outsiders to watch, but he will still punish them severely in private. That's why Count Rostovtsev hacked people so crazily. You thought he was a mad dog, but in fact, he acted according to the rules and was endorsed by Nicholas I!