"Your Excellency, are we really going to do this? Once exposed, the consequences would be unimaginable.”Lieutenant General Brushilov reminded.
After all, Nicholas II was still the Tsar of the Russian Empire. Grand Duke Michael had sent people to assassinate him. This was simply treason!
Moreover, the tsar had a great influence in the hearts of the ordinary people of the Russian Empire.
Even if he succeeded, once it was leaked out…In that case, Grand Duke Michael would be hated by everyone in the Russian Empire.
"Sir, we have no other choice. After Father passed away, Nicholas started to suppress us. In the first three months of this year, only half of our military expenses have been received, and the rest are all in arrears. It was the same for the Black Sea Fleet. The Admiralty has already put our application on hold. If this continued, Nicholas would be aggressive. "At that time, I'm afraid they will directly dismiss our generals and officers, or even take over our army. All our efforts over the years will be in vain. I absolutely can't accept this!”Grand Duke Michael was determined.
"Your Excellency, if we fail, we will have to prepare for an all-out war!”Lieutenant General Brushilov said.
"Even if it's an all-out war, we still have a high chance of winning. Our army is only half the size of the army controlled by Nicholas. However, whether it was firepower or the combat strength of the soldiers, they were definitely not something that the Army trash could compare to. Our only disadvantage is that we can't last long. We have to end this quickly. Otherwise, our financial resources won't be able to last.”Grand Duke Michael had a clear understanding of his own strength.
In Volgograd, there was an arsenal that he had carefully built. It was the largest in the entire Russian Empire. The equipment used was also from the Germanic Empire.
This was also the reason why the weapons of the troops of the Caucasus Military Region were very different from the weapons of the Russian army after they had changed their equipment.
Especially in terms of artillery, the field artillery equipped by the Russian army had a caliber of 76.2mm, while the howitzers were 122mm and 152mm. However, the Caucasus Army was equipped with 75mm field artillery, 105mm and 155mm howitzers.
Whether it was expanding the army or equipping the troops, it was very costly.
Even though Alexander III had given Grand Duke Michael a lot of subsidies back then, he had even left Grand Duke Michael a generous inheritance after his death. However, the more money he spent, the less money he had left.
In the entire Caucasus region, the only pillar industry was probably the oil extraction in the Baku oil field.
However, the world's oil consumption was not large at the moment. The oil export from Baku's oil field could not support the huge army of the entire Caucasus military region.
Therefore, Grand Duke Michael was eager to get rid of Nicholas II as soon as possible and seize the throne. At that time, they would be able to use the entire wealth of the Russian Empire to support a powerful army to prepare for future wars.
Although the Russian Empire was also very poor, there were many poor people who could not even put on pants.
However, there were also many rich people in the Russian Empire. The capitalists, the banks, the big landowners, and the big bureaucrats were all filthy rich.
When he succeeded to the throne and held the highest power in the Russian Empire, he would have plenty of ways to get money from these guys.
Not to mention other things, just the gold in the secret vault of the Russian royal family alone was several thousand tons! This was an extremely huge amount of wealth!
One had to admit that although the tsars of the Russian Empire were not very good at governing the country, they were definitely good at collecting money!
After so many generations of tsars, they had amassed an extremely large amount of wealth.
Unfortunately, after the collapse of the Russian Empire, all of this wealth fell into the hands of the Bolsheviks.
If Grand Duke Michael had become the Tsar, he would never have let this wealth lie in the dark vault.
This money had to be spent to increase the industrial and military strength of the Russian Empire. It would strengthen the overall strength of the Russian Empire so that the Russian Empire would win in future wars and not collapse.
Grand Duke Michael had many ideas about the future development of the Russian Empire. However, there was a prerequisite for these ideas to be realized. He had to replace Nicholas II as the Tsar of the Russian Empire and become the ruler of this country. Otherwise, everything would be empty talk.
It was also because of this reason. Therefore, Grand Duke Michael made up his mind to get rid of Nicholas II.
In this way, he could seize the throne at the lowest price and become the Tsar of the Russian Empire.
"Don't worry, we're ready. This time, the plan would definitely succeed!”said Grand Duke Michael.
"Yes, Your Excellency!" Seeing this, Lieutenant General Brushilov had no choice but to say nothing more.
"Your Excellency, we have received reliable news that His Majesty the Tsar will return to Petersburg from the Imperial Village in three days. We plan to take action on the way. Everything was ready. This time, the Tsar would definitely die!”Major General Vasily was extremely confident.
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