Chapter 48 It seems that things always develop in a strange direction

Chapter 48 048 It seems that things always develop in a strange direction
Count Bobulinski began to manage the estate, not as unrestrained as he had been when his mother was alive. In fact, there was no essential difference in strategy. After all, the emperor's brother wanted everyone to do something.

If it was just a manor, it would be fine, but now the business scope of his "Bobridge" company involves so many aspects that it gives people a feeling that calling it a "limited liability company" seems a bit narrow.

Anyway, he was handsome when he was young, and he hasn't become a greasy uncle now. If time is a butcher's knife or a galloping wild donkey, we have to wait until after 1802 to say that.

Speaking of donkeys, it has to be said that because the Queen and the Crown Princess used glue blocks made from donkey skins for postpartum care, his side job, which was originally intended to please his sister-in-law and eldest niece's wife, became a trend in St. Petersburg.

Then, people gathered on the street where he opened his company, and this time there were quite a lot of people.

The palace was not paying attention to whether the business of the younger brother-in-law/Uncle Alexei was booming. The five grand duchesses were now here watching their younger brother and eldest niece.

Mikhail was only eight months old and started crying when he was stared at by his sisters.

As for the little Tonya, she would sleep after eating, eat after sleeping, and cry occasionally, which was a good thing.

Old Count Stroganov, who came to the palace, told the Queen: "It's a good thing that Grand Duchess Yevdokia is so quiet. You know the situation in my family. Sometimes the child cries all the time, which can easily be caused by the pain in the infant stage." He didn't say much because his eldest daughter died of such labor pains in infancy.

"Yeah, how is your daughter-in-law Sonya doing?"

"She did, too, because these methods were all told to her by Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess when she entered the palace. Now, when we held a salon at home and congratulated the Grand Duchess, we mentioned donkey skins, and then they were sold out."

"Alexei received too many orders, and he only prepared a small amount for his relatives and friends. Now he is in big trouble and has to ask me for the exclusive rights to donkeys in St. Petersburg."

I have never heard of anyone eating donkey meat in Europe, but there is more venison. Besides, whether it is in the hunting grounds of the palace or hunting outside, you can still see a lot of deer. Hunting is also relatively convenient, and venison is quite nutritious.

Solovyov really couldn't stand the environment in St. Petersburg where he couldn't do anything, so he urged the Guards Chasseur Battalion to go out for training. Before he left, he did tell Count Bobulinsky that there were some ways to do this, but the donkey meat needed to be cooked through a process.

This is quite embarrassing. The Italian chef brothers invited by Count Bobulinski are one short and fat and the other tall and thin. One of them wears a red hat and the other wears a green hat. If people know you are chefs, they would think you are crazy Italian plumbers in New York, and they also ask where Kuba and the princess are.

They were very resistant to "donkey meat pizza" at first, but it is still meat after all, and it is much more normal than adding some evil things to pizza, and it is not completely unacceptable.

So donkey meat pizza came into being. This was because the count misunderstood Solovyov's words. What he said was to make snacks like donkey meat toasted bread stuffed in round pizza. As a result, after the count misunderstood him, he invited an Italian chef to make a bunch of Italian dishes, but replaced the beef and pork with donkey meat.

Fortunately, the texture and taste of the donkey meat were good, so the two did not go crazy on the spot, but accepted it with a pinch of their nose. After all, the boss was the Tsar’s only brother and a well-known figure in St. Petersburg.

Their restaurant serves donkey meat from slaughtered and skinned donkeys. In addition to supplying the count's own territory, all the fresh meat comes here. The storefront is located on the embankment of the Moika River, near places frequented by young officers.

But if people knew that donkey meat was cooked like this by this pair of Italian chef brothers, AUV, I don't know whether to laugh or cry. After all, their skills are at the chef level, and there is no issue of religious constraints.

If you look at Spain and Mexico, there are so many donkeys that it would be a shame not to eat them. And from another perspective, donkey skin can have such a wonderful effect and always creates new fashions.

Paul asked Louisa to take more walks in the palace after she was able to exercise. If she wanted to relax, she could go to Count Stroganov's house or the residences of other court ladies accompanied by her maid. Changing to a new environment would be good for her health and would also be beneficial for giving birth to an heir to the empire in the future.

After the inheritance law was changed, it was still quite beneficial for male heirs to inherit in order, if they followed Peter the Great's method.

It was truly "He is an emperor, and I am also an emperor". The forms of the edicts of succession designed by the two were highly consistent. It almost benefited the Courland rich Queen Anna, allowing the inheritance rights to be transferred back to the line of Peter the Great's brother. In the eyes of Queen Elizabeth Petrovna, this free gift was not as reliable as giving it to her nephew.

Then, after Peter III ascended the throne, he made a bold move and untied the nobles. The empress also had to please these nobles when she ascended the throne. This Peter III really betrayed his wife and children. He had to please the nobles to maintain his rule. Although he gained unprecedented prestige, the nobles had become too powerful to be eliminated. And this Tsar Paul, who was his biological son, not to mention his stupid foreign policy and military reforms whose diagnosis and ideas were correct but the prescription was wrong, the core of the new policy of loosening the serfs and restricting the nobles were all forced out by his biological father.

As far as Paul's level is concerned, he is far better than his father. At least he was not careless and did not dodge. He could have stayed on the throne for a few more years. However, over time, his bad temper and pettiness would still be a big problem.

The palace is now very harmonious. Louisa has passed the first hurdle, and Uncle Alexei is really thoughtful. In addition to nourishing products, he also got some jewelry from Persian channels.

However, the jewels nowadays still rely mainly on the luster of natural gemstones. The thoughtful earl obtained the gemstones from India, as Indians love emeralds, rubies and sapphires very much.

"Your Highness, these are all gifts from Count Bobulinski."

"Uncle Alexei has been quite different in the past two years. He has become good at business."

"I don't think so, Lisa. He is just lucky."

Although the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law both came from a small state in the southwest of the Holy Roman Empire, they were very fluent in Russian when they came to the palace.

"Maria Feodorovna, my dear Queen Mother, why do you say that?"

"When Her Majesty was still alive, he was out having fun all day long. Being called back from Paris helped to smooth his temper. At that time, the favor he showed to him was sometimes even greater than that shown to Her Majesty. When money was insufficient, Her Majesty gave him 80,000 rubles of pocket money at a time, and he also received constant rewards. Although Her Majesty was only in Gatchina at that time, she also spent a lot of money on your uncle. Now, he has calmed down and started to run his own estate and company. But you have to realize that he relies on the managers he hired. Sometimes, some people are truly favored by fate."

For Paul, daily life is work. He likes to mess around, and he enjoys it no matter whether it is right or wrong. Count Bobulinski is lucky, but he also knows how to manage the palace. As for these gem earrings, they are not big, but they can show the heart.

Moreover, this was his usual practice to please his nephews, nieces and nieces-in-law. Even his second niece-in-law who was locked up at home and the unfortunate Princess of Saxony had a share. There was no such thing as "all the sisters had a share".

"But you guys still have to choose carefully to see which one suits your heart."

Queen Maria said this and left the nursery, and the Crown Princess asked the servants to take all the things to the children's room. As all five sisters-in-law were there, even Anna, the youngest one, had to have her share.

She was only 3 years old and not even old enough to wear earrings, but we still chose a pair of ruby ​​ones for her.

The children are happy when they see the shiny things, and it is up to the unmarried girls to choose.

However, when Alexandra mentioned getting married, she started talking about what her father had told her. He was reluctant to let her marry far away, and he grabbed his daughter's hands and started crying. He was really not like a Tsar.

Such rich emotions made her more suitable for the Austrian court. Although Maria Theresa's husband was a playboy, was devout to Paul and rarely had affairs with his mistresses outside, they were completely different types of people, but they were both highly concerned about their children.

If he was an emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and an Archduke of Austria, and was more responsible for his family, there wouldn't be so many bloody plots like the Austrian Habsburgs.

"Sister, what kind of person is Archduke Joseph?"

"I have only seen his portrait. He did write me a letter, but I didn't feel anything. The words were dry and the words and sentences were not beautiful. It is said that he was a loyal and honest young man, but there is no meaning in it."

"It's better than the King of Sweden!"

Catherine was indeed a ruthless person, and the name was not given in vain. She pointed her gun at the King of Sweden.

"But I don't know what to do now. What do you think, Louisa?"

In the Russian Court, people are now calling the Crown Princess by her original name, and it seems that only Paul and his wife and Alexander are calling her Elizabeth or Lisa.

"Don't worry this time. If you really don't like it, you can just tell your father that you and Archduke Joseph are not suitable. Although noble character is required, there must be some interest. Just say that His Highness wants to build an aquarium in the bay and create a fairy tale world." But she didn't want to talk more, and turned to talk about Alexander's plan to build an aquarium to please her. This idea was a new idea of ​​the court architects, and I don't know where it came from.

When it comes to the fairy tale world, there are always plots about princes and princesses.

They are real princesses, but reality is different from fairy tales. There are many different plots in the palace.

Recently, a fat Bourbon came to live in St. Petersburg with his niece and brother's family, claiming to be Louis XVIII. The courts of Versailles in France and Schönbrunn Palace in Austria were actually much more exciting than those in Russia.

At the very least, although the empress killed her husband, she still cared for her son and grandson. When it came to Paul, he attached more importance to family affection, and he began to consider whether his daughters could marry well. After all, it was different from those aristocratic families who intermarried in the country. If they were not satisfied after marriage, as the Tsar, he could still intervene in the marriage and let the aggrieved party marry someone else or remarry.

After all, this involves diplomatic relations, and the marriage cannot be easily broken off. For the marriage that Alexandra faced, there was only one situation in which the marriage could be ended when both parties were present, that is, after the crown fell, the woman could file for divorce because she could not give birth to an heir in exile.

However, considering that Archduke Joseph is not involved in the issue of succession to the throne, this does not apply.

At this time, it was Elena, who had the fastest brain, who said something shocking.

"We have no way to decide. The candidate was proposed by the Emperor of Austria. If it is not Archduke Joseph but Archduke Karl, it is not unacceptable. Although I heard that the Archduke is frail and sickly, he is still one of the most famous generals in the world. Sister Sasha, you are so beautiful, shouldn't you be paired with a hero?"

Perhaps she had recently heard the loud-mouthed young Duke of Mecklenburg talking about military affairs in front of her, and thought of the fact that Archduke Joseph had such an elder brother. What was particularly outrageous was that he was not young anymore, but until now, he seemed to have not even been considered a spare tire in the topic of aristocratic marriages between countries.

Even his rookie brother, Archduke John, has been put on the potential marriage list by the courts of various countries. He was adopted by the side branch of the Principality of Teschen, and his reputation is well-known, but there is almost no news about him.

"That must be the case. Humph, women only slow down my speed in drawing my gun."

Catherine didn't know where she learned this, but her tone was very similar to that of Prince Dolgorukov who saved her, but her words were more like those of the captain who stood guard at the Tsar's door and served as Elena's model for a long time.

"Katya, if there was a Greek play, you would probably dress up as a man and play the leading role. This is something those two gentlemen would do."

Catherine's current attitude towards little Prince Dolgorukov is just that of a slightly favorable impression of an older brother, but this tone clearly shows that they met frequently in the palace when Prince Mikhail was on duty as a Hussar Guard.

This plot, because there are too many variables, is really like a galloping wild donkey, and no one knows which direction it is going.

(End of this chapter)