Solovyov in Tsarist Russia 1796.

Solovyov returned to Crimea accompanied only by Mihrima and a few servants. He also gave his orderly, Valodya, leave to go home and visit his family. If not summoned, Valodya was to go to the Solovyov family's old house in Ryazan to help Petya.

Because his wife and children had been taken to the palace by the Empress Dowager, Solovyov now only has Mikhelima and her daughter by his side.

I don't know what the Empress Dowager was thinking, since the Tsar himself hardly ever appears with his mistress anymore.

He sent his ministers and his female steward out, leaving the other man's wife in the palace.

Of course, this also shows that Solovyov is favored.

After all, he was the son-in-law of the most distinguished military family in the Dolgorukov clan, and marrying this wife would be very useful.

In other words, when the gentry conference was held that year, these Boyars of Rurik paternal lineage were unwilling to take any responsibility, allowing the Romanov family to take advantage of the situation.

Dolgorukov and Volkonsky could be considered the Claudius of the Russian Empire, a state that called itself the Third Rome.

If it were a chaotic situation like the Roman Empire, someone like Solovyov, who held military power, might have started a war abroad and become Caesar instead.

However, Solovyov was able to become the governor-general who controlled several provincial governors because he had little ambition and his political goals were far beyond those of ordinary people.

Some people equate conquering many places in the world and making loud political slogans with having a grand vision, but sometimes strategic planning and a long-term perspective are also very important.

After returning to Simferopol, Solovyov continued to do the same work as before. He was always full of energy and liked to travel around the peninsula by car or horseback.

Having a general here certainly makes things more convenient; he even noticed the topographical features of the western part of the peninsula and ordered the Black Sea Fleet to conduct further measurements of these areas.

He made sure to take care of any places where they might land.

"Sir, it's just these places."

“Do as I say, gentlemen.”

"My lord, the Turks have withdrawn from the northern coast of the Black Sea, leaving only Anapa. Such precautions are perhaps overly cautious."

"It's not about guarding against the Turks. If one day Russia has to fight several powerful countries at the same time, this place will be very important. We can even build fortifications behind the coastal batteries. We also need to take into account the terrain below. The soil is still suitable for building batteries."

If things go well, they might even be able to build massive structures like batteries 30 and 35, bringing over the 12-inch guns of battleships.

But that was more than a hundred years later, and it has nothing to do with the present.

Solovyov was very thoughtful. Even if he were to take the helm of Russia in the future and shake British hegemony for a time, his successors might not have been as astute and might have offended many countries at once.

At that time, an anti-Russian alliance emerged across the Old World, which was quite extraordinary, as the battlefront stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific and even reached North America.

On the road to becoming number one, you will inevitably encounter this situation.

Solovyov knew this very well, which is why he came to Sevastopol in person.

However, when you reach Cape Hersonnes, the excavation there always brings some unexpected discoveries.

Solovyov went from the location of the fort he had predicted to the cape, where he unearthed many stone tablets, fragments of buildings, and Doric columns.

It looks like something from the Greeks.

"Sir, what are all these?"

Solovyov's Latin and Greek were both very poor, but some things can still be gleaned from these inscriptions.

Therefore, he wrote to the professors of the Imperial University and asked them to make rubbings of the text so that he could figure out what it was.

Solovyov originally intended to use Cape Khersones as a location to build a lighthouse and lookout post to observe the situation at sea.

However, the discovery of ancient artifacts still had to interrupt the original construction, and Solovyov himself came to see for himself.

After all, the civil officials here are probably not as knowledgeable as he is. Even the provincial governors are just going through the motions, so you can imagine what the rest are like.

It was a bit difficult for them to understand the Greek inscriptions; Solovyov himself even tried to read the top part.

"This is the citizens' oath of Hersonnes, which is engraved on a stone tablet."

Historically, this stone tablet was only discovered in 1902, and its excellent preservation made it an important source for studying inscriptions and ancient Greek epigraphy.

The above refers to the oath taken by citizens of the ancient Greek city-state of Hersonnes when they obtained citizenship.

Solovyov was also very curious. He learned from some scattered information that the city-state here in Khersones was a third-generation colonial city-state built from Heraclia, a second-generation city-state from Pontus.

Their mother city in the ancient Greek world was Megara, an insignificant and perhaps relatively weak city-state.

But this is not surprising, as the Greeks frequently sailed around the Mediterranean world during the Classical period.

The furthest city-state, which has not yet been excavated, is located in Spain, and it even extends beyond the Greek-recognized border of the Pillars of Hercules, reaching the Atlantic Ocean.

Heading east, they reached northwestern India and Central Asia, where they left many traces.

Even when Solovyov himself read Alexander the Great's biography, he mentioned that when Alexander the Great went on his expedition to Central Asia, he encountered some descendants of Greek traitors and punished them.

The Greek army's eastward campaign ultimately resulted in reaching the capital of the Mauryan Empire, a remarkable achievement for the Bactrian Kingdom following Alexander the Great's eastward conquests.

However, due to the chaotic situation in India, much of their history was preserved thanks to the Tang monks and the monk Faxian, who came here even earlier to study the monastic precepts.

However, after Muslims entered northern India, the accounts became more comprehensive.

Solovyov was also quite curious about the ancient world, especially since it was in his jurisdiction.

So before the archaeology professors from the Imperial University arrived, he had already begun studying ancient Greece and Rome, and who ruled those places. Solovyov had a large collection of books, especially copies from monasteries and various libraries. He employed two copyists specifically for this purpose, who traveled to various places year-round to do copying work.

Solovyov has thus read many accounts from the Rus' side during the Golden Horde period, but according to the Great Khan of the Golden Horde, they should be called "Jochi Urus," and the four sons of Genghis Khan and his Great Queen Börte each had a Urus.

Hulanfei's son had none, and even if he had a territory, he was hit by a stray arrow during the western expedition.

Even Genghis Khan's brothers, Belgutei and Temuge Ochigin, lived longer than his sons.

He still has a considerable interest in history.

When he returned to China by sea, he joked about the books Zhao Lian had given him, saying that the History of Yuan was a hastily produced piece of garbage. If it had been properly researched and polished over several years, the content in it wouldn't be so inconsistent with the Annals of Rus and the history of the Golden Horde itself.

Solovyov is currently in Crimea, where he has developed an interest in dabbling in history.

Crimea has a long history and was a major center for grain trade, as well as for timber, horses, minerals and furs from various Slavic regions.

It was also an important market for trading people, from which the Greeks sold slaves captured by the Scythians to the market on Delos.

Before its demise, the Crimean Khanate would occasionally travel to the Ukrainian steppes to recruit talent, and even recruited a woman for the Ottoman Empire who eventually rose to the position of Dowager Queen.

You tell me, isn't the talent exchange here a long-standing tradition?

Solovyov knew that this was already the case when the Scythians were here.

Later, the Greeks colonized the Black Sea coast, and the Scythians didn't really need these coastal areas, so they started doing business with the Greeks, even establishing a colony in Tanis at the mouth of the Don River.

In fact, not only does Crimea have a long history of human trafficking, but Rostov's middlemen and Odessa's smugglers also have a long history.

Solovyov himself came from a family of smugglers in the north and knew the ins and outs inside the business, so it was just right to have him in charge of the governors of the southern provinces.

If someone else had been appointed as the imperial envoy, it would have been a laughing stock.

However, Solovyov had no interest in copying "The Government Inspector" himself. Firstly, even with his excellent memory, he couldn't remember the content. He simply couldn't be a plagiarist; his own poetry was always inconsistent in quality.

Let the author handle this kind of thing.

As for the history of Crimea, it was subsequently ruled by the Greeks, and later by Mithridates of Pontus. After being defeated by Rome, his son surrendered to the general Pompey and it became a vassal state.

Later, he jumped up and was beaten by Caesar, leaving behind the famous quote, "I came, I saw, I conquered."

Then came an insignificant Roman vassal state, which became a military district of the Eastern Roman Empire. Later, Genoese people settled there, followed by the invasion of the Golden Horde which triggered the Black Death, and the Crimean Khanate. Only then did the Russian Empire conquer the area.

This involves these countries.

Solovyov also thought that since homework had already been assigned, there should also be standard textbooks, and the Minister of Education would have plenty of work to do in the future.

The homework he assigned was simply to have the children circle his name and idolize him because of his battlefield exploits.

His colleagues were suddenly given extra workload for no reason.

However, some humble public servants would probably be grateful that he provided these positions, so that others besides censors could have some work.

Then, Pushkin came along again.

"Sasha, why aren't you staying at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs? What are you doing here?"

“Mikhail Sergeyevich, I have come here on behalf of the Royal Society, the Faculty of Arts, and the Imperial University of St. Petersburg because of the letter you wrote to the Academy of Sciences.”

"But your strength is poetry. If you were to study literature, it might be of some use."

"You probably don't know that I graduated with excellent grades in both Latin and Greek, do you?"

It seems that, because of Solovyov's examination system, Pushkin was repeatedly provoked by his parents' letters to compete with other children.

Although his level was barely passable in subjects with a stronger scientific nature, he had no rivals in any field related to writing, except for Gorchakov, who was better at law.

Even when he graduated, he presented his first collection of poems, which impressed the principal of Huangcun Middle School.

However, this guy was really too annoying in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Neserrodie didn't like Gorchakov, and Pushkin was disliked by several senior civil servants under his command in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. As a result, the two of them were particularly unlucky and were sent to other posts.

Gorchakov went to Vienna, at least because of his strong work ability, and Neserrode still wanted to make use of his talent.

As for Pushkin, he simply wrote poems that satirized civil servants within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After being targeted, he was sent to Solovyov.

Considering that Pushkin's great-grandfather was General Hannibal, Solovyov could also call Pushkin a "Li hater." However, Suyab was still under the rule of the Qing Dynasty at that time, and due to Solovyov's intervention, the birthplace of the poet Li Bai probably wouldn't have been moved abroad.

Russia will not be fortunate enough to have the "Black and White Duo" of the poetry world in the future.
The Kyrgyz, on the other hand, were originally the Kyrgyz. Their leader claimed to be a descendant of Li Ling, and they were included in the Tang Dynasty's genealogy. Their treatment was slightly worse than that of Li Keyong, who was directly included in the genealogy of his close relatives. They still had some connection with the great Tang Dynasty.

Solovyov also wanted to receive Pushkin, and wrote a reply to Neserrodie, indicating that Alexander Pushkin, a tenth-rank civil servant in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, had arrived in Crimea and was using his literary and linguistic talents at Cape Hersonnes.

Although this kid, in Russia, was a classmate of the Grand Duke, and even to some extent, attended Solovyov's Chinese literature classes and achieved excellent grades, and was able to understand some of the concepts on his own, making him Solovyov's disciple outside the royal family, he still didn't learn any military skills and was always being protected by someone.

But this kid always manages to cause trouble, and even after seeing Mihrima, he couldn't move.

However, he knew this was Solovyov's housekeeper, and of considerable status, so he simply said:
"Dignified lady, you are young and beautiful, swaying like a laurel tree, even Apollo would be captivated by you."

Unfortunately, I already have someone I love, and it's a pity we're not meant to be; only now am I meeting you.

If this kid weren't such a literary genius, and if Solovyov hadn't disliked corporal punishment, he would have at least given him a beating with a belt, then sent him to the Black Sea to calm down before climbing back up to ask if he knew he was wrong. (End of Chapter)