Solovyov in Tsarist Russia 1796.

Chapter 396 038 Solovyov is going to increase the strength of Nikolai again
After the letter was completed, Solovyov returned to St. Petersburg and seemed to have resumed his daily life.

Although the Tsarskoye Selo Lycée was officially established, it still had to wait until the first batch of preparatory students began the formal entrance examination, which was equivalent to the transition from primary school to junior high school. The secondary school system was a merger of junior high school and high school, followed by graduation.

In this era, this is equivalent to a very high level of higher education, and the academic system is not standardized.

Solovyov came back to teach Nicholas and Mikhail. He had previously prepared the curriculum, which was to be completed by 1810 and was equivalent to the curriculum of the Tsarskoye Selo Preparatory School. The two grand dukes would then also have to take entrance exams.

Although both of them could be admitted regardless of their test scores, as a teacher, Solovyov, after discussing with General Langzdov, decided to give them a tough time. In addition to the lectures, they also needed to complete homework and the regular exams.

For the two grand dukes, the most troublesome thing is undoubtedly that there are too many teachers, and several top teachers are dealing with their two children. What's even worse is that their mother, the queen mother and the royal brother still agreed to this course!
Moreover, more homework was added.

"Boss, we have another assignment today. Please be kind and leave it for tomorrow."

"That won't do, Your Highness. I've already given you a holiday since I asked you to go and welcome your sister back. You'll have two days less of homework. With your brain, you can still finish this amount of homework."

"That's not good. There are fireworks on the street today."

"What's the point of watching fireworks? Don't you like playing with guns and cannons the most on weekdays? There will be a test firing of a new type of cannon at the training ground this weekend. Do you want to go and watch?"

Solovyov is a very cunning guy and he knows the psychology of these two children very well.

Moreover, he personally supervised the completion of the homework of the two grand dukes. While they were doing their homework, he could also complete some work on his own.

Nikolai was very troubled. After all, once Solovyov increased the intensity, even the basic elementary school math problems he used were a bit difficult for him.

"What? No?"

"If the equations listed before were okay and could directly calculate the numbers, what is this?"

"This is an indeterminate equation. You will be able to use it when you learn functions in the future. These are also the basics of artillery. It's not like cavalry or infantry. Just knowing how to fight is enough. To fire accurately, you need to be good at math. I have said this many times. And when firing artillery, the trajectory is there."

It doesn't require Nicholas to learn too well, but at least he should not fail in his studies, and General Langsdorff also supports him in doing so.

By the time Nikolai finished his homework, Solovyov had also done some translation manuscripts. It was not as if he had produced "The Hero of Ryazan", but he was doing them one by one in order, and the editorial department was also urging him to update.

"Boss, what is this?"

"I have previously translated the Zuo Zhuan, which is also a 'Water Margin Story' and a famous Chinese novel."

"It's a story about the Khitans again. I see many officers and soldiers of the Imperial Guard passing the album around."

"Did you watch it too?"

"Of course, but I don't have the patience to lock myself in the study and read books all day like my sister-in-law did."

"No matter what you do, Kolya, you are His Highness the Grand Duke, and you will always have to do things in the future. Whether you are leading the Guards like His Highness Constantine, or supervising a region as a governor, you must always be patient. Only with patience can you get things done well in the future, and if you lead troops to fight, you will also be able to win."

Solovyov always left some room for maneuver when speaking, and did not describe Alexander's desperate escape by saying it in too straightforward a way.

Nikolai always had to be advised. When he was staring at the manuscripts in a daze, Solovyov added another question.

"Your Highness, let me ask you, if you add integers from 1 to 100 in order, what will you get?"

This problem was a piece of cake for Gauss, who was of the same age. He was also able to explain the calculation rules of arithmetic progressions, so it was no big deal to teach it to a child of Nicholas' age.

Solovyov was also testing him, and if he didn't know how to do it, he could teach him something.

Anyway, according to Nikola's current level, he can still handle the thousands digits, which is not too bad. It should be the level of his age.

"Well, from 1 to 100"

While he was thinking, Solovyov had time to consider the words in the translation.

Alexander had promised him before that as long as the letter of credence could be presented through the merchant corps, he would receive a medal.

After all, the medals he received were genuine, much better than those weird things. Russia often gave out fake medals, and the evaluation was also very rough.

Speaking of which, the Russians are addicted to awarding medals, which they learned from Europe. Moreover, Paul also tied bonuses and pension benefits to them, which can be regarded as the root of all evil.

At times like this, you must not forget your ancestors!
And Nikola is now scratching his head and started complaining as soon as the number reached 12.

"This is really boring. Even if you can figure it out by adding them up, it's still troublesome enough."

"How much have you calculated?"

"12."

Nicholas did not respond, but Mikhail reported the progress.

"That makes 78. Adding them up one by one is really troublesome and a waste of time."

Then, Solovyov called Nikolai and started talking to him directly about arithmetic progression.

"So, putting the first and the last two together, we get 50 times 101, and the final result is 5050. I met Dr. Gauss in Dresden. He did this when he was a child, and he was called a child prodigy."

By the way, the Duke of Brunswick's investment was worth it.

If Napoleon had not quickly established a passage through Berlin, the Duchy of Brunswick would have been temporarily destroyed for a period of time. With his financial support, Gauss would have directly become a professor at the local university instead of going to Göttingen to teach.

"That's really amazing! When you're with the sisters, they all sing, paint, and write poems. Boss, you can do these things, too."

"What? Your talent is limited. I can teach you some math knowledge, but it's unlikely that you will gain any groundbreaking insights."

Moreover, Solovyov thought in his heart that he was stealing the mathematics professor's job, and the professor only chose them because they were grand dukes, not little dukes of Saxe-Weimar, and were studious and had some talent for mathematics.

It is really hard to describe the cultural level of the male family members of the Romanov family, who burned books and buried scholars alive. Even the best Alexander they educated had many problems and was unable to learn in depth.

On the contrary, many of the daughters-in-law married in this family are studious, which is really strange.

But if in the future there is a daughter-in-law who shares their feudal and superstitious beliefs, the country will be doomed soon.

The strange thing is that all the Romanov daughters-in-law were studious, and it was when the country was on the rise.

As for studying, Solovyov would not allow such a thing to happen. "Just learn all these contents well, and you won't have homework today. If your grades in the monthly exam are not good, you will have to do more homework."

He would not allow such a thing as 3 points being enough.

The indeterminate equation is a mathematical concept left behind by Diophantus, the man who set the question on his tombstone.

Since Nicholas has learned it, he has at least entered the door of algebra. He just hopes he won't be as immature as Alexander.

At this time, Solovyov remembered the words "the old Tartars have no temper". Because of Peter the Great's maternal family, the Naryshkin family, they all had some Tatar blood, but it was very thin.

As for the Queen Mother, since she has already endorsed the matter, he doesn't have to worry.

Nicholas had no homework today, but he felt a little lighter.

But the fireworks show had already passed, so he had no choice but to run to the Alexander Palace to play with his second sister.

Elena always brought back three children. Nicholas' eldest nephew was only four years younger than him, so they could still play together.

What about Solovyov?
He was now at Count Bobulinski's restaurant, where the editor wanted to discuss the details.

This is not a problem of any other kind. Although Russia's censorship system was basically non-existent in the early days of Alexander's reign, it has always existed.

Since it exists, it is impossible for it to do nothing, so we have to look for the problem in the story of the Liangshan heroes.

". The situation is exactly as I said. After reading the contents, Prince Kurakin thought that the book was full of rebellion and was not suitable for serialization in newspapers."

"so what?"

"Baron, you have to think about this too. After all, 30 years ago, the rebellious Cossack Pugachev and the Kazakh herdsmen caused quite a stir."

"So, Prince Kurakin read the rest of the story and said the same thing?"

"Yes, even these people, like the Cossacks who surrendered back then, are not suitable for publication."

"Ah, it's really boring. This book is good because... Never mind. Since the Attorney General has said so, I will just give up translating this book. But it doesn't count as a breach of contract."

"It's not really a breach of contract. This is the 'force majeure factor' mentioned when we signed the contract. You added this clause."

"As for the content to be serialized, it's not that there is nothing else that can be published, but this content still has something to do with the Cossacks."

Solovyov was quite bold. If he directly plagiarized "With Fire and Sword", I would feel a little disgusted. After all, what kind of figures were praised in Sienkiewicz's book?

He himself and Bao Hong's descendants were all in the Guards, so he could write some short stories and novellas from the perspective of the Zaporizhia Cossacks.

Don’t make it long; it doesn’t have that much substance.

Just writing this proves one thing to some extent, that the Poles brought their own troubles upon themselves.

What was written was more like a political analysis, but Solovyov still had some appeal among readers.

After he wrote these things, the only one who was unhappy was probably Czartoryski. The Polish girl was not very sensitive to this aspect, and the suicidal Polish prince would not be able to say anything if he saw it.

After all, Solovyov always likes to restore history in his works. If these protagonists find the archives, they will find that they are not that great.

The Poles did all those awful things in the 17th century, just state them directly.

Similarly, if they did something good, there was no need to exaggerate it. They led to the Siege of Vienna, which eventually led to the partition of Austria and Prussia, and they had to seek help from Russia.

However, the Russians may also have their reasons. The Russian princes still had more or less claims to those places in Ruthenia, but it was the Poles who came and occupied them. Between the Western Slavs and the Eastern Slavs, only Russia and Poland have always been enemies, while the others are all small Karamis.

In fact, the Poles also suffered the consequences of their actions when they were powerful in the past, and they have suffered the consequences for more than 20 years.

If Poland wants to restore its country at this time, it will have to rely on the powerful countries nearby.

If they continued to do this, they would soon be able to welcome Napoleon, but this restoration would be extremely short-lived.

As for the Poles, Solovyov did not have any sympathy for those Polish petty nobles. Instead, he planned to use this novella to explain how the Poles were doomed.

After telling the editor about this idea, the other party agreed, and Kurakin did not continue to make things difficult for him.

But there were also those who were unhappy, such as Nicholas.

In addition to his interest in military affairs, he was also interested in fighting and killing, and even mentioned it in front of the Queen Mother.

"Mother, while Colonel Solovyov was supervising us to complete our homework, he was also translating a Khitan novel."

"I know he has the ability. What are you going to do, Kolya?"

Although Queen Maria came from Württemberg, she was at least somewhat proficient in Russian.

"I want the complete version, and it should be published."

"But Your Highness, because this book involves a group of gangsters, the Home Secretary and the Public Prosecution Department have asked the newspapers not to publish it."

"That's not a problem. Kurakin is a bit too nosy. I don't like Solovyov very much, but he has some skills. He is Nikolai and Mikhail's teacher. He also has some writing skills. We can't ban him completely. We have to publish his works on a small scale. For example, send some content to me."

By the way, the Queen Mother was somewhat interested in some poems and novels, and she would call on her maid to read aloud to pass the time.

Speaking of which, the people of the Württemberg family always served in the army of a big country, and they were not interested in these books.

When Solovyov found out, he could only smile.

What he didn't expect was that the empress dowager, who had never liked him, actually allowed this matter. However, there was no way to publish it in newspapers on a large scale, or to publish and distribute it. It could only be circulated in a small range as a form of entertainment among the nobles.

"That's okay, that's okay."

However, he also accepted a task from Alexander to give a public class at the Tsarskoye Selo Preparatory School.

(End of this chapter)