Solovyov in Tsarist Russia 1796.

Duke Richelieu was still very satisfied with the views put forward by Solovyov, he was just a little confused.

"Why do villages and estates have to report to the government?"

"The spread of the plague will only be taken seriously when it reaches cities and manors and people of the citizen and lord class get sick. This is also an unwritten custom formed in Russia, and you should know it."

"Yes, in France, too."

They are all feudal autocracy, so no one should laugh at anyone else. However, it is still uncertain which direction Russia is heading in terms of enlightened autocracy.

If a reactionary rule emerged in the future, Solovyov could say that it was all the fault of the Russian system itself. He had taught Nicholas wholeheartedly and successfully got him into the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. With friends, his brain would not remain in a dull state.

With dozens of children, there is no guarantee that there won’t be “other people’s children”. The Russian royal family themselves must also realize that no matter how high the level of the tutor is, learning still depends on the individual.

The most outrageous thing is probably that the Grand Duchesses generally have good learning abilities and are very hardworking.

If Solovyov hadn't forced textbooks and homework into Nikolay's head, he might have failed academically.

Coming back to the point, Duke Richelieu was also curious about Solovyov's views.

He then asked: "In Russia, I can also see that many people are calling for the abolition of serfdom, but so far, progress has been very slow. What's going on?"

"There is no way. Some people would even take the risk of organizing a conspiracy. You know, this is Russia."

The fact that he didn't give a direct answer already proved the problem.

"Yes, but you need to pay attention to the village. What's going on?"

"If there are sick people, it must have started from an inconspicuous place. At least we have to make sure that every village knows about the harm of these diseases. This also includes if some special diseases can be detected."

The French may be more concerned about this, after all, some things started with them.

“But our civil servants may not be able to do so.”

"But they are also small civil servants. There are always ways to make them obey."

At this point, they all laughed, and the reason was also some consistent characteristics of Russia. If it were written into a satirical novel, it would always be interesting.

This is not like choreographing a play, which has two boring things in it.

"Not that, but you and Madame Récamier are here, your wife."

"It doesn't matter. Katya and Julie have a good relationship."

But due to Katya's current physical condition, she can only stay in St. Petersburg. Prince Christian of Mecklenburg will soon marry Yulia, and the wedding venue has been chosen in Odessa.

Many places here are French in style, and a large number of French people have flocked to this city.

In addition, some Jews who coexisted with the French also flocked to Odessa.

From the time when France still had a king until the government after the Revolution, the French were actually less discriminatory against the Jews than people in other countries.

Think about the headless cake queen, she also adopted a black child and condemned racial discrimination from a personal perspective. Sometimes the world is quite wonderful, and it seems that the French are still relatively open.

Jews usually coexisted with money, that is, a group of loan sharks and merchants, as well as ordinary craftsmen.

Therefore, when Duke Richelieu mentioned the Jews, Soloviev instinctively wanted to impose financial controls on Odessa. Although these people coming to do business promoted local prosperity, what they did also made people realize the great lack of morality of loan sharks.

But this should have nothing to do with him.

His two main concerns now were his sister's marriage and the composition of the front-line corps.

Because of his strong request, Kamensky the Younger had to withdraw the Grenadier Division and place it in Craiova.

The configuration of this army in the west is not very good, mainly because there are too many people with connections and newly formed troops.

To be honest, the Russian army was a newly formed force after 1800, and the quality of the various infantry and cavalry regiments was uneven.

For example, the Selenge Regiment with Solovyov as the regiment commander was formed on the basis of several grenadier companies in Siberia, and its foundation was quite good.

However, the Yakut Regiment, which was separated from this regiment, used a lot of reservists and recruits from the Selenge Regiment, and its combat effectiveness was not guaranteed.

Moreover, according to the new division-level troop organization, the two regiments are still together.

There was also a huge gap in the levels of those dragoon and hussar regiments.

It is unlikely that Solovyov would be able to form the Finnish Division in St. Petersburg like he did with three young ladies sponsoring him and several cavalry regiments.

This is a high-end game, which will test his personal abilities even more.

Therefore, the Grenadier Division must be in his hands, and after taking Vidin, Solovyov must also control the shipping on the Danube and the transportation line from Belgrade to Sofia in Rumelia on the Serbian side. It will take some effort to subsequently form an auxiliary corps composed mainly of Serbs.

Without a core force that can fight, it would be difficult for Solovyov to guarantee the achievement of his strategic goals.

In addition to infantry and cavalry, this time in Wallachia, he can use artillery more conveniently, especially the powerful 1-pound Unicorn cannon, which is equivalent to a 20-pound cannon and has great lethality.

Considering the condition of these European city walls, if he concentrated his artillery fire and destroyed them thoroughly, it would be enough to cause harm to the Turks.

Time is very tight, and I can't even give my sister and future brother-in-law time to go on a wedding trip. I will have to make up for it when I come back.

Except for the Grenadier Division, the quality of the troops in the division under Solovyov's control was so uneven.

He may rely more on the 9th Division brought by Arkady. The troops in this division are in better condition, but Arkasha... His father is Marshal Suvorov, which leads to many people having high expectations of him.

Among Suvorov's own disciples, except Admiral Apraksin who always served as military governor around Moscow, all the others had fought in the battlefield. They were all brought up by him.

Now Solovyov has to take his master's son to the battlefield, and he is actually under a lot of pressure. After the Duke of Richelieu was reinstated, he served as the governor of Novorossiya and Odessa. Novorossiya is pronounced Novorossiya.
But the place with this name is still the territory of the Ottoman Empire, so there is no need to consider the bay.

This is also a good port, but the conditions are much worse than those in Crimea.

The Ottoman Empire was a strange country that could govern its country like this. It could be said to be a group of insects.

Solovyov believed that his action this time was probably just to "eliminate insects", but if he wanted to "shoot the sun", Sultan Mahmoud might not be qualified enough.

He even thought of the Sultan and wanted to perform a Zaporozhye cut.

Then, have a good fight.

After Julia settled down here, she quickly married Christian. The disadvantage of marrying a soldier, besides having to follow her husband around as he moved from place to place, was that she had to learn to wait.

Of course, mistresses also need to wait.

Madame Recamier's presence here is a good opportunity for her to take care of Julia, who has just gotten married, and there are also many family members here.

It was like a "wives' club" for Japanese companies, but considering that French women always hold salons, they could finally find something to do in the rear.

Then, Solovyov was a kind-hearted man. When Catherine got married, he was the envoy who escorted the bride and just listened at the door.

It was the first time for his sister and brother-in-law to talk, so he had to listen too.

Of course, as the eldest brother, he does have to take care of the happiness of his younger brothers and sisters.

After that, as long as the 9th Division entered the war zone, Solovyov could also set off. This time the journey was different from usual.

Christian led the Grenadier Division to set out first. If the Russian army wanted to launch an attack, they would also need Kamensky the Younger to fight from the front.

Solovyov's flank seemed to be doing nothing at first.

The Pashas and Beys of the Ottoman Empire found it strange that the Russian army had not taken any action in the western region.

Even the Serbs, who had been quiet of late, had withdrawn their full siege of Belgrade and merely cut off the city's communications.

The new Grand Vizier also has to listen to the Sultan. Although the power is in his hands, the Sultan is unwilling to accept the successive failures after he ascends the throne if this continues.

The Russians have now reached the Danube. Next is Sofia, then Adrianople, and then the capital Constantinople. There is nothing left to lose from then on.

Therefore, a lot of Turkish troops were transferred to Serbia, and recently they were also going to attack the armed forces there that were resisting the Sultan's rule.

At the same time, the Russian army's defense is relatively loose.

It was this situation that Kamensky the Younger wanted to take advantage of, but his plan was rather hasty. He wanted to quickly capture several important fortresses along the Danube and then march south in one go.

Solovyov corrected his plan. Without taking Rushchuk and establishing a stable supply line, it would be difficult for the Russian army to move south this time.

At the same time, the flank corps led by Solovyov would first launch an attack on Vidin. After capturing it, they would cut off the connection between the Turkish army on the Serbian side and their rear.

But Solovyov didn't know that the total strength of the troops deployed by the Ottoman Empire in Serbia was still greater than his army.

But the Ottoman Empire's army, their performance
In the past, when the Turkish army fought against the Serbs, they had gained some advantages over Karageorge Petrovich's army.

The reason for this advantage is that the Serbs have their own troops and are independent.

It is only Karageorge's own prestige that can restrain some people.

However, although Nenadovich, Stojkovic and Dobnyak were good at fighting, the latter two opposed Karageorge's claim to the throne. They were only willing to follow his command in key battles, and their relationship remained bad afterwards.

It was due to such internal strife that the Serbs once captured Belgrade, but are now facing failures one after another.

Due to lack of training and the failure of the Battle of Niš, the heads of Serbian soldiers, from officers to soldiers, were chopped off and piled up into a tower, which was a "Jingguan" style, to intimidate the rebellious Serbs.

Faced with these Ottoman expeditionary forces, the two tasks of opening up the road to Montenegro and expanding the territory to Niš and Kosovo failed.

Karageorge now also felt that if he could not establish formal contact with the Russian army, it would be difficult to achieve a decisive victory relying only on some Russian volunteers here and his 50,000 brothers who were not under the same command and were fighting among themselves.

The recent good news is that the Russian army is about to launch another attack.

But the bad news is that Karageorge has a bad temper. He injured his right-hand man Petr Jokic at the end of last year, which gave Dobnyak a reason to oppose him.

But now, according to the letter from the Russian general, they still believe that Karageorge is more suitable to be the leader of the Serbs.

Yes, this was the conclusion Solovyov came to after reading information from all sides. Stojkovic and Dobnyak were more of warlords. No matter how bad Karageorge's temper was, he could not compare to Marshal Kamensky in his prime, who only shot his trusted subordinates with a pistol.

The location of the wound looks like that of an insect.

When it comes to politics, the real bugs are probably people like Dobnyak and Stojkovic. Karageorge is just a bad-tempered person. What do they do?
He was no different from those big-slapping guys in the Ottoman Empire, who not only took a large group of Turkish women into their harem, but also ruled brutally in their territory.

They should have done everything they could, such as the tortures commonly used by the Ottoman Empire, castration, burning at the stake, beheading. They also did what the Ottoman soldiers did to Serbian women.

By the way, we also need to get some. In short, for the Turkish, Bosnian and Albanian little boys, they are in big trouble. Being used as slaves is just a minor accident.

In Karageorge's part, although such things also happened, there were fewer outrageous things.

Therefore, Solovyov's letter addressed Karageorge as "the commander-in-chief of Serbia" and focused more on the issue of coordinated operations between the two sides.

However, if the Russian army and the Serbian rebels were to establish contact and have the possibility of joint action, they would first have to capture Vidin and threaten the Ottoman Empire's transportation lines before the two sides would have a chance to establish contact.

Solovyov even suggested that both Dobnyak and Stojkovic could be invited to the Russian military camp for a drink.

However, what he wants to do. (End of this chapter)