"Mr. William, why are you doing this? Aren't you a friend of Rasputin?" Anastasia Nikolayevna asked with her little face raised and a rather charming look, "

How do you want to treat us."

"To be honest, this is indeed a problem." Sheffield pulled a stool over and sat in front of the two girls. He seemed to be troubled and muttered to himself, "You two are a huge trouble to me. I

I didn’t expect that an accident would occur during the operation. To be honest, I don’t know how to deal with you.”

This statement made the two underage girls feel anxious. As the apple of the eye of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, they were heavily guarded wherever they went. I had never seen such a scene before.

Did Sheffield just lie and deceive two girls? That's not really the case. He has never thought about how to arrange for the two daughters of Nicholas II. As his wife Anne said, let his son marry each other and Russia

The emperor became a relative. Let’s not talk about the fate of Nicholas II. The hemophilia inherited from the Empress Nicholas alone, how could the slave owner really risk it?

Although Sheffield was unambiguous in selling his son, forcing Edith Rockefeller's son to marry the steel king's daughter, Anne's son was not sensible yet, so he was assigned to the tobacco king's daughter. The other sons were too young.

But not to mention whether the other party is a peerless beauty, at least the marriage partners are all healthy women. He is not ready yet to let his descendants directly inherit hemophilia into his family. Although he always wants to do it for his career.

You have to make a certain amount of sacrifice, but this sacrifice is too big.

Sheffield just sat like this, with a gloomy face, which made the two female archduchess feel anxious. If the other party dared to kidnap her, there was nothing they couldn't do. "If you can let us go, if you just kill us,

If you kill Rasputin, I believe our father will forgive you."

"Oh?" Sheffield's indifferent eyes swept across the faces of the two girls, and he used the words he had already prepared, "Two Grand Duchess, do you think I will kill a foreign religious leader for no reason?

Huh? Personally speaking, all religions are the same in my eyes. To put it bluntly, it is a very noble person within the Empire who entrusted me to complete this matter. Get rid of this person who has sneaked into the upper echelons of the Empire and affected the people's perception of the royal family.

of a liar.”

The slave owner made an astonishing statement. He said what he had prepared for a long time. He also stood up and emphasized his tone and said, "Rasputin has a very bad impression in your country. I believe you are not completely unaware. The people even spread the word."

To mess up the palace would be a huge humiliation to the nobles and even government officials of the entire Russian Empire. There are not just one or two people who want to kill him, and my client is something I can’t refuse. The two grand duchess, from us

I just met you, and I can tell from what you said. Both of you know that I am Rasputin’s friend. Are you thinking carefully about who, with Rasputin’s current status, is most likely to command the richest man in a big country to kill him?

What about a so-called saint?”

Sister Anastasia Nikolayevna was stunned for a moment. There were of course only a handful of such people in the Russian Empire. The biggest suspect was of course...

"Yes...yes..." Anastasia Nikolayevna hesitated. The biggest suspect seemed to be ready to be revealed. There was only one person in the entire Russian Empire who had such great power.

"I didn't say anything. The two Grand Duchess should not make wild guesses." Sheffield spoke decisively to stop the other party from thinking wildly, but he knew better than anyone else that it was better not to say this. After saying it, the two Grand Duchess would be even more worried.

of doubt.

"I can't kill you, you stay here temporarily!" Sheffield finished half of his words, walked directly to the door and turned around, "The cost here will not be worse than in your country, let's take a rest first.

Bar."

There is no doubt that Sheffield's first meeting with the kidnapped Grand Duchess was to direct Rasputin's death to a figure who was rumored to be reasonable.

"Is it our father?" Anastasia Nikolayevna looked at her sister and asked in a low voice.

"I don't know either." Maria Nikolayevna shook her head in distress. In fact, it was possible, but she didn't dare to doubt it in her heart. But it seemed that they were the only ones in Russia who could command such a wealthy person.

Father, Nicholas II.

Sheffield came out with a strange expression on his face, as if he wanted to laugh but was afraid of laughing out loud. Anyway, he didn't say anything. The two little girls had guessed it themselves. If the secret was revealed one day, it had nothing to do with him.

"Have we finished talking? No one would have thought that now the whole country is looking for the crazy daughter of the Russian Emperor in Arlington Manor." Anne had already laid out two cups of coffee, took one herself and put it to her mouth with a smile.

road.

He directly reached out and grabbed the coffee from his wife's hand, and then drank it all in one gulp. Sheffield bar said with a sigh, "These two girls are of great use. I have temporarily let them accept the reality. By the way, what's the extent of the submarine thing?"

Already."

"The twenty-eighth submarine has left port, and its destination is the Persian Gulf." Anne said without thinking, "Our company has spent too much in the past year. If it were a listed company, how would the stock price drop?"

"So talking about the stock price is all nonsense." Sheffield commented unceremoniously, holding his hand on his forehead and said, "Although it is not completely completed, it is almost done. My dear, the United Company has actually reached a bottleneck. This

The bottleneck can no longer be solved by ordinary methods. We can only find some peripheral countries! Inevitably, our company now has to deal with governments of various countries."

Anne thought her husband was talking about the Russian Empire, but in fact Sheffield was talking about not just the Russian Empire, but all the countries in the two current camps.

This truth is very simple. Let’s not mention the extent of the destruction of various countries by the world war. Let’s take a less cruel example, the disintegration of the Soviet Union! The Cold War was not just about the exhaustion of the Soviet Union. Reagan’s set of seven-injury punch was very harmful to the United States.

The damage is also huge.

The collapse of the Soviet Union vacated the markets of dozens of countries, allowing the United States to conquer cities and conquer territory. It was suddenly freed from inflation, and even the whole of Europe and the United States fell into prosperity. The fundamental reason was that all competitors in the other camp were dead!

Why was the United States unable to get out of the economic crisis later? That’s because the Republic is not dead!

If Anne were not French, Sheffield could actually say more clearly that the earth needs to reduce some competitors and take the initiative to die and keep the food.

Even in the original World War I, the slave owners felt that the level was not enough, and they tried their best to make the strength of the two sides more balanced. If the acceleration was successful, the problems of the two world wars might be compressed into one world war to solve.

It has to be said that the United States before World War I really made Sheffield feel a little familiar. Even the country's participation in helping the Russian royal family find the princess reminded him of the allusion of helping foreigners find bicycles.

"This can be regarded as an example of heretics being more hateful than heretics." Sheffield, flipping through the newspaper, said to himself with a sarcastic face. He would rather treat foreigners than his own people. It seems that all countries are similar.

, "Steward, announce to the public that the reward will be increased, and whoever can catch the criminal will be given two million dollars."

Since citizens across the country were so concerned, Sheffield would be out of place if he didn't take it. Anyway, no one can get the bounty offered by the slave owners, and it doesn't matter if they write bad checks.

The slave owners' minds were no longer in the Americas, but focused on what was going on in Serbia's National Humiliation Day. After Great Slavism gained the support of imperial Russia, and Serbia made huge profits in the two Balkan Wars.

The national self-esteem of the Serbian people is at an all-time high. The National Day of Humiliation, which was occupied by the Ottoman Empire hundreds of years ago, has also become a solemn holiday in Serbia from the official to the private sector for several years. In recent years, due to the squeeze of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the popular enthusiasm has not only declined.

Reduced, but became more and more high.

Archduke Ferdinand, who left Vienna, even felt that in the newly annexed land, he had more freedom than in Vienna, and he could make his beloved wife happy here. Sophie was a maid, and her status was too low. In Austria,

She has no status at all in the Hungarian royal family. Even if she attends a dance, Sophie is required to be the last one to enter the dance hall. Because she is a servant, she cannot enter with the royal family.

What makes Sophie the most angry is that when Archduke Ferdinand goes out to ride in a car, she cannot enjoy the privilege of riding in the same car. Because the Austro-Hungarian royal family has regulations, how can a servant ride in the same car as the Crown Prince? Her status in the Austro-Hungarian royal family even

Not as good as a newborn child, because these royal children are grand dukes as soon as they are born.

The military parade was held on the day of Serbia's national humiliation. It was also a demonstration of his strength as the Crown Prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in front of his beloved wife. Sophie was obviously very happy and beaming beside Ferdinand.

In the urban area of ​​Sarajevo, a large assassination net has been opened against the crown prince of an enemy country who is extremely hostile to Serbia. Archduke Ferdinand, under the escort of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was chatting and laughing with his wife on the bustling streets of Sarajevo.

At that moment, a roadside bomb suddenly exploded, shocking everyone and filling the streets with screams.

The nearby guards were also in chaos, and the convertible carrying the two people had no choice but to take a detour. At a street corner, a Serbian young man shot Archduke Ferdinand and his wife with the speed of a Texas hijacking case.

kill.

In just three days, two assassinations of imperial royal families occurred on two continents. The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand quickly spread to the Americas along with radio waves.
Chapter completed!