Chapter 668 Sarajevo Incident
"Mr. William, right? Why are you doing this? Aren't you a friend of Rasputin?" Anastasia Nikolaevna looked up and asked in a rather touching manner, "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 quite annoyed and said to himself, "You two are a huge trouble to me. I didn't expect any accidents to happen during the operation. To be honest, I don't know how to deal with you."
This statement made the two underage girls feel nervous. As the apple of the eye of Russian Emperor Nicholas II, they were heavily guarded wherever they went and had never seen such a scene before.
Did Sheffield just lie to the two girls? That was not the case. He had never figured out how to arrange for the two daughters of Nicholas II. Like his wife Anne said, let his son marry each other and become a relative of the Russian emperor. Let alone the fate of Nicholas II, just the hemophilia inherited by Empress Nicholas, how could the slave owner really risk it.
Although Sheffield was very clear about selling his sons, forcing Edith Rockefeller's son to marry the daughter of the steel tycoon, Anne's son was still young and was arranged to marry the daughter of the tobacco tycoon. The other sons were too young.
But regardless of whether the other party is a peerless beauty, at least the marriage partners are healthy women. He is not ready to let his offspring inherit hemophilia directly into his family. Although you always have to make a certain degree of sacrifice for your career, this sacrifice is too great.
Sheffield just sat there with a gloomy look on his face, which made the two grand duchesses feel uneasy. If the other party dared to kidnap them, what else could he not do? "If you can let us go, if it's just about killing Rasputin, I believe our father will forgive you."
"Oh?" Sheffield's cold eyes swept across the faces of the two girls, and he used the words he had prepared long ago, "Grand Duchesses, do you think I would kill a foreign religious leader for no reason? As for me personally, all religions are the same in my eyes. Let me be frank, it was a very noble person in the Russian Empire who entrusted me to complete this task. Kill this liar who infiltrated the upper class of the Russian Empire and affected people's perception of the royal family."
The slave owner said something shocking, saying what he had prepared long ago. He stood up and emphasized his tone, "Rasputin has a very bad impression in your country. I believe you are not completely unaware of this. People even spread rumors that he was filthy in the palace, which is a huge humiliation to the nobles and even government officials of the entire Russian Empire. There are more than one or two people who want to kill him, and my client is something I cannot refuse. Grand Duchesses, from what you said when we just met, I know that you both know that I am Rasputin's friend. Think about it carefully. With Rasputin's current status, who is most likely to command the richest man in a big country to kill a so-called saint?"
Anastasia Nikolaevna and her sister were stunned. There were only a handful of such people in the Russian Empire. The biggest suspect was of course...
"Yes... yes..." Anastasia Nikolaevna hesitated to speak. The biggest suspect seemed to be about to emerge. In the entire Russian Empire, there was only one person who had such great power.
"I didn't say anything. The two Grand Duchesses, please don't make wild guesses." Sheffield spoke decisively to stop the other party from having wild thoughts, but he knew better than anyone that it would be better if he didn't say this. If he said it out loud, the two Grand Duchesses would be even more suspicious.
"I can't kill you, you stay here for now!" Sheffield said halfway, walked to the door and turned around and said, "Everything here is no worse than in your country, take a rest first."
There is no doubt that Sheffield's first meeting with the kidnapped Grand Duchess was to direct Rasputin's death to a reasonable person in the rumors.
"Is it our father?" Anastasia Nikolaevna asked in a low voice, looking at her sister.
"I don't know either." Maria Nikolaevna shook her head in distress. In fact, this was a possibility, but she didn't dare to doubt it in her heart. But it seemed that the only person in the whole of Russia who could command such a wealthy man was their father, Nicholas II.
Sheffield came out with a strange look on his face, as if he wanted to laugh but was afraid to laugh out loud. Anyway, he didn't say anything. The two little girls guessed it themselves. If the truth was revealed one day, it would have nothing to do with him.
"Are you done talking? No one would have thought that the Russian Emperor's daughter, who the whole country is looking for like crazy, is right here at Arlington Manor." Anne had already prepared two cups of coffee. She took one and put it to her lips, smiling slightly.
He reached out and snatched the coffee from his wife's hand, then drank it all in one gulp. Sheffield smacked his lips and said, "These two girls are very useful. I have temporarily let them accept the reality. By the way, what is the status of the submarine matter?"
"The 28th submarine has left the port, and its destination is the Persian Gulf." Annie said without thinking, "Our company has spent too much in the past year. If it were a listed company, the stock price would drop dramatically."
"So the stock price and other things are nonsense." Sheffield commented bluntly, holding his forehead with his hand, "Although it is not fully completed, it is almost done. Dear, the United Company has actually reached a bottleneck in its development. This bottleneck can no longer be solved by ordinary methods. We can only look for some marginal 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 only the Russian Empire, but all the countries in the two major camps.
This is a very simple truth. Let's not talk about the degree of destruction that world wars have on countries. Let's take an example that doesn't seem too cruel, the collapse of the Soviet Union! The Cold War was not only exhausting for the Soviet Union, but Reagan's Seven Wounds Fist also caused great damage to the United States.
The collapse of the Soviet Union freed up markets in dozens of countries, allowing the United States to conquer cities and territories, and suddenly freed itself from inflation, and even the entire Europe and the United States fell into prosperity. The fundamental reason was that all the competitors in the other camp died!
Why was the United States unable to extricate itself from the economic crisis? It was because the Republic was not dead!
If Anne was not French, Sheffield could have said it more clearly. The earth now needs to reduce some competitors and let people die on their own initiative to leave food.
Even in the original First World War, the slave owners felt that the intensity was not enough, and they tried their best to make the strength of both sides more balanced. If they succeeded in accelerating it, perhaps the problems of the two world wars could be compressed into one world war.
It has to be said that Sheffield felt a little familiar with the United States before World War I. Even the whole country's participation in helping the Russian royal family find the princess reminded him of the story of helping foreigners find bicycles.
"This is also an example of heretics being more hateful than pagans." Sheffield muttered to himself with a mocking look as he flipped through the newspaper. It seems that all countries are the same, preferring to be nice to foreigners rather than their own people. "Butler, announce to the public that the reward will be increased. Anyone who can catch the criminal will be given two million dollars."
Since all citizens of the country are so concerned, if Sheffield doesn't take it seriously, he will seem out of place. Anyway, no one can get the slave owner's reward, so it doesn't matter if he writes a bad check.
The slave owners' hearts were no longer in America, but they were concerned about what happened to Serbia's National Humiliation Day. After Pan-Slavism was supported by Imperial Russia, Serbia benefited greatly from the two Balkan Wars.
The national self-esteem of the Serbian people is unprecedentedly high, and the national humiliation day of being occupied by the Ottoman Empire hundreds of years ago has become a solemn festival for Serbia from the official to the folk. In recent years, under the pressure of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the enthusiasm of the people has not only not been reduced, but has become more and more intense.
Archduke Ferdinand, who left Vienna, even felt that he had more freedom in the newly annexed lands than in Vienna, and he could make his beloved wife happy there. Sophie was born a maid, and her status was too low. She had no status in the Austro-Hungarian royal family. Even when attending a ball, Sophie was required to be the last to enter the dance floor. Because she was born a servant, she could not enter with the royal family.
What made Sophie angry the most was that she could not ride in the same car with Archduke Ferdinand because the Austro-Hungarian royal family had a rule that servants could not ride in the same car with the crown prince. Her status in the Austro-Hungarian royal family was not even as high as that of a newborn baby, because these royal children were born as archducks.
Holding a military parade on Serbia's National Humiliation Day was also a way for him to show his strength as the Crown Princess of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in front of his beloved wife. It was obvious that Sophie was very happy and was smiling beside Ferdinand.
In the city of Sarajevo, a large assassination plot has been set up against the crown prince of an enemy country who has great hostility towards Serbia. Archduke Ferdinand, under the protection of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was chatting and laughing with his wife on the bustling streets of Sarajevo when a roadside bomb suddenly exploded, scaring everyone and filling the street with screams.
The guards nearby were also in chaos, and the convertible carrying the two people had to choose to take a detour. At a street corner, a Serbian youth shot and killed Archduke Ferdinand and his wife with a speed no less than that of a hijacking case in Texas.
Within just three days, two assassinations of the imperial royal family occurred on two continents. The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand was quickly transmitted to America via radio waves.
Sheffield jumped up in front of the bodyguard leader, his eyes brighter than ever before. Then, as if he remembered something, he held his breath and shook his head, "This, this is really a tragedy."
(End of this chapter)
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