Chapter 137 Assassination
On June 1, Tsar Nicholas II held a coronation ceremony in the Great Palace of Summer Palace in St. Petersburg.
As an invaded country, the Qing Empire should not have participated in the Tsar's coronation ceremony, but the cowardly Qing government still asked Wang Chenhao to participate as planned and presented the gold medal of good neighborly friendship given by Emperor Guangxu. It was engraved with the article written by the Qing Empire and the Russian Empire forever. It was ridiculous and ridiculous.
Only the Qing court could do such a ridiculous thing, and Wang Chenhao, as the executor, could only respond with this wry smile.
Nicholas II's coronation ceremony was extremely luxurious. He was standing in the audience with gorgeous clothes and dazzling jewels. After the priest recited the scriptures, he announced that Nicholas II was granted the power of the king as the emperor of the Russian Empire. Then he put the crown of the king on Nicholas II and then granted him the scepter of the kingdom.
The Tsar's crown is the most expensive in the world, and the brilliant large crown is a gathering of diamonds. It was specially made by a palace jeweler in 1762. The dozen most important diamonds on it were removed from the crown of the European king at that time. The craftsmen set 4,936 diamonds on the crown, weighing 2,858 carats in total, and the entire crown weighs 1,907 grams. The top of the crown is the heaviest spinel in the world, weighing 398.72 carats. Gem experts have long believed that this was a ruby, but later discovered that it was an extremely rare spinel. Therefore, the total value of this crown is more than 30 million US dollars, which is worth at least 2 billion US dollars regardless of inflation in Wang Chenhao's era.
In addition to the crown, Nicholas II's scepter was also priceless. The world's third largest diamond, "Orlov", weighing 200 carats, was welded into a carved sterling silver and set on the top of the Russian scepter. In addition, this diamond has legendary experience, which makes the majesty of the scepter shocking.
Wang Chenhao stared at Nicholas II's crown and scepter, but he was thinking about them in his heart, thinking that the Tsar hadn't been alive for many years, and he would definitely get these two treasures if he had the chance in the future. Of course, Russia's diamond library was also the target that made Wang Chenhao salivate. After experiencing the looting of two world wars, the diamond library is still the seventh largest treasure house in the world. It is conceivable how huge the treasure house of Nicholas II was when he was alive.
When Wang Chenhao was imagining, the crowning ceremony of the Tsar ended.
The crowning of the Tsar was naturally a big deal. Nicholas II was very happy, so he used the Grand Palace of Summer Palace and the Upper Garden as a gathering place for various countries to congratulate the envoys and officials. The Lower Garden and the Fran Square outside the palace were opened to the civilians, and a grand garden tour was held.
There are circus and various stalls in the square, and there are all kinds of sales, which is a supermarket. People heard that according to traditional customs, the Tsar would give gifts to the masses, so many people rushed to Fran Square. More than 450,000 people were concentrated in the square less than 8 square kilometers, which was quite crowded.
Yesterday, Wang Chenhao was fighting against several Russian officials in the Xia Palace, which made the Russian government lose face in front of the ministers of various countries. The Navy Minister Rovich and the Army Minister Alekseev were both relatives of the Tsar, which even lost the royal face. When he returned, he was scolded by the Tsar.
The relatives of the two Tsars were naturally unwilling to give up after losing face. Seeing Wang Chenhao, Xu Jingcheng and British Minister Sa Daoyi chatting near the fountain of Lomson, they must have discussed plans to deal with Russia again.
Kseev said to Rovich: "This damn guy makes us scolded and lose face. We have to find a chance to teach him a lesson!"
Rovich agreed with his idea, but after yesterday's verbal contest, Rovich no longer dared to underestimate this young man in his early twenties.
Nikolaevich, the cavalry general next to him, suddenly said: "It's not easy to teach him a lesson?"
Kseev and Rovich immediately looked at the Russian cavalry general known as the little Nikolai, who asked, "You have a way?"
Little Nicholas pointed to Wang Chenhao's location and smiled and said, "When His Majesty was the prince, he set up a mechanism there to play tricks. Later, he will turn Wang Chenhao into a stinky chicken."
Kseev and Rovich looked at each other. Although they felt that this was a little childish, they could not think of any better way to teach Wang Chenhao a lesson, so they nodded in agreement.
Little Nichola laughed and walked towards the fountain.
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At the same time, next to a small fountain not far from Wang Chenhao, Japanese Consul in Russia, Daro Honno, was talking to Chilean Consul Wei Dila, inquiring about the performance and data of several warships obtained by Wang Chenhao from Chile, while peeking at Wang Chenhao from time to time.
Honno Daro has received an order from the Japanese base camp, and Prince Gong Chiren personally issued a task to assassinate Wang Chenhao. Honno Daro has been planning secretly since the day he received the order. After more than two months of planning in advance, the entire assassination plan has been prepared.
Honno Dairo had to complete the task of assassinating Wang Chenhao, and instigate the intensification of the Qing and Russia conflicts. He had to hide himself from being discovered by both the Qing and Russia. Therefore, he gave up the idea of directly using Japanese samurai, and instead spent a lot of money to hire a Russian killer named Kikov, and arranged for him to disguise himself as a cleaner and mingle into the summer palace, and then disguise himself as a waiter to enter the garden.
At this time, Kikov passed by Honno Daro with a wine plate. Honno Daro called him and changed into a glass of wine. He looked at Kikov, and then looked at Wang Chenhao not far away.
Kikov nodded, followed Honno Daro's gaze and locked Wang Chenhao himself, and then walked towards him with a tea tray.
Honno Daro also said to Sa Daoyi that he was incompetent, followed behind Kikov, and quietly put his right hand in his pocket.
Regardless of whether Kikov can kill Wang Chenhao, Honno Daro will kill Kikov to silence him. This is his overall plan.
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Behind Wang Chenhao, the Great Palace was a group of royal members from European countries. On the balcony on the second floor was a group of princesses and ladies from royal families from various countries. They didn't know what they were talking about, and sometimes laughed out in various tones.
Since the royal members of the European countries are basically relatives, Tsar Nicholas II was crowned, and members of the royal family of European countries would also send representatives to come. The representatives of the royal family were either princes or princesses. They would take various gatherings to get to know each other and find their own companions.
The laughter is naturally because of the flirting between them.
At this time, a Russian lady suddenly shouted: "Look at that side, it's the cavalry general, Ngurovich, and there will be a good show later."
A group of women looked at Nun Rovich and saw him walking towards a statue in the fountain, not knowing what he was fiddling with.
The women didn't know the reason, and there were many Russian ladies who knew the secret of the fountain, and they couldn't help but tell them.
"Many statues of the fountain have mechanisms. They were designed by His Majesty to play with people. Once the mechanism is activated, the fountain will spray in all directions, and the people below will definitely turn into chickens."
A group of women suddenly burst into laughter, some were gloating and ready to watch the fun, some were hurriedly calling their husbands to stay away from the fountain.
A woman with blonde hair and blue eyes and wearing a luxurious dress suddenly said, "He is really bold, and there are important members of various countries below. He will definitely offend everyone after doing this."
A woman dressed in a noble lady next to her said, "I don't think he will make a prank on everyone, he should be trying to make someone ugly."
At this time, another Russian lady said, "I just heard Prince Rovich telling Little Nicholas that he wanted to teach the boy from China a lesson. He seemed to be named Wang Chenhao, the one who was hyped up by newspapers recently in various countries. He is there! That young man is!"
The women looked at Wang Chenhao one after another, and the blonde and blue-eyed woman said, "He is Wang Chenhao." She saw the little Nikola not far away fiddling with the mechanism, and looked at Wang Chenhao's direction from time to time. The blonde woman smiled slightly. He had guessed the target that Nikola was going to deal with, so she turned around and left the balcony.
The blonde woman came down from the second floor and walked straight to Wang Chenhao, with a large umbrella in her hand.
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Wang Chenhao and Sa Daoyi were talking about the situation in the Far East. Britain's proposal to join forces with the Qing Empire to fight against Russia has received full support from Wang Chenhao. The conversation was very speculative, so when the killer Kikov came over, Wang Chenhao was not aware of the approaching threat.
Kikov stared at Wang Chenhao tightly and kept approaching. There was a pistol hidden under the tray with his right hand. As he approached Wang Chenhao step by step, he took the tray with his left hand, held the pistol tightly with his right hand, and quickly aimed at Wang Chenhao.
At this time, the little Nichola near the fountain statue quietly adjusted the mechanism and turned the spraying direction of the nearby fountain to Wang Chenhao's direction. His purpose was only aimed at Wang Chenhao.
Everything was ready, and little Nikola immediately touched the mechanism with a wicked smile. Suddenly, most of the fountain pipes in the entire Lomson fountain group turned to Wang Chenhao's direction, and dozens of large and small fountain water columns shot towards Wang Chenhao from all directions at the same time.
When the fountain suddenly shot, Wang Chenhao and Sa Daoyi were about to hide, but the next moment he suddenly found that there was no way to avoid it. While he was stunned, a big umbrella suddenly appeared in front of him, blocking the water pillar that was shooting from the front. Wang Chenhao turned around and saw that it was a blonde woman, but he didn't know her.
"Squat down!"
Without thinking too much, Wang Chenhao immediately squatted down with the blond woman's prompt. At this time, the water pillars shot from all directions were shot on the umbrella because the two of them squatted on the ground, avoiding the fate of becoming a chicken. But Sa Daoyi had no luck and was shot directly by the fountain.
Although the umbrella is large, the space for the two of them is still very crowded and they almost meet each other face to face.
Chapter completed!