By the time Roque went to Kitchener, Kitchener was ready to leave for the Russian Empire.

Although the Russian Empire did not perform well after the war, no one can deny the role of the Russian Empire, and if it were not for the Russian Empire's containment on the Eastern Front, the Anglo-French alliance might have more than doubled the number of enemies, in that case, Moltke Jr. would have enough troops to implement his "Schlieffen Plan", and the Anglo-French army would not have waited for the colonies to lose blood.

In May, a major event occurred in the Russian Empire, since Nicholas II appointed himself commander-in-chief of the Russian army, St. Petersburg was controlled by Rasputin's magic stick, which caused strong resentment among the Russian nobility.

On May 11, Rasputin visited the Russian prince Ferex Yusupov, the husband of Tsar Nicholas II's niece Irina, who had more family fortunes than the Romanovs and was the biggest beneficiary of the Russian Empire.

Yusupov had a long-standing resentment against Rasputin and was determined to kill Rasputin, and many nobles joined him, including Grand Duke Dmitry Romanov, a cousin of Nicholas II.

Yusupov invited Rasputin in the name of Ariana, and Rasputin gladly went to the appointment, and in Yusupov's palace, Rasputin drank a lot of poisoned wine mixed with potassium cyanide, but Rasputin did not die, but drank more and more energetically, and even proposed to go to the red light district of St. Petersburg.

Yusupov said he had a cross full of precious stones.

Rasputin to see.

Just as Rasputin got up, Yusupov shot Rasputin.

Rasputin fell to the floor, looking dead.

But while Yusupov and Dmitry were celebrating, Rasputin miraculously resurrected.

Yusupov ran up the stairs, and Rasputin gave chase.

Yusupov locked himself in his room, and Rasputin angrily scolded and tried to find something to smash open the door.

At this time, Dmitry fired, the first two shots missed, and the third shot knocked Rasputin to the ground again.

This time Dmitry walked up to Rasputin and shot Rasputin in the head with a revolver.

Yusupov also opened the door and struck Rasputin on the head with a golf club.

After confirming Rasputin's death, Yusupov and Dmitry wrapped Rasputin in a curtain, tied it with a rope and threw it into the river.

When the police recovered Rasputin's body, they found that the rope had been loosened, and a subsequent autopsy showed that Rasputin had died of drowning, and that he had been thrown into the river before he was dead and had struggled for a long time.

Rasputin was a mysterious man, his vitality was as tenacious as a cockroach, and a few days before Rasputin's death, Rasputin wrote a letter to "Russians, Tsars, Russian Mothers, Children, the Russian Empire", in which Rasputin warned Tsar Nicholas II: If it is your relatives who kill me, then your family and relatives will die in two years, and the Russians will kill them.

Rasputin was finally buried in the park of the Romanov family, and the Tsar, Empress, and the Tsar's children attended Rasputin's funeral, and although Rasputin had a terrible past, Rasputin cured Crown Prince Alexei of hemophilia, the only son of Nicholas II, to whom Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra were grateful.

After Rasputin's death, the Russian Empire seemed to be finally on the right track, with Nicholas II appointing a new prime minister, a new minister of war, and the Russian Imperial Army also won a brilliant victory in Galicia.

Kitchener was bent on opening up a new battlefield on the German coast, and this time he went to Russia, Kitchener wanted to discuss the possibility of opening a new battlefield with the military generals of the Russian Empire.

Rock will not let Kitchener go to Russia, Kitchener and Winston are Roark's biggest help to the British government, if Kitchener dies unexpectedly, then Rodge will lose his greatest support.

Winston's influence is also on the rise, but Winston's influence on the military is far less than that of Kitchener.

Roque's reasons for preventing Kitchener from going to the Russian Empire were also very good, and there was a wave of demand for the prime minister's resignation in Britain, and Kitchener could not leave London at this time.

After the outbreak of the world war, some people in Britain demanded Asquith's resignation, because Asquith swore that war would never break out.

Now that the war has been going on for nearly two years, the end seems far away, and the British Expeditionary Force has suffered millions of casualties and billions of pounds in economic losses, and someone must be held accountable for this.

After the outbreak of the Battle of the Somme, the opposition to Asquith reached a climax, before the outbreak of the world war, many people thought that the Entente could easily defeat the Allies, but now no one thinks so, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, the British Expeditionary Force suffered 60,000 casualties, this figure frightened all the British, they did not know how long the war would last, they did not know how much damage the British Expeditionary Force would suffer, and the anger of the British had to be vented, since it could not be vented on the Germans, then it could only be vented on the Prime Minister.

"Locke, don't be alarmist, politics is not what our soldiers should care about, our task is on the battlefield, to destroy our enemies!" Kitchener was a traditional military man, and he was never a politician.

"Marshal, as soldiers, we can't get out of the political whirlpool, not to mention that politics and military have nothing to do with each other, you know, if Winston is prime minister, or someone else is prime minister, the level of support for the army will be completely different." Roque insisted that there is no separation between military and political affairs, and that military personnel should indeed not interfere in politics, but they cannot ignore politics, and the military is for politics.

It's like a person working for a certain company, it is of course his duty to do his job well, but he also has to pay attention to the company's dynamics, and he doesn't know when he loses his job.

When Roque speaks of someone, he is referring to Lloyd George.

After losing the post of Quartermaster, Lloyd George did not lose power, and he still had great prestige in Parliament, and was forced to resign as Quartermaster General.

The British Parliament is deliberating on Asquith's impeachment, and once the majority of MPs agree, Prime Minister Asquith will choose a dignified way to leave the Prime Minister's Office, so that Asquith can retain his last dignity, or he will be ousted from the Prime Minister's Office in a humiliating way, and there is a big difference between the two.

Once Asquith resigns, then now, Lloyd George is very hopeful to be the prime minister, and then the military will be unlucky, Lloyd George when he was the Minister of Munitions, he made no secret of his disgust with the military generals, in Lloyd George's view, these British military generals are all emotionless cold-blooded butchers, and Roque is one of the best.

"Winston? No, no, no, Winston is not possible. Kitchener's brow furrowed, he didn't like Lloyd George, and it was because of Lloyd George's manipulation that Kitchener lost most of the power in his hands.

Winston's biggest problem is that he is too young, and now Winston is just forty years old, and for the prime minister of the British Empire, forty years old is still milky.

Lloyd George is 11 years older than Winston and is just over 50 this year.

"Why is it not possible? Again, there is no need for an election, as long as His Majesty appoints Winston to form a cabinet, then Winston will be a qualified Prime Minister. Roque did not have the rules and regulations of this era, and if Roque had gone with the flow, there would have been no southern Africa at all: "There is only one question to consider, who is more suitable to be the prime minister of the British Empire, and it is a matter of whether we can defeat Germany, and how long it will take to defeat Germany." ”

Since Kitchener talks about the war, then Roque also talks about the war, Winston is indeed a little younger, but Winston was born in the aristocratic class, and naturally has the support of the aristocracy, if Winston has the support of the military, then it is not without a fight, George V must consider the opinions of the aristocracy and military generals when considering the candidate for the new prime minister.

Don't forget that the king and the nobility of England are one, and the military generals are the hope of victory over Germany, so the opinions of the nobility and the military generals will largely influence George V's decision.

"Wait Locke, we shouldn't have done this, it's too out of line—" Kitchener hesitated, and when he said this, he had already admitted that Roque was right.

"The world war is now very out of line, the casualty figures on the Western Front are even more out of line, someone is also out of line when he is the Minister of Munitions, and the country is facing an existential crisis, and the Congress is not unifying its thinking and firm beliefs, but discussing whether to impeach the country's prime minister, isn't this out of line?" Roque really couldn't understand the thinking of the British, and they gave full play to the talent of "blending", not only internationally, but also domestically, and in the colonies, and they wanted to reach out everywhere.

"Let me think, let me think—" Kitchener had not yet made up his mind, he sat in his chair and muttered to himself, his eyes fixed on the Union Jack on his desk.

Roque was anxious, but his face was unwavering, when he came to see Kitchener, he deliberately wore the Elizabeth Cross and the Order of the Garter on his chest, everyone was dedicated to the public, and there was really no personal interest.

Kitchener didn't have much time either, and on June 21, the British Parliament voted on whether to impeach Prime Minister Asquith, and although the vote did not pass that day, Asquith decided to resign a little later.

That evening, Roark went to see George V with Kitchiner, Winston, and General William Robertson, the chief of the British General Staff, and John Jericault, who had been promoted to the rank of Admiral for winning the Battle of Jutland.

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