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Chapter 1835: Gao Yuan's Historical Conjecture

As everyone entered the office of Mr. Kiichi Kosaka on the first floor of the castle, looking at the bookshelves and the photos taken by cameras from the last century on the walls, everyone present naturally began to look around.

Among them, Qian Jiangyi was very sharp-eyed. Among the photos displayed on the wall on one side, he saw a photo of Kosaka Kiichi and Rasputin. He pointed at the photo and spoke in surprise, attracting everyone's attention.

"Hey! Look! That man is Rasputin!"

As Qian Jiangyi's words rang out, everyone present was naturally attracted by his words and looked towards the photo he was pointing to. Among the people present, only Gao Yuan, who had already known the result, did not care too much and continued to look around at the photos here.

As a result, when everyone else was still surprised to see the photo of Kosaka Kiichi and Rasputin, Gao Yuan was very sharp-eyed and noticed that there was a photo of a person in those photos. The person in the photo attracted Gao Yuan's attention greatly -

An old man with a slightly fat body, a pointed nose, wearing a black suit, a white scarf, and holding a cane...

Because Gao Yuan knew the original work, the moment he saw this image, he immediately thought of the character who only appeared as a silhouette in the original work...

  The founder of the Black Organization, the original owner of the Mansion of Dusk, and a wealthy man who is suspected to be still alive, Karasuma Renya!

This image is too similar to the silhouette that appears in the original work, and this photo was taken by Mr. Kiichi Kosaka. Combined with the fact that it can be basically confirmed that Karasuma Renya was born in the original work, we can roughly guess the era when the photo was taken -

Judging from the period from the mid-nineteenth century to the Russian Revolution at the beginning of the last century, Karasuma Renya was probably around fifty or sixty years old at that time, which is basically consistent with the age of the man in the photo.

Combined with the information obtained from the Suzuki Group, the "memory easter egg" of the Suzuki Group was sold to the Suzuki Group by a wealthy man named Karasuma seventy or eighty years ago.

In this way, if we consider the two things together, it is no coincidence no matter how we think about it.

  Kiichi Kosaka, I know Karasuma Ren!

Gao Yuan had not expected that such important information could be hidden in an event that should have no secrets to him because he knew the original work!

At this moment, Gao Yuan felt more and more deeply that the feeling of being a living fossil of history was getting closer and closer to him.

However, Gao Yuan could not express such a horrified intuition here, nor could he say anything more. It seemed that only Xiao Ai beside him noticed this situation, while the others were more concerned about another historical figure, Rasputin.

After all, relatively speaking, a wealthy man like Karasuma Renya is not a famous figure in history like Rasputin. Perhaps among the people present, except himself and Ai, no one else even knows the name "Karasuma Renya".

Gao Yuan thought so and tried his best to blend in with everyone's attention without showing any expression. He didn't want his special reaction to draw any attention.

Just like that, after General Qian pointed out the photo of Rasputin, Mr. Siruov, an official of the Russian Embassy, ​​couldn't help but look at it first, and noticed that there was Rasputin's signature on the photo, and couldn't help but exclaimed:

"Yes! There's his signature on it!"

This situation surprised some people who knew Rasputin.

  Xiaolan obviously didn't know the situation very well, so she asked Maori Kogoro:

"Dad, who is Rasputin?"

“Well… well…”

Hearing Xiaolan asking him about this, Maori Kogoro was a little embarrassed but had to answer and thought about it, and said:

"I only know that he was a great criminal in Russia back then..."

So, as Maori Kogoro said this, Qian Jiangyi couldn't help but continue to speak in detail:

"He was also known as the 'evil monk' Rasputin, the culprit who led to the demise of the Romanov dynasty. He once controlled the government and was rumored to be immortal. He even survived many assassinations and various injuries. "But he was later assassinated by several relatives of the royal family. His body was finally found with a sunken skull and one of his eyes gouged out. "

  Hearing this, Xiaolan couldn't help but be a little surprised and asked:

"Possessing an immortal body? There is actually such a rumor?"

"It seems to be true... It is said that during the period when he controlled the dynasty, many nobles participated in the assassination, but they could not kill him no matter how hard they tried..."

Kogoro Maori said while thinking hard.

In this regard, Xiaolan looked at Rasputin in the photo with even more surprise. She felt a little scared of this sloppy-looking man and asked in confusion:

"Hey? Is this all true?"

"It's just a rumor."

  At this point, Gao Yuan interrupted and said:

"Rasputin's appearance on the historical stage coincided with the Russo-Japanese War, and a series of failures in the naval battles of Tsarist Russia dealt a heavy blow to the Tsar at the time.

"The Tsar was eager to ease the domestic crisis, but the aristocracy, which controlled a large amount of wealth and land and the bureaucracy in the late imperial dynasty, was corrupt and became the biggest obstacle to the Tsar's reform. So at this time, Rasputin, who was born a commoner, naturally became a force that the Tsar could rely on with his religious identity.

"In the context of this political game, the Tsar fabricated all kinds of rumors in order to establish this man's personal prestige, and the nobles tolerated some of his actions in order to win over such a person. Naturally, the rumors became extremely outrageous in the end.

"It was only at the end, when Rasputin continued to participate in the power struggle as the Tsar's spokesperson, that the nobles were really willing to work together to get rid of him. As for the rumors that he could not be assassinated, it is very likely that they were just some things deliberately exaggerated by the old nobles in order to cut off their relationship with him."

In this way, Gao Yuan put aside those so-called rumors, made some reasonable speculations based on history, and said them out loud. Xiaolan, who was originally a little frightened, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and said to Gao Yuan:

"I see. After listening to you, Mr. Akechi, I suddenly understand a lot better!"

"It's just some speculation based on history, and there's no basis for it. Compared to those rumors, it's pretty boring."

Gao Yuan waved his hand and replied.

However, Gao Yuan's statement naturally attracted the attention of other people. No one expected Gao Yuan to have such a view on history.

Among them, Xiaoai's expression when looking at Gao Yuan seemed very meaningful.

However, Gao Yuan naturally did not notice this. After saying this, Gao Yuan looked thoughtful and suddenly analyzed:

"Speaking of which, the queen at that time was born into a German aristocracy and was not well-received by the Russian upper class at the time, so she also needed to cooperate with a force that had a say in Russia to increase her political influence...

“Thinking of the German style of the castle and the photo with Rasputin…

"Ms. Kosaka Natsumi, I'm afraid your great-grandfather and great-grandmother were not simple people!"

(End of this chapter)