Wang Ye certainly didn't underestimate the strength of Rossiyana's faction.
Not to mention those two "Sleeping Dragons" within it, one in literature and one in the military, were definitely not ordinary people...
The Tsarist faction had tremendous potential among the common people, the ones who found life less satisfactory were more likely to harbor Tsarist ideas.
As it happened, the majority of the population in Russia was not faring well!
Therefore, when the Duma elections came around in four years, Wang Ye felt that the biggest competitors to his faction were only two.
One, of course, was the Hilarwick Group, the faction led by Grezlov.
In recent years, the political elite mostly emerged from this faction.
The Kremlin, Grezlov, the recently appointed Medvedev, and the chiefs of various powerful institutions like the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Safety Bureau, the Ministry of Defense, and others.
They were all from the Hilarwick Group!