Chapter 345: Six Inkwells

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Although the Black Sea Fleet has more than 800 ships of various types, most of them are in disrepair, so there are not many that can enter Ye Kai's eyes, this time Admiral Meielo selected a total of 22 ships that are planned to be sold to Ye Kai, all of which are in good condition, including missile cruisers, frigates and supply ships, etc., as well as two conventionally powered submarines, which can be regarded as a match. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

These can basically form a fleet, and in accordance with Ye Kai's requirements, the Black Sea Fleet, in the name of sea trials, opened the basically formed Varyag aircraft carrier from the Black Sea Shipyard and announced that it would be included in the establishment of the Black Sea Fleet.

In fact, the shipyard has already been tied, so it is logical.

Under the pretext of going to Vladivostok to exchange military operations with the Pacific Fleet, the Black Sea Fleet escorted the aircraft carrier Varyag through the Bosphorus Strait and into the Mediterranean, after which they would enter the Atlantic Ocean from the Strait of Gibraltar, then around the Cape of Good Hope, into the Indian Ocean, and then through the Strait of Malacca into the Pacific Ocean, all the way north.

Speaking of which, Ye Kai didn't spend much money to buy the Varyag aircraft carrier, and it didn't cost much to buy the twenty-two ships of the Black Sea Fleet, but the opening fee for this fleet was relatively much, and even more than half of the entire fleet he bought, it really hurts to think about it.

However, it is clear that this price is still worth it, once the Varyag aircraft carrier arrives in the East China Sea, the repercussions caused by other aspects will be huge, and the strength of the navy will be greatly increased, especially the process of sea and air integration will be 20 years ahead of schedule, which will also be conducive to the early construction of the Republic of China's own aircraft carrier group.

As for the cost, there is naturally no need to worry about it, if Ye Kai's acquisition plan is successful, feeding one or two aircraft carrier formations is just a little squeezed out of the teeth, which is really nothing.

Through this incident, Ye Kai deeply realized that he worked hard to make money from scratch, and he was really much happier than others who made money out of nothing.

This trip to Russia was really exciting and satisfying.

Even if the trip to the secret base was not very satisfactory, this trip was not in vain.

In late June, Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Ukrainian President Kravchuk met at Swallow Fort in Yalta to discuss the ownership of the Black Sea Fleet and reached an agreement on most issues.

Located at the southernmost tip of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, Yalta is a well-known tourist destination.

Due to its location on the shore of the Black Sea and high mountains, it has a unique climate and pleasant scenery, and has been the summer vacation place of the Russian tsars since ancient times, as well as the leisure and recuperation place of the ancient princes and nobles, and was also a famous recuperation place in the Soviet Union. The Yalta Conference after World War II made him even more familiar to the world.

One of the symbolic buildings of Yalta, the Swallow Fort was built by the Turks during the reign of the Turks and is a fortress built on a cliff, which is very spectacular from a distance.

From Swallow Castle, you can continue to take a boat west to reach Tsar Nicholas's palace, which is backed by mountains and sea, and surrounded by large gardens. From the pier, you can climb the stairs through the gardens to reach the palace, which is lavishly decorated and shows the life of the Tsars, who were used by Stalin as the venue for the Yalta Conference after the end of World War II.

When Yeltsin and Kravchuk were talking at Swallow Castle, Ye Kai also took Wang Luodan to wander here, especially to visit the palace of Tsar Nicholas to feel the luxurious life of the Tsar at the beginning.

"Actually, Soviet Russia is not necessarily better than Tsarist Russia." Ye Kai stood on the cliff, blowing the comfortable sea breeze, and couldn't help but talk about it, selling his views to Wang Luodan.

"How so?" Wang Luodan expressed his different opinion, "Didn't they all say that the tsar's rule was brutal, how to do it?" ”

Ye Kai sneered when he heard this, "Do you remember when you were in elementary school, you learned a text about Lenin being exiled by the tsar and insisting on studying, right?" ”

"There is such a text." Wang Luodan expressed affirmation.

There is an article about Lenin in the primary school Chinese textbook, "Six Inkwells", which is a story about Lenin who insisted on working even after being imprisoned for the revolution.

The text says that one year Lenin was arrested by the tsarist government and kept in a small solitary cell. The cell was dark, with only a small window letting in a faint light. In such difficult circumstances, Lenin continued to study while secretly writing many orders and pamphlets to guide the revolutionary struggle outside the prison.

Lenin, in order to write secret documents without being discovered by the guards, came up with a very ingenious way of turning bread into "inkwells", filling them with milk and writing in the blank spaces of the book. As soon as he heard the door knock, he put the "inkwell" in his mouth and chewed it. Once, in a letter to his comrades, Lenin humorously said: "Today I was really unlucky to eat six 'inkwells' in a row!" ”

This text was intended to let the primary school students know the hardships of the revolution, but when they read this text, most of the students did not know what bread and milk were.

"Lenin's story has a source, it is based on the "Memoirs of Lenin" written by Lenin's wife, Krupkaya. However, "Six Inkwells" is too copycat, and it seriously discredits Comrade Lenin's prison life. Ye Kai waved his hand, stretched out his arms to face the sea breeze, fantasized about the feeling of a flying camera on the Titanic, and then said to Wang Luodan, "In the official history textbooks of the Soviet Union, the Russian tsarist government had countless cruel crimes, one of which was the exile of revolutionaries. Although the Tsar did not kill a single Bolshevik leader and left the daunting task to Stalin, exile to Siberia sounded chilling anyway. If you know how cruel this crime is, if you know Lenin's exile, you probably understand. ”

After Wang Luodan heard this, he said that he was a little incomprehensible.

So Ye Kai suggested that she go to find a biography of Lenin's wife, "Lenin's Memoirs", "This kind of book should be easy to find, at least here." ”

Wang Luodan thought about this matter, and later he was not very attentive when he played, and when he went back, he asked the people in the hotel about this matter, and he was actually found with an old version of "Lenin's Memoirs".

According to Lenin's wife, in February 1897, Lenin was sentenced to three years of exile in Siberia in Petersburg.

As soon as the verdict was handed down, Lenin's mother asked the authorities to postpone the date of departure, citing her son's poor health. Later, she asked to stay for a week while passing through Moscow. She also offered that Lenin's family should be responsible for all the expenses for the journey, so that Lenin could eat well and sleep soundly.

She even wrote to the governor of Eastern Siberia asking that the place of her son's exile be chosen in a small town in the south of Yenishin, where the climate was favorable for Lenin's health.

At the same time, Lenin himself made these demands to the government. When these demands were met, Lenin had two weeks to move freely outside the prison, prepare his luggage, and calmly say goodbye to his relatives and friends.

The place of Lenin's exile was in Sushchensk, one of the most climatic places in Siberia, a bit like the northern country of Jiangnan. In addition to the money sent to him by his family, the tsarist government gave each exile a monthly allowance of 8 roubles (the ruble had not yet depreciated at that time, and the gold content was very high), and Lenin did not have to do the hard labor of the prisoners typical of the history of the revolution by logging or carrying fibers.

Lenin wrote home and described his life here as "spending most of his time walking, except for hunting and fishing, but swimming," "sleeping for a very long time," "satisfying housing and food," and often sunbathing.

He even compared his penal colony to his family's Swiss resort of Spitz, where he could read political books and magazines, mingle freely with other revolutionaries in the penal colony, and discuss how to overthrow the tsarist system in the future.

Lenin was married in exile to his like-minded girlfriend Krupskaya, who was then exiled to Ufa in the South Urals for the same crime. They also applied to the exile authorities to transfer Krupskaya to Lenin's place of exile to be married, and this request was granted in July of that year, and the wedding took place in a church, Lenin and Krupskaya were both atheists, but the government did not recognize secular marriages, so the new and unscrupulous had to accept the blessing of the priest. This is an embarrassing fact for Lenin and avoided mentioning in the official official history.

Prices in the penal colony were low, and Lenin's "salary" of eight rubles provided him with a clean room, food, and laundry and sewing and mending. Lunch and dinner were of course modest, with a sheep slaughtered every week, and he ate roast lamb chops every day until he lost his appetite, and there was endless milk to drink, which he even fed his dogs. In February 1900, Lenin, who had been married in a happy exile and had been well raised, returned to Petersburg after completing his sentence and soon went abroad for Western Europe.

Eighteen years later, he finally had the opportunity to repay Tsar Nicholas II, the leader of the "cruel" old regime that had responded to his demands in exile, by ordering the Cheka (the ancestor of the KGB) in Yekaterina to be shot of the Tsar's family, including their minor children, doctors, and servants.

"History is really very ironic, ......", at dinner, Wang Luodan finished reading "Lenin's Memoirs", and couldn't help but sigh.

"We should look away." Ye Kai smiled and said to Wang Luodan, "For example, I bought the ships of the Black Sea Fleet and the Varyag at my own expense, do you think the official history will be written on it?" ”

"It's impossible." After reading "Lenin's Memoirs", Wang Luodan finally understood this.

"So, hehehe.", Ye Kai smiled and continued to eat his roast lamb chops, this kind of thing that Lenin was tired of eating in the penal colony. (To be continued!)