In the Romanian royal palace, Eder was listening to two intelligence chiefs about Russia.

"According to our investigation, there are now several forces fighting in Russia."

Eder listened to the report of the chief of the guard, Calust, and learned that there was chaos in Russia right now.

After the signing of the Brest Treaty between the Soviet Russian government and the German-led Allied bloc in October last year, Russia became in turmoil. Among them, Kornilov, who had served as the supreme commander of Russia and had the most irascible personality, took the lead in the rebellion in Rostov-on-Don on the lower reaches of the Don River. However, because Kornilov had only a few thousand troops, the Russian government did not pay much attention to the rebellion.

Another reason was that the Russian government did not have military forces in the lower reaches of the Don River at that time. And if troops were to be sent from Moscow, they would need to exterminate a large number of local governments along the way that had not yet recognized the Russian regime. The movement was too large to be conducive to the upcoming parliamentary elections, so it was allowed to move for the time being.

In the January Constituent Assembly elections, the Bushwick Party received fewer votes than the Social Revolutionaries because of the signing of a contract with Germany. Lenin and others overthrew the election they had organized, and sent troops to disperse the Constituent Assembly, resulting in the January 5 massacre.

The Russian rebellion immediately spread. On January 20, Yudenich, who had served as commander-in-chief of the Caucasian Front, launched a rebellion in Petrozavodzik. It was aided by the Entente countries gathered in Murmansk, and a large amount of weapons and ammunition were used to support Yudenich's rebels. Yudenich, who was supported by a large amount of weapons and equipment, immediately reorganized his army and went south to attack St. Petersburg and start a major battle with the Soviet Russian army.

As for Kolchak, who Eder was most concerned about, the chief of the guard also said his specific movements.

At the beginning of February, in the city of Ufa on the western side of the Ural Mountains, a large number of political parties dissatisfied with Soviet Russia gathered here and formed a cabinet of government, the Russian Provisional Government. And Kolchak, who stayed in the United States for nearly two months, served as military minister in that government and was in charge of military affairs. He was first in charge of negotiating with the famous Czech Legion.

As in history, the Czechoslovak Legion, made up of 60,000 Austro-Hungarian prisoners of war, rebelled on its way back via Siberia. As in history, they were disgruntled and rebelled against because they were discriminated against. The difference is that the location is no longer Chelyabinsk, but in cities such as Novowestlia.

And this time, the formation of the Russian Provisional Government, which fought with Soviet Russia, did not have too much to do with it. The reason for this is that the Soviet Union and Russia were weaker in this civil war than in history, and these parties were eager to fight back to Moscow, St. Petersburg, etc., so that the Russian elite gained enough influence to gain the upper hand in the next elections.

Compared with the vigorous rebellion, the military strength of the Soviet Russian government was too weak this time. In order to fulfill the soldiers' promise to stop the war, Soviet Russia could only dismiss a large number of soldiers who had already returned to their hearts. As a result, at the time of frequent rebellions, the Russians had less than 150,000 reliable troops, nearly 50,000 fewer than in the history of the same period (194,000 in April 1918).

One of the main reasons for this is not only the fulfillment of promises, but also the lack of sufficient supplies.

Because of the existence of Eder's little butterfly, a large amount of materials in Russia were resold to Romania, and Germany and Austria spent a lot of money to buy these materials from Romania, so the blackmail on the Brest contract was even more ferocious. Soviet Russia, which was already short of supplies, was ruthlessly hung with a layer of oil and water by Germany and Austria, and basically the warehouses were running out of mice. Therefore, the number of troops maintained in the army is even smaller.

However, in the face of the rebellion that broke out all over the country, Soviet Russia also quickly showed itself as a very combative side. At the beginning of January, the Council of People's Commissars of Soviet Russia issued a decree on the formation of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army and the Workers' and Peasants' Red Navy.

On January 21, the day after the Yudenich rebellion, Soviet Russia established the Supreme Military Council to take unified command of its troops. On 9 February, local military organizations were set up to implement a system of universal military training throughout the country. On 29 February, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee adopted a decree on the introduction of universal military service. The Russian government also decided to mobilize the manpower and material resources of the whole country to shift all work to the wartime track.

As a result, the civil war between the two Russian governments was in full swing.

After listening to the intelligence service's report on the recent state of the Russian civil war, Eder asked. "Do we still have merchants operating in Russia?"

Faced with the king's inquiry, Miloc, who was the most knowledgeable, replied. "Your Majesty, we still have a lot of businessmen operating in Russia."

Miloc's answer intrigued Edel. "Tell me about it."

Millock then gave a detailed account of the recent situation of these merchants.

These Romanian merchants were very popular in Russia, not only around the Black Sea, but also in the Ural Mountains, and even in Central Asia.

This is all due to the current chaotic situation in Russia, which has cut off many places from the central government. Some people are active, and some people are passive. However, whether they were active or passive, their official class was basically the same as that of Tsarist Russia. Therefore, these businessmen have prepared good things for these officials. Dollars, pounds, and family emigration, as long as these officials make personal requests, they can meet them all.

This was the case with a much larger smuggling activity than during the Russian Revolution, during which nearly a million dollars worth of goods were loaded onto ships and shipped to Romania by various means of transportation. Most of these supplies were sold to these Romanian merchants at very low prices by greedy officials. Among them, minerals, grain, cotton and other production and living materials are the largest.

On the one hand, there is a shortage of living materials in Russia, and on the other hand, a large number of relief materials are being re-sold. This year and next will be more difficult than ever for the Russian people, and that's what Eder wants. Making the Russian civil war even more brutal could help Romania alleviate the enormous pressure ahead. After all, Russia is too much of a threat to Romania, especially when it is still red.

"What I've asked you to prepare, how's the preparation?"

After learning about the current situation of the businessmen in Russia, Eder planned to work on the next windfall.

Met with Eder's inquiry, Milok replied. "We're always preparing and we can act when the time is right."

As the Tsar secretly moved the gold to the Kazan Bank, the Romanian intelligence officers, who had been watching the city, immediately sent the news back to the country. And Miroke, who received this information, suddenly realized the plan that the king had let him and Calust have been doing. Nearly 600 tons of cargo were smuggled from Kazan, and it seemed that this gold seemed to be a suitable target.

As for why the king would allow himself to prepare years in advance, Miloc did not speculate. Perhaps the person who gave the Tsar this advice may have done it on purpose. He kept this idea deep in his heart and never dared to show it.

Edel, who didn't know what Milok was thinking, said immediately after hearing his answer. "I'm going to find the right time to smuggle this gold back immediately. Preferably in the interstitial period of the battle between the armies of Soviet Russia and Belarus. ”

"Understood."

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