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It has only been more than four months since the war between China and Russia, but in these four months, most of Russia's wealth has been consumed. Coupled with large-scale conscription, Russia's industry and agriculture were greatly affected. In particular, the influence of agriculture caused great social upheaval in Russia, which, together with the impetus of the Social National Labor Party, led to a large-scale peasant uprising in Russia.

After the outbreak of the Great War, agricultural production was severely affected. Three million people who are able to work are conscripted into the army, mainly from rural areas. According to the survey, in 50 provinces in Europe and Russia, the rural male labor force has decreased by 15%. The area of cultivated land was reduced by 5 million Russian acres. Grain harvests decreased by 1/4. The difficulties in transportation have in turn effectively severed the links between urban and rural areas. In the market, there is a growing shortage of grain, meat, sugar and other agricultural products. Petrograd received only 14% of the planned food supply. The landlords, kulaks, and merchants, on the other hand, had in their hands a large amount of the necessaries of life, hoarding and speculating. Food often disappears from the store, only to be sold at high prices on the black market. The price of grain is 1.5~3 times higher than before the war, and meat and sugar are especially expensive. The broad masses of the people are on the starvation line, complaining and having to rise up and fight.

The main grain-producing areas in Russia are mainly in the southern part of Ukraine and the Don region. However, this year, there is a severe drought in these areas, and many places have no harvest. Without food, the peasants who could not survive had no choice but to take risks and think of other ways.

In particular, the defeat of the Russian army in Siberia. When Marshal Gurko led hundreds of thousands of Russian troops in a rampant retreat. It was interpreted as the imminent defeat of Russia. China is about to invade Russia's European region. This has made Russian society even more turbulent, and some people with bad intentions have also taken the opportunity to spread rumors and cause trouble, in a vain attempt to make a name for themselves in this turbulent era, and so on. In addition, Tsar Nicholas II taxed the bourgeoisie, rich peasants and nobles in order to finance the war, so that these rich and powerful people were also very dissatisfied with Russian society. When all these contradictions erupted, they immediately had a huge impact in Russia.

On August 20, 1899, when the news of the defeat of the Russian army in the Siberian Plain spread throughout the world. The peasants of Prudovi, located in the south of Russia, in the Don region, broke out in an uprising. Hundreds of peasants, storming the local town hall, snatched weapons from the police, and occupied the entire city. After that, these rebellious peasants opened the grain depot belonging to the government and distributed all the grain to the peasants who had no food. The kulaks and the bourgeoisie also suffered, these insurrectionists. Their property was forcibly confiscated and then distributed. This immediately caused a chain reaction. Countless peasants who could not survive joined it, and in just a few days, the rebel army had expanded to tens of thousands. At the same time, countless peasants followed suit throughout southern Russia, and an uprising had swept through the entire southern regions of Russia.

Because of the unfavorable fighting on the front line, Russia transferred most of the troops deployed in various places, so that the vast southern regions of Russia had less than 100,000 troops left. These Russian troops are simply not able to suppress the rebellion in as many as 100 places. As time passed, the number of insurrectionists increased, and the whole of southern Russia was already erosive. In addition, the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party also took the opportunity to join it, agitating the workers to join the uprising, and for a time the whole of southern Russia was thrown into chaos.

Tsar Nicholas II received a report at the beginning of the uprising, but he did not care. Because in Russia, such uprisings break out quite a few times a year. However, it will soon be suppressed, and it will not be able to make any big waves. It's just that this time he miscalculated. Just a week later, the whole of southern Russia was no longer under his control, and it was only then that he panicked and hurriedly summoned the army to suppress it. However, the emptiness of the army made the suppression of the Russian army very lacking, and it was simply impossible to suppress the uprisings one after another, and even some large cities fell one after another.

"Oh God! Why is this happening? What do the mobs want to do? Do they want to overthrow the rule of the Romanov dynasty? Tsar Nicholas II roared inside the Kremlin. Fortunately, the Moscow region has always been a key defense area for Russia, and 100,000 elite troops are deployed here all year round. In this case, around Moscow is quite by virtue of.

"Your Majesty, now the whole south has been eroded. Those thugs stormed government institutions, slaughtered the aristocracy and the wealthy, and robbed them of their property, which had an extremely harsh impact on society. I implore His Majesty to send troops to suppress it immediately, otherwise, it will have a severe impact on Russia! "Prime Minister Sergei? Witte built yì road.

"Your Excellency Prime Minister, it's not that we don't want to send troops to suppress it, but we don't have troops to send! In addition to the troops stationed everywhere, now the War Department was left with only 100,000 troops around Moscow. But these troops cannot be mobilized lightly, and if a rebellion breaks out around Moscow, it will be troublesome! "War Minister Alexey? Nikolaevich? Kuropatkin said.

"What about the newly recruited army? Didn't the War Department call up an army of millions of people? Now is the time to come in handy! "Interior Minister Vyacheslav? Previ asked.

"Your Excellency Previ, those recruits have only been in the army for less than a month, and they can't even fire a gun. In addition, due to the lack of weapons, only one-fifth of these troops were armed with rifles, and the rest still had sticks in their hands! Moreover, because of the long-term arrears of military salaries, these armies are also very dissatisfied with the empire, if they are allowed to put down the rebellion, they will all join the rebels! "War Minister Alexey? Nikolaevich? Kuropatkin said.

Tsar Nicholas II's face was gloomy and a little terrible, he never imagined that Russia would be like this now. What he thought was a stable rule now seems to be in complete turmoil!

"What now? How can those rebellions be suppressed? Tsar Nicholas II said furiously.

"Your Majesty, according to the information we have obtained, most of the rebellions were formed spontaneously by the lowly peasants. However, a small number of them have to be guarded against. Rebellions led by the Social Democratic Labour Party broke out in some southern cities, these people, all traitors, they were organized, and they were more troublesome than the rebellions of ordinary peasants! Tsar Nicholas II's confidant, the head of the Russian General Administration for Orthodox Affairs, Pobedonoszev, said.

"Those damned treason, they should all be hanged! I swear I'm going to hang them all! Tsar Nicholas II roared loudly, like an angry lion.

The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party was founded in Minsk in 1898. On March 13, 1898, nine representatives of the "Struggle Associations" and workers' organizations of Western Russia from Petersburg, Moscow, Kiev and other places held this congress secretly in Minsk. The congress proclaimed the founding of the party and issued the Manifesto of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, which pointed out that the Russian proletariat would throw off the shackles of the ** system and continue to struggle against capitalism and the bourgeoisie with greater perseverance until the victory of socialism. The congress elected the Central Committee and approved the Workers' Daily as the organ of the Party. After the congress, although the Central Committee was busted by the tsarist police and the Workers' Daily was forced to suspend publication, the party organizations in various localities continued to operate in secret. Vladimir? Ilyich? "The founding of the party in the spring of 1898 was the most prominent and at the same time the last thing done by the Social Democrats during this period," Ulyanov noted. ”

The Social Democratic Labor Party seized the opportunity of the defeat of the Russian army by the squadron in the war in an attempt to overthrow the tyranny of the tsar. Their accession made it more difficult to suppress the civil strife in Russia, which China would like to see.

"Your Majesty, now we don't have the extra troops to suppress the rebellion, and the main reason for this is precisely because of the war with China. In this war, we have consumed too much national strength. Too many troops were dragged. If we can negotiate peace with China, we can concentrate on dealing with these rebels. With the strength of the Empire, it would not be a problem at all to suppress these rebellions! "Prime Minister Sergei? Witte built yì road.

Tsar Nicholas II frowned, and the conditions for peace talks proposed by the Chinese side were difficult for him to accept. It's just that the severe crisis that Russia is facing now also makes him tremble, and in this situation of internal and external troubles, Russia is likely to collapse, and his rule is also very likely to be ended.

"Your Majesty, now is the time to make up your mind. If you don't hurry up, wait until these rebellions last longer, and then the South Seas will be even more exterminated! "Interior Minister Vyacheslav? Previ also built yì road.

"Your Majesty, as long as we can negotiate peace with the Chinese, we can draw almost 300,000 elite troops from the battlefield into the battle to suppress the rebellion, although there are many rebels, but in the face of the regular army, they are no opponent at all. The War Department is sure that the rebellion will be suppressed in a short time! "War Minister Alexey? Nikolaevich? Kuropatkin also said.

"Your Majesty, the minister also agreed to negotiate peace with China, and first suppress the rebellion in the country!" Tsar Nicholas II's confidant, head of the Russian General Administration for Orthodox Affairs, Pobedonoschev, agreed.

"Well, since everyone agrees, let's make peace with the Chinese first! Send a telegram to Foreign Minister Izvorsky, asking him to contact the Chinese and try to reach an agreement with the Chinese to sign an armistice treaty. However, he must protect the interests of the empire as much as possible, and the Siberian plain must not be lost. In addition, the war reparations must be kept as low as possible, and Russia cannot come up with so much money! Tsar Nicholas II said with some decadence. (To be continued.) )