Chapter 42 December I
There was no need to go to great lengths to provoke the contradictions between the generals at the front and the Provisional Government, and with the onset of winter, the lack of fuel made the operation efficiency of the railways fall again, and the railway team sent by the United States was helpless against it, and after several months of investigation and experimentation, they finally saw the nature of the Russian workers - this is a group of reckless men who only recognize the whip and do not recognize science, and the problem of the operation of the railway is not a technical problem, but a ...... Political issues.
The efficiency of railway transportation has declined, there is a shortage of bread and coal in the cities, and there is a shortage of front-line soldiers in the country, not to mention the threat of mutiny. Asekyev had to agree to the request of the commanders of the fronts and send the 3rd Cavalry Corps under the command of Kremov from the front to Petersburg in an attempt to take control of the capital, which was already on the verge of collapse, in order to establish a regime of military control; At the same time, in the name of the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army, the Provisional Government was demanded to surrender all military and civilian powers.
With this command, history turns into its original reincarnation. The Provisional Government immediately telegraphed the whole country and announced that Mihayel. Asekeyev rebelled and announced that he was relieved of his post as commander-in-chief. Representatives of the Soviets, trade unions and the Georgian socialist parties, including the Bolsheviks, formed the 'Committee of the People's Struggle against the Counter-Revolution' to put down the rebellion. Under the influence of the propagandists sent by Petersburg, the soldiers in Kremov's unit refused to carry out the order, Kremov was unable to command the troops, and shot himself, as in history. Asekyev was arrested at the base camp, and the rebellion was completely defeated.
On the surface, democracy was victorious, but it was the workers and soldiers who supported the Bolsheviks who supported it on a snowy night on the fourth day of December in the Russian calendar. There was no cannon fire, and the Red Guards stormed the Winter Palace. The Provisional Government was dissolved, and only three people died in the process. Twenty-five hands. Of course, this battle, which could hardly be called a battle, was later described in propaganda - in movies and novels - very heroically, outside the Winter Palace was a sea of corpses and blood, and the heroic Soviet workers' comrades and Kronstadt sailors braved enemy fire and machine guns to defeat the Winter Palace and overthrow the bourgeois government.
The next morning, the sky was still overcast, and Chen Quai, the plenipotentiary representative of the Great China for peace talks who lived in the former Manchu legation, got up early. Twelve years ago, he came to Petersburg to meet the Tsar as the personal representative of the King of the Mountain Carving. Later, he became the minister of Great China to Russia, and then to the current plenipotentiary of peace talks, his identity has changed several times, and his influence has increased day by day in Petersburg, but he has not changed in the past 12 years, and he is still the high-spirited scholar who stood in the Jade Emperor Pavilion in the east of Tonghua City and praised the scenery of the northern country. It's just that because the opponent of the negotiation is the most difficult Tsarist Russia, he is already gray in his early forties.
Then, there are always ups and downs in life. There are always ups and downs in national fortunes, after the founding of China, Russia's national power has become increasingly decadent, and after Shenwu three years ago, Chen Quai's heart was hung to learn that the revival army had annihilated the Russian Siberian army north of Mukden. His attitude toward Russia gradually began to harden, and his negotiations became smoother and smoother, and he began to recover the lost territory in the Outer Northeast and Outer Northwest.
But the instructions from Yang Rui, the current prime minister of the country, are becoming more and more outrageous. In the past, it was just trying to regain lost territory, but later it turned into a desire to take back Central Asia. He also believed that Russia's participation in the European war would eventually lead to a revolution. Chen didn't believe it at first, but when he saw people in St. Petersburg starting to line up to buy bread. He turned to trust that judgment. When Yang Rui feared that the revolution would not break out because of Kornilov's early death, he kept sending telegrams to the country, and every telegram believed that the revolution was about to break out and that there was no chance of a fluke.
Chen's telegram became an important support for the Russian Department of the Intelligence Bureau in judging the situation in Russia, but the revolution was certain, but when the revolution broke out and whether the Bolsheviks could grasp that rare plan depended entirely on God's will and the courage of the revolutionaries.
After washing, when Chen Qubing was having breakfast, Cheng Guangshun, an agent of the Intelligence Bureau, came in in a hurry, he walked up to Chen Quai's body and whispered in his ear: "Mr. Peiren, it's changed outside!" ”
"Oh......" Chen Quzhi put down his chopsticks in surprise, he pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, and asked with concern: "Is it the cloth party?" ”
"Not exactly the Cloth Party." Cheng Guangshun, a former student of the scientific instrument management class, has now become the head of the Russian intelligence agency, and he received the news that the Winter Palace was occupied by revolutionaries in the middle of last night, but he just learned the inside story. "It was advocated by the Brazzaville people, and there were also Mensheviks, the Zonaires, and people from other parties such as the SPD, but the whole situation was still controlled by the Brazzaville, and Trotsky was in control of the Red Guards."
"Is there a telegram in the country?" Listening to Cheng Guangshun's introduction, Chen Quzhi nodded and asked about China again.
"I sent a telegram to the country before I came." Cheng Guang said, "I believe that the next instruction will come soon." ”
"Hmm." Chen Quzhi seemed to be still immersed in the news of the revolution, and his stiff body only relaxed after hearing the news, and after breathing a heavy sigh of relief, he said: "Looking forward to the stars and the moon, I have finally waited for this day!" ”
"yes." Cheng Guangshun also nodded, he said: "I think if the domestic instructions don't stop it, you should go and say hello to a few leaders of the cloth party today, as for the matter of peace talks, ......" Speaking of this, Cheng Guangshun suddenly mentioned an old matter, he said: "Mr. Peiren, the theft of the seal letter mentioned last time, the thing to be done as a fake is really to be done, then now is an opportunity." ”
After the Baath Army occupied the Outer Northeast, Russia and the international countries did not recognize it, so the Intelligence Bureau, seeing that the political situation in Russia was chaotic, thought of stealing the Tsar's seal and forging documents in order to make a fake Sino-Russian secret treaty, and the lieutenant general of the secret treaty admitted to return the Russian Outer Northeast to China in order to demand an armistice. This kind of thing would not have worked before, but now that the city of Petersburg is in chaos, it is a rare opportunity, as long as the documents are stamped, and then all those who have been bought are killed, and the matter can be confirmed in the future, which was returned to China before the fall of the Tsar.
However, this magical brain hole is not recognized by the increasingly formal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, from Xie Jintai to Chen Quai, I don't think this matter is insulting to the demeanor of a great country, but I feel that if the matter leaks out, then the matter will only get worse and worse, especially now Yang Rui's ambition is even greater, not counting the Outer Northeast, the entire Grassland Governorate will be annexed, this is not something that can be solved by forging tsarist documents, because when the Tsar was in power, the Grassland Governorate did not say, and even Ili was still occupied by the Russian army.
Seeing that Cheng Guangshun was still thinking about this unremarkable matter, Chen Quzhi smiled and said: "This matter, hey, it's also up to you to think of it." Even if the Tsar's seal is forged, what should the Tsar do, he can't kill him, right? Besides, the prime minister wants not only the Outer Northeast, even if the Tsar ceded the Outer Northeast, but now we occupy the three Yuzi countries of Russia, in which case is the case, why should the treaties signed before be counted?
This treaty can only be signed with the Buenos Party, but if it is signed with the Buenos Party, with the Russian nature, then it is necessary to completely subdue them, so that they feel that there is no hope of victory if they continue to fight, and if they continue to fight, they will definitely step down, so that things can be good. In fact, the fundamental decision on where the border between the two countries is drawn depends only on the comparison of the military strength of the two countries and whether the countries will recognize it. After the Russian Revolution, we can only breathe a sigh of relief, and when the Party really announces its withdrawal from the European War, then we can breathe a big sigh of relief. ”
"But what if the party doesn't withdraw from the European war after taking power? Now anyone with a discerning eye knows that Germany will lose. Cheng Guangshun asked.
"If that's the case, they will collapse before the European war is over." Chen Quzhi said with a smile. "We don't have to talk to the cloth party, we can't talk about it now, let's see how they stabilize the current situation first."
Chen Quai's illness is not wrong, after the revolution Petersburg was in chaos, all kinds of even including the Red Guards, Red Sailors rushed into the Winter Palace and began to loot frantically, the Winter Palace was the Tsar's palace for many years, not only the palace accumulated countless treasures, the whole palace itself is priceless world architecture. When these red-eyed people stormed the palace, countless treasures were casually stuffed into their pockets and leather shoes;
In addition to robbery, alcoholism was also very serious, although Petersburg had long banned alcohol, there were moonshine workshops all over the city, and the Hermitage had stored tens of millions of rubles worth of fine wine, and the soldiers rushed in and drank without discipline, smashed each other's heads with bottles, and the fragments of the bottles cut their hands, and then began to go crazy.
Robbery and drunkenness were just the chaos of poor control after the revolution, and when discipline was really established, the situation was completely improved, except for alcoholism. The great Comrade Lenin did not attach much importance to this phenomenon of indiscipline, he cared about how the revolutionary power could be stabilized, the revolutionary party was unstable internally, the revolutionary party was also unstable externally, and the spies and spies of the bourgeois countries abroad were watching in vain a vain attempt to overthrow the nascent proletarian power.
In order to win over the soldiers and peasants, Lenin issued peace decrees and land decrees, and organized a workers' and peasants' government, while proclaiming a constituent assembly. However, the conference was a failure for the Bolsheviks, with the Socialist Revolutionary Party holding almost half of the more than 700 electoral seats, and the Bolsheviks less than a quarter. So, upon learning of the results of the elections, the Bolsheviks arrested the members of the Cadets and Social Revolutionaries in the Preparatory Committee for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly, and Comrade Lenin stated that 'all power to the Constituent Assembly' was the counter-revolutionary slogan, and when the Constituent Assembly was finally convened, because the Socialist-Revolutionaries still numbered more than half of the delegates out of more than 400 deputies, the Bolsheviks quickly withdrew from the conference and began with the slogan ' On the grounds that the guards were tired, the Constituent Assembly was cleared, the Socialist-Revolutionary Party and other representatives were dispersed, and the Constituent Assembly was completely closed. At this point, the slogan 'All power to the Soviets' really became 'All power to the Bolsheviks'. (To be continued......)