Chapter 149 Successor

"History will always remember Pskov, where Tsar Nicholas II painfully and heavily experienced betrayal, cowardice and deception! However, what he would not have thought of was that Prikov inadvertently became the "falling phoenix slope" of the Russian Empire, let alone the future, what will happen in the future. In fact, it has already exceeded everyone's expectations..."

Memoirs of the Empire

Almost as soon as the Tsar signed the edict of abdication and reached a consensus on all issues, Guchkov and Shulijin immediately returned to their special train, and then ordered the special train to rush back to Petrograd as soon as possible. They clearly knew that for every hour of delay, the situation could be With a more severe change of direction, it is necessary to return to Petrograd as soon as possible to exchange the Tsar's abdication for the end of chaos before the situation deteriorates.

The committee's trains have not been blocked on the whole railway line. In fact, no workers will stop the trains with red flags. And now, almost all trains have been suspended. Even before the train left Petrograd, the train deliberately used the navy imported from China. The anthracite, which was originally used by the navy for high-quality coal in naval warfare, is now used by him. Even according to the order of the Soviets, the high-priced high-quality anthracite in the warehouse is provided to workers free of charge for the heating of workers' families.

The train is running at a high speed. Although the almost empty train has already reached its maximum speed, it seems to be a little too slow for the passengers on the train. Yes, the speed of the train is too slow.

When they left Petrograd, the situation there was deteriorating day by day. To be precise, it was deteriorating every hour, even every minute. Now, it will take a long time for them to reach Petrograd. Is it still urgent?

Joche, for the two special envoys, they didn't have any sleepiness at all. They knew that in Pskov, they succeeded in saving the Russian Empire, at least to some extent.

But now... Will God give them time to save the Russian Empire?

Time!

Now they are simply competing with time. As long as they can send the news back to Petrograd before the situation deteriorates out of control and all the people boil, the Russian Empire will be saved.

Although they are special envoys, few people pay attention to them on this train. Those radical soldiers, workers, and even students are unwilling to pay attention to them, although they have learned that the Tsar has abdication, as if they do not know what etiquette is at all.

This means that during the trip, it is impossible for them to get any information about where to arrive. Without a trace of sleepiness, the two people are so close to the window, observing the outside of the car through the window, and the time to reach Petrograd has been determined.

"I'll be in the station in half an hour!"

Finally, a familiar symbol came into Guchkov's sight. The church was a church outside the city. When they left Petrograd, Guchkov paid special attention to it. To be precise, he watched the church pray to God that he could complete his mission. Now, he finally saw it again. It's it.

God bless!

He prayed secretly in his heart, and then he looked at his watch anxiously. Guccikov's face was full of worry, which really took too much time.

"I think we should call the interim committee and tell them that the tsar has abdicating,"

"Okay!"

Shulijin nodded and agreed. He also knew that the situation in Petrograd had reached an urgent point. The fire needed a ball of cold water to extinguish the flames, and the Tsar's abdication was the best cold water, and perhaps he could recover everything.

"I'll call you!"

Almost before the train stopped, Shu Lijin jumped off the train and ran to the dispatching room.

"I'm Shu Lijin from the Provisional Committee of the State Duma! Now I ask to use the phone here!"

When he rushed into the dispatching room, Shulijin ordered the workers. Fortunately, this kind of worker was different from the "barbarians" engaged in manual labor. They did not refuse him. Then he picked up the phone and called the temporary committee of the Tavrida Palace. The person who answered the phone was Mirekov, who was a little excited in Shulikin. After the Tsar abdication, there was no imaginary cheers at all on the other end of the phone, but an almost pleading voice:

"Wassili? Vitalyevich, please do not issue the edict of abdication. Now, the people are extremely indignant. Since you left here, their mood has deteriorated sharply. The abdication has made no one satisfied. ...Don't go to the next step, otherwise, it may cause misfortune..."

The voice on the phone only stunned Shu Lijin's whole body. He couldn't even believe his ears. How could it deteriorate so quickly?

Soon, the two Duma representatives really felt this "sraporically deteriorating" mood. After Guccikov got off the train, he was immediately stopped by several "Soviet representatives" who seemed to have been waiting for a long time.

"Congressman Guchikov, you must have brought good news!"

The questioner is a Tatar in a fur coat and a red scarf. In the past, with Guchikov's temper, he could not even shake hands with him, but now, the situation is completely different. Among the Soviets in various factories, there are not only Jews, but also black workers from Central Asia and Siberia. The Tatars, even in the Soviet Council, also have an Oriental. It is said that he is a Japanese revolutionary. When did he begin to be involved in the Russian revolution? Is it the same as in the last war?

However, he knew that it was just a delusion, because the Japanese revolutionary was a exiled revolutionary wanted by the Japanese political axe. He was just an "ordinary comrade" in the committee.

"Comrade, my dear comrade, I have good news for you. Nicholas has abdication!"

The Tatar and the people around him were stunned at the same time. They looked at each other and only heard the Tatar say.

"Really? Comrade Congressman, is this true?

"Of course, of course it's true. Nikolay signed the edict of abdication in front of me!"

Guchkov straightened his chest and said loudly.

"Well, Senator Guchkov, you must go to the railway repair shop. I believe the workers there are waiting for this good news!"

Withinstead of Guccikov's refusal, the Tatar turned his head and said to the people beside him.

"Ivan, you go and tell everyone now that we are going to hold a mass meeting, and there is a good news to tell you!"

"Okay!"

In this way, at the "invitation" of the other party, Guchkov, who could not refuse, could only go with the Tatar to the mass meeting of the railway repair shop to announce that Nikolai had given way to Mikhail and established a "temporary" political axe led by Lviv.

At the end of the speech, as always, Guchkov, who was not clear about the situation, shouted as loudly as many times in the past:

"Long live Tsar Mikhail!"

But to his great surprise, his cheers did not receive the expected response. Isn't this the victory they hoped to see? Just as he was surprised, he heard an unexpected roar, which was first made by the Tatar who had already known the news.

He, why is he?

Why is he so angry?

However, before he could figure out what was going on, all he responded to him was the angry roar of the workers. Just as he was trying to argue and prove something, a factory worker jumped on the podium and said loudly:

"Duke! ...Comrades, what are we doing the revolution for? ... Over the years, we have suffered enough from the dukes and counts! ...Have you all heard it? Teretsuenko is the Minister of Finance..."

At this time, the two Duma representatives did not know that during their departure, the Provisional Committee of the State Duma announced the list of temporary political axes. Teresenko was the Minister of Finance, and Teresenko was approved in Pravda.

"... What kind of gentleman is Terexenko? It's the owner of ten sugar mills, the owner of a million hectares of land... and searched 300 million rubles of cash... This is the committee, and this is the temporary axe..."

As soon as the worker's bitter speech was over, the workers were angry again. How much should there be 300 million rubles of cash? Why are they so poor? Some people can be so rich. If so rich people become finance ministers, they must be corrupt and bribes. This kind of temporary political axe can't be trusted at all.

"Take out the abdication edict!"

Under the infection of this emotion, workers from all sides shouted in unison. In many cases, anger and dissatisfaction are like poison and can be quickly spread. In fact, this is a feature of mob politics, and the characteristic of mob politics is to stir people's dissatisfaction with reality. Inciting the dissatisfaction of the poor with the rich, thus setting off a "struggle". Using this struggle and using this struggle, in the end, everything will be destroyed and everything will be disintegrated in the carnival of the mob... "Tear it!"

In a frenzy, people rushed to the stage excitedly, regardless of Guchkov's opposition and shouts, and searched his whole body. Finally, his coat was torn off and his underwear was torn. Only with the help of a sentry, he escaped.

However, the workers did not find the edict of abdication in him. It turned out that when he was at the station, perhaps out of worry about those "barbarians" or out of "cautiousness", Shulikin and Guccikov did not carry the edict of abdication with them, but stuffed the edict of abdication to After several transfers, it was hidden in a pile of newspapers in the office of the Ministry of Transport.

It was not easy to leave Guccikov, who left the railway repair shop under the escort of the sentry. He and Shulijin couldn't help but be grateful for the wisdom. If they hadn't handed over the abdication edict to others in advance, they might have been robbed and torn up by the rioting workers. At that time... just need to think about what might happen. Guchkov shuddered. It was really terrible!

At this time, he subconsciously began to regret why he cooperated with those mob. Is it possible for those mob to cooperate with them?

At least for now, it seems to be very subtle.

Of course, the development of the situation cannot allow him to continue to think about it. Now the most important thing is to immediately report to Luo Jianke and others on the abdication of the Tsar and Grand Duke Mikhail's becoming the heir to the throne. Maybe by then, the situation can be stabilized!

"May God bless Russia!"

Shulijin prayed again, praying that he could save this huge Russian empire. Now, this may be the last ray of hope!

"Petrograd, His Majesty the Emperor Mikhail II:

Things in recent days have forced me to take this extreme step irreparably. If I make you sad and don't tell you in advance, please forgive me. I will always be your faithful brother. Sincerely pray that God will bless you and your country.

Niki."

Receiving his brother's telegram, Mikhail was stunned by the content of the telegram. His brother, Nicholas, who was unwilling to be the Tsar, abdicated!

And the edict of abdication has been signed!

Although he knew in his heart that this might be the only final choice that Nicholas could make after he chose to leave the base camp, he was stunned after receiving the news.

The Russian Empire is destroyed!

In the hands of Nicholas, his brother, after experiencing what happened in Petrograd and witnessing the "fragile" and even ignored "authority" of the Provisional Committee, he believed that no one could save Russia, unless... except what?

Unless the generals on the front line, the commander-in-chief of the Five Great Line, fulfill their vows again, but why did Nicholas abdicate?

If those generals really remember the vows they once made, his brother, Nicholas II, the father of all the people of Russia, would not abdicate at all. Mikhail knew that brother very well. Maybe he did not want to inherit the throne at the beginning, but as a tsar, he would never easily Give up your throne.

Not to mention the "glorious abdication".

No matter how glorious it is, it is still a humiliating abdication in the final analysis. Although he knew that perhaps Nicholas's abdication was undoubtedly the best choice for Russia, Mikhail, who knew the inside story well, knew the helplessness and humiliation of his brother's abdication, and of course, more importantly, the betrayal of the generals.

But now, his brother has abdicated and handed over the throne to him. Is it a good thing?

If it was three years ago, before the war exploded, or even last year, if Niki gave him the throne, Mikhail would gladly accept it. No matter what kind of compromise he made with the State Duma made after Niki's abdication, even if it was constitutional, he would accept it. The reason is very simple, for Russia. S.

But what about now?

Mikhail knows that after Niki's abdication, the Russian empire given to him is not a stable empire. It is simply an empire of internal and external troubles. It may fall into a collapse at any time. This empire may be swallowed up by the carnival of the mod at any time, and in this carnival, it is even his The future Tsar Michael II may be beheaded by the mob like Louis XVI of France.

"On January 21, 1793, at the Place de la Concorde in Paris, Queen Louis XVI accidentally stepped on the executioner's foot when she was on the guillow. The queen's first instinctive reaction was: "I'm sorry, sir."

The picture that just appeared in history just appeared in my mind. Although Mikhail had praised Queen Mary's demeanor countless times. She was the born queen, and her last scene had been talked about by the world, but at this time, Mikhail felt unprecedented fear.

At this moment, he seemed to see the scene where he was pushed to be beheaded by the fanatical mob, and saw what his beloved wife's kind-hearted Nasha said to the world in the following hundred years. Maybe... "It's okay, they are in China..."

Thinking of his wife, Mikhail couldn't help but be glad that when they went to China, at least they didn't need to experience all this again, they didn't need to experience the fear of "riot", and they didn't need to sleep peacefully without clenching their pistols.

"Maybe we should send a telegram to tell them that they should never come back until the situation has stabilized!"

At this time, Grand Duke Mikhail remembered that he did not seem to have told his wife everything here and what she should do.

"Really!"

He scolded himself, and Mikhail shouted out of the door.

"Yuri!"

Yuri is his close servant and one of his most trusted attendants. In the past few days, Yuri has been guarding the door of his bedroom, holding weapons to protect his safety. Even Yuri has made a retreat route. As soon as some of the thugs try to break in here, he will Protect him from leaving here safely.

But what else is safe in Petrograd now?

"Your Highness!"

After entering the door, Yuri saluted respectfully.

"Yuri, here is a telegram, please immediately..."

Half of the words, Mikhail realized that now that the telegraph office has been controlled by those thugs, it is difficult for him, the Grand Duke, to send the telegram unless through other channels, but what channels are there now?

"Well, go to the Chinese Embassy, please ask Ambassador Liu to forward it on your behalf!"

I believe that Ambassador Liu will be very happy to help forward this telegram. Mikhail will never doubt this. Just as his voice fell, Yuri answered.

"Your Highness, Counselor Sun Pingchuan of the Chinese Embassy has arrived. He is waiting for your reception!"

"What?"

(to be continued)