Chapter 106 Revolution is not an invitation to dinner

"The development of revolution first originates from thought. Only when the consciousness of revolution is generated in thought can a revolution be promoted! And the promotion of revolutionary consciousness should first rely on propaganda. Without the success of propaganda, there will be no revolutionary success..."

The autumn in Petrograd brought a line of cold in the north. After entering 1916, this was by no means a good year for the Russians. More and more men were recruited from factories and fields to the army. In order to ensure the transportation of the army, the Russian Army Department requisitioned millions of horses from the people for farming. After a large number of agricultural horses and middle-aged men were recruited by the army, it directly led to the reduction of agricultural production.

In 1913, Russia was the largest grain exporter in Europe. Russia supplied half of Europe's food. In 1916, almost every city in Russia was in the dilemma of food shortage. In order to avoid chaos caused by large-scale famine in China, they had to take out valuable foreign exchange. Import flour from the United States and China.

On the other hand, although Russia has mobilized more than 10 million troops, which is almost the largest force in the world, their weapons are scarce. The lack of weapons and the incompetence of commanders directly create a situation - the Russians are constantly bleeding, but they can't taste the fruits of victory.

As a backward agricultural country, after the war, Russia, because its industry could not provide sufficient materials, it needed to purchase almost all materials, including boots, from abroad.

"The shortage of shells is particularly serious. According to statistics, there were 5 million shells in the Russian army's reserve at the time of the war, which consumed an average of 45,000 shells per day in the first three months, while the total monthly output of the Russian Arsenal did not exceed 35,000. By the end of the year, its total reserve of shells was only 30. Ten thousand pieces are only enough for a week's demand, and the supply of rifles is also worrying. The three-month battle has caused at least 1 million losses, and there are few machine guns left... There are many strong men in the Russian barracks, and 800,000 trained recruits are ready to go, and they can go to the front line at any time, but But there is no most basic equipment in their hands. Almost all the Russian artillery companies have no shells, and almost everything else such as harnesses, leather boots, rounds, telephone lines, etc. are difficult to find... To replenish the shells, it must wait for several months, and it takes the same amount of time to supply rifles," finally made this report. The military attaché of the British Embassy in Russia came to a conclusion.

"If the above situation cannot be fundamentally improved, it won't be long before our allies with inexhaustible military resources and food resources are likely to completely collapse under the next blow from Germany, or be forced to make peace alone."

This series of reports attracted a lot of attention from London at that time, and the call for Russia's assistance was increasing. However, Britain and France could not provide supplies to Russia through the Baltic Sea as before the war, nor could it pass through the Black Sea. The former was threatened by the German navy, while the latter was sealed because Turkey joined the Allies. Lock the Dardanelles Strait and can't get what you want.

To this end, in order to alleviate the domestic material crisis, Russia allocated 100 million rubles of gold from its treasury and ordered a large number of military supplies to China, including bullets, shells and rifles, machine guns, military uniforms, boots, drugs and cars. For Russia's demand, this 100 million rubles The goods are just a drop in the bucket. In just half a year, in order to meet the military's material needs, Russia has paid as many as 600 million gold rubles to China, and more than 500 tons of gold have left Russia. In the face of such flowing war expenses, Russia is obviously unaffordable, and its people have also purchased a large number of materials from China. .

"China has the world's largest arsenal. They can produce hundreds of thousands of rifles, hundreds of millions of bullets and millions of shells every month. However, for the extremely realistic Chinese, they have no intention to provide any to Russia before the situation is clear. Loan!"

In the face of China's "foreign trade cash settlement system", its country has no intention to provide credit guarantees to any country. In order to let Russia persist in this war, Britain and France provided loans of tens of billions of rubles to Russia, and used these loans as guarantees to buy military supplies from China, but the supply seems to It will never keep up with the loss. China's arsenal can provide 200,000 rifles to Russia every month, but the Russian army may lose 300,000 rifles on the battlefield in a month. In order to meet the military order of Russia, France and Britain, almost every factory in China is expanding and expanding. Production.

In 1916, after two years of expansion, China's factories were finally able to provide sufficient materials to all countries. A steady stream of [***] fires were transported to Europe through the Siberian Railway. One military train after another occupied the entire Siberian Railway, and the military crisis of the current line was alleviated. At that time, unexpected changes have taken place in civil society in Russia.

Almost from the first day of Russia's accession to the war, the unstable factors in Russian society began to brew a new storm, especially those Bolsheviks, who advocated war before the war and let their own political axes fail after the outbreak of the war. At the beginning, their propaganda encouraged Only partially supported.

However, while the Russian Army Department has met the needs of military supplies, due to the transportation volume restrictions of the Siberian Railway, its domestic civilian needs cannot be met. If there is not enough cloth, you may be able to wear old clothes, but the lack of flour directly affects the lives of many people, and the urban food supply is tight. When the merchants gathered and raised prices one after another, and the people's lives were affected, their attitude towards the war became dissatisfied, especially the huge casualties and defeats brought about by the war. At the same time, the dissatisfaction in the hearts of the people who were seriously affected by their lives accumulated little by little. At this time, it was once silent. For a while, the Mingzhu Party members and the Bolsheviks of the legitimate society continued to carry out all kinds of propaganda to "let the national political axe fail" to achieve the purpose of overthrowing the Tsar's political axe.

In a basement on the outskirts of Petrograd, the roar of the printing press is echoing, and the smell of ink is also echoing in the room. Several workers dressed Orientals are working hard. With the work of the printing press, four-size newspapers are printed.

After a newspaper was printed, an oriental man in a suit picked up the newspaper and read it aloud.

"Say this soldier's declaration

The soldiers of the navy at the scene! The corrupt officials and landlords and capitalists in China were involved in this war that did not belong to Japan for the precious world colonial interests of personal glory and Chinese imperialists. They forced thousands of hard-working workers and peasants to send to the battlefield of Lucia and died as cannon fodder. Every day on Lucia's battlefield, thousands of Japanese soldiers are sacrificed. What a tragic thing that you left your hometown, your parents and wives, you died in the battlefield of Lucia, and no one collected the body! Soldiers and comrades! You are all workers and farmers. Think about it, what's the advantage of you coming to Lucia to fight? At this time, you worked in the factory and were exploited and oppressed by the capitalists. The workers earned very little from a day's work, not even enough to support your parents and wives. But the capitalists have tens of millions of dollars, factories, banks, shops, beautiful houses, cars, big meals, and concubines. The workers have everything, while the capitalists have everything. In rural arable land, they are exploited and oppressed by landlords. Farmers have worked hard for a year, and most of them have to be handed over to landlords as land rents, and they also need to bear heavy taxes. The landlords have the land of Tianlian Qianmo, a large farm, and a warehouse full of grain. They also live in Huaxia like the capitalists, taking a car, eating a big meal, and holding a concubine. Farmers have nothing, landlords have everything, and even have to sell their daughters in order to pay taxes. Those corrupt officials who colluded with the Chinese imperialists conscripted you into the army in the name of the future. After you left your hometown, your parents and wives were hungry and cold, and they were always looking forward to your return. You can't get any benefits when you fight on the battlefield of Lucia. You can only sacrifice your lives in vain, while in Japan, the capitalists and landlord warlords enjoy happiness. Because of the continuation of the war, taxes have been increased in the country. These war expenses are squeezed from workers and farmers, and the burden on your family is even heavier. The workers are unemployed, the farmers are hungry, prices are high, and your parents and wives can't live. How unfortunate it is that you were born in Japan and died in Lucia! Comrade Soldier! We know that you don't want to come to Lucia, your parents and wives don't want to leave you, and you don't want to fight. You are forced by warlords, and the workers and farmers in the country are against the war. If you want to go back to Japan, only when you rise up to oppose the war of aggression of Japan's warlords, work together with the workers and peasants in China, and overthrow the capitalist landlord warlords of Japan, can the workers and peasants and soldiers of Japan seek liberation, and only then can they truly win the future. The German soldiers who fought with you on the front line also came from comrades of workers and peasants. They are also forced to come to the front line, and now every day, Japanese proletarian comrades and German proletarian comrades are killing each other. What really benefits is not Japan or Germany, but the capitalists of the two countries. In this war, the capitalists obtained the blood of the workers and peasants' brothers. Strive for profit.

Soldiers! When you fought for the "Japanese future" on the front line, in China, the officials who betrayed the country, against the emperor's will, signed one treaty after another with the Chinese imperialists. The officials who betrayed the country even forced the emperor to go to China to apologize, and the people stood up and opposed it in order to maintain the dignity of the emperor and the emperor. At that time, they fired decisively to suppress... Soldiers and comrades! Don't work for the world colonial war of the Chinese imperialists!

Comrades of soldiers! Your way out or ask to go back to Japan and revolutionize with the workers and peasants in China; in this way can you get rid of your oppression. It is not worth sacrificing for the interests of the warlord and the political axe that betrayed the country. Soldiers and comrades! Get up! Turn the gun back, knock down the traitorous axe that oppresses you, for the real future of Japan, stand up, revolution! Ask to go back to Japan! Born in the day, death in the day in the day! Refuse to fight with the German [***] team! Go back to China to participate in the Japanese revolution!

Long live the liberation of workers and peasants! Long live the great national liberation! Down with the betrayal of the country and the Chinese imperialists said that the Communist Party of the Communist Party of China on October 25, 1916"

After reading the Declaration of Soldiers in Bei Yihui's hand, the applause sounded in this basement. The workers in this basement, except for a few Bolshevik workers, were all Japanese students in Russia. In the past six months, Bei Yihui, who came to Russia, kept giving them to them. He publicized the Outline of Japanese Re-election and Bolshevik ideas. At the same time, he also launched ideological propaganda for the army with the Bolshevik revolutionaries in Russia, and his propaganda was successful.

"Comrades, let me tell you the good news. Last week, 2, 326 soldiers left the reactionary army, and some of them are on their way back to China..."

As soon as Bei Yihui's words fell, the applause sounded again. In the face of the applause of his comrades, Bei Yihui seemed a little proud. His propaganda was successful, and more and more soldiers chose to be deserters. Of course, he would not say how many deserters were sent to the military court and shot at this time.

In his opinion, those atrocities are the increasing reflection of gunpowder in the reactionary army. Now, what's missing in the morning? I'm afraid that the gunpowder bucket has not been full of gunpowder and has not reached the critical point of explosion, but he is convinced that when the army's gunpowder barrel is full of fire. When it comes to medicine, it only takes one Mars to detonate it. When it explodes, there will be an unprecedented earthquake in the whole day!

"Comrade Yihui, Comrade Dachuan is back!"

When a young man's voice fell, Dachuan Zhouming had come over. At this time, he was wearing an old Russian tweed coat, a tweed hat on his head, and a black leather briefcase in his hand. When he entered the basement, Bei Yihui had already greeted him.

"How's it going?"

Bei Yihui's face was full of expectation at this time. Dachuan Zhouming looked around and nodded first, but he didn't say anything. Bei Yihui, who realized his mistake, motioned him to go to the office with him.

"Have you been in touch with them?"

As soon as he entered the office, almost the moment he closed the door, Bei Yihui asked impatiently.

Two months ago, under the introduction of Russian comrades, at the request of Bei Yihui, Dachuan Zhouming began to try to contact German intelligence agencies to seek economic support. Nearly eight months ago, after they came to Russia, the first problem they faced was the economic problem, although they got Russia. The revolutionary party's financial support, but their financial support is limited, while the revolution needs publicity, and propaganda needs to run newspapers and print leaflets, all of which need money. Although domestic comrades received 5,000 yuan a month from the Mitsubishi consortium by extortion under the instructions of Bei Yihui, the money is simply a drop in the bucket.

In the face of Bei Yihui's eagerness, Dachuan Zhouming smiled.

"They asked to meet you!"

Then, Zhou Ming of Dachuan said again.

"Ask for a meeting in Sweden. Sweden is a neutral country. If you agree, they can arrange for you to go to Sweden!"

"Sweden?"

Hearing these two words, Bei Yihui was stunned. Now he is the most wanted criminal in Japan. If it weren't for the fact that there are millions of Chinese businessmen in Russia and hundreds of thousands of Chinese businessmen, I'm afraid that for the sake of safety, he may not even go out of the door to prevent him from being found by the Japanese embassy and eventually arrested and handed over to him. Ben.

"Considering safety issues, I don't think you should go to Stockholm, Sweden!"

Seeing that Bei Yihui was a little hesitant, Dachuan Zhou Ming took the initiative to say.

"No, Sweden, I'm going!"

Suddenly, Bei Yihui replied in affirmatively.

"We must go. The revolution is not an invitation to dinner. We may be able to eat black bread and drink plain water, but without money, we can't help those low-level officers, we can't print newspapers and leaflets, and we can't send these propaganda materials to the army and soldiers. We need money! We need the support of the Germans!"

Now Bei Yihui really knows the important surname of money in the revolution. Without money, there is no way to talk about the revolution at all. If he can get hundreds of thousands or even millions of yuan every month, then he believes that he can soon launch a real proletarian revolution in Japan, a revolution that changes the world. .

"Comrade Dachuan, please answer them immediately. I will go to Stockholm to meet him..."

"But, your safety..."

"Comrade Dachuan, I believe that our career is more important than my safety!"

When Bei Yihui was speaking, he turned his eyes to Dachuan Zhouming, and then he said without emotion.

"If we can get enough funds, then maybe in a few years, we can launch a revolution in Japan, and a brand-new Japan will definitely stand in the East again!"

After dozens of minutes, Okawa Zhouming, who was carrying a briefcase, left the Japanese bookstore with the "Youhan Bookstore" hanging. When he left, he did not notice that behind him, there was a person who had been following him. When he walked through two streets, he fell to one street, and another person turned from another street. Go and continue to follow him. In this way, five or six people followed him for an hour-long journey.

An hour later, Dachuan Zhouming stopped. He looked left and right first. After confirming the safety, he just walked into a bookstore. Facing the bookstore owner, Dachuan Zhouming smiled first and then asked.

"Excuse me, do you have the book Snow in Stockholm?"

(to be continued)