Chapter 152 Now, we need to wait

"In 1473, Ivan III, Grand Duke of Moscow, married the Byzantine princess Sophia? Paleorog, 26 years later, the double-headed eagle emblem of the Byzantine Empire was officially used as the Russian seal. Russia's self-positioning as the "Third Rome" was laid the foundation. From that day on, "West" and "East" became the two contradictory souls in Russia's national strategy, and directly affected Russia and Europe. In the eyes of Western Europeans, Russia is an uncivilized land in the East from the Mongols. It is a marginal country of paganism. In the eyes of traditional Russians, this country is the true inheritor of European civilization and should share the same fate and die with Europe.

Since Peter the Great, how to steer the huge Russian ship into the waterways of the European powers has become the goal of the Romanov dynasty. In 1814, Russia under the rule of Alexander I once approached this goal, but the illusion was immediately broken by the fiasco of the Crimean War. Alexandre II was forced to start a new reform process, allowing Russia to establish a deeper link with Europe.

In 1861, after Alexa II ordered the liberation of serfs, Russia began to stagger towards capitalism. The industrial bourgeoisie developed slowly but irreversibly. The peasants also left the land of the countryside and became the proletariat with nothing. Pushkin and Lemontov, who inherited romanticism in the field of literature, The post-realistic style of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky formed a world-renowned "golden age". By the last decade of the 19th century, Russia had formed important industrial centers such as Donbas, Krivorog and Baku, and produced more than 150 monopolies. The Russian bourgeoisie was in French financial capital. With nourishing and thriving, they demand greater support for the domestic market, political axe's external expansion, and the right to enter the aristocratic parliamentary hall. European intellectuals despise these upstarts with pretentious contempt, but also devoutly admit that the demands made by these people will help build a better society.

"Our generation and future Russians will know how to be a real Russian."

Then, not everyone is willing to see these scenes. On the right side of the western heads of the eagles of both sides, the eastern head belonging to the tsar, Eastern politics and religion and 130 million Russian farmers stands outside the trend of Europeanization. The first section of the Fundamental Law of the Russian Empire promulgated in 1892 stipulates that "All-Russian Emperor" He is a [***] monarch with unlimited power. God has given him supreme power: people must obey him based on conscience and awe.

The monarch of the "Third Rome" closed the door to the modern state system with such a declaration. In the face of the turbulent revolutionary wave and intricate interests, the Tsar will also make some concessions, but once the situation calms down, he will return to germinate. This is not so much a deception as confusion - from Alexander III to Nicholas II, the monarchs of the Romanov dynasty did not find the "node" to connect the ancient and fragile tsarist system with the modern state. They couldn't help but become figures such as "film emperors", sometimes pretending to be the parents of the generous people, and sometimes claiming to be the backing of the reform of forging ahead, hoping to be stable and stable. Pass the test.

Unfortunately, history did not give them a chance to muddle through. In 1905, Russia was knocked down by a small country across the sea at the back of the Qing Empire ten years ago, followed by a violent revolution that had never occurred since the founding of the Romanov dynasty. The national self-esteem of large assets and small assets who are insulted, the fierce pride of the army, the grief caused by the loss of hundreds of thousands of young people's lives in meaningless military adventures, the inevitable financial bankruptcy and long-term economic crisis caused by war, and the fear of a terrible revolution... make everyone oppose [*** ] system."

From January to October 1905, there were more than 2,700 uprisings in Russia, factory strikes, railways were suspended, and the estates of countless landlords in the countryside were burned. Ethnic uprisings occurred in Finland, Poland and the Caucasus. For the first time, Soviets appeared in St. Petersburg, Moscow and other cities. The object of criticism was from The bureaucrats around the tsar directly pointed to Nicholas II and the tsar system itself.

The defeat in 1905 was a turning point. From that moment on, the two heads of the double-headed eagle were strangely distorted. When the emperor and Storepin put on the cloak of "innovation" again, they began to carry out a "New Alexander II Reform" that destroyed the traditional commune, privatized the land and intensified the polarization of the rich and the poor. During the revolution, the people finally recalled the seeds sown by the once neglected populists in the 1860s. The political monks who advocated that "Russia should take the road of modernization with oriental characteristics" once declared that "land-people-morality", this combination of the Russian-style trinity is the most powerful force. There, these religious leaders announced that they would lead the Russian people out of Egypt and the Red Sea. After crossing the ruins of reading, exploitation and inequality burned by the fire of change, the earthly kingdom was finally established in Russia.

The spiritual successor of the populists - the liberals in the Constitutional Cooking Party, to the social revolutionary party advocating the peasant revolution, to the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks, they are also scrambling to play the prophets of the revolution, playing the dangerous game of creating a new "god" - the people. Even Nicholas II, the cowardly and mediocre "little father", declared in 1914 that he would fight for the "Land of Russia"!

"Smart people like Lunacharsky, Bazarov and Gorky know that a word can't do bad things, so they plan to borrow the word God, but the people who have no scriptures in this game may believe that there is a God or there is really no God. At that time, a word will do bad things." When the war forcibly stopped all the barely maintained order of the empire with violence, Russia began to run towards an uncontrollable and "godless" avalanche revolution. At that time, as has happened countless times in history, it will not flow with ink, but a river of blood!"

"The End of the Empire" Ya? Solzhenitsyn "The victory of the revolution came so suddenly."

In the camp conference room in Harbin, an ongoing joint intelligence conference, intelligence officers from the Imperial Intelligence Bureau, the Imperial Investigation Bureau, the Intelligence Bureau of the Staff Headquarters and the Intelligence Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported directly to His Majesty who inspected in Heilongjiang, and the direct reporting was naturally as an intelligence dragon. The head of the Imperial Intelligence Agency is in charge.

As the deputy director of the Imperial Intelligence Agency, Wei Zihan naturally assumed this responsibility.

"When the old order collapsed, the lagging surname of people's consciousness relative to historical changes was exposed: the republican system has become a fact, but the October party and the constitutional party are still carefully discussing the issue of regent, the Bolsheviks, the Mensheviks and the social revolutionaries on the whole struggle. The bureau was puzzled.

Looking at the thoughtful majesty, Wei Zihan said in a very playful tone.

"All over Petrograd, and even all of Russia, they are asking a question - have we taken power? Who should I give it to in custody? Or do it yourself?"

Chen Moran is not strange to this point. The success of the February Revolution, whether from the present or from the historical point of view, is too accidental and incredible. It is not even a "revolution" at all. As later generations have concluded, this "revolution" is not so much that people are promoting the revolution as they are driven by the ** of the revolution itself and can't help but appear in the storm.

This state of revolution is similar to another China in time and space. Well, China in 1911 is very similar. However, the same is only a "revolutionary state" at most. As for others, it is completely different. After all, Russia has played an unprecedented winner after several years of chaos and civil war. Everything was replaced with bayonets and power. In China, the compromise of the revolution and the unwilling compromise of the north and the south were exchanged for years of war, which lasted for more than ten years of chaos and finally dragged down the country. History... is always so interesting.

...In the circular office on the top floor of the Tavlida Palace, Luo Jianke and his colleagues were surprised to see the bonfires lit in the streets and alleys. The ragged people were singing and dancing in the background of the smashed double-headed eagles and the looted shops. Soldiers from different troops lay on the roadside wrapped in dirty military uniforms, while the vicious criminals also escaped from the prison with the political prisoners and began to make waves. Some people hung their heads and were escorted down the streets by soldiers and workers with rifles, including former Home Secretary Alexander? Protopopov, Nicholas, Minister of Court Affairs? Stolypin, the minister of the army during the Russian war, the former military governor of Turkey, Admiral Kuropatkin, and the general secretary of the Orthodox Episcopal Church, in short, were all former rulers, as well as a large number of police and spies in the past. Most of the big shots were subsequently spared from execution, but in this case, they were all frightened and did not even dare to stop without permission. More unknown military and police disappeared in the world. Their fate was unknown and no one cared about them.

When referring to the fate of these military and police, these intelligence officials from multiple departments can't help but feel a trace of sadness for their peers. Similarly, their encounter is like a warning, reminding them that if they can't decisively calm down any "revolutionary atmosphere" that happened in the country, The devoured will not only be limited to the empire, but also themselves. Each of them is closely tied to the empire.

"Not only that, the turbulent wave also poured into the army still in a state of war. On March 14, the Petrograd Soviet Executive Committee, under the auspices of the Menshevik representative Sukhanov, passed the famous "Soviet No. 1 Decree", which requires Russia All units of the army and the army are from company-level units, including heavy arsenals, artillery companies, cavalry companies and resident agencies. The navy immediately elects representatives from grass-roots personnel with ships as units, forming a soldier committee, responsible for all political activities of the unit. All weapons are under the control of the soldier committee, and the rank differences between officers and soldiers. The military rank is cancelled, and soldiers who are not in an official state can enjoy the same political and social rights as city citizens. The officer's order can only take effect if it does not conflict with the Soviet's decision. Obviously, the "Decree No. 1" is consistent with the Soviet's own direct surname. Of course, its goal is to be from the officer's hands. Seize the power in the middle.

The hierarchy is the basis for the survival and maintenance of order of the army. Without a strict military rank system, the violent group of the army will get out of control. It is also because they witnessed what happened in Russia that they realized why, as early as the establishment of the Guangfu Army, His Majesty blindly emphasized officers, military ranks and soldiers. The absolute obedience of soldiers to officers, soldiers, only soldiers, and the officer and officer system are the soul of the army.

"Now "Decree No. 1" is like a "gas bomb". As many as 9 million copies have been printed and distributed back and forth. It has caused unprecedented chaos on the front line. In the past two and a half years, soldiers have fought desperately under the slogan "for the tsar and the motherland". There is no hope, no food, just The hierarchical order and formal laws that have been formed for a long time express a little obedience. When the "gas bomb" that completely eliminates all the immediate laws and shackles but fails to give them new goals and directions is detonated, it is not a pastoral poetic paradise, but a completely free political axe-freeism, and more The terrible thing is that the soldiers still have guns in their hands.

He shook his head. As an intelligence officer of the Military Intelligence Agency, Chen Youguo, who knew the harm caused by the army's loss of control, admired the "innocence" of the Russians in his heart. Their order disintegrated the army, but how long would it take to rebuild the army? What a heavy price to pay? Obviously, those people didn't consider these problems at all.

"In Helsinki, where the headquarters of the Baltic Fleet is located, Commander Nepenin, who asked the Tsar to abdicate a few days ago, refused to swear allegiance to the Soviets, so he was killed by sailors on the spot. The sailors then launched an operation to clean up the "royalists". There were 88 officers and warrant officers in the fleet headquarters. And the soldiers were shot or stabbed to death. At the Kronstadt Naval Base near Petrograd, three admirals and 78 officers were escorted to a hillside by revolutionary sailors and then collectively executed. The revolutionary Kronstadt Island has since become a reading kingdom.

Listening to Chen Youguo's story, Chen Moran did not say a word. His expression was very calm. He had been prepared for all this, and even had even looked forward to all this. This revolution would destroy everything in Russia. Only after everything in Russia was destroyed can the plan be implemented. This chaos and this kind of massacre are what he needs and are in line with China's future interests.

"The massacre of officers is only the first part of a series of consequences caused by the "Decree No. 1". After the officers were purged, the soldiers' committee saw the power of the barrel of the gun. These had no intention of continuing the war, and there was no enthusiasm for the "bright cooking" that could not fill his stomach. The eight began to plunder the landlord's manor, which was initially limited to ownerless assets, and soon turned into blatant killing and arson!"

It is inevitable to cause chaos. In this conference room, no one will doubt this. They only report on the development of the situation in Russia, but at the time of the report, these contents are enough to keep everyone vigilant. That's why the intelligence agencies have repeatedly issued warnings and demanded The Russian revolution was vigilant. They were afraid, and they were also worried that the wave of revolution in Russia would run to China.

It is also for this reason that at the strong request of the Imperial Bureau of Investigation, the railway transportation department suspended its transportation to Russia, and in the border areas, it strengthened its defenses. At the same time, the Military Intelligence Agency also began to strengthen its understanding of the dynamics of soldiers to avoid the "Russian riots" in China, especially the army. Impact.

"With the permission of the Soldiers Committee, the Russian [***] team began to give up the front line one by regiment and fled to the rear. The deserters with weapons, the transshipment troops gushing out of the recruitment station and barracks and the refugees who escaped from the German occupation area were mixed together. There were drunks with guns everywhere. These mob scolded. "I want to go back and settle the general accounts with the landlord" and "I want to use a bayonet to lead the guys from Petrograd into the trenches". Correspondingly, the slogan of the imperial era "order, conservatism and law" has become a curse. From Petrograd to London, almost all Eurasian observers are shocked by this. They have never witnessed a big country, and so overnight, they fell into a state of collapse and no political axe. After all, this is far beyond their imagination!"

Is it beyond their imagination?

Chen Youguo's words made Chen Moran sneer in his heart. Now such a little state without political axe is beyond their imagination? It's really a group of guys who have never seen the "big scene". Soon, in a few months, the upheaval in Russia will probably make them fall through their glasses. Those Russians will see what it is for the first time - "bare is axiom". At that time, I really don't know how they will imagine it.

"Your Majesty, now even the most radical Soviet representatives have to admit that the state without a political axe cannot be maintained for a long time. In the critical period of war, Russia must have a new political axe. The question is what kind of political axe to establish and how to give him authority among the revolutionary people."

When reporting, the liaison officer of the Intelligence Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs took a special look at His Majesty. These problems seem to have nothing to do with China, but in fact, they have a certain relationship with China. After all... Nasha? Romanov, the daughter of Grand Duke Mikhail has just been engaged to the crown prince!

"Your Majesty, in addition, according to the report of the Embassy in Russia, we lost contact with Grand Duke Mikhail, and just a few hours ago, the Provisional Russian Council announced that Grand Duke Mikhail had abdication... So..."

"Oh!"

He nodded, and Chen Moran answered softly.

"This, I already know! Now, we need to wait..."

(to be continued)