The news of the assassination of the Tsar's younger brother and the Grand Duke of Tsarist Russia in Warsaw spread throughout the province of Warsaw, and then throughout several provinces of Poland.

Moreover, then news came that the Tsar, in order to avenge his brother, was not only preparing to arrest the murderer, but also preparing to arrest all the young Polish men and send them to the Siberian battlefield as slave troops. The news spread quickly, causing the Polish people everywhere to be terrified, and they followed the rebel party to rebel against the Tsarist army in Poland.

With the riots and rebellions in Warsaw City, the entire Warsaw Province, and even Poland and Lithuania and other Russian territories around the Baltic Sea, began to make a commotion.

Bobrowski in Warsaw had already led the Red Party in the establishment of the Polish Provisional National Government, issued a manifesto of insurrection and a decree on the emancipation of serfs, declared that the land belonged to the Polish people forever, and Bobrowski called on the people of all ethnic groups in Poland, Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine to hold an armed uprising to overthrow the reactionary rule of Tsarist Russia.

At the same time, an even more shocking news came from St. Petersburg: Tsar Alexander Nikolayevich was assassinated while dining in the restaurant of the Winter Palace, and the two eldest and second princes, who were not yet 20 years old, began to compete for the throne under the divided ministers.

Time goes back to the evening of the day when Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich arrived in Warsaw, less than an hour after the Grand Duke was killed. Inside the Hermitage in St. Petersburg.

Tsar Alexander Nikolayevich and Empress Maria Alexandrovna, with four young sons and two daughters, are ready to have dinner together.

Because it's winter, it gets dark very early, and at this moment, the restaurant is already brightly lit, and the air is filled with the mixed aroma of grilled meat and toast.

Queen Maria Alexandrovna asked the nurse to bring her little son, who was only one year old, to kiss her little son's pink face affectionately, and said to her husband with a smile: "Your Majesty, look at your little sixth son, how cute it is!" The fat mouth is already eating the little finger. He must have smelled the bread! ”

The Tsar laughed and said, "Then wean him from tonight, open the meat, and eat toast and roast directly!" ”

With that, the tsar went straight to the wide table. The dining room is very spacious, and on the walls on both sides, there are oil lamps hanging on every foot, which are lit up with fiery red lights, which are unusually bright.

Seeing this, the Tsar's originally happy face suddenly became gloomy, and he asked an assistant next to him: "Is the lighting oil used in these oil lamps still the so-called holy oil produced in the Eastern countries?" ”

The assistant could only bow his head and reply, "Yes, Your Majesty! ”

"Why can't we, the Russian Empire, produce our own good lighting oil?" The Tsar raised his voice: "Don't we have a Baku oil field, rich in oil?" ”

"Your Majesty, although Baku produces oil, the output is not high, and it cannot meet the lighting oil of many families. Moreover, the oil produced, after many processing, cannot be as clean and burned as the holy oil from the East. Our lighting oil, when lit, always has smoke and crackling sounds. The assistant replied in a lower and lower voice, obviously embarrassed.

The tsar sighed and stopped talking. Ban Xiang suddenly asked again: "Send people to the East, no matter what method is used, learn their refining methods, our Russian Empire should be able to produce high-quality fuel oil by itself, instead of using the oil of the East every year!"

By the way, how much does it cost to buy this holy oil every year these days? ”

"Back to Your Majesty, the entire Russian Empire spends tens of millions of rubles a year on lighting oil."

"Smack!" The tsar slapped the table angrily, he also knew that the Baku oil fields had always been the state monopoly system of the Russian Empire, and the oil output was very small, so he said angrily: "The order is to abolish the state monopoly system of the Baku oil fields, increase the exploitation efforts, and open them to private capital and foreign capital if they can't do it, as long as they can quickly increase production." ”

The tsar was really angry. You must know that the vast land of Tsarist Russia, with a population of 70 million, all need lighting. Especially in places like the capital, St. Petersburg, close to the North Pole, in winter, there are only 6 hours of daylight a day, and the remaining 18 hours are all nights, and lighting is needed, and the demand for this lighting oil is very strong. The tallow lamps used by the Russians for hundreds of years are not only expensive, but also inconvenient to use, and the lighting brightness is not enough. But since last year's holy oil was introduced to Tsarist Russia through Prussia, it has been warmly welcomed by all strata of Russia, and the holy oil lamp quickly replaced the tallow lamp, and began to promote it to the countryside through the major cities of Tsarist Russia, and occupied the lighting oil market of the entire Tsarist Russia in a hundred years.

The Tsar was very uncomfortable at the thought of losing tens of millions of rubles a year to buy the holy oil of that Eastern country, and then providing the money for the other party to buy and produce weapons, and then to kill the Russian army.

In this way, it was not fully popularized in Russia at the beginning, and in the future, more and more people throughout Russia will use this holy oil, but I am afraid that it will be more than tens of millions of rubles per year, tens of millions of rubles! That's why the Tsar demanded this, thinking that he must be able to produce such holy oil himself, and he could not rely on foreign countries, let alone be controlled by the enemy country!

Seeing that the tsar was angry, the queen comforted: "Your Majesty, today I finally took the children to relax, so don't think about these troublesome things." Let's enjoy delicious food with the kids first! ”

The Tsar nodded, gave a rare smile to the children, and instructed one of the officials in charge of the restaurant: "Let's have a feast!" ”

Several servants rushed in, each with a plate of delicacies in their hands. One of them was carrying a plate of toast larger than a washbasin, and the strangest thing was that there was a trace of smoke rising from the bread.

The Tsar's children pointed at the huge loaf of bread, and it was bustling; The queen also looked at the children lovingly, with a happy face; The servants stood with their hands over and enjoyed the delicious food......

At this moment, a somewhat pungent smell came, and the keen-eyed tsar immediately realized that something was wrong. He shouted to the servant with the huge bread, "What are you carrying?" Who are you? How I haven't seen you before! Someone's coming....."

The assistant took a look, and this person was a carpenter in the Winter Palace, but he didn't know why he appeared in the dining room as a servant serving the Tsar's meal. With a wave of his hand, he sent four guards forward, and was about to stop the carpenter, but suddenly asked a familiar and unfamiliar smell.

At this moment, the tsar's face was already pale, and he grabbed the queen and a few children suddenly, and shouted: "Come on, catch ...... quickly"

Before the words fell, only a loud bang was heard, and the huge bread held by the servant exploded violently, and the huge impact exploded the entire restaurant, and dozens of people in the hall were blown to a blur by the huge impact, and the Tsar's family, those servants and some guards who were closest to the bread bomb, were already torn apart and severed, and there was a rain of blood.

Tsar Alexander II, who was ambitious and had just begun the great serf reform, was killed by a bread bomb in his Winter Palace dining room, mixed with his family and some servants and guards, and could no longer be separated.

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The news of the assassination of the Tsar by a carpenter in the Winter Palace soon spread from St. Petersburg to all parts of the Russian Empire at a rapid pace.

For a time, there was turmoil in all parts of Tsarist Russia.

When Bobrowski of Warsaw led the Provisional National Government of Poland under the leadership of the Red Party, upon hearing the news of the assassination of the Tsar, it immediately expanded dramatically, calling on workers, craftsmen, petty bourgeoisie and peasants everywhere to rise up and overthrow the tyranny of Tsarist Russia and attack and attack the Russian army everywhere.

And other places began to follow suit, and riots broke out one after another.

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