Although it is not yet summer, the temperature in St. Petersburg is quite high at noon. Even if you sit in the house, you can feel the steaming outside.

Here is the heart of the Russian Provisional Government - the Winter Palace.

Since the overthrow of the Romanov dynasty and the imprisonment of Tsar Nicholas II's family, the Winter Palace has become the presidential residence of the Provisional Government.

As the acting president of the Provisional Central Government of the Russian Republic, Alexander Vdolovich Kerensky, now sweating, this half is hot, the other half is urgent. Although the electric fan on the table in front of him kept whining, it couldn't stop the sweat beads from rolling down his neck and into his clothes one by one.

Can he not be in a hurry?

Now that the presidential palace of the provisional government has been surrounded by protesting crowds for five consecutive days, what does this mean? The people's dissatisfaction with the Provisional Government is growing. Also in the city, on the other side of the city, the armed forces of the workers incited by the Red elements were still growing, and the Provisional Government could be said to be in internal and external troubles, Kerensky Alexander's.

The workers' armed forces are not strong, and they are weak compared to the military power of Russia as a whole, like a small flame in the wind. But there is a saying in China: a spark can start a prairie fire. With the presence of this armed force, it was difficult for Kerensky to use forceful means to dislodge the demonstrators, because the people surrounding the Winter Palace were the citizens of St. Petersburg, who were the objects of solidarity of the Red Elements.

The Provisional Government is now under great pressure, and it is better not to do anything about driving people to the side of the opponent.

Kerensky was not stupid, he was a very intelligent man, his moderate political attitude and emotional eloquence had established a good personal image for him, and his previous two prison sentences also brought him great political prestige, he reached the peak of Russian politics at the age of thirty-five, so how could he be a man without insight and intelligence?

Kerensky is well aware of what Russia needs today.

If he completely turns to China, with China's assistance, Russia's predicament can be lifted in a blink of an eye.

After all, Russia, with a population of only 80 million, is too small compared to China, which has a population of more than 1 billion, and with the endorsement of the Chinese government, Russia's national bonds can be exchanged for billions of dollars in the Chinese market in the blink of an eye. There will be factories rising in Russia, a large number of rural surplus labor will be absorbed, social wealth will be able to move to the maximum, and China's extremely vast 'land/market' will also be opened to Russia.

From Istanbul to Egypt, from Egypt to the Cape of Good Hope, the southernmost tip of Africa, from the Cape of Good Hope to South America, thousands of miles away, as long as human beings can live, Russia, which has the protection of China, can be unimpeded.

Isn't Russia's current domestic and foreign difficulties caused by the debt crisis? Year after year, huge debt reparations crushed the Romanov dynasty, just like the French Bourbons, who were crushed by debts in those years. The Chinese, on the other hand, generously promised that as long as Russia submits to China, the remaining part of Russia's previous war reparations against China will not only be written off, but the amount of reparations paid in the previous twenty years will also be fed back to Russia by China. This is not in line with the aid funds promised by the Chinese, which are two different things.

The feedback of the compensation is the compensation and the aid fund is the aid fund.

It can be said that as long as there is money, the Russian Provisional Government will be able to bring it back to life in no time. Because as long as there is money, the Russian national army will always be firmly in the hands of the Provisional Government, and the armed pickets of the workers of the Red elements are a joke compared to them.

Kerensky is very confident in his own political ideas, and compared with the vanity of the Red Elements, Kerensky's theory and temptation of being born out of China's real politics are very strong.

He was first and foremost in favor of democracy and had no ambition to be emperor; He advocated civil liberties, women's equal rights and universal suffrage, and also supported the Labour Protection Act, the Women and Children Protection Act, and so on.

It can be said that Kerensky's political theory is far more attractive than that of the Red Elements. Because many of the policies and suggestions he copied the neighbor next door, the powerful and incomparable world hegemon China. This alone will be able to unite the hearts and minds of the majority of people in Russia.

But as well as being a politician, Kerensky was also an idealist. For most of his thirty-five years of life, he was an anti-Chinese elementor, or more accurately, a Russian angry youth.

Just like China's history of humiliation in modern times, it has spawned countless angry youths in modern society. Kerensky was also a Russian disgruntled youth. The century-old history of humiliation in modern China is a lesson that the entire Chinese nation will remember, so what about Europe in the current time and space?

From the beginning of Chen Han to the end of the Second East-West War, the Europeans first lost the South Seas, the Americas, and later lost the hegemony of the whole world, and Russia, as the main battlefield of several land wars, lost most of the land.

In addition to the fact that Chinese soldiers did not commit massacres on Russian soil again and again, the humiliation that China gave to Europe and China to Russia was no less shallow than the humiliation that Japan left on China in those years.

Kerensky also has his own political base, and as his political philosophy that condenses his base, anti-China ideology is very strong in it. If Kerensky had accepted China's 'good intentions' now, if nothing else, there would have been chaos among his followers.

This is also the reason why Kerensky has insisted on gritting his teeth and not letting go of China until now.

But Kerensky gritted his teeth and resisted China's temptation, but turned around and had to face Russia's difficult domestic situation head-on.

The tsar has been put under house arrest, and some of the greedy nobles have even been hanged, but Russia is already facing difficult financial pressures, and Ukraine's grain production has not been drastically reduced, but it will take action to transport this grain to the whole of Russia.

Over the years, Russia has relied on the export of basic raw materials in exchange for the finished industrial products of Western society and China, and the huge gap between industry and agriculture has impoverished the Russian countryside, while at the same time, the big businessmen who control the means of life are trying their best to exploit the workers in the cities. Why did red ideas spread in Russia's major industrial cities? That is because they are poor, they are oppressed by the bourgeoisie. And where there is oppression, there is resistance.

Kerensky needs to face the Russian society that has been completely messed up by the Romanov dynasty, from top to bottom, from the inside out, completely corrupt and degenerated Russian society, and he is not a god, where can he easily make the whole Russian society harmonious and peaceful?

Kerensky has no idea now, but as a political leader, although he does not have rich experience in political struggle, his political sense is unusually sensitive. With so many people gathered outside the Winter Palace, his instinct told him that this matter was definitely not as simple as it seemed. There must have been someone standing behind the weeping and shouting citizens gathered in front of the gates of the Winter Palace, and that person must have been his enemy.

It's just that Kerensky couldn't figure out who was behind the instigation of the citizens of St. Petersburg.

Is it Li Wolf? The acting president of the interim government that he replaced?

It's possible, but there's no evidence at all. And in the whole of St. Petersburg, there is not only one Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov who can do this.

Russia is undergoing a major change that has not been seen in a century, and who wants to take advantage of the opportunity. The fall of the Tsar and the liquidation and arrest of a considerable part of the old bureaucracy left a void of power that kept the socialists jumping for years in a bloody struggle and at the same time led to infinite chaos. So there are too many suspects.

Kerensky is annoyed, doubts are questions, and the most important thing now is how to deal with the aftermath.

As soon as he sat on the throne of acting president, the crater under the seat began to heat up, and Kerensky could not let the volcano continue, otherwise the eruption of the volcano would definitely leave him with no place to bury.

The citizens outside were not protesting against the latest laws promulgated by the Provisional Government, they were protesting against their inability to buy enough food, against the soaring prices of food in St. Petersburg, against the hoarding of merchants in St. Petersburg and the government ignoring them......

Kerensky was not lacking in his impression of this, and he even thought of Paris after the French Revolution more than 100 years ago, when the Directory did not make thousands of Parisian citizens hungry every day, completely without restricted capital, and did not care about the lives of the citizens at all, but blindly raised the price of food to earn all the profits that could be made.

This scene in St. Petersburg is a repetition of what happened in Paris. The Russian Socialists are a standard bourgeois party, and many of the Socialists' bigwigs are inextricably linked to St. Petersburg's grain business and rising food prices.

Kerensky also did not approve of the current price of food, but cutting off people's money is like killing his parents, and Kerensky does not have the ability to carry out his intentions. The issue of limiting food prices has been debated in the Russian parliament for a month or two, but there has been no explanation.

But this is not a reason for the Winter Palace to be besieged.

This is the presidential palace, the seat of the highest organ of power of the Provisional Government, and if it were surrounded by civilians for three or two days, the Provisional Government would lose face and lose its majesty.

Among the foreign envoys in Russia, some people are urging Kerensky to make up his mind as soon as possible and use 'thunderous means' to maintain the authority of the Russian government center. But they just stand and talk without backache.

Only God knows how bad the situation is in Russia, and there is only one policy that suits Russia at the moment - to recuperate.

If he could, it would be the ambassador to Russia, and Kerensky would not want to see one.

The reason why Russia ended up in such a situation is not only because of the war reparations demanded by China, but also because Britain, France and other countries also bear unshirkable responsibility. Their hand is longer than that of the Chinese, and they have been propping up political forces within Russia decades ago, meddling in Russian evidence. Russia's current dire situation is inseparable from their contributions.

Kerensky sat alone in his office and pondered for a long time, but in the end he couldn't make up his mind, let alone think of a perfect solution.

There are too many constraints in this city that are holding him back. In fact, the most important thing needed to solve this chaos is power.

Using power to establish order, no matter how unreasonable it is, no matter how bad it is, is better than no order at all.

Liberalism has a lot of market power in this great era of change, and if it spreads, it can be a headache for any government.

But at this moment, the phone on Kerensky's desk suddenly rang. Kerensky's brain, which was filled with a thousand thoughts, cleared him up as he picked up the phone on his desk, and the panicked voice of the head of the Hermitage guard came from the other end of the phone.

"Your Excellency, I heard gunshots, gunshots from the crowd of demonstrators. But I swear, the guards didn't shoot, none of our people here. Your Excellency, it's all messed up here, it's all messed up right now......"

Originally, the crowd of demonstrators outside the Winter Palace was not very orderly, even if there were people organizing them. However, when the gunshots rang out, the power of order was instantly wiped out. The captain of the guard didn't know how many people were in front of him, and it was a complete mess anyway.

It's like a flock of sheep without restraint, like a flock of horses that are suddenly frightened......

The words of the captain of the guard made Kerensky feel like he was breaking down in this moment. "Who fired the shot? Which bastard gave the order? ”

There were also the shouts of countless people in the microphone, shouts in panic. Kerensky sat back in his chair in a dejected manner.

"Take care of the aftermath!"

Kerensky had a full stomach full of words, but in the end, a thousand words only met the city with these four words.

He didn't think about who was in charge of it anymore. Kerensky's brain was already thinking about what to do next.

But Kerensky stood up first and walked out of the office. But as soon as he opened the door, he saw a person walking inside, it was the captain of the guard of the Winter Palace. The gunfire must be removed from the guards, otherwise Kerensky, who was put on the head of a man who shot civilians, will be completely stinking for 10,000 years.

The impact of this kind of thing is very, very bad, and people will get caught. Moreover, this kind of 'strong' suppression of the crowd is seriously inconsistent with the political ideas he preaches to the outside world, and it is very likely that the external image of the whole person will collapse. In that case, Kerensky would have little political future to speak of.

He died completely at one time, and there was not even the slightest possibility of a revival of the old ashes.

This is clearly not what Kerensky needs.

There were more than two thousand people in the Hermitage Guard, and here was the configuration of a reinforced regiment, and the captain of the guard was close to Kerensky. Before the others arrived, Kerensky whispered a few words to the captain of the guard, and the captain's panicked face first stiffened, and then gritted his teeth fiercely......

Twenty minutes later, Kerensky, who was personally outside the Winter Palace, was struck in the abdomen by a flying bullet while trying his best to comfort the wounded, and he passed out instantly. The interim government, which has only undergone a change of acting president, seems to be about to usher in a third acting president.