Chapter 125: The Tibetan General
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In the Hainan Palace, Chen Zhong was looking at this morning's newspaper, and an eye-catching headline immediately caught his eye "Bloody Sunday":
In the early morning of January 22, 1905 (January 9, 1905 in the Russian calendar), the Orthodox clergy Fr. Gai Pang led an organization of about 30,000 workers to the square outside the Winter Palace for peace, with the purpose of presenting a letter to the Tsar to express the plight of the working class and the people at the bottom of society, the oppression they had suffered, and to ask the Tsar to carry out social reforms and end the Russo-Japanese War, and to hope that there would be no overtime work, but reasonable treatment with it.
Tsar Nicholas II had been in the Tsarskoye since January 8, 1905, and was not in the Winter Palace on the day of peace, when the armed soldiers who were in charge of guarding the court lined up to confront the crowd.
The crowd had gradually increased to 200,000 people, holding icons and images of the Tsar, singing hymns and patriotic songs, and the soldiers fired warning shots into the air, and soon after they opened fire into the crowd, the people fled in panic and rushed to shove each other, and Father Gepon was killed in the chaos.
The official number of casualties is 96 and 333 wounded, while the opposition claims more than 4,000 dead and conservative estimates of about 1,000. This bloody incident aroused public outrage, the Russian people no longer hoped for the Tsar, and a series of large-scale strikes broke out everywhere.
Shortly after the events of Bloody Sunday, reports of the killing of a Muslim by members of the Armenian League led to a confrontation between the two communities, leading to large-scale ethnic attacks in Baku, followed by Nakhichfan in May, Shusha in August and Ganja in January 1905.
When Chen Zhong saw this report, he remembered that Russia had broken out in 1905.
In the face of domestic turmoil, Tsarist Russia responded quickly, and on January 18, 1905, the Tsar dismissed Interior Minister Pyotr Dmitrievich Svyatopolk-Mirsky and appointed Alexander Brygin to replace him.
On the other hand, an investigative committee was appointed to investigate the causes of the dissatisfaction of the workers in St. Petersburg and the neighboring regions; The committee, led by MP Sindlovsky, consisted of department members, directors of state-run factories, and owners of private factories, and invited workers' representatives to join, but the workers did not elect representatives due to the resistance of the socialists, and the socialists tried to divert the workers into armed struggle, and by February 20 the commission of inquiry collapsed without ever starting its operation.
Chen Zhong put down the newspaper, he was thinking that after the end of the Russo-Japanese War, Japan would quickly occupy Qingdao and other places, and the domestic situation would become more and more chaotic.
With less than ten years to go before the First World War, a strong sense of urgency drove him to act quickly, and he had to realize his vision of a unified country in about five years.
"Report!"
The guard officer brought Blade's report on the situation.
Chen Zhong immediately took over this information that made him wait for a long time, which was an important link and step for him to unify the whole country.
The reason why Chen Zhong sent the blade was that he wanted to infiltrate from this line and from the west road, and plunge this sharp knife from Hainan directly into this land in the southwest, and after gaining a firm foothold, he would go north to take Qinghai and Gansu, and together with the Guangxi army, he would take Yunnan and Sichuan, and finally, completely occupy a large area of land in the northwest and southwest.
Second, Britain and Russia have long been in the idea of making peace, and letting the blade quickly intervene early is to completely shatter their ambitions.
Blade's report specifically mentions the Russian conspiracy to enter:
At the same time that the British intensified their aggression, Russia also carried out conspiracy activities to encroach on our country from all sides.
It has been learned that Russia has sent spies to extensively collect intelligence under the cover of travel and investigation in preparation for further aggression.
Of all these espionage activities, a Mongol named Briyat Del Zhi was the deepest and the longest hidden, and I think this person must be the most harmful.
By studying Tibetan and Buddhist scriptures, this Delzhi used various means to win the favor of some noble monks, and even became the attendant of the thirteenth* lama.
Delzhi took advantage of this advantageous position to win over the upper echelons of the lamas and monks and laymen to Russia.
On several occasions he served as a "special envoy" to the * Lama, traveling back and forth between Tsarist Russia and Russia. "Not only that, but even the northwestern part of China, which borders Russia, will gradually attain peace and tranquility under the patronage of the Tsar." ”
The real intentions of Delzhi's intentions have already shown the ambition of Russian annexation.
However, Russia's ambitions upset the British, who had been premeditated for a long time. The rivalry between them intensified.
Russia had sent a note to Britain through its ambassador to Britain, stressing that Russia "needs to find ways to protect the rights of Russia in Tibet."
Britain, through the Russian ambassador to Britain, stressed to Russia: "Britain has a much closer relationship with it than with Russia." If Russia makes a move in Tibet, then Britain's move will never be weaker than Russia's, or it will go too far. If Russia sends troops into Tibet, Britain will be especially effective, and the strength of the troops sent will be thicker than Russia's troops. ”
It was in the face of increasingly fierce competition with Russia that Britain launched the second war of aggression against Tibet.
During his tenure as the attendant of the 13th Lama, Delzhi tried his best to sow discord between the local government and the central government of the Qing Dynasty, spreading the word that the Qing Dynasty had declined and could not be relied on, and that only Russia could resist the British, so that the young * lama was moved by him.
Delzhi also wooed and colluded with the most powerful Kalun Shazha Bian Jue in the region, and as a result, Shazha and Delzhi were particularly close.
At the end of the report, Blade lays out the dangerous situations one by one, and finally, he makes recommendations for action.
Blade said: In view of the danger that I am facing to be divided by Britain and Russia, I have the following proposal:
1. Request for approval for the assassination of the Russian spy Delzhi.
2. The British forces stationed in India seem to have the possibility of carrying out a third aggression, and I suggest that our special operations forces should join forces with the local armed forces to annihilate the invading enemy.
3. Under the name of the Hainan Palace, our special combat regiment has made official contact with political leaders, appointed generals, managed affairs, and implemented military attaché rule in order to confront internal and external forces that dare to split.
Fourth, please come to the sealing ceremony of the general, and announce to the world in the form of a document that the general's mansion is permanently subordinate to our Chinese nation and is an inseparable part of our Chinese nation.
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