On May 4, in Maria's Palace, there was a lot of tension and depression before the rain was about to come. Figures came and went, officials of the Provisional Government, each with a solemn expression, and from time to time stopped to listen - the roar of protest resounded through the streets of Petersburg and reached the Marian Palace.

The square outside Maria's Palace, although firmly controlled by Kornilov's army, was in most parts of the city of Petersburg where the Bolsheviks organized even larger protests!

Dozens of local Soviets, too, sent electricity to Petersburg to oppose the policies of the Provisional Government and fully supported the Petersburg Soviets (not the Bolsheviks, but the Socialist-Revolutionaries and Mensheviks at this time had many supporters). At the same time, telegrams of similar content came from the front.

In the conference room of the Maria Palace, the doors and windows are closed at this time, and there are non-commissioned officers and students in military uniforms standing guard at the door, and no one is allowed to approach without permission!

A secret meeting related to the future and destiny of Russia is being held at a critical moment!

"Gentlemen, we must not hesitate any longer, now we must resolutely and mercilessly suppress the troublemakers and hang them all in the streets of Petersburg! We must restore order, especially in the army, so that we can fulfill the obligations of the tsarist government to the allies. Fight the war against German imperialism to the end! ”

A thin, dark-skinned, but energetic, aggressive Cossack general was shouting and killing in the conference room, and he was none other than Lieutenant General Kornikov, commander of the Petersburg Military District.

Since the Tsarist army had mostly taken a revolutionary or neutral stance during the February Revolution, most of the old officers were retained. But most of their power was seized by the soldiers' councils and became empty officers, with a few exceptions. Lieutenant General Kornikov is one of the few Russian generals who still has a certain number of troops.

And these few Russian military officers, who still have a certain amount of real power, are almost all militants, and they are resolutely opposed to making peace with Germany -- this is also a kind of self-respect. Only if the war continues, these generals, will be able to remain in power and even go to the next level. Of course, Lieutenant General Kornikov thought the same thing, and the general was well aware that the war would not be able to go on without eliminating all the "troublemakers" in all parts of Russia and in the army and restoring the proper order.

If you want to fight, you have to be disciplined! If you want to restore discipline, you have to start from Petersburg and make an example of Lenin and the Bolsheviks!

But the problem is that the Bolsheviks are not the only "troublemakers" now, the Socialist-Revolutionaries and the Mensheviks are also "troublemakers", but they are not as radical as the Bolsheviks. And they did not now anticipate what would happen to the Bolsheviks when they came to power. But they knew that if the generals who supported the Tsar gained power, they would be thrown into prison or sent to Siberia for hard labor, or to the gallows!

Kerensky, Plekhanov, Tseretieli, and Tsikhze, these revolutionary bigwigs, are either professors or doctors, and they are all smart, and they will not be deceived to death by Kornikov, a native warrior.

"No! Lieutenant General, I would like to remind you that the Bolsheviks were also part of the Petersburg Soviets of Sapper Deputies! The repression of them is the repression of the Petersburg Soviets of Engineer Deputies! ”

Plekhanov was the first to object, although he also advocated war against Germany, but also against Lenin. But Lenin and the Bolsheviks were, after all, members of the Soviets, and of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (both the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks were branches of this party). For Plekhanov, no matter how disobedient Lenin is, he is also his little brother, how can you let a tsarist general capture and kill?

Tseretiri and Tsikhzek were also Mensheviks, and the eldest brother Plekhanov spoke, and it was not easy for them to object. And they were not in favour of being ruthless against Lenin and the Bolsheviks, who were the heads of the Soviet Executive Committee, and it was the same thing as the Bolsheviks fighting in the Soviets. It's another thing to let outsiders bring troops to kill the Bolsheviks...... Lieutenant General Kornikov can kill Lenin today, and tomorrow he can't come and kill them?

So the two leaders of the Petersburg Engineer Soviet immediately expressed the same views as Plekhanov.

Now it was the turn of Kerensky, the representative of the Socialist-Revolutionary, to speak.

Looking at the complicated gazes cast by Duke Lvov and Milyukov, Kerensky also shook his head -- Lenin was his good friend, he played together since he was a child, and Comrade Lenin made trouble, so it seemed that he Kerensky was good. Without Lenin, Kerensky would be worthless!

"Gentlemen, general," Kerensky smiled, revealing the confidence peculiar to a barrister - he was not afraid to reason. "What is our main task now? Will it be to fight Germany to defend the fruits of the revolution, or will it be a civil war? ”

"Fighting Germans, of course! But we must first settle down before we can defeat the Germans! ”

Lieutenant General Kornikov also knew the truth that the outside must first be the inside, but he did not have a correct understanding of the difficulty of the inside. This matter is not to kill a Lenin and everything will be fine, because the current turmoil in Russia is not actually caused by Lenin, Lenin just saw an opportunity to take advantage of it and came back from abroad to speculate. Kill him, and more than 700 Soviets throughout Russia will still be disobedient. Moreover, those revolutionaries who did not lose their heads, in order to insure their heads, had to redouble their efforts to grasp the barrel of their guns. Russia is a situation of warlord secession, what kind of Germans are fighting? Let's fight the civil war!

"General, you need to figure this out: the Bolsheviks were just a small faction in the Soviets!"

Kerensky said: "What could Lenin do as long as the Socialist-Revolutionaries, the Mensheviks, the Cadets, the Progressive Party and the October Party could unite? He couldn't do anything. With the little strength of the Bolsheviks, could he still dare to launch an armed uprising? ”

"It's impossible!" Plekhanov also spoke for Lenin, "Lenin was only against the war and did not want to start an uprising. This is obvious, otherwise it would not have been a thousand people protesting in the square of Maria's Palace, but more than 10,000 soldiers and armed workers would have attacked. ”

"That's looking for death!" General Kornikov hated the authentic. In fact, he wished that Lenin would launch an uprising, and the more than 10,000 people controlled by the Bolsheviks were no match for him at all. If they revolt, they will surely be crushed without mercy. And the Socialist-Revolutionaries and the Mensheviks had nothing to say.

But the problem is that Lenin only made trouble and did not rebel! If you make a fuss, you want to be shot...... This criterion could not have been supported by the Socialist-Revolutionaries and the Mensheviks in any case. Because they themselves are all kinds of trouble, no more worry-free than the Bolsheviks.

Kornikov had no choice but to sigh, sit down in his chair honestly, and pondered how to turn around and resign from the commander of the Petersburg Military District, who was like a gas bag, and go to the front to command an army group.

When the head of the Provisional Government, Lvov, saw that neither Kerensky nor Plekhanov had agreed to destroy the Bolsheviks, and he was bored with himself.

"So how do we work together?" Lyvov looked at Kerensky and Plekhanov, "Now there are almost two governments in Russia, the Provisional Government and the Soviet...... This is not going to work, it is better to form a coalition government, right? ”

The Soviets are monsters plus ancestors! The government is not like a government, the army is not like an army, and it is not a simple parliament. It's a hodgepodge! With it, the Provisional Government will not be able to do anything. And what is even more odious is that the ancestor of the Soviets will go up if he is good and hide if he is responsible. All good things belong to the Soviets, and all bad things go to the Provisional Government.

"Coalition government?" Kerensky and Plekhanov looked at each other, and Kerensky asked: "What kind of joint law?" ”

Li Vov glanced at the head of the army and navy, Guchkov - this is also a gas bag, and he will not be able to do it for a long time. Guchkov said: "I resign from the post of Minister of the Army and the Navy. He looked at Kerensky, "You can do it!" ”

Soldiers! Kerensky took a breath. Guchkov's appointment as Minister of the Army and Navy is, of course, empty, but Kerensky has the Socialist-Revolutionaries behind him! The Social Revolutionaries also controlled many of the soldiers' councils.

"I quit too!" Foreign Minister Milyukov also said, "So the responsibility for the note of 1 May will be borne by me." ”

"In addition, the Ministry of Agriculture was ceded and the Ministry of Labour, Food, and Posts and Telecommunications was established, all of which were headed by people from the Socialist-Revolutionaries and Mensheviks. ”

Plekhanov exchanged glances with his two assistants, then nodded as well.

Duke Lvov and Milyukov, who had just said he was going to resign, sighed. The Ministry of Agriculture is in charge of the division of land, the Ministry of Labor is in charge of workers, the Ministry of Food is in charge of bread, and the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications is in charge of communications on the front line (the Russian ** team is transferred by the post office)...... Together with the Army, the Navy, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Ministry of Justice, the important ministers of the Provisional Government were all Socialist-Revolutionaries and Mensheviks.

What kind of black pot is there in this way, everyone is against it, the Germans are against it...... Let's fight together, too! It should work, right?

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