When Hersman arrived with a pile of coffins and several murderers (including the main murderer, Yurovsky, but Berzin was not caught), it was cold in November in Riga, and all the rooftops and streets were covered with white snow. Compared to the stormy Berlin, the city looked very peaceful, with few people marching in protest.

As a result of the early preparations, the main defense force of the Courland Autonomous State had long since ceased to be a regular German army. Rather, there were 80,000 Defence troops composed mainly of Courland Germans, nearly 20,000 Freikorn Corps "Iron Divisions", and the Courland People's Stormtrooper, which claimed to be 100,000 - although they were all composed of old or excessively young men, after several months of training, they already possessed a certain combat effectiveness.

Hursmann's Stasi also began to assemble an elite force called the "Special Mission Training and Construction Squadron 100", which was based in Miuta (the Russians called it Yelgava, which is also Stasi's headquarters), hence the name Miuta Force. In the future, the force will become very strong, but it is currently less than 300 men, commanded and trained by Stockhausen.

In addition, as far as Hessman knows, the Courland Autonomous State also has a considerable reserve of various materials. Even before Germany formally surrendered, the General Headquarters of the Eastern Front sent large quantities of wheat and coal to Riga looted from Ukraine and Poland. The Courland Autonomous State, which is enough for a population of 2.04 million, has been supported for a long time.

The population of 2.04 million is the latest statistics, of which as many as 1 million are Germans, only 400,000 Latvians, 250,000 Jews, 200,000 Russians, and 150,000 Lithuanians.

Compared to two months ago, the number of Germans has increased by more than 200,000! This was certainly not the result of encouraging childbearing, nor was it the migration of Germans from somewhere. Rather, it was "researched" by the Prime Minister of the Courland State, Baron Pierburg, who believed that the Baltic Germans had long been mixed with Latvians and Estonians, and that the Germans were in the upper echelons and had a high economic and social status. And the Latvians, Estonians have long been in a position of domination, and in the past even serfs of the German aristocracy.

It was very common for aristocratic lords to sleep with serf girls in the uncivilized times of the past, and many illegitimate children were born from this. Some of them were considered Latvians and Estonians.

And now, justice should be done to those poor bastards and their offspring! As long as one can say that one of his ancestors was illegitimate in the Courland civil service (which was not unusual in the Baltic years in his early years) and at the same time speak fluent German (German has long been the official language of Courland), he can acquire a German surname and become a German. In this way, land can be distributed and will not be relocated.

As a result, not only did many Latvians find their German ancestors, but also many people came to neighboring Lithuania to confess their ancestors - and the situation there became somewhat chaotic after the Germans handed over power in Lithuania to the Polish Provisional Government. Many people fled to East Prussia and Courland, and some towns in northern and western Lithuania were protesting to join Courland and East Prussia......

In addition, the number of Jews and Russians in the Courland Autonomous State has increased considerably during this period. They all fled from Russian-controlled areas and Ukraine, and most of them were intellectuals and former capitalists. Now the whole of Central and Eastern Europe is very turbulent, and the calm and tranquility of the autonomous state of Courland attract them.

But beneath this surface of calm and tranquility lies an undercurrent of war. Just look at the new slogan written in red paint on the Riga train station.

The Courland Autonomous State is home to the Baltic Germans!

Salute to the Courland Defence Force and SA fighters!

Stasi is the defender of the Courland Autonomous State!

The fact that the Baltic has turned into Courland speaks volumes about the fact that the situation is developing in an unfavorable direction. Hersmann's plan was not without its flaws, and the Baltic Grand Duchess Olga I may have had enough legitimacy - the Allies have not taken a position on this for now - but it also meant that she was recognized and supported by the White Russians, which gave her the capital to free herself from German control!

"Your Majesty has just gone to Tombea in Tallinn, where she will meet the coffins of the Tsar and Empress."

At the train station, Chloe, who had come to greet her, had just seen Hersman and told him a brow of bad news.

The Grand Duchess did not follow Hesmann's plan and put her Grand Duke's official residence in Riga Castle, but went to Tallinn and lived in the Tombea Palace. He also ordered the former Speaker of the Parliament of the United Principality of the Baltic States, the Latvian politician Karlis. Ulmanis organized the government of the United Duchy of the Baltic. He also ordered the Prime Minister of the Autonomous State of Estonia to Constantine. Paz forms the Estonian Defence Force. And General Yudenich, who arrived in Tallinn a day earlier, was appointed chief of the General Staff of the Baltic Defense Forces, and gathered White Russian fighters in Tallinn to prepare for the organization of a Baltic army with White Russia as the backbone.

Because of the new Baltic government and defense forces, the government led by Baron Pierburg and the army under the command of Admiral Golz had to replace the Polotic brand with Courland.

"It seems that His Majesty wants to distance himself from us in order to gain the support of the Entente."

Major Falkenhorst, the commander of Riga's city defense and chief of staff of the "Iron Division", who came with Chloe, was a little worried.

"Who made us defeated?" Hersman smiled wryly and glanced at Falkenhorst. "But there was also a positive side to her distancing herself from us, which helped her to gain recognition from the Entente. If the Entente recognized her status, then the question of the United Duchy of the Baltic was a Russian affair...... What we need now is a Baltic United Principality, not bound by treaties and free to develop. It doesn't matter who will be in control. ”

The ethnic group of a million Germans, even if there were many impostors among them, had already determined the future political map of the United Duchy of the Baltic. What worries Hersmann is that the United Principality of the Baltic is treated as an extension of Germany rather than part of Russia, so that it will become a defeated country! will be bound by the Treaty of Versailles.

And Archduchess Olga and Admiral Yudenich, as well as the White Russians, who began to gather in Tallinn, can prove that the United Principality of the Baltic was a matter of the Russian Empire. If the Treaty of Versailles were to bind the United Principalities of the Baltics, then the armies of the United Principalities of the Baltic States should be at a level where they could only maintain internal security. How can there be enough strength to attack Petrograd?

"But if the Grand Duchess does this, it will lead to a conflict with Soviet Russia." Chloe looked very worried.

"Conflict is conflict!" Hersman laughed. "It's not a big deal, and it won't affect our cooperation with Soviet Russia."

"Can you still cooperate in a fight?"

"Of course!" Hersman looked at Lookenhorst, "Unless we are defeated and wiped out by Soviet Russia!" ”

"It can't be," said Falkenhorst, "that we have a fairly elite army of 100,000 and plenty of weapons and ammunition." Admiral Yudenich and General Paz (Olga made him a major general) have also gathered twenty or thirty thousand men at the moment, and it is Soviet Russia that needs to be worried. ”

"Isn't that enough?" Hersman shrugged, "As long as the fists are hard, the Bolsheviks will have to cooperate with us." By the way, is Colontai gone? ”

"Already left, left as soon as the news of the revolution in Berlin came." Chloe said, "But before she left, another man came from Soviet Russia, named Mikhail. Malkovich. Borodin, who is still in Riga. ”

"Borodin?" Hersman smiled and looked back at the carriage where the coffins of the Tsar and Empress were located, "I'll go meet him first, and then escort the Tsar's coffin to Tallinn." ”

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