"You don't have to be so discouraged. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info We haven't completely lost yet. The Japanese legions in the Tsarist Knights were ready for battle, the Korean legions were actively training, the European legions were being assembled and rushed, and the Russian officers had already arrived in the Ryukyus. In just one month, we will have 500,000 troops, and we still have the strength to fight. ”

Facing Wrangel, who had lost his fighting spirit, Yang Chao did not forget to comfort him.

"Zhang Zuolin must be shot!"

Wrangel was angry about Zhang Zuolin's escape, if this person hadn't escaped from the battle, he wouldn't have been defeated so badly.

Yang Chao sighed: "After all, he is a volunteer, and he is here to defect to His Majesty the Tsar, it is difficult for you and me to decide whether to execute him or not." ”

Wrangel nodded, and after saying goodbye to Yang Chao, he immediately rushed to the palace to see the Tsar and asked the Tsar to execute Zhang Zuolin.

With Olga's character, it is difficult for her to shoot a subordinate, but the most important thing is that Nikolai resolutely opposed the execution of Zhang Zuolin at this time, thinking that it would have a very bad impact, and now it is all up to the volunteers of the Tsar Knights to resist the Soviet army, if Zhang Zuolin is executed, it will inevitably cause panic among other knight volunteers.

It is clear that this is still a political struggle, not a big picture of Grand Duke Nicholas.

But in front of Olica, Archduke Nicholas's influence far exceeded Wrangel's, so Olga was first out of unbearability, and secondly, considering the opinion of Archduke Nicholas, he did not agree to Wrangel's execution of Zhang Zuolin, but just let Yang Chao reprimand him.

Although Yang Chao appeased Wrangel, due to Zhang Zuolin's flight, most people at this time did not hold out hope, believing that this time the Russian Empire was really going to fall, and the era of the Romanovs was going to be completely over.

This idea is not held by some pessimistic people, but by the whole nation, and even by the noble group of profitees, so groups of volunteers abroad came to defend the tsar, and the aristocrats of the tsarist fled from Irkutsk one after another.

Yang Chao was very silent about this, and sneered in his heart, this is the Russian aristocracy, if they weren't so irresponsible, maybe they wouldn't have perished. Of course, for Yang Chao and for China, this is not a bad thing, if every Russian nobleman is a national elite like Wrangel and Kolchak, then it will be a real trouble.

Because the railway was not cut off, the great escape of the nobles caused by Zhang Zuolin's escape could be transferred to China through the train, and then to other regions, so the escape of the nobles in Irkutsk was very smooth, and in just a few days, nearly 80,000 nobles stranded in Irkutsk fled to China.

To be honest, this is only a part of the Russian aristocracy, not all nobles are cowards, on the contrary, there are still many nobles who have retained traditional culture, such as Wrangel, after the war began, there were a group of aristocratic elites who enthusiastically joined the army to surround the country and surround the nation, but it is a pity that Wrangel lost almost all the troops, and most of the nobles died in battle, those rotten nobles who did not choose to join the army, they didn't care about these, they came to cold Siberia to take care of them for Grand Duke Nicholas, Those who came to enjoy the privileges, now the country is going to be finished, and they are fools if they don't run.

"For these fugitive nobles, punishment must be given."

When the nobles were almost gone, Yang Chao found Grand Duke Nicholas to express his anger.

"The country is in danger, and they don't want to be loyal to the country, but they only want to survive. If all Russians are of this color, then what else will come and volunteer to defend the Tsar of the Russians? ”

Yang Chao shouted and threatened.

Grand Duke Nikolai had a gloomy face, what could he do, he thought that the aristocracy was the benign of Russia, the October Revolution made him lose confidence in the Russians at the bottom, the peasants, and the bourgeoisie-level elite, he could only believe in the aristocracy, but this war made him completely disappointed in the aristocracy, he didn't know who he should rely on, he didn't know what else Russia had to do, could it be that the future of Russia was really in the hands of the Bao Zheng at the end of the Ural Mountains?

"So what do you say? How to punish them? ”

Grand Duke Nikolai smiled bitterly.

Yang Chao sighed: "For the nobles who joined the army to defend the tsar, their privileges will be retained, and if they die in battle, their heirs will be allowed to inherit the privileges of nobility." For those who fled, all their noble privileges were to be revoked, and for those who had bad deeds, their noble titles were to be removed. ”

In the government formed by Nikolai, the nobility really had privileges, the first was the right to territory, the second was the right to tax exemption, and the third was the right to govern. Every nobleman, according to the size of the noble title, had a noble domain, and a great nobleman like Nikolai had the right to own a private domain of 100,000 acres, and even the youngest baron had a territory of 1,000 acres; The output of the nobles' domains was completely tax-free, thus encouraging the nobles to manage their domains with care; As an aristocracy, there is only executive power, and the government recruits public officials, who must be nobles, unless there are really no nobles willing to hold them, and other Russians will be chosen.

Because of the implementation of these policies, the Russian Empire has a very bad reputation in the world, and some people ridicule them for being still in the medieval era, but because of this system, they still have a group of die-hard fans in the world, after all, the aristocratic complex knows that in the 21st century, it is still very marketable, and these policies of Nikolai are more aristocratic than any country.

That's why when Yang Chao was published in the newspaper, so many Westerners signed up to join the army.

"Well, that's all there is to it."

Grand Duke Nicholas, who had lost faith in the aristocratic clique, no longer insisted on protecting the privileges of the nobility, and to be honest, if he hadn't protected the nobility too much, Kolchak would not have coup d'état, and if they hadn't couped, they wouldn't have given Soviet Russia a chance.

So Grand Duke Nicholas accepted Yang Chao's suggestion and punished these nobles.

He could never have imagined the consequences of his choice, which ended the rule of the aristocracy and entered the age of the plebeians, and the Russian population among the commoners was no longer the majority, but the population from China, Japan, Korea, Europe and the United States accounted for more than half, and these people replaced the former nobles into the government, and Russia was de-Russified.

This is an afterthought, and at this time in Irkutsk the situation is quietly changing.

Zhang Zuolin withdrew to Irkutsk, organized with the North Korean and Japanese armies, and deployed defenses outside the city.

At the same time, the volunteers of Britain, France, Germany and the United States arrived one after another and were organized into the Fourth Army of the Tsar Knights.

There were 400,000 men to defend Irkutsk, which gave a little confidence to the tsarist regime, which had just been defeated.

And Yang Chao once again ordered the air force to dispatch and frequently bomb the Soviet troops trying to attack Irkutsk. (To be continued.) )