Section 568 The Archduke's Choice

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Some things are not easy to guess based on a small amount of information at hand.

First of all, it has been more than November, and it has begun to snow in most parts of Russia, Kolchak chose this time to mutiny, obviously not really giving up the border defense, and letting the captain of the Soviet Russian army drive straight in, Yang Chao judged from this point that Kolchak may have a tacit understanding with Soviet Russia, but he has not yet betrayed the Russian Empire.

So Yang Chao told Grand Duke Nikolai that things may not be what he thought.

With Kolchak's background, it is indeed unlikely that he will betray Russia, because there can be no place for him on the Soviet side.

But Yang Chao couldn't guess Kolchak's purpose, whether to return to Irkutsk to force the tsar to abdicate, or to coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes, after careful consideration, Yang Chao did not think that Kolchak had the motive to kill the tsar, unless he really betrayed. Of course, it cannot be ruled out that Kolchak will jump over the wall in a hurry, just as Cromwell did when he cut off the head of Charles II.

Therefore, Yang Chao warned Wang Changping not to clash with the Russian forces as much as possible, and to save Olga in everything.

The situation in the Russian Empire not only touched Yang Chao's heart, but the whole world kept an eye on it.

Having just finished a visit to other countries, the last stop in China, Queen Juliana, sent a heartfelt message of comfort to Yang Chao, and expressed the willingness of the Netherlands to use all its strength to ensure the safety of Tsar Olga.

The vast majority of countries around the world sent messages of condolences to Yang Chao.

But none of this will help solve the problem, and at most it will prove the attention of the Tsar family in the world, and Yang Chao's personal influence in the world.

The news of Wang Changping's feedback has already arrived, Kolchak's soldiers took control of Irkutsk, and at the same time sent troops to surround the palace on the shore of Lake Baikal, but did not attack the Baikal Palace, and even provided the palace with daily provisions.

After receiving this news, Yang Chao felt a little relieved, obviously Kolchak did not intend to break the can, maintained enough respect for the female tsar, and obviously did not intend to overthrow the rule of the tsar, but who can know that this is not a plan of Kolchak, who dares to guarantee that Kolchak has no plan to destroy the rule of the tsar.

It is incomprehensible that Kolchak has never shown his attitude, which is very unconventional, knowing that if Kolchak had made this action to promote his political ideas, he should have telegraphed to the world early to win the support of the Russian army and the support of other people, and he remained silent.

Soon Wang Changping came with news, he said that Kolchak blocked the Baikal Palace, and asked Yang Chao if he wanted them to attack the military immediately, Wang Changping said that the air force was ready, and it could be airborne at any time, and he could use 100 airships to transport 10,000 soldiers to the emergency airborne.

Considering Origa's safety, Yang Chao vetoed the plan and asked him to send someone to communicate directly with Kolchak, and he must find out Kolchak's intentions.

However, Kolchak refused to speak directly, and after urgent consultations, Kolchak sent someone to inform Wang Changping and allow him to send someone to meet with the Tsar and let them communicate with the Tsar in person.

Yang Chao was overjoyed when he heard the news, and immediately informed Wang Changping, telling him that the secret tunnel when he built the Baikal Palace, and after learning the experience of being almost shot by the Bushviks, when building the Baikal Palace, the Russians built a secret tunnel, which led directly to the pier hidden by a forest a few miles away, where there was a dinghy waiting for the Tsar all the year round.

Wang Changping sent his lieutenant to meet the female tsar, but was very surprised to get the news that the female tsar said that Kolchak did not rebel, and at the same time refused to leave from the secret passage with Wang Changping's adjutant, but wanted to stick to the Russian land, saying that their family had already left their people once, and she did not want to see her people abandoned again.

But the tsaress entrusted Wang Changping with taking her daughter and taking her to China to her father, and she would be in peace with the Russian people.

It's still messy.

Yang Chao didn't get any useful information, and he didn't know why his wife had made such a decision.

No one knows, only herself.

She was sure that Kolchak did not betray.

Because Kolchak entered the palace as soon as possible, explained the reason to her, and pleaded guilty with himself, and put his pistol in front of Origa.

Origa, as a female tsar who didn't care about things and couldn't take care of things, never cared about politics, and she really didn't know that the Russian Empire was in such a crisis.

But she could not accede to Kolchak's request either, because she was also sure that her uncle, Grand Duke Nikolai, was also in the interests of the Russian Empire.

Neither Grand Duke Nikolai nor Kolchak was wrong here in Olga, she didn't know what was wrong, she was conflicted, she didn't know how to decide, but she decided that this time she would stand with the people.

Three tense days passed.

Although Oliga did not make any statement, Wang Changping, who has been stationed in Russia for a long time, still got the exact news through various channels.

It turned out that Kolchak was forced to stage a coup d'état because one of his subordinates, unable to bear it, shot and killed one of the overseers sent to the army by Grand Duke Nikolai.

Distrustful of the army, Grand Duke Nicholas almost emulated the Soviet Russian system of surveillance, detaining the families of the main officers of the army in the capital, and then sending a large number of inspectors, all of whom were the children of the nobility.

However, under the pampering of the aristocracy, it is true that the bottom of their hearts is softer than that of the people at the bottom of the fierce competition, because the world they see is good to them, but it is undeniable that pampering and pampering are also easy to raise waste, raising scum who have no overall view, and it is such scum that is sent to the Kolchak army.

This high-ranking aristocratic prosecutor from the Moscow court not only often withheld military salaries, but was also full of hostility towards officers at all levels, especially civilian officers, but what was even more unacceptable was that this prosecutor actually colluded with the Soviet Russian forces on the other side of the Ural Mountains.

It is not to sell the interests of the state, but to participate in smuggling, selling art from Soviet Russia, in order to raise funds for industrialization, a large number of artworks confiscated from the homes of the nobles of the tsarist era are smuggled and sold, and the Russian nobles in Siberia are their biggest customers, but this kind of thing cannot be done openly, so it is always in a state of smuggling, not only a Russian nobleman is involved, a large number of Jin merchants are involved.

After Kolchak's subordinates found out about the nobleman's deeds, the nobleman slandered Kolchak's subordinates, and as a result, the young adjutant was so angry that he drew his gun and shot the scum to death.

At this point, Kolchak had two choices, surrender his subordinates to court-martial, or fight to the end.

Kolchak knew that once he chose the first reason, the government of Grand Duke Nikolai, who had always distrusted him, would not give him good fruit to eat, and when he chose the second option, he was unwilling to betray, perhaps because of the Cossack family's loyalty to the Tsarist family for more than a hundred years, or perhaps out of political considerations, knowing that he would have no place to betray the Tsar, Kolchak chose to return to the capital with his troops, implement an administrative d'état, and overthrow the Nikolai government.

But she still recognized the rule of the female tsar and continued to maintain the rule of the tsarist family.

Among the three major army groups, two were on the border, one each in the Chelyabinsk Military District and the Yekaterinburg Military District, and the other in the Capital Military District.

After returning from Kolchak, it was clear that the army in Iraq was on the side of Kolchak, while the Chelyabinsk army remained silent, silence is no attitude, and no attitude is neutrality.

After Kolchak took control of the city of Iraq, he immediately rushed to the Baikal Palace with his troops and personally met the tsar.

He complained to the Tsar about the shortcomings of Nicholas's rule, telling the Tsar that the Russian Empire had come to an end.

Olga knew that Russia had some difficulties, but she didn't expect it to come to this point, before she only knew that there was an anti-Chinese movement among the people of the empire, and as a result, the relationship with the Chinese government instantly dropped to a freezing point, and Grand Duke Nicholas went to China to deal with the problem with China.

He thought that if the problem with China was solved, Russia would be able to return to its former and still maintain a prosperous life through exports to China, but what she did not expect was that the biggest crisis was not in China, but across the Ural Mountains.

Kolchak told the Tsaress that a large number of aristocratic officers on the border had colluded with Soviet Russia, and that it was impossible for these people to sacrifice for the country in the event of a war, and also told the Tsaress that she was convinced that Russia had planned a military operation to attack the Russian Empire.

Kolchak presented quite a lot of evidence, all of which were the involvement of noble officers in smuggling, and the smuggling was nothing more than that, and it was already an unforgivable betrayal that someone had been reduced to the level of providing Soviet Russia with information about the Russian Empire.

This conclusive evidence convinced Olga that the Russian Empire was indeed on the brink of crisis, but she could not accept that all this was the fault of Grand Duke Nicholas, who insisted that it was also for the good of the Russian Empire, and that she refused to give the order to remove Grand Duke Nicholas from office.

But she promised Kolchak that if the Russian Empire faced another crisis, she would fight on the front line, like her ancestors, and this time she would definitely not be cowardly, and she would take on the duties of the tsarist family to the Russian people.

Without the support of the Tsar, Kolchak did not wait, and since he had already staged a coup d'état, he had already set up a new government in the capital, and began to issue various orders to all parts of the Russian Empire and at all levels of government to obey the orders of the new government.

Yang Chao figured out what happened, and Grand Duke Nicholas also figured out what happened, but he absolutely did not accept Kolchak's argument that the entire Russian aristocracy had become corrupt, he believed that this was just Kolchak's justification for his usurpation, and strongly demanded that Kolchak immediately release the female tsar.

As a result, Kolchak refused, and Grand Duke Nikolai declared Kolchak a traitor and demanded that the soldiers loyal to the tsar arrest Kolchak.

At this time, Yang Chao suddenly sided with Grand Duke Nicholas, announced that he did not recognize Kolchak's coup d'état, and demanded that Kolchak not insist on going his own way and immediately release the female tsar.

The situation has become even more sinister. (To be continued.) )