Chapter 1445: Red-Stirring Stick
On the outskirts of Berlin, about 20 kilometres from Mathilde's estate, there is a small country house tucked away among rows of tall trees and tall weeds. The exterior walls of this villa are www.biquge.info most common red bricks, and the brick joints are plastered white. The wood of the doors and windows is painted green, the eaves of the roof are raised high, and a wide balcony sticks out in the middle of the front of the second floor, and below the balcony is the main entrance to the first floor of the villa.
Such a country house was inconspicuous in Germany, remote and shabby in appearance, and looked like a place where some Junkers petty officer took a vacation, not comparable to the luxurious palace where Mathilde lived. But the people who live here will have a status no worse than Mathilde, the female Caesar of the Roman Empire.
It was already noon, and the cool breeze of late summer was blowing, and the surrounding wind was rattling, and the sky here was also shrouded in thick dark clouds, and there was not a single ray of sunlight in sight. The whole world seems to be gray, making people feel a little bleak and lonely.
Looking at such a scene, the person standing on the balcony couldn't help but sigh deeply, and spit out the choking smoke after the inferior cigarette burned.
The man was wearing a rough coat, very thin, with short blond hair and a beard on his lips that had not been seriously trimmed, making the whole person look a little depressed. He was about thirty years old, and his face was cold and distinct, without any sense of flesh, and always gave people a gloomy [a] [book] [read. Novel ybdu: feelings. He looked at the distant sky expressionlessly, slowly smoking a cigarette, as if the whole person was immersed in thought, and indifference and perseverance were mixed together. And with a chilling murderous aura. makes others want to stay away.
Of course. To his comrades, he was the most outstanding leader. The only great man who could bring victory to the Russian Revolution was Sergei? Gnartiech? Nechaev is currently the president of the Narodnaya Narodnik party and the Russian correspondent secretary of the International Workingmen's Association.
Mikhail. After Bakunin's death, the Russian Narodnaya Volya Narodnik fell into the hands of Nechaev. Although Marx, Engels and the Polish Socialists did not support Nechayev, there was no one in the Narodnik Party who could replace him. Moreover, Nechaev won the support of the Reich government of Germany, which had sheltered Narodnaya Volnaya in place of Poland, because Nechayev's Narodnaya Volvo was like a virus, spreading throughout the body of the Russian Empire, destroying the already fragile health of the empire.
"Comrade Nechaev. Comrade Chiang is here. β
A respectful voice came from behind him.
The visitor was Jiang Zhaocong, an opportunist with a very unfirm position! Nechaev frowned slightly, but still asked his subordinates to bring Jiang Zhaocong over.
"Comrade Nechaev, I have good news for you, the Russian tsar has become a father, a girl named Alexandra." Jiang Zhaocong had not yet arrived, but the smiling voice arrived first.
"Well, the Russian throne has a first heir, and Grand Duke Alexander should cry to death." Nechaev replied slowly. There was a slight sarcasm in his tone, but there was not much joy either. But this is not necessarily a bad thing for the Russian Empire. A long beard does not mean that he is shrewd and capable, and it may be the best way to let a little girl be the tsar and leave the government affairs to the cabinet to manage. β
"Let's leave it to the Narodnaya Volya, hahaha......" Behind Nechaev was Jiang Zhaocong laughing, as if the Narodnik was really going to come to power soon. I don't think that day is far away! β
Jiang Zhaocong paused for a moment, and waited for one of the Russian Narodnaya Narodniks who had sent him to the school to be sent away by Nechaev before he spoke again.
"Yingtian is ready to support the Narodya Opinion Party to come to power, how much money is needed, you just ask! We also have a way to use weapons and ammunition, as many as you want......"
Nechaev turned to look at the leader of the Chinese Socialist Party in front of him, dressed in the West, with neatly trimmed hair and beard, like a banker, and sighed softly.
"Comrade Chiang, the victory of our Russian revolution is already in sight, as long as Nicholas II dies, it will be possible, but when will your Chinese revolution succeed?
'As soon as Nicholas II died, this is ......' the words "Decembrist uprising" came to Chiang Zhaocong's mind. Anyone with considerable knowledge of European history knows that the military coup d'Γ©tat in Petersburg on December 26, 1825, with the participation of more than 3,000 officers and soldiers, aimed at establishing a bourgeois democratic constitutional government, was the beginning of the history of the Russian Revolution.
At that time, the Russian secret revolutionary group "Northern Society" took advantage of the opportunity of the sudden death of Tsar Alexander I and his two brothers (Alexander I had no heirs) to incite a mutiny over the succession to the throne (not to be emperor, but to give each other up in style for 25 days).
"Another December uprising?" Jiang Zhaocong asked tentatively.
"It's going to be bigger, and it's going to work!" Nechaev said, "Tsarist Russia is in much greater difficulty now than it was in 1825...... Because of the stupidity of Nicholas II, the whole country fell into a serious catastrophe. The old suffering of the people as a result of the abolition of serfdom was far from over, and the new suffering caused by the war was coming one after another. β
In fact, the misery of the Russian people caused by the reforms to abolish serfdom had long since ended. But the destabilizing effects of this reform on the Russian Empire continued.
The rural commune system introduced after the abolition of serfdom in Russia has already been introduced, which is probably the origin of the later agricultural collectivization movement, and it is also a reformed collectivization similar to the "contract system of joint production responsibility" - collective ownership of land (some of which are owned by landlords, leased by the commune, and redistributed to peasant households) plus regular redistribution plus the autonomy of the rural communes.
However, this system, which seems to be very similar to the "contract system of joint production responsibility" in later China, has a fatal flaw -- the autonomy of rural communes in Russia at this time is real! The poor middle peasants of Russia could really vote to elect the leaders of the Commune and decide on the important affairs of the Commune.
Moreover, due to the existence of the two systems of collective ownership of land and regular redistribution, the birth of the Russian peasant (kulak) class was seriously restricted, resulting in the fact that after the Russian aristocratic landlords withdrew from the rural grassroots power after the reform, a new rural middle and upper class could not be created, and a real sense of "poor peasant autonomy" appeared in the Russian countryside. In the Russian countryside at present, there are actually two major problems of poor peasant autonomy and general poverty. The self-government of the poor peasants created a lack of a ruling class that could suppress the Russian peasantry, and the general poverty made the Russian peasantry generally dissatisfied with the tsarist regime. This gave the Narodnaya Volya Volya a good opportunity to develop its influence in the Russian countryside, and it also caused the tsarist regime to gradually lose its ruling base.
'The biggest disaster in Russia is Narodnaya Volya, right?' Jiang Zhaocong thought this in his heart, but his head nodded again and again, "Yes, yes, the stupidity of the tsar caused the disaster in Russia, and at the same time created favorable conditions for the victory of the Russian revolution. But the Emperor and the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty were very shrewd...... All of them supported them, and it was impossible to be assassinated! β
In recent years, with the continuous development of the economy of the Ming Empire, the wealth of the imperial court has also increased, and the number of spies of the Jinyi Guard and the newly established Aegis Guard has naturally doubled and doubled.
However, even if Zhu Jishi's guards were as lax as Alexander II, Chiang Zhaocong did not think of assassination, and his Socialist Party and Nechayev's Narodnaya Volya were not the same thing at all.
"Well, since that's what you guys think, let's talk about money." After a moment of silence, Nechaev spoke again.
"Yingtian has prepared 10 million gold francs, which is stored in a secret account of the Bank of the Americas in Mexico." Jiang Zhaocong lowered his voice and said.
Although the Roman Empire has been restored, the currency of ancient Rome has not been restored, and there are currently two most basic legal tenders in the Roman Empire, the gold franc and the silver peso. The former has a gold content of 0.3 (a little higher than historically) or 4.5 grams of silver, while the silver peso has a silver content of 22.5 grams, which is lower than the Mexican eagle issued by the Spanish Empire in history, and the ratio between the two is exactly 1 silver peso to 5 gold francs - in fact, the two currencies were issued with the peg and exchange convenience in mind, so that the exchange price between the silver peso and the gold franc is legal rather than floating. Banks in the Roman Empire did not pay commissions or fees to exchange the two, and they could be considered the two main currencies of a country.
"10 million is not enough, give another 20 million." Nechaev pondered, "There are many places where you need to spend money, and after the success of the revolution, you may have to fight a civil war, and then you will need to borrow money." β
"No problem, 30 million gold francs, it will arrive in a week...... Do you want to pick up in Petersburg? β
"Of course, it's better to be able to transfer to Petersburg." Nechayev said with a smile, "Comrade Jiang, I think you forgot to talk about Yingtian's conditions. β
"Conditions?" Jiang Zhaocong shook his head, "No conditions!" Yingtian is unconditionally behind you. β
"Unconditionally?" Nechaev was stunned, he had expected that the other side would offer to claim the territory east of the Ural Mountains as a condition for supporting the Narodnaya people.
"Yes, there are no conditions." Jiang Zhaocong smiled, "Actually, a Red Slav led by a Narodnik is the best reward for the support of the Ming Dynasty." β
Nechaev laughed, "I see, the Chinese emperor seems to really understand our popular people!" His laughter stopped abruptly, and his tone was already deep, "But in the end he will shoot himself in the foot!" (To be continued......)