Shi Zhaoji was worried about how to answer Raspu's question. Zhang Zongxin over there relieved him with a stroke.

"Mr. Rasputin, please don't blame Mr. Ambassador, you shouldn't ask Mr. Ambassador about why you are confined to this secret room, but Chechakov."

"Chechakov? Do you know Chechakov? ”

Rasputin glared at Zhang Zongchang with a suspicious expression on his face, and retreated.

"Of course! Chchakov and I were originally in the same group, and we were both "Sino-Russian security companies." of partners. Asking me to bring someone to save you was also Chechakov's idea. ”

Zhang Zongchang introduced the "truth" to Rasputin in fluent Russian In the two years of the Russian Empire, he didn't learn much else, but this Russian dialect and Russian roulette are a little successful, although he is a big boss. However, when it comes to proficiency in Russian, even Shi Juji is ashamed of himself.

"I see! So, where is Chechakov now? Rasputin's suspicion faded, but his vigilance remained strong.

It is no wonder that Rasputin was suspicious, the Chinese ambassador to the Russian Empire kept him under house arrest in this secret room for more than two months, during which time he was not allowed to step out of the door, and no one was allowed to speak to him, although he was indeed allowed to read the newspaper, but for an almost illiterate charlatan, it was already good that he could write the name of his mistress, and how could he dare to read a newspaper? Therefore, in Rasputin's heart, he is somewhat guarded, although he is not a smart person, but since he can serve a group of noble ladies well, he can't do it without some ability.

"Chechakov is not far from here. Soon, you will be able to see Chechakov. In fact, the reason why he did not let you leave the embassy was Chechakov's idea, he thought that the facts of the case were unclear, whether it was just a group of nobles who wanted to kill you, or His Majesty the Tsar wanted to kill you, it was impossible to confirm at the time, so Chechakov thought that it was better to wait and see who wanted to kill you.

Zhang Zongchang spoke according to the rhetoric concocted by the Military Intelligence Bureau. He is not afraid of gangsters, because Chechakov's side has already been instructed by Ding, and Chechakov's opportunist is obviously not going to tear his face with the Chinese side in the current situation, so that he will lose his way out.

"What? Do you think His Majesty the Tsar wants to kill me? ”

Rasputin had a surprised look on his face. This was not a pretense, Stolypin, Kokovtsov and even the emperor's uncle Nicholas Shah had told Tsar Nicholas II to ask the Tsar to kill Rasputin or drive the charlatan out of the court, but the Tsar remained unmoved. In Rasputin's view, the tsar had no other strength, that is, he obeyed the empress, and the empress was quite dependent on Rasputin, in this case. How could the tsar be murderous against Rasputin?

"According to the current folk rumors, not only do you have an unclear relationship with Her Royal Highness the Empress of the Russian Empire, but you are also a spy who leaked the secrets of Russian affairs to Germany, perhaps, His Majesty the Tsar may be suspicious and wants to kill you in order to gag the mouths of the people."

Zhang Zongchang continued to make up, but it was not all made up, in fact, the current Russian Empire is full of inexplicable relations between Rasputin and Germany and the Russian Empress from Hesse, both the upper and lower levels of society blame all the suffering of Russia in the war on a group of villains, and the Empress of the Russian Empire and the Empress's favorite Rasputin are undoubtedly the source of all this Russian suffering. As for the Tsar, in the eyes of the monarchists, His Majesty the Tsar was only deceived by a bunch of villains. As long as these people are removed, the Russian Empire can be revived, and it is precisely because of this that the monarchists led by Yusupov brazenly carried out an assassination operation on the "side of the Qing monarch".

Interestingly, most of the people who hated Rasputin were concubines, bureaucrats, because, in their opinion. It was Rasputin who did what the revolutionaries wanted to do but could not, which was to hollow out the foundations of the Russian Empire.

"That's slander! Shameless slander! There is complete innocence between Her Royal Highness and me! As for the leak of military secrets, it has nothing to do with me at all! That's all slander! Slander! ”

Rasputin roared, though he remembered at once that he was often fond of talking when drunk, and that Her Royal Highness the Empress of Russia, who was born in Hesse, Germany, often told him the contents of some confidential documents, and even the route of the Tsar's train, so that he could not be assured that he would not leak these military secrets of the Russian Empire in a drunken state, especially in the beds of the noblewomen, among whom there were no German spies.

But Rasputin decided to deny it in its entirety. Although he is just a charlatan, he also knows very well what is most likely to provoke public anger in the case of successive defeats of front-line troops. The public may tolerate his arrogance at court, but they cannot tolerate him divulging the military secrets of the Russian Empire. Perhaps, His Majesty the Tsar listened to these rumors and decided to kill him.

But did the Tsar really plan to kill Rasputin? Rasputin was very skeptical of this, which, in his opinion, did not correspond to the character of the Tsar, although the assassination of Stolypin did have something to do with His Majesty the Tsar.

Indeed, Zhang Zongchang's next words denied the possibility of the Tsar's involvement in the assassination plot.

"Mr. Rasputin, you can rest assured now, because judging by the actions of His Majesty the Tsar some time ago, it seems that the Tsar did not know about your assassination, at least not beforehand, because not long ago, Duke Yusupov, who participated in the assassination, was exiled by His Majesty the Tsar to the village of Rakidino in Kursk, on charges of indulging servants to shoot in the city, and in the middle of the night. And the Grand Duke Dmitry was escorted by the army to Persia and handed over to the local commander of the Russian Imperial Army, and the right-winger Plishkevich is now in prison, all of which make you "disappear." They were severely punished by His Majesty the Tsar, so Chechakov thought that now might be the best time to take you to the Tsar and Empress. ”

"Huh? Really? Chechakov will send me to the tsar and empress? That's great! When I see His Majesty the Tsar, I will definitely make a message to him and make you counts and marquises! ”

Hearing Zhang Zongchang's last words, Rasputin suddenly became happy, threw all his doubts into the Neva River, stepped forward again, and hugged Zhang Zongchang tightly.

"Thank you! Thanks for everything! I will live to see the Tsar and Empress. I'm going to make those dangerous people pay a heavy price! ”

Rasputin prayed and burst into tears.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Shi Zhaoji felt very ironic, he knew a little bit about Zhang Zongchang's details, and he also knew very well what Rasputin was, but now, in this situation where the Russian Empire is stormy and has been crumbling, these two guys who can hardly be regarded as righteous gentlemen are fishing in troubled waters in this chaos, which makes people a little speechless.

"Alright, Mr. Rasputin, you can change your clothes, and then we will escort you out of the embassy and out of the city, and then you can go to see the Russian Emperor

Looking at the time, it was not early, Shi Zhaoji urged at the right time, ordered the guards to bring a new set of clothes, and a cloak, asked Rasputin to change out of the eye-catching priest's robe, and then took Rasputin and Zhang Zongchang out of the secret room. Walk up the stairs up the hallway, and then tell them to walk up the stairs to the luxurious four-wheeled carriage parked in the courtyard.

Seeing Zhang Zongchang walking downstairs, the driver who was driving Ma Feng jumped out of the car and walked towards Zhang Zongchang. Then he glanced at the tall man in the cloak who was following Zhang Zongchang, and immediately took a few steps forward and hugged Rasputin in the cloak.

"My friend, we meet again." The coachman said to Rasputin with a smile.

"Chechakov, my friend. We meet again. But this is not the place to talk. Let's catch up after we leave. Why did I hear gunshots in the city? Could it be that the Germans had already hit Petrograd? ”

Rasputin smiled as well, but quickly regained the indifferent expression of the prophet and listened intently to the dense gunfire that came from afar.

"That's because of the dirt, the revolution exploded. Now, my friend, many are against His Majesty the Tsar, and the German bombers are creating chaos in the city in order to defend the Russian Empire. We must see His Majesty the Tsar as soon as possible. ”

"Then don't waste time, let's hurry into the carriage, and let's go to His Majesty the Tsar.

Shi Zhaoji did not go downstairs, but stood in the corridor on the second floor and watched Rasputin and Zhang Zongchang enter the carriage, and then watched the carriage drive out of the embassy.

"What the hell is the center trying to do? Is there any use value for this charlatan? ”

With this thought, Shi Zhaoji walked back to the lounge, although he also participated in the "Vodka Operation" but he did not know how the Commander's Hall was going to use Rasputin, and he also believed that Zhang Zongchang may not know all the details of the operation, after all, this is a secret operation, if it is exposed, it may not be as simple as a diplomatic protest.

Walking back to the lounge, Shi Zhaoji immediately walked to the window, and by this time, the four-wheeled carriage had already driven up Nevsky Prospect and quickly disappeared into an alley, and soon after, the roar of the engine of the plane was heard in the sky, although the plane was not visible. But Shi Zhaoji is sure that they were several German long-range bombers, since the Germans created long-range bombers, Petrograd has been bombed frequently, and this tactic is said to have been inspired by the tactics of the Chinese Air Force, but strangely, the explosion of aerial bombs is not heard today. This made Shi Zhaoji somewhat puzzled.

Pick up the cold cup of coffee from the windowsill. Shi Zhaoji walked back to the wall, rested his coffee cup on the fireplace, and then picked up the tongs and gathered the firewood. Then he walked over to the coffee table, bent down, and unscrewed the switch on the tube radio. And turn around and get ready to heat up the coffee in the hot coffee pot.

The sound of familiar music came over the radio. Then there is the sweet voice of the female announcer, who uses the standard Chinese, a standard dialect based on the Beijing dialect, which has been determined by the center a few days ago to be Chinese.

"Voice of the Far East Radio, it is now March Day of the 7th year of the Common Era, today, the weather in Beijing is very good, and the temperature is relatively comfortable, which is suitable for going out. As always. Before the start of the program, we wish the Chinese and overseas Chinese all the best from all over the world, and then, according to the usual practice, we will send encoded signals to some Chinese commercial ships sailing on the high seas through radio waves to strengthen communication, the communication process takes about fifteen minutes, if you feel bored, you can adjust the frequency, the opera radio is playing "Dingjun Mountain" sung by the famous actors of Peking Opera.

Now, start broadcasting the communication code

The sound in the radio paused, and then there was a female voice without any sense of color, all that was broadcast were groups of numbers, which had no meaning on the surface, but Shi Zhaoji knew that these numbers were passwords, and if there was a corresponding codebook, they could be translated into words, similar to telegraph, but there was no need for a radio, only a radio, even if it was the simplest ore radio.

But is this really a message to ocean-going merchant ships? Shi Zhaoji didn't see it that way, at least not completely, in fact, he had seen Zhang Zongchang copy those numbers in his lounge, obviously, this is a special contact code, for intelligence officers.

As for this tube radio, it is also manufactured by the Chinese electronics factory, and in this era, China is also the fastest and most successful country in the promotion of wireless broadcasting, which is also inseparable from the strong support of the center, in order to promote this new media means, the central government even came up with special subsidies to promote the radio cheaply, and now, it is said that many cities in the country have appeared teahouses equipped with radios, only the western remote areas have not yet been exposed to this new means of broadcasting. But the broadcasting bureau did establish a relay station in western Outer Mongolia and, in cooperation with the United States, several in the Pacific.

And all this is thanks to the president's strong advocacy and support for the electronics industry. China has not only established a special electronic technology research institute, hired electronic industry talents from all over the world, and devoted themselves to the study of magical electronic technology, and Chinese businessmen are crazy to promote electronic products to the world, especially radios, ore radios, tube radios, are the main products, this is hardware, as for the software is also leading the world trend in an all-round way, due to the first establishment of a remote broadcasting system, now China's radio can not only broadcast internally, but also externally, A large number of foreign female announcers have been recruited for this purpose, and only female announcers have been recruited. In addition to promoting advanced ideas of equality between men and women. It is also because of the crisp voice of women, which is more suitable for the level of radio technology development of this era, even if it is played on a radio of poor quality, it can be heard clearly.

Although this grand plan to "let the world listen to China's voice" has only been launched for less than half a year, thanks to the rich and colorful content on the radio, radio has become a high-end consumer product that the people of the non-belligerent countries in the West are very eager to obtain, especially those who are housewives, and this has obviously brought a lot of money to Chinese enterprises. Now, even Americans are proud to have a tube radio from China, and if the electronics factory in the United States wants to imitate this electronic product, it not only needs to pay a considerable patent license fee to China's electronic research institute, but also can only buy well-made high-vacuum tubes from Chinese enterprises, because at present, China has the most advanced tube manufacturing technology in the world, and the supporting technology is also ahead of other countries. Although most of these technologies have actually been developed by foreign technical experts in China using special research funds from the central government of China.

"If you talk about the precedent of the times, I am afraid that there are really few people who can compare with Zhao Zhenhua. I just don't know. What is Zhao Zhenhua busy with now? The situation in Russia is turbulent, so I'm afraid he is busy with this matter now. Shi Zhaoji sat on the sand, holding a briefing on the analysis of the recent situation in Russia, compiled by the embassy secretary and military attaché, which he had already studied, and listened to the sound of gunfire coming from the window, and fell into deep thought.