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The world soon learned of the end of the Russian monarchy, a news that pleased the British and French governments. = Because Britain and France wanted from the beginning to portray the war as a struggle between democracy and dictatorship, and the alliance with Russia made this argument untenable, and now it is clear that Tsarist Russia will end and usher in the dawn of democracy. Many people in Russia also hailed that this was a great thing, the secret police were arrested, their weapons were confiscated, they became the most shameful people in the new society, and people thought that the new regime would bring down all the old, evil, and nasty things, and Russia would usher in a new dawn.

Only Song Xiaofei knew that next, Russia would enter a more dictatorial country than before, it turned out that under imperial conditions, at least Russia still had a constitution and the State Duma, freedom and democracy were more or less a problem, and once the Soviets composed of soldiers and workers came to power, freedom and democracy would completely disappear in Russia. And such a Russia is obviously not in the interests of China.

Song Xiaofei immediately called Duan Qirui, commander-in-chief of the Chinese Empire, Feng Guozhang, general Wang Shizhen, lieutenant generals Jiang Baili, Cai Yi, and Liu Chengzhang, commander-in-chief of the navy, Liu Buyun, admiral Deng Shichang, vice admiral Sa Zhenbing, commander of the Air Force, Feng Ru, commander of the Air Force, and Liang Shiyi, chief of foreign affairs, to the presidential palace for a meeting. Former Foreign Minister Wu Tingfang has retired due to age, and Song Xiaofei appointed Liang Shiyi to succeed him. Rong Rong also attended the meeting.

In the oval office conference room, Song Xiaofei first spoke: "I believe you have seen from the newspaper that the Tsar's court has died. But Russia was still there, and there were two governments, the Provisional Government led by Kerensky. There was also the workers' and soldiers' predominantly Soviet government, now almost led by the Bolsheviks. The situation in the Allies and Entente was about to change, and it was time for China to consider joining the war. As for how to do it, I already have the bottom in my heart, and I invite you to come here today to discuss what China should do next. ”

Army Chief Duan Qirui said: "I didn't expect the Russian Revolution to come so quickly. In the future, will Russia follow the path of republicanism like China? ”

Song Xiaofei smiled and said, "I don't think so." Kerensky's Provisional Government certainly could not defeat the Soviet Government. ”

Feng Guozhang was a little puzzled. He asked: "Kerensky's provisional government is a democratic government, and we have already exposed the criminal nature of the Russian Bolsheviks, so how can the Russian people still choose the Bolsheviks?" Isn't their goal utopia? ”

Song Xiaofei said: "The weakness of democracy. It is because the organization is sloppy, there is no consensus of opinion, and it is difficult to move quickly. And the organization and propaganda of the Bolsheviks, that was not ordinarily powerful. They're smart this time. We aim at bread, peace, and land. Most people in Tsarist Russia are now illiterate. Poverty and misery have made the people insensitive, and whoever can draw them a pie will follow him. They don't have enough rationality to analyze who is telling the truth and who is lying. Therefore, at this time, democracy must not be able to fight dictatorship, just like heroes always can't fight hooligans, such as Liu Bang and Xiang Yu to fight for the world, because hooligans have no bottom line. It's a terrible thing to do anything. ”

Foreign Minister Liang Shiyi agreed with Song Xiaofei's viewpoint. "The Grand President is right, now Kerensky's Provisional Government has expressed its loyalty to the Entente, promising to continue fighting," he said. The Soviet Committees of the workers' and soldiers' organisations at first cooperated with Kerensky's regime, but soon they moved closer to the left under the influence of the Bolsheviks, who demanded an end to the war and the abolition of private property and an equal division of land. Germany sought a separate peace with Russia in order to concentrate all its troops on the Western Front. Now they began to support the Bolsheviks. I believe that soon there will be a Bolshevik government in Russia. ”

Song Xiaofei said: "I believe that this is absolute, and now the Soviets are a loose union, and without their own unified political ideology and goals, they are doomed to fail to achieve great things." Although the Bolsheviks were a minority and did not enjoy the approval of the majority, the source of their strength was the Soviets, supported by the armed Red Guards. ”

Air Force Commander Feng Ru, who had been in the United States for many years, knew some of the ideas of the Bolsheviks, and he asked: "The ideas of the Bolsheviks, is that also called thoughts?" Blame the misfortune of the poor on the exploitation of the rich, and confiscate the property of the rich in the name of the state. If the rich are eliminated, can the poor really become rich? ”

Song Xiaofei said: "If you eliminate the rich, the result will only be that everyone is equally poor." ”

Feng Guozhang said: "Then I don't understand, why are there so many poor people in Russia following the Bolsheviks? We have all exposed terrorist organizations and terrorist acts like the Cheka. ”

Foreign Minister Liang Shiyi also agreed, saying: "It is not necessary for the Bolsheviks to come to power now, because because of China's vigorous propaganda, the Russian people are still apprehensive about the death caused by abject poverty, famine, and purges caused by the Bolsheviks." ”

Song Xiaofei shook his head and said, "I've been thinking about this too. But there are some lies, repeated a thousand times that are the truth. The theory of the Bolsheviks, which was in line with the aggressive nature of people, and the fact that they would directly attack the local tyrants and divide the land, was very attractive to the poor peasants, who were the majority of the Russians. In the city, if you can directly grab the things of the capitalists, will you still work hard to earn money? The Bolsheviks also went around encouraging the poor to make a revolution, and once they seized power in the country, they would at any time take back the land to the peasants and turn the workers into slaves to work for the state, but then it would be too late for the peasants and workers to regret it! The theory of the Bolsheviks, and indeed the theory of the turning of the poor, does seem to be a road to heaven, and only rational people will see that this is a road to slavery. But too few people understand this in a backward country like Russia, where the poor masses and illiterate people make up 90 percent. How realistic and tempting it is to sleep with the wives of the landlords and divide the property of the capitalists, under the cover of revolutionary slogans, all the evils of human nature will be justified, and this will stimulate all the evils in their human nature, and this temptation cannot be prevented by our previous rational propaganda! ”

Duan Qirui asked: "President, what should we do in China?" When to go to war? Join the Entente or the Allies? ”

Song Xiaofei said: "Now the major neutral countries, as well as China, the United States, and Italy, are waiting and seeing. And the Italians are cunning, they are watching the actions of China and the United States, and now the voices of opposition to the war in the United States are dominant. So China's attitude is crucial. My plan is that China will come out to mediate when the time comes. I want the Americans to understand that the greatest threat to the free world now is not Germany, nor Britain, but the Bolsheviks, who are going to dig the grave of capitalism. Our goal this time is not just to end the monarchy in Tsarist Russia. I'm going to wipe the whole of Russia off the face of the earth! ”

Duan Qirui said: "You mean to destroy Russia? ”

Song Xiaofei said: "If the Allies win, a defeated Russia will become a vassal of Germany; If the Entente had won, many of the bonds China had lent to the Allies would not have been recovered. None of this is in China's interest. I think that if the time comes, China will come out and mediate. Whoever does not obey China will help its enemies fight whomever they want. ”

Liang Shiyi asked, "What is the right time?" ”

Song Xiaofei said: "Look slowly, China's navy, land and air forces are all ready for war. Watch and see what happens. Peace needs to be backed by strong force! ”

1910 year. As Song Xiaofei expected, the Bolsheviks, the ghosts of Europe, actually returned to power in Russia.

In order to hasten Russia's withdrawal from the war and concentrate its efforts on the Western Front, Germany openly declared its support for the Soviets and Lenin. German Chief of Staff Schlieffen arranged for Lenin and a group of Russian revolutionaries to travel from Switzerland to the small Baltic port city of Zasnitz via Germany, and from there to Malmö, Sweden. At the request of Germany, the Swedish government transported them to Finland, which was then still a Russian province. Lenin soon arrived in St. Petersburg, the capital of Russia, and commanded the Bolsheviks to take control of the Soviets.

Moreover. In addition to holding their lines, the Germans halted all military operations on the Eastern Front. Schlieffen knows. An informal truce prevented factions within Russia from uniting to defend Russia. Politically sophisticated German agents, disguised as soldiers, gathered at the front, and the two sides made friends in the warm sun.

In exchange, Lenin promised Russia that Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Ukraine, and other Russian territories would remain under German occupation, and that Russia would have to hand over Batumi, Altwin, and Kars to Turkey. Before gaining power, the revolutionaries sold out the territory of their country, which Lenin considered not to be a betrayal, but a tactic of struggle as a last resort. If these acts had been carried out by the authorities, they would have been cursed and bloodied by the revolutionaries.

Russia's government reshuffled in April consisted of a majority of the Socialist Party, and Kerensky, the leader of the government, also served as Minister of the Russian Army. Russia was exhausted from fighting, but Britain and France did not care so much, and their Foreign Mintries informed Kerensky: Russia must abide by the treaty of the Entente and continue to fight, otherwise it will not provide any support! France especially insisted that the Russian army attack the German army from the east, otherwise Russia would immediately return the sky-high loan.

Kerensky, a well-known militant orator with a knack for bragging about Lenin, immediately visited the front lines to raise morale and motivate soldiers to fight. But the soldiers at the front turned a deaf ear to his eloquence, and at this time no one wanted to hear others encourage him to become cannon fodder, the spiritual pillar of the Russians was gone, and at the same time, they were stupid by the German artillery. The Bolshevik slogan "Peace, Land, Bread" had much greater appeal than the war with the Germans.

Kerensky had to move out the abdicated Tsar Nicholas II and let him help him preach that Russia must continue to fight. Nicholas II was glad to cooperate, and he went around saying: "Whoever dreams of peace now, or openly prays for peace, is a traitor to the Fatherland!" "However, during the reign of Nicholas II, no one listened to him, let alone his abdication?

Kerensky's government, in order to demonstrate Russia's loyalty to the Entente, ordered an attack by the new commander-in-chief, Brusilov. Aiming at Lemberg, the general again mobilized 200,000 troops from the elite Caucasus, Finnish and Siberian regiments, the vanguard of which was still the most elite Cossack cavalry brigade, and they began to raid without resistance from the Germans, who thought that the temporary armistice was still in effect.

In the initial surprise attack, the Russians captured 17,000 German troops, and more than 10,000 in the following days. These victories were hyped up by Kerensky and were used to prove how great, glorious, and correct the attack on the Germans was. The Russian army even began to attack Lemberg, and the commanders of the Eastern Front, Hindenburg and Ludendorff, were furious. They ordered the Austro-German army to quickly prepare for a counteroffensive in the second week, and the newly arrived reserve army used a large number of field artillery to carry out a counteroffensive on a wide front, a nightmare for the Russians. It began again, with 10,000 artillery bombardments, the Russian army went from being an attacker to a full-fledged rout, while the Germans were in pursuit, and in less than a week, all the territory gained by the Russian army during the Brusilov offensive was actually recovered.

Discipline at the front of the Russian army is gone. Desertion was so common that many armies disbanded on their own. At the same time, with the support of Germany. The Bolshevik-led revolution swept the country, and the peasants, who opposed the landlords, seized the estates without waiting for the agrarian reforms of the Kerensky government; The workers confiscated the factories of the capitalists. Kerensky's government could not stop the civil unrest. What little remnants of the people's support for him are gone.

The unprecedented revolution of the peasants and workers in Russia completely stunned the British and French governments! They hurriedly demanded that Kerensky hurry up the crackdown, otherwise the whole of Europe will be in chaos, and the human civilization built on the basis of private ownership for thousands of years will be destroyed in one fell swoop! China and the United States also issued the strongest statements condemning the resurgence of the Bolshevik specter in Russia. Song Xiaofei ordered the 200,000 men of the Chinese Eleventh Army in the Far East to be ready for battle and ready to return to Moscow at any time! The Italian government also issued a statement when it saw that both the Chinese and U.S. governments had taken a tough stance. If Germany continued to support the Bolsheviks, Italy would automatically go to war against the Germans!

Then. Influenced by the victory of the workers' movement in Russia, the workers' movement in Britain, France, Germany and Austria-Hungary also swelled, and overnight it seemed as if the red flag was about to be planted all over Europe! The lack of food at the front of the Austro-Hungarian Empire forced it to cut rations of bread and flour in the cities, triggering a nationwide general strike. 750,000 workers walked out of the factory gates, and 200,000 striking workers in Vienna alone wanted not only food, but also peace. The unrest later spread to Austro-Hungarian ports on the Adriatic Sea and German naval bases in Haiji, where government authorities arrested protest leaders and drafted them into the army. The executive committee of the German Workers' Council also called for a general strike, and the next day 1 million workers, most of whom were munitions workers, walked out of the factory gates, and Kaiser Wilhelm II himself was deeply disturbed by the political tendencies of public ownership of property exposed by the words of the strikers. Moreover, under pressure from all over the world, Kaiser Wilhelm II announced that Germany would immediately cease its support for the Russian Bolsheviks, that the armistice agreement signed between Germany and Russia would be null and void, and that the German army had the obligation to completely eradicate the Bolsheviks, a "cancer" in Europe, for the sake of "human justice".

The German street strike turned into a week of street violence, with several people killed, and the strike did not subside on its own. Kaiser Wilhelm II immediately sent troops to suppress it, and 40,000 strikers, supporters, and family members were arrested. A large number of strike leaders were charged and told to be sent to the front, with a specific number of between 3,500 and 6,000. Germany used force to maintain law and order at home.

At this time, Kerensky also tried his best to strengthen the military forces of St. Petersburg, transferred troops from the front to the capital, and established dozens of assault battalions, non-commissioned officer cadet battalions and women's battalions. He held several secret meetings in the Winter Palace to discuss preventing the Bolsheviks from sending political commissars to the garrison of the capital to prevent the reddening of the soldiers in St. Petersburg. In addition, he planned to move the capital to Moscow, so that German bayonets could disperse the red "shadow" of St. Petersburg.

Kerensky also developed a plan for the elimination of the Bolshevik Party. He ordered Lenin's arrest and sent cadets to the military academy to seize the Workers' Road, the organ of the Bolshevik Party. Suddenly, the streets of St. Petersburg were lined with sentry posts, patrols were rampant, and clouds were thick. However, it was too late, and Lenin organized an armed uprising in St. Petersburg.

While Kerensky was holding successive cabinet meetings, an armed uprising led by the Bolsheviks broke out, and the ranks of the uprising quickly surrounded the Winter Palace. Seeing that the situation was not good, Kerensky lied to the cabinet members that he "decided to personally go outside the city to meet the reinforcements that were coming," when in fact he escaped in a car from the US Embassy in Russia.

On the same day, Kerensky fled from St. Petersburg and went to Pskov, where he lived in the command of the Northern Front. The next day, he gathered about 5,000 men of the cavalry corps of the local General Krasnov and launched an attack on St. Petersburg. During this period, Kerensky contacted the "Revolutionary Committee for National Salvation" hidden in St. Petersburg, and asked them to respond in the city, asking the cadets to stage a riot when Krasnov's army approached St. Petersburg, and to strangle Lenin's regime.

Soon Krasnov's army occupied Gatchina, and on the 29th reached the tsar's Tsarskaya village, only twenty kilometers from St. Petersburg. At this time, Kerensky was full of joy and issued a series of orders to the provincial administrative commissioners to send food to St. Petersburg for his army to use when it arrived in St. Petersburg. However, the dream did not last long, Lenin and the Bolshevik Party acted immediately, the peasants who had divided the estates and land, and the workers who seized the capitalist factories, all thinking that they were the masters of the country, at the call of the Bolsheviks, the revolutionary soldiers and the Red Guards fought back, and the troops switched to the counteroffensive, occupied the Tsars' village, and dealt a fatal blow to Kerensky's army on the Pulkov Heights.

Kerensky, in order to thwart Lenin's army offensive, made a request to the Bolsheviks for negotiations. Lenin telegraphed back: "The Soviets never negotiate with a dying enemy! ”

Seeing that the tide was turning, Kerensky disguised himself as a woman and escaped through the secret passage of the old palace in Gatchina. On the same day, Kerensky disguised himself as a sailor, boarded a Serbian military train bound for Murmansk, and escaped from Gatchina. Soon after, he took refuge in London via Finland.

The Bolsheviks, led by Lenin, soon seized power. The Bolsheviks, who were in the minority, quickly formed an armed Red Guard to defend the Soviets, and a delegation led by Trotsky went to negotiate with the Germans.

At this time, the Bolsheviks began to reverse, and Trotsky, believing that a revolution in Germany was also imminent, declared himself not to address the delegation, but to the German workers. The German Chief of the General Staff, Schlieffen, insisted that Lenin undertake the obligations of the agreements previously reached, and Trotsky did not give a clear reply, later stating that Russia could not accept the Germans' terms. Lenin's statement of "no war - no peace" angered Schlieffen. He ordered Ludendorff's army to continue deep into Russian territory,

Since the Russians were unable to resist, the Germans advanced for two weeks, and the army advanced to Lake Pleps and Narva, only a few hundred kilometers from St. Petersburg, which was in danger of invasion. Lenin hurriedly sent a telegram to Trotsky, accepting all the conditions put forward by Germany, signing all traitorous treaties, and a complete armistice with Germany. They know the Slavs well, only whips and blood can make the Slavs good slaves!

At this time, China, the United States, and the countries of Europe had a new enemy, Lenin's Soviet power. Britain, France, and Germany were again plunged into a protracted and brutal war of attrition on the Western Front, with tens of thousands of casualties every day. Song Xiaofei felt that the time was ripe, and he pulled in the hands of US President William . Taft, tentatively proposing peace to all countries, pointed the finger at the evil regime of the Bolsheviks in Russia! The pope, who regarded the world war as a crazy move from the beginning, also actively cooperated with Song Xiaofei to find a ceasefire condition acceptable to all parties. Because the atheistic Bolsheviks will shake the foundations of the entire European Church!

There still seems to be hope for world peace! The new British Prime Minister Lloyd. In an unofficial speech, George expressed his willingness to accept the mediation of negotiations between China and the United States, and the purpose of his speech was not to get the negotiations to take place, but to explain to the British trade union organizations that the responsibility for continuing the war lay with Berlin, Germany, and the Allies. Austria-Hungary was also willing to embrace this idea, because the main Austro-Hungarian army had been routed and the dualist empire was on the verge of collapse.

Although, in the long run, the governments of Berlin, London, and Paris all believed that they would win and would not give up the war easily. But their government officials also know that the decisive time is long, that neither can conquer the other in a short period of time, and that once China and the United States join, the balance of war will be quickly disrupted. The leaders of both sides have publicly expressed their willingness to engage in fair peace negotiations. The German government also began to use China as an intermediary to test the intentions of the Entente.

President Song Xiaofei and William. President Taft's mediation was strongly supported by the world's anti-war public opinion, and the five-member Norwegian Nobel Committee also accepted the nomination of the National Assembly and many famous scholars that year, and was ready to choose Song Xiaofei and Wilhelm. Taft was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1910! (To be continued......)