"History will always remember Pskov, where Tsar Nicholas II painfully and heavily experienced betrayal, cowardice and deceit! However, what he did not think about was that Prikov had inadvertently become the "falling slope" of the Russian Empire, let alone the future, and everything that happened in the future, in fact, had long exceeded everyone's expectations......

Memoirs of the Empire

Almost as soon as the Tsar signed the abdication edict and agreed on all issues, Guchkov and Shuligin immediately returned to their special train, and then ordered the special train to rush back to Petrograd as fast as possible, knowing full well that every hour of delay the situation could turn in a more serious direction, so it was necessary to return to Petrograd as soon as possible, in order to exchange the Tsar's abdication for the end of chaos before the situation deteriorated. No pop-up window on the net, fast update //

The commission's trains were not stopped on the entire railway line, and in fact no workers would stop the red flag-bearing trains, and now almost all the trains were out of service, and even before the train left Petrograd, the anthracite imported by the navy from China was deliberately used on the trains, which was originally used by the navy in naval warfare, but now, instead of being used by him, and even according to the orders of the Soviets, the high-quality anthracite coal in the warehouses was supplied to the workers free of charge. It is used for heating workers' homes.

The train was moving at a rapid pace, and although the train was almost empty and had already reached its top speed, it still seemed a little too slow for the passengers on the train, yes, the speed of the train was too slow.

By the time they left Petrograd, the situation was getting worse day by day, every hour, even every minute, to be precise, and now it would be a long time before they could get to Petrograd. Are you still in a hurry?

Jiao Che, for the two envoys who were very anxious, they didn't have a trace of sleepiness at all. They knew well that in Pskov they managed to save the Russian Empire, at least to some extent.

Can ...... now Will God give them time to save the Russian Empire?

Time!

Now they're just racing against time. As long as they could get the news back to Petrograd before the situation deteriorated out of control, before all the population boiled, the Russian Empire would be saved.

Even though they were envoys, they were on this train. But few people paid attention to them, the radical soldiers, the workers, and even the students, who did not want to pay attention to them, even though they had learned of the Tsar's abdication, as if they did not know what etiquette was.

This meant that during the trip, it was impossible for them to get any information about where they had arrived, without a hint of sleepiness between the two. Just clinging to the window. Looking out of the car through the window, the time of arrival in Petrograd was determined.

"It'll be in half an hour!"

Finally, a familiar landmark came into view of Guchkov, the church outside the city, which Guchkov had kept an eye on when they left Petrograd. To be precise, I have watched the church and prayed to God that he would be able to fulfill his mission. Now, finally seeing it again.

God forbid!

Pray in my heart. Then he looked at his watch with some anxiety, and Guchkov's face was full of worry, it was really too much time to delay.

"I feel that we should call the Provisional Committee and tell them that the Tsar has abdicated,"

"Okay!"

Shuligin nodded and agreed, he also knew that the situation in Petrograd had reached the point of urgency, that fire needed a ball of cold water to extinguish the flame, and the tsar's abdication was the best cold water, perhaps, and could ease everything. …,

"I'll make the call!"

Almost before the train stopped, Shuligin jumped off the train and ran towards the dispatch room.

"I am Shuligin from the Provisional Committee of the State Duma! Now I ask to use the phone here! ”

Rushing into the dispatch room, Shulykin ordered the workers, fortunately this kind of worker was different from the "barbarians" who were engaged in manual labor, and they did not refuse him, and then he took the phone and called the provisional committee of the Tavlida Palace, and it was Milyukov who answered the phone, and after Shulykin described the abdication of the tsar with some excitement, there was no imaginary cheer on the other end of the phone, only a voice that was almost pleading:

"Vasily? Vitalyevich, please, beg you not to publish the edict of abdication, and now the people are indignant. Since you left here, their mood has deteriorated dramatically. The abdication has left no one satisfied. …… Don't take the next step, or you may cause misfortune......"

The voice on the phone only made Shuligin's whole person completely stunned, he couldn't even believe his ears, how could it deteriorate so quickly?

Soon, the two Duma deputies really felt this "sharply deteriorated" mood. As soon as Guchkov got off the train, he was stopped by several "Soviet deputies", who seemed to have been waiting for a long time.

"Congressman Guchkov, you must have brought good news!"

The interrogator was a Tatar in a fur coat and a red scarf, if in the past, with Guchkov's temper, he would not have even been able to shake hands with him, but now the situation is completely different, in the Soviets of the various factories there were not only Jews, but even black workers from Central Asia and Tatars from Siberia, and even in the Soviet Committee, there was also an Oriental, who was said to be a Japanese revolutionary, and when did the Japanese actually begin to get involved in the revolution in Russia, Is it like it was during the last war?

However, he knew that this was just a delusion, because the Japanese revolutionary was a revolutionary in exile wanted by the Japanese government, and he was just an "ordinary comrade" in the committee.

"Comrade, my dear comrade, I have good news for you, Nikolai has abdicated!"

The Tatar and the people around them were stunned at the same time, they looked at each other, and only heard the Tatar speak.

"Really? Comrade Congressman, is this true? ”

"Of course, of course it's true, Nikolai signed the edict of abdication in front of me!"

Guchkov puffed up his chest and said loudly.

"Then, Deputy Guchkov, you must go to the railway repair plant, believing the comrades workers there. We are all waiting for this good news! ”

Without waiting for Guchkov to refuse, the Tatar turned to the man next to him.

"Ivan, you go tell everyone now. We are going to hold a mass meeting, and we have good news to convey to you! ”

"Okay!"

In this way, at the "invitation" of the other party, Guchkov, who could not refuse, could only go with the Tatar to announce it to the mass meeting of the railway repair plant. Nikolai had abdicated to Mikhail and formed a "temporary" government with Lvov as his head.

At the end of the speech, Guchkov, as always, not quite clear about the situation, shouted, as he had done many times in the past:

"Long live Tsar Mikhail!"

To his great surprise, his cheers did not get the desired response. Isn't that the victory they want to see? Just as he was surprised by this, he heard an unexpected roar, which was actually made by the Tatar who had already known the news.

He, why is he? …,

Why was he so angry?

However, before he could figure out what was going on, all he could do was respond to the angry roars of the workers, who were trying to argue about something. When it comes to proving something. A factory worker jumped on the podium and shouted:

"Duke! …… Comrades, what are we making a revolution for? …… All of us have had enough of the sins of the dukes and counts over the years! …… Did you hear that? Tereshchenko as Minister of Finance......"

At this time, the two Duma deputies did not know that during their departure, the Provisional Committee of the State Duma published the list of the Provisional Government, with Tereshchenko as Minister of Finance. And in Pravda, Tereshchenko was criticized from the bottom to the bottom.

“…… What kind of gentleman is Tereshchenko? The owner of ten sugar factories and the owner of a million hectares of land...... Also looted 300 million rubles in cash...... That's the committee. This is the ...... of the Provisional Government"

As soon as the worker's bitter speech ended, the workers became angry again. 300 million rubles in cash, how much should it be! Why are they so poor, some people can be so rich, and if such a rich person goes to be the Minister of Finance, he must be corrupt, he must be bribe-taking, this kind of provisional government cannot be trusted at all.

"Take out the edict of abdication!"

Under the infection of this emotion, workers from all directions shouted in unison, angry emotions, dissatisfied emotions, in many cases, like poison, can quickly spread, in fact, this is a characteristic of mob politics, and the characteristic of mob politics is to stir up people's dissatisfaction with reality, incite the poor to be dissatisfied with the rich, so as to set off a "struggle", use this struggle, use this struggle, and in the end, in the carnival of the mob everything will be destroyed, everything will be disintegrated......

"Shred it!"

In a frenzy, the crowd rushed to the stage in excitement, and despite Guchkov's opposition and shouts, searched his whole body, and finally, Guchkov, whose coat was ripped off and his underwear was torn, could only escape with the help of a sentry team.

However, the workers did not find the abdication edict on him, and it turned out that when they were at the station, perhaps out of fear of the "barbarians" or out of "caution", Shulykin and Guchkov did not carry the abdication edict with them, but stuffed the abdication edict to Duma deputy Lebedev, and after several changes of hands, it was hidden in a pile of newspapers in the office of the Ministry of Transport.

Guchkov, who had just left the railway repair shop under the escort of the sentinels, could not help but rejoice in his heart that he and Shuligin had not handed over the abdication edict to others in advance, and perhaps they would have been snatched and torn apart by the rioting workers, and by that time......

Just think about what could have happened, Guchkov just shuddered, it was terrible!

At this time, he subconsciously even began to regret a little, regretting why he cooperated with those mobs, and was it possible for those mobs to cooperate with them?

At least for now, it seems, seems very subtle.

Of course, the development of the situation does not allow him to continue to think, and the most important thing now is to immediately report to Rodencko and others about the abdication of the tsar and the appointment of Grand Duke Mikhail as the heir to the throne, and perhaps by that time, the situation can be stabilized!

"May God bless Russia!"

Shulygin prayed again, prayed, that he could also save this huge Russian Empire, now. This may be the last ray of hope!

"Petrograd, His Majesty Emperor Mikhail II:

The events of recent days have forced me to take this extreme step irretrievably. I beg your forgiveness if I have upset you and not told you beforehand. I will always be your faithful brother. Sincerely pray that God will bless you and your country. …,

Nicky. ”

Received a telegram from my brother. Mikhail was stunned by the contents of the telegram, and his brother, Nikolai, who was unwilling to be the tsar in the first place, abdicated!

And the edict of abdication has already been signed!

Although deep down I know it. This may be the only last choice Nikolai can make after choosing to leave the base camp, but after getting the news, he is still stunned.

The Russian Empire is ruined!

In the hands of Nikolai, his elder brother. Having experienced what had happened in Petrograd and the "fragile" and even unattended "authority" of the Provisional Council, he believed that no one could save Russia except ...... Unless what?

Unless the generals of the front, the commanders-in-chief of the five fronts, renew their oaths, but why did Nikolai abdicate?

If those generals really remember the oath they once made. His older brother. Nicholas II, the father of all peoples in Russia, would not abdicate at all, and Mikhail knew that brother very well, perhaps he was not willing to inherit the throne at the beginning, but. As a tsar, he would never give up his throne easily.

Not to mention any "glorious abdication".

No matter how glorious. In the final analysis, it is a humiliating abdication. Although it is well known that perhaps Nikolai's abdication is undoubtedly the best option for Russia. However, Mikhail, who knew the inside story, knew the helplessness and humiliation of his brother when he abdicated, and of course, more importantly, the betrayal of the generals.

But is it a good thing that his brother has abdicated and given him the throne?

If it had been three years ago, before the war exploded, or even last year, if Nicky had given him the throne, then Mikhail would have gladly accepted it, no matter what kind of compromise Nikki made with the State Duma after his abdication, even if it was constitutional, he would have accepted it, for the very simple reason that for the sake of Russia.

But now?

Mikhail knew very well that after Niki's abdication, the Russian Empire handed over to him was not a stable empire, it was simply an empire with internal and external troubles, which could collapse at any time, and this empire could be swallowed up by the mob at any time, and in this carnival, even he, the future Tsar Mikhail II, could be beheaded by the mob like Louis XVI of France.

"On January 21, 1793, on the Place de la Concorde in Paris, Empress Louis XVI accidentally stepped on the executioner's foot while guillotining, and the Empress's first instinctive reaction was: "Excuse me, sir." ”

The image that existed in history had just come to mind, and although Mikhail had admired the grace of Queen Mary countless times, she was a natural queen, and her last scene had always been talked about by the world, but at this time, Mikhail felt unprecedented fear.

At this moment, he seemed to see the scene of himself being pushed out by the fanatical mob to behead, and saw what his beloved wife, the kind-hearted Nasha, was talked about by the world in the following hundred years, perhaps......

"Fortunately, they ...... in China"

Thinking of his wife, Mikhail's heart couldn't help but rejoice that they went to China, at least they didn't have to go through all this again, they didn't need to experience the fear of "riots", they didn't need to clench their grips, they couldn't sleep peacefully.

"Perhaps, they should send a report to tell them that they should never come back until the situation is stable!"

It was then that Grand Duke Mikhail remembered that he did not seem to have told his wife everything about this place, and had not told her what she should do.

"Really!"

Muttering to himself, Mikhail shouted out the door.

"Yuri!"

Yuri was his close attendant and one of his most trusted attendants, and for the past few days, Yuri had been guarding his bedroom door, armed with weapons, keeping him safe, and even making a route to retreat, so that he would keep him out of here if one of the thugs tried to break in.

But where else is there in Petrograd that is safe?

"His Royal Highness!"

After entering the door, Yuri bowed respectfully.

"Yuri, here's a telegram, please ...... immediately"

Halfway through his words, Mikhail realized that now that the telegraph office was controlled by the thugs, it was difficult for him, the Grand Duke, to send the telegram unless through other channels, but what other channels were there now?

"Well, go to the Chinese Embassy and ask Ambassador Liu to forward it on your behalf!"

I believe that Ambassador Liu will be more than happy to help forward this telegram, Mikhail will never doubt this, and just as his voice fell, Yuri opened his mouth to reply.

"Your Royal Highness, Counselor Sun Pingchuan of the Chinese Embassy has arrived, and he is waiting for your reception!"

"What?"