Chapter 106: Revolution is not a dinner party

"The development of revolution first originates from thought, and only when revolutionary consciousness is generated in the mind can a revolution be promoted! The impetus of revolutionary consciousness must first rely on propaganda, and without the success of propaganda, there will be no success of the revolution......"

Autumn in Petrograd with a glimmer of northern cold, after the time entered 1916, for the Russians, this was by no means a good year, more and more men from the factory, the field to the army, in order to ensure the transportation of the army, the Russian War Department from the civilian requisitioned millions of ploughing horses, a large number of agricultural horses and prime men were recruited by the army, directly led to a reduction in agricultural production. N.ET/ * small * say net / no pop-up ad full text TXT download

In 1913, Russia was Europe's largest exporter of grain, supplying half of Europe's grain, and in 1916, almost every Russian city was undernourished, and in order to avoid a large-scale famine and chaos at home, they had to come up with precious foreign exchange to import flour from the United States and China.

On the other hand, although Russia has mobilized more than 10 million troops, which is almost the largest in the world, they are short of weapons, and the lack of weapons and the incompetence of their commanders directly create a situation in which the Russians are constantly bleeding but cannot taste the fruits of victory.

As a backward agricultural country, after entering the war, Russia needed to purchase almost everything from abroad, including boots, because its industry could not provide sufficient supplies.

"The shortage of artillery shells is particularly serious, according to statistics, the Russian army has 5 million shells of various types in reserve when participating in the war, and an average of 45,000 shells per day in the first three months, while the total monthly production of artillery shells in the Russian arsenal does not exceed 35,000, based on this calculation, by the end of the year, its total artillery stocks are only 300,000, which is only enough for a week's needs, and the supply of rifles is also worrying, and the three-month fighting has caused at least 1 million losses, and there are few machine guns left...... There is no shortage of strong men in the Russian barracks, 800,000 trained recruits are ready to go to the front at any time, but there is no basic equipment to be sent to them, almost all the artillery batteries of the Russian army are devoid of shells, and almost everything else such as harnesses, leather boots, shovels, telephone lines, etc. is difficult to find...... It would take months to replenish the shells, and the same amount of time to supply the rifles," the military attache of the British Embassy in Russia, who finally made the report, came to a conclusion.

"If the above situation is not fundamentally improved, it will not be long before our allies, who have inexhaustible military and food resources, are likely to completely collapse under the next German blow, or be forced to make peace alone."

This series of reports aroused the great attention of London at that time, and the call for assistance to Russia became louder, but Britain and France could not supply supplies to Russia through the Baltic Sea, as they had before the war, and they could not pass through the Black Sea, the former was threatened by the German navy, and the latter could not be achieved because Turkey joined the side of the Central Powers and blockaded the Dardanelles.

To this end, in order to alleviate the situation of the domestic material crisis, Russia allocated 100 million rubles of gold from the treasury, and ordered a large number of military supplies including bullets, shells, rifles, machine guns, military uniforms, boots, medicines, and automobiles from China, but for Russia's needs, the order of 100 million gold rubles is only a drop in the bucket, and in just half a year, in order to meet the material needs of the army, Russia paid as much as 600 million gold rubles to China before and after, and more than 500 tons of gold left Russia. In the face of such a flowing war expenditure, Russia is obviously unable to afford it, and its people have also purchased a large amount of materials from China.

"China has the largest arsenal in the world, they can produce hundreds of thousands of rifles, hundreds of millions of bullets, millions of shells every month, but, for the extremely realistic Chinese, they have no intention of providing any loans to Russia until the situation is clear!" …,

In the face of China's insistence on the "foreign trade cash settlement system", its country has no intention of providing credit guarantees to any country, in order to make Russia persist in this war, Britain and France have provided tens of billions of rubles of loans to Russia, and use these loans as a guarantee to purchase military supplies from China, but the supply seems to never be able to keep up with the attrition, China's arsenal can provide Russia with 200,000 rifles per month, but the Russian army may lose 300,000 rifles on the battlefield a month, in order to meet the needs of Russia, France, British military orders, almost every factory in China is expanding, and production is expanding. Mixed & Mixed Talk Network // (ww no / pop-up window wide / advertise full text TXT download)

In 1916, after two years of expansion, China's factories were finally able to supply the countries with sufficient supplies, and a steady stream of Chinese munitions was shipped to Europe through the Trans-Siberian Railway, and one military train after another occupied the entire Trans-Siberian Railway.

Almost from the very first day of Russia's entry into the war, a new storm began to brew in the destabilizing elements of Russian society, especially among the Bolsheviks, who preached the war before the war and the defeat of their own government after the outbreak of the war, in order to end the war, and at first their propaganda agitation was only partially supported.

However, at the same time that the Russian War Department was satisfied with military supplies, due to the transportation restrictions of the Trans-Siberian Railway, it was impossible to meet the domestic civilian needs, and the lack of cloth may be able to wear old clothes, but the shortage of flour directly affected the lives of many people, and the shortage of food supply in the cities made the merchants accumulate and raise prices, and when the people's lives were affected, their attitudes towards the war became dissatisfied, especially the huge casualties and fiascos brought about by the war. At this time, the Social Democrats and Bolsheviks, who had been silent for a while, continued to carry out all kinds of propaganda to achieve the goal of overthrowing the tsarist government with the propaganda of "defeating their own government".

In a basement on the outskirts of Petrograd, the roar of the printing press reverberates, the smell of ink echoes through the room, and several Orientals dressed as workers are working nervously, and as the printing press works, newspapers of all sizes are printed.

After a newspaper was printed, an Oriental man in a suit picked up the newspaper and read it aloud.

"Declaration to the Japanese soldiers

Soldiers of the Japanese Army and Navy at the scene! The corrupt officials and landlords and capitalists in China were involved in this war that did not belong to Japan for the sake of their personal glory and the world colonial interests of the Chinese imperialists, and forced tens of millions of Japanese toiling workers and peasants to be sent to the battlefield in Lucia and sacrificed as cannon fodder. Every day on the battlefield of Lucia, thousands of Japanese soldiers were sacrificed. How tragic it is that you have left your homeland, your parents and your wives, you have died on the battlefield of Lucia, and there is no one to collect your bodies! Comrades soldiers! You are all from the workers and peasants, just think about it, what good is it for you to come to Lucia to fight? When you were in Japan, you worked in factories, and you were exploited and oppressed by the capitalists, and the workers earned very little for a day's work, not enough to support your parents and wives. But Japanese capitalists have tens of millions of fortunes, factories, banks, shops, beautiful houses, cars, big meals, and concubines. The Japanese workers had everything, and the capitalists had everything. In the rural areas, cultivated land is exploited and oppressed by the landlords, and the peasants have to pay most of the rent to the landlords after a year of hard work, and they also have to bear heavy taxes. The Japanese landlords have land in the fields of the Heavens, large granges, and warehouses full of grain, and like the capitalists, they live in luxurious buildings, ride cars, eat big meals, and hold concubines. The peasants had everything, the landlords had everything, and even had to pawn their daughters in order to pay taxes. Those corrupt officials who colluded with the Chinese imperialists conscripted you into the army in the name of Japan's future, and after you left your hometown, your parents and wives were crying out for hunger and cold, and they were always looking forward to your return. You fight on the Lucian battlefield without any gain but sacrifice your lives in vain, while in Japan the capitalists, landlords and warlords sit back and enjoy happiness. As the war continued, taxes were increased in the country, and these war expenses were extracted from the workers and peasants, and the burden on your families became heavier, the workers became unemployed, the peasants starved, prices soared, and your parents and wives could no longer live. What a tragedy that you were born in Japan and died in Lucia! Comrade soldiers! We know that you do not want to come to Lucia, that your parents and wives do not want to leave you, that you do not want to go to war, that you have been forced by the warlords, and that the workers and peasants of the country are against the war. If you want to return to Japan, only by rising up against the war of aggression of the Japanese warlords, by rising up together with the workers and peasants at home, and by overthrowing the Japanese capitalists, landlords, and warlords, can the Japanese workers, peasants, and soldiers seek liberation and Japan truly win the future. The German soldiers who fought with you on the front were also from the comrades of the workers and peasants. They were also forced to come to the front, and now every day, the proletarian comrades in Japan and the proletarian comrades in Germany are tearing each other apart, and it is not Japan nor Germany that really benefits, but the capitalists of the two countries, and in this war, the capitalists have obtained the war profits generated by the blood of the workers and peasants. …,

Comrades soldiers! At a time when you were fighting for the future of Japan on the front lines, at home, the traitorous officials went against the emperor's wishes and signed one traitorous treaty after another with the Chinese imperialists, and the traitorous officials even forced the emperor to go to China to apologize...... Comrades soldiers! Don't die for the world colonial war of the Chinese imperialists!

Comrades soldiers! Your way out is either to go back to Japan and rise up in revolution with the workers and peasants at home; In this way, you will be freed from your oppression. It was not worth sacrificing for the benefit of the Japanese warlords and that traitorous government. Comrades soldiers! Get up! Turn the gun upside down, bring down the traitorous government that oppresses you, and stand up for the real future of Japan, revolution! Ask to go back to Japan! Born in Japan and Died in Japan! Refuse to fight the German army! Go back to Japan and join the revolution in Japan!

Long live the liberation of Japanese workers and peasants! Long live the liberation of the Yamato nation! Down with the traitorous government and the Chinese imperialists of the Japanese Social Democratic Workers' Party, October 25, 1916"

In the past six months, Kita Ikki, who had come to Russia, continued to propagate to them the "Outline of Japan's Re-election" and the Bolshevik ideology, and at the same time, together with the Bolshevik revolutionaries in Russia, launched ideological propaganda against the army, and his propaganda was successful.

"Comrades, I have good news for you, last week two thousand thirty-fifty-six comrades left the reactionary army, and some of them are on their way home......

As soon as Bei Yihui's words fell, the applause rang out again, in the face of the applause of his comrades, Bei Yihui looked a little proud, his propaganda was successful, more and more Japanese soldiers chose to become deserters, of course, he would not say at this time how many deserters were sent to military court and shot.

In his opinion, those atrocities one by one were a reflection of the increasing gunpowder in the reactionary army, and now, what was still missing, I am afraid that the powder keg had not yet been filled with gunpowder, and had not yet reached the critical point of explosion, but he was convinced that once the army's powder keg was full of gunpowder, only one spark was needed to detonate it, and when it exploded, an unprecedented earthquake would occur throughout Japan!

"Comrade Ikki, Comrade Okawa is back!"

When the words of a young man fell, Okawa Shuming had already walked over, at this time he was wearing an old Russian tweed coat, a woolen hat on his head, and a black leather briefcase in his hand, and when he entered the basement, Kita Yihui had already greeted him.

"How?"

Kita Yihui's face was full of anticipation at this time. Okawa Zhouming looked around and nodded at first, but didn't say anything, and Kita Yihui, who realized his mistake, motioned for him to go to the office with him.

"Have you made contact with them?"

As soon as he entered the office, almost at the moment when the door was closed, Kita Yihui asked impatiently.

Two months ago, under the introduction of the Russian comrades, at the request of Kita Kazuki, Shuaki Okawa began to try to contact the German intelligence agencies in order to seek financial support, and after they came to Russia nearly eight months ago, the first problem they faced was the economic problem, although they received funding from the Russian Revolutionary Party, their funding was limited, and the revolution needed propaganda, and propaganda needed to run newspapers and print leaflets, all of which required money. Although the comrades in China, under the instigation of Kita Yihui, obtained a monthly subsidy of 5,000 yuan from the Mitsubishi Foundation by means of blackmail, that money was a drop in the bucket at all. …,

Facing Kita Yihui's eagerness, Okawa Shuming smiled on his face.

"They asked to meet you!"

Then, Okawa Zhouming said again.

"Ask for a meeting in Sweden, Sweden is a neutral country, if you agree, they can arrange for you to go to Sweden!"

"Sweden?"

Hearing these two words, Kita Yihui was stunned, now he is Japan's most wanted criminal, if it weren't for the fact that there are millions of Japanese in Russia now, and hundreds of thousands of Chinese businessmen, I am afraid that for safety, he may not even go out, in order to prevent being discovered by the Japanese embassy, and finally arrested and handed over to Japan.

"I don't think you should go to Stockholm, Sweden, for security reasons!"

Seeing that Bei Yihui was a little hesitant, Dachuan Zhou Ming took the initiative to speak.

"No, Sweden I'm going!"

Suddenly, Kita Yihui replied affirmatively.

"We must go, the revolution is not a dinner party, we may be able to eat black bread and drink boiled water, but without money, we can't help those low-ranking officers, we can't print newspapers and leaflets, we can't send these propaganda materials to the army, to the hands of the soldiers, we need money! The support of the Germans is needed! ”

Now Kita Ikki is too aware of the importance of money in the revolution, without which there is no revolution at all, and if he can get hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars every month, then he believes that he will soon be able to launch a real proletarian revolution in Japan, a revolution that will change the world.

"Comrade Okawa, please answer them immediately, I will go to Stockholm to meet him......"

"But your safety ......"

"Comrade Okawa, I believe that our cause is more important than my safety!"

As Bei Yihui spoke, he cast his eyes on Okawa Zhouming, and then he said emotionally.

"If we can get enough money, then, perhaps, in a few years, we will be able to launch a revolution in Japan, and a new Japan will surely stand again in the East!"

Dozens of minutes later, Okawa Shuming, who was carrying a briefcase, left the Japanese bookstore with the "Tomosaka Bookstore" hanging on it, and when he left, he did not notice that behind him, there was a person who had been following, and when he had walked through two street corners, after he had fallen down one street corner, another person turned from another street corner and continued to follow him, and in this way, during the hour-long journey, five or six people followed him before and after.

An hour later, Okawa Zhouming stopped, he first looked left and right, and after making sure that it was safe, he walked into a bookstore, facing the bookstore owner, Okawa Zhouming smiled first, and then asked.

"Excuse me, is there a book called Snow in Stockholm?"