Inside the Chinese Embassy in St. Petersburg.

After coming back, Minister Wu Tingfang did not rest immediately, and sat in the spacious and comfortable office Taishi chair, with a gloomy old face, and did not say a word for a long time.

Deputy Envoy Shi Zhaoji was aware of this, quietly made him a cup of tea and sent it over, stood opposite and asked, "Teacher, but you are not happy with the arrogant behavior of the Russians tonight?" ”

Wu Tingfang is also a professor and vice president of the Foreign Affairs University, and almost all of the young and middle-aged diplomats of the new generation are his students, so in private, most of them are called teachers or gentlemen.

Wu Tingfang raised his eyes and glanced at him, shook his head slightly, held the teacup in his hand and rubbed it, and said in a low voice: "For diplomacy, some official articles are the proper meaning, for the sake of the national interest, it is nothing for individuals to be wronged." The old man just felt the arrogance of the Russians, and sure enough, the country was about to die, and there would be demons. ”

Shi Zhaoji understood that the old gentleman must be sincerely emotionally about the demon monk Rasputin's ravaging of the upper echelons of the royal family and nobles of Tsarist Russia.

They are well versed in Chinese history and know that from ancient times to the present day, all dynasties and dynasties in the imperial palace have begun to raise warlocks and demons who pretend to be gods and ghosts, which will inevitably lead to terrible and catastrophic consequences. At worst, the king will die violently, the throne will be replaced, the loyal ministers will be wronged and the people will turn away, and the dynasty will be replaced and the world will be in chaos, which will be a catastrophe that will easily lead to millions of deaths and injuries!

This seems to be an unavoidable chronic disease, and it is not uncommon in both China and abroad. Even if he is as wise and wise as Emperor Qin and Han Wu, he has planted a heel in things such as Fang Shi Wu Zhu, leaving a stain that can never be washed away.

As for the kings and nobles who died on it, I don't know how many.

Look at Tsarist Russia today, overseas intelligence services spent just a small amount of money. With the help of local revolutionaries. Bought Rasputin. Let him help continue to fan the flames and bewitch the public, and fool an already self-righteous tsar alive, so that he has lost his basic judgment of the grim reality.

If you have an in-depth understanding of the situation in the Far East, they should understand that the real situation has reached the point of burning their eyebrows, not to mention stupid things like a counterattack by the Russian army in the Far East, they can't even launch a decent offensive!

The staggering figure of six million in the Russian army is actually nothing more than a seemingly powerful empty shelf. They could not even pack the basic rifles in a number of 500,000 troops in the Far East. At least half of the people use outdated or badly undermaintained rags! In the local garrison force, there are even many people with cold weapons in their hands!

The soldiers of the low-level army composed of the vast number of serfs could not even prepare basic clothing, shoes and socks, and could not eat enough. Nutritional deficiencies are a common problem in the entire Russian army, and vitamins and proteins are not mentioned at all. At night, most of them are as blind as they are.

The Chinese offensive was mostly launched in the evening or at night.

Attacking 500,000 people with more than 100,000 people, and still being able to take turns to train and repair troops, one can imagine how big the gap in combat effectiveness is!

Not only did the Russian army in the Far East have no chance of victory, but it was also impossible to maintain a defensive line. The rhythm of the entire course of the war. It has always been in the hands of the Chinese.

But the upper echelons of Tsarist Russia, far away in St. Petersburg, did not know at all!

Shi Zhaoji was also full of emotion in his heart. But he was not worried about the Russians. Even more unsympathetic criticism: "The Great Führer once uttered a slang phrase that said, 'If you don't die, you won't die.'" Russia has such a good foundation, and has a rare historical opportunity, and there are shrewd and capable political leaders like Stolypin, as long as the tsar can support him to complete the reform of the state system and government functions, it will inevitably become a top power! At that point, it will be ten times more difficult for us to regain the lost ground! ”

Wu Tingfang patted the case lightly and sighed: "Alas, the time is also, the luck is also, and the fate is also!" Fortunately, there is a saint in China who has come to the world, and he has been cheering up again for 500 years and turning the tide of the tide. How fortunate it was for me to wait for the toilet. ”

Although the old gentleman is a little pedantic, he knows in his heart that he is from that head.

Shi Zhaoji didn't say much, he also knew that the gentlemen of the previous generation were all Taoist gentlemen, and they all had the dogma of "do unto others what you would not do to yourself", no matter what work you do, you will inevitably be kind and kind. Very few people can be as kind-hearted and spicy as Li Hongzhang's old Zhongtang, but in fact, in the field of diplomacy, including the head of state, they all respect Li Zhongtang.

The two silently smelled the faint fragrance of tea and pondered for a long time, until someone outside sent a note.

After Shi Zhaoji saw it, his face was slightly happy, and he said with a smile: "That demon monk has taken the bait again." It looks like we're getting a better success rate. The day is not far off when Stolypin will be deposed. ”

Wu Tingfang couldn't see joy on his face, and said lightly: "Ghost tricks are not the right way after all, they can only be used occasionally as a strange trick, and must not be regarded as a theme, otherwise they will go astray." ”

Shi Zhaoji bowed down and responded: "Students are taught." ”

The old gentleman waved his hand, Shi Zhaoji left quietly, and after bringing the door, a touch of determination appeared on his face.

Accepting criticism with an open mind is just to make the teacher's face look good. For the sake of the bright future of the country and the nation, which of these people did not make up their minds early and achieve their goals by unscrupulous means? Even if you fall into the eighteenth layer of hell and never be able to turn over, you will not hesitate!

Revolutionaries should have such an awareness!

Back in his office, Shi Zhaoji recruited a number of staff members in a row, most of whom had titles such as counselor, secretary, military attaché, etc., but in fact, all of them were responsible for covert operations.

He told the crowd: "In a few days, the truth about the defeat in the war in the Far East will be revealed, and the Russian public opinion will be directed to the bureaucrats of the current government, and the culprit will be pointed at Stolypin." You must seize the opportunity and do everything you can to help the local extremist revolutionaries complete the assassination before they all leave! ”

"Understood!"

The young faces shone with excitement.

After they all left with their own tasks, Shi Zhaoji sat in the shadow of the light and whispered to himself: "This is just adding fuel to the fire, just taking advantage of the situation." ”

Years ago. When the Russian revolutionaries launched the first general wave. Because of the difference in philosophy. They were divided into many factions. With the exception of the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks, who had a clearer programme and purpose, a force of radical petty burghers and craftsmen and workers' organisations, like the revolutionary parties of the world, pursued the method of violent assassination in order to destroy those whom they considered to be "stumbling blocks and reactionaries to the revolution".

In the history of this world, the people of this faction assassinated many princes, ministers and government dignitaries, including the ousted Prime Minister Stolypin, and for a time caused a lot of trouble. Everyone is at risk.

But in the end, this faction was defeated and died, just like the result of the Chinese Revolution, and those who always like spies and assassinations are bound to fail.

Within B-plane China, Yang Hao and the revolutionary party absolutely forbade such actions, and the party formed by Sun Dacang and his friends was ruthlessly suppressed when they intended to settle disputes in such radical ways.

As for this kind of people among the Russian revolutionaries, China could not afford to overstep their bounds and help them get rid of them. Turn. While still supporting the Bolsheviks, he also secretly gave some help to these people. Provide them with funds and weapons for their activities. Make it easier for them to start and hit them wider! It would be great if the whole Russian government could be messed up!

Nominally, we support your just revolutionary cause, and we need no thanks.

Tsar Nicholas II, in the midst of the banquet celebrating his victory, in front of nobles and high-ranking officials and diplomatic representatives of various countries, fiercely "reprimanded" the Chinese minister as important news, and the next day it was widely publicized, and every newspaper and every radio station praised it to the fullest.

Some seemingly calm remarks were completely drowned in overwhelming flattery, and did not stir up the slightest wave.

The reputation of the Tsar, the "little father of the people", was pushed to the peak, and countless people enthusiastically hoped that he could make more glorious and magnificent achievements, or at least drive the Chinese invaders out of the transit line!

But in the midst of the praise, some untimely voices suddenly came out.

I don't know where many leaflets came out of nowhere, and they were distributed in the millions of them to the streets and alleys of the major cities of Russia overnight!

In each leaflet, a result that is completely opposite to government propaganda is depicted in sensational words: "The Russian army in the Far East has suffered an unprecedented defeat!" 500,000 troops annihilated and 300,000 captured! More than one million square kilometers of land east of Lake Baikal, nearly three million soldiers and civilians, all turned into trophies of the Chinese! The tsar and the government, lying, deceiving the people! ”

The whole of Russia was blown away by this shocking secret!

The Tsar, their most beloved little father, the great leader with high hopes, would tell a big lie?!

How is this possible!

Human nature most of the time tends to the part of oneself that one believes, and is unwilling to accept the bad one, which is contrary to the expectations of the heart. At the first time, many people angrily tore up the leaflets and loudly denounced those shameful guys who "made up lies"!

At this time, the Russian people really loved the Tsar, and they did not want the "little father" to be stained with disgraceful things, so they automatically and spontaneously defended his glorious and righteous image.

In the streets of the major cities, huge marches were launched, and large numbers of people shouted slogans and launched a campaign against the revolutionary thugs on an astonishing scale.

This makes the bureaucrats who have been exposed to the lie very happy!

In order to gain time to save the situation, they smashed the pot and sold iron to throw out the money they had embezzled, bribed a large number of aristocratic bureaucrats, and said good things for them, including the demon monk Rasputin.

Naturally, there were not a few people who were dragged onto the thief ship, and they who had benefited from it were also willing to believe that the generals of the army were "negligent for a while", and as long as they were given enough time, they would be able to turn defeat into victory. When the time comes, with glory and merit, everyone will be able to share.

Suddenly the truth was revealed, and these rotten bureaucrats who were in a vegetarian position were very shocked! Once the truth is made public, they will all be unlucky!

The sudden organization of a protest of this scale by the people is tantamount to spontaneously expressing their strong support for them, which is really pie in the sky! Regardless of whether there is anything else wrong here, almost all the bureaucratic aristocrats can't wait to make a statement in support of the people's actions. Demand that the rebels who spread rumors and cause trouble be severely punished!

The revolutionaries who hid in the shadows and distributed leaflets were disappointed!

They had thought. The people have already gone through the impact and baptism of a revolution. The mind should be clearer, and the shortcomings of the corrupt government should be able to be actively united to support their righteous actions.

Unexpectedly, the reality is so cruel! Not only did they not believe the truth spread by the revolutionaries who risked their lives, but they also helped the criminal government to encircle and attack themselves?

Stupidity! Ignorance! Hopeless!

The Russian revolutionaries were outraged! Most of the expelled Bolshevik Party members, with the help of the media mouthpieces of various countries, expressed their opinions and bitterly reminded their compatriots to keep their eyes open. See who the bad guys are.

The radicals lurking in the country were not so patient, and they quietly blended into the crowd and infiltrated the various institutions with weapons in their arms, and suddenly assassinated the leading figures who were most active in the protests!

In just a few days, more than 20 civil leaders were assassinated, and more than a dozen government officials were killed! The most outrageous thing is that Prime Minister Stolypin was also assassinated!

On the day the leaflet was distributed. Stolypin urgently asked for an audience with the Tsar and reported the rumors in the market. It is required to set up an investigation team to go to the Far East to conduct on-site investigation and collect evidence, and find out the truth of the rumors.

Nicholas II was still immersed in the joy of his victory, but he was splashed with a basin of cold water and was immediately furious! But he felt extremely disgusted with this uninformed prime minister, and instinctively felt that this guy had forgotten the kindness of his successive promotions, and even tried to interfere with him by turning against the guest - the great tsar's decision-making was too unusual!

At the critical moment, the demon monk Rasputin came out and fanned the flames in the ears of the tsar and empress in his godly chattering way, guiding their thinking directly at Stolypin's system reform!

Not long ago, Stolypin, who had tasted the sweetness of reform, began to plan further institutional innovations, and continued to promote the constitutional monarchy, striving to reach the level of British constitutional government. At that time, the tsar's prerogatives will be limited to the maximum, and officials will not be appointed or dismissed at will according to their personal likes and dislikes. The State Duma, on the other hand, is able to truly exercise its functions and assume leadership and management of the country as a whole.

This is a blatant deprivation of the power of the Tsar, and it is also to knock down many privileged nobles from the clouds, who can stand it!

Needless to say, the opposition of the entire Russian upper strata was almost unanimous, and the tsar himself had a disagreement with Stolypin.

Now, such an astonishing public opinion has come out, and under the distortion and inducement of the demon monk Rasputin, Nicholas II subconsciously believes that this must be a trouble secretly caused by Stoleyping! He must be thinking of inciting public opinion to kidnap the royal family and take the opportunity to reform the government in order to seek greater real power for his prime minister!

In a fit of rage, the Tsar did not hesitate to order the removal of Stolypin from the post of prime minister.

The prime minister, who had the dream of becoming a strong country, stepped down in disgrace, and the aristocracy and rotten bureaucrats rejoiced!

But it didn't end there. In the midst of the clamor of condemnation, many remarks intentionally or unintentionally pointed the finger at him, the "initiator". The popular crowd, who wholeheartedly supported the "little father", believed that he had plotted a leaflet to try to overthrow the Tsar's rule. The radical revolutionaries saw this guy as a lackey of the Tsar, who had not only ruthlessly and brutally suppressed the revolution, but was now openly inciting the masses who did not know the truth to continue the revolution.

It can't be tolerated any longer!

On a dark and windy night, Stolypin, who was loyal to the Russian Empire, was shot at home by two bullets and died silently with unwillingness and humiliation!

Once the assassination operation is launched, it is out of control, and the deaths and injuries of dozens of important people have pushed the people's resentment to the point of exploding!

Just when Tsar Nicholas II was in full swing and intended to take the opportunity to continue to raise his prestige and create unprecedented greatness, China suddenly openly declared that it had completed the recovery of the lost territory of the entire Far East! The Northern Frontier Army sent troops to Mongolia, attacked Chita on both sides, and blocked the remnants of the Russian army on the shores of Lake Baikal!

Large photos, Russian prisoners in sight, mountains of various captures, cheering Chinese soldiers and waving flags at the top of the city, slashing at the heads of Russians like knives!

The Russian people, who were all feverish in their heads, were like a basin of ice water splashed down, and they were immediately stunned by this terrible news!

Nicholas II angrily smashed the jeweled wine glass and yelled: "Impossible! Damn the Chinese guys are lying! They must be colluding with the rebels in the country, and they want to shake the morale of our military with a bigger lie! ”

He ordered a Chinese envoy to come and question him, but was told that he had already withdrawn a few days earlier and had taken a train from Moscow to Europe.

The Tsar was a little flustered in his heart, and then went to the demon monk Rasputin for divination, and the dazed greedy god thought of the entrustment of the secret liaison and the larger amount of gold and silver treasures, and swore to Nicholas II: "That's all a lie!" The great Russian army must have won the victory, and the Chinese must be fooling their people and covering up the fact of defeat in the north! ”

This guy doesn't understand what photography technology is, and he doesn't understand how terrible propaganda and public opinion is!

Nicholas II's head suddenly cleared up a little, and he hurriedly ordered the military governor of the Amur Military District Grodyakov and the governor of the Far East Aliksayev to report the truth.

The army commander Kuropatkin realized that the general situation had gone, and the lie could no longer be covered, so he decisively sold the guys in the Far East, and confessed to Nicholas II with tears in his eyes, saying that he had been deceived by those guys who had a bad conscience, and he did not know that they had the audacity to sprinkle a big lie.

Nicholas II could no longer hear what he was saying, and a mouthful of old blood spurted out on the spot, and he fainted!

News came one after another from the great powers, which proved beyond doubt that the crushing defeat of the Russian army in the Far East was real. For two months, the tsarist government tried to deceive the people, and the "little father" even shamelessly twisted defeat into victory to celebrate!

The enthusiastic support of the Tsar was stunned! Then they realized how fooled they were! They have paid so much sacrifice for this, they have died so many people, and they are all busy working for a lie, what a huge price! What a blow!

The trust that was pushed to the top was knocked to the dust all at once!

The Russian revolutionaries have once again emerged from the shadows. This time, they didn't need much drastic language at all, and the facts were enough to justify their judgment. Such a tsar, such a government, is no longer worthy of people's support and support.

The situation took a turn for the worse, and the last of the people of Russia who supported the Tsar were disheartened, and few people cared about the rampant activity of the revolutionaries.

The revolutionary movement against the Tsar quickly swept the whole territory!

In China, Yang Hao, who was traveling abroad, heard the news halfway, and was in a good mood for a while, and called Yang Dingshi to congratulate the head of state, but also pondered with great interest: "If the Russian Revolution had succeeded ahead of schedule and the Soviet Red Power had been established ahead of schedule, what would the First World War look like?" It's exciting! (To be continued......)