“…… On March 12, news of the Petrograd uprisings spread throughout Moscow, and strikes in solidarity with Petrograd began to erupt in Moscow's factories. Strikes and demonstrations followed, all over Moscow. At the call of the Socialist-Revolutionaries, the Bolsheviks, etc., the workers marched in the squares of the city center and in front of the city hall with red flags, and even disarmed some of the soldiers in the city and went to the barracks to join the soldiers. The Moscow city administration tried to control the situation, declaring martial law, but to no avail. The next day, the team clashed with police at the bridge over the Yauza River. The deputy chief of police ordered the workers to return to their places or shoot them.

…… Young worker Ivan? Astakhov shouted: "Get out of here!" The enraged deputy chief raised his gun and shot Astakhov. This provoked the anger of the workers, and two workers came forward to arrest the deputy chief and throw him into the Yauza River. Some of the police fled in all directions, while the rest were disarmed. One worker also died in the clashes. Workers and university students launched propaganda to the soldiers, appealing to them to support the revolution, and more and more soldiers went to the side of the revolution. At two o'clock in the afternoon, the soldiers gathered in the building of the municipal hall to announce the turn of the revolution, and an organized and disciplined force occupied the radio station, the municipal office, etc., and opened the prison. ”

Sitting behind the desk, listening to Zhang Jing's report. Chen Moran took out a cigarette from the cigarette case and lit it, and then continued to listen to the report.

On this day, the commander of the Moscow Military District, Mrozovsky, was arrested in the evening of the same day, along with the mayor of Moscow, General Shebeko. The revolution that took place in Moscow did not take place in a major armed conflict.

The mass revolutionary movement in other cities and villages was a little later a day or two, and the first to affect the cities of the provinces of the Central Industrial Zone. In Tver, the workers arrived at the barracks, the soldiers immediately united with the workers, they paraded around the city singing the "La Marseillaise", the police were disarmed, and local officials were arrested. In Samara and Saratov, the masses of the people held an open-air assembly. Soviets of workers' deputies were established. What is even more ironic is that the Kharkiv police chief, having learned of the revolution, stood in the carriage at the front of the parade and led the agitated crowd to shout: "Long live the revolution." Banzai! The slogan is now ......"

It's weird!

It is extremely rare, Chen Moran scolded in his heart, in the past, he wanted to come. Whether it was the February Revolution or the revolution eight months later, it was extremely intense, but now it seems that it is not like that at all, why is the Russian government so stupid? It's long overdue to realize all this. Then immediately mobilize a reliable army and make it invisible as it expands!

And at the same time as this thought came to mind. Chen Moran had another thing in his mind, in the past. He hesitated every time he was confronted with a popular incident, and now, if such an incident broke out again...... Thinking of Russia at this time, Chen sat there silently for a while, falling into deep thought, and he didn't realize that the smoke had burned out.

“…… Your Majesty, as you might expect, a revolution has broken out in Russia aimed at overthrowing, and it will succeed......"

During the report, Zhang Jingcai noticed that His Majesty seemed to be a little distracted, and in connection with some events in the country, he seemed to understand why His Majesty was distracted, His Majesty was too worried, China and Russia are different, compared to Russia, all that China has is not only an army loyal to His Majesty, but also many orphans from the royal nursing home in the army, they will never betray Your Majesty, betray the royal family. …,

"Why is this revolution destined to succeed?"

Raising his head, Chen Moran hoped to get some answers from Zhang Jing, about Russia's answers, which might give him some inspiration.

"Your Majesty, losing the support of the soldiers is not the most terrible, in fact, now the tsar has not lost the support of all the soldiers, some soldiers and officers are still loyal to him, if he copes with it effectively, then, even if the army riots, it can be easily appeased, but ......"

Glancing at His Majesty, Zhang Jing said in the calmest voice possible.

"It is a pity that the betrayal of the elite at the top led to the beginning of the uprising, the connivance of the upper echelons of the people in the upper echelons of the riots, and it was this connivance that allowed the riots to spread throughout Russia, in which case it was impossible to maintain the regime at all!"

Seeing that His Majesty seemed to be a little puzzled, Zhang Jing immediately took out a few telegrams, because the intelligence bureau has been working in Russia for a long time, so that it has a large number of channels to obtain all kinds of secrets at the first time.

In the wake of the riots in Russia, especially in the capital, the chairman of the Duma, Roshona, could persuade the tsar to make concessions by telegram, suggesting that he revoke the decision to dissolve the Duma and set up a caretaker cabinet. This is the last moment to decide the fate of our Motherland and the Imperial Court. ””

After presenting this information, he showed another telegram.

"Tsar Nicholas II also received his brother Mikhail? The advice of Aleksandrovich and Prime Minister Golitsyn and others: The only way to save the fate of the dynasty is to make concessions to public opinion, dismiss all the members of the cabinet, and appoint Duke Lvov or Rodencko to organize a new cabinet responsible for the Duma, and not a single member of the current cabinet can remain in office. At the same time, its upper echelons used all kinds of connections to lobby the queen, and in the end, the spirit of the unruly queen was depressed. "Concessions are indispensable," she telegraphed to Nikolai, "and many of the troops went on to the side of the revolutionary forces", which, of course, was known to her in the palace through some peculiar channels which she seemed to be trustworthy, but which, in fact, had ceased to be reliable since she sent her letter to Rasputin, and had long been favored by the royal family, especially after the Rasputin case. The punishment of the nobles involved in the case led to the dissatisfaction of the aristocratic class with the royal family. It is certain that the upper elites are trying to gain broader power through the current chaos, and some patriots are also trying to take advantage of the chaos to transform Russia. It is the temporary alliance of all kinds of people for various purposes that will lead to the inevitable success of this revolution......"

When Zhang Jing mentioned those careerists, the names of the group of careerists in Nanjing came to mind, perhaps...... If it were possible, he would have preferred that those careerists would be truly suppressed and that these internal instability would have been resolved once and for all, but His Majesty had always indulged them too much.

"Your Majesty, it was the connivance of Nicholas II. led to the present revolution, if twelve years ago, Nikolai executed all the leaders of the riot for treason, suppressed all the participants. Well, this revolution will not break out at all! Exile does not solve the problem! It only delayed the outbreak of the revolution! For those revolutionaries who have lost everything, as soon as they get the chance, they will make waves again. So ......"

Zhang Jing's warning was heard in Chen Moran's ears, but it made him frown while agreeing, sometimes as a superior. It is not always possible to make a quick decision, especially if it is contrary to one's values. After all, in Chen Moran's own opinion. He was never a butcher, much less a tyrant. …,

Democracy is immeasurable, dictatorship is courageless!

Thinking of these eight words, Chen Moran couldn't help but smile bitterly, although he had already made a decision in his heart, but when it came to implementation, he always had such and such scruples.

"Well, now is not the time to think about these issues, now we need to devote all our attention to Russia, we have to wait for the situation to change, and as soon as the situation develops well, we will hit Mikhail? Aleksandrovich card, do you understand? ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, as you wish!"

Putting away the documents, Zhang Jing, who knew that he should retire, took one last look at His Majesty, and then said again.

"Your Majesty, sometimes we have to make some choices that go against our will, and those choices are difficult, but they are ......"

After a pause, Zhang Jing's face showed some bitterness.

"Your Majesty, you have said that you can make all sacrifices for the sake of China's millennium, and sometimes, some necessary sacrifices are unavoidable......"

In fact, at this time, Zhang Jing was more willing to say that from the Qing Empire and the Chinese Empire, too little blood was shed, which may be China's luck, but in fact, on the other hand, it added too many unstable factors to this nascent empire, and for many years the new dynasty could only use the "comparison method" to prove to the world that compared with the former Qing Dynasty, the Chinese Empire was undoubtedly more in line with the needs of the people, but the people's hearts were not enough to swallow the elephant, and it was difficult for people to be satisfied. Just as before the war boomed, the encouraged workers demanded higher wages, demanded an eight-hour workday, and the merchants demanded full freedom of trade, the state should shrink its grip on industry and commerce, and the politicians demanded wider power, even with the founding aristocracy, on their own side, either explicitly or implicitly.

If we can't completely eradicate all unfavorable factors with a thunderous force, then sooner or later, everything that happens in Russia today will be staged in China, and I am afraid that it will be too late to regret it at that time, at least those small actions of Cha Zhiqing, in Zhang Jing's view, there is no way to change a fact at all -- there will only be more and more dissatisfied people!

At this time, the phone on the table rang, and Chen Moran picked up the receiver,

"Hello?"

It was a call from the General Staff, listening to the voice on the phone, Chen Moran glanced at his watch, it was 10:50.

After listening to the report on the other end of the phone, Chen Moran hung up the phone, then sat quietly for a while, and then sighed.

"What the hell is going on?"

Zhang Jing, who had some doubts in his heart, did not ask, but he knew that the phone was a special line to the General Staff, was there something going on in the army?

"A few minutes ago, the General Staff received a report from the Expeditionary Force Command, it seems that Nicholas II's uncompromising determination has been loosened, he seems to be well aware of the gravity of the situation, and according to the information he has received, now the population of the capital is about to march towards Tsarskoye Village, and Nicholas II is worried about the safety of his family, so he decided to return to the capital immediately."

Finally, history is still history, from the time Nicholas II made the decision to return to the capital from the base camp, the fate of Russia was inevitably irretrievable, although this was what Chen Moran was looking forward to, but at this time, deep down, he was extremely sympathetic to the last Russian tsar who was later recognized as a "revolutionary victim" with his family.

Historically, numerous historians have argued that Nicholas II's departure from the base camp was his greatest mistake, and that he could have transferred up to dozens of divisions of troops that were still loyal to him, with which he had a bargaining chip to stabilize the situation, but in the end this bargaining chip was abandoned because of his wrong decision. …,

On his way back to the capital, the railroad was cut by the workers, the telegraph line was cut off, the tsar and the army lost contact with the capital, and finally he had no choice but to abdicate, and from then on, Russia was off the track of history, began to fall into turmoil, after the emperor's abdication, the army that lost its allegiance did not know what it should be loyal to, and the Bolsheviks took the opportunity to stir up trouble, and finally, an unprecedented regime appeared in history......

"The big picture has been decided......

With a long sigh, Chen Moran stood up, walked to the window and looked out the window at the capital, after this war, wouldn't the empire in the mouth of outsiders only be China, the German Empire, the Russian Empire, and the Ottoman Empire...... Three empires fell one after another, only China...... However, thinking about it in his heart, Chen Moran cast his eyes into the distance and in another direction, although he couldn't see the parliament here at all, but in Chen Moran's consciousness, he seemed to see the parliament, and saw that those places that have been eyeing power are the parliaments that he himself created the Chinese Empire, so in the future, will they try to bury this empire like everyone else?

Fear, the fear that suddenly surged in his heart made Chen Moran fall into an unprecedented panic, that was the fear of revolution, and it was only at this time that he suddenly realized that he could not face everything calmly as he had imagined in the past, at least not in the face of the thousand-year-old empire in his dream being destroyed by some people! (To be continued......)

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