Chapter 476: One sings with a red face, the other with a white face
Ratani, secretly arranged by the British, was once again imprisoned, deliberately in the same cell as five PKIs. His former status as a "famous" wanted Brahmin killer was quickly recognized by fellow PKI members. Then, with the cooperation of the British, he "helped" these PKI members to escape from prison, and then joined them.
Then the script for all his actions was prepared for him by the British.
Ratani succeeded in joining the PKI, then waged an armed struggle and expanded his sphere of influence. The British also cooperated with his actions, constantly publishing the news of the "Ratani Gang" in the newspapers, changing ways to increase his popularity.
A year of war has matured Latani a lot, and at this time, he is no longer as muddy as when he was rescued by Artoria, and he is also vaguely aware that the people who secretly help him behind his back are not only the so-called "divine messengers", but also the shadow of the British government, everything is not as simple as it seems on the surface.
"But so what? I just want revenge, revenge! ”
Although he was arranged by the British and infiltrated the PKI, Ratani was essentially just a lumpenproletarian who wanted revenge.
Ratani is just an avenger, and the British need such an avenger.
Looking at the pile of captured magnates in the town hall, Rassani waved his hand, and soon his soldiers swarmed up and escorted them down.
As he watched the brahmin magnates who had trampled on his head in the past being dragged down like dead dogs, Ratani remembered his parents and siblings who had been killed. Those who killed his family had already been attacked and retaliated by him half a year ago.
Whether it is secretly joining the Anglican Church and bowing down at the feet of Artoria. Or later joined the PKI with ulterior motives, Ratani's initial starting point was all for revenge.
Half a year ago, I killed the enemy Manmen, but the wound in my heart was slightly tightened, but it still hurts there.
"But that's not enough!"
In his heart, Ratani kept saying to himself.
"Lord Artoria. I will use more of the blood of Brahmins as a sacrifice to God. ”
Now Ratani, in addition to revenge, another thought in his mind is the fanatical worship of Artoria. During his time when he joined the Anglican Church, the British missionaries lurking around him as a parishioner did not fail to spread to him the ideas of class revenge, including watching a large number of films about the class persecution of the lower castes by the upper castes in India.
After Ratani formed his own guerrilla detachment, he was received from China. To be precise, it should be the guidance of the comrades from "China Lanfang". He launched a massive campaign of grievances in his own guerrillas, through which he easily aroused the class sentiments of his untouchables and Shudra-born guerrillas, and increased their mutual recognition. When the mood of "class revenge" was infused into his ranks, his guerrilla army, composed of the lowest poor, soon changed his will to fight.
Now he is very disdainful of the compromise of the "little bourgeois-style revisionists of the PKI" in the Republic of Indo, who did not dare to carry out a complete revolution. On the contrary, they agreed more with the internationalist fighters of the Republic of Lanfang: the only way to solve the caste problem in India once and for all is to carry out the most radical revolution. Pull those high castes from the clouds and trample them into the dirtiest sludge.
In India, many people soon couldn't tell the difference between China and Lanmang, in fact, in Western countries, many people think that the Republic of Lanfang and New China are the same country. In fact, all of these "Chinese advisers" under Ratani are from the Republic of Lanfang. It wasn't the China he imagined, but it was the result of a covert collusion between Lin Han and Artoria.
Artoria needed help, and hoped to continue to intellectually induce Ratani when he was out of his hands, leading him entirely down the path of "class revenge" rather than "class revolution". Lin Han also did not want to see the emergence of an India that had undergone a real "class revolution" and whose mental outlook had changed as much as China had from the bottom up. He secretly joined forces with Artoria on this matter.
With the continuous expansion of power and territory in his hands, it is very likely that Ratani will "get out of control" in the future. Both Lynhan and Artoria foresaw this possibility, and they did a lot of precautions, one of which was to steer his mind down the wrong path before it "got out of control".
Lin Han singled out the most "narrow-minded nationalist ideas" among his students in Lanfang and entered West Bengal as "Chinese advisers" to help Ratani establish a guerrilla base.
These students, who are now all around 367 years old, have all experienced the process of rural agrarian revolution in New China, and are extremely familiar with the Red Army's "rural encirclement of cities" system, and they have no problem helping Ratani in military and base area construction. But the biggest task they have received is something else.
Ratani, who rebelled with the sentiment of "class revolution", would be a respectable and terrible revolutionary, and behind him would be countless toiling masses. And Ratani, who rebelled with the sentiment of "class revenge", was nothing more than an avenger who revolutionized for his own selfish desires, and he fought only for himself. If his mind goes down the wrong path, the cause he is carrying out will naturally follow the wrong path. Even if it is "out of control" in the future, it will only be a monkey in the hands of the Buddha, and in the end it will still be a chess piece in the hands of the behind-the-scenes manipulators.
Chen Taiping is from Nanyang, his fate in the past is similar to Ratani, before the establishment of the Lanfang Republic, his family was also affected by the anti-Chinese movement of the Nanyang "specialty", and also has a strong "nationalist sentiment", and even a member of the "root" who specializes in dirty work, which was specially recommended to Lin Han by the current head of the Lanfang Republic, Wang Dong and Wang An's brothers.
Before he was sent to India, he personally met with Lin Han, who told him unabashedly:
"I don't want to see a strong and united India in the south of China! If India can carry out a thorough revolution from top to bottom, it is very likely that the country will become as powerful as China in the future. However, one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, take precautions, and prevent problems before they happen, do you understand what I mean? ”
Chen Taiping, who has strong feelings of "Han nationalism" and "nationalism" in his bones. It was easy to understand Lin Han's rhetoric, and then gladly accepted the task of "leading Ratani to the wrong path".
After seeing the Brahmins being taken down, Chen Taiping suggested to Ratani in non-standard Indian accent English:
"Bahabur is a big city, and the British colonial government will not tolerate our occupation of such a large city. My advice is to retreat from here as soon as possible. ”
Ratani replied: "The British have to react, it will not be so fast, we still have a few days to take what we want." Do what we want to do. ”
Ratani was in no hurry to retreat, and he had received news from the "oracle" before the battle that the British could not send troops immediately before the seven days of Christmas. By far Artoria, the patron saint of the "British Empire", it was easy for Ratani to guess the relationship between her and the British: the British had deliberately indulged their partisans in their wanton development, as was evident from the fact that his guerrillas had always been able to easily obtain the supplies they wanted throughout the year.
"But what is it? As long as you can get revenge."
Ratani thought to himself, and then said to Chen Taiping: "Chen, I have to ask for your help tomorrow." The Chinese comrades have much better experience in this area than I do, so please help me do a good job in organizing the work. ”
Chen Taiping nodded and said, "Don't worry, we are already preparing." Comrade of the Propaganda Department. We have already begun to do the ideological work of those poor people from house to house, and tomorrow's meeting of grievances and criticism will certainly begin. ”
"I'm relieved. Thank you, Chinese comrades. ”
Ratani said and patted Chen Taiping's shoulder with his hand to express his gratitude.
The guerrillas in Ratani are nominally part of the armed forces of the CPI, but in reality they are not like that at all. This guerrilla force was entirely his own guerrilla, although he accepted the help of cadres from the Republic of Northern India to help build his organizational structure. But Ratani himself was very jealous of these "outsiders from the north".
One is that he has a ghost in his own heart, he is not a real revolutionary, but an undercover agent sent in by the British. Second, he has long regarded this army as his own private property and does not allow others to touch it at all. In Ratani's plan, wait for his subordinates to establish a preliminary organizational structure. Those who came from northern India, he would "send them away" or kill them all, and during this time, he himself was desperately trying to cultivate his own henchmen.
As for the "comrades from China", Ratani has a lot of trust in these outsiders. Because he knew very well that these Chinese were "outsiders", just advisers, had no roots in India, and could not pose any threat to his power. Moreover, Chen Taiping's personality is a person, and after more than half a year of contact, Ratani feels that the other party's worldview is very appetizing to himself. Ratani's radical policies were met with much opposition from the PKI members from northern India, but the Chinese comrades supported him with all their might. They also sided with Ratani, mocking the people of the Northern Indies with him: they did not dare to betray their own class, they lacked the courage to change their lives, they were hypocritical petty-bourgeois revolutionary romantics, and they were the same kind as the SPD in Western Europe.
On the way to the mayor's wife's room to rest, Ratani said to himself in his heart:
"Revolution is just my tool, I'm just an avenger."
Today's battle went so smoothly that Ratani was very excited, and he wanted to vent his "emotions" well. The mayor of Bahapur had a beautiful wife, and his daughter was charming, and he felt an indescribable joy at the thought of being able to hold these two so-called "superior people" who had previously regarded him as a lowly race under him.
On Christmas night, Ratani and many of his senior officers also reveled in the mansions of various high-caste officials, living a happy life as wives and daughters of the Crab people.
Lan Fang's "internationalists", who came with Chen Taiping, watched all this silently.
"This is not really a team fighting for the toiling masses."
Someone whispered to Chen Taiping in private.
Chen Taiping explained to the man: "They only regard the revolution as a means and a tool, not as an ideal for which they are fighting, and in essence they are nothing more than bandits in the skin of the revolution." ”
Then he said: "Recording what happened here will be a good negative teaching material for our future generations when we return to China in the future." ”
Chen Taiping looked down on the PKI's gang of petty bourgeois who did not dare to make a complete break with the old forces and launch a complete revolution, and the behavior of Ratani's gang was even more unbearable in his eyes. However, Chen Taiping, who accepted Lin Han's instructions, did not want to interfere with Ratani's practice, but tried his best to educate his colleagues to "not do too much".
Now, from the "degeneration" of Ratani, he truly understands what the difference between "sir" said that "participating in the revolution with the sentiment of class revenge and participating in the revolution with the lofty ideal of "emancipating the toiling masses" will be.
"Ratani's team won't go far."
This is the conclusion of Chen Taiping, who used to be very similar to Ratani, and now his understanding and consciousness of the revolution are much higher than when he first came to India.
After the capture of Bahapur, while the senior officers of the Ratani guerrillas were reveling in the city, a high-level military council was being held in the Provisional Governor's Palace in Calcutta to the south.
The meeting was attended by 12 high-ranking officials, including Artoria, the Divine Envoy, Sir Mountbatten, the Governor-General of India, Sir Royd, the Commander-in-Chief of the British Army in India, the Commander of the Air Force, Sir Meghan, the intelligence officer of the Fifth Division, and the Civil Affairs Department and the British Special Envoy.
"An hour ago, Bahapur was lost."
"Well, everything is going according to the script I set it to."
"What happens then?"
Artoria glanced at the person sitting in the corner of the room and said with a smile: "In Shanghai in 1935, what happened there, what happened in Bahapur." Sir Bran, you have been through that scene in China, do you have any opinion on the situation in Bahapur? ”
The man she called Sir Bran was the former British ambassador to Shanghai, and after the 1935 war in China, he was driven out of China along with the British army. He looked up when he heard Artoria mention his name.
Sir Bran nodded, "I completely agree with you. In the name of the revolution, the sans-culottes at the bottom of the Bajapur did everything in a way that is easier for you to understand, and you can refer to what the Accord Bins did in France during the French Revolution, and those things will soon be played out in Bahapur. (To be continued......)