When Tsarist Russia was engaged in the Far Eastern War, there was already a serious crisis in the country, and the corrupt tsarist dictatorship was full of corruption, embezzlement, and oppression everywhere. The outbreak of the Far Eastern War diverted the attention of the domestic population and temporarily covered up these things, but after the successive defeats in the Far Eastern War, the losses of Nayan zhòng and the high taxes had brought to light the contradictions in Tsarist Russia, especially the brutal suppression of demonstrations.

At this time, a snowstorm was brewing in the calm of Tsarist Russia, forced by the cruel suppression of the government, and the contradictions of the people were stubbornly held in their hearts, while those rich and powerful merchants and nobles had little influence and still lived a luxurious life.

The defeat of the war in the Far East, in which nearly a million soldiers were killed and hundreds of thousands were captured, made the people very dissatisfied. However, due to the successive defeats in the Far East War and the Tsar's continued expeditions, there was a shortage of materials, prices soared, and there was a severe famine.

On the streets of St. Petersburg, groups of refugees, most of whom have fled from Siberia in search of work or begging, are those who have been taxed and do not have enough food to survive the winter.

The government is also very helpless for these people, and it cannot arrange jobs for them and provide them with basic guarantees to ensure their lives, and even the government only provides a limited number of cold and hard black steamed buns every day.

"Master, please have mercy on me, I haven't eaten for three days!" A dirty child knelt in front of the owner of a restaurant and said

The boss looked at the child coldly and kicked the child away in disgust and said, "Little beggar, get out of here, I don't have money and want to eat, go eat the snow on the street!" ”

The child did not go away because of this, but continued to kneel and shout: "Please, boss, as long as you have a loaf of bread, I can do whatever I want, as long as I can eat enough!" ”

"Get out, we don't accept beggars, don't stay in front of my bakery all the time, affect my business, if you don't leave, I'll call someone!" The boss waved his fist and threatened the child to hurry up and not affect his business.

"Dad, he's so pitiful, give him a loaf of bread, just a loaf of bread!" A little girl came out in a bright leather jacket and said coquettishly to the boss.

The boss ignored his daughter's words and let the child go, otherwise he would let the police arrest him, the child was obviously very afraid of the police, and took a look at the little girl and left.

"Daddy......"

"Alas, Yuri, it's not that Dad won't give it to him, he really can't give it, there will be countless people coming here at the beginning, no amount of bread can hold up, I can't do business with such people coming here every day!" Although the boss said this, there was no sympathy on his face.

Because of the hunger of the refugees and the citizens, a large number of thefts and robberies occurred every day in the imperial capital, and the gendarmes and police in the imperial capital were tired for a while, and as long as it did not happen to the big merchants and nobles, many of them turned a blind eye.

This kind of situation was played out all over Tsarist Russia, and people died every day from hunger and cold, but the government did not pay much attention to dealing with the war in the Far East and the strife of various countries, and ignored it under the cover of local officials.

This kind of thing happens in the capital of a country, and the situation in other places can be imagined, the more east the city, the more powerful, most of them are suppressed or concealed by the local government.

It is precisely because of this that the Red Party showed explosive growth in a short period of time, and a large number of peasants and unemployed workers joined the Red Party, which made the Red Party grow in strength and have the capital to confront the government.

On December 20, under the leadership of the Red Party, the Putillov workers in St. Petersburg first went on strike, demanding an increase in their salaries and their bread, since high taxes and prices made their salaries untenable. The striking workers were fired from the factories, and the workers in other factories went on strike one after another, and finally led the workers of St. Petersburg to strike en masse and take to the streets.

Refugees, unemployed workers, and people dissatisfied with the government also joined the march under the leadership of the Red Party, which led to an ever-expanding procession, and the government urgently mobilized the city's troops to maintain order and stalemate with the procession.

At the same time, collective strikes and demonstrations of workers broke out in major cities in Tsarist Russia, and a large number of peasants joined the procession, and the domestic situation in Tsarist Russia was extremely tense for a time.

"Increase salaries, lower prices!"

"Cut taxes!"

"I want to eat, I want bread, I want to work!"

All sorts of slogans emerged, but none of them were overtly political, and it looked like a spontaneous strike and march.

In just a few hours, there were a lot of clashes between the workers and the people on the march and the government troops, who took pity on the workers and people and did not take a heavy hand, so there were no deaths in the procession in St. Petersburg.

In the Tsarist government, government officials were busy dealing with workers' strikes and demonstrations, and groups of government officials took to the streets to persuade workers to return to work, but they were ineffective because there was no concrete commitment.

In the Tsarist Palace, Nicholas II slept very comfortably last night, and the morning meeting was not held, and he got up at the urgent urging of the prime minister and others.

"Oh no, the workers in the imperial capital went on a collective strike, and then there were collective strikes of workers all over the country, the striking workers marched on the streets, a large number of refugees and people joined, the scale has reached tens of thousands, and they are confronting the army!" Even in winter, the prime minister's head was covered with sweat, dripping down one by one.

Nicholas II was shocked at first, then angry, "Bastard, how dare these lowly civilians be so bold, who is agitating?" Immediately agree to the conditions of the workers, temporarily reassure them, and let them go back to their posts to continue their work. There is also the need to send people to investigate what is just going on, and let the troops from the suburbs enter the city, and I will see who dares to move! ”

"Your Majesty, those businessmen are reluctant to increase the wages of the workers, and it is the damned Red Party elements who are agitating the workers, they have been planning for a long time!" The Red Party did not want to hide such a big thing, and of course the government quickly investigated and found out that they had done it.

"What, it's the Red Guys, damn it! Isn't the lesson at the beginning enough, I really think that I am so good at talking, these Red Party elements are wanted all over the country, and those who instigate things will be killed! No matter what means the government uses, the workers must go back to work, and do not use force until it is absolutely necessary! Nicholas II gritted his teeth and said fiercely that he hated these Red Party members the most.

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Half an hour later, the government promised a salary increase and bread, and although the businessmen agreed to the government, they did not show up for a long time, making the workers very suspicious of the government.

The procession did not disperse, and in confrontation with government troops, workers from all over the country began to rush to St. Petersburg.

In a mansion in St. Petersburg, a large number of businessmen were discussing a workers' strike.

"These low-level untouchables, at this time, a lot of people are looking for jobs, some are people, and it's not our fault that prices are skyrocketing!"

"Yes, don't make trouble, if we compromise this time, there will be a next time, why doesn't the empire consider our feelings? Seventy percent of the Empire's tax revenues are ours, and the government does not contribute to ours! ”

"I have long said that the war in the Far East must be stopped as much as possible, the domestic economy is already very difficult, and the support that the two countries can give is limited, and if they fail again, those Red Party elements will jump into the sky!"

"This strike was so fast, strikes broke out almost at the same time all over the country, even the damned peasants took to the streets, it was clear that someone had planned this, was it just to demand a wage increase and bread? Could it be a conspiracy of the Chinese? ”

"The Chinese people now have to deal with Yingfa and other countries, and they have to fight with Fusang, where can they have time to do this thankless thing!"

“……”

Merchants are generally reluctant to increase the wages of workers, and it has nothing to do with them that workers starve to death.

"Okay, let's give them a chance first, if they still want to strike, let's hire again, we lose a lot of money every hour we stop, which is not a good thing!"

Soon the factories in St. Petersburg put up notices demanding that the workers immediately stop the march and go back to work, or recruit new workers. Although these announcements did not say that they would be fired if they did not return to work, the recruitment of new workers was undoubtedly a huge threat.

Most of the workers panicked when they saw these notices, and they didn't even have bread to eat without their jobs, so a large number of workers were shaken, and the unemployed workers who followed the march flocked to the front of these factories, waiting for the factories to recruit new people.

"These merchants are using this trick, so they can only use another plan!"

After a discussion, several members of the Red Party jumped onto a makeshift platform in the center of the crowd, and several of them shouted with loudspeakers: "Workers, what is the purpose of our strike, is it wrong to raise wages and order more bread?" These businessmen are lying to us, we are senior workers, not comparable to those newcomers, as long as we persevere, they will definitely give us a raise! ”

"Is the government's promise to raise wages, but the businessmen didn't, and threatened us with firing us? The government had promised not to raise taxes, but now it has increased again. Look at the people who are dressed in thin clothes and hungry, and look at the people who hide in the warm houses, drinking the wine and the food that I have worked so hard to make, what is this, this is corruption! ”

"It is precisely the government's connivance and improper policies that have led to the rapid rise in prices and the shortage of materials today, all of which are the government's fault......"

The faces of the government officials on the other side changed drastically when they heard this, and they couldn't let these people continue talking.

"Soldiers, when you see that the people in front of you are not, take them all down for me, they are all rebels, and you must not let them continue!" The government dignitaries present could not bear it anymore and wanted the army to arrest those Red Party elements.