Chapter 4: Layout of Russia (Part I)

It was already seven o'clock when Qin Yu and Lilia finished talking, and although they were more than ten minutes late for dinner, it did not affect the quality of the dinner.

This dinner was not only the two of them, Qin Yu's four concubines and children were there, and even the Queen Mother was there, which can be said to be a family banquet.

They all know about Lilia's identity, although they are concubines about Qin Yu looking for her, they are still very concerned about the affairs of several major commercial houses, and they have also heard Zhang Xinyue talk about the lack of logistics.

"Hello dear Queen Mother and the four princesses, princes, princesses, I'm Lilia, I'm so happy to see you." Lilia greeted Zhang Xinyue, who was sitting at the table, in Chinese.

"Hello, let's sit down and eat." Erin and the others waved to Lilia.

Lilia soon sat next to Concubine Eileen, Qin Yu also sat in the middle of the four concubines, and the Queen Mother sat on the main seat.

In order to match Lilia's dinner this time, all the dishes used were Western tableware, knives and forks, red wine, etc., and Western food accounted for half of it. Qin Yu, Zhang Xinyue and Xiaolan have all studied and can use Western-style tableware, Irene is a German, needless to say, as for the Queen Mother, she has been dealing with foreigners before, so there is no difficulty in using Western-style tableware.

Lilia was very moved to see this, she hadn't learned to use chopsticks for a few months after coming to China, she also knew that all Chinese people use chopsticks, and today the emperor of the Chinese Empire and his family have switched to Western-style tableware because of her, can you not be moved?

There was no conversation at the table, and after dinner, Lilia was directly pulled by the four imperial concubines to chat, except for Zhang Xinyue, who didn't know German, so communication was not a big problem.

Qin Yu didn't bother when he saw that they were chatting like this, and after he returned to the study, he sorted out today's article and the things he talked about with Lilia.

Several high-ranking members of the Bolshevik Party in distant Krakow were at this time engaged in heated discussions at Vladimir Lenin's house.

Lenin took the text in his hand and said: "I have good news for you, there are people who are willing to finance our revolutionary cause, and soon we will have our own weapons and funds." With this support, we will be able to make another revolution and overthrow the rotten Romanovs.

The Chinese Empire will give us good support, and I believe that we will be able to defeat the corrupt Nikolai. ”

Zinoviev, a member of the Central Committee of the Social Democratic Party, and Kamenev, an aide to Lenin, took the paper and opened it.

It was written that the Chinese Empire was willing to provide some weapons and funds to support the development of communism, and that the Bolsheviks wanted to abolish the unequal treaties signed between the Manchu government and them after the overthrow of the Romanov dynasty, and return more than 1.5 million territories.

"I don't approve of the revolution so early, it's not that you don't know the reasons for the failure of the last revolution, and now we haven't shaken the Romanov dynasty at all, and the time has not yet come.

We can't fight the army without a solid foundation, the strength of the party is too weak, and you don't know that Nicholas II is a madman, and once he starts a madness, countless people will be harmed. Kamenev disagreed with Lenin's opinion, although Russia is now very corrupt, but the influence of the imperial family is still very large, and Nikolai's strength is not something they can compete with.

"The power of the Romanov dynasty will be greatly challenged in the near future, and that will be our chance. Without the interference of the Mensheviks, we will certainly be able to overthrow the rule of Nikolai, the broad masses of toiling peasants will certainly be on our side, and we will certainly succeed. Lenin clapped his hands as he spoke, and continued, "Now I will ask the commissioner of the Chinese Empire to come out and make a detailed analysis for us, and I believe you will be surprised after listening to it." ”

The two did not expect that Lenin had already brought people from the Chinese Empire here, which surprised them, because it was still in Russia, and they were also afraid of being discovered by the Russian police.

With a "squeak", the door in front of the hall opened, and two yellow-skinned middle-aged men in black suits entered, presumably this was the commissioner of the Huaxia Empire.

"Hello, I'm the commissioner of the Huaxia Empire, you can call me Hua Ming, his name is Hua Yun, this time we came a little abruptly, please don't be surprised." Hua Ming first said his name, and then introduced the man next to him.

Hua Ming and the two were sent to Russia by Qin Yu to contact the Bolshevik Party, and the two found Lenin through the contact of the Germans when they learned that Lenin lived in Krakow.

Lenin was wary of the two men at first, but when they revealed their origins, Lenin slowly let his guard down. The two men talked with Lenin all night, and no one knew what they had discussed, and two days later they reappeared at Lenin's house.

Hua Ming and the two stepped forward, ignoring the stunned Kamenev, and they reached out to hold their hands, which was a polite greeting.

Kamenev and the two were stunned for a moment, and they also said hello to Hua Ming and Hua Yun, since everyone is here, you are embarrassed to drive people away.

"As for what Mr. Lenin said, let's explain the opportunity later, kiss you a question, what do you think about the situation in the Far East?" Hua Ming looked at the two of them and asked.

After Kamenev and Zinoviev glanced at each other, Kamenev thought for a moment and said: "The situation in the Far East is now the strongest in Russia and Japan, the newly rising Chinese Empire is second to the two countries, and Britain and France only have some colonies in South Asia and Southeast Asia.

The Chinese Empire is facing the most problems, not only is the Northeast not officially unified, but even Outer Mongolia is under the occupation of our Russia, and Taiwan and other places are also under the hands of the Japanese, so the Chinese Empire is now in crisis.

The Chinese Empire is now a newly rising empire, and although it is also a capitalist country, your land reform and strong nationalization, which are very similar to some aspects of socialism. ”

"The situation of the Chinese Empire is now more severe than anyone else, although the navy has defeated the British Far East Fleet, but your navy is just starting and is not the opponent of the Japanese navy.

Your emperor is doing a very good job, constantly applauding the countries of the world, even if he has conceded a lot of benefits in the compulsory plan, he will win over the countries of the world, if the current situation is based on the current situation, the Chinese Empire will have five years or more of peace time to develop and strengthen itself......" Zinoviev added after Kamenev.

"Papapa...... Hua Ming and Hua Yun involuntarily clapped their hands, although the analysis of the two is not very comprehensive, but it is already very good for a few people who are bent on socialism.

"You said it very well, you can't imagine that two people who are so concerned about the situation in the Far East are worthy of the Bolshevik elite. Yes, this is the case with our empire now, but the empire will continue to solve the current dilemma, and no one can resist the advance of the empire.

Well, I won't hide it from the two of you, the opportunity that Mr. Lenin just said is that China and Russia will soon go to war, and the Outer Mongolian Empire will inevitably take back, and you can take advantage of the war to overthrow Nikolai's rule. Hua Yun said very sonorously.

Kamenev and Zinoviev were very shocked, they could not imagine that China would take back Outer Mongolia soon after the founding of the country, and this battle would be a big war, and some time ago, Nicholas II frantically stationed more than 500,000 troops in the Far East.

Since the Russo-Japanese War they had no chance of revolution again, and the defeat of the revolution in 1905 was much to the regret of the Bolsheviks, who were only supporting characters at the beginning, and did not really overthrow Nikolai.

With the character of Nicholas II, if the Chinese Empire sent troops to Outer Mongolia, he was likely to be annoyed and angry, and then continue to send troops to the Far East, when the Russian military power in Europe would be drastically reduced, and this was their opportunity.

Zinoviev turned a lot of thoughts and questions in his heart, "I don't understand some things, what do you think of sending troops to Outer Mongolia and Japan?" Will Britain and France and other countries also intervene in the period? What is your winning percentage? ”

"Don't worry about Japan, Britain, France, the United States and other countries have huge investments in the empire, and Japan does not dare to attack the empire at the risk of being suppressed by the world. As for Britain, France, and other countries, don't they really want to weaken the power of the empire now? That's what they want to see the most.

We are now 70% sure of the victory rate, and I believe you also know the weapons used by our empire in the war with the British, and the decaying Assak cavalry is no longer of much use to us.

The empire and Outer Mongolia are so close that they can put in a large number of troops at any time, and Nicholas can only transport people from Europe through Guò Siberia, and the logistics supplies are not in place very well, and more importantly, Nicholas's finances are very embarrassed, so this time the empire has the advantage and can be said to be a stable victory. Hua Ming said confidently.

Zinoviev and Kamenev thought about it for a while, the Far East is indeed far away from Europe, and Nikolai's army alone in terms of supply is not comparable to the Chinese Empire, and more importantly, the population of China is much larger than that of Russia, and if you fight hard, Russia will lose.

As for Britain and France, they must have been sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight in the early stage, and when they were in the later stage, whoever won would be inclined to whom, and if China won Outer Mongolia, it would logically return to the embrace of the Chinese Empire, and if Russia won Outer Mongolia, it would be truly independent.

But there is another situation that will happen, that is, neither country will want to give up, and then it will inevitably lead to a tense confrontation between the Allies and the Entente. Although the Chinese Empire did not join the camp of the Central Powers, the relationship between the Chinese Empire and Germany was known to the world, so in the end it was a battle between Russia and the Chinese Empire.

In this way, the probability of victory of the Chinese Empire is definitely more than eighty percent, and the losses of Russia may be even worse than the Russo-Japanese war, and then it will be a good time for the Bolsheviks to overthrow the Romanov dynasty.

"Are you sure you just want to end the war after returning to Outer Mongolia? Will you treat our Russian soldiers preferentially? You don't have any other purpose? Kamenev asked suspiciously, in his heart he didn't think that the Chinese Empire would be so kind to help them, and that the Chinese Empire was not afraid that they would inform the tyrant Nicholas II in advance.

"Outer Mongolia is our ultimate goal, and if we take prisoners, we will definitely treat them preferentially, and we can even return them to you to deal with Emperor Nicholas of your country.

The purpose of cooperating with you is to let you cooperate with us in defeating the tyrant Nikolai, and the people of your country are living in dire straits, and we used to be like this, so we are very sympathetic to this. Hua Ming said sincerely.

Lenin watched the expressions of Kamenev and the others, and he knew that this was a test for them, and that if the revolution was to succeed, it would have to pay a great price.