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On September 27, the cold wind was fierce, and this cold wind came from the hearts of the people, and at this time the whole of St. Petersburg, the whole of Russia, was haunted by an inexplicable emotion - defeated!

The news came so suddenly that it caught people off guard, when newspapers all over Europe reported the news, when they reported how the huge Second Pacific Fleet was destroyed in the Le Maire Strait, when the newspapers in Europe reported the news at length, in Russia, everyone was stunned, once upon a time, they were full of thought that after the Second Pacific Fleet was sent, the war would end, and it was impossible for the Chinese to resist their forces at sea,

But now, all this looks like a joke, Russia lost, badly.

In the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, when the general acolys-in-chief told the news to Tsar Mikhail II, every chamberlain heard the tsar's roar.

"My fleet!"

Almost overnight, the fleet of the Russian Empire, Mikhail, was gone, and then, he was in a trance, and then there was news that His Majesty the Tsar, who had just returned to the Winter Palace, had returned to the Tsarsy Village, to the Summer Palace, and apparently, for him, he needed time to digest the news.

Of course, no one knows about all this, at least ordinary people never know about it. For ordinary people, the news of the sudden defeat made each of them more angry when they were shocked.

"Damn, how can you be defeated?"

"My brother, my brother is in the fleet......"

In the Putilov factory, the largest factory in the Russian Empire, several resting workers were talking loudly about the "Battle of Lemaire" in the roar of machines, and in the midst of that discussion, Irievle cried loudly, for his brother, who had been working for more than ten hours in a row, was exhausted, and this bad news made him fall into a sad state that he had never felt before.

In fact, not only him, but also many workers in this large factory with nearly 10,000 workers had friends and even relatives who knew each other in the Baltic Fleet and in the Kronstadt fortress, and now their friends and relatives have sunk into the icy sea. After learning the news, almost everyone was in a state of grief.

"What, don't you need to work?"

The overseer shouted loudly, trying to get Nirier and the others to be driven back to work, but his drive had the opposite effect at this time, and Niriyeh, who was comforting his friend, pushed the overseer away.

"Don't you see that many of our friends and relatives have died on the sea, in meaningless expeditions, and now, do you want to take away even the power to weep and grieve?"

Niriyeh's shout was immediately echoed by the people, who immediately followed with a loud shout.

"You've always made us work overtime, but right now, our salaries aren't even as high as they used to be!"

"We have to work for hours every day, but what else do you have to do but keep pushing us to work?"

After the outbreak of the war, in the face of a rapid surge in orders, the director of the Putelov plant, C.N. Smirnov, constantly offended the rights of the workers in order to obtain greater profits. Although workers are working more hours overtime, their earnings have not increased at all. In the past few months, the reality that the workers' incomes have plummeted due to overtime and rising prices has already made them dissatisfied with the factory, and now the criticism of the supervisor has provoked anger in the hearts of the workers.

"Yes, increase overtime pay!"

"Pay overtime!"

"Increase the ...... of food expenses"

Emotions spread, and when the initial outpouring of dissatisfaction comes out of the mouths of the workers, it quickly evolves into demands, which start with the shouts of those who are off work, but then slowly evolve into demands from everyone in the factory.

Stoppage!

Suddenly, I don't know who started first, the machine in the workshop that was originally turning with all its strength suddenly stopped rotating, and only the celestial axis rotating in the air and the earth axis on the floor rotated there, venting useless usable power.

In the next moment, the machinery of the entire Putilov factory stopped, and the workshop suddenly quieted down, but this silence was only a moment of silence, and then the tens of thousands of workers of this factory poured out of the workshop like a tide and rushed to the front of the French-style building like a wind, which was the work place of the factory director and the management department of the factory.

"Raise wages!"

"Wages raised! Pay overtime! ”

"Closed on Sundays!"

The roar of the angry workers echoed over the factory like a deafening thunderclap, and thousands of workers chanted slogans. At the same time, it is getting closer and closer to the factory management department.

"Wage increase ......"

The crowd shouted in a haphazard manner, slightly more untidy than the first slogan. Their brigade had already rushed to the front of the Administration, and the people had already surrounded the Management building.

The director of the Smirnov factory, who was standing upstairs, looked nervously at the angry workers in front of him, and his mouth kept muttering.

"It's all that damn Gabon! That's right, it has to be him, it has to be him......"

Of course, no one knows that the priest who heads the Narva branch of the "St. Petersburg Factory Workers' Conference" is an agent of the secret agent bureau of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the reason why he participated in this organization is to carry out the orders of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and infiltrate its interior to quell the discontent of the workers.

But over the past few months, the administration of the Putilov plant has been increasing its working hours, leading to an escalation of clashes with the Narva branch of the "St. Petersburg Factory Workers' Conference" led by Gabon. The Ministry of the Interior intended to use this organization to quell the protests of the workers, but the actual actions of the organization gradually deviated from the original intention of the Ministry of the Interior, and even exceeded the expectations of the Ministry of the Interior.

And now, it is the backbone of the "Gabbon organization" that is leading the workers' strike at the forefront, as in the past, these people have gone to the forefront, including Niriyah.

"They must all be fired......"

Staring at the front of Niriye and the others, Smirnov secretly said to himself in his heart that his long-standing dissatisfaction with the "Gabang Organization" made him realize that this was an opportunity to solve the problems of the "Gabang Organization" once and for all.

Expulsion!

In the afternoon of the same day, just after the strike at the Putilov plant ended, the news came out -- four key members of the "Gabang organization" in the factory had been fired, and the news immediately reached the ears of some people who had been following the situation in St. Petersburg, and in the St. Petersburg newspaper Pravda, the action of the Putilov plant immediately aroused a discussion. But the discussion changed because of the news that Father Gabang would lead the workers to petition the Tsar!

“…… Let all the workers assemble and go on strike, and then they will march peacefully to the Winter Palace with the banner of the Church and the portrait of the Tsar, and present to the Tsar a petition describing the plight of the workers, saying that the Tsar will come out to receive the people, listen to and meet their demands......"

The news came from members of the party who were lurking within the Kabang organization.

"This is our chance!"

Looking at the comrades in the room, Ulyanov's tone was quite excited, and after receiving funding from the Chinese, he immediately returned to Russia, and while founding Pravda, he succeeded in establishing a revolutionary party with "professional revolutionaries" as the vanguard core and a tightly organized and disciplined organization based on his personal ideas. The opposition of others does not seem to make any sense.

"Because of the man of Gabon! Perhaps, we should be grateful to him! ”

Father Gabon, as Ulyanov spoke, founded Russia's first legal trade union 12 years ago.

"Gabon's personality can be said to be extremely complex, he is very egotistical, he is also adventurous, and he can even be said to lack political acumen, but he is very sympathetic to ordinary people. Over the past few years, the strength of the Californian organization has guaranteed the social rights and material interests of workers. Now the administration of the Putilov plant apparently underestimated the role of the organization among the workers of the capital, unaware that 6,000 people in their factories were members of the Ghabon organization. Of course, there are our people among them! We're going to be a part of this rally! My comrades! ”

Looking at Kalinin, the comrade who participated in leading the strike at the Putilov plant this afternoon, it was he who commanded the steam workshop to turn off the steam engine, thus starting the strike, Ulyanov said in a rather excited tone.

"Tomorrow, we are going to give our speech at the workers' rally and add our demands to it!"

"Comrade Ulyanov, what kind of demands do we make? What kind of demands will not be rejected by the workers? ”

Even Kalinin did not take into account the interests of the workers with whom he worked, and as a professional revolutionary, he valued the interests of the revolution above all and above all.

"We have to take into account that our demands must be what the workers desire, and of course, they cannot refuse, only then will they add these demands to the petition, not just a reduction in working hours, an increase in wages, believe me, if it were just that, then their "little daddy" would have agreed, but what we need is his refusal! And not agree! ”

After a moment of contemplation, Ulyanov continued.

"I think we should join the demand for freedom of speech and freedom of association!"

As soon as Trotsky's words fell, Kalinin immediately objected.

"No, freedom of association doesn't seem to have anything to do with workers, what we need is freedom of association for our organizations to be able to operate openly, and I think we can change this to freedom of association for workers, and with this we can turn our organization into a workers' organization and act in the name of a workers' organization......"

"It is also possible to demand the convening of a Constituent Assembly to change the state system in Russia, and the Tsar will certainly reject this article!"

"And legal equality!"

"Separation of Church and State ......"

"Eight-hour workday ......"

"Land to the Peasants ......"

"Stop the War ......"

In the words of the people, the demands that seemed to be very common, but the starting point was to make the Tsar refuse, and the revolutionaries of these professions put forward them one by one, and their proposals seemed to be for the sake of the workers, for the peasants, and even for the interests of Russia, but in fact, for them, their only hope was for the Tsar to reject the conditions put forward by the workers, and even hoped that the Tsar would use violent means to suppress the workers' petitions.

"What if, then, in the face of these conditions, the Tsar refuses and at the same time sends troops to suppress the workers?"

After a moment of hesitation, one comrade raised his concerns.

"Now, many people are still full of trust in the Tsar, and there are still those last vestiges, they don't know at all that freedom is not obtained by petitioning the Tsar, but by taking up arms to fight for it, so we need the Tsar to reject them, and even need the Tsar to suppress them, only in this way can people see the Tsar's face......"

Ulyanov replied without hesitation that as a standard Machiavellian, even the devil could use it if the revolution required it. Just as it seemed to him, using Chinese, Chinese promised him no less than 1,500,000 rubles a month in aid, and it was with the help of this huge amount of aid that he was able to gain a foothold in the ranks of the revolution, and now all he needed was a fuse, an opportunity to break illusions with the tsar.

"I believe that the last illusion of the Tsar can be shattered by the shooting and the brutal repression, of course, but comrades, believe me, after this beginning, soon the wave of revolution will sweep across the whole Russian land, and tomorrow we will all go to the factories, go there to win the support of the workers, go there, let the workers add our demands to their petitions, of course......"

After pondering for a moment, Ulyanov said again.

"We can prepare 100,000 rubles of bread tomorrow and give it to our comrades workers and their families, so that they can convince them that our organization is one with them and that we care about their interests, so that when Garbang loses, we will be able to fight the workers for ......" (to be continued). )