Li Xiaofeng's mood is really quite bad, there is bad news everywhere, there are chains everywhere, groups of self-righteous guys are acting indiscriminately according to their own intentions, and his anger value is close to full. If Victoria wasn't Angelina's cousin, he would definitely be a hard hit with this woman.

And now, he can only hold back his anger and try to warn the other party with peaceful means: "When will NORINCO start production, and when will you get a new batch of grain!" ”

Victoria was stunned, she didn't expect someone's reaction to be so violent, she exclaimed, "You can't do this!" ”

Unscrewed the door, Li Xiaofeng left without looking back, leaving only one sentence: "I can!" ”

Well, now it's Victoria's turn to go crazy, these two months of grain business, let her make a lot of money, suddenly lose this big income, she will be very unaccustomed, or very uncomfortable. But what is even more uncomfortable is that even if she uses all her strength, she will not be able to get NORINCO into production within a month.

For these two months, her focus is entirely on Ambrera, and all the preparations revolve around Ambrera, and if all goes well, Ambrera will be ready for production within two months.

And now, because of someone's nonsense, her preparation is completely in vain, which she must not bear. Between the grain business and Ambrera, she really didn't know which one to choose.

However, Li Xiaofeng quickly helped her make a choice, and someone directly shelved the construction of Ambrera indefinitely, announcing that he would never invest a penny in Ambra until NORINCO was put into production.

Of course, Qian Shenma is secondary, with the financial resources of the Eugen family, even if there is no immortal, he can still set up a factory, and more importantly, someone still has the formula for the pillar products of the future Ambrera company. Without this, even if the factory is built. It doesn't produce an egg.

For the toughness of a certain immortal. Whether it is Victoria or Henry, they can only choose to compromise, although in their eyes someone has no business acumen at all, but who let the family grasp the lifeline, not to accept the soft!

The only one who supported Li Xiaofeng's decision was his puppet brother, who had been depressed for the past two months, and after hearing that North Industries had re-established the first priority, this puppet girl jumped up with excitement. Long live Andrei shouted.

Although the problem has been solved, it is conceivable that the emotions of a certain immortal are quite like something, just like the eldest aunt came. This guy even secretly guessed that he had lost his character after crossing over, otherwise it would have been so unsmooth? After the settlement of Kornilov, the future of the revolution was bright. But why did you get to my brother's place, and I had to stuff my teeth with water on my back?

It can only be said that this product is too taken for granted, and although the future of the revolution is bright, the road is still incomparably tortuous. Especially now, when the cannon of the Goddess of Dawn is only a month away, it is the darkest hour before dawn.

He is not the only one who is not going well, but all the heroes who are now active in the Russian political arena. None of the ones felt smooth.

For example. Kerensky, the prime minister, retained his position in the midst of Kornilov's mutiny. But this mess for Russia. There was nothing he could do. In 1917 Russia's total industrial output fell by 36.4% compared to 1916, and after the February Revolution 568 enterprises closed down throughout the country, directly causing hundreds of thousands of workers to lose their jobs. At the same time, as the war situation continues to deteriorate, military spending has become a bottomless pit, consuming 58 million rubles every day.

In order to fill this huge hole, Kerensky could only borrow from the allies on the one hand, and the national debt was as high as 60 billion rubles, of which 16 billion belonged to foreign debt. On the other hand, the ultimate method of printing money has also been sacrificed, and the sharp inflation has turned the ruble into garbage that is too hard to scrape the buttocks.

And all this he did belonged to prolonging his hunger, or drinking to quench his thirst. As the economic situation worsened, and as the basic necessities such as food, sugar, and cloth became scarce, more and more Russians became impatient with him.

John. Reed wrote in his Ten Days That Shook the World: "The food grew less and less week by week, and the daily bread quota was reduced from one and a half pounds to one pound, then to three-quarters of a pound, and then to a quarter of a pound, and finally not a piece of bread for a week!" ”

Due to the extreme lack of food, some cities of the Moscow region began to replace bread with oil residues, which are actually quite good, at least the oil residues still smell a little oily. Kostroma directly replaced the ration with the worst bran that had previously been fed to pigs...... And the Novgorod, Karuga and Ryazan oblasts broke out of scurvy because of famine.

In contrast to the common people who were hungry and cold, the capitalists and aristocratic lords were not limited by the bread rationing system, and white bread, fructose, coffee, and vodka could be supplied openly. These damn ghouls have resold everything good on the black market and made a fortune. In contrast, the average worker received only 57.4 per cent of the monthly wages of 1913.

At that time, Lenin wrote in "What is the way out?" "The war has caused such a great crisis, brought the material and spiritual strength of the people to such a strain, and dealt such a severe blow to the entire modern social organization. We must therefore make a choice: either to perish outright or to entrust our fate to the most revolutionary classes, in order to make the most rapid and rapid transition to a higher mode of production. ”

The Mentor is not just talking empty words and shouting slogans, he is a thorough doer, at least in the rebellion movement, he is a master of the world's realm. Under the leadership of the Mentor, the membership of the Workers' Union grew to 1,500,000 in July 1917, and in October it grew to more than 3 million, half of which were concentrated in Petrograd and Moscow.

The workers' unions actively supported the ideas of the Bolsheviks and launched one revolutionary struggle after another against the Provisional Government:

In August, leather workers in Moscow went on strike, which then developed into a citywide strike;

On September 1, the hardware workers and miners of the Urals went on a political strike demanding the immediate convening of the Second Plenary Session of the All-Russian Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies and the expulsion of the Mensheviks and the Socialists from the Soviets;

On September 24, Russian railway workers launched a nationwide general strike, demanding higher wages and an eight-hour workday. and improve the food supply system.

The strike lasted three days. The complete paralysis of railway traffic throughout Russia forced the Provisional Government to meet the demands of the workers.

This was not the end of the day, as from September onwards every industry throughout Russia began to strike one after another, and in some parts of the country, angry workers took over the industrial and mining enterprises directly, exercising spontaneous supervision of production and distribution.

Miners in the Donbass arrested industrial miners. Having taken over the mines directly, the Provisional Government could only send the Cossacks of Kalygin and the main forces transferred back from Romania to suppress the workers of the uprising. But the funny thing is that all this is completely useless, and Karekin's army directly turned back, so much so that he had to ask Kerensky for help.

Not only the workers, but also the peasants began to oppose the Provisional Government. Beginning in May, peasants all over Russia began to seize landlords' lands and farms, including 152 in the whole country in May, 440 in August and 958 in September.

More and more Soviets of Peasants' Deputies adopted resolutions against the Provisional Government, declaring that the present Government is completely incapable of carrying out the will of the people, that it will never trust a regime that is irresponsible to the people, and that the Soviets of Workers' and Peasants' Soldiers' Deputies immediately seize state power.

As for the soldiers' movement in Russia. It's even more magnificent. The rapid development of the Bolsheviks in the army made it difficult for the Provisional Government to mobilize troops to suppress the workers' and peasants' uprisings. The commander of the South-Western Front, Baluyev, wrote in his diary on October 8: "The local authorities are completely unable to fight against illegal acts. ”

And before that, on September 10. A meeting of representatives of the 23 infantry regiments of the Northern Front was held, at which the so-called "ruling cabinet" was not recognized, and all rights were demanded to be returned to the Soviets. On 19 September, the Baltic Fleet in Kronstadt made a resolution not to recognize the legitimacy of the Provisional Government and to refuse to carry out all their orders.

On the entire Northern and Western Fronts near Petrograd and Moscow, one hundred and seventy thousand troops fully accepted the claims of the Bolsheviks, and of the four million garrisons near Petrograd and Moscow, nearly half supported the Bolsheviks.

For Lenin and the Bolsheviks, the whole month of September was a glorious one, advancing by leaps and bounds on all fronts, crushing the Provisional Government with the overwhelming force of Mount Tai. However, this is not to say that it is smooth sailing for the Mentor, in fact, the closer he gets to victory, the more difficult it is for him to move forward.

First of all, the Mensheviks, unwilling to be lonely, staged a farce on their own, and in the name of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviets, a so-called All-Russian Democratic Conference was convened in Tseretili. An attempt was made to use this meeting to exchange the All-Russian Congress of Soviets, which was scheduled to take place in September.

With regard to the distribution of the number of delegates, Tseletiri and Tsikhzee did everything possible to install people loyal to them in the meetings, while the most representative and universal deputies of the grass-roots soviets, the trade unions, and the factory committees were given only a considerable number of places.

For the petty tactics of the Mensheviks and the Socialist-Revolutionaries, the Mentor was outraged at that time: "...... There were no revolutionary deputies representing the majority of the people, no indignant poor peasant deputies in the democratic conference, it was simply a meeting of a handful of bourgeois reactionaries! We must resolutely resist this pseudo-democratic conference! ”

In this regard, Kamenev, who was not willing to be lonely, jumped out: "This is slander! We should respect the authority of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviets, and why should we ignore the authority of the Soviets at this critical juncture? I think that it is not appropriate to do this, we should calm down and listen to the voice of the democratic representatives, comrades, we can no longer do things behind closed doors! We should recognize the reality! ”

"The reality is that the so-called democratic conference is simply illegal!" Trotsky immediately stood up and retorted, "According to the rules, the All-Russian Congress of Soviets should be convened, at which the Central Executive Committee of the Soviets will be re-elected...... The current members of the Central Executive Committee have been reduced to lackeys of the reactionaries, and any of their decisions are not authoritative and legitimate! ”

"This is downright reactionary rhetoric!" Kamenev exclaimed, "The current Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union has the right to call any meeting!" This is their basic right!! ”

It has to be said that this trick of Aksherrod is really vicious, procedurally speaking, the convening of a democratic conference is completely legal, but in practice, the Central Executive Committee, which is controlled by the right wing of the Mensheviks and the Socialist-Revolutionaries, is already very unpopular, and it is only a matter of time before it falls. And when they were about to fall, they preemptively concocted such a disgusting trick. It's really boring.

Before the democratic session. Tseretiri was full of praise for Aksherryrod's clever plan: "Have you heard of it, today there was a big quarrel among the Bolsheviks, and they were completely helpless about the convening of the democratic conference. ”

Aksheri Rhodes wasn't as excited as Celeteli, after all. The democratic conference is a small means, and when the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union is re-elected, the new executive committee can probably disown this account. At best, it was to buy Kerensky a little buffer. He was more concerned with the preparatory congress, which was in the pipeline.

"How's the pre-congressional planning?" He asked.

The so-called Preparatory Congress, also called the Provisional Parliament, after all, Kerensky has declared the end of the Russian Empire, so naturally. The original laws of the Tsarist Empire, especially the Constitution, were no longer applicable to the new republic.

It is imperative that a new parliament be elected, a new constitution be drafted and a new legitimate government be elected. It has to be said that Kerensky and his party have done a good job of calculating, and if they can determine the legitimacy of their provisional cabinet through legislative means, it will greatly alleviate the current passivity. It can even win great initiative for future political struggles.

So. On the one hand, they let the Central Executive Committee of the Soviets hold back the hands of the Bolsheviks at the democratic conference, and on the other hand, they actively planned this provisional congress, which was extremely beneficial to them.

"Provisional Congress?" I heard Li Xiaofeng's report. Lenin laughed contemptuously, "Kerensky and Tseretieli only have such a life-saving straw!" ”

Li Xiaofeng was not as easy as his mentor, he felt that this provisional parliament was very tricky, and if they really did get it, it would be very bad for the Bolsheviks from a legal point of view.

"It's just a relative disadvantage!" Lenin still didn't really care, "There is no point in this method, it is never the parliament that determines the ownership of power, but the army!" Kerensky: they are putting the cart before the horse! ”

The "reactionary" remarks of the tutor startled Li Xiaofeng, what you said is too straightforward, if you say what the people want, we can still accept it.

"It's not enough to have the will of the people!" Lenin snorted, "In 1905 the people's hearts were not on the Tsar's side, and who won as a result?" What do you say would have been the result of the February Revolution and the rebellion against Kornilov without the support of the broad masses of the army? ”

Of course, Li Xiaofeng knew what Master Lu Dao meant, and there was power coming out of the barrel of a gun. But now seeing that others are doing bad things and doing nothing, isn't it too negative, and you have to create a little trouble for Kerensky and them.

"Of course you want to make trouble for them!"

Lenin laughed and said: "Aren't they going to have a provisional parliament? Let's strongly resist this provisional parliament, after the abdication of Nicholas II, don't there already have established decisions about the future Russian government? We should respect Mikhail. The will of Grand Duke Alexandrovich (younger brother of Nicholas II) to form a Constituent Assembly elected by universal suffrage of the people, hmph, what kind of thing is the Provisional Congress! ”

After the abdication of Nicholas II, Grand Duke Mikhail refused to accept the throne, according to the established policy, the new power in Russia should be elected by the Constituent Assembly, and the current government is just a provisional transitional government.

However, both the first prime minister of the provisional government, Duke Wolff, and the current Kerensky, wanted to postpone the convening of the Constituent Assembly until after the end of the war, citing the fact that the country was in a state of war and did not have the energy to hold elections.

Of course, what kind of calculations these two are making, a clear-eyed person can know the Tao at a glance, it is nothing more than that they don't want to hand over power. Kerensky, in particular, has repeatedly postponed the convening of the Constituent Assembly since he came to power, which has caused him to draw a lot of hatred. Now, this thing wants to replace the powers of the Constituent Assembly with the Provisional Congress, or in part, the power of the Constituent Assembly. It's strange that he can't die with this excuse.

However, speaking of the Constituent Assembly, Li Xiaofeng suddenly thought that this Constituent Assembly was indeed convened later, but the Communist Party only existed for 13 hours from its establishment to its demise, and the main reason was that the election results were not entirely favorable to the Bolsheviks.

At that time, the Bolsheviks, who had the support of the workers and soldiers of the whole country, received about 9 million votes (more than 35 million voters in the country), making them the second largest party, and the first party was the Social Revolutionaries with the support of the Russian peasants (including the pro-Bolshevik Left and the Ukrainian Social Revolutionaries Party, which received more than 17 million votes). As for the Mensheviks, it was a shame to say that they had won more than 600,000 votes, which was even only one-third of the spurned Cadets.

The Bolsheviks had the support of the workers and soldiers, while the Socialist-Revolutionaries had the support of the overwhelming majority of the peasants. If it were replaced by other countries in Europe, such as Britain, France and Germany, which were more industrially developed than agriculture, the Bolsheviks would definitely have the upper hand, but unfortunately, Russia was still an agricultural country at that time, and agriculture was the main productive force of society, so there were many peasants.

Faced with this unfavorable result, the Mentor immediately announced the convening of the Second National Congress of Soviets, in which the Bolsheviks had an overwhelming advantage, and then immediately dissolved the Constituent Assembly on the spot with the slogan "All rights to the Soviets."

Although he was the last to succeed, this "black history" was indeed not very glorious, and Li Xiaofeng felt that the Constituent Assembly should be avoided from the beginning and replaced it with the Soviets...... (To be continued.) )