186 Gunfire at Smolny Palace (Part I)
Li Xiaofeng cheekily approached the mentor, trying to mix up some benefits without shame, but in fact, there was no need, because there was no benefit if he went. It's not that the mentor has an opinion about this product and deliberately neglects him.
The conscience of heaven and earth, Lenin was not such a stingy person, and he did not have any opinion on someone, and was even quite satisfied with what this thing had done in the past few months. Some comrades may be surprised, in that case, why don't you reward merit or merit?
It's not that I don't want to, but I can't! According to the merits of a certain immortal in the past few months, Lenin felt that giving an alternate member of the Central Committee was a grievance to someone, and that it was a matter of deserving to give a Central Committee. The problem is that this kind of thinking can only be thought about in the bottom of my heart, and if I really want to put it into action, I really can't do it.
Although there is a tendency for the number of members of the Central Committee to overflow after the Sixth National Congress, only serious Politburo members can be regarded as the core leadership of the party. But the problem is that even if there is a tendency to overflow, there are still too many monks and too little porridge in this position, and a large number of old revolutionaries are looking forward to this position. In terms of seniority, is Kalinin enough to be a member of the Central Committee? Is Shao Mianwu enough to be a member of the Central Committee? Is Frunze enough to be a member of the Central Committee?
To put it mildly, whether it is in terms of qualifications or merits, the above three are qualified, but these three are not even an alternate member of the Central Committee! And there are more than three or two similar people, the list is a big one, which one is not an old revolutionary father, can he take care of it?
Not to mention that although someone's merits are outstanding, their age and qualifications are really incomprehensible. Lenin said to Sverdlov more than once in a joking tone: "Andrei's parents are so irresponsible, such a good comrade should be born first!" As old as his brother, the alternate Central Committee is well deserved. ”
Visible. The Mentor is quite appreciative of someone. But the objective age problem is a knife in the way. Lenin could only reluctantly brush someone down. But in a sense, this is also a protection for someone, because although someone's contribution in the past few months is not small, the hatred of Ra is even greater, and he has offended a large number of people. At this time, if he is allowed to enter the Central Committee, it will not praise him, but harm him.
And, take a step back. Someone is indeed young, and there is no harm in raising his qualifications for a few more years, youth is the biggest capital, and he will not be 25 years old if he waits for another five years, to tell the truth, a 25-year-old member of the Central Committee is already very eye-catching. To tell the truth, the mentor himself was only mixed into the alternate Central Committee when he was 33 years old. Sverdlov was also added as an alternate member of the Central Committee at the age of 27.
Lenin could only dry someone, so this time when he saw someone leaning towards him with a dead face, he felt a headache for no reason.
"Comrade Andrey, why are you still in Petrograd?" The mentor asked angrily.
Someone also seemed to hear the mentor's unkind tone. There was also a little apprehension in his heart, he didn't understand. I didn't do anything, why did I hate my mentor, could it be that Stalin beat Lao Tzu's little report?
"This congress is related to the future direction of the party's development and has extraordinary historical significance, and I think it is necessary to personally listen to the spirit of the central committee in order to carry out its work better......
If you say this to another person, maybe the mentor will believe it, but he knows someone's personality and way of doing things too well, and the ideological consciousness of this thing is just that, and he has never had any interest in holding a conference. What such a person can say about comprehending the spirit of the central government, and what better way to carry out his work, is simply a liar!
Although the tutor doesn't believe someone's nonsense, he doesn't mean to delve into it, it's normal for young people to jump out of the way, who hasn't been young, and he was impatient with this kind of meeting back then. As long as someone can adhere to the principles and always stand with the central authorities, this is enough.
To tell the truth, this is what the mentor admires most about someone, and what about desertion, as long as he can do things beautifully, as long as he can understand the spirit of the Central Committee, he is a good comrade. It's better than those who pretend to take notes in meetings, and are serious like experts and professors, but when it comes to practical work, they are strained, and they always go against the spirit of the central government!
To tell the truth, Lenin was most annoyed by this kind of posturing mallet, and if everyone were like some immortal, he would probably feel at ease. So, when, at this time, someone pretended to tell a lie, Lenin's interest came up and he decided to play a trick on someone.
"Really?" He smiled and suddenly said, "Show me the record of what you did, I have to check if you really understand the spirit of the Central Committee!" ”
Li Xiaofeng made a record of the egg, after the conference in the past few days, he closed his eyes or went to the toilet there, of course, Lenin also knew this, someone has always pretended, the reason why he asked such a question was to make fun of someone.
Was Li Xiaofeng stumped? That's definitely not going to happen, this kid has been getting fatter and fatter since he crossed over, and as he became more and more familiar with his mentor, that feeling of awe had long since disappeared.
Actually, it is not difficult to deal with the mentor in life, in essence, the mentor is much easier to deal with than Dzerzhinsky, who is really iron-faced and meticulous at all times. Lenin was different, he was more easy-going, sometimes he would make a little jokes, and he was more able to enjoy life, when he was in exile in Paris, whenever his work was not going well or he was in a bad mood, he would go to the opera and watch the play, and he lived a very chic life, and later when he recalled this period of life, he admitted that he was raised. It can be said that his daily life is much more fulfilling than that of Dzerzhinsky and his ilk.
Anyway, it wasn't the first time that Li Xiaofeng had been teased by his mentor, so he wasn't nervous at all, he tapped his temples and replied, "What's the point of keeping the spirit of the center on paper?" I've put the spirit of the center into my head, and I'll report to you directly! ”
Lenin shook his head and smiled: "You little fellow, you can just say pretty things. Just report or something. I'll check how you actually work later! ”
This is just a small episode. Lenin was laughing. Naturally, the people around him were laughing, and to tell the truth, the day was generally in a good mood for the Leninists, and on this day of victory, it was normal to relax.
So, a large group of people followed Lenin, chatting as they went. Smile and walk out. Li Xiaofeng was not polite, he was cheeky and went into the old revolutionary pile, and talked with him without a match.
At this time, it was already very dark, there was no way, the night in Petrograd in winter was not ordinarily long, it was very dark at five or six o'clock in the afternoon, when a group of people walked out of the Smolny Palace with a smile. Li Xiaofeng saw the woman who was once very familiar in the afternoon again, and at this time, she was standing on the side of the door, squinting her eyes to look this way.
If it's usual. Li Xiaofeng may have ignored this momentary action, but when the woman looked over. Somehow, that familiar feeling came back to me. And her action made Li Xiaofeng suddenly feel very dangerous.
Li Xiaofeng was a little confused, because this woman couldn't help but be weak no matter how she looked at it, and she didn't have anything to do with danger! A certain immortal thinks that if he is replaced by a big man with a big waist and a round waist holding a machine gun or bazooka, then the danger is passable. Where is the danger of a woman who can be reached by a gust of wind?
At that time, Li Xiaofeng told himself, you have a nervous breakdown, which is the sequelae of too many meetings, and you are afraid of a mother, not enough to be ridiculed.
Li Xiaofeng comforted himself while following the crowd in the direction of the gate, where Lenin's special car had already stopped, and if nothing else, the tutor was ready to go home immediately. This time, someone was a little anxious again, and the reason why he ran to the mentor's side was that this product was going to be knocked on the side to get a little benefit, but this person was so powerful that he couldn't open his mouth at all. If the mentor just got in the car and left, didn't he have a meeting for a few days in vain?
Li Xiaofeng really wanted to get rid of all these eye-opening goods around him at this time, but which one of the surrounding people was not an old revolutionary, the Central Committee and the alternate Central Committee with one vote, who would drive who was not certain!
At this scene, Li Xiaofeng was not the only one who was secretly anxious, Kaplan who was standing in the direction of the gate was much more anxious than a certain immortal. As an Assassin, she had been waiting for this day for a long time, determined to kill Lenin from the moment the October Revolution stormed the Winter Palace and when the Provisional Government of the Socialist-Revolutionaries was overthrown.
As a die-hard supporter of the Social Revolutionaries, at the age of 16, she personally organized, planned and carried out the assassination of the Kiev administrator of Tsarist Russia. Although she failed that operation and was sentenced to hard labor for life. However, Kaplan did not feel that it was a blow, and even felt that it was a great blessing, and in prison, she met an important person who made her impression - Maria. Spiridonova.
Familiar, isn't it? That's right, it's the famous female revolutionary of the left of the Social Revolutionary, this Spiritodonova is actually strange enough, as the left of the Social Revolutionary, she brought out a hardcore extreme right - Kaplan. It was the three bullets fired at Lenin by this woman that changed the history of Russia and the history of the Bolsheviks.
Five years later, at the age of 54, he died, and his death led directly to the fierce struggle within the Bolsheviks, which led to the Bolsheviks going further and further down an extreme road, until the end of the pole. Of course, Kaplan herself paid a heavy price for this, and at the age of 28, she was shot in the Kremlin and was crushed to ashes.
Kaplan squinted her eyes and searched the crowd for Lenin's figure as much as she could, the greatest pain caused to her in her early years of hard labor was the destruction of her vision, and she was already highly myopic at a young age, which caused great distress to her assassination attempt.
Yes, Kaplan could barely distinguish Lenin from the crowd, and she could not see anything in a blur, but she did not dare to gamble on luck, there was only one chance, and if she could not accurately shoot a bullet into Lenin's chest, then everything would be in vain.
Kaplan told herself that she had to calm down, and she knew that according to Lenin's habit, he would leave alone in the car, and that the moment he got into the car, that would be the best chance to do it. Kaplan slowly adjusted her breathing, trying to make herself look as normal as she could, she must not be caught before she could do it.
The crowd slowly moved in the direction of the car. Kaplan began to slowly move in the same direction. As a highly myopic person. She had to stand close enough to aim at Lenin.
The scene was almost suffocating, at least outside the Smolny Palace, Novikov was so nervous that he held his breath, his palms were all sweaty, his heart beat slowly with the crowd and Kaplan's footsteps, and every step that the two sides took was so nervous that he was afraid of the next second. Kaplan was found or stopped.
However, his worries seemed to be unnecessary, and Lenin's party, who were enveloped by the pleasant atmosphere, were completely oblivious to the imminent threat, and they discussed political issues and the future of the revolution cheerfully, and the atmosphere was warm and full of hope for the future.
Only Li Xiaofeng is still half-hearted, or irritable, he has already used his brains, but he can't think of an excuse to get into the tutor's car. As the distance got closer, he inevitably became more and more irritable.
What to do?
Li Xiaofeng raised his head and glanced at the car. In a few seconds, the tutor will get in the car and leave, or why don't you go directly to the tutor's residence? This method is not impossible, but Li Xiaofeng doesn't like to do this, he wants to indirectly remind the tutor not to forget his own merits, so that he has no skin and no face to ask the tutor for official benefits, he feels ashamed.
Lenin stood in front of the car, shook hands with the comrades around him and said goodbye, and the next second, he might open the car door and get into the car, at this time Li Xiaofeng couldn't help it, he shouted: "Comrade Lenin ......"
Lenin naturally turned around, he had been paying attention to someone for a long time, because he could see that someone had been holding back his words, but someone had never spoken, and naturally he would not take the initiative to ask. There's no way, a certain immortal wants face, and Lenin, the great teacher, has even more face, right?
In the event that someone asked for an official or made some difficult demand, would Lenin agree or not? As mentioned earlier, Lenin also had a great headache about how to deal with someone's merits, and rewarding someone for meritorious deeds is too shallow and too young, but it is somewhat unreasonable to reward merit. Therefore, for the time being, Lenin could only pretend to be stupid, and simply pretended not to know what to do. However, he also made a decision in his heart, and it was a big deal to compensate someone a little from the outside, or simply, if someone made something that was not too excessive, he would agree with the water.
Therefore, at this time, when Li Xiaofeng spoke out, Lenin subconsciously thought that someone was ready to make a request, although this occasion was not very appropriate, but Lenin also felt that more people were beneficial, and on this occasion you kid was unlikely to make too much demand, and if you were not interested and made too much demand, I would also refuse.
Some comrades may want to say that Lenin is thinking in the wrong direction! If someone makes excessive demands, it is better to refuse them in private, and then to do the work of persuasion, right? In general, this is true. But someone's situation is special!
Lenin felt that he was at a loss, and when there were no outsiders, if someone made excessive demands on him, he really couldn't refuse directly. It's different in public, there are many excuses to find!
He could push the boat down the river and say: "The occasion for your kid to make a request is not right, in front of the comrades, if I just agree to you, then what will the other comrades think?" You have to pay attention to whether the impact is or not. So at that time, I could only refuse your request, otherwise you started this head, and the big guys made public demands, how should I deal with it? In this way, this time you learn a lesson, and if you have any requests in the future, you will communicate in private first, and I will not be able to agree to your request this time. Priority for you next time! ”
Lenin's strategy was right, but what he didn't expect at all was that Li Xiaofeng didn't make a request, only heard him call out to his mentor, and there was a slight pause in the middle, but the words immediately became: "Be careful!" Comrade Lenin! ”
Before Lenin could react, Li Xiaofeng pounced like a roc spreading his wings, and then three crisp gunshots sounded in his ears - bang, bang!
The three gunshots were like throwing a large stone into a calm lake, and after a short silence, the crowd exclaimed:
"There are assassins!"
"Guards!"
"Protect Comrade Lenin!"
It should be said that this babbling sound came a little late, purely as an afterthought, just like the situation in history when Kaplan assassinated Lenin, there was chaos, the scene was chaotic, and it was not until the murderer swaggered out of the Smolny Palace that he thought of arresting the assassin.
It should be said that Kaplan in history probably had no intention of running away at all, and if she really wanted to run, she would have escaped a long time ago. Historically, she had a sense of martyrdom, when she walked out of the gate of the Mikelsson factory, leaned against a tree on Serpukhov Street outside the factory, and watched unusually calmly as angry workers and sailors poured towards her, and even at this time she leisurely tidied up her high heels, and then took out a cigarette from the bag she carried with her and lit one.
However, this was the case in history, and now, the situation is completely different, there are no gates and guards at the Michaelsund factory, but there are Smolny Palace, and when they hear the gunshots, the special guards immediately surround them, and if nothing else, Kaplan will be taken on the spot.
At this time, Novikov and Semenov, who were ambushed outside the Smolny Palace to meet Kaplan, played a role, almost at the moment when Kaplan's gunfire rang out, one of them started the car, and the other drew his gun and shot at the gate, and the scene suddenly became even more chaotic...... (To be continued......)
PS: Bow and thank you for the second kill Comrade Potato!