314 Retreat as advance
Lenin's words really inspired Li Xiaofeng, and immediately opened up the idea of this product. Come on,.! The goods said to Lenin with great interest: "Comrade Lenin, I have a way!" ”
Lenin didn't actually come back to someone with the intention of getting any good solution from him, he just thought that someone who was young and more active in mind might give him a little inspiration to think of a solution to the problem at hand. He really didn't expect that his casual words would inspire someone and make someone pause.
"Tell me, what did you think of?" Lenin asked casually.
Lenin's casualness hurt Li Xiaofeng very much, and this guy felt that the mentor just didn't trust him, didn't believe that he could come up with a solution to the problem, and suddenly this thing made another mistake.
He pursed his lips and said a basket of strange things: "Comrade Lenin, you don't seem to trust me!" Do you think I'm too young to be hairless? Or do you feel that I have too little experience to contribute to the party and the revolution? To be honest, it hurt me a lot, I didn't expect me to be such an image in your mind......"
Lenin is even more speechless than someone, what are you talking about, you talk to your superiors like this, just imagine, you talk to me like this, so you can't turn the sky down when you treat other comrades?
"Don't flick with me!" Lenin angrily taught a lesson, "If you have something to say, just say it, if you don't want to say it, just keep your mouth shut honestly!" ”
Li Xiaofeng's goods were actually cute just now, and seeing that the tutor was really moving, he quickly put away his face and said with a smile: "Comrade Lenin." I just think the atmosphere is too oppressive, so I can relieve your tension a little! ”
Lenin gave him a blank look, "Are you justified in saying that?" Don't talk to me poorly, hurry up and talk about your way, I don't have time to accompany you to tease the boring son! ”
Well, this scene really surprised the onlookers, Sverdlov, and he knew too well the temper of the mentor. On the surface, he is amiable, but in fact he is also a violent temper, when he is in a bad mood. Who would dare to make such a low-level joke? If you don't get it right, it's a complete tragedy!
But what he saw just now, someone was selling cuteness and molesting the tutor when the tutor was in a very bad mood, but it turned out to be nothing. What does this mean? The Holy Grace is thick!
Lenin's affection for Li Xiaofeng made Sverdlov envious. That's right, although he is the mentor's No. 1 henchman, but let him be cute in front of the tutor like someone, hum, maybe he will be severely criticized. This fully shows that someone is not only a confidant of the mentor, but also a close person of the mentor!
To be honest, Sverdlov wanted this closeness too, but he couldn't just talk like someone else, and most importantly, he was in his thirties. If you are coquettish and cute like someone in seventeen or eighteen, you will really be struck by lightning. Even if Lei Gong doesn't split him, the mentor will feel disgusted, and if he doesn't get it right, he will think that he is too unstable.
Sverdlov didn't want to bear this assessment, so he could only look at someone who was shamefully cute. I feel envious, jealous, and hateful.
Li Xiaofeng didn't know what to do, just because of his unintentional actions, he was a little jealous of Sverdlov, if this guy knew the way, I am afraid he would feel proud again. Fortunately, he had to be busy answering the questions of the mentor. Didn't pay attention to Sverdlov's mood changes.
"That's right!" The guy said unashamedly, "I just thought, didn't the Soviets only allow patriotic demonstrations, and not allow us to oppose the Provisional Government?" Since they want to flaunt patriotism, let's make them happy! ”
Lenin didn't want to take a sip in the face of this thing, it doesn't matter if you kid is stupid, but don't talk crazy! It's not that you don't know that the so-called patriotism of the grandsons of the Soviets is nationalism, but we have been fighting against nationalism all along, and you kid actually asked me to change my flag to cater to them, I want to whip you!
"Listen to me! I didn't mean that! Li Xiaofeng hurriedly explained, "What kind of behavior does I mean is patriotic, not what the Soviets say?" ”
Lenin raised his eyebrows, "To put it bluntly, what crooked ideas do you have in mind?" ”
Li Xiaofeng replied with a hippie smile: "It's not a crooked idea, it's a good way to be too good to be good!" The February Revolution, when the masses of the people poured into the streets to oppose the tyranny of the Tsar, overthrew this reactionary regime and allowed the Soviets, who represented the will of the people, to play a more important role in politics. This feat is a patriotic act, right? ”
Lenin's brow furrowed, he didn't understand what someone was trying to say, but Sverdlov, who was on the side, reacted and reminded: "Comrade Lenin, this is indeed a good idea!" If we had staged demonstrations in the name of commemorating the February Revolution, the Soviets would not have dared to say anything! ”
Lenin suddenly woke up to the fact that without the February Revolution there would be no Soviets today, and that the bastards of the Soviets would not dare to deny the significance of the February Revolution no matter how right-leaning and reactionary they were, otherwise these bastards would have been driven out of the Tavrichher Palace by the enraged Petrograd populace and left to roll them up.
Lenin glanced at Li Xiaofeng with great pleasure, and was sincerely pleased that someone could come up with this ghost idea so quickly, ahem, no, good idea. praised someone: "You kid is a ghost!" ”
But immediately he ordered Sverdlov: "Comrade Yakov, you immediately go and inform the Soviets and tell them that tomorrow we, the Bolsheviks, will mobilize the masses to Marsovov Square to lay wreaths for the martyrs of the February Revolution!" ”
Sverdlov was stunned for a moment, and then said to his mentor with great admiration: "Comrade Lenin, you are really ......"
Lenin waved his hand absently and said with a smile: "Don't talk about this, hurry up and do something, the comrades are waiting!" ”
Sverdlov left in high spirits, looking at Xiao Si's back, and the mentor who had changed his irritability just now and became gentle and wise again, Li Xiaofeng couldn't help but sigh, the mentor is really an old fox, no. Old rivers and lakes. Looking at the excuse he just made, he was more than a head above Sverdlov.
It's not that you can't make the Soviets give in according to Sverdlov's intentions, but the problem is that the target is too strong, but the excuse made by the mentor is much more clever, Lao Tzu will mobilize the masses tomorrow to give flowers to the martyrs of the February Revolution, and Nima's Soviets will refuse to see if they have a kind! As long as you dare to refuse, Lao Tzu will immediately broadcast the news on the radio. Yin doesn't kill you, hum!
Sure enough, when Sverdlov returned. The smile on his face had made it clear that the Mentor's method had worked, and the Soviets, though very unhappy, had to back down. Can only agree.
In the early morning of 18 June, about half a million people in Petrograd took to the streets at the call of the Bolsheviks to participate in demonstrations. One by one, the procession marched in orderly steps towards Marsovov Square and towards the mausoleum of the martyrs of the February Revolution.
Contrary to what the Mensheviks and the Socialist-Revolutionaries had hoped, and although yesterday they had done a great deal of work to try to bring the masses into their orbit, the vast majority of the people who took part in the march had slogans and banners in their hands that read:
"Down with the war!"
"Down with ten capitalist ministers!"
"All power to the Soviets!"
In the whole huge procession, only the Cossacks, the Bundists and Plekhanov's Unification newspaper raised the slogan of trust in the government. The workers on the scene sarcastically called these three factions "the Trinity of the Holy Spirit".
Amid the shouting and killing, the working masses forced the Bundists of the Holy Trinity and the Unification Daily to put away their banners. As for the Cossacks. They were stronger than the Mensheviks and the Socialist-Revolutionaries, and were unheard of by the masses for them to put down their banners, which eventually led the enraged masses to tear their banners to shreds. And on the Garden Street, Rocheko, a fat man who had paid for his Cadets, was beaten up by the enraged workers and soldiers.
It can be said that the parade on this day became a great review of the strength of the revolution. It greatly enhanced the status of the Bolsheviks in the minds of the people of the whole country. After the march, Lenin happily wrote in his diary: "The demonstrations blew away in a few hours like a puff of dust to disperse the statements of the Bolsheviks as conspirators, and made it abundantly clear that the vanguard of the Russian working masses, the industrial proletariat and the army of the capital, were overwhelmingly committed to the line which our Party had always advocated." ”
The march of 18 June showed the strong dissatisfaction of the masses with the bourgeoisie. It shows the collapse of the Mensheviks and the social revolution when the compromise, capitulationist policy of the people, and the turn of many middle strata to the revolution. At that time, none of the major political groups, workers and troops openly raised the slogan of confidence in the Provisional Government.
Even the Mensheviks and Social Revolutionaries who participated in the Provisional Government did not dare to openly speak in support of the Provisional Government. It is almost clear that the coalition government, which has only been in power for a month, is already in shambles, and that with one more straw that breaks the camel's back, they will be finished.
Soon this straw came, and on the day of the demonstration, the provisional government launched a full-scale counteroffensive on the front line on time, as Li Xiaofeng predicted. That evening, in a special supplement to Pravda, Lenin unceremoniously ridiculed in his commentary "Revolution, Attack and Our Party": "The Russian Government, represented by the 'socialist' ministers, has done what the imperialist ministers Guchkov and Milyukov could not have done in the first place, and it has placed the armies of all countries under the command of such commanders and diplomats, who, on the basis of secret treaties that have not yet been abolished, against the demands of the broad masses of the Russian people, for the sake of Libau and Lloyd. George acted for a publicly declared purpose......"
The socialist ministers hated Lenin's sarcasm in the newspapers, but under the pressure of the powerful masses they did not dare to do anything against Lenin and the Bolsheviks. They can only put all their hopes on this gamble-like counteroffensive, hoping that the front line will win a big battle so that they can turn around.
In order to boost the low morale of the officers and soldiers on the front line, they shouted all kinds of beautiful slogans, such as "Keep fighting!" Keep fighting! Fight until we put the cross on the dome of the Cathedral of Sophia in Constantinople! ”
The problem is that the soldiers on the front line are already physically and mentally exhausted, and they are completely tired of this war with no hope. As long as they can get them out of those damp and muddy trenches, they are willing to pay any price!
In response to the morale-boosting slogans shouted by the Provisional Government, they concocted ironic ballads: "That's right...... However, we have not yet erected the cross on the dome of Hagia Sophia, and thousands of crosses have been erected on our graves...... Let's not go to Constantinople! We just need to go home! We don't want people to take away our land, but we don't want to take away their land either! ”
With this mentality, how can it be possible to fight a good battle. Not to mention the fact that the Russian gray cattle were no match for the German devils in the first place, and the hastily organized counteroffensive suffered a major setback from the very beginning. Within ten days. The Russian assault forces involved in the counteroffensive paid the price of 60,000 casualties. Not to mention the recovery of the country, but because of the rout, a large area of land was lost.
The defeat completely infuriated the workers and soldiers of Petrograd, and a new round of anti-government demonstrations broke out. Under strong political pressure, on 2 July, the bourgeois ministers headed by Duke Levov had to resign, and the responsibility for forming a new cabinet fell to Kerensky.
"Why do we want to resign!"
Li Wufu really didn't want to resign, he had only been prime minister for less than three months, and before he had enough fun, he was suddenly forced to lay off, and he really couldn't accept it. As a result, the duke, who had always been mild-mannered, began to angrily question Luo Jiangke, the initiator of the resignation.
Lvov waved his fist and shouted: "We don't need to resign at all!" The Soviets are now on our side, and there is absolutely no need to scruple about the damned mob! We can use the army to wipe them out completely! ”
Luo Jiangke glanced at him and said contemptuously: "What do you know? The army was also used. Don't you see that the most opposed to us today are the army, and we hope to rely on them to put down the rebellion? That's suicide! ”
Li Wufu was still not convinced: "Then we don't need to resign!" ”
Luo Jiangke shook his head and said, "You still don't understand, there is no benefit for us to stay in that position now, it is better to retreat as advance!" ”
Retreat? Li Wufu couldn't think of how he could retreat at this juncture. "Your Excellency, we have no way to retreat now, are you going to compromise with those damned mobs and rebels?"
"Why should we compromise with them?" Luo Jiangke snorted contemptuously, "Man, haven't you noticed that we are now the target of public criticism. Someone needs to be held accountable for the new fiasco, and as long as we remain in that position, the mob and the rebels will bite us to the death, and then all our energy and freedom of action will be restricted to death. And now it's different, we pat our butts and get out easily, all the pressure is on Korensky and Tseretiri and on the side of the Soviets! ”
As soon as he woke up the dreamer, Vov immediately understood the intention of Luo Jiangke, this fat man was so vicious that he stabbed a big basket himself, and turned around and threw the black cauldron to Kerensky, Tseretieli and the Soviets. I believe that the mob and the rebels will greet them well. And they, because they retreated and hid out of the public eye, I am afraid that whether it is a mob or a chaotic party, they will not have any interest in those of them who have stepped down, and they can do whatever they want at that time, hehe......
If Lenin had listened to Rodencko's words here, he would probably have been able to decipher more information, and Rodencko's advance as retreat would not only have this little benefit, but what would it be to avoid the public eye and gain such a little freedom? What made the fat man most proud was to put pressure on the Mensheviks and the Socialist-Revolutionaries by using enormous political pressure to force them to convert further until they had completely switched to the side of the bourgeoisie.
Of course, such an ingenious and covert trick is definitely not something that Luo Jiangke can think of, it is Shu Lijin who really planned all this and acted as a dog-headed military advisor. On June 18, he was nervously following the changes in the situation, and when the news of the rout on the front reached Petrograd, he took the case!
"Great, God help me!"
Sitting below him, No. 2, No. 3, and No. 4 didn't know what to be happy about in this kind of bad news, and they asked blankly, "Why are you happy?" ”
In the eyes of these people, the front line has been defeated and the country has been further degraded, no matter how you look at it, this is all bad news, and it is okay not to wash your face with tears and drink to eliminate your sorrows, but you are still happy? Nima, this is the wrong medicine!
"You idiots, you don't have any political acumen at all!" Shu Lijin pointed at their noses very unceremoniously and scolded, "Are your brains full of paste, so that you can't see that the defeat at the front will lead to the union of the Soviets and Rodenko?" If you think about it, if they were united, they would have dealt with Lenin first, but they had no guns in their hands and no guns in their hands, and they were no match for the Bolsheviks at all. ”
The mystery was revealed, although the political wisdom of these people was not enough, but their brains were not exactly ornaments, and after Shu Lijin's prompting, they all thought of the same name in their minds - Kornilov!
It can be predicted that under the current situation, Luo Jiangke and the Soviets definitely want to use the strength of this soldier master, and they probably can't imagine that this soldier master has been rebelled by their black hundred-man regiment!
"This is the perfect opportunity!" Shu Lijin quickly ordered, "No. 2, you must let Luo Fatzi make up his mind, and you must let him follow our rhythm!" Three, four, you immediately start cleaning up the other forces in Petrograd, I don't want any more to come out and stir things up......"
"What about you? You're not going to meet Kornilov again? Number Two asked weakly.
Shu Lijin took a deep breath and said very confidently: "Don't worry, I want to meet another person before this......" ......)
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