Curtains are obscured, clocks are swaying, and in a room in the Moscow Kremlin, Ulyanov, the shiny Bolshevik leader, is lying on a sickbed with his eyes closed. He was covered in a thick white bandage around his chest, and his edges were still stained with dark red blood; His pale face and the sheets clutched tightly in the palm of his hand revealed how much pain and injury his body was suffering.

On July 30, 1914, after Ulyanov gave a speech to the workers at the Mikhelson factory on the outskirts of Moscow about solidarity in times of hardship, a hand holding a Browning pistol reached out from the crowd less than three paces away. Caught off guard, Ulyanov was immediately shot twice, one of which hit him in the left chest and pierced his neck, and the severe wound immediately caused him to fall unconscious. Kaplan, the female gunman, was caught red-handed. Ironically, he was a member of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party and fought alongside the Bolsheviks in the 1905 Russian Revolution to overthrow the Tsar; However, it was precisely because the Bolsheviks had previously savagely torn up their promises to the Constituent Assembly that Kaplan felt that he had been greatly deceived; It was only under the mixture of anger and hatred that a just trial was carried out against the "revolutionary traitor" Ulyanov!

As a saboteur of the hostile class and a monstrous criminal who assassinated the leader, Kaplan was undoubtedly sentenced to execution by the Bolsheviks three days later, and executed immediately. Due to Kaplan's own myopia, neither of the two shots could have been fully targeted, and Ulyanov's injuries began to improve after a few days. However, this incident did not end at all.

With the intensification of the conflict in Russia, the situation of confrontation is increasing. Ulyanov has long wanted to use military and political means to pursue a hard-line strategy. the annihilation of a force that dared to make enemies of the Bolsheviks; This time he was assassinated. It undoubtedly provided him with an excellent opportunity to launch a campaign. As soon as he recovered from his wounds, Ulyanov gave his new order: to "carry out mass terror" in retaliation for his assassination and the revolt in the Bolshevik-controlled territories. The Suppression Committee (Cheka), led by Dzerzhinsky, sprang into action like a pack of vicious dogs; They possess a keen sense of smell and constant surveillance, and once they spot their prey, their sharp minions and ferocious nature allow them to take out their enemies without hesitation.

Within a few days, the Bolshevik-controlled territory was lined with gallows: more than 200 people were executed on the Moscow outskirts of Ulyanov alone, identified as "hostile counter-revolutionaries." Thousands more have been detained. In some areas where the Bolsheviks requisitioned grain, the Chekas went on a grand rupturing of kulaks, merchants, and landlords; At the same time as they were hanged in public, their names were made known to the people, and all their possessions and food were confiscated. The official Bolshevik newspaper published an article stating that "the counter-revolutionary Hydra was to be suppressed with mass terror - anyone who dared to spread the slightest rumor against Soviet rule would be immediately arrested and sent to concentration camps". The Cheka was given the order to execute the counter-revolutionary enemies without trial, which further shrouded Bolshevik Russia in a haze of terror.

"Tuk-tuk." There was a slight knock on the door, which was very clear in the silence of the room; Ulyanov, who was recuperating, frowned slightly, and then spat out a syllable inviting in. After a while, the sound of footsteps echoed in my ears; Ulyanov struggled to open his eyes, and saw that in the soft dim light filtered by the curtains, Trotsky and Kamenev had slowly walked to his bed.

"I'm so sorry. Comrade Ulyanov, we did not mean to disturb your rest. It's just that. Now there are indeed important things that you need to decide. Trotsky spoke softly, his eyes under a pair of lenses always with such a calm and deep expression, "just received a report that the demon monk Gregory disappeared in the February Revolution?" Rasputin, now it is in our hands. Former Romanov Prince Felix? Yusupov plotted to capture Rasputin and coerce the demon monks to come and surrender to us; His only demand was for us to return the property that belonged to the Yusupov family. ”

Hearing Trotsky's words, Ulyanov's body, which was still full of exhaustion, suddenly shook, and then his eyes were full of light. He struggled to sit up from the sickbed, and his words could not hide his surprise and excitement: "Great. This heinous scoundrel has been lost since the Revolution, and we all thought he had fled abroad; Unexpectedly, he was still in Russia and fell into the hands of the people! He committed unpardonable sins against Russia, and he committed most of the tyranny of the Tsar's reign; We must put him on a nationwide trial and then put him to death in order to show justice! In this way, the prestige and status of our Bolsheviks in the eyes of the people can be raised to a higher level, which is undoubtedly an extremely advantageous thing for the coming period of rebellion. ”

"And what about Yusupov's request, do we need to return to him the family property that we have not received?" Kamenev spoke softly, with a hint of flesh pain in his words, "Before the Tsar was overthrown, the Yusupov family was the richest power besides the Romanovs: there were seven palaces in St. Petersburg and Moscow alone, and hundreds of mines, factories, plantations, and businesses throughout the country, and even oil fields in the Caspian Sea, and countless treasures and antiques. Because of the family politics of the tsarist government, these top nobles had in their hands an astonishing wealth comparable to that of the state. If we comply, this will undoubtedly be a great disservice to the finances of the Soviet Government. ”

Ulyanov snorted coldly and said, "So I'm not ready to fulfill this naïve agreement against him either." He, Felix, was only a remnant of a former dynasty, so what qualifications did he have to negotiate terms with the Soviet government? What's more, all these properties of the Yusupov family were realized through the frenzied exploitation of the surplus value of the working people, and he was originally a shameless and greedy exploiter! On the basis of his exploits in the capture of Rasputin, the benevolent Soviet government will not hold him accountable for the sins it has committed before, as it has done with other class enemies; Give him 1,000 rubles as a settling-in fee, and let him and his family disappear immediately on Russian soil, otherwise he will bear all the consequences caused by this. ”

Kamenev respectfully accepted the order. He paused, and then said: "There is one more thing that you need to decide, Comrade Ulyanov. Just now, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China received a telegram from the Dutch government, saying that since the Queen of the Netherlands and the former Tsar Nicholas are related, they want us to extradite the Nicholas family to Amsterdam and hand them over to the Dutch government for protection. ”

Ulyanov's brow furrowed, and his eyes were full of bewilderment. For Russia, the Netherlands is a small country in Central Europe that has nothing to do with itself, and this time they actually asked the tsar to abdicate the throne, which is really abrupt and difficult to discern. However, thinking of the current chaotic situation, Ulyanov's eyes gradually became clearer, and he said: "I don't want to know what kind of marriage relationship exists between these imperialist bloods. I only know that the bloody Nikolai is the butcher of the Russian people, and he will be justly punished by the Soviet government. This is our country's basic internal affair, which brooks no interference by any force. ”

Trotsky nodded slightly: "What Comrade Ulyanov said is extremely true. As the foremost figure of reaction, the former Tsar Nicholas himself was a very sensitive figure: there are still many reactionaries in the country who are close to him, which makes it necessary for us to take their family into our hands. If Nikolai is able to leave the country with dignity, he will inevitably continue to exert his influence abroad and become an excellent banner for rallying those White Russian forces at home. Others don't say it, Denikin, who is now separating the North Caucasus, is a reactionary officer who is absolutely loyal to the Romanov royal family! Therefore, only by holding Nikolai in our hands can we suppress those White Russian forces to the greatest extent; Even his execution would not allow him to extradite him abroad if necessary. ”

Ulyanov's eyes flashed, and he said slowly: "It must be so." This must have been a ruse by the class enemies who harbored the Tsar and hated the Soviet power; They wanted to rescue Nikolai from our control by the hands of foreign imperialism, and then to allow him to continue to exert influence on the Russian government abroad, with the intention of overthrowing the nascent Soviet power! I will not allow these enemies to succeed. Previously, out of consideration for balancing the forces of all parties and peacefully reunifying the country, we did not make too many moves against the abdicated Nicholas butcher; Now that the reactionary forces have shown their vicious fangs, we no longer need to allow the former ruling class, headed by Nikolai, to continue to take advantage of the benevolence of the revolution to survive. ”

"Immediately arrest the pre-tsarist aristocrats, high-ranking government officials, and capital magnates that we charge. We will judge them for their crimes and eradicate these bloodsuckers once and for all. The trial of Rasputin and the Tsarist couple took precedence, and their execution could not exceed a week at the latest, lest any unexpected events occur. Ulyanov pondered for a moment, then spoke again.

"And what about the children of the Tsar? They were all children who had not yet reached adulthood. Kamenev said with some embarrassment. Ulyanov slowly lay back on the couch and said, "Comrade Kamenev, do you want those evil seeds to grow up and then come to seek revenge on us?" Executing the Tsar and his wife at the same time as they are executed, we cannot leave any fault for ourselves. (To be continued......)

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