Moscow, the Kremlin, Lenin's office.

Since she became Lenin's secretary, Fozieva rarely saw her mentor stop to rest. Most of the time, the tutor is either in a meeting or writing an essay, and every day the schedule is full, and even the toilet has to be trotted all the way.

This kind of boring life was certainly not to Lenin's liking, and he had always stressed that he would not work if he did not rest, and if he had a choice, he might go to a ballet, listen to a symphony, or even taste a glass of wine.

But since he became chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, Lenin had almost no time for himself, and every day was arranged to work, eat, and sleep, just like a machine.

The most he says every day is:

"Comrade Fozieva, send a certain article to such and such a department or to such and such a comrade."

"Comrade Fozieva, call so-and-so, there is something to discuss!"

"Comrade Fozieva, we have to work overtime."

Even Fozieva had to admire Lenin's endurance, if it were her, she would have erupted a long time ago, because this day was not at all human.

"Comrade Fozieva, please call Comrade Yakov and Comrade Jan."

Just when Fozieva was full of emotion, the tutor gave another order, and the female secretary sighed in her heart, and quickly grabbed the receiver and called Sverdlov and Ruzutak's secretaries, she must pray for God's blessing, and hope that these two busy people who are as busy as Lenin are still in the office, otherwise, things will be in trouble.

Good luck today. Both Sverdlov and Ruzutak are there. This saved Fozieva a lot of effort. But she could hear it. The two secretaries were a little dissatisfied with Lenin's sudden request. The reason is also very simple, the schedules of those two are also quite tight, and every second counts, and the tutor called people away, which will inevitably affect the schedule later, and this is the most headache for the secretaries.

Fozieva was a little glad that she was Lenin's secretary, and there weren't too many people and things that could make her mentor change her schedule. It saved her a lot of trouble. Of course, it is not absolutely impossible to change the schedule of the mentor, and there are several names on Fozieva's "blacklist" that she "hates".

In first place was naturally Trotsky, and as the leader of the Trotskyists, Lenin was bound to sell a lot of face. On more than one occasion, Trotsky disrupted Lenin's schedule and made Fozieva a wolf.

In second place were neither Sverdlov nor Stalin, the two leading Leninists who, despite their high status, were also comrades who were particularly good at handling practical work. Most of the affairs fell into their hands, and basically three times five divided by two were taken care of. There were not many times when Lenin needed to be consulted, and Lenin was needed to change his schedule. Even if there is, I am afraid that it will be quite tricky, quite serious, and suddenly major events at home or abroad.

But that's the kind of thing. Not much in general, and naturally they did not bother Lenin. In second place is Andrey. Petrovich. This young alternate member of the Central Committee is Fozieva's biggest headache.

This Comrade Andrei is too good at causing trouble and causing trouble, and he can break through the sky every time, and if he plays any tricks there, it means that Lenin's side will urgently convene an internal meeting of the Leninists or directly convene an emergency meeting of the Politburo. And both of these meetings are undoubtedly the ultimate killers that disrupt the leader's agenda.

Because these two kinds of meetings require long discussions or arguments, basically once they are held, the agenda will be changed throughout the day or in the next few days. Anyway, Fozieva was made to work overtime more than once by the troublesome Comrade Andrei.

It was not only Fozieva who had a headache for Comrade Andrei, but in fact the secretaries of all members of the Politburo loved and hated Comrade Andrei. The reason for the hatred has already been said, this is the leader's schedule killer, and the reason for love is also very simple, Comrade Andrei is really a generous person, every time he comes back, he sends things to the leader and the people around the leader under the pretext of condolences.

It may be a foreign specialty, or it may be a commodity that is in short supply at home, for example, Fozieva has more than once received from Comrade Andrei exquisite clothes, expensive perfumes, foreign delicacies and cosmetics that are indispensable for women.

Anyway, even Trotsky's secretary had to admit that although this Comrade Andrei was very fond of causing trouble and trouble, he was really good at being a man, and you could not hate it after being harassed by him.

The same is true of Fozieva, although sometimes he gritted his teeth at Comrade Andrei, but he always managed to defuse this qiē. For example, last time, Fozieva's cousin was beaten as a capitalist for doing some petty business and was almost shot, and it was Comrade Andrei who helped solve the problem.

All in all, the impression that this Comrade Andrei left on Fozieva was complicated, sometimes very arrogant and domineering, making a fuss about a little thing, making a storm all over the city; But sometimes it will be quite considerate, like a spring breeze and spring rain to moisten you.

Putting down the earpiece, Fozieva held her cheeks and couldn't help but wonder, could it be that Comrade Andrei was in trouble again? Otherwise, why did Comrade Lenin call Sverdlov and Ruzutak in a hurry?

Fozieva wondered what had happened to a certain immortal, and she remembered that the German Leica camera was good, so maybe she could get it this time......

Fozieva really guessed wrong this time, it was not a certain immortal who caused trouble, in fact, he not only did not cause trouble, but was also praised by Lenin.

"Comrade Andrei did a very good job in East Prussia, using the means of luring the enemy deep and paralyzing Pilsudski, annihilating more than half of Pilsudski's army in one fell swoop. Breaking the claws of the Poles in Belarus and Ukraine with a crisp victory, greatly relieving the pressure on the Red Army in these two directions, and making a great contribution to the full restoration of peace between Belarus and Ukraine! What a great achievement! ”

This was not a low assessment, but both Sverdlov and Ruzutak knew that Lenin's point was not to praise a certain immortal, but only to praise that the guy did not need to rush into arresting them for a meeting. It is likely that this is just a rhetorical introduction. What Lenin really wanted to say may be at the back.

Really. Lenin paused slightly. Then he said angrily: "Compared with Comrade Andrei's great achievements, Comrade Joseph did a mess in Tsaritsyn, and completely betrayed my trust in him!" ”

Sverdlov and Ruzutak looked at each other, they knew why the mentor was mad, and why he was in a hurry to find them for a meeting, and the root of their feelings was with Stalin.

So what happened to Tsaritsyn that made Lenin so angry? Is it the disadvantage of the battle to lose Tsaritsyn?

No, after that big quarrel in early May. According to the new battle form, the Red Army of the whole country was redivided. Brusilov's Ural Front was reorganized into the Eastern Front, with two armies, Tukhachevsky's 15th Army and Blyukhel's 3rd Army.

The Southwestern Front, which was originally commanded by Frunze, was replaced by Yegorov, but the strength of this front was somewhat watered, and in fact there were still only the original Don-Volga Army and the First Cavalry Army.

Frunze was reappointed commander of the Western Front, and his main task was to clear out the bandit armies of Ukraine and Belarus and help the Ukrainian and Belarusian Bolsheviks establish Soviet power.

It should be said that such a division of labor is quite reasonable, and it also fully reflects the contrast of strength within the party. The Trotskyists had a front. And the Leninists had two fronts. Of course, in terms of the specific comparison of forces. The Leninists did not have a two-to-one advantage. After all, the Eastern Front had to face Kolchak, which was the strongest, followed by the Southwestern Front facing Denikin. And Frunze's Western Front Army was almost completely withdrawn, and it can be said that there was only one empty shelf of the Front Army.

It can be said that in terms of the comparison of military forces, the Trotskyists and Leninists are close to half a pound and eight taels, and the Leninists may have a slight advantage, but this advantage is not great.

According to the resolution of the emergency meeting of the Central Committee in early May, Stalin should annihilate Denikin as much as possible, and then support the revolutionary struggle in Germany and Hungary. At that time, Stalin also vowed that he would be able to solve Denikin by the end of May or early June.

And now that it is late May, the battle of Tsaritsyn is still unscathed, and the city is like a flesh millstone, constantly grinding the Red Army and the White Army into flesh. The battle for the city had been going on for nearly two months, and there had been nothing worth mentioning except for the death of tens of thousands of warriors.

Of course, Lenin was not angry because of Stalin's procrastination, because the time promised by Stalin had not yet expired, and Denikin was also a little more difficult to deal with than Kolchak, and the anxiety on the battlefield was understandable.

What really made Lenin angry was what happened outside the battlefield. There were three of them, the first of which was the food problem, which had been brewing in 1917 and 1918 and broke out in May 1919, and for two years in a row the food production was greatly damaged by the war. During this lushy month, it is extremely common for people to die of hunger or hunger.

Especially in Petrograd and the surrounding areas of Moscow, where the daily rations of the workers were simply insufficient to meet the needs of physical labor, resentment was constantly rising, and anti-Bolshevik riots broke out in both huge revolutionary centers, provoked by Entente spies and the Socialist-Revolutionaries and Mensheviks.

Although the insurrection was quickly quelled, its pernicious effects made Lenin furious. He once again stressed in various rallies and speeches that the food problem is the top priority at present, and it is necessary to obtain food at any cost!

The mentor said that he was going to get food, so the big guy hurriedly rolled up his sleeves and began to grab the ...... Let's get started! The surplus grain collection system has been comprehensively and thoroughly promoted, and even great elders like Dzerzhinsky have personally gone down to the front line to supervise the grain collection operation.

Stalin was no exception, and the area he controlled was the main granary of Russia. It can be said that the whole country is looking at Comrade Iron and Steel with a blank eye, and they all hope that Comrade Iron and Steel will get food as soon as possible.

Of course, Stalin did not dare to be careless in this regard, and personally supervised the great cause of grabbing grain. All the political commissars were mobilized and went down to the townships and villages to scrape the ground for food. It should be said that Stalin's work achievements were quite outstanding, and he grabbed a considerable amount of food. It stands to reason that this should be praised, but then Comrade Steel did something stupid.

Looted food. The big head he gave to the center. Shipped to Petrograd and Moscow. And the rest of the small heads, most of which he left to his own troops, only sent a few to the Eastern Front.

Needless to say, this is Comrade Steel's mountain-minded sentiments, and he did it on purpose, to disgust Trotsky. But to be honest, this behavior is more like a child's anger, unnecessary and quite childish.

In April and May, the Urals were still not warm. Tukhachevsky and Blyukher's troops fought to the death against Kolchak's bandits on an extremely wide front. This kind of battle was originally a great test for logistics, and the Red Army soldiers on the front line were originally hungry and full, but Stalin was good and deliberately harsh and delayed, and naturally the Eastern Front army was quite resentful.

Was Trotsky a good match? Immediately receiving this anger, he sent a telegram to Stalin, the wording of which was quite fierce, and to be more specific, similar to scolding the street. Moreover, Lao Tuo also cleverly buckled the basin on Lenin's head, accusing Lenin, the chairman of the People's Commissariat Committee, of ineffective handling and leading the front-line fighters to starve.

Okay! Lenin had a baffling back on this black pot, although he did not deal with Trotsky. But not to be stupid enough to make a mistake on such a major issue of right and wrong. In the face of the overall situation, the tutor is still very restrained.

Wait until Lenin figured out what was going on. Tell me, what would you think of Stalin? What's even more infuriating is that before he could scold that guy, this thing has caused a second disaster!

What calamity? The national question! It stands to reason that Stalin was the People's Commissar for National Affairs, and in this respect he should have known what Lenin's attitude was, and he should not have made a mistake on this issue.

But the funny thing is that Steel has broken the law on this issue. In the valley of the Don and Volga rivers, a large number of Jews lived, and at the same time a large number of Cossacks. As mentioned earlier, in this civil war, the Cossack cavalry played a heavy role. Both in the Red Army and in the White Army, there were a large number of Cossacks. For example, the 1st Cavalry Corps under Budyonny and Voroshilov had the most important assault force being the Cossacks.

But the bad thing is that the Cossacks did not deal with the Jews, and the two sides had a feud, and it was the Cossacks who had the most fierce means of excluding the Jews in Russia. For Budyonny and Voroshilov, the Cossacks were an important military force and were definitely biased in favor of them. But such an eccentricity led to a disaster.

The Cossacks, with the acquiescence of Budyonny and Voroshilov, raised their butcher's knives against the Jews, and it was a real pleasure to kill the Jews while beating the white dogs! What is even more terrifying is that these two, who have not yet realized the severity of the problem, so brazenly allowed the Cossacks to carry out the massacre openly, without any measures to cover it up.

Naturally, paper could not contain the fire, and the news of the Red Army's massacre of the Jews immediately spread throughout the world, and almost all Jewish communities knew about the great achievements of those two. Of course, Weizmann contributed quite a lot during this period, and he was so angry last time in Königsberg that he couldn't take revenge!

This was a big stab, a certain immortal was engaged in extensive and deep cooperation with the Jews, and the two pig teammates, Budyonny and Voroshilov, caused him great trouble, and almost made his previous efforts go to ashes.

With Li Xiaofeng's temper, can he give those two goods a good face to steel? Without saying a word, they directly cut off the channels for smuggling grain in protest. If you think about it, there was already a food shortage in the country, and the entire Bolsheviks were scraping the ground for grain, and they couldn't wait to let go of the chaff. Although the smuggled grain can't solve the big problem, it's better than nothing, right?

Anyway, Lenin was so angry that he flipped the table, and if Stalin had stood in front of him, he would have immediately given steel a taste of a hair dryer.

Of course, scolding can only relieve hatred, but cannot solve the fundamental problem. In fact, Lenin did not know how to solve this problem, and to give an explanation to the Jews, he would inevitably beat Stalin, Budyonny, Voroshilov and the Cossacks of the Red Army. The problem is that the battle of Tsaritsyn is at its most tense and anxious time, and at this time, if you deal with them at this time, if you don't get it right, something big will happen, and if the Cossacks turn against the water, guide zhì a series of chain reactions, and lead the battle of Tsaritsyn to fail, then how will it end?

But without an explanation to the Jews, there will be absolutely no food. And according to Li Xiaofeng, it is likely that the Jews of East Prussia will fall to the side of the Entente, and do not underestimate the restraining power of the Jews, without whom the situation in Belarus and Ukraine would have been even worse. As soon as they turn against the water, the entire weak Western front will be completely exposed, which will lead to an exponential increase in military pressure on the front line from Petrograd to Moscow!

Anyway, at that time, Lenin had the heart to strangle Budyonny and Voroshilov, not to mention the burnout. And just when Lenin was actively trying to find a way to solve these two major problems, the Southwestern Front had another accident!

Remember Mironov, who sympathized with Makhno? After recuperating and recovering his health, he served as the deputy commander of the First Cavalry Army. However, he really couldn't pee in the same pot with Budyonny and Voroshilov, and in just a month or two, there was constant friction between the two sides, and the relationship continued to deteriorate.

Especially after Stalin, who carried out the instructions of the Central Committee to scrape the land and grab grain in the Don and Volga valleys, Mironov's dissatisfaction with the Bolshevik policy was ignited, and neither Budyonny, Voroshilov, nor Stalin liked him and naturally did not extinguish the fire. So, a day ago, this Mironov simply raised the anti-flag and threw himself at the White Army!! (To be continued......)

PS: Bow and thank you to the Wind Drifting Shadow, the River Huagui, the Parasite Schistosomiasis, the Million Million, the Fool 009 and Comrade Juventus!