After resolving some thorny issues, the negotiations between Li Xiaofeng and Akimovich went very smoothly, and the two sides basically reached an agreement before dawn.

"Mr. Andrey, I have to admit that it is not an easy task to negotiate with you!" Akimovich said slowly before leaving, "For the sake of your face, we will agree to these harsh conditions, I hope you can clearly understand this!" ”

Li Xiaofeng shrugged his shoulders noncommittally, he knew very well why Akimovich would suddenly say such a thing, it was just to ask him to sell favors. Although in fact, it is indeed because of the existence of this immortal that the Germans made a certain degree of concession, which seems to give him the face of this immortal.

However, Li Xiaofeng is not a three-year-old child, and there has never been any favor in politics, that is, a pure exchange of interests. It is true that the Germans made concessions, but they were based on the degree of great destructive power of Russia, or rather his immortal. In a practical sense, the Germans were just avoiding risks and avoiding losses.

In other words, there is no human element in this, everyone is trying to ensure their own interests, and it is naïve for the other party to want to make him feel that he owes Germany something on such ridiculous grounds.

So Li Xiaofeng just replied lightly: "If you are not satisfied with this agreement, you can regret it now, I don't care!" ”

Hearing someone say this, Akimovich only sighed, yes, just now he was doing his best efforts, trying to get a little more benefit for his country. If you can get someone strong to make a commitment. That's definitely great news.

Pity. Someone is more sophisticated than he thinks. Even Akimovich secretly guessed that someone's real age was probably not as tender as he seemed on the surface. Pretending to be a tender old monster god horse, it's really annoying.

Akimovich complained and left, of course, it doesn't mean that the agreement was reached, things are not so simple, after all, neither a certain immortal nor Akimovich can represent the officials of the two countries, this agreement is more like an initialed intention. The next two sides need to discuss the details of this intention.

For example, how to conduct the referendum and how to supervise it. and the specific payment methods of war reparations. These need to be clarified one by one. Of course, it is also a good thing that the general direction has been set, but what makes a certain immortal a headache is that although the Germans know how influential he is, the Bolsheviks do not know it!

Naturally, he could also leave the job to Trotsky, and the two sides were negotiating, as long as the Germans tried to move slowly closer to the draft. However, Li Xiaofeng really doesn't have a good impression of Lao Tuo, and this product is unlikely to accept this agreement now. He, like Bukharin, still fantasizes about how to end the war without ceding land and paying reparations!

And. Even if this product can wake up in time and be ready to agree to this agreement in full. Li Xiaofeng doesn't want to give him this opportunity yet! Why? He did not want Trotsky to take the credit for nothing, knowing that in history this product had made a great mistake in negotiations.

In January, after the negotiations were personally presided over by this goods, although his attitude softened somewhat in the face of the Germans' step-by-step pressing, he still advocated not compromising with Germany, and planned to ignore the German army's step-by-step approach, and was ready to unilaterally end the state of war and engage in any kind of war and peace. At that time, Lenin repeatedly warned him that this was impossible, and even explicitly demanded that once the Germans once again put forward the ultimatum, they would first agree to the other party's conditions, and then slowly do the domestic work.

The result? Trotsky, in the face of the Germans' ultimatum, made it clear that he was resolute, and left Brest directly with the negotiating delegation, and publicly announced: "Soviet Russia refuses to sign a treaty, and is ready to stop the war and demobilize its own army." ”

This was actually quite unwise, since it was only his personal opinion of Trotsky, and the Central Committee of the Bolsheviks did not come to such a conclusion. As a result, the stormy German offensive in February made Russia unable to raise its head, and for a time Petrograd was in danger.

It was only under this extremely unfavorable situation that Trotsky slowly changed his mind, and after arduous tug-of-war discussions, Lenin's policy was finally adopted. However, it was too late at this time, even if Russia said that it would accept Germany's conditions in its entirety, the Germans did not stop the offensive, and even directly doubled the conditions, and the original war reparations of three billion gold marks became six billion in the blink of an eye.

That is to say, through Trotsky's efforts, in the final armistice, Russia was blackmailed even more harshly. Originally, the conditions were far less harsh, and if Trotsky had agreed to the Germans' terms at the end of January, not only would the treaty not be so harsh, but there would have been many fewer deaths at the front.

And it was precisely because of Trotsky's stubbornness that this result led to this, and about this responsibility, it will be later struck. At the Seventh Emergency Congress, held from 6 to 8 March 1918, the Central Committee adopted Lenin's resolution by a vote of 30 to 12. On 14 March, at the Extraordinary Congress, the Treaty of Brest was formally ratified, and the decision to dismiss Trotsky from his post as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs was taken.

Why should he be dismissed? The reason is obvious, the Central Committee was quite annoyed by the strange decision of this goods, and if the goods had come to their senses earlier, the situation would not have deteriorated to that point. What is more funny, of course, is that there was a strange remark that Trotsky was the scapegoat of the Brest contract, and that he was forced to resign once the contract was signed (Du Niang said he resigned).

In fact, the signing of the Brest Treaty had nothing to do with it, and he did not sign it, but it was signed by the Deputy Commissar of Diplomatic Mission, Tsicherin, and the aforementioned Petrovd (historically he was the NKVD).

It was precisely because of this mistake that the power of the Trotsky faction suffered a blow in the Central Committee in March, when his hardcore ally Ulitsky was defeated and only an alternate seat was added.

And it's exactly that change. As a result, Trotsky was unable to turn over for a long time. If it weren't for the outbreak of the civil war. And Lenin was assassinated again, and it was really not easy for this thing to recover so quickly.

And now, with Li Xiaofeng's intervention, it is obvious that a more favorable treaty can be reached, and this merit, how can a certain immortal give it to his rival and dig a pit to frame Trotsky!

However, if someone wants to get their hands on this credit, there are many problems. First of all, he was not a member of the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs, and the Central Committee did not appoint him to conduct foreign affairs. When he communicated with the Germans in such private, he not only did not speak up properly, but he was even very easy to attract people to crooked mouths, and if he did not get it right, he would be labeled a traitor and a counterrevolutionary.

How to intervene in this matter reasonably and reasonably is what Li Xiaofeng should focus on. And the most crucial problem is not here, the most important thing is that Bukharin and Trotsky absolutely have to oppose even this agreement that someone has negotiated with some moderation. Right now. They were in the majority in the Central Committee, and it would have been for the violent German offensive that woke up some of the naïve fools in the Central Committee. The Brest Treaty could not be concluded either.

Is it now for some immortal to beg the Germans to terminate the negotiations and let them launch a furious attack? Even if Li Xiaofeng can't do this, it's not that this product thinks it's bad to do this, but that this product feels embarrassed. If the Germans knew that he also had a time to ask for help, they might have to laugh at him, let alone say that the conditions for negotiation would have changed.

Anyway, Li Xiaofeng didn't want to make a fuss, but he couldn't do anything after thinking about it for a long time, so he could only hang up the phone and talk to Sverdlov first: "Comrade Yakov, how are the negotiations in Brest going?" ”

Receiving a call from a certain immortal in person, Sverdlov subconsciously frowned, generally speaking, someone calling is a big event, or even another trouble, two days ago, this goods didn't poke a big basket, and there is no way to end it now. As soon as he heard someone's voice, he was a little embarrassed. But when he heard someone inquire about the negotiations, he wondered: "Andrey, why are you suddenly interested in this?" ”

Li Xiaofeng snorted, "I'm just asking to see if there is any breakthrough in the negotiations......

Sverdlov didn't believe someone's nonsense, someone who has always done things with a clear purpose, and suddenly asked about diplomatic matters, maybe something big was going to happen in this area. Especially two days ago, someone stabbed a hornet's nest in diplomacy, is this going to do something again?

So Sverdlov didn't dare to be sloppy at all, and asked solemnly: "Comrade Andrey, you must not come nonsense!" ”

Li Xiaofeng laughed dryly and said, "How could I come here?" It was nothing more than foreign channels that reported to me that Trotsky did not communicate with the Germans very well......"

Also involved in Trotsky? Sverdlov subconsciously had a bad feeling, and he was really a little speechless about it - Andrey, don't be too much, okay, everyone knows the grudge between you and Trotsky, you have already taken revenge last time, don't go on endlessly, okay. Moreover, the Mentor has also told you that Trotsky's work is now the most important thing, and that you should not make trouble.

Li Xiaofeng was naturally very dissatisfied with this statement: "How can I make trouble? I'm not so ignorant. Isn't this a reaction from foreign channels? The Germans did not communicate with Comrade Trotsky particularly smoothly, so they wanted to change the channel of communication! ”

Sizzle! Sverdlov gasped, and he began to know what someone was trying to say, which was not a trivial situation, and it was definitely not good news if the Germans had lost patience with Trotsky.

However, he had also seen big scenes, and he must not mess around casually, so he asked quietly: "Then how do the Germans want to communicate?" ”

Li Xiaofeng pouted when he heard this, it's not how the Germans want to communicate, it's who the Germans want to communicate with, Comrade Xiao Si! However, this was too taboo, and he couldn't say it, so he could only say it very tactfully: "The Germans proposed to me the bottom line of the negotiation through foreign channels......

Belch? Sverdlov finally realized what he had just done wrong, and the feeling was not that the Germans wanted to change the way they communicated and who they wanted, but that they had found a new candidate. At this time, he expressed an unusual headache about someone's ability to participate in things.

However, someone just talked about the bottom line of the Germans' negotiations, and he was also interested in listening to it. He was curious to know what new conditions the Germans would offer. And why do you want to open it behind your back?

But when Sverdlov heard about the new conditions of the Germans. Inevitably, I was also surprised, not that I felt that it was unacceptable, but that compared to the previous conditions, it was simply too generous. So much so that he doubted its authenticity.

"Andrey, make it clear to me, is this really the condition of the Germans?"

"Not a condition!" Li Xiaofeng sighed and said, "It's the bottom line!" Do you understand? That's the bottom line, if you don't agree to these conditions. Then there is no need to talk about it at all! ”

Sverdlov was a little confused again, could it be that someone had changed direction and got the bottom line of the Germans' negotiations, this was a disguised notice to himself. But after thinking about it, he felt that it was not right, if this was the case, someone didn't need to be so secretive at all.

"You made contact with the Germans?" Sverdlov asked suddenly.

"Let's talk about it!" Li Xiaofeng said incomprehensibly, "That's the general condition, if you agree, you can talk about the details!" ”

"Slow down, slow down!" Sverdlov hastened to stop. "You tell me exactly what happened, I have to analyze it!"

Li Xiaofeng was really afraid that Sverdlov would ask for details. Because he can't explain a lot of things, he can only make up lies.

"Comrade Andrei said that through the channel of the Nobel family, the Germans sent a special representative to him and focused on the issue of negotiations, and then there was such a relatively tolerant condition?" Lenin asked slowly.

"That's probably it!" Sverdlov sighed, "Comrade Andrei just wants to ask you whether to continue to contact the Germans, whether to continue to talk about details?" ”

Lenin fell silent for a moment, instinctively he did not like this kind of secret diplomacy, much less such secret agreements under the table. But the present situation was that there was no progress, not even good news, on Trotsky's side, which made Lenin, who was under great pressure, unbearable.

If you can open another line and communicate with the Germans, it is not a choice, but how did this kind of confidential thing get involved with that kid. Lenin knew too well about someone's fucked up personality and, to tell the truth, he didn't want anyone to get involved in it at all.

"Why did the Germans go to Comrade Andrei?" He said to himself.

But Sverdlov did not know that the Mentor was talking to himself, and thought that he had an old man to think of someone, and that as an ally and brother, he had to help say good things, even if he thought Lenin's suspicions were very reasonable.

"Probably the channel through which the Germans trust the Nobel family more! How to say that they are all bourgeois, and they may be more at ease if they are matched by familiar people! ”

Lenin shook his head and said, "I mean, why don't they put forward such conditions at the negotiating table?" These are much better than the previous harsh conditions. If they bring it up positively, we can do a good job and bring it up through this channel......"

Sverdlov understood the concerns of his mentor, after all, there were many people who accused him of being a traitor, and if these conditions were put forward from the front, he would be able to respond positively and do the work of the Central Committee. But these conditions are put forward from private channels, which can make people have some bad associations, and even the tutor has to be cautious about this.

"Presumably, the Germans felt that Comrade Trotsky would have rejected these conditions from the front! They may want to maintain the initiative at the negotiating table, after all, they can deny such private conditions! Sverdlov thought for a moment and said.

"Makes sense, but ...... Tsk......" Lenin held his forehead, in his opinion, even if the Germans want to contact in private, don't look for that kid, this is really a headache, it took a long time before he said: "Let Comrade Andrei keep in touch, tell him that the Central Committee will send a comrade to Moscow to preside over this work!" ”

It's easy to say, but who to send has become a problem, and in any case you have to send someone who is good at diplomatic work, but most of the talents in this area are invested in Trotsky's disciples, such as Yue Fei and Radek. There are so few options to be qualified for the job, and crucially to be loyal to the mentor.

"Otherwise, let Comrade Chichelin go!" Sverdlov suddenly said, "He is the deputy People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs, and it is right to deal with this matter!" ”

Chicherin? Lenin sighed again, of course, it was not that the Mentor had an opinion on Tsichelin, but to tell the truth, this man who could be regarded as a Mentor had installed him in the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs in order to plant a nail in Trotsky's territory, so that no one would have a check on the old Commissariat.

But now that Tsicherin's task is not at all light, and the two chairmen and vice-presidents, Trotsky and Yue Fei, have gone to Brest for negotiations, the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs cannot be left without a person in charge, right? Sending Zicherin to Moscow so suddenly is too eye-catching!

"I think it's okay," Sverdlov said suddenly, "Didn't Comrade Andrei have a very unpleasant quarrel with the envoys of Britain, France, and the United States two days ago?" Under this guise of this, we let Chicherin deal with this dispute! (To be continued......)

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