Li Xiaofeng did not take Lunacharsky's words too seriously, and in his memory Trotsky returned to Petrograd in mid-to-late May, after the conclusion of the Seventh National Congress of the Bolsheviks.

But what Li Xiaofeng did not expect at all was that the next day, at nine o'clock in the morning, he suddenly received a call from Lunacharsky, and on the other side of the phone, Lao Lu emphasized to him in an obviously excited tone: "Comrade Andrei, Comrade Trotsky is about to arrive in Petrograd, and at 11 o'clock he will get off at the Finnish station......

On the other end of the line was not only the sound of Lunacharski out of tune for excitement, but also the chirping of words, the clatter of trains, and even the sound of drums and instruments.

It should be said that Li Xiaofeng was quite shocked, because it was too coincidental that Trotsky came back, and the Seventh National Congress was to be held the day after tomorrow, and he actually returned ahead of schedule. Although Lao Tuo was a Menshevik, many people in the party had a good relationship with Lao Tuo, and his arrival added a lot of variables to the upcoming Seventh National Congress.

Putting down the phone, Li Xiaofeng pondered for a while, and could not think of any harm to Lenin in the return of Trotsky, and that the Master had ordered him to contact Lao Tolsky, and now that Lunacharsky had sent an invitation, he should go to the Finnish station to meet the number two man in the October Revolution.

Of course, before leaving, Li Xiaofeng felt that it was necessary to inform Lenin, after all, the tutor attached great importance to Trotsky, and timely ventilation was necessary.

"Comrade Lenin, I have just received a call from Comrade Lunacharsky who told me that Trotsky is about to arrive in Petrograd, do you have any instructions on this?"

As soon as Li Xiaofeng's words fell, Lenin on the other end of the phone was obviously taken aback, and the tutor asked in surprise: "This is too coincidental!" Comrade Bukharin has also just arrived at the Tavlicher Palace! ”

Li Xiaofeng was shocked by this news again, Bukharin, who was not an ordinary figure, not only an old qualification, but also very successful in research and economics. Known as the economist, Stalin was able to bring down Trotsky and Kamenev, and later the new opposition. Bukharin played a rather important role in this. Of course, like many others who followed Stalin, Bukharin's worst end was also tragic, after being branded with a large number of trumped-up charges. Shot brutally.

Of course, what can shock Li Xiaofeng is not Bukharin's return, but the timing of his return; you must know that more than a month ago, Bukharin was writing an article in the New World Newspaper with Trotsky in New York, USA. At that time, the relationship between the two brothers was very good, and it was said that it was a good family.

In any case, when Trotsky recalled this scene in his memoirs, he sighed, saying that Bukharin at that time and Bukharin, who later opposed him, were simply two people, and gritted his teeth and lashed out at Bukharin's character, believing that Bukharin was a person who had no opinion and only knew how to cling to power.

It cannot be ruled out that Trotsky was suspected of retaliating after the defeat of the political struggle, but Bukharin did lack the courage and political foresight of the man. After the victory of the October Revolution, peace talks with Germany were held at the time of the signing of the Brest Treaty. Lao Bu is strenuously opposed. Even after the most unanimous Politburo reached an agreement and decided to sign the contract. However, Lao Bu still did not give up, resigned from all his posts in the party in a fit of rage, and personally established a "Left League", which had the intention of opposing the Central Committee and Lenin.

It should be said that Bukharin's political risk is quite large, but just when everyone thought that Lao Bukhalin was going to break the kettle and die to the end. A few months later, the product suddenly changed course. Dissolved that ridiculous "Left League" and personally confessed to Lenin. Criticism and self-criticism at regular party meetings. …,

This was not enough, and even in his autobiography he wrote: "In the most important stage of my political life, I think it is necessary to point out the Brest period, when I led the 'leftists' and made great political mistakes......"

Because of the proper self-reform, and the ability to slap himself in the face with a ruthless hand, Lenin's good attitude of confession made Lenin forgive him, and the next step was naturally to reinstate the official. After that, Bukharin was completely devoted to Lenin, and he did not hesitate to raise his hands in support of Lenin's ideas, such as the controversial New Economic Policy, such as countering the challenge of the workers' opposition, and Bukharin was one of Lenin's staunch supporters. And after Lenin's death, he threw himself into the arms of Stalin until he was abandoned by Stalin at the end of his life.

Of course, Bukharin has not yet fallen out with Trotsky, but it is also funny to say that the two brothers set out from New York at the same time, but chose two diametrically opposed routes home. Trotsky, greedy for trouble, sailed directly from New York and took the nearest route to Russia, while Bukharin chose to cross the United States, embark from San Francisco, and return home via Japan and then through Siberia.

On the surface, the route chosen by Bukharin took too long and spared almost half the world, but it was better to be safe, and Trotsky was detained by the British before he left the American border, and his family was imprisoned for a month. Then the two returned to Petrograd at the same time at the same time, and it can only be said that these two brothers are really too fateful.

Anyway, Li Xiaofeng thought it was more interesting, and I don't know how Bukharin, who had taken a long detour, would have felt when he heard that Trotsky, who had walked into the road, had arrived at the finish line at the same time as him, and would he have admired his foresight?

However, this was not important to Li Xiaofeng, who had already given important instructions to meet Trotsky at the Finnish station and to welcome him on behalf of the Bolsheviks. Li Xiaofeng was not very willing to accept this instruction, he felt that Lao Tuo's Tie Ge and Lao Bu had returned, and the promising and heavy undercover career should not be replaced, Lao Bu was 10,000 times more suitable than him, and letting Lao Bu go was called twice the result with half the effort.

Unfortunately, the Mentor rejected his proposal and ordered him to act immediately. So a certain immortal could only go reluctantly. Of course, it is not at all enough to go to a certain Li Xiaofeng, after all, a certain immortal is too junior in the party and has not held any position in the upper echelon, and he is accompanied by Fedorov, a former hardware worker, who was elected chairman of the Petrograd Soviet workers' branch by virtue of his outstanding performance in the February Revolution.

Like the ordinary Russian working class, Fedorov was tall, burly, powerful, and fan-like hands with knots on every knuckle. If it weren't for Li Xiaofeng, he had the body of an immortal. To shake hands with this person is simply to suffer.

"Comrade Andrei, I have wanted to know you for a long time, and my comrades are complimenting you in my ear. Say you've done a great job with youth! ”

Li Xiaofeng doesn't care too much about this level of sycophancy, since Lenin praised him in public, every day there are this kind of middle-level leaders similar to Fedorov who want to get acquainted with him, if everyone Li Xiaofeng cares. I'm afraid I'm going to have to die of exhaustion.

"That's a false praise from comrades, I still have to learn more from the old comrades, I hope you can pass on a little more experience to me!"

Lunacharsky was not very interested in such unnutritious flattery, but he was a little surprised by Fedorov's low profile in the face of someone, after all, Fedorov was one of the more prominent Bolsheviks in the Soviets. Even his status has to pat someone's, one can imagine how powerful someone is in the Bolsheviks. …,

Even if this kind of energy is stained with Lenin's light, but someone is too young to convince the public if he does not have real skills. Yes, Lunacharsky, although he praised a certain immortal in front of Lenin, but it was only because someone was exempted from the cost of procurement, and as for the credit of Tekko. Lunacharsky took it for granted that it was mainly Dzerzhinsky. Somebody is just a helper at best.

But yesterday I visited the Central Committee of the regiment and today I saw Fedorov's low profile, and Lunacharsky began to look up to someone, and no longer regarded him as a petty person, and even faintly speculated that there was some deeper reason why someone wanted to meet Trotsky so actively.

It can only be said that there is no stupid person in the mixed political arena. When Lunacharsky began to pay attention to a certain immortal, some small tricks could not work. Fortunately, Lunacharsky only paid some attention to a certain immortal. It hasn't risen to the point where it is taken very seriously, so this idea is quickly put behind us. He has more important things to worry about!

So what is Lunacharsky's main concern right now? A welcome ceremony to welcome Trotsky's return, of course. It has to be said that, compared with the high standard and style of Lenin's return, the welcome ceremony for Trotsky's return was a bit shabby.

None of the ministers of the Provisional Government came, which was normal, but anyway, none of the Provisional Government looked at the old revolution that was pleasing to the eye, and when Lenin returned, they did not come to welcome him. But what makes Lunacharsky feel angry is that if outsiders don't come, it doesn't matter, and our own people in the party don't come, so it's not like talking! When Lenin returned, you showed up, Sukhanov! And how can you be considered a centrist among the internationalists, you and Martov do not show up, this is really not true!

Lunacharsky was very unhappy on the spot and complained to Ulitsky beside him: "It seems that the comrades in our party do not welcome Trotsky to return to China!" ”

The relationship between Ulitsky and Trotsky was not ordinarily good, and in 1900 he became acquainted with Trotsky in Siberia, and later went into exile in Paris together, and the relationship was very porcelain. If Lunacharsky was a good friend of Trotsky, then Ulitsky was Trotsky's best friend. Unfortunately, Ulitsky's life was not good, because he was a desperate follower of Trotsky, and after the signing of the Brest Treaty in 1918, he was assassinated by the Social Revolutionaries.

Therefore, Ulitsky was even more angry than Lunacharsky, and said indignantly: "Our ministers and gentlemen are busy currying up with Prime Minister Lvov, how can they give our good friend Trotsky a good face, these grandsons are not even as good as the Bolsheviks, Lenin knows how to send a few people." But they were fine, and they didn't pay a damn about it, and if we hadn't organized our comrades to come on our own initiative, I'm afraid Comrade Trotsky would have chilled as soon as he got off the train! ”

As he spoke, a train slowly stopped on the platform, and as the door opened, Trotsky, with fluffy hair and round glasses and a goatee, stepped off the train first. In an instant, the atmosphere was directly detonated.

The crowd that had come to welcome Trotsky burst into cheers and applause, and it was evident that Old Trotsky was taken aback by the crowd that had come to welcome him, and before he could say a word, he was picked up by the swarm of workers and soldiers, and rushed towards the exit of the station like a sedan chair.

The red flag was waving and the gongs and drums were noisy, and Li Xiaofeng couldn't help but think of when Lenin came back, and the scene on that day was similar to the current harmony, except that he belonged to Comrade Lenin's little tail that day, and belonged to the kind of person who no one cared about at all. He remembered that after getting off the bus that day, no one paid any attention to him. All had Lenin in their eyes, and everyone else was ignored. To be honest, it was a bad taste. At least for him who wants to save face, it's not a taste, and he is a little bit of Lenin's flying vinegar. …,

Today, Li Xiaofeng paid special attention to those who had returned with Trotsky. Maybe there is the power to call the wind and rain in the future. It's a pity that after looking at it for a long time, Da Neng didn't find one, and a few small shrimps surfaced.

"Yo ho! Isn't that Wildwild? Fedorov had sharp eyes, and at once he found two cowering figures behind the crowd.

Of course, Li Xiaofeng doesn't know Wang Develd, it's not that he doesn't know which green onion Wang Develd is. He just hadn't seen this old man before. As for the old man's background, he still has a certain understanding.

Wildwilde is a Belgian, and before mentioning him, it is necessary to introduce another well-known institution, the Second International. This brother had been President of the Second International since 1900. In 1905, Sun Guofu visited this old man as a follower of socialism, and at that time Sun Guofu asked the Second International to accept his Xingzhonghui, but Wang Develd believed that China had no foundation for socialism, so he did not give Sun Guofu face on the spot and directly refused.

It should be said that this old man was not a pure socialist. He was more of a revisionist. He had no political opinions, and like his native Belgium, he was best at maneuvering between the great powers, and he became president of the Executive Board of the Second International only because of the struggle between the French and the Germans within the Second International, which was a product of compromise to put it bluntly.

With the outbreak of the First World War. Socialists in Europe also began to split ways with each other, and some became populists who supported their homeland. The other part became "internationalists".

For example, Wildeveld is the former, and the old man tried his best to whitewash the "imperialist" war during the war years. He called on the working masses to defend their homeland and exchanged the position of Belgian Royal Minister for the presidency of the Second International.

After the outbreak of the February Revolution in Russia, the old man did not side with the ordinary workers and soldiers, and tried to persuade the troublemakers to compromise with the tsarist system. It was for this reason that the president of the Second International in Russia was very unpopular with the revolutionaries.

Li Xiaofeng was amused by the sneaky appearance of Wildwilder, who was the president of the Second International, and Lenin and Trotsky were both Russian representatives in the Second International. He and Trotsky must have been very familiar with each other, and I wonder if the two of them met on the train, and whether Wang Dveld would be embarrassed after they did.

In fact, in his memoirs, Trotsky wrote that he had accidentally met Wildeveld on the train, and that there had been a brief exchange between them.

At that time, Wang Develd was very surprised and asked him: "You recognize me?" ”

Trotsky, on the other hand, replied very unceremoniously: "Yes, although the outbreak of war has changed some people beyond recognition!" ”

As soon as he said a word, the two sides parted unhappily, and whoever let Trotsky not deal with Wildwilde in the first place, when he was in Paris, Trotsky did not criticize Wildwilde in the newspapers, and the two sides had already formed a bond.

Moreover, when Wang Dvelde came to Russia at this time, the main goal was to do the work of the Provisional Government, to try to keep Russia, which had been tossed upside down by the revolution, to remain in the Entente bloc. Trotsky, on the other hand, pursued the theory of permanent revolution, and although he did not agree with Lenin's slogan of turning the imperialist war into a civil war, in essence he wanted to end the war immediately and start a new revolution to establish proletarian power.

Wang Develd is destined to be just a small episode of the welcome ceremony, and his lack of interest also means that a generation of talented people from all over the country will produce a generation of new people who are better than the old, and the group of European revolutionary pioneers of his time, after the great waves and sands, will inevitably eliminate a large number of people, and he is just one of the more famous ones. …,

The welcome ceremony was grand and grand, but at the same time very short-lived, and after the welcoming speeches of Fedorov and Ulitsky on behalf of the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks respectively, Trotsky gave a brief speech, which gave Li Xiaofeng his first glimpse of how a revolutionary hair dryer worked.

It can only be said that Trotsky was so good at grasping people's hearts that he mobilized everyone's spirits in two or five sentences, and when his speech was over, the people rushed up to him, once again lifted him on his shoulders, and carried Trotsky all the way to the meeting of the Central Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet.

There, Trotsky was not as popular as outside, the chairman of the congress, Tsihze, the new Minister of Posts, gave a rather cold welcome speech, while the Menshevik right and the populists looked at Trotsky with suspicion and distrust, and only the Bolsheviks expressed considerable enthusiasm and proposed that Trotsky be elected to the Central Executive Committee!

It can be said that this was a breach of the hornet's nest, which caused chaos on the spot, and Trotsky's supporters and opponents almost got a real PK, and after a long bargaining at the end, Trotsky only got a delegate with no voting rights and only the right to speak......

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