Li Xiaofeng could see that Trotsky was ready to make a big move, at least from his first speech to the Central Executive Committee of the Soviets, entitled "The Second Revolution with Our Leadership."

Throughout the speech, Trotsky strongly criticized the "socialist" ministers who had joined the Provisional Government, concluding that the 'dual regime' had not yet been abolished, but had 'only been transferred to the government'.

He added that the 'save' of a truly unitary power in Russia would come only when 'the second step had been taken to put power in the hands of the representatives of the workers and soldiers', and that 'a new era, an age of iron and blood, but that would not be the nation against the nation, but the suffering and oppressed classes against the ruling classes' would take part in the struggle.

At the end of his speech, Trotsky was so agitated that he ripped the clasp of his collar and waved his fist in criticism: "The declaration of cooperation of the coalition government, which is full of nonsense and outrageous lies, is all the same cliché, and the only point of the whole speech - 'to prepare the army for defensive and offensive actions in order to prevent the possible defeat of Russia and its allies' is a shameful declaration of war, which can only be uttered by a man who has complete disregard for the feelings of the Russian people and who is against the will of the people......

In the conclusion of his speech, Trotsky emphasized the three theorems of mass policy: "Distrust of the bourgeoisie; spy on our own leaders; Rely only on the strength of your own class. ”

When Trotsky finished the last word. When he stepped off the podium. The Central Executive Committee of the Soviets was silent, the delegates of the parties were shocked by his rhetoric, the Mensheviks, the Socialist-Revolutionaries and the Cadets were completely out of focus and their brains were in a state of inexplicable shock, while the Bolshevik delegates were no better than they were, except for more excitement and joy than they were.

After a brief dead silence, the hall turned into boiling water in an instant, and all kinds of voices erupted with a bang, some talking to each other, some whispering, some shouting insults and applause. All in all. Trotsky's return was a shot in the arm for the lifeless Central Executive Committee of the Soviets.

In the chaotic venue, Li Xiaofeng leaned quietly against the wall, secretly relieved in his heart. Trotsky did choose the same line as Lenin did, as in history. This not only means that the direction of history has not changed much, but also indirectly draws an unsatisfactory end to someone's undercover career that has just begun.

Lenin's only fear was that Trotsky would also take a compromise and a nationalist position, but today for the first time he spoke in public against the Provisional Government, he expressed his complete distrust of them and of the newly appointed "socialist" ministers, and openly called on the workers and soldiers to carry out a second revolution. This attitude was more effective than a nominal petition, and it was foreseen that the Zonal faction of the Menshevik internationalists led by Trotsky would soon merge with the Bolsheviks. At that time, the October Revolution was really not far away.

Li Xiaofeng was very excited, of course, this was more because he was happy that he could get rid of his undercover career, but Lunacharsky next to him misunderstood, thinking that someone had seen his idol and was moved by the idol's wonderful speech. Truth be told, Lunacharsky was also moved by Trotsky's speech, and was eager to find a reactionary evil force to die with him at once.

"Comrade Andrei, don't be stunned, the meeting is over, I'll go and make peace with Comrade Trotsky!" Lunacharsky happily tugged at someone's sleeve and walked briskly towards Trotsky, who had just stepped down. …,

Trotsky's face was flushed at this time. I am afraid that the speech just now made him secrete a lot of adrenaline hormones, and when he stepped off the podium, he almost stepped on the air because he was too excited. If it weren't for the fact that Ulitsky next to him quickly pulled him, I'm afraid that the future No. 2 mentor would have made a foreign appearance.

Trotsky, however, was agitated, but his mind was not yet dizzy, when he saw Lunacharsky approaching with a tall and strange young man. Naturally, it is necessary to ask clearly: "Anatoly, who is this little comrade?" ”

"This is Andrei of the Bolsheviks. Comrade Petrovich. It was Comrade Lenin who sent you to greet you! Lunacharsky explained with a smile.

Trotsky nodded quietly, it should be said that today Lenin gave him a lot of face, first sent someone to meet him at the railway station, and then at the Central Executive Committee of the Soviets, it was the Soviet deputies of the Bolsheviks who nominated him as a member of the Central Executive Committee, which was a hundred times stronger than the Mensheviks. is the so-called reciprocating peach, even if the person who comes is a young man, he is also quite enthusiastic.

"Thank you, Andrey. Comrade Petrovich, please thank Comrade Lenin on my behalf for his kindness, and after I have dealt with the settlement of the matter, I will personally visit him and express my sincere gratitude to him! ”

In Trotsky's view, to make such an explanation and express his gratitude clearly is to close the door and thank the customer, and if the other party knows each other, he will automatically leave after being polite. After all, they are still divided into two camps, politely polite, and talking behind closed doors has not yet reached this point.

But what Trotsky did not expect was that Li Xiaofeng had no intention of leaving, and Lunachars had no intention of giving away. On the contrary, Lao Lu also focused on introducing someone's side, and signaled to him openly and secretly, don't look at this Andre. Petrovich was young, but his relationship with Lenin was very different and must be taken seriously.

Lunacharsky's attitude made Trotsky suspicious, and even wondered if Lao Lu had taken the wrong medicine, and that such a big child was Lenin's henchman? There's a limit to kidding, right? In fact, just now he was enthusiastic and enthusiastic, but he did not attach much importance to Li Xiaofeng, and felt that someone was at best Lenin's correspondent. But what did Lunacharsky say, what kind of deputy section chief of the special section was this person, or the head of the organization of the newly formed MARX Leninist Youth League?

Trotsky did not know what the nature of the unit was in Dorotko. But judging by the full name of the Special Operations Section of the Central Committee of the Bolsheviks. It's very unusual. At least before the separation, the Central Committee did not have such a subordinate body, and this subordinate body even had military power, well, this is not simple.

Of course, the same was true in Trotsky's eyes for a mere deputy chief of the Special Branch, after all, there was also a Dzerzhinsky above, and he took it for granted that it was the man in the iron mask who really worked and managed things, and that someone was at most an assistant.

What really surprised Trotsky was the post of head of the organization of the Marxist-Leninist Youth League, simply from Lunacharsky's introduction. The head of this organization is very impressive, and he will not talk about the official hat when he sees the official level, and he can still put aside Stalin, the first secretary above, although Stalin is nothing in his eyes. But he is also a member of the Central Committee of the Bolsheviks, and a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy can stand up to a member of the Central Committee who is nearly forty years old.

If Trotsky had not paid attention to someone, it would have been a good idea not to mix up politics, and of course, if Trotsky had told someone that someone had not only resisted a Stalin, but also fought against Kamenev and Zinoviev, they would have made them laugh and cry. I'm afraid it's not just as simple as paying attention, I'm afraid it's just shouting demons! …,

"Comrade Trotsky, it is so, Comrade Lenin knows that you have just returned to China and that you have no place to live, so he specially instructs me to solve some practical difficulties in your life!"

This was not a false decree from someone, but a message from Lenin Tofeodorov asking him to help solve the problem of food, clothing, shelter and transportation for the Trotsky family.

Trotsky was a little stunned and exclaimed: "Comrade Lenin is too enthusiastic and too meticulous, right?" Please wait for me to thank him. However, my housing problem has already been settled, and the comrades in China have already arranged for me......"

Trotsky was also wary of Lenin, and although he knew Lenin and could talk about it when he was in London, it was with the great split of the Social Democratic Labour Party. The two sides are in the opposing camp, and the inevitable relationship fades. Not to mention estrangement, there must be estrangement. Lenin suddenly helped so enthusiastically, he must have muttered, and now that the revolutionary situation is not clear, he does not dare to blindly contact other bigwigs, naturally he does not want to get too close to Lenin and the Bolsheviks.

Trotsky's careful thinking Li Xiaofeng was naturally well aware of this, but Comrade Lenin's sudden overwhelm of Trotsky must have had a saying, and the alliance formed by the two men in history did promote the development of the Russian Revolution. Li Xiaofeng naturally has to pay attention to it, and with his ability, it is too easy to solve a little difficulty in daily life.

"I heard from Comrade Anatoly that the accommodation they have booked for you is a hotel in Kiev, where the sanitary conditions and living conditions are quite rudimentary. Not only is your safety not guaranteed, but your life is also tough. Comrade Lenin considered these difficult conditions not conducive to your revolutionary activities......"

Trotsky hesitated, and to be honest, he didn't like to blame himself, and as soon as he got off the train he found that the environment in Petrograd was not only not better than it had been when he had been forced to flee ten years earlier, but on the contrary, the century-old city had become even more dilapidated because of the war and revolution. And with the economic level of him and the Menshevik internationalists, it is probably quite difficult to live comfortably.

For example, Li Xiaofeng knew that Trotsky's net worth was less than $300, and that this money was made up by Russian workers and German workers in the United States when he left the United States. Although the Petrograd dollar is worth more than the ruble today, $300 is really not a huge amount of money, and it is completely unrealistic to rely on it to support the daily expenses of a family of four.

What did you say? Trotsky served in the Central Executive Committee of the Soviets and was supposed to have a salary. Naive, the Soviet is a special institution, to put it bluntly, it is a representative body of the workers, peasants and soldiers who have spontaneously and directly elected representatives, similar to parliamentarians, and have no wages to receive! Like Trotsky, the representative of the Soviets, who had only the right to speak, his only benefit was three meals a day, which was nothing more than a cup of tea and a piece of black bread.

If Trotsky's whole family of four, two adults and two children, lived on this little ration, they would have to starve to death. Even if you don't starve to death, you can't get rid of sleeping on the streets, and the Soviets don't care about the division of rooms!

For example, Trotsky said about the Kiev Hotel. This hotel is really not good in Petrograd. It belongs to the level of a third-rate guest house. And even a third-rate guest house, with Trotsky's economic level, can only rent a single room, and if Lao To's family really lives in it, it will really become a Russian version of a snail house.

Fortunately, Lenin had already thought of this question in advance, or rather, Lenin was quite impressed by it, and the mentor had a taste of it when he first returned home, when he and Krupskaya stayed together in the old Aliluyev's house, which was not a single building, but it was not spacious. Lao Ah and Lao A's wife, plus Xiao Ah and his sister, the huge family could not live in it, so they had to let Lenin and his family lay on the floor next to the heating in the living room. …,

Later, Li Xiaofeng, who was still an aftermath, came to his senses. It's not a problem to live like this! Let's not talk about the relationship between Lao A and Stalin, it is an old friend, an old comrade-in-arms and an old father-in-law, who let him help Stalin blow the wind in the ears of Lenin and his wife every day, which is easy to do bad things. And he Li Xiaofeng has a lot of money in his pocket, but he doesn't care about the miserable senders of the tutor's family, even if Lenin doesn't care, it's not good to say it!

Therefore, Li Xiaofeng got Lenin and his family out of the old Aliluev's house and personally rented an apartment with good conditions and arranged it. Now Trotsky's family is worse than Lenin's family, after all, Lao To's family is still two and a half years old, and he cannot be as simple as Lenin, who feeds his whole family without hunger. And the tutor is because of the needs of the revolutionary situation. I also want to show favor to the old trust, and I don't send it in vain.

However, Trotsky did not want to receive Lenin's favor, although the favor was not large, but it was not easy to return! As the saying goes, eating people with short mouths and short hands is short, and the four people in his family even eat and take plus accommodation, but it is not as simple as short mouths and short hands.

"The conditions can be overcome if the conditions are difficult, and we revolutionaries are not afraid of blood and sweat, but are we still afraid of hardship?" Trotsky refused on the spot.

Li Xiaofeng did not give up, what Lenin explained. There are no difficulties to do, and there are hardships to overcome difficulties! Li Xiaofeng insisted that "difficult conditions can of course be overcome, but the class friendship between revolutionaries should also be carried forward. It is also a matter of course for those who have small difficulties to help those who suffer greatly...... Besides, you can only arrange your family's life. Only then can you devote yourself wholeheartedly to the revolutionary work, and if I solve the difficulties for you, I will be able to contribute to the revolutionary work. You can't help but let me contribute to the revolution, right? ”

If just now Trotsky had attracted his attention because a certain immortal had taken the name of Lenin and was the head of the organization of the Youth League, now the very clever and tactful words of a certain immortal made him really feel that someone was not simple.

Look at what he said, it is reasonable and not blunt at all, and it makes Trotsky not easy to refuse openly, people talk about contributing to the revolution, you can't refuse people's pure heart, right?

Trotsky was very embarrassed, he really did not want to accept such kindness, but Li Xiaofeng's words really made him stand to death, and he was still very young, so it was difficult to refuse directly. But if he really agreed, Trotsky felt that he was a head shorter than Lenin, and that he was really in a dilemma.

Lunacharsky, perceiving Trotsky's difficulty, hastened to say: "Let me see this! What are the conditions of the Kyiv hotel, we don't know, seeing is believing. If the conditions of the hotels in Kiev are not particularly bad, then this little difficulty is nothing...... If the conditions of the Kyiv hotel are really not good, we will discuss it again! ”

As soon as he heard this, Trotsky breathed a sigh of relief, and the siege was relieved. As to whether the conditions of the Kiev hotels were really unsightly, he did not think about how bad Trotsky felt that no matter how bad they were, it was better not to owe favors.

In this regard, Li Xiaofeng did not force it, because he knew that the conditions of the Kiev hotel were really not ordinarily poor, and a few days ago he helped the representatives of the national party members to contact the residence, in line with Lenin's requirements - frugality and simplicity. He ran all the cheap hotels in Petrograd, including this Kiev hotel, which was not the worst, but as a Trotsky culturer, it was certainly not eye-catching.

Sure enough, Trotsky saw the door of the Kiev Hotel and his face was half cold, the house was in tatters, and he didn't say anything, it was normal for the price to be a little broken, but Nima was broken, and you had to make it a little neater - Xiaoqiang and rats coming and going in the corridor didn't say anything, and it was disgusting to have phlegm stains all over the floor, right?

Looking at the tenants coming in and out, I was unkempt and unkempt like coming out of a small coal kiln, and although the proletariat of the whole world was one family, and Trotsky did not mean to look down on the laborers, he really did not dare to set his foot in this environment.

As for Lunacharsky and Ulitsky, their faces are also very bad, they are really frightened by the surrounding environment, damn it, aren't these shabby people? Let Trotsky live in this hellish place, Nima, which bastard bastard got in touch with?

Ulitsky, who was worthy of Trotsky's porcelain, went crazy on the spot, dragged the contact, and asked viciously: "How do you contact such a place, this ...... What the hell is this environment! ”

The contact person was also aggrieved, he whispered with a bitter face: "I don't want to either!" But Comrade Trotsky commanded him, and he could only afford so much rent...... Now you know the price of goods in Petrograd, everything is expensive, that little money is really ......" (to be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )