Vol 4 Chapter 117: The real czar

By December, the Russian Empire was already a country of ice and snow. This winter, people in St. Petersburg had a particularly sad life. There was a shortage of coal, food, and daily necessities. In the final analysis, it was "lack of money"!
Due to the hoarding of capitalists, ordinary people lack sufficient heating supplies, and everyone has to huddle together in their neighbors to keep each other warm.
Often a small house with an area of ​​less than ten square meters has to be crowded with more than a dozen people. There is no way that the current price of coal is too expensive, and it is too extravagant to use for heating. Ordinary people now even cook for several families. In order to change as much as possible to save expenses.
This is only December, and the temperature is not too low now, and it can barely be dealt with by this method. If it comes to January, when the weather is the coldest, I don’t know how many people will be frozen to death this winter!
The price increase is not only coal, but also other daily necessities. Industrial products have also increased in price. The price of grain has increased by three times, the price of unsatisfactory has increased by 2.8 times, and the price of meat products has increased even more. Five times at most.
Although there is an inflation factor, the core reason is that unscrupulous capitalists are hoarding in order to make high profits.
As for the life and death of ordinary people, they obviously won't be concerned about them. Anyway, the Russian Empire lacks everything, but there is no shortage of people!
Therefore, everything is increasing in price now, but wages are not increasing!
Not only St. Petersburg, but other cities in the Russian Empire also experienced price increases of varying magnitudes. Capitalists are indeed a kind of creature. At the same time that prices are soaring, the wages of ordinary people in the entire Russian Empire have no tendency to rise at all!
Kriski is an ordinary mechanical engineer who works in a machinery factory in St. Petersburg with a salary that is twice as high as that of ordinary workers. Logically speaking, his life should be pretty good.
It's a pity that good days only existed before the war broke out. With the explosion of the world war, prices in Russia have risen sharply, and Christie's good days have ended.
Although he is an engineer, his technical ability is also very top-notch, but his status in the factory is not very good. He is about the same as an ordinary worker. He has to work on the production line, and has endless shifts. He was deducted from his wages for no reason. Only if there was a problem with the machinery, the factory management would think of him as an engineer!
He came to the factory early that day as usual, and he heard everyone talking. He roughly understood that because of the needs of the war, they needed to work another hour a day.
There is no doubt that this time it was overtime without compensation. Those who dare to refuse, as usual, will be taught by factory managers or thugs and sent to prison for the crime of deliberately sabotaging the production of war materials!
Crickis, like most ordinary workers, dared to be angry but did not dare to speak, he had to endure it in order to support his family!
Even if their current working hours are as high as 14 hours, the unscrupulous capitalists still dare to ask them to add another hour to work.
The irony is that Russia actually implements an eight-hour work system, and they now have seven hours of "voluntary overtime work"!
This kind of overtime intensity exists not only in the Russian Empire, but also in almost every country that participated in the war. It's just that everyone did not do it so excessively, and basically paid a sum of overtime wages.
If history does not change, the Russian working class will soon explode another "general strike"!
Don't get me wrong, this is not the self-organization of the working class. They simply don't have this ability. Even the Bolshevik Party, which is far abroad, does not have such powerful energy now!
It's that the capitalists want to usurp the power of the country, but they don't want to go shirtless. So they often organized "general strikes" with Russian characteristics, demanding the tsarist government to reopen the Duma Parliament!
Namely: go to the streets during the day to shout slogans, and go back to the factory to work overtime at night to complete work tasks.
But this time is obviously different. The Russian officers and soldiers who rushed back from the front line to accept the commendation have already arrived in St. Petersburg for six consecutive times. Nicholas II was very disgusted with the threats of the capitalists.
Now he finally has a force in his hand that is completely controlled by him and has no connection with the capitalists. If he doesn't do anything, is he still a qualified "Tsar"?
On December 18th, Nicholas II held a military meeting at the Gatchina Palace in St. Petersburg. The topic of the meeting was very simple. It summarized the reasons for the defeat of the Russian army in 1916, looked for the reasons for the failure of the war, and held those responsible!
If it is resting in the east, perhaps many people are wondering whether the emperor's doing this will have any deeper meaning in it.
After all, if it is normal, why did Nicholas II hold this meeting in a military fortress outside St. Petersburg?
Whether it is to settle accounts after autumn or to commend heroes, St. Petersburg has more suitable places than here!
Of course, Russia is still the Russia of the tsar, and the tsar’s willfulness is also a Russian tradition.
Isn't it just the place of the meeting in the Gatchina Palace? What's so strange? Think of him, Alexander III also moved his family directly to the Gatchina Palace and became a hermit!
In order to facilitate office work, the top Russian government officials had to move with them, and it took more than ten years to move! Compared with this, what Nicholas II did is no big deal!
At this moment, in the Gatchina Palace, high-ranking Russian military officers gathered together. This time, it was rare that no government officials participated. Nicholas II presided over the meeting as the supreme commander of the Russian army.
"Seeing you all here today, I feel sad. History will always remember 1916. In this year, our great Russian Empire set two world records!
In the first half of the year, I achieved the biggest victory in human history. Although this record was broken after only half a year, it is worth celebrating. In the second half of the year, we created the biggest defeat in human history!
From the big victory to the big defeat, we only spent nine months, and countless Russian sons and daughters have given their lives for this. Do you think I can be happy?
Now that the matter has been born, today I will ask the reason, and seek justice for the Russian children who have given their lives!
Now I swear here in the name of God that I, Alexandrovich, must find out the culprit for the defeat of the Russian army and let them pay for it! "
After speaking, Nicholas II glanced at everyone, and saw that many people were frightened, and some suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.
Obviously, this was not aimed at them. This time the Russian army was defeated, they may have made a command error, but it definitely cannot constitute the main reason for the failure of this battle!
After a pause, Nicholas II asked coldly: "Then what about you? Is there a determination to seek justice for your dead brothers, subordinates, and comrades-in-arms?"
"Have!"
Although everyone's answers were uneven, their voices were very sonorous, and it was obvious that the Russian army had not completely rotten.
Nicholas II seemed very satisfied with everyone's reaction, smiling and saying: "Then show me your determination!"
Obviously Nicholas II was forcing everyone to stand in line with him. Smart people have already guessed his purpose, but at this time, anyone dares to withdraw?
"I, Garhinia, swear here in the name of God that we must find the culprit that made our army defeated, and seek justice for the dead Russian brothers and sisters. If we break this oath, we will fall to forever!"
Undoubtedly, this was a pre-arranged trust by Nicholas II, knowing that everyone had a tacit understanding of choosing to play stupid, anyway, this time it was not looking for their bad luck, many people still had trouble. The joy of the rest of my life is fleeting!
"I, Oxland, swear here in the name of God that we must find out the culprit that made our army defeated and seek justice for the dead Russian brothers and sisters. If we break this oath, we will fall into forever!"
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With the first person taking the lead, the people behind, whether they wanted it or not, bit the bullet and swore to God, and the goal Nicholas II wanted was achieved.
In this era, everyone’s beliefs are still very pious. If you swear an oath before God in front of everyone, if you dare to repent, don’t want to continue to mess around.
When the last person took the oath, more than an hour had passed, but Nicholas II was not impatient at all.
"Very well, everyone is an excellent soldier in the Russian Empire, I believe you will not do things like some people do!
Now everyone summarizes the reasons for our failure in this battle!
Only when the reason is found can we find the man behind the scenes; as long as the man behind the scenes is found, the blood sucking moths attached to the Russian Empire can be eliminated, and the current tragedy will be reborn in the future! "
Admiral Brusilov said first: "Your Majesty, it is a strategic material!
After the war broke out, the ammunition we brought from the rear could not be used by our weapons at all.
In many cases, soldiers have to re-grind the bullets before they can be loaded into the magazine. Even if it is loaded, the bullets that can be shot are still less than half.
The problem of the shells was even more serious. Many shells fell directly after they were shot out, and there was no explosion at all. Later, our soldiers picked him up again, and let's take a look at what was actually filled with mud!
I think poor quality weapons and ammunition, and poor logistics supplies are the main factors that caused the failure of this war! "
Lieutenant General Nicolas-Nicolas Okas immediately added: "The aircraft that our Air Force can use now are all imported! Domestic aircrafts are disposable products. Once used, they are scrapped. We have a large number of excellent pilots. Did not die on the battlefield, but died on a domestically-made plane!"
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Come on, now not a fool all knows the purpose of Nicholas II, if you don't know what to do, then you are a fool!
After such a big defeat, it must be an explanation to the Chinese people. The best Back Pot has appeared. If you don’t know how to throw the pot to them, you will not be able to get where you are now!
In the spirit of "dead fellows, not deadly poor", the Russian military is naturally desperate to black out capitalists. Of course, they are already dark. Everyone just used exaggerated rhetoric!
To sum it up, the domestically produced rifles are all fire sticks, the domestically produced cannons are all salutes, and the domestically produced aircraft are used for suicide...
There is also: the food delivered to the front line is moldy. Soldiers fight with diarrhea after eating. The casualties caused by food poisoning are greater than the casualties caused by fighting the enemy...
After a day of discussion, everyone smoothed the logic and came to the conclusion that the culprit of the frontline defeat was the unscrupulous capitalists in the country and the corrupt officials within the government!
The unscrupulous capitalists took advantage of the Allied Powers, colluded with the domestic bureaucracy and sent a large number of low-quality weapons to the front lines to entrap the Russian army!
But the brave Russian soldiers, even if they defeated the enemy with these inferior weapons, the enemy has no choice but to spend a large price to buy these capitalists again, let them poison the food of the frontline troops, causing a lot of Casualties.
The casualties they caused to the Russian Empire were more than twice the casualties caused by the Allies! Originally, the war damage ratio between the two sides was 1:1, and the extra casualties were all poisoned to death by domestic capitalists.
Therefore, as long as these domestic capitalist are cleaned up, the great Russian army can immediately defeat the Allies and win the war!
The result Nicholas II wanted came out. Once the Russian military reached an agreement with him, the Russian capitalists would soon be over!
"Here is a list. The people on it are unscrupulous capitalists who caused millions of Russian soldiers to die on the battlefield, and they caused the displacement of tens of millions of Russians!
Now I authorize you to immediately form a commission for hoeing up rapes to lead troops to arrest these worms, and kill them on the spot if you resist!
The Caucasus Front Army is responsible for the east of the city, the Northern Front Army is responsible for the north of the city, the Western Front Army is responsible for the west of the city, the Southwest Front Army is responsible for the south, and the Navy and Air Force are responsible for the fish that slip through the net!
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The way Nicholas II handled it was really a "czar", simply and rudely.
Persuaded the high-level officers and gave them time to prepare, immediately issued a military order to let them start!
But I have to say that this is also very effective. Even if the news is leaked in such a short period of time, the capitalists can't even escape for their lives. Where can there be time to organize a counterattack?
The fly in the ointment is that such a thing can only be done once. If it is done in St. Petersburg, the capitalists in other cities in Russia will get the news, and there is no way to catch them all!
However, Nicholas II was not worried. As the capital of the Russian Empire, St. Petersburg had gathered Russia's most powerful group of big capitalists, and the capitalists in other regions would be much weaker.
As long as the nest of capitalists in St. Petersburg is killed, the others will not worry about it. Even if they want to make trouble, the millions of Russian troops in his hand are not a display, enough to suppress any civil unrest!
"Your Majesty, what if the city guards intercept it?" Admiral Brusilov asked worriedly
Nicholas II said murderously: "We give them an order to let the city guards and police stay at the station honestly. If there are anyone who dares to come out and make troubles, just kill me as a rebel!"
"Yes!" everyone replied in unison
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