Vol 4 Chapter 131: , Confluence

When the undercurrent of the Kingdom of Hungary is ready to quit, the Russians are also accumulating strength, ready to jump out and grab the spoils.
Since Nicholas II completed the purge of St. Petersburg, the entire Russian Empire has become turbulent.
Nicholas II told the world with practical actions: the czar is the czar, and he is still so decisive when dealing with "rebellion"!
There were more than 40,000 capitalists, officials and their families arrested back and forth. Nicholas II organized a mass trial, and then more than 10,000 people were sent to the gallows amidst the cheers of the people. All the people who had been sent were exiled to Siberia!
After getting rid of the moths, without the restraint of interest groups, the Tsarist government’s mobilization efficiency immediately increased by 5o%. In February, the Tsarist government once again mobilized 600,000 young people and took up arms to join the army. This great and sacred one In the big family.
There is no doubt that this mobilization was selflessly contributed by this group of capitalists. Weapons and equipment were taken from their warehouses, and military expenses were also copied from their property!
Nicholas II made a lot of money this time. The cash of his property was more than one billion rubles, hundreds of tons of gold, foreign exchange worth tens of millions of pounds, and a large number of antique calligraphy and paintings.
There are more real estate, thousands of factories, a large number of shops, houses, and large mines and farms scattered all over the country...
It took the Ministry of Finance of the Tsarist government more than two months to initially estimate the total value of the assets seized. It has to be said that Mao Xiong’s family background is solid. According to the most conservative estimate, Nicholas II’s harvest this time Over 1.3 billion pounds.
This huge sum of money has greatly eased the financial crisis of the tsarist government. Of course, this is only a short-term, not to mention that the real estate inside cannot be realized in a short time, even if it is all cash, it is not worth mentioning in the face of huge war expenses.
Looking at the financial expenditures of the major countries participating in the war, you will know the terrible war.
National fiscal expenditures in 1913:
British Empire 197 million pounds;
The Republic of France 210 million pounds;
220 million pounds in the German Empire;
189 million pounds in the Russian Empire;
The Austro-Hungarian Empire 118 million pounds;
The Kingdom of Bulgaria 100 million pounds;
The Kingdom of Italy 95.68 million pounds;
National fiscal expenditures in 1916:
British Empire 2.568 billion pounds;
The Republic of France 2.675 billion pounds;
The German Empire 3.262 billion pounds;
The Russian Empire was 2.746 billion pounds;
The Austro-Hungarian Empire was 1.578 billion pounds;
The Kingdom of Bulgaria 1.136 billion pounds;
The Kingdom of Italy 186,500 pounds;
More than 90% of this expenditure was spent on military expenditures. Faced with such a huge military expenditure, it is not surprising that governments in various countries want to end the war as soon as possible.
When the cannon is fired, gold is worth two! In order to raise funds, governments of all countries have racked their brains, such as raising taxes to the people, borrowing from consortia, printing money, and so on.
Now that Nicholas II has money in his hands, he naturally wants to make big moves, such as speeding up the mobilization, purchasing weapons and equipment, strategic materials and so on.
Judging from the current Russian mobilization rate, three million Russian troops will appear on the eastern front in April. If by the end of the year, this number will exceed the four million mark.
If the Allies cannot make a breakthrough on the Western Front in a short time, then the outcome of this war is doomed. In the second half of the year, they have to face a six-layered bear on the Eastern Front. Without millions of Germans, they would not be able to defend it!
In desperation, the Hindenburg government decided to send the Revolutionaries back to Russia to add trouble to Nicholas II.
Moreover, the current Tsarist Russia really has a revolutionary foundation. Nicholas II and the capitalists have broken up. The two sides can be described as deep-seated hatred, which creates favorable conditions for the revolution.
According to the Germans, Russia now only needs one spark, and it will explode soon. Even if it is to protect themselves, capitalists have to embark on the road of rebelling against the Tsarist government!
Of course, even if Nicholas II does not take action, the capitalists will still take action in order to obtain greater benefits, but this time is still uncertain.
And Nicholas II's great purge of St. Petersburg this time was just an incentive for them.
After all, interest is always the best catalyst, and the rule of the tsarist government can no longer satisfy the growing appetite of capitalists. They are trying to establish a government that fully represents the interests of capitalists.
It has to be said that the Great Purge of St. Petersburg that Nicholas II moved this time did a great job, which directly damaged the bourgeoisie and changed the balance of power between the enemy and ourselves.
But Russia is too big, and the capitalists are all smart people. When their counterparts in St. Petersburg were devastated, they were all prepared, and it was impossible to get them all.
Prepare to run away, prepare to resist. Of course, whether they choose to resist or to run away, the capitalists themselves will not rush into battle.
The most typical thing is that after the Great Purge in St. Petersburg, the number of capitalists who went to Bulgaria for investment investigations skyrocketed. Including their families, they increased by more than 8,000 in just one month.
Obviously, these people are not expected to do major things. One by one, attempts to overthrow the rule of the tsarist government by telegraph remote control are undoubtedly a fantasy.
Therefore, Hindenburg decided to send the revolutionary party represented by Lenin back to the country, and also funded their weapons, equipment and activities. The purpose was simply to bring the Russian Revolutionary Party and the capitalists together.
The revolutionaries have experience in rebellion. Although they all failed, they are also experience, right? The capitalists have strength and are scattered in major cities in Russia. Once they move at the same time, there will always be several successful cases.
Then the Russian civil war should explode, and the pressure of the Germans on the Eastern Front naturally disappeared. As for whether these people can overthrow the rule of the tsarist government, this is not their business. Anyway, as long as Russia is disturbed, their goal will be achieved.
In fact, the Tsarist government still had very loose political control over the country. When Lenin entered the Faculty of Law of Kazan University in May 1887, he was expelled from school for participating in the student movement and was exiled to live surveillance in a remote village in Kazan. The village where Ulyanov's brother-in-law lives in Ulyanov, Samara Province, is under public surveillance by the police.
In 19oo, he was allowed to return to St. Petersburg, but he went to Western Europe to continue his revolutionary career and wrote a large number of revolutionary treatises. Since then, he became one of the actual leaders of the Russian Revolution.
The Great Revolution broke out in Russia in 1905, and Lenin naturally joined in, until the failure of the Russian Revolution in 1907, he was forced to go into exile.
This revolution undoubtedly angered the tsarist government. As one of the leaders of the revolution, Lenin was naturally blacklisted by the tsarist government.
He lived successively in Geneva, Paris and Berne. In 1916, Lenin moved from Berne to Zurich and lived with his wife Krupskaia at the home of the shoe repairer Camerell.
At that time, Switzerland was a place where spies gathered. In order to avoid hunting down and killing, Lenin lived a very low-key life. He hid in the library every day and read books instead of going out to do things.
Sometimes, he would also use the evening time to convene meetings in a small cafe haunted by the proletarians, exchange ideas with them, and lead a very fulfilling life.
What is different from history is that the Germans came to the door before the Russian revolution exploded.
From the actual situation at the time, Russia did have the basis for a revolutionary revolution. In order to complete the revolution as soon as possible to overthrow the tsarist government, he naturally did not mind cooperating with the capitalists once.
After all, the influence of the Bolshevik Party in Russia is too low now. After Nicholas II initiated the Great Purge of St. Petersburg, their most important basic dish was gone!
The cruel reality has been set before the revolutionaries. This time the czar and the capitalists are fighting for power, the czar, who has won the support of the military, has the upper hand.
If the czar wins this struggle, then the ruling foundation of the czarist dictatorship will become stronger, and the revolution will become indefinite!
In this context, the major forces in Russia have merged for the first time. Although they have different political ideas, it is difficult to form trust between them, but in order to overthrow the rule of the tsarist government, they Still come together.
Moreover, the great purge of St. Petersburg that Nicholas II moved this time did not leave hidden dangers, for example, he ignored the "legality"!
The most typical thing is that the executed criminals also included more than one hundred congressmen. They were sent to the gallows before they were deprived of their status as congressmen. This became a force to attack Nicholas II this time in St. Petersburg. The best excuse for impure cleaning!
Outside of St. Petersburg, capitalists still control a lot of voice. Therefore, in many places where the capitalists are strong, Nicholas II's action this time is characterized as: the white terror rule adopted by the tsar in order to exclude dissidents!
This made Nicholas II very hurt. Even with the support of the army, he still couldn't control all Russian cities.
The core factor is the Russian bureaucracy, which has been corroded by capitalists. In the short term, Nicholas II could not find so many qualified officials to replace them.
This created favorable conditions for the revolutionary party members. Lenin did not go to St. Petersburg after returning to China. He knew that there was no basis for revolution.
Instead, he came to Moscow, the largest city in Russia. This is Russia's largest city outside of St. Petersburg. It has hundreds of thousands of workers and created a mass basis for the Bolshevik Party's activities.
A very funny scene appeared. On the one hand, we had to cooperate with capitalists and on the other hand we had to anti-capitalists. Of course, this scene also appeared in the February Revolution born in Russia in history!
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