The lights were brightly lit, the clock was shaking, and two cups of warm and mellow coffee had been placed in front of the two by the waiter.

"After the end of the Russian Revolution in 1905, Nikola formed a secret police system across the country to conduct omnipresent detection and eavesdropping on all classes of Russia. Not only were the Liberal Party, Mensheviks and Democrats in Russia, but it is said that even the private letters written by former Minister of Finance Earl Witt to his family were within the surveillance of the secret police, which forced him to hand over the letters to the Swiss bank for custody. In this case, I cannot cultivate such a powerful underground force in Russia."

Qingying sorted out his thoughts, and then slowly spoke: "At present, the Hawks have more than 170 members in Russia, scattered in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Arkhangelsk and other places. Their open identities and occupations are also different. These people have finally stabilized and integrated into a valuable asset of Russian society under the frequent surveillance and cleaning of the Russian secret police. Although the number is smaller, they can effectively contact the local Bolshevik Party organizations and realize secret aid operations to them. After all, the main force of the Russian turmoil is still the workers' believers developed by the Red Revolutionaries, and we can only play an auxiliary role."

William's eyes showed a look of surprise, as if he had not expected that Qingying had only installed such a little force in Russia; but after a while, the strange color in his eyes slowly faded away and returned to his normal peaceful expression. As Qingying said, the only main body of the Russian revolutionary turmoil was the poor people who were bullied and oppressed and had no way to sustain their lives. If they lay too many dark wedges in Russia, it would not only not have much support to the revolution. Instead, it would significantly increase the risk of showing flaws under the search and surveillance of secret police. This would cause the whole body to be motivated. This kind of monarchy country provides support to the proletarian revolutionary party of another country and conspires to subvert other governments. It is necessary to achieve absolute confidentiality, otherwise, once a little bit of the news is revealed in advance, Germany will face a huge risk of causing fire.

"So, what about the aid you provide to the Red Revolutionaries? Even if there are rumors and searches from the Russian secret police, these plague-like guys should have infected countless Russians, right?" William carefully tasted the mellowness and bitterness of the coffee in the cup, and then asked Qingying one after another.

Qingying nodded and said, "Since 1907, the Russian Bulgaria Party has started to bleach money through a securities agency we set up in St. Petersburg, and obtained funds needed for activities such as printing leaflet brochures, developing believers, and building relationships. In the past year alone, they received more than 700,000 rubles of financial support from us. If it were not for confidentiality, this number would have doubled."

700,000 rubles! Hearing this aid figure, William was shocked. Although this amount of funds worth about 80,000 pounds was nothing in front of a government, for an underground party hidden under the pressure of the violent machine of the country, this was a generous property that was enough to ensure the normal operation of the organization and absorb more poor people to join it, and gradually develop and grow.

After so many years of struggle with the Social Democrats in their country, William also knew that these democrats used to win over the working people to fight the government. A big and empty beautiful painting cake, coupled with some small favors from alms, was enough to drive these people to be driven by them and became an important obstacle in parliament to hinder the implementation of the government's newly formulated laws. However, with the rapid development of Germany over the past 20 years, workers' wages and benefits have made it a significant leap; coupled with the continuous advancement of the social security system, these made it difficult for the German people with a greater sense of happiness to be impressed by the conditions offered by the Democrats. The continuous news of victory from the front is even more inspiring. The rule of the Hohenzollern royal family in Germany is unprecedentedly stable.

But the situation in Russia is completely different. Russian workers and peasants who were driven like cattle and horses could almost never respect or agree with Romanov's rule; for these Russians who were deeply enslaved and oppressed, but received a meager salary that was not enough for the whole family, the revolutionaries could only use a few bread and half a bag of flour to give them a little favor, and be amazed at the utopia without exploitation and oppression!

As his thoughts were surging, Ying Ying said again: "In addition to financial aid, we have also opened up a specific aid channel for these revolutionaries. The Russian lieutenant colonel, who was in charge of the warehouse management of Alhanks, was fed by our Hawks with rubles. As long as there were merchant ships carrying arms unloaded in this Arctic Ocean port, we could smuggle part of his warehouse out of his warehouse and secretly hide it. Once the uprising, the Russian revolutionaries will have their own armed forces, and the destructiveness caused will increase significantly. However, now this northern route will be interrupted with the freezing of Alhanks. We can only find another way to cut off some arms during the Russian transportation process from next month."

William suddenly raised his head, his eyes unable to hide his surprise. He originally thought that Qingying had just provided economic support to the Bolsheviks to help them secretly accumulate teams to strengthen their strength, but he did not expect that the people in front of him would take such a ruthless move. He opened a special arms smuggling channel under the surveillance and search of the secret police! From Arkhangelsk to St. Petersburg, there were thousands of kilometers in the middle. It was really unimaginable that his people could smuggle arms during the period without being discovered!

As if I knew what my father was thinking, Qingying shrugged and explained: "Since the St. Petersburg military factory is under direct surveillance of the Russian government, my people are really unable to do anything from it; so they can only look far and look for opportunities elsewhere. Although the Russian secret police are as sensitive as a group of evil dogs and almost pervasive, their components are not absolutely clean. They are from ordinary rogues and lackeys and want to use their jobs.

There are definitely many people who make a fortune from it. So my people used rubles to pass the stroll, thinking that the gang behind the scenes had added some guys to the point of making connections here. Every time the transport ship transported 10,000 rifles, there would always be about 300 that would disappear from the Russian army's inventory. Now, there are more than 4,000 guns in our hands and the revolutionary party, and more than 200,000 bullets, which is enough to cope with the situation in the early days of the revolution."

"So, do we have the opportunity to trigger the turmoil similar to that in 1905 in a short period of time, thus forcing Russia to withdraw from the war?" William asked with some expectation.

Qingying shook his head slowly and said, "If it were now, it would be quite difficult to trigger a large-scale revolutionary wave. Although the Russian army is currently suffering heavy casualties and wounded in the war with us, it is not unbearable losses compared to their huge population base; casualties, food shortage, shortage of supplies, inflation, these have not reached the limit that the Russians can tolerate, and it still takes time to brew. More importantly, a considerable number of Russians still have fantasies about winter; they believe that our army will destroy Russia like Napoleon in the harsh winter of Russia, thus reversing the current unfavorable situation. Therefore, we must also carry out a heavier blow to the Russians on the Eastern Front and maintain an absolutely strong and powerful attitude in the upcoming winter; only in this way can the revolution in Russia be accelerated."

"Do you continue to attack the Russians on the Eastern Front..." William repeated thoughtfully.

Qingying, as he claimed, he sighed quietly at the current situation. At present, the German army is launching a fierce attack on northern France with the strength of four armies. From the overall strategy, this is not a cost-effective choice. Although the ports in northern France are of crucial significance to blocking the British Atlantic route, the investment in seizing these ports is too great: not to mention the large number of casualties and injuries that the German army will inevitably suffer when it rushes to the British defense line, even if the combat purpose is successfully achieved, the German army needs to send heavy troops to defend this place at all times to defend the opponent's possible counterattack against this vital part. Such fierce positional competition is really inconsistent with the original intention of Qingying to let the French shed blood in elastic defense!

In fact, when Germany has seized the Island of Fair and coerced Norway to open its ports to the high seas fleet, the role of the port in northern France is not as irreplaceable as the war broke out. However, now that the war machine of four armies with millions of people has been launched, Qingying could not have any objection anymore. He could only support the decision of the General Staff to the end and strive to achieve the expected results. What's more, the current situation on the Eastern Front is far better than the same period in history. It is not absolutely important that the German army did not work together to move eastward.

"This time I asked you to come back is to give you full responsibility for cooperation and connections with the Russian revolutionaries. The spies who operated in Russia also obeyed your restraints and cleared all obstacles to detonating the revolution in Russia." William's face gradually turned solemn, and his gray pupils looked straight into Qingying's eyes and said, "Your people have been lurking in Russia for so long and have close contact with the Bolsheviks. Your princess is the Russian little princess. I don't know how many secrets of the Russian court have been revealed to you before. No one is more suitable for carrying out Russian work than you. You shouldn't refuse, right?"

Qingying slowly exhaled and said, "This is also a matter I have been doing all the time. Thanks to my father's trust, I will do my best to do it." (To be continued...)

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