The wind swept the streets and blew up the paper all over the ground. Then it fell, and the streets filled with bullet shells, and the barricades that were empty often became barriers to the wind. The paper pieces here were piled up the most, and the bullet shells that fell near the barricades. Dark red blood could be seen on the sacks filled with soil and sand on the barricades. Several rifles that were blown by shells were lying on the streets not far from the barricade. There were bright bayonets on the tip of the gun, but their owners were no longer sure where to go.

Sitting in the carriage and looking at the blown-off Russian rifles thrown on the street, Shi Zhaojixun retracted his gaze and pulled up the window of the carriage. The cold feeling disappeared.

"It seems that the situation in Petrograd City has basically calmed down, and there may not be any more battles in the future, at least there will be no more battles in Petrograd." Shi Zhaoji sighed.

"Sir, then, the Provisional Government has been defeated, right?" The Russian translator sitting next to him asked curiously.

"Maybe it is, the Russian Republican Provisional Government has now completely lost the trust of the people and cannot find the Allies at all. Faced with the powerful revolutionaries, there is only one way to fall. If a government cannot even guarantee the basic living needs of the people, the people will abandon it without mercy and then defect to the revolutionaries who promised that they could make the people feel full and warm.

"But, in the current situation, how can the new government make the civilians in the city eat and wear warm? According to yesterday's news, the Russian army suffered another battle defeat on the front line of the Russian-German war. The German team is getting closer and closer to Petrograd. The traffic on many railway lines has been blocked, and food and charcoal cannot be transported to Petrograd. In this case, who can guarantee the basic living needs of the people?

“Yes

A clever woman can't cook without rice. I think, the new Russian government can only take one step at a time." Shi Zhaoji sighed again. To be honest, he is now very tired of the endless revolution and suppression in Petrograd. In the past, he thought that only the anti-Qing revolution in the country would show so much irrationality, but now, he has corrected his views. Even in Russia, which is known as a "civilized country, once the people lose their longing for life, then the subsequent abandonment of all rational violence. The revolution in Petrograd is the best proof. Moreover, every time the baptism of revolution is experienced, the people have less rationality and the disorder of social order is stronger. This can be seen from the remains of fighting by the barricades.

After saying that, Shi Zhaoji turned his head and looked at the Neva River outside the car window. Now, some ships on the river were sailing, but they were not transporting food and supplies, but salvaging the corpses. The night before yesterday, the battle was very fierce. In order to compete for control of a bridge, the two sides killed the sky and dark. Many soldiers attacking from the bridge were killed in the river by machine guns and artillery fire. The people who were not dead at that time were soon frozen to death by the cold river water. After all, this is Petrograd, and it is now late autumn. Although it has not yet snowed, the temperature is very low. Fighting in this weather will be more affected by the climate. This is still in the city. If you fight outside the city, the pain the soldiers endure is even more than the battle in the city.

Now, Shi Zhaoji's diplomatic carriage is driving on the main road of Neva Street. The battle ruins he saw were actually left behind by the battle late the night before yesterday. That battle was also the last counterattack of the Petrograd Republican Provisional Government in the city. As a result, like the daytime battle, it still ended in failure. Almost all Russian teams loyal to the Republican Provisional Government were driven out of the city by the Soviet armed forces. Now, Petrograd has truly fallen into the hands of the Russian Bolsheviks.

Now, Shi Zhaoji is rushing to the Tavlida Palace, which used to be the office of the Russian Duma. After the February Revolution, the Russian Provisional Government worked in the Tavlida Palace with the Soviets of the Engineer Representative. The two regime entities once showed that they did not violate the rivers and lived in peace. However, as the war against Germany continued, the Russian economy further deteriorated, and finally, the two regime entities met and decided the victory and defeat through violent means. Now, the Tavlida Palace has actually become the temporary office of the Russian Soviet government. Shi Zhaoji rushed there to meet with a senior official of the Russian Soviet government. In fact, it was the senior official who asked for an emergency appointment with Shi Zhaoji, which was obviously a diplomatic matter.

When Shi Qianqi arrived at the Tavlida Palace, a meeting was over. He could only wait patiently for the crowd to disperse. When he saw the senior Russian Soviet official, it was already nine-thirty in the morning.

The Russian official was Molotov, who saw Shi Zhaoji, and went straight to the point and made solemn representations and verbal protests to the Chinese Provisional Office in Russia.

"Sir, I believe you have also heard that the Russian Tsarist government, which has long been overthrown, announced the restoration of the port of Baikal yesterday. The Soviet government is very concerned about this matter. In our opinion, in the past few months, your government has not only failed to comply with the package agreement signed by the Provisional Government of the Russian Republic and your government to dissolve the illegal Tsarist government by powerful means and not recognized by the international community. Instead, it has strengthened its financial and military support and allowed it to take advantage of the chaos during the revolution to incite an riot against the revolution in Baikal. Therefore, I am ordered to file a formal protest to your government, hoping that your government can see the international situation clearly and not interfere in Russian affairs anymore. If your government insists on doing its own thing, all the consequences will be borne by your government."

Molotov

The meaning of threat is very clear. But in Shi Zhaoji's view, the other party was just in the current situation in Russia, and China completely ignored this verbal protest. Moreover, before coming, he had received clear instructions from the center to know how to reply to the other party.

"Your Excellency, I cannot accept the protests of your Soviet government, nor can my country accept them. In our opinion, the Russian Tsarist government is not protected by our government, but supported by the monarchists of your country. All finances and military have nothing to do with our government, and our government does not care about the actions of the Tsarist government in Baikal. What we are most concerned about now is the situation on the border between China and Russia. We do not want to repeat the situation of the two ** teams holding a military standoff at the border a few months ago, but if you insist on being hostile to our country, then our government has to make corresponding military deployments to ensure the peace of the border.

On the other hand, given that your government officially passed and published a Peace Act yesterday, in which you have officially announced the abolition of all treaties signed with foreign countries since the establishment of the Russian Provisional Government, then we can naturally believe that your government does not recognize the legal effect of a package agreement signed by our government and the Russian Provisional Government. Then, there seems to be no reason for your government to protest against our government, because the treaty that decided to dissolve the Tsarist government was the content of the provisions of the package agreement, but your government does not recognize the legal effect of those treaties.

Shi Zhaoji made a statement with some reason. It was also reasonable and well-founded, and he grasped a flaw in Molotov's words, leaving the other party with nothing to say.

Seeing that Molotov had nothing to say for a moment, Shi Zhaoji seized the time to go further and showed off the tasks assigned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

"Your Excellency, since your Soviet government has advocated the abolition of all unequal treaties in the world in the Peace Act, can this proposal be regarded as the cornerstone of your government's diplomaticism? If so, my government is willing to continue to negotiate on the unequal treaties between China and Russia based on the work results several months ago to modify them into more equal international treaties. And our position is clear that these unequal treaties must include all the treaties signed between China and Russia, and even the Sino-Russian Nebchu Treaty."

As soon as Shi Zanji said this, Molotov was shocked. You should know that the Sino-Russian Treaty of Nebchu was signed at the end of the 17th century, and it has been more than two hundred years since then. Now the Chinese suddenly proposed that even this treaty should be revised. This really surprised Molotov. He never thought that the Chinese had such great ambitions and wanted to use Russia's chaos to annex the territory that Russia had annexed in the hundreds of years of expansion.

"For your country's suggestion, the Soviet government must seriously consider it and will give you a reply later.

Molotov hesitated for a moment, but the final answer was vague.

Shi Juli republished the difficulties and difficulties hidden behind this reply. He knew very well that although the current Russian Soviet government had controlled the situation in Petrograd, in the face of a chaos and disorder throughout Russia, what the Soviet government needs most is not food, but order. Without order, there will be no food. However, if China continues to support the armed rebellion of the Tsarist government, the order that exists in Russia will not be restored.

Since the Petrograd Revolution, many military and political figures of the Russian Provisional Government have gone to Siberia in the east. Since the Tsarist government issued a call and announced the implementation of constitutional monarchy yesterday, the Soviet enemies seemed to have found a flag and planned to unite under this flag. On the surface, this flag was the Tsarist government, but in fact, it was carried on China's shoulders. The Soviet government knew very well that if it were not for the "Far East madman" who instigated or urged him behind the scenes, the Tsarist government would have no strength to make a comeback and occupy the Port of Baikal.
Chapter completed!