Volume XI Chapter 60 Friendship 2
The great Comrade Yang Jingcheng once summarized: Revolution always starts with the public intellectuals. They use human nature and kindness as tools to not only disintegrate and destroy existing ideology until the rulers are overthrown or they are bought; and then, under their guidance, the decisive revolutionaries start to act, and are actively developing more terrible than language. The "** regime that resists tyranny" mentioned by Robertsbeer has always been more cruel and cruel than the existing ruling group. However, if the fanaticism of the revolutionaries cannot be cooled down after obtaining power, and the advocates who pursue beauty, and the cruel and cold-blooded actors do not have stable people to end the purge, then the end of the French Revolution is the template for all revolutions.
In China, Kang Liang and Yan Fu are the advocates of the revolution, and the root of the revolution also comes from this; then, starting from Yang Quyun, Sun Wen, Tang Caichang, Huang Xing, Tao Chengzhang, Wu Yue and other actors emerged one after another; however, in this time and space, Yang Rui's role is to end the stable people of all verbal party and activists. In addition to blockade, arrest, expulsion, and elimination, his other method is to legalize it. However, he still has the energy of the middle class and will eventually find that these methods are of little use.
This is the case in China. In Russia, the Decemberists, Plekhanov, the great Comrade Lenin and the social revolutionary party, the constitutional revolutionaries were all advocates of the revolution, and the actors can be traced back to the bomb party, the nihilistic party, and the founder of the Red Army Trosky. However, these two types of people are not difficult to yearn for truth, goodness and beauty in their hearts. People who are good at speaking and writing will naturally become advocates; those who also yearn for truth, goodness and beauty in their hearts, and who are willing to sacrifice their lives for revolution and freedom are naturally acted. Only those who are full of falsehood, evil and ugliness in their hearts, and those who are full of selfishness and strong wrists can become true stable people, and Comrade Stalin is such a person.
In previous history, Yang Rui firmly believed that Comrade Stalin was a tyrant and an extremely cruel executioner. However, after looking at history in an immersive manner, he felt that Comrade Stalin was an indispensable talent for the Russian Revolution. Although it was just for his own power, if the party and military forces did not clear up those advocates and activists, the Soviet regime would not be completely stable. After all, the history of the Russian Revolution's advocacy and actions was too long and had a profound impact, but the new order should be built on people's necks rather than in their hearts. Therefore, the great purge became the best choice for Stalin to rise to power by relying on skills and struggle, no doubt about it.
Selfless and kind people started the revolution because of their ideals and resentment, while selfish and evil people quietly ended it because of reality and power. This is a complete cycle of revolution. Obviously, Yang Rui believed that he could not compete with Comrade Stalin at the latter point. In addition, the future Sino-Soviet cooperation and dominate the Eurasian continent, he could not help but lend a helping hand when Comrade Stalin was in the most difficult time, hoping to gain his friendship.
Comrade Stalin was in a difficult situation at this time. If his mission was not completed successfully, it would inevitably affect his future within the party. The Central Executive Committee of the All-Russian Central Committee prepared two special trains when the traffic was almost paralyzed and the fuel and coal was extremely tight, so that they could save the destruction of the Soviets. One was taken by Trosky, and he would sail to Kazan in the east and lead the Red Army to resist the Czech army and the White Bandits to attack Moscow westward and defend the new Soviet regime. The other special train was Comrade Stalin, who would go to the North Caucasus and the Don River Basin in the south to transport the food there to the north.
Food, like war, is also related to the survival of the Soviet regime. Without food, urban workers will riot again, and what is even more terrible is that if sufficient food is not collected, according to the requirements of the Annex to the Brest Treaty, in addition to reparations, the Russian government must provide Germany with goods and food worth billions of marks from November 15, 1918 to March 31, 1920.
In history, when goods and food were delivered on November 15, 1918, Germany had been defeated four days in advance. At this time, when Trosky had only dared to shout "Long live the World Workers Revolution" when he recaptured Kazan, but at other times, Lenin, who only emphasized that he had to wait until the "international revolutionary proletarian aid arrived", he was greatly relieved and mentioned the "world revolution" with great enthusiasm again. History has changed. Germany will definitely not be defeated before November 15. The Soviet government must pay at least one year of goods and supplies according to the contract. Otherwise, Germany will start war again.
Comrade Lenin and his comrades were afraid of the German attack again, because it would kill the new proletarian regime. In the July of the Jesus calendar before he was assassinated, because he did not agree with the Bolshevik rural policies (especially food policies) and opposed the Brest Contract. The left of the Social Revolutionary Party who attempted to re-provoke the war assassinated the German Ambassador to Russia Mirbach. Trosky immediately issued an order in the name of the Military People's Committee and published it strangely the next day in the Issue in an attempt to clarify the Bolsheviks' position; Lenin, together with Sverdlov and Zichelin, immediately rushed to the German embassy to apologize as the head of state, which was a complete exception.
The German ambassador was assassinated by a leftist party conspiracy trying to provoke a war. The Bolsheviks were so nervous that if they could not obtain enough goods and food to deliver to Germany this winter, and the German people would once again experience the countless dead green winters, which Comrade Lenin should apologize?
In the Ukrainian region, there was no food to be levied along the Volga River. Comrade Stalin, who rushed south with 400 red soldiers (including one hundred Latvian sharpshooters) and a seventeen-year-old little loli who admired the revolutionary hero, fully understood the importance and urgency of food to maintain the Soviet regime. However, there was also no food to be levied in the direction of the Don River. Not only did the White Army, but also Krasnov, the leader of the Don Army's military government supported by the Germans. He stopped Stalin at Taritzin (now Volgograd); this was to the west and south, according to the Brest Contract, Russia needed to withdraw from Ardahan, Karls, Batumi and other places because these places had been ceded to Ottoman Turkey. Although the British army occupied Baku a few months ago, they were quickly driven away by the Turkish army, which also meant Stalin could not go to the North Caucasus.
Only in Taritzin, there was no way to collect food. At the same time, Stalin had no military power when collecting food. The father of the Red Army, Trosky, firmly controlled the military power. The North Caucasus Military Region was formed according to Trosky's principle of military establishment. The backbone of the military region was also appointed by Trosky, and the commander was Lieutenant General Snesalev of the former Tsarist period.
The biggest difference between Lieutenant General Snezarev and Stalin is that the bourgeoisie who still retains the golden epaulette of the Tsarist era on his shoulders and does not mind that the soldiers are dissatisfied with it, actually declared extremely reactionary that he would never point the guns of the army at the Russians; while Comrade Stalin believed that anyone who did not hand over food and opposed his orders was counter-revolutionary and should be shot, whether it was the Russians or the Bolsheviks.
Snezarev belonged to Trosky. Stalin only belonged to Stalin. Snezarev was the commander-in-chief of the military region, and Stalin did not have any military positions, so Stalin sent a telegram to Lenin and Trosky in July, demanding some temporary military command. But his request was not met, but things suddenly turned around last month.
"Comrade Stalin, I have locked them up!" I have known each other for more than ten years. Voroshilov, who had just returned from Ukraine, reported on the train. He was just appointed as commander of the 10th Army by Stalin last month. But this was only a private appointment by Stalin, not Lenin, nor the Military Commission.
"Voloshilov!" Comrade Steel bit his pipe and looked even heavier. After the seventeen-year-old little loli brought coffee to the two, he had to ask again: "Do they obey your orders?"
"Yes. Total obedience, Comrade Stalin." Voroshilov immediately stood up and replied, "It was just that the bourgeoisie said it was completely contrary to the orders of the Military Commission and accused us of not having any right to detain the officers on that ship."
"Do we don't have this right?" Stalin asked with a smile.
"Of course we have this power!" Voroshilov replied immediately, and after saying that, he smiled. "The 10th Army and more than 50 representatives of the Party, Government and trade unions of Charijin have reconsidered the method of using old officers to build the Red Army. Everyone collectively opposed this resolution and asked the Central Committee to convene a congress to re-adjust this policy. This is the voice of the people of Charijin."
"Yes." Comrade Stalin picked up his cigarette butt again and nodded with satisfaction. However, he did not want to waste time on the old Russian officers who had been detained, so he asked: "Comrade Voroshilov, the White Army is approaching Tarizin. We hope that you and the Political Commissar Comrade Xia Jianke immediately mobilized all mobilized forces and then organized a steel force to make the white bandits who were trying to occupy Tarizin beat their heads and bloodied!"
"Yes. Comrade Stalin!" Voroshilov replied loudly, and then his usual catchphrase shouted again: "It's okay without him! You can fight without him!"
Voroshilov said loudly. Stalin's little loli urgently sent a telegram, which was sent by Trosky. After receiving the telegram from Stalin to detain these old Russian officers, he immediately made a reply. In the name of the All-Russian Military Commission, he asked Stalin to release these people immediately and ask them to continue working in the headquarters. Stalin was furious when he saw it and immediately wrote on the telegram: "Don't pay attention!" Just as he was about to return the telegram to the little loli for filing, he glanced at Voroshilov in front of him and handed the telegram to him.
"Yes, Comrade Stalin, we ignore him!" Voroshilov said with gratitude, and the telegram was quickly returned.
"Comrade Voroshilov, the Soviet workers and citizens are starving, and the soldiers are also starving, but the hateful bourgeois officers are indifferent to this; while the White Bandits are approaching, we must destroy them under the city of Chalizin, and at the same time counterattack to the Don River area, where a large amount of food is being transported to Berlin by the Germans. We must destroy this situation, and we must not let the Germans transport a grain of food away!" Comrade Iron looked at the 'guerrilla captain' in front of him, but he had to say earnestly. From a realistic perspective, Voroshilov was only worthy of being a guerrilla captain, but at this time he was the commander of the group army!
"Yes, Comrade Stalin, I promise to complete the glorious task assigned to me by the party." Voroshilov said.
"What is Comrade Budonie doing now?" The person in front of him could not count on him, so Stalin had to look for only another one.
"Comrade Budoni is training the newly recruited Red Army cavalry of the Workers and Peasants." Voroshilov replied, and after saying that he said with some concern: "It turns out that the Kalmyks who lived here heard that they had migrated to the grassland governor's area controlled by the Chinese in the east. After they left, most of the young people we recruited would not ride horses."
"Yes, I heard that the Chinese invited them back last year and rewarded them with the Caspian Sea area that originally belonged to the great Soviets." The North Caucasus where Stalin is now located does not border the Chinese-occupied areas, but he still hates the robbers who robbed by fire. They are as hateful as Germany and are delusional to annex the Russian Caspian Sea, the Grassland Governor's District, Turkestan and the Far East.
"Comrade Stalin, we need a sufficient number of cavalry to better eliminate those white bandits. If there are not so many cavalry, we need more machine guns." Voroshilov took the opportunity to ask.
"No." Stalin bit his pipe hard and said, "Now all military supplies are given priority to Kazan, where Trosky is. He wants to regain Kazan, which was occupied by the White Bandits."
"Then..." Voroshilov originally wanted a cannon, but he could see that the iron comrade frowned deeply and immediately turned around and said, "Can Trosky and his old military officers regain Kazan?"
"Maybe, maybe not." Stalin stretched his eyebrows a little, then knocked the pipe he had finished smoking, reinstalled it and said, "The White Bandits have imperialist support. They have countless cannons, machine guns, and even planes, as well as the latest Chinese chariots. I believe this battle will be very difficult. Trosky believes in the old officers, think they are experts (farmers!), and hope these experts will bring him good luck."
Comrade Iron said while putting his pipe on, and soon his pipe was lit again. When the tobacco was ignited, he continued: "Now the fate of the Soviets is all in the cities of Kazan and Chalizin. If we lose Chalizin, the White Bandits in the south will unite with the White Bandits in the east and attack Moscow north along the Volga River; the same is true for Kazan. If the Red Army did not retake this city and defeat the attack of the White Bandits in the north, they can unite with the imperialist interfering forces in Murmansk and Arkhangelsk in the north and march into Moscow. These are all fatal threats to the Soviets. The White Bandits in the white Bandits hated us, and the imperialists were afraid of us. The more they were like this, the more we would win."
Seeing Stalin elevating the siege of Tarizin to the survival of the Soviet Union. Voroshilov said, "Comrade Stalin, I will definitely ask my comrades to defend Tarizin to the death and defend the Soviet Union." At this point, Voroshilov glanced at Comrade Steel and hesitated: "Comrade Stalin. I remember that you applied for eight armored vehicles to Moscow last month..."
"There is no news at all!" Although Stalin had not experienced regular military training, he also knew the role of armored vehicles and armored combat vehicles. In particular, the Germans used armored combat vehicles to capture Paris. Last month, he applied to Moscow to remove eight of the armored vehicles left by Tsarist Russia, but there has been no result yet.
"Report!" Comrade Stalin was saying that there was no news, but suddenly the news came, "Comrade Stalin. We caught a Chinese spy..."
"Then you should shoot it!" Comrade Steel said unhappily. When the Chinese Revolution was victorious, he also wrote articles to praise her, but now she took advantage of the Russian Revolution to annex many territory that originally belonged to Russia, which made him very unhappy.
"But he asked to see you, Commissioner Stalin, and he said he knew where there was a lot of food." The last sentence of the guard made Stalin change his attitude immediately. Perhaps defending Chalizin was the first priority now, but food was the foundation for him to go south to the Caucasus. Even if he defended Chalizin, he still had to lead his troops to occupy the entire Don River and the North Caucasus region to obtain food. If this spy could provide valuable information, it would really save a lot of things.
"Take him in," said Stalin, then put down his pipe. "Remember to search his documents and weapons."
When Stalin agreed not to shoot Hu Wenyao, he and his assistant were waiting outside in a mess. Because he was flying directly from the east of the Ural River, he was carrying Erguotou on his body, and he didn't want to be caught by the brave Red Army soldiers as soon as he landed. All the things on his body were searched, and the bottle of wine was drunk by them in just a few strokes. Perhaps because he hadn't drunk for a long time, the soldiers were still polite to him and killed him without a single shot. After being completely searched and warned, Hu Wenyao walked into Comrade Stalin's special train.
"Are you Comrade Stalin?" Hu Wenyao looked at the photos of everyone in the Central Committee of Russia, including Stalin. But Stalin in front of him was much younger than in the photo. He was wearing a military uniform without a military rank, wearing a Russian officer's hat, and the eight characters between his nose and lips were connected together, thick and dense. He held a smoking pipe in his hand, and looked at himself with some alertness, a spy he had never seen in his life and recognized who Stalin was at first sight, which made Comrade Stalin surprised.
Stalin didn't speak, and Voroshilov next to him asked knowingly: "Tell me, Chinese, do you know where there is a lot of food? If you can bring us good news, then you may be able to survive; if you dare to deceive Comrade Stalin, then..."
As soon as Voroshilov spoke, Hu Wenyao felt that he was just a servant butler. Maybe Stalin could trust him. He smiled unmovedly: "I am not the spy you call me. If you really are spies, would you land in a conspicuous place outside Chalijin City? I just want to say that I am your friend. In addition, my assistant and I are very cold. Do you have any food?"
Over the years, Hu Wenyao has been able to speak some simple Russian, and the meaning he wants to say can basically be expressed. But language is not the key, and his unhurried attitude and strange dress made Stalin look at it a few more times. Comrade Steel asked: "How do you prove that you are our friend, not our enemy?"
"I am a Chinese Michaelis." Hu Wenyao said calmly, "The victory of the Russian Revolution is the victory of proletarians all over the world. I often pay attention to the news in the newspaper. Now the Soviet regime is in a great crisis, so as a loyal Michaelis, I hope to do my best to help Russia. I know there is a lot of food there, and as long as you need it, the railway is open, and it will be transported to Moscow immediately... Dear Comrade Stalin, do you have any food?"
Stalin's first impression on Hu Wenyao was that this person was extremely tough, so he didn't mind being embarrassed or pitiful. He added that set of Machinist words, and Comrade Steel suddenly wanted to hear what he was going to say next. He said to his secretary: "Get him a cup of coffee."
The secretary is the future wife of Comrade Stalin, the lovely 17-year-old Lolina Dezhda Alilueva. Unlike the serious comrade Steel, she treats this strange Chinese as a guest and smiles kindly at him when she comes to serve the coffee.
Unexpectedly, Hu Wenyao, who had been waiting for too long, quickly finished his coffee. He said: "The Persians lack food due to famine. Now the Chinese government is helping them. The food is transported from the inner palace to the Western Regions, then through the Bukhara Khanate, and finally transported to Persia in Krasnowodsk via the Caspian sea. With this route, China's food is also continuously transported to Chalijin."
After talking for a long time, it turned out to be China's food. Stalin thought it was from Central Asia at first. He asked with some disappointment: "How much food can you have in this way?"
"Dear Comrade Stalin, the key is how much do you need?" Hu Wenyao smiled. His mention made Comrade Stalin alert again. He always felt something was wrong today. However, Hu Wenyao didn't care. He continued, "I will try my best to bring you whatever you need."
"Can you bring your weapons?" Voroshilov asked immediately.
"Is it you..." Hu Wenyao glanced at Stalin, wondering what level this person was in Stalin's heart. Some things he could not say to everyone.
"He is Comrade Voroshilov, the commander of the 10th Legion. The White Bandits Army is approaching Tarizin. Comrade Voroshilov hopes to have a large number of machine guns and artillery..." Stalin looked at Hu Wenyao, hoping to use arms to test whether he was a madman or a truly capable 'revolutionary sympathizer'.
"Machine guns, artillery..." Hu Wenyao muttered, looking at his Voroshilov and added: "It's better to have an armored vehicle!"
Chapter completed!