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362 The curtain opens

This kind of doubt was overthrown by Sverdlov in an instant. It was probably because the current situation was sensitive, which was the best time to make the bad things. Stalin had already planned it, and neither Li Xiaofeng nor him dared to fight back violently at this time. If he really did this, he would really be ignorant of the importance. The tutor would never allow them to do anything randomly.

After this period, there are two possibilities: either the Bolsheviks succeed and return to the mainstream position in politics, or they are defeated and beaten by Kornilov. But no matter which possibility, Stalin didn't have to worry about the revenge of Sverdlov and Li Xiaofeng.

The reason is very simple. If it succeeds, the Bolsheviks will usher in a blowout period soon. The next step is to be busy seizing power. At that time, there was endless work waiting for Sverdlov and Li Xiaofeng, and they had no energy to deal with him.

Similarly, if it fails, the Bolsheviks at that time may no longer be able to settle in Russia and prepare to continue to die. Everyone is a clay Buddha crossing the river, and who still has the intention to fight in the internal strife?

After understanding this, Sverdlov admired Stalin a little. The time for this guy to choose was really good. For a period of time, there was no need to worry about being retaliated. As for whether he would be settled after this period of time, he might have a countermeasure.

If the Bolsheviks fail, there is no way to talk about everything, and they are not afraid of settlement or other things. If they succeed, then with his name as a member of the Central Committee and a member of the Politburo, a force will definitely be raised during this period. At that time, everyone will be in a head-on battle. Stalin really doesn't need to be too afraid.

"This guy is so sinister!" After Sverdlov's analysis, Li Xiaofeng had a deeper understanding of Comrade Steel's blackness, "This bastard wants to kill us!"

Sverdlov nodded silently. In fact, he thought more than that. In fact, Stalin probably didn't need to worry about revenge. In this matter, his instigation and instigation were very obscure. Akiensky would never confess him. If someone hadn't been too powerful, he would have been kept in the dark at this time and would not have known who had been plotting against him.

Naturally, Stalin was extremely safe. Even Sverdlov could guess that this guy planned to keep hiding behind the scenes, quietly without leaving any traces, and do it again if he didn't succeed once, as long as he succeeded once before Sverdlov noticed it. Even if the result was done.

The most terrifying thing in politics is not the pure hatred. Everyone is clearly in a position to fight head-on as long as the strength is not too different, it is hard to say who will win. Therefore, this kind of open confrontation often ends with mutual compromise.

On the contrary, the most terrifying thing is Stalin, a poisonous snake hidden in the dark. Usually he doesn’t hum or huh, and maybe he will even call you brothers, but when you turn around, he will stab the knife in the back. This despicable hypocrite is the most terrifying thing!

Sverdlov remembered this account and regarded Stalin as an extremely terrible opponent for the first time. Although he would never get it back now or for a long time in the future. However, as long as he finds an opportunity, Stalin will definitely be skinned.

However, Li Xiaofeng was not very satisfied with this forbearance: "Do nothing, just let him go? It's too cheap!"

Sverdlov smiled bitterly: "What else can I do if I don't let him go? Comrade Lenin will never allow us to do whatever he wants... For the sake of the current plan, we can only pretend not to know anything, so that the bastard thinks we have not noticed his conspiracy. Let him relax his vigilance, and when we find a suitable opportunity, we will take action and settle the score with him!"

If it were Li Xiaofeng in the past, I would probably not have accepted this cowardly suggestion, but after going through many political ups and downs, he began to mature and knew that being straightforward and doing was a taboo in the political arena. In this industry where many traitors were born, it is very necessary to go further and live longer and learn to be patient.

"Okay, this bastard is cheap!" Li Xiaofeng sighed in a bad mood, "I'll deal with him later."

Li Xiaofeng's helpless three-pointer is real, and seven-pointer is fake. Although he lets Stalin go, he is ready in his heart. You can shoot me with a marijuana face. Even if you can't fight back now, you have to collect some of your black materials. When the opportunity is right, you will kill you!

Sverdlov nodded, "It is right to settle the accounts in the future, but Andre, we must prepare for the future. If this bastard can play the first mafia, there will be a second time. Always being passive is not a solution. We must actively collect some materials and evidence and use them at critical moments!"

Well, Li Xiaofeng knew that he was not the only smart person. Others had long thought of what he could think of. Never look down on himself in the political arena, otherwise he would not know how to die.

"No problem, I'm good at this!" Li Xiaofeng agreed calmly.

The first contest between Stalin and Sverdlov and Li Xiaofeng came to an end invisibly. In this round of confrontation, Stalin took the lead and gained a good start. But at the same time, he also exposed his intentions too early, making Sverdlov and Li Xiaofeng more vigilant, which made it more difficult for him to shoot a cold arrow in the future. In the long run, this little bit of weakness can be ignored.

Of course, the confrontation in this round was only a simple thing because of the sensitive situation, but this also invisibly shows that after the merger of the District League faction and the Lenin faction, the struggle within the party began to become fierce until the victory of the revolution and the end of the civil war, and forever.

Fortunately, this internal struggle is not too fierce yet, and the conflict is not very obvious, because they have a consistent enemy for the time being, and before the enemy falls, they are still consistent to the outside world.

However, the Bolsheviks' largest enemy could not have been around for long. Kornilov and Shulikin had no idea that their conspiracy had been completely discovered. They thought they were clever and were still implementing their plans in an orderly manner. On the evening of August 26, Colonel Dutov, the Cossack officer who was bribed by Shulikin, began to incite their troops to prepare for a "coup".

"Comrades in the Soldiers, we can no longer tolerate the rebellious actions of the government and the Soviets. What they did has completely exposed the nature of their counter-revolution... In the present situation, we can only take up weapons and use our hands to defend the revolution... Comrades, let us join hands and advance. Capture the Winter Palace and hang all the evil leaders of the counter-revolution!"

While Dutov was giving a speech at the stage, Li Xiaofeng, who was hiding behind the scenes, yawned and said to Anna beside him: "How much does Shu Lijin give him? This performance ability is really bad. Can't you find a better actor?"

To be fair, Dutov's speech is still like that. His expression is too entangled and artificial, and this product has not been out of the manuscript yet. Reading the manuscript makes people feel that this is a good design, which is really fake.

Anna hugged the arm of a certain immortal. She didn't even look at Dutov on the stage, but looked at Morrigan behind her in a hidden way. She was very afraid of the disciple of a certain immortal. Not only because the disciple was too beautiful, but also because this beautiful woman was sent by someone to monitor her. They were inseparable these two days, which fully demonstrates that someone still doesn't trust her.

Of course, this distrust is normal in Anna's opinion. Faced with such an important matter, if a fairy really trusts her casually, there will be no supervision measures at all. Then she should consider whether to cooperate with the other party. Moreover, the fairy's surveillance method is open and open, unlike Shu Lijin, who pretends to be nothing on the surface, but in fact she is secretly surveillance.

Compared with the two, a certain immortal feels like a villain first and then a gentleman. Even if he sends someone to monitor, it is purely defensive, while Shu Lijin is a purely vulgar villain. After understanding this, Anna naturally won’t have any objections.

She smiled and said, "Do you think this candidate is easy to find? The troops that pretend to be rebellious must not be their own people, otherwise it would be too much of a joke. In the hundreds of thousands of troops in Petrograd, we must find someone who has a good impression of them and is willing to accept their orders. But at the same time, there is a certain prestige on the surface, as if they are inclined to revolution. The officers who can lead soldiers to cause trouble are not only rare, but also rare animals. It is not easy to find a Dutov!"

Li Xiaofeng did not argue about this. Anyway, this is a scene. Dutov is at most a clown in it. His only hope is that this clown can get to the point sooner and don’t waste too much time, because a considerable number of soldiers in the audience have begun to become impatient.

Dutov seemed to have noticed this, but this man had very limited political wisdom. He understood the soldiers' impatientness as being impatient to carry out revolutionary actions. He believed that his speech had completely mobilized the soldiers' enthusiasm.

Seeing the time "ripe", Dutov, who was full of joy, raised his arms on the stage and shouted: "Get the capitalists, fight the pseudo-government! Comrades, fight with me!"

What greeted him was not the response of the tsunami, but the booing sounds everywhere. The soldiers in the audience were swearing him unanimously and gestured to him with various unsightly gestures. In short, except for the lack of rotten banana peels and rotten eggs, Dutov was unanimously boycotted by the soldiers.

"Get out of here, you liar!"

"Don't want to deceive us, you are in the same group as the reactionary government!"

Dutov ran away from the stage in a mess. The waves of booing made him feel lost. He kept complaining to Anna: "Miss Anna, this is not that I am not capable of my work. I have tried my best. I took the lead... I asked them to go out to the streets, but, but none of them will follow me!"

After a pause, the man suggested to Anna with great sincerity: "Or, we will go to other troops to do work, or postpone the action..."

"No need!" Anna glanced at a fairy beside her and said decisively: "There is no time, and the action cannot be postponed!"

"But, but, we didn't..."

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Li Xiaofeng with great annoyance: "Shut up, you have done a good job." Speaking of this, he turned to Anna and said, "It's almost time. Tell Shu Lijin that the troops have gone to the streets and everything goes as planned!"

Dutov widened his eyes and said panickedly: "Sir, you can't make such jokes, we haven't succeeded!"

Li Xiaofeng smiled slightly and said, "Yes, you have not achieved success, but we are already on the road to success. Thank you for your cooperation!"

Before Dutov could react, he was unconscious by Morrigan behind him with a knife. Anna grabbed the phone without hesitation and reported the good news to Shulijin.

When Shulikin, who was on the other end of the telephone line, suddenly slapped the table and laughed three times: "Dutov has succeeded. Gentlemen, let's start the action!"

Kornilov called his confidant Kremov at the first time and asked his troops to immediately start martial law in Petrograd, Kronstadt, and Estonia. He established wartime military courts in this area and the Baltic fleet, and had the right to shoot all officers and soldiers who did not obey commands... It is strictly forbidden to assemble, strike, parade, and carry and preserve weapons and ammunition... It is also stipulated that everyone is prohibited from staying in the streets from 7 pm to 7 am the next morning. Without inspection, newspapers and magazines, publishing, and violators can be executed on the spot without trial.

In this murderous hit, former Prime Minister Duke Lewoff found the current Prime Minister Kerensky with the conditions he had already agreed on and conveyed an ultimatum.

Kerensky was completely shocked by this sudden bad news and shouted in disbelief: "Everything is normal for Petrograd, where are there any rebels? What Kornilov did is a de facto rebellion, and the cabinet will never accept the above conditions!"

"I advise you to accept it!" Duke Lewoff said coldly, "Our Cadets have decided to withdraw from the coalition government. We unanimously believe that under the current circumstances, it is reasonable and appropriate to hand over Russia's supreme power to General Kornilov!"

Kerensky stared at Duke Lewoff with a blue and red face. After a long time, he asked back: "What if I refuse!"

Liwoff sneered. Although he thought Kornilov was domineering, he had no good feelings for Kerensky. The last time he formed the second coalition government, it was Kerensky and Zeretiri who pushed him off the throne of prime minister together. Now he has the opportunity to take revenge, which makes him very happy.

"Reject?" Duke Lewoff sneered, "What are you using to refuse? I'm not afraid to tell you that the army outside the city has gathered. You can crush you into powder with just one order. My Prime Minister, the master, the master of the times is a hero. You should think carefully about where to go!"

Kerensky's face became increasingly ugly. He pointed at Duke Lewoff tremblingly and shouted angrily: "Get out! Get out of my office!"

Lewoff glared at him contemptuously, "I don't know how to live or die!" After that, the former prime minister took several Constitutional Democratic ministers away.

Kerensky sat down on the chair. Although he had shown the courage to surrender just now, he was actually secretly amazed in his heart. Facing Kornilov's army's obsession, he had no idea how to resist. He had no soldiers on his hands, and no matter how he looked at it, he was in a state of dying.

Kerensky knew that without the support of the army, he would definitely not be able to stand low on Kornilov, but for a while, he could not change his army. What should I do? Just when he was most panicked and anxious, the phone on the table rang.

"Kornilov has been betrayed!" Qi Heze's voice on the phone was extremely frightened, "You should think of a solution quickly! Otherwise, everything will be over!"

"How can I find a way!" Kerensky roared at the microphone, "I can't transform into an army!"

Just as the two fools were about to quarrel, the door of Kerensky's office was pushed open, and Akschellod rushed in like a gust of wind and shouted at Kerensky: "Has Kornilov been rebellious?"

Kerensky nodded mechanically, and Akserilloth roared again: "Then why are you still standing there? Hurry up and organize a quellion!"

Kerensky was also angry and said angrily: "How can I have an army? I can't stop him alone, right?"

"Of course you can't do it alone!" Akserillo glared at him, "Mr. Plekhanov wants me to tell you, immediately send the country to the country, remove all Kornilov's posts, and declare that any act of responding to his coup will be regarded as treason..."

Kerensky said disdainfully: "What's the use of this!"

"Of course it's useful!" Aksherirod explained nervously, "This is the first step, legally denying the legitimacy of the Kornilov coup operation, and then letting the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union issue an order to mobilize Petrograd's army to stop him!"

Kerensky immediately woke up. Yes, Kornilov was indeed very strong, but the military power he had was still a little weak compared to Petrograd's hundreds of thousands of troops. As long as Petrograd's army supported the Soviets was mobilized, suppressing the rebellion was not a dream.

But just as he picked up the phone and wanted to notify Qiheze and Celetiri, he suddenly realized that the character of the Soviet Central Executive Committee was very disproportionate this month, and in Petrograd, he could be considered a waste of prestige. Can the army listen to them at this time?

Moreover, as for the news that Liwoff just passed, it seemed that the Bolsheviks first incited the army to rebel, and then Kornilov took the opportunity to attack. There would be no conspiracy in this, right?

"What are you still hesitating about? Call quickly!" Akshelilo urged impatiently.

Kerensky said hesitantly: "I heard that the Bolsheviks first rebel. A Cossack named Dutov mobilized the army to make trouble on the streets, and then Kornilov started the camera. Do you think this is a trap?" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for recommendations, monthly votes, and your support is my greatest motivation.)
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