092 Coincidence
Just as Li Xiaofeng was about to get what he wanted to touch the two tender places, the carriage that was originally as stable as Mount Tai suddenly drifted 90 degrees. Someone, who was extremely happy and sad, hit the carriage head-on and won a lot of lottery.
Morrigan stood up from under the seat with his head covered and asked, "What's wrong?"
Seeing that the attempt to kiss Fangze failed, Li Xiaofeng vented his resentment on the coachman. The poor man apologized repeatedly while explaining the reason. When the relationship was just turning, the other carriage that was driving towards him was drunk or the horse pulling the carriage, but he rushed over without hesitation. The poor coachman couldn't react. Although he tried hard to turn the direction, the two carriages still ran into full bloom.
After understanding the reason, Li Xiaofeng was even more furious. You grandsons who ruined my good deeds, let’s see how you deal with you! After gritting your teeth and stomping your feet, the guy jumped out of the car angrily, kicked open the car door of the other party, and cursed: “Don’t you have eyes? Why are you driving! Just say what you want to die!”
But as soon as he finished speaking, a certain immortal was messy in the wind. So what, Comrade Derrensky, you, no, why did you run to Stockholm to get into a genius?
I saw the steel Felix in the carriage hugging another middle-aged man in a 69-style posture, and the posture felt ambiguous no matter how you looked at it.
"It's you, Comrade Andre?!" Derrensky was also a little surprised at someone's sudden appearance, "Why are you here in Sweden?"
The problem now is not why I am in Sweden, but that you two are just playing with the stakes. Those who play cars should pay attention to the influence. It would be bad if they cause traffic accidents. It would be bad that I met today. If it were someone else, you wouldn't be ruined?
Derrensky struggled to get up from the floor and patted the dust on his body. He introduced to his friends around him: "Comrade Kanetsky, this is Comrade Andre Petrovic I mentioned to you. Although he is young, he has made considerable contributions to the revolution!"
It turns out that this guy is Ganetsky. Li Xiaofeng has also known this person for a long time. He is one of the old revolutionaries. After the February Revolution, he almost acted as a bridge for communication between Lenin and the country. Many of Lenin's articles and instructions were conveyed through this person.
"Hello, Comrade Ganetsky." Li Xiaofeng shook hands with Ganetsky and asked, "Are you going out of the city?"
Derrensky smiled bitterly and said, "No, we are planning to enter the city." He pointed to the broken carriage and complained, "The two beasts just now didn't know what happened, but suddenly they went crazy and ran around, lifting the driver off the carriage... By the way, Andre, please send someone to the front to see. The poor driver is probably very injured..."
Not only was the injury very serious, the coachman could say that he had lost half his life. In other words, a certain immortal saw that he was pitiful and crossed some immortal power, otherwise he would probably have been paralyzed.
"You haven't answered my question yet, Comrade Andre, why did you come to Sweden too? I heard that you ran a newspaper in Petrograd, why did you suddenly go abroad? Who is this lady?" Derrensky pointed to Morrigan in the carriage.
"I'm in Sweden for a little while. This lady is my secretary!" Li Xiaofeng casually whispered.
Derzhinsky and Ganetsky looked at each other. They didn't believe that the strange Morrigan, who was wearing black robe, would be the secretary. Fortunately, a certain immortal changed the topic in time: "Why are you in Stockholm too?"
"I am here to welcome Lenin and his exiled comrades!" Derrensky didn't think it was a secret, and said in a singular way.
Even if luck comes, Li Xiaofeng couldn't stop it. He was secretly happy and immediately asked: "Comrade Lenin has returned to China?"
Derrensky nodded: "Comrade Lenin is preparing to leave Zurich on April 9 and return home from Germany. Comrade Ganetsky and I are raising travel expenses for the returned comrades..."
Raise travel expenses?
Li Xiaofeng was a little confused. Isn’t it clear that in later generations, the street stall literature written clearly that Lenin received funding from the Germans and returned to China with 50 million gold marks? There are those 50 million gold marks, and you still have to spend this effort to raise money? Is Comrade Lenin the kind of person who is the kind of person who is lost even if he doesn’t pick up money when he goes out? He immediately raised the question in his heart.
Derzhinsky and Ganetsky smiled bitterly. They have heard of such rumors recently. Mirukov, the Provisional Government and Minister, have spread rumors recently. What is Lenin a German spy? William II spent a huge amount of money to make the Bolsheviks revolution? All kinds of rumors that cannot stand the scrutiny are one after another. Is it the intention? Isn’t it just to discredit the Bolsheviks and Lenin and reduce their influence among the masses.
"Comrade Andre, don't listen to those rumors. Do you still understand the economic situation of the Party? The revenge of truth is still the money you paid. Most of the travel expenses of the comrades returned this time are from you. Besides, if Comrade Lenin really had 50 million gold marks, would he still have to shoot an urgent call to Comrade Ganetsky and let him find ways to raise travel expenses for emergency response?"
Derrensky signaled Ganetsky to take out a telegram to a fairy, but saw that the words on it were clearly written in black and white. Lenin asked Ganetsky to immediately raise funds of two to three thousand kroners to solve the urgent problem. The signing time was April 2. The call also notified that there were more than ten people returning to China and that he could do a great job in reception.
In fact, Li Xiaofeng was originally skeptical about the 50 million gold mark. This was not a small amount of money. At that time, it was worth about ten tons of gold, and it was more than enough to build a super fearless battleship. Germany's economic situation was not optimistic at that time. Using such a huge sum of money to win over an opposition party that was not very powerful in Russia to engage in a coup. Should William II have a great vision or is he a fool?
You should know that the Bolsheviks were not strong from the beginning. At that time, the Social Revolutionary Party and the Cadets were dominant. Whether in the Duma or the Soviet Union, the Mensheviks were excluded. The Bolsheviks were almost not even considered green leaves. Are the Germans not afraid of this huge investment being wasted?
Besides, how should such a huge sum of money be paid to the Bolsheviks, whether to directly give banknotes, gold, or equivalent supplies?
Giving paper money is the easiest, but Germany and Russia are in a state of war, and even the German marks cannot be circulated in Russia during peacetime. Lenin and the Bolsheviks were not stupid, and they would not be stupid enough to use marks in China.
It is possible to give gold directly, after all, gold is hard currency and no need to worry about not being able to exchange money. But if there is such a huge amount of gold on the lead-sealed train that Lenin was riding, the Swedes would not know. You should know that Lenin had no diplomatic immunity, and it was inevitable that he would have to go through customs inspections when passing through Sweden. It would be unrealistic to take ten tons of gold secretly over. Judging from the records of the Swedes, there is no such huge amount of gold.
Or just give the supplies directly? But you can think of how Germany, which was fighting with Russia, bypassed the millions of Russian troops on the front line and handed over the Bolsheviks in the rear? What a terrible transportation capacity?
Transport through a third country? Unfortunately, if German supplies want to be transported to Russia, they have to pass through Sweden and Finland. It’s okay to say that Sweden’s pass is pro-Germany, but Finland began to make independence after the February Revolution. The country was in a mess, and transportation and other things were in a semi-paralyzed state. The Bolsheviks and Mensheviks who returned to Russia by Germany both recalled that Finland’s traffic was very bad at that time, and two-thirds of the time on the journey were wasted in Finland.
What's more, Britain and France are not idle. In order to help the interim government stabilize the situation, they firmly monitor the border between Sweden and Finland. Earlier, they directly seized Trotsky and rejected Lenin's request for transit. They would watch the Germans support the Bolsheviks and cause trouble? Under such heavy siege, how can the Germans ensure that the materials can be delivered to the Bolsheviks intact?
Just a little brain-taking can be thought that the 50 million gold mark is not reliable at all. It is nothing more than a means of disgusting the Bolsheviks by the Provisional Government.
In fact, as early as when Lenin had just contacted the Germans through a third party, the unreliable third party Roglim leaked the news to Britain and France. Milukov, who learned the news, once let go of the newspaper, saying that Russian exiles would never be allowed to transit from Germany. Doing so would be traitors and threatening to hang all the "traitors". Lenin also mentioned when he returned to Petrograd to give a speech at the Finnish station that he thought the train he was on would go directly into Peter Paul's prison.
Therefore, transiting to Germany is a completely open secret. After the resolution was approved by the Bolshevik Central Committee, it was printed on a single page and published publicly. Two days before departure, Lenin also introduced the situation of transiting to the left-wing Social Democratic Party representatives of Germany, Switzerland, France and Poland, and signed the "Travel Protocol" in public.
At that time, it was not only the Bolsheviks who were preparing to transit Germany. The Mensheviks and the Social Revolutionary Party who were exiled in Switzerland were also preparing to go together. For example, the Menshevik internationalist Lunacharsky informed the matter to the Menshevik boss Ziheze. Later, a large number of Mensheviks and Social Revolutionary Party exiles also chose the same route to return to Russia.
It can be seen that transiting Germany is far less mysterious than later street stall literature, and there is no such thing as the plot of German special forces defending Lenin's secretly back to Russia to rebel in "History of Russia in the 20th Century" written by the old and old people of Belarus. Because Lenin did not sneak back to China at all, except for taking a lead-sealed train in Germany. It was open to activities both in Sweden and in Finland.
Even on the border between Sweden and Finland, the British officer stationed in the station checked him (if there were gold or materials on the car at that time, could he hide it?). During his trip to Finland, he debated with a stubborn Russian nationalist at the station, which won unanimous cheers from the Finnish onlookers. When he returned to Petrograd, he was publicly welcomed by the workers and army and naval soldiers of the Petrograd, and inspected the guard of honor on the platform. The Menshevik veteran Sukhanov also came to welcome him in person. If it was really necessary to keep it secret, as for such a swagger?
Chapter completed!