As the main opponent of the Russian Empire, Germany is always paying attention to every change in its opponents in Russia.

Since May this year, the conflict between Russia and China, which is rising in the Far East, caused by Russia's intervention in China's Outer Mongolia, has rapidly intensified. The Germans have almost always been staring at the Far East land with excitement. Although this country is still a monarchy, Germany has supported many revolutionary parties in order to implement its global hegemony strategy in the past decade. The four most typical and famous are Türkiye, China, Mexico and Russia.

Since the outbreak of the European War, the top Germans have mostly hated China's new revolutionary regime. Although this country is still very pro-Germany and actively protects the Germans in the Far East, and does not make them become prisoners like Japan and other countries. However, this country and forces that Germany has spent a lot of effort and energy to support in the past few years, the top leaders are too shrewd.

Yes, the German senior executives were increasingly dissatisfied with Li Han. After the outbreak of the European war, Germany had always wanted to bring China into the ranks of allies, but it was flatly rejected at that time. Li Han's reason was very simple. The revolution in this country had just been outbreak for a few years, and the country had been in war, and its national strength was consumed severely. Moreover, China was surrounded by allies on all sides, Japan and Russia were close to China, and the British and French colonies also bordered China. Although Germany was unhappy about the concerns of the Chinese at that time, it also admitted that if China joined the camp of the allies, it would inevitably be attacked by the Allies and the new regime was in danger of subversion.

Therefore, although Germany did not support China's declaration of neutrality in the European war, it did not object.

But then, China's actions made Germany very upset.

In the European war over the past two years, the Allies purchased at least 700 million Chinese-to-Chinese 700 million yuan from China. Although these materials were not weapons and arms that directly killed soldiers of the Allies, a large amount of Chinese-made amoxicillin and materials saved many Allies. At the same time, because of the procurement of Chinese materials, Britain, France and Italy liberated the domestic light industry manufacturing and increased the productivity of heavy industry. They used the industrial foundation of German aid to build to produce materials for the Allies to fight against the Allies.

Whenever I think of these, Germany is very upset.

But there is no way, Germany is now unable to sanction China. Moreover, Li Han's approach is also very correct. The interests between countries are higher than friendship. The new revolutionary regime of the Republic of China was poor and empty and had nothing. It is not wrong for them to give up and strengthen themselves with such a good opportunity to make money in the European War.

In this kind of depression, several years passed in a flash. Finally, China and Russia had a feud due to the Outer Mongolia issue, and the German Emperor did not give up the opportunity to win over China. Although he did not agree to join the allies, China tacitly acted as the obligations that allies should fulfill in the Far East.

In June and July, the intensification of Sino-Russia conflicts finally broke out, and the August war finally broke out. China took the initiative to declare war on Russia, and hundreds of thousands of troops launched an attack on Russia's garrison in China and the Far East. In just three months, it eliminated and restrained nearly 500,000 Russian troops, which really reduced a lot of burden for the allies.

Subsequently, the order in the Far East was in chaos, and Japan took advantage of the situation to raise annex the East Indies, which also made the German emperor, who had been scolding Japan for more than two years, feel the first time that Japan was affinity. Yes, because the chaos in the alliance became chaotic, one member of the alliance annexed the colonies of another member state, which allowed Germany to see the dawn of victory in the war.

The subsequent situation also developed in a direction that was beneficial to the allies. Due to the fall of a large number of territories in the Far East, the Greater Siberian Railway was controlled by China for thousands of miles, and Central Asia was also in chaos under the joint forces of China and Turkey. The country with the greatest potential but the weakest strength among the three giants of the Allied Powers has been in constant internal and external troubles, and the people were unable to even eat enough, and finally began to get into chaos.

When he noticed the arrival of the time, the German Emperor excitedly met Lenin, one of the leaders of the Russian Revolutionaries.

He excitedly said to the leader of the Russian Revolutionary Party in his villa in the outskirts of Berlin: "Sir, the time for your country's revolution is ripe. The evil Tsarist government is using tyranny and cruel suppression to persecute the people of Russia. You have the obligation and responsibility to save Russia from the Romanov royal family. You should know that in the past few years ago, our great and peaceful and order-loving Germanic people maintained a revolutionary party in the Far East. Although Germany is still under the leadership of the royal family, in the future we will gradually transfer power to more Russian citizens. Germany is a country that supports the revolutionary party of 100%.

"Yes, dear Emperor!" Lenin was not a qualified politician at this time, and he was more of a revolutionary color. Although he knew that Germany might not be kind to support the revolutionary party behind it, there were examples of Far East China, and they were still quite grateful for German funds and arms assistance.

"The cruel rule of the Tsar has made at least 60 million people in our country not even enough to eat. Only by overthrowing the Tsar's brutal rule can the Russian people live a good life!" The Germans are willing to contribute money and efforts to help him return to his country to make a revolution and overthrow the Tsarist government's rule. This was indeed an opportunity in Lenin's view. On November 1, the same day when China and Russia announced a ceasefire peace talks, a submarine escorted Lenin back to Russia. With the support of the Germans, a revolution aimed at destroying Russia was about to break out.

Many people think that Russia's industrial strength is not strong, but in fact this perception is wrong. Russia may have a weak industrial foundation, but it is only compared to the four world's strongest industrial countries, Britain, the United States, France and Germany. In fact, the industrial strength of this country is not bad, the most obvious thing is that this country has a large number of workers.

At the beginning of its birth, the Russian Socialists adhered to the experience of the Paris Commune in France and the Chinese Revolutionary Party, and regarded the working class and the army as the main targets of development. Because the army is generally loyal to the Tsarist government and the nobles, although the Socialists did not give up on development, their development momentum was not as strong as the working class who was exploited.

However, there was also division within the working class that the Russian revolutionaries focused on developing. The Bolsheviks advocated a complete revolution, while the Mensheviks were closer to the bourgeoisie and hoped to alleviate internal conflicts and share the regime through the improvement of the state Duma.

However, the Tsar refused the British constitutional monarchy, but instead carried out a great purge on the State Duma, and arrested a large number of bourgeoisie and Menshevik socialists who demanded constitutional monarchy reform. He ordered the Petrograd police station to arrest the revolutionaries and threatened to mobilize the army from the frontline to completely eliminate the troubled revolutionary party.

Lenin returned to China with the support of the Germans, which intensified the conflicts in Russia. On November 22, workers in the stamping workshop of the Petrograd Ptylov plant held a strike, demanding that piece-rate wages be raised and the recall of fired workers. The factory refused unreasonably and threatened with high pressure, announcing that it would close off from time to time. The strike was directly under the command of the Bolsheviks led by Lenin, and the strike expanded to the entire Putilov plant.

On November 25, according to the order of the military authorities, the gate of the Putilov factory was closed. The workers were unable to enter, so they set up a strike committee and decided to request support from other workers. The conflict further developed into a city-wide struggle. On November 29, the number of strikers increased to 200,000. The masses gathered from Neva Street in all directions. After the mass strike and demonstrations developed, Lenin delivered a speech, calling for the transformation of imperialist war into civil war, preparing for an armed uprising, and starting to instigate the army.

On December 6, the Petrograd strike turned into a general strike. After receiving a report from the Petrograd Military Region commander Khabarov in Modirev, the headquarters of the headquarters, in Modirev, the leader of the Petrograd Military Region, the Petrograd Military Region, the order to implement suppression measures against the Petrograd strike movement. The next night, he signed a telegram to Khabarov: "I ordered all the riots in Kyoto tomorrow to be stopped." The Tsarist army arrested seven members of the Petrograd Committee of the Bolshevik Party overnight and arranged repression forces. Due to prior information, Lenin and other major Bolshevik leaders escaped the pursuit.

On December 11, the Bolshevik Party held a meeting outside Petrograd. After arduous persuasion, Lenin decided to launch an armed uprising, which was scheduled for Christmas Eve, December 24, on the grounds that Petrograd's garrison and police wanted to celebrate the plot on this day, and the alert would be relaxed. However, because the equipment was not in place and the army would take time to inflict rebellion, he postponed twice, and finally the time was set at 11:30 on December 31.

Like China, Russia also has ancient folk calendars in addition to the Gregorian calendar. The earliest New Year in Russia was March 1. Influenced by Byzantine in the late 15th century, Russia changed the New Year to September 1 of each year, and lasted until 1699. It was not changed from Peter the Great to the current January 1st according to the traditional customs of Western European countries.

But the New Year of 1917 was the most brutal New Year ever for Russia, because of the failure of the frontline war, and the endless uprisings in the country were emerging. Tsar Nicholas II accepted his queen's suggestion and ordered that Petrograd would hold a grand welcome event to celebrate the arrival of the New Year of 1917.

He ordered the Petrograd Police Department to notify every household in Petrograd, telling all residents that they must prepare houses with evergreen trees such as pine, cypress, fir and other trees before nightfall on December 31 to show good luck. The streets and alleys will be decorated beautifully. All shops and restaurants must be decorated before the New Year, otherwise they will be fined. He also announced that a celebration of the arrival of the 1917 New Year will be held in the city, and all participants will be given food.

Nicholas II had no idea, because his queen suggested that a large number of armed workers, rebelled troops and revolutionaries could appear in the streets of Petrograd in the middle of the night, and Lenin and other Bolshevik leaders finally set the uprising late at night because of his request.

Late at night on December 31, thousands of workers marched towards the center of Petrograd. Due to the propaganda and organization of the Bolsheviks, a large number of soldiers in the army who were dissatisfied with the Tsar were eager to revolution and joined the revolution. The soldiers of the Warren Guards' Training Team took the lead in revolting, killing the captain of the teaching team, and then heading to the nearby Preobrarensky and Litovsky groups, achieving initial alliance. After sorting out the team, the Rebel Corps headed to Vyborg and joined the workers.

The Moscow Imperial Guards in Vyborg District resisted and prevented soldiers from participating in the uprising. The uprising soldiers and workers rushed into the barracks, killed the teaching captain, seized weapons, and armed the workers. The workers and the uprising soldiers seized the Arsenal and Artillery Headquarters, seized 40,000 rifles, 30,000 pistols and a large number of bullets. The Bolsheviks led the masses to attack the prison and released political prisoners. The released Bolsheviks immediately rushed to the workers' area to participate in the battle, and more and more soldiers participated in the uprising.

At the same time, the Tsar's ministers held their last meeting at the Palace of Maria, but were soon arrested. Nicholas II attempted to transfer the troops back from the front to Petersburg to suppress the uprising, but the nearby troops had already revolted. The Tsar's crusade team was blocked halfway, and even the staunch royalists could save the Tsarist regime, which had completely lost its prestige in the hearts of the entire people. The army refused to shoot at the rebels, and the entire capital was in the hands of the rebels.

On January 1, 1917 (December 18, 1916), the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party issued a "Letter to All Russian Citizens" in the form of a leaflet, declaring that the Tsarist system had collapsed and that the capital had been transferred to the hands of the uprising people; it was clear that the main task of the working class and the revolutionary army was to establish a democratic republic, confiscate land of landlords, implement an 8-hour working system, and unite the people of the belligerent countries to stop the imperialist war. This declaration was widely circulated and read at the gatherings of workers and soldiers, but due to the inconsistent internal understanding, Lenin's will to establish a thorough working-class regime did not receive enough support, which laid the root of the disaster for the next Second Revolution.

After the revolution won the capital Petrograd, it then began rapidly everywhere.

On January 5, the Moscow Committee of the Bolshevik Party distributed leaflets, calling on workers and soldiers to hold strikes and demonstrations to support the Petrograd armed uprising. On the morning of the 7th, Moscow began a general strike. The marched team marched towards the Red Square and the city Duma. The armed workers drove the police away and disarmed them. A mass meeting was held in the square opposite the city Duma. The Bolsheviks called on workers to enter the barracks and have a party with the soldiers. The soldiers quickly moved to the revolution. In the afternoon, the workers and the uprising soldiers occupied the Kremlin, the arsenal, the railway station, the municipal government, the police station, the telegraph bureau, etc., and released political prisoners from the prison.

By mid-January, the revolutionary trend spread around, and more than 80% of the territory of the entire Russian European country was in the hands of the insurrectionists. Helsenfos was Helsinki, the capital of Finland. At this time, Finland was still in the Russian territory. The soldiers also held uprisings. Even on the front line of confrontation with Germany, when the news of the armed uprising of St. Petersburg reached the front line, the soldiers immediately took action, established a soldier committee, and supervised the officers. The peasants also welcomed the revolution, and overturning the tsarist system had brought them political liberation. They began to seize the land of the landlords and strive for economic liberation. National liberation movements in various places were also widely carried out.

During the strikes and armed uprisings, workers in St. Petersburg established a new regime, the Soviets. However, the workers lacked political experience after all, and the Mensheviks and Social Revolutionaries quickly began to take over the regime.

The outbreak of the Russian Revolution immediately shocked the whole world. Compared with the excited group of Allies, the Allies were undoubtedly more frightened.

Because during this revolution, the working class openly put forward the slogans that the two groups of allies could not tolerate and overthrew the rule of the Russian Tsar. "All power belongs to the Soviets" and "unite the people of all countries to end the war"!

After receiving the news of the great revolution in Petrograd, the capital of Russia, the Times took back the newspaper overnight, reprinted the records, and wrote this sentence in a tone of pessimism and despair, "In 1917, a year of disaster. The lights that were always bright over Europe would not light up again. War, interests and hatred completely destroyed the most civilized world of mankind. On the first day of the New Year, our ally Russia broke out in a revolution. Although the new regime has not yet made any statement, only from some of the intelligence obtained by our country, Russia is likely to end the war with Germany and withdraw from the quagmire of the European war. Once the worst situation occurs, our government has to face the worst scene, and an elite army of 2.7 million is added out of thin air on the battlefield on the Western Front. The Allies will be defeated!"

Both Britain and France were panicked and shocked by the sudden outbreak of revolution in Russia.

Yes, maybe when Tsar Nicholas II was still alive, they had not yet noticed the benefits of Russia. They delayed the loans requested by Russia and even stabbed them in the back, hoping to weaken Russia's strength as much as possible through the European war.

As a result, the tragedy was gone. No one expected that a revolution broke out in Russia. The new regime took over everything in the Tsarist regime in just over half a month. Faced with this new Russian regime that was likely to have some hostility to the Allies and intends to withdraw from the European War, the Allies were panicked and shocked.

British Foreign Minister Arthur Belford, who was grumbling with Japan in Tokyo and forcing Japan to make concessions on the East Indies issue, received news of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution. So the British cried and the Japanese laughed.

The Japanese government, which had already made concessions on the East Indies issue and gave up control of Borneo to Britain in exchange for Britain's acquiescent attitude towards Japan's annexation of the East Indies, immediately became tough. The Japanese fleets of southbound south frequently appeared outside Singapore in the name of attacking pirates. The Japanese army in Borneo changed its previous restrained attitude, crossed the British-controlled area many times, and even had fierce fire with the British colonial army dozens of times, killing and injuring dozens of British colonial soldiers.

At the same time, heated discussions broke out in Japan, demanding to withdraw from the ranks of the Allies to restore the neutral state. Japanese Prime Minister Masato Desauchi met with the German ambassador to Japan who had been under house arrest for two years and released his friendly attitude to Germany.

Faced with the situation of Japan, the country is likely to be rebellious and withdraw from the ranks of Allied countries. The British politicians, who have always been famous for their stability and cultivation, were panicked. They even advocated compromise with Japan in parliament to acquiesce Japan's annexation of the East Indies colonies, sacrificing the interests of the Netherlands in exchange for the stability of the Allied system, and fighting against Japan, a politician who is close to the royal family.

Russia's attitude remains unclear. Seeing that the battlefield on the Eastern Front of Europe is likely to end, the top leaders of Britain and France can only be vigilant to release their kind attitude towards Russia's new struggles and contact them. Before the attitude of the Russian revolutionary regime is clear, they are forced to make compromises.

On January 21, Arthur Belford signed a secret agreement with the Japanese government in Tokyo, and the UK acquiesced Japan's annexation of the Dutch East Indies. Japan will resume the export of supplies to the Allies and will send some fleets to the Indian Ocean region to escort. At the same time, Japan promised the UK not to build Jakarta into a military fortress, not to expand the Jakarta military port, and the scale of the southbound fleet will be reduced. If the main ships of the fleet are replaced, they must notify the UK in advance to avoid misunderstandings.

China is also benefiting the same as Japan, facing a country with an unknown attitude towards our enemies. After the UK and the United States urgently communicated, the two countries stood on China's side. The New Delhi negotiations announced an indefinite postponement. China can adapt to the current occupied areas and the negotiations may be after the new Russian regime has expressed its attitude.

On January 23, Lu Zhengxiang, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China, led a delegation to temporarily leave New Delhi and return to China. After Britain and the United States determined the attitude of the new Russian revolutionary regime, the four sides discussed and negotiated again.

As for the missions sent by the former Russian Tsarist regime, unfortunately, no one has paid attention to them now!
Chapter completed!