Mediterranean Hegemony Road

By December, the Russian Empire is already a country of ice and snow. The people of St. Petersburg are particularly sad this winter. They are short of coal, food, and daily necessities. It boils down to "lack of money".

Due to the hoarding of capitalists, ordinary people lack enough heating materials, and everyone has to huddle together to warm each other.

Often a small house with an area of ​​less than ten square meters will have to squeeze a dozen people. There is no way that the current price of coal is too expensive, and it is too extravagant to use it for heating. Ordinary people even cook for several families. to save as much money as possible.

This is only December, and the temperature is not too low, and it can barely cope with this method. If January is the coldest month, I don't know how many people will freeze to death this winter

Not only coal, but also other daily necessities, industrial products have also risen in price. The price of grain has tripled, the price of broken promises has increased by 2.8 times, and the price of meat products has increased even more. Five times at most.

There is certainly an inflation factor, but the core reason is that unscrupulous capitalists are hoarding in order to earn high profits.

As for the life and death of ordinary people, they obviously won't take it to heart. Anyway, the Russian Empire lacks everything, just no shortage of people.

So now everything is going up in price but wages are not going up

Not only St. Petersburg, but other cities in the Russian Empire also experienced price increases of varying degrees. Capitalists are indeed a kind of creature. At the same time as prices are skyrocketing, the wages of ordinary people in the entire Russian Empire have no tendency to rise at all.

Krisky is an ordinary mechanical engineer, working in a machinery factory in St. Petersburg, earning twice the salary of ordinary workers, and he should have a good life.

It is a pity that the good days only existed before the outbreak of the war. With the outbreak of the world war, the price of goods in Russia rose sharply, and the good days of Kristi came to an end.

Although he is an engineer, his technical ability is also very top-notch, but his status in the factory is not very good. He is similar to ordinary workers. He has to work on the production line, and has endless overtime. Wages are deducted for no reason. Only when there is a problem with the machinery, the factory management will think of him as an engineer.

This morning he came to the factory as usual, and he heard everyone talking, and he roughly understood that because of the needs of the war, they needed an extra hour of shift every day.

There is no doubt that this time it is unpaid overtime again. Anyone who dares to refuse, as usual, will be taught a lesson by factory managers or thugs, and then sent to prison. The crime is the crime of deliberately sabotaging the production of war materials.

Like most ordinary workers, Crickis dared not speak out, and he had to endure it in order to support his family.

Even though their working hours are now as high as 14 hours, the unscrupulous capitalists still dare to ask them to add another hour to work.

The irony is that Russia actually implements an eight-hour workday, and they now have seven hours of "voluntary unpaid overtime"

This kind of overtime intensity exists not only in the Russian Empire, but also in almost every participating country, but everyone does not do as much as the Russians, and basically pays a sum of overtime wages.

If history does not change, the Russian working class is about to break out another "big strike"

Don't get me wrong, this is not organized spontaneously by the working class, they simply do not have this ability, and even the Bolshevik Party far abroad does not have such a strong energy now

It's the capitalists who want to usurp the rights of the state and don't want to go into battle naked. Therefore, they often organize "general strikes" with independent Russian characteristics, demanding that the tsarist government reopen the Duma parliament

Namely: marching on the streets during the day and shouting slogans, returning to the factory at night to work overtime to complete work tasks.

However, this time is obviously different. The Russian officers and soldiers who came back from the front to receive the commendation have arrived in St. Petersburg one after another. Nicholas II was already very disgusted by the threats of the capitalists.

Now he finally has a force in his hands that is completely under his control and has nothing to do with the capitalists. If he doesn't do something, is he still a qualified "tsar"?

On December 18th, Nicholas II held a military meeting at the Gatchina Palace, which is far from St. Petersburg. The topic of the meeting was very simple, summarizing the reasons for the defeat of the Russian army in 1916, finding the reasons for the failure of the war, and investigating the responsible persons.

If it is placed in the east, perhaps many people are wondering if the emperor does this, and there will be any deeper meaning in it.

After all, if it were normal, why would Nicholas II convene this meeting in a military fortress outside St. Petersburg?

Whether it's to settle accounts after the fall, or to commend heroes, St. Petersburg is much more suitable than here.

Of course, Russia is still the Russia of the tsar, and the willfulness of the tsar is also a Russian tradition.

Isn't it just putting the meeting place in the Gatchina Palace, what's so strange to think about his father, Alexander III directly moved his family to the Gatchina Palace, and became a hermit

For the convenience of office work, the senior officials of the Russian government had to move with them, and it took more than ten years to move. Compared with this, Nicholas II's approach is no big deal.

At this moment, in the Gatchina Palace, high-ranking Russian military officers gathered together. This time, there was no government official involved. Nicholas II presided over the meeting as the supreme commander of the Russian army.

"My heart is sad to see you here today, history will always remember 1916, the year our great Russian Empire set two world records

In the first half of the year, I achieved the largest victory in human history. Although this record was broken after only half a year, it is also worth celebrating. In the second half of the year, we created the largest defeat in human history.

From the big victory to the big defeat, it took us only nine months, and countless Russian sons and daughters gave their lives for this. Do you think my mood can be happy?

Now that the matter has happened, today I am going to ask about the reason, and to seek justice for these Russian sons and daughters who have sacrificed their lives.

Now I swear in the name of God that I, Alexandrovich, must find out the culprit of this defeat of the Russian army and let them pay with blood."

After speaking, Nicholas II glanced at everyone, and saw that many people were frightened, and some people suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

Obviously, this is not aimed at them. The Russian army lost this time. They may have made mistakes in command, but they definitely cannot constitute the main reason for the failure of this battle.

After a pause, Nicholas II asked coldly: "Then do you have the determination to seek justice for your dead brothers, subordinates, and comrades-in-arms?"

"Have"

Although everyone's answers were uneven, their voices were very sonorous and powerful, and it was obvious that the Russian army had not completely rotted.

Nicholas II seemed satisfied with everyone's reaction, smiled and said, "Then show your determination and show me."

Obviously, Nicholas II is forcing everyone to stand with him. Smart people have already guessed his purpose, but does anyone dare to quit at this time?

"I, Garcinia, swear here in the name of God that I must find out the culprit of our army's defeat, and seek justice for the dead Russian brothers and sisters. If I violate this oath, I will go to hell forever."

There is no doubt that this is a pre-arranged trust by Nicholas II. I know that everyone has a tacit understanding and chose to play stupid. Anyway, this time is not looking for their bad luck, and many people have calamity on their faces. The joy of the rest of my life is fleeting

"In the name of God, I, Oaksland, swear here that I must find out the culprit of our army's defeat, and seek justice for the dead Russian brothers and sisters. If I violate this oath, I will go to hell forever."

With the first person taking the lead, the following people bravely swore to God whether they wanted to or not, and the goal that Nicholas II wanted was achieved.

In this era, everyone's beliefs are still very pious. If you make an oath before God in front of everyone, if you dare to go back on it, you don't want to continue to mix.

More than an hour had passed by the time the last person swore an oath, but Nicholas II showed no signs of impatience.

"Very well, everyone is an excellent soldier of the Russian Empire, I believe that you will not be like some people, doing things like eating inside and outside.

Now let's sum up the reasons for our failure in this battle.

Only when the cause is found, can the culprit be found; as long as the culprit is uncovered, the blood-sucking worms attached to the Russian Empire can be eliminated, and the current tragedy will happen again in the future.”

Admiral Brusilov said first: "Your Majesty, it is a strategic material.

After the war, the ammunition we brought from the rear was simply not available for our weapons.

Many times, soldiers have to re-polish the bullets before they can be loaded into the magazine. Even if they are loaded, the bullets that can be fired are still less than half.

The problem with the shells was even more serious. Many shells fell directly after being fired, and there was no explosion at all. Later, our soldiers picked it up again, and cut it to see that it was filled with mud.

I think poor quality weapons and ammunition, and poor logistics, are the main factors that caused the failure of this war."

Lieutenant General Nicolas Nikolai Ocas immediately added: "All the planes that our Air Force can use now are imported domestically produced planes that are one-off products that are scrapped after one use, and a large number of our excellent pilots have not fought. Died on the battlefield, but died on a domestically produced plane.”

Come on, not all fools now know the purpose of Nicholas II. If they don't know what to do, then they are really fools.

After such a big defeat, I must give an account to the Chinese people. The best scapegoat has already appeared. If you don't know how to dump the blame on them and wash away the crime of defeat, you won't be able to get where you are now.

In the spirit of "dead friends, immortal poor people", the Russian military is naturally going to try to smear the capitalists. Of course, they are already very dark, and everyone just used exaggerated rhetoric.

To sum up, the domestically produced rifles are all fire sticks, the domestically produced cannons are all salutes, and the domestically produced planes are all used for suicide

There is also: the food sent to the front line is moldy, the soldiers eat it while having diarrhea, and the casualties caused by food poisoning are greater than the casualties caused by fighting the enemy.

After a day of discussion, everyone smoothed the logic and came to the unanimous conclusion that the culprits behind the defeat of the front line were the unscrupulous capitalists and the corrupt officials within the government.

The unscrupulous capitalists took the benefits of the Allies and colluded with the bureaucrats at home to send a large number of inferior weapons to the front line, deceiving the Russian army

But the heroic Russian soldiers, even with these inferior weapons, won the enemy. The enemy had no choice but to pay a huge price to buy these capitalists again, so that they poisoned the food for the front-line troops, causing a large number of casualties.

The casualties they caused to the Russian imperial army were more than twice the casualties of the Russian army caused by the Allies.

So as long as these capitalist worms are cleaned up in the country, the great Russian army can immediately defeat the allies and win the war

The result that Nicholas II wanted came out. Once the Russian military reached an agreement with him, the Russian capitalists would be finished soon.

"Here is a list of unscrupulous capitalists who caused millions of Russian soldiers to die in battle and displaced tens of millions of Russians

Now I authorize you to immediately form a hoeing committee, lead troops to arrest these assholes, and kill them on the spot if they resist

The Caucasus Front was in charge of the east of the city, the Northern Front was in charge of the north, the Western Front was in charge of the west, the Southwest Front was in charge of the south, and the navy and air force were in charge of slipping through the net.

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Nicholas II's handling is really "tsarist", simply and rudely doing what he says

Convinced the high-level officers and gave them time to prepare, and immediately issued a military order to let them start operations

But I have to say that this is also very effective. Even if the news is leaked in such a short period of time, the capitalists can’t even escape in time, and there is no time to organize a counterattack.

The fly in the ointment is that such a thing can only be done once. If it is done in St. Petersburg, the capitalists in other cities in Russia will get the news, and there is no way to kill them all.

However, Nicholas II was not worried. As the capital of the Russian Empire, St. Petersburg gathered the most powerful group of big capitalists in Russia, while the capitalists in other regions were much weaker.

As long as he kills this group of capitalists in St. Petersburg, the others will not be a problem. Even if they want to make trouble, the millions of Russian troops in his hands are not decorations, enough to suppress any civil unrest.

"Your Majesty, what if the city guards intercept it?" Admiral Brusilov asked worriedly

Nicholas II said murderously: "We gave them an order to let the city guards and the police stay at the station honestly. If there are still people who dare to come out and make trouble, they can be killed by me as a rebel army."

"Yes" they answered in unison

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