Chapter 398 Plan to Save Russia

Saturday, February 27, 1915, St. Petersburg, the Russian branch of the Royal Security Intelligence Bureau of Australasia.

"Are you all ready, gentlemen?" Monte Konosov asked, looking at the people around him seriously.

"The action team is ready and can execute orders at any time." The middle-aged man next to him, who looked serious and cold, answered first.

"The intelligence team has no problem and can start planning at any time." The younger man followed and answered.

"Tiger, remember to tell your subordinates to kill with one blow and don't leave any clues or handles." Monte Konosov looked at the middle-aged man called Tiger and ordered solemnly.

"I understand, boss." Tiger also nodded solemnly.

"Eagle, keep in touch with Tiger at any time, provide relevant information, and try to prevent the St. Petersburg police from arriving too quickly." Monte Konosov looked at another man and ordered.

"Okay, let's get started! His Majesty is waiting for your good news." After the order was completed, Monte Konosov waved his hand and signaled the two to start the action.

St. Petersburg, an unknown house somewhere in the suburbs.

Knock, knock!

There was a not-so-urgent knock on the door. Gwenger Jerovsky stood up in surprise and walked towards the door while saying unhappily: "Didn't I tell you not to come to me privately without important matters? Who is the damn guy who disturbed my good sleep in the middle of the night?"

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After opening the door, he found that the person knocking on the door was someone he didn't know at all. Gwenger Jerovsky was about to close the door when a strong arm grabbed the door frame.

"Is it Mr. Gwenger Jerovsky?" The man in black outside the door asked politely.

"Who are you?" Gwenger Jerovsky asked while looking at the drawer of the desk not far away, where he carried the pistol with him during the day.

"Please don't try to struggle, Mr. Gwenger Jerovsky." The man stopped asking questions and ordered his men to control Gwenger Jerovsky, while he walked into the house.

"You are really good at disguising yourself, Mr. Gwenger Jerovsky. If there is no prior investigation, who would believe that this is the residence of the leader of the largest reactionary party in Russia?" The man sat on the only sofa in the house and took off his hat. It was Tiger from before.

"I don't understand what you are talking about. I am just an ordinary employee of the machinery factory." Although he had been exposed, Gwenger Jerovsky still tried to struggle and quibble.

"Don't try to quibble, Mr. Gwenger Jerovsky. If there is no sufficient investigation, we will not find you, right? Sit down and talk, my dear party leader." Tiger signaled his men to tie Gwenger Jerovsky to a chair on the side, and the rest of his men went upstairs.

"Please, all the affairs of the party have nothing to do with my family, please let my family go." Seeing that his family upstairs was going to suffer, Gwenger Jerovsky took off all his disguises and begged.

"Please rest assured, Mr. Gwenger Jerovsky. I believe you are a smart man. Under the premise of your absolute cooperation, we will not harm your family. But if we find that what you said is half false, I promise to send all of you to see God." Seeing that Gwenger Jerovsky began to cooperate, Tiger nodded with satisfaction, and at the same time did not forget to threaten.

"Tell me about your plan, Mr. Gwenger Jerovsky. I heard that you plan to organize a general strike in the city near the St. Petersburg River to oppose the war. I wonder who is the planner of this general strike? Can we have the honor to meet him?" Tiger asked with a smile.

At present, the impact of this war on Russia is still huge. The living standards of Russian civilians have plummeted because of this war, and even eating and wearing warm clothes is a problem.

This also led to a large proportion of people in the Russian civilian class who opposed the war, and major political parties also seized this opportunity to vigorously promote anti-warism.

The opposition party where Gwenger Jelovsky belonged also seized this opportunity to become the largest reactionary party in the entire Tsarist Russia, with hundreds of thousands of members.

If Russia had not been very wary of such political parties and had suppressed them many times, I am afraid that the number of members of Gwenger Jelovsky's opposition party would definitely exceed one million.

"This matter." Gwenger Jelovsky was silent for a long time before he said, "It was planned by Mr. Klin Francisco Kamanovsky who is far away in Switzerland."

Tiger nodded, not surprised by this answer.

According to the investigation of the Royal Security Intelligence Bureau, although Gwenger Jelovsky is the leader of the opposition party, the person behind the scenes trusted and admired by the entire Russian opposition party, even most of Russia's democratic and liberal parties, as well as most of Russia's workers and civilians, is actually this Klin Francisco Kamanovsky who is far away in Switzerland.

After the failure of his planned revolution during the Russo-Japanese War, Klin Francisco Kamanovsky chose to flee to Switzerland to avoid being arrested by the Russian government, but he was always concerned about the situation in Russia.

After the outbreak of World War I, Klin Francisco Kamanovsky immediately realized that this was an opportunity for all revolutionary classes in Russia and the best time to overthrow Russian feudalism and monarchy.

Therefore, a large number of workers' strikes were planned and implemented, which also made the already crisis-ridden Russian government even more turbulent.

"Who are all the political parties and their main personnel involved in the general strike?" Tiger nodded and continued to ask.

"The Democratic Party, the Labor Party, the Menshevik Party, the National Party. All the parties that can be named have participated in the plan of this general strike." After betraying his conscience, Gwenger Jelovsky was surprised to find that answering questions was not so difficult, and even the answer was almost blurted out.

"Very good, I am very satisfied with your answer, Mr. Gwenger Jelovsky. Now it's my turn to deal with you, my dear party leader." After asking all the questions, Tiger looked at Gwenger Jelovsky and said with a little meaning.

"You can do whatever you want, but can you let my family go? My family is innocent, they have not participated in any reactionary behavior, and they are still loyal to His Majesty the Tsar." Gwenger Jelovsky is not afraid of death, what he fears is the safety of his family.

"We are not evil people, Mr. Gwenger Jerovsky." Tiger said with a smile: "If you are willing to cooperate with us, then I promise that your family and you will be safe."

Gwenger Jerovsky sighed, knowing that it was the last moment to decide the safety of himself and his family, and said: "You say, sir. As long as you can guarantee the safety of my family, I am willing to cooperate with you and the government's actions."

Until now, Gwenger Jerovsky still believed that Tiger and his party were troops of the Tsarist government, and their purpose was to eliminate the rebellion in Russia.

As the leader of the largest reactionary party in Russia, Gwenger Jerovsky had long anticipated his fate, but he did not expect that the Russian government could find his secret residence.

You know, Gwenger Jerovsky bribed countless officials in St. Petersburg, Russia alone. Who leaked the news?

"Tonight's incident will be treated as nothing, but in the future, you need to notify us in advance of all strikes and other demonstrations. Do you understand?" Tiger said with a smile.

Get rid of one Gwenger Jerovsky, and there will be another Gwenger Jerovsky.

He is like a puppet of Klin Francisco Kamanovsky in Russia, who can be supported at will.

Instead of doing this, it is better to directly penetrate the internal high-level of the Russian reactionary party through Gwenger Jerovsky, learn all the actions planned by the Russian reactionary party, and notify Russia to prepare in advance.

Hearing that the other party can let him go so easily, Gwenger Jerovsky widened his eyes in disbelief.

"That's all we ask, Mr. Gwenger Jerovsky. I hope you are a smart man and don't challenge the capabilities of our intelligence department. If any demonstration is missed, please explain to God at that time." Before leaving, Tiger threatened again with a hint of meaning.

The actions are far more than that. In addition to Gwenger Jerovsky, the Royal Security Intelligence Bureau has visited the homes of most of the main members of the Russian reactionary party and expressed cordial and friendly condolences to these members of the reactionary party.

Some who were more willing to cooperate, like Gwenger Jelovsky, were released after a brief questioning.

For those who were not very cooperative, the intelligence officers could only ask them to go to God and let them express their loyalty to God.

After a night of action, hundreds of intelligence officers in Russia were all dispatched and achieved quite good results.

Those opposition leaders who were forced to cooperate with the Royal Security Intelligence Bureau could also supervise each other.

If there is any inconsistency in intelligence, it proves that someone must be lying, which is when the intelligence department will be dispatched next time.

In addition to the action on the Russian side, after Tiger reported to the upper level, Monte Konosov also requested the Royal Security Intelligence Department branch in France to cooperate with the action and go to Switzerland to comfort Klin Francisco Kamanovsky, who was behind all the demonstrations in Russia.

On February 28, 1915, the chief of the St. Petersburg Police Department, who had just entered the office, was surprised to find a document on his desk.

The document clearly stated the strike and march planned in St. Petersburg and surrounding cities in three days, as well as all the political parties participating in the march.

It also listed several senior officials of the participating political parties and detailed information of their families.

The St. Petersburg Police Chief did not dare to be careless. Since the last workers' march in St. Petersburg, Nicholas II had issued a death order and did not want to see any workers' strikes and marches in St. Petersburg.

This also means that if the workers' strike is allowed to happen, the police chief will lose his official hat and may even implicate a large number of officials.

In order to ensure that there are no problems with the public security in St. Petersburg, the police chief urgently sent this document to Nicholas II.

Nicholas II was very angry about such a workers' strike and ordered all police stations in St. Petersburg and nearby cities to prepare in advance, severely punish the leaders, and try to appease the participants.

In order to minimize the number of people on strike in the future, Nicholas II also ordered a batch of free supplies to be distributed to workers in St. Petersburg and nearby cities to ease the workers' dissatisfaction with practical benefits.

Of course, this batch of materials was deducted from the war materials given by Britain, France and Australia. Anyway, they were all used to increase Russia's combat effectiveness. If it was not their own, they would not feel bad about using it.

As predicted in the document, a large-scale workers' strike broke out in St. Petersburg on March 3, 1915.

According to statistics, the number of workers on strike was as high as 35,000, and it also affected some small cities around St. Petersburg.

If the police station and Russia's public security system had not anticipated it, I am afraid that this big strike would have affected many surrounding cities, and the impact would be far greater than it is now.

After the Russian government urgently distributed materials to comfort them, at least half of the workers stopped participating in the strike, and the rest just followed the crowd and left immediately after being advised by the police.

The St. Petersburg Police Department implemented Nicholas II's order very well, that is, severely punishing the planners and trying to comfort the participants.

On March 3 alone, the St. Petersburg Police Department arrested thousands of strike "planners" and shot more than a dozen people on the spot.

Because there were so many people implicated, nearly two thousand people were imprisoned and dozens of people were shot on the spot. The strike on March 3 was also called Red Wednesday by the reactionary party.

After the failure of the strike, some reactionary party leaders headed by Gwenger Jerowski began to promote the theory of recuperation and secretly waiting for the opportunity.

In addition, the failure of the strike carefully planned by many parties, the proposal to temporarily lurk and wait for the opportunity was also accepted by the majority, and the open crisis in Russia was temporarily relieved.

Arthur, who received the results of the Russian strike far away in Australasia, was finally relieved.

At least before the end of World War I, Arthur did not want to see Russia fall too quickly.

Russia attracted a large number of German troops for Britain, France and Australia on the Eastern Front. Australasia only needed to provide some weapons and strategic materials, and could sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight and laugh at the development of the European war.

If the main combat power of Russia is lost, not only will Britain and France face greater losses, but Australasia will also be required by Britain and France to send more main combat troops, which is not a good thing for Australasia.

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