Chapter 457 Massacre

Chapter 457 Massacre

Chapter 457 Massacre

"Ula! Ula!"

St. Petersburg was filled with cheers coming from the new industrial workers.

They are not cheering for themselves. Where do industrial workers come from? Farmers' children.

They were cheering for their parents in their hometown who had finally made a comeback.

Three months had passed since His Majesty Nicholas II returned to St. Petersburg. These three months had been bloody and violent for Russia.

The "royalists" from Crimea, led by Potowski, went on a killing spree and carried out a large-scale cleanup of Russia. More than 600,000 people were executed, shocking the world.

Logically, those who commit killings on this scale should be called butchers, put on the pillar of shame in history, condemned by civilized society, and scorned by the people.

However, the current situation is that the international community highly praises it and the people applaud it.

Potowski did not kill people indiscriminately. All those executed were rioters, and the evidence was conclusive after a formal trial.

The old nobility and landlords joined forces with financial capitalists to rebel and killed Alexander II and Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich. The crime of treason and regicide is unforgivable.

Through reports from people working in the Mingyue Tower in St. Petersburg, the Tsar's secret detectives quickly tracked down the masterminds behind the assassination at the People's Will Society, the financial capitalists who lent money at high interest rates.

If we trace it further, we will find that it is led to Germany, but Germany is an enemy country, so it is meaningless.

But the domestic financial capitalists were all lumped together and charged with the assassination of the late Emperor Alexander II, which was a more serious crime.

Of course, those ruffians who took the money from the financial capitalists to cause trouble must not be let off. Officers at all levels in the Guards who were bribed must be hanged.

What about being exiled to Siberia to grow potatoes? That doesn't exist. Are they raising a tiger and then waiting for it to come out and take revenge?

Therefore, when Potowski handed the execution order of 600,000 rebels to the nine-year-old Tsar, he signed it without even thinking about it.

My grandfather, father, and uncle were all killed by these people. This is a blood feud, right?
Royal families and imperial families of various countries sent congratulatory messages, including the hostile countries of Germany, Austria and Italy.

We can fight for our own interests, but regicide is punishable by death everywhere. We must stop the evil trend of regicide. Lucia did a great job! Kill, we support you!

The nobles and landlords were killed, and the few landlords who did not participate in the rebellion did not dare to resist the general trend and accepted the government's redemption of their land. The nine-year-old Tsar distributed permanent farmland to the peasants!
The financial capitalists were ruined, and the forty-five years of high-interest loans that the serfs owed to redeem themselves were written off as the creditors were gone.

Alexander II freed the serfs, his grandsons gave the peasants land, and debts were forgiven, and the Romanovs were now at the height of their popularity in Russia.

The street lamps in St. Petersburg were filled with the bodies of rebellious nobles and loan sharks. The thugs and ruffians who caused chaos were not worthy of being hung there, so their heads were beheaded and piled up like a memorial to warn those who would come later.

At the entrances of villages across the country, the bodies of landlords who had participated in the riots were hung on trees.

It looks bloody, right? But now that the villains, vampires, and ruffians are dead, the public security in the whole of Russia has improved unprecedentedly. People leave their doors unlocked at night and no one picks up things on the streets. The people's loyalty to the Tsar has reached its peak.

There were shouts of "Long live the Tsar" everywhere. The reputation of Tsar Rusia was on par with that of Quan Xiao in Bulgaria. "Tsar" became a very respectable word.

Unfortunately, neither Potowski, the executor of the purge, nor Nicholas II, the signatory, were in St. Petersburg at the time, and could not hear the people's heartfelt cheers and support, as they were both on business trips.

The emperor and his senior ministers are all away, which is generally very inappropriate, but there is no problem here.

Under the current circumstances, anyone who dared to have any evil thoughts about the Romanov family's kingdom would definitely be beaten into a pulp by the angry masses. Potowski and Gorchakov, who was reappointed as Foreign Minister, went to the Brest front. Gorchakov had just signed the humiliating "Brest-Litovsk Treaty" with the Germans, and the two were on their way back to St. Petersburg.

Gustav was right about one thing: Lucia really couldn't afford to fight a war.

Russia mobilized more than 225 million people to participate in the European War, with 73 million soldiers killed and 300 civilians. Nearly million young men died, and the number of wounded and disabled was twice that.

If you grit your teeth, you can sacrifice more people, but the money will be completely gone.

No matter how cheap the gray animals are, they still need to be fed, their guns and cannons need to be fired, and their steam tanks need coal. If their salaries are always in arrears, the soldiers will not fight.

Russia already owed Britain 7.57 million pounds and France 100 billion francs (about 4 million pounds). Alexander II refused to allow financial capital to issue rubles, and could not borrow more money. The war could no longer be sustained.

Therefore, if they did not want to be exterminated, they could only ask for peace with the Germans. This kind of alliance under siege would not be possible without losing power and humiliating the country.

Russia ceded Poland and the Baltic states of Lithuania, Courland, Livonia and Estland to Germany, allowed Ukraine and Finland to become independent, and lost three million square kilometers of land and tens of millions of people.

This includes 90% of Russia's coal mines, 73% of its iron ore, 54% of its industries, and 33% of its railways.

The reparations of 50 billion marks, well, that's about 2.8 million pounds.

Eh? How could they pay the money when they had no money to begin with, and then pay the indemnity? So, His Majesty Nicholas II went to raise the money.

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Hailing, reporters from all over the world gathered at Dongjiao Airport, and Shao Quanzhong personally went to the airport to welcome them.

The new nine-year-old Tsar Nicholas II arrived by airship and walked down the gangway accompanied by his aunt Maria.

The red carpet was rolled out, the military band played "God Bless the Tsar", and 21 cannon salutes were fired.

The nine-year-old Tsar was also an emperor, so the reception had to be of the highest standard.

The new tsar visited Daxia after he ascended the throne. This was big news. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk had just been signed, and the 50 billion mark indemnity had not been settled. Smart strategic analysts from various newspapers commented that the tsar had come to China to borrow money.

You went to the wrong place. If you want to borrow money, you should go to the New World. There is plenty of money there. As everyone knows, Daxia has been investing and does not have much cash.

Well, maybe for the sake of his relatives, Shao Quanzhong could lend some money? But that wouldn't be enough to raise 50 billion marks.

No matter what everyone told Nikola, as soon as he got off the airship and saw Shao Quanzhong coming to greet him, Nikola immediately did something that shocked the world.

He took a few quick steps, came in front of Shao Quanzhong, and knelt down on his knees, "My nephew greets my uncle."

Hey, you are the emperor, how can you kneel down?

The shock continued, and the emperor knelt on the ground without getting up. "On behalf of the Kingdom of Lu, I formally apologize for my previous acts of aggression against your country. I hereby declare that all the territories occupied through unequal treaties will be returned."

"in addition--"

(End of this chapter)