Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 1195 Red and Black

"Comrade Vasily, come in and sit down." Before Vasily could think about it, Stalin's calm voice came from the room.

Putting the note in his pocket calmly, Vasily walked into the office quickly, and saw Stalin standing in front of the window smoking at a glance.

"You all go out and close the door." Stalin still did not look back.

The two plainclothes guards who had been standing in the room quietly retreated out.

"Sit down." When the door closed, Stalin turned around, and he said with a blank expression as he glanced at Vasily.

"Tell me, Comrade Vasily, how do you feel about what happened during this period?" After Vasily sat down, Stalin asked slowly.

"I don't have any thoughts." Vasily smiled lightly and said, "But I think it's really unwise to engage in such unknown internal friction under the current situation."

Stalin didn't say anything directly. He neither expressed affirmation nor objection to Vasily's statement.

"Comrade Stalin." Vasily finally couldn't help but said in this dull atmosphere: "If you let Comrade Beria go like this, don't you worry that he has any other ideas? His strength has passed this time."

"Comrade Vasily." Stalin spoke suddenly, and he interrupted Vasily: "Now I need you to use your wisdom to calculate something for me."

"What?" Vasily asked subconsciously.

"You will understand after reading this newspaper first." Stalin did not answer him directly, pointing to a newspaper on the table in front of Vasily.

Vasily picked up the newspaper with a puzzled expression and looked at it. It was "Pravda" again, and the publication date was today.Look at the eye-catching row of big characters on the front page of the content that jumped into his eyelids "Where will our revolution go in the face of a national crisis".

"Beria asked for an interim meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee to discuss the composition of the Supreme Command, and Vorosilov and the others agreed." Stalin's tone seemed extremely frustrated: "According to the party's regulations, I have no right to object. Comrade Vasily, what do you think this meeting means to me?"

Coming out of Stalin's office, Vasily felt his head swell and ache, as if several liters of boiling water had been forcibly poured into it, all the brains were churning and surging inside, eager to find a gap and swarmed out.

Just now Stalin made it clear that Comrade Beria had indeed betrayed him, but he knew it too late.Today's Political Bureau of the Central Committee seems to have become Beria's world, and all the five major bureaus are directly or indirectly controlled by him. As long as he wants to drive Stalin out of power, the vote at the Politburo meeting will directly allow him to achieve his goal.

To be honest, Stalin was really not a good person. His violent temper, paternalistic style and cruel iron-fisted policy made enemies in the entire Soviet regime system. As long as others seized the opportunity to overthrow him, his fate would definitely be good. Where to go.The cunning and shrewd Comrade Beria obviously also saw this clearly, so he saw the right time to act.At this time, the international situation was tense, and several marshals whom Stalin relied on to exercise his iron-fisted policy were transferred to various defense areas. Like the three marshals of the cavalry who had always supported him, none of them was present.As long as at this time, a meeting of the Politburo is held to deprive Stalin of all power inside and outside the party, and then declare to the outside world: "Comrade Stalin is unable to preside over the daily work of the Central Committee due to physical illness, so so-and-so will temporarily take over his post." , even if there is any objection afterwards, it will not help.

By removing Stalin and controlling the secret police with one hand, Beria can further develop his "intelligence" in certain aspects, and it is easy to find "treasonous" people by taking down those who oppose him and pose a threat to him. ", "CCP spy" or "enemy of the people" to use the term invented by Stalin himself, once the labels are removed, no one can expect to have a good life.

My original efforts finally started to take effect.What should be the next step?Vasily himself had no idea.

Throwing his body into the sofa forcefully, Vasili felt a jerk up and down, and at the same time he suddenly realized a very important problem.

Now that the situation has developed to this point, if Beria single-handedly buried Stalin's ruling regime, he will definitely eliminate dissidents. A new round of purges may be about to start, so who will he attack in the first round?Malenkov?Molotov?Zhukov?Budyonny?Or maybe none of these people can escape.Beria in the military is absolutely impossible to let go. He has almost no influence in the army, and if he wants to build his own influence in the army, it is bound to carry out a large-scale personnel adjustment.Will he be the first target of Beria's surgery?This guy is a more insidious careerist than Stalin. This unprecedented power struggle is what he hopes, but he must not let Beria succeed so easily. This kind of power struggle must be intensified until the Soviet high-level Both lose-lose in internal friction.

No, I must think of a way to stop Beria's current almost crazy behavior. This old fox who has always taken the responsibility of catching spies and saboteurs is obviously playing the role of a genuine saboteur at this time .

But the question is how to stop him?Now that I have no power or power, and even my life is firmly held in the palm of my hand, the only one I can rely on is Kryuchkov?Kryuchkov?
Vasily woke up suddenly from his stupor, but it was Kryuchkov, didn't he just slip a note to himself?What will be on it?
Jumping up on the sand suddenly, Vasili reached out and took out the neatly folded note from his pocket, then stretched it impatiently, and looked at it carefully.

There were a lot of handwriting on the note, densely packed, and it seemed that Kryuchkov had a lot to tell Vasily.

The first sentence at the beginning of the note is: "I assassinated Serov Beria, suspecting that this was a harbinger of Stalin's attack on him, so the action to seize power was brought forward"

"Kryuchkov! You bastard!" Vasily just read this sentence, and couldn't help but want to yell.Serov is the most valued member of Beria's subordinates. He is called Beria's shadow.Kryuchkov chose to assassinate him at this time, the purpose is obvious, there is only one, and that is to make Beria jump over the wall in a hurry, and launch an operation to seize power in advance.

In addition to the boundless anger, Vasily also felt a little relieved. In any case, judging from the current situation, Kryuchkov will not betray himself and turn to Beria again.What he has done fully shows that he knows what Beria is like, and he does not hope that one day he will follow the old path of Grinev. Of course, this young man may have more ambitions, and he does not want to be forever Crouched at Beria's feet.

Pressing his mind, Vasily continued to read the letter.

"Now that Beria has consolidated his position in the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, once the Politburo meeting is held, Stalin will inevitably be impeached, and the final surrender of power is inevitable. Our opportunity is precisely here. After nearly a month of arrangements , I have already contacted Comrade Tukhachevsky’s supporters, and the preparations in all aspects are basically in place. Most importantly, I have secretly contacted Comrade Rokossovsky, Comrade Konev and Comrade Vasilevsky, although they did not express their support for us, they indicated that they would join the camp against Beria. So all you have to do now is to propose to Stalin that the Central Committee *The meeting was changed to an enlarged meeting of the Politburo to allow more people to participate in the resolution of this high-level personnel change, and all our opportunities lie in this.”

The simple letter of a few hundred words made Vasily's mind suddenly open, and at the same time he fully understood the whole set of plans conceived by Kryuchkov.Obviously, this young man who seemed a little timid and immature at first was definitely not as simple as his appearance.According to his plan, he first had to rehabilitate those people like Tukhachevsky. These people not only had high prestige in the Soviet army, but they were also the first batch of revolutionaries who closely followed their mentor Lenin.Most importantly, those generals who had been implicated but survived in the power struggles of the past and present must have resented Stalin, especially Beria, as the executioner.It is very easy to get the appreciation and sympathy of Tukhachevsky and other people to speak up for them.Therefore, when this step was completed, Kryuchkov also completed the first plan to win people's hearts.

Next, he needs to arrange an optimal timing for the move. It is undoubtedly the best way to create a gap between Stalin and Beria, and eventually lead to the two turning against each other.The appearance of Vasily was undoubtedly an initial motivation to divide Stalin and Beria. The "Pravda" incident later created a good opportunity for Beria to seize power. Serov's mysterious assassination made Beria Leah panicked, and Kryuchkov, who was in charge of the third game, could easily blame Stalin for Serov's death.Under such circumstances, Beria couldn't detect that his subordinates were playing tricks. He could only think that Serov's death was a precursor to Stalin's attack on him. Under such circumstances, he seemed to have no choice but to speed up the seizure of power. .

(End of this chapter)