Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 781 Why China
Wang Kongan licked his lips, and then told the shocking inside story: "At midnight on July 1902, 7, Yurovsky brought 17 members of the execution guard to the house where Nicholas II's family lived. Yurovsky asked the members of the Red Guard guarding Nicholas II's family to move all the things in the underground dormitory out of the house. Yurovsky said to the captain of the Red Guard Neil Ostroyevs, you bring 15 Red Guards The guards were on guard outside, and if the enemy came to attack the house, you would fight back with machine guns and grenades. At 15:50, the truck sent to carry the corpses drove near the house, and Yurovsky ran up to the second floor to confront the house. Gula II and his family said: There is a situation in the city, for safety, please go downstairs, we will transfer you to other places later."

"Usually, the tsar's family would go to bed at 10 o'clock, but today, for some reason, no one went to bed at midnight. Nicholas II did not speak, and carried his 14-year-old beloved son Alexei on his back. Followed downstairs, Nicholas II loved his youngest son very much. Take him everywhere, followed by Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, eldest daughter Olga, second daughter Dagia Maria, the third daughter Maria and the youngest daughter Anastasia, doctors, nurses, servants, maids in the queen's room and the chef also went downstairs. Queen Alexandra saw that the room was empty, so she asked first, okay? Ah! Not even a chair! Don’t you even have the right to sit down? Yurovsky asked the captain of the Red Guard Ostroyevs to move two Viennese walnut chairs, and Nicholas II let himself Alexei, his son, was seated in one chair, Empress Alexandra was seated in another, and Yurovsky ordered the rest to stand in a row. By this time the execution guard had already stood in the corridor, Yurovsky flashed out of the door, and the gunshot rang out. Nicholas II felt a shock in his chest. He instinctively touched it with his hand, and it was covered with blood. He suddenly fell backwards. Immediately afterwards , What happened was astonishing. The bullets that hit the children bounced around the room like hailstones, and six bullets bounced back, almost injuring the members of the firing squad. After the shooting was over, the firing squad used Stretchers carried the bodies of Nicholas II, his family and attendants onto the truck, and drove the truck to the nearby forest and threw them into two abandoned gold mines."

The more Chen Lifu listened, the more frightened he became: "What is going on, the more I listen, the more confused I become."

"In fact, Nicholas II didn't die at all. The problem lies with Sverdlov and the execution captain Yurovsky. These two people are offline of the Imperial Security Bureau, and they were ordered by the Security Bureau to do so. , as to how many people like Sverdlov there were at that time, I don't know."

Chen Lifu didn't speak for a while, walked back and forth twice in the room with his hands behind his back, suddenly turned his head to stare at Wang Kong'an and said, "How do you know about this?"

Wang Kongan smiled: "Because I was the one who arranged the whole thing. After so many years, this matter is no longer top secret, and you are the mastermind of this operation, so it is necessary for me to reveal the truth. tell you."

"Then I ask you, why did Beijing try to rescue Nicholas II?"

"I don't know the specific situation. I guess it may be related to this operation. To put it bluntly, it is related to Nicholas II's gold!"

Chen Lifu seemed to understand a little bit, and said to Wang Kong'an: "Well, since this is the case, it means that the empire attaches great importance to this matter. You must be tight in your actions and never reveal any clues, understand?" At that time, I admired Zhao Bingjun, the director of the Imperial Security Bureau, and even admired His Majesty the Emperor. Imagine taking the risk to rescue Nicholas II for the sake of Nicholas II, who didn't know if he would be useful, and gave him a first-class Even for nearly 20 years, this kind of forbearance is by no means possessed by ordinary people. If anyone has such an enemy, it will be scary to think about it!
"Don't worry, my lord!" Wang Kong'an said confidently, "The contact station has always been clean and neat, and will not leave any traces!"

Chen Lifu nodded, and said: "First transfer the Nicholas family and his so-called national teacher to Beijing. The Security Bureau has another plan. If the current situation gets out of hand, control the Tsar's gold, And the tsar’s secret small treasury, all sent back to the empire! The Imperial Security Bureau has approved the export of arms that may be used to support the tsar’s counterattack against the Soviets, and their gold will be used as collateral!”

"Yes!" Wang Kong'an turned and left the embassy. When he walked to the door, he suddenly turned around and said, "Our emperor is definitely an unborn genius. At the beginning, after Nicholas II abdicated, he originally hoped to go to England, but Britain King George V refused to accept his family's asylum in England, so the Tsar's family was temporarily resettled in Tobolsk, Siberia by Kerensky, and planned to move to China for political asylum under Rasputin's persuasion. However, due to the tense situation at the beginning, the trip did not take place. This time the emperor personally ordered the approval of Nicholas II to come to China. A vampire and a miser, his personal wealth is as rich as a country. Now that the Nikolai family has taken refuge in China, it means that a huge sum of money will flow into the pockets of the Chinese people.”

Chen Lifu said gloomyly: "The biggest problem with you is that you like to think you're smart. As an old secret agent, you should know that it's better to be a little confused most of the time."

Wang Kongan blushed, nodded and left.

For Nicholas II, he had been to China when he was young, when he was the governor and crown prince of Siberia.In his eyes, China at that time was a feudal empire that was even more backward than Russia.It can be said that he looks down on the Chinese from the bottom of his heart.Times have changed. When he came to China 30 years later, Nicholas II was very shocked.He has already felt it since he entered the northern province of the Chinese Empire by special train. There are neat towns in many places along the way. Factories and farmland did not exist before. This shows that China is developing northern Xinjiang very quickly and encourages more The inland people settled in the northern Xinjiang for a certain life.

Nicholas II did not choose to enter Beijing from the Mongolian grassland, but chose Vladivostok as the first stop, and was very surprised when he arrived at Vladivostok.Originally, it took the Russians more than ten years to build a small city with a population of only tens of thousands, most of whom were members of the military.However, after the Chinese captured Vladivostok, after more than ten years of construction, Vladivostok has now become a large city with a population of nearly 30. People are coming and going on the streets, businesses are hawking one after another, and houses are lined up on both sides. China The style houses incorporate some western architectural features, complement each other, and are magnificent, which greatly shocked Nicholas II.

Then he continued to give up the idea of ​​going to Beijing by plane, and still took the train to further tour China to understand the current social situation in China.

When the train slowly drove across the Ussuri River, it had already entered the Central Plains region, because after Siberia was established, the original Northeast region was included in the hinterland of the Central Plains of the Empire.This was originally China's Northeast Industrial Base, but now it has been renamed the Central Plains Industrial Base, but Nicholas II is not interested in the name.When he saw the dense factories along the railway line, he was shocked again.According to the description of the Chinese agents, the total industrial volume of the three provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin, and Fengtian alone is already the sum of the Soviet Union. No, in his heart, it is still the sum of the entire national industry of Tsarist Russia.What shocked Nicholas II was that these three provinces today are only a small part of China, so the total amount of industry in China is simply unimaginable?Only then did Nicholas II understand that China had been developing in a low-key way, but was actually pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger.Russia suffered a disastrous defeat in the Sino-Russian War back then because it did not understand China's real industrial capabilities.

Through the understanding of the three provinces, Nicholas II deeply lamented that this ancient country that was once bullied by powers all over the world has now become one of the world's leading industrial powers, while European and American countries have always been under the secret control of China. In the endless fighting on the land of Europe, the gap between them and China is gradually widening under the ebb and flow, until a certain point in the future, they will no longer be able to catch up with China, and China will reintroduce the world Take back the dominance from the West.

After the train entered the Gyeonggi area, Nicholas II saw the prosperity of China.Today's Tianjin area has become an important industrial base in China's Bohai Bay.In the eyes of Nicholas II, China's industrial base around the Bohai Sea is far stronger than the industrial bases seen before.Because the factories here are denser, there is no black smoke billowing into the sky at all, and they are all driven by electricity, not to mention clean, and the cost has been reduced by a large amount.The industrial products shipped from here are obviously far lower than the cost of similar products in Europe, but the selling price is higher than similar products. Nicholas can't help but sigh: "The Chinese are stealing money!"

Nicholas II learned a lot about this base around the Bohai Sea after asking the Chinese guide officials.From a natural point of view, the terrain here is flat, the water source is sufficient, and the climate is suitable, which is conducive to the development of industry; it is near the mouth of the river, and the soil is fertile, which is conducive to agricultural development.From a humanistic point of view, the sea, land and air transportation is developed here, the transportation is convenient, and the labor force is abundant. The Gyeonggi region has a large population and has talents and technological advantages, because China's largest science and technology park is located in Tianjin.A good investment environment and a vast consumer market, a wide range of radiation to the mainland, centralized management of factories, developed industrial production, strong support, and the advantages of being close to the ocean and facilitating international trade, have unique development prospects here.

"Why did God choose China?" Nicholas II murmured in his heart: "Compared with China, the Soviet Union and Western countries seem out of step with this era."

(End of this chapter)