The sun never sets.

Lin Yongchang was very confused about the French government's choice. When it was abandoned by the Allies and faced with a massive attack by the German army, why did the French Commune reject the goodwill from the People's Revolutionary League?

As long as France agrees to join the People's Revolutionary League, the alliance will immediately mobilize its troops to the borders near Poland and Germany and save the besieged city of Paris.

But the French Commune actually refused?

Molotov carefully selected his words and announced the result of the breakdown of the negotiations: "Mr. Sebastian, the leader of the French Commune, rejected the alliance's proposal and announced that the alliance would be expelled from the left wing."

"...........", Lin Yongchang was well-informed, but he still couldn't understand Mr. Sebastian's actions. "Is this Sebastian's idea alone, or is it a consensus among the top leaders of the French Commune?"

Molotov replied: "It should be the consensus of the top leaders of the French Commune. Sebastian and others believe that the proletarian dictatorship policy implemented by the League is reactionary and does not conform to the principle of fairness. They believe that trade unions should replace state institutions and government departments........."

"I originally wanted to be with the moon..." Lin Yongchang shook his head and said with some disinterest: "Forget it, since they don't care, we don't need to stick to their cold butts. Don't worry about the French Commune, let them do whatever they want. Well, send people to repair the relationship with Germany, but also

Don't be so polite. If Germany can give us what we need, we will continue to sell them food. If they don't have the hard currency and the machines we need, forget it."

"Yes." Molotov paused, then asked, "How should the Polish issue be resolved?"

Poland has been divided up so many times in history that the Poles wrote songs like "Poland Will Never Perish". Generally speaking, people cry out for what they lack. Poland has never perished, it just disappears frequently.

Before the outbreak of the World War, Poland was a territory of Tsarist Russia, and the current Polish government is a puppet of the Germans. However, the Poles still want to fight for national independence. They used to help the German army attack Russia while flirting with Britain and France, hoping to achieve independence with the help of Britain and France.

Being a puppet of the Germans was not what the Polish nationalists wanted. If they split from Tsarist Russia, but could only become a vassal of Germany, then what was the point of independence? Wouldn't the blood of so many people be shed in vain?

The French Commune is now unable to take care of itself, and Britain is out of reach of Poland. The Poles have looked all over the world and found that the only one who can help them is the People's Revolutionary League. However, Poland has great hostility and fear towards the People's Revolutionary League.

During the World War, the Poles did a lot of bad things. Although there are many hatreds between Russia and Poland in history, and the Russians have carried out bloody suppression on the Poles, the Poles are not much better. When they acted as accomplices of the German army, they killed no less people.

The [Human Revolutionary Union] can help Poland realize its dream of independence, but the Poles cannot grasp the attitude of the [Human Revolutionary Union].

In fact, there was no unified attitude towards Poland within the People's Revolutionary League.

Chapter 685 Share

Many people in the Human Reform League believed that they should march westward and retake Poland while the main force of the German army was still in France. Among these comrades, Comrade Trotsky was the most radical. He not only wanted to retake Poland, but also to flatten Germany, liberate Paris, and drink from the Atlantic Ocean...

After Trotsky and other Bolsheviks joined the People's Party, most of them became supporters of the People's Party. After all, the People's Party's ideas were largely similar to those of the Bolsheviks, and its policy making was also inclined towards workers and peasants.

However, people like Trotsky, although they joined the People's Party as individuals, still did not forget to promote Marxism. In private gatherings, Trotsky clearly pointed out that the People's Party was more advanced than the Tsarist autocracy, but at most it could only be regarded as bourgeois reform, not a true proletarian dictatorship.

Trotsky always regarded himself as an orthodox Marxist. Although he and Comrade Vladimir Ilyich Lenin no longer had military power and could no longer form a workers' Red Guard, he still did not give up his ideals.

There were too many rules and regulations within the People's Revolutionary League, and there was a long probation period for Bolshevik leaders like them. This made it impossible for Trotsky to launch a revolution within the People's Revolutionary League, so he wanted to spread the flames of revolution to Germany and France.

When the sailors in Kiel Harbor revolted, Trotsky encouraged Comrade Lenin to go to Germany with him and prepare to lead the sailors in Kiel Harbor to attack Berlin. However, just as he began to plan how to escape from Moscow, news came from Germany that the uprising in Kiel Harbor had been suppressed by the German authorities.

After Trotsky's plot was discovered, the number of people responsible for "inspecting" him doubled. Now no matter where he wanted to go, he had to report it first. Without the approval of the higher authorities, he could not even leave the compound.

Comrade Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was considered to have successfully undergone transformation through study because he had no intention of running away with Trotsky, and he was allowed to go to the Party School to learn more theoretical knowledge.

Those high-ranking Bolsheviks who were arranged to study and reform were all working part-time. They planted crops and vegetables during the day, and were gathered together to study "Lin Yongchang's Thought" at night or when it rained.

Only when the transformation is confirmed to be successful can you do something else, otherwise you can only continue to learn and transform.

This was Lin Yongchang's idea. It was too dangerous to let Trotsky give speeches everywhere, so it was better to let them learn to work. However, Trotsky was too famous, and people often came to visit him. He couldn't stop all of them, and occasionally he had to approve one or two people to visit Trotsky and his friends.

This resulted in Trotsky being able to keep in touch with the outside world. After learning about the current situation, he wrote several letters to Chairman Lin in a hurry, explaining the principle of "continuous revolution."

But his letters fell on deaf ears and received no response.

Lin Yongchang's evaluation is, "Comrade Trotsky has not yet realized his ideological mistakes. Rightist capitulationism is unacceptable, but leftist adventurism is equally unacceptable. If he cannot realize this, Comrade Trotsky should continue to strengthen his study."

After finding that there was no response to his letter to Chairman Lin, Trotsky began to write letters to other people in the outside world. He could not leave the workplace, and he had no way to make phone calls or send telegrams. In the state-owned farm far away from the city, there were no such things, so he could only write letters.

People like Trotsky who came to labor reform were all key targets for investigation. All the letters they sent out were subject to inspection so that the Party and the people could constantly check their thoughts.

We should pay close attention to the changes in the situation so that our comrades will not go astray.

Therefore, most of Trotsky's letters to the outside world were not sent.

However, people like Trotsky were only a minority. Most people quickly realized their shortcomings, strengthened their studies, and were assigned new jobs by the Party after passing assessments.

Because the French Commune refused to join the Human Revolutionary League and wanted to guide the Human Revolutionary League to the right path, Lin Yongchang lost patience with the French Commune. After arranging the next work in Europe, he went to meet with Comrade Lenin, Comrade Trotsky and others, and then took the train to Chang'an.

Trotsky took advantage of Chairman Lin's visit to promote his political views. Lin Yongchang listened carefully to Trotsky's views and said he would seriously consider them. Well, he would only consider them.

Trotsky believed that permanent revolution must be carried out on a global scale so that people all over the world can free themselves from exploitation and oppression. He also believed that an economic system centered on workers' autonomy should be proposed, and that the proletariat should no longer have a dictatorship. Instead, the proletariat should establish multiple political parties to jointly govern, as in Britain and the United States.

It cannot be said that his views are completely contrary to Lin Yongchang's ideas, but they are at least two-thirds consistent with them.

After leaving the state farm, Lin Yongchang instructed that more books should be prepared for Comrade Trotsky, including the history of the People's Party and the war experience of the People's Army. Ideological books were indispensable, and historical books were also acceptable, including the Twenty-Four Histories and some miscellaneous notes, which could be placed in the small library in the farmhouse.

The food provided to Comrade Trotsky could also be more substantial. If the food fund was insufficient, he could write to the Central Committee and ask the Central Committee to solve the problem.

But the most important thing is to strengthen learning and labor, so that Comrade Trotsky can truly experience what kind of life the peasants have lived for thousands of years. Only personal experience can change people's three views.

The farm cadres promised that Trotsky would get along well with the peasants.

Lin Yongchang was very happy and gave the pen he carried with him to the cadre on the spot. The cadre took the pen and almost jumped for joy.

Although both Lenin and Trotsky were bald, Comrade Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was much calmer. Comrade Trotsky made a lot of comments and suggestions, while Comrade Lenin only made three points. First, how to ensure the purity of the party? Second, how to solve the problem of state structure in the union? Third, how to solve the problem of bureaucracy in party and government institutions?

The People's Party led by Lin Yongchang cleaned up society again and again, but in Lenin's view, that was not enough, far from enough. There were too many factions and cliques in the People's Party, and local cadres sometimes - and often - pretended to obey the central government's policies but actually disobeyed them.

Comrade Lenin raised three questions. These questions are not isolated, but are inextricably linked to each other. It is not easy to solve one of them, let alone all three.

Lin Yongchang was unable to give an answer, and could only humbly express his willingness to keep in touch with Comrade Lenin, and to inform him immediately if he had any ideas. He also hoped that Comrade Lenin could share his thoughts with him.

Chapter 686: Next time

Why was Comrade Lenin able to become the supreme leader of the Bolsheviks, while Trotsky could only be Comrade Lenin’s close friend? The main reason was ability. Trotsky was still at the third level, while Comrade Lenin had already reached the atmosphere.

The three questions raised by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin have been bothering Lin Yongchang over the years. He was able to temporarily suppress the problems with his superb skills... Well, actually, it was because of the plug-in that no major problems broke out.

But this does not really solve the problem. Lin Yongchang has a plug-in, and can know the real situation in the local area through the [The Sun Never Sets in the Celestial Empire] system, but others cannot.

We should rely on the system, not wise rulers and good ministers. Wise rulers and good ministers are unreliable. Although the system may not be reliable, it is always much better than the so-called wise rulers and good ministers.

Regarding the issues raised by Lenin, Lin Yongchang’s idea is to wait and see. Society is a dynamic game process, and some issues can only be seen as good or bad after a period of time.

Before leaving Moscow for Chang'an, Lin Yongchang once again appointed Grand Duke Nicholas as the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front...and the Western Front, responsible for all the troops of the People's Revolutionary League in Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine, so as to avoid being caught off guard by the German army.

Although Germany's manpower was exhausted, we still had to take necessary precautions, and we couldn't do it secretly, but we had to put it out in the open. We wanted to tell the Germans that we had prepared our hunting rifles and they should not think too much.

While Grand Duke Nicholas took back command of the Russian army on the eastern front, Li Dayan was transferred to the southern front to be responsible for the defense of the Caucasus. The Turks were called the "sick man of West Asia", but their strength should not be underestimated. Li Dayan was arranged to go to the Caucasus to keep an eye on the Ottoman Turks, and more importantly, for the oil fields in Baku.

Lin Yongchang could allow Finland to be autonomous and Poland to be temporarily independent, but he could not agree to allow the ethnic minorities in the Caucasus to be independent or even autonomous.

[Human Revolutionary Union] In the process of industrialization, a lot of oil and gas resources are needed. Baku Oilfield is [Human Revolutionary Union]

Most of Russia is not suitable for living, not to mention the permafrost zone, and the mountainous areas of the Caucasus are not a good place either, but it is precisely in Siberia and Baku that there are large amounts of oil and natural gas.

In fact, the best oil fields are still in the Middle East, but the People's Revolutionary League cannot reach out there for the time being and can only develop Russia's oil and natural gas first.

When Lin Yongchang was on his way to Chang'an, new changes occurred on the European battlefield. After Britain and the United States explicitly refused to provide assistance to the French Commune, National France stood up and chose to cooperate with the German Empire.

After the outbreak of the Syndicalist Revolution in Paris, the National French Republic, or the Fourth French Republic, fled to Algeria under the protection of the remaining naval fleet and took control of the Mirmidhe naval base. The National French regime was thus re-established in the colonies of French West Africa and French North Africa, with Pétain as president and Grand Marshal of the French Army, Darlan as Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, and Tassigny as Commander-in-Chief of the Army, and carried out republican rule, with the French Commune as its biggest enemy. At the beginning of its establishment, the National French Republic took anti-syndicalism and anti-communism as its highest goal. The purpose of reindustrialization in the colonies of French West Africa and French North Africa was to counterattack the French mainland and restore the rule of capitalist democratic countries.

In order to overthrow the French Commune and return to mainland France, the National France did not hesitate to cooperate with the German Empire. However, the National France did not have many land forces, and the navy's warships could not land. The small troops and the returning corps sent to the mainland by the Fourth Republic were unable to play any role and were drowned in the vast ocean of the French people.

National France was of little use, and the other Allied powers could not spare troops to help Germany. In fact, rebellions, or revolutions, broke out in both the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire. There was no revolution in Bulgaria, but that was because almost all the Bulgarian men were dead.

The German army did not make good progress on the Paris front. The battle with the French Commune destroyed a large number of French troops, but the German casualties were also increasing day by day. The worst thing was that small-scale rebellions broke out in Bavaria and East Prussia.

After losing the food imported by the alliance, the front-line troops returned to a state of hunger. In the rear, people starving to death were no longer news. After the winter, the number of deaths due to cold and hunger increased sharply.

The German government was afraid of the turbulence in the domestic situation and was even more worried about the growing military strength of the Eastern Alliance. It had to negotiate based on the armistice conditions of the French Commune, namely: no compensation for the Night Raid Group: ⑥⑨4⑨, ③61③5, but only ceding overseas colonies to Germany.

The French Commune had no navy and had no way of controlling its overseas colonies. Those were all territories of National France, so it would not feel bad to cede them all to the Germans.

Berlin, Imperial Palace

Ludendorff once again tried to convince the Emperor and his colleagues in the Supreme Command that "this is the best result we can get."

"France has no foreign aid anymore. As long as we keep fighting, we will be able to defeat Paris sooner or later!"

"Sooner or later? How long will that take? Two months? Or half a year?"

Ludendorff glanced at Hindenburg and said, "Ten years ago, the Chinese took advantage of the opportunity when the main force of the Japanese army was fighting the Russian army in Outer Northeast China and took the initiative to declare war on Japan. In less than three months, they almost wiped out the main force of the Japanese army. How similar is the current situation to that time? The main force of our army is in France. If the [People's Revolutionary League] suddenly declares war, what can we use to resist it?"

"Lin has returned to Asia."

"Based on what I know about Lin, this is most likely a strategic deception."

Ludendorff said calmly: "We cannot pin our hopes on the enemy's stupidity. If I were in Lin's position, I would definitely take action."

Someone whispered, "Don't we get anything?"

“No, we got a lot of stuff!”

Ludendorff said loudly: "In the East, Poland and Finland have separated from Russia. In the West, the French Commune will not be able to join the [Human Innovation Alliance], and a red France will be isolated and helpless. Just wait another twenty years, until the next war breaks out, and the German Empire will be able to easily crush France!"

Everyone knew that what Ludendorff said was right, but not entirely right.

The French Commune was indeed trapped in an isolated predicament, but in the East, a terrifying behemoth emerged: the Human Reform League, which was no match for Tsarist Russia.

Twenty years later, the German army will be able to crush the French army, but how to deal with the threat from the east? The French Commune has not joined the People's Revolutionary League yet, but it may ally with the People's Revolutionary League in the next war.

But no matter what, this war is over. Even if there is no threat from the East, the British and American coalition forces are not so easy to deal with.

After repeated consideration, German Emperor Wilhelm II reluctantly made the final decision, "Then, let's put the real victory in the next war!"

Chapter 687: Correcting Mistakes

Before deciding to agree to the armistice conditions of the French Commune, German Emperor Wilhelm II sent a telegram to Marshal Lin in Chang'an, asking for the alliance's views on the war in Europe.

What could Lin Yongchang think? He certainly hoped for world peace. Although the People's Revolutionary League looked powerful, its internal problems

There are many problems. Russia is a larger country than China. Now that all of its territories have been incorporated into the Union, it will take a long time to digest these territories.

Then, William II invited the League to mediate the war between Germany and the French Commune. This was an event that could enhance the League's international influence, so Lin Yongchang agreed to Germany's request. However, he had just arrived in Chang'an and was preparing to solve a lot of problems in China. It was impossible for him to take the train back to Europe, and he was too late.

Then, let Molotov and other comrades do it. The great powers like to participate in mediation because they can get benefits. The alliance does not need to be as ugly as the European and American powers. As long as they can trade fairly and equally, it will be fine.

Wherever trade goes, the flag follows.

The British are not the only ones who understand the meaning of this sentence, nor are maritime countries the only ones who understand trade. The alliance does not need to pursue hegemony, nor does it need to deliberately do certain things. In the process of trade, it can naturally convey its values to the world.

The alliance’s biggest problem now does not come from external pressure, but from the contradiction between the people’s growing material and cultural needs and backward social production. The armed fights in Hunan are one of the specific manifestations of this contradiction.

Xu Shichang felt somewhat helpless. He had served as prime minister and everything was perfect at first. As he reached retirement age, he was about to step down. Who could have known that such a huge bomb would explode at the last minute?

During his tenure as prime minister, Xu Shichang adhered to the principle of working more and talking less, worked hard, and avoided the political line disputes as much as possible, but he could not avoid them in the end. After Chairman Lin arrived in Chang'an, he immediately took the documents to report on his work.

"Prime Minister Xu."

"Chairman Wang, Chairman Lin."

Xu Shichang opened the folder and was about to read from it, but was interrupted by Lin Yongchang. "Premier Xu, put those things aside for now. I have read too many reports on the way here. Let's just talk casually."

"What does Chairman Lin want to discuss?"

Lin Yongchang looked at Wang Qi, "What do you think we should talk about?"

Wang Qi's expression was very serious. "The current chaos is caused by lax control! I think it is necessary to launch another severe crackdown and strengthen the rectification movement in order to suppress the unhealthy tendencies in society!"

Fifteen years ago, Wang Qi was one of the representatives of the radical faction, but now he has begun to turn conservative. In the past, Lin Yongchang was the president of the country and was responsible for making decisions, and Wang Qi only needed to be responsible for implementation. At that time, he felt that making decisions was much easier, but the implementation process was full of various difficulties.

After he became the president of China, he found that it was not the case. Wang Qi soon found that no matter what decisions he made, he could not achieve the expected goals. While solving problems, more new problems would always emerge.

"Both the crackdown and the rectification movement can be carried out, but they should not be exaggerated. This point should be paid special attention to. Most of the problems existing in society today can be solved through development."

Wang Qi frowned and retorted: "If we continue with the previous free and easy approach, the more development we have, the more social problems will arise. Only by implementing a strict household registration management system and restricting the flow of people can we improve the social atmosphere!"

“Development will bring problems, but should we stop developing because of this?”

Lin Yongchang was somewhat disappointed with Wang Qi. This former "Hebei hero" was a good executor who could complete any task assigned to him, but he did not seem to be a qualified leader. When he encountered a problem, he did not think about the cause, but wanted to deal with it in a simple and crude way. It seemed that things had become simpler, but this was not the real solution to the problem.

In China, it is very easy to implement authoritarianism. The strict organizational structure of the People's Party also provides soil for the birth of authoritarianism, but Lin Yongchang knows that although doing so can have a short-term effect, it will cause endless troubles in the long run.

"We must trust the people. The people have sharp eyes. No matter how many difficulties there are, we can solve them by relying on the people."

Wang Qi shook his head. “Some problems just can’t be solved.”

"Oh, what are some problems that cannot be solved? Give me an example."

"For example, the public security problem at train stations. Take the train stations in Guangzhou and Shanghai as examples. Fraud, robbery and looting have always been rampant. The Ministry of Public Security has carried out several special rectifications in recent years, but they can only last for ten days or half a month at most. When the special rectifications are over, things are back to the way they were before."

Xu Shichang continued, "There are too many migrant workers at the train stations in Guangzhou and Shanghai to manage. We have tried to increase the police force, but the cost will increase to a point where we cannot afford it."

"Unless martial law is implemented, otherwise..."