Chapter 16 Belated Friendship?

Footsteps sounded in the train compartment where Hersman and Chloe were, followed by Grand Duchess Olga's sweet and cheerful voice: "Oh, you are still awake, great."

"What's the matter?" Hersman stood up and looked at the Grand Duchess with a sweet smile. She wore a blue dress of Chloe, which looked a little fat - for some reason, the Tsar's family did not carry any luggage, so there was no replacement clothes. Fortunately, Chloe brought some clothes for the Tsar's queen and daughters to change. But she was a plump woman with a very impressive bust, and her clothes were too loose for Olga to wear.

"Lieutenant Colonel, my father wants to see you, he has something to ask." The Grand Duchess smiled and replied. Since becoming a prisoner of Hersman, she has been in a very happy and relaxed mood. She knew that the German Army Major in front of her was definitely not going to take her family to Germany to be shot.

"Chloe, go get me a pot of coffee," Hersman said to Chloe with a smile, "I think I'm going to talk to His Majesty the Tsar all night."

The Tsar must have a lot of questions to ask. He has been a prisoner for a long time. He probably doesn't even know whether the world war has ended. In addition, Nicholas II probably won't be content to live in Germany as a guest. He will definitely find ways to restore the monarchy. And if William II can spare his hands, I'm afraid he will also support the White Russians...

With a lot of calculations in his mind, Hersman followed Grand Duchess Olga into the carriage where the Tsar was. This was a relatively clean ordinary passenger car. The windows were welded with steel bars, and the doors for getting on and off the car were locked. There was only Tsar Nicholas II in it. He sat in a chair blankly, with no expression on his quite upright face, as if he was a stone statue.

"Your Majesty!" Hersman walked up to the Tsar and bowed.

The Tsar didn't respond. The carriage was quiet, with only the clanging sound of wheels hitting the rails.

"Father, Major Hessman is here." Olga spoke. At this time, the Tsar seemed to wake up from a daydream and smiled awkwardly at Hessman: "Major, please sit down. ... I think you rescued me and my family from the Bolsheviks, right?"

"Yes," Hessman sat down in front of the Tsar. "This is also the order of His Majesty the Emperor."

"So... how is the war going? Has the Allied Powers... been defeated?"

"No, in fact, the war situation is somewhat unfavorable to the Central Powers." Hessman answered truthfully.

"What?" The Tsar seemed to be surprised. As the monarch of the "most powerful" Russian Empire among the Allied Powers, he himself became a prisoner of the German Emperor. It is incredible that the Allied Powers can gain the upper hand without Russia!

"After all, the United States has joined the war!" Hersman shrugged, "and the war has lasted for many years, the Allies are a little tired... However, now that peace has been achieved on the Eastern Front, we can concentrate on dealing with the Western Front."

"Achieved peace?" The Tsar frowned, "With whom?"

"The Soviet government, the Soviet government led by the Bolsheviks!"

"The Soviet government led by the Bolsheviks?" The Tsar was stunned, "Are they still in power in Petrograd? I heard that there was an election for the Constituent Assembly... Were the Bolsheviks elected?"

"No, they were not elected... The Social Revolutionary Party and the Mensheviks received the support of most Russians."

"Then why is there a Soviet government led by the Bolsheviks?" The Tsar looked at Hersman in confusion. He had heard about the Constituent Assembly election when he was under house arrest in Tobolsk, but he didn't know the result. Now he learned from Hersman that the Social Revolutionary Party and the Mensheviks won, but there was still a Soviet government, which really confused him.

"Because the Bolsheviks dispersed the Constituent Assembly..."

"What!? How dare they do that?" The Tsar stood up suddenly, "The people of Petrograd just watched? The Social Revolutionaries and Mensheviks should have many supporters, right?"

Hersman said with a half-smile: "The Bolsheviks have an army, and they suppressed the supporters of the Social Revolutionaries and Mensheviks with bullets!"

"Suppressed!" The Tsar opened his eyes wide. "Suppressed?"

He had done this before, but the results were always unsatisfactory.

"The Social Revolutionary Party and the Mensheviks have not been completely suppressed," Hessman put away his smile and said in a serious and solemn tone, "Your Majesty, in fact, your motherland is now in a civil war! This is a large-scale civil war. On one side is the Bolshevik Red Army; on the other side is the White Army loyal to the Provisional Government... The Red Army controls the most densely populated and economically developed central areas of Russia. The White Army occupied Siberia, the Far East, part of the Ural region and the middle and lower reaches of the Don River.

In addition, the Ukrainian region is currently in a high degree of autonomy under the "guarantee" of Germany, and Finland has officially become independent. Poland, Courland, Estonia, Livonia, and Livonia have all been placed under German protection according to the "Brest-Litovsk Treaty" signed between Russia and Germany!"

"Oh my God! How could Russia become like this?" The Tsar shouted in pain. "How can these anarchists treat Russia like this! Are they... going to destroy my Russia?"

"Your Majesty, Russia is no longer yours now!"

"No! I must take it back!" the Tsar shouted, "Since they don't cherish Russia, then I will rise again! I will take Russia back!"

Take back Russia? Hessman raised his eyebrows and thought, take it from Lenin?

"William!" the Tsar shouted, shouting the name of the German Emperor. "He rescued me from the Bolsheviks absolutely not because of a conscience, but because he wanted to use me to deal with the Bolsheviks. Revolution is an infectious disease in Europe and must be stifled in Europe. In the bud... I can join forces with William! I can join forces with anyone!"

Join forces to exterminate the Bolsheviks...the German Emperor may really have this idea! Hessman smiled bitterly in his heart: But His Majesty the Emperor is powerless. Soon, you two will become brothers in need...

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"Long live the Emperor! Long live Germany!"

Cheers rang out in the Berlin train station square. There hadn’t been such cheers for a long time! Hersmann remembered that the last time he heard people cheering for the German Emperor in Berlin was when the war broke out - of course, they were also cheering for the war!

However, as the war gradually fell into a stalemate, casualties on the front line became increasingly large, and supplies in the rear became increasingly tight. The voices of complaints and opposition overwhelmed the voices supporting the war. It seems that as long as there are complaints and objections, there will be peace with "no ceding of land and no reparations."

And today, the Tsar, who was overthrown by the Russians who dreamed of "no territory and no reparations," became a "prisoner of war" in the German Empire and was escorted to Berlin! This undoubtedly gave the Germans who were trapped in the quagmire of war a shot of stimulant!

The newspapers with the largest circulation in Berlin all had the following words written in bold black letters on their front pages today: The Tsar has been captured, can the King of England still escape?

What a relief! But it was just a way to relieve his anger.

"Long live the Emperor! Victory belongs to Germany!"

When the Russian Tsar and his family were wearing straight military uniforms, with ribbons hanging on their shoulders and a blue Max Medal on the collar, Hessmann and the Tsar, who was wearing a yellow-green military coat and looked very lonely, were together. When we walked out of the waiting hall and stood on the granite steps, the square seemed to be boiling.

It turned out that the German emperor was getting off a luxurious carriage pulled by eight white horses. He was fully dressed in military uniform, wearing a helmet decorated with a golden tip and an eagle emblem, and a scepter in his hand. What a winner!

The Tsar looked at the dense crowd in the square and the Kaiser who was walking in surrounded by a large number of people in military uniforms. His face turned green and white, but in the end he took a few deep breaths of the Berlin air that he hated, and then squeezed He smiled a little and strode towards the German Emperor.

Then our Major Hessmann saw such an incredible scene: Tsar Nicholas II and German Emperor Wilhelm II lovingly embraced each other, followed by cordial greetings and conversations.

The Kaiser said in a concerned tone: "Nicholas, it's so good to see you! You know, I heard that you fell into the hands of the anarchists. I was worried."

The Tsar asked with a half-smile: "William, but I heard that those anarchists are from Germany. Were they not sent to Russia by you?"

"How is that possible? I have always been pro-Russian. Nikolai, we are still relatives!"

The Tsar smiled and said: "Yes, we are related, and I am also pro-German. In fact, I am a German! My surname is Romanov Holstein Gottorp."

"Yes, we are compatriots! Germany and Russia should be as close as brothers!" The Kaiser waved his right hand vigorously. "We might as well issue a statement at the train station, declaring that Russia and Germany are brotherly countries, and we must remain friendly forever and never fight again!"

The Russian Tsar shook the Kaiser's hand firmly, "Yes! It should have been like this a long time ago! We will always be brothers and always friendly!"