Chapter 876 Sugar-Coated Bullet (First Update)

On June 3, 1943, on the same day that Admiral Halsey, commander of the U.S. 3rd Fleet, personally led three huge task force fleets out of the Caribbean Sea and entered the Atlantic Ocean, Russian Empress Olga was welcomed by French President Pétain. Invited to stay at the Elysee Palace, the extremely luxurious presidential palace.

Empress Olga arrived in France after completing her official visit to Germany. Of course, she was still in the official capacity of the Empress of Russia. Following Germany, the French Republic now also recognized Olga's status, and also showed Quite enthusiastic.

The elderly President Pétain and Prime Minister Darlan went to Paris Saint-Lazare train station to welcome the Queen, and then they drove to the Elysée Palace with the welcome of the people of Paris.

In the talks after the welcome banquet held in the Elysee Palace, Pétain and Darlan clearly expressed their support for the restoration of the Romanov dynasty in Russia!

Unlike the German high-level disputes over the restoration of the Russian Empire, the French have been very enthusiastic in supporting the restoration of Empress Olga since they followed Germany in the war against the Soviet Union.

This stance is not only because of "traditional friendship", but also because of the mentality of "alliance with Russia and rejection of reunification".

Because in today's European Community, the German Empire has an overwhelming advantage!

If Poles, Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Slovaks, and Slovenes, the people of the German Commonwealth, are all counted as Germans, the current population of the German Empire far exceeds that of Britain and France combined. Germany's gross industrial production currently exceeds the sum of all other countries in the European Community. If Ukraine, the "Second Rhine Area", is digested in the future, its industrial strength (referring to production capacity) will be comparable to that of the United States on the other side of the Atlantic!

In addition, Germany currently still firmly controls the oil sea in the Middle East and will definitely be able to control European oil tanks in the future.

Therefore, in the foreseeable future, Germany will crush other countries in the European Community in terms of population, industry and energy. The prospect of Germany completely dominating the European Community, or even integrating the European Community into one country, is promising.

However, "old France" like Pétain and Darlan will never forget the glory and splendor of France in the past, and naturally they will not be willing to realize the integration of France and Germany.

To resist the prospect of European unification, France's own strength is obviously not enough. Britain is as unreliable as ever. Italy is even less worth mentioning in the eyes of the French. After thinking about it, only Russia, a big, stupid guy, can rely on. .

Not to mention using force to resist reunification, the Russian Empire can also be of great use in fighting peaceful reunification. Because as long as the Soviet Union becomes Russia, and the Tsar of the Russian Empire is named Hohenzollern, Germany's dream of European integration will have to involve Russia.

That’s more than 100 million Russians! When the time comes, the French will have no problem with it, but will the Germans be willing to peacefully unify with them?

Therefore, in order to allow more than 100 million rough and barbaric Russians to join the European family, the French are very willing to spend some money.

"Her Majesty the Queen, based on the traditional friendship between our two countries, the French government is now willing to make every effort to help Russia get back on the right track."

At the beginning of the talks, French Prime Minister Darlan directly made his position clear to the Russian Empress and the Chief Minister Duke Wrangel who accompanied her on her visit to France - to do everything possible to support her!

"Thank you very much for the friendship of the French people," the Queen replied directly in fluent French without relying on an interpreter. "With your commitment, I believe that my trip to France will be fruitful... In fact, now is the question of whether the Russian Empire can At the critical moment when we get back on track, we need France’s support. Such support will make France and Russia the best friends in the future.”

Marshal Pétain nodded and asked: "I also look forward to France and Russia becoming best friends, and now we are willing to help. So... Your Majesty, what do you want now?"

France has now emerged from the disaster of 1940. Benefitting from the business opportunities brought about by European integration and the world war, France's industrial production and fiscal revenue have returned to the levels of 1939. Therefore, there are now enough financial and material resources (except oil) to assist the restoration of Belarus.

"That's great." Duke Wrangel, the Queen's chief minister, took over the question at this time. He also said in French: "Mr. President, Mr. Prime Minister, you're welcome... Now we really need Something to take back Petrograd."

"Just tell me what you need." Prime Minister Darlan interjected. He guessed that what the Russians need most now must be troops.

The 1st Mechanized Corps of the French Army is now fully prepared and has also moved to Poland (originally planned to be used in the battle to recapture Warsaw) and can go to the Leningrad battlefield at any time.

In addition, a new heavy artillery group was also organized. The group has more than 300 brand-new 194mm cannons, half of which are self-propelled artillery, which can be used in street fighting in Leningrad.

As long as the Russians open their mouths, these two forces will immediately join the battle to regain Petrograd!

"What we need most now is food," Wrangel said, "including flour, cheese, sugar, meat, etc. Then there are various light industrial products, including cloth, clocks, bicycles, sewing machines, radios, etc."

"What?"

Marshal Pétain and Admiral Darlan were a little confused by Wrangel's words. Is this a war or a business? Food is easy to say, after all, the soldiers on the front line also need to eat, but what about cloth, clocks, bicycles, sewing machines, and radios?

"This is a prize for the people of Petrograd who surrendered to Your Majesty!" Wrangel explained, "As we all know, in countries under Soviet rule, living materials are extremely scarce!

Items that are not expensive to the French and German people are very precious and rare to the people of the second capital of the Soviet Union. The effect of using these prizes is likely to be better than artillery shells."

The idea of ​​using various sugar-coated artillery shells to bombard Leningrad was proposed by the traitors who surrendered to the empress. In addition to the "three turns and one ring" and food and cloth, Empress Olga also had people print millions of Petrograd household registers and land certificates in a German printing factory!

All Leningrad citizens and garrisons who surrendered to Her Majesty the Empress could obtain a Petrograd household registration book granted by Her Majesty the Empress, and their houses and jobs in Petrograd could be retained.

And those who surrendered in Petrograd without housing and jobs (mainly foreign Red Army soldiers) could also get a small piece of land in the suburbs of Petrograd (to build a house) and an opportunity to work in Petrograd as a non-agricultural worker... In other words, no matter where you were from or what you did, as long as you surrendered to the Empress, you would immediately have a Petrograd household registration, a house, and a good job!

"Mr. Duke, do you really think that these things can make the Soviet army in Leningrad surrender?" French Prime Minister Darlan asked in a skeptical tone.

Empress Olga smiled and said, "These things alone are of course useless, but there are still a million troops outside Leningrad. They will make the people in the city taste despair. At that time, the Russian Empire will be their only hope."

...

"Comrades, the German planes have left."

Captain Kaminsky, who was sitting in an underground pedestrian walkway next to Nevsky Avenue, smoking and hiding from the bombing, heard the shouts of Trotskyist Vaznetsov.

He was a Moscow man in his thirties. He was a small cadre in the municipal government before the Great Purge. I don't know who he offended, but he was charged with the Trotskyist index, convicted of some terrorist group, sentenced to death first, and then changed to 25 years of labor reform. He stayed in Siberia for 7 years and was in the same labor camp with Kaminsky. At the end of 1942, Kaminsky mobilized him to join the Red Army, but his reputation was not restored, so he was just a soldier. The infantry battalion where Kaminsky was located was really full of hidden talents. Any soldier he picked out was a cadre before the Great Purge, and two of them were even political cadres in the Red Army! When it comes to revolutionary principles, even the deputy political battalion commander Ivanov can't compare to him.

"What? Did it really fly away? Why didn't I hear the bomb explode?" Kaminsky walked to the exit of the pedestrian tunnel with a cigarette in his mouth, poked his head out and looked around, seeming unsure.

"It wasn't a bomb thrower, it was a reactionary leaflet... I heard that the Germans were going to give Leningrad to Olga Romanova as the capital, so they were reluctant to throw bombs, and only threw paper bombs." Vaznetsov said, while casually handing Kaminsky a leaflet printed with the double-headed eagle mark of the Tsarist Russia.

Kaminsky pretended not to see it, took the leaflet and looked down, and said with a smile: "Give Petrograd hukou, give housing land, arrange jobs, and reward clocks, bicycles, sewing machines, radios... Who came up with this idea?"

As soon as he said this, half of the company of soldiers who had been hiding in the underground passage (they followed Kaminsky out on patrol) all rushed out, and everyone picked up a leaflet and studied the new trends in class struggle.

"It must be a traitor," Vaznetsov took over the question, "Traitors are the most hateful! But what's the use of this? Who will be fooled?"

As he said this, he threw the reactionary leaflet, and then Kaminsky and dozens of Red Army soldiers below also threw the leaflets... Oh, it can't be said that they threw it away, but they had never picked it up, and they had never even heard of the existence of reactionary leaflets. Of course, no one would report it to the deputy political battalion commander Ivanov.

Because it's best not to know about such reactionary things!