Chapter 14: Admiration

"I have long heard of your name, General Tukhachevsky. I heard that you are very proficient in German and French. This time I am not on an official visit, so I don't need this beautiful Miss Natasha, right?" Before crossing over, he had already mastered several foreign languages ​​​​proficiently. With the learning results of "Yannick", it is not an exaggeration to say that he is now a language master.

Although General Tukhachevsky in front of him is not as exaggerated as him, he can also use German and French fluently to speak and read, and his Latin level is also quite high, which can be said to be outstanding.

And why does Yannick feel that this beautiful female translator in front of him is flirting with him from time to time? He has heard of the swallow of Kerberg in the original time and space. Although the famous Kerberg has not yet been born, there is no guarantee that the current Soviet spy agency has not trained similar agents.

Could it be that his reputation as a playboy has spread far and wide here, and these guys still want to use the honey trap on him?

Natasha's eyes flashed a little strange, but she still translated his words into Russian diligently, and Tukhachevsky still smiled and said a paragraph of Russian. "Your Excellency Yannik thinks too highly of me. I just know a little bit, but I can't say I'm proficient."

Tsk, who are you kidding? I know your character's life better than you do. It seems that the only reason you don't talk in German is to create an opportunity for this beautiful translator? In this case, I will accompany you to the end, and I won't use Russian.

After the two sides introduced each other one by one, Tukhachevsky spoke. "Your Excellency Yannik is tired from the journey, let's go to the hotel first?"

Yannik nodded. "That's great, but can I go to pay my respects to His Excellency Lenin before that?"

Hearing Yannik's words, Tukhachevsky was obviously stunned. Comrade Lenin is the mentor of the proletarian revolution and the mortal enemy of capitalism. The future emperor of this capitalist country actually wants to pay his respects to Comrade Lenin?

This is really speechless!

He turned his head and looked at the group of officials standing behind him. He was a little depressed that he was the highest leader on the scene, but he couldn't ask anyone whether it was appropriate to take him to Lenin's tomb.

This awkward atmosphere lasted for a few minutes, and Yannick spoke first. "If General Tukhachevsky feels it's inappropriate, then just ignore what I said and let's go to the hotel first." He wanted to visit Lenin's tomb not for any special purpose, but because the Huaxia textbooks in the original time and space included many articles about Lenin. Such as "Study Hard", "Honest Children", "Bees Lead the Way", "How Lenin Writes", "Six Ink Bottles", "Lenin and the Guards" and "Lenin Participates in Voluntary Labor", etc.

Although these articles gradually withdrew from the textbooks, the text "Six Ink Bottles" impressed him the most when he was a child. The text tells the story of Lenin kneading bread into ink bottles in prison, filling them with milk, and writing on the blank space on the book. When he was a child, he was very curious about this story. How did bread become an ink bottle? Will it leak? Therefore, he made several "ink bottles" by hand several times. Then he ate these "ink bottles" in one bite, following the description in the textbook.

When he grew up and recalled these articles, he noticed that Lenin did not do hard labor in prison. He could still read and guide anti-corruption activities outside the prison. He also had a pen to write, and wrote anti-corruption leaflets and pamphlets. If Lenin's behavior was discovered, he might only be detained for a longer period of time, instead of being hung, handcuffed, or tortured in a small cage. What amazed him most was that Lenin had enough bread and milk to use as ink bottles and ink.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ten thousand river crabs crawled over~~~~~~~~~~~~~

But this incident really made him deeply feel what the famous saying that history is written by the victors means.

So his purpose of going to see Lenin's tomb was very simple, just to see this wonderful Marxist, proletarian revolutionary, politician, theorist, and thinker with his own eyes. After all, maybe there will be no chance to see it again in the future, right?

At this time, Tukhachevsky seemed to have finally recovered and spoke. "Since Your Excellency Yannick wants to pay homage to Comrade Lenin, then... no problem. Let's go now."

"Thank you." After thanking him, Yannick noticed that Tukhachevsky was speaking German, but he himself seemed not to notice it and turned to tell his men something.

Tsk, look at how confused you are, you even spoke German.

Yannick called Brauchitsch, Manstein, Rommel, and Guderian to get on his car. As soon as the door was closed, the atmosphere in the car was a bit strange. "What's the matter?"

The four people looked at each other and hesitated for a long time, and Brauchitsch said something. "Uh, Your Highness, are you going to Lenin's Mausoleum to pay homage to Lenin?"

It seems that his proposal not only confused the Soviets, but also scared them themselves.

Yannick nodded disapprovingly. "That's right. Maybe this is the last time we meet. Don't you think it's a pity not to see the man who overthrew the Romanov dynasty? If it weren't for the help of the Ming Empire ten years ago, our Hohenzollern family might have suffered the same fate." Of course, the ending was that Rasmus II was exterminated, and William II escaped to the Netherlands.

As for why William II was able to escape, but Nicola was exterminated?

Simply put, the February Revolution did not make things difficult for Nicholas. He thought at first that the worst thing was constitutionalism, but a few months later, the Bolsheviks came to power and it was too late to run away. After all, it was difficult to escape from Russia (both in terms of land area and climate).

Moreover, as soon as Nicholas II abdicated, his family was placed under house arrest in the Alexander Palace in Tsarskoye Selo. William II was different. He was both the German Emperor and the Great Chieftain of Prussia, and he had many relatives in other European countries. On November 8, 1918, the rebels occupied most of western Germany (November Revolution). The next day (November 9), he announced his abdication and fled to his closest relative Wilhelmina (Queen of the Netherlands) for refuge (November 10, 1918). Then he signed the abdication on November 28, 1918, which means he had already run away.

Manstein's face changed slightly, and he quickly persuaded him. "It won't happen, Your Highness!"

The people next to him also quickly expressed their opinions. "Yes, Your Highness."

"Your Highness, you worry too much. A few conspirators cannot influence the German imperial power."

Yannick listened to these people's words, whether they were sincere or not, and was silent for a while, and suddenly looked at Brauchitsch. "Colonel Brauchitsch. Your full name is Walter von Brauchitsch, born in a noble family in 1881, right?" He almost said that Brauchitsch died suddenly of a heart attack in the Hamburg POW camp in 1948.

"If I remember correctly, your family belongs to the old nobles of Lower Sicily (Niederschlesien). "This family is a well-deserved old family. This family already existed in the Boehm region of Poland in the middle of the 13th century. And because of the language mixture in this area at that time, the surname Brauchitsch has many variant forms, such as: Bruchacz, Bruchits, Brauchits, Prachwitz, Brauchtschicsz, etc.

Bruchitsch subconsciously straightened his back, not knowing why His Highness Yannick suddenly talked about his life experience.