Beiyang 1917

[Text] Chapter 180 Three The Sky Will Not Fall

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At the end of November 1917, three reorganization divisions of the Seventh Division, Eighth Division, and Ninth Division of the participating army were launched along the Middle East Road in Jilin and Heilongjiang. He ordered the disarmament of the Tsarist Russian Middle East Road guards and the recovery of the Middle East Road.Down.

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However, Wang Geng was still waiting for the best opportunity, which was to see if the little mentor of Soviet Russia would issue a declaration to China in advance. The little mentor in the previous life had to wait until July 1919, 7 to issue his first declaration to China, announcing the abolition of all unequal treaties signed with China in the era of imperial Russia and Tsarist Russia. At this moment, Wang Geng never intends to miss such an opportunity!

After the Prime Minister of the Republic of China and Xu Shuzheng passed the agreement, this guy who also supervised the negotiations of the five countries even quietly drafted a China-government statement with the Minister of Foreign Affairs Xia Yiting. , The Chinese government immediately responded and officially notified the powers, announcing that the Chinese government accepted the declaration of the Soviet Russian government.

In the "Soviet Russia's First Declaration to China" on July 1919, 7, the little mentor of the previous life: announced the abolition of all secret treaties signed between Imperial Russia and China, Japan, and the Allied Powers. All the land acquired by means of means should be given up, the consular jurisdiction and concession of imperial Russia in China should be abolished, the Russian part of the boxer indemnity should be given up, all the privileges of imperial Russia in the Middle East railway should be given up, and so on.

Wang Geng decided to wait for the outcome of negotiations between Minister Liu Jingren in Russia and the small Soviet before deciding when to take back the Middle East Road. Liu Jingren tipped Soviet Russia that as long as they announce the abolition of all unequal treaties with China, China will consider being the first to announce the recognition of Soviet Russia as an independent country and establish a diplomatic relationship of equality and mutual assistance with it.

The end of November was the time when Soviet Russia was arguing about the Constituent Assembly. Wang Geng was not sure whether the little mentor could make up his mind to make such a declaration, but Wang Geng's plan b was to abolish it once the Soviet Union refused to abolish it. A series of unequal treaties signed between the Tsarist Russian government and China. China will take back the Middle East Railway on its own and expose the peace decree and land decree issued by Soviet Russia earlier. The basic sincerity of peaceful coexistence!

At a time when the European War is in such a quagmire, if the Soviet Union and Russia sign an armistice agreement with Germany and Austria on the Eastern Front, if the main force of the US military has not had time to enter the Western Front, if Germany and Austria can have enough determination and move quickly, the Eastern All troops on the front line were transferred to the west. Wang Geng was convinced that Britain and France could not maintain the war situation on the western front alone, and Paris might fall, or even fall. . .France may succumb to the iron heel of Germany and Austria!

At this moment, even if the United States, Britain, France and Japan are worried and dissatisfied with China's military actions in the Northeast, and after the recovery of Outer Mongolia, the nationalist arrogance of the whole people has awakened in China, and the four powers have no other better choice for China than appeasement and appeasement.

After the Allied Powers lost Russia, no one dared to take the risk of losing China again! No matter how unwilling Japan is in its heart, if a conflict between China and Japan is provoked at this moment, let alone Japan's domestic, even the United States and Britain will jump up in fright and desperately hold down the head of Little Japan for China!

The individual quality and shooting accuracy of soldiers participating in the war are not as good as those of the well-trained Japanese army, but the firepower of a reorganized division of the Chinese model army participating in the war is at least three times that of a division of the Japanese army. If this battle is fought on land in China There is basically no possibility of a fight. At present, the national standing army in Japan is less than 3 in ten divisions, and the participating army mainly composed of Guangmei Machinery in China is 30, not counting the 36 regular army in other provinces across the country. .

The "Peace Decree" announced by Soviet Russia was nothing, but the "Land Decree" touched the nerves of capitalists, landlords, and business owners all over the world. In China, land is the lifeblood of farmers, while factories and enterprises are the lifeblood of farmers. The life-blood of capitalists, the "Land Decree" in Soviet Russia is a deadly weapon, just like Pandora's box, who knows whether it is an angel or a demon that is released?

If this society is full of rich people, then where are the poor? In the most advanced capitalist countries such as the United States, Britain, France and Germany advertised by Western minzhus, the poor or middle class still account for the majority.The "Land Decree" of Soviet Russia discredited all governments, and the landlords and capitalists hated it even more!

Bully landlords and unscrupulous capitalists are indispensable in any country or society, but the more mainstream are enlightened landlords and capitalists who work hard to get rich and pay thrift. Most of the students of the non-commissioned officer academy are descendants of wealthy country gentry and landowners or merchant capitalists.

The concept of private ownership of property has lasted for thousands of years, and may continue to last for thousands of years. How many people are willing to hand over the family property, fields and houses that they have saved for generations to others?No one agrees!

During the period of waiting for the Soviet Russian little mentor to issue a declaration to China, Wang Geng participated in the cabinet meeting convened by the Prime Minister more than once. To prevent the foundation of society from being affected and shaken before it happens?

The cabinet members came up with a lot of ideas, but few of them worked. After all, land annexation has existed since ancient times. Most of the country gentry and landowners in rural China have been digging through the soil for generations to save food and money. With so much land and family business saved, China has a large population, frequent natural disasters, and it is an indisputable fact that there are few lands and many people in the Central Plains and the South.

Because Xu Shuzheng has been organizing the work of the Senator’s Constitutional Revision Committee, according to his opinion, in order to solve social stability and people’s livelihood under the current situation, the first thing is to accelerate the development of industrialization and absorb landless farmers into factories and mines. Vigorously develop light and heavy industries to solve employment problems and improve the knowledge structure and abilities of ordinary people.

The second is to formulate the land law as soon as possible to ensure the basic life of farmers, and to ensure that ordinary people who are willing to farm have land to grow, and the land can support their families!

This fellow Wang Geng held several supervisory positions in the Ministry of Army, Finance, Communications and Internal Affairs. He was simply one of Duan Qirui's shadow prime ministers, and the other was Xu Shuzheng. The last prescription Wang Geng prescribed was

"Firstly, the two strategic bases of the Northeast and Northwest were developed through large-scale immigration, and the Northwest mainly reclaimed wasteland in the Hetao area of ​​Suiyuan, built water conservancy projects relying on the Yellow River, and expanded the area of ​​cultivated land. According to the law, the amount of private land after reclaiming wasteland for each resettler is limited, for example, the per capita upper limit is 40 mu, and the excess part will be bought by the government and put on the market for trading!"

"Secondly, through large-scale construction of railways and roads, factories and mines, and work-for-relief, while helping refugees, the scale and number of industrial workers have also been expanded, and the construction of towns and cities for small talents relying on railways and roads has been accelerated to divert them. Reduce the population and employment pressure in big cities, encourage landlords and gentry to invest in national light industries, and emphasize the control of state-owned capital in heavy industries that are related to the national economy and people's livelihood, while management rights can be marketized under effective supervision and managed by a team of professional managers Running a large, very large business”

"Third, in order to maintain the stability of the country and society, while maintaining the honor and treatment of soldiers, the employment and life of military members must be properly arranged, the worries of soldiers must be relieved, and every soldier must have the opportunity to become a middle class in society. If the soldiers of Soviet Russia hadn't rebelled against the current situation, it would never be like this!"

"Fourth, in the land law, it is necessary to balance the rent and tax relationship between landlords and tenant farmers, and effectively reduce farmers' taxes. Necessary explorations can be made in the field of rural financial leasing and lending, and state-owned farms that are not mainly for profit can also be tried. "

In the end, Wang Geng said with a smile, it is my habit to plan for a rainy day. What I said may not necessarily be effective, but paying attention to people's livelihood and improving the living standards of the people is the expectation of the Prime Minister and the cabinet all the time. All of you are great talents , Brother Youzheng is much more knowledgeable than me, I think it’s just a sentence, "We must give the common people a way to survive! We must give adequate treatment and honor to the soldiers who have made great achievements in defending their homes and the country!"

Wang Geng's speech at the cabinet meeting received warm applause from all the cabinet members. The Prime Minister looked at his future son-in-law with unconcealed admiration, and Xu Shuzheng nodded slightly. In fact, what Wang Geng said just now, the night before In the Prime Minister's study, Wang Geng discussed with him for a long time, and finally concluded these few points.

Wang Geng said something in the Prime Minister's study last night, but he didn't say it in the cabinet meeting!That is,

"As long as the barrel of the gun is in our hands! As long as the life and status of the soldiers and their families are guaranteed! The sky will not fall!"