Beiyang 1917

[Text] Temporary compromise between the two parties in Chapter 190

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In his previous life, Yang Yuting was considered a first-class, first-class military and political talent in the Feng family. He built the Northeast Navy and built a war preparation road under the eyes of Japan. The excess land in his hands was allocated to landless farmers for cultivation, which made the economic strength of the Northeast continue to rise. This guy even built the Northeast military industry system single-handedly.download_load_floor

After thinking for a long time, Wang Geng decided to transfer Yang Yuting to Beijing as the deputy chief of staff of the participating army and the general office of the Xuanhua Arsenal, and then wait for the right time to release the party in charge.Yang Yuting never expected that he would be so reused by the war supervisor. The next step for the deputy chief of staff of the war army would be at least the commander of the reorganization division of the war army, and everyone knew that the Xuanhua Arsenal was the heart of the war supervisor. Foreigners, this is in your hands?

The 32-year-old Yang Yuting followed in the footsteps of Zhang Zuolin and Zhang Zuoxiang and came to Beijing Nanyuan to report for duty. Moreover, this guy immediately went to Xuanhua Arsenal to take up the post, and he made up his mind to show off his skills.

At the end of January 1918, the government announced the implementation of the "1 Rent Reduction Regulations" in Fengtian Province and the measures of halving the collection of land taxes and canceling all contributions other than land taxes, which caused another wave of enthusiasm for entering the Guandong within the pass. Farmers from Anhui, Jiangsu, and the provinces along the Yangtze River all migrated northward to reclaim wasteland.

Until the end of January 1918, Soviet Russia was still negotiating with Germany for the Brest peace treaty. Several consecutive votes within the Soviet Russian government failed to win the support of the majority of the small mentor, and Russia began to gradually appear. There were riots one after another.

Representatives of China, the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan, and France also negotiated many times in Beijing. In view of the fact that the Soviet Union and Russia may sign an armistice agreement with Germany at any time, and the Russian Civil War is imminent, Britain and France made it clear that they would send troops to intervene at that time, while the United States stated that it would assist and Support the demands of the righteous people in Russia, but will not directly send troops to interfere.

The focus is on Asia, what about Russia's huge Siberia, including the Far East?The two sides of the dispute are China and Japan.

Wang Geng, the five-nation negotiation supervisor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has basically arranged all the negotiations with the Allied Powers and the war in the past year. .

The reason is very simple. The Japanese Minister Lin Quanzhu has been deflated in front of Chinese diplomats, especially Wang Geng, for the past year. He was criticized by the domestic as being too weak and too concessional in negotiating with China, which lost the face of the Great Japanese Empire. He reacted quickly in response to the Soviet Russia's declaration to China, and took back the Middle East Road before the Japanese military could react in time.

There are voices in Japan to recall Lin Quanzhu, the Minister to China who lost power and humiliated the country and sat by to watch China act recklessly in the Northeast. So this time, in the new consultations held by the ministers of the five countries on the situation in Russia, his attitude changed from the previous humility and tolerance , Who dares to slap the table and argue with Wang Geng about Sakhalin Island!

Nima!Of course Sakhalin belongs to China!Wang Geng’s basis is the Sino-Russian Treaty of Nerchinsk in 1689. Article [-] of the Treaty of Nerchinsk clearly stipulates:

From the Geerbiti River, a tributary of Heilongjiang, to the Outer Xing'an Mountains and to the sea, Lingnan belongs to China, and Lingbei belongs to Russia.The west is bounded by the Ergun River, the south belongs to China, and the north belongs to Russia. All the houses at the mouth of the Helileke River on the south bank of the Ergun River should be moved to the north bank.

Of course, the Japanese Minister Lin Quanzhu did not agree. According to the Japanese, the northern part of Sakhalin Island was taken by Japan from Tsarist Russia, not from China. No obligation for territorial disputes!And the southern part of Sakhalin Island has always belonged to Japan!

This Lin Quansuke also came prepared, and brought out a lot of Japanese historical documents to prove that the southern part of Sakhalin Island was the territory of Japan at least 100 years ago, and at that time, for the sake of whether this place called Huatai belonged to the Matsumae Domain or Belonging to the Edo shogunate, there was a swordsman battle in Japan, but in the end the shogunate gave in and let Kawata return to the Matsumae domain.

Not to mention that during the series of wars of aggression against China in the last century, so many treaties and agreements reached between Japan and Russia basically admitted that Japan has sovereignty over the southern part of Sakhalin Island without dispute, while Tsarist Russia occupied the northern part and set up Sahara Harlem!

Nima, it’s all good things done by the Qing Dynasty. They thought it was too far to go to the barren land, and they neither sent troops nor immigrated. In the past 200 years, the Russians who lived in the north and the Japanese who lived in the south, Wang Geng is the representative at this moment China was stunned to say that this Sakhalin Island belongs to China according to the "Sino-Russian Nerchinsk Treaty"!

In the end, the quarrel was endless, and Wang Geng almost shouted that even Japan was a vassal state of China earlier!The three envoys, Zhu Erdian, Kant, and Rui Enshi, were just watching the excitement to smooth things over at first, but they found that it would not work if this continues. Let alone working together to solve the Russian issue, China and Japan may have to pinch each other first!

If this is the case for Sakhalin Island, which is still a little reasonable in Japan, what about the Kanto State and South Manchuria Railways?What about Jiaozhou Bay and Qingdao?What about Taiwan?There is no dispute that these places belong to China. According to what Wang Geng said at the moment, if the places cut off by unequal treaties are to be recovered, then China must be strangled!

Finally, under the mediation of Rui Enshi, Zhu Erdian, and Kant, Wang Geng, the five-nation negotiation supervisor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Lin Quanzhu, the Japanese ambassador to China, finally reached an informal understanding on behalf of the two countries.

First, before the Allied Powers defeat Germany and Austria and officially end the European War, all territorial disputes between China and Japan will remain as they are for the time being, and we will discuss them later!

Second, in view of the deteriorating situation in Russia, China and Japan, as countries in the treaty, have an inescapable responsibility for stabilizing the situation in Asia in Russia. China and Japan promised to work together to deal with the situation in Russia.

Third, when the Allied Powers decide to interfere in the situation in Russia, Japan will respect the eastern part of the Sino-Russian border delineated in the "Sino-Russian Treaty of Nerchinsk" in Northeast Asia, and China will be responsible for the part that belongs to China in the south of the border As for the northern part of the border that belongs to Russia, China and Japan will jointly be responsible for the response and handling.

Fourth, in view of the fact that Vladivostok is the most important port in the Far East, when China and Japan join hands to interfere in the situation in Russia, the Japanese fleet will obtain the right to use the port of Vladivostok and assume the responsibility for maritime military operations!

Before this consultation, the bottom line of the Japanese government was that Sakhalin Island must belong to Japan, because 100 years ago, the southern part of Sakhalin Island belonged to Japan, and after the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, even the north of Sakhalin Island belonged to Japan. Yes, so no matter what, you can't let it out, and you won't hesitate to fight for it!

As for the Nanman Railway, Guandong Prefecture, Jiaozhou Bay, and Qingdao, these four places are extremely important to maintaining Japan's interests in China, so maintaining the status quo and shelving is the bottom line, especially for Taiwan, otherwise China and Japan will have to go to war!

For Wang Geng, China has not even completed the actual reunification, and its overall national strength is extremely weak. Even if his Xuanhua Iron and Steel Base has reached the designed production capacity, the steel output is only one-tenth of Japan's.

At this time, it is definitely not the time to start a full-scale war with Japan only by relying on the participating troops. It is the last word to bear the burden of humiliation and buy time. Geng had no illusions about surpassing the United States. That was not something that could be considered in 1918.

Whether it was China in 1918, Duan Qirui's government, Wang Geng himself and the soldiers who participated in the war, they all had to adapt to the situation and use penicillin, the strongest shield in human history, to resist the possible Spanish flu In addition, taking advantage of Russia's civil strife to recover the lost ground since the "Sino-Russian Nerchinsk Treaty" is a top priority, and the temporary compromise with Japan is the price China must pay!

Nima, the old man is really not that easy to deal with. The Tsarist Russian navy general Kolchak just rushed back to Siberia from the United States via Japan. sublime regime.

The participating troops must continue to intensify their training, and the domestic military service law must be introduced as soon as possible!Wang Geng thought to himself!