Beiyang 1917

[Text] Chapter [-] History Begins to Fork

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In order to prepare for the situation in the north in 1918, the Chinese government began to increase the intensity of land tax payment in kind in the southern provinces after the autumn grain came out last year. It has successively imported two batches of grain worth 1000 million US dollars from the United States.Down.

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At the same time, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of War, with the support of the Ministry of Communications, purchased a large amount of grain from the south and the Yangtze River Basin in addition to the land tax at a high price to enrich the grain reserves of the treasury. The currency also gradually penetrated into the hands of the peasants in the south. The increase in currency liquidity and the improvement and protection of national credit made the economic situation of the entire country continue to improve in the second half of 1917.

The government’s high-priced grain collection not only increased farmers’ income, but also allowed the hoarded grain to meet the war needs of the participating troops in 1918. Wang Geng had lingering fears about the big grain shortage in Russia in 1918 in his previous life, and he would not be able to gather food without food. Those White Guards and their families!

For Wang Geng's participating army, what slogan is the most important to fight Siberia in the future?That's folks, we were a family hundreds of years ago, and now I'm bringing you food!This tmd is more effective than the three major disciplines and nine points of attention, and it is more effective than cannons and planes!

Obviously, before the Allied Powers formally recognized the Soviet Russian regime, the existence of the Chinese participating troops in areas outside the Nerchinsk Treaty can be used in the name of volunteers, whether it is Kolchak's Siberian Autonomous Provisional Government or Semyonov's The regime of the head of the Cossack White Guard in the Far East can completely invite the Chinese volunteers to rescue the Siberian people enslaved by "wartime doctrine" and "surplus food collection system".

The reason for postponing the operation until the end of February and the beginning of March is to wait for the peace between Russia and Germany on the one hand, and to avoid the severe cold in the north in winter. Well, including wheeled armored vehicles modified from TT multi-purpose vehicles, the coolant has long been changed from water to antifreeze with alcohol, but the antifreeze with alcohol can only cope with the severe cold of minus 2 degrees, which is lower than minus three It's really freezing at ten degrees.

As for the two antifreeze fluids, ethylene glycol and ethylene glycol, due to the limitations of the domestic chemical industry, there is no production at all. It will be enough after Wang Geng's petrochemical industry is further established. As for the fuel, gasoline is not a problem. Big, unlike diesel, the freezing point of gasoline is generally minus 75 degrees, and diesel is based on the label. The freezing point of 0 diesel is 0 degrees, and -20 is minus 20 degrees.

In the action formulated by China to defend the 18th and regain the northern land, the Japanese army dispatched at the same time will be responsible for maritime operations. After taking Vladivostok, the Japanese army can borrow the road and go directly to Temple Street at the mouth of Heilongjiang and Sakhalin Island through the Siberian Railway. The north side of the Outer Xing'an Mountain Ridge delineated in the Nerchinsk Treaty will also be the dividing line between China and Japan in the Far East military operations. The north belongs to Japan, and the south belongs to China. To the west of Chita, the two sides agreed that the south of Lake Baikal should belong to China, and the north should belong to Japan!

In fact, while Japan sent Kolchak back to Siberia to organize the White Guards, China drove Semyonov, who had sneaked into Northeast China after the October Revolution, back to the Far East. When the Cossack leader fled to China He is a loner. When he returned in early February, he organized a 2-strong Far East Liberation Army composed of Northeast White Russia. Most of these military personnel came from the former Tsarist Russian troops stationed in the Middle East Railway that had been disarmed by the Squadron. . <The strategic goal of the outbreak of the Chinese war army to recover the land, the first is to recover the territory occupied by Tsarist Russia since Nerchinsk, and the second is to support the Tsarist puppet regime in the east of Lake Baikal. The third goal is the gold of Tsarist Russia.

In Wang Geng’s previous life, Kolchak, the leader of the Russian White Guards, once sank 1600 tons of gold from the Tsar’s treasury into Lake Baikal with the gold in the carriage. Now that Wang Geng is here, he will never let it go easily. A sum of wealth, the land, resources, population and wealth that Tsarist Russia plundered from China since Nerchinsk came. It's time to get back the principal and interest.

Of course, there is more than one country that secretly sent ideas to the Tsarist Russian treasury. Japan, the United States, Britain, and France are all secretly planning to get a share. Fortunately, China has already recovered Outer Mongolia. People will have the greatest chance to come out on top!

On January 1918, 1, the Soviet Russian government held a central meeting to re-vote on the signing of the contract.Trotsky's idea of ​​no war and no peace was adopted by a majority of 24 votes to 9, and the idea of ​​the little mentor was still not accepted by the majority.

On January 1th, the Brest negotiations between the Soviet Union and Germany resumed. As the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs (that is, the Minister of Foreign Affairs) and the head of the negotiating delegation, Trotsky made an agreement with the little man before leaving: If Germany The ultimatum is the concession to sign the contract.

As a result, during the negotiations, Germany really issued an ultimatum to the Soviet Union. Trotsky asked the domestic telegram for countermeasures, and the little man immediately replied and insisted: accept the German conditions and sign the contract immediately.But Trotsky did not accept the little man's suggestion, but issued a statement refusing to sign the contract, and led the delegation to leave Brest.As a result, Germany began a massive offensive against the Soviet Union.

On February 2, when the situation on the front line was very urgent, the Soviet Russian Central Committee held an emergency meeting.At the meeting, the little man's proposition was rejected by a vote of 18:6.Later, Zhong Yang held a meeting overnight. After a heated debate, Trotsky turned to support the little man. As a result of the meeting, the little man's proposal was passed with 7 votes in favor, 7 votes against, and 5 abstention.The Soviet Russian government notified the German side overnight and agreed to sign the contract.

As a result, the situation changed dramatically. The Germans not only disagreed with the ceasefire, but put forward even harsher conditions. The war reparations alone doubled, from 30 billion rubles to 60 billion marks. , the conditions for the cession of other territories are also exaggerated astonishingly:

The specific content of the exaggeration after the German overweight is as follows:

Russia recognizes Finland, Ukraine, Georgia**

Russia ceded Estonia, Latvia, Courland, Lithuania, Russian Poland, and the Mosander Islands to the German Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Only Germany and Austria have the right to decide the future political status of the above-mentioned places

Russia withdraws from Adamakhan, Kars, Batumi, taken over by the Ottoman Turks

Russia dismantles all fortifications on the island of Alandis. Its future status is jointly decided by the four countries of Dorifen

60 billion Mark reparations, repaid in five installments, but the final payment period shall not exceed the end of 1918

If this treaty is agreed, it will deal a heavy blow to Russia, and the losses suffered by Russia are roughly as follows:

1. National land: a total of 126 million square miles, equivalent to 7% of the country's land

2. Population: a total of 6200 million people, equivalent to the national population of 44

3、产业：农产损失33；工业损失54；制糖业损失80；铁矿损失73；煤矿损失75；财政收入：共损失约27

Such an exaggerated and humiliating condition was not only unacceptable to the Mensheviks in Soviet Russia, but also a huge split appeared among the Bolsheviks. If such terms were accepted, what would they be if they were not Russian traitors?

The Central Committee of Soviet Russia had a serious disagreement over this. Originally, the majority supported Bukharin to carry the war to the end. It was only after Trotsky turned to support the little mentor that the Soviet Russian government reluctantly agreed. The previous conditions were met, but now the Germans not only refused to accept it, but even intensified their extortion!

In the face of huge differences in the Central Committee of Soviet Russia, and in the face of such an astonishing asking price from the Germans, the little mentor still insisted on agreeing to the terms and signing a peace agreement, and the Central Committee of the Soviet Russian Party held an emergency meeting with 15 members.During the meeting, most of the committee members expressed their disapproval of the idea of ​​a small tutor.

As a result, the little mentor had no choice but to propose that if this kind of empty talk continued, he would resign and withdraw from the government and the central committee.Bukharin didn't care about this, Stalin didn't waver, and Trotsky didn't agree with Lenin. Perhaps it was the appearance of Wang Geng, a butterfly, that made history change dramatically here again!