Beiyang 1917

1918年7月15ri8：45乌法联军司令部

b. Pepelyaev finally made a choice and decided to stay and serve as the prime minister of the newly established autonomous government of the Volga Union. The request, when there is a suitable candidate for the prime minister, Pepelyaev will also lead troops to the front line to fight. In the Battle of Ufa, this guy led four White Guard infantry divisions to guard the northwest line of defense, and he was not addicted to fighting at all.

In the pursuit and annihilation battles with the greatest results in the later period, the second Ural Cavalry Army of Petrovich and Sergey was the most prominent among the Russian troops. The first Siberian Army that came over had traveled long distances to train, and those who caught up and resolved the battle were highly mobile cavalry units.

Fortunately, the newly established Volga Federal Autonomous Government does not have a lot of work, because it will take at least a month for the people who were evacuated from the Ufa Great Plain to the east of the Ural Mountains to return, and many of them left their homes with their families. After settling down in West Siberia, he was allocated land from the government of West Siberia for farming, intending to settle down for a long time.

Although the conditions in various frontiers and settlements in West Siberia to the east of the Ural Mountains are not very good, at least the social order is stable and orderly, and there is no threat of war. The local government not only allocated land, provided seeds, and agricultural tools and livestock, and regularly distributed free rations to migrants before the autumn harvest.

For the Russian refugees who have experienced earth-shaking social turmoil and the great famine, there is land to grow, food to eat, no wars, and no bandits and defeated soldiers to rob and rob. This is the paradise that all Russian people yearned for in 1918. What's more, in settlements and reclamation sites, if the land reclaimed by immigrant families is calculated according to the family size, the land within [-] mu per capita belongs to the immigrant family; if it exceeds [-] mu, the market price of land in the most recent year will be determined by After purchase by zheng fu, it is leased to other landless peasant families for cultivation.

Moreover, according to the "Temporary Land Management Measures" that have been widely carried out in the coalition-controlled areas east of the Ural Mountains, any immigrant family leases cultivated land from the government, and the land rent and taxes paid are strictly in accordance with the "37.5 Rent Reduction" The regulations in the Regulations are implemented, that is, no more than [-]% of the actual harvest of the land.

Moreover, once the land leased from Zheng Fu has been cultivated for five years and the land rent is paid on time, the land will be owned by the farmers after five years. Of course, the most important rule of the land management method is that all land must not be bought or sold without authorization. For transfer, the part exceeding the limit of 40 mu per capita can only be sold to Zheng Fu.

What is heaven?This is heaven. On both sides of the Ural Mountains in 1918, there were land to grow, food to eat, and government to provide land and seeds, farm tools, and livestock. The lives and private properties of legal residents were sacred and inviolable. The ordinary people in this world have never enjoyed or expected a paradise.

The Great West Siberia Plain under the control of the coalition forces is vast and sparsely populated. It is the largest plain in Asia and the third largest in the world. It is 2000 kilometers long from north to south, 1500 kilometers wide from east to west, and covers an area of ​​260 million square kilometers.

The southern part of the West Siberian Plain is 220-300 meters above sea level, and the central and northern parts are 50-150 meters above sea level.From north to south, tundra, forest, forest grassland, and grassland landscape are distributed in parallel, with a typical latitudinal distribution pattern.Most of the area is covered by subarctic coniferous forest.

There are many rivers on the plain, including Yenisei River, Ob River, Irtysh River, Taz River and other rivers.The population density in the central and northern parts is low. In the area of ​​nearly 260 million square kilometers in the West Siberia Plain, there are dense swamps and forests. The farming and animal husbandry areas are mainly concentrated in the southern regions with a mild climate, mainly producing wheat and meat. The arable land area is only two Less than one-tenth, about 10 square kilometers, about 1.5 million mu.

In Wang Geng’s previous life, the West Siberia Plain had a population of 4000 million at its peak, but in 1918 in this time and space, the original population of the West Siberia Plain was only over 200 million. With the large-scale civil war in Russia west of the Ural Mountains In the past six months, more than 300 million refugees and their families have passed through the Ural Pass and arrived on the Great Plains of Siberia. The number of registered residents in the autonomous government of West Siberia has reached more than 500 million, and about 120 million households look.

Before mechanized farming was popularized in agriculture, it was not a small challenge for a strong laborer to cultivate 1918 mu of land on the West Siberia Plain in 20. Forty mu of land, but a family of three often only chooses to cultivate 20 mu of land. Zheng Fu strictly forbids farmers to abandon the land. Even if you have [-] mu of land under your name, but if [-] mu of it is abandoned and not cultivated, The [-] mu of land will be taken back by the government next year.

Those big families with a large population and a lot of labor can cultivate more than 100 mu of land. Of course, it is basically impossible to develop the nearly 1.5 million mu of arable land in southern West Siberia within a few years. Se-terrorism and surplus food collection system, the policy of all industrial and agricultural products being returned to the Soviet Union, and the Russian immigrants frightened by the anti-revolutionary movement, no one will take the risk of going back to the west of the Ural Mountains to go to the pot of muddy water in the short term.

What's more, all the new immigrants came to open up wasteland in the south of West Siberia, and they were exempted from land taxes for the first three years, and the government gave farmers seeds, farm tools, and livestock on credit. Landlords and rich peasants, especially rich peasants and middle peasants, saw the opportunity to make a comeback in the south of West Siberia. In the face of a huge famine, they still had land. Isn’t all this worth cherishing?Of course it's worth it!

Of course, Wang Geng is also a generous fellow. Facing Pepelyaev's request to continue leading troops to fight, he didn't mind at all. It is obviously inappropriate to be the commander of the Ufa Second Army, and when the Ufa Second Army was established last time, Wang Geng had already given B. Pepelyaev the title of deputy chief of staff of the coalition forces.

At this moment, Wang Geng grinned, and gave Pepeliayev the Prime Minister and Minister of Military Affairs of the Volga Federal Autonomous Government. This new government's military administration will be shouldered by Pepe, theoretically. The Russian troops under the Volga Federal Autonomous Government can be put under the control of Pepe, the military minister, which made B. Pepelyaev's excited nose a little sore.

However, although the establishment of the First Siberian Army is within the coalition forces, it is actually the army of the West Siberia Autonomous Government east of the Ural Mountains. Therefore, the three Russian divisions belong to the West Siberia Autonomous Government from the establishment to the personnel and organizational command system. Fu, then it will not be under the control of Pepelyaev's Volga Federal Autonomous Government.

Later that day on July 7th, Sergey Mijaevich Barayanov of the Ufa First Army stationed near Milna sent a telegram, and the four of the Ufa First Army More than 15% of the generals and soldiers of the infantry division have decided to pledge allegiance to the newly established Volga Federal Autonomous Government.

There are about 3000 White Guard generals and soldiers left. Since they are Tatars north of the Kamala River, many of them are from St. Petersburg and near Moscow, because they still want to follow Kolchak and Kazan. The main force of the White Guards fought back to their hometown, so they chose to go north and return to Kolchak's troops.

According to the order of the Coalition Command, these soldiers of the Ufa First Army are already on their way back to Ufa, and are expected to arrive in Ufa in the evening, and take the train to Kazan according to the unified arrangement of the Coalition Command.

At the same time, the Ufa Second Army, which itself is stationed on the outskirts of Ufa, has three divisions among the four divisions that belong to the Ufa Volunteer Division and are composed of local urban residents in Ufa. Shikir people, so among the four divisions of the Second Army, only more than 1000 people chose to go north to join the Kazan Kolchak White Guards.

The telegrams from Petrovich and Sergey, who were resting in the town of Sterlitamak in the south, were very straightforward. They chose that all the soldiers of the Second Ural Cavalry Army chose to stay and continue to fight in the coalition forces. Of course , if the Allied Forces Command deems it necessary, Petrovich and his cavalry can swear allegiance to the newly established Volga Federal Autonomous Government.

Anyway, Petrovich and Sergey, including the Cossack cavalry under their command, are either from the Ural River area in the south, or they are from the Don River and the lower Volga River. For them, it is the Cossacks who go back to the south Their dream, going north to serve Kolchak and the Tatars was not their first choice.

Of course, the telegrams of Petrovich and Sergey also revealed a strong signal. They can only swear allegiance to the new Volga Federal Autonomous Government, just because they want to continue to follow the coalition forces instead of bowing their heads and licking Pepelia. The ass of the guy yev and urfa.

"Sogar, Your Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, Petrovich and Sergey are really Cossack generals with personality! Their cavalry army achieved a lot in the Battle of Ufa. It's rare for these two people to see clearly and know the key points. It is to stay in the big family of the Allied Forces, and everything else is nonsense!" Taro Utsunomiya read the telegram jointly signed by Petrovich and Sergey, and couldn't help admiring.

"Ha, Your Excellency Utsunomiya, the Cossacks' hometowns are all in the south, not to mention that as Cossack cavalry generals, I asked Petrovich and the others to go to the north to help Kolchak, who was born in the navy, and the former Tsarist Russian generals. It is estimated that they will not be reused, but Petrovich, I emphasized the principle of voluntary stay in the telegram, and this guy even managed to get a whole army to agree to stay!"

Wang Geng was obviously in a good mood, thinking about whether to restore the formation of the cavalry group army in the Russian army.

"Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, don't you need to keep these troops in Ufa for one more night? Maybe more people will figure it out and be willing to stay tomorrow!" Utsunomiya Taro was obviously not willing to let the nearly 5000 White Guards troops do what they wanted. It was handed over to Kolchak of Kazan.

"Contentment, Your Excellency Utsunomiya, when we dispatched troops in Omsk, we and Kolchak were divided according to the Ural Mountains. The Asian part east of the Ural Mountains will no longer belong to the future Russian government. Now that we have pulled the Ufa Great Plain out of people's mouths again, we should be content!" Wang Geng said with a smile.

"That's Kolchak's own choice. If he is willing to listen to us, why don't we keep the Great Ufa Plain for him under his all-Russian temporary government? Then we established the Volga Federal Autonomous Government because of this as a last resort.

Otherwise, how to cease war and demarcate the border with Moscow?How to get the rich and oily places south of Saratov, including Tsaritsyn, without firing a single shot?This is because Kolchak himself didn't open his eyes, so how can we blame us! " Utsunomiya Taro said with a smile.