Beiyang 1917

()1918年8月12ri9：00，伏尔加联邦，萨马拉联邦zheng fu外交部

"Vassily Nikolaevich, as the plenipotentiary representative of His Excellency Kolchak, the Supreme Consul of Russia, we have formally proposed that the Volga Federation act as an intermediary to mediate the war between the Soviet Russian Bolsheviks and us. There is no Volga Federation support, our White Guard regime cannot continue the war, and when we handed over Tatar and Kazan, nothing you promised was fulfilled! We can no longer serve as your pawns to restrict Moscow!"

Chief of Staff and Negotiator of the White Guards Guillaume Nikolaevich Hastings's face was pale with a hint of blush. The torrential rain that had lasted for more than a week came to an abrupt end, but the expected east of the Entente did not appear in the sky. When I led the team from Cheboksary to Samara, I realized that the representatives of the Germans and Soviet Russia had arrived in Samara in the rain two days in advance. Stings was quite frightened, fearing that the White Guard regime, which had the smallest strength and territory, would be treated as a dish and dealt with properly! . .

"Your Excellency Chief of Staff, to be honest, it is because of the existence of the Volga Federation that the White Guards of His Excellency Kolchak were not wiped out by the Soviet Red Army. Of course, you may also realize now that you are counting on yourself to drive the Soviet Bolsheviks to the North Sea It is unrealistic to go to feed the fish. The door of the Volga Federation is always open to you and your loyal colleagues. However, the time left for you is very tight. Both the Germans and Soviet Russia have sent representatives to negotiate an armistice , if His Excellency Kolchak is still stubborn, I am afraid that he will become the last victim..."

The fathers of Pepe and Hastings were both court guards of Tsar Nicholas II, and they were both named Nikolaevich. Chief, these two guys can be called Kolchak's right-hand men, but in just a few months, with the coalition marching west of the Ural Mountains and the establishment of the Volga Federation, the paths and opportunities of the two are completely different. It is not an exaggeration to describe the current situation of Pepelyaev, the Prime Minister of the Volga Federation, as a proud spring.

On the other hand, Hastings was struggling with a bearded beard. The last time he came to negotiate the exchange of Kazan and Tatar State for the left bank of the Volga River, the King of Huaxia had extended an olive branch to Hastings through Pepe. This time , with the situation taking a turn for the worse, at this moment when all parties are seeking peace on the Eastern Front, as the weakest White Guard regime, there is indeed little room for choice and time left for them.

"Vassily Nikolaevich, don't tell lies in front of real people. The all-Russian interim government is in a dilemma. The only way to stop the war is to have a chance to breathe and develop. If you continue to fight, you don't support our words. , This is simply a joke, this time I managed to convince Kolchak and the White Guard generals, you must know that those nobles and Cossack generals followed Kolchak and myself, all in order to one day be able to fight Go back to your hometown and liberate Moscow and Petrograd from the Bolsheviks in Soviet Russia... If you want to give up this goal now, the price is very high, and the risk is not small. At this time, you will not stand by and wait for our internal strife to collapse?"

Although Hastings didn't hold much hope in his heart, his face still showed a look of anticipation. In fact, with his wisdom and experience, he clearly understood that the 10,000+ White Guards and hundreds of thousands of White Guards' families as a self-proclaimed " How ridiculous and unrealistic is the regime of the All-Russian interim government at this moment? The value of the existence of the White Guard regime is to check and balance Moscow, the sworn enemy of Soviet Russia. Once the Volga Federation decides to let Soviet Russia go, the White Guard regime will have no The need to survive...

This is also the saddest part. If the White Guard regime wants to survive, it must insist on fighting Soviet Russia to the end. But without the support of the Volga Federation, the White Guard regime can't even support itself. Although life in Soviet Russia is not easy, But the population of the territory is dozens or even hundreds of times that of the White Guard regime, and the two sides lose energy consumption is the White Guard and Kolchak..." Guillaume Nikolaevich, do you think that under the rule of the Volga Federation, the common people How is your life? How is the life of the landlords, capitalists, bankers and nobles? How is the life of the Zhengfu, the police, and the army? "Pepe's growth and experience in the past few months has made him He has enough confidence to speak. Hastings, who used to be both civil and military, really didn't think Pepe was better than himself, but now, he already has the grace and demeanor of a prime minister of a big country. On the other hand, Hastings , haggard and hesitant, and lost the original spirit. "There is nothing to say. The Volga Federation has a territory of more than 100 million square kilometers and a population of more than 1000 million. Your national defense force has at least 30 elite troops, plus the same number of National Guards that are being formed. Although it is said that 20 The burden of supporting one soldier per person is a bit heavy, but with the support of the Eastern Allied Forces of the Allies, your population will continue to increase with the expansion of your territory, and the recovery of industrial and agricultural production will be much faster than other places. We At least part of the ideals that were not realized at the beginning have been realized in the Volga Federation!"

When Hastings said this, he really didn't feel unconvinced. Although Pepe's abilities in all aspects were not as good as his own, he couldn't help him choose the right path. If the Volga Federation is now a vassal and puppet of the Sino-Japanese Alliance Right or wrong, the idea of ​​using the chicken to lay the egg to win the game, dare you say that Pepe has never thought about it?It seems like a joke that the sphere of influence of the Chinese people and Little Japan extends to the west of the Ural Mountains. Does anyone really believe that the yellow-skinned monkey is going to be the boss of Europe? "Then why do you have any hesitation? Didn't Denikin's road ahead prove well that joining the Volga Federation is the right choice for the White Guards? The Cossacks don't have to fight back to their hometowns at all, they just ride their horses and sing With the song, we crossed the Don River and headed straight to our hometown. Ukrainian Cossacks, Don Cossacks, and Ural Cossacks are united and united under the banner of the Volga Federation. Let us build and create a new era together!"

Pepelyayev's words were extremely sincere, and this guy didn't dare to say in front of Hastings that in the future when the war ends, with the disbandment of the Eastern Allied Forces of the Allies, the Chinese participating army and the Japanese army will definitely Will be demobilized and return to their hometowns, the masters of this hot land west of the Ural Mountains, aren't we still the masters of the house? "What do the Germans want from the Volga Federation? What bargaining chips did Soviet Russia Moscow give? Can we White Guards escape disaster only by choosing to join the Volga Federation? What kind of respect can His Excellency Kolchak get in the Volga Federation? ! How will the White Guards and generals be arranged?” Hastings groaned and showed his cards.