The First Warlord of the Republic of China

Chapter 208: The Russian Civil War, targeting the Russian treasury

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If the collusion between government and businessmen is the most serious, it is naturally a group of national capital groups such as Jiangyu, and who actually did not receive money from the consortium in the central government?

Everyone knows it well, but no one will jump out and expose anything.

The development of national monopoly capital must step on other people's heads, and those small and medium-sized capitalists have become the targets of this encirclement and suppression.

After various means, the domestic market has once again been highly monopolized by the consortium of warlords and oligarchs in Jiangyu, and the rapid construction of the country has also gone on the right track. [

On the European battlefield, since Hindenburg and Ludendorff came to power, Hindenburg gradually took power, while Ludendorff commanded at the front.

In March 1917, the German front retreated slightly to the east and rebuilt the defense line from Alaska through St. Constant to the valley on the Anna River. Collectively known as the Hindenburg Line of Defense.The Allied offensive organized by Neville failed, and German forces suffered no serious setbacks for the remainder of 3.Because in the advance of Passindel, the British army lost more than the German army.

50 Japanese mercenaries arrived in the European battlefield in September, and 9 Japanese coolies arrived in Germany in October. The Germans immediately felt that they could mobilize more forces.

This is a war that has exhausted the whole of Europe, although the German side is much better than the original history.

But in order to consolidate his power, Hindenburg played very cautiously in 17.

He knew that as long as no strength was lost in the battle.The position can be secured, so the first thing Hindenburg did after he came to power was to stabilize the defense on the Western Front.At the same time, seize the time to consolidate your position.

This also prevented any large-scale battles on the Western Front in 17 years. The new defense line formed by Germany was relatively narrow, which effectively shrunk its troops and strengthened the defense force of the defense line.

Hindenburg was a commander who insisted on 'restricting submarine warfare'. After Germany established the Supreme Command, Hindenburg ordered the naval submarine force to sink all sinkable targets.

The submarines aided by China to Germany played a major role after Hindenburg came to power. After the limited submarine war in the Mediterranean started, the tonnage of merchant ships sunk by Germany increased again.

In addition to fierce submarine and anti-submarine warfare at sea.The fierce battle in the air continued throughout the year as well.

However, Germany has obtained a large number of fighter jets aided by the Yuanhua Group to the German government, and the performance of these fighter jets is also unprecedentedly high.

Although wooden fighters are not as good as metal aircraft, it has to be said that wooden aircraft also have great potential, such as the Mosquito aircraft is a typical example.

However, due to the emergence of jet aircraft in history, the revival process of wooden aircraft was interrupted.

The German Air Force, which acquired a large number of fighter jets, shot down thousands of Allied aircraft in 1917, and the Fokker disaster continued to spread.

And on the Eastern Front.The Allied war against Russia continued.

After the February Revolution in Russia, the new capitalist government recognized Russia's debts and continued to wage war on the Allies. However, the Russian army was still defeated on the front line.

The low combat effectiveness of the Russian army cannot be directly changed by changing the government. Russia's logistics is inefficient and chaotic, and bureaucracy and corruption are rampant in the army.Soldiers lack combat weapons, and even their stomachs are not full. How can such an army have combat effectiveness?

Often when a fight broke out, the Russian army would be defeated.

Then the positions, heavy equipment, and supplies were lost, and a large number of soldiers were captured by the Allies.A large number of soldiers fell on the battlefield. [

The failures on the battlefield were passed back to Russia one after another, and finally the Russian October Revolution broke out in this year.

This revolution.The Russian bourgeois government collapsed, and the whole of Russia began to fall into civil strife.

The October Revolution in Russia shocked the world.

The newly elected Red Bear refused to recognize the debts of the Allied Powers, and at the same time no longer participated in the war, and quickly signed an armistice agreement with the Allied Powers, and withdrew from the European battlefield.

This put the Allies under further pressure on the Eastern Front.

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The Russian October Revolution that broke out in November 1917 was not a surprise to the Chinese military at all, and they had long been psychologically prepared.

Because more than 1000 million people in Russia were drawn into the army before, and millions of people were killed or injured.Many Russian soldiers on the front line didn't even have shoes, and even a few of them shared a gun.Large tracts of arable land in Russia were barren, factories closed down, prices soared, and food was extremely scarce. One day, the capital, Petrograd, could not even buy a single loaf of bread.

When this kind of production was extremely deserted, Chinese businessmen made a fortune.

As long as Chinese merchants transport a little grain, they can exchange for many valuables in Russia that are inedible to Russians.

Such as gold, gems, fur.

At the same time, many cheap raw materials can be bought in Russia.But those Russian nobles don't have to worry about running out of food, and they have become the main consumers of Chinese luxury goods.

Some Russian nobles also became sales agents for Chinese goods.

During the course of the war in these years, a large amount of wealth from Russia flowed to China.Russia's arms import basically depends on the production of China's military industry.

The Russian people also made a lot of wealth due to the massive invasion of Chinese goods.

Russia at this time is also a country where the economy is monopolized by oligopoly capital, but this monopoly capital oligarchy has no technical skills, and exists by squeezing demographic dividends.

The Russian October Revolution was only their own fault.

There are many Parisian oligarch bankers in Russia's capital. In the three years after the breakdown of German-Russian financial relations, Paris replaced Berlin as Russia's main overseas funder.From 3 to 1888 alone, Russia issued 1889 billion francs of securities in France, and French banks and companies invested in Russia on a large scale, whether it was the Trans-Siberian Railway, the Russo-Japanese War or Nicholas II’s grand navy plan. Behind them are the figures of the BNP Paribas oligarchs.

The October Revolution broke out.First of all, the investment of these French people wasted.

At the same time, the 1 million pounds that Britain lent to Russia has not been recognized. That is a debt of nearly 7000 million pounds!You must know that the annual trade deficit of the United Kingdom is only 5500 million pounds.However, the UK earns only [-] million pounds through the ocean transportation industry every year, and its overseas investment only earns [-] million pounds a year.

After the outbreak of the First World War, most of the money Britain lent to Russia was used to import arms from China. China can be said to have grabbed a lot of benefits in the First World War.

The United Kingdom was unlucky for grandma's house. With the sinking of a large number of merchant ships, the income of the marine transportation industry must not be guaranteed.At the same time, Britain has sold many overseas assets, and the overseas assets sold have reached one-third.Most of it was sold to China and the United States. [

The overseas market, which the UK maintains an annual deficit of 1 million pounds through commodity exports, has also been divided by China and the United States.

With a loss of [-] million pounds in foreign debt, Britain will definitely vomit blood.

Before the October Revolution in Russia broke out, China was ready to withdraw those Chinese workers from Russia first.

Because of the poor life in China, many Chinese people left their hometowns to make a living in foreign countries.

With the continuous development of the Republic of China, more and more Chinese laborers returned to the motherland. There were originally millions of Chinese laborers in Russia.However, over the years, with the improvement of the domestic economic environment and the improvement of workers' benefits, most of the Chinese workers returned to China after receiving the news.

The last batch of Chinese workers were forcibly withdrawn by the Republic of China before the outbreak of the October Revolution in Russia. No matter how chaotic Russia was at this time, it had nothing to do with China for the time being.

However, Jiang Yu has his eyes on the gold of the Russian Central Bank.

Since the outbreak of the First World War.Nicholas II divided the gold into two parts, and one part was deposited in the Bank of England. After the war, due to the heavy losses in Britain, the debt of [-] million pounds was wiped out, so he had to swallow the gold of about [-] million pounds to reduce losses.

Another part of the gold was transferred to the treasury of the Russian Central Bank in the Ural Mountains.

Follow the original history.It was Kolchak who seized the treasury of the Russian Central Bank like a whirlwind after forming an opposition government.Then it launched an attack on Petrograd, the Russian capital, but was defeated by the Red Army, and then fled to Siberia in a hurry with a large pile of gold.

Some of the mercenaries from Western countries handed over a batch of gold to the red bear in order to go home.

Kolchak had to wait until 1918 to form an independent government in the Ural region, but Jiang Yu felt that he couldn't wait any longer, and he didn't know whether history would be the same.

And Kolchak can grab the gold, why can't China grab it?

The fact that Kolchak snatched the gold does not mean that all the gold will fall into the hands of China. At that time, China will have to sell them arms to earn the gold, and the gold is very likely to be obtained by the red bear.

Jiang Yu immediately held a high-level military meeting.

At the meeting, Sun Zhendong, the head of the Military Intelligence Bureau, also came to the scene.

"Commander, a revolution has really broken out in Russia." Jiang Fangzhen and others looked at Jiang Yu with admiration, admiring Jiang Yu's repeated success in predicting the overall situation.

"However, the revolutionary speed of those mud-legged people in Russia is too fast, and the Russian provisional government will be over before another one is installed." Tang Hanmin couldn't help but said depressedly: "In this way, the civil war may not break out."

"Don't worry, the Russian Civil War will definitely break out. After all, the new red bears are in conflict with the original Russian nobles. It won't be long before there will be white Russian armed forces opposing the red bears," Jiang Yu affirmed. Said.

The current situation in Russia does not mean that compromise can solve the problem.The Russian tragedy was sown during the time of Peter the Great in Russia.

At that time, in order to reform as soon as possible, Peter the Great sent a large number of young people to Western countries to study, and entrusted them with important tasks after returning to China, thus forming an aristocratic class separated from ordinary people.

The contradictions have reached the point of irreconcilability, and only armed conflicts will occur.

"Then what should we do now? Once Russia falls into civil war, won't our chance come." Zhou Zhengye asked emotionally.

You must know that Russia's territory is the largest in the world, of which the Far East, Siberia and the Turkic region (Kazakhstan) occupy a large area.

The population of these areas is not large, and the largest is the Kazakhstan area of ​​​​later generations.

But these areas will all be places that the Republic of China will inevitably occupy.

Although those areas are sparsely populated, they have a lot of resources.Mastering these resources will leave a huge wealth forever for future generations.

The same resources will also become a strong support for the rise of the entire nation. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point to vote, monthly tickets, your support is my biggest motivation.)

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