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Volume 2 Beijing Story Chapter 183 The sky won¡¯t fall

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    At the end of November 1917, the 7th, 8th, and 9th reorganized divisions of the participating armies were deployed along the Middle East Road between Jilin and Heilongjiang. Wang Tingzhen, Cai Chengxun, and Li Mingzhong were gearing up and waiting for orders from Wang Geng's headquarters.  Ordered the disarmament of Tsarist Russia's Middle East Road protection troops and the recovery of the Middle East Road.

    However, Wang Geng was still waiting for the best opportunity, that is, to see whether the little mentor from Soviet Russia would issue a declaration on China in advance. The Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Russia had already found a way to establish a line with Soviet Russia.  In the previous life, the little mentor had to wait until July 25, 1919 to issue his first declaration to China, announcing the abolition of all unequal treaties signed with China during the imperial and Tsarist Russia era. The Beiyang government at that time missed the great opportunity because the war between Anhui and Anhui was imminent.  opportunity, but at this moment Wang Geng has no intention of missing such an opportunity!

    After the Prime Minister of the Republic and Xu Shuzheng came to terms with each other, this guy who also served as the supervisor of the five-nation negotiation even secretly drafted a Chinese-Government statement with the Minister of Foreign Affairs Xia Yiting. As long as the little Soviet and Russian mentor dared to issue a declaration against China,  The Chinese government immediately responded and officially notified the great powers, announcing that the Chinese government accepted the declaration of the Soviet Russian government.

    In the "Soviet Russia's First Declaration to China" on July 25, 1919, the little mentor in his previous life declared that all secret treaties signed by Imperial Russia with China, Japan, and the Allied Powers would be abrogated, and that the Imperial Russian government would use aggressive means in Northeast China and elsewhere.  All acquired land will be given up, Imperial Russia¡¯s consular jurisdiction and concessions in China will be abolished, the Russian portion of the Boxer Indemnity will be renounced, all Russian privileges in the Middle East Railway will be renounced, etc.

    Wang Geng decided to wait for the outcome of the negotiations between the Minister to Russia Liu Jing and the little Soviet Union before deciding when to take back the Middle East Road. To this end, after Wang Geng had a heated discussion with the Prime Minister Geisha Xu Shuzheng, the cabinet authorized the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and agreed to let the Minister to Russia  Liu Jingren informed Soviet Russia that as long as they announced the abolition of all unequal treaties with China, China would consider being the first to declare that it recognized Soviet Russia as a communist country and establish diplomatic relations of equality and mutual assistance with it.

    The end of November was the time when the internal quarrels over the Constituent Assembly in Soviet Russia were intense. Wang Geng was really unsure whether the little mentor could make up his mind to make such a declaration. However, Wang Geng¡¯s plan B was to abolish it if Soviet Russia refused.  A series of unequal treaties signed by the Tsarist Russian government and China. China will take back the Eastern Railway on its own and expose the peace decree and land decree earlier issued by Soviet Russia to the international community. They are all deceptions to confuse the public. The Soviet Russian government has not coexisted peacefully with its neighbors at all.  Basic sincerity!

    At a time when the European War is in such a quagmire, if Soviet Russia signs an armistice agreement with Germany and Austria on the Eastern Front, and before the main force of the US military has had time to enter the battlefield on the Western Front, if Germany and Austria can have enough determination and quick action to bring the East to the  All front-line troops were transferred to the west. Wang Geng was convinced that Britain and France could not maintain the war situation on the western front alone, and Paris might fall or even fall.  .  .  France may succumb to the iron heel of Germany and Austria!

    At this moment, even if the United States, Britain, France and Japan remain worried and dissatisfied with China's military operations in Northeast China, in a country where nationalism and nationalism are rising after the recovery of Outer Mongolia, the four major powers have no other choice but to appease and appease China.

    After the Allied Powers lost Russia, no one dared to risk losing China again!  No matter how unwilling Japan is, if a Sino-Japanese conflict is provoked now, let alone Japan, even the United States and Britain will jump up in fright and try their best to hold down Japan's stubborn head for China!

    The individual quality and shooting accuracy of the soldiers participating in the war were not as good as those of the well-trained Japanese army. However, the firepower intensity of a Chinese model army reorganized division was at least three times that of a Japanese division. This battle would have basically not been fought on land in China.  It's possible that Japan's current national standing army only has ten divisions and less than 300,000 people. China's participating troops, which mainly use optical and American weapons, are only 360,000, and this does not include the 900,000 regular armies in other provinces across the country.

    The "Peace Decree" announced by Soviet Russia was nothing, but the "Land Decree" touched the nerves of capitalists, landlords, and industrial and commercial owners all over the world. In China, land is the lifeblood of farmers, and factories and enterprises are.  The lifeblood of capitalists, the Soviet Union's "Agrarian Law" is a deadly weapon, just like Pandora's box. Who knows whether the angel or devil will be released?

    If this society is full of rich people, then where are the poor? Even in the most advanced capitalist countries such as the United States, Britain, France and Germany under the banner of Western democracy, the poor or the middle class still make up the majority.  The "Land Decree" of Soviet Russia made all governments eclipse it, and the landowners and capitalists hated it even more!

    Bully landlords and unscrupulous capitalists are indispensable in every country and society, but the more mainstream ones are enlightened landlords and capitalists who get rich through hard work and thrift. In the era of 1917, most of them could receive education and higher education, and could join the army and attend military training schools.  Most of the students at the Military Academy are descendants of wealthy squire landlords or merchant capitalists.

    The concept of private ownership of property has lasted for thousands of years, perhapsIt will continue for thousands of years. How many people are now willing to hand over to others the property, fields and houses they have saved for generations?  No one agrees!

    While waiting for the little mentor from Soviet Russia to issue a declaration on China, Wang Geng participated in the cabinet meeting convened by the Prime Minister more than once. There was only one topic on the agenda. What should China do in the face of the "Land Decree" released by Soviet Russia?  To prevent problems before they occur and prevent the foundation of society from being affected and shaken?

    The cabinet members came up with a lot of ideas, but not many of them were practical. After all, land annexation has been around since ancient times. Most of the country gentry and landlords in rural China have been frugal for generations, eating ocean after ocean from the soil.  After saving so much land and family property, China has a large population, frequent natural disasters, and it is an indisputable fact in the Central Plains and the South that there is less land and more people.

    Xu Shuzheng has been organizing the work of the Senate Constitution Revision Committee. According to his opinion, in order to solve social stability and people's livelihood under the current circumstances, the first step is to accelerate industrialization and absorb landless farmers into factories and mines.  We will vigorously develop light and heavy industries to provide employment while also improving the knowledge structure and abilities of the people.

    Secondly, the land law must be enacted as soon as possible to ensure the basic livelihood of farmers and ensure that people who are willing to farm can feed their families if they have land to farm!

    Wang Geng has several supervisory responsibilities in the Ministry of War, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Transportation and Ministry of Internal Affairs. He is simply one of Duan Qirui¡¯s shadow prime ministers. The other one is Xu Shuzheng. The last prescription Wang Geng gave was,

    ¡°First, through large-scale immigration, the two major strategic bases of the northeast and northwest are developed. The northwest mainly reclaims wasteland in the Hetao area of ??Suiyuan and builds water conservancy projects based on the Yellow River to expand the area of ??cultivated land. In order to prevent endless land annexation, the land revision  The law limits the amount of private land that can be reclaimed by each resettlement household, such as an upper limit of 40 acres per person, and the excess will be redeemed by the government and then put on the market for trading! "

    ¡°Secondly, through large-scale railway and highway construction, factory and mine construction, and work-for-relief, it not only helps refugees but also expands the scale and number of industrial workers, and speeds up the construction of small towns based on railways and highways to divert the flow of people.  Reduce the population and employment pressure in big cities, and encourage landlords and gentry to invest in national light industries. In heavy industries related to the national economy and people's livelihood, we emphasize the controlling rights of state-owned capital, and the management rights can be marketized under effective supervision and managed by a team of professional managers.  Running large and very large enterprises¡±

    "Third, in order to maintain the stability of the country and society, while maintaining the honor and treatment of military personnel, we must properly arrange the employment and life of military family members, relieve the worries of military personnel, and give every military member an opportunity to become a middle class member of society.  , If the Soviet soldiers had not rebelled, the current situation would never be like this! "

    ¡°Fourth, the taxation relationship between landlords and tenant farmers must be balanced in the land law, and farmers¡¯ taxes must be effectively reduced. Necessary exploration can be carried out in the field of rural financial leasing and lending, and state-owned farms that are not primarily for profit can be tried.  "

    Finally, Wang Geng said with a smile, it is my habit to prepare for rainy days. What I said may not necessarily be effective, but paying attention to people's livelihood and improving people's living standards has always been the expectation of the Prime Minister and the Cabinet. All of you here are great talents.  , Brother Youzheng is much more knowledgeable than me. I think it¡¯s just one sentence, ¡°We must give the people a way to live! We must give adequate treatment and honor to the soldiers who have made meritorious deeds in protecting our country and our country!¡±

    Wang Geng's speech at the cabinet meeting received warm applause from all the cabinet members. The Prime Minister looked at his future son-in-law with unconcealed admiration in his eyes. Xu Shuzheng also nodded lightly. In fact, what Wang Geng said just now, the night before  Wang Geng had a heart-to-heart discussion with the Prime Minister in his study for a long time, and finally summarized it into these few points.

    Wang Geng said something in the Prime Minister¡¯s study last night, but he didn¡¯t say it at the cabinet meeting!  That is,

    "As long as the guns are in our hands! As long as the lives and status of soldiers and military families are protected! The sky will not fall!"
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