Add Bookmark | Recommend this book | Back to the book page | My bookshelf | Mobile Reading

Free Web Novel,Novel online - All in oicq.net -> Historic -> Beiyang 1917

Volume 2 Beijing Story Chapter 198 Temporary Compromise between China and Japan

Previous page        Return to Catalog        Next page

    In his previous life, Yang Yuting was considered a first-class military and political talent in the Feng Clan. He built the Northeast Navy and built war-ready highways under the nose of Japan. What is rare is that he also assisted Zhang Zuolin in implementing land reform, lowering land taxes, and taking the hands of warlords and landlords.  The excess land in the country was allocated to landless farmers for cultivation, which made the economic strength of Northeast China continue to rise. This guy also single-handedly built the Northeast military industry system.

    After thinking for a long time, Wang Geng decided to first transfer Yang Yuting to Beijing to serve as the deputy chief of staff of the participating armies and the general office of the Xuanhua Arsenal. When the time comes, he will be transferred to the outside party to take charge.  Yang Yuting never expected that he would be so highly valued by the war supervisor. The next step for the deputy chief of staff of the war army would be at least a division commander of the war army's reorganization division. Moreover, everyone knew that the Xuanhua Arsenal was a favorite of the war supervisor, and the managers were all foreigners.  , is this left in your own hands?

    ?? 32-year-old Yang Yuting followed in the footsteps of Zhang Zuolin and Zhang Zuoxiang and came to Beijing Nanyuan to report, and as soon as he went to the Xuanhua Arsenal to take up the post, he was determined to show off his skills.

    At the end of January 1918, the government announced that the "Three Seven-Five Rent Reduction Regulations" and measures to halve land tax and cancel all donations other than land tax would be implemented in Fengtian Province, which set off another wave of people in Guandong. Even Anhui,  Farmers from Jiangsu and other provinces along the Yangtze River basin moved their families northward to reclaim wasteland.

    Until the end of January 1918, Soviet Russia was still bargaining with Germany over the Brest-Litovsk Peace Treaty. In several consecutive votes within the Soviet Russian government, the idea of ??the little mentor failed to gain majority support, and turmoil began to emerge one after another within Russia.  of riots.

    Representatives of the five Allied countries, China, the United States, Japan and France, also held many consultations in Beijing. In response to the situation that the Soviet Union and Russia might sign an armistice agreement with Germany at any time, and the Russian civil war was about to break out, Britain and France made it clear that they would send troops to intervene at that time, and the United States stated that it would assist and support  The demands of the just people in Russia will not be directly interfered with by sending troops.

    The focus is on the East, Asia. What about Russia¡¯s huge Siberia, including the Far East?  The two sides in the dispute are China and Japan.

    Wang Geng, the Supervisor of the Five-Nation Negotiations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has basically handled all the negotiations related to the Allied Powers and the war this year. This time is no exception. This guy got into a heated argument with Lin Quanzhu at the five-nation envoy consultation meeting, banging the table.  .

    The reason is very simple. Over the past year, Japanese Minister Hayashi Gonsuke has been frustrated in front of Chinese diplomats, especially Wang Geng. He has been criticized domestically for being too weak and too conceding in negotiations with China, which has lost the face of the Japanese Empire. However, last time China responded  Soviet Russia reacted quickly to its declaration on China and took back the Middle East Route before the Japanese military could react.

    There are calls in Japan to recall the minister to China, Hayashi Gonsuke, who had humiliated his country and sat back and watched China's wanton behavior in Northeast China. Therefore, in the new consultation held by the ministers of the five countries on the situation in Russia, his attitude changed from the previous humility and tolerance.  Dare to slap the table and argue with Wang Geng about whose Sakhalin Island belongs!

    Damn it!  Of course Sakhalin belongs to China!  Wang Geng¡¯s basis is the 1689 Treaty of Nerchinsk between China and Russia. Article 1 of the Treaty of Nerchinsk clearly stipulates:

    ??From the Gelbiqi River, a tributary of Heilongjiang, to the Waixing'an Mountains and to the sea, the south of the Lingnan belongs to China, and the north of the Lingbo belongs to Russia.  It is bounded by the Ergun River in the west, China in the south, and Russia in the north. The houses at the mouth of the Heililke River on the south bank of the Ergun River should be moved to the north bank.

    Of course, Japanese Minister Hayashi Gonsuke did not agree. In Japanese terms, the northern part of Sakhalin Island was taken by Japan from Tsarist Russia, not from China. Japan is not responsible for the territorial disputes between Tsarist Russia and China.  No obligation!  The southern part of Sakhalin has always belonged to Japan!

    Hayashi Gonsuke came well prepared and brought out a lot of Japanese historical documents to prove that the southern part of Sakhalin Island was Japanese territory at least a hundred years ago, and at that time, whether the place called Kata was under the Matsumae Domain or not  During the Edo shogunate's war in Japan, the shogunate finally gave in and allowed Karata to return to the Matsumae clan.

    Not to mention the many treaties and agreements reached by Japan and Russia during the series of wars and wars of aggression against China in the last century, which basically recognized Japan¡¯s sovereignty over the southern part of Sakhalin Island without any dispute, while Tsarist Russia occupied the northern part and established Sakha.  Linzhou!

    Damn, this is all a good thing done by the Manchus. They thought it was too far to go to a barren land and neither sent troops nor immigrated. In the past 200 years, the Russians who lived in the north and the Japanese who lived in the south, Wang Geng now represents  China is stunned to say that Sakhalin Island belongs to China according to the "Treaty of Nerchinsk between China and Russia"!

    In the end, the quarrel went on without end, and Wang Geng almost yelled that even Japan was a vassal state of China earlier!  The three ministers, Zhu Erdian, Kant and Ruienshi, initially just watched the excitement and tried to smooth things over, but found that if things continued like this, let alone work together to solve the Russian problem, China and Japan might start fighting among themselves!

    ???????????????????????????????? If it is a Japanese library that can still make some sense.If the two islands are fighting like this, what about the Guandong Prefecture and South Manchuria Railway?  What about Jiaozhou Bay and Qingdao?  What about Taiwan?  There is no dispute that these places belong to China. Now, according to what Wang Geng said, if the places that were cut off by unequal treaties are to be reclaimed, then China and Japan will have to fight to the death!

    Finally, through the mediation of Rui Enshi, Zhu Erdian and Kant, Wang Geng, Supervisor of the Five-Country Negotiation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Hayashi Gonsuke, the Japanese Minister to China, finally reached an informal understanding on behalf of the two countries.

    First, until the Allies defeat Germany and Austria and officially end the European War, all territorial disputes between China and Japan will remain as they are for the time being and will be discussed later!

    Second, in view of the deteriorating situation in Russia, China and Japan, as members of the Allied Alliance, have an unshirkable responsibility for stabilizing the situation in Russia's Asia. China and Japan promise to work together to deal with the situation in Russia.

    Third, when the Allies decide to intervene in the situation in Russia, Japan will respect the eastern section of the Sino-Russian border delineated in the Treaty of Nerchinsk between China and Russia in Northeast Asia. China will be responsible for the part of the southern border that belongs to China.  China and Japan will jointly be responsible for dealing with the Russian part of the northern border.

    Fourth, given that Vladivostok is the most important port in the Far East, when China and Japan join hands to interfere in the situation in Russia, the Japanese fleet will obtain the right to use the Vladivostok port and assume the responsibility for maritime military operations!

    Before this consultation, the bottom line of the Japanese government was that Sakhalin Island must belong to Japan, because 100 years ago, the southern part of Sakhalin Island belonged to Japan, and after the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, even the northern part of Sakhalin Island belonged to Japan, so no matter what  He cannot be let out, and he will not hesitate to fight for this!

    As for the South Manchuria Railway, Guandong Prefecture, Jiaozhou Bay, and Qingdao, these four places are extremely important to safeguarding Japan's interests in China, so maintaining the status quo and shelving it are the bottom line, especially in Taiwan, otherwise China and Japan will have to go to war!

    For Wang Geng, China has not even completed its reunification, and its entire national strength is extremely weak. Even if its own Xuanhua steel base has reached its designed production capacity, its steel output is only one-tenth of Japan's.

    At this time, it is definitely not the time to start a full-scale war with Japan just by relying on the participating troops. It is the last word to bear the humiliation and buy time. As long as China can embark on the right path, sooner or later it will catch up with and surpass Japan, including the United Kingdom and France, but Wang Geng is right  Having no illusions about surpassing the United States, that was not something that could be considered in 1918.

    China in 1918, the Duan Qirui government, Wang Geng himself and the participating troops, all had to adapt to the situation and use penicillin, the strongest shield in human history, to ward off the possible Spanish Flu.  In addition, taking advantage of the civil strife in Russia, it is a top priority to recover the territory lost since the "Sino-Russian Treaty of Nerchinsk", and the temporary compromise with Japan is the price that China must pay!

    Damn it, Lao Maozi is really not that easy to deal with. That Tsarist Russian naval general Kolchak just rushed back to Siberia from the United States via Japan. In his previous life, he led 500,000 White Guards to attack, but he failed to defeat him.  The regime of a child.

    The troops participating in the war must continue to intensify their training, and the domestic military service law must be promulgated as soon as possible!  Wang Geng thought to himself!
Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report