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Volume 2 Beijing Story Chapter 201 History Begins to Bifurcate

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    In order to prepare for the situation in the north in 1918, the Chinese government began to increase the payment of land taxes in kind in the southern provinces after the autumn grain came out last year. In the northern provinces that participated in the war, all provinces that participated in the war adopted the method of paying land taxes in kind. At the same time, Wang Geng successively  Two batches of grain worth US$10 million each were imported from the United States.

    At the same time, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of War, with the support of the Ministry of Transport, purchased a large amount of grain from the south and the Yangtze River Basin in addition to the land tax at high prices to enrich the national treasury grain reserves. At the same time, with the purchase of grain, the new banknote Zhongyuan became the latest  The currency also gradually penetrated into the hands of farmers and ordinary people in the south. The increase in currency liquidity and the improvement and guarantee of national credit made the economic situation of the entire country continue to improve in the second half of 1917.

    The government's high-priced grain requisition not only increased the income of farmers, but also enabled the stockpiled grain to meet the war needs of the participating armies in 1918. Wang Geng was still worried about the massive grain shortage in Russia in 1918 in his previous life. Without grain, he would not be able to collect those grains.  The White Guards and their families!

    For Wang Geng¡¯s participating troops, what slogan is the most important when they fight in Siberia in the future?  That's it, fellow villagers, we were a family hundreds of years ago, and now we are sending you food!  This tmd is definitely more effective than the three major disciplines and the nine points of attention, and more effective than cannons and airplanes!

    Obviously, before the Allied Powers formally recognized the Soviet regime, the presence of Chinese combat troops in areas outside the Nerchinsk Treaty could be entirely in the name of the Volunteer Army, whether it was Kolchak's Siberian Autonomous Provisional Government or Semyonov's Far East  The regime of the leader of the Cossack White Guards can fully invite Chinese volunteers to rescue the Siberian people enslaved by "wartime doctrine" and the "surplus grain collection system".

    The reason why the operation was postponed to the end of February and early March was to wait for the peace talks between Soviet Russia and Germany on the one hand, and to avoid the severe cold in the north in winter. Although Wang Geng's mechanized troops used Dodge trucks and Ford cars,  Well, including wheeled armored vehicles modified from TT multi-purpose vehicles, the coolant has long been changed from water to alcohol-added antifreeze, but alcohol-added antifreeze can only cope with the severe cold of minus 30 degrees, and is lower than minus 30 degrees.  But it was really freezing.

    As for the two types of antifreeze, ethylene glycol and glycol, there is no production at all due to the limitations of the domestic chemical industry at this time. They will have to wait until Wang Geng's petrochemical industry is further established. As for fuel, gasoline is not a problem.  Large, unlike diesel, the freezing point of gasoline is generally minus 75 degrees, while diesel is labeled according to the label. The freezing point of No. 0 diesel is 0 degrees, and -20 is minus 20 degrees.

    In China's 18-year-old campaign to defend and regain the northern territory, the Japanese troops dispatched at the same time will be responsible for maritime operations. After capturing Vladivostok, the Japanese army can use the Siberian Railway to reach Temple Street, Sakhalin Island and Nepal at the mouth of Heilongjiang through the Siberian Railway.  The north of the Outer Khingan Mountains ridge delineated in the Treaty of Nerchinsk will also be the dividing line between China and Japan¡¯s military operations in the Far East. The north belongs to Japan and the south belongs to China. The western section of the Treaty of Nerchinsk, that is, the west of Chita  , the two sides agreed that the southern side of Lake Baikal would belong to China, and the northern side would belong to Japan!

    In fact, while Japan sent Kolchak back to Siberia to organize the White Guards, China drove Semyonov, who slipped into Northeast China after the October Revolution, back to the Far East. When this Cossack leader fled to China,  When the lonely man went back in early February, he organized a 4,000-strong Far East Liberation Army composed of Northeastern White Russia. Most of these military personnel came from the former Tsarist Russia's railway protection force in the Middle East that had been disarmed by the Chinese army.

    The strategic goals of the Chinese army's land-recovery operation, which was about to break out in the spring of 1918, were first to recover the territory occupied by Tsarist Russia since Nerchinsk, and secondly to support the puppet regime of Tsarist Russia east of Lake Baikal. As Soviet Russia implemented the land law,  The third goal of the buffer between China and China is the gold of Tsarist Russia.

    In Wang Geng's previous life, Kolchak, the leader of the Russian White Guards, sank 1,600 tons of gold from the Tsar's treasury into Lake Baikal along with the gold during the retreat. Now that Wang Geng is here, he will never let this go easily.  It is time for the land, resources, population and wealth that Tsarist Russia plundered from China from Nerchinsk to get back the principal and interest.

    Of course, there was more than one country that secretly sent ideas to Tsarist Russia's treasury. Japan, the United States, Britain and France were all secretly planning to get a share of the pie. Fortunately, China had already recovered Outer Mongolia. By then, Wu Peifu's third division would attack from Kyaktu, and China would  People will have the greatest chance of coming out on top!

    On January 24, 1918, the Soviet Russian government held a central meeting to re-vote on the signing of the contract.  Trotsky's idea of ??no war or peace was passed by a majority of 9 votes to 7, but the idea of ??the little mentor was still not accepted by the majority.

    On January 30, the Brest-Litovsk negotiations between Soviet Russia and Germany resumed. As the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs (i.e., the Minister of Foreign Affairs) and the head of the negotiating delegation, Trotsky made an agreement with the little man before leaving: if Germany decides to  Given the ultimatum, he gave in and signed the contract

    As a result, during the negotiations, Germany indeed issued an ultimatum to Soviet Russia. Trotsky asked the domestic telegram for countermeasures. The little man immediately called back and insisted: accept the German conditions and sign the contract immediately.  But Trotsky did not accept the little man's suggestion. Instead, he issued a statement refusing to sign and led the delegation to leave Brest.  As a result, Germany began a massive offensive against the Soviet Union.

    On February 18, when the situation on the front line was extremely urgent, the Central Committee of the Soviet Union held an emergency meeting.  At the meeting, the little man's idea was rejected by a vote of 6:7.  Subsequently, the Central Committee held another meeting overnight. After fierce debate, Trotsky turned to support the little man. The meeting result was 7 votes in favor, 5 votes against, and 1 abstention. The proposal of the little man was passed.  The Soviet Russian government notified Germany overnight that it agreed to sign the contract.

    As a result, the situation changed dramatically. Not only did the Germans not agree to a ceasefire, they put forward more stringent conditions. The war compensation alone doubled, from asking the Soviet Union to pay 3 billion rubles in compensation to 6 billion marks.  , the conditions for other territorial cessions are also shockingly exaggerated:

    The specific content of Germany¡¯s exaggeration after adding weight is as follows:

    Russia recognizes Finland, Ukraine and Georgia

    Russia ceded Estonia, Latvia, Courland, Lithuania, Russian Poland, Mosand Islands and other places to the German Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Only Germany and Austria have the right to decide the future political status of the above places.

    Russia withdrew from Ardakhan, Kars, and Batumi and was taken over by the Ottoman Turkish Empire

    Russia will dismantle all the fortifications on Alan Island (alandis.), and its future status will be jointly decided by the four countries of Orifen.

    6 billion mark compensation, to be repaid in five installments, but the final payment date shall not exceed the end of 1918

    If Russia agrees to this treaty, it will deal a very heavy blow to Russia. The losses suffered by Russia are roughly as follows:

    1. Land: 1.267 million square miles in total, equivalent to 25% of the country¡¯s land

    2. Population: 62 million people in total, equivalent to 44% of the country¡¯s population

    3. Industry: Agricultural products lost 33%; industry lost 54%; sugar industry lost 80%; iron ore lost 73%; coal mines lost 75%; fiscal revenue: a total loss of about 27%

    Not only were the Mensheviks in Soviet Russia unable to accept such exaggerated and humiliating conditions, but there was also a huge split within the Bolsheviks. If such terms were accepted, what would they be but Russian traitors?

    The Central Committee of the Soviet Union had serious differences over this. Originally, the majority supported Bukharin in carrying the war to the end. It was only after Trotsky turned to support the little mentor that the Soviet government reluctantly agreed to the previous agreement.  Not only did the Germans refuse to accept the conditions they had once met, but they intensified their extortion efforts!

    Faced with the huge differences in the Central Committee of the Soviet Union and the astonishing price demanded by the Germans, the little mentor still insisted on agreeing to the conditions and signing a peace agreement. The Central Committee of the Soviet Party held an emergency meeting with the participation of 15 members.  During the meeting, most of the committee members expressed disapproval of the little mentor's ideas.

    As a result, the little mentor had no choice but to propose that if this kind of empty talk continued, he would resign and withdraw from the government and the Central Committee.  Bukharin didn't care about this, Stalin didn't waver, and Trotsky didn't agree with Lenin. Maybe it was the emergence of the butterfly Wang Geng that made history change dramatically here again!
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