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Volume 2 Beijing Story Chapter 230 Negotiations and Secret Agreements

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    How big was Russia in 1918?  It is a full 2,200 kilometers from Irkutsk in the west of Lake Baikal to Omsk, and a full 1,600 kilometers from Omsk to the west to Kazan, and from Kazan to the west to Moscow.  There are still 800 kilometers left.

    The beautiful road vision that Wang Geng painted for Japan is far away in the Ural region, starting from the northern section of the Ural Mountains in the north and adjacent to Kazakhstan in the south.  Including Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, Perm, Orenburg, Kurgan, Bashkir and Udmurt regions.

    It covers an area of ??824,000 square kilometers and has a population of about 10 million.  To the east of the Ural Mountains is the West Siberian Plain, and to the west is the northwest part of the Russian Plain.

    Oil, natural gas, iron, copper, bauxite, zinc, nickel, titanium, vanadium, gold, platinum group, potash, magnesite, asbestos, coal and other mineral deposits are abundant.  The economy is quite developed and it is the largest heavy industrial zone in Russia.

    The industries are mainly iron and steel, nonferrous metallurgy, machinery, chemicals, and electricity, as well as forestry, timber, and agricultural and livestock product processing. Agriculture and animal husbandry are relatively developed.  It mainly produces wheat and feed crops, and dairy and meat animal husbandry is important.  The transportation industry, which is dominated by railways and pipelines, is developed.  The main cities are Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Perm, Ufa, etc.

    The Ural Mountains, located on the dividing line between the Eurasian continent and the European continent, is the brightest pearl in Russia's heavy industry. The question is, how much energy does Japan, a small island country, have to spend to occupy such a distant place?  How many troops are involved?

    The Japanese government and the public do not really dare to think about places that far away, but the West Siberian Plain east of the Ural makes the young generals of the Japanese Army Staff Headquarters salivate. The West Siberian Plain is the largest plain in Asia.

    It is bounded by the Yenisei River in the east, the Ural Mountains in the west, the Kazakh hills and the Sayan Mountains in the south, and the Kara Sea in the north. In Wang Geng's previous life, this territory included Tyumen, Omsk, Novosibirsk, and Tomb.  Sksk Oblast, Altai Territory, and parts of Kemerovo Oblast.

    The West Siberian Plain is 1,000-1,900 kilometers wide from east to west, 2,500 kilometers long from north to south, and covers an area of ??2.74 million square kilometers. It is one of the famous great plains in the world.  The altitude of the area is 220-300 meters, and the Ob River and the Irtysh River run through the entire territory.

    If Japan wants to expand its continental space and accept the olive branch extended by China to join hands with Japan, the Great Plains of Western Siberia is truly a goal worthy of the emperor's lifelong struggle!

    Although it was not recognized by the Allied Powers, as the Japanese Army Staff Headquarters dispatched the new military section chief, Army Colonel Yan Shunroku, he led a five-person liaison team to participate in the Nanyuan Headquarters of the Chinese Participating Army to assume responsibility for the Chinese and Japanese armies.  After high-level liaison and communication between the two sides, and with the participation of the foreign ministries and militaries of both sides in the negotiations, the two sides quickly reached a new agreement on the division of power in Russia.

    The first stage goal of China and Japan's intervention in the situation in Russia is to recover the territories from the Grabchi River and the south of the Transkhingan Mountains to the sea. For Japan, the Grabchi River and the Transkhinggan Range are  Everything to the north falls within the scope of Japan's operations.

    The key second-stage goal is for China to control the area east of the Yenisey River and south of the northern end of Lake Baikal, while for Japan, it will control the area west of the Yenisey River and north of Lake Baikal in western Siberia.  A vast area of ??plains.

    As for the Ural region, the consensus reached by China and Japan is that within the framework of the Allied Powers, it is necessary to support a Russian regime centered on Ufa as a buffer zone. As for the future of this Russian regime, it will be left to the local residents to decide in the future.  decided by referendum.

    Of course, at this moment, the above consensus only exists in the form of a memorandum after consultation between China and Japan. When to seek opinions from the Allied leaders of the United States, Britain and France depends on the progress of the Chinese and Japanese intervention forces' military operations in Siberia and the Far East.

    In fact, for this closed-door secret consultation between China and Japan, the Japanese side sent Foreign Minister Hirano, who came to China under a pseudonym in order to deceive others, while the Chinese side sent the old partners Wang Geng and Xia Yiting.

    The Japanese side has been deeply worried about the status of the South Manchuria Railway, Kanto Prefecture, Jiaozhou Bay and Qingdao. During the talks, the Chinese side reiterated its proposal to put it on hold until the end of the European War. This made the Japanese Foreign Minister relaxed.  Suddenly, with the continuous growth of China's participating armies, Japan's immediate interests in China have gradually become a bit like a hot potato stuck in its throat.

    Let¡¯s just let it go?  It¡¯s really hard to explain the public opinion in Japan. Are you holding on to it?  The criticism and pressure caused by Japan's occupation of these four places from both the government and the opposition in China are also growing.

    "Wang Sang! Your courage, this!" In the private room where the two parties were meeting at the Liuguo Hotel, the Foreign Minister sincerely raised his thumb at Wang Geng.

    "Hirano-kun, as a wise man between China and Japan,Sir, you have a heavy responsibility!  Of course, I have to thank Minister Lin for being the matchmaker, and Senior Colonel Yan Jun, who is really a talented person. How about it, Colonel, are you interested in joining my army?  "

    Wang Geng smiled and raised the champagne in his hand, and greeted Hayashi Gonsuke and Hata Shunroku next to Hirano, not forgetting to show his love for talents and wanting to poach them!

    "Hey This Thank you for your care, General This I have to follow the arrangements of the General Staff Headquarters!" Yan Junliu appeared as the special liaison officer of the headquarters of the participating forces in China and the attach¨¦ of the embassy in China.  The colonel was shocked by Wang Geng's invitation.

    "To be honest, Japan still has more ways to train officers, especially young officers, than China. Whether it is your non-commissioned officer school or Army University, the teaching quality is better than ours! I am thirsty for talents, Mr. Hirano,  Minister Lin, how about you put in a good word for me and ask Shunroku Hata to join my army and be my special military adviser?"

    "Wang Sang, thank you for your kindness. The colonel can't make the decision himself. In fact, the army is not under my control. I have to ask the Japanese Army Staff Headquarters for instructions. I'm afraid they won't let him go!" Ichiro Hirano looked at Wang in surprise.  Geng, he originally thought that the war supervisor was joking with him. Why, he really fell in love with the boy from the Hata family?

    "Hirano-kun, you Japanese people just worry too much. One characteristic of me is that no matter what conspiracies and tricks I engage in, I lay them out on the table. In other words, I, the king, only engage in intrigues and not conspiracy. Now in China  Since Japan and Japan must work together to negotiate, if one party is half-hearted all day long, this matter should be dropped!" Wang Geng narrowed his eyes and looked at the Japanese Foreign Minister in front of him!

    "Master Supervisor, if you really want to use me for the sake of diplomatic relations and friendship between the two countries, why would Shunroku Hata be willing to use this life!" The Japanese colonel straightened his neck, obviously willing to risk it all. The Chinese Supervisor of the War participated in the war in less than a year.  , from a West Point graduate to become a model and idol for all young soldiers in China and even Asia. Among Japanese young officers, Wang Geng has many fans at the moment.

    Although the U.S. Military Academy at West Point is not the first-class military academy in the world and only trains non-commissioned officers, looking at the whole world, who can single-handedly build a modern military for the country in one year?  And so young?

    The guy in front of me, the No. 1 guy in China, actually designed a good gun like the M1 Garand semi-automatic rifle, and he still did it.  .  .  He also invented something as outrageous as penicillin.  .  .  It actually single-handedly built the oil, steel, coal and arms industries for China.

    It is said that this Chinese has no private property in the country and is still the largest philanthropist. The China Charity Foundation he founded has become the largest charity organization in Asia in one year, with total assets exceeding 100 million.

    This Wang Geng also used the symbolic patent income of penicillin to create the global GV Scientific Development Charitable Foundation. It is said that the total assets of this foundation have exceeded 100 million US dollars!

    Such people actually appeared among the ignorant, backward and ignorant Chinese people. Shunroku Hata's curiosity about Wang Geng was no less than Wang Geng's appreciation for him.

    For Wang Geng, his own staff headquarters really lacked staff talents like Shunroku Hata, who was the master of drafting and revising the "Imperial Defense Policy" and the "Imperial Troops Program" for the Japanese Army Staff Headquarters. This was the Japanese Army University's 1910-51  The chief saber among many graduates!
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