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Volume 2 Beijing Story Chapter 240 Northern Federal Autonomous Region

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    The pace of history advanced to the end of March 1918. The first phase of the "Defend 18 Recover Homeland" military operation launched by the Chinese Communist Army on February 28, 1918 ended successfully, through the attack of the 3rd Army in both directions of Outer Mongolia and Heilongjiang.  .

    By the end of March, the Chinese government had successfully recovered the territory it had occupied since the Treaty of Nerchinsk between China and Russia. Among them, the Primorsky Krai had a land area of ??170,000 square kilometers and a total population of 500,000, and the Khabarovsk Territory had an area of ??500,000.  square kilometers and a total population of 400,000.

    Amur Oblast has an area of ??360,000 square kilometers and a total population of 200,000. Chita Oblast has an area of ??480,000 square kilometers and a total population of 300,000. Irkutsk Oblast has an area of ??600,000 square kilometers and a population of 400,000.

    A total of 2.11 million square kilometers of land was recovered, with a local population of nearly 1.5 million. In Wang Geng¡¯s previous life, until the 21st century, the population on this land only multiplied and developed to more than 7 million.

    With the arrival of the end of March, the great success of the Chinese Participating Army in Siberia and the Far East has rapidly increased China's international prestige. The Duan Qirui government and the Chinese Participating Army, as the leaders in recovering lost territory, have once again become the national idol and the leader of both the government and the public.  The focus of attention, and the huge wave of enthusiasm for joining the army to serve the country in March resulted in the recruitment of as many as six supplementary brigades throughout March.

    China's model army participating in the war has quietly become synonymous with the Chinese Army. This new army that emphasizes firepower and mobility takes iron disciplines such as the "Three Major-Nine Points of Attention to Discipline" as its soul and is indiscriminate in the face of enemies and saboteurs.  Using merciless iron-blooded tactics as a weapon, China's territory expanded by one-fifth in just one month, and it also stabilized and appeased the emotions of local residents.

    The Soviet guerrillas had almost no room to move east of Lake Baikal. Apart from going to remote settlements to grab food in the middle of the night, these guerrillas could not find any source of food. Here, the Chinese Communist Army announced that based on the 1689  According to the Sino-Russian Treaty of Nerchinsk, all Siberian and Far Eastern territories controlled by the Chinese participating armies as of March 31, 1918 were Chinese territory.

    The safety of life and property of all local residents is protected. Before this year¡¯s summer grain harvest, people who have registered at the local village office, town office and municipal government and received food rations can choose independently whether to become Chinese nationals or move back home.  Go west to Russia.

    If local private land owners want to retain their land, they must choose to become Chinese citizens and become Chinese. Otherwise, the land will be redeemed by the Chinese government and then returned to the state. The land redemption price is based on the average land price of the previous year.  For payment, the land transferor can choose to accept Chinese banknotes, Zhongyuan, or grain!

    The first batch of people who chose to become Chinese citizens were, without exception, local government officials, civil servants, landlords and rich peasants.  It was abandoned by Ulyanov's dialogue declaration of the new Soviet Russian regime. If Soviet Russia did not give up this land, for the above-mentioned property owners who own large amounts of land and estates, the "Soviet Russian government" promulgated  The "Land Act" is also quite terrible!

    The contents of the leaflets distributed by the Chinese planes are like those red decrees and regulations continuously promulgated in Moscow and the entire Soviet-controlled areas. Landowners¡¯ land is nationalized for free and distributed to farmers, but farmers must hand over their surplus grain.  Otherwise, they are enemies of the Soviets and must be suppressed, eliminated, etc.  Landowners and rich peasants who were suppressed and eliminated

    Siberia and the Far East are vast and sparsely populated. Although the cultivated land area only accounts for less than a quarter of it, the population is even smaller. The land annexation in Siberia and the Far East is much gentler than that in the European part of Russia. These have been over the past hundred years.  The people who immigrated to Siberia from the west to pan for gold have basically become homesteaders and rich farmers after several generations of hard work. Of course, there will always be people in any society at any time who become poor farmers and tenant farmers.

    But the reality in the Russian countryside at this moment is that the main class of Russian rural areas and farmers is the yeoman farmers, middle peasants, rich peasants and landlords. Just like the self-sufficient Cossacks in the Don River Basin, in many cases only lazy and idle guys are the ones who do not produce.  You will be destitute. Of course, poverty is often associated with disease. More often than not, it is due to natural disasters that cause crop failure, leading to poverty. Naturally, exorbitant taxes and wars, as well as bandits and robbers, are more important factors.

    The vast land and relatively sparse population of Siberia and the Far East made the pressure on Wang Geng's policy of distributing free rations to all residents in the newly occupied areas of the Chinese Army during the war much smaller than expected. At the same time,  With the free ration relief and free medical and health clinic services during the war, the local situation was quickly stabilized and the residents, mainly Russians, although a little confused, gradually recognized this land. The Chinese really wanted to  Taken back!

    In order to stabilize the local situation, the temporary implementation of grain harvesting on these recovered lands is also to stabilize the local situation.However, unlike the surplus grain collection system in Soviet Russia and the Japanese-occupied areas, in China's newly established Irkutsk, Lake Baikal and Far Eastern Border Regions, private grain trading is prohibited, and grain can only be purchased from government-designated grain stores.  Purchase at the purchase point, and any behavior of reselling the free rations received will be severely punished.

    In this new territory of China, the Chinese Yuan is the only currency allowed to circulate. Gold and silver must be exchanged into Chinese Yuan at the newly opened Bank of China and Bank of Communications offices in every town before they can be used.

    For the grain in the granaries of middle peasants, rich peasants and landlords, it is obviously safer to sell it to the government than to hide it in their own homes. Although guerrillas and bandits rarely appear, there is a guarantee that fish that slip through the net will fall in the middle of the night.  The rich eaters robbed people of food, killed people and set fires.

    When purchasing grain at local government grain purchase points, farmers who hand over grain can choose whether to pay for grain in cash or choose grain exchange coupons.

    Paying with grain exchange coupons is like farmers depositing their grain in the government's grain bank. When needed, they can exchange grain as needed, which can avoid losses caused by grain price fluctuations. Grain is regarded as the most important strategic material.  Manage it.

    Not only the entire Russia, the entire occupied areas, and the entire Europe are in a state of food shortage due to the destruction of rural areas and agriculture due to the war.

    In order to ensure credit and strengthen grain management, when landlords, rich peasants and middle peasants sell their grain to government grain warehouses for collection and storage, the grain exchange coupons are registered and reported as lost. This means that in fact, as long as you can get legal documents, you can  You can know the food you originally deposited from the food bank. Of course, large quantities need to be reserved.

    Of course, for the people on the newly recovered 2.11 million square kilometers of land, the exemption of agricultural land taxes within three years is huge good news!  Damn it, you don¡¯t have to pay taxes when farming in Siberia!  This policy completely stabilized local power and won the support of all classes from poor peasants to landlords!

    The Irkutsk Territory, the Baikal Territory and the Far Eastern Territory are directly under the administration of the newly established Northern Federal Autonomous Region of China. This was a decision made by Wang Geng after long discussions with the Prime Minister, the Undersecretary of the Army and the Cabinet members.  .

    Although the north and the south of China have not yet been unified in fact, all parties have been gearing up to prepare for the upcoming House of Representatives election in early August 1918. After so many years of ups and downs in the Republic of China, the Congress finally came to the three-year term of the House of Representatives.  Election time!

    The establishment of China's Northern Federal Autonomous Region can be seen as China's new exploration in the national political system. At this moment when the Duan government's reputation is at its peak, at this moment when China's soldiers in the war have made outstanding contributions to the country, at this moment China's international status  At this moment of unprecedented progress, no force or individual can shake the status of Duan Qirui and the New Anhui Clique in China's future.

    Any idea of ??seeking autonomy and independence from the military has unknowingly disappeared in the minds of the powerful leaders of various factions. From its establishment to the present, the participating armies have not fired even a single shot at their compatriots!  The participating armies will never take the initiative to provoke a civil war. The mission of the Chinese Army is to defend the homeland and the country!
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