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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 512 Comes as Kangmu and goes as a dog

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    July 15, 1918 8:45 Ufa Allied Forces Headquarters

    b. Pepelyayev finally made a choice and decided to stay as the prime minister of the newly established Volga Union Autonomous Government, leading this government that had not yet written a single word. Of course, Wang Geng also agreed to this guy¡¯s request with a smile.  , when there is a suitable candidate for prime minister, Pepelyayev will lead troops to the front line to fight. In the Battle of Ufa, this guy led four White Guard infantry divisions to guard the northwest defense line, and he was not satisfied at all.  -< Piaotian literature registered members recommend this work >-%.net

    In the pursuit battles and annihilation battles with the greatest results in the later period, the Russian troops that stole the show were Petrovich and Sergei's Second Ural Cavalry Army. The Russian Infantry Division in the coalition, whether it was the First Army of Ufa or from the east of the Ural Mountains,  The First Siberian Army that came over had been traveling long distances for training. Those who caught up and resolved the battle were highly mobile cavalry units.

    Fortunately, the workload of the newly established Volga Federal Autonomous Government is not heavy, because it will take at least a month for the people who were evacuated from the Ufa Plain to the east of the Ural Mountains to return. Many people left their homes and went to the West with their families.  He later settled in Siberia and was assigned land for farming from the West Siberian government, intending to settle there for a long time.

    Although the conditions in various aspects of the pioneering points and settlements in Western Siberia east of the Ural Mountains are not very good, at least the social order is stable and orderly, and there is no threat of war. The local government not only distributed land, provided seeds, agricultural tools and  livestock, and free rations were regularly distributed to the influx of immigrants before the autumn harvest.

    For the Russian refugees who had experienced earth-shaking social turmoil and the Great Famine, they had land to grow, food to eat, no war, and no wandering bandits and defeated soldiers to plunder and cause harm. This was the paradise that all Russian people yearned for in 1918.  What's more, in settlements and reclamation sites, if the land is reclaimed by immigrant families themselves, based on the family population, the land within 40 acres per capita will be owned by the immigrant family, and the land exceeding 40 acres will be owned by the land market price in the most recent year.  The government purchased the land and leased it to other landless peasant families for farming.

    Moreover, according to the "Interim Land Management Measures" that have been widely implemented in the coalition-controlled areas east of the Ural Mountains, any immigrant family that leases land for farming from the government must pay land rent and taxes in strict accordance with the "375 Rent Reduction Regulations"  "The regulations shall be implemented, that is, it shall not exceed 37.5% of the actual harvest of the land.

    Moreover, once the land leased from the government has been cultivated for five years and the land rent is paid on time, the land can be owned by the farmers after five years. Of course, the most important one of the land management regulations is that all land must not be bought, sold or transferred without authorization.  , the portion exceeding the limit of 40 acres per capita can only be sold to the government.

    What is heaven?  This is paradise. On both sides of the Ural Mountains in 1918, there was land to grow and food to eat. The government provided land and seeds, farm tools, and livestock. The lives and private property of legal residents were sacred and inviolable. This is how countless people on this land  It is a paradise that ordinary people have never enjoyed or expected.

    The West Siberian Great Plain under the control of the coalition forces is vast and sparsely populated. It is the largest plain in Asia and the third largest plain in the world. It is 2,000 kilometers long from north to south and 1,500 kilometers wide from east to west, covering an area of ??2.6 million square kilometers.

    The altitude of the southern part of the West Siberian Plain is 220 to 300 meters, and the altitude of the central and northern parts is 50 to 150 meters.  From north to south, tundra, forest, forest steppe, and grassland landscapes are distributed in parallel, with typical latitudinal zonal distribution patterns.  Most of the area is covered by subarctic coniferous forests.

    There are many rivers on the plain, including the Yenisey River, the Ob River, the Irtysh River, the Taz River and other rivers.  The population density is low in the central and northern parts of the country. The nearly 2.6 million square kilometers of the West Siberian Plain are densely covered with swamps and forests. The agricultural and animal husbandry areas are mainly concentrated in the mild climate areas in the south. They mainly produce wheat and meat, and the arable land area is only 20%.  Less than one-tenth, about 100,000 square kilometers, or about 150 million acres.

    In Wang Geng's previous life, the population of the West Siberian Plain reached its peak at 40 million. However, in 1918, the original population of the West Siberian Plain was only a little over 2 million. With the large-scale civil war in Russia west of the Ural Mountains,  In the past six months, more than 3 million refugees have passed through the Ural Pass with their families and arrived on the Siberian Plain. The number of registered residents in the entire Western Siberian Autonomous Government has reached more than 5 million, with about 1.2 million households.  .

    Before mechanized farming became popular in agriculture, it was a big challenge for a strong laborer to cultivate forty acres of land on the West Siberian Plain in 1918. Therefore, although the per capita land limit stipulated in the "Temporary Land Management Regulations" was  Forty acres of land, but a family of three often only chooses to cultivate forty acres of land. The government strictly prohibits farmers from abandoning land. Even if you have forty acres of land in your name, but if 20 acres of it is abandoned without cultivation, the next  These 20 acres of land will be taken back by the government in one year.

    Those with a large population and strong labor forceOnly a large family in Lido can cultivate more than 100 acres of land. Of course, it is basically impossible to really develop the nearly 150 million acres of arable land in southern Western Siberia within a few years. However, the red-terrorism and surplus grain of Soviet Russia  The collection system, the policy of all industrial and agricultural products going to the Soviet Union, and the purge movement frightened the Russian immigrants. In the short term, no one will risk returning to the muddy waters west of the Ural Mountains.

    What's more, all the new immigrants came to open up wasteland in southern Western Siberia. They were exempted from land tax for the first three years, and the government gave farmers seeds, farm tools, and livestock on credit. It was all like a dream. Those landowners who lost their land, homes, and all their property west of the Ural Mountains  The rich peasants, especially the rich peasants and middle peasants, saw the opportunity to make a comeback in southern Western Siberia. In the face of the huge famine, they could not starve to death but still have the land. Isn't all this worth cherishing?  Of course it¡¯s worth it!

    Of course, Wang Geng is also a generous guy. He doesn't mind at all when faced with Pepelyayev's request to continue leading troops to fight. However, since Pepelyayev holds the title of Prime Minister of the Volga Federal Autonomous Government, he will not ask for it again.  It is obviously inappropriate to serve as the commander of the Second Ufa Army. The last time the Second Ufa Army was established, Wang Geng had already given B. Pepelyayev the title of deputy chief of staff of the coalition.

    At this moment, Wang Geng grinned and appointed Pepelyayev as Prime Minister and Minister of Military Affairs of the Autonomous Government of the Volga Federation. Even if the military affairs of the new government were shouldered by Mr. Pepely, in theory, the Volga Federation  All the Russian troops under the autonomous government can be put under the control of Pepe, the military minister, which made B. Pepelyayev's nose sore with excitement.

    However, although the First Siberian Army is within the coalition, it is actually the army of the West Siberian Autonomous Government east of the Ural Mountains. Therefore, these three Russian divisions belong to the West Siberian Autonomous Government from the establishment to the personnel and organizational command system.  Then it is not under the control of Pepelyaev's Volga Federal Autonomous Government.

    Later that day on July 15, Sergei Mijaevich Balayanov of the First Ufa Army stationed near Milna sent a telegram. Four members of the First Ufa Army  More than 90% of the generals and soldiers of the infantry division decided to be loyal to the newly established Volga Federal Autonomous Government.

    There are about three thousand White Guard generals and soldiers left. Because they are Tatars north of the Kamala River, many of them are from home or near St. Petersburg and Moscow, because they want to follow Kolchak and Kazakhstan.  The main force of the Shanbai Guards was fighting back to their hometown, so they chose to go north and return to Kolchak's troops.

    According to the order of the Allied Forces Headquarters, these soldiers of the Ufa First Group Army are already on their way back to Ufa. They are expected to arrive in Ufa in the evening and take a train to Kazan according to the unified arrangements of the Allied Forces Headquarters.

    At the same time, the Ufa Second Group Army itself is stationed on the outskirts of Ufa. Since three of the four divisions themselves belong to the Ufa Volunteer Division, they are troops composed of local urban residents in Ufa, and most of them belong to the Palestinian Army.  Shkir people, so among the four divisions of the Second Army, there were only more than a thousand people who chose to go north to join the White Guard troops of Kolchak in Kazan.

    Petrovich and Sergey, who were resting in the town of Sterli Tamak in the south, responded to the telegram simply. All the soldiers of the Second Ural Cavalry Corps chose to stay and continue to fight in the coalition forces. Of course,  , if the Allied Forces Command deems it necessary, Petrovich and his cavalry units can swear allegiance to the newly formed Autonomous Government of the Volga Federation.

    Anyway, Petrovich and Sergey, including the Cossack cavalry under their command, are either native to the Ural River area in the south, or they are simply from the Don River Basin and the lower Volga River Basin. For them, the Cossacks can only fight back to the south.  It was their dream to go north to serve Kolchak and the Tatars was not their first choice.

    Of course, the telegrams from Petrovich and Sergei also revealed strong signals. They could only swear allegiance to the new Volga Federal Autonomous Government because they wanted to continue to follow the coalition forces, rather than lowering their heads and licking Pepeliyaye.  Husband and Ufa guys' butts.

    "Sogar, Commander-in-Chief, Petrovich and Sergei are really unique Cossack generals! The results of their cavalry army in the Battle of Ufa were not small. It is rare that these two people can see clearly and know that the key is  If you want to stay in the big family of the Allied Forces, everything else is nonsense!" Taro Utsunomiya couldn't help but admired after reading the telegram signed by Petrovich and Sergey.

    "Ha, Your Excellency Utsunomiya, the Cossacks' hometowns are all in the south. What's more, as a Cossack cavalry general, if you ask Petrovich and the others to go north to help Kolchak, who was born in the navy, and the former Tsarist Russian general, they probably won't be reused. However,  Petrovich, I emphasized in the telegram the principle of staying or leaving on a voluntary basis, and this guy even managed to get a unanimous agreement from the entire army to stay!¡±

    Wang Geng¡¯s mood showedOf course, that's not bad. I was thinking about whether to restore the formation of the cavalry group army in the Russian army.

    "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, don't you need to keep these troops in Ufa for one more night? Maybe tomorrow there will be more people who have figured it out and are willing to stay!" Utsunomiya Taro was obviously reluctant to leave nearly 5,000 White Guards troops alone.  It was handed back to Kolchak of Kazan.

    "Be content, Your Excellency Utsunomiya. When we sent troops to Omsk, we followed the boundaries drawn by Kolchak based on the Ural Mountains. From now on, the Asian part east of the Ural Mountains will no longer belong to the future Russian government.  Now we have taken the Ufa Plain out of their mouths again, we should be satisfied!" Wang Geng said with a smile.

    "That's Kolchak's own choice. If he is willing to listen to us, shouldn't we keep the Ufa Plain for him under his All-Russian Provisional Government? If he insists on starting a new business and working alone, then  We established the Volga Federal Autonomous Government as a last resort.

    Otherwise, how can we cease the war and demarcate the border with Moscow?  How could we get the rich and oily places south of Saratov, including Tsaritsyn, without spending a single shot?  This is all due to Kolchak's own blindness. How can we blame him!  "Utsunomiya Taro said with a smile.
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