What kind of cooperation is beneficial to both sides, is it beneficial to you Japan? What happened to Ji, Feng, and Menglian as one? Isn't it convenient for you Japanese to penetrate north? Zhang Zuolin said with a smile: "Mr. Yoshida, isn't it just a loan?" It's worth coming for yourself! ”

Shigeru Yoshida smiled and said, "The loan is not a big deal, but the attitude of His Excellency the General towards the Japanese is the point. ”

Zhang Hanqing interjected: "Mr. Yoshida, my father's relationship with Japanese friends is well known, and there is no doubt about it. It's just that my father has just controlled the three eastern provinces, and he can't figure out what to do, and coupled with the tight finances, he has no interest in borrowing. This loan will have to be repaid by the State Unification Committee in the future. ”

It's true as we all know, but it seems that the relationship between Lao Zhang and the Japanese is not too good?

Shigeru Yoshida replied: "If His Excellency the Shogun feels that the loan is too high, Yoshida can try to accommodate it, and the Shogun can use a low-interest loan or extend the repayment period, so that the pressure of repayment in the future will be much less." I don't know what the general wants? ”

Oh, and you can catch big fish with a long line. The more the Japanese stay, the more we can suffer. Zhang Zuolin did not hesitate: "The 'Zhengbai Railway' is too biased, and it will not be of much benefit to the construction of Jilin. Limited money has to be spent on the cutting edge, and I have other calculations. ”

Yoshida Shigeru saw that he couldn't get through Zhang Zuolin, and at this time there was no good reason to ask Zhang Zuolin to give in, so he had to say: "General Rong thinks twice." However, the terms of the construction of the Manchurian-Mongolian Five Railway are still valid, and as long as the general wants to build a railway in the northeast, we are still waiting for good news. ”

His words were not salty or light, but the implication was very clear: these railways were set by the Japanese a long time ago, and if you want to bypass us in the northeast, there is no door.

Zhang Zuolin knew what he meant, and there was no need to be quick to speak, and said lightly: "Please wait, there will be good news from now on." ”

The Japanese have planned Mukden and half of Jilin, and if they really want to build a new railway, it is really difficult to bypass the five railway routes demarcated by the Japanese. However, Zhang Hanqing did not intend to compete with the Japanese in these places, and his eyes had turned to the north, where there was something more urgent than building a railway.

The October Revolution was a major historical event of far-reaching significance that took place in the huge Tsarist Russian Empire in distant Eastern Europe, and it also deeply affected China, which was thousands of miles away. Zhang Hanqing was determined to take advantage of this rare opportunity to speed up the development of Fengjun.

The cause does not need to be described in detail, but it is a piece of modern history that Zhang Hanqing is most familiar with---- which is the result of the endless political education from elementary school to university before the time-travel. As far as he knew, Soviet Russia went through its first arduous phase, the first great famine.

At the end of World War I, after the October Revolution broke out in Russia in 1917, the government of Tsarist Russia collapsed, and the Bolsheviks established the Soviet government and ceased war with Germany. On March 6, 1918, the Soviet Union and Germany signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, which ceded land in exchange for peace, thereby stabilizing the German offensive against Soviet Russia.

But this also angered various anti-Bolshevik forces in the Soviet Union and abroad, and Winston Churchill once said that the Bolsheviks must be "strangled in the cradle". The fear of the proletarian revolutionary movement and the desire to plunder unite the capitalist world in its hatred of the Soviet state and its enormous revolutionary influence on the working class and the oppressed masses in the colonies and semi-colonies in the bourgeois countries, in a vain attempt to destroy this birthplace of the revolution.

Thus, while the Soviet Union was still unstable, the old forces of Tsarist Russia, the opponents of the Soviet power (the White Army) and the imperialist countries outside the country joined forces to produce a three-year civil war (the aftermath of which extended for two years) in history as the Civil War of the Soviet Union or the War of Intervention against the Soviet Union, which was also called the "Civil War and Armed Intervention from 1917 to 1922" in the Soviet Union.

On March 15, 1918, a joint meeting of the Allies' Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers in London adopted a resolution on "intervention in the eastern union of Russia." At the end of May, the Czechoslovak Legion, composed of prisoners of war from the First World War, fired the first shot of the civil war against the Soviet Republic under the planning of the Entente. The army rapidly expanded from 20,000 to more than 60,000 men, and supported the counterrevolutionary forces in various parts of the country, established a number of counterrevolutionary governments, and established a number of counterrevolutionary armed forces.

At the same time, the old Russian generals Krasnov, Alekseev, Denikin and others, who were supported by Germany, also gathered counterrevolutionary forces in southern Russia, waiting for an opportunity to attack the Don River, the Kuban, and the Caucasus.

By the summer of 1918, the Soviet Republic was facing a grim situation surrounded on all sides: foreign armed interventionists and Russian counter-revolutionary forces had occupied large areas such as Ukraine, part of the Volga River Valley, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Urals, Siberia, and the Far East, almost equivalent to three-quarters of the territory of the Soviet Republic, and formed several fronts in the east, south, north, and the Caucasus, stretching for more than 10,000 kilometers. At this time, the total number of white troops on the whole line was about 700,000 men, and they were well-equipped and well-trained.

The Soviet Republic, in its military encirclement and economic blockade, faced great difficulties: it was cut off from the grain-producing regions of the south, industry collapsed, the kulaks opposed to the grain monopoly policy were constantly rioting, famine was spreading, and the people were starving.

The confrontation between the old and new forces, the weakening of the Soviet and Russian national strength, and the opportunity for the purge of Russia's old power in China, especially the Middle East Road, a symbol of sovereignty and great economic and military value, have a great chance to be easily obtained. But in the official history, for various reasons, it did not go well.

The Middle East Road is a concrete product of Tsarist Russia's invasion of Northeast China. After Russia forced the late Qing government to cede the Far East, it extended its black hand to the northeast, and Japan also set its sights on the fat of the northeast after defeating China, the leader of Asia for thousands of years, and annexing Korea in the First Sino-Japanese Naval War. The dispute between the two countries has a historical name called the "Russo-Japanese War" for the Chinese Port Arthur. In this dog-eat-dog dispute on Chinese territory, the late Qing government shamelessly declared "neutrality"!

After the Russo-Japanese War, although Japan won, it was purely a fluke---- Russia's defeat was one of the important reasons, in addition to the huge mistakes of naval command, the army's inability to obtain effective logistical supplies was one of the important reasons, because at that time the Russian Trans-Siberian Railway had not yet been completed. Even after the huge defeat in Tohoku, Russia, which was dead but not stiff, was still something that Japan, a new power, could not hold.

Japan, with the strength of the whole country, was on the verge of bankruptcy and finally defeated the polar bears, but did not receive any compensation from Russia. In desperation, he reluctantly passed an agreement between the two countries to jointly administer Northeast China, known as the infamous Portsmouth Treaty. According to the treaty, Russia transferred the Kwantung Prefecture and the Changchun-Lushunkou Railway (later renamed the South Manchurian Railway) and all corresponding privileges to Japan, and Changchun was the demarcation point between Japan and Russia.

Russia still has a sphere of influence in Heilongjiang, and China "co-manages" the Changchun-Harbin and Manzhouli-Suifenhe railways, known as the North Manchurian Railway, also known as the Eastern Railway. In the "Treaty of the Eastern Railway" and the "Treaty of Portsmouth", it was stipulated that Russia could only set up police and not garrison troops along the railway, but "for the sake of protecting the railway, [Japan and Russia] must have 25 soldiers per kilometer of the Manchurian Railway." After the war in Europe, most of the 30,000 Russian troops stationed in Harbin and the 60,000 soldiers garrisoning the Middle East Road were transferred to Europe, and those left behind were divided into the old and new parties, and the conflict was quite fierce.

Japanese militarism had long harbored ambitions for the Russian Far East and the northeastern part of our country, which was then under the control of Soviet Russia, so it took advantage of the fact that the Soviet Union was too busy dealing with the war in Europe to look eastward, and launched a war of aggression that had been planned for a long time under the pretext of rescuing the Czech army and under the banner of joint intervention by the United States, Britain, France, and Japan. Its purpose was to monopolize the Soviet Far East and create a Japanese puppet regime so that the Soviet Far East could be brought into Japan's sphere of influence.

Japan is ahead of the intervention of various countries. In order to carry out this war of aggression, the Japanese army and reservists were mobilized, and the so-called Vladivostok Dispatch Army Command was specially organized, and on August 2, 1918, a declaration was issued to send troops, which opened the prelude to the war of aggression.

At that time, the situation in Soviet Russia was that there were only 300,000 regular troops before and after the Japanese army, and they were all fighting in the European direction. In the Far East there were only about 25,000 irregular troops. It is particularly noteworthy that at the time of Japan's military deployment, the Trans-Siberian Railway, with the exception of the two sections of Ussuri and Amur, was under the control of the anti-Soviet forces, so the Soviets were unable and unable to support the Far East at the beginning and even in the middle of the Japanese invasion.

After the Japanese occupied Vladivostok, they could rely on the long Far Eastern Railway to go straight to the Siberian hinterland of Soviet Russia, and there was no need for the reason that "Soviet Russia was extremely deep, and of course it was not as fast as the North Manchurian Line, which was closer to the hinterland of Siberia," as they said. The wishful thinking of the Japanese government is that as long as I board this railway, I will naturally enjoy the fruits of victory because of the reason for helping China "recover" the lost territory.

If he doesn't leave here, the Chinese government won't dare to send troops to expel him, right? Over time, after creating a fait accompli, he had enough excuses to really stay here: to protect the diaspora, to maintain law and order... Anyway, what is good to hear, you still dare not say anything!

In this way, the entire Heilongjiang was under the control of the Japanese, especially by controlling this railway, the perfect integration of the South and North Manchurian railways could be realized.

If China had taken control of the Middle East Road earlier, it would have been able to restrain Japan's actions in North Manchuria, which had interfered with Soviet Russia's pretext, and Heilongjiang could also become a stable rear for the Feng system. However, on this point, there are many opinions within the Feng army: no one would have predicted that the situation would take a sharp turn out of control! And if the Oriental and Western devils work together, the fragile governments of the three eastern provinces may not be able to withstand it!