But Zhang Hanqing's attitude was very resolute. After he made a detailed analysis of Zhang Zuolin, Zhang Zuoxiang, Sun Liechen, and other veterans of the Feng Army, the attitude of the international community towards the imminent interference of the Soviet Russian government, and the risks that might be caused by the Japanese once they entered, Zhang Zuolin made a final decision: "Before little Japan starts, we will first make raw rice into mature rice." The place it had obtained before was helpless, but no matter how much it wanted to occupy a new place, there was no door! ”

Some "serious" generals are worried that this will provoke a backlash from Japan, and Zhang Hanqing said: "A weak country has no diplomacy." No matter what progress we make, it will lead to a backlash from Japan, which is determined by Japan's national policy. Conflicts are certain, but as long as we follow a reasonable, beneficial, and restrained strategy and do not give Japan a chance to attack, major conflicts are relatively unlikely to occur. But if it does happen, it shows that no matter how much we retreat, we will still not satisfy the desires of the Japanese, and there is nothing to talk about! ”

Zhang Zuolin is one of the few bigwigs who supports Zhang Hanqing, and he was originally dissatisfied with the bad behavior of the Japanese in Northeast China. Seeing that everyone was afraid of the Japanese, he interjected: "Gather the police chiefs of the counties in Mukden to hold a meeting, mobilize manpower, and bury the tracks of the South Manchurian Railway into the ground overnight." Then the 100,000 Northeast Army took the initiative to fight the 15,000 Japanese soldiers in Dalian, and if they could beat it completely, why should we be afraid of Little Japan? ”

Yes, judging from the official history, it was not until 1919 that Japan caught up with China in an important indicator related to national strength, and this thing is actually worthless in later generations, it is called GDP.

In this era, which has just entered the era of hot weapons, manpower, territory, and staying power are important symbols for judging whether a country is a strong country. In this respect, although the three eastern provinces are only a corner of China, they are completely a huge existence for Japan, if it exerts its strength.

The reason why the Middle East Road was coveted by Russia, Japan and even Britain and the United States was because it was one of the few major transportation arteries in China at that time. In the Northeast, it is the most convenient road connecting China and Russia, and it is also the shortcut to connecting Russian Siberia with its Far Eastern territory. In addition, from Harbin to Changchun, it will be connected to the Japanese-controlled South Manchurian Railway (Changchun---- Dalian). Russia controls it, which can not only serve as a strategic buffer, but also easily control the northeast and obtain rich resources; Britain and the United States controlled it, and could drive a wedge into the Russian-Japanese sphere of influence; The significance for Japan was even greater: it could not only use it to control all of Northeast China to complete its established national policy of controlling Manchu and Mongolia to make it its second homeland, but also to serve as a springboard for intervening in Soviet Russia.

This railway plays a greater role in China, especially in the three eastern provinces: it is the main artery of the black province, and its role in economic development and military development is self-evident; Taking control of Vladivostok before the Japanese entered Vladivostok would keep the sovereignty of the Black Province firmly in the hands of the Patrol Embassy of the Three Eastern Provinces, and cut off the Japanese ambition to join the South Manchurian Railway by this route.

In Harbin alone, it is the point of divergence of this branch line of the Middle Eastern Railway. The Russians run it in good faith, and the economic conditions of the Moscow of the East, which are among the best in the entire Northeast. In Zhang Hanqing's vision, Hei Province was originally the rear of the Feng system to dominate China, and it must not be kneaded into the sand.

Almost as soon as the war in Russia was in turmoil, the Feng army in Heilongjiang immediately took back the right to garrison the Middle Road. After Zhang Zuolin's "request", the Central Government appointed Sun Liechen, the overseer of the Black Province, and the superintendent of the Eastern Railway, with Zhang Hanqing as the secretary and full authority to handle this matter.

As soon as he took office, Zhang Hanqing immediately dispatched the main force of the Guards Division into Harbin. He declared that China enjoyed complete sovereignty over the Middle East Road, and sent troops to take over the former Tsarist Russia's Outer Amur Military District Command, the General Staff of the Road Protection Army, the Military Police Headquarters, and other institutions.

For the first time, a polar bear succumbed under a blooming begonia. Due to the mess in the country, it is simply impossible to have any more systematic instructions on such a "small matter". So after the strong Feng army entered, the Russians basically did not make much of a struggle. The situation is chaotic, no one dares to risk a war and compete with the Feng army, the key is that there is little hope of victory, why bother to fight meaninglessly?

Only when the dust settled, did people realize that Zhang Hanqing's choice of the timing to occupy the Middle East Road at this time was so ingenious!

Because the government of the Republic of China did not recognize the results of the Soviet-led October Revolution at this time, Liu Jingren, the Chinese minister to Russia, was ordered to withdraw from Moscow in February in protest, and the Chinese government announced that it would continue to recognize the diplomatic representatives of the Kerensky government (the bourgeois government of the February Revolution), and instructed Zhang Zuolin to send troops to blockade the northeastern border areas in an attempt to isolate them.

Therefore, the question of the ownership of the Middle East Road in the official history has not been effectively confirmed, and after the Soviet Union stabilized the situation, there was another burst of verbal swords, and the later young marshal could not hold back and fought with Soviet Russia, but unfortunately lost, so the Middle East Road was re-controlled by the Soviet Russians.

Therefore, Zhang Hanqing preemptively created the facts, and then used it as a bargaining chip for Sino-Soviet peace, which can be described as prescient and the timing was just right.

However, after Zhang Hanqing consulted with Sun Liechen, his main force was not stationed in the northeast and the border with Russia, but at the border between Changchun and the Japanese army.

The turmoil in Soviet Russia also affected the Russian diaspora living in Harbin. With the outbreak of the October Revolution and the Civil War in Soviet Russia, a large number of White Party soldiers, officers, Cossacks, intellectuals and masses who did not know the New Party, merchant landlords, and government officials of Tsarist Russia, who were dissidents, that is, anti-Bolsheviks, fled. They were called White Russia, the group corresponding to the reddish "red" Soviets, the old party of the old and the new. Those who have money go to Germany, France and other countries, while more people in Siberia and the Far East choose China nearby.

At this time, Harbin was only a city in Heilongjiang Province, but because it was located at the "T" intersection of the Middle Eastern Railway, the importance of geographical location was highlighted, and it gradually surpassed the provincial capital Qiqihar at that time economically.

Many White Russians have a glorious and beautiful past, and it has become their norm to wander in a foreign land and cling to the past. Many people came to China without poverty, and at that time they carried colorful rubles with the portrait of Peter the Great, and of course they had to spend frugally when they fled, but the establishment of the new currency system of the Soviet government made the rubles in their hands turn into waste paper and worthless knick-knacks sold in Belarusian thrift stores with the end of their lives.

In just one year, after several changes in the international environment and a long period of displacement, the mentality of the vast majority of Belarusians has changed. Without money, it is not easy for Belarusians to find a decent job in China to support their families because of their poor Chinese.

When a man is rich, he becomes bad, and when a woman is bad, he is rich. In order to make a living, the age-old business of selling one's body has become popular again. Some of the Belarusian women were gradually reduced to the bottom of society and had to choose to earn money by their bodies, and they abandoned the Europacentrism of antiquity and embraced the Orthodox qualities of forbearance and restraint, even though many of them were once aristocrats of the Russian period. They no longer ridicule the Chinese as "monkeys", and they have fallen to this point, and they can only let the "monkeys" jump up and down on them.

Zhang Hanqing came up with the idea of differentiation at the right time, just to relieve some pressure on the recovery of the Middle East Road. He decided to implement a system that would allow Belarusians, who had lost their nationality, to live and work legally in China, and the Chinese government to protect their private property, so that at least the survival needs would be guaranteed. Zhang Hanqing also promised that if the Middle East Road was nationalized, the Belarusians attached to the railway could keep their jobs, and this move made the Belarusians feel that they were desperate to survive. They agreed that it would be better for the Chinese government to take back control of the Middle Way than to be taken by the Oriental and Western devils.

The Consul General of Harbin and the Governor of the Middle East Road, Horvat, was the leader of the old party, which was opposed by the new party and was almost unable to maintain order. On the occasion of the first anniversary of the Russian Revolution, in order to commemorate the first anniversary of the Russian Revolution, various Russian groups in Harbin held a meeting and agreed to demand the recognition of the Provisional Government in Vladivostok. The Coalition Strike Committee, which was under the control of the New Party, demanded that it hand over executive power to the representatives of the Provisional Government in Vladivostok within 24 hours.

In the official history, the government of the Republic of China forced the Russian soldiers to disarm at the beginning of the seventh year of the Republic of China, so that the right to protect the way of the Eastern Railway was withdrawn. But soon after the intervention forces (Britain, France, the United States, Japan, China---- there was still China! When they jointly sent troops to Siberia, under the pretext of military transport relations, China, Russia, Britain, France, Italy, the United States, and Japan, each sent a representative to organize a committee in Vladivostok to jointly manage the Trans-Siberian and Eastern Railways. When Duan Qirui was prime minister, he signed a "military agreement" with Japan, that is, the "Official Document on Mutual Defense against the Enemy," the "Agreement on Mutual Defense against the Enemy," and the "Agreement on the Joint Defense of the Navy."

On the grounds that the dispute had paralyzed the Middle East Road, Zhang Hanqing took the opportunity to send troops to occupy the meeting hall of the League Strike Committee, and on the other hand, he disarmed the Russian military and police, forced Horwa to drag him out of Harbin, and handed over power to the personnel led by Sun Liechen, the overseer of Heilongjiang.

It's like a big hole in the sky. But Zhang Hanqing is not afraid: the Russian New Deal government is too busy to take care of itself, and it can't take care of the Far East at all. The strength of the old Russia in the Far East was limited, and they were completely helpless in the face of the Feng army that came with their hearts.

Therefore, under his reckless and strong attack, the entire territory of the Middle East Road was successfully returned to China's control. When the news came, the Chinese people were greatly shaken, the Soviet Russians were angry, and the Japanese were dizzy.