Turning over the modern map of the southeast of Heilongjiang and the estuary of the Tumen River, it was still the territory of Jilin Province at that time. After the signing of the three unequal treaties between Qing and Russia, the border between Russia and Korea was on the north and south sides of the Tumen River estuary, with the Tumen River as the boundary. Not an inch of China's territory is located at the mouth of the sea, which in fact means that China's mouth to the sea is occupied by Russia and North Korea.

To the east of China's border, at a distance of 4,000 meters, there is a place that has made countless Chinese souls haunted. This place was called Mokowei by our ancestors, and the later Soviet Russians called it the Bay of Posiette. It is located at the mouth of the Tumen River, facing the Sea of Japan, and has two natural harbors, Posiette and Zarubino. The nearest place is only 3999 meters away from the border between China and Russia!

Like the 1.5 million ceded land, this land was ceded by the then Tsarist Russia at the same time and designated as their Hassan region. The importance of this place, and the constraints on China's economy, are no worse than that of Vladivostok, another famous ----port not far from it. Hassan's Chinese name is "Hanqi", which is historically the fishing base and salt field of Jilin.

This area, along with the large Russian-occupied area east of the Ussuri River, is like a spoon that firmly controls the mouth of Northeast China to the Sea of Japan, making the two provinces of Kyrgyzstan and Hei the standard inland provinces! Standing on Wujia Mountain near the mouth of the Tuhe River, you can see the vast blue waves at your feet at a glance. "You can clearly see the seagulls singing, you can hear the waves crashing against the reef, and you can even feel the slightly salty but fresh breeze blowing from the Sea of Japan." Just less than the distance of an international airport runway, the chicken's mouth part of China's rooster-like territory is firmly sealed inland, and you can't reach the Sea of Japan when you look and smell!

When the Qing Dynasty ceded these territories, Korea was still a vassal state of China. Perhaps for this reason, the Qing government did not care about the importance of access to the sea. In addition, the maritime ban policy was implemented at that time, and it was claimed that "our generation does not need to go out, and you do not need to come", so the map of modern northeast China can clearly see the land surrounded by an arc following the map of the late Qing Dynasty.

Fortunately, the Russians also saved some face for the Qing Dynasty, a great power at that time, and stipulated that Chinese ships could go to sea along the Tumen River.

This is Jilin's only outlet to the sea after the cession of the Great Port of Vladivostok, so it has been developed to a considerable extent. At the beginning of 1911, Jilin Provincial Branch Division, Quanye Dao cooperated with Shanghai businessman Zhu Jiang and others to raise 480,000 taels of Shanghai Guiyin and establish Tuchang Navigation Co., Ltd. In 1915, the opening of the port in Hunchun was included in the agenda of the central government, and if it developed normally, the port site would be demarcated this year.

In the past few years, the development has shown its important role: in the seven years since the founding of the Republic of China, nearly 6,000 tons of soybeans, about 260,000 tons of soybean meal, and 285,000 cubic meters of timber have been exported through the Tumen River. With time, with the great economic development of Northeast China, its prospects will only get better and better.

It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, and in 1938, because of the outbreak of the Soviet-Japanese Zhang Gufeng incident, after which the Soviet Union cut off this outlet to the sea, the national government of Chongqing, which was already in peace, could no longer control this matter.

Supposedly, after the end of World War II, the Soviet Union should restore China's access to the sea, right? But at this time, the Soviets and the Koreans built a railway bridge on the Tumen River connecting the two countries!

It doesn't matter if it's like the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, but the railway bridge is only 11 meters high from the river, and small boats can cross it, but big ships can't cross it, so it has no practical significance, it's like drilling a dog hole, it's really sad. If there is no railway bridge, or simply increase the height and dredge the river, the passage of 10,000 tons of wheels will not be a problem.

This is an eternal pain in the hearts of the Chinese, and it is also the second slash that Zhang Hanqing has long planned to cut at Russia.

The first is to borrow money from Daosheng Bank, and Zhang Hanqing has already stated that he will "repay the loan on time", but the old ruble, which has depreciated more than ten times more than ten times, and the meager interest is far from worth its loss. Considering that the turbulent situation in Soviet Russia will not end for a while, by the end of the year, it is foreseeable that the money will basically be reduced to waste paper.

However, no one cared about these things, and the Soviet Russian government, which was under the pressure of the eastern and western "intervention armies," could not take into account this small loss at all. They are trapped internally and externally, and they have reached the verge of extinction.

After entering 1918, Zhang Hanqing's eyes have been fixed on this place full of "controversy". Not only that, but his gaze went beyond here and farther east.

Opening up Huichun and building a huge port to inject new vitality into the development of Northeast China has always been his thinking. Instead of going through a lot of pressure in the future to carry out the large-scale development of Northeast Asia under the white eyes of Russia and the DPRK, it is now that he wants to open up a road for China for thousands of years!

If you can get it now, no matter what happens, you will have the upper hand in the future once the negotiations are held.

And now the chances are really not small.

Therefore, Zhang Hanqing pointed out in a note sent to the Soviet Russian government: "At present, the Far East is full of an atmosphere of insecurity, and if you cannot prevent the landing of the Far Eastern Army at Vladivostok, the fall of the Far East is imminent. In particular, the Japanese troops stationed in Korea are about to enter the Russian border along the mouth of the Tumen River, and the two provinces of Kyrgyzstan and Heiji are also facing pressure to consolidate their border defenses.

Now that we have won the opportunity for you to make peaceful use of the Middle East Road, we need your help in preventing the landing of Japanese troops at the mouth of the Tumen River, which has penetrated into the heart of our province. Once the other side infiltrates Jihei, it will seriously interfere with the stability of the Middle East Road, achieve a pretext for the other side to intervene, and pose a huge threat to whether or not China can adhere to its current policy. ”

This is the truth. The Northeast Autonomous Government cannot be splashed with water because there are two big rears of Ji and Hei. No matter how aggressive the Japanese were, they had no reason to break the provisions of the "treaty" to infiltrate the North Manchurian Line north of Changchun, which was also relatively heavily defended by the Feng army. But once the Tumen River opened its mouth and the Far East fell into the hands of the intervening army, the security line built by Zhang Hanqing was easily torn apart.

Yulin, the representative of the Russian government in the Far East, was ordered to contact the Feng department, and at this moment he was sitting opposite Zhang Hanqing, listening to Zhang Hanqing's analysis of the current situation, he pretended to be careless and said: "What does the young marshal want to do?" ”

Zhang Hanqing said firmly: "I need to legally block the route of the Japanese into Jidong!" ”

Youlin kind of understood what Zhang Hanqing meant.

MM land, legally, isn't it just to hand over the territory to the Chinese side! Despite the fact that Lenin was able to cede more than a million square kilometers of land to Germany, the Russians have never suffered in their dealings with this weak neighbor to the East.

However, unlike before, he is actually still weak in his heart for China to claim this land. On the one hand, Russia is no longer the Russia it once was---- after four long years of bitter war, the Russian economy has slipped to the brink of collapse; On the other hand, the huge human toll also requires the future polar bear to be able to sit down and lick its wounds. With both the East and the West under great threat, he needs to weigh the stakes and disadvantages.

Of course, he was still hard-mouthed: "Great Russia has always been stronger in the baptism of blood and fire, and we are confident that we have the ability to defeat the White Bandit Army, and then restore all our territories!" The Far Eastern Intervention Force can occupy it, but we will never recognize their occupation of it, and we will fight back one day! ”

Zhang Hanqing did not deny that this centralized government had restored its former force value in a very short period of time, and although it will take a long time for its economy to recover, the courage of the fighting nation is still worthy of recognition. In just four years, it had driven out all the invaders from its territory and regained its previous borders.

Because of this, Zhang Hanqing had to make a profit while the future was still uncertain. He nodded and said, "I don't deny it." But you need to know that this land, even in the original treaty, was not ceded by you, oh, your predecessors, Tsarist Russia. I'm not begging you, but I'm pointing out this issue very seriously, because it is already a threat to our regime at the moment. If you can't hold this place firmly, you're fighting the enemy! In this case, if the Japanese use this place to infiltrate Jilin Province, we will plan the worst and exchange the right to use the Middle East Road for the tranquility of our eastern border. At that point, I think, you will lose the opportunity to negotiate with us! ”

At this time, Youlin didn't know that Zhang Hanqing had rejected the request of the Japanese, but he was as arrogant as Japan and would not announce this result to the outside world. However, the importance of the Middle East Road cannot be overstated, and it was only in the first place that Russia built the Middle East Road in order to better invade China and take a shortcut from China to its Far Eastern borders. With it, a thousand kilometers of railway connections from Vladivostok to the Trans-Siberian Railway can be reduced, and supplies along the way are very convenient.

Now, it is highly likely that the railway will be used by the enemy as a passage into their own belly. If the Tsar has knowledge, I don't know what to think?

Yurin was well aware of the consequences of Feng's actions, and Manchuria, the first stop on the Middle East Road, connected Mongolia and Chita, and if it relied on northeastern China, it could easily control the weakly armed Siberia. The abundant products in the northeast will make it very easy for the intervening army to supply logistically, on the contrary, after the Soviet Russian Red Army lost its base areas in the Far East, it is strategically inferior to the intervening army

In this way, not only will the original abacus be overshadowed ---- the gradual retreat of space in exchange for time, but what is more worrying is that even if Soviet Russia eases up, it will not be easy to eliminate the intervening army, if the Feng faction that controls the northeast is determined to support them.

Yulin felt compelled to comfort the young marshal who was so important in the Northeast, and when he arrived, the Central Committee of the CPSU had ordered him to ease the situation in the Far East with any treaty. There is an element of exchanging territory for peace, and even in order to prevent the intervention forces from approaching westward along the Trans-Siberian Railway, Soviet Russia has decided to establish a Far Eastern Republic as a buffer.