Chapter 385: Ammon
The "Anmeng Army" has stabilized the situation. At noon on the same day, Guo Songling issued a notice of Anmin and imposed martial law in the whole city of Kulun.
With the help of bayonets, Zhang Hanqing drove away Chen Yi, the plenipotentiary representative of the Beijing government in Duolun and the incompetent person who also allowed the Mongolian independence incident to ferment, kidnap the "Prime Minister" Badma Dorji, put the living Buddha of Jebtsundamba under house arrest, and completely negated the "Sino-Russian Statement". On August 28, under the pressure of Zhang Hanqing, the Outer Mongolian Assembly formally submitted a letter to Xu Shichang, President of the Republic of China, petitioning for the abrogation of all Russian-Mongolian treaties and the return of all Mongolian territory to China.
The next day, the government of the Republic of China in Beijing ordered the abolition of the autonomy of Outer Mongolia in the form of the "Proclamation of the President of China", and at the same time canceled the "Sino-Russian Declaration" and the "Kyakhta Agreement". At the same time, at the suggestion of Zhang Hanqing, commander-in-chief of the "Anmeng Army," the Beijing government will formally establish Mongolia as a province of the "Republic of China and Mongolia" and transfer Wang Shuhan, vice governor of Jilin Province, to be promoted to governor.
Zhang Zuolin gave Zhang Hanqing a very high courtesy to Zhang Hanqing, who led the troops to fight for the first time: the officers and men of the "Anmeng Army" who participated in this battle each recorded their merits once, and several major young marshal officers were promoted to one level: Zhang Hanqing was promoted to lieutenant general for meritorious service (he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general after the success of suppressing bandits, of course, he was not appointed by the central government, but it did not prevent him from adding a star on his shoulder), becoming the youngest lieutenant general since the Republic of China. Guo Songling, Mi Chunlin, and Ji Yiqiao were all officially promoted to lieutenant generals with the rank of "plus", but Wang Yizhe added a "plus" character as lieutenant general, and Zhang Chengde was promoted from colonel to major general (the rank of cavalry brigade commander is synchronized, and the commander of the artillery regiment is colonel).
Under the recommendation of Zhang Hanqing, Ji Yiqiao was honored as a veteran of the Republic of China and was honored with the important task of garrisoning Mongolia. A few days later, the Central Committee appointed him, and unsurprisingly, he was stationed in Outer Mongolia by the Ji Yiqiao Division, and he was appointed commander of the Mongolian Security Command and Wang Shuhan as governor. Since then, there has been no separation between the northeast and the northwest of China, and Zhang Zuolin has jurisdiction over 7 provinces and regions.
At the same time as Zhang Hanqing was electrified to the central government, he also won the affirmation of the military government of Sun Yat-sen in the south. Under the general righteousness of the nation, Sun Yat-sen ignored the opposition within the Kuomintang, and also called to congratulate, praising Zhang Hanqing in a high-profile manner, and did not hesitate to praise him: "Han Qing took back Mongolia, and his merits are more than Fu Jiezi and Chen Tang, and public opinion is indispensable!" ”
Thousands of Mongolian-speaking cadres from the Northeast Provincial Autonomous Government and the People's Party followed him one after another, and began the long-planned reform of Mongolia. One of the priorities of this reform was the emancipation of serfs.
In the vast grassland, only a small group of princes and nobles really possess the means of production, and the vast majority of herdsmen live a life of no clothes and starvation. In this case, why should these upper strata continue to be fed and fattened up as sinners who split the country and the nation? Zhang Hanqing has rich experience in the "Xinmin Land Reform", although the operation mode of the prairie and the black soil is different, but the truth is the same. He has witnessed and empathized with the infinite enthusiasm of the farmers in Northeast China for a few acres of land, and who can guarantee that Mongolian herdsmen will not be grateful to the Autonomous Government of Northeast Province because of this? Back then, the Mongolian people sang and danced to welcome Mao Weiren, and the famous song "The Sun That Never Rises on the Grassland" that he heard since he was a child really sang the voice of the Mongolians, isn't the reason that he turned over and was liberated? Taking advantage of the fact that many Mongolian upper strata participated in the autonomy of Outer Mongolia, Zhang Hanqing decided to take the opportunity to mobilize herdsmen to defeat these unreliable and powerful factions.
Zhang Hanqing also set up the Mongolian provincial branch of the People's Party in Mongolia, and with the assistance of the party and government elites who came to support him, he quickly and vigorously launched a "three-anti movement" of "anti-separatism, anti-hunger, and anti-oppression." The People's Party mobilized the people to denounce the Mongolian separatists, the criminal and powerful people, and the poor herdsmen who had no means of subsistence were given a share of their cattle and sheep. The "Anmeng Army" built execution grounds and cells on the Langjuxu Mountain, and a large number of high-ranking people involved in Mongolian autonomy were stripped of their property and thrown into prison, and the most important were sentenced to death.
In the nearly one month up to the end of September, the Mongolian provincial government executed nearly 200 people on charges of separatism and counterrevolution, and nearly 1,000 people were convicted of having their homes raided, imprisoned, and exiled. This is already horrific in the very small population of Mongolian provinces.
The Mongolian provincial government headed by Wang Shuhan has made many constructions and strengthened Chinese culture and education: introducing vegetables, building roads, opening banks, and founding daily newspapers. In order to overcome the weakness of individual herdsmen, the government also set up a livestock department in accordance with the situation in Mongolia, and in addition to leading herdsmen to organize mutual aid associations and develop animal husbandry, it also organized the purchase of sheepskins, goatskins, cowhides, horse skins, camel skins, as well as a large amount of wool and cashmere for sale to Chinese mainland for financial and family life.
It is necessary to say about the Mutual Aid Society, which is the predecessor of the ranch. In order to overcome the fact that there are many natural disasters such as ice and snow on the Mongolian plateau, and the single-family herdsmen are unable to resist or lack the ability to bear them, the People's Party has extensively mobilized herders to set up collective pastures in various localities, which are the lowest administrative units. In this way, we can not only ensure the living conditions of the herdsmen who have joined the association, but also effectively organize the herdsmen to specialize and expand reproduction, and the government can also carry out effective management. Half a year later, nearly two-thirds of the herders in Mongolia have joined the Mutual Aid Society.
In terms of industry, the provincial government led the organization of manpower to establish the Tula River Gold Mining Industry Company to concentrate on gold mining. The Tula River basin is considered to be one of the world's largest sand gold producing areas due to its geographical location and conditions, and some of the wetlands are well-supplied for gold panning.
The government-organized coal associations successively opened coal mines in Baganur, 125 kilometers east of Kulun, and Shalinger, 240 kilometers north of Kulun, and discovered the Xinwusi coal mine in the Gobi, which later became the third largest coal mine in Outer Mongolia, in Kulunnan.
The Iron Mining Association has mined three mining areas, Temur Tyra, Temurtai and Bayangol, in the Darkhan region, 240 kilometers north of Kulen. In the Baori Wendur area, which is located 300 kilometers southwest of Kulun, four mining areas have been discovered, including Eren, Hunger, Durwuren and Barzhigenlet. Mongolians who have herded horses for generations have been yearning for a better life, and many people resolutely bid farewell to horseback and go down to the well.
Zhang Hanqing used the political concept of Mongolia to urge the People's Party to work hard to train Mongolian cadres, and deeply won the hearts of the majority of the middle class in Mongolia. The "Three Anti Movement" gave the lower-class Mongolian herdsmen who had no status or status in their ancestors a sense of pride in being the masters of their own affairs, and the livestock and grain disposed of by the princes and nobles who had lost power suddenly made their originally poor life a little more vigorous, and the herdsmen who turned into herdsmen sincerely loved the People's Party and the Mongolian government under its leadership, and some herdsmen who had been transferred from animal husbandry joined the "Anmeng Army" and became a member of the Mongolian security forces. They are good riders who grow up on horseback, and with a little training and ideological education, they are very good soldiers. With the officers of the "Anmeng Army" as the main force, Ji Yiqiao recruited the strength of 4 cavalry brigades, and built the 26th Mongolian Security Cavalry Division according to the establishment of the Feng Army.
At the same time as Kulen was rectifying and building, Zhang Hanqing personally led the cavalry regiment of the "Anmeng Army" to take over the northern city of Darkhan along the north of the Tula River. Darkhan is located not far to the east of the confluence of the Tula River and the Orkhon River, and is the gateway of Kulen to the north to defend Russia, and its geographical location is very important. After that, he continued to go forward and went north to survey the terrain and re-erect boundary monuments at the trading city at the confluence of the Orkhon River and the Segeleng River. It is from here that the Segalin River enters Russia and empties into Lake Baikal.
The trading city here is the place where China and Russia signed the "Kyakhta Treaty" in history. At that time, it was agreed that Kyakhta would be the boundary, and the old city street would be assigned to Russia, and it was still called Kyakhta. The Qing government re-established the new market street of Kyakhta in the part of China to the south, which was called the trading city, and the two countries were separated by only a boundary river. The reason why it is called the buying and selling city is because it is the place where the Yongzheng Emperor stipulated the exchange of markets with Russia. Legend has it that Su Wu used to shepherd sheep here in the Han Dynasty (historically, China's North Sea, in fact, was Lake Baikal, and this statement cannot be untenable due to the regional uncertainty of sheep herding and the migration of nomadic peoples).
Due to the remote geographical location of the other two places where the mutual market was agreed, Nebuchu and Zuluhair, Kyakhta became an important base for trade between China and Russia. Because the Jin merchants opened up a trade route from Beijing ---- Kulen ---- Kyakhta, Kyakhta jumped from a small village with no name to a place where merchants gathered. The Kyakhta trade with everyday consumer goods such as tea as its main commodity lasted for nearly two centuries. Especially until the middle of the nineteenth century, Sino-Russian trade was almost entirely concentrated here. The small desert hill became famous for a while, becoming the "chokepoint" of Sino-Russian trade, and in some Russian and Western European texts, it is called "Siberian Hamburg" and "Desert Venice".
However, with the signing of the Sino-Russian "Ili Tar Bahatai Trade Charter", a large number of Russian businessmen turned their attention to the western part of Xinjiang, which was the beginning of the decline of the Kyakhta market, and the Trans-Siberian Railway completely destroyed the Kyakhta market after the opening of the whole line, because the construction of the Middle East Railway made Heilongjiang the center of Sino-Russian trade.
By this time, it had only 20,000 permanent residents. But its status is still important: in Mongolia, which is less than a million, a small border town has a population of 20,000. According to Zhang Hanqing's investigation of Mongolia, there is really no such place with such a dense settlement.
It is also the most convenient link between the Soviet-Russian Trans-Siberian railway cities of Ulan-Ude and Kulen, which have a long but plausible highway in Mongolia due to historical reasons. This is important.
Zhang Hanqing spent three days here carrying out various resettlement work: the People's Party Maicheng County Committee was set up, the Mongolian Autonomous Province Maicheng Office (government) was set up, a police station was set up, and a battalion was also allocated to be stationed in the local area to maintain law and order.
In the future, when there is money, it is necessary to build a railway and a high-grade highway from here to Kulen and then south to the country. With the railway, the connection between the main body of China and Mongolia will be closer, and Mongolia's strategic position towards China will be more prominent. Consider that in later generations, for the sake of Tibet, which has a population of three million, China spent huge sums of money to build the Sichuan-Tibet, Qinghai-Tibet, Yunnan-Tibet, and Xin-Tibet highways, as well as the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, which is called the "Heavenly Road", and crossed the other four railways that were being explored and had been built before crossing them. In any case, Mongolia's conditions are far better than those in Tibet, and we must not be careless.
Militaryly, in terms of transportation and economy, this should be one of the most important places outside of Kulun. One of the reasons for this is because there is another place where Chinese are haunted by their dreams, Tangnu Wulianghai.