The Russians were most concerned about Yang Chao's move, and they asked Yang Chao to explain it to them through China, because they had no diplomatic relations with the Russian Empire. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Yang Chao replied to them that he was now the Prime Minister of the Russian Empire and the head of the Tsarist Order, and that it was his duty to protect her country and His Majesty the Tsar, and that Yang Chao was now threatened by the aggression of Soviet Russia, so he had to expand his armed forces to defend himself.

Soviet Russia demanded more explanations and would not use these military forces to confront Soviet Russia, but Yang Chao directly refused to express his position.

The reason why the Russians were so nervous was because they were in a bitter war in Finland, and they chose a good time to attack Finland, in November, it was almost winter, and most of Finland was in the Arctic Circle, and Tamar was colder than Soviet Russia.

Moreover, Starling has purged more than half of the middle and senior officers, three of the five marshals, and the remaining two Budyonny and Voroshilov are from the First Army of the Old Cavalry formed by Stalin himself in the past, and have always been Stalin's confidants and old brothers, but the thinking of these two old brothers has not kept up with the era of mechanized warfare.

The purge of marshals is actually more symbolic, and the damage is even greater, and it can be said that what hollowed out the foundation of the Soviet army is indeed the purge of a large number of officers at the level of army commanders and division commanders, because of the purge of the three marshals, Stalin is not at ease with the middle and high-level generals who have a relationship with these marshals, and all the officers who have worked under these three marshals have been purged.

As a result, the commanders and deputy commanders of 15 of the 16 armies in Soviet Russia were purged, and the commanders of the 60 armies under the jurisdiction of these 15 armies were executed, and there were only 67 armies in Soviet Russia, and the remaining army was naturally the cavalry army that Starling once commanded.

What's even more cruel is that the commanders of 136 divisions under these 60 armies were also executed, and the Soviet army had a total of 199 divisions.

In fact, in World War II, no marshal in Soviet Russia died in the war, and the number of army commanders and division commanders who died was far less than those who were shot by Stalin.

When the German soldiers approached the city, the miraculous thing was that the commander who commanded the 750,000-strong army at the front was only a regimental commander before the war.

Even Zhukov and other outstanding generals who escaped the purge were actually seriously inexperienced, and Vasilevsky, who was later promoted to marshal, was just a newly promoted major general before the war, and was only promoted to lieutenant general in the second year of the war, and when Starin wanted to promote him to commander of the front, he had to be urgently promoted to general.

When the Finnish war was at a stalemate, Zhukov went to inspect and had to sigh that the city disease showed great heroism, but the quality of the officers was too low, and Zhukov found that many division commanders were just newly promoted lieutenants.

Finland is only a small country with a population of 2 million, and there is no financial predator like Yang Chao to recruit mercenaries for them, which makes the Soviet army so passive, Stalin has serious doubts about the combat effectiveness of his army.

He fought with Yang Chao's army, the mercenaries of the Tsar Knights, all volunteered, and the will to fight was tenacious, the most important thing is that the quality of officers is generally relatively high, either veterans who have been on the battlefield of World War I, or reserve officers, military discipline is very strict, and the weapons are extremely sophisticated, so Starling is very jealous of Yang Chao, when the Soviet army is in a bitter battle, he is very reluctant to see Yang Chao stirring up trouble behind his back.

But he did not dare to strengthen the strength of Siberia at this time, Soviet Russia stationed 500,000 troops in Novosibirsk and other places, a total of three army groups, sent 500,000 troops to Finland, if Stalin increased the troops in Siberia, he would undoubtedly weaken the garrison in Poland, which was a front line on the border with Germany, and Staling did not dare to ignore the surprise attack of the Germans.

Therefore, he could only resort to diplomatic means, and Molotov, the foreign councilor who came to power after the Great Purge, urgently flew to China to consult with the Chinese government.

The Chinese government expressed its helplessness, but at the same time expressed concern about the Russian invasion of Finland, and instead demanded that the Russian army stop its erroneous military operations.

When the diplomatic negotiations were fruitless, Starling thought of his "friendship" with Yang Chao, and he sent Yang Chao's two high school students as lovers.

So one of them was immediately sent to Irkutsk, and the other was taken hostage in Moscow.

Pan Xun has a complex personality, is a very traditional Chinese-style politician, superstitious scheming, originally this European war, is a good opportunity for him to show off, but because of the political struggle with the rich and strong party, he can not stand up calmly.

The reason why he banned the export of weapons to Europe was because those arms dealers were all the hardcore of the Fuqiang Party, and letting them get rich would only strengthen the strength of Li Fuan and Wang Qiu.

However, with the development of the war situation in Europe, Britain and France continued to lobby the Chinese government, hoping to get weapons and financial support from China, but Pan Xun continued to enforce the ban on arms exports during the Spanish Civil War in a strict neutral manner.

This was a blow to the interests of the machinery manufacturing industry, the core of the Fuqiang Party, and after close consultation with Wang Qiu, Li Fuan decided to launch a general assembly of machinery workers.

Wang Qiu was the commander-in-chief of the BA industry, and Li Fuan organized a non-governmental organization called the Association for the Promotion of Wartime Industrial Production, but the momentum of this non-governmental organization was so fierce that almost all heavy industry enterprises in Shandong and Northeast China joined at the first time, and the machine manufacturing enterprises in Shanghai enthusiastically joined, and the heavy industry enterprises in Guangdong were equally active.

Behind this is a huge interest, as well as a general mobilization of Li Fuan's contacts accumulated in the industrial circles over the years, starting from the Northeast War, every war, Yang Chao has appointed Li Fuan to organize Chinese industry, and every time China's industrial circles have made a fortune, so everyone regards the non-governmental organization established by Li Fu'an this time, the Production Promotion Association, as the past wartime industrial bureau.

However, the requirements for membership are extremely strict, and all enterprises must sign an agreement with the Association for the Promotion of Wartime Industrial Production, promising that if their profits increase by 30% because of the organization of the association, then they must take out one-third to raise the wages of workers, and if it increases by 50%, then they must take out half, half of which will be used to increase wages, and half of them will be used to buy insurance for workers, and if it is increased by more than 100%, in addition to the above obligations, an additional ten percent must be set up to set up a mutual fund. It was used for charity in the post-war period of Europe.

In addition to their strong confidence in Li Fuan, there is also dissatisfaction with the current economic situation, and it also reflects his incomparable desire to make war money.

Not only Chinese want to make war money, Americans are also enthusiastic, the news of the outbreak of war reached the United States, and the US stock market changed the plummeting state of World War I, but collectively floated red.

It was only with the smooth advance of the Nazis that the process of continuous decline began.

It turns out that the power of the group of capitalists eager to make war profits should never be underestimated.

By signing agreements and through the trade unions organized by the Prosperity Party, they sent a strong signal to the workers that they would get rich together.

So the strike organized by Wang Qiu went very well.

In December, workers from all the machine-building enterprises in Northeast China, Shandong, Shanghai, and Guangdong, the four major industrial centers in eastern China, took to the streets en masse and openly waved the banner demanding the resignation of the president, saying that they would not work unless the president stepped down.

The capitalists promised that the wages of the BA workers would be paid as they were, so that the workers could rest assured of the bold BA workers.

However, the Pan Xun government announced to the outside world that this kind of work is irresponsible to the state, and he cannot hand over state power to such an irresponsible organization at this time, and he will continue to perform the duties entrusted to him by the constitution and the people.

Ten days later, it was found that the BA workers did not work, Wang Qiu not only did not give up, but expanded the scale of the BA workers, and the declining textile industry in the economic crisis also joined it, on the one hand, because Wang Qiu's Wuqiu Chemical Company used chemical fiber manufacturing to form a dominant position in the textile industry, on the other hand, the textile industry was also extremely dissatisfied with the current government, and was also very eager to make war money.

Twenty days later, the BA industry expanded to almost all industrial sectors, such as shipbuilding and coal, and the whole country was paralyzed.

In the National Assembly, taking advantage of the dominant seats, the members of the Rich and Strong Party began to exert strong pressure on the government to demand that Pan Xun immediately end this state of chaos, and their demands were supported by a large number of centrist members, the number of which has exceeded 70%, and if an impeachment motion is launched, it is easy to get two-thirds of the votes.

Under these circumstances, Pan Xun knew that his president had done his job, so he made a generous speech, expressing his strong disappointment with the Fuqiang Party, and then resigned from his presidency in the National Assembly.

Immediately after that, according to the Constitution, Vice President Zhang Jian took over the presidency.

After Zhang Jian succeeded him, he sent a telegram to Yang Chao as soon as possible, inviting Yang Chao to return to China to preside over the overall situation.

Yang Chao simply refused, saying that everyone and all political forces should respect the Constitution, and Zhang Jian should also focus on the overall situation, should have the courage to take responsibility, and continue to serve the country.

Yang Chao's statement made Zhang Jian wonder, wasn't Yang Chao presiding over all these things behind the scenes? Could it be that only the two descendants of the rich and strong party can create such a big momentum?

Zhang Jian has always believed that Yang Chao has always been manipulating behind the scenes, so he doesn't believe that Yang Chao will retire so honestly, if it were him, he wouldn't do it anyway.

But now he's a little more convinced.

Zhang Jian then immediately sent people to negotiate on behalf of the government with the trade union forces represented by the Fuqiang Party, hoping that they would resume production immediately.

So Pan Xun insisted until he brought himself down and the ban on arms exports was lifted, everyone thought that this represented Pan Xun's failure, but he himself didn't think so. (To be continued.) )