Section 647 Disarmament
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Even Pan Xun seemed at a loss for Yang Chao's contraction.
sighed again and again, "the strong man broke his wrist".
Pan Xun thought that he did not have this kind of courage, spent billions of taels, fought for more than a year, killed hundreds of thousands of people, and finally ceded ninety percent of the territory without losing to the opponent, although Yang Chao verbally claimed that it was only a truce, but Pan Xun felt that the tsar was probably difficult to recover those lands, unless Soviet Russia suffered a drastic change.
Yang Chaocai doesn't care how the outside world interprets his behavior, anyway, he is just a hard mouth now, declaring to the outside world that the Tsar has never given up an inch of land, but His Majesty the Tsar doesn't want to see too many casualties.
Disarmament activities are carried out at the same time.
Why disarmament?
Raising soldiers and spending money is one reason, leaving too many foreigners in the land of the tsar is also a reason, but it is not the most important thing, the most important thing is to reassure Soviet Russia, rest assured and bold to build, enhance the strength against the Nazis, Yang Chao is really heartbroken for Stalin.
Disarmament is not easy, and it is even more difficult than recruitment.
These people were serious knights, members of the Tsar's Order, and when they were recruited, they promised to give each of them 1,000 acres of land after the war, and one Russian acre was only one hectare or 15 acres of land, which was obviously impossible.
Because although the Tsar's rule in the past was vast, it was only the geographical West Siberian Plain and the Central Siberian Plateau, and the Eastern Siberian Mountains had long been ceded to China.
The West Siberian Plain is only 2.6 million square kilometers, and the Central Siberian Plateau is 3.5 million square kilometers, adding up to 6.1 million square kilometers.
But it's not enough, it's not enough, because 6.1 million square kilometers, equivalent to about 600 million Russian acres. It's only enough for 600,000 people, and there are many places that can't be divided among these knights, such as those oil fields and mines, such as those that have been cultivated by farmers for generations. It is also impossible to recover the manors of those nobles who died in battle, and the forests that occupy most of the alpine regions are not suitable for distribution to knights, and the knights who can be divided are only a small number of farms and pastures in the plains, and the arable land is not even 20 million Russian acres, and the more pastures are only 200 million or 300 million Russian acres. Combined, these lands are less than 300,000 people.
But how many knights need to be allocated land, the more than 200,000 people who died in the war Yang Chao does not intend to repay the debt, and will keep this power for their families, and there are 700,000 people who are about to retire, nearly a million people need to get land, where to find it?
Even before the loss of territory, there was not enough place for them, and now that the Tsar's territory has shrunk so much, it is even more impossible to give them to them. Even if all the fiefs of the unqualified nobles around Irkutsk were returned to the tsar, it would not be enough.
So it can be said. From the beginning, Yang Chao did not plan to give these people land, the original little land was reserved for the Chinese, and he wasted so much effort, but to weaken the population of the Russian nation, to put it bluntly, only for his own face, if he could be as cold-blooded as Stalin, or as crazy as Adolf, and engage in massacres or something. It's all solved, but he can't do it.
So it was only in this way, in fact, to eliminate the proportions of the composition of the Russian nation in Siberia.
As for the lost land?
Yang Chao does not think that Western Siberia has been lost. He thought it was just a loan to Starling and let him help him build it for a few years, and when the Nazis came to the city, he would get it back at any time.
But without giving land, can these knights promise? Even if they were willing, Yang Chao was still unwilling? Originally, it was to recruit soldiers. He gambled all his personal reputation, his reputation was priceless, he was the world's banking giant, he was a legendary politician, not Stalin's thug-turned, his reputation was made of gold.
So Yang Chao commanded the tsarist government, and did not say that he would not give the knights land, but only told them that because the war was not won, there was no land to distribute to them for the time being, but their knightly titles could be retained, as compensation, if someone was willing to give up the manor, they would get a huge sum of 10,000 taels, 10,000 taels is now equivalent to 2.5 US dollars, 25,000 US dollars, for the vast majority of people in the world, it is a huge amount of money.
Not only for the retired knights, but also for those knights who died in battle, when they first enlisted, the branches of Yangzi Bank in various places can keep their information in detail, their names, home addresses, family members, etc., it is easy to find their families, and then under the notarization of the local government, let their families choose, whether to ask for 25,000 US dollars, or land, if you want US dollars, you will write a check immediately, if you want land, then you have to wait for the future after the tsar recovers his territory.
In this case, the vast majority of people choose to ask for cash, especially for the families of those knights who died in battle, Westerners do not have an Oriental family, and the loss of a young and strong labor often puts a family in a difficult situation. It's not a difficult question to choose.
Through this incident, the whole world is full of praise for Yang Chao's generosity, because in the vast majority of countries, 25,000 US dollars, even in their country, can buy 1,000 acres of land, and it is arable land, like the United States, a country rich in land resources, during the great crisis, 25,000 US dollars, or even 100,000 acres of a large farm.
So instead of being criticized, Yang Chao gloated that he had done a loss-making business, for which he would pay nearly $10 billion in cash, equivalent to $25 billion, in the bitter cold of a region hundreds of kilometers around Irkutsk.
At the same time, it also makes people feel that Yang Chao is rich, and he deserves to be the richest man in the world, but after this incident, almost everyone thinks that even if Yang Chao is not bankrupt, he is not far from bankruptcy.
"Yes, most of the property is gone."
Yang Chao also publicly admitted that he was about to go bankrupt.
His property is calculable, before the war he only raised about 20 billion cash and bonds, during the war consumed about 5 billion, this time spent about 10 billion, then only 5 billion remains, but this 5 billion, in the foreseeable future, to maintain the remaining 300,000 knights of the Tsar Knights, basically if there is no big investment, in the next few years, Yang Chao will go bankrupt.
For a time, Yang Chao became a sympathetic person, and even Chinese soldiers issued a call to give up their commissions and decided not to give Yang Chao severance pay, but Yang Chao sternly refused, insisting on giving decent severance pay to every knight who fought for the tsar and shed blood.
For this reason, he did not hesitate to go bankrupt.
But he did not go bankrupt, and could not have been, because by doing so he maintained his creditworthiness, which is a banker's greatest asset, more valuable than having gold. (To be continued.) )