Under the effect of huge severance pay, it took only one month to calmly dismiss more than 600,000 tsarist knights. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The 300,000 people left behind were all fanatical supporters of Yang Chao, such as officers like Zhu Kaishan.

With the help of these fanatical supporters, Yang Chao was able to completely control the tsarist regime, although it was now very miserable, and the total population of Irkutsk and the surrounding areas was only 800,000, of which 300,000 were soldiers.

Excluding the military, Irkutsk has 200,000 people, and the vast majority of the people live in the surrounding countryside and are Russian peasants who have lived here for generations.

And even among the survivors who escaped this war, the vast majority are women, the elderly and children, of which 300,000 are women, and more than 100,000 are elderly, and the future of Russia, those underage children, is less than 100,000, and as a nation, the Russian nation has almost lost its future in Siberia.

This is also due to the fact that a large number of people from the West Siberian region fled to Irkutsk, and the number of natives living here was not even 300,000, and the Russians not only lost their national future, but also completely lost their localized social relations.

But even if there are only such a few people, it is not easy to feed, there is no problem for them to live, the land here is enough to support these people, but the problem is that people can't just eat enough, they also need clothing, housing, where is there enough money to feed them.

In the past, although Irkutsk was the capital, it was economically supported by the resources of Western Siberia, but now there is no oil, no iron ore and no coal mines, and even no labor, and there is no other possibility for the economy to collapse except for collapse.

No sooner had the war ended, and there were large numbers of destitute people who could not eat, refugees who had fled from places like Western Siberia. Walking through the streets of Irkutsk, the peasants who grew grain in the countryside were also killed in the war because most of the men were killed. The land was abandoned in large quantities, and many old people and children abandoned their farms and came to the city of Irkutsk to pray for the protection of the Tsar.

This is unfortunate, but it is also an opportunity for Tsar Olga to show mercy. Yang Chao reported the situation to her, accompanied Oliga to meet with many representatives of peasant groups who came from various villages to the city, representatives of priests from various dioceses, and began to call on the nobles to collect donations.

But at this time, the nobles had no surplus food one by one, like the nobles who had always lived in Irkutsk, they still had a large number of fixed assets, those who fled from other places, but they really had nothing, and the cash assets they carried were not enough for them to squander. Let them donate money, donate yarn.

Olga is in a predicament, and she can only turn to Yang Chao again, but Yang Chao has publicly admitted that she is about to go bankrupt.

Therefore, he has enough reason to prevaricate: "Honey, there is nothing I can do this time." ”

Seeing Oliga's disappointed look, Yang Chao sighed: "If you want, maybe there is only one way." ”

Origa asked hopefully, "What way?" ”

Yang Chao sighed: "Mortgage the Baikal Palace." ”

Olga was stunned for a long time, and he wanted to mortgage the palace? Successive tsars have never been so disgraced, and who would have imagined that the tsar would mortgage the Kremlin.

Olga said: "For the sake of those poor people, I can only be escorted out." So where do we move to? ”

Yang Chao sighed: "We still live here. After the mortgage, we only need to pay interest, although I don't have enough money to help the people, but I still have the money to pay interest. In a few years, I'll be able to make enough money. I'm redeeming our house. ”

Yang Chao said that it was like a debt-ridden house slave couple in later generations, mortgaging their house to survive, hoping that life would be better before redeeming it.

But Olga really felt the feelings of poverty and bankruptcy, gloomy and sad, but very determined.

Soon the outside world broke the explosive news that the Tsar and his wife were pouring into Irkutsk in order to relieve the refugees who were constantly pouring in. They have decided to mortgage their property and have negotiated with major financial consortia in the hope of getting a fair price.

In the end, it was the Morgan consortium that pocketed the Tsar's Baikal.

Just collateral, of course, Morgan allowed the Tsars to continue to live here until they couldn't pay the interest.

However, in the eyes of the American media, Morgan has pocketed a work of art again, but unfortunately it can't be brought back to the United States like the old Morgan's previous collections, and some good things in the media said that as long as Morgan is willing, he can also bring it back to the United States, remove all the bricks and stones, and restore it in the United States as it is, Morgan still has the ability.

Behind all this media hype, few people care about such a question, why Morgan?

Morgan only gave a mortgage of $100 million, and the assets of this palace were registered in the collateral books of Morgan Bank.

Although Yang Chao's assets are exhausted, Yangzi Bank is still the world's largest bank, with only 5 billion taels of cash and bonds, plus the capital of other banks he controls, there is no doubt about more than 10 billion, but why Yangzi Bank did not make a move.

Occasionally, some people take this as an example of Yang Chao's bankruptcy, but real bankers know very well that Yang Chao is bankrupt? What about international jokes?

But why did Yang Chao hand over this business to Morgan?

Because it has to be Morgan.

In addition to the Yangzi Bank Group, the world's second largest bank is the Chase Bank of the United States, which is the Rockefeller's bank, which is mainly engaged in deposit and loan business, and is the world's largest deposit bank, which is larger than Yangzi Bank, because Yangzi Bank does not absorb deposits.

The Rothschild family bank, the world's largest bank, fell as early as the First World War, and the post-war banking hegemon was Wall Street's financial czar Morgan, but this economic crisis Morgan was also defeated, and Rockefeller, who formed an alliance with the government, replaced it.

But the vitality of the Morgan family is not hurt, and it is their most important credit that is hurt, because they have been divided.

So Yang Chao decided to support Morgan, and he couldn't let Rockefeller have no opponents in the United States, so he would feel lonely.

Let Morgan complete this $100 million, and have a lot of influence, the impact on Morgan is not economic, because the $100 million business, for Morgan, is not a particularly big business, the real help is just other aspects, this will let the world see that Morgan is still powerful, and doing this $100 million business with the Tsar is better than making a $1 billion voice with the U.S. ordinary capital, because the influence is completely different.

Therefore, Morgan gladly accepted and accepted Yang Chao's kindness.

So with the support of Morgan dollars, His Majesty finally had the funds to help his people, and just before the mass refugees starved to death, large and small aid stations were set up on the streets of Irkutsk, where everyone could get three meals a day, and a small but large enough bed to be made, and a whole set of quilts that were not beautiful, but thick enough to keep people from freezing to death in winter.

Of course, Yang Chao will not miss this kind of thing, and it is also hyped, which is in strong contrast with Soviet Russia on the other side of the Ural Mountains, where people are starving to death, and the government-hired rogue thugs will rob the people of their grain, and the tsar here directly mortgages his palace to open a rescue station, maybe there is nothing in the short term, because the whole world does not believe in the fact that there will be a large area of starvation in Soviet Russia, where the rapid development of industry occurs, and even the most pessimistic people only think that the famine is only a small scale and is caused by disasters.

But when history lifts the veil of his warmth and reveals the true face of politics, the world will judge sin and conscience with morality, a person who leads Soviet Russia to a superpower will be denounced as a demon, and a foolish white sweet who led the Russian Empire into the abyss will be praised as a saint.

In fact, there is no need to wait for the future, when Olga mortgaged the palace and rescued refugees was known to the whole world, even the Pope, who was not a faction, expressed goodwill to His Majesty the Russian Tsar in the far East, and the Pope personally recognized that from the perspective of God's people, Tsar Olga was a saint.

Since then, the fame of the Saint Tsar has spread unexpectedly and widely.

At this point, Yang Chao has also completed his political affairs in Siberia, and he plans to return to China.

And they don't plan to come back in the next few years, because Siberia is already like this, there is no need to stay, even if it recovers in a few years, it will not be able to return to the previous situation, a long depression will accompany here, the refugees will survive this difficult winter, they will at most return to the countryside to continue farming, and in the future in the tsarist lands, only agriculture will survive, industry, mining and prosperous commerce, gone forever.

But can Yang Chao be blamed for all this?

He just pushed behind the scenes, and the ultimate reason was that Kolchak's group of nationalists did not know each other, and the nationalists who did not know each other, although they were also patriots, they would only harm the country.

There are such patriots in all countries, but whether or not they can prevent such people from taking power is destined to succeed in these countries.

The Japanese also have such people, the American black ships oppressed them, and the Japanese did not hate the Americans?

But the Japanese elite did not bring these people to power, but only led them to put their patriotic spirit on the path of building the country.

The Finns were invaded by Soviet Russia, and they did not have people who hated Soviet Russia?

But the Finns wisely chose to submit, after World War II, not only gave up the territory occupied by Soviet Russia, but even refused the US imperialists' wooing, did not even ask for the Marshall Plan loan to help them, but signed relevant treaties with Soviet Russia, and stubbornly repaid the war reparations to Soviet Russia, thereby showing their national dignity, and finally they became one of the richest countries in the world in the second half of the 21st century.

The Finns were too far away from China to be in Yang Chao's sight, but the wise Japanese were so close that Yang Chao was happy to give them a boost and let them get out of control once in a while. (To be continued.) )