At this time, Yang Chao is still the plenipotentiary ambassador of Siberia, even if the Soviet Russian army has long been defeated, no one has asked this question, Yang Chao does not resign, no one will do this for this matter, and this position can also allow him to receive 10,000 taels of silver every year. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Yang Chao also felt that this status was very useful, which meant that he had absolute power in Siberia, and in Siberia, he could represent the whole of China.

So he said that with the withdrawal of troops, the garrisons in Yekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk would immediately retreat, but not directly to the country, but to Tyumen.

Tyumen is the bottom line, Yang Chao told Soviet Russia that this is the key point of China's interests, China must guarantee the absolute security of Tyumen, and of course China opposes any provocation by Soviet Russia on the border.

In this way, the two million troops on the front, after a lapse of two years, finally withdrew, of which one million retreated to Tyumen, and one million withdrew to the country to join the ranks of recovery.

This year, two million will be disarmed, and there is no reason to raise so many soldiers for the tsar, and the tsarist government will not pay a dime for military spending.

China's move worried the tsarist government, and Olga was pitiful in front of Yang Chao.

"Honey, are you going to give up Russia?"

"Honey, why do you think so?"

Olga said worriedly: "But Grand Duke Nikolai said that once the Chinese garrison retreats, the Soviet Russian rebels will come over. We simply can't resist it now. ”

Yang Chao's heart moved, it seems that Nikolai, an old guy, has lobbied his niece and granddaughter again.

Yang Chao wanted to say something to let his wife think independently like a tsar, but he didn't say that if Olga knew how to think independently about political issues, if she was really a strong empress like Catherine II, Yang Chao would not be at ease.

"Don't worry, dear. If Soviet Russia does not dare to fight, if they dare to fight, it is impossible for us to ignore it, but if our army is always in the border area, where will the Soviet Russian army be deployed, and the millions of troops on both sides are separated by dozens of miles, and if there is a misfire, it is very easy to cause war. On the contrary, if we withdraw our troops, they will also withdraw their troops, and everyone will trust each other, and the chance of a gun will be reduced. ”

"Really?"

Olga hesitated.

Yang Chao said: "I promise, don't you believe me? ”

Origa shook her head, "No, I believe you. ”

Nikolai's attempt failed, and the Chinese garrison, after receiving the order, immediately went into action, they would first go to Tyumen for training, in Tyumen half of the soldiers would be restored, first to allow voluntary applications for retirement from the army, and then to leave the weak and strong among the rest, leaving only those who were the most competitive, such as literate soldiers, soldiers with better marksmanship, and so on.

The defense of the front was all entrusted to the Tsar's army, where the Tsar deployed 100,000 men, of course, there were no women, and the women were stationed elsewhere in Siberia, responsible for suppressing a group of herdsmen and maintaining law and order.

At the same time, on the side of Soviet Russia, they also withdrew the troops stationed on the border, and only retained 100,000 troops, which was equal to the military strength of the tsar's side, which Yang Chao requested, and Soviet Russia kept its promise.

Then China announced a shocking news that China recognized the Russian government as a legitimate government and was willing to establish diplomatic relations with the Russian government, but the Chinese government did not recognize the sovereignty of Soviet Russia over Siberia and recognized that Western Siberia belonged to the tsar's territory.

On the Siberian issue, China, the tsarist government and the Soviet Russian government still have certain differences, China believes that Eastern Siberia is Chinese territory, which is guaranteed by a treaty, and even signed a treaty with Soviet Russia back then, but at that time there was no diplomatic relations, this treaty has no effect, the tsarist government also recognized that Eastern Siberia belongs to China, they believe that their territory is the area east of the Lena River, including the European region of Russia, and the caliber of Soviet Russia at this time is that their territory includes all the former tsarist territories.

For the time being, the three parties did not raise objections to these sensitive issues, acquiescing to the status quo, so there was no conflict for the time being.

China recognized Soviet Russia, and soon Korea, Japan, and the Ryukyus also signed relevant treaties with Soviet Russia, which was a breakthrough in Soviet Russian diplomacy.

It's just that the tsarist government feels a sense of abandonment, they have become more decadent, the government officials only care about corruption, the army has no intention of training, the barracks are drunk, gambling and even looking for women everywhere, and there are deserters who have not returned for a long time, and the upper echelons of this regime are basically abolished.

The reason for this result is that these nobles do not see hope, just like the monarchs and ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty who favored the south of the Yangtze River, and people will naturally be decadent if they have no fighting spirit.

After the Tsar's retreat to Siberia, the local population was only 3 million, of which nearly a million were elderly, the remaining more than a million were women, about 400,000 children under the age of ten, and about 300,000 disabled people and young people who escaped the war.

This demographic structure is naturally unhealthy, a legacy of the war, and over time, because of the loss of young adults who are the backbone of the population, the mortality rate is much higher than the birth rate over time, which means that the entire ethnic group is in decline, and the national psychology caused by this general environment also contributes to the decadence of the ruling class.

It is as if the British came to China at the end of the Qing Dynasty and saw that the society under the rule of the Qing Dynasty was lifeless, the society was gray, and there were a group of beggars lazily basking in the sun at the gate of the city all day long Chinese.

Another phenomenon is that the Chinese's penchant for big smoke is the strongest among the world's major countries, the reason is that the society is dead and cannot see hope, the lower class cannot find room to rise, and the upper class has no opportunity for further breakthroughs, so there will be this kind of soil of drunken dreams and death.

On the other hand, with the vigorous development of industrialization in China in later generations, Chinese workers became the most industrious workers in the world, while Western society began to degenerate and decay, and many Western countries even allowed the legalization of drugs and trafficking.

The Siberian question in the north did not cause new conflicts, and with the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the Soviet Union, traffic was restored through the railways of Siberia and Central Asia, a large amount of Chinese equipment began to be shipped to Soviet Russia, and ground traffic between China and Europe was unimpeded.

And across China's vast territory, directly to the Nanyang region, although not under Chinese rule, but at the economic level, the Chinese almost completely control here, Liang Qichao during the Nanyang exile, it is not unreasonable to think that Nanyang is an economic colony of the Chinese.

Of course, the upper class here is still the Western colonizers, who use huge political privileges to grab huge monopoly interests, but the entire middle class is controlled by hard-working Chinese, and the large and small merchants in the city are almost all Chinese, almost all plantation owners are Chinese, and a large number of Chinese middle class have created eighty percent of the wealth in the Nanyang region.

But behind the success lies all kinds of darkness and even squalour.

Belitung Island is a deserted island, the entire island is covered with tropical rainforest, and only a few locals are located along the coast.

Historically, it has changed hands between Britain and the Netherlands many times, and in the 1850s, the Dutch discovered tin ore, and the development of this place began, and the Dutch recruited Chinese laborers in China, signed contracts, and brought in a large number of Chinese laborers.

Today, a fixed model has been formed, the Dutch own the mines, hire Chinese gangs to be responsible for management, these gangs have no humanity, only recognize money, fierce to their compatriots, plus the location of the tin mine is full of deep mountains and dense forests, miasma, labor is extremely hard, in the process of development more than half of the Chinese workers died, the Chinese workers called the tin mine cave "no man's hole", "dead man's hole".

What about the dead?

Continue to recruit.

The conditions are so bad, and there are still Chinese workers who are willing to go?

Deceived it.

Moreover, in the process of deception, there are also many unscrupulous Chinese accomplices, some people do not hesitate to deceive their relatives and friends into being workers here to collect commissions, just like in the pyramid scheme organizations of later generations, a large number of innocent people were deceived by their relatives, and the evil of human nature is sometimes very terrifying.

Lu Yun-fat, a native of Guangdong, is an authentic farmer, and Lu Da'an from the same village went to Nanyang to make a fortune, and his father begged Lu Da'an to take Lu Yun-fat with him, so Lu Yun-fat was deceived to Belitung Island, and then he knew how Lu Da'an made a fortune, and it turned out that Lu Da'an was a thug in a local mine.

These gangsters who helped the Dutch to manage the Chinese laborers, in addition to using violence to make the Chinese work hard, they also used other ways to suck the blood of these Chinese laborers, they bought tobacco from India and sold it to these Chinese workers, squeezing their meager wages, so that they could never save enough money, and eventually died of labor, similar to the mines.

In addition to big smoke, Ji women, and gambling are also their tools to squeeze the blood and sweat of Chinese workers, they sell Nanyang sisters from Japan and open casinos everywhere.

Lu Yun-fat is an ambitious young man, his father sent him to Nanyang to make money, is to let the smart brother go to school, if he can't make money, the younger brother must go home to farm, for the old parents to die, but there is no future.

So Lu Yun-fat is holding back his strength to make a sum of money, so he doesn't smoke a lot, doesn't play with women, doesn't gamble, and saves all his meager salary, which is not much, but it is enough to maintain his parents' livelihood in the poor countryside, so that his younger brother can continue to study part-time, go to college in the future, and get ahead.

But Lu Yun-fat felt that it was getting more and more difficult, because of his difference, he became a thorn in the side of the big brother of the mine gangster, and at first sent someone to induce him, telling him that smoking Fushou paste can prolong his life, but Lu Yun-fat is not stupid, he knows that he can't quit if the big cigarette sticks, he is not afraid of addiction, he is reluctant to spend money.

The black boss sent someone to induce him to gamble, telling him who had won enough money, returned the ferry ticket and went home with a huge amount of money to marry his daughter-in-law and buy land to live, and if he was lucky, he could go home tomorrow, but Lu Yunfa didn't dare, his family used to be between the middle class, and his grandfather lost the family's property to the landlord in the village because of gambling and became a proletarian tenant farmer.

So the black boss arranged the most tiring job for him, scolded him at every turn, and was covered with bruises, Lu Yunfa couldn't support it, because that kind of fatigue can make a strong man skinny in a year, miners smoke big cigarettes not only because they are addicted, many people have no strength to work because they don't smoke, and they have no salary if they smoke, and they will be beaten if they don't work, and many people are dying in this dead cycle.

Lu Yunfa felt that he had no way to live here, so he sought to escape, after staying in the miners for more than half a year, he found out the road near the road, so he fled, but he underestimated the danger of the rainforest, after half a month, he fled to the seaside, at that time there was no human body, when he fainted on the beach, there happened to be a passing transport ship to rescue him.

The ship was a merchant ship going to Australia, with a batch of mining equipment pulled on it, as well as several engineers.

These engineers are all middle-class, lucky, or willing to work hard, through reading to change their fate, the world in their eyes is good, they can't imagine that there is such a terrible place overseas, and there is such a malicious place to treat Chinese workers, they heard what happened to Lu Yun-fat, and immediately decided to change the route, stop by Batavia (Batavia), report the matter to the Chinese consulate here, and ask the government to rescue the Chinese workers.

But they overestimated the moral standard of the consul, as the consul stationed in Nanyang, it is impossible for him not to know the suffering here, but the tin mining industry in Nanyang not only has the interests of the Dutch, but also the interests of Chinese leaders of all sizes.

Instead of taking action, the consul arrested Lu Yun-fat, saying that he owed a debt to the mine, was a deserter, and had to be sent back to the mine, at which point the engineers were furious, and they secured Lu Yun-fat on the ship, and then negotiated with the colonial authorities and the local consul.

The colonizers underestimated the sudden sense of social justice of this group of intellectuals, and they used threats to bring in military police to surround the transport ships in the port, and then threatened to throw them into prison if they continued to obstruct local justice.

Instead of giving in, the men sent back a telegram to the company, and their ship was equipped with radio equipment, which the colonists did not expect for the second time.

This transport ship was sent to Australia to build an iron mine, and these people were hired by the Northeast Iron and Steel Company, and the Northeast Iron and Steel Company was a faction with Li Fuan, a high-ranking member of the Fuqiang Party.

So Vice President Li Fuan intervened, but the colonists tried to hide the matter, and the local Chinese commercial consul also tried to cover it up, saying that there was a misunderstanding, and they sent back an investigative report, saying that it was just a normal business dispute.

Li Fuan is a very radical person, he can't rub sand in his eyes, he wants to investigate to the end, but he found that such a small matter involves too many people, the local consul is recommended by the local government of Guangdong, confirmed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at this time it is related to local forces and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, these departments are actually squeezing him out and not letting him get involved.

Li Fuan was furious and stabbed Yang Chao where the matter was.

So things got bigger. (To be continued.) )