The wind is howling, and the grass and trees are yellow. In late autumn, the grasslands are already slaughtered, the temperature drops, everything withers, and both humans and animals are preparing for winter.

This is Kyakhta, a border trade city on the Sino-Russian border, a treaty port, and now, in this whistling wind, the whole city looks particularly depressed, since the Russian Tsar's exile chose this place as a temporary residence, the city's trade with Russia has basically stopped, the Russian republican government is indignant that the Chinese central government has taken in the Tsarist government, so it has unilaterally interrupted the Sino-Russian border trade in Kyakhta, and now, the city has lost enough attractiveness, Many Chinese businessmen who came here to do business had to leave Kyakhta and seek development in other commercial cities, and the hotels and inns in the cities basically had no business to do, and even those street warblers flew to other cities, for Kyakhta. The golden age seems to have passed.

However, the Chinese who have settled here for generations have chosen to stay, they can endure the temporary depression caused by the trade disruption, and even plan to take advantage of the great opportunity of falling local real estate prices to eat more real estate and real estate, hoping only to make a big profit when Sino-Russian trade returns to normal.

Therefore, the current Kyakhta business presents a strange situation, on the one hand, the local foreign trade is basically interrupted, but on the other hand, the local real estate 'trade' is still going on, do not worry about the real estate in their hands can not be sold, just can not sell at a good price, after all, for those foreign businessmen, if a commercial real estate can not bring profits, the best way is to immediately change hands, otherwise, the annual real estate tax is enough for the businessmen to 'fine' calculate.

No one knows, when will the trade between China and Russia return to normal, there are still a lot of businessmen who were on the sidelines, but now Russia has suddenly erupted a new **, some businessmen who originally held a wait-and-see position finally decided to leave Kyakhta under the influence of this sudden situation, so since yesterday's newspaper published the news of the outbreak of the Russian **, the price of real estate in Kyakhta has fallen further, and there are fewer people who are willing to eat. The Russian aristocracy in exile in Kyakhta was interested in eating these cheap real estates. But due to legal restrictions, it is not possible for them to buy more land.

More and more people are leaving Kyakhta, but the train frequency of Kyakhta railway station cannot be immediately raised, so in the past two days, Kyakhta's train tickets to other places are hard to find, and there are always many scalpers standing outside the railway station, who are also part of the small businessmen who have benefited from the chaos of Russia's soul, but it is not so legal.

In addition to leaving Kyakhta by train, there is also a way to take a plane, now the air civil route from Kyakhta to Kulen has been officially opened, the flight mission is the famous all-metal structure passenger aircraft "Progress", a total of two, and after modification, not on the water surface to take off and land, but the use of landing gear on the asphalt runway to take off and land, "sex" can be very good, but the price of air tickets is not low, ordinary people can not afford to sit, as for the rich, now there are not many people who have the courage to take a plane. Therefore, although it is difficult to find a ticket at the railway station, the tickets here at the airport are always sold out, which is somewhat contrary to the original intention of the central government to support the aviation industry, and the airport has to appropriately reduce the number of flights, and only one plane flies to Kulen every few days, and most of the mail is loaded.

There are no civilian flights taking off today, but the Kyakhta airport is still roaring with engines, and planes take off and land frequently, because this airport is a dual-use airport, and there is only a wall between the military airport and the civilian airport, and there are no civilian flights, but the military aircraft cannot stop training, sweat more in peacetime, and shed less blood in wartime, this belief is not only possessed by the army, but also by the air force.

Today is a good weather, although the wind is a little strong, but it does not affect the training, no, just after breakfast, the air force's tactical training began again, several light bombers are practicing emergency take-off under the cover of fighters, the engine roars on the airfield, and the dust on both sides of the runway is blown up by the strong air current.

Not long after these military planes took off, a "Progress" passenger plane flew over from the southern sky, and judging from the number on the tail, this "Progress" passenger plane belonged to Zhangjiakou Airport. It was supposed to fly from Zhangjiakou to Kulen, but for some reason it flew to Kyakhta.

The airport was not surprised, for at dawn they had already received a telegram informing them that a "Progress" passenger plane was about to carry an important officer to Kyakhta, and that a number of attachés and officers had arrived with that important official.

When the "Progress" passenger plane appeared in the sky of the airport, the airport was already prepared accordingly, clearing a runway for military planes and setting up a signal on the ground to notify the pilot of the passenger plane to land on this runway.

A few minutes later, the "Progress" passenger plane landed on the military runway, and after the engine stopped, the plane's cabin 'door' was pushed open from inside, and several passengers walked out, led by the "important official" mentioned in the telegram, named Yang Wangpeng.

Yang Wangpeng boarded the "Progress" passenger plane in Beijing late the night before yesterday, flew first to Zhangjiakou, and then to Kulun, where he spent the night, and after having breakfast at Kulen Airport today, he flew to Kyakhta. He really learned what it means to "travel thousands of miles a day", if you take the train, this journey will probably be much boring, and it is also interesting to enjoy the grassland scenery from a high plane to the "color".

In fact, Yang Wangpeng's initial destination was Kulun, and he was going to meet with Xu Shuzheng, the director of the Northwest Frontier Affairs Department, in Kulun, but when the plane arrived in Kulun, Yang Wangpeng learned that Xu Shuzheng had taken a train to Kyakhta the night before yesterday, and he originally planned to wait for Xu Shuzheng to come back in Kulun, but Xu Shuzheng sent a telegram to Yang Wangpeng yesterday afternoon. Tell him that the outbreak of Russia **, the border situation is changing several times a day, so he will not return to Kulen for the time being, and if he wants to see Director Xu, he will ask Commissioner Yang Wang to move to Kyakhta.

In this way, Yang Wangpeng arrived in Kyakhta by plane, and his current identity is the "administrative commissioner of the outer 'door' g" and the "outer 'door' g border assistant" appointed by the central government. The ancient region was divided into four provinces, and Yang Wangpeng's task was to consult with local officials to see how the provincial boundaries of the provinces should be divided, according to traditional customs or according to geographical characteristics.

Since Yang Wangpeng is the commissioner of the central government, this identity and status are naturally very unusual, even if Xu Shuzheng's eyes are too high, he can't ignore it, Commissioner Yang Wang rushed to Kyakhta, speaking of which, Xu Shuzheng should have personally greeted him at the airport.

However, Xu Shuzheng did not come, but sent an adjutant to greet Yang Wangpeng at the airport, followed by representatives of the local government of Kyakhta and representatives of people from all walks of life.

Yang Wangpeng felt a little strange, although he knew Xu Shuzheng's arrogant 'sex' character, but it was obvious that Xu Shuzheng took a telegram to invite him to come over to discuss government affairs, but now he can't see Xu Shuzheng's shadow, which is also a little impolite, so he asked the adjutant, but was told that Xu Shuzheng is now inspecting the border post and will rush back in the afternoon.

Yang Wangpeng was relieved, so he didn't think much about it. After shaking hands with representatives of people from all walks of life at the airport, he followed the adjutant into a car and rushed to the Northwest Frontier Office to stay.

The Northwest Frontier Office is located next to the Kyakhta Railway Station, is a rather large courtyard, originally a Jin merchant camel line, since the railway was completed and opened to traffic, the camel freight industry declined rapidly, so this yard changed a few hands, and finally fell into the hands of the local 'Gate' g ancient princes, Xu Shuzheng led the Chinese National Defense Forces to march outside the 'Gate' g Gu, first set up the Northwest Frontier Office in Kulun, and later moved to Kyakhta, that is, at that time, this courtyard became the political property of Xu Shuzheng's Northwest Frontier Office, and there was no ' The reason for spending a penny is also very simple, because the prince of the outer 'gate' has been killed in the armed rebellion, so the property under his name will naturally become enemy property, and the government can justifiably confiscate it to set an example.

Speaking of which, the current ancient capital of the outer 'gate' g is in Kulun, but in fact, because Xu Shuzheng is stationed in Kyakhta, Kyakhta is the actual administrative center and military center, as for the Kulun, it is only the station of the logistics organs in the ancient region of the outer 'gate', and since the center now intends to split the administrative division of the outer 'gate' g, then the future Kulun will definitely not continue to be used as the capital.

After having lunch outside, he rushed to the Russian Tsarist in exile in Kyakhta, and chatted with the tsar who was actually a puppet for a few hours, and when he rushed back to the Northwest Frontier Office, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon, and he sat for a while, and at half past four, Xu Shuzheng rushed back to the Northwest Frontier Office, and had a polite conversation with Yang Wangpeng, and then ordered his subordinates to buy a reception banquet. Prepare for a banquet for the parachuted Central Commissioner.

Soon in the evening, Yang Wangpeng went to the banquet on time, and what surprised him was that in addition to all the officers and administrative officials of the Northwest Frontier Office, there were also a group of senior officers from the Far East Army of the Russian Empire, among which the highest rank and highest position was Zhang Zongchang, the Chinese commander of the Far East Army.

Yang Wangpeng knew that the Chinese Central Government had reached a package agreement with the Russian Republican Provisional Government, and had signed an agreement on the issue of the Russian Imperial Far East Army, according to which the Chinese Central Government would dismiss all the officers and soldiers in the Far East Army in batches, so Yang Wangpeng always thought that when he arrived in Kyakhta, he would not see the soldiers of the Far East Army. He hadn't inquired about the Far Eastern Army at the time of the conversation, but now he realized how wrong he was.

In fact, the Far Eastern Army of the Russian Empire was not only not disbanded, but further strengthened in strength, and many professional officers in the army directly under the former Tsarist Government who were ordered to disband by the Chinese military were hired by the Far Eastern Army, and a large number of Russian professional soldiers became professional mercenaries in the Far Eastern Army.

Because it is in the steppe, this legion calls itself the "Prairie Legion".

After this expansion, the total strength of this steppe army has reached 70,000 people, including many professional soldiers who participated in the war on the Eastern Front in the Russian-German war, and after these months of intensive training, their tactical literacy has been further strengthened, so many professional soldiers together, undoubtedly greatly improved the combat effectiveness of the Far Eastern Army, if anyone needs a reliable and efficient mercenary army, the Far East Army may be the best choice.