Chapter 462: The Treaty of Portsmouth (I)

Therefore, no matter how harsh the peace conditions offered by China, Tsar Nicholas II, who had already figured out the priorities, could only accept them in full, but the Chancellor of the Exchequer Witte, who he sent to Britain to be in charge of negotiations, persuaded the Chinese side to make certain concessions, and the two sides finally took the Ural Mountains, the Volga River and the Caspian Sea as the boundary, and compared with the latest conditions offered by the Chinese side, the two tundra tundra in the north and the area south of the Caucasus Mountains, which can be called a "small powder keg", although the actual benefits are not large. But at least the face looks much better, and it can be a little more depth, after the loss of Siberia and Central Asia, Tsarist Russia has removed most of the world's most profound depth, and it is more and more important to this. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

However, even such conditions caused an uproar in Tsarist Russia after it was made public, after all, although only a small part of the ceded land was regarded as the core territory of Russia, but more than 10 million square kilometers of land area was placed there, as long as there was still a little patriotism, who could not feel distressed?

Even Comrade Iron and Steel in China was in a hurry, as a Great Russian, he valued the territory more seriously than his mentor, and in a hurry, Comrade Iron and Steel even accused Li Hui in person of breaking his word and fattening, because before the mentor returned to China, Li Hui had promised him that no matter how smooth the war was, China's western border would not cross the Apasian and European demarcation line, but he did not expect that if it was really what he thought, why would Li Hui invite him to tell him this before the formal signing of the treaty.

"It's still a little too young now, after all, I'm only in my thirties." Seeing this, Li Hui couldn't help but shake his head slightly, but he had made great progress in the city government and self-cultivation over the years, and he was not angry because of this, but patiently explained to him the reason why he did this, "Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, when you lead a million Red Army back to China to participate in the revolution, the tsarist government will inevitably tear up this peace treaty, so it is actually meaningless, and after your party successfully establishes the state, we will have to renegotiate the border issue, By that time, the recovery of the eastern bank of the Volga, which had been lost during the Tsarist era, would greatly enhance the prestige of the new regime, and would be a powerful response to those who accuse your party of collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country. ”

It was not until Li Hui told him that he was ready to transfer the Soviet Russian Red Army, which had completed the transformation of the country, to the east bank of the Volga River and prepare for his return to China to participate in the revolution in the near future.

It is not difficult for Comrade Tie Tie to understand Li Hui's motive for doing this, but that piece of land is the best in terms of conditions and the highest degree of development in the territory that China has encroached upon, and its value is even higher than that of the whole of Siberia. In other words, it is absolutely impossible for him to have such a large instrument, and the iron and steel comrade, who has always been arrogant, could not help but admire for a while, and solemnly apologized to Li Hui on the spot for his previous recklessness, and even the hatred that arose before because of China's massive encroachment on Russian land unconsciously dissipated a lot.

In fact, Li Hui also made a decision after repeatedly weighing the gains and losses, how could he not know the value of that piece of land? But the problem is that the degree of development is too high, the number of local residents is too high, the cost of forced eviction is too high, and the predominantly Russian ethnic structure makes assimilation infinitely more difficult, in a sense, the difficulty of digestion is no less than that of Central Asia before the Russian army helped clear the field.

In the current situation that there are still large tracts of land in the country (including Siberia, Central Asia and western North America) that have not been fully developed, it is better to be generous to return it to Soviet Russia than to suffer indigestion because of excessive greed and to cast a shadow over future Sino-Russian relationsIn the future, the pro-Chinese faction in Soviet Russia will definitely be able to straighten their backs.

For this point, we can understand by looking at the effect received by the Americans in history of taking a small part of the Gengzi indemnity to support Chinese studying in the United States, not to mention that Li Hui is not only as simple as returning that land, but also has a series of follow-up measures to ensure that Soviet Russia does not rebel for at least 20 years.

In addition, the return of the area on the east bank of the Volga River can also prevent the excessive weakening of Soviet Russia's strength, if this MT cannot withstand the joint intervention of the Western powers, and China has to take action himself, then Li Hui's layout will be in vain. This is not impossible, it must be known that the Western powers in this time and space can send out much greater forces to interfere in the Russian Revolution than in history, and although Soviet Russia started far better than the October Revolution, after all, there is so much less land, and Tsarist Russia is now leaving a worse foundation, and the stamina is incomparable with history, if there is no more valuable east bank of the Volga River, it will really be completely reduced to a second-rate country......

After blackmailing the land on the east bank of the Volga River to facilitate the future of the city, Li Hui immediately ordered the residents of Siberia and Central Asia to move westward to prevent future troubles, the land on the east bank of the Volga River was large enough and the conditions were good enough to house them, and the backlash provoked would be much smaller than originally estimated, and after the completion of the land, it was just right to hand over this land to the Bolsheviks, and the problem was completely solved. And if it is sent directly to the territory of the other party, it is much more troublesome to operate in practice.

Of course, this is only a casual benefit, Li Hui decided to do it first, and then found out that there is still this benefit, not because of this benefit, so he decided to do it.

To the great surprise of Li Hui and Comrade Steel, the tsarist government actually wanted China to release the more than 3 million Russian prisoners of war held in China and return them together with the weapons and ammunition captured by China. If the Bolsheviks had done a good job of camouflage, these Red Army troops could have swaggered back to Moscow and even St. Petersburg, and then suddenly attacked, and a center blossomed, unlike outsiders like the First Cavalry Army, as long as they took big cities like St. Petersburg and Moscow, they would not be far from the victory of the revolution.