The Russians continued to attack the Harbin fortifications for a month, and after throwing down 30,000 corpses, they abandoned the attack and moved to rest. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

And the casualties of the Chinese soldiers are negligible, only 300 casualties in a month, including 100 deaths, such a huge casualty ratio, so that the morale of the Chinese soldiers is high, the officers of these soldiers, are those who have been brainwashed by Yang Chao in Shandong for three years, holding the Northeast soldiers who died for their hometown without regrets, and now the recruits have become a veteran under the desperate encouragement of the propagandists and the baptism of war, and now it is no problem for them to fight back.

There was jubilation in China, and attention to the war was at an all-time high.

Moreover, the economy has not yet been affected, unlike Russia, which has already mobilized its economy and the industries that have just resumed production have been greatly affected, and Chinese enterprises have begun to enjoy the dividends of the war.

The reason for this is very simple, Yang Chao's heavy industry and organizational ability and preparation are far more adequate than Russia's, Shandong's heavy industry can be described as deformed development, deformed to the point that they can't find a market, and Yang Chao needs to rely on war to let them have orders; However, after Yang Chao organized all these industries to serve military production, the energy that burst out was beyond imagination, which could fully meet the daily consumption of China's 300,000 troops, and even Yang Chao wanted to sell a batch of arms to the Japanese; Since last year, Yang Chao has set up an industrial team to convert industry to production, and it can be said that it took a year for Yang Chao to transform Shandong industry into a wartime model, which can have such great potential.

The situation in Japan is similar, they have also converted their industry, and the supply of arms can basically meet the needs of 300,000 people, and the Japanese have not mobilized more soldiers for the time being, so Yang Chao's plan to earn Japanese pounds has failed.

But the situation of the Russians is much worse, their military industry is not fully operational at this time, and the weapons and equipment are almost entirely supplied by the French, but they fatten the French military industrial complex. At the same time, ordinary enterprises in Russia are due to a lack of orders. A large amount of manpower was taken away, and it began to be affected by the lack of operation.

In China's civilian economy, at the beginning of the war, the Northeast did not need to think about it. This market is now all monopolized by Chinese enterprises, Zhang Jian and they have been successfully producing for a year, and they have received orders from Northeast China, and a large number of products have been transported to Northeast China by rail, squeezing out the market of Japanese goods, Russian goods, and French goods last year.

The population of the Northeast was not large at this time. But the absolute number is not small, the most populous Fengtian Province has a population of 10 million, Jilin also has more than 5 million, and the least Heilongjiang has only 2 million.

The advantage of the vast land and sparsely populated people is that the people of the Northeast generally own land assets, and the soybeans, cotton and grain in the Northeast are sold well in the world, and the people in the Northeast generally have silver in their purses. Therefore, the Northeast market is a good market, the purchasing power of more than 10 million propertied classes, immediately made the Shandong textile industry that expanded for a year last year feel some pressure, and another round of expansion began.

In the past, only the French could compete with them in the Northeast market, the Russians were soy sauce, and the French concentrated on high-end products such as silk and the low-end textile industry.

But after the outbreak of war. And like the last Russo-Japanese War, Japan lost this market in a short period of time.

Last time, it was because of the mobilization of the Japanese people, a large number of merchant ships were requisitioned to transport military supplies, and they also had to guard against the Russian navy. Therefore, it was not able to transport products to the Northeast at all, but this time Japan had absolute sea control and its transportation capacity was twice as large as during the Russo-Japanese War, and it was still able to export to the Northeast.

However, during the Northeast War, Chinese soldiers immediately imposed martial law on the ports and roads of major cities in Northeast China in the name of war. Rejecting any non-Chinese cargo transportation, watching a train full of Chinese goods into the Northeast, the Japanese were in a hurry and had no choice, and repeatedly put forward the hope that China would abandon martial law, but Yang Chao refused.

On the contrary, Yang Chao expressed his dissatisfaction with the situation in which the Japanese surrounded Lushun but did not fight, and shifted the responsibility to the Japanese, saying that it was precisely because the Japanese were never able to relieve the Russian threat from Lushun to the hinterland of Northeast China that they had no choice but to carry out this kind of martial law, which was very harmful to the economy.

expressed the hope that the Japanese would destroy the Russian army in Lushun as soon as possible, and China would naturally not blockade the northeast to prevent the Russian army, and at the same time it could join forces with the Japanese army and launch a counteroffensive against the Russians.

The Japanese were extremely angry at Yang Chao's unreasonable scoundrel method and lodged a strong protest against Zhang Zhidong.

Zhang Zhidong told Yang Chao that he should focus on the overall situation, and he still needs the Japanese at the moment, so he should not do things desperately, and let the Japanese help fight the war and grab the Japanese market.

Yang Chao then released martial law in the Northeast, but five months have passed, and at this time the Northeast market has been flooded with Chinese goods, and Yang Chao also privately encouraged Northeast merchants to purchase domestic products, and awarded certificates to large importers of domestic products, which said that the imperial court thanked them for their contributions to the war.

It is also shameful to make a very convincing quantification of this, covering all regions of the northeast with the prosperity and strength of the newspaper, distributing it free of charge in various cities and even small towns through military organizations, and writing in the newspapers that anyone who buys 1 tael of silver for domestic goods means that a bullet has been sent to the front line. Because each bullet is 0.04 taels of silver, and the ex-factory tax of 1 tael of goods is worth 5 per hundred, that is, 0.05 taels of silver, and after deducting transportation and other costs, 1 tael of silver is 1 bullet.

The data is detailed and concise, and the war on the front line in Harbin is all in the northeast of Fengtian, Jilin and Heilongjiang, and the purpose of the war is also to defend the northeast, which is simply a big killer, not to mention that the people have recognized the domestic products, the businessmen in the northeast are not purchasing any non-domestic products, even if a few economic minds are good, secretly purchasing Japanese goods, after being discovered, the shops have to be burned, under the national mood, no one dares to sell, and no one will buy, when Yang Chao let go of martial law in the northeast, The Japanese also found themselves unable to squeeze into the Tohoku market at all.

As a result, the Japanese had to bear the under-construction of the domestic textile industry and bear the huge war costs. At the same time, they also had to send troops to fight in China, but fortunately, their national endurance was strong enough, so they supported it.

The Russians are also a very endurant people, just like Napoleon's invasion of Russia. Just as the Germans invaded the Soviet Union, the Russians were able to endure all counterattacks against the enemy, and no one could defeat them. But the Russians are a notoriously impatient people, and it would be better if they were invaded, in the event of a war outside their borders. They don't have that much patience.

The Russo-Japanese War lasted for more than a year, and there were all kinds of turmoil and uprisings in Russia; In the second year of the First World War, uprisings also began to break out in Russia, and the whole war lasted only three years, but the total number of domestic uprisings was 5,000.

Also in the northeast, by the end of 1910, problems began to arise in Russia, which was also related to the fact that their organization was too extensive, and the tsar was accustomed to ruling the country roughly, not as strict as the Germans. It was not as delicate as the Japanese, and the Russian nation could not stand the meticulousness, so they did not have perfect logistical supplies, and when the workers were unemployed for a long time, but it was difficult to get bread, rebellion became a natural thing.

At this time, Yang Chao began to contact the Japanese, preparing to launch a counterattack against Russia, and at the same time began to communicate about post-war issues, and the Japanese were also happy to talk about it at this time. Because they also feel that this battle will be easily won, and in the future, the East will be the world of Japan, of course, the Chinese who seem to be getting stronger and stronger can also get a share, but that is a later story. Now let's join forces and cut a piece of meat from the Russians.

Yang Chao expressed China's demand, that is, to restore China's territorial scope since the Yapian War, and to recover all the land that the Russians ceded from China in the two Yapian Wars, hoping to get Japan's support.

The Japanese put forward their demands. That is, to cede the Russian territory around Heisenwei to Japan, Sakhalin, and all the territory east of the Russian Lena River, and to get the support of China.

The conflict area is in two areas, one is north of the Heilongjiang River and south of the Outer Khing'an Mountains, and the Russians have seized 600,000 square kilometers of territory including the 64 tuns of the Dongjiang River through the "Aihun Treaty" in 1858, and the other is 400,000 square kilometers of territory south of the Heilongjiang River, east of the Ussuri River and even including Sakhalin Island, which is the territory ceded by the "Beijing Treaty" in 1860, totaling 1 million square kilometers.

After repeated negotiations, the Japanese said that they would give up their claims to the land north of the Heilongjiang River, but the territory east of the Ussuri River, including Vladivostok, they had to get, and Yang Chao agreed to the Japanese after thinking about it.

Yang Chao wished that the Japanese had a bigger appetite.

And the appetite of the Japanese is indeed very admirable, and the cession of the area east of the Lena River, which is more than 4 million square kilometers, suddenly expanded Japan's territory tenfold, and at the same time pushed Japan to the sworn enemy of the Russians.

In this war, Yang Chao's two biggest goals were industrialization and adjustment, and the other was international status. International status, of course, is to borrow a victory, and then operate a little, to take back some national rights, such as the most practical tariff rights, Chinese industry needs tariff protection too much. As for the extraterritoriality with a heavier emotional factor, it doesn't matter, and keeping it can also stimulate the awakening of the people's sense of the state.

Yang Chao thinks it is very promising, after the Japanese fought a Russo-Japanese War, they quickly canceled the unequal treaty, and Yang Chao has no reason not to do this, at least the treaties with the Russians are abolished, if Japan as an ally is not abolished, Yang Chao just got rid of Japan, and even directly promoted the confrontation with Japan, in this way, it is very necessary to hold up a Japan that the international community is afraid of, because at that time China will confront Japan and gain great international support.

Japan and Russia are two countries, and then fool Germany and the United States, not afraid that Britain and France will not make concessions. Even if they don't give in, there will be a world war in a few years, and after the war, it's not about who is strong, you don't have to wait until after the war, if you are valuable, they will win you over in the war and try their best to give you benefits. Just as in history, they co-opted Japan and ceded the German colonies to Japan, all they needed was the Japanese fleet to help them escort submarines against the Germans.

Then I discussed with the Japanese the issue of war reparations, and if they could get these territories, the Japanese were not in a hurry to pay reparations, and it was obviously more important for them to occupy a foothold on the mainland.

Yang Chao also did not put forward the demand for Japan to support China's restoration of the northwest territories, and what could not be obtained on the battlefield could never be obtained at the negotiating table, which Yang Chao was still very clear about. In the northwest Xinjiang area, and the northern Mongolia area, Tsarist Russia did not draw strength, otherwise they would have easily captured this place.

After reaching an agreement with the Japanese, it was agreed that a general attack would begin the following year, and that both sides would do their best to cooperate with each other.

As for this year, Yang Chao really did not have the spare strength to launch an offensive, not because the army's combat effectiveness was not good, but because something happened outside the battlefield, and the Shanghai rubber speculation began. (To be continued.) )