Sitting across from the German delegation and looking at this entente in front of him, Georgi? A hint of hesitation flashed across Chicherin's face, but in the end he made up his mind and signed his name on the agreement. Checherin collapsed in his chair as if he had collapsed.

Although the signing of this agreement was a matter of necessity, it caused the nascent Soviet political axe to lose too much... And in Georgi? The moment Chicherin signed the agreement, the members of the German delegation on the opposite side were full of joy. It's no wonder they do, because this agreement has really benefited them.

The main contents of the entire treaty are as follows.

The Soviet government axed to end the state of war with Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey.

The Soviet Russian army was fully demobilized, and the naval warships returned to the harbor and disarmed.

The Soviet Union recognized Finland, Ukraine and Georgia and was obliged to conclude peace with the Ukrainian People's Republic without delay.

The Soviet Union ceded Estland, Livland, Courland, Lithuania, and Russian Poland to the German Empire and Austria-Hungary, and only Germany and Austria had the right to determine the future political status of the above-mentioned regions. At the same time, the Soviet Union withdrew from the provinces of Ardakhan, Kars, Batumi and was taken over by the Ottoman Turkish Empire.

The Soviet Union dismantled all the fortifications on the Alandislands, the future status of which was determined by the four countries of Germany.

In addition, the supplementary terms signed at Berlin on 27 August stipulated that Russia was to pay Germany an indemnity of 6,000,000,000,000 marks, to be repaid in five instalments, but that the final payment should not exceed the end of 1918.

Almost all of the above treaties are extremely harsh.

After the treaty was signed, Russia would also lose 3.23 million square kilometers, equivalent to 25% of the country's land, and at the same time, the ceded territory would contain 62 million people, equivalent to 44% of the country's population, and in other resources, such as agriculture 33%, industry 54%, sugar 80%, iron ore 73%, coal 75%.

In addition, Russia lost 27 percent financially, and one can imagine how much Russia would have suffered if the treaty had been recognized.

However, because the gap between this treaty and the original ideal of the Russian side was not to be ceded and not to pay indemnities was too large, not only the representatives of the Mensheviks vigorously opposed it, but also some people within the Bolshevik Party. In the end, it was Lenin who defended it and allowed the treaty to be passed.

However, at this time, the German representative was only wantonly venting the joy in his heart.

An important reason for this is that after the signing of this agreement, the pressure on Germany on the Eastern Front will be greatly reduced, and the vast majority of the troops deployed on the Eastern Front will also be able to be transferred to the Western Front. In this way, the sense of despair that befell Germany as a result of the entry of the United States into the war could be somewhat reduced, and the victory in Europe, or at least the dawn of peace talks, seemed to have fallen on the Germans again... Just looking at the joy on the faces of the representatives of the German side, Georgi? The hearts of Chicherin and the others were full of bitterness. Seriously talking about Georgi? Chicherin and the others were reluctant to sign this agreement, but unfortunately it was the intention of the people above to sign this agreement, and Georgi? Chicherin himself was simply powerless to disobey.

Feel free to end up Georgi? Chicherin could only face the humanity beside him with a bitter face.

"Go and send a telegram to Moscow, just say that the agreement has been signed, just wait for the comrades at the congress to approve it..."

"Understood, I'll do it..."

—————————— when the telegram came back to Moscow, it was already late at night in Moscow.

Moscow is now the capital of the Soviet Union. Back in the time of the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and the collapse of the Romanov dynasty, Moscow was in turmoil, but a few months have passed, and Moscow is much calmer now.

And in the heart of Moscow, outside the walls of the Kremlin, the nascent Soviet Red Army patrolled around with Russian-made Mosin Nagant rifles on its back..."Comrade Lenin, Olki? Comrade Chicherin has just sent back a telegram saying that the treaty has been signed, and now it will come into force only after the congress agrees to it..."

In Lenin's office in the Kremlin, a young man who seemed to be about the same as a secretary walked in with a telegram, but when he said this to Lenin, the young man's face seemed to be very ugly.

It is no wonder that, although a very staunch Bolshevik element, even the Bolsheviks could not bear to carve out so much land and people, as well as all kinds of resources and industries on it, all at once.

And Lenin, although he was working on the papers at his desk, after looking at the young man's face, understood why he was so ugly.

But Lenin didn't say much, but took the telegram from the young man's hand, and only sighed after half a ring.

The price Russia paid for this armistice was simply too great.

However, in Lenin's view, the price paid for this was worth it, because only by armistice with Germany could Russia get out of the quagmire of the European war smoothly—————— but if Lenin knew that Germany would surrender in a few months, and if Russia did not withdraw from the European war, maybe it would accelerate this time, I really don't know what he would think in his heart... In any case, even if you regret it, it will be too late, after all, the peace talks have officially begun.

So after looking at the telegram, Lenin put it aside.

The most important thing for Lenin now was the armistice, and at the next congress to convince the delegates that after all, this treaty could not be signed by him alone, and the price paid in it was too great..."Next, I am afraid that we must prepare well for the persuasion work, otherwise..."

In saying this, Lenin thought of the Mensheviks, as well as of the more hard-line Bolsheviks. It will not be an easy task to convince them in the next congress.

But now Lenin's greatest concern is not this, because the Soviet Union, which is now newly born on the Eastern Front, is simply not capable of resisting Germany, which has been confirmed in July last year, when the Provisional Political Axe launched an attack on the German army and led to a crushing defeat, and at this time Germany still has a large number of troops on the Eastern Front, and is constantly attacking the Soviet Union, so Lenin believes that although there will be a little trouble, the final congress will still pass this treaty.

What Lenin is really worried about now is what Britain, France and other Entente countries will think after the treaty officially comes into force.

You must know that capitalist countries like Britain and France are the most hostile to the Soviet Union, such as Churchill once said. "To strangle the Bolsheviks in the cradle".

At present, the Soviet Union and Britain and France are more or less together, and Britain and France may not make any moves, but if the Soviet Union withdraws from the European war without authorization, I am afraid..."But now that Britain and France are fighting Germany on the Western Front, they should not have the energy to transfer troops to Russia..."

Lenin's first thought was the war in Europe, which had been going on for nearly four years since the war began in 1914, and although both the Entente and the Central Powers were now close to running out of oil, it seemed to Lenin that it was not impossible for the war to last for a while.

As long as it takes one year, only one year, in Lenin's opinion, as long as he gives him another year, he will be able to clean up the current chaos in Russia, and then give Russia the strength to protect itself. In this way, coupled with the fact that Britain, France and other countries have lost a lot of national strength because of the European war, they may not be able to fight a major war, so they may be able to keep the Soviet Union safe.

It's just..."However, I don't know what China will do then..."

This is what worries Lenin the most, because China has 300,000 troops stationed not only in the Caucasus, but also in Central Asia. The reason why there is no action at present is that Russia at least still belongs to the camp of the Entente, and second, because China pursues national socialism, which is more or less a socialist country, so it does not have much bad feeling towards the Soviet Union, which is also a socialist country.

But if the Soviet Union withdrew from the war in Europe and betrayed the Entente... In Central Asia, China's expeditionary force was dispersing the Bolsheviks on a large scale, which shows that the Chinese have no bad feelings towards the nascent Soviet Union, but they may not have a good feeling, and if the Soviet Union really betrayed the Entente, then I am afraid that China will not be able to sit and watch all the time..."

When he thought about it, Lenin remembered that not long ago, China supported a large number of guns and weapons of the Soviet Union, to be honest, until now he didn't understand what these Chinese meant...—————————— to be honest, not only Lenin didn't understand, but even within the national social axe, there were many people who didn't understand, but for the current national social axe, more than 100,000 second-hand Mauser rifles and some old infantry equipment don't seem to be a big deal. Therefore, there is no one in the political axe who is willing to disobey Yan Guang's intentions.

Today's China, because of its large-scale investment in industry and commerce, has completely surpassed Russia, France, China, Italy and other countries in terms of industrial strength, comparable to Britain, second only to Germany and the United States.

In terms of steel production, it has also reached more than 9 million tons, which is comparable to that of Britain (compared with Britain in 1918 and Britain in 1916, it has only increased by more than 500,000, which should have reached the bottleneck), and financially, it has also reached more than one billion silver dollars.

Nowadays, except for the overall strength of the navy, which is still inferior to Yueben, but other aspects have surpassed Yueben in all aspects, and it has completely become an all-round power that no party can ignore.

This is also why more than 100,000 Mauser rifles are said to be sent, and no one is distressed.

More than 100,000 second-hand old goods, and they were seized, even if they were given away, no one was distressed.

What's more, at present, the domestic military industry is also a little overcapacity, and now all the excess arms can only be sold to Europe, and those second-hand goods do not know what to do with even if they are really brought back to China.

And... The army has just issued a tender to its subordinate major arsenals to equip the army with a brand-new 8mm caliber rifle, which Yan Guang named a "semi-automatic rifle." Because of the influence of the harsh light, this rifle is somewhat similar in style to the historical M1 Garand... Now the major arsenals under the command are studying this, and it seems that they have some clues, so the army is not very interested in these second-hand guns.

However, the fact that the national political axe is not interested in guns does not mean that they are not interested in negotiations between Russia and Germany. In fact, from the very beginning of the negotiations between Russia and Germany, the Military Intelligence Agency has been tracking the negotiations in all directions.

Until March 3, the day when the Russian-German political axe representatives signed the agreement, the military intelligence bureau had transmitted this information back to China.

Of course, it didn't take long for Britain, France, the United States and other countries to know about it.

Britain, France and the United States are naturally furious about this matter, after all, this is completely selling their teammates. Therefore, by March 6, before the Congress of the Soviet Political Axe formally recognized the treaty, the intervention forces of Britain, France and the United States had landed in Murmansk (located in the northeast of the Kola Peninsula, in the Kola Bay of the Barents Sea, roughly located east of Norway and northeast of Finland).

In fact, on the day of the landing of the intervention forces of the Harmonic Kingdom in Murmansk, the Wehrmacht, which had been preparing for a long time, had already begun to make moves in the Caucasus, Central Asia, Mongolia, and the Trans-Khingan Mountains.

In the Caucasus and Central Asia, for example, the local expeditionary forces began to expel Russian political axes almost simultaneously—————— whether they were Bolshevik axes or remnants of the former Provisional political axes... In Mongolia, the National Defense Force of the Lanzhou Military Region, which had been preparing for a long time, engaged in a large-scale exchange of fire on the border between the two countries, and after defeating all the Russian patrol troops and by the way, capturing and hanging all the Outer Mongolian rebels who had fled into Russia in the early years, the whole of Mongolia could be regarded as completely stable.

Although there were many firefights in the above-mentioned places, the scale of the firefights was not very large, after all, the Russians did not have a lot of power there, at least not more than China.

However, in places such as Khinganling and Vladivostok... Here, the largest exchange of fire in the entire conflict took place... In the whole conflict, the Wehrmacht forces in the north defeated thousands of Russian troops in the Outer Khingan Mountains, and completely recovered the entire Outer Khingan Mountains.

However, when it came to recovering Vladivostok, it was not as simple as when it was recovering Trans-Khinganling...—————————— "Fast, fast, fast, fast, fast!! ”

In the port of Tianjing, an army officer was shouting incessantly, and under his shouting, nearly 1,000 officers and men of the Wehrmacht Army were lining up to board a troop carrier..."What do you say these soldiers are going to do??? ”

Looking at the bustle on the harbor, an ordinary fisherman said something strange.

And beside the fisherman, his companion replied with some strange feelings.

"I don't know, but it looks like I'm going to war..."

"War? Aren't all battles fought thousands of miles away now? Why is it going to fight here? ”

"How do I know this..."

It is no wonder that these fishermen feel that they are going to fight, because the movement of the Wehrmacht in the port of Tianjin is too great.

At present, there are more than a dozen troop carriers docked at Tianjin Port alone, and looking at the army officers and men loaded on them, I am afraid that there are tens of thousands of people. On the side, three battleships and three battle cruisers, which had just been officially commissioned, also led more than a dozen cruisers of the first and second ranks to patrol outside the port.

Looking at this posture, if you want to say that this is not for war, I'm afraid no one will believe it..." Strange, what is this posture of the Chinese for? ”

Such a big movement of the Wehrmacht naturally aroused everyone's suspicions, but looking at the big movement in the port, everyone else was speculating, but none of them knew the result... Of course, some people think about whether it will be to Vladivostok, for example, I say myself..."If the Chinese really want to go to Vladivostok, I'm afraid we have to step up..."

In front of Emperor Taisho, Saionji Temple said so.

However, hearing his words, Okaichi Nosuke and Yashiro Rokuro all smiled bitterly.

"Hurry up..."

How to step up? The negotiations between the Soviet Union and Germany were originally an extremely secret matter, and they did not know about it in advance, and if they did not know, it was tantamount to being completely unprepared.

Suddenly let them step up, how do they step up?

You must know that sending troops is not a market, everything must be prepared, especially in terms of supplies, and now the political axe, not to mention anything else, just finance, even these soldiers are very clear that the financial situation of the political axe is quite difficult, so difficult that the financial supply of the two "Nagato" class battleships, which the navy attaches the most importance to, is somewhat insufficient.

At this time, let them step up, how can they step up?

Seeing the embarrassed appearance of Okaichi Nosuke and Yashiro Rokuro, Saionji Gongwang also smiled bitterly.

In fact, he also knew that the army and navy could not do anything, and what he just said was just talk.

As for the current situation of the book, as a famous figure in the history of the book, the public hope of Xiyuan Temple is still very clear. Especially after the emergence of the European war, because of Europe's demand for various materials, China has flourished in light and heavy industries, and these are incomparable to the lack of resources... Now, some officials have even begun to "accept their fate" in this political axe.

But..."If you want to overwhelm China again, or rather, go hand in hand with China, there is still hope, and there is..."

Although it is still a European war, the public hope of Xiyuan Temple can also see that Europe is wary of China, after all, China has much greater potential in all aspects than the original one.

And the hope of the public hope of Xiyuan Temple fell on the Europeans... But until then..."Vladivostok..."

Looking at the speculation of the Admiralty and the War Department, the Duke of Xiyuan Temple shook his head.

"You still have to do your best, at least, you can't rob them of the library page..."

(To be continued)