Chapter 81: The Aggressor's Troubles
Ye Zhao went to Siberia and didn't take Sava with him in the end, because before he set off, he found out that Sava was pregnant again, which also made Ye Zhao quite helpless, how could he give birth like a piglet? But I'm afraid that Jin Fengdu's eyes will be red with jealousy.
The last to accompany Ye Zhao was Sava's brother Joseph, and many times, Joseph had become a liaison between Ye Zhao and the Sava family, exchanging news, and now in St. Petersburg, Sava's family has secretly gained the support of some nobles.
From the capital to Kizil, you need to take the western line through the Dihua railway, and after arriving in Kizil, you will change to a car that follows the train, and the guards will ride horses to protect the left and right.
In the cold winter, the emperor inspected the officers and soldiers on the front line like a spring breeze in the cold current, which greatly boosted the morale of the soldiers on the front line in Western Siberia, and now the entire occupied area of West Siberia has 300,000 troops, building pillboxes and fortifications to prevent the Russians from taking advantage of the freezing river to counterattack.
When the news of the Emperor's return to Beijing appeared, Ye Zhao was still in Novosibirsk, and he had to assess the security of the entire occupied area of the Southeast Plain, and make the most direct judgment on the coexistence of Chinese and Russian immigrants, because some generals were already proposing the expulsion of all Russians; Second, he and Joseph were to meet with some Russians; And the weather is freezing, the car breaks down, and I can only stay here for a few more days.
Siberia was established not long ago, but the development is rapid, now the population is more than 200,000, even in the interior of Russia is considered a big city, the city is not serious damage to the food industry such as bread factories, flour mills, meat processing plants, wineries, etc. has resumed production, in fact, the entire southeast plain of agricultural production order has been restored, Russia to move to the door to animal husbandry, poultry farming, beekeeping, pig farming, sheep farming, etc., planting the main food crops are spring wheat and autumn wheat, as well as oats, rye, peas, Potatoes and so on, cash crops include flax, mustard, sunflower and so on, as well as orchard gooseberry, sea buckthorn fruit, marlin fruit, apple, etc.
In the southeastern plains, a largely self-sufficient agro-industrial zone could have been formed.
Novosibirsk City, the Imperial [***] team has been evacuated, there is an armed police brigade stationed in the city, the establishment of 1,500 people, in the rest of the occupied cities also have armed police responsible for maintaining order, the Imperial armed police and the French gendarmerie have similar functions, the implementation of semi-civil, semi-military supervision of the territory, in the occupied cities, armed police is the main force to suppress the resistance.
At the same time, the occupied areas gradually established a police system in which the Russians acted as the main force, mostly the old police of the tsarist regime, and turned into a new type of patrol police serving the new regime.
Moreover, among the citizens of the Southeastern Plain, especially Novosibirsk, the sense of loss abandoned by the motherland, the kind of hurt feelings of the secret withdrawal of the army is widespread, and under the rule of the Chinese, it is also passable, not to mention that after a long time, it is found that the social injustice under the rule of the Chinese is decreasing, a large number of hooligans and secret police in the Tsarist era have been sentenced to death, and all citizens have obtained the right to vote for the management committee of the city hall, and the topic of people's livelihood is not involved in the relations between the two nationalities and the war, Freedom of speech has never been experienced before.
Of course, in any case, the political structure of the occupied areas is deformed, such as the transcendence of the Chinese status in Novosibirsk, some sycophants are keen to find Chinese backers, and so on, which makes the Russian citizens in the occupied areas live in an extremely contradictory feeling, and many people enjoy the freedom brought by the Chinese but at the same time suffer deeply because of the "invasion of the motherland", and they are entangled in this contradiction and cannot extricate themselves.
Deputy Mayor of Novosibirsk Trubetskoy is the de facto administrator of Novosibirsk City, and the mayor of Novosibirsk is served by Cheng Xiang, commander of the Novosibirsk Command of the Royal Armed Police.
Cheng Xiang is the youngest elder of Ye Zhao's sixth uncle Su Shun's family, unlike Su Shun, who grew up in the new education, he does not think that the emperor's cousin has forgotten his ancestors, and even he is the same as Ye Zhao, reporting his surname to the outside world, and has an extraordinary sense of identity with the new surname of the imperial family.
Trubetskoi did not know the identity of Chengxiang, but after more than a year of running-in, he gradually identified Chengxiang's pulse, in Chinese words, Chengxiang is a smooth donkey, as long as he can prescribe the right medicine, it is not difficult to get along, and his relationship with Chengxiang is quite harmonious.
Today, Trubitskoi is reclining in a chaise longue reading a newspaper, the fireplace in the living room is blazing, and the interior is warm like spring.
Trubitskoi sat up suddenly, he was reading the Chinese newspaper "China Yuebao", the first edition of the Chinese emperor's holy metaphor "New Winter Message", which is the emperor's requirements and expectations for all officials of the empire, in which the emperor said that officials at all levels of the empire are neither "parent officials" nor "public servants", but managers selected by all citizens of the empire to maintain social order and promote social development, and have the responsibility to make the country stronger and the people richer. Those who are conscientious do not need to be complacent, and those who are mediocre and enthusiastic about power are parasites of the whole society, squandering the wealth created by the citizens of the empire and paying salaries, and even more sorry for the power and responsibility given to them by the citizens of the empire and the royal family to manage society.
Looking at the article, Trubitskoi sighed deeply, sat still, and remained silent for a long time.
At the same time, Ye Zhao was also flipping through the same edition of the newspaper.
Ye Zhao and Joseph lived in a Russian-style two-story building in the backyard of the Armed Police Headquarters, which was owned by Viscount Werther, another deputy mayor of Novosibirsk, who was the deputy mayor of Novosibirsk during the Tsarist era and the only major member of the city hall who failed to flee with the army, reportedly because of a framing by political opponents.
The Armed Police Command, known to the Russians as the Gendarmerie Command, where most of the Russian dignitaries serving the Reich lived in the neighborhood where the Gendarmerie Command was located, was heavily scrutinized to prevent retaliatory attacks by the Resistance against these dignitaries and celebrities.
In fact, most of the buildings in this area are owned by Viscount Werther, and the "Gendarmerie Command" is only temporarily requisitioned.
Ye Zhao came to Novosibirsk, Chengxiang naturally wanted to choose the safest and most comfortable residence for the imperial brother, and was going to simply blow Viscount Witte away, but Ye Zhao stopped him, but in the name of merchants and merchants, he paid rent for a while, the rent was very rich, although Viscount Witt didn't care about the rent, but he didn't want to cause trouble, and there were Russians among the tenants, and he chatted with Joseph to know that it was a descendant of old friends, but the Joseph family had long faded out of St. Petersburg, but the current situation Viscount Witte did not know.
For various considerations, Viscount Witte had to lease the first floor of the small castle to the Chinese, but after two or three days, the short contact with Ye Zhao made him gradually lose his guard, and occasionally preferred to come to Ye Zhao for a glass of wine and chat, this polite and extraordinary Chinese, what he said often made him feel abrupt.
This afternoon, Ye Zhao is also reading the newspaper by the fire, but he is in the large lounge on the second floor of the armed police office building, and now this spacious room has temporarily become Ye Zhao's royal office for handling government affairs, in fact, most of the time, Ye Zhao only reads the telegrams from China, and occasionally makes short instructions, if it were not for the Sino-Russian war and the tentacles of the empire in Africa, I am afraid that Ye Zhao will be more leisurely than now.
Ye Zhao was waiting for Bakunin's arrival, and after meeting with Bakunin, he returned to the capital.
The news has already been sent, but it is not known whether Bakunin will come to Novosibirsk for the appointment.
The Petropavlovsk Free Commune, led by Bakunin, somewhat means a buffer zone, and if the Russians want to make a big counterattack, whether they go south to Alexandria or east to Omsk, they will have to pass through Petropavlovsk, and the same is true for the Chinese [***] team to the north or west.
The Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued a statement welcoming and supporting the emergence of the Free Commune, but in addition to the overthrow of the Tsarist tyranny, the program of the Free Commune against the Chinese invaders has also been explicitly written into the charter of the Free Commune movement.
Ye Zhao hoped to persuade Bakunin to remove the words "Chinese invaders" from the charter of the Free Commune.
In fact, revolutionaries sometimes have a lot of enthusiasm that ignores reality, for example, the earliest founders of some domestic parties once assisted the Soviet Union to support the foreign [***] establishment under the rule of the Beiyang political axe, which is inconceivable in the eyes of later generations, but in fact, this is just a revolutionary noble complex, a lofty ideal to help the oppressed nation get rid of the oppressed status, but many times, this ideal is a little naïve and will be taken advantage of.
Ye Zhao had just put down the newspaper when a guard hurried in, and presented Ye Zhao with a telegram from the Western Siberian Command, Kolpassevo was attacked by the Russian [***] team, and the resistance group cooperated with each other and blew up several buildings in Kolpassevo, but the 3rd Division of the Blue Banner Army quickly took control of the situation and killed hundreds of militants.
Kolpassevo is the northernmost city in the southeastern plain of the Chinese occupation zone, which has been established for 250 years and is about 600 kilometers from Novosibirsk.
Further north of Kolpassevo, there are many large and small Russian immigrant cities, and there are no less than five towns with a population of more than 10,000 on both sides of the Ob River.
However, on the whole, there are few large cities in the territory of millions of square kilometers north of the southeastern plain, between the Ob and Yenisei rivers, and it is not wise to divide troops to occupy or expel these small settlements, while a small group of Russian [***] troops can move from the north to the south to harass the occupied areas of the southeastern plain, and it is not easy to completely digest this territory.
Guerrillas, sometimes very annoying. Ye Zhao looked at the message and gradually realized the troubles of the invaders.
(To be continued)