"We support China becoming stronger, and support your claim to regain the territories occupied by Russia, which in itself is beneficial to us, and the Austrian and German empires certainly do not want to see a strong Russia at their side, and we have a common interest in this." "A strong China, especially a strong alliance with Germany and Austria, can contain nearly half of the Russians' energy, and this is another important reason why we are ready to support China," Heldon continued. But the first condition is that you must be able to maintain stability in the country. The turmoil and civil strife in China are in the interests of your enemies, the Japanese and the Russians, who are also trying to bring down your government and plunge you into civil strife. What real benefits did the Japanese get from the "Twenty-One Articles"? But they published it in your newspapers. Have you ever thought about how a Chinese journalist with no details could photograph the text of your secret treaty with the Japanese? Because the Japanese have realized that they can really get very little out of it, as long as China remains stable and has a unified central government, they will never be able to realize their ambitions. So they took the initiative to expose it, with the aim of bringing down your government and making it lose the trust of the people. You are actually in a very dangerous situation right now, and if you don't work together honestly, the country will soon be in chaos and our investment and aid programs will be worthless. ”

"Political differences can be resolved through negotiation, and the distribution of power can be negotiated and compromised to find a balance. The biggest weakness of the Oriental people is that they do not like to compromise, they are stubborn, and they always think that their opinions and opinions are correct. This creates a desire to gain more power to pursue and implement their own ideas. This is a very wrong perception, first of all, no one person is wise and great, always right, in fact, most of the time people's perception of the world is one-sided and biased, we need to correct this error in the interaction with other people. On the other hand, Oriental people always like to make some vigorous "great achievements" so that they can "go down in history", but in fact, the main function of a government is to maintain the stability and stability of the country, not to implement any "new policies", and it is a good way to temporarily put aside the implementation of some controversial policies, rather than forcibly promoting their implementation, because this can easily cause great damage to the country. I will not hand over all of the Chinese Workers' Legion to any one of your factions, I help you train and arm this army in the hope that you will use it to maintain the unity and stability of the country, not that you will turn it into a tool for power. The Chinese Workers' Corps will be divided into two, and each of you will receive half of them, and if you agree, we will continue to provide assistance to the Beijing government in terms of equipment and even funds for the maintenance of these troops in the future. As for your idea of recovering the occupied territories in the Far East and Siberia, I think that you will be provided with some assistance by Marshal Boloyevich and Mr. Chernin, who are mainly responsible for the planning and implementation of specific matters concerning Russia. ”

Li Haidun only proposed some suggestions, but how to implement them depends on the results of Xu Shuzheng's and Jiang Zuobin's discussions. The Beiyang government, due to its internal strife, has plunged the country into a chaotic situation of warlord warfare, but in this world, because of the existence of nearly 700,000 Chinese labor regiments trained in Europe and participated in some battles, when these troops return to the country, they will be able to suppress any warlord power in the country. As long as Duan Qirui and Li Yuanhongken put down their shelves and cooperated, the Beiyang regime would become quite stable, and the situation in China would not fall into chaos.

In his previous life, as a Chinese, when he had the opportunity and ability, Li Haiden was of course still willing to reach out to help China, at least from the position of Austria-Hungary, a strong China could also contain a large part of the energy of the future Soviet Russia, making them unable to meddle in European affairs.

It is difficult for the White Russian forces supported by Germany and Austria to achieve any climate, Nazarov and Kornilov are not convinced by anyone, the Don Army and the Volunteer Army have always been separate, and Denikin also wants to extend his hand to South Russia, but until he can obtain the supreme power, he has been standing on the sidelines and watching the excitement.

Germany and Austria also did not want to see the emergence of a unified Russian state, but both the Socialist-Workers' Party and the White Guards wanted to restore the sphere of influence of the Imperial Russian period. The White Army always wanted to eliminate the Soviet power, and the Social Democratic Labor Party wanted to eliminate these "traitors", and the contest between the red and white befell the Russians.

Austro-Hungarian support for the White Army was also limited, but at the time the Chinese Workers were a decisive force, their total strength was comparable to that of the Red Guards, they were highly trained in military affairs, and they were better equipped than the Red Guards.

With the support of the Chinese Workers' Corps, the White Guards continued to win victories along the Don River, and smoothly captured the southeastern Russian town of Tsaritsyn, and prepared to march north. Soviet power was at its most critical juncture.

At the Chinese Legation in Vienna, Xu Shuzheng, Jiang Zuobin and others finally sat together.

"What did you think when you first sent troops to the Chinese workers in Russia?" Jiang Zuobin said.

"It's nothing, there is a shortage of laborers on the Austrian side, but the sea routes have been blocked by the British. I've actually looked for the British and the French, you don't know. Xu Shuzheng lit a cigarette, originally he was a non-smoker, but the state affairs in the past few years have been troublesome, so he has also developed the habit of smoking. In fact, Chief Duan doesn't have his own descendants, in fact, we are all barebones like you, and when something really happens, there is no army of our own cronies at all. Xu Shuzheng smiled bitterly twice.

"Premier Duan has been the army chief for so many years, can there be no cronies in the army?" Jiang Zuobin said.

"The problem lies with President Yuan, when he was alive, he was very stubborn about military power, and he actually kept guarding against Chief Duan. It was at this time that the General Staff Headquarters and the Generalissimo of the Army and Navy were established, and he had been thinking about weakening the military power of the War Department. At that time, we could only have problems with him everywhere, and later led Brother Baili to have a 'suicide incident' in front of so many teachers and students of the Baoding Military Academy, which was also because we fought with President Yuan for military power. I'm sorry, Brother Baili is a pure soldier, he never cares about politics, he doesn't understand the political struggle, and he always thinks that we are embarrassed by him everywhere and makes it difficult for him to be a man. It's a shame to say that my brother is now suffering more and more from politicians, but he has lost the principle of being a soldier. ”

"I said that when President Yuan appointed me as the principal of the military academy, why did you make things difficult in every possible way, it turned out to be because of the struggle for power and profit." Jiang Fangzhen said: "I always thought that Premier Duan and I had some grudges. ”

In fact, President Yuan has discovered that the old Beiyang Army is difficult to treat, and is ready to start anew and gradually replace the Beiyang Army with a new army, and the military academy and model regiment are the products of that time, but later his mind turned to how to be the emperor, and he was no longer so concerned about the reorganization of the army. In fact, when President Yuan became the emperor, Chief Duan was resolutely opposed, and I had the heart to use the army to force the palace at that time, only to find that we had no direct troops at all. Xu Shuzheng exhaled a puff of green smoke, as if recalling his previous experience, "I had no choice but to go around and contact those warlords to join forces against Emperor Yuan, and later Ni Sichong sued me and was removed from the post of deputy minister of the army." General Duan was afraid that I would be at risk at home, so he sent me to Europe in the name of military inspection. I first came ashore from England, when the whole of Europe was in tension and there was a shortage of labor, so I proposed to the British government that we could help them recruit Chinese workers, but that they should help us train and equip at least a third of the army. Because of the opposition of the Japanese, they did not want to equip us with troops at all, and I understood that the British would not really help us, so I went to Austria-Hungary via Spain. ”

He spread his hands, "You all know what happened later, President Yuan died, and we came to power, but unfortunately no one has an army, saying that it is the central government, but who listens to what is said?" The warlords are the kings of each of the mountains and do not take the government seriously at all. ”

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