Huaguo Jingshi, Presidential Palace.

At the meeting, Yang Shiqi reported: "In the morning, the General Staff sent an official letter to the General Staff on the question of how to resettle the 80,000 Japanese prisoners, and the General Staff sent a document to ask for the president's opinion."

"Oh?" Xiao Zhenlei asked, "What did they say?" ”

"The General Staff said that 80,000 captives was not a small number, and that the daily eating, drinking, and Lazar of so many people was a big expense, and they said that the landlord's family had no surplus food, and it would cost a lot of money to raise this captive, and the General Staff wanted to ask the president to agree to an additional special fund for the placement of this captive."

Xiao Zhenlei was happy: "Ha, Jiang Baili is really not a fuel-efficient lamp, he asked me for the 80,000 Japanese prisoners to be resettled separately, are those Japanese prisoners all uncles?" If he doesn't want to keep the 80,000 captives, you can send them to Mr. Sun Wen, isn't Mr. Sun building a railroad and is worried about the lack of funds? Send these 80,000 captives to him, so many strong laborers can save a lot of money! ”

"Hahaha??????" When all the staff members heard this, they all burst out laughing.

After laughing, Cai Ye said with some concern: "Use those Japanese prisoners to build the railway, if this matter is spread to the world, will the great powers make a fuss about it?" Will there be pressure on the Cabinet and Foreign Affairs at that time? ”

Tang Shaoyi shook his head and said: "In my opinion, at this stage, there is no country that has nothing to do when it is full, and it is difficult to get along with our country for this matter. As the saying goes, if the Entente and we are defeated, it goes without saying. , but if it is our victory. Who would pursue such a thing? ”

Everyone nodded when they heard this, Tang Shaoyi's words reassured everyone present, since the expenses of so many Japanese prisoners were too great, then let them support themselves. Seeing this, Xiao Zhenlei said: "Then it's decided, Mr. Yang will send a message to Jiang Baili later, and he will do so, let him send the prisoner to Mr. Sun Wen, of course, in order to prevent the Japanese prisoners from escaping and endangering the safety of the society, we must arrange troops to strictly guard the work site." If anyone dares to escape or conspire to commit misdeeds, they will be killed immediately, and they will rather kill a thousand by mistake than let one go! ”

Yang Shiqi promised: "Okay! ”

Xiao Zhenlei remembered something and asked, "By the way, how is the situation in the north?" ”

Yang Du said: "Now that the Japanese have captured Verkhniy Udinsk (Ulan-Ude) and Chita, and are attacking in the direction of Irkutsk, according to our intelligence, we know that the Tsarist Russia's troops in Irkutsk are less than 3,000 people, and I estimate that the Tsarist Russia will lose in Irkutsk in a few days!" ”

"Now there is a lot of pressure on the part of the Tsarist Russia, and the Germans are slightly inferior due to their naval strength. Therefore, Britain was left alone, and the Mediterranean was defended by the French navy, so it could not attack North Africa, and now Germany was attacking Tsarist Russia with all its might. The pressure on the Tsarist side on the Western Front was very high, and it had been defeated one after another, and the south had retreated to the area around Kiev. To the north, large swathes west of Przemyšl, Lemburg, Ivangorod, Warsaw, Brest, Vilno, and Riga were lost, and retreated to a straight line from the Gulf of Riga to Transnistria. Countless people were wounded, captured, and killed in battle, and 1.7 million troops were lost. From the beginning of the war to the present, this is the largest loss of troops on the Tsarist side, and this casualty figure is terrifying! ”

"The Tsarist side of Russia is being attacked from both sides, in my opinion, it is about to be unbearable, if the Entente side does not want to find a way, I speculate that something is likely to happen, if the Tsarist Russia can not withstand the huge pressure, unilaterally surrender to the Central Powers or reach an agreement with the Central Powers, this is extremely unfavorable to us, when the time comes, both Tsarist Russia and Japan will send troops south to deal with our country, our country will be under great pressure!"

Everyone nodded involuntarily after listening to Yang Du's analysis, this is an analysis from the political and international strategic level, although Yang Du is a layman in military tactics, but his analysis and judgment in politics and the international situation are still very insightful.

Xiao Zhenlei listened to the map and looked at it, smoking a cigarette, it is indeed as Yang Du analyzed, the pressure on Tsarist Russia is indeed too great now, losing 1.7 million troops, this number is more than the total population of some countries, and now Japan does not have so many troops in total, but it has been defeated and retreated by Tsarist Russia on the Eastern Front, mainly because the Far East is too far away from the center of Tsarist Russia's politics, and the transportation is very inconvenient, and it is inevitable that some whips are out of reach.

Xiao Zhenlei thought for a while, took a puff of cigarette and said: "We can't let the Japanese fight like this anymore, we must contain the Japanese army in the north, so that Tsarist Russia can deal with the German attack wholeheartedly, yesterday the minister of Tsarist Russia begged me to come here, let us contain the Japanese no matter what, although we don't have much talk with Tsarist Russia, and they still occupy our land, but anyway, everyone is still a grasshopper on a rope." As soon as Japan seized Irkutsk, our troops deployed in Mongolia, Rehe, and the three eastern provinces immediately moved closer to the border and put pressure on the Japanese, and at the same time, the Second and Fourth Armies attacked the Japanese troops on the Liaodong Peninsula immediately after the Japanese occupied Irkutsk! ”

Yang Du promised: "Yes!" ”

After getting off work in the evening, Xiao Zhenlei came home, and not long after dinner, he was playing with his son Xiao Yuchen, when he heard Chen Xunen, deputy director of the chamberlain, come to report: "President, Minister of Industry and Commerce of the Cabinet, and Vice Speaker of the National Assembly Zhang Jian ask to see!" ”

"Hikoji, are you on duty today? What about Yang Yongtai? Xiao Zhenlei asked.

Yang Yongtai is the director of the chamberlain, and Chen Xunen is the deputy director, both of whom are senior staff members of Lao Jiang in history, of which Yang Yongtai is also Lao Jiang's chief staff.

Chen Xunen said: "Chief Yang's mother is sick, so I asked for leave to go back and have a look!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei nodded and said, "You go and bring Zhang Jian over!" ”

"Okay, President!"

After Chen Xunen left, Xiao Zhenlei and his son played for a while when they saw Chen Xunen leading Zhang Jian over, and hurriedly greeted: "Mr. Zhang, rare guest, haven't you had dinner yet?" Xun En went to prepare some food."

"No, no, I came over after dinner, don't bother Director Chen!" Zhang Jian hurriedly said.

Xiao Zhenlei handed his son to Chen Xunen, asked him to play with him, and talked to Zhang Jian by himself, "Mr. Zhang, what's the matter with coming here so late, right?" ”

Zhang Jian sighed when he heard this: "Hey, I'm ashamed to say this, I'm cheeky to say a favor to the president!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei wondered, "What does Mr. Zhang mean by this?" Is there anything you can't solve? ”

"I have to find the president for this matter, and I can't erase my feelings, and I am entrusted by others! Didn't the government deploy an operation to clean up gangs and associations last time? The Hong Gang and the Qing Gang on the beach were wiped out, you also know that such a big operation, some important leaders of the Qing Gang and the Hong Gang can't run, Huang Jingrong, Du Yuesheng, Zhang Xiaolin, Li Zhengwu, Zhang Renkui and others were arrested at the same time, because these people have more or less something to do with you, so the people who handle the case below don't know what to do, some other small leaders, small shrimp are basically sentenced to be sentenced, and those who should be killed are killed, only these people are still in prison, neither sentenced nor killed. In the past few days, their family members have come to look for me, and I also owe them a little favor when I was in Shanghai, and I really can't erase my feelings, so I have to be cheeky and beg to come to the president! ”

Xiao Zhenlei heard this and asked, "They have been bombed for so long, and they haven't been sentenced yet?" ”

"Yes, doesn't the President know?" Zhang Jian was a little puzzled, it stands to reason that the action to clean up the gangs and associations was decided by Xiao Zhenlei himself, he should have instructed those people to deal with them a long time ago, otherwise how could those people below be only locked up, neither killed nor sentenced? And judging from Xiao Zhenlei's reaction just now, he must not know, so this situation is purely because the people below guessed Xiao Zhenlei's meaning wrongly and made their own opinions?

Xiao Zhenlei didn't answer Zhang Jian's words, he got up and picked up the phone and said, "Xiao Gao, you can find a way to bring the case files of several key personnel of the gang and the club last time to me to take a look!" ”

"Okay, President!"

Xiao Zhenlei put down the phone and turned to Zhang Jian and said, "Mr. Zhang, I can't give you an answer to this matter for the time being, wait until I read the case file!" ”

As soon as Zhang Jian saw Xiao Zhenlei's reaction, he knew that things had changed, this matter was no longer something he could control, nor could he let those people come out with his face, if this matter was Xiao Zhenlei greeting him in advance, he would definitely say it right now, but things were obviously not what he imagined.

A few days later, Xiao Zhenlei saw the case files of those gangs and community bosses, judging from the files, it can be said that up to now, Huang Jingrong is far from being as ruthless as he was later, and what he did was not too much, that is, he provided cover for some big tobacco dealers, and he had some bad deeds during the law arrest room but during the visit, and Du Yuesheng was not bad, no major mistakes, but Zhang Xiaolin was different, this person has risen in recent years, and soon after he had strength, he quickly colluded with the Japanese to sell big cigarettes. As for Li Zhengwu and Zhang Renkui, there is no need to say that these two people killed people like hemp when they were the boss of the gang, and there were not a few people who killed them personally, and this is not counting the instructions and plans they instigated.

After reading the investigation file, Xiao Zhenlei instructed that Huang Jingrong and Du Yuesheng could be given light sentences, and if they found that there was a tendency to form gangs and factions, they would be dealt with severely, and they would be severely sentenced to several other people, but he still had some affection, after all, he didn't kill them, but after this time, his relationship with these people ended here, and if he committed it again in the future, he would definitely not be intercederated again. (To be continued......)