…… On the coffee table in the spacious living room, the turquoise West Lake Longjing exudes a faint fragrance, and exquisite Western-style pastries are placed next to it, waiting for guests to enjoy at will.

Blyukhel and Garrahan talked quietly, uninterested in the pastry in front of them. After the silver crisis last year, the Chinese National Defense Forces drastically reduced the scale of military operations, and the Turkestan Front finally withdrew to the Caspian Sea to recuperate, and he also took the opportunity to disguise himself as a businessman and make a detour through Turkey to enter the country from Guangzhou, hoping to see with his own eyes why China has undergone earth-shaking changes in just a few years, and why it has been able to transform from a bullied semi-colony to a world power that surpasses Japan overnight.

Upon arrival, the Chinese government carried out currency reform after the silver crisis, establishing the renminbi throughout the country, abolishing gold and silver, banning all kinds of financial exchanges, recovering bank bills issued by foreign banks, and nationalizing all financial powers. However, any reform is accompanied by violent turmoil in the country, just like the boycott that almost spread across the country after the Chengcheng Bill, and the Republic of China in financial reform is also in the throes of pain. The price of gold and silver plummeted, a large amount of gold and silver from the private sector flowed into the market, and speculators suffered serious losses, eventually triggering a wave of bankruptcies. However, less than half a year later, earth-shaking changes have taken place, the financial market has begun to gradually stabilize, government investment has increased sharply, the number of key projects started in the country has exceeded 100, the central bank with sufficient reserves has provided a large amount of subsidies to emerging private enterprises, and thousands of private enterprises across the country have obtained government-guaranteed loans to expand the scale of production.

This model of development is different from the model of the country's economic development that is being discussed in Moscow, and it is not clear who is good and who is bad. He only knows one thing. In just a few years, Russia has lost tens of millions of people, and the country's economy is less than one-tenth of what it was before the European war! So there must be no more wars! If we can't end it as soon as possible and can't sort out the financial construction of the country, the gap between Russia and China will be widened and widened! So after consulting Moscow, he took the initiative to serve as Garahan's assistant, hoping to do everything in his power to end the war.

But he never expected it to be. Less than a year after the end of the silver crisis, Yang Qiu showed his fangs in the northwest again. First, 100,000 military and police officers were dispatched to carry out a sweep of the six northwestern provinces, arresting tens of thousands of unprepared guerrillas and comrades. Immediately after that, Kolchak suddenly gave the order to retreat eastward, and it was very likely that the position would cross Irkutsk and Chita, and go north of Khabarovsk and Yakutsk.

Kolchak's withdrawal to China is a good thing in the short term. It means that the end of the civil war is just around the corner. But the problem was that due to the occupation of Krasnoyarsk, the Trans-Siberian Railway and the Yenisei River were cut off, and there was no force in the Far East that could destroy the White Guards, except for a few people in Shumyatsky, who were hiding in Tibet. If hundreds of thousands of White Guards enter Yakutsk, the final result will be the extermination of Shumyatsky and others, and the northern primeval forests and permafrost areas of Sakha, Magadan, Kamchatka, and other northern regions north of Chita and Irkutsk regions will be divided from Moscow.

Before he could figure out a solution to this problem, the bad news came that the White Guards were retreating and wreaked havoc on the embankment of the Trans-Siberian Railway and all the infrastructure of the city! Moscow couldn't sit still, everyone knew who was behind Kolchak, so they sent a telegram asking him and Garrahan to find out the real intentions of China at once.

"Your Excellency."

When the two muttered quietly, Li Yuanhong took Feng Guozhang and the translator. Smiled and walked in. Garrahan hurriedly stood up and bowed, and then said with great seriousness: "For the sake of the future peace between our two countries, I hope that your country will carefully consider supporting Kolchak and other bandits, and please stop assisting them in sabotaging our railways and cities immediately, otherwise all the consequences will be borne by your country!" ”

Li Yuanhong pretended to be surprised. Turned his head to look at Feng Guozhang, who came with him: "Hua Fu, didn't you say just now that the army is on vacation?" How did you get to Russia? ”

Feng Guozhang has gradually withdrawn from the front line, and his main job in peacetime is to sit in Nanjing, serving as a military liaison between the Ministry of National Defense and the Presidential Palace. When he saw Garrahan coming up, he blamed, and he was also very upset and deliberately took out a small notebook from his pocket and said, "No? Only the northwest reported that the local bandits were unaware. Except for the lack of firepower in the National Guard, which requires our Ministry of Defense to send troops to assist, there are no military operations in other places. ”

The two old guys were acting there, but Garrahan couldn't sit still. Every hour, about 5 kilometers of Trans-Siberian railway embankments are destroyed, bridges are blown up, and several large cities, dozens of small towns, thousands of residential areas and mines from Yekaterinburg to Omsk are either destroyed by bombs or destroyed by artillery! So he didn't dare to go around in circles to grind time, and hurriedly opened his mouth and said, "No! Our soldiers saw your soldiers with their own eyes! ”

"See it with your own eyes?" Li Yuanhong glanced at him: "Are you sure they are wearing my ** suit?" Volunteers, I'm afraid, right? Ay! The country is big, the population is large, and the mind is complicated, since some people have joined you, there must be people who believe in others. But don't worry, our country will never tolerate this kind of thing that undermines the peace between the two countries, and I will send someone to investigate it later...... Garrahan suffocated a mouthful of blood to his throat!

Volunteer? You can say that! A whole 12 armored trains, 18 210mm long-range railway guns, 36 122mm guns (obtained during the robbery of Russia), these are all weapons that volunteers can get? What's even more speechless is that he can't refute it yet, because the poor party does have many Chinese party members in the Far East, so it would not be surprising if someone really helped Kolchak.

Blyukhel was also extremely angry, he didn't expect the dignified Chinese president to use such an excuse. But the Chinese soldiers who entered Russia did wear White Guard uniforms, and there is no direct evidence that they were sent by the Chinese government. So he could only suppress his anger in his throat, and his eyes were full of fire and looked at the two who were still quibbling. But he didn't know that a pair of eyes behind him had quietly stopped on his back through the glass window.

Fang Rui stood beside Yang Qiu and introduced: "He is Garahan's assistant, named Galen, who entered from Guangzhou in October last year. Judging from normal times, this person is probably not simple. You can see that his palms are calloused. This is the case only for people who hold guns for a long time! So we've sent the information to Moscow for intelligence officers to identify. ”

"Galen?" Yang Qiu frowned, why did he come?

Seeing him frowning, Fang Rui hurriedly asked, "Vice President, do you know this person?" ”

"There is no need for Moscow to recognize, if it is correct, he should be called Konstantinovich-Blyukhel. Commander of the Turkestan Front of the Red Army in Moscow. ”

"Is that him?" Fang Rui's heart jumped. From Blyukhel with troops on foot across the Urals. After completing the feat of jumping out of the encirclement of the 100,000-strong army to join the main forces, he had already entered the sight of the Security Bureau. But he didn't expect that such a high-ranking officer would come to Nanjing under a pseudonym! Immediately, his face sank, and he turned his head and said, "Liaison Action Group." Give me...... Wait a minute. Before Fang Rui gave the order to kill Blyukher, Yang Qiu had already lowered the curtains. Turning his head and saying a few words in his ear, he walked out, but stopped halfway through and said, "That's right." One more thing. The Secretariat has helped me pick a new secretary, and you can go and find out what she is doing. ”

"Yes." Fang Rui saluted, turned his head to look at Blyukhel's emaciated back in the thin slit of the curtain, his eyes shining.

The negotiations in the presidential parlor on the opposite side also ended quickly, and the inconclusive talks again made Blyukhel unable to sit still, and walked out of the presidential palace and said: "Comrade Garahan, you go back first, and I will buy a ferry ticket." ”

"Ferry tickets? Are you going back? If you go to Turkey from here and then return to China, the Kolchaka gang will probably have already entered the Chinese border. ”

"Nope." Blyukhel shook his head: "I want to go to Okhotsk to see Comrade Shumyatsky and let them get ready early!" ”

Seeing that he had made up his mind. Garrahan also felt the need to send someone to remind Shumyatsky and Kirov, nodding and saying: "Then you have to be careful, the Chinese blockade of the northeast is a hundred times stricter than here." I have already heard that when they launched the Northwest operation, they also launched an encirclement and suppression of the 1st Division led by Shumyatsky and Kirov. But I don't know the specifics. Believe it must be bad there. ”

"I'll be careful." After thanking him for his concern, Blyukhel and the interpreter called a rickshaw to rush to the Yangtze River wharf.

Sitting in the car, Blyukhel was still thinking about the abrupt changes in Siberia and Central Asia, and did not realize that the rickshaw had quietly changed its course. "Wait, we're going to the docks, why are you here?" The interpreter was the first to notice that something was wrong, and the cheers also alarmed Blyukhel. Only then did I find that the rickshaw actually turned into a fork in the road, and before it could react, it was blocked by two black cars before and after the road.

Cold sweat dripped down his and the interpreter's foreheads in an instant. Because Yang Qiu is extremely strict about the management of guns in China, illegal possession of firearms can be punished by death in this country, and even his family will be exiled in serious cases. Therefore, except for a few areas in the northwest and northeast, there are not many private guns in the country. While these measures have improved the security environment in the country, they have resulted in him not being able to find a weapon to defend himself when he arrives, so there is no room for resistance now.

But to his surprise, the people in the black car didn't seem to be interested in coming down, and the two sides confronted each other without saying a word.

In the end, Blyukhel couldn't help it first, pulled the frightened interpreter behind him, took a step forward and said, "Who are you?" Why did you bring us here? ”

The voice came out, and the black car finally reacted. The car in front of it slowly opened the door, and a pair of black leather boots appeared first, followed by a man in his thirties, with a white face and an ordinary appearance, walked out, and the eyes of the vulture made the interpreter tremble even more.

"His Excellency Vasily Konstantinovich Blyukhel." Fang Rui looked at Blyukhel, who was protecting the translator, and the corners of his mouth hooked slightly: "Welcome to China." ”

As soon as the other party reported his name, Blyukhel knew that his identity had been revealed, but he was not so nervous, ready to be generous, and sneered: "Since you have discovered it, then you can deal with it." ”

"Huh." Fang Rui not only didn't greet anyone to make a move, but laughed. Shaking his head, he walked to Blyukhel, looked at each other for a moment, and then suddenly pointed at the action team around him and raised two fingers: "You have two choices. First follow them, and then wait for the comrades in Moscow to come to their rescue. Second, come with me, maybe there is a chance to return to Kazakhstan in three days. ”

"In three days...... To be continued) rq