Chapter 328

In Beijing, Zhao Yu, director of the Military Intelligence Bureau, held a report and presented it to Fang Jianxiong is desk with both hands. "Fushuai, the goods that Soviet Russia wants are all ready, and now that Siberia is in the hands of Belarus, this transaction can only go to Xinjiang."

Fang Jianxiong didn't even look at the list, then pushed it back with one hand and said: "Sue sù Yue Fei, see the gold first, and then talk about it, I'm not used to their problem." Don't be in a hurry about this business, and we shouldn't be in a hurry. ”

Fang Dashuai is only serious about money and silver, and if he doesn't see a rabbit, he doesn't scatter an eagle, and if he doesn't see a devil, he doesn't hang the strings. How to trade is a headache for the Military Intelligence Agency, as long as the order is given. Zhao Yi's enthusiasm for doing such speculative things is very high, and the Military Intelligence Bureau cannot do business, and it has to count on appropriations every year, which delays a lot of things. This time, the profits from the arms resale went to the Military Intelligence Agency and were counted as additional funds. Although all the gold in hand had to be exchanged for paper money, not a tael could be left.

When the news of the oil was returned, it was brought back by the Ijiin Temple, who had returned to China. That night, the Hara Kei cabinet held an overnight meeting with the hornet's nest that had been stabbed. The Ministry of the Army, the Ministry of the Navy, and the Ministry of Finance, the well-dressed dignitaries on weekdays slapped the table and scolded in the conference room without grace.

Taiwan is important, but for Japan, oil is even more important. Without oil, a strong fleet is a stationary battery. The Japanese navy has long had enough of the days of careful planning, and now that the oil has not yet arrived, the navy and the army are spraying out for the next year's military expenses, and the important personnel of the two provinces have gone into battle shirtless, and they are close to fighting.

The meeting of the Hara Kei cabinet lasted for two days, and finally came up with a compromise negotiation condition, that the Japanese government could give up the return of the Lushun concession, but not Taiwan. Taiwan's location is too important for Japan, which is overly dependent on the lifeline at sea, to part with it. As for the Far East. Japan said that as long as the radius around Vladivostok is five kilometers, the discovered oil fields will be jointly developed by China and Japan, and the specific control rights will be negotiated separately.

There is no doubt that it will be difficult to meet all these conditions, and Japan is also ready for long-term negotiations. In the eyes of the Japanese government, this is a very sincere condition. Of course, sincerity is not a matter of words, but of warships and guns.

Anyway. Yasuya Uchida, who was in Beijing, and Wang Zhengting, foreign minister of the Republic of China, signed a memorandum of understanding on the Sino-Japanese Far East dispute, although the content was nothing more than that the Chinese and Japanese armed forces should adopt an attitude of restraint and tolerance and avoid unnecessary disputes and conflicts. However, with the signing of this memorandum, the relationship between the Chinese and Japanese militaries suddenly relaxed.

The Chinese and Japanese armies in the Far East staged a small high-level waving. Privately, a verbal agreement was reached on a demilitarized zone bounded by the Twin Cities and Razdolinoye. The Japanese side voluntarily gave up borrowing the Trans-Siberian Railway and chose to continue to interfere by sea.

After the tumultuous September, in the last months of 1918, both sides of the Russian Civil War continued to accumulate strength, waiting for the next spring to kill each other. The Chinese and Japanese armies also desperately transported supplies before the onset of the harsh winter.

Compare to the day. The Chinese intervention army, which has the convenience of railways, is backed by Heilongjiang and Mongolia, and all kinds of materials come much faster. After the capture of Irkutsk, a large number of prisoners of war were driven to work here. Hurry up the construction of fortifications and facilities for wintering. Along the railway, a steady stream of domestic wintering supplies was sent to Irkutsk in preparation for the construction of a strong fortress in the coming year.

Winter in Siberia always comes early, compared to the protests of the Belarusian government. The reality of a few tens of degrees below zero is even more severe.

Lao Maozi is the opposite of resisting the harsh winter, and there is no doubt that he is the best at it. Although the wind and snow have already begun to fall. The temperature dropped by more than ten degrees, and hundreds of thousands of hairs still had to work under bayonets, building Irkutsk or roads, in exchange for the daily need of black bread and coal for heating.

The prisoner of war camp was set up outside the city, and Gen did not need many guards during this season, and Lao Mao Zigen did not dare to run out of the wall built of adobe. In the makeshift adobe house in the wall, there are also fire-burning ondols and wooden doors to withstand the wind and snow. Leaving here, there is no food supply, and there is only a dead end.

Mao Zi knew best in his heart that the harsh winter was severe, so before the coldest time came, they worked very hard to store food and supplies for the winter. For the Wehrmacht, the construction of the three fortresses of Irkutsk, Chita and Shuangchengzi in the Far East required a lot of labor, as well as the construction of a road between the three fortresses. Therefore, the military still gave a certain amount of treatment to the old Maozi who worked, and he was not called as a slave. As long as you don't work lazy, you can get enough food, and the Russians who are good can still have wine to drink.

Winter also fell on the European battlefield, and after two months of fierce attacks, the Anglo-French army, which had paid millions of casualties, finally recaptured Reims. Unfortunately, this result was inferior to that of the American army, which recaptured the fortress of Verdun at the cost of only 100,000 casualties.

In fact, in terms of equipment and troops, Britain and France are far superior to the US military. But it could not stand the fact that the U.S. military had spent money to hire a civilian advisory group, which numbered 5,000 people, all of whom were officers and non-commissioned officers who had played with the Germans on the battlefield before. The U.S. military perverted put the advisers at the company level and gave them a lot of power. Pershing, commander-in-chief of the US military, said that it is necessary to learn the skills of fighting a war in China. Of course, the monthly consultant fee is not low, even a non-commissioned officer, there is a monthly consultant allowance of 100 US dollars, plus a salary of the Wehrmacht, and the members of these advisory groups are happy to stay and postpone their return to China.

Beginning in October, the expeditionary force began to board the returning ships, and at the end of October, the first twenty infantry divisions to enter Europe, all but the members of the advisory group, boarded and left France. This arrangement was for him to enable the expeditionary force to catch the Spring Festival of 1919.

The 10 divisions of the second batch of landings had to stay behind to cooperate with the US troops. As the end of the war approached, contacts between China and the United States became closer. On November 1, U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing embarked on a visit to China entrusted by President Wilson.

Robert and Lansing's visit to China was quite high-profile, accompanied by a business group of more than 200 people. The U.S. Navy sent two cruisers to escort the convoy, and the Republic of China Navy sent four cruisers to the Philippines to meet them.

The sudden warming of relations between China and the United States is undoubtedly a matter of great concern. Both are territorial powers, one is the country with the strongest GDP in the world today, the other is a big country that is separating and catching up with the world, the development of power, and at the same time a military power. Of course, the government of the Republic of China has attracted the most attention to its strength in the military field. One has money, the other has an army capable of fighting, the previous combination of these two countries, once they hook up, which country will have a headache.

All in all, at the end of the European war, the Americans were once again ahead of the curve. Last time, the Americans played a beautiful game and vigorously supported Fang Dashuai, who was still a local warlord, thus opening up China's huge market and paving the way for American investment in China. This time, at the end of the world war, the U.S. government struck again, and this time, without the U.S. government's shouting, the capitalists with a large amount of dollars in their pockets took the initiative to take a free ride with the government.