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During the second half of 1919, the whole of Northeast Asia was in an inexplicable atmosphere. The fall of Germany, the disintegration of Austria-Hungary, the difficulties of the Paris Peace Conference, the birth of the League of Nations, etc., all show that the old world system has been challenged by new powers!

The key to this challenge is the partition of Russia's territory across Europe and Asia.

The poor party is doing everything in Europe and the Urals, trying to defend the nascent proletarian power and preparing to bring the flame to the whole world, instigating a radical break with the current system of the world! In order to block this torrent, the capital countries led by Britain and France adopted the strategy of all-round containment in all directions, but they were never able to chisel the last layer of hard shell. In the Far East, China, which dreams of a great power, has experienced the baptism of revolution, the Sino-Japanese war, and the European war, and is somewhat eager to establish its position in Asia and even in the world family.

If any new force wants to rise and challenge the old system, it cannot avoid war. This has been confirmed by the First Sino-Japanese War, the United States and the West, the Russo-Japanese War, and even the recent European War! If Russia had not weakened, perhaps the war would have been a few more years to break out, but when Russia declines and leaves a huge vacuum, this rivalry cannot wait to play out. Under Yang Qiu's deployment, China seized the lead, taking advantage of the European retreat to evacuate Siberia and control the vast Siberian region east of the Yenisei River in one fell swoop. Japan also seized the opportunity to occupy Sakhalin Island and the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk, trying to continue to dominate the Khabarovsk, Kamchatka and even Yakutia regions, and constantly peep into the rich Heilongjiang River basin. Britain wanted to secure an Anglo-Japanese alliance while maintaining a supremacy in China, and it also tried to use China to get a share of the pie in Central Asia.

Yang Qiu's proposal at the Paris Peace Conference to completely abolish the unequal treaties of the Manchu Dynasty has become the common aspiration of the whole country, and the recovery of the homeland that has been cut off from the west, the north and Taiwan has become the highest dream, and the will of the country has become the key to determining this contest! Mr. Tegkaris, the China correspondent for Time magazine who became famous for his coverage of the Cheng Cheng Act, wrote in a telegram back to New York: "I could feel the tension in the air. After freeing themselves from the shackles of land and returning home with all the elite troops who participated in the European war, it is clear that the Chinese no longer want to be second-class citizens. I can understand this feeling, when they returned home with their lives and blood for Europe. It is indeed unpleasant to find that your country has not yet normalized. But I am also very concerned that the specter of war seems to be building up again, for politicians in the Far East. Their personal will has apparently been propagated as the will of the state. ”

On October 18, 1919, China and Britain began their first bilateral negotiations in Shanghai on a package of issues. Chinese representatives Cai Yi, Hu Weide, and Yang Du first demanded that all unequal treaties between China and Britain be abolished in accordance with the spirit of Yang Qiu's speech at the Paris Peace Conference, and that the entire timetable must be made public as a concession. And on the issue of Central Asia, which Britain is most concerned about, the two countries should be demarcated by the Tajik Penchi and Wakhan rivers. The southern regions of Afghanistan and India were under British jurisdiction, while the northern regions were returned to China and were transformed into six border territories: Jaisampo (East Kazakhstan), Almaty, Zhambyl, Shaye (Kyrgyzstan), Andijan and Tajikistan. This division was unacceptable to the British, as Dushanbe and other areas in western Tajikistan were not under the jurisdiction of the Manchu government before the Beijing Treaty, and although Zhambyl in Kazakhstan was under its jurisdiction, it was close to South Kazakhstan, and in the case that Andijan was likely to be handed over to China, the loss of Zhambyl meant that regions such as Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan would be slowly encroached upon.

So the conditions in the UK are: The western part of Tajikistan had to be dissolved by the Vakhsh River, which separated from Dushanbe, while Andijan was divided by Namangan. The mountainous areas in the western part of the basin are also outside the scope of the Beijing Treaty. And the biggest controversy is Zhambyl! Zhambyl was forcibly cut off by Russia in the Beijing Treaty, although it is a barren desert, but it is obviously impossible to explain to the people if it is not taken back, and Zhambyl has formed a huge trumpet-shaped gap between Almaty and Broken Leaf, once it is used by hostile forces, it is likely to cut off Broken Leaf and Almaty. But Britain, out of coveting Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, will never allow this strategic zone of depth to be taken away.

Disputes over garrisons and immigrants are even greater.

The Wehrmacht requested that one infantry division be stationed in each of the five regions, in coordination with three mixed divisions. Then add 80 National Guard regiments to ensure that the Northwest Front maintains a total strength of 300,000. At the same time, 4 million people were forcibly relocated to five regions, increasing the number of Han Chinese to meet the requirements of garrisoning the border. However, Britain only promised a total of 3 divisions and 50,000 National Guards, not to mention halving the total strength, and also demanded that the number of immigrants should not exceed 1 million. and could not enter Tajikistan, which borders India (Pakistan was part of India at the time) and Afghanistan.

Negotiations are at a standstill here

With the onset of winter, Kolchak has stabilized the front, and the Central Asian region will also enter a bitter cold. Therefore, the British government saw the opportunity to slow down the negotiations, apparently wanting to avoid the special time of January 1, 1920, agreed by China, the United States, France and other countries.

Next to the wharf of the Yellow River in Zhengzhou, two men dressed as beggars sit lazily on the hay basking in the sun, their eyes always wandering inadvertently between the wharf and the freighter. on the pier. Under the command of a dozen Japanese guards disguised as overseers, the workers were carrying some dead sacks and boxes onto the ship, and the ship's boss kept yelling at him to speed up.

"Sir, it's almost done."

When Oricho Nobuta walked into the cabin, Minamizojiro was sitting cross-legged on a rattan bed with his eyes closed. After thousands of kilometers of fear, dozens of intelligence officers were used to bribe all the way, and this valuable batch of strategic resources was finally able to return to China. However, he still does not dare to be too careless now, the Yellow River waterway and the Bohai Strait are very dangerous places, patrols, tax police, customs, etc. can bury this mission with a small negligence, of course, the most dangerous is the Chinese coast guard, they are equipped with very fast small boats, so after a long time asked: "Is the navy arranged?" ”

"The Navy sent the cruiser Kurama."

"Is there only one Kurama?" Hearing that only one cruiser was sent, Minamizojiro was a little dissatisfied. This cargo was almost tailor-made for the Navy, and only one cruiser was sent to protect it. You must know that there were 4 Chinese cruisers in Lushun, and two more Anhai-class battle cruisers in Qingdao. Hearing the dissatisfaction, Oricho Nobuta hurriedly added: "The Admiralty thinks that sending too many warships will arouse the suspicion of Shina, and they say that the Kongo and Hiei are in Sasebo, and if something happens, they will rush to support." ”

"Damn the Navy!" Minamizojiro was obviously dissatisfied with the navy's concession, but he was helpless.

After the two of them walked out of the cabin, only the last batch of finished tungsten had not yet been loaded, but at this moment, a small team of patrol officers suddenly broke into the dock. The hearts of the two hung in the air again.

"Get up." The patrol captain walked up to the two beggars who were observing.

The two scouts, disguised as beggars, were inexplicable and asked, "Sir, we just want to eat, you are." ”

"Less nonsense. You're in luck. The northwest is in urgent need of labor, so hurry up and pack up your things and follow me, maybe you can get a field when you go there. The patrolman kicked the broken bowl in front of the scout twice, and muttered to his partner: "Didn't you fish it out a few days ago?" Why are there all these begging for food? Are you still stunned when you are young, with hands and feet? If you really want Lao Tzu to arrest people, you can't do it! ”

The two scouts couldn't laugh or cry, remembering the government decree issued by the central government some time ago to enrich the northwest of the homeless people, and lamented that they were not good at disguising themselves, but they disguised themselves as dazzling beggars. Fortunately, the two were just watching. The above didn't decide to do anything here, so they went back with the patrol to "flesh out" the frontier. A few patrol officers were not embarrassed to see that they were still cooperative, but the policeman led by the police saw that there were many strange-looking overseers next to the boat, and asked, "Whose ship is this?" Have you checked it? ”

The scout secretly said badly, and hurriedly said: "Sir, I know, this is the ship of the Great Machine Factory. ”

Big Machinery Factory is a nickname given to Zhengzhou Industrial Group by the locals of Zhengzhou, which means that there are many big machines in the factory. As soon as the police heard that it was a ship of an industrial company. Muttered: "Why did you stop here?" I can't see it, but your eyesight is not bad. Depending on your luck, you may be able to mix it up when you get to the northwest. The policeman took the two "beggars" away. While Nanzojiro breathed a sigh of relief, it also made Xiao Anguo in a house in the distance almost laugh: "I said Director Fang, why are you rabbit cubs pretending to be asking for food?" Recently, the whole country has been searching for homeless people and beggars to enrich the northwest, which is not boring. ”

Fang Rui also scratched his head in embarrassment for the first time. After Nanzojiro arrived in Zhengzhou, he didn't dare to slack off and immediately rushed to set up the formation, which happened to happen when Song Ziqing and Xiao Anguo both came back by plane from the northeast to inquire about the matter, but they didn't expect the two to see the oolong. So I secretly thought that after I went back, I must "clean up" these guys who even made mistakes in disguise identity.

Song Ziqing smiled, didn't care about this innocuous little oolong, and asked, "Brother Anguo, are you ready over there?" ”

"Ziqing, don't worry." Xiao Anguo told him about the deployment. Puzzled, he asked, "Ziqing, what kind of medicine are you selling in the gourd this time?" Why let them go to sea and do it again? Aren't you afraid that this shipment will return to Japan? ”

Xiao Anguo is not an outsider, so Song Ziqing didn't hide it from him, glanced at the freighter with a smoking chimney and said: "What can I do when I go back to Japan, this little thing can let them move back to the momentum?" All we want is an incident, a dispute! Test the bottom line of Britain and Japan! ”

Fang Rui also explained: "The sale of four warships by the United Kingdom is actually to strengthen the alliance. But the Navy is always the Navy. If Japan could not solve the problem on land, then Britain would not be able to ensure that we were caught in the north-west. ”

"I see." Xiao Anguo is not a stupid person, he used to have a poor view of the overall situation, but after hearing and seeing it over the years, he already has the posture of a commander, and he slapped his thigh and continued: "You want to tell Britain that Japan does not have the possibility of war with us now. Without Japan's containment, Britain is certainly not willing to go it alone. It's just that the navy is going to suffer a little, and Sa Zhenbing is not afraid of retaliation from the Japanese navy? ”

"Revenge is for sure! The strength of the Japanese Navy has not suffered a major loss, and in recent years it has taken the opportunity to build many warships. But now you can't do it! It will be even more troublesome to wait for two more years for 2 Nagato-class battleships to be put into service, and Britain can gradually recover. Song Ziqing's eyes gradually became solemn, and he said: "Once the dispute starts, the whole country will inevitably be launched." We will unilaterally announce the termination of all treaties on January 1, and the Navy will be able to take the opportunity to protect the landing of the Army on Taiwan! Sa Zhenbing and the others have already assured in front of the commander-in-chief that this time they are determined to fight, and by the way, they will also train the troops. No matter how many warships you build, it's useless not to fight, so this time the Navy is ready to lose two capital ships! ”

2 ships! Xiao Anguo gasped, he didn't expect the navy to be so determined this time. However, this is indeed a good opportunity, now Britain and Japan are both running out of old forces and new forces are too late, Russia will not be able to intervene in a short time, and the northern Siberian region will soon enter a harsh winter, and the environment is difficult and not suitable for large-scale operations of the army, and the probability that Japan wants to bypass Sakhalin Island is much smaller. On the contrary, as long as you grasp the handle of Japan's secret deal with the poor party and make it public, then you can take advantage of it!

"I would like to make a big fuss, now that our workers and expeditionary forces have all returned, and European supplies have been brought back. There is nothing left for Britain to handle. The size and morale of the troops are booming, and they can take North Korea in one fell swoop! ”

"You dare to think that it won't end well if we really open it." Hearing Fang Rui's words, Song Ziqing smiled slightly, stopped talking about this matter, and asked, "Brother Anguo." Xu Shuzheng was transferred to help Kolchak, and I am afraid that he will not be able to come back in a year or two. Mongolia and Siberia need a competent magistrate, do you have someone who can lend it to me? ”

Xiao Anguo asked in surprise: "I said Ziqing, what's wrong with you today?" There are so many proud generals in the army, air force, and navy, just pick someone to go over, why did you think of looking for someone to ask me for? ”

Song Ziqing said: "The United States has always been worried that we and Japan will continue to expand northward, and if we use regular troops, I am afraid that it will cause them to worry, not to mention that it is not cost-effective to use artillery to fight mosquitoes." Therefore, the commander-in-chief hopes to pick someone from among you, who must be proficient in public security management, good at deployment, and preferably someone who can have some contacts with the US side, so that the United States will know that we are only suppressing bandits and fighting guerrillas, and will not continue to develop in the northeast. ”

Xiao Anguo thought about it and said, "There really is such a person. After graduating from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point last year, I am now the commander of the 35th Brigade of the Jinjing Guard. He is young, has a flexible brain, and is very serious in his work, and according to Yan Laoxi, after he took office, the smuggling in the Jinjing area has almost been completely eliminated, and it is difficult for even foreigners to take advantage of the loopholes. ”

"West Point graduates? Aren't our military exchange students with the United States graduating next year? What is your name? ”

"It's the wave of people who went out in the year of Gengzi. I first studied in the United States, and then I applied for West Point for some reason. He was a classmate of the son of the current U.S. military attache in our country. Xiao Anguo was like a treasure, and he could see that he had already begun to inspect the people he recommended, and said.

"His name is Wang Geng."

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