Chapter 19 Extracting the Greatest Benefits

Fang Jianxiong has always disliked Sheng Xuanhuai, and the reason is related to Han Yeping. Objectively speaking, Han Yeping's helplessness in history was for survival, and Han Yeping's fate was roughly doomed under that historical background. Sheng Xuanhuai is a businessman first, and then something else. In a sense, Sheng Xuanhuai has no foresight. In contrast, Song Weichen in history did a good job, borrowed Japanese money to develop himself, and took advantage of the depreciation of the yen to replace it in one go, and the Japanese suffered a dumb loss in life.

The final outcome of Han Yeping, a parallel history, is rooted in the fact that the country is too weak and the government is too bad, and there is not much room for an individual or a certain family to struggle. Objectively speaking, this is the evil result caused by the rule of Beiyang.

Sheng Xuanhuai's death can be regarded as the last swan song of the generation of the Westernization Movement.

Aside from the grand funeral, there are more things that need Fang Jianxiong's attention. At the end of September, there was a change in the Russian civil war.

On the banks of the Urals, Shaboyang (Chabaev) commanded the 25 Division to cross the river. After thwarting Denikin's troops in the Caucasus on the southern front and withstanding the fierce attack of Kolchak's 250,000 troops, the Russian Red Army grew in number to 1.5 million, and while Kolchak began to retreat, the Red Army began a full-scale counteroffensive.

The White Russian army was defeated and trapped in Ufa. Kolchak hoped to hold out until winter, but as far as the current situation of the White Army is concerned, there is no need to count on foreign aid. Kolchak could count on only two sides, the Japanese troops entrenched in the eastern ports, and the Republican Wehrmacht building fortifications in Irkutsk and Chita.

Petrov, who had been staying in Beijing, learned to be obedient and went directly to see Fang Dashuai, and there was no doubt that he was closed. At the same time, after the victory in Kazan, the Russian representative flew more and more. Came to Fang Jianxiong's face again.

"Your Excellency, it is said that about thirty infantry divisions of your army are being assembled in the Far East." Yue Fei looked calm, but in fact, he felt a strong uneasiness in his heart. Seeing that it was not a problem to defeat Kolchak before winter, once the squadron moved west along the Trans-Siberian Railway, the variables of the Russian Civil War were greater. In particular, the squadron that has experienced the European war, the well-equipped 30th Infantry Division is assembling and assuming a posture of advancing westward at any time. The Soviet Russian top leadership instructed Yue Fei, who had remained in China, to exchange for China's neutrality at any cost.

"Mr. Yue Fei is too careful. It was just a small-scale military exercise. Fang Jianxiong didn't deny that there was such a thing, and his tone looked very relaxed. In July, due to changes in the Russian war situation, the Shenyang Military Region of the Wehrmacht began to assemble in the Far East without waiting for reorganization.

"Comrade Lenin asked me to convey to you my most sincere tribute. He also said that Sino-Soviet friendship has a solid foundation. The Soviet regime has already twice made statements renunciating the territories and interests that Tsarist Russia has seized from China. Comrade Lenin asked me to convey to you that China and the Soviet Union can demarcate their borders in accordance with the actual control line at present. As he spoke, Yue Fei took out a copy of electricity from his pocket, and handed it over with trembling hands. Fang Jianxiong glanced at it after taking it, and said lightly: "What does this mean?" ”

In parallel history, the Russian government made three statements during the Lenin period. Expressed willingness to give up the territories and interests occupied by Tsarist Russia. That was what happened under the premise that the Soviet Russian regime was in jeopardy, and when Stalin came to power, he did not admit it at all. Even if the rabbit won the battle against Lao Chiang, the Soviet Union still remembered the concession of Lushun. Gen did not take China's nascent regime into account. Historically, the Soviet Red Army, which entered China at the end of World War II, did no less bad things than the Japanese army. Therefore, there will be interests between countries, and it is necessary to count on people to have feelings with you. If it weren't for the Korean War, the war would have played out China's value. The Soviet roots will not take China too seriously.

Fang Jianxiong never thought of being friendly with the Soviet Union, but this did not prevent him from taking advantage of the Soviet Union's predicament in the past two years. Get the benefits you want. In fact, Fang Jianxiong was also a reactionary in Soviet Russian propaganda.

"As long as the Chinese government takes the lead in recognizing the Soviets, the two countries can sign a non-aggression pact and divide their territories according to the actual control line." A piece of flatbread was thrown out, and it must be said that it was very tempting.

"Recognize that now is not the time for the Soviets, so that some agreement on paper can be reached on the question of neutrality." Fang Jianxiong gave an ambiguous answer, this was not the result that Yue Fei hoped to see, but there was nothing to be done. Now it is the Republic of China that has the initiative, and it can only conduct secret negotiations and contacts first according to Fang Jianxiong's wishes.

After an autumn rain, the roads in the Far East became muddy. Irkutsk is now a large construction site, a huge fortress complex, which is slowly taking shape.

A train from Ufa stopped at the station, and the people who got off the train were refugees, dragged with little luggage, and looked nervously at the soldiers with bayonets and rifles on the platform.

An officer held a bullhorn and shouted to the White Russians who got off the bus: "Welcome to Irkutsk, there is a registration office outside after leaving the station, please cooperate with the work of the staff, and be sure to indicate your identity and expertise when registering." ”

The White Russians, who walked out of the station, quickly realized that things did not seem so good, escaped from the bayonets of Soviet Russia, and came to Irkutsk, which did not mean that everything was fine.

Outside the station is a huge earthen square, and dozens of long lines line up in the square. The mud floor of the square has long been trampled after the rain, and those who walk out of the station must register before they can decide the fate of the next step. Of course, no one dared to make trouble at this time, and more than a dozen fortifications on both sides of the square were equipped with Makqin heavy machine guns, and the slightest carelessness could be a massacre.

"Hello, my name is Brunsky, I am fifty years old, I used to be a university professor in Kazan. This is my wife and daughter's ....... Brunsky, who wore glasses and a goatee, was full of apprehension, and carefully explained his situation to the registration desk behind the railing.

Inside was a Russian who looked like a missionary. It took about five minutes before a wooden sign came out and said, "Take it, don't lose it." Leave from here, go out at Gate 1 on the right, and be received. The reception staff was pleasant, which made Brunsky feel a lot more at ease, picked up the heavy suitcase after taking the sign, beckoned his wife and children to go to the right as instructed, and soon saw the No. 1 door.

Out of Gate No. 1, things don't seem to be over, there is also a reception room with a passage, this time they are greeted by a Chinese man, who is not very proficient in Russian and asks: "University professor?" Teach what? ”

"Mathematics." Brunsky replied cautiously, keeping peeking out of the corner of his eye as he spoke, with his head down. The attitude of the Chinese person is still very kind, and after recording quickly, he handed over a piece of letter paper and said, "Take it and walk along the passage." ”

After the examination, the exhausted family of three carried their luggage and walked along the passage to the end, when they found that they had gone back to the train platform, and in front of them was a passenger car.

With strong uneasiness, when the family of three walked into a carriage, a Chinese soldier and a Russian conductor came over, and after glancing at the stationery in Brunsky's hand, the conductor said, "Follow me." ”

The conductor led the family of three all the way inside, and the whole carriage was full of sleepers, which was like a paradise compared to the stuffy tank car that squeezed like sardine cans when it came from Ufa.

"Take your menu, the dining car is in car eight, and it provides food and drink twenty-four hours a day, three meals a day. There is a toilet at the junction of the carriages, so you can take a hot shower and change into clean clothes from the bunks. After some explanation, the conductor glanced at the Brunsky family with envious eyes, and when he turned to leave, Brunsky grabbed him, quietly stuffed a gold ring, and asked in a low voice: "Where is this car going?" ”

The conductor quickly put it in his pocket and whispered: "Go to China, don't worry, you high-level intellectuals and Chinese will be treated as treasures." I heard that when I came to China, I went back to live in a villa and had a car to sit on. Unlike those unlucky guys, who can only stay and sell coolies, whether they can survive the winter is a question. ”

As he spoke, the conductor pointed out the window, and a wagon was parked on the opposite platform, and a group of Russians were loading and unloading the train. In fact, since 1919, this has been repeated every day, and many refugees have fled from Russia, whose fate is tied to their knowledge and skills.

A university professor like Brensky, that's really a good life from now on. They will be sent to Shenyang University of Technology to work as teachers, and they will be given the highest salary of today's Chinese wage earners, not to mention housing and cars, which is 1,000 yuan a month.

If you don't learn and don't have skills, then congratulations, stay in Irkutsk to repair the fortress, or go to Chita, in short, you can work hard until you are old, you are not lazy, you can mix three meals a day. Since the Russian Revolution, about 200,000 White Russians have fled into China.

At the same time, the Chinese and Japanese armies in the Far East began to purge the Russians scattered all over the country with a tacit understanding, and the fate of the rebels was naturally death. After the six-month clean-up operation, it is difficult to see Russians in the Far East, most of the settlements have been destroyed, and even the Russians who have not been caught are estimated to have difficulty surviving the following winter.

The establishment of a Far Eastern Republic proposed by the British was met with silent protests from China and Japan. U.S. troops remained motionless in Vladivostok, and the voice of War Secretary Winston Churchill calling for intervention by the Fourteen seemed to have little response in the Far East.