Chapter 718: The Howling Polar Bear
Emperor Liu asked the landlords and old fortunes to reduce rents and interest rates, which relieved a lot of pressure on the common people. So many acres of land in the public are also rented, and the taxes are lower and less, so that the people have a better choice. Then the country expanded its territory and developed Lanfang, Taiwan, Northeast China, Mongolia, and then the Outer Khing'an Mountains, Xinjiang, and Central Asia, and a large number of ordinary people immigrated to Xinjiang, and the gradually flourishing manufacturing industry also absorbed farmers in large quantities, and Wang Liqun's family had a better life.
By the time he was seventeen or eighteen, his family was already full of food, and he still had a taste of fish every ten days and a half months.
Wang Liqun's family is a vested interest group after the establishment of the new Qin, and their family is full of loyalty and trust in the Liu family. Emperor Liu was respected by Wang Liqun's father and brother as the Buddha of ten thousand families. When the country expanded the army and recruited troops, and wanted to start a war with the outside world, in line with the most simple peasant concept of 'return', Wang Liqun's father sent him to the barracks.
"Work hard, be loyal to the emperor well, and serve the court." Of course, Wang Liqun is not an only child, he also has an elder brother and two younger brothers, and there is no shortage of people in the family to inherit the lineage.
Wang Liqun has been a soldier for more than two years, and the food in the army is much better than the food at home. Therefore, everyone who raises his mouth can eat coarse grains with relish.
The days of the military hospital are very comfortable, there are water, lakes, mountains, forests, and a vast green grassland, in the eyes of Wang Liqun, who has lived in the mountains of Xiangxi since childhood, this is more comfortable and comfortable than the sanatoriums in Los Angeles and Jinshan City [San Francisco].
He loved mountains and woodlands, rivers and hubas, but not the sea. Even the seafood that appears on the table from time to time today, Wang Liqun is not used to eating it. The military hospital was a rare opportunity for him to relax, although his head was still dizzy from time to time, and the wound had only just been closed, Wang Liqun himself had already set his eyes on the mountains and forests not far away. After preparing to heal the wound, I went to the mountains and forests to hunt and relax.
The entire military hospital is like a big residential area, and Wang Liqun is one of the residents, in addition to regularly undergoing regular examinations by doctors and changing dressings by nurses, eating, sleeping, playing chess, and chatting. Don't live too comfortably.
There are nearly 3,000 people here, including 500 doctors, nurses, service and security personnel, and the rest are all wounded and sick like Wang Liqun. On the perimeter of the military hospital, a brigade of military guards was stationed.
The North American Expeditionary Force is facing an increasingly severe situation, but they have conquered half of the United States, and the supplies they have obtained are too abundant. Therefore, for the wounded in the war, the treatment of Nayuvo can make the middle-ranking officers of the Wehrmacht on the Western Front feel red.
Far away in Russia, Luo Chunsheng, commander of a division of the Southern Route Army of the Wehrmacht on the Western Front, was sitting at the camp's desk, and the guards spread a snow-white towel on the table. Then I brought up today's supper.
Yes, while breakfast is being eaten in American time, Russia is having a late-night snack. And it was already late at night.
The smell of fragrant food immediately made Luo Chunsheng's stomach feel a sense of hunger. The Volga River basin is no longer considered a war zone, but in the end, it belongs to a war zone, and the diet naturally cannot be compared with when it was in the country. The kitchen was prepared for one of the most sumptuous supper's nights in the available conditions: freshly grilled sturgeon, which has since ancient times been the most important fish producer in the world, and the Volga River is the largest producer in the whole of Russia.
Meat and eggs have high nutritional value, and the "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Its liver is mainly used to treat scabies, and its meat is to replenish deficiency and invigorate qi." Bathed in blood, its nose meat is used as a preserved to replenish weakness. Its seeds are like adzuki beans, which are healthy to eat and kill small insects in the abdomen. ”
Caviar made from fish roe is one of Russia's most famous delicacies. For later generations of China, these can be called the two 'delicacies' of Russia that are on a par with potato roast beef.
Luo Chunguang first slowly ate the fresh grilled fish, a small glittering sturgeon. After eating, I picked up the porcelain bowl, poured some pepper, sesame oil and sour vinegar into it, mixed it and ate it with great pleasure. The orderly turned down the brightness of the oil lamp, which made the light in the room much softer.
After eating supper, Luo Chunguang rinsed his mouth with water. Then he poured himself a glass of unknown red wine, which tasted good, and his men found it from the cellar of a Russian nobleman. A drink every night seems to be good for your body, at least you can sleep more sweetly.
This war against Russia, the customs and food of foreign lands have changed the lives and routines of many soldiers. There was no way, during the war, railway transportation was very tight, and every train was loaded with things that could not be produced in Russia, and the grain, meat, vegetables, etc., were completely raised on the spot.
Some of the current Wehrmacht officers have eaten Western food, and some have become addicted to caviar. Luo Chunguang fell in love with red wine, which is just a very inconspicuous example.
Luo Chunguang gradually became sleepy, got up and walked to the bedroom, but unexpectedly, at this time, a fire suddenly lit up in the distance, and then there was a rumbling sound.
"Where's the sound of the cannon?" All the drowsiness disappeared from Luo Chunguang's mind in an instant, and he jumped out of the window with an arrow step and looked towards the place where the movement was made. It was pitch black, and I couldn't really see it. No explosions followed.
"Camp. We don't have checkpoints in any direction. Do you want to send someone to take a look? The adjutant said as he put away the binoculars, it was too dark to see clearly. But he remembered where the explosion had been, a Slavic farmstead.
Luo Chunguang didn't have the concept of closing the camp in his mind at the moment. At this time, there are two brigades under his command that directly obey the order, with logistics troops, is such a force still afraid of the possible small resistance forces?
The troops in the camp had already begun to assemble, and Luo Chunguang immediately came down to the captains of the three major teams and led the troops to immediately attack and investigate. Without saying a word, the captain drove out of the camp with the 200 men he had assembled.
An hour and a half later, the signal corps sent by the three brigades returned that there were indeed rebels in the Russian farm, and that the explosion was accidentally ignited by them while making explosives in the house, and that the family and the other resistance elements inside were all shattered. According to the vague identification of the remains, in addition to the family of five, there are four young and middle-aged people.
After hearing this, Luo Chunguang waved his hand, and everyone had the opportunity to go back to sleep. This has happened more than once or twice in the entire Russian occupation zone. Although the Russian Congress was quite successful, the Poor Moderate and Dish elements joined forces to establish the Russian Republic last month and declare the recognition of the independence of Ukraine, Belarus, Finland, Poland, Lithuania and other countries. Overall, the Russian revolt and momentum are declining in great strides. Russia's elites are now bargaining with China for the release of Russian prisoners of war captured in the war, while at the same time launching public and political attacks on the local governments of the poor radical faction led by Moscow. Now is the critical moment for the big game between these two factions.
But even so, Luo Chunguang was not surprised by the explosion that happened tonight.
In this Volga region, where the Tsar's influence was strong, the revolt of the Russian civilian population has always been relatively high. Because the Russian peasants here generally live better, and they have experienced the ravages of China and the army more than once, and many young men themselves have joined the Russian army. They not only have a national hatred against China, but also a family hatred that is more difficult to resolve.
For many more, another important reason for the fierce resistance of the Russians in the Volga valley is the greed of the Chinese - since the conclusion of the St. Petersburg Treaty, the Volga Mother River no longer belongs to the Chinese. This and part of the Don River basin, the entire Russian Caucasus and the southern region of the Ural Mountains plus the Ural River basin, all belong to China. The Russians here are already Chinese.
If the Volga valley could endure such a result, they would not be Slavs, not a fighting people.
Russia lost a third of its territory [the European part], and it was still the richest territory, known as the granary of the south. Without Russia in the Volga Valley, even the most basic food supply cannot be supported, and the foundation of the entire Russian republic is unstable.
There are at least 10 million Slavs living in this region, and with the Russians living in Western Siberia and the southern part of the Urals, a quarter of the 60 million Russians are missing.
Russia, the only European power with a population of more than 100 million [not counting colonies, Poland, Ukraine and other places belong to Russia], was suddenly thrown into the dust and turned into an existence with a population of 50 million. Gone are the bulky bodies of European rollers.
In terms of land and population, Russia is still very strong compared to European countries. But Russia is not the same as it used to be, this country with Orthodox Christianity as its state religion, this country that expanded more than 300 years ago, is completely a thing of the past.
In the course of a month, many Russians, especially young people, have been rushing towards their homeland. There is no doubt that the hearts of these people are full of hatred for China, and they run to Moscow and St. Petersburg, all with full blood.
And for such people, as long as they are caught and confirmed by the Wehrmacht, what awaits them will be a life of purgatory. There is a shortage of coolies in the Ural Mountains.
A batch of weapons was handed over by the Wehrmacht to the government in St. Petersburg, just as they had previously transferred to Moscow. But the captured soldiers were not a single one. At this point, China will not let up at all.
That's more than two million young Russians, an immeasurable fortune. This is many times heavier than Russia's war reparations of £250 million. (To be continued......)