Harbin, January 20, 1920.

Chang Ruiqing walked quickly into the war room he set up in the white-haired general's mansion. He returned by train yesterday afternoon after his first secret meeting with Trotsky, and arrived in Harbin in the early morning of the 20th. After a good night's sleep, he summoned several chief officers of the Northeast Front Army Headquarters, who had moved to Harbin, to a meeting at General Baimao's Mansion.

Bai Chongxi, Lu Yixuan, Wang Junhao, as well as Xia Wei, the new commander of the Middle East Road Group Army, Guo Songling, the former commander of the Fifth Army of the Northeast Army and the current commander of the Second Group Army, and some henchmen who followed Chang Ruiqing to the north have been waiting here for a long time. A group of people sat around the map table and whispered their views on the war, which had not officially ended.

The 309th Human Liberation Plan asked for a monthly ticket when Chang Ruiqing walked in, and everyone stood up to greet him. Chang Ruiqing also smiled and nodded at everyone, and everyone noticed that there was a lot of smile on his face, and it seemed that the secret meeting with Trotsky had achieved a lot of results. It seems that this war, in fact, is over.

Thinking of this, several generals in the room couldn't help but show expressions of regret and regret.

Seeing everyone like this, Chang Ruiqing also sighed slightly. Why didn't he want to take advantage of the Wehrmacht's victory over the Soviet Russian Red Army on the Eastern Front and slaughter Soviet Russia with a big sword? However, China's national strength is obvious, it is strong in the outside and capable in the middle, and it does not have the capital to wage a long-term war with Soviet Russia at all! Moreover, as soon as China gets involved in the Far Eastern Republics, it will separate Japan and Russia, which are now neighboring countries, and this will create conditions for Russia and Japan to join forces against China! Such a situation is beyond China's ability to cope with in any case.

He walked over to an empty seat in front of the map table and sat down, then glanced at everyone slowly: "Trotsky has proposed an exchange of territory with us. He wanted to exchange nearly 510,000 square kilometers of land in Central Asia, that is, the territory north of the Tien Shan Mountains and east of Lake Balkhash, for 500,000 square kilometers of Mongolia. What do you think? "The 309th Human Liberation Program asks for a monthly pass

The first to speak was Zeng Qi, Chang Ruiqing's deputy secretary general, who shook his head and said: "Yaoshuai, Xinjiang is already beyond the reach of some whips, and if you get 500,000 square kilometers to the west of Xinjiang, I'm afraid it's not easy to defend, right?" In the event of another conflict between us and Soviet Russia in the future......"

"Don't be afraid of this, they attack from the west, and we will fight from the north! The Far Eastern Republic and Siberia have much more territory than the West. Bai Chongxi replied with a smile.

Chang Ruiqing also nodded and smiled, thinking that his army could take the Far Eastern Republic at any time, and the army of Soviet Russia could also take Xinjiang and western Mongolia at any time, so that a balance would be formed.

Wang Junhao also echoed: "I don't think this land deal is a loss, the land on both sides of the Ili River at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains is very fertile, not comparable to the bitter cold land in northwest Mongolia." ”

Hearing that Bai Chongxi and Wang Junhao both said this, Guo Songling sighed in a low voice beside him. Because of his outstanding performance in the Battle of Manchuria-Harigantu Sumu, he was the only officer in the original Northeast Army system who was reused. But he once "betrayed" Chang Ruiqing once, and he didn't know when he was going to wear small shoes, so after returning to Chang Ruiqing, he was a man with his tail between his legs, and he didn't speak much in meetings. I actually sighed today, which was really a bit surprising.

Chang Ruiqing smiled and said, "Mao Chen, what do you think?" Guo Songling shook his head and said with a faint expression: "I can't talk about any lofty opinions, just some emotion, the 510,000 square kilometers that the Russians gave us were all ceded by the "Sino-Russian Treaty on the Survey and Demarcation of the Northwest Boundary" and the "Ili Treaty", which are all unequal treaties. ”

Chang Ruiqing glanced at him, his mouth moved, and he smiled coldly: "Don't think about any unequal treaties, and don't think about recovering lost land, the territory occupied by others is someone else's!" If we have the strength to completely defeat Russia, it will not be these 100,000 square kilometers that we will get our hands on. ”

He looked around at the people in the room and said with a wry smile: "But do we have such strength?" Although the current output of heavy industry in Soviet Russia is only 30% of that of the original Tsarist Russia, the annual steel output is still 1 million and hundreds of thousands of tons! How many do we have? The Hanyang Iron Works produced less than 40,000 tons of steel last year, and the Pukou Iron Works in Nanjing will only be put into operation this year, with an output of only 50,000 tons...... The sum of the two is less than 100,000 tons.

Moreover, these steels are still rails and billets, and only less than 3,000 tons of special steel can be produced in the Shanghai Arsenal with electric furnaces. Relying on this bit of steel, we simply cannot sustain a long-term war with Soviet Russia, not to mention that we have a scheming Japan by our side! Even the British and American powers, which support us on the surface, want to use us, but also beware of us! They don't want us to be really strong and threaten their colonies in Asia! Therefore, we should accept it as soon as we defeat the Soviet Union, and we may have to form an alliance with this polar bear in the future! ”

In fact, Chang Ruiqing's initial plan was to unite with the Soviet Union to oppose Japan, but he did not expect that Russia would send troops to invade Mongolia while fighting with Japan because of the dispute over the Taoism of GCISM. It was only then that he realized that the reason why Soviet Russia did this was because they did not regard China as a real opponent at all! In the eyes of the Russian GCD, even if China has completed reunification, it is still a weak country that they can defeat lightly, and the country that holds this view in the international community is definitely not only Soviet Russia!

If China really wants to win international respect and win a decade or more of peaceful development, if it wants to form an alliance with any great power, including Soviet Russia, it must defeat Soviet Russia to show its muscles to the world.

However, after defeating Soviet Russia, we must not forget that China's real national strength is still very weak. This victory in the war against Soviet Russia was actually the result of a strategic mistake by Soviet Russia and the unanimous support of the imperialist powers, and it did not truly reflect the balance of strength between China and Russia. Therefore, after showing strength and winning international respect, China should still accept the good as it sees, so as not to expose the essence of foreign power and middle strength.

In a sense, this Sino-Russian war is somewhat similar to the "War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea" in another time and space. And Chang Ruiqing chose to stop now, just like in the "War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea", after the capture of Seoul, the squadron accepted the "five-step armistice plan" proposed by the United Nations (proposed by 13 countries including India and voted in favor of by the United States), and ended the war with three perfect victories.

But the real thoughts in Chang Ruiqing's heart, most of the people in this room don't quite understand. Especially after he proposed the possibility of forming an alliance with Soviet Russia, the eyebrows of Bai Chongxi and Wang Junhao, two senior generals who "crossed the party", gradually twisted up.

Xia Wei, who has always been more outspoken, asked a straightforward question: "Brother Yaoru, we have all beaten Lao Maozi miserably now, and they still don't hold a grudge?" Even if you form an alliance with us, I'm afraid it's not sincere, right? ”

Chang Ruiqing looked at him with a smile and said lightly: "International alliances have always only looked at current and future interests, not historical enmities. Couldn't Britain and France, which had been enemies for hundreds of years, form an alliance against Germany? Britain and Germany are still allies for hundreds of years, and their British royal family is imported from Germany, so they don't turn their faces and don't recognize people? After we fought with Soviet Russia, they Russians should have realized that China is not easy to mess with.

In this case, they either compromise with Poland and Britain and France in the West, and put their strength in the East to confront China and Japan; Either unite with us to contain Japan to secure the Eastern Front, and then use the West as the main direction of expansion or defense. And what we want to do our best to promote is to let Soviet Russia focus its development on the West, and let them go to the trouble of imperialism. ”

Several generals nodded slightly, as if they understood Chang Ruiqing's intentions. Chang Ruiqing nodded with satisfaction, and then lowered his tone: "Although reconciliation with Soviet Russia cannot become an open national policy in a short period of time, the Northeast Front must actually implement such a policy. From now on, until a formal armistice agreement is signed between China and Russia, I demand that the Northeast Front adopt a policy of solid defense against Soviet Russia. At the same time, it is necessary to deploy defenses along the Sino-Japanese border, and to strictly seal the border with the DPRK, strictly prohibiting the Korean Liberation Army, the Japanese army, or our personnel who support the Korean Liberation Army from crossing the border. In addition, the Northeast Front Army will also concentrate on cracking down on bandits in the first half of this year, and strive to bring about a fundamental change in the suffering of bandits who have been plagued by the Northeast for many years in a few months. These orders will then be formally issued in writing, do you understand? ”

Seeing that Chang Ruiqing had made the final decision, the few generals present did not raise any more objections, and they all stood up and saluted: "Yes!" The department understands! ”

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The capital of the Far Eastern Soviet Socialist Republic, Chita.

White snowflakes and the cold Siberian wind drifted down again. In the wind and snow, inside the Chita Railway Station, neat soldiers of the Soviet Russian Red Army were silently boarding the train. Hundreds of people who were organizing a farewell in the Chita City Committee waved small red flags in the distance and shouted slogans for the defeat of Polish imperialism.

According to the caliber of the propaganda departments of the Far Eastern Republics now. The Russian Red Army had already achieved a phased victory in the Eastern Front, and the armies of Japanese imperialism and Chinese revisionism had withdrawn from the territory of the Far Eastern Republics after suffering a heavy blow. In order to avoid a further escalation of the war, in order to demonstrate the sincerity of the Soviet Russian GCD and the people for peace, after dealing a heavy blow to the aggressor, the Red Army decided to unilaterally achieve a ceasefire on the Eastern Front......

After the "unilateral ceasefire" on the Eastern Front, the main forces of the Red Army's Eastern Front began to move west one after another to fight Poland.

On the platform, two Oriental men in thick tweed coats were strolling along. Behind them, there were also several Orientals wearing Red Army uniforms and carrying rifles, and at a glance they knew that they were members of the Eastern Legion. One of the two people in front was Huang Baopei, now chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Far Eastern Republic, who was also one of the first cadres to follow Chang Ruiqing, who came to the railway station on behalf of the Far Eastern Republic to see off the Red Army expedition. And one is Zhou Elai, a member of the Political Bureau of the Chinese GCD, and Minister of Organization.

Zhou Elai did not return to Harbin after the meeting between Ruiqing and Trotsky on 19 days, but returned to Chita with Trotsky, on the one hand continuing to act as a peacemaker on both sides, and on the other hand, in the name of the head of the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, he talked to the senior Chinese cadres of the Far Eastern Republic and the Far Eastern People's Army.

"Brother Zhisheng, you are one of the founders of our party, and you have been tempered and tested in the Soviet and Russian wars, and you are a rare cadre who can assume important responsibilities. The Central Committee hopes that you will return to China to work, and Chairman Chen and the Standing Committee Chairman want to arrange for you to enter the political bureau. ”

"But I already have a wife and children here......"

"Oh, really? Then I'm going to congratulate you. ”

Huang Baopei smiled bitterly: "The other party is a Russian, named Lida. Ustinovich, who was originally a cadre of the political department of the Eastern Army, is now the secretary of the district party committee of the May 1st district of Chita City of the Communist Youth League. ”

Maybe it's because the blonde and blue-eyed Russian girls are really charming, and now the top ones in the Russian g Chinese gang have married Russian wives or soaked in Russian cuties. And these Russian women are basically all Russian GCD cadres, and many of them are members of the Cheka!

However, Zhou Elai had an indifferent expression: "Isn't that better, I can let your Lida go back to China with you, and I can help her arrange a job in the central government." He looked at Huang Baopei's face a little strange, waved his hand again, and said with a smile: "Zhisheng, in fact, there is nothing to marry a Russian wife, and now many young generals in the Chinese National Defense Forces have also married Russian wives, and most of their husbands and wives are very harmonious, and their lives are happy and happy." ”

Huang Baopei shook his head and said in his heart: "Can that be the same?" She married a white Russian noblewoman, and she married a Red Russian ** female warrior, although she is also a beauty, but most of the Cheka comrades in her bones......" He smiled reluctantly: "Actually, I am also very good here, I am the chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Far Eastern Republic, and I am also a member of the Russian Far East Bureau, and I can be regarded as a feudal official." ”

Zhou E paused for a moment, lowered his voice and said, "Zhisheng, do you have any difficulties?" Isn't it Soviet Russia here ......"

"Nothing, nothing......" Huang Baopei's face was a little gloomy, but he didn't say anything, just shook his head vigorously.

Zhou Elai naturally saw that something was wrong, and of course he had heard of the red terror carried out by the Russian GCD at home and within the party. He thought for a while, and then said tentatively: "Now that the Central Committee of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China is preparing to carry out the practice of GCISM in Xinjiang, it needs many cadres who are capable and willing to endure hardships, and the Central Committee hopes to recall some comrades sent to work in Russia. ”

Huang Baopei knew that Zhou Elai wanted to fish himself out of Russia, so he nodded gratefully at the other party and said in a low voice: "Comrade Trotsky is very interested in the GCISM in Xinjiang, and now he really wants to realize GCISM. ”

Zhou Elai seemed to hear something, and asked in a low voice: "Could it be that there are many party members in Russia who don't want to realize GC doctrine?" ”

Huang Baopei pointed at himself with a smile: "Yes, there are many such comrades!" And I'm one of them. It's just that in order to protect themselves or climb up, on the surface everyone desperately disguises themselves as staunch Bolsheviks. ”

Trotsky did not go to the railway station to see off the Red Army at this time, he remained in his villa in Chita, holding the record of the conversation with Chang Ruiqing on the 19th, and looked at it carefully over and over again, and I don't know how long. Skryansky sat across from him, also with a solemn face.

The room was silent, except for the trembling of papers.

At last, Trotsky's hand shook before he placed the record on the table. He took off his glasses on the bridge of his nose, twisted his eyebrows with his hands, and sighed deeply: "The question raised by this revisionist leader is very profound, very profound...... The key to the success or failure of our cause is to raise the social productive forces to a point where they can reach the threshold of GCISM before the ideals of GCISM are shattered. ”

“…… But how can we quickly improve social productivity? Russia is so backward that, according to the theories of Marx and Engels, GCISM should first prevail in such truly developed capitalist countries as Britain, the United States, Germany, and France, and not in backward Russia and even more backward China. This also means that Chang Ruiqing's theory is in line with Marxism...... Our ** is actually a bourgeoisie ** dressed up as the proletariat**, and in the end it will be the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie and not the dictatorship of the proletariat! ”

Listen to Trotsky's tone full of doubt. Skryansky also frowned, he couldn't understand how Chang Ruiqing, an Eastern warlord, had become a revisionist theoretician? And muddy the brain of the Prophet Trotsky?

Trotsky was still muttering to himself: "The problem that the Party may now face is to manage the Russian economy by the methods of organizing and managing production by GC-ism, when the productive forces of society are far from the heights required for a GC-ist society...... In the case of insufficient social productivity and shortage of means of living, how to distribute the shortage of means of living will become a difficult problem, and it will also be a severe test for all of us GCD members! ”

He suddenly raised his head and looked at Skryansky opposite: "Comrade Skryansky, do you think that our party can withstand the test for a long time without degenerating?" ”

Skryansky took a deep breath and said loudly: "Comrade Trotsky, there is only one test facing the Party now, and that is how to ignite the blazing fire of the European world!" The victory of the world's first victory over the relatively backward Russia does not mean that we will fight alone for a long time! Because this **is world-wide**, in Europe, in the United States, the anger of the proletariat is about to erupt like a volcano! As long as we defeat imperialist Poland on the Western Front and sprinkle the fire of ** on Europe, victory will definitely belong to us! ”！！！