Volume 3, Who Lords the Ups and Downs, Chapter 297

The Bolsheviks extended an invitation to the countries participating in the war to armistice. They had believed that imperialist war would be replaced by working-class uprisings in all countries, and that Russia was the first. Not realized. To negotiate the German Brest-Litovsk treaty, Lenin demanded the acceptance of German conditions. Buhanin was against it and wanted to fight a revolutionary war; Trotsky declared no war or peace, that is, declared no war, but did not accept Germany's terms of peace.

Of the three factions of the peace treaty with Germany, Bukharin was the majority, Trotsky was second, and Lenin was the smallest, so he had to form an alliance with Tokharin. Trotsky had a showdown with Germany. The Germans were stunned: there was never a thing where one side withdrew from the war without accepting the conditions of the victor. The Germans attacked, advancing 150 miles in three days, equivalent to the sum of the previous three years. The Bolsheviks were terrified, and Lenin personally sent a telegram to Berlin, accepting a qiē condition.

In order not to sign the disgraceful peace treaty at Brest-VSK, Trotsky resigned as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and was replaced by a tsarist diplomat. Russia has lost Ukraine, Poland, Finland and the Baltic coast, 1/3 of its population and arable land, 54% of its industry and 89% of its coal.

"This is the successful diplomacy of the Soviet Russian government in exchanging space for time. It made full use of international contradictions, gave the nascent Soviet Russian government time to consolidate its political power, and created favorable conditions for maintaining its political power in the future. And, thanks to the success of this diplomatic strategy, Lenin's personal prestige reached its peak. In the above quotation marks are the evaluations made by later generations from a positive perspective.

In any case, on March 3, 1918, history returned to square one, Russia withdrew from the world war, and Germany finally got rid of the dilemma of fighting on two fronts. When the Germans turned around and looked at the whole pattern of the world war. I found that the situation of the war was not optimistic at all.

500,000 U.S. troops completed their adaptation training and were stationed in Troyes under the leadership of Pershing, and the Chinese Expeditionary Force had 10 newly landed infantry divisions, two heavy artillery brigades, and two tank brigades to cooperate with the U.S. forces. The commander-in-chief of the French army, Pétain, sat in Orleans and assembled the main forces of two army groups, 35 infantry divisions, plus about 700,000 other troops. The main force of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, more than 35 people, after completing the rest and recuperation, was stationed in Auxerre as the general reserve of the Entente.

Although the Germans occupied Paris. However, the Entente took advantage of the opportunity of the German army to solve Russia on the Eastern Front, and with Orleans and Troyes as support points, they gathered 1.5 million troops and prepared to counterattack Paris. This is only the eastern battlefield of France, in the western theater. The British and French armies also completed the build-up of a million-strong army. Paris has become a salient in the French battlefield, and if the German army refuses to abandon Paris, it will inevitably form a salient here, which will be besieged on three sides.

At the beginning of April 1918, the Entente convened a military conference in Bordeaux, the seat of the Provisional Government. The commander of the American army, Pershing Jian, launched an attack on the Germans from the east and west sides of Paris. The Anglo-French army attacked from Lyon in the direction of Amiens, and if progress went well, they could recapture Amiens. Meantime. The American, French, and Chinese teams on the Eastern Front were divided into three routes, all the way to Orleans, and stared at the German army in Paris. All the way from Troyes, the goal is Champagne Beach. Kill all the way to Nancy and open up the railway.

Pershing's construction is the meaning of an all-out counteroffensive. It should be said that this construction is very good, the Entente has an absolute advantage in military strength, and even if the German army gets rid of the entanglement on the Eastern Front, it will not be able to compete with the Entente in terms of troops.

But history is a very fucked up thing, and the U.S. military, which is very strong in seeking to fight, is also facing trouble with pig teammates. Or to put it this way, the British and French troops at this stage made the German army chill, and there was no initiative to attack at all. In this way, history seems to stubbornly rub forward along some trajectory. As a result of the negotiations, the British and French troops refused to launch a full-scale counteroffensive on the grounds that they were not ready for a counterattack. Of course, if the US military wants to take the initiative, it is not impossible. Isn't it to open the railroad in Nancy, the American army can fight alone, retake Baledik, and level the entire eastern front.

There is no doubt that the commander of the US army, Pershing, was angry, not just because the construction was not accepted, but in the whole of France, there has always been a saying that the US army will not fight. Pershing decided that the U.S. forces would launch an attack on their own, scheduled for late May, with the target being Baledik.

Zhangjiakou, railway station. A celebratory ceremony is taking place.

After a year and a half of construction, the railway from Zhangjiakou to Guisui has finally been fully completed and officially opened to traffic today.

The train station is bustling with activity, and railway construction has been the focus of national construction since the Republican Party came to power. In May last year, the railway from Zhangjiakou to Kulun was fully started, and in order to speed up the construction, the railway project under the leadership of Zhan Tianyou adopted a flexible model. With Guisui (Hohhot) as the core, Zhangjiakou and Kulun are two points, on the one hand, Zhangjiakou is to Guisui construction, on the other hand, Guisui is to Zhangjiakou, Kulun construction, and at the same time, Kulun direction to Guisui construction. This two-way construction method has greatly accelerated the speed of this Kuzhang railway.

Attending the opening ceremony of the railway were not only dignitaries from the Ministry of Communications, but also Premier Tang Hualong, who arrived from Beijing. Tang Hualong was accompanied by not Minister of Communications Zhan Tianyou, but Vice Minister Tang Shouqian, and Yang Yongtai, who recently joined the cabinet as Vice Minister of the Interior. Cheng Dequan, former vice minister of the interior, was appointed as the newly established minister of land and resources.

Leaving Fang Jianxiong's office as the chairman of the National People's Congress and joining the cabinet as deputy minister of the interior means that Yang Yongtai has officially embarked on a path of rapid development.

"Changqing, what has Fushuai been busy with lately?" At the beginning of the celebration ceremony, when Tang Shouqian was speaking on the rostrum, Tang Hualong quietly asked Yang Yongtai. Since the New Year, Fang Jianxiong seems to have regained his original habit of not asking too much about government affairs, and he has been running around the country. Over the course of a year, there is very little time in Beijing. There are not many people in the cabinet who know Fang Jianxiong's whereabouts, and Tang Hualong has no clear news. Seeing that the general election in the second half of the year is about to begin, Sun Baoqi and Tang Hualong are both seeking re-election. At this juncture, Fang Jianxiong's support is too important.

"Prime Minister, I don't know the whereabouts of Fu Shuai, haven't you been busy in the cabinet." Yang Yongtai replied with a smile, as if he really didn't know. Tang Hualong's heart sank slightly, and the uneasy feelings slowly diffused.

On July 1, the general election officially began, and the current general election of the Republic of China cannot be held in a referendum. The Republican Party has been in power for five years, and although it has achieved good results in implementing compulsory education, it has also made great progress in the development of its industrial base. But on the whole, there is no referendum for tuning.

At the end of '17, the National Assembly legislated on elections and clarified the election law. The core content of the legislation is as follows: First, the election method will remain unchanged for two terms. That is, by the 1928 presidential election, there would be a full vote. In the current presidential election, each province elects members of the National Assembly, and then decides the ruling party based on the seats in the National Assembly. After the ruling party is decided, the president and the prime minister are elected from within the ruling party. The new election law also clearly stipulates that independent officials and directors of the Independent Commission Against Corruption cannot be members of the ruling party.

The Republican Party is extremely powerful at the moment, and there is no problem in continuing to govern without surprising. Tang Hualong's question is whether he can continue to be prime minister. With the old Beiyang forces led by Xu Shichang, Tang Shaoyi, Liang Shiyi, Yang Du and others joining the Republican Party, Tang Hualong's position as prime minister began to be less stable. Tang Hualong still relied on the support of the parliamentarians of the four provinces of the former autonomous region, and now the parliamentarians of several provinces, whether they can support him to continue to be re-elected, Fang Jianxiong's attitude is too important.

So where is Fang Dashuai now?

In Yingkou, the 10,000-ton "Intermodal Transport No. 11" ship produced by Jiangnan Shipbuilding Group slowly approached the wharf, and the ships were loaded with people who had immigrated to Northeast China, who had migrated from Central China and East China with their families and simple luggage.

Since the Northeast Development Strategy, the total number of immigrants in Northeast China has reached 8.5 million by the end of 17 years. The main areas of immigrants are mainly from Shaanxi, Shanxi, Zhili, Henan, Fujian, and Shandong provinces. The Jianghuai region, which was originally planned to be the focus of migration, surprisingly difficult to recruit many people who voluntarily migrated. After investigation, we learned that in the past 14 years, the industrial and commercial development of the Yangtze River basin has continued to have a blowout, and farmers in northern Jiangsu, northern Anhui and other places are not afraid of not being able to find things to do. It is difficult for ordinary people to leave their homeland, who wants to go to such a far place in the Northeast to start over?

A large number of peasants from northern Jiangsu and northern Anhui have poured into many new private enterprises along the Yangtze River, or engaged in some infrastructure construction industries, the most important of which are highway construction and railway branch line construction. According to the traffic law approved by the National Assembly, the private sector can raise funds to build road tolls, and roads have been built everywhere in northern Jiangsu in the past year. At the same time, the railway from Xuzhou through Suqian, Huai'an, Yancheng and ending in Nantong was also officially started. In northern Jiangsu and northern Anhui, it is easy to find a job to support your family.

Under the guidance of the staff dispatched from all over the country, the people from all over the country formed more than a dozen groups and disembarked in an orderly manner. The resettlement office on the wharf has made a good job of the resettlement in advance according to the actual situation in various parts of the northeast. What needs to be done now is to settle the people in a temporary settlement in Yingkou for three days to rest, and then take a train to various parts of the northeast.

Three days later, the first group of rested migrants will depart by train, and their destination will be a place called Suifenhe. The train did not stop when it passed through Anshan, and when it slowed down, an armored train with muzzles on the track next to it attracted the attention of many immigrants.

Although he had been prepared, when Zhou Xuexi got out of the car, he was still stunned by the huge construction site in front of him. The car in front of them got off Fang Jianxiong and Li Weige, from the southwest to the northeast, Li Weige was the result of Fang Dashuai's personal name.

Anshan will be built into a steel city, which is planned to reach an annual output of 10 million tons of steel in ten years.