In addition to Siberia, the Chinese army also exercised administrative control over the Kazakh steppes, expelled all officials who were still loyal to the Tsar to the west of the Ural Mountains, intensified efforts to investigate the Russian Revolutionary Party, and strictly forbade the spread of Russian Revolutionary Party ideas in these areas, and immediately arrested those who found any disturbances.

In addition, the recalcitrant elements of the military and police personnel in various localities were suppressed, disarmed, and recruited among those people who were willing to serve the Chinese government, reorganized the recruited personnel, and after conducting some ideological education, they were issued with batons, cavalry knives, and saber weapons, so that they could maintain local law and order, and assisted the Chinese army and intelligence officers in the investigation and arrest of the Russian Revolutionary Party.

At present, the vast majority of people in all parts of Russia are hungry, and in order to fill their stomachs, many Russians are willing to do anything, and when the Chinese army recruits security personnel, many of the former military police, peasants, and workers choose to join, and some gangsters choose to join for the sake of prestige.

By the middle of April, the Ural Mountains controlled by the Chinese army, as well as the Siberian region and the Kazakh steppes in the east had completely completed the reorganization of local government institutions, and the law and order and the situation had stabilized.

If you want to rule the Siberian and Kazakh steppes, you can't just suppress them, you have to fill the stomachs of the locals. Being able to have clothes to wear, Xiao Zhenlei has thought a lot about this. He instructed the city administrations of Siberia and Kazakhstan to find ways to restore production and the economy as soon as possible, and to organize the unemployed and idle people to work. They were organized into an agricultural army to reclaim the ownerless land, and now it was winter, and the spring ploughing work was about to begin, and at this time the grain was in short supply, the local administrative authorities had to issue an administrative order to curb the price of grain, so that the factories in various places could be started as soon as possible, and the fields should be cultivated as soon as possible.

At the same time, the Cabinet of China sent a large number of young officials to cities and villages in Siberia and Kazakhstan to guide administrative work, and sent many economic experts to help restore the economy as soon as possible. Siberia and Kazakhstan have gradually stabilized.

The Russian regions west of the Ural Mountains, which were controlled by the Russian Provisional Government, were in a particularly chaotic state at this time. It is normal for it to be chaotic, after all, there are two political institutions at the same time, how can it not be chaotic? However, in the midst of the chaos, the Russian Provisional Bourgeois Government announced to the outside world that it would continue to declare war on Germany and Austria on the side of the Entente, and on the other hand sent diplomats to negotiate with China and lodged serious protests.

Kuminsky had always been the Russian minister to China, and after the overthrow of the Tsarist government, the Russian Provisional Government appointed him to continue to serve as the Russian minister to China, and this time Kuminsky received a telegram from home. He was asked to immediately make contact with the high-level officials of the Chinese state, and protested against the Russian officials in the areas east of the Ural Mountains and the Kazakh region who were driven out by the Chinese state, and demanded that the Chinese state open the cordon of the defense zone and allow the officials of the Russian provisional government to come and take over the power in various places.

Of course, Xiao Zhenlei couldn't agree. He received the news before Cummings came, and looked for an opportunity to hide, in short, not to meet Cummings. Leave everything to the diplomatic department to fight with Cummings. But no matter how Xiao Zhenlei hid, Cummings still managed to find him.

On the evening of April 3. Cummings went to pull the British envoy Zhu Erdian and the French envoy to Xiao Zhenlei's official residence, Xiao Zhenlei had just returned from the front foot. They came over on their heels, and after being reported by the doorman, Xiao Zhenlei originally wanted to find a reason not to see him, but thinking that the British Zhu Erdian and the French envoy were also here, it was not good to hide all the time, and this matter would have to be faced sooner or later, so he asked Chen Bui to bring them in.

"I've seen Your Excellency the President!" Zhu Erdian, Kuminsiqi and the other three saluted Xiao Zhenlei.

Xiao Zhenlei shook hands with them one by one and asked them to sit down, and the service staff quickly brought tea. Xiao Zhenlei asked, "What is the matter with me who came here at night?" If something, isn't it good to go to the presidential palace during the day to find me? ”

Kuminschi sneered when he heard this: "President, I have looked for you many times, but every time your secretary says that your work schedule is full, let me come again tomorrow, and when I come and go for the second time, your secretary asks me to come again tomorrow, I don't know when this tomorrow will be over!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei said with a smile: "During this time, I do have a lot of work, at present, Britain and France are preparing to open a second battlefield on the west coast of France, we have to send a large number of fighters to help seize air supremacy, and now these fighters have almost flown over, but we also have to send a large number of troops to Europe to contain the German-Austrian coalition forces in southeastern Europe, to prevent the German-Austrian coalition forces from the Eastern Front to draw troops to support the Western Front, there are a lot of trivial matters, and many things need to be coordinated by me as the president, so it is normal to have no time to see you." I think Mr. Zhu Erdian should be very clear about this".

Zhu Erdian was a little embarrassed, anyway, Britain is now begging for China, he can't dismantle China's Taiwan, but he can't help but buy Russia's face, after all, Russia announced that the continuation of the German-Austrian war can contain a lot of German-Austrian forces on the Eastern Front, this role can not be ignored, both sides are friends, which really makes him a little embarrassed, but Kuminschi spoke when he just felt embarrassed.

"Really? I'm sure the president is busy, but not so much that he can't find a little time to see me, right? Is it the president who doesn't want to see me? Or do you feel embarrassed to see me? ”

Xiao Zhenlei put down the teacup and said with a smile: "Mr. Kumingschi, in fact, you don't have to see me to solve many things, my country's diplomatic department is in charge of foreign affairs, you can go to the diplomatic department to talk to Minister Lu Zhengxiang, there is no need to see me!" ”

Kuminschi snorted coldly: "Of course I know that the diplomatic department is specifically responsible for foreign affairs, but there are many things, even Chief Lu can't be the master, and those people always play Tai Chi with me or have a fight with me!" When I meet the President today, you must give me an explanation, why you are massacring in our country, and why you want to expel our officials, your army has now formed a de facto occupation of Siberia and Kazakhstan, and as far as I know, you have also reorganized government institutions in various places, and you are completely in the posture of ruling Siberia and Kazakhstan. ”

At this time, Zhu Erdian couldn't help but say a fair word, he said: "Yes, Your Excellency President, it doesn't seem like you have so many troops, right?" As soon as the Russian authorities ended their rule, you could not wait to occupy Siberia and Kazakhstan, which is not what the allies should do, I think your army should immediately allow the Russian authorities to send officials into Siberia and Kazakhstan to take over power, if the reason why your country did this before was because the Russian Provisional Government did not say whether to continue the war, then now the Russian Provisional Government has announced that it will continue to fight on the side of the Entente against the German-Austrian forces, It is time for your country to return power in Siberia and Kazakhstan to Russia! ”

Xiao Zhenlei took a sip of tea and said, "Of course we will allow them to send officials over to take over the power, but not now!" ”

Kuminschi immediately asked, "When was that?" ”

"Wait for the Russian Provisional Government to become a full-fledged government!" Xiao Zhenlei said this, looked at the three of them, and said, "Do you know what the western side controlled by the Russian Provisional Government is like now?" It was a mess, much more chaotic than the war zone, at least the Siberian and Kazakh regions controlled by our army were much more stable, the locals also had jobs and had enough to eat, but thousands of people starved to death every day in the areas controlled by the Russian Provisional Government.

The reason why we wanted to suppress the rioting workers and the military and police was because they were organized by the Russian Revolutionary Party to carry out riots all over the city, they were beating, smashing, looting, burning, killing everything along the streets, many shops were looted, many women were humiliated, many honest civilians were killed, they were already crazy, if we didn't suppress them, they would have hurt more people and burned more houses. Killing those who rioted was to save the lives and property of more good people, and if your home was there, and if your relatives were also harmed by them, I think you would definitely agree more with our army doing so! ”

Kuminsky was silent, he certainly knew who was organizing the workers' and policemen's uprising, but in fact, as a representative of the bourgeoisie, he was also disgusted by certain organizations in Russia. At this point, he didn't want to argue with Xiao Zhenlei anymore, but he grabbed another point: "Then why did you expel our officials?" Why reshuffle our local administration? ”

Xiao Zhenlei said: "Because those expelled officials are basically related to the Russian Revolutionary Party, the Russian Revolutionary Party's system is too terrifying, we can't let those people stay there, and we don't have enough manpower to screen them one by one, so we can only expel them all from the country, without arresting them, and it is already merciful enough to correct them on the spot!" ”

Kuminschi said: "In any case, Siberia and Kazakhstan are the territory of our country, and your army must return the local power to our country, and quickly withdraw the army after the war. ”

Xiao Zhenlei smiled: "Just because you haven't heard of it doesn't mean it's not true, you can go back and ask them and see what they say!" (To be continued......)