Chapter Sixty-Four: A Failed Attempt

"It's useless to ask me about mining, but it's true that I'm interested in material technology." Chen Zhaokeng smiled and played Tai Chi, what a joke, although China's tungsten ore resources are abundant, but it is not something Chen Zhaokeng can remember.

"Biel, if you can, exchange technology, and the boss should agree to give you a tungsten ore mine." Victor's eyes rolled, and he had another plan. To be honest, it really impressed Biel. During the First World War, Germany attached the greatest importance to the emergence and use of tanks. The seemingly rigid German nation is not at all conservative in its approach to new things. This is also the reason why France, known as the largest army power in history, was defeated by Germany in two months.

"The boss may have a little bit of an opinion about me, and this thing is not easy to do." Seeing Chen Zhaokeng dodge away, Biel whispered to Victor. As soon as the words fell, a voice came from behind the two: "Does my brother Biel think that I am a narrow-minded person?" I'm too concerned about that. ”

Biel was startled, and when he looked back, he saw that it was Fang Jianxiong in civilian clothes, and he didn't know how to sneak in. There are mostly Germans here, and few people really recognize Fang Jianxiong.

"Boss, why did you come out like this?" Victor was quite puzzled, Fang Jianxiong laughed in a low voice: "Victor, how about I talk to Biel alone?" ”

"Okay, what's the boss telling me." Wilde realized something and gave Biel a look before leaving. That meant he had his chance.

Fang Jianxiong walked to the balcony and looked at Bier, who had followed cautiously, feeling a little bitter in his heart. The world has always been the law of the jungle, and when Germany was strong, Biel dared to swallow the dividends of the pharmaceutical factory. In fact, Fang Jianxiong knows very well that the market for sulfonamides has been very strong. Far from what Biel said. In the face of interests, some things will become pale.

"Boss, I'm sorry." Biel lowered his head and spoke, not daring to face it. For the first time, Fang Jianxiong looked at this former brother with condescending eyes, and it was really difficult to forgive him when he thought of the huge benefits that he had swallowed.

"It's all in the past, don't mention it. I talked to you alone today, but I didn't want to mention the past. Just wanted to remind you, for Germany. China is the only foreign aid that can be counted on. Maybe in the future China and Germany will become rivals, but now we are partners. Since we are partners, I hope you can understand that the basis of cooperation lies in mutual benefit. As Fang Jianxiong spoke, someone came from the distance. Stopped by a guard.

Biel raised his hands and said, "Okay boss, I know what to do." But since it's business, what do I get? ”

Under a sharp direct gaze, Bier's heart palpitated for a while, and Fang Jianxiong said: "Actually, I can use despicable means to get what I want, and it's not too difficult for me to do anything." As long as you wait for the first half of the year, there are people in Germany who need a profession to support their families. But Biel. I can't do that, I have feelings for Germany. In Germany, there is also my second mother. So, you should be able to see the means I have taken. I'm helping Germany, all the time. ”

"Boss, can you answer me why, China wants to join the Entente to fight against Germany?" Biel asked suddenly and loudly. Fang Jianxiong looked at him silently for a while, and said slowly: "You answer me." Why did Germany forcibly occupy Jiaozhou Bay, and why did it join the Eight-Nation Coalition to attack Beijing? Biel was speechless, and Fang Jianxiong said, "Can't you answer?" I wanted to mock you for being naïve, but now I don't think I have a chance. Okay, let's get down to business, China has a good market, and there are a lot of things that Germany needs, it's up to you to get it. I know you're here on behalf of a lot of Germans. That's it, I have to rush back to Beijing, and I can't stay longer. ”

Bier showed a relaxed expression, Fang Jianxiong, the boss's thoughts, Bier still thought about it very well, since it was business, then he would treat these Germans according to the rules of business.

"Thank you, Boss!" Biel was sincere, Fang Jianxiong smiled, turned around and disappeared around the corner.

"How's the talk, Biel?" Victor appeared in time, and Biel smiled: "It seems that this time I came to China to come to the right place." Wait a minute, I still have nothing to say. Biel suddenly trotted after Fang Jianxiong and shouted in the corridor: "Boss, wait a minute." ”

Fang Jianxiong was already about to go up to the special corridor behind, turned around and smiled: "What's the matter?" ”

Biel ran out of breath and said, "I can provide at least five thousand skilled craftsmen, how much loan can I get in exchange?" I mean, I want to make a big deal in China, and I even hope to get orders from the squadron. ”

Fang Jianxiong stood up and said, "Is that so?" I think the squadron needs a good dive bomber, and I don't want this bomber to be riddled with anti-aircraft guns when it dives. Fang Jianxiong suddenly thought of this Siberian campaign, the Chinese Eagle 3 was mainly shot down by the Russian anti-aircraft artillery, or when it was diving.

Speaking of dive bombers, Fang Jianxiong naturally will not miss the German Stukka, anyway, with the opportunity to try, maybe it was born in China? Well, it's 20 years, and more than a dozen years can wait.

Anyway, a seed is planted.

Nagasaki, Yasuya Uchida kept looking back to greet him, and the crowd of people seeing him off was mainly the bigwigs of the Japanese Navy. Uchida's purpose was Beijing, and when the ship set sail, Uchida's mood was unusually heavy. I didn't catch up with the good times, this foreign minister is not good, especially dealing with the Chinese, this is a strong China. Since the Meiji era, Japan has worked hard, and I thought that it had surpassed China a lot, but I didn't expect that in just a few years, Japan was overtaken by China again.

"Please, Uchida-kun, you must take control of Sakhalin, this is the lifeblood of the Imperial Navy." The words that lingered in his ears before leaving filled Uchida's mind again.

Almost at the same time as Uchida boarded the passenger ferry, a special train passed through Shenyang, and Kamenev, who was sitting in the window and looking outside, looked very calm with a calm expression, and could not see the fluctuations in his heart at all.

This summer is destined to be a noisy season, the first wave of heat wave in early summer came from Shanghai, and on August 21, after more than a month of preparation, a total of more than 800 representatives of Chinese and German companies gathered together. The Sino-German Business Cooperation Fair opened, and representatives of enterprises from the two countries discussed cooperation plans, and the meeting lasted seven days and ended successfully. More than 100 well-known media such as "Republic of China Times", "Industry and Commerce Daily", "Declaration", "Zilinxi Daily" and "Ta Kung Pao" jointly reported on this grand event.

The conference was initiated by the China Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and was jointly attended by Gu Heng, Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Yu Qiaqing, Vice Chairman, and Zhou Xuexi, Vice Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Victor, the main representative of the German Chamber of Commerce in China, jointly issued a declaration on Sino-German business cooperation.

The declaration said: Based on the principle of mutual benefit and reciprocity, we will further deepen Sino-German commercial and trade exchanges and further promote the traditional friendship between China and Germany. Well, let's not talk about the scene. This time, the provincial capital contributed to 161 Sino-German cooperation projects, of which 121 can be made public, and 40 cannot be made public. The main ones that cannot be disclosed to the public are the military industry, and they are all projects that the Treaty of Versailles prohibits Germany from designing. These projects all have a common feature. It claims to be wholly owned by Chinese enterprises.

The Sino-German Industrial and Commercial Cooperation Fair was held smoothly, and the negotiations between China and Japan and China and the Soviet Union were full of twists and turns. Japanese Foreign Minister Yasuya Uchida arrived in Beijing on 31 July and engaged in a back-and-forth tug-of-war with the Japanese delegation on the division of Sakhalin Island and the Far East sphere of influence with a negotiating team headed by Vice Foreign Minister Wang Chonghui.

At the same time, the negotiation between Gu Weijun as the chief representative and Kamenev as the chief representative was very smooth. Forced by the strong opposition forces at home and abroad. The Soviet government could not wait to resolve the issue of an armistice with China. On the first day of the talks, Kamenev demanded that the Chinese government stop exporting the so-called volunteer army and that the Chinese government should not support any anti-Soviet forces (especially the Kolchak forces entrenched in Siberia). He demanded that the Chinese Government formally establish diplomatic relations with the Soviet Government, and that the Chinese Government hold friendly negotiations to resolve issues left over from history such as the border.

On behalf of the Chinese government, Gu Weijun said that the volunteers are armed forces organized by volunteers on their own, and the Chinese government should not interfere too much. But the Chinese Government has always loved peace. Willing to make a contribution to world peace. Regarding the Kolchak armament, due to the fact that it represented the former tsarist government. The former Tsarist government was a member of the Entente, and the Chinese government could not take drastic action against Kolchak's White Russian government. The establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the Soviet Union is yet to be carried out in the future, and the Chinese Government hopes that the Soviet Government will do its best to be recognized by other countries in the world and is willing to reach an understanding with the Soviet Union at the first opportunity. As a gesture of sincerity, the Chinese government will demand a ceasefire (which has been temporary) and cut off the Trans-Siberian Railway in Irkutsk. The Chinese government was pleased to see the Soviet government carry out a one-time reckoning with the Qing Dynasty on the unequal treaties reached with the Qing Dynasty in the past Tsarist era.

After a week of negotiations, China and the Soviet Union reached a secret agreement, the initial agreement was: first, the Soviet government would give up a piece of Chinese territory seized by the former Tsarist Russia, withdraw a piece of Qiē troops from these areas, and let the Chinese government take over. Second, the Chinese government's call for the withdrawal of volunteers does not give any substantive support to the Kolchak government. Third, China and the Soviet Union reached a temporary ceasefire agreement for a period of one year. Fourth, China and the Soviet Union reached a package trade agreement, under which the Soviet government used gold as a means of payment to purchase 150 tons of gold worth of arms and military supplies from China. Fifth, the Chinese government established formal diplomatic relations with the Soviet government no later than 1925. Sixth, a free trade zone should be established with Almaty as a border trade port. The above six articles, this time and space is called the "Sino-Soviet Secret Treaty". After the agreement was reached, Kamenev secretly returned to the Soviet Union in mid-July, and at the same time the Chinese volunteers began a planned withdrawal from Omsk.

When the Soviet government learned of the formal signing of the "Sino-Soviet Secret Treaty," it immediately adjusted its strategy, focusing on defense on the eastern front, deploying a small number of troops, and completely shifting its strategic focus to Europe. Lev Davydovich Trotsky was chairman of the Supreme Command of the Red Army, the Soviet Military Council, and Sergei Sergeyevich Kamenev was in charge of the commander-in-chief of the former enemy. Its strength was as follows: the Western Front consisted of the 3rd, 4th, 15th, and 16th armies and the 3rd Cavalry Corps under the command of General Gaihan, and the commander of the Front, Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky; The Southwestern Front was under the command of the 12th and 14th armies and the 1st Cavalry Army led by Budyonny, the commander of which was Alexander Ilyich Yegorov. The purpose of the campaign of the Soviet command was to completely destroy the invading Polish army and capture Warsaw.

The Soviet Union's counterattack war has a history of three months, with 130,000 troops against 150,000 Polish troops, and the two Soviet armies are like a bamboo, first recovering Kiev, encircling and annihilating more than 50,000 Polish troops, and then chasing and killing the Polish army westward, all taking Ukraine. This battle earned the name of the famous Cossack cavalry commander Budyonny, the marshal whose commissar was also the famous Vroshilov.

After the withdrawal of Polish troops from the territory of the Soviet Union, there was a heated debate in the top echelons of the Bolshevik leadership. Kamenev advocated negotiating with Poland on the situation, reaching a peace agreement, and turning east to completely eliminate the Kolchak bandits. Because of the Sino-Soviet secret treaty, the struggle within the Soviet Union was also very fierce.

Trotsky, on the other hand, advocated that when the world revolution came, it should be pursued to conquer Warsaw and establish a Soviet government in Poland in one fell swoop. The basis for this was that the Polish Workers' Armed Association should launch an uprising in response to this, and should seize this golden opportunity to export the revolution, first to Poland and then to Germany, and to insert the red flag into Europe. Carry the revolution through to the end and achieve absolute victory.

Pilsudski, who had been defeated, quickly formed a new army group (the Fifth Army) with the help of France, and the First and Third Armies, which had suffered huge losses before, were also replenished, and the Polish army burst out with great combat effectiveness in the battle to defend the motherland. The expected workers' uprising did not take place, but Poland was united in its efforts.

The Soviet troops, which had advanced about 500 kilometers into Polish territory, suffered successive setbacks, and the Polish army launched a full-scale counteroffensive. The war ended on January 20, 1921, with the Soviet army losing 300,000 men, of which 100,000 were captured, and the Polish army lost 100,000 and was unable to continue the offensive. Both sides had no strength to fight and had to sit down to negotiate. Because of this war, the Soviet Union lost Western Ukraine and Western Belarus, which can be described as very hurt.

At the ninth congress of the Russian Communist Party, the reasons for the defeat of the war and the prospects for the world proletarian revolution were fiercely discussed. Tukhachevsky criticized the Southwestern Front's performance in the war, and Stalin, the political commissar of the Front, made a statement explaining his views on the defeat of the war and explaining his responsibilities. On the one hand, Lenin, the supreme leader, was in a state of contradiction, believing that the defeat of the war might have been a strategic mistake, but on the other hand, he believed that the defeat was mainly due to subjective reasons; Most of the people present at the conference held this view: Trotsky, Zinoviev, Dzerzhinsky, Bukharin, Kamenev, Stalin, etc.

The Soviet-Polish war was finally characterized as an attempt to advance the world proletarian revolution! A failed attempt!