2068 Declaration of sovereignty
Almost no one knows about the country of Estonia in Lin Yuan's time, this country has never been strong in history, it has always been occupied by various countries, when Denmark, Sweden and other countries in Northern Europe were strong, they were occupied by Denmark and Sweden, when Tsarist Russia was strong, they were occupied by Tsarist Russia, and until now, they have become a national independent country with the support of Germany.
In this way, if the Chinese army enters Estonia, it will be regarded as aggression and will have a lot of negative impact on China's international image, so Lin Yuan has to carefully consider the plan to enter Estonia.
Lin Yuan called the General Intelligence Bureau and said, "Wanqing, send me an overview of the situation in Estonia." ”
Shen Wanqing hesitated for a moment and said, "Wait a minute, I'll ask my subordinates to summarize the information about Estonia sent back from St. Petersburg Station, and then send it to you." ”
Lin Yuan was stunned for a moment and asked, "Do you still need to summarize it now?" Didn't you get this done well ahead of time? ”
Shen Wanqing said helplessly: "The entire ethnic group in Estonia now has only 300,000 people, and they are mixed with ethnic Russians, of course we will not set up a special intelligence station for such a few people, so the intelligence here has always been carried out by the St. Petersburg station." ”
Lin Yuan said "Okay", then put down the phone, thinking back to what Shen Wanqing had just said, thinking that if there were only 300,000 people here, the adverse impact would be much smaller.
After more than half an hour, Shen Wanqing pushed the door and walked in, and put the text on the table in front of Lin Yuan, Lin Yuan smiled: "Isn't it just to send a copy of the text?" Why are you here in person? ”
Shen Wanqing snorted and said, "You have already scolded me on the phone just now, how dare I not come in person." ”
Lin Yuan just smiled at Shen Wanqing's coquettishness, and then picked up the summarized information, these materials are very comprehensive, related to the history, economy and culture of the Estonian nation, Lin Yuan found out after reading it that Estonia is a country with little autonomy, it does not have a deep and heavy history and long-standing culture like China, and it is not even like Poland and Lithuania, which were once glorious in history, it is a completely small country without its own culture, Whatever culture others give it, it will accept it.
Estonia has never proposed independence, and there is no organization that even conducts independent activities in the country, Lin Yuan was looking at the information, and Shen Wanqing said on the side: "Have you thought of a way to attack here?" ”
Lin Yuan shook his head, and at this time, a Russian newspaper clipping appeared in front of Lin Yuan, Lin Yuan picked up the newspaper clipping, and saw that it said "All parts of the Baltic Sea coast should belong to Russia".
Lin Yuan held up the newspaper clipping in front of Shen Wanqing and asked, "When is this newspaper clipping?" ”
Shen Wanqing took the clipping and thought about it, and said: "This clipping was a year ago, when Sweden and Denmark took advantage of Russia's decline to make a claim to Estonia on the grounds that they had ruled Estonia in history. ”
Lin Yuan smiled and said, "I have a way!" That clipping inspired me! ”
Shen Wanqing looked at the newspaper clipping in her hand in surprise and asked, "What inspiration can this newspaper clipping give you?" ”
Lin Yuan said with a smile: "I have been looking for a suitable reason to enter Estonia, but I have ignored that this is originally Russian territory, and we can completely let Ulyanov claim sovereignty over Estonia, establish an autonomous region in Estonia, and then say that Germany is an invader!" ”
Shen Wanqing pursed her lips and smiled, and said: "This method is really good, the Germans have become invaders all of a sudden, and it is completely justified for us to fight them, this method can also be promoted to other regions, doesn't Germany support a circle of countries?" Let Ulyanov turn this circle of countries into autonomous regions. ”
Lin Yuan shook his head and smiled: "That's not going to work. ”
Shen Wanqing frowned and asked, "Why not?" Is this so troublesome? ”
Lin Yuan said with a smile: "Of course there is, the situation is different in various places, in this circle of countries, Lithuania and Poland used to be regional powers, and they will definitely ask for independence, and I am afraid that there will be great trouble in turning these places into autonomous regions." ”
Shen Wanqing nodded, and Lin Yuan said, "You go and get busy first, I'm going to arrange these things myself." ”
Shen Wanqing said goodbye, and Lin Yuan first called Ulyanov and asked him to send a telegram announcing the establishment of the Estonian Autonomous Region, the Latvian Autonomous Region, the Ukrainian Autonomous Region and the Belarusian Autonomous Region, while Poland and Lithuania, which were bent on independence, did not mention it.
Ulyanov was a faithful believer in Lin Yuan's thoughts, and naturally obeyed Lin Yuan's words, and issued this telegram, which immediately caused an uproar in Britain and Germany.
Lin Yuan did not have time to consider the impact of this incident, because his most important thing now was to stabilize the situation in Moscow and St. Petersburg, and use these two places as the main support base for the battle against the German army.
The next day, at 9 a.m. on March 24, the 1st Division of the Siberian Front entered St. Petersburg and accepted Nikolayevich's surrender, and the Janissaries were then converted into a police force to assist the 1st Division of the Siberian Front in maintaining law and order.
Nikolayevich handed over the seized Powell and Swat to Yuan Zhen, the commander of the 1st Division of the Siberian Front, who asked Lin Yuan, who of course understood that these two diplomats were of little use, so he asked Yuan Zhen to release them.
Lin Yuan instructed Yuan Zhen to stabilize the market and improve people's livelihood after entering St. Petersburg, after Moscow and St. Petersburg were often short of food, and many citizens were starved to death, otherwise the rule of the tsar and Nikolayevich would not be so unstable.
The intelligence services of St. Petersburg have long known the reason for the shortage of food, and the reason is very simple: because the tsar was extremely poor and extravagant, he was preparing for war, and the officials under the tsar were corrupt, resulting in a large overdraft of the finances, and the solution to the overdraft was to print more money in the banks, which led to the rapid depreciation of the currency.
The grain in the cities is bought from the countryside, and the peasants also know about the depreciation of the currency, so they are not willing to exchange the grain they have worked hard to grow for a pile of waste paper, so the peasants keep the grain at home and do not sell it.
The first division of the Siberian Front learned of this reason, and the army led a currency reform team composed mainly of economists, and the first thing they did after entering the city was to announce the exchange of renminbi for huàn rubles, China's strength is well known to the world, so the peasants are very trusting in the renminbi, willing to exchange grain for renminbi, and then use renminbi to buy cloth, salt and other daily necessities, and the situation of food shortage in the city has disappeared.