What gave Duan Qirui a headache was Wang Maoru's request to annex the Rehe territory, and Duan Qirui discussed it carefully with Xu Shuzheng. Rehe's Yi Army is a veteran Beiyang warlord, and his qualifications are even older than Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Army in the six towns, but Rehe's weak army and a large number of empty salaries have long become a big burden for the Beiyang government. Since Wang Maoru's northeastern government stopped paying Rehe, Rehe's 100,000 army military expenses were paid from the Anhui system. The Anhui system's own soldiers are not enough, and the re-investment of Rehe has caused complaints from the warlords of the Anhui family. Since it is the burden of the Anhui system, Xu Shuzheng gritted his teeth and said: "Rehe can give it to him, and Meng Enyuan can also be the vice president in name only, whether he is the governor of the Northeast or not, it seems that he is the king of the Northeast, but the second and third articles cannot be agreed." ”

In the end, Duan Qirui accepted four of the six requirements put forward by Wang Maoru, and after the two sides negotiated again, Duan Qirui took a resolute attitude and would never agree to the second and third articles regarding Wang Maoru as the commander-in-chief of the border guards and that the northeast should not be appointed by central officials. Wang Maoru negotiated with Zhang Kuian as the representative, and after the final quarrel, Wang Maoru chose to compromise and the two sides reached an agreement.

Because of the position of commander-in-chief of the Chinese border guards, Wang Maoru, who has a shallow foundation, is not qualified to hold it for the time being, of course, the most important thing is that Xu Shuzheng is afraid that Wang Maoru's position is too high and he will not be able to beat him in the future, and the third article is to show that the five northeastern provinces are independent of the Beiyang government, Duan Qirui is naturally impossible to agree. In addition, Wang Maoru got Duan Qirui's guarantee, and immediately found Jiang Fangzhen and asked Jiang Fangzhen to sort out a complete set of armament plans, and at the same time ordered Zhang Xiaozhun to speed up the construction of reserves. He also gave Zhang Xiaozhun greater power to speed up the construction of two Heilongjiang armed police brigades and two Jilin armed police brigades, add one Liaoning armed police brigade and one Mongolian armed police brigade, and replace the army border guards with armed police brigades.

After reaching reunification with the Beiyang government represented by Duan Qirui, the Chinese delegation held a long meeting with the envoys and representatives of the other six countries, headed by Duan Qirui.

On the first day of the Harbin Conference, Duan Qirui, the representative of the Chinese government in Beijing, as the host, proposed at the Harbin Conference that China would send troops to intervene in the Russian civil war and send at least 300,000 troops to directly intervene by force. However, China needs to be exempted from some unfair treaties, such as the Chinese indemnity in the Gengzi Indemnity and the Treaty of Shimonoseki. Now Japan has only sent 70,000 troops and exterminated the guerrillas in the Russian rear, and does not directly fight against the Russian-British Red Army, but only declares the protection of the diaspora. On the other hand, China's Beiyang government, which had the full support of the Northeast Army, suddenly threatened to send 300,000 troops to fight directly against the Red Army.

On the first day of the Harbin conference, Duan Qirui immediately attracted all the limelight to himself. Suddenly, many great powers and countries were a little surprised, and they could not take many of the words and conditions that threatened and lured the Chinese government to send troops to Russia. In an act of force, the Chinese Government has declared to the world that China is a responsible country.

Naturally, Duan Qirui proposed solutions to several difficulties in sending troops, the most important problem was the problem of money, that is, the problem of military spending, China still had to pay the balance of the "Gengzi Indemnity" and the "Treaty of Shimonoseki" to the Great Powers from the customs office every year, and there was no money to arm the army at all.

It was precisely the squadron that won a small victory in Europe, which made everyone a little confident in the squadron. In particular, the Northeast Frontier Guards in the squadron can even produce their own light and heavy weapons, and their standard weapons far exceed those of Asian countries. During the meeting, the US delegates praised the continuous firing performance of the Northeast Frontier Army's E1 rifle and the reliability and lightness of the S1 general-purpose machine gun, and praised the light infantry division of the Chinese Army. Although it was not the Anhui army that was praised, it was as a representative of China. There is no doubt that Duan Qirui is also in the limelight for a while.

The representatives of other countries first asked the Chinese side about the number and composition of the 300,000 troops, and if it was other miscellaneous troops, it would be useless to send 300,000 troops, even if they sent 1 million.

Duan Qirui appointed Wang Maoru to announce China's plan for the intervention of the Russian army on behalf of the Chinese intervention army, and the plan included the generals to participate in the war and intervene in three groups of armies.

Among them, belonging to the Anhui system is the Third Army of the Chinese Intervention Army, which will be commanded by Xu Shuzheng. A total of 50,000 troops from the 1st and 3rd Divisions of the former participating armies and the 9th Division of the Army marched directly by land into the port of Vladivostok to coordinate with the Japanese intervention forces to encircle and suppress the Russian Far East guerrillas. Another one went to Vladivostok to eat and drink, and everyone was disdainful and booed in unison, which made Xu Shuzheng very faceless, and hated Wang Maoru for publicizing this matter in his heart. Wang Maoru also looked at Xu Shuzheng proudly, since you are as timid as a mouse, don't blame me for cramping and peeling.

The Second Group Army was composed of the Northeast Frontier Army, under the command of Li Delin, a senior general under Wang Maoru, and led two divisions of more than 50,000 troops, crossed the Heilongjiang River by boat through Aihui County, Heilongjiang Province, and entered the Amur Prefecture outside the Jewish Prefecture of Russia, and directly arrived at the 64th Tun of the former Jiangdong of China, and cooperated with the 6th and 7th Divisions of the Japanese Intervention Army Expeditionary Force to annihilate the guerrillas north of the Heilongjiang River and east of the Ussuri River.

The Third Army is the main force of the Chinese intervention force, consisting of six elite divisions of the Northeast Frontier Army, which will send 170,000 troops to Manchuria into Russia, pass through Chita City, and then take the Trans-Siberian Railway to the north, cross Lake Baikal to directly support the tsarist army against the Soviet Russian Red Army army.

At the same time, the Chinese naval forces, under the command of Vice Admiral Lin Jianzhang, led the fleet headed by the Hairong to the north to Vladivostok, and entered the Heilongjiang River valley through Guò Temple Street.

On the third day of the Harbin Conference, Wang Maoru took representatives of various countries to visit the most elite main force of the Northeast Frontier Army, the First Division, which was also planned to be the main force to interfere with the Russian army. He also visited a small-scale military exercise, which gave delegates more confidence in the combat power of the Northeast Frontier Army.

However, after the visit, Duan Qirui and Xu Shuzheng's faces were slightly unhappy, Wang Maoru's investment in the construction of his army over the years has indeed exceeded their expectations, if the Northeast Frontier Army enters the customs, can the Anhui army and the direct army withstand it?

The theme of the meeting on the fourth day was the reply of the representatives of various countries to the request of the squadron to send troops, in which the United States agreed and very generously exempted part of the arrears in the "Gengzi Indemnity", and the rest was used for the construction of Chinese students in the United States. The representatives of Britain and France also agreed to reduce part of the "Gengzi Indemnity" and use the silver money of the "Gengzi Indemnity" for the military expenses and weapons and equipment of the Chinese intervention army after the Chinese intervention forces entered Russia, until the Chinese intervention forces withdrew from Russia. The Japanese side promised to reduce part of the "Gengzi Indemnity" and the "Shimonoseki Treaty" indemnity, and supported some Japanese instructors to enter the Chinese intervention army.

Of course, the best of these promises is Russia, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tubanev promised to exempt China from all reparations to Russia, and if the Russian army wins the Russian army in the Russian Civil War, Russia will return one million square kilometers of land to China, and at the same time the rest of the occupied territory can be gradually abandoned.

Hearing this news, Duan Qirui, Xu Shuzheng, Foreign Minister Lu Zhengxiang and others were so excited that the territory returned, the territory returned!

Only Wang Maoru laughed calmly twice and said to the rest of the Chinese delegates: "The Russians are weak at this time, and they are certainly well said, but if Russia has the ability to threaten our territory, do you think they will give up their territory?" Don't be naïve, how to do the Chinese delegation is also so naïve! Being snorted by Wang Maoru's cold, everyone calmed down, this Russian is used to being impermanent, and he really can't count on a promise.

The topic of the fifth day was the issue of military expenses for the Chinese intervention army, which consisted of two parts, one part of which was composed of the "Gengzi Indemnity" and the other part of which was borne by itself. Among them, Xu Shuzheng's Third Group Army's Intervention Army was composed of the "Gengzi Indemnity" because of its small number of soldiers, while the First Group Army and the Second Group Army composed of the Northeast Frontier Army had a relatively large amount of military expenditure, and the rest were raised by the Northeast local government itself, except for the "Gengzi Indemnity". At the same time, the United States and Japan agreed to lend to local governments in Northeast China to subsidize the construction of people's livelihood and government expenditures in the five provinces in Northeast China.

On the sixth day, the final meeting of the seven-party talks was held, in which the countries urged the Chinese intervention forces to send troops to fight against Russia as much as possible, and agreed that if the Chinese intervention forces failed to fight, Britain, France, and the United States could ban the Harbin Conference and the great powers promised that the seven countries would reach the "Harbin Treaty."

The Treaty of Harbin was the first treaty favorable to the Chinese nation in modern Chinese history, and the Chinese Government was given great confidence in the reduction or reduction of the Gengzi Indemnity and part of the indemnity payments in the Treaty of Shimonoseki, as well as Russia's commitment to return the territory.

Someone in the Chinese delegation to the negotiations instructed the leakage of parts of the "Harbin Treaty," which immediately shocked the whole country. Then, with the permission of President Xu Shichang, China's Foreign Minister Lu Zhengxiang officially announced part of the contents of the "Harbin Treaty", which really made the Chinese people excited, after all, this was the first "victory" in China's modern diplomatic history.

In the article "The Brewing of National Independence", he spoke highly of the epoch-making significance of the "Harbin Treaty", not because of the many benefits it bringed, but because of its great steps to reclaim the dignity of our country in an equal and orderly manner and realize national rejuvenation, which made the people rejoice.

Of course, under the pretext of the imperialist lackeys' attempt to eliminate the workers' and peasants' power, some people instigated workers' strikes and students' strikes, and insisted that the Chinese government stop participating in the intervention army and not interfere in the enemy's internal affairs. However, there were few responses to the strike, after all, this is the first time in the history of Chinese diplomacy that this is the first time in China's diplomatic history that it has benefited in this way. Naturally, there were voices of opposition everywhere, and with the help of well-intentioned people, nearly half of the people in the newspapers insulted the government against the intervention army in various names. Some of them oppose for the sake of opposition, and in fact there are such oppositionists everywhere and in all times, and they often even oppose themselves. Some are spies, others are purely for the sake of newspaper sales. rs