Chapter 621: Three Birds with One Stone (I)
In front of him, he shouted from his Russian friends, and he stabbed him directly in the back, saying that it was impossible for the Russians not to be angry. Lenin and Trotsky ordered the arrest of Lo Wenying and others immediately after the Wehrmacht's attack on the Outer Northeast, but Lo Wenying was obviously not stupid enough to stay where they were and wait for them to be arrested, so in the end, by the time the Russians found the location of the secret service, they had already disappeared without a trace.
Later, although Lenin and others ordered a trace, they were never able to find anything.
Over time, despite the anger in their hearts, Lenin and the others did not pay much attention. After all, the Russian Communist Party can be said to have won a complete victory at the moment, and although Lenin and others know the power of Luo Wenying and others, they don't think they can make any waves at the moment.
And it was this attitude of theirs that ultimately made them suffer a big loss.
In one way, Lenin was right, but in another, he was wrong.
Indeed, no matter how good an agent like Luo Wenying is, it is impossible to help the already defeated Kerensky government regain victory. After all, there were only more than a dozen people in their group, and even if they were equipped with aircraft and artillery, it was impossible to confront Soviet Russia.
But they can't, but others can...
What's more, the job of an agent is not to go head-to-head with people, but to provide valuable information.
Many times, a useful piece of intelligence can help a general eliminate tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of enemy troops, and it can also help a country develop a plan against another country.
The same is true for now...
Luo Wenying's time in Russia was not in vain, and he developed many of his own people in the middle and lower strata of the Russian Communist Party. Even at the top, there are two or three. These people can undoubtedly play a great role, at the very least, to tell him the details of the negotiations that are now being carried out between Soviet Russia and Germany...
Luo Wenying sent these details to Yan Shao by telegram. As for Yan Shao, he handed them over to the British and French...
In this way, it is tantamount to saying that the entire Entente has become clear about the progress of negotiations between Soviet Russia and Germany.
Of course, this part of the information must be somewhat deleted, so that it can be more beneficial to Yan Shao.
In fact, Britain and the United States and other countries also have their own sources of intelligence, but they are not as meticulous as Yan Shao, but they know that Soviet Russia is negotiating with Germany. And because of that. Therefore, when they looked at Soviet Russia, their vision became more and more unkind.
Communism was originally the most hostile to Britain and the United States, but now Soviet Russia is actually in fornication with Germany. How can countries such as Britain and the United States not be angry about vainly trying to withdraw from this 'inter-imperialist' war...
Even Russia and Germany have not yet come up with a result, and Britain and the United States and other countries have already organized a crusade army.
Since Yan Shao had already sent troops to occupy the Outer Northeast at this time, there was no China in the crusading army. But even so. The size of the crusade is still very large.
Of course, in the process of forming the crusade army, Japan almost ruined its intestines.
Originally, when the Kuomintang government sent troops to the Northeast, Japan was still going to see Yan Shao's jokes, but who would have thought that such a thing would happen in the end. Japan's desire for territory is unquestionable, and while it seems that the North does not have the resources they need, it is better than nothing.
Some time ago, Soviet Russia was formed. Although some people in Japan were ready to move, Soviet Russia was still in the camp of the Entente at that time. Of course, this is also because Russia ββββββis stronger, although Russia is making a lot of trouble, but no one knows what the situation is, and it is better not to act rashly before the situation is understood. On the other hand, if it is replaced by a soft persimmon like China, as long as it is profitable, Japan will not care about any allies or non-allies.
And now...
After all, Japan is a member of the Entente, and it is also one of the stronger countries, and Japan is naturally qualified to share this information, but it is precisely because of this...
If Soviet Russia and Germany were to collude, then given the system of the Soviet Russian government, it would inevitably become the target of the Entente's crusade. At this time, the occupation of the Outer Northeast is almost justifiable and no one can blame it.
However, before this, China had already sent troops to the northeast, and in the name of recovering the lost territory, no one could take advantage of it. Seeing that China has taken such a big advantage, and even Sakhalin Island has been taken away by half of it, how can the Japanese, who have not caught anything, not regret their intestines.
However, these are not things that Yan Shao needs to consider, after all, he is the president of China, not Japan.
What's more, he still has a lot of things to do at the moment, such as the development of the Outer Northeast...
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Due to jealousy, or for various other reasons, after the Communist government recovered the Outer Northeast, the Japanese provided a large number of weapons, ammunition, and winter clothes to the resistance in the Outer Northeast by means of guΓ² waterways.
However, after the new measures taken by the Kuomintang government, there was a lot less resistance in the Outer Northeast, and although it cannot be said that there was no more, it was a big gap from the scale of the more frequent in the past. After all, not everyone wants to leave their homeland, not to mention Sakhalin for the former and Iraq for the latter.
What is that place in Iraq?
In later generations, Iraq was once rich because of oil, even richer than most countries at that time, but it was ruined by the Gulf War, and it has not been able to stand up until now.
But in the eyes of those of this era, Iraq is a wasteland.
Outside the Northeast anyway, the resources are still good, put here don't have to run to the Outer Northeast, what kind of feelings is this?
Because after some time, the Japanese plan for sabotage was declared bankrupt.
With the stability of the Outer Northeast, it seems that the development of the Outer Northeast can also get into the right topic.
During the period of Tsarist Russia, Russia's foreign northeast was mainly divided into two parts, one part was the collection of the four regions of present-day Russia, the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Khabarovsk and Sakhalin Island, and the other part was the Amur Oblast...
These five administrative regions of later Russia. Except for Khabarovsk, which needs to remove the part that extends to the north, it is basically equivalent to the approximate extent of the outer northeast.
It can be said that the resources of the entire Outer Northeast are very rich, for example, in the later part of Primorsky Krai. The forest resources are abundant and abnormal, and the forest coverage rate reaches 75%. The total area of forest land in the region is 12.3 million hectares. The total reserves of timber in Primorsky Krai are 1.7, 500 million cubic meters, and the annual limit of timber harvesting is 10 million cubic meters.
In addition, there are abundant aquatic resources, with 194 of the 872 species of fish in the Sea of Japan being found in Peter the Great Bay. 165 species in the northern waters of Primorsky Krai, 172 species in the Tatar Strait.
In the Khabarovsk Territory, in the north of Primorsky Krai, the main minerals are coal, manganese, iron, aluminum, tin, gold and mercury. platinum, etc. Thereinto. Industrial reserves of rock coal exceed 1 billion tonnes, coking coal reserves are forecast at 4 billion tonnes, and lignite is distributed in the central part of the Amur River Basin. Reserves are forecast at 7 billion tonnes; The forecast reserves of oil and gas are 500 million tons.
In the Jewish Autonomous Region, there are more than 20 kinds of coal, iron ore, manganese ore, tin ore, gold ore, graphite ore, talc ore, brucite ore, etc., which have proved large reserves in the territory. Among them, the proven reserves of brucite are huge, ranking second in the world. The reserves of other minerals are also very abundant, including manganese ore, iron ore, etc...
As for the Amur Region. The Amur Region is rich in mineral resources. The economic potential is estimated at $400 billion. There are mainly gold, silver, platinum, titanium, coal, zeolite, kaolin, rare earth elements, including uranium and diamond. According to the exploration and calculation of geographers, there are 123 sources of various non-metallic mineral raw materials and building materials, including 4 billion tons of iron ore and 1.5 billion tons of coal, about 70 billion tons of carboniferous and lignite resources, and 3.8 billion tons of iron ore. In addition, there are many sources of non-metallic mineral resources in the Amur Region, mainly apatite, kaolin, asbestos, diatomaceous earth, clay, sand, gravel, etc. These can be used to extract building materials, chemical and metallurgical materials, and mineral pigments.
Especially for gold mines, the Amur Region is one of the largest in Russia. According to data at the end of 1995, gold mining in the region accounted for more than 10% of gold mining in Russia.
In addition, the forest cover of the Amur Region is 21.9 million hectares, accounting for 73% of its area, and the main tree species are larch, spruce, fir, pine, oak, birch, ash.
And that's not counting the relatively barren Sakhalin Island, it can be said that the entire Outer Northeast is a treasure land, and it is really distressing that such a place was ceded to the Russians, and it was a distressing thing for the Russians to spoil it for so many years.
Of course, the above information belongs to later generations, at least in this era, the Outer Northeast is still a very barren area, otherwise the Russians would not have been ignoring this place, and the Japanese would not have always been less interested in this placeββββββ with the character of the Japanese, if they had learned that there were so many resources here, when they intervened in the war against the Soviet Union, they would not have evacuated so lightly...
However, the Japanese didn't know it at the beginning, and Yan Shao is also unclear now, after all, there are not many introductions to the Northeast in the future generations. At present, Yan Shao, like many people in China, regards the Outer Northeast as a place with some resources, but this resource is not very rich.
The people at home are happy about the recovery of the Outer Northeast, not because of the resources there, but simply because it is the first piece of lost territory that China has regained in nearly a century.
However, according to the usual practice, Yan Shao still sent a resource exploration team to explore the resources of the Outer Northeast, which is also what Yan Shao has done in China in the past few years. Although the resources of the Outer Northeast are not something that can be explored in a short period of time, the resources are buried in the ground, and all that is needed is to find out, isn't it?
When sending an exploration team to the Outer Northeast for resource exploration, I am afraid that even Yan Shao did not know that in the coming years, the resources of the Outer Northeast would become a major boost to the domestic industry...
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Although so far, the resources of the Outer Northeast have not yet been discovered, but there are still a lot of proven ones, at least the gold mining in the Outer Northeast has been some time, and there are more or less other mineral deposits.
Ordinary manufacturing may not have any foundation, but there is still some market for mineral mining and the like. Moreover, the forestry resources in the Outer Northeast are very rich, which is also a resource worth developing.
Especially in agriculture...
For Yan Shao. I'm afraid the most important thing right now is agriculture.
After all, there are still very few resources explored in the Outer Northeast, and even if all of them are invested, it will be difficult to meet the needs of many jobs. At present, there are not many Chinese people in the Outer Northeast, which is definitely not conducive to the rule of the Nationalist Government in the Outer Northeast, and if you want to consolidate the government's rule in the Outer Northeast, the best way is to immigrate.
However, as mentioned earlier, the mineral resources that have been explored at present are still too few. If there is not much employment, the only way to do so is agriculture. It also seems that only agriculture can meet the needs of a large population ...
"It's a pity that the outer northeast is not very suitable for planting cotton, otherwise it will contract hundreds of thousands of hectares out, and when the cotton textile factory expands in the future. There is no need to worry about the origin of cotton..."
Inside the conference room. After Yan Shao rubbed his knees with his hand, he smiled at Li Liang and the others.
"President, haven't you already bought a lot in Xinjiang, Xinjiang's is more suitable for growing cotton than those in the Outer Northeast..."Hearing Yan Shao do this, Zhang Guogan, who was sitting on the side, said with a smile.
In the past few years, Yan Shao's Yushi Group has contracted a lot of land across the country to grow cotton to supply the needs of cotton textile mills, and Zhang Guogan, as the Minister of Agriculture, is naturally very clear.
Today's Yushi Textile Company has nearly four million spindles alone. When these more than 3 million spindles are in operation, you can imagine how much cotton is needed. At least in the cotton-growing areas of Anhui back then, it was certainly not enough. Therefore, after the establishment of the Guoshe government, Yan Shao successively bought some land in various places, but it was still a bit wasteful to use the land used to grow grain to grow cotton.
Therefore, after the situation in Xinjiang stabilized a lot, Elaline put her main energy into the Xinjiang region. It is vast and sparsely populated, and the climatic conditions are very suitable for growing cotton, so it can be said that it is one of the main cotton producing areas in China in later generations...
Naturally, with the increasing number of domestic cotton textile mills, many people have followed the trend to buy or contract a lot of land in Xinjiang, but the biggest one is always Yan Shao's.
And as the cotton mill grows larger, Elano is still considering whether to continue to expand, after all, it is much cheaper to grow it herself than to buy it from outside.
"That's right..."Hearing Zhang Guogan's words, Yan Shao smiled and said. But at present, doesn't the Outer Northeast need to immigrate some people to the Outer Northeast, and if I contract hundreds of thousands of acres of land in the Outer Northeast, wouldn't it be equivalent to emigrating a lot of people to the Outer Northeast? That's killing two birds with one stone..."
Yan Shaozhi has a very good impression of this Zhang Guogan, because a Japanese businessman once bribed him with a lot of money, but he sternly refused. Although Zhang Guogan has not said anything about this matter, Yan Shao knows very well.
It's just that what Yan Shao doesn't know is that Zhang Guogan has also done similar things in history.
In Yan Shao's time, Zhang Guogan was the chief of agriculture and commerce of the Beiyang government. At that time, China and Japan had negotiated a loan, which was known as the historical 'Nishihara loan'.
This incident caused quite a stir at the time, and it can almost be said that the whole country was opposed, but Duan Qirui insisted on going his own way, and sent the contract to Zhang Guogan's desk, asking Zhang Guogan to sign it, but Zhang Guogan refused.
The Japanese minister to China, Hayashi Quansuke, personally went to the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce to threaten Zhang to sign it. Zhang asked Lin whether he represented Japanese businessmen or the Japanese government. And said, "If it is a merchant representing your country, it should be handled in accordance with our Chinese mining regulations." If I am representing the government of your country, this is the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce, and I do not have the status to talk to you, so please contact the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of our country. β
Later, Duan Qirui sent someone to send 1.2 million yuan to bribe Zhang Guogan, but it was unsuccessful, and it was increased to 2 million, but he still refused, which shows how this person's personality is.
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"Indeed..."Listening to Zhang Guogan's words, Yan Shao nodded.
The Outer Northeast is indeed not very suitable for growing cotton, and now the cotton planting of Yushi Group is mostly concentrated in Xinjiang, so there is really no need to mix it in the Outer Northeast. However, if you want to stabilize the rule of Dìng in the Outer Northeast, it is definitely not possible to rely on some half-hearted Russians alone, and only some immigrants can ...
Yan Shao told Zhang Guogan and others about this idea, but Zhang Guogan shook his head and said.
"Immigration is naturally a good idea, the question is how to immigrate, forced immigration or ......... If it is forced to emigrify, the people will inevitably have some resistance, but if it is voluntary, although the lost land in the northeast has been recovered, and the whole country is jubilant, but the people are still very new to it after all, and the local security is not very good, plus the weather is cold, I'm afraid..."
"Yes, it's freezing, and it's probably not easy to get people to go willingly," the others agreed with the others.
Just like Zhang Guogan said, forced immigration, the people will definitely resist, and if it is not done well, it will lose the support of the people. Now it is no longer a feudal dynasty, Yan Shao can't move a large number of people to the Outer Northeast with an order, even if he does have this right.
But if it's voluntary...
It's cold in the northeast, and the situation is unstable, so it's not very easy to get people to go over voluntarily...
"Yes..."Yan Shao also sighed, and only spoke after a while. What do you think of this...", Yan Shao stretched his body forward, and then said his thoughts.
Hearing Yan Shao's method, Zhang Guogan and the others all showed surprised expressions, but they quickly thought that this was a good way... (To be continued......)