Chapter 477: Outer Mongolia (I) (Asking for subscriptions, monthly passes, and various !! )
Although the Soviet Union was forced to temporarily choose a compromise due to the international situation, this compromise was not without cost, and the Soviet Union also put forward three conditions, the first of which was that the Sino-Soviet trade that had been interrupted must be resumed as soon as possible, especially the penicillin drug trade, and Chen Feng's department would provide the Soviet Union with at least $2 billion in penicillin drugs every month, and the Soviet Union would repay Chen Feng's department with gold, oil, and other industrial products.
The second condition was that Chen Feng's subordinates should guarantee in writing to the countries of the world that at no time would Chen Feng's subordinates be able to flank the Soviet Union with Germany. Of course, in return, the Soviet Union would also assure Chen Feng's subordinates that the Soviet Union would not intervene in the Mongolian dispute from now on.
The third condition was on weaponry, and the Soviet Union hoped that Chen Feng's department would provide the Soviet Union with technical support in terms of new fighters and tanks.
On 9 July, the two sides began negotiations again, and while basically agreeing to the conditions put forward by Chen Feng's subordinates, Zhukov also put forward these three conditions of the Soviet Union. Chen Feng pondered for a while and then replied, there is no problem in reopening Sino-Soviet trade, there is no problem with the monthly supply of 2 billion US dollars, and it is okay to use gold, oil and industrial products to offset the payment, but Chen Feng needs to have the final say in what industrial products to use, and the price must be preferential. Chen Feng would never allow the Soviet Union to make huge profits in the drug trade while also making huge profits in the compensation of industrial products.
After all, according to the trend of history, Germany and the crazy world of the mustache will last until 1945 at most, and will eventually be strangled by the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and other countries. Therefore, the chariot of the mustache is unstable, and it is the right choice not to merge with it, otherwise the United States and the Soviet Union and other countries will lose their heads when they are liquidated after the war.
However, there is some trouble in supporting the Soviet Union in technology, what kind of country is the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union is a large industrial country that has completed industrialization, and its industrial production capacity ranks first and second in Europe, and only the United States can win in industrial production capacity. If the Soviet Union had mastered the technology of producing new fighters and new tanks, it would have taken advantage of the Soviet Union's production capacity. Up to one year. The Soviet Union's aircraft and tank clusters will be able to form combat effectiveness, and Chen Feng will have nothing to restrain the Soviet Union at that time.
After thinking about it, Chen Feng still decided to reject the third condition of the Soviet Union, that is, the technology for the production of new fighters could not be handed over to the Soviet Union under any circumstances, and the new tanks could cooperate with the Soviet Union. A tank factory was formed as a joint venture between China and the Soviet Union. Specializing in the production of this new type of tank. The new plant does not count the profits, only the tanks produced as the final income. The Soviet Union accounted for 60% of all finished products, and Chen Feng's department accounted for 40%.
But apart from this new plant. The Soviet Union was not allowed to produce new tanks of the same type at other factories in any form for any reason, otherwise the Chinese side had the right to terminate cooperation and make huge claims against the Soviet side.
After listening to Chen Feng's decision, Zhukov basically agreed with Chen Feng's opinion, but he was a little worried about the performance of the new tank that Chen Feng said. In this regard, Chen Feng gave Zhukov a clear answer, although the new tank in his hand can only be regarded as a medium tank according to the standards of European main battle tanks, its excellent combat performance is far stronger than that of most heavy tanks.
What surprised Zhukov the most was another sentence that Chen Feng said: "This new tank is the best main battle tank in the world, at least so far." There will be no such tank in the world that can be compared in three years, and it will not be eliminated in five to ten years, and none of the tanks in service in the USSR can compete with it. ”
When Zhukov sent the results of the negotiations back to Moscow, Stalin instructed Zhukov to personally verify the performance of Chen Feng's new tank, and if it was really as Chen Feng described, then he must sign a contract with it as soon as possible.
On the morning of July 10, at Zhukov's request, 30 T34 tanks competed with 30 BT7 tanks and 30 T26 tanks, and the result was that the T34 completely destroyed the two active tanks of the Soviet Union, and also played a strong record of 60:1.
In order to truly test the performance of the new tank, the tankers who participated in the competition this time were all Soviet Red Army soldiers, so after receiving the test results, Zhukov was directly petrified, this is the gap between the weapons and equipment of the two sides, it is too big, no wonder the more than 1400 tanks of the great Soviet Red Army in the Far East Campaign were almost wiped out, and Zhukov had nothing to say.
On July 11, the two sides signed an armistice agreement in Ulaanbaatar, according to which the Soviet Red Army withdrew from Mongolia and the Tangnu-Ulianghai area from now on, and promised not to intervene in the Mongolian dispute, let alone support the independence of Choibalsan. Second, the Soviet Union paid Chen Feng's troops a one-time war reparation of $1 billion, and at the same time provided technical equipment assistance to 55 large factories. In addition, the Soviet government had to cede the Tyumen region and the Tyumen oil fields to China, and the recipient had to be Chen Feng or a direct member of the Chen family.
At the same time, the two sides should also carry out greater and more in-depth exchanges on Sino-Soviet trade, and Chen Feng's department should provide the Soviet government with at least $2 billion in penicillin drugs every month, and secondly, the two sides should jointly set up a tank factory in the Tyumen region to jointly develop and produce new tanks.
Except for the last one of the secret treaties that was not announced to the public, all the other conditions of this contract were announced to the public at the first time, and when the news came, the entire world was in an uproar, the Soviet Union was defeated, and it was so spineless that it even signed an armistice agreement with a warlord in China, and also ceded land and paid compensation, which is really a big joke in the world.
However, not everyone was surprised, at least the US government, the German government, and the Japanese government were not surprised, and they were not ignorant of the combat effectiveness of Chen Feng's troops, especially the strength shown in the fight against the Japanese army in the past few years was far from being comparable to those troops under the Chiang regime of the Chinese government.
Although the war is over, there are still many problems left over from the war, especially how to deal with Outer Mongolia and the Tangnu-Ulianghai region is something that Chen Feng needs to consider urgently.
The matter of Outer Mongolia and Tangnu Ulianghai is very complicated, and it is by no means possible to solve the problem by stationing a few divisions here, and in order to solve the problem of Outer Mongolia, it is very important to first talk about how Outer Mongolia broke away from China. At the same time, it is necessary to understand what resistance there are to the inclusion of Outer Mongolia in the jurisdiction of the Eighth Theater of Operations.
No one can deny that Outer Mongolia has been China's inherent territory since ancient times, especially in the early Qing Dynasty, when it was under the direct jurisdiction of the central government. However, after the Opium War, Western civilization advanced by leaps and bounds, and the Qing Empire was still closed in a corrupt and incompetent sauce vat, closed off from the country, and stubbornly refused to open up to the outside world, so China began to decline and wither, and the rivers were declining. In the late Qing Dynasty, the advanced democracy and science of the West brought a stronger shock to the closed China, and the ignorant and conservative Manchu court stubbornly refused to carry out real reforms, in addition to engaging in some empty forms, causing a destructive "violent revolution".
In 1911, an armed uprising broke out in Wuchang, triggering a domino effect. The Chinese provinces responded by declaring their independence from the Qing government. Outer Mongolia, like the other provinces of China, declared its independence under the leadership of princes and nobles, and it was during this period that the Mongolian independence movement began.
When the Chinese provinces that declared independence after the Wuchang Uprising began to carry out various political activities for reunification and the establishment of the "Republic of China", Outer Mongolia broke away from this process and began to brew "independent statehood". Unlike other provinces, Tsarist Russia in the north, which was bent on carving up China, had completely manipulated Outer Mongolia politically, economically, and militarily after years of operation, division, and disintegration. In fact, Outer Mongolia has become a protectorate of Tsarist Russia. Statistics of the Republic of China: There are nearly 240 banners in the entire Mongolian ethnic group, of which 108 are in Outer Mongolia. The independence of Outer Mongolia will pull nearly half of the flags and more than 1.5 million square kilometers of vast land, forming the largest landlocked "country" in the world. Due to its special geographical location, its division is akin to breaking China's waist.
After the transfer of power in the Republic of China from Sun Yat-sen to Yuan Shikai, arduous negotiations with Tsarist Russia began. As the saying goes: a weak country has no diplomacy. The Republic of China, which has just been founded, can imagine the weakness of its national strength. But Chinese diplomats made great efforts to finally force Tsarist Russia to make concessions and recognize Outer Mongolia as Chinese territory on the condition that it exercise "autonomy" in Outer Mongolia. In other words, Outer Mongolia still belongs to China in name, but in fact, Outer Mongolia's internal and foreign affairs are still in the hands of Tsarist Russia. In any case, it was not easy to achieve such a result under the circumstances. Yuan Shikai, who was famous for betraying the country and restoring, finally did not lose Outer Mongolia.
In 1918, the October Revolution broke out in Russia, and the Tsarist government was overthrown by Soviet Russia. At this time, the "autonomous Mongolia" also lost its master. The continuous advance of the Russian Red Army into Siberia made the "autonomous Mongolia" feel that the danger was approaching and that they were restless. So they began negotiations with China to abolish the "autonomous Mongolia" and return to China's embrace, but the negotiation process was slow and difficult.
In 1919, Duan Qirui's government, which was in charge of China's political situation, sent Xu Shuzheng, a capable general, to lead troops into Outer Mongolia, replacing General Chen Yi, who was engaged in peace negotiations with Outer Mongolia at that time, and immediately used an iron-fisted policy to force Outer Mongolia to give up its autonomy and return Outer Mongolia to China.
In this way, the ambition of Outer Mongolia to establish an independent state for the first time was extinguished by the Chinese government, but this ruthless iron-fisted policy caused China to lose the hearts of the upper princes of Outer Mongolia and laid the foundation for the later separation of Mongolia. (To be continued......)