Compared with the bloody operation of Wu Peifu in the northwest region, Xu Shuzheng's march into Mongolia is more like a steppe tour......

On February 4 of the 7th year of the Republic of China, the Mongolian Emperor Nikguang, Khutuktu Khan, and the Living Buddha Jebtsundamba publicly announced the abolition of the autonomous status, and at the same time, according to Xu Shuzheng's order, the whole Mongolia was divided into four provinces and one municipality directly under the central government, namely Dongmeng Province, Simon Province, Beimeng Province and Nanmeng Province. Each province has four leagues, each league has a prince, eight permanent flags, each flag has a county king, and the rest follow the old system of the former Qing Dynasty. In the municipality directly under the central government, four khans were set up to assist the living Buddha Jebtsundamba in handling the government affairs of the four Mongolians, but in fact, the Mongolian military and political committee led by Xu Shuzheng is currently in charge of the Mongolian government affairs. According to the order of the Living Buddha, the size of the entire Mongolian border guard army was three regular field divisions of the Youth Army, plus ten Mongolian cavalry brigades with a total of 130,000 people.

This announcement by the living Buddha Jebtsundamba was called the Mongolian Incident by British, French, Japanese, and American diplomats.

The first to be angry were the diplomats of the Russian Empire, but no one cared about their anger anymore. Beginning with the outbreak of the October Revolution in Russia in November 1917, the Russian Empire was inevitably heading for its demise, and different people saw different opportunities in this destruction.

Not only did Wang Zhenyu and the Nationalist government he controlled dream of using Russia's civil strife to settle the Northwest and Outer Mongolia problems once and for all, but Japan also took a fancy to the legacy of the Russian Empire in the Far East.

Since the Xinhai Revolution, Japan has been instigating the Manchurian-Mongolian separatist movement, but it is clear that the people supported by this movement are not strong enough, so the secession has always ended in failure. With the strong rise of the Nationalist Government in the south, the Japanese government began to realize that there were big problems with its China policy, so after the end of the Protectorate War, Prime Minister Terauchi adjusted its China policy first.

The fact that the Feng system was able to rise out of thin air and take advantage of the opportunity of the Zhiwan War to take Beijing in one fell swoop is a direct manifestation of this policy. However, the subsequent changes in the situation were frustrating in the words of the Japanese military department, first of all, the Feng army went south and was strongly blocked by the troops of the southern Nationalist Government in Xuzhou, and the result was that no matter how the Japanese masters coerced and lured, the Feng army refused to take a further step south.

The situation was even worse, as South China did not seem satisfied with being a regional government with independent tariffs, and although they stopped the Northern Expedition, they began a more aggressive westward expedition. Wu Peifu, a general who originally belonged to the direct line, broke into Shaanxi in one fell swoop after accepting the appointment of the South China government, and within three months, he successively took Gansu and Xinjiang and other places. When they arrived in Gansu, they found that the Hui people had asked Gu Zhenglun to pack up like a good baby. And Xu Shuzheng's sudden move to take over Kulun made the Japanese military department roar angrily: "As a samurai of His Majesty the Emperor, should the special high school collectively apologize?" ”

And within the Japanese military department, the contempt for the special high school has also reached a peak, and a very popular joke is: "When the enemy has already stabbed you in the stomach, the idiot of the special high school will come to tell you that the enemy is going to do something to you......"

Now the Terauchi cabinet has entered a very difficult period, because the performance of the Shina issue is not satisfactory, and the radicals in Japan have now regarded it as a national thief, and the rationalists are also very dissatisfied, believing that Terauchi, the head of the Billiken, is responsible for the rise of South China. As a result, the temple became not a person inside and out, and it is estimated that the only person who can support him now is neither radical nor rational, but is there such a person in Japan?

Calls for Terauchi's resignation as prime minister have already begun to emerge, and it is clear that the legacy of the Russian Empire in the Far East may well be the last straw that will save the fate of Terauchi's cabinet......

In fact, Wang Zhenyu, a traverser, is very interested in intervening in the Russian civil war, and in his opinion, this is an opportunity to promote China's further rise:

First, the reconquest of lost territory; Wang Zhenyu took the latest version of the world map and studied it for most of the day, and combined with his own memories, he thought that it was unlikely that he would recover the land lost since 1858. First, because the area was so large, Lenin did not dare and would not agree to it, unless he sent troops to help Lenin's Soviet power to attack the white bandits who would control these areas in the future. The second is that the time interval is too long, and it has exceeded the scope of 50 years of international recognition. Therefore, Wang Zhenyu thought about it, and there were only a few things that were most promising to be recovered, the first was to obtain joint confirmation in the territory of Outer Mongolia, the second was to recover part of the territory in Central Asia, and at the same time to recover hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land lost after 1896 in the Far East, and the third was to recover the Middle East Road, which is estimated to be supported and acquiesced by small Japan. What makes Wang Zhenyu feel most reliable is that his plans in Xinjiang and Outer Mongolia are progressing smoothly at present, and according to this trend, as long as the diplomatic control is properly controlled, it is by no means a dream to realize the plan to regain lost territory......

second, to receive talent and wealth; Wang Zhenyu clearly remembers the story about Kolchak's gold, 1.27 million White Russians and 500 tons of gold crossed the entire Siberia and was said to be going to Japan, and finally all of them froze to death on the road, and Kolchak himself was betrayed by the British and French and his subordinates and was captured and shot by the pursuing Red Army troops. In fact, Wang Zhenyu is not concerned about this gold, no matter how poor his treasury is, 500 million US dollars can still be scraped together. What really makes Wang Zhenyu excited is people, yes, people. According to later historical records, a total of 1 million Russians successfully escaped from Soviet Russia, these people are not illiterate, their common feature is professionals from all walks of life, and in the team that fled with Kolchak, such people are even more heaps, so according to Wang Zhenyu's vision, these people can participate in China's industrialization and modernization, just like their rise depends on 300,000 Luxembourg citizens. This is far more efficient and reliable than training 2 million talents by himself, so Wang Zhenyu has ordered the Security Bureau to do its best to establish contact with Kolchak and other White Army, so that it will be much easier for him to contain them in the future.

Third, adjust international relations. Although Wang Zhenyu was well aware of the might of the Soviet Union and the ability of these grandsons to mobilize the proletariat. However, from the perspective of the rise of his own country, Wang Zhenyu even did not tolerate two tigers, so he decided that he would rather be overthrown by the great proletarian workers' and peasants' alliance in China in the future. It is also necessary to suppress the Soviet Union and leave 13 million square kilometers of land to future generations, and the living space of future generations should be expanded by force and economic means, rather than by self-castration...... Moreover, after Wang Zhenyu consulted Wang Yaqiao's intelligence analysis of Japan, he keenly felt that on the issue of Soviet Russia, he might be able to solve the problem between China and Japan. Once the Sino-Japanese issue is successfully resolved, China's reunification will be just around the corner.

Now that you've figured out these points, there's a lot of homework to do.

On the night of 15 February, Wang Zhenyu secretly summoned Yang Yongtai, Yang Du, Wan Yaohuang, and Bai Chongxi, as well as the new Minister of the Army, Army General Xu Yuanquan, Air Force Minister Vice Admiral Yang Yat-sen, and the new Navy Minister Vice Admiral Chen Shaokuan, in Wenlu's study, to discuss with them how to do a good job in receiving the Tsarist legacy.

"Dashuai, does your plan sound a little scary? Do we have such a good appetite" Xu Yuanquan was the first to stand up and raise his own question: "Dashuai, according to your plan, once the Russian civil war breaks out, we must participate in it, this seems to be a two-choice option, but in fact it is not at all, fools know who Britain and France will support." We can only be the enemy of Lenin's regime, and with our current strength we are fighting on a supply line as long as the north-west, victory is really not guaranteed. We all know that although our country is backward in industry, our army's dependence on industry is on the high side, and once logistics cannot keep up, we will most likely fail, and this cannot be compensated for by the so-called fighting spirit. At the same time, you just said that you should have a plan to fight the Japanese, but I don't want to discuss whether or not to fight, just talking about fighting, how to fight when we have no sea dominance, this is all a problem. Finally, there is the question of receiving immigrants, if there is a real fight, the Russians will flee for sure, but we have to accept them, where can we settle them to cooperate with our industrial construction? This is also something to be seriously considered. ”

Although Wan Yaohuang and Xu Yuanquan are both Hubei natives, they seem to be natural rivals, and as soon as Xu Yuanquan's voice fell, he opened his mouth to retort: "I think Dashuai's thinking is definitely no problem, and now let's discuss how to implement it, and how to ensure that Dashuai's goal is finally realized through our work." So my personal point of view is that we still have to spend some effort on the construction of the army, especially in the navy. I communicated with Minister Chen of the Admiralty yesterday, and at present, we only have one training fleet, and the fleet can really undertake the task of breaking diplomatic relations at present, that is, four British converted cruisers, because only they have reached a speed of 32 knots, which means that they can only sneak attack some civilian ships, and cannot attack the fleet. At present, with the help of Britain and France, we have successfully built the Haikou Shipyard and expanded the Jiangnan Shipyard, but it is simply too late to build a fleet that can compete with Japan on our own, not to mention that the current manufacturing level of these two shipyards is to imitate cruisers. Battleships can't be built or anything, so I have to remind you that our next action must have a degree, that is, not to make enemies with Britain and France, and our naval plans will definitely need their help. My suggestion is to bypass the British Minister to China, Jurdian, who is very hostile to us, and to make direct contact with the British government so that we can gain their support for our actions. ”