Episode 200 The Soviet Abacus

Although Erdun Mutu did not know Russian, and the Soviets did not know Chinese and Mongolian, they were both fluent in Kazakh. In the multi-ethnic region of Altay in northern Xinjiang, it is common to speak two or three languages.

This Soviet man is not a Kazakh, but a pure Russian, and he is from Moscow, and his full name is Yevgeny? Petrovich? Petrov. It's just that he majored in Kazakh, worked as an official in the Soviet Union country of Kazakhstan, and was later transferred to Moscow. Erdun Mutu was born in western Outer Mongolia, near northern Xinjiang, and has been mixed in the Altay region since he was a child, and he also speaks Kazakh.

Erdun Mutu was in his fifties, his parents died when he was a child, and he began to live a life of semi-nomadic and half-robber in the north of the Tianshan Mountains when he was a teenager, and later joined a gang and became a professional bandit. He has dealt with Mongolian bandits, Kazakh bandits, Cossack bandits, and Hanhui bandits, and he is clever and courageous, and he is ruthless.

Later, his cavalry gang gradually grew, and during the Soviet and Russian Civil War, he successively collected several remnants of the Russian White Army, which grew to tens of thousands of cavalry, becoming the largest personal armed force in northern Xinjiang. In the twenties, he was absorbed by the White Guard Resistance Movement led by Denikin, and got the nickname of "Novosibirsk White Guard", based on Altay in northern China, and the cavalry attacked from all sides, and the eastern part of Kazakhstan and southern Novosibirsk in the Soviet Union were all within his scope of activity. He continued to co-opt peasants whose land had been confiscated and herdsmen whose livestock had been confiscated, sacked towns and cities, and fought against the Russian Red Army. Whenever the "collectivization" in the Soviet Union intensified, his ranks could grow rapidly.

By the late twenties, the White armies west of the Ural Mountains had been largely annihilated, and the Bolshevik rule in Russia was becoming more and more secure. Denikin, the spiritual leader of the White Russians, also went into exile in France, and the entire "White Guard" movement entered a low ebb. The Soviet Red Army was able to free up its hands and mobilize heavy troops to clean up the "remnants of the white bandits" in Central Asia. The cavalry of Erdun Mutu fought several battles with the cavalry of the Red Army, and who knew that the other party was the famous cavalry general of the Red Army, Budyonny. Erdun Mutu suffered a big loss, and when he came to his senses, he knew that the Su Realm was not easy to mix, so he pulled his team back to the north to collect protection money from the princes of various departments to maintain expenses.

At this time, Erdun Mutu bought an official title of "Major General Chief" from the Qing court, got an official name, and bleached it from a political bandit gang into a Qing official army, becoming an honorable part of the Qing Dynasty's "Thousand Divisions Army", nominally under the control of the Northwest Army Headquarters. But in fact, like other miscellaneous armies of the Qing army, basically no one can control him.

At present, although his team is only tens of thousands of people, accounting for only a small part of the entire "Northwest Army", it has been fought for many years by licking blood and fighting with knives, and belongs to the "fierce cavalry bandits" and is the most powerful one in the "Northwest Army." In the case that the Qing Dynasty Railway was only built to Xining, he was far away from the Tiangao Emperor here. Even if he can't be said to be the "king of northern Xinjiang", at least he is the emperor of the Altay region. If it weren't for the relatively short time he brought back and there weren't too many people, he would have already gotten the position of "Commander of the Northwest Army".

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Erdun Mutu was "raised from a young age", he had a Cossack beard, two box guns stuck in his waist, sat on a tiger skin chair with a shelf, a large plate of mutton in front of him, a posture of a mountain carving, and stared at the well-mannered Soviet cadre from Moscow in front of him.

"Comrade Erdun Mutu, please listen to me......"

"Same x!" Erdun Mutu scolded, "Who *** is comrade with you!" Do you think Lao Tzu doesn't know what kind of bird you *** are? Spit! Damn, you grabbed the food more thoroughly than our bandits, and you didn't even leave the seeds for the people, so that we couldn't grab the food for the next year, only the corpses of the whole village...... Corpses are corpses, they are all starved to death, no different from skeletons, they can't be removed from any meat, and they can't eat some human flesh to survive...... , I've been a bandit for decades, and it's only an eye-opener to meet you. I'm embarrassed to call us bandits, Lao Tzu bandits have banditry, robbing grain and constantly surviving, you don't even talk about banditry, grab the surplus grain and grab the rations, grab the rations after the rations, grab the seeds...... If Lao Tzu hadn't pulled the team back in time, even Lao Tzu, who was a bandit, would have starved to death! …… He still shouted with a shy face, 'What kind of doctrine in wartime...... Feel your conscience and say, what are you? ”

Petrov's face was not red and his heart was not beating, and he still said politely:

"Listen to me, Mr. Erdun Mutu. The wartime XX policy you are questioning is an extraordinary measure of a military nature that was forced to be taken under the special conditions of a brutal war environment and an extreme shortage of materials. Comrade Lenin also said: Under the conditions of the war in which we were at that time, this policy was basically correct. It enabled Soviet Russia to concentrate the material and financial resources of the whole country to the maximum, thereby guaranteeing a military victory and creating the necessary material preconditions for crushing the armed offensive of imperialism, defending the victorious gains of the October Revolution and defending the nascent Soviet power......"

Erdun Mutu listened patiently to his crooked chatter as he cut the mutton from the plate on the table and ate it. He used a Kazakh cutlass to cut off a piece of mutton, dipped it in the sauce and threw it into his mouth, shook his head and chewed, and swallowed it contentedly. When I ate it, I couldn't help but put one foot on the chair.

After a while, he burped and threw down the knife.

And at this time, Petrov was still preaching revolutionary theory to him:

“…… Stronger social superiority...... Extremely rich in matter...... The people have enough food and clothing......"

Petrov was sent from Moscow, but he was only a minor player, and he hadn't tasted meat for months. While reciting theories, he peeked at the large plate of mutton, and was about to go crazy.

Erdun Mutu burped again, picked his teeth, saw Petrov's appearance, and grinned:

"You are the Red Army, I am the White Army, you dare to fool me, you are also a man...... Since it's a guest, it's a man......"

Boldly pushed the remaining large plate of mutton in front of him, and said with a smile:

"Come, friend, eat!"

Although Petrov "purred" in his belly, he still hesitantly raised his head and stared at the former "big white bandit leader". I ate the food of the white bandits, and if anyone reports this, then my life will be lost when I go back.

"How?" Erdun Mutu glared, "Friend, look down on me? ”

With a "bang", the Kazakh cutlass was nailed to the table, and the handle was still shaking.

Petrov closed his eyes in shock, and then secretly said in his heart: You can't be afraid, you can't lose your integrity in front of the white bandits.

He also laughed, dragged the plate with a very heroic appearance, and took the small scimitar and ate it. The fragrant lamb entered his mouth, and he began to gobble down almost immediately.

Erdun Mutu smiled:

"Look at how hungry you are, do you believe what the you say? Okay, okay, don't say it's useless, I don't understand. Let's talk about some dry goods. …… Why, you guys are in charge, what kind of forest is that, and you still refuse to let go? Or is it just to let Lao Tzu be the 'president of the republic'? Tell you to be in charge, don't be a reunification, and don't join your bird Soviet Union...... Lao Tzu either honestly returned to the Ming Dynasty and wanted peace...... If you want Lao Tzu **, you have to protect Lao Tzu as the emperor! ”

Petrov swallowed a large piece of mutton with all his might, and it took him half a day to catch his breath. He shook his head and said:

"Mr. General, you are imperialism, we cannot support an imperialist country......"

"What kind of doctrine is not doctrine...... Erdun Mutu sneered, "that is, what kind of 'ism' do you little shrimp down here take seriously...... You big bosses won't take these birdism seriously! If you want to talk about your Lenin grandfather, it is true that he has some ideals...... As for your current boss, let me tell you, there are only two words in the butcher's eyes, one is 'power' and the other is 'profit'! Also ***ism...... Okay, okay, get out of here, tell him to come and talk to me somebody else! ”

Petrov, holding a small scimitar in one hand and a slice of mutton in the other, looked up in amazement and looked at him.

Erdun Mutu laughed, changed his smiling face again, and said with a smile:

"Haha, brother, how are you mixed up like this! Alas, you might as well know what your big bosses are calculating...... Actually, he doesn't care if I'm the emperor or whatever! Damn, what he thought in his heart was that this kid directly announced that it was best to be the emperor! In this way, the Ming army will not tolerate it, even if it has just finished the battle, it will have to come and fight me again immediately...... He just wants me to declare the North **, or the Altay region**, and then you Soviet Union will immediately admit it, and then the Ming army will definitely come to fight me, then my tens of thousands of people will definitely be unable to parry, cornered, and if you want to live, you will definitely ask for help from the Soviet Union...... Hmph, then you Soviet Union will be justified, shouting 'protect weak and small countries from aggression', or shouting 'protect Kazakh compatriots', and then the army will drive in directly from Kazakhstan!

"The Ming army's railway only reached Xining, and the remaining more than 2,000 kilometers had to be carried on four wheels. Your Trans-Siberian Railway has a stop here in Almaty, and almost as soon as you get off the train is the border...... You have a whole railway from Moscow to here, and you are almost fighting at your doorstep, and his Ming army is running thousands of miles, and people are pulling horses, even if you pour the strength of the whole country, you are not your opponent! His Ming army has just laid down the entire north, the foundation is not stable, those officials in the north are still detached, the millions of Qing soldiers are not well placed and have to change, and the north has added hundreds of millions of mouths to eat...... How long do you say that the Ming army can fight this battle in the northwest? Is he worth his life for this place? Even if he fights hard, can he win? After two months, I can't hold on, and I have to negotiate for peace, and in the end, this northwest border is not how you say you can draw it! …… Hmph, Lao Tzu's Altay, Lao Tzu's Northern Xinjiang, is just surnamed Su......"

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Petrov was stunned, looking at the big white bandit leader, stunned.

Erdun Mutu smiled:

"Go back and tell you the big boss, I want Lao Tzu to announce **, no problem, they all come out to mix, and you almost have to give face...... There is only one item, don't discount the guns, money, and food that Lao Tzu wants, and hurry up. You are difficult, and Lao Tzu is even more difficult. Without these things, Lao Tzu doesn't dare to **, he has no confidence. Lao Tzu is not a commander, nor will he be stupid to be the emperor and touch the moldy head of the little lady Zhu...... It's okay for Lao Tzu to be a 'king', a 'great khan' or something. In the future, the three families of Daming, Lao Tzu, and the Soviet Union will be neighbors with harmony. Don't you just want a buffer country? Okay, Lao Tzu will be this buffer country for you. You ordinary people came over, and Lao Tzu tied you up and sent them back. That's all right, right?

"As for following the Ming Dynasty, Lao Tzu still has to call the ministers a tribute. Lao Tzu grew up in the mix, and he knows best how many catties and taels he has. The fist is not as big as the family, so you have to be willing to be a little brother. Don't expect Lao Tzu to provoke Daming for you, and then give you a chance to stretch out your hand...... Lao Tzu is not so stupid, don't go too far, just get by......

"As for you Bolsheviks, you are saints! If you don't eat the fireworks of the world, I guess I will call you a minister and pay tribute, and you will not be vulgar...... That's it, the northern Xinjiang is also rich in production, what minerals, oil, forest resources, give priority to doing business with you, at most a preferential price, enough is enough! If you want to gain another inch, Lao Tzu will simply return to the Ming Dynasty and try to be rich and safe in his old age...... Then if you want to reach out again, you have to get up late and grab your sleeves directly. Do you saints wear the hat of the 'invading army'? …… Okay, okay, Lao Tzu's words are all here, remember it, right? Go back and learn from your masters! Friends don't send ......"