the world is at stake

These revolts had no leadership, no program, and were easily suppressed.

We should publicly declare that North Korea is an inalienable part of China, that the Chinese government opposes the Japan-Korea Merger Treaty, and cast aside the Lee Dynasty who betrayed the North Korean people.

We can also declare that all Koreans are equal, that the great motherland has never given up on the Korean people, and will support the Korean people in resisting the Japanese invaders.

The banner of China is still very appealing in the eyes of North Korean intellectuals and cannot be ignored.The Republic is cut off from the previous dynasty, so it can announce its re-intervention in North Korea.

The National Defense Forces should accommodate North Korean rebels, train North Korean guerrillas, and promote the idea that North Korea has belonged to China since ancient times.This can definitely suppress Japan's so-called 'Japan and North Korea share the same origin' argument.

For hundreds of years, Japan has hoped to use North Korea as a springboard to attack the mainland.They will never accept the chaotic situation in North Korea, and they must die.But the more they suppress, the more they will arouse resistance.

As long as our support does not stop, let alone one year, ten or eight years will be fine.It will definitely make the Japanese unable to eat and walk around. "

'Old Master' swishes open a folding fan, in the great winter of November, he is pretending to be Zhuge fan.

Members of the Standing Committee immediately knew that the idea of ​​"Old Master Q" was more feasible.

There are a large number of Koreans who fled in China, including the imperial capital.It is much easier to organize these people than to support the Japanese Communist Party in Japan across the sea.

Inexpensive, quick results.

'Holy Light' also has a leader who is inherently chaotic.He is not good at commanding and fighting, but he is the best at destroying behind the scenes.No one is better at pulling flags and pulling poles than him.He is the only one who organizes the struggle in the mountains of North Korea.

"It sounds like a good idea. Japan's rule in Korea can only be maintained in the cities, and it can't do anything about the vast mountainous villages.

As long as we can find supporters among the Korean people, we can establish revolutionary bases for land reform and build up armed forces. There are many ways to trouble the Japanese. "

Zhou Qingfeng also felt that the 'Old Master' was very talented in plotting poison, he was worthy of being a scholar who had read poetry and books, he was well-informed and could kill without blood.

Xiao Jinlang made a summary, "We immediately started public opinion propaganda against the merger of Japan and South Korea. The Political Security Bureau began to recruit North Koreans. I remember that there are many 'anti-Japanese volunteers' organizations in North Korea that can be recruited.

Ahn Jung-geun, who assassinated Ito Hirobumi last year, can give a good compliment. The folk pamphlet said that Ahn Jung-geun was sent by us, and the Japanese will definitely jump. "

With such an arrangement, a new battlefield emerged in the tense situation between China and Japan.

Chapter 52 The Plague

In the dark night, the steam locomotive blew its whistle, whistling white steam, and drove into Shenyang North Station with a clanging crankshaft.

Dim yellow lights were on on the platform, and there were heavily armed soldiers wearing cotton masks, and martial law was already under martial law.

The stuffy tank compartment opened, and the officers of the First Division of the Wehrmacht Army jumped out of the car, blowing whistles and ordering the soldiers to get out of the car and form a team.Everyone is strictly disciplined and wears masks.

Dozens of trucks were unloaded from the flatbed carriages, and about a battalion of troops was pulled away from the station quickly.They will enter the urban area of ​​Shenyang to carry out the task of city blockade.

Wu Lien-teh, vice-minister of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of China and commander-in-chief of health and epidemic prevention in the three northeastern provinces, stood in the station.He was also accompanied by Xu Shichang, governor of the three eastern provinces, and Xu Shuzheng, commander of the Liaoning garrison.

All three were frowning, tired and anxious.It is because the three eastern provinces are not only facing the threat of Japanese invasion, but also a sudden outbreak of plague.

The plague was introduced from the Siberia region of Tsarist Russia, entered Harbin via the "Middle East Railway", and then spread from Harbin to the entire three eastern provinces. The epidemic was very serious.

The Tsarist Russian Concession in Harbin has not yet been taken back by force. Maozi's way to deal with the epidemic is to hire two doctors, eight assistants, and one translator, and then resign himself to fate-it's useless to rely on people.

The epidemic was first introduced into China at the end of October, and the specific number of infections and deaths is difficult to count.I only know that many people who died of illness in the city were abandoned by their families on the streets at night.The police in the city went to collect the body and threw it in a mass grave outside the city.

As for the countryside, it is impossible to figure out the situation at all.

When the news of the plague outbreak spread, the people in the entire Northeast did not stay at home quietly, but fled frantically, spreading the plague germs to a wider area.

The first to react was the central government.

As early as July, President Xiao Jinlang dismissed Xiliang, the former governor of the three eastern provinces, reinstated the former governor Xu Shichang, and kicked a large number of old bureaucrats, old scholars and old soldiers who could be saved to the northeast.

For example, Yang Du of the royalist party became the governor of Heilongjiang, Liang Qichao served as the director of the Education Bureau of the three eastern provinces, Lan Tianwei became the commander of the Jilin police, and Xu Shuzheng served as the commander of the Liaoning police.

All of them are either the old or the young or the revolutionary party. They all think highly of themselves, are underappreciated for their talents, are angry with the world, and are full of complaints.Well, now the official position is given to you.

The rise and fall of a country is everyone's responsibility, let's do some human affairs.

At present, the Northeast is very chaotic, and there are Russians, Japanese, and bandits all over the place.It is an experimental field, decentralization, so let's make a fuss.

The new official took office three fires, and people from all walks of life waited until the Northeast, and they still worked hard to show their talents.

For example, the Jingfeng Railway has been stuck at Huanggutun Station, which is less than five kilometers away from Shenyang.After Xu Shichang came back, he completed the railway in two months.

Steel rail ties and locomotives dismantled from the United States ran back and forth on more than 800 kilometers of railway lines, which greatly strengthened the central government's rule over the Northeast.

Xu Shuzheng took [-] "old sleeves" eliminated by the National Defense Forces, and insisted on integrating various local militia groups and patrol battalions to launch a province-wide suppression of bandits, and by the way, a group of Japanese pioneer groups were suppressed.

Lan Tianwei recommended classmate Wu Luzhen to be the commander of the Heilongjiang police, and let another classmate Zhang Shaozeng be the deputy. He also started with 20 "old sleeves" and [-] silver dollars to suppress bandits everywhere, and by the way, find fault with the Russians in the northeast.

As for Yang Du and Liang Qichao, they ran into walls everywhere, shouted slogans but couldn't do anything, and were beaten by reality.

But this group of guys has a lot of connections, and they write letters everywhere to invite talents from all walks of life in the pass to work in the Northeast.

After suffering enough, Yang Du himself joined the party and wanted to practice the party's leadership in the Northeast.

As for the First Division of the National Defense Forces that was pulled outside the pass by the Beijing-Fengfeng Railway, this is the mainstay used by the central government to stabilize the Northeast.

This division was originally the Bannerman Division, which was disbanded and rebuilt by the Ministry of National Defense.Lieutenant General Cao Shaogang of the Department of Operations and Training of the Ministry of National Defense will concurrently serve as the new division commander, and Lieutenant General Ma Wenwei of the General Political Department will concurrently serve as the political commissar.

The whole division has been overstaffed to [-] troops, three main regiments, reinforced self-propelled artillery regiment, armored car regiment, transport car regiment, two army aviation squadrons, and a battalion military academy specializing in training battalion and company-level officers.

Soldiers were recruited from among the workers and students of major factories and schools in the country, and the party branch was established in the battalion to carry out cultural and ideological education, and to conduct full training and training as a model army.

The First Division is still only a light infantry division and lacks heavy equipment including large-caliber artillery.But the essence of the National Defense Forces is all in this unit, and it is required to defeat a permanent division of the Japanese army head-on.

Lieutenant General Cao Shaogang also served as the commander-in-chief of the military regions of the three eastern provinces, controlling all Chinese military forces in the three provinces.Lan Tianwei, Xu Shuzheng and others were under his command.

The First Division arrived in Shenyang one after another from Guannei in September.It blocked the railway, preventing the Russian side in the north from using the railway to deliver military supplies to the Japanese army in the south.

But after this model division arrived in the Northeast, its first combat mission was not to fight against Japan and Russia, but to prevent the epidemic.The bubonic plague broke out in November, and the number of infections and deaths was increasing rapidly.

Wu Lien-teh, who was in charge of the epidemic prevention, was relieved by the arrival of the military column in the dark.Because one of the carriages brought him special medicines against the plague-sulfonamides and streptomycin.

Before the "Holy Light" came, it was known that an extremely serious pneumonic plague would break out in Northeast China at the end of the year, with more than 6 recorded deaths.Academician Li, the Minister of Health, is an expert in infectious diseases, and he is well aware of its seriousness.

As soon as the epidemic broke out, Wu Lien-teh, a pioneer of modern Chinese medicine, was sent to Northeast China to train thousands of doctors, nurses and police officers with knowledge of epidemic prevention.

At the same time, before Wu Lien-teh arrived in Northeast China, he was told that in addition to the isolation and blockade, the central government was manufacturing medicines against the plague—the medical research institute under the Ministry of Health was desperately expanding production.

"It's saved." After confirming the receipt of the medicine box delivered by the imperial capital, Wu Liande let out a sigh of relief and grinned happily.

Xu Shichang, as the governor of the three eastern provinces, also changed his face when he talked about the outbreak of the plague.He was an old bureaucrat from the previous dynasty, and he knew nothing about technology, so he asked suspiciously: "Is this medicine produced by us?"

"I was also surprised, but it was indeed produced by the Ministry of Health of the Imperial Capital." Wu Liande was overjoyed, and added, "It was there at the beginning of the year. When I was doing experiments on mice, I personally looked at it with a microscope.

Sulfa bacteriostatic, streptomycin bactericidal.

The central government now has a large number of talents, not only the military strength has been greatly increased, but medical research can also keep up with the top powers.Now there are more than ten kinds of new medicines, which have been used in big cities such as the imperial capital, and the effect is excellent.

Six months ago, the State Council called for the banning of brothels across the country.I went to Bada Hutong to investigate the physical condition of prostitutes. Many women contracted serious diseases because of poor families and became prostitutes. What I saw and heard was horrible.

In addition, there are countless wound infections caused by the folks. Inflammation and abscess are common diseases, and there was no medicine to treat them in the past.Patients either heal themselves or die.

But since the beginning of this year, the Ministry of Health has come up with many new drugs.For example, penicillin is very effective in treating venereal diseases such as syphilis, even those who are terminally ill can be rescued, and the mortality rate is greatly reduced.

This streptomycin can not only cure the plague, but also treat tuberculosis, it is a miracle medicine.

The ministers of various countries in Beijing were amazed by it. They thought it was imported from Europe and the United States, but they never thought it was developed by our country, which greatly boosted the morale of our country. "

Wu Lien-teh was born in Penang, Malaysia, received an orthodox British education, and could not even speak Chinese when he returned to China.But now when he talked about the domestic achievements in drug research and development this year, he was elated and eloquent.

Xu Shichang nodded slightly when he heard it.He is from Yuan Shikai's family, and he thought he would be implicated because of the "Zhang Xun Rebellion".

However, Yuan Datou is now deprived of all rights and benefits in his hometown in Henan, and some personnel from the former Beiyang Department have been reused again.Even Wang Shizhen, who was half-retired, was reassigned a military post and was in charge of conscription and training.

"In the past year, the central government has indeed made a lot of achievements. Just expelling foreign humiliation and dismantling the concession is a hundred times better than the useless previous dynasty.

President Xiao is dedicated to the public and has a great bearing.People from Beiyang and the Revolutionary Party can be used by him without any grudges.In contrast, the various local forces appear to be lacking in structure. "

The medicine boxes sent by the Jingfeng Railway will be transferred to the "Middle Eastern Railway" line controlled by the Russians.In terms of quantity, this first batch is enough for tens of thousands of people.Half a month later, a second batch arrived by rail.

With the support of the central government, Wu Lien-teh's position as the commander-in-chief of epidemic prevention is also easy.He personally escorted the medicines and went to Harbin by the "Middle East Railway" to deal with the current intensified epidemic.

Fujiadian in Harbin is the outbreak point of the epidemic, which has been isolated into four districts.There are thousands of sick patients living in each district, and full-time medical staff and police are arranged to take care of them.

In order to accommodate patients, Wu Lien-teh also asked the Russians to borrow more than 100 train carriages as temporary shelters to house a large number of patients.When the train enters the station, you can see that there are military police guarding the isolation area, and the movement of people inside and outside is prohibited.

Now that the epidemic is in the outbreak period, the isolation measures prepared in advance have accommodated tens of thousands of patients.Medicines are urgently needed to save the lives of seriously ill patients and curb the epidemic.

Outside the isolation area of ​​the railway station, Robb, the Russian admiral of Tsarist Russia in Harbin, was also in a state of desperation.This time the epidemic came in from the direction of Manchuria. In fact, the situation in Tsarist Russia was even more serious.

The Russians solved the epidemic by expelling the sick.After all, when people die, the epidemic will end naturally.But the Siberian Railway did not stop running.

Most of those deported were fur traders from China. They lived in hostile inns along the railway line. Dozens of them slept in Datong bunks. The epidemic naturally spread along the railway line.

"You Chinese can cure the plague?" Robb didn't believe it.

The Russian believed in the French doctor Metheny.The latter believed that the plague was transmitted between humans and rats, and did not believe Wu Lien-teh's judgment on pneumonic plague, and emphasized that the rats should be eradicated first.

Japanese doctors in the Northeast also agreed with Mesny's point of view, but they failed to find the disease-causing Yersinia pestis in the mice, and even suspected that it was plague?

"of course can."

Wearing a mask, Wu Lien-teh ordered people to distribute the medicines from the imperial capital to the quarantined areas.Before use, he also recruited key medical staff to conduct drug use training to ensure that the two drugs are used in combination to achieve the best effect.

The Russian shook his head directly, "I have serious doubts about this. Plague has been prevalent in Europe for hundreds of years, and there has never been any human-to-human plague transmission, and there is no cure.

Many Chinese doctors told me that there was a mysterious remedy for the plague, and they lost their lives as a result.The plague... is probably God's forbidden zone, and human beings can't do anything about it. "

Chapter 53

On a snowy day, Zhou Qingfeng arrived in Shenyang with the second batch of anti-epidemic drugs.

He also came with dozens of North Korean personnel recruited in the imperial capital.The Ministry of Internal Affairs assessed that most of these people joined the anti-Japanese cause based on impulse and anger, and their thinking and combat skills were basically equal to zero.

In response to the increasingly complex foreign enemy situation, the Ministry of National Defense established the Foreign Military Intelligence Bureau, and first established the Hichako.Zhou Qingfeng became a firefighter again, became the first director of the Intelligence Bureau, and concurrently served as the section chief, and there were only a few people under him.

The reason for establishing the 'Foreign Military Intelligence Bureau' was that the central government published the "Letter to the Korean People".

This diplomatic report directly stated that China does not recognize the "Japan-Korea merger", counting from Toyotomi Hideyoshi's invasion of North Korea more than 300 years ago, to the Japanese invasion of North Korea in the Sino-Japanese War of [-]-[-], and counting the heinous crimes committed by Japanese invaders against the people of China and North Korea. sin.

The circular did not talk about whether the relationship between China and North Korea is "country-to-country" or "since ancient times." It only said that the Chinese government will never sit back and watch the suffering of the North Korean people and will definitely provide help.

This announcement caused an uproar, like hitting a snake's seven inches, and aroused great anger from the Japanese government.Gui Taro's cabinet threatened to sever diplomatic relations with China, and the Japanese military department even talked about "severe punishment" every day.

On the contrary, China's statement surprised the big powers inexplicably, and at the same time triggered a strong response from North Korea - North Korea currently has more than [-] anti-Japanese volunteers, mainly concentrated in the northern mountainous area and the Vladivostok area controlled by Tsarist Russia.

These people lacked organization and logistics, had nothing to eat and drink, and lived in poverty. Their lives were extremely miserable.Suddenly discovering that China wants to support them, many North Korean groups operating in the Northeast immediately came to the imperial capital to ask for assistance.

If it weren't for the ban of the epidemic, the North Koreans would have entered Beijing along the Beijing-Fengfeng Railway.

Although representatives of anti-Japanese forces in North Korea failed to meet Xiao Jinlang, Zhou Qingfeng led the team to Shenyang.He also came with a batch of weapons eliminated by the National Defense Forces.

For example, 100 Japanese-made 'Golden Hook' rifles and [-] million rounds of Arisaka rifle ammunition.

According to the internal discussions of the Standing Committee, the anti-Japanese struggle in North Korea should be linked with the anti-Japanese war preparations in the Northeast.

The reorganization plan of the 36 divisions of the National Defense Forces, of which No.20 Division, No.20 Third Division, and No.20 Fourth Division will be established in the Northeast.

What Lao Xiao meant was that the three divisions were going to recruit North Korean soldiers.In addition, it is necessary to form a regularized Korean anti-Japanese force, armed according to the standards of the mountain division.

All this is inseparable from the cooperation of the Northeast military and political departments. Zhou Qingfeng arrived in Shenyang with the second batch of plague medical supplies, and met with Xu Shichang who was coordinating the overall situation of the three northeastern provinces.

After the two met and exchanged greetings, Xu Shichang laughed and said, "The central government has strategized this time and handled the epidemic very well. It not only gathers the hearts of the people in Northeast China, but also deters both Japan and Russia."

Zhou Qingfeng was surprised, and asked what happened?

“The admiral of Tsarist Russia’s concession in Harbin, Robb, didn’t believe that we could produce medicines to treat the plague, so he insisted on letting a French doctor named Mesni take charge of the epidemic prevention.

The Russian Middle East Railway Hospital is currently gathering a large number of foreign patients, and Dr. Hafken of the hospital also thinks that our Chinese medical skills are not trustworthy.

As a result, Mesni went to the Middle East Railway Hospital to treat patients, but he himself contracted the plague instead.A week ago, he had a sudden headache, fever, rapid pulse, and persistent cough.

Dr. Wu Lien-teh specially gave Mesini sulfonamide and streptomycin injection after learning about it.He didn't want it, still can't believe it.Three days ago he turned purple and died. "

Xu Shichang laughed loudly, "These foreigners have always looked down on us, thinking that the Chinese are barbaric and backward, and this time they finally vented their anger. After the death of Metheni, the Russian admiral Robber came to his senses and ran to the quarantine area we set up in Harbin to check. .

In the past half month, we have treated more than half of the more than 1 patients we originally admitted, especially the two to 3000 patients who were originally seriously ill have basically recovered.

Originally, dozens of dead bodies could be brought out of the isolation area every day, and it could be as many as two hundred a day.But in just half a month, the death toll in the quarantine area has dropped significantly. Yesterday, the telegram said that the patients were recovering well and no one died of illness.

Knowing that the central government sent special medicine to deal with the plague, the soldiers and civilians in the three northeastern provinces were greatly calmed down.Many fleeing people began to take the initiative to report to the government, and the hearts of the people have joined.

I have ordered the patients to be sent to Harbin, Changchun, Shenyang and other places for treatment.Waiting for the second batch of medicine now.With Mr. Zhou coming, the three eastern provinces will be safe. "

During the laughing conversation, Xu Shichang asked in a low voice: "How many servings did the central government send this time?"

"Twenty thousand doses." Zhou Qingfeng replied, "Actually, sulfonamide and streptomycin are not only used to treat plague, they have a wide range of uses. For example, streptomycin can treat tuberculosis, that is, tuberculosis. Sulfa can inhibit bacteria and inflammation, and treat sepsis. "

Xu Shichang smiled from ear to ear, and asked again: "How much of these special medicines can the central government produce?"

"At present, sulfonamide is chemically synthesized, and streptomycin is cultivated by mold. The Ministry of Health of the Imperial Capital is establishing a pharmaceutical group, and the production capacity is given priority to supply to the Northeast."

Zhou Qingfeng gave a rough idea, then asked, "What's Governor Xu thinking?"

"It's not that I have an idea, it's those Russians who have an idea." Xu Shichang said in a deep voice: "Our medicine is indeed effective, this is a fact before our eyes, and the Russians cannot deny it.