the world is at stake

Kishi Yajiro entered the Paotai Street in the Russian Concession with a snowstorm all over his body.

When meeting Naniwa Kawashima at the Russian Hotel, he was shivering from the cold, his hands and face were flushed, but he didn't dare to lean against the stove, and could only slowly warm up his body from a distance.

Kawashima handed over a bottle of spirits, Kishi Yajiro yelled after taking a sip, and asked with a frown, "What kind of wine is this?"

"The Chinese 'Sweet Potato Burn' is brewed with sweet potatoes. It is very common in the north, and it is something that the poor drink." Chuan Dao poured himself a cup at the table, and after drinking it, his whole body felt like it was on fire.

"I thought you'd have sake from Osaka here, but after thinking about it, I know it's impossible." Kishi Yajiro frowned, and took another sip, his almost frozen limbs became more flexible, and his fingers could stretch and stretch.

Chuan Dao snorted and laughed, and sighed: "In order to make money, the Chinese are also trying their best. This 'Sweet Potato Burn' was shipped from the customs, and it was tested in Harbin. If it sells well, they plan to ship it to Russia."

Kishi Yajiro looked at the wine bottle, "The Trans-Siberian Railway was only built six years ago, and now there are not many Russians in the Far East, and there is a lack of output. The Chinese can provide goods, and the Russians will be very happy."

But... the Japanese are not happy.

Putting down the bottle, Kishi Yajiro reported some very bad news.

"North Korean anti-Japanese elements who were originally protected by Russia have entered China. 3000 of them left Vladivostok and are heading towards Harbin by train. China is clearly determined to interfere in the situation in North Korea."

Speaking of this, Kawashima raised his head and sighed, scolding the arrogant young men in the military for their lack of brains, and blatantly blatantly blatantly yelled at the mobilization in Japan so that the whole world knew about it.

The Japanese army exposed their intentions too clearly, and the Chinese National Defense Forces were stimulated to fidget. They transferred the strongest first division at hand to the northeast, and set up three garrison headquarters, drawing nearly [-] second-line troops.

As soon as China made an effort, the Japanese Kanto Governor's Mansion in Lushun also became nervous-the poor ghost once again found that the dilapidated family next door was not as bad as imagined.

The adroitness of the three northeastern provinces in responding to the plague this time surprised Japan even more—it was able to mobilize troops, go deep into the grassroots, raise money, food and medicine, and unite people's hearts.

If this is an exam, at least you can get a good grade, or even an excellent grade.China is still the same China, but it is completely different when the government is changed.

Kawashima sighed: "The Chinese are strengthening their control over the three northeastern provinces. For example, the new Heilongjiang Provincial Police Commander Wu Luzhen is very capable. He has organized an armed police force of 7000 people and is suppressing bandits everywhere."

"Wu Luzhen, I've heard of it. He once studied in the cavalry department of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy with excellent grades. It's a pity that this person failed to become a good friend of Japan like Dr. Sun Yat-sen."

Kishi Yajiro continued: "Not to mention Wu Luzhen, Xu Shuzheng is also a very annoying character. He also graduated from the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy, but he studied infantry.

This guy only returned to China this year. It is said that he first went to Guangdong to join Duan Qirui, but Duan recommended him to the Ministry of National Defense.The Chinese Ministry of National Defense dared to use such a newcomer, and even asked him to come to Liaoning as the commander of the security. "

The two Japanese eye-to-eye, full of absurdity - there are many people in modern China who go to Japan to study, and the division is extremely serious.Japanese military academies have trained many high-ranking military officers for China. Those who are good at basic studies are anti-Japanese, while those who are scumbags are obsessed with Japan.

"Xu Shuzheng is a very courageous person. He has only been in office for two or three months, and he also organizes a police force to suppress bandits. The difference is that Wu Luzhen is a real bandit suppresser, and Xu Shuzheng is dedicated to finding fault with the 'Manchurian Railway' and the Japanese pioneering group."

Everyone knows that there are many bandits in the Northeast, and their composition is complex.

Some bandits are controlled by the Russians, while others take money and food from the Japanese.There are also bandits who have become so powerful that they are simply recruited into the regular army.Bandits who really have no backing can be easily wiped out.

Kishi Yajiro came to the three eastern provinces this time to contact the bandits around the railway line, send some money, food, guns and so on, and encourage them to continue to make trouble.

"Yesterday I went to see the Russian admiral Robb. The chief of the Russian patrol police, Birk, told me that the Chinese army recently used armed police to check points and sent National Defense Force trucks to chase them down. They successively killed five or six Mongolian horse teams controlled by him."

The Russians were particularly fond of recruiting Mongolian cavalry to do the dirty work.On the northeast plains, horse teams come and go like the wind, maneuvering fast, and can wantonly attack weak villages and even towns.

But with a radio station, when four-legged people met four or even six-wheeled ones, they were immediately beaten up with bruised noses and faces, and they either fled far away or wiped them out on the spot.

The Japanese Army Staff Headquarters was very concerned about this, and believed that the Chinese army was using low-intensity bandit suppression to train troops, targeting precisely the Japanese army divisions that used a large number of cavalry.

Kishi Yajiro didn't care about the life and death of the horse bandits at all, he wanted to know the new tactics of the Chinese army more.

But when Kawashima asked about the specific situation, he shook his head and said, "The number of Chinese people who are willing to cooperate with us is decreasing, and there is not much useful information."

"Yes, more than half of our inside lines in the three northeastern provinces have been eliminated by the Chinese." Kawashima was deeply touched by this.In Shenyang, he found that many shops selling Japanese goods or engaging in trade with Japan were closed down.

If it weren't for the name of "assisting in epidemic prevention" this time, it would become more and more difficult for the Japanese to go deep into the three northeastern provinces.

Before the epidemic was over, Xu Shichang was rushing the Japanese doctors to leave.Backed by the First Division of the National Defense Forces, he controlled the train stations of the "South Manchuria Railway" in Shenyang and Changchun, and drove away the two Japanese "Railway Guards".

The railway line was blocked, and Japan's blood-sucking efficiency in the Northeast plummeted.Its "Manchurian Railway" in the northeast and the Guandong Dudufu were furious.

"About the current situation, what do you think about the current situation?" Kawashima asked.

Yoshimasa Oshima controls the Japanese Kanto Governor's Mansion, holds a regular division of [-] people in his hands, and controls the military and political power of the Liaodong Peninsula.

"Your Excellency the General is very worried about the current situation. He believes that China's military power in the three northeastern provinces is increasing too fast, while the mobilization speed of the military is too slow."

Yoshimasa Oshima scolded the idiots in the military more than once, but he could only mobilize with the equally nervous commander of the North Korean Garrison, General Okubo Haruno.

"The Kanto Governor's Office judged that although the Chinese drove away our railway garrison, they seemed to have no intention of going to war.

Your Excellency Oshima wants the garrison team of 'Manchuria' to try again.Let's see how much the combat power of the Chinese regular army has changed in the past year?At the same time, do you know whether the Chinese government really has the confidence to fight a war?

If the Chinese National Defense Forces can fight, we will retreat.If it can't fight, we simply take Shenyang in advance and carve up the three eastern provinces with the Russians. "

These words are very bold, but the taste of the young school going to go alone is too aggressive.Kawashima frowned slightly when he heard this, because the Japanese military department would definitely not act before the mobilization was completed.He asked, "What exactly?"

"What do you think is the reason why the soldiers are lost? Let the Manchuria garrison enter Shenyang to search." Kishi Yajiro said it was an inquiry, but it was actually an announcement.

Kawashima was even more surprised, "Does your Excellency know how many Chinese troops are in Shenyang now?"

"An infantry regiment, an artillery regiment, an armored car regiment, and the division's flying squadron. If necessary, the other main regiments can quickly concentrate on Shenyang by railway and truck."

Kishi Yajiro is still very clear about the establishment of the First Division of the National Defense Forces.

"That's a lot of troops. Can the garrison of 'Man Tie' handle it?"

"It's quite a lot, but..." Kishi Yajiro sighed, "The officers in the Army Department of the Kanto Governor's Mansion are very fanatical. They think that if they don't do it now, it will be even more difficult to do it next year.

In addition, the young faction also believes that most of the soldiers in the Chinese army have only been recruited for half a year, and they are all recruits. "

wait, this feels...

Seems like a gamble, right?

This is obviously a gamble, right?

This is absolutely definitely a gamble!

The Sino-Japanese War was won, and the Russo-Japanese War was also won. Are we going to do it again now?

The Chinese National Defense Force is really different from the past.If this bet is lost, the 10,000+ troops lost in the Russo-Japanese War would have died in vain.

Kawashima said in a deep voice: "Has the army contacted the navy? Maybe both sides will do it at the same time, and it will be more effective if we coordinate in the southeast coast of China."

Kishi Yajiro looked up to the sky and sighed, "Not to mention whether those big bosses in the army will turn down their faces and beg the navy, do you think the navy is willing to use its precious warships to help the army gain military exploits?"

Don't be kidding, the British just gave Japan a low-interest loan of [-] million pounds, and how to divide the money caused the military to quarrel.

The Japanese Navy got eight battle cruisers, each costing 230 million pounds, a total of nearly 2000 million pounds, which made the army's red deer so jealous that their souls went out of their bodies.

After planning, the Japanese Army wanted to recruit 20 troops and train ten A-type divisions, hoping to sweep the Northeast with this and look at China as a tiger.Although Japanese soldiers were cheap, the formation of these troops just took away £[-] million.

Kawashima hummed heavily, shaking his head vigorously, as if doing so would shake off all his troubles.Kishi Yajiro also had a sullen face, extremely at a loss for the future development of the situation.

On the same snowy night, Zhou Qingfeng supervised the construction of barracks in Shenyang.

If you don't look at the grassroots, you don't know how backward the current country is. The urban area of ​​Shenyang in 1910 was very small, and you could see a vast wilderness with just one touch of the accelerator.

In order to accommodate troops, the newly established Northeast Bureau of China Construction Group plans to build a military camp near Shenyang North Station. The civil engineers of the 'Sacred Light' team are finally doing their jobs.

Building a house is easy, but organizing and training labor is extremely difficult.At present, there is still a lack of building materials and tools. It is even more difficult to make workers eat and drink enough to work hard.

"Fortunately, at the beginning of the year, we were digging wells in the rural areas of Gyeonggi Province to carry out land reform, otherwise there would be no surplus food for construction." Zhou Qingfeng stood by the construction site and said to himself.

There is a coal-fired steam boiler next to the construction site, which not only provides three meals and hot water, but also drives a generator to power hundreds of light bulbs.The power grid is supported by wooden poles three to four meters high, and the light bulbs are hung on the wooden poles.

In the cold winter weather, the ground is so hard that it needs explosives to blow it apart.Hundreds of hired laborers worked in three shifts to level the land with simple shovels and hoes.

Because the food, oil and water are plentiful and the wages are high, the workers are willing to work hard, and everyone's foreheads are steaming.This is entirely because the land reform at the beginning of the year provided a strong boost to the construction at the end of the year.

Chapter 56 Grain Harvest

On a windy and snowy day, Shenyang North Railway Station is still busy.

The air valve of the steam locomotive is breathing hot air, the headlights on the front of the locomotive are as bright as torches, the tracks and platforms are illuminated in white, and the moving figures are drawn long.

The stopped train opened the compartment, and inside was rice shipped from the pass, packed in sacks and piled up in piles.The porters at the station unloaded the grain bags like ants and moved them to the cargo box of the truck.

Several truck drivers lit cigarettes, put several sacks under their buttocks, and sat on the steps outside the dispatching station to rest.Bright incandescent lights were shining above their heads, illuminating tired yet cheered faces.

After seven or eight trucks were loaded, an officer on duty came out of the control room and yelled a few times.The drivers got up and drove, accompanied by a squad of soldiers to escort them.

The convoy was bound for the coal mines in Fushun or the iron mines in Anshan.The mine is under heavy construction, and in the absence of meat, eggs and milk, the food consumption is very high.

Since the purchase of autumn grains, the food in the pass to support the outside of the pass has not stopped.There are as few as five or six hundred tons per day, and as many as thousands of tons.With these grains, the construction of Northeast China will be sustainable.

After unloading, the porter returned to the station lounge.They changed their sweaty underwear by the heating stove, otherwise they would catch a cold easily in the cold winter.

Boiling water was boiled on the stove, and several workers cooked some noodles for themselves while taking a break.The foreman took out a box of canned horsemeat from Russia and poured it into the pot for a supper.

The taste and chewiness of horsemeat is beyond praise.But recently, the workload is heavy, and I don't eat and drink more, and my body can't hold on.Workers aren't picky either.

During breaks, the literate foreman would read from the newspaper and talk about the current news.For information-poor workers, this is a rare pastime in their spare time, and it is also a ladder of progress.

Through newspaper and radio propaganda, even the porters at the railway station knew that the central government had taken control of major grain-producing areas across the country, and that small-scale reforms of officials and land had begun to bear fruit.

Although the domestic and international situation is unstable this year, God is still open, and there are no major disasters.The staple grains and miscellaneous grains are put together, and the national grain production is about 30.00 million tons, which is [-]% more than last year.

Such a surge is obviously not normal.

The main reason for the increase in production is not the land reform, but the severe blow to the local forces in the grain-producing areas.In order to seize power, the central government has not made compromises with old vested interest groups such as big landlords.

New China does not need gentry to help manage the grassroots.As a result, the land and production that had been concealed in the past were dug out, the central government's statistics on the localities were more accurate, and meaningless consumption was greatly reduced.

"This year, several provinces in Shandong and Henan are not allowed to grow opium. I heard that many people were shot because of it."

"It deserves it. Who would be able to grow opium? Kill them one by one. No one will be wronged."

"Students in the city are running around, saying they want to 'go down to the grassroots'. But they don't understand anything, and they make jokes."

"Yeah, a lot of officials and lords are just pretending. The superiors say they need to understand the people's sentiments, so they go to the countryside to wander around to make business."

"I listened to the radio yesterday, saying that local chaos is caused by a shortage of qualified civil servants and a lack of supervision. This has resulted in 'policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom'. Now it is to encourage young people to work hard to serve the country and unite knowledge and action."

"You say this broadcast is really amazing. We bitter people can hear what President Xiao said. In the past, the little officials could make up excuses to order us around, but now it's no longer possible."

In the rest room, the porters ate noodles boiled with horse meat, waited for the next train to come, chatted about current affairs, and felt that their brains were more active.

Zhou Qingfeng spent more than half a year in Shanghai. He didn't know how ruthless his instructor's wife would be to the conservative forces after she assumed the position of prime minister.

After reaching a compromise with the British in April, the 'Sacred Light' team dispatched working groups to the provinces in the name of the central government to rectify the administration of officials, and to incorporate new armies and new-style schools from various places that were supposed to start revolution.

Young people are prone to passion. Seeing that the country is in peril and the society is dark, it is normal to have angry youths who want to save the country and save the nation.When the revolutionary party provokes them, they want to overthrow the government and save China.

However, the limitations of Sun Dapao's "Three Principles of the People" are too obvious. Just talking about rebellion, not specifically how to enrich the country and strengthen the army, building railways is just playing "Lianliankan".

The League wants money but no money, and no one wants people. It only expresses the interests and demands of the bourgeoisie.But what about the proletariat?No one cares.

President Xiao Jinlang visited various provinces and chatted with revolutionary youths in person.Just ask, how to help farmers?How to rescue workers?How to build a country?

All answers are only for a certain industry or a certain group, and no one can give an answer at the national level from a high-level plan.

Now is the time to bring out the real theoretical weapons—who are our friends?Who is our enemy?This is the first question of the revolution.

Once this problem is explained clearly, it is like digging the roots of the big landowners, the bourgeoisie, and the comprador class in China.Cut off the legitimacy of their demagogy and incitement.

The article "Analysis of Various Classes in Chinese Society" was published on the front pages of major domestic newspapers.

As soon as this article came out, it was like a roaring tsunami, like a raging fire cooking oil, and like a reset of the universe. Intellectuals across the country, no matter what their status, had to participate in discussions and speculations.

As the truth becomes clearer and clearer, the central government takes the initiative to introduce ideological tools such as "contradiction theory" and "methodology" to the whole society.The dissemination of this kind of "dragon slaying technique" made young people seem to be enlightened and suddenly realized.

This 'central government' is more radical and revolutionary than anyone else, never before.The so-called progressive "revolutionary parties" in the south were caught blind one by one, only to realize that they were conservatives, and there was a catastrophe of "trees fell and monkeys scattered".

The central government has achieved results little by little. This is the most powerful call.

There are always some passionate young people among the people who are willing to move closer to the party and learn communist theory to transform the world.For example, the Qunzhi Society, which was supposed to launch the Wuchang Uprising, simply disbanded and wanted to join the party collectively.

But the central government does not accept anyone who wants to join the party.President Xiao said that speculators and double-faced people should not be allowed to mix into the team, and asked party activists to hone themselves in practice and truly understand the party's theories and regulations.

The 'Scratch the Democratic Party' practice of filling out a form to join the party, the 'Holy Light' team disdains it.

In order to avoid many detours in future generations, "strictly governing the party" is the basic policy of the central government. Those who want to join the party must make some achievements before they can become...probationary party members.

Good guy, other parties are trying their best to win heads regardless of good and bad, making the party a mess. 'Sacred Light' has extremely high requirements for the unity of thought, and strictly prevents bad elements from appearing in the team.

Aspiring people will take the initiative to stand up and take responsibility at this moment to fight against reactionary forces.

Indeed, a large number of passionate young people responded to the call of the central government, went to the countryside to conduct population and land surveys, and implemented rent and interest reductions to prepare for the thorough land reform in the future.

A large number of young and middle-aged rural people left the land to work in cities, and the annual grain output of [-] million tons is the initial result of the struggle.

Considering that most domestic farmers are extremely poor, and in order to increase farmers' enthusiasm for grain production, the central government abolished the model of land rent collection, and instead implemented cash purchases with protective grain prices.

Relying on a series of reforms, the government of the Republic managed to collect 1000 million tons of staple grains and 500 million tons of miscellaneous grains.Staple food is used to supply city dwellers, workers, and the army.Miscellaneous grains are used for breeding or brewing or industrial raw materials.

According to the estimates of the Ministry of Agriculture, through measures to improve farmland such as drilling wells, repairing canals and building reservoirs, the output of staple grains will increase significantly next year, and the amount of purchases will exceed 500 million tons.

For example, the Ming Tombs Reservoir was built in only half a year, adding [-] mu of irrigated farmland.

This reservoir is small and the benefits are not obvious.Larger water conservancy projects such as Miyun Reservoir and Guanting Reservoir will be completed in the next few years, and domestic grain production will continue to increase.