Chapter 1089: Envoy to Russia

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The group of Jews he was in charge of often bribed him with money to buy alcohol. Sometimes www.biquge.info prisoners would tell him about the tragic fate of the Jews in order to arouse his fragile sympathy.

This trick usually works, and he is really "touched". His smug quips are as well known as his bullying of Jews. He knew that some of the prisoners' families had been killed in the ghetto, and every time such stories were told to him, he replied: "Thousands of his Jews must be left to attend the funeral of the last Jew!" One day they heard him say it several times in a row, and he was very proud of his unusual punchline.

By the time they were divided into several groups, a few of them who were particularly eager to go out to work seemed destined to stay in the camps. In the battalion, he was constantly engaged in construction, and several people died every day. They hung the Jews with ropes, trampled them under their feet, let the hounds bite the Jews, whipped them, humiliated them, every way imaginable. Many people could not endure such torture and voluntarily gave up their lives. They lived a few days, weeks, months less, but they were also spared countless tortures and atrocities.

There will be more than one railroad guard watching you in the camp. Guards often went from workshop to workshop, whipping prisoners for amusement, or reporting to the commander that the prisoners were engaged in so-called "sabotage". Such a debriefing would always lead to severe punishment for the Jews. If a railroad guard says that a prisoner is not doing his job well, his words are always accepted, even if the prisoner can tell that he has done his job. The railroad garrison is always right.

The assigned work was almost finished, and those of them who had been withdrawn from the Eastern Railroad line stood in a circle in frustration. It is clear that there is no longer a need for so many people on the railway line. Suddenly, a corporal came and ordered 50 people. Kovman was chosen, and Jacob was left behind. They were divided into 3 groups and opened to the door inside. Six men were assigned to stand guard and supervise them. These are Ukrainian deserters and prisoners who volunteered for the service of the Russians. What the Russians want them to do, they couldn't be clearer. And many of them live up to expectations. It was only because of the bribes that their ferocity was somewhat restrained. The "battalion head" and the "foreman" approached them and promised to provide them with alcohol and cigarettes. Therefore, people who go out to work can enjoy a great degree of freedom if they are under their supervision.

Oddly enough, these Ukrainians were very fond of singing: music played a very important role in the life of the concentration camps. There's even a band. Its members include many first-class musicians from the castle and nearby. Lieutenant of the railway garrison, Rostenov, who was once a violinist in a café, was fascinated by "his" band. This man, who usually harasses and slaughters prisoners, has only one ambition - to lead a band. He arranged special rooms for the musicians and showed his concern for them in a different way, but never let them leave the camp. In the evenings, they play works by Wagner and Grieg. One day Rostenov brought back a composer. He asked the composer to compose a "death tango". Every time the band played this melody, the sadist Rostenov's eyes filled with tears.

Early in the morning, when the prisoners left the camp to go to work, the band played music to send them out. The railroad guard insisted that they leave in time to catch the music. And when they passed by the gate of the camp, they began to sing.

The camp songs are peculiar, mixed with melancholy and sadness, morbid humor and obscene phrases, a strange mixture of Russian, Polish and Ukrainian. The next ** dang caters to the needs of the Ukrainians. They always ask everyone to sing a very special song. They grin as soon as they hear the song, and the murderous expression on their faces is swept away.

As soon as they stepped out of the barbed wire, the air seemed to be suddenly much fresher; The people and houses behind the barbed wire fence gradually disappeared, and they were hidden behind a watchtower.

But this afternoon, a large crowd of people they had never seen before.

These men were dressed in strange costumes, much like those of the Qianguo people, with the men wearing small white hats on their heads and the women covering their faces with turbans.

There were thousands of them, and they walked by with their heads bowed and without saying a word, like ghosts.

Although he did not know where they came from, Kovman vaguely guessed that they must have been forcibly requisitioned by the Russians to build the railway, just like the Jews.

In the evening, Kovman inquired that these men had been captured from the distant "Turkistans", who were called "Dungans" and were now, like the Jews, coolies who were building railroads.

"The Russians are building railways quite quickly." Lin Yiqing, who was sitting in the train car, looked at the long railroad tracks winding in front of him and said to Zhao Erzhen.

At this moment they had sailed into Russian territory, and their destination was Yekaterinburg.

Not long ago, just as Zhao Erzhen had guessed, Russian Minister Butzer received a telegram from Petersburg and formally sent an invitation to Qianguo to "send an important minister to Russia to visit in order to reconcile and establish a treaty on the northwestern boundary." The Russians also clearly pointed out that it was appropriate to take "Minister Lin." After deliberation, the imperial court invited the Russians to appoint Lin Yiqing as the minister of the imperial mission to Russia.

The Russians invited Lin Yiqing to visit at this time, which was indeed sincere, but it also caused Lin Yiqing a big problem.

Lin Yiqing is now in Xinjiang, and when he goes to Russia to visit, it seems to be quite close, but there is no railway here, and it is very fatal to cross the vast Central Asian steppe. And if you take the train back to Beijing first, and get on the ship from Tianjin to Russia, you will have to go around most of the world, and at this time, the Arctic route has not yet been opened, even if it is opened, you will be frozen half to death if you go on it once.

After Lin Yiqing and Zhao Erzhen discussed, they decided to take the land route and enter the Russian territory from Xinjiang, but it was not a saddle horse crossing from the grassland.

Their solution was to build an improvised railway and take a train to get there.

Anyway, the Russians' Central Asian railway has already been repaired, and it is just right to take advantage of it.

Although it was an improvised railway, it also required a lot of manpower, and the people Lin Yiqing used to build the road were a large number of rebel prisoners who believed in the religion of Anise who surrendered after the counterinsurgency.

Under the iron-fisted drive of Yuan Weiting and the precise arrangement of Zhao Erzhen, this simple railway was built at a jaw-dropping speed, and finally it was successfully connected with the Russian Central Asian Railway!

After Lin Yiqing's special train entered Russia, Lin Yiqing saw with his own eyes how the railway mileage of the Russians was growing.

But these increases have come at the cost of countless lives.

Countless prisoners and slaves were drafted here to build the railway, including Poles, Ukrainians, Buryats, Kazakhs, and Jews.

It was the flesh and blood of these people that built the roadbed of the Russian railways.

"Heaped out of human lives." Zhao Erzhen smiled bitterly, "Don't talk about them, we are the same, if it weren't for those traitors, our improvised railway wouldn't have been built so quickly, and we wouldn't have arrived in Russia right now." ”

"yes." Lin Yiqing nodded calmly, "However, there is no other way, if you want to pay for long-term peace and stability in Xinjiang, this generation will get rid of it, and then killing is a taboo for people, and building a railway is still a good ending for them." ”

"Compassion is not in charge of soldiers, love is not in charge, righteousness is not financial management, and kindness is not an official. The ancients did not deceive me. Zhao Erzhen sighed.

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