readx; Since the outbreak of war in Europe in 1914, although there have been successive countries participating in the exhibition, especially with the successive accession of Ottoman Turkey, Italy, Bulgaria, Romania and other countries, this war has affected almost the entire European region, and the total number of [***] people fighting on the front line is as high as more than 10 million, but although the scale is getting bigger and bigger, the occupation has always been a stalemate. Although the Anglo-French forces occupied a certain advantage on the Western Front, they were not able to break through the German defense line and fight to Berlin, and Italy's participation in the war on the Southern Front did not help the Allies much, although it contained a large number of troops of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but in fact Italy was beaten very badly, if it were not for the British and French to send reinforcements, Italy estimated that even Rome would have been conquered by the German-Austrian forces. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In 1915, when the German army sent the main force to the Eastern Front, it launched the Polish campaign together with the Austro-Hungarian army, trying to encircle the main force of the Russian army in the pocket of Poland, in order to completely annihilate the main force of the Russian army and force Russia to surrender, although the Russian army lost more than one million people in this battle, but it did not let the Russian army completely lose the main force, on the contrary, the Russian army also gathered more than two million troops in 1916 to launch a counteroffensive against the German-Austrian army, and the result can be guessed with open eyes, Both sides of the battle, both the attacking and defending sides, suffered heavy losses.

The battles of the First World War were actually quite boring, with both sides pooling their forces and attacking, each suffering hundreds of thousands of casualties and millions of casualties after a few months, but as always, it was impossible to achieve a decisive victory. In addition to competing for the industrial capacity of each country, it is more important to compete for the number of reserve soldiers of each country, and this war almost made these belligerents in Europe send all the men of school age to the front, which is why China's labor export will be greatly welcomed by Britain and France.

In such a war of attrition, except for the United States, China and a few other countries that made a lot of gold and foreign exchange, almost all the countries that actually participated in the war were exhausted, and even Britain had to implement a system of rationing, and the food that used to be available everywhere was now strictly controlled, and even when the nobles held a cocktail party, the kitchen staff had to think of various ways to raise all kinds of food from various sources.

Although Britain implemented a wartime rationing system, the people were able to eat, but the other participating countries were not very lucky, especially in Russia.

Years of war have caused great anti-war sentiment in Russia, and the shortage of supplies has caused even the people of Moscow to be unable to eat black bread, so it is strange that ordinary people do not have unrest in this situation. In fact, Russia is not without access to these essential goods, because the factor of war has led to a decrease in their domestic food production is understandable, but Russia can import grain, compared to the situation of Germany being completely blocked, and Britain is facing the threat of Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare, in fact, Russia's access to foreign aid is very safe.

However, this kind of security does not mean how high the transport capacity is, now Russia's access to foreign aid is mainly relying on the Far Eastern Railway, relying on the Far Eastern Railway A large number of Chinese-made ordnance continued to go to the Russian European front, in 1914 China began to provide ordnance and other military materials for the Russian army, and the scale continued to expand, by 1915, military supplies from China had accounted for 10% of all military supplies of the Russian army, and this is a considerable number, In order to meet the needs of arms exports to Russia, China has even invested in the construction of several arsenals in Northeast China to export a large amount of ordnance to the Russian army nearby.

In 1916, especially in the second half of the year, after the outbreak of strikes and other riots in various factories in Russia, Russia's domestic industrial industry was further hit hard, and at this time the military materials from China were more important, compared with the American goods, the price of military materials provided by China was lower, and the factories that were specially designed to export to Russia were also produced by the Russian military standard weapons, and they were also more convenient in transportation, and could be easily exported to Russia through the railway network of China and RussiaIt is not necessary to ship to Vladivostok by sea, as in the United States, and in winter, it can only be shipped to the port of Pusan in North Korea or other ice-free ports in the north of China.

By the beginning of 1917, all kinds of military supplies from China accounted for 80% of the Russian army's imports, and 20% of all the Russian army's military supplies at that time. To some extent, supplies from China have supplied at least a million troops of the Russian army to fight!

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As a result, Russia became China's second largest exporter of trade, after the United States, and almost all of these exports were military goods, and there were no other industrial products, let alone food that Russia urgently needed at home.

The reason why China has not been able to export a large amount of grain to Russia, the first important reason is that China's own grain production is not enough, although in recent years China has spent a lot of effort in order to carry out land reform, and every year has invested heavily in the construction of many water conservancy facilities, but the average grain output is low is a hard injury, in order to increase grain production in recent years, the Nanjing Republic has implemented a number of huge policies, the first is to build water conservancy, and the second is to encourage the use of chemical fertilizers in agricultural activities, The other is to continue to encourage some of the population in the provinces with too much population but too little land to migrate to the areas with fewer people, especially to the northeast.

However, although these measures have increased grain production to a certain extent and expanded the total amount of cultivated land, the grain problem is still tense, and God has really not given Chen Jingyun much face in recent years, and a wide range of areas have been affected almost every year, although there have been no starvation of tens of thousands of people, but the reduction in grain production caused by this is a fact, which has made China, which is already short of grain, feel the shortage of grain even more, and in order to alleviate the problem of grain shortage, China has imported a large amount of grain from Southeast Asia every year in recent years.

Therefore, China itself has no surplus grain to export to Russia. However, China's lack of grain does not mean that other countries have no food, not to mention the rest, the United States on the other side of the Pacific Ocean has so much grain at home that it is moldy, as long as there is money to buy it casually, in fact, Russia also buys grain from the United States and other countries, but when the grain is bought, it can only be piled up in Vladivostok.

And here is the second reason why the Russian people cannot get food foreign aid, that is, the capacity of the Far Eastern Railway is incomparably high, and at the same time it can meet the needs of transporting a large number of military supplies from China and other countries, and at the same time transporting a large number of civilian resources, even if the vast majority of those grains are used as military rations, in order to ensure the normal operation of the front-line troops, Russia has exerted the capacity of the Far Eastern Railway, a single-track railway, to the extreme, but it can't spare any capacity to transport grain to the people of Moscow.

In February 1917, when riots broke out in Russia due to anti-war and food shortages, a lot of grain hoarded by Russia in Vladivostok was moldy, and it has to be said that it was also a depressing thing to be unable to eat if there was grain that could not be shipped back.

The civil strife that broke out in Russia in February not only affected them, but also the world situation!

When the Russian Revolution first broke out, almost the eyes of the whole world withstood the situation in Russia, and even the German army suspended its offensive on the Eastern Front and watched the situation in Russia, because this revolution came so suddenly that both sides involved in the war could not figure out who the revolutionary party of Qu Qu who overthrew the Tsar, and whether those revolutionary parties would continue the war of the tsarist era or end the war, or simply join the camp of the Central Powers? Two years ago, Italy was able to betray Germany and join the Entente, which means that Russia can also betray the Entente and join the Allies!

When there was a commotion in Russia, the British ambassador to China, Juerdian, urgently asked to see Chen Jingyun and formally demanded that China, as an ally, make the necessary response to Russia's civil strife, including dealing with possible Russian betrayal, including using various means to force Russia to continue this war!

And this kind of suggestion is exactly what Chen Jingyun's appetite is, he is still worried that there is no excuse to send troops, and now that the boss Britain has automatically come to the door to ask for it, then his actions can become more reasonable.

As if in order to show their pressure, the Entente signed a mutual defense treaty with Britain on the third day of the establishment of the Russian Provisional Political Axe, and China, one of the Entente Powers and Russia's most important foreign aid ally in the past three years, issued a second-level mobilization order to mobilize up to 30 divisions in the northeast, northwest, and Outer Mongolia regions, in order to replenish the personnel and equipment within half a month, so that these 30 divisions and China's other five combat divisions reached the same wartime full establishment status. After the capture of New Guinea in 1914, Ben once again issued a mobilization order, mobilizing two divisions to be ready to deal with the situation of civil unrest in Russia.

The posture of the Entente looks a little scary, that is, if Russia dares to betray, then China and the two countries will send troops to Russia, and if Russia dares to negotiate peace with the Germans privately, then China and the two countries may also send troops!!

In a word, the Entente needed Russia to continue fighting! The British needed him to keep fighting, saying, 'I need him to keep fighting, and China also needs Russia to keep fighting.' Even the Americans, who have not yet entered the war, but are already preparing to enter the war, want the Russians to continue fighting!

But then again, if the Russian Provisional Governor did reach an armistice with the Germans, the Entente would not have had a good way to do it, at most to make a small fight in the Far East, or to support other forces in Russia to take power.

The reason why Chen Jingyun put on a posture of a big war, in addition to wanting to recapture part of the land in his heart, is more important is to prevent the Russians from making a revolution and getting dizzy, really betraying the Entente and turning around to beat themselves, although these things have not happened in history, but they can't be unguarded, and more importantly, Chen Jingyun is still waiting for the group of Social Workers in Russia to appear, waiting for the outbreak of civil strife in the Russian War, and at that time, the [***] team that has been prepared for a long time can make a response at any time!