Wuhan, East Lake Moshan, in the official residence of Sun Yat-sen.

In Sun Yat-sen's study, the uncle and nephew of the Luo family stood respectfully, without making a sound. Today, as soon as the news of Feng's determination to regain sovereignty over the Middle East Road by force reached Wuhan. The bigwigs of the Kuomintang were summoned by Sun Yat-sen to the official residence of Donghu one after another, and entered his study in batches to "face the saint", and now it is the turn of the Luo family's uncles and nephews.

The room was silent, except for the sound of the paper shaking. Sun Yat-sen was holding an annex to the "Sino-Russian Agreement on the Settlement of Outstanding Cases" in his hand, and he looked at it carefully over and over again, and he didn't know how long he had been reading it.

In the end, Sun Yat-sen picked up the attachment and flicked it lightly, and then threw it into the wastebasket contemptuously.

"Yichen, auxiliary text. Do you think the Soviets really intend to fulfill this paper agreement? The agreement also said that they would withdraw their troops from Outer Mongolia! Is it withdrawn now? Outer Mongolia has been studying for several years! ”

Sun Yat-sen stood up from his chair, walked in front of Luo Yaoguo, looked at him and frowned slightly, and said: "You don't know that after the Soviet Union signed this paper agreement, it has been delaying until now and has not held a negotiation on how to implement the terms, right?" Until now, the Middle East Road was a state within a state under Soviet control, as it was during the Tsarist period. Do you really think that we can redeem the sovereignty of the Middle Road and invite the Soviets out with just some money? ”

Luo Yaoguo took a deep breath and shook his head helplessly. He has just come up with a way for the Nationalist government to pay money to help the central government redeem the sovereignty of the Middle East Road...... Of course, he did not believe that the Soviets would abandon their ambitions for Northeast China, but this approach won the KMT praise at home and abroad.

Sun Yat-sen smiled slightly: "If Zhang Yuting wants to pretend to be a good person in front of the people of the whole country, you must pretend to be a good person in front of the people of the world." What about this wicked man...... Who are you going to let be? ”

Luo Yaoguo scratched his head and smiled faintly: "Prime Minister, there are many people in our country who have been deceived by the two declarations issued by Soviet Russia on July 25, 1919 and September 27, 1920, and regard them as good people...... Let's just take advantage of this opportunity to expose the true face of Soviet Russia and let the people of the whole country recognize that they are just wolves in sheep's clothing. There is no difference between them and imperialism! ”

After listening to Luo Yaoguo's explanation, Sun Yat-sen frowned slightly. It is as if the two so-called "abolition of all unequal treaties signed by Tsarist Russia with China and the renunciation of all privileges in China" were announced by the Soviet Russian authorities. Among the people deceived by the declaration is himself! In fact, until now, there are still many people among Chinese intellectuals who are not very smart-minded and believe that the Soviet Union does not fulfill the declaration, but is unwilling to return its territory and sovereignty to the Chinese warlords, and if it is replaced by the Chinese government, they will definitely be able to recover all the lost territory and sovereignty!

What bothers him even more is that there seem to be some so-called "Kuomintang leftists" among these brainless people. I wonder how these people will perform in this incident? I don't know if in their minds, the USSR is a friend or a ...... What about the father?

Sun Yat-sen glanced at Luo Yiqun again, and saw that this honest man was looking at his nose and nose, standing there with his head bowed and his hands down, looking like a faithful believer, and he didn't know if he was pretending?

"Yichen, we don't have a Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Executive Yuan now, this matter is ...... You go and discuss it with Comrade Wang Zhaoming, and I see that he has reviewed it almost the same, so I will ask him to come forward to Yanjing to negotiate with the ambassador of the Soviets. ”

Luo Yiqun nodded hurriedly, and asked cautiously: "Prime Minister, the question of the price ......?"

"I'll give you 30 million fiat coins at most." Sun Yat-sen waved his hand indifferently, and said: "Yichen, you can get busy first, and you can stay for the auxiliary text." ”

…… In the dim light of the study, Sun Yat-sen and Luo Yaoguo sat facing each other. After three years of recuperation, the revolutionary leader looked a little refreshed, but there was a slight hint of worry between his eyebrows.

He smiled faintly and looked at Luo Yaoguo, who was calm and calm: "Fuwen, I'm afraid there will inevitably be a war between China and the Soviet Union this time, right?" Tell us what you think. ”

Luo Yaoguo nodded slightly, and said with a smile: "The Prime Minister is right, I'm afraid that a war is inevitable." The Bong faction needs to use this battle to play itself as a national hero, and the Soviet Union probably wants to take this opportunity to weaken the power of the Feng faction, right? ”

"So how do you think GCD will react?" Sun Yat-sen frowned, sighed softly, and asked himself: "I'm afraid they will side with the Soviet Union, right?" And...... We will be asked to do the same. Do you think we should ...... with them?"

As soon as these words came out, the two people in the room fell silent. For the KMT, the most difficult thing to choose is how to take sides. Especially when the war starts, it is the most stupid to want to be a neutral bystander. When the time comes, both sides will not be pleased, and both nationalists and GC activists will come to condemn you and oppose you...... "Prime Minister, we can only choose to support the Bong family!" After being silent for a long time, Luo Yaoguo sighed and opened his mouth.

Seeing that Sun Yat-sen was still sitting still and unresponsive, Luo Yaoguo took a deep breath and continued to analyze: "Now China is about to be invaded by the Soviet Union, and the mass base of our party is nationalists. If we choose to cooperate with the Soviet Union, these people will inevitably leave us, and we will probably be left with opportunists and internationalists. At that time, even if we are lucky enough to become the master of Yanjing, I am afraid that in the end, it will be ...... It won't end well. ”

“…… And to support the Feng system, our biggest trouble is just the attitude of the middle g. They are still a branch of the GC International, and in this incident, the GC International will certainly instruct them to cooperate with the actions of the Soviet Union. At that time, I am afraid that our two parties will clash, and then our heavy industry construction in the south may be affected...... Therefore, the key to our party's handling of this incident is how to avoid a fierce conflict with China and G. ”

Sun Yat-sen listened carefully, with no expression on his face, but in his heart he must be fighting fiercely. Sun Yat-sen was one of the few people in the Kuomintang who understood the strength of the GCD, so he was careful to maintain the unity of the two parties. Where you can tolerate it, try to be patient, after all, China G also really wants to save the country and save the people. Only this time the situation was a little different, and the Kuomintang and Sun Yat-sen started by relying on a "national revolution". So the Kuomintang was based on "narrow" nationalists. Once the banner of national righteousness is lost, I am afraid that it will not be far from extinction.

"Prime Minister, I think that the only way to do this is to ask your old man to come out in person and summon Chen Duxiu, secretary of the Southern Bureau of the Central G. Let's see if there is a way for both sides to avoid an armed conflict, if China and G can keep the struggle in the south within the scope of non-violence......"

Luo Yaoguo continued to talk. His idea was to avoid a war between the two parties, as long as the Central and G-G did not provoke an agrarian revolution in the south to attack the weakest link of Kuomintang rule. As for other forms of struggle, such as marches, protests, strikes, school boycotts, etc., the Kuomintang turned a blind eye and treated it as if it did not see it. Such...... The Chinese and G sides should be able to account for the past in the Soviet Union. Presumably, Chen Duxiu and other high-level leaders of China and G may not have no other ideas in their hearts about this Sino-Soviet conflict.

After Luo Yaoguo finished his tirade, there was silence in the room for a long time, and then he heard Sun Yat-sen sigh deeply: "This time, both of our parties can be counted into the system...... It is only possible to avoid conflicts. I hope that there can be such a tacit understanding between China and G. ”

“…… That's how it was for the middle g. Let's talk about this war, when do you think the war will start? Is there any chance that Bong will win? And what countermeasures should our party take? Do you want to send troops into battle? ”

Luo Yaoguo frowned, and seemed to have been thinking hard: "Prime Minister, this war will not start for a while. Now that the northeast is already icy and snowy, it is really not suitable for the use of troops, and the incident happened suddenly, and the Soviet Union may not have any preparations...... Besides, even if the two sides do not have the slightest sincerity in negotiations, they will always have to do this for the world to see, right? As for our party's countermeasures, the ministry thinks that it is still necessary to persuade peace at the moment. Even if there is no result in the end, we must strive for it with all our might. ”

“…… As soon as the battle began, this Feng system naturally had no chance of winning. I'm afraid that even the Zhang family father and son have no doubt about this, right? It's just a matter of losing more and losing less. After all, in today's China, we still have the largest number of soldiers and the greatest strength...... If we sit back and watch the failure of the worship system, I am afraid that all the mouths of the world will unanimously condemn us, right? ”

“…… However, our party does not need to send too many troops, if we really send hundreds of thousands of troops, I am afraid that the Feng Department will not dare to let us go, right? The idea of the department is to send a division, and the 18th Division in Ningxia will be moved, right? Now that the Youth Army has seized Xinjiang Province, we don't need to help guard the rear, so we will give Ningxia to the Youth Army...... In the future, we will no longer give them allowances, which can be regarded as two clearances, and this will also prevent us from unnecessary military conflicts with China and G. The 18th Division could first go to Guanzhong, and then be transferred to Henan through the Longhai Line, where it would conduct a round of intensive training and then replenish a batch of new equipment. As soon as the war starts, we will send the 18th Division to support the Feng Department. ”

Luo Yaoguo's words were finished, and there was a deathly silence in the room. Sun Yat-sen still sat motionless, but his eyebrows were tightly twisted, and his beard was slightly upturned.

I don't know how long he was silent, Sun Yat-sen reluctantly smiled: "Okay, your method is very proper, let's handle it like this." But the commander of the eighteenth division ...... Let An Sihua take on the role for a while. And once the war starts, you also have to bring a staff group to help the Feng Department with advice, you can't let China lose too badly, right? ”

…… Things turned out to be as Luo Yaoguo expected. After the Middle East Road incident, China and the Soviet Union did not immediately enter the war. Instead, the negotiations began, and the situation calmed down again. But underneath the apparent calm, there is a surging undercurrent. All of a sudden, the various factions in China became active, staging round after round of tricks of combining vertical and horizontal tricks, and everyone wanted to make a fortune from this incident.

If there is anyone who benefited first from this incident, it is probably Yan Xishan, the soil emperor of Shanxi. As soon as the incident happened, the Shanxi campaign, which had been fought for more than two months, came to a silent halt. Although neither side has declared an armistice, nor has any negotiations been held, it has only been temporarily suspended by virtue of a tacit understanding. You have to stop and see the situation clearly.

There was also a rare long-lost laughter in the Military Supervision Office in Taiyuan, Shanxi, which was the wry smile of Yan Xishan and Wu Peifu.

In the study of the Governor's Office, two notorious warlords sat opposite each other. Two cups of tea wafted with a hint of aroma, and a pile of scraps of paper was piled up in the center of the desk...... This is Yan Xishan's Shimono power-up, and now it doesn't seem to be needed.

Yan Xishan looked at Wu Peifu, who was also tired, with a pair of eyes that were a little red and swollen and full of tiredness, and smiled bitterly: "Yushuai, is this a chance for us to make a comeback?" ”

"Comeback?" Wu Peifu smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Brother Baichuan may have a chance to rise again, but it is impossible for Brother Fool to rise again, it's just ...... Can you have a beautiful curtain call? I, Wu Peifu, have kept saying that I want to be patriotic all these years, but I have not taken any practical action, and now is an opportunity, it is better to fall on the battlefield of the national war than to be defeated by others in the civil war, right? Anyway, it can be famous for a hundred years! ”

Yan Xishan's eyes seemed to be full of admiration when he looked at Wu Peifu again, and he lowered his head emphatically: "I can't let go of this Shanxi father, otherwise I would have followed Yushuai to the Northeast to resist Russia...... However, Yushuai sent troops this time, asking for money, food, and arms, although he opened his mouth, the younger brother has lived carefully over the years, and he still has some savings. Rather than being taken away by GCD in the future, it is better to use it on the battlefield of resistance against Russia now, which can be regarded as contributing to the country. ”

Wu Peifu smiled and arched his hand: "Then I will thank Brother Baichuan for the high righteousness of the 30 million fathers and elders in the Northeast!" ”

Yan Xishan waved his hand indifferently and said with a smile: "What is high righteousness or not righteousness, these are the people of Shanxi, and they are not brought out by me Yan Xishan from home." It's just that...... How sure is Yu Shuai going to send troops this time? ”

Wu Peifu smiled bitterly and did not answer. He thought that he was definitely going to be finished now, even if Yan Xishan could tolerate him, his subordinates would all be scattered. These direct backbones, in addition to Yu Xuezhong, are also a little motivated. Others have long been tired of this life of fighting and killing, anyway...... Over the years, I have also made enough money in the seat. In Tianjin and Shanghai, they have bought and sold beautiful houses, and there are still some sales and land properties, so why bother to live this kind of life of fighting and killing without the slightest future?

Even Wu Peifu himself is tired of it, but he has fought a civil war all his life...... It was too unwilling to be kicked out of the stage of history as a gray loser. Today's Middle East Road incident seems to be a godsend. In the final fight on the battlefield of the national war, if you die in battle, it will be famous for eternity! If he does not die, he will be a national hero in the future, with infinite glory...... can have such a curtain call, and he Wu Peifu will be content. As for the grasp, there is naturally no point. This Russia used to be extremely strong imperialism, and now it has a "Soviet" brand, and I heard that it is even more powerful, well, look at how good their "Chinese students" are, you can imagine what kind of virtue the Soviet Red Army was.

Yan Xishan also shook his head and sighed: "Zhang Yuting is also taking a dangerous move this time!" In case of...... What's wrong, I'm afraid this northeast is about to be occupied by Russia, right? ”

Wu Peifu sneered and waved his hand: "No." The Soviet Union and Russia are plotting big, and they want not only the northeast, but the whole of China! The whole world! If they look too ugly this time, won't they expose their true colors in front of the whole world? So who else will believe in their doctrine in the future? ”

Yan Xishan breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "In that case, the Northeast is as safe as Mount Tai, as long as there are no problems in the Northeast, our customs will be straightened out." It's just ...... The surname is Zhang or the surname Sun. ”

At this time, Yan Xishan did not have the ambition to dominate the world, and his relationship with the north and south was also maintained well, in case it really came to the day of great unification. As long as he doesn't have the surname G, he Yan Laoxi will not lose the position of the third duke. Thinking of this, Yan Xishan smiled unconsciously.

"Northeast ...... I'm afraid it's hard to protect! Wu Peifu's words pulled Yan Xishan out of his beautiful vision for the future. He smiled bitterly and said: "If Soviet Russia loses this time, then the Northeast will naturally be as stable as Mount Tai." But to be honest, it's impossible, after all, the strength of the two countries is there, they are a unified industrial power, and we are nothing more than a divided agricultural country. If we lose...... And the USSR had no ambitions for the Northeast. Since Soviet Russia itself will not take the Northeast, it will naturally not go to war with the Northeast in order to help us defend the Northeast. ”

"This ......" Yan Xishan sighed, raised his head to the sky, and frowned tightly. He graduated from the sixth phase of non-commissioned officer of Yueben, and he can be regarded as a scholar of the school, so he naturally has insight into the ambition of Yueben. However, insight is insight, and Yan Laoxi still has to pretend to be a pro on the surface. After all, in the north, there don't seem to be too many warlords who don't speak to each other.

"If you have ambitions...... Then the righteousness of the nation will come into their hands. Yan Xishan said to himself again: "Whoever raises the banner of resistance at that time will be a good person and a hero." If anyone can't raise this flag in time, then I'm afraid that Han Zhan is a traitor, and I don't know if Zhang Yuting and Premier Sun can ......"

Wu Peifu smiled faintly and glanced at the tightly wrinkled face on the other side as if he was meditating. But I felt a burst of relief in my heart.

(To be continued)