Since Yunnan's independence, the movement in Kunming has always been the focus of the Security Bureau's attention, and before the infighting between the Guangdong and Yunnan armies broke out in Kunming in the middle of the night that day, a telegram from Cai Yi's admission to a French hospital was sent to the desk of Liu Boyuan, the director of the bureau. At half past six in the morning, when Yang Rui was still boxing and jogging at this time, Liu Boyuan, who had stayed up for half a night, had already arrived at Yin'an Palace.

"Sir, there was an infighting between the two armies of Kunming, Yunnan and Guangdong in the middle of the night last night, and the result in the morning was that the Guangdong army won." Liu Boyuan only briefly talked about the results of the infighting in Kunming, and did not report the reasons for which he could not be completely determined.

"Did Chen Qimei do it?" Yang Rui wiped his sweat and asked. Approaching the age of forty, he felt that his energy was beginning to decline, and he had to double the time he spent on his morning run.

"Yes, sir." Liu Boyuan said. "Based on the current intelligence, it should be Chen Qimei who poisoned Cai Ye and then blamed the Yunnan generals, and now the former officers of the 39th Division in Kunming City are being purged."

Cai Ye was poisoned? Yang Rui frowned slightly, but he was also frowning tightly. Today, he is no longer the person who felt guilty for Chen Tianhua's death more than ten years ago and regretted the death of a historical celebrity. He only knew that in order to achieve his goal, anyone but himself, even himself, could be sacrificed.

"Zou Ruoheng, what about them? Did you escape? Yang Rui thought of his own people in the Yunnan army, and couldn't help asking.

"This ......, the intelligence station has not received any news from him and other officers, perhaps ......," Liu Boyuan understood the details of the plan for the whole of Yunnan, and the reason why the Dian army failed was entirely due to the fact that they were exercising restraint under the orders of the Security Bureau, and could not take the lead in making a preemptive action -- according to the progress of the expulsion of Russian residents from the Outer Northeast. The quelling of the rebellion in Yunnan would take at least a month to take place.

"Find a way to get the local intelligence station to save people." Yang Rui ordered.

"Yes, sir." Liu Boyuan said. He said something else, "Sir." The news from the intelligence bureau said that Sun Wen and others had discussed it a few years ago, and that the arms ordered by the Russians to the United States had already been shipped from New York, and that we should ...... What should I do? ”

"Which country's merchant ship can be sunk by a submarine?" Yang Rui asked.

"It's an American merchant ship, and the crew on board is all American." Liu Boyuan said, "Now the American ships have also learned from us and have begun to leave in groups. If it is sunk, I am afraid that the entire fleet will have to be sunk. Otherwise, it cannot be kept secret. ”

"Then send planes to bomb, if it's at night, then ......" Thinking that it would be inappropriate to deal with the munitions ship when it docked, Yang Rui said: "Coordinate with the submarine force first to see if they can destroy the munitions ship in the sea on the way, if not, send elite mountain special forces to destroy the munitions on the railway." After he said that, he remembered the matter of the Outer Northeast to drive out Russia, and said: "When will the matter of the Outer Northeast be resolved, will it really take half a year?" ”

"Sir. The Russian diaspora is relatively scattered, and there are many American journalists and pastors who often monitor our movements, and some things that are not easy to do are too blatant, and now we are using the method of cutting off all the necessities of life. The most important thing is the wood and coal needed for heating......" Liu Boyuan said.

The expulsion of Russia was often implicitly obstructed by righteous clergy and American journalists, making the process not as smooth as previously thought, although in time the Russians would eventually be withdrawn. But the problem is that the Russians in the Outer Northeast have not gone a little bit, and it is not easy to move on the Yunnan side. These two events are inherently causal. Of course, there are also people in the army who think that they can directly send troops to arrest people and get them on the bus. Those who did not comply were shot on the spot, but this practice was eventually abandoned due to Xie Zhangtai's opposition.

Yang Rui basically agrees with Xie Zhangtai, but there are many people who seem to have not changed their temperament from the revolutionary struggle, they think that being tough on the outside world is to raise their eyebrows, and the blockade of the great powers can be self-reliant.

But the environment of the revolution is completely different from the current environment. After the European War, China is no longer a poor egg, but a local rich man with billions of foreign exchange. In this case, Britain and the United States and other countries will be taboo hostile, operate tariffs, and secretly exclude, but no matter what they do, they will not dare to blatantly blockade in the end, and still have to recognize China as a member of the international trading system, not an outsider, so maintaining a positive international image and relatively harmonious diplomatic relations is very important to the country's development. It's just that few people have a deep understanding of this, and even, under the idea of the gentry kissing each other, Yang Rui also found a bigger and deeper thing, that is, closing the country.

'Since the twenty-third year of the pseudo-Qing Daoguang, the port was suddenly opened, and the Westerners suddenly appeared, resulting in the decline of our people's morality and the decline of the world; Today's moon is reopened, the monarch is bright and good, and it is natural to eliminate injustice and recast the right way; And my China is rich all over the world, why should I need foreign goods...... 'This is built by the old scholars;

In the long run, the richer the foreigners and the poorer our country becomes, the government should withdraw tariffs, close ports, give gifts to foreign merchants, and run domestic goods ......' this is advocated by the industrial community;

'The civilization of the Westerners is a civilization that kills people and sells goods and disregards human life, as evidenced by the fact that 100,000 foreign soldiers died in the battle of Paris today. Our country should depose the new school and burn all the Western languages, so as to honor the sons of the hundred schools...... this is advocated by the academic circles;

After the reunification of China, the stronger the country, the more Chinese-style isolationism intensified, although Yang Rui is not exact how this kind of thing came out, but he and Zhang Taiyan must be to blame, but in just a few years to reach this point, it is also because the Chinese people have a sense of superiority in the Heavenly Empire. After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China did not experience chaos, there were no tens of millions of deaths, and nearly half of the cones were distressed, and many people were still indulging in the old dreams of the dynasty, and they did not know at all that the times were changing with each passing day.

The strength of a nation-state lies not only in its own industrial processing capacity, but also in the number of accessible markets and sources of raw materials it has. Maintaining a relatively harmonious relationship with Europe and the United States, even if China's traditional industries will be squeezed by Europe and the United States, some advantageous industries and the country's industrial strength will benefit from this. In many cases, the upgrading of technology is not only because of the investment in research and development, but also because of the size of the market capacity and user feedback, China needs developed markets in Europe and the United States to support the development and production of high-tech products and benefit from them, but China itself cannot afford to consume this kind of products. Once the country is closed, who will the stockings be sold to? Electric motors, caustic soda, diesel engines, electric lights...... to whom do these big things sell?

After Liu Boyuan reported on the affairs of the Outer Northeast, Yang Rui did not speak. It is completely possible to expel Russian nationals within a year, after all, people need to eat, heat, salt, and see a doctor. But in just a few months, hundreds of thousands of people could not be driven out unless violence was used. Thinking of the previous Jiangdong 64 Tun, Yang Rui finally said: "The army should not come forward first, it is better for the patrol police to come forward, you must know that the Americans are watching." Or look for the Poles, and what is the name of Liu Yu......"

Yang Rui couldn't remember the name of the famous beard in the Outer Northeast, and Liu Boyuan hurriedly reminded: "Sir, it's called Liu Yushuang." ”

"Yes, it's Liu Yushuang. Find him and let him lead someone to ......" Yang Rui originally wanted to build yì This beard smashed glass, released poisonous snakes, and forced the house to be demolished while there was no one at home. But this kind of thing is really hard to say in his current status, so he had to say at the end: "Let him find a way, and those Japanese ronins, let them do their best to get the Russians away." ”

Yang Rui looked for the Poles and Liu Yushuang, and basically did everything except send the army, which was a larger scale than the previous allowed, and the patrol police used to go out. Liu Boyuan was happy in his heart, but he still had some worries and said, "Sir, I understand." It's just that Mr. Chong'an's side ....... What if Mr. Chongan does not agree? ”

"I'll discuss with him over there. You go ahead and do it first, as long as our army doesn't come forward, let those bearded, Poles, and Japanese ronin do it, there is still room for relaxation. Yang Rui said.

Yang Rui made a decision in the morning. An hour later, Li Liezu, the commander of the 6th Group Army in Harbin, saw the telegram, and he didn't think about it, he patted his thigh and said, "Quick! Vladivostok will be released immediately. Let them come up with a solution immediately and 'send' that pile of Russian wool out earlier. ”

Although there is a truce between China and Russia. But the 6th Army, together with the Mongol cavalry corps, fought with the Russian army against the Russian-Mongolian border and Solntsevaya on Russian territory. Solntsevaya is the turning point of the Trans-Siberian Railway southward through the Heilongjiang River, and 20 kilometers to the north is the Trans-Siberian Railway built by the Soviet Union to bypass the entire Heilongjiang River. In addition to the occupation, emigration, and expulsion of Russia, the Chinese-occupied Trans-Siberian Railway had to be replaced with standard tracks, but this was not implemented until after the Russian Revolution.

The plan to drive the Russians with all its might soon arrived at the Vladivostok junta, and Division Commander Wang Jinfa immediately summoned Liu Yushuang the bearded, Yelinsky, the leader of the Polish Einsatzgruppen, Ryohei Uchida, and Kawashima Sulang to discuss how to expel the Russians. Among these people, Liu Yushuang originally came to Vladivostok to report on the progress of the demolition work, Einsky of the Einsatzgruppen had just come out of the kiln, full of the smell of wine and women's incense, and Ryohei Uchida and Kawashima Sholang were gentle, respectful, but the wolf-like light in their eyes did not look like good people.

"Malegobi's!" The meeting began with Wang Jinfa's mantra, and he said aggressively: "It was too slow to drive people in the past!" Now the above is not satisfied, saying that it is for a few of you to think of a way, you can take a look, what should I do about this thing? ”

"Report to the sir, shoot them!" Yelinsky seems to have not woken up yet, and after many years in China, his Chinese language is getting better and better. He was still the same as before, when he talked about the Russians, he was filled with righteous indignation, and this time the Baath Army occupied Vladivostok, and he was not only mentally refreshed, but also physically refreshed.

"Damn, I still want you to teach me to shoot Lao Tzu! It's not okay. Wang Jinfa scolded, he looked at Liu Yushuang and the two Japanese, and finally his eyes stayed on Kawashima Sulang: "Mr. Kawashima, your brain is the best, this Russian Mao is ugly, and it occupies such a big place, it is unreasonable not to invite God's punishment." Our two countries have more people and less land, if we don't drive them away, how can the villagers have land to plant! ”

Wang Jinfa was originally a mountain king, and his seductive words were so lured that he made people have a toothache, and he didn't want the Japanese but didn't feel the slightest discomfort, Kawashima quickly bowed and said: "General Wang, driving away the Lu people is the unanimous goal of your two countries, but those people in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are afraid of the interference of British and white animals, and the ronin people can't do too much......"

Kawashima Sholang was originally an anti-revival member, but as soon as the Russian army collapsed and the Outer Northeast was occupied by China, his position immediately changed. China has slowly turned fat into a beast, Russia has turned from a beast of prey to a lamb, and now China openly and covertly supports Japanese immigration here. Even if he hates China to the core, Kawashima, as a mainlandist, will be pro-China in an instant. It's just that. Like China's estimated international image, the Japanese ronin and the Black Dragon Society as a whole have been suppressed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In order to prevent the excesses of the Far East from irritating the Entente powers.

"Damn! You don't have the guts, do you? Wang Jinfa was very disdainful when he saw the Japanese shrinking their eggs, "Last time you asked me for so much land, but now there is not a single ghost, and all the people in your country have land?" Is this fucking foreigner's note important, or is the belly important? ”

"Your Excellency......" Seeing Wang Jinfa displeased, Ryohei Uchida next to him finally spoke, and he said: "After all, Japan and Britain are allies, since there is this alliance. Then the government will be held back by the British. Now Lu Guo has sent a note to Britain that if Japan immigrates to the Far East, Lu will withdraw from the European war and attack the east with all its might......"

"Good! Then you and I will fight with the Russian Maozi, all the way to the lake or West Siberia, not to mention the rest of this place, it takes hundreds of years to cut down trees......" When Wang Jinfa heard about the war, his excitement suddenly came up. He slapped the table and talked to himself for a long time, which made Uchida Ryohei smile bitterly and helpless At the same time, Kawashima Speedy's ambition was suddenly aroused.

Kawashima said: "Your Excellency." You and I should fight all the way to the foot of the Ural Mountains and take this forest and steppe for ourselves! ”

"That's what the fuck means!" Wang Jinfa patted his thigh and said excitedly, "But this way there are not hundreds of thousands." At least a few million. Malegobi! Now these hundreds of thousands of Russian maozi are not in good order, do you want to supply these Russian Maozi when you hit the Ural Mountains? Let's talk about two. Now our country is at war with the Russian Maozi, and you are just standing by and watching. It's not even good to move people and drive people, if this thing is known to your hometown, then you have to laugh at you for not having eggs. ”

Babbling, Wang Jinfa only said that the Japanese were red-faced, and after he finished speaking, he stopped paying attention to the Japanese, looked at Liu Yushuang and said: "The others don't care, Brother Liu said, what should I do about this matter?" ”

"Big brother, I see, this cutting off grain, salt, coal, and oil is not a solution after all." After Liu Yushuang was recruited by the Intelligence Bureau, he had become a tyrant in the Northeast, and his subordinates quickly expanded from a few hundred to several thousand. These people robbed homes, killed people and set fires, and did not do good deeds, and with them, some of the dirty work that was inconvenient for the Renaissance Army to do was naturally done.

"Then you say, what is the best thing to do?" Wang Jinfa asked grinningly.

"I see, any Russian hair can last for a few months, and what we want is time. Don't be blind with a few handfuls of mushrooms, just pick up a few barrels of kerosene and burn down the house of Omaozi. "As a front-line worker, Liu Yushuang still has deep consideration for the demolition." As soon as this house burns down, Omaozi has to leave. ”

"Who's going to burn it?" Wang Jinfa's eyes turned and turned on Yelinsky and the Japanese, waiting for them to answer.

"Sir, the Einsatzgruppen can burn it." Yelinsky stood up on his own initiative to accept this sacred task.

However, he said this, Wang Jinfa was not satisfied. Stimulated by squeezing his eyebrows, Kawashima finally stood up and said, "You can also take someone to burn it in the next place!" After he finished speaking, he lowered his tone and said, "However, this can only be at night." ”

"Just burn down the house, it doesn't matter if it's day or night." Seeing that the Japanese finally agreed, Wang Jinfa was satisfied.

The discussion was decided, and Wang Jinfa put the plan into play in Harbin, and after it was approved, he began to implement the action. In the evening of the same day, barrels of kerosene were loaded on climbing plows and pulled in the direction of Temple Street, and a few days later, the houses of the Russians who refused to leave and refused to pay rubles for compensation began to catch fire one after another, and some who dared to shoot and stubbornly were thrown into the fire and burned to death.

The wind in the northeast is tight, but even if there is no evidence for this kind of thing, reporters from various countries can guess that it was done by the Chinese, and for a time the international public opinion was uproaring, making Xie Yitai not a wolf.

Xie Zhangtai was forced to reiterate Russia's invasion of China and its funding and assistance to Chinese illegals to provoke a rebellion in Yunnan, arguing that Russia's behavior was a flagrant violation of public international law, and that China's order to leave the Russian overseas Chinese was also a restrained act to prevent another rebellion......

The official said so, but in private, Xie Jintai complained to Yang Rui very much, saying that this matter was in a hurry, and thought that as long as they cut off their necessities, the Russians would not be able to survive this spring.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is weak and difficult to do, and is often oppressed by foreigners; It's not easy to do it if it's strong, and you often have to find high-sounding excuses for bullying. Yang Rui was just amused after listening to Xie Jintai's complaints. He took out a report and said: "The American arms have been shipped to Annan. If the Far East does not drive the Russians away, then Sun Wenke will become bigger. ”

"What!" Xie Jintai was surprised. His complaints are just words. He understood that Yang Rui's original intention of speeding up the expulsion of the Russians from the Far East was to send troops to Yunnan as much as possible. Only when the wound of the Yunnan rebellion is there, can the behavior of the Outer Northeast be justified in legal theory. In order to give more time to expel the Russians. Before the Chinese New Year, the air force of the Fuxing Army blew up the arms of the rebels in Sunwen, and they didn't want the Russians to bring in new arms, and the route was still the Yunnan Railway. "Are the French being eaten by the Russians?"

"Pretty much." Yang Rui understood that before Russia withdrew from the war, Britain and France would unconditionally support Russia. "Now the Security Service has sent some people to sabotage the matter, but it can't be done, I don't know. Sun Wen's movements were much faster than we expected, originally thought that the two factions in Yunnan were not compatible, and the infighting was estimated to take a while, who would have thought that Chen Qimei would cut through the chaos quickly. Three and two clicks will finish off the generals of the Dian army.

A few years ago, Yunnan was recruiting troops everywhere, and now the early recruits have been training for almost a month, and if the arms and firearms arrive, then by the time we reach Kunming, they will have been training for at least three months. Although the officers must be unqualified, and they are all recruits, but the terrain in Yunnan, if it is not good for them to get through, it will also be a trouble. ”

"Don't you say. Are we going to march early to quell the rebellion? "Xie Zhangtai knows the timetable, Yunnan is in advance, which is equal to the advance of the Outer Northeast.

"That's pretty much what it means." Yang Rui said. "No matter what we do in Vladivostok, as long as we want to get rid of these Russians, there will always be pressure. If you want to press it, just press it. When the British ran concentration camps in South Africa, they were under the same pressure, even though they were Caucasian. ”

Yang Rui just finished speaking. Outside, Li Zilong hurriedly came in with this telegram, and he was very surprised and said, "Prime Minister." Mr. Xie, a German submarine sank the British Royal Cruise ship Mauritania today. Most of the more than 2,000 passengers on the cruise ship froze to death in the seawater, and only a few dozen were rescued in lifeboats. Li Zilong was also shocked by the news, he read the telegram in one breath, and then said: "It is said that there are more than 300 Americans on the cruise ship!" ”

"Ah......" Yang Rui and Xie Jintai gasped. The ban on sinking cruise ships was China's previous construction of the German Navy, and the Intelligence Bureau repeatedly told Major Nikolai of the German General Staff to order the submarine commander to learn restraint, and the British would use the corpses of Americans to provoke contradictions between the United States and Germany. I didn't want to say what I had repeatedly told before, but it was ignored by the German Navy because Britain continued to rely on fast cruise ships to transport arms.

"What should I do?" Yang Rui immediately asked Xie Zhangtai that he was most familiar with the international form, and in this situation he was the most able to propose various proposals.

"What else can be done, I can only stand on the side of Britain and the United States and condemn German submarines." Xie Zhangtai said. "However, while the world's public opinion is now condemning German submarines, we must do everything we can in the Outer Northeast."

"That's what I mean, too." Yang Rui also thought of this matter, and he said to Li Zilong at the moment: "Immediately order Li Liezu to dispatch troops, no matter whether the Russians go south or return to the west, in short, we must do everything possible to expel them within three months." ”

"Understood, Prime Minister." Li Zilong immediately wrote it down, drafted a telegram for Yang Rui to look at, and sent it to Harbin after he signed it.

Yang Rui and Xie Jintai only sat in the room and did not speak, both of them were considering the impact of this incident on world shipping and the reaction of Germany and the United States -- Britain and France, which were all dependent on the survival of the Chinese and Japanese merchant fleets, would surely seize this incident and propagate German-hating rhetoric in the United States to force the Germans to suspend the unrestricted submarine warfare.

"Now Britain and France still have multi-ton merchant ships?" After a long silence, Xie Zhangtai asked.

"A few days ago, the CIA gave a number of jù, saying that Britain had lost at least six million tons of merchant ships." Yang Rui said, "In addition, because of the needs of the war, the price of steel has risen sharply, and the amount of water launched by merchant ships around the world has decreased significantly; The British shipwrights were building ships with all their might to fight a decisive battle with Germany, and the shipwrights who built merchant ships were all withdrawn, and the amount of water launched was also greatly reduced. To be exact, apart from us, only 1.2 million tons of merchant ships were launched in the world last year. This year, the CIA's forecast is 1.5 million tons, but now it seems that this figure is estimated to be lower. ”

"And what about German submarines? How many merchant ships can they sink without unrestricted submarine warfare? Xie Jintai asked again.

"I don't know. At least halve, less than three million tons a year. Yang Rui said. If Germany really gave up unrestricted submarine warfare, they would lose the war. (To be continued......)

PS: Note: Lloyd's. George, War Memoirs, Vol. 3, p132-133