WSong Biao came to Shanxi this time to pay New Year greetings to the chickens, and he did not take good intentions at all. He said that he was coming to personally thank the Shanxi merchants for their support for the Central Military Department. In fact, he was going to personally survey and see the muddy water in Shanxi.

How deep is it?

The newly transferred governor of Shanxi was Wang Shuhan. This is a real imperial party. He may not be very ruthless in his attacks. Now he is just trying to deal with the problem within the scope of comfort. He will save the tougher iron fist later.

Make a long preparation.

After inspecting Shanxi for a whole month, basically observing Shanxi's problems at close range, Song Biao returned to the capital and called Wang Shuhan over and gave advice. This made Wang Shuhan take office and use gentle means as much as possible.

Deal with some more urgent issues.

The difficulty in Shanxi's governance lies in the fact that Shanxi merchants were still alive in the Qing Dynasty and did not keep up with the pace at all. They had become an important obstacle to Shanxi's development. These people could neither be as aggressive as Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Guangdong merchants.

It is not as concise as the Northeast and Hui merchants. Taking the officialdom has always been their shortcut to make money. They are neither willing to forge ahead nor are they allowed outside business gangs to come in to develop Shanxi, and they are slandering, playing all kinds of tricks and tricks.

The land is merged through usury to maintain control over Shanxi's land resources.

Since the matter has reached such a place, Song Biao can only take ruthless measures to knock down all the old Shanxi merchants in front of him, opening up a bright road to the future for the young talents of the newly-shang merchants.

Only by eliminating thorns can seedlings grow freely.

Of course, the empire's current top priority is to prepare for a war against the Soviet Union and Russia, and to fight to the end with the British-Japanese alliance to ensure the empire's privileges in the Middle East.

The British and Japanese greed for the German occupation of New Guinea has made Song Biao feel disgusted. The German investment here made all countries realize that German New Guinea's copper and gold resources are extremely rich, and the empire's occupation in the past few years

Mid-term. About 600,000 tons of copper and nearly 30 tons of gold were also ingested from here, and a part of the nickel ore was mined, plus local coffee, cocoa, and coconut cultivation was an important supply to the imperial economy.

Naturally, they have always refused to make any concessions. The UK proposed that China and Japan each account for half of the main copper and gold mining areas were divided into Japan.

The decline of France, the drastic changes in Russia, and the external neutrality of the United States made the world after World War I briefly at the level dominated by Britain, and even if China and France united, the role they could play was limited.

Song Biao faced the pressure of the British-Japanese alliance in a silent and unresponsive manner, and at the same time strengthened the garrison in German New Guinea. In fact, he knew very well that Britain is now promising to fulfill the Sino-British Agreement on the surface, and secretly keeps giving crazy

China creates various problems and wants to force China to make big concessions based on the Sino-British Agreement to ensure that Britain maintains its world hegemony and takes the initiative in issues such as Hong Kong, **, northern Myanmar, and the Middle East.

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Apart from temporary patience, Song Biao had no better way, just as the Republic a century later faced various rogue means of the United States.

Compared to Britain, he hates rogue countries like Japan that desperately use external forces to fight against China.

Song Biao also believed in China's potential. One day, he would return it to this humble and shameless British-Japanese alliance.

If the empire wants to expand or develop, it can only be in such a situation of internal and external troubles forever. In fact, the relationship between the country is always very complicated, especially between the big powers, and Britain suppresses China.

, There is also support, there is struggle and cooperation between China and Britain. Although the requirements of the British-Japanese alliance are too excessive, the initiative is actually in the hands of China, because the country that truly occupys the Middle East and Papua New Guinea is China, and

Only China can have the strength to deal with the Soviet Union.

It really forced China to be impatient. The empire could reach a peaceful agreement with the Soviet Union immediately and leave the Soviet Union to Europe to resolve the disaster. The empire steadily strengthened its troops in the Middle East. One million troops were stationed in Iran, Iraq, and Turkey.

With Papua New Guinea and even large-scale troops stationed in Tanzania, forcing South Africa, I don’t know whether Britain is laughing or crying.

The struggle of the great power is a kind of obscene and despicable art.

It was not until August 21, 1919 that the Paris Peace Conference ended its last day's agenda. Delegates of various countries signed the peace treaty. In addition to the Versailles peace treaty in Germany, there were also corresponding peace treatys for Austro-Hungary, Ottoman and other countries.

According to this series of peace treaties, China will receive a total of 2.2 billion pounds of war reparations from Austria, Hungary, Turkey and Bulgaria, and about 3.2 billion pounds of German Kimmarc from Germany. The former German colonies occupied by China in East Africa were transferred respectively.

Delegated management for France, France allocated the Caledonian Islands and surrounding islands and some islands in the Pacific region to China, Germany's New Guinea belongs to China's overseas provinces, and China's occupied Syria, Kuwait, and Turkey enjoy sovereignty by the British Empire

, China enjoys sovereignty in Iraq, while Britain handed over sovereignty in the Kingdom of Brunei to China.

China is a party at a disadvantage in this Paris peace negotiation. In order to force Britain to recognize the previous war agreement, it did make major concessions, but these concessions have enabled China to achieve several basic goals, namely, in the Middle East.

Maintaining a certain status and interests with the Pacific Ocean, and at the same time reclaiming Hong Kong and Macau, demanding that the UK recognize the ownership of ** and recognize the Riau Islands as China's overseas territory.

Although Britain still plays word games and does not recognize ** as Chinese territory, and the conflict between the two sides in disputed areas such as northern Myanmar and southern Tibet may intensify at any time, time is always more beneficial to China.

Compared with Germany, which needs to compensate the Allied Powers 132 billion gold marks, China can only say that it is quite lucky. The former major partner country has ended up like this. Prime Minister Tang Shaoyi, who has visited Germany twice, is also quite touched.

Just as the Paris Peace Conference came to an end, the Soviet Red Army also began a comprehensive counterattack against the White Army. In mid-October 1919, the Soviet Red Army completely defeated Kolchak and Mad, who were entrenched in the Omsk region.

General Nidolph's White Army and Omsk White Army were forced to evacuate to the Novosibirsk area and completely hide under the wings of the Imperial CSKA. The benefit of the Empire was that it obtained Russia's gold reserves as a protector.

Because of the Mutual Insurance Treaty of Allied Nations, the total amount of gold reserves lost by Britain, France and Russia during the entire World War I period was relatively smaller. Russia still had 1,170 tons of gold reserves at this stage, and at the same time it owed the empire about 400 million pounds of debt.

After confirming that these gold reserves had arrived in Kizil, Song Biao met with General Madnidolph, one of the White Army's special envoys and leaders, in Xuanzhengyuan.

At this time, General Madnidolph was no longer the former Minister of Army who was deeply trusted by the Tsar. Because of the large-scale defeat on the front line, General Madnidolph was removed from his post as Minister of Army in April 1917.

Unexpectedly, General Madnidolph escaped the Soviet February and October Revolutions. He has been waiting for opportunities in his hometown of Orenburg. Later, he organized the White Army to join forces with the Kolchak tribe to capture Kazan and leave Russia in Kazan.

All the central bank's gold reserves were transported back to Chelyabinsk. They then retreated to Omsk and finally to Kizil.

Because Jiang Yanxing was responsible for guarding the Novosibirsk region, he signed a confidentiality agreement with General Madnidolph as the representative of the empire to keep these gold reserves in place of the White Army, but this agreement was only him and Madnidolph and Gower.

Chak and the other three knew about it.

It was under such circumstances that General Madnidolph personally took the train to Beijing and went to Xuanzheng Park to meet His Majesty the Emperor.

Old friend, old boss.

Song Biao was also in a very complicated mood. He went out of Zhongnanhai and went to the railway station to welcome General Madnidolph, and then rode the gilded Chinese car used by the royal family to return to the inner court of Zhonghai.

On the way, Song Biao and General Madnidolph chatted briefly, and basically knew that General Madnidolph did not intend to return to Russia for the time being. When he returned to Xuanzheng Garden, Song Biao asked General Madnidolph to sit in the imperial study.

After a while, I had a tea and chatted, and asked Chen Qimei to come over and let Chen Qimei re-arrange the Prince Gong Mansion in the name of the General Administration of the Neijing to specially entertain General Madnidolph.

After Chen Qimei left, General Madnidolph thanked Song Biao very gratefully: "His Majesty Hua. It is a very honor for me to meet you in this life, but it is only after Xie Yenikif and others.

After my death in battle, I felt more and more sad. I could not see the hope of rebuilding Russia. The only hope at this time is that I would like to invite you and the Chinese Empire to send troops."

Song Biao nodded silently, but said, "General, you and I have been friends for many years. In fact, you also understand in your heart that the Empire has just finished the battle, and the British-Japanese alliance is behind it, dragging the Empire's back, no matter what it is.

The British-Japanese alliance is firmly stalking on issues such as Hong Kong, the Middle East, etc. The domestic military expenditure is already difficult to support. I really hope that the possibility of a decisive battle with the Soviet Union is too low, otherwise the empire would not just stand behind.

, he was reluctant to send troops directly. Alas, military expenditure is a big problem. The insurance treaty puts heavy pressure on the empire. If you hadn't sent this batch of gold, it would temporarily offset the amount of 2.5 billion pounds that Russia owed our country.

With huge debts, the Empire is going to negotiate with the Soviet Union now, so it is impossible for you to continue to support you."

Of course, General Madnidolph did not know that the empire had another special fee, enough to support the war between the empire and the Soviet Union. In fact, it was not only that he did not know, but also that countries around the world did not know.

If we only look at the general situation in the international community today, both Britain and France, and China and the United States actually lack the economic foundation needed to continue large-scale wars and have no money, otherwise we would have joined forces to interfere in the Soviet Union and Russia long ago.

General Madnidolph still reluctantly held a glimmer of hope and asked, "His Majesty Hua, what are you thinking about at the moment?"

Song Biao thought for a while and said, "My only promise now is to defend the Novosibirsk region, fight the Soviet Union here to force the Soviet Union to recognize the establishment of a neutral autonomous country in the middle area, and to retain you to continue to maintain the armed forces of the White Army.

And the regime. Of course, you will definitely return the areas east of Baikal and all the territories that Russia has occupied our country before. Whether it is your White Army or the Soviet Union, we will not give in. In the past, we did not

Let’s talk about these issues because His Majesty the Tsar was in and the Romanov dynasty was in one day. Considering the special relationship between China and Russia and the royal family, we can all not talk about it for the time being, and we will definitely talk about it now."

General Madnidolph replied: "We have a full understanding of this. With the current strength of the Empire, if the Empire can guarantee that the Soviet Union agrees to the Novosibirsk region to the highly autonomous Siberian Republic, we will be very grateful to His Majesty and

empire."

Song Biao said: "If this is the case, it would be great. But it depends on the outcome of our battle. We are all veteran soldiers, how good is the Soviet Union, you and me

It is clear in my heart that according to my current observation, the level of the Soviet Red Army is actually very similar to the early situation of the Northeast Army, that is, the more you fight, the more you become, the more you are. The more you experience it is, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the more you are, the

Continuous improvement, the soldiers were also directly inherited from the War of Tsarist Russia, and most of them were veterans. The equipment was not bad, especially the White Army sent a lot of good things, and even the tanks were given to the Red Army.

, This really makes me a little confused about how to talk about it. Military is always full of too many unknowns, especially you can understand it at this moment, so how do you ask me to guarantee it?"

General Madnidolph couldn't explain the issue clearly, but he knew that Song Biao had not told him the truth.

Is Madnidolph still unclear about what level of Song Biao is? He and Kolchak and others' White Army delayed for nearly two years. Song Biao must have been ready for a long time, but at this time

I am willing to give him a clear answer. To put it bluntly, the White Army has no longer used value.

Do you really think Madnidolph and Kolchak gave more than 1,000 tons of gold for no reason?

The Bai army thought that the Imperial Army on Jiang Yanxing's side was not clear. They originally wanted to secretly bring gold into the Tomsk area and bury it. As a result, the imperial intelligence department was keeping it a secret. Jiang Yanxing and the Central Military Intelligence Department kept it secret.

The people from the bureau had already led two reorganized divisions to surround the Russian army and forced the White Army to give in to the gold. After bargaining, they signed a private receipt.

The so-called receipt issued by Jiang Yanxing is nonsense. If the empire is dependent on the debt, can the White Army send people to the empire to sue? How could it be possible to win?

Because of the influence of insurance treaties, the empire held a lot of British and French debts at this stage, but the country's central gold reserve was 2,175 tons. A large part of it was transferred from Europe to China to invest, and exchanged directly for gold.

With the Chinese circle, the empire would never miss this batch of 1,170 tons of gold from Tsarist Russia.

One of the biggest benefits of insurance treaties is that it limits the rush of gold from Europe to the United States, limits the pace of the United States becoming the world's only hegemon. When the imperial gold reserves remained at 2,175 tons, the United States' gold reserves actually did not exceed

There are too many figures, and the UK is still the world's most important gold reserve, but the total amount has dropped to a scale of 4,000 tons.

At least in terms of the issue of gold reserves, the world's major powers are balanced, China, France and the United States are roughly equivalent, while Britain continues to maintain twice the amount of other countries until the empire secretly annexed this batch of gold reserves of Russia.

In the whole world, the pure gold standard was not immediately hit by the deadly impact of World War I. In the expected next five years, the free circulation of gold will be restored, on the condition that Britain and France gradually repay the huge amount of extra debt they have defaulted on.

General Madnidolph was not a very skilled military expert, but he must be a very qualified politician. He knew very well that the White Army had no use value to the Chinese Empire. He stayed in China and maintained him and the Emperor of China.

The special relationship between the top leaders of the Chinese Empire may be able to find opportunities again in the future, but it is completely meaningless to stay in Russia.

He actually knew very well that what awaited the great Russian motherland would be a tragic division, just as cruel and ruthless as Russia had done to China, and the culprit of all this was the Soviet Union, and other countries were just taking the opportunity

Just seized this opportunity.

Every country is greedy.

This is the only unchanging truth in the world.

After meeting with General Madnidolph, Song Biao quietly left Beijing and arrived in Novosibirsk along the road that General Madnidolph took to Novosibirsk, and continued to perform his duties as emperor at the forefront of the war.
To be continued...