Volume 3: Who rules the ups and downs, Chapter 297

The Bolsheviks issued an armistice invitation to all participating countries. They originally believed that the imperialist war would be replaced by working class uprisings in various countries, and Russia was only the first. This did not happen. During the negotiations on the German Brestlitovsk Treaty, Lenin demanded the acceptance of German conditions. Buhanin opposed it and wanted

To fight a revolutionary war; Trotsky wanted no war, no peace, that is, he announced that he would not fight but would not accept Germany’s peace conditions.

Among the three factions making peace with Germany, Bukharin was in the majority, followed by Trotsky, and Lenin was in the minority. They had no choice but to form an alliance with Trotsky. Trotsky had a showdown with Germany. The Germans were shocked: no party had ever withdrawn from a war without accepting the terms of the victor.

The German army advanced 150 miles in three days, equivalent to the total of the past three years. The Bolsheviks were frightened, and Lenin personally sent a telegram to Berlin to accept all conditions.

To avoid signing the humiliating peace treaty of Brestlitovsk, Trotsky resigned as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and let a diplomat from the Tsarist era take over. Russia lost Ukraine, Poland, Finland and the Baltic Sea coast.

It lost 1/3 of its population and arable land, 54% of its industry and 89% of its coal.

"This is a successful diplomacy in which the Soviet Russian government traded space for time. It made full use of international contradictions, giving the new Soviet Russian government time to consolidate its power, and created favorable conditions for maintaining its power in the future. Moreover, because of this

With the success of this diplomatic strategy, Lenin's personal reputation reached its peak." The quotation marks above are the evaluations made by later generations from a positive perspective.

Anyway, on March 3, 1918, history returned to its starting point, and Russia withdrew from the world war. Germany finally got rid of the dilemma of fighting on two fronts. When the German army turned around and looked at the pattern of the entire world war, they found that the war situation was not optimistic at all.

Half a million U.S. troops completed adaptive training. Under the leadership of Pershing, they entered Troyes. Ten newly landed infantry divisions, two heavy artillery brigades, and two tank brigades from the Chinese Expeditionary Force cooperated with the U.S. military. The French Army

Commander-in-Chief Pétain was based in Orleans and assembled the main force of two armies and thirty-five infantry divisions. Together with other troops, there were about 700,000 people. The main force of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, more than thirty-five people, stationed in Auxerre after completing their rest and reorganization.

Er, as the general reserve team of the Allied Forces.

Although the German army occupied Paris, the Allied Powers took advantage of the opportunity for the German army to solve Russia on the eastern front, and assembled 1.5 million troops using Orleans and Troyes as support points to prepare for a counterattack in Paris. This is only the battlefield in eastern France. In

Western battlefield. The British and French armies have also completed the assembly of one million troops. Paris has become a salient in the French battlefield. If the German army refuses to abandon Paris, a salient will be formed here and it will be besieged from three aspects.

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In early April 1918, the Allied Powers held a military conference in Bordeaux, the seat of the provisional government. At this meeting, U.S. Army Commander Pershing suggested launching an attack on the German army from the east and west sides of Paris. The British and French forces attacked from Lyon toward Amiens.

If progress goes well, Amiens can be recaptured. At the same time, the American, French, and Chinese troops on the eastern front will be divided into three groups. They will sit in Orleans all the way and keep an eye on the German troops in Paris. They will send troops all the way from Troyes with the goal of Champagne Beach.

Fight towards Nancy and open up the railway.

Pershing's suggestion meant a comprehensive counterattack. It should be said that this suggestion was very good. The Allied Powers had an absolute advantage in military strength. Even if the German army got rid of the entanglement on the Eastern Front, it would not be able to compete with the Allied Powers in terms of military strength.

But history is a mess. The US military, which has a strong desire for war, is also facing the trouble of pig teammates. In other words, the British and French armies at this stage have chilled the German army, and there is no chance of taking the initiative to attack.

In this way, history seems to be stubbornly moving forward along some tracks. As a result of the meeting, the British and French armies refused to launch a full-scale counterattack on the grounds that they were not ready to counterattack. Of course, if the US military wanted to take the initiative,

It's not impossible. Isn't it necessary to open up the railway to Nancy? The US military can fight alone to recapture Baledik and level the entire eastern front.

There is no doubt that the commander of the US military, Pershing, was very angry. It was not just that the suggestion was not accepted, but that throughout France, there was always a saying that the US military would not fight. Pershing decided that the US military would launch an attack alone, and the time was set at

In late May, the target was Baledik.

Zhangjiakou, railway station. A celebration ceremony is being held.

After one and a half years of construction, the railway from Zhangjiakou to Guisui was finally fully completed and officially opened to traffic today.

The railway station was bustling with activity. Since the Republican Party came to power, railway construction has been the focus of national construction. In May last year, the railway from Zhangjiakou to Kulun was fully started. In order to speed up the construction, the railway project under the leadership of Zhan Tianyou adopted a flexible approach.

Model. With Guisui (Hohhot) as the core, Zhangjiakou and Kulun are two points. On one side, Zhangjiakou is constructing towards Guisui, on the other side, Guisui is constructing towards Zhangjiakou and Kulun, and at the same time, Kulun is constructing towards Guisui. This kind of two-way construction

This method has greatly accelerated the speed of this Kuzhang Railway.

Attending the railway opening ceremony were not only important officials from the Ministry of Transport, but also Prime Minister Tang Hualong, who came from Beijing. Accompanying Tang Hualong at the ceremony were not Minister of Transport Zhan Tianyou, but Vice Minister Tang Shouqian, as well as the recently appointed Interior Minister of the Cabinet

Yang Yongtai, deputy minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and Cheng Dequan, former deputy minister of the Ministry of Interior, serve as the newly established minister of land and resources.

Leaving the office of Chairman Fang Jianxiong and joining the Cabinet as Deputy Minister of the Interior means that Yang Yongtai has officially embarked on a path of rapid development.

"Chang Qing, what has Fu Shuai been busy with recently?" The celebration ceremony began and when Tang Shouqian was speaking on the podium, Tang Hualong quietly asked Yang Yongtai. Since the New Year, Fang Jianxiong seems to have resumed his original habit of not being too involved in government affairs.

After a year, he spent very little time in Beijing. Not many people in the cabinet knew Fang Jianxiong’s whereabouts, and Tang Hualong didn’t have any clear information. With the general election about to begin in the second half of the year, Sun Baoqi and Sun Baoqi

Tang Hualong is seeking re-election. At this juncture, Fang Jianxiong's support is so important.

"Prime Minister, I don't know the whereabouts of Fu Shuai. Isn't he always busy in the cabinet?" Yang Yongtai replied with a smile, as if he really didn't know. Tang Hualong's heart sank slightly, and the uneasiness slowly spread.

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On July 1st, the general election officially began. The current general election of the Republic of China cannot yet hold a referendum. The Republican Party has been in power for five years, although it has achieved good results in promoting compulsory education and made great progress in the development of the industrial base. But overall

, does not yet have the training for a referendum.

The Congress at the end of 2017 legislated on elections and clarified the election law. The core contents of this legislation are as follows. First, within two terms, the election method will remain unchanged. In other words, by the 1928 presidential election, comprehensive voting will be adopted

way. The current presidential election is still

Each province first elects members of Congress, and then determines the ruling party based on the number of seats in Congress. After the ruling party is determined, the president and the prime minister are elected within the ruling party. The new election law also clearly stipulates that the president and

The director of the Independent Commission Against Corruption cannot be a member of the ruling party.

The Republican Party is currently very powerful, and there is no problem in continuing to be in power. The question for Tang Hualong is whether he can continue to be the prime minister. With the old Beiyang forces headed by Xu Shichang, Tang Shaoyi, Liang Shiyi, Yang Du and others joining the Republican Party, Tang Hualong's

The position of Prime Minister of the Cabinet is no longer so secure. Tang Hualong relied on the support of the original MPs from the four provinces of the autonomous region. Now, whether the MPs from several provinces can support his re-election, Fang Jianxiong's attitude is too important.

So where is Marshal Fang now?

In Yingkou, the 10,000-ton "Lianyun No. 11" ship produced by Jiangnan Shipbuilding Group slowly docked at the dock. The people on board were people who immigrated to the Northeast. They dragged their families and simple luggage from Central China, East China and other places.

Come.

Since the Northeast Development Strategy, the total number of immigrants from the Northeast reached 8.5 million by the end of 2017. The main areas of immigration are mainly from the provinces of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Zhili, Henan, Fujian, and Shandong. The original planned immigration focus was Jianghuai

In this area, it is unexpectedly difficult to recruit hundreds of voluntary immigrants.

Surname. This result is a bit shocking. After investigation, we found out that over the past 14 years, the industrial and commercial development in the Yangtze River Basin has experienced a continuous blowout. Farmers in northern Jiangsu, northern Anhui and other places are not afraid of not being able to find anything to do. The people's hometown

It’s hard to leave, who wants to go to a place so far away in the Northeast and start over?

A large number of farmers in northern Jiangsu and northern Anhui have flocked to many emerging private enterprises along the Yangtze River, or are engaged in some infrastructure construction industries, the most important of which are highway construction and railway branch line construction. According to the Transportation Law passed by Congress, private companies can

In the past year, roads have been built everywhere in northern Jiangsu by raising funds to build roads. At the same time, the railway from Xuzhou through Suqian, Huai'an, Yancheng, and ending in Nantong has also officially started construction. In northern Jiangsu and northern Anhui, looking for a

It's easy to support a family with just one job.

The migrating people from various places formed more than a dozen groups under the guidance of staff dispatched from various places, and disembarked in an orderly manner. The resettlement office on the dock has prepared the resettlement destination in advance based on the actual situation in the Northeast. What needs to be done now

What they did was to first place the people in a temporary resettlement site in Yingkou to rest for three days, and then take trains to various places in the Northeast.

Three days later, the first batch of rested immigrants will set off by train. Their destination is a place called Suifenhe. The train did not stop when passing through Anshan. When it slowed down and passed slowly, a row of gun muzzles lined the track next to it.

The armored train attracted the attention of many immigrants.

Even though he was well prepared, when Zhou Xuexi got off the car, he was still stunned by the huge construction site in front of him. The people who got off the car in front were Fang Jianxiong and Li Weige. From the southwest to the northeast, Li Weige was Fang Da

The result of Shuai personally calling the names.
Chapter completed!