Chapter 515: The Central Committee’s Request for Help
These Belarusians in Harbin, who were originally the elite of Tsarist Russia, have high cultural quality. Many of them are good at several foreign languages. Most of them can speak Chinese fluently because of their life experience. Therefore, in the selection of teachers, priority is given to the Belarusians in Harbin.
, Jews and Poles. Of course, considering certain factors, the teachers recruited are mainly middle-aged and above women.
After research and considering the urgent needs of the base area, the Northeast Bureau first opened the French Department, the German Department, the English Department, and the Russian Department, focusing on the English Department and the Russian Department. As the Anti-Japanese Alliance prepared to exchange a group of German prisoners of war for its own use, this
The majors of the school need to be adjusted, and the number of German major students needs to be expanded.
Since there are a large number of Belarusians in Harbin, and after losing domestic property, many Belarusians are in trouble. Therefore, the recruitment of teachers went very smoothly, and most of the teachers were in place within a week. In addition, the transfer within the customs
Some college students who graduated from missionary schools came here, and now this foreign language school is basically ready for everything.
Now the teachers and students are all in place. According to the requirements of the Northeast Bureau, classes will be officially started soon. In addition to the foreign language college that has begun to be established, a financial college that trains financial personnel has also begun to be established. If now
All these Belarusians were sent back to the Soviet Union, and now these two schools have no choice but to stop. This situation is difficult for Yang Zhen to accept.
As for the results after Belarus returned to China, in Yang Zhen's opinion, the chance of the second possibility mentioned by Li Yanping happening is almost 100%. In the past few years, in order to solve the harassment of Belarus on the border, the Soviets tried their best to mobilize a group of
The Belarusians who had already obtained Soviet passports in Harbin returned to China. After these people returned to China, Soviet policy changed overnight.
At that time, more than 10,000 Belarusians who returned to the Soviet Union were either executed or sent to labor camps in Siberia or along the Arctic Ocean. With this recent experience, I am afraid that these Belarusians will not easily agree to return to the country without forcible transfer.
.But if the transfer is forcible, will there be some unexpected troubles on the Americans?
In fact, what Yang Zhen didn't know was that in later generations, after the Soviets seized the Northeast, especially Harbin, in addition to dismantling industrial equipment in Northeast China and disarming the Kwantung Army, there was another important thing, which was to capture and execute
A staunch anti-Soviet element in Belarus.
After the Soviet army entered the Northeast, a large number of White Russians in Northeast China were executed in Dalian and Harbin. Those who had served the Japanese, served as puppet Manchukuo military police, military police, and served as officers of a certain level in the former Tsarist Russian army, mainly
Almost all Belarusian officers above the rank of major were killed by the Soviets.
After the Soviet army occupied Harbin and Dalian, the second thing they did was to use trucks to drag these people in batches at night to several mass graves on the outskirts of Harbin, execute them, and then incinerate them all on the spot. It was just a request from the Soviets.
On the contrary, most of the young people who were born after being exiled to China returned to China without any punishment.
Compared with what happened to these White Russians in later generations, the Soviets now propose to transfer them to the White Russians in Harbin. Regardless of whether these people will be like what Li Yanping said, it seems a little more merciful. At least the Soviets who are in urgent need of soldiers now will not send them away.
Go to Siberia to move rocks, or simply make them disappear without a trace. If they go to the battlefield, these White Russians still have a chance to survive. If they don't go to the battlefield, I'm afraid these people will really die.
But for Yang Zhen at the moment, he actually doesn't care much about the fate of the Belarusian base in the country when he returns to the Soviet Union. It's not that he is too cruel, but for these Belarusians who have harmed China for nearly a hundred years, Yang Zhen himself
Didn't feel anything good about it.
And just as Li Yanping said, a considerable number of these White Russians staying in the base area are a hidden danger. No matter what their background is, they are a hidden threat to the Anti-Japanese Alliance. Send them back to the Soviet Union
For the base area, it can be regarded as alleviating some troubles.
In the view of Yang Zhen, who was not at ease with the Soviets, although the Japanese could use these White Russians to infiltrate the Soviet Union, the Soviets could not be used as well. Li Yanping just said that in the background of these White Russians, he found that
It has the shadow of the Soviet KGB and GRU.
Of course, among these White Russians, there are some who act as thugs for the Japanese, but there are probably also many Soviet KGB and GRU spies who need to know the whereabouts of those anti-Soviet staunch elements and the Japanese military intelligence in the Northeast. And if the Soviets
If you want to infiltrate the base area, these White Russians will be the best
Rather than waiting until major problems arise before solving them, it would be better to take advantage of the Soviets' initiative to bring them up and transfer them all to the Soviet Union. However, handing over all these Belarusian problems will not be beneficial to the development of the base area in the next few years.
It can even be said that in some aspects, it does more harm than good.
These people must be repatriated, but it cannot be generalized. Those who have mastered the base area are in urgent need of foreign language talents, and they must keep as many as they can. As for the other people, except for the Jews who cannot be handed over to the Soviet Union, those who are proficient in foreign languages and finance
People, at least for the time being, cannot be transferred to them.
After thinking for a while, Yang Zhen said: "I think we can partially accept this condition of the Soviets. We can hand over all the young and middle-aged Belarusians under the age of 40 and over 16 in the base area to the Soviet side. Compare with them.
One-stop exchange of engineering and technical support personnel and equipment maintenance personnel among German prisoners of war. In this way, we can also strengthen our exchange conditions."
"But those who have mastered many foreign languages, as well as those who are in urgent need of finance and so on, together with their families, cannot be handed over for the time being. Also, Jews and White Russians who have intermarryed with Chinese cannot be handed over to the Soviets. As for Poles and other messy people, they cannot be handed over to the Soviets.
It doesn't matter whether you have nationality or statelessness. If they need it, we can hand it over to them all."
"There are also those Orthodox clergy, except for a few individuals, who have also been transferred to the Soviet side. However, this matter should not be discussed urgently. It can be used as an additional negotiation condition when resolving the second matter.
The top priority right now is to solve the problem of the batch of American supplies in Vladivostok. Especially cotton and fuel, they have almost become our most urgent problems to solve."
Hearing Yang Zhen talk about the cotton problem in the supplies, Li Yanping suddenly remembered something: "Old Yang, the Northeast Bureau received a telegram from the central government asking for help a week ago. Although winter is still some time away in North China,
However, the ministries in North China that have lost their base in central Hebei are seriously short of supplies. The supplies needed to make winter clothes this year have not yet been solved."
"Most of the original reserves were destroyed by the Japanese army's repeated raids. Moreover, while the Japanese army was repeatedly raiding, they also implemented an extremely tight blockade on various base areas behind enemy lines in North China. Not only food and medicine, but also cotton and cotton cloth,
All kerosene and other supplies are not allowed into the mountains."
"The original underground relations were either destroyed by the Japanese and puppet troops, or they lost contact due to changes in the situation. Nowadays, in various base areas in North China, except for Shandong, which is close to the main cotton producing area, and the situation is slightly better, the rest of Shanxi
The cotton and cotton cloth currently raised in the major base areas of Chaji, Taihang, Taiyue, and Shanxi-Sui are far from being able to meet the needs."
"At the same time, although the large-scale production movement in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region has been launched, due to time constraints, although some of the difficulties have been solved, it has not been able to completely alleviate the difficulties in northern Shaanxi. Although some of the food problems have been temporarily solved, other materials such as
Oil and cloth are still in short supply."
"The Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, which did not originally produce cotton, has started planting cotton, but it is limited to the quantity planted and the yield per mu is too low. Although the total amount of cotton produced this year has reached one million kilograms, this is only the harvest of lint cotton. This
The quantity cannot meet the needs for the time being. And the Nationalist Government's strict blockade of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region makes it impossible to obtain some supplies from the outside world to make up the difference."
"The central government called us yesterday and asked us if we could help with 500,000 kilograms of clean cotton, some kerosene, and cotton cloth to solve the urgent needs of northern Shaanxi and North China. If possible, could we help with another batch of gold, silver dollars and other hard currencies?
.If that doesn’t work, Japanese yen will do.”
Li Yanping's words made Yang Zhen frown slightly. In terms of money, it is not a big problem. Although the northern Manchu base area is currently undergoing a lot of industrial construction, it is also quite difficult, but as the main gold producing area in the country, it is quite difficult.
If it is full, it is still possible to solve some of the urgently needed gold.
However, cotton, a cash crop that is not produced in Northern Manchuria, is also in short supply in the base areas. The problem of cotton is not only related to the output of cloth. There is also the issue of whether hundreds of thousands of troops can survive the winter safely. It is also related to the problem of northern Manchuria.
The survival of the Manchu people and the stability of the people's hearts. Now there are not only hundreds of thousands of troops in Northern Manchuria, but also tens of thousands of people.
Five hundred thousand kilograms of clean cotton is actually not a large amount. It is not impossible for the Anti-Japanese League to provide it if they want to. But if they take out these five hundred thousand kilograms of clean cotton, the Anti-Japanese League itself will not be able to meet the needs of the troops and the people.
.And the original plans will be completely disrupted.
If it is re-imported, it is difficult to say whether it can be shipped before winter according to the current efficiency. As for the subsequent 10,000 tons of cotton ordered by the Anti-Japanese Alliance in the United States, according to the acquisition plan and transportation plan, the earliest time it can be shipped is also the National Day.
month. We are now adjusting our plans, not to mention whether we can acquire it in a short period of time. Even if we acquire it, negotiating with Su about transportation will still be a problem.
The current batch of cotton imported by the Anti-Japanese Federation only amounts to 1,000 tons. And these 1,000 tons of cotton are not only raw materials for making winter clothes, but also a considerable part is used to spin into cotton cloth. Cotton alone cannot make cotton-padded jackets.
Especially the climate in the Northeast makes the cotton required to make cotton-padded clothes double that of northern Shaanxi and northern China.
But when the central government made this request at this time, I am afraid that it is really unsustainable in Guanhai. Opening this mouth to the Anti-Japanese League is probably at the extreme point of difficulty. Although the winter in North China and Northern Shaanxi is not as cold as that in Northeast China, there is no winter clothing.
What does it mean? Everyone knows it.
Although it will not directly cause the troops to lose their combat effectiveness like in the Northeast, it can also greatly weaken the combat capabilities of the troops. Thin clothes cannot withstand the cold wind in the Taihang Mountains. There is a lack of food in the stomach. If you can no longer wear them
I'm afraid a considerable number of troops will collapse due to their winter clothing.
There is a world of difference in combat effectiveness between a half-frozen unit and a well-fed and clothed unit. The outcome of the battle is already clear without having to fight it. Indeed, the Eighteenth Group Army has an extremely tenacious will to fight.
, but no matter how strong your will is, you can't resist the power of nature.