Volume 3 The Five Hundred and Nineteenth Chapter of the Eternal Miracles Intervening in the Country
At first, the June 16th Movement had little impact on the government. The students put forward the slogan "Repay my sovereignty and boycott Japanese goods." However, under the guidance of those who are interested, the slogan became "Striving for sovereignty outside and punishing traitors inside". However, this slogan did not resound for a few days, and it became "Striving for sovereignty outside and eliminated traitors inside." Obviously, the first slogan was just the continued fermentation of boycott Japanese goods, while the second slogan became an attack on some main parties. The third slogan was not only aimed at the main parties, but also expelled the main parties in the Beiyang government. This was not the instructed by Wang Maoru. The Anhui clique controlled the central government. In addition to Wang Maoru, there were many people and many forces hoping to get involved in the central government.
The slogan "Chinese Dream, Dream of a Strong Country" passed from the five northeastern provinces eventually replaced the first three slogans and became the new slogan of June 16. Wang Maoru and Duan Qirui briefly telegrammed, saying that newspaper propaganda must be in place and the new slogan should be replaced by the original radical slogan, otherwise it will cause a Sino-Japanese dispute in the Beiyang government, which is another way to support the Beiyang government.
But Duan Qirui was not grateful for Wang Maoru's kindness, and thought that he wanted to use public opinion to win the hearts of the people for himself, so he scolded: "The mouths of the people are as leisurely as Mount Tai. How dare you suppress public opinion? You must know that water can carry a boat and can also overturn it. China's democracy will start with public opinion first."
Wang Maoru was very depressed by Duan Qirui's elm-headed thoughts, and thought to himself, let's take a look.
As expected, Duan Qirui did not dare to stop the resentment of the people, but instead attacked Wang Maoru. Because he wanted to support the great cause of the entire Anhui faction, the Anhui faction had to send Cao Rulin to continue to borrow money from Japan and sign a loan agreement with Japan. At this time, the Japanese Prime Minister had changed from Masato Taruchi to Prime Minister Kei Hara. As a diplomat, Hara Kei did not want Japan to fall into the quagmire of war. Also because of the Japanese sent troops to Siberia, he felt that his government was too much influenced by the Japanese military.
While Yuan Jing asked Duan Qirui to calm the domestic anti-Japanese sentiment, in order to show the United States, Britain and France that Japan only pays attention to interests and will compete with Europe and the United States, and does not want to fight for the hegemony of Britain, the United States and France, the Japanese government decided to make concessions and retreated its troops from the entire Shandong to Qingdao.
This is also one of the conditions for exchanging loans from Duan Qirui's Beiyang government. The Japanese army withdrew its troops but commercial interests increased. Duan Qirui and Qian Nengxun thought it was feasible. Although President Xu Shichang was not satisfied, no one listened to his words, who had already been undermined. Congress approved the Prime Minister's proposal, and the president had no right to dissolve the parliament. China and Japan exchanged exchanges on the Shandong issue, and the main contents were: 1. The Japanese ** team along the Jiaoji Railway, except for one remaining in Jinan, were all mobilized in Qingdao. 2. Regarding the security along the Jiaoji Railway: the Japanese army withdrew and the patrol team commanded by the Japanese were replaced. 3. The Jiaoji Railway will be jointly run by China and Japan.
As soon as the replacement clause appeared, it was exposed by sensitive reporters. The Chinese people believed that the clause was a shame. As a victorious country, he actually handed over the railway to the foreign team, which was an insult to China. Therefore, on June 22, Beijing students took a class to protest. Under the intentional guidance of the newspaper, the students were young and impulsive and openly burned the home of the Director of Transportation Cao Rulin without regard for the consequences.
Afterwards, Duan Qirui ordered the arrest of students who caused trouble, which triggered a larger wave of protests. This wave has evolved from simply returning our sovereignty to internal conflicts, especially the warlords reached an agreement with the Japanese when negotiating with the central government. Even the Minister of Foreign Affairs Lu Zhengxiang, who was far away in Paris, France, criticized the government and criticized Duan Qirui for being a person who was trying to do good things.
At this time, Wang Maoru, who was far away in Russia, immediately called the Northeast Military and Political Preparatory Department after learning the news, and ordered the Northeast local government to support patriotic students. He hoped that the Beijing government would face up to the problem and release patriotic students. Under the anger of the people across the country, a good show that poured fuel on the fire was perfectly essayed. Wang Maoru did this show, and Zhang Zuolin also did it. Zhang Zuolin immediately issued a statement condemning the Anhui government for being "weak and cruel to the outside world". Duan Qirui was overwhelmed and had no choice but to invite Xu Shuzheng back from Vladivostok. In the subsequent student protests, more than 800 parade students were arrested across the country, which triggered a larger strike, market strike and class strike.
Of course, it was not only Wang Maoru who supported the students, but also the direct warlord Wu Peifu and the Northwest Army commander Zhang Zuolin. These three intervened and mixed up, which immediately made the Anhui government unable to come to Taiwan, and even the Xu Shichang said that he could not get out of the disease. Gong Xinzhan, the Prime Minister of the Anhui faction, could not support it, and the political situation gradually became unfavorable to the Anhui faction.
In order to deal with this changing situation, Duan Qirui immediately dropped Xu Shuzheng from Vladivostok and ordered the Army Chief Jin Yunpeng to appease the domestic warlords. Jin Yunpeng had long been dissatisfied with Duan Qirui's favor to Xu Shuzheng, so he disobeyed the emperor and ordered the commander of the garrison in the capital to release patriotic students.
Under the secret planning of the Propaganda Department of the General Military Affairs Department of the Northeast Frontier Defense Forces, more and more demonstrators raised big signs of Wang Maoru's portrait to march, called on Wang Maoru to move into the central government, called on General Shangwu to resist foreign humiliation, called on the current government to step down, and demanded the dissolution of the parliament and the prime minister to step down.
Wang Maoru declared at this time that if he had not let the patriotic students go, he would have led the Northeast Army of the Intervention Army to China, which would have led the Anhui Army to a deadly stage. This is the most deadly. Duan Qirui has achieved this international status at this stage, largely because Wang Maoru's Northeast Frontier Defense Force continued to win after the Russian Civil War. Now Duan Qirui is the commander-in-chief of the Intervention Army. He is worried that Wang Maoru's army will return to China to seize power, and that he will also be worried that the support of various countries will disappear after the withdrawal of the support of the Chinese government. At this time, he regrets even more that he does not have a powerful army. The three he has worked hard to train was swallowed by Wang Maoru, and the other two are not good at suppressing bandits in Russia.
There are many reasons why Wang Maoru threatened to return to China. First, his status in the Volga Army was gradually replaced, especially when the Japanese Interference Army increased from one division to four divisions (except for the Seventh Division, in order to consolidate Japan's international status, the Japanese Interference Army sent the Eighth Division, the 11th Division, and the 12th Division into Russia to participate in the battle in Berkerovsk. After several bloody battles, the Japanese Interference Army suffered a great pain), the pride in the hearts made them very dissatisfied with the role of the Chinese as the commander of the Interference Army.
Wang Maoru's comrade-in-arms, Russian officials from the Volga Army led by the Far East Department, also began to rebel. Under the clamor of the Far East Department's important person, the Transport Minister Kusaike, they actually began to seize power against Wang Maoru and other Chinese interfering troops. Kusaike actually reached a secret agreement with Tubanev of the Moscow Department, put aside Bereverge and achieved the absolute leadership of the Far East Department.
After Tubanev sent his third army to Berkrovsk, officers led by Mishiev launched internal power struggles. After the Czech Legion was stationed in Berkrovsk for ten days of defense, nearly 10,000 people died or injured, the Czech Legion Geeda said angrily: "This is the Chinese, it is a foolish behavior. They have caused us Czech people to suffer heavy casualties and injuries. He is not a qualified commander."
Wang Maoru was originally ambitious and thought he could compete with Fu Longzhi, the greatest military strategist of the Soviet Union, but unexpectedly, he was first squeezed out of the center of the decision-making level.
After the total force of the Volga Army, which was mainly in the Far East, reached 370,000, the Tsar sent Deputy Prime Minister Tubanev to unify the troops as the front line supervisor. Tubanev pointed at the deployment of the army, and the Tsarist Russia's Third Army refused to obey the orders. The Japanese interfering army turned a deaf ear to Wang Maoru's orders. In addition to the Far East officer, Wang Maoru, the commander of the Volga Army, was actually undermined.
The second reason why Wang Maoru wanted to return to China was that in this war, the Chinese interfering army also suffered heavy casualties, with 170,000 troops and 50,000 casualties. Although more than 10,000 people were supplemented, he now only has 138,000 troops and lacks ammunition and other supplies. In particular, the railway controlled by Kusaike did not take care of the supply of the Chinese team, but instead helped the Japanese interfering army transport supplies. Tubanev also fully supported the Japanese interfering army, trying to make both China and Japan fight. Wang Maoru visited the soldiers and found that the morale of the soldiers was low. Two months of high-intensity combat made many soldiers fight against battlefield syndrome. If this battlefield syndrome breaks out, there will be a special term in Chinese history, bombing camps.
Therefore, although Wang Maoru's atmosphere was abnormal on the surface, he ordered the Berkrovsk front to the Third Army of Tsarist Russia, the Japanese Interference Army, the Russian Imperial Army - now they have been renamed the Fifth Army of Tsarist Russia and the Czech Army, and handed over the command to Tubanev and Mishiev, but in fact, he had already sighed in his heart and finally left the meat grinder. At the same time, Wang Maoru stepped down as commander of the Volga Army. He led all the Chinese Interference Army and Turkic Cavalry Divisions to the south to Taritzin. The matter of Berkrovsk had nothing to do with the Chinese Interference Army.
This made the Chinese team very angry and helpless. Although there were conflicts and disputes within the original Volga Army, they were all their own people after all. The Far East Group had a close relationship with the Chinese. If you were good, you could wear a pair of pants, so it was easy to manage the entire army.
But what about now? The Far East Group betrayed the Chinese Interference Army, the Japanese, Moscow Group, and the Russians, making the Chinese Interference Army a marginal role. Fortunately, Wang Maoru stepped down as commander of the Volga Army, otherwise he might have something to do when sitting at the crater.
Chapter completed!