Chapter 872: Sino-Soviet Territorial Dispute
The incident of China's preparation for establishing diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union suddenly alarmed the whole world. Ambassadors from all over the world ran to the presidential office to ask to see Sun Liwen. Sun Liwen's secretary Hu Hanren quickly explained: "The president is ill and has not handled any government affairs for a month. As for the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, it is all entrusted to General Wang Maoru, the Minister of Defense, and you can find everything to him."
So the ambassadors from various countries went to the Ministry of Defense Qian Hope to meet Wang Maoru and asked him why China had established diplomatic relations with the evil empire of the Soviet Union. After learning that the Chinese parliament approved the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the Soviet Union, the Soviet government immediately published an article in the Soviet Union's most famous newspaper, the new statement very much appreciated the Republic of China government and hoped that this Republic of China government could continue to adhere to the one-Russian policy. The Soviet government very much hoped to reach further friendly relations with China.
Dr. Schulman, the US Ambassador to China, said to Wang Maoru angrily: "The evil Soviets will destroy the whole world. You can see that many American workers are not working now, especially those who keep talking about this. If you insist on supporting them, the relationship between the American Republic and China will undergo fundamental changes."
Schulman's warning represents the idea that most of the country is. German Ambassador Laurenson also persuaded Wang Maoru with a sincere tone: "Now the German Bolshevik Party has organized workers across the country to fight against the German government, causing the disaster-stricken Germany to fall into confusion and chaos. Marshal, if you choose to compromise with the evil Bolshevik government, your empire will be in disaster."
Wang Maoru laughed and responded: "There is no eternal enemy between the country, only eternal interests. If I refuse to recognize the Soviet Russian government, then what benefits can other countries bring to me?"
"This..." Laurenson couldn't answer.
Wang Maoru smiled and said, "So, if the Soviet government gave me enough use, I think we will choose to cooperate with the devil. It depends on the sincerity of the Soviet Union. Our requirements are not high, but our requirements are not low either."
After Wang Maoru obtained the authorization of the parliament, the government of the Republic of China did not immediately announce the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, but chose to negotiate with the Soviet Union representatives. Wang Maoru appointed Chinese Foreign Minister Lu Zhengxianghe Deputy Gu Weijun, and Zhang Kui'an, Director of the Foreign Affairs Department of the Ministry of National Defense, to negotiate with the Soviet Union representative Yu Lin and his group.
The renegotiation between China and the Soviet Union was January 12th, and the location was in Huairou County. Huairou County was Wang Maoru's old territory. His 17th Brigade of the border army was trained here. Many regiment commanders and battalions in the National Defense Forces were from Huairou and the surrounding counties, and Huairou was the most people. Therefore, the negotiation location was placed here. There is no need to worry about confidentiality measures. Although China and the Soviet Union are well-known, the content is kept extremely confidential. The two sides quoted classics and negotiated many times on territorial and economic issues, as well as the former Sino-Soviet Secret Agreement. They each refused to give in to each other.
The secret negotiations between China and the Soviet Union are not the first time. But it will not be the last time, but this time is of great importance and is enough to affect China's thousand-year history. The most capable negotiators of the Ministry of Defense were sent to participate in the negotiations with the Soviet Union. In the following days, Wang Maoru presided over the military summary meeting of the Ministry of Defense at the end of the year and the Military Plan Meeting of the Ministry of Defense for the 12th Year of the Republic of China. After the meeting, Wang Maoru was afraid of going to Huairou to participate in the Sino-Soviet negotiations. The negotiations between China and the Soviet Union caused unhappiness in Japan. The Japanese government immediately used the China-Japan First Wanping Agreement as an excuse to ask the Chinese government to fully respect Japan's wishes. Wang Maoru had to send Cao Rulin to Japan. He stated to Japan that the negotiations between China and the Soviet Union were China's pursuit of interests from the Soviet Union, which did not conflict with Japan.
In the military camp of Huairou County, representatives of China and the Soviet Union were quarreling for a long time and they had to argue about an inch of land and a river. The main contradiction is that there is a huge gap between the territorial provisions in the Sino-Soviet Secret Agreement and the current land occupied by the Chinese army. The Sino-Soviet Secret Agreement clearly states that a total of 1.7 million square kilometers of land, including Sakhalin Island, was returned. However, the Soviet Union despicable betrayed this secret agreement two months ago, of course, China did not fully abide by the secret agreement. They gave the Vladivostok residence and Sakhalin Island concession to the Japanese government. With the tough statement of the Chinese army, Japan abolished the Vladivostok lease agreement, which made the Chinese people very wary of the Soviet Union.
Now the territory actually occupied by China has recovered 1.6 million square kilometers of land except Sakhalin Island, and also recovered 170,000 square kilometers of land in the northern part of the Tanu Ulianghai. It also expanded Mongolia outward to Lake Baikal, and all the Far East Railway built by the Russians were occupied along the way, adding 1 million square kilometers of land. At the same time, in the Western Regions, the White Tiger Legion actually completely controlled Central Asia, and the actual control of China reached 2.1 million square kilometers.
The Soviet Union immediately stated that China should return Russia's surplus 3.1 million square kilometers of land, but China could not easily give up the fatty meat he got.
Now, taking advantage of Russia's weakest time, Wang Maoru doesn't take the opportunity to slaughter him. Will he leave the problem to his descendants? If the problem is left to his descendants, then if this official is ashamed, he should commit suicide to apologize to the world.
Wang Maoru knew that the Soviet Union would never give up the 3.1 million square kilometers to China. If this were the case, the Soviet Union would rather fight to the death. So the core of the discussion now is to talk about how much of these land is given. China has two Soviet Union handles. One is that they made a mistake and negotiated the lease of China's land with Japan, which was the first to violate the Sino-Soviet Secret Agreement. The other handle is that the Soviet Union did not return the Sakhalin Island to China, but was under the actual control of Japan. In other words, the total 4.7 million square kilometers of land that China has now been built with Chinese soldiers, and what does it have to do with the Soviet Union?
Both sides fought verbally, but both maintained a common goal, that is, China and the Soviet Union must not have a big war, otherwise both sides would suffer losses. The Soviet Union had experience in signing a treaty of humiliation, but China rarely had the experience of aggression against other countries, so the contradiction between the two sides was deeper. Wang Maoru meant that China could make concessions, but the efforts of the Chinese army over the years needed to be exchanged at a reasonable price.
The Soviet representative proposed that China must recognize that Russian territory was fully inherited by the Soviet government, which means that China only needs to recover 700,000 square kilometers of land in Central Asia, including the Pamir Plateau, east of Lake Balkash, and the Pamir Mountains and the Tianshan area in the upper reaches of the Erthis River. The remaining 2.1 million square kilometers of land including the Kazakh Central Bud, Uzbek, the Aral Sea, the Turkmen Khanate and other Chinese troops controlled by the land that needs to be returned to the Soviet Union. In the north, China only needs to recover the foreign northeast immediately, and the areas along the Siberian Railway that Mongolia expanded outward should be returned to all. As for Lake Baikal, it is the Russian Lake Baikal, which is naturally inherited by the Soviet government.
"Just, there are only Chinese people living around Lake Baikal." Zhang Kui'an, who was in charge of the negotiation, knocked on the table and shouted.
“There are Tatars there, not Chinese.”
"Don't you know history? The Tatars, yellow people, and the yellow people on the mainland are all descendants of us Chinese."
"You are the conquered people, the conquered nation under the iron hooves of the Yuan Empire." Yulin roared.
"Hahaha, since you want to talk about history, I will introduce you to what history is." Zhang Kui'an asked someone to take out a map and said, "This is a map of China during the Ming Empire. You can see that from Lake Baikal to the north to the Arctic Ocean, they are all vassal states of our Chinese. Are you saying that the 3.3 million square kilometers of East Siberia belong to us Chinese? Okay, since you are so polite, we are willing to trade Central Asia for East Siberia."
"If you do not have the sincerity of negotiations, let's meet on the battlefield." The Soviet representative said angrily.
"On the battlefield? Do you have soldiers? Is your war in Europe over? For the Russians, do you want to mobilize the army from Europe to the far Far East, thus losing European territory and becoming an Asian country? Asia welcomes you, we Chinese welcome you, and men welcome you to become a country established by Slavs in Asia and expelled from Europe." Zhang Kuian said unshakably.
The two sides once again stalemate.
Seeing that it was too late, Wang Maoru calmly said, "Let's take a break now. I'll treat you to Huairou's most famous roasted lamb and roasted knives. We are rivals when we go to the negotiating table, and friends when we get off the negotiating table."
Perhaps everyone was hungry, and the Soviet representatives had no objection. The Chinese were indeed experts in eating. If the Soviets were black bread, sausages, and caviar were well-treated. Wang Maoru proposed roasting the whole lamb so that the Soviet representatives could eat oily mouths. He never thought that there would be such delicious food in the world. Wang Maoru ordered the adjutant to go to Hebei to cook a knife with a high pitch. This good knife was extremely spicy, with an alcohol level of 65 degrees, and there were not many people who could drink the most in the military camp. Wang Maoru was getting older and thirty-six, and couldn't drink too much wine, so he asked his subordinates to be the main force in drinking.
A young man named Zhou Zhenghao in the negotiating delegation attracted Wang Maoru's attention. He returned from studying in France and received funding from the National Defense Forces to continue his studies. Because the National Defense Force had requirements for the delegation of students studying in France, all international students must serve the National Defense Forces and were not allowed to join any political party. Zhou Zhenghao was one of this group of students. His study had not been completed, but France was also in an economic crisis and could not learn anything in France. So Zhou Zhenghao ended his studies early and returned to China. He was a soldier and naturally had a good job after returning to China. He was proficient in French and English and also taught Russian by himself during his time in France. Therefore, he was arranged to work in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Chapter completed!