In October, the arsenal was on vacation for a few days. Yuan Huabai began to worry about whether he should participate in the autumn outing organized by the factory. If it were just Yuan Huabai himself, it would be better to go to the field after the autumn harvest. However, leaving his mother alone in Siping, Yuan Huabai felt uneasy.

I thought that the friends I met in the factory could have fun in the autumn fields, and I was envious and felt a little unhappy. If my mother had not bound her feet, no problems would exist.

Yuan Huabai was not angry with his mother. As the night school courses in the factory said, those women with small feet were victims. From the perspective of the victims, they must be sympathized with. But this does not mean that the thing that binds the feet is allowed to continue. The entire Northeast is the whole of China in the future, and the bad habit of binding the feet must be abolished.

If Yuan Huabai's mother was not old, she could actually let her go. Thinking of this, Yuan Huabai decided to rent a tricycle and ride a tricycle to take her mother around Siping City. This was also the suggestion given by the chairman of the factory's trade union.

The streets of Siping are no longer dirt roads. There are so many factories here, and a lot of coal is burned every day, and the road surface has been hardened with ash and gravel. Although the tricycle is driving on the road, it feels like it is no less than the main roads in Shiliyangchang, Shanghai.

My mother was very reserved at first, and even a little unhappy with Yuan Huabai's behavior of riding tricycle. However, as one street and another came over, some interest appeared on her face, especially when she saw a group of people wearing Mongolian clothes driving a large flock of sheep through the street. When Yuan Huabai was forced to stop tricycle, her mother also touched a beautiful and gentle sheep next to the car with her hand.

When the flock passed by, Yuan Huabai heard his mother ask, "Where are so many sheep going?"

Yuan Huabai didn't know, and Yuan Huabai didn't like the smell of the flock. After guessing casually, he began to take his mother to visit Siping.

The flock of sheep ran against Yuan Huabai and headed straight to the train station. Wu Youping watched the flock of sheep being caught on the train and started chatting with Mongolian cadres. The northeast is close to Mongolia. In the past year, as the feed of Qingchuan began to become popular in the local area, Wu Youping found that his common language with Mongolian cadres increased rapidly.

In the past, Mongolian tribes wanted to slaughter animals during winter. The cruel environment on the grasslands for thousands of years made these grassland tribes understand that they must not have any luck mentality. The biggest threat on the grasslands is neither plague nor war. Because diseases and various killings threaten the tribe every day.

The most terrifying thing on the grassland is the "white disaster". Blizzards cover the entire grassland. The thick snow makes the herds unable to move, making the animals unable to even chew dry grass. The stockpiled grass is quickly consumed, and all animals will starve to death.

So leaving only the animals that will continue to grazing next year is the best way to maintain their lives. Of course, the best shamans have to ask the best shamans to predict the climate. The predictions of the best shamans often fail, but they are always better than the herders.

The man who was chatting with Wu Youping was a man named Wuyun who translated into Chinese. He stared at Wu Youping and said, "Now there are five tribes who want to move to He Dashuai's territory to spend the winter. They are willing to hand over half of the animals to invest. I have told them that if you want to hand over, you should hand over them all. Mongolian men should do things with pleasure."

Wu Youping nodded, "What are those princes feeling now?"

Wuyun had some sympathy in his expression, "Those tribes were so unhappy because they were worried that they would be blamed by the prince after they went back next spring."

If they were facing Han people, Wu Youping would have a more subtle conversation, but the Mongolian compatriots didn't need it. They would deceive, loot, kill people, but would not delay. Wu Youping asked: "If Marshal He became the largest prince in Mongolia, who would think the Wuyun brothers would support and who would object?"

Wuyun didn't feel anything surprised at all. He replied after a moment of thinking: "Those who have used green feed will not object. Do you have never used it? The princes of Inner Mongolia will probably pretend to surrender, but the princes of Outer Mongolia are hard to say."

Wu Youping tried to ask questions that had been trained many times in a calm tone, "The herdsmen in Outer Mongolia are more loyal to their princes, or are they willing to follow the sword?"

Wuyun didn't believe Wu Youping very much, "Outer Mongolia is too poor, and the grassland is very poor. Can Shuai He really popularize green feed?"

"If you build a railway, it will be much better. Besides, the maids in Mongolia are owned by the state. Have you ever seen a new mower?"

Wuyun looked surprised, "Will this kind of good thing really give to our Mongolian tribe?"

Wu Youping asked calmly: "Brother Wuyun, are the Mongolian tribes Chinese?"

Wuyun thought for a while before reluctantly answering: "Yes."

"As long as they are Chinese, the Chinese will of course help the Chinese! But on Chinese land, if you think you are not Chinese, it depends on whether they are lucky."

Wuyun stopped talking. He looked at the army responsible for public security, and then looked.

In November, the weather was already very cold. In Dongjiaomin Lane in the capital, Zhu Erdian read the newlywed report again, then sealed it with fire paint and put it into a diplomatic document bag.

The changes in the world made Jurden very worried. Of course, the good news was that the United States joined the Allied Power in April 1917. After the farce of Zhang Xun's restoration, Duan Qirui regained power. He joined the Allied Power in July 1917 on the condition of permanent exemption of the Boxer indemnity to Germany and Austria and the delay of the Boxer indemnity to the Allied Power for five years.

In May 1917, the Allies felt that they could win. However, after the French army mutiny, the top French troops had to promise the soldiers that they would no longer take the initiative to attack.

The Russian Tsar was abolished, and the offensive launched by the Provisional Government on July 1 completely exhausted Russia's troops that could take the initiative to attack.

The Allies will no longer lose the war, but the Allies are now facing a situation where they cannot win the war.

The war has reached its current level, and the Allies have suffered millions of casualties on the battlefield. If the war ended with a ceasefire and peace, neither the British nor French government could bear such political impact. If Britain and France wanted to defeat Germany, Britain and France would not have such force and morale.

Therefore, Juerdian did not mention these things in the report, but raised concerns about He Rui to the British Foreign Office. He Rui did not make any money through war, and Juerdian was very clear about this. All the profits He Rui made were used to purchase machinery and equipment, and he quickly accumulated industrial strength.

If He Rui continues to develop like this, with the resources outside the pass, this young general will definitely become a powerful Far East player. At that time, Britain's Far East layout will be affected by He Rui. Juerdian suggested that the British Foreign Office pay attention to this matter.

The letter took more than a month to arrive in London. After reading it, the British Foreign Secretary frowned. It was not that there was anything wrong with the content in the letter. What made the British Foreign Secretary anxious now was the sudden change in the situation in Russia.

Since Lenin was sent back to Russia by the Germans, there has been no big move. The British side has always believed that Lenin had been marginalized by the Bolsheviks. However, shortly after November, Lenin took advantage of the war-weariness of the Russian people to reach its highest point and launched an uprising. He overthrew the Russian Provisional Government in one fell swoop and announced that the Bolsheviks had taken over the Russian regime.

When the news first received the news, the British Foreign Ministry felt that something was wrong. The Bolsheviks were not strong enough to confront the Provisional Government, and they were even far inferior to the Mensheviks. It was inexplicable that such a weak organization could overthrow the Provisional Government and master core Russian cities such as St. Petersburg and Moscow.

Through the British intelligence system in Germany, it was learned that the Russian Bolsheviks had just seized power and began secret negotiations with Germany, demanding peace with Germany to withdraw from the war.

If this becomes true, the Allies' expectation to defeat Germany will be even more difficult to achieve.

Since the war broke out, Germany fell into a difficult situation of fighting on both sides. Several times Germany gained a certain advantage on the Western Front, and it was because of Russia's attack that it had to mobilize its troops to the Eastern Front. Although Russia suffered repeated defeats against Germany, it attacked heavily when facing the Austro-Hungarian Empire, almost defeated the Austro-Hungarian Empire. This forced Germany to send more troops to maintain the Austro-Hungarian Empire's front.

Once the Bolsheviks make peace with Germany, Germany can transfer its troops to the Western Front. At that time, the Western Front will be bloody again.

Juerdian's judgment on He Rui was correct, and the British Foreign Secretary agreed with this. The British Minister continued to search for Juerdian's report and found a judgment on the strength of Northeast industrial. After reading it carefully for a while, the British Minister excerpted part of the content and asked the secretary to calculate it.

When the Foreign Minister received a simple report and met the Military Minister Churchill, it was already two hours later. As soon as he met, the Foreign Minister said: "We may need to let He Rui produce another batch of Russian equipment."

Churchill did not object after hearing this, but asked, "Which side should these weapons be given to Russia?"

"We will give to anyone who opposes the Bolsheviks." The Foreign Minister replied very decisively.

Churchill thought for a moment, "Will the French pay this money?"

The Foreign Minister did not hesitate, "If the French refused to make a move, we can remind the French. Once the Bolsheviks make peace with Germany, they will confiscate all French investments in Russia. Even now, the Bolsheviks have begun to do this."

After hearing this, Churchill thought for a moment, then sneered: "It seems that those machinery manufacturers are going to make another profit from us."

The Foreign Minister did not answer this because he knew that Churchill didn't care much about this matter. The benefits of trade with He Rui were also obvious. He Rui did not want gold or currency from Britain and France, but ordered machinery and equipment from British and French companies. He Rui would not pay currency or precious metals to British and French merchants, but asked the British and French governments who ordered Northeast weapons to pay to British and French merchants.

In this way, the meat is rotten in the pot, and the British and French governments can still collect taxes from these businesses. This is the least bad situation. The two sides have done so many transactions, and they are no longer as good as the current transaction.

At this time, He Rui came to Siping again. At the beginning of the meeting, He Rui told the party and government cadres outside the army that "In the next 48 hours, we will take over Zhongdong Road in full. The army will disarm all the Russians on Zhongdong Road. The Ministry of Administration will send personnel to receive all the assets of Russia on Zhongdong Road."

Administrative officials, including Wu Youping, were really surprised and happy. Everyone had long been mentally prepared for the recovery of Zhongdong Road, but they didn't expect that they would start early.

Russia has occupied millions of acres of fertile land on both sides of the Middle East Road through an unequal treaty. Coupled with the value of the Middle East Road itself, as well as the assets such as stations and trains. This will be a huge income. More importantly, the railways in the Northeast were either operated by Russia or Japan before. The industrial transportation information in the Northeast was mastered by both countries, which is really unpleasant.

The recovery of Zhongdong Road means that Northeast China finally has fully mastered its own railway, which is a great thing from any perspective.

Before Wu Youping and other government officials could speak, He Rui took out his pocket watch and looked at it, and said in a desperate attempt: "Let's start taking action now."

Xu Chengfeng and other soldiers immediately stood up and saluted, "Yes!"
Chapter completed!