Now even the Allies know that the rebellion in Central Asia is supported by China, although they have not yet obtained the handle. "Now, he heard Yang Rui's excuse to shirk off with such an excuse, Galahan excitedly said: "Prime Minister, proletarian workers and locals are victims of the oppression of Tsar. They should unite, rather than send those proletarian comrades back to their country in this way. They do this contrary to the truth that all oppressors should unite and overthrow the old world. Your country, as their supporters, should stop their behavior."

Yang Rui was thinking about how to reply to the great Comrade Lenin, but Galahan seized the matter and had to say: "Mr. Galahan, for the Turkestan locals, the Russians are oppressors. Now they are very restrained. Without our intervention, what is waiting for the Russians will not be forced repatriation, but a large-scale massacre."

"No, Your Excellency Prime Minister. The machines without workers will not be operated by anyone. They will only retreat to the original barbaric life. This is a regression in history!" Galahan waved his right hand and said excitedly.

Because Turkestan had many workers, the Bolsheviks over there reported the news of Turkestan to Galakhan through telegram after crossing the border to China. Without being able to contact Petersburg, Galakhan hoped that China could stop repatriation in order to establish a Soviet in the local area. Whether it was continuing to occupy Turkestan or training workers to an army commanded by the Bolsheviks here, these workers must stay.

"The Turkestans didn't need those factories and machines." Yang Rui fully understood Galahan's true intention to stop repatriation through Zhang Shi, but he hoped to verbally convince the Russians to accept reality. "They can be freed from the oppression of the Tsar. This is something worth celebrating."

"Your Excellency Prime Minister, this is simply a historical regression!" Galahan repeated again. "Turkestan is regressing to the dark monarch**, and your country has the obligation to help them overthrow the monarch. Establish a Soviet in the entire Turkestan!"

When Yang Rui was about to answer, Li Zilong suddenly said in his ear that the British minister was coming, so he could only say a long story short, "Mr. Galahan, what kind of political system Turkestan chooses and what kind of life to live is based on their traditions and choices. Because it is not within the jurisdiction of our country, and now it is not within the jurisdiction of Russia, so you and I have no right to force them to accept anything. For the letter from Comrade Ulyanov, the leader of your party, my reply was: I wish the Russian Revolution a success this year." After Yang Rui finished speaking, he served tea and saw the guests. "Sorry, I have other things to deal with. This is the end of this meeting. You can talk to Mr. Zhang for the rest."

Ren Fuchen, who came with the Russians, understood Yang Rui's intention of serving tea to see him off, but Galahan thought that his request was not agreed and still wanted to chat about the repatriation of Russian workers in Turkestan before Yang Rui left. However, when he wanted to go forward and continue to ask, Zhang Shi stopped him.

"Mr. Galahan, Turkestan is not China. They not only hate all Russians, but also have no money to pay wages to stranded workers." Zhang Shi watched Yang Rui leave and began to have further conversations with the Russians.

"If the entire Turkestan loses the Russian workers, he will return to the wilderness era. No matter how cruel and cruel the Tsar is, he will bring civilization to the locals." Ghana was rarely unable to convince Yang Rui, so he had to complain to Zhang Shi.

"Civilization?" Zhang Shi knew very well what the Russians did in Central Asia. He smiled and said, "The so-called civilization is to force the shepherds to lose their pastures so that they can let the land be unearthed for Russian farmers to cultivate? Or become workers with nothing and allow the Russians to enslave them? Or, everyone is learning Russian, and the name is either Nov, Sky, or something?

The locals do not need any civilization that comes with compulsory origin. Now they are kind enough. In the Qihe Province, where tens of thousands of Kazakhs were massacred last year, the locals will follow our advice and let those Russians go and execute the guilty people only through trials is a miracle. Mr. Galahan, you can't ask too much!"

"But this is all caused by the tsar's corrupt rule, and the Russians are all victims..." Garnahan retorted, but he was interrupted before he finished speaking.

"But those Russians who kill and oppress others are completely innocent?" Zhang Shi asked back, "Even if those Russians simply accept the orders of the Tsar, even if, as you said, they were deceived by the Tsar, not to obtain more land and more slaves themselves, but in terms of their crimes, in addition to confiscating them as evidence, the tools of crime should also be destroyed after testimony. Mr. Galahan, are they slaughtered by the Tsar or tools of crime?"

"I don't know!" Galahan was forced to answer. During this period, there were long reports in the newspapers that during the Central Asian uprising last year, there were news that tens of thousands of Kazakhs were massacred by Russians in Qihe Province. This trend was actually initiated by the Shuntian Times run by the Japanese. Shanghai Report, Times, and Beijing-Tianjin Ta Kung Pao and Empire Daily reporters also began to send reporters to the Western Regions to Qihe Province, which originally belonged to China, to expose Russia's naked colonial atrocities.

It is not surprising that public opinion will report this way, because the spokesperson of the Prime Minister's Office has long admitted that China has not intended to annex Central Asia. Now that Russia's rule in Central Asia has collapsed, everyone secretly knows that this is supported by the government, so going to the Western Regions to report on Russian atrocities can add some glory to China's face. Russia is a sinner, while China is a liberator. Under the digging of these reporters, several mass pits with buried bodies were found, and photos taken in the newspaper were taken after excavation were shocked by the whole country. It is precisely because of this that the Revival Army dared to advance to Ashgabat, the capital of the Outer Caspian Sea Prefecture.

"I only know that the Russian people and the Turkestan people are both oppressors of capitalism. They should unite to overthrow this old world. Now that the most combative working class is being forced to return to China, it is a betrayal of this truth." Galahan slowed down for a while before he regained the reason he had just made. After this conversation, he no longer had any hope for establishing a Soviet in Turkestan.

"Mr. Galahan, for the Turkistan people, their oppressors were the Russians. Whether they were Russian peasants or Russian workers, they were all oppressors. According to the Bolshevik theory, you cannot conclude that the small capitalists who are also oppressed by the big capitalists are friends of the proletariat because they are oppressed.

You can't say that because the Russians represent more advanced civilizations, they have the right to expel and massacre local people. If this is right, then everything the Tsar did is right. What is the significance of the revolution of your party? Is it because the Tsar killed not enough people and should kill more after the revolution is successful?" Zhang Shi looked at Galahan and smiled, and then said: "If the Tsar wants to show that it is completely different from the barbaric Tsar, then the oppressed nations should be independent and thus gain the trust of oppressors all over the world."

In the Bolsheviks' view, China was not a proletarian revolution, but a national revolution. The revolutionaries only overturned the corrupt monarchy and eventually changed the status quo of the semi-colonial state. However, before the Russian Revolution was successful, China's revolutionary achievements were noticed by revolutionaries around the world. But precisely because China was not a proletarian revolution, in the eyes of the Bolsheviks, these revolutionaries were still carrying narrow great power chauvinism.

Because it involves diplomatic diplomatic relations between the two countries, especially the Russian revolution has not yet succeeded. Galahan is not able to directly criticize this great power chauvinism. After listening to Zhang Shi's advice, he said helplessly: "Mr. Zhang Shi, the nation must be subordinate to the class. The ultimate goal of the proletariat is to achieve the death of the class, the country, the political party, and the nation. If you simply emphasize nationalism, it will only fall into a completely selfish bourgeois nationalist view and ultimately weaken the power of the proletariat. This is actually betrayal of the revolution and betrayal of the **!"

"Mr. Galahan. Has he been trapped in the completely selfish bourgeois nationalism, weakened the proletariat or Russia? Are you against nationalism for the proletariat or Russia?" Zhang Shi asked with a smile. During many contacts, Galahan constantly introduced Machinism to Zhang Shi. When Zhang Shi was fine, he also looked at the pamphlets he gave, so the two often fought verbally when they met. "If your party agrees to the independence of the nations oppressed by the Tsar after the revolution is successful and returns the territories occupied by the Tsar, then I will fully believe that your party is really striving for the proletariat and strives for the goal of achieving the Tsar, and I will also be determined to become a Bolshevik."

"Mr. Zhang Shi, whether you believe it or not, we are all fighting for the realization of the **! As for the two conditions you mentioned, I would like to ask, how can you ensure that those nations after independence will join the proletariat camp and not join the bourgeoisie and become their thugs to eliminate the proletariat?" Galahan retorted, "Only between the proletarian state and the proletarian state can be equal, regardless of size. Believe me, once the Russian Revolution is successful, the bourgeois countries around the world will be scared, and they will try their best to eliminate us, so we have to choose friends carefully."

"Then Mr. Galahan, how do you evaluate who is the real proletarian state and who is not the real proletarian state?" The debate seemed to be becoming more and more interesting, and Zhang Shi still asked, "Does the proletarian state be considered for the interests of the new Russia, and the proletarian state not considered for the new Russia?"

"No, this is too narrow!" said Galahan, "Without systematic study of Machinism and materialist philosophy history, you will find it difficult to understand the ideals and dedication of the Bolsheviks, nor to understand what internationalism is. Engels once said: 'The working class is internationalist by nature. The proletariat of all nations opposes the bourgeoisie of their own nations, that is, part of the struggle against the bourgeoisie. The interests of the proletariat of all nations are common and the goals of struggle are consistent, which determines that they can unite and work together in the struggle against the bourgeoisie and all reactionary forces.' Therefore, the workers have no motherland!

If the Russian Revolution is victorious, then there will be only Russia, the proletarian state in the world. Therefore, it is simple and objective to judge whether a country is a proletarian state. In addition to whether it is a proletarian in power, it also depends on his position on other proletarian states."

When Galahan recited Macth and Engels' words, his eyes shone brightly, as if the whole body of energy was concentrated in the conversation, which was amazing. However, his answer did not break out of Zhang Shi's guess, so Zhang Shi did not want to continue talking. He just said, "Most of China are peasants. So they have their motherland. In addition, even if they are proletarian countries, as long as there are states, there will always be conflicts of interest, just like a war between bourgeois and bourgeois countries, and a war between proletarian countries will also occur."

"Mr. Zhang Shi wants to say, will there be wars between China and Russia after the revolution?" Galahan asked immediately as if he felt that Zhang Shi had some advice.

"No! According to the values ​​of the bourgeoisie, countries and countries will inevitably have conflicts of interest. Those that do not border will have commercial conflicts of interest, and those that are bordered will have territorial disputes. But it does not mean that there will be wars. If the cost of war is higher than the interests that are fought for, then wars can be avoided because this is not cost-effective. Our country has always adhered to the pacifist viewpoint and does not want to seize colonies. As long as we recover the lost land taken away by the Tsarist government, we will have no conflict of interest with your country."

"That's right." Galaham replied silently. He did not continue the topic, but asked. "Mr. Zhang Shi, I ask again, please allow us to draw personnel from the workers in Harbin to form an army, and at the same time allow us to develop Bolshevik Party members among Russian prisoners of war..."

"These two things have been said before. This is impossible." Zhang Shi shook his head, "Whether from our country or from the proletariat, it is correct to let the European war continue and weaken the power of bourgeois colonialists. Two hundred thousand Tsarist Russian troops will eventually be sent to the European battlefield. Bourgeois colonialists will kill each other, and the workers in Harbin really think that those more than 3,000 people can do what role?"

There are more than 11,000 Russian railway workers in the Chinese section of the Middle East Railway and the Siberian Railway, including more than 50,000 workers in various factories in Vladivostok and Amur. However, these people are not controlled by the Bolsheviks. After China agreed to return to China, they packed up their fine lines and took their families back to China. Russia during the war also urgently needed various workers, and these people's return to China was a timely help for Russia. However, under the control of the Bolsheviks, there were still more than 1,000 workers who were unwilling to return to China, and some workers who were worried about returning to the country were sent to the battlefield, so there were more than 3,000 left in Harbin.

Armed with these reliable three thousand people, and agreed to the Bolsheviks sending people into the Russian prisoner-of-war camp, were important things that Galahan had requested countless times, but every request was rejected by the Chinese.

"Mr. Zhang Shi, the Russian Revolution requires the strength of everyone. Even if there are three thousand people, as long as they can be trained into an army, it is a force that cannot be ignored." Galahan said.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Galahan, it's unrealistic to arm these workers." Zhang Shi shook his head. "If we agree to do this, then in the eyes of all countries, our country is funding revolutionaries and interfering in Russia's internal affairs. They will also think that we and the allies are on the side to fight the Allies. This is a very dangerous move before the bourgeoisie is completely weakened and we have grown stronger."

Seeing that the issues discussed were getting boring, Zhang Shi found a gap, ended the meeting and asked someone to send Galahan away carefully. After the Russians left, the British on Yang Rui also left. When Zhang Shi walked into the office, Yang Rui and Xie Zhangtai were drinking tea.

"Sir." Zhang Shi called out. "The Russians left, and they mentioned the armed workers again, but I rejected them again."

"Yeah." Yang Rui looked serious, neither happy nor angry. Zhang Shi saw that he looked strange, but he was not easy to ask.

After Zhang Shi sat down, Li Zilong also poured him a cup of tea. Then the three of them were drinking tea in the room, and no one spoke. The only sound of a pendulum was left in the room.

Just when Zhang Shi and Galahan were debating, the British Minister mentioned two issues. One was that according to Yang Rui's request last time, Britain and France had to recognize that the foreign Northeast belonged to China; the other was the division of Turkestan's sphere of influence. The former was the condition given by the British that China was to default on China to occupy the Russian Far East and ensure that this occupation was recognized after the war; the latter was that Britain believed that the division of Central Asia's sphere of influence should be bounded by the Sir River, all the north belonged to China, and the south belonged to Britain. If China could send troops to Europe under this condition, then China and Britain could form an alliance immediately.

Although China has only more than forty regular divisions, there are more than one hundred reserve divisions, and the entire country can mobilize two million troops in a very short time. The most important thing is that after several years, the tactical level of the Chinese army was recognized by all members of the Allied Powers to implement Germany in European battlefields, which was completely a replica of the tactics used by the Chinese army in the Sino-Japanese War. For example, trench wire mesh and machine guns, artillery curved aiming, infantry and artillery coordination, snipers, and even the Allied Powers believed to be the latest technology tank. The Chinese Army had used it a few years ago. The Russian Siberian Legion defeated in three days. Everyone did not know the reason before, but now everyone is almost sure that the Russians must have encountered tanks.

The vigorous offensive in the first half of 1917 was already deadlocked, and although the Russian Provisional Government promised to continue the war, according to intelligence, the Russian country is currently in chaos, because workers strike, and all military production has stopped; the Murmansk Railway under construction has also been stopped; Arkhangelsk, which originally had a narrow-gauge railway, can only run one pair of passenger trains and three pairs of cargo trains for a day and night [Note:], the total transportation volume is only more than 2,200 tons, but the chaotic situation makes such a small transportation volume not guaranteed; it is not necessary to say that the Siberian Railway was half-closed after Russia instigated the Yunnan rebellion last year. Now China has implemented a torque change project, and God does not know when the railway will be reopened to traffic.

There were problems with all foreign aid channels. In Russia, the lack of coal made the locomotives on the railway line only use wooden slabs instead, but the reserves of wooden slabs on each railway station were insufficient. Although it was required to be harvested immediately, the lack of manpower made it difficult for each station to complete this task. There was insufficient fuel and the train locomotives began to be insufficient. At the beginning of this year, due to the long-term lack of maintenance, half of the locomotives in the Russian railway were in a bad state, and they were unable to transport goods, and accumulated 120,000 trucks. Although the weather improved and improved the conditions for Russian railway transportation, the railway system of the whole Russia collapsed completely, and maybe it would come at any time.

From a purely technological perspective, in the view of the Allies, the February Revolution was only the heavy snow and severe cold that caused the interruption of the transportation system and caused the mass incident. If Russia no longer had any unrest, it was necessary to comprehensively improve the entire railway transportation system. For this reason, the American "technical mission" proposed that the United States send twelve teams of railway engineers to lead workers and dispatchers to various railway trunks in Russia to comprehensively improve the railway transportation situation. At the same time, while the US ambassador to Russia gave the Provisional Government a loan of 45 million US dollars, he asked the Russian Provisional Government to give these American engineers the power to manage Russian railways.

The improvement of technology rather than revolution is considered by the Americans to stabilize Russia's political situation. But unlike the naive Americans, Britain believes that the roots of Russia's chaos were planted during the Stolepin period. Since the second half of last year, the remaining village and community system after Russia's rural reform collapsed due to the lack of official power suppression. The farmers spontaneously confiscated the land of the landlords and prepared to redistribute it. Because of the principle that the soldiers who were not present would suffer losses, it was reported that the soldiers who redistributed their hometowns fled the front line.

The soldiers' escape greatly reduced the Russian army's originally weak combat effectiveness again. The frequent defeats of war made the people in the rear lose hope for victory. At the same time, they began to resent about all the status quo caused by the war. The Americans may be able to improve transportation and give Russian citizens enough fuel and bread, but they cannot change Russia's inflation and resentment towards the status quo.

Once the situation in Russia is turbulent again and eventually withdraws from the war, Germany will get rid of the dilemma of fighting on both sides and calmly transfer the Eastern Front troops to the Western Front. Before the US Army arrives, this will be a disastrous blow to the British and French coalition forces. It is better to expect China to mobilize in a short time and can be transported to the two million troops on the European continent immediately. With this army, even if the Americans are late, the victory will belong to the Allies.

With such expectations, the British made a heavy bet. In the tone of negotiations just now, the alliance means that China will become the guardian and sharer of British East Asian interests, which is basically equivalent to opening up the entire Southeast Asian country to China. Such huge interests have to be presented in front of us, Yang Rui and Xie Zhangtai have been silent for a long time. The two who originally thought that their will were quite firm began to throbbed unscrupulously. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!