African Nationhood

Chapter 664 White Goose Army

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The original plan was to meet with President Wilson in Paris and then discuss debt repayment with Britain, France and Italy.

However, the French president suddenly fell ill and the meeting was not held as scheduled.

Therefore, Shi Jintang and his wife planned to board a warship and first go to the Mediterranean region to express condolences to the soldiers on the front line. It was also a goodwill trip.

A large number of countries are about to be established or reorganized in Southeast Europe.

As the leader of South China, Chairman Shi's visits to these countries or regions are precisely to lay the foundation for future cooperation.

When these new countries are established, they will definitely need arms to maintain national defense. Nanhua happens to have a relatively developed military industry, so this visit is a sales trip.

In addition, Chairman Shi also wanted to take this opportunity to meet with the German Weimar government and the leaders of the White Goose Army in Russia, Denikin and Wrangel.

There was also some contact with Kemal, who was fighting guerrillas on the Ottoman side.

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On May 5, the "Zhongjing" arrived in Fiume (now Rijeka, Croatia) on the Adriatic Sea.

Qu Sanggan, together with Ou Haiwa and other commanders of the expeditionary force, all greeted him at the port.

As soon as Chairman Shi and his wife disembarked from the ship, they saw officers from Nanhua and civilians from Fiume gathered at the port to greet them.

Qu Sangqian specially arranged a flower-laying session for young children, which made Shi Jintang satisfied with the carefulness of Qu Sangqian, an old man.

After waiting for the reporter to finish taking photos, the group of them took the bus back to the Fiume City Hall.

The next day, Chairman Shi and his wife visited some of the soldiers here and rushed to Budapest non-stop.

Because Budapest has not suffered large-scale wars, the battles were all fought outside the city, so the urban construction facilities here are complete.

Shi Jintang and his wife made a special trip to the Elizabeth Bridge and Franz Joseph Bridge in the city. Chairman Shi specially told the story of Princess Sissi to Kelly.

After hearing this, Kelly felt deeply unworthy of Princess Sissi. She was so beautiful and intellectual, but she suffered the cold shoulder and contempt from her mother-in-law and husband.

Shi Jintang was busy comforting Kelly. Although Princess Sissi was beautiful, she was also a human being and had her own personality. This personality led to her tragedy.

If she could suppress her personality and win the trust and love of her mother-in-law and husband, she could have achieved better things.

It was because she indulged her personality too much that she was treated like that.

When dealing with historical figures, we must treat them comprehensively, rather than just focusing on one aspect, which will lead to one-sided stereotypes...

When Kelly heard this, she immediately became angry, glared at her husband, and left in a muffled voice.

Shi Jintang smiled bitterly, women are always emotional animals.

No matter how old or old she is, she likes her man to obey her and provide enough emotional value when needed.

At this point, oriental women are relatively more submissive. Ye Rong, Jin Xiyue and others are very submissive to him. Alice and Maria are also very submissive to him because of their status.

Only Kelly, because she grew up with him, they would often have disputes over some things.

What Shi Jintang said and what Kelly thought were completely different things, because the two of them just represented the conflict of ideas between Easterners and Westerners.

But Kelly is easy to coax, and as long as Shi Jintang is willing to put some thought into it, she will quickly forget the unpleasant content.

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Alexander I, the regent of Serbia, quickly arrived in Budapest, and the meeting between the two parties was very harmonious.

After all, the regent had signed a long-term arms contract with Nanhua, and Chairman Shi was relatively kind to his sponsors.

As for Nicholas I, who also arrived in a hurry, Shi Jintang did not need to be polite. He refused the other party's request for an audience.

The other party offered to cede Cataro (today's Kotor, Montenegro) to Nanhua. In Shi Jintang's view, this harbor was worthless.

After occupying it, it was equivalent to Nanhua working for Nicholas I in vain and providing free security, which was not worth the gain. …

In Budapest, apart from Serbian affairs, it is also Czech and Hungarian affairs.

The heads of the two new governments, Thomas Garrigue Masaryk of the Czech government and Mihai Karoli of the Hungarian government, had very different attitudes when they met Chairman Shi.

Masaryk maintained the reserve that a head of state should have, while Karoli was as enthusiastic as a licking dog when he saw Chairman Shi.

Comparing the two, you can see the difference.

Chairman Shi's meeting with the two men mainly discussed topics on strengthening economic and trade exchanges in the future.

As for the content of the Paris Peace Conference, Chairman Shi will naturally not disclose it. The results will be out soon anyway.

Because Karoli was very weak, Shi Jintang felt that he could support this guy's long-term cooperation. After Qu Sangqian arrived here, he allocated land to the local people. There should be no red uprising in the future.

As for Horthy, let him die.

So Shi Jintang instructed Karoli to strengthen his control over the army. The South China Expeditionary Force would help the Hungarian government control the power and allow him to carry out drastic reforms.

After receiving the instruction, Karolyi was very obedient and reorganized the government. The original model of a government formed by representatives of the three parties was changed to a capitalist politician headed by Karolyi who controlled the overall situation, and the workers' representatives became assistants.

Representatives of the demobilization of the military stripped important government positions and transferred them to the newly established National Defense Commission to serve as civilians. At the same time, the power to deploy the military was transferred to the prime minister of the republican government.

Because the South China Expeditionary Force has been stationed in Budapest, military representatives did not dare to go against the government's wishes and could only cooperate and adjust.

After dealing with the Hungarian government's affairs, Qusangqian brought two people from Ukraine.

These two men are the current leaders of the White Goose Army, Denikin and Wrangel.

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Anton Ivanovich Denikin was one of the leaders of the White Guards during the Soviet-Russian Civil War and foreign armed intervention, and a Russian infantry lieutenant general.

He participated in the Russo-Japanese War. During World War I, he served as brigade commander and division commander. In the autumn of 1916, he served as commander of the 8th Infantry Corps of the Romanian Front.

After the February Revolution (1917), Denikin served as the Chief of Staff of the Supreme Commander of the Russian bourgeois government, commander of the Western Front and Southwestern Front, assisting three commanders-in-chief.

After Kornilov's rebellion, Denikin was also implicated and arrested together with Korninov in September 1917.

After the October Revolution, Denikin escaped from prison and fled to southern Russia. Together with Kornilov and others, he organized a White Army in the North Caucasus consisting of part of the Black Sea Fleet, "Military Cadets", Don Cossacks, Caucasus regions, and the Ukrainian Military District. The "Volunteer Army" formed to carry out military operations against the Soviets.

In April 1918, Denikin became the commander of this army (the commander of the "Volunteer Army").

In the autumn of the same year, with the support of the Allied Powers, he served as the commander-in-chief of the "Southern Russian Armed Forces" and established a landlord-bourgeois military dictatorship in the areas he occupied.

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Peter Nikolayevich Wrangel was a member of an ancient German baron family.

He participated in the Russo-Japanese War and World War I, served as a cavalry commander, and fled to Crimea after the October Socialist Revolution in Russia.

In August 1918, he joined the "Volunteer Army" formed by Denikin and served successively as commander of the cavalry division, corps commander, commander of the Caucasus White Guards, and commander of the "Volunteer Army".

Due to a power struggle with Denikin, he was expelled from the country.

Now that they knew that Chairman Shi from Nanhua wanted to see them, the two of them came to Budapest through different channels.

They didn't know that the other party had been invited before, so after meeting, both of them were very dissatisfied, thinking that Nan Hua did it on purpose.

Denikin's idea was simple, he wanted to get help from Nanhua, while Wrangel wanted Nanhua to support him in becoming the leader of the White Goose.

But none of them thought that Chairman Shi just wanted to win them over to work as thugs in Africa.

(End of this chapter)