The sun never sets

Saigo waved his hand and asked Yamamoto to stand closer, then lowered his voice and said, "I am from the army. I can't understand it anyway, so why bother to read it? I am the superior, I don't need to read it, you can read it. I am just helping you to ask for money and power, isn't that good?"

Then, Colonel Yamamoto exclaimed, "I see." From then on, Yamamoto followed Saigo. Wherever Saigo pointed, Yamamoto would definitely attack. After the navy knew about this, they also changed their attitude towards Saigo and began to respect him. So, making money is the first priority, and everything else should be secondary.

Saigo Tsunemichi was in a good mood after getting the budget, while Oyama Iwao and others looked a little grumpy. However, in the next agenda, the navy and the army stood together to put pressure on Ito Hirobumi and Matsukata Masayoshi. The main purpose was not to suppress the constitutionalists, but for the "Japan-Korea merger".

Korea was previously a battlefield for the struggle between China and Japan. Starting from the Treaty of Ganghwa Island nearly thirty years ago, China and Japan have repeatedly fought in Korea. In the early stage, China had the upper hand. Yuan Shikai became famous for defeating the Japanese conspiracy in Korea. However, no matter how much he won in the early stage, it was useless. He lost everything in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, and Korea fell into the hands of the Japanese.

After the outbreak of the war, Yuan Shikai saw that the Japanese army was strong and the situation was not good, so he ran away. Later, in the Reform Movement of 1898 and the Boxer Rebellion, Yuan Shikai's behavior was exactly the same as when he was in Korea, bullying the weak and fearing the strong, without any change.

Korea had wanted to get rid of China's constraints before, but after falling into the hands of the Japanese, it was squeezed even more severely. Korea then regretted letting the wolf in. They saw that Japan was forced to return the Liaodong Peninsula to China under Russian interference, so they tried to use Russia to contain Japan. Korea's approach to Russia made its influence in Korea grow. Under such circumstances, the Japanese killed Queen Min and cleared the pro-Russian forces in the palace, which is known as the "Eulmi Incident" in history.

The Japanese government was exploiting its own people like a boner, not to mention the Koreans. Except for a few die-hard pro-Japanese people, most Koreans were full of hatred for the Japanese, and riots broke out one after another. Many of the yangban nobles who had previously welcomed the Japanese army were also dissatisfied. They brought in the Japanese to drive away the Chinese in order to avoid being sucked dry by the Chinese. Now, a more ruthless person has come, and no one can stand it.

In view of the rebellious forces in North Korea, some people in Japan began to advocate the "Japan-South Korea merger".

What's the point of being a vassal? Just annex it and everyone will be happy. Well, mainly the Japanese chaebols and warlords will be happy, but the Koreans will definitely not be happy.

The navy represented by Saigo Jōmichi and the army represented by Ōyama Iwao and Yamagata Aritomo all had their own interests in Korea, but those interests were not enough, and everyone wanted more. If Korea was annexed, the power of the army and navy would be further expanded, so they all agreed to annex Korea.

People who are engaged in economics and industry, such as Matsukata Masayoshi and Inoue Kaoru, do not oppose the "Japan-Korea merger". In name, it is a military merger, but in reality, it is an annexation. After the annexation, they will definitely get more benefits. Although the Meiji elders were praised by later generations for their wisdom and bravery, they actually liked to make money.

Not to mention the unlucky Yamagata Aritomo, who also made a fortune, such as Oyama Iwao, Katsura Taro, and Saigo Tsumichi? Otherwise, how could the factories and industries built by the people with belt-tightening be sold at such a low price? In the process of converting state-owned enterprises into private enterprises, not only did the chaebols make a fortune, but these bigwigs also benefited.

Only Ito Hirobumi opposed the annexation of Korea. He did not have any universal values, but believed that the time was not right yet. We should wait until a generation later, when the Koreans got used to Japan's rule, before it would be too late to merge with Korea.

After some debate, the Army and Navy gave up the idea of annexing Korea, but they wanted to give the Army and Navy more rights and interests in Korea. In the world today, except for the government's explicit requirement to "serve the people" and strict orders that officials must maintain a "hardworking and simple" style, no other country has such a saying.

The upper classes of Britain, France, Germany and all other countries are extremely corrupt, and Japan is no exception. The military government in the south is better, but there are also despicable people like Chen Qimei, and there are quite a few of them, which is incomparable to the people's government.

There is a legend that the Japanese royal family donated all their jewelry to win the First Sino-Japanese War. Maybe this is true, but it is just a trick of "returning the royal family's money in full and dividing the people's money 30% and 70%". In the reparations after the First Sino-Japanese War, the royal family directly took 20 million. In comparison, what are those gold and silver jewelry?

Chapter 215 The First Negotiation Failed

After the Chinese New Year, the Lantern Festival soon arrived, and then spring came. Before the farmers started their spring ploughing, the factories began to work on a large scale. The workers who did not rest during the Spring Festival were replaced and took a vacation, but the vacation would not be long, at most three days.

The workers had agreed that after receiving their wages and overtime pay, they would take a bath, sleep for a day and a night, and listen to a big show on the last day. As for food, just eat anything. During the Chinese New Year, the government organized people to distribute gifts to workers, soldiers, police, doctors and other staff who insisted on working, including a lot of pork, beef, mutton and various fried snacks made with flour, brown sugar, etc.

The railways were also being built. Zhan Tianyou became the deputy minister of the Ministry of Railways and was no longer in charge of specific railway affairs. He put more energy into training engineers and workers and compiling various manuals and books. The Ministry of Railways now had no minister. Although Zhan Tianyou was only a deputy minister, he actually did the work of a minister.

The reason why he was not made a full minister was to slow down his progress so that he would not be promoted to the top all at once and would have no room for promotion in the future. Well, this is just one of the reasons speculated by the outside world. The actual reasons are more complicated.

The Ministry of Railways is not only responsible for training engineers and building railways, but will also be responsible for protecting the railway lines in the near future, which requires the establishment of a large number of military and police forces. After having special schools and armed personnel, in order to speed up the construction of railways, there will also be special hospitals and various ancillary facilities. It is simply a country within a country.

How to manage such a huge machine? Zhan Tianyou might be able to handle such a large number of things, but he also needs to be equipped with many professionals, including comrades who can fight and comrades who can do political work. In addition, the number of workers in the huge construction team will increase, and many people will become completely off-duty workers. Should we establish a trade union in the railway like the soldiers' committee?

If a trade union is established, where are the boundaries of its rights?

Lin Yongchang had seen several types of unions, including the American ones that treated unions as businesses, and the Chinese ones that barely cared about anything except distributing food, drink, and daily necessities. He was not satisfied with either type of union, but he had no better solution, so he could only explore with his comrades in the party.

Not long after the workers got busy, the ice and snow completely melted, and the farmers also began to get busy. A year's plan starts with spring, and the importance of spring ploughing is self-evident. The agricultural technology station has not yet been fully established, and the seeds purchased from outside have not been fully promoted. Before large-scale promotion, local adaptation must be carried out first.

There are also fertilizers. The chemical plant can now produce nearly 400 tons of various fertilizers a month, but the effectiveness still needs to be tested in practice. Lin Yongchang knows the effect of fertilizers very well. In another world, the new China can solve the problem of food for the people of the whole country. On the one hand, there are people like Yuan Lao who are constantly improving seeds, and on the other hand, it is because of the large-scale use of fertilizers in agricultural production.

Only after fertilizers became available in sufficient supply did China finally escape the shadow of hunger.

But only Lin Yongchang knows

No, the peasants are suspicious and wary of everything the government does. They think the government comes up with new things just to squeeze every last penny out of them. The people's government has only been in power for a short time, and has gained some trust from the people, but not complete trust.

Therefore, most of the new seeds, fertilizers and tractors would be used in state-owned farms first, and only about one-third would be used by activists on their own land.

The government has a lot of things to deal with, in addition to production, there are water conservancy, national defense, and border issues. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has sent two groups of people to Kulun, but the emperor of the pseudo-Great Mongol Empire, Bato, has no intention of changing his mind. Instead, he sent envoys to all directions, hoping to gain recognition from the great powers.

The British attitude was ambiguous, and they wanted to use the Mongol Empire to make a deal with the people's government, which was consistent with the British style. The US government sternly rejected the envoy of Batto and refused to recognize the Mongol Empire. Other countries such as Germany, France, Japan, and North Korea had different attitudes, but the first country to recognize the Mongol Empire was Tsarist Russia.

This was also expected. As long as the Russian army was still on the land of Northeast China, China and Russia would always be in a state of war. The People's Army had already controlled all the land west of the Liaohe River, and the Chinese guerrillas were everywhere between the white mountains and black waters. If it weren't for the poor ability to attack, or the fact that there were too few people in the Northeast and the supply could not keep up, the People's Army would have launched a full-scale counterattack.

After the Liaoxi Campaign, Tsar Nicholas II flew into a rage in St. Petersburg and declared that he would crush Japan. But he did not do so, not because he did not want to, but because he did not have the strength to do so. Not only could he not do it, but later Nicholas II also accepted the Japanese ambassador's "misunderstanding" and gave up the plan to send troops to attack Korea.

But the Russians' goodwill was only superficial. After suffering a great loss in western Liaoning and being ambushed by the Japanese, the Russians accelerated the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway. At the same time, they built fortresses in Lushun, expanded the port, and sent a large number of merchant ships and many fleets to Lushun.

Tsarist Russia brought many technicians and cannons from Europe, preparing to turn Port Arthur into a fortress that would never fall. It had always been the dream of Tsarist Russia to obtain an ice-free port in the Far East. After capturing Vladivostok, Russia's development in the Far East was much faster, but the port of Vladivostok was frozen for several months a year, which was far inferior to Port Arthur.

As long as Lushun is built into a solid fortress, the Russian army can use it as a base to expand to the entire East Asia. The Russians can see this, and Japan and China can also see it. The originally relaxed Japan-Russia relationship gradually became tense. The negotiations between Russia and the People's Government were unlikely to proceed smoothly.

St. Petersburg agreed to negotiate with the People's Government, but was absolutely unwilling to hand over major cities such as Lushun, Liaoyang, Shenyang, and Harbin. Instead, it built military fortresses in those places. The People's Government naturally would not agree to the Tsarist Empire's request for a ceasefire on the spot. Not only did it disagree, it also accelerated the intensity of "surrounding the cities from the countryside."

In response, Russia sold a lot of old guns to the Mongols in the northern desert, sent military instructors and diplomats, and was the first to recognize the Great Mongol Empire. When the Russian ambassador published a statement in the newspaper, Lu Zhengxiang told President Lin that the diplomatic negotiations had failed and there was no point in continuing the talks. The government needed to make other preparations.

Chapter 216 Let's See

Putting aside the fact that he believed in Protestantism, Lu Zhengxiang was a very competent foreign minister. As long as these diplomats were not frightened by foreigners and kowtowed, they would feel humiliated by the sufferings suffered by China and thus become more patriotic than ordinary people. When dealing with the great powers, Lu Zhengxiang deeply felt what a strong motherland represented.

So he tried his best to use diplomatic means to seek benefits for China. After the diplomacy failed, he immediately issued a warning to the Presidential Palace, frankly stating that diplomacy was useless and that the conflict between China and Russia could not be resolved by diplomats. If he could not achieve greater victory on the battlefield, even if the Russians sat at the negotiating table, they would only want to blackmail him.

Well, the people's government does not have the upper house or the lower house. Instead, it has the People's Congress. Most of the current representatives are workers, farmers, and soldiers. In the future, there will be entrepreneurs and capitalists. But that is all in the future. One generation can only take care of its own affairs. There is no such thing as a permanent solution. The future can only be left to future generations to solve.

"Minister Lu is still dedicated to his job."

Lin Yongchang put down the report sent by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and said with emotion: "But the Ministry of Foreign Affairs cannot continue like this. They must also accept the leadership of the Party."

After Wu Tingfang came to Taiyuan, he became an advisor to the Presidential Palace, just like Yang Du. President Lin often consulted him on diplomatic issues. In addition, he was appointed as one of the legal advisors of the Supreme Court, responsible for legal interpretation and case review, and also responsible for compiling legal textbooks.

Continental law and maritime law are foreigners, and China needs to have its own laws. Wu Tingfang was not the only one who participated in the compilation of the legal provisions, but also many others. The People's Government also published various legal provisions in newspapers and left postal codes, so that people across the country could participate in the discussion of the legal provisions.

Wu Tingfang twisted his beard and smiled, "After Zixin took office, he hung up the four characters "Don't Forget Maguan" in his office, and he did things in a new way. His talent

The ability and character are sufficient to serve as Foreign Minister."

Wu Tingfang knew that Chairman Lin wanted to replace Lu Zhengxiang with him, but he had no such intention. On the one hand, he had a good personal relationship with Lu Zhengxiang, and on the other hand, he did not think that his current position was too low. The few jobs he had were all what he liked and was good at, so there was nothing wrong with it.

"His ability is obvious to all, but his belief in Protestantism is a big problem. We, the members of the People's Party, should adhere to materialism and not engage in religious superstition."

Lin Yongchang decided to have a good talk with Lu Zhengxiang. If Lu Zhengxiang was willing to give up his Protestant belief, he could still become a qualified member of the People's Party. Otherwise, no matter how talented he was, he would have to find someone else to lead the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Wu Tingfang disagreed. "Materialism admits that the world is knowable, but opposes omniscience. Isn't this also a contradiction? Philosophy is not limited to idealism and materialism. Isn't it too simplistic to divide all philosophical thoughts into materialism and idealism? The President is a man of great talent, and he should not look at things so simply."

"........."

Wu Tingfang, like Lu Zhengxiang, was a top student. When it came to discussing how to synthesize organic matter, how to develop industry, and how to fight a war, Lin Yongchang could beat ten of them, but when it came to philosophical debates, he was often at a disadvantage. Not long after Wu Tingfang came to Taiyuan, he had read all of Lin Yongchang's previous articles, such as "On Contradiction" and "Dialectical Materialism". When it came to philosophical issues, he was almost as good as Lin Yongchang, if not better than him.

"Mr. Wu, you also believe in Christianity, don't you?"

"how come?"

Wu Tingfang waved his hands repeatedly, "Catholicism, Islam, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Christianity all have the same origin. There are many errors in their fundamental scriptures. In terms of ideological system, they are not as rigorous as Zen Buddhism, and in terms of health preservation and longevity, they are not as good as Taoism. They are just impressive in rallying people's hearts."

Lin Yongye attacked the group: 6949, 36135 Chang thought it was okay, if Wu Tingfang also believed in Jesus Christ, it would be a bit difficult. The diplomats trained by the People's Party have not grown up yet. After learning the relevant knowledge, they need to go abroad to take a look and understand the current situation in the world before they can play a role in diplomatic affairs.

And first of all, we must have the correct values, values and values, and have a patriotic heart. Otherwise, diplomacy can easily become a "kneeling Taiwan" organization, which only considers the interests of individuals and departments, rather than putting the interests of the country first. There are also people among the diplomatic personnel who are often developed into foreign spies, and the proportion is relatively large.

This is determined by the nature of diplomatic work. In fact, it is the same for other power departments. Abuse of power for personal gain is everywhere. As long as people hold power, they will easily think about cashing in on the power. Although it copied the homework of "history" and had the plug-in of "The Sun Never Sets in the Celestial Empire", it was not able to completely solve the various problems existing in government departments. It just maintained a high-pressure situation and solved them immediately and strictly when they were discovered. This ensured the efficiency and integrity of the People's Party, which made the administrative efficiency as well as the efficiency in diplomacy and military very high.

"Let Minister Lu go to St. Petersburg in person. The Russians are behind the Mongolian affairs. Emperor Bato must die, Mongolia must give up its independence, and Northeast China must be taken back. If Emperor Nicholas agrees to these points, we are willing to temporarily put aside the ownership of Outer Northeast China and Vladivostok and jointly develop Siberia."

When the Russians built the Trans-Siberian Railway, almost every rail and every screw had to be shipped from Europe. If they could import steel and rails from China, it would certainly greatly speed up the construction of the railway.

"Jointly develop Siberia?" Wu Tingfang was a little surprised. "The President wants to provide steel and rails to the Russians? Even if the Russians agree now, they will regret it when the Trans-Siberian Railway is completed. Besides, aren't we building a railway? How can we have extra steel to sell to the Russians?"

Among the great powers, the Russians have the ugliest eating habits. Although the British are evil, they at least try to whitewash themselves. As for the United States and Japan, one can only do evil in America, and the other is not presentable and eats less, so naturally no one pays attention to its eating habits.

"Diplomacy is all about testing each other and deceiving each other. The Russians will go back on their word, and so can we."

Wu Tingfang frowned and asked, "Does the President mean to deceive the Russians?"

"It's not necessarily a lie. When the fake becomes real, the real becomes fake. Let's talk slowly first, there's no rush."

Henan was called the Central Plains in ancient times. It was a place of war and had convenient transportation. Whenever there was chaos in the world, the forces occupying it would be attacked from all sides. But if the people occupying the Central Plains were powerful men like Cao Cao and Zhu Wen, Henan's convenient transportation conditions would help them expand in all directions.

The same is true for railways. If China is weak, then the railways will naturally be a threat. But what if China is strong? Wouldn't railways facilitate China's expansion?

The Russians have their own plans, and Marshal Lin has his own plans. Let's wait and see who will have the last laugh!

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Chapter 217: I'm free anyway

After the establishment of the Great Mongol Empire, they were initially preparing for defense because they were afraid that the People's Army would attack them. However, after a long time, the Central People's Republic Government only verbally condemned, demanded, and ordered, but did not actually take any action. This is despised. If verbal attacks were useful, what would the army be for?

Seeing that the Chinese had not taken any action, Emperor Batto and his generals and ministers gradually relaxed their vigilance and became restless. They raised 30,000 to 40,000 cavalrymen, and the daily food and clothing for the horses and men was not a small amount. After more than half a year, the so-called Great Mongol Empire was out of money.

It was easy to lose money. Didn't Bato and his men say they wanted to restore the glory of the Mongols? They just went and robbed. That was their tradition. Bato did the same thing. He claimed to be a descendant of Genghis Khan. In the autumn, when the horses were fat, he led the cavalry south, preparing to conquer the Mongols in the south of the desert first, and then go to the interior to forage for food.

The idea was good, but problems arose at the first step. The Mongols in the south of the desert did not recognize Bato, the so-called emperor of the Great Mongol Empire, saying that he was not a descendant of Genghis Khan, but a descendant of slaves. The Mongols were very realistic, and blood was just an excuse. The main reason why everyone did not accept Bato was because his strength was too poor.

Tens of thousands of cavalrymen want to charge into the Central Plains? Wake up, the government in the Central Plains is no longer the Song Dynasty!

The Mongols in the northern desert were deeply influenced by Tsarist Russia. After learning about the huge size of Tsarist Russia, many Mongols felt powerless and believed that they could only rely on Tsarist Russia to survive. The Mongols in the southern desert were influenced by the people's government. Many Mongols participated in the wars in North China and western Liaoning. They did not care much about the so-called Tsarist Russia. They killed tens of thousands of Russians by the Liaohe River and captured tens of thousands of prisoners, which added up to 60,000 to 70,000.

If we count the battles from Liaohe to Changhe, and the battles in Huludao, the number would be 100,000. The Russians were so brutal, but now they are mainly on the defensive when facing the People's Army? Only a broken brain would create a Great Mongolia!

When Bato led his cavalry south, he was first attacked by the Mongols in the south of the desert. The Mongols in the south had been doing quite well in the past two or three years. They sold a lot of wool to the purchasing points in Guihua City and Zhangbei, and also sold a lot of cattle and sheep. They could also buy many high-quality and low-priced goods from the supply and marketing cooperatives of the people's government, and their living standards had risen significantly.

Previously, the Mongols owed Shanxi merchants money that they could not repay in their lifetime, but Marshal Lin used various methods to reduce the debt. Now that everyone's life is getting better and better, those scum from the northern desert came over. They said they were going to the Central Plains to forage for food, but the first thing those people from the northern desert robbed was the cattle and sheep from the southern desert!

Even a man like Lin Dashuai does business in an orderly manner and pays for things. But Barto, that bastard, just says a few nonsense words and wants to get something for free? No way!

The Mongols in the south of the desert rose up to resist, but they were not able to win. Many people's pastures and cattle and sheep were robbed. Dong Fuxiang said that only poor and remote areas can produce elite soldiers. This sentence was true in the era of cold weapons, and it is still applicable today. The south of the desert can still do business with the mainland. When disasters occur, they can buy some rice and flour to make a living. In normal times, they can also buy oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, cloth, iron pots and other things.

The environment in the northern desert is much worse than that in the southern desert. There is nothing there except strong winds, and they are often bullied by the Russians. It is a truly bitter and cold place.

So the Mongols in the north of the desert were better at fighting, and the Mongols in the south of the desert were also barbaric, but not as barbaric as the Mongols in the north of the desert. Although they got a lot of outdated firearms from Marshal Lin, the people in Barto also bought old guns and cannons from Russia. The two sides were evenly matched, and the fight was a protracted one, with weaklings fighting each other.

But in general, the Mongols in the south of the desert suffered more. Because Guihuacheng and Zhangbei and other places bought a lot of wool, the banners in the south of the desert raised a lot of sheep. They received silage feed technology from the people's government, and were able to raise more cattle and sheep. They thought they would make a lot of money this year, but who knew that the people from the north of the desert came, and the sheep used for shearing wool were regarded as food by the northerners. Now many people have suffered a lot of losses.

What's even more infuriating is that those people from Mobei not only robbed our cattle and sheep, but also kept saying that we are all Mongolians and should help each other. Helping each other means they come to rob our cattle, sheep and pastures? Screw that!

"President, please send troops quickly!"

With the hopes of the entire village... and all the princes of the southern desert, Oerlehek ran to Taiyuan to ask for help. "Several flags have been stolen!"

Today's meeting was held at Chairman Lin's own home. Meng En* Borjigin and Wu Yun Qi Qi Ge were all there, as well as the long-legged Fourth Princess Guan Xiaotong. Wu Yun Qi Qi Ge was only twelve years old this year, and she was only for show but not for eating. The Fourth Princess was already sixteen years old this year, and as the saying goes, "a beautiful woman in her twenties has a body as soft as butter", she was already graceful and about to blossom. When Meng En and Oerlehek came in, they couldn't help but take a few more glances.

It's not that they have any idea about Xiaotong, it's just the first reaction of men when they see a young woman. But soon, they looked away, not because they didn't dare to have any idea, but because Guan Xiaotong didn't meet their aesthetic point. The face is okay, but the waist is too

She is thin, her legs are too long, her breasts and butt are not big, she doesn't look like someone who will give birth easily.

The Mongolian aesthetic is very consistent with the laws of nature, with thick waists and big buttocks so that there will be no danger when giving birth.

Oerlehek cried to President Lin: "Those people from Bato have been robbing people and things everywhere since they came south. If they continue like this, we will not be able to survive."

Lin Yongchang only believed part of what Orelhek said, and the experience of the Mongolian princes in the south of the desert did not move him. In the spring, the People's Army could be dispatched, but Marshal Lin still allowed the Mongols in the north of the desert to go south, on the one hand to prepare the army for fighting on the grassland, and on the other hand to make the Mongols in the south of the desert suffer.

Orelhek followed the government wholeheartedly, but the other Mongolian princes in the south of the desert were not necessarily so. The slogans of "Great Mongol Empire" and "restoring the glory of the Mongolians" still sounded very touching, and many Mongolians were very excited.

Only by letting them suffer first can we avoid more trouble. This is the case with many things. Taking precautions before they happen will not earn you gratitude. When a crisis breaks out, you can gain both fame and fortune by appearing as a savior. I originally wanted to make the Mongols in the south of the desert suffer more, but a plague broke out in the northeast, and the original battle plan was scrapped. I have nothing to do anyway, so I decided to trample on the pseudo-Mongolia.

As a Paradox player and a Europa Universalis player, Lin Yongchang likes to deliberately intensify conflicts, let the rebels jump out, and then send people to suppress them. This not only helps to brush up the army tradition, but also ensures that there will be no hidden dangers in the local area for a long time. This is how he treats the Mongols, and the remnants of the previous dynasty are also treated in this way.

The resources and manpower that a country can mobilize are limited. Instead of monitoring those unstable regions for a long time, it is better to just detonate and solve them all at once. Whether it is separatists or retro-ists, it is still a human problem in the end. If the human problem is solved, the problem will no longer exist.

Chapter 218: Singing and Dancing

Although he chose the "worker-peasant alliance" and took the path of the masses, Lin Yongchang also felt that this path was the right one, but he was not bound by the line and theory. He was actually a pragmatist, and his style of doing things was closer to that of his mentor than to Comrade Li Desheng.

He would use whatever he had and whatever was useful. He would work hard for the benefit of the people and the country, but he did not mind letting the people suffer. He believed that if one did not suffer twice, one would not understand the value of the "people's line". Obviously, in terms of ideological realm, Chairman Lin was not as good as Comrade Li Desheng, far behind.

Lin Yongchang knew this clearly. If he couldn't learn from Comrade Li Desheng, then he would try his best to get closer to his mentor. It was no big deal. There were thousands of ways to get to the destination. Now that the Mongols in the south of the desert had suffered and cholera was raging in the northeast, the People's Army could be dispatched.

Lin Yongchang said to Orelhek: "Don't worry, Your Majesty. The false emperor Batto won't be around for much longer."

"Is the President going to send troops?"

"Yes, we will set out from Guihua City next week. Five thousand cavalry and five thousand infantry, a total of ten thousand people."

Orelhek said: "Only 10,000 people? Batto has tens of thousands of cavalry, and the support of Tsarist Russia behind him. If the troops are too few, I'm afraid..."

"There's nothing to be afraid of." Lin Yongchang said nonchalantly, "If we just want to deal with Barto, five thousand infantry and cavalry will be enough. Bringing twice as many troops means we are ready to compete with the Russians again. If the Russians dare to come."

If someone else said this, Oerlehek would just think that the other person was exaggerating, but since this was said by Marshal Lin, the weight of his words naturally changed. Past battle records have proven that Marshal Lin is a famous general of the time, so he has the confidence to say this. Although Marshal Lin's "famous general" is a bit exaggerated, others don't know that.

In fact, even without the cheat of [The Sun Never Sets on the Celestial Empire], it is not difficult to deal with Emperor Batto and his army. Genghis Khan Temujin can whip the world, but it does not mean that Batto can do it. After the demise of the Yuan Dynasty, many heroes have appeared on the Mongolian grasslands, but no one has been able to replicate the glory of Temujin. Why?

Times have changed! After the emergence of muskets, the nomadic people's strongest mobility was half destroyed. They used to be able to rely on brute force to defeat enemies several times their size, but armor could not stop bullets and shells. Building a fortress and adding some guns and cannons would make the Mongols helpless.

The world has already entered the industrial age, and the second industrial revolution has already begun. Do you still want to restore the glory of Genghis Khan? In the face of machine guns and rapid-fire cannons, even the bravest soldiers are useless.

Lin Yongchang had a deep understanding of this. During the war in North China, the Mongolian cavalry had a strong impact, but they had no good way to deal with the small group of Japanese troops guarding the village. In the end, they had to dismount and fight on foot to solve the problem. Even in the wilderness, facing the infantry on the front line, the Mongolian cavalry could only follow from a distance instead of rushing forward to cut people down.