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Chapter 401 The Beginning of the Navy

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    Because the Soviet Red Army in part of Soviet Russia has already taken control of the situation in Europe, the United States and other interventionist forces believe that the situation is over and that staying in the Far East has lost the meaning of intervention.  On January 14, the United States notified Japan to withdraw its US troops stationed in Siberia; China, Britain, France, and Italy also withdrew at the same time, and planned to complete the withdrawal on April 1.  Only Japan, which has huge vested interests, expressed opposition.

    Can it not object?

    Japan has already had ambitions for the eastern territory of Soviet Russia.  At the end of the 19th century, it formulated the policy of expansion of the "Greater Japan", pointing out that the territorial scope of its expansion was "the west¡ª¡ªSiam, coastal China, Mongolia, Manchuria, Korea, Amur Oblast and Maritime Province; the north¡ª¡ª  -Sakhalin, Kamchatka, Belin and Kut provinces¡±.  To realize this national policy, Japan must take Sakhalin Island and Maritime Province as its own on Russian territory.

    The most important reason for coveting the Russian Far East is the economic plunder of the Russian Far East.  According to the vision of the Japanese Empire's strategy: "The first place to realize the base of continental defense of the 'Great Japan' should be the coal and iron mines, oil springs, fish products, etc. in the Russian eastern Siberia region. Only by occupying such treasure areas  , fixed in the region of eastern Siberia, Japan can board the springboard, and then jump from here to the forefront of the world to realize the policy of the Great Japan."

    Driven by this national policy, Japan took the opportunity to step up its aggression against Russia's eastern Siberia region.  The Russo-Japanese War was the product of this idea.  After the war, Japan acquired a large area of ??territory south of 50 degrees north latitude of Sakhalin Island, and Japanese fishermen were able to operate fisheries in the Sea of ??Japan, Sea of ??Okhotsk, and Bering Sea along the Russian coast.

    But the Japanese¡¯s desire to go north is far from over.

    The outbreak of the October Revolution provided an opportunity for Japan to send troops to Siberia.  Japan tried to invade the Soviet Far East under the pretext of maintaining order in the Far East and preventing the spread of the Soviet revolution.

    Japan has stepped up its economic plunder while expanding its military. Japanese capitalists, with the help of the government, took advantage of its armed intervention in the Far East to flood Siberia with cheap goods.  Military trains or Red Cross trains often came from Vladivostok laden with Japanese goods that had nothing to do with the needs of the Japanese army or the Red Cross.  It is recorded in the book "Japan": "In 1918, when a railway was damaged, it was discovered that twenty-one of the twenty-nine military trains were loaded with various goods other than military supplies." It can be seen that Japan's economic impact on the Far East  dependence.

    Russia is a fighting nation, and Japan¡¯s sweeping plunder inevitably aroused strong resistance from the Soviet Russian people.  After the guerrillas shelled the Temple Street Consulate, on May 27 of the same year, local guerrillas set fire to Temple Street City, killing a total of 384 Japanese personnel in the fire. This was the "Temple Street Incident".  For this reason, the Japanese government decided to increase its troops again, and the situation in the Far East became confusing again.

    This time Japan¡¯s troop surge is different from the past.

    Before, there was a pretense of "maintaining the security of the Far East" as a member of the Six-Nation Far East Intervention Force. Now with the withdrawal of the armies of the other five countries, this status is gone.  However, this is not a problem for the shameless Japanese government. In its second declaration to the Far East, it explained the reason for the Japanese troops¡¯ presence: ¡°The political situation in Siberia has affected Manchuria and Korea and endangered Japanese nationals. Therefore, it is inconvenient to withdraw troops and must  Manchuria and Korea are out of danger, the lives and property of Japanese nationals are safe, and freedom of transportation is guaranteed by the Russian government, so that we can withdraw our troops to Siberia."

    Regarding the reason for the increase of troops instead of reduction, the Japanese government issued a statement saying that it was in retaliation for the "Temple Street Incident".  As a demonstration of its promise, the Japanese government sent troops to occupy the northern part of the Russian Sakhalin Island and obtained the mining rights for oil, coal and forests in the northern part of the Sakhalin Island as compensation.

    Normally, the new round of conflict between Japan and the Soviet Union has nothing to do with the Republic of China government. However, the Japanese insisted on getting China involved because they mentioned that they wanted to ensure the security of Manchuria.

    Manchuria is Chinese territory, what kind of security do you want Japan to guarantee?  Isn¡¯t this obviously creating a vested trend in public opinion?  The central government of the Republic of China was still unambiguous on this matter, protesting: "Your country refers to Manchuria and Korea as the time for retreat from Siberia. If you find that Korea is in alliance with Japan, your country should not  I ask, but Manchuria is part of the three eastern provinces and one of our provinces. How can we allow such a continuous record? It is really contempt for our country's sovereignty, and we hereby protest!"

    Zhang Zuolin also took this opportunity to reach into the Jiang Defense Fleet. In the name of the commander-in-chief of the security of the three eastern provinces, he asked the Jiang Defense Fleet to cooperate with the Feng army in exercising its responsibility to defend the country, in order to observe its political attitude.

    At that time, the Chinese navy was still under the unified jurisdiction of the central government. As a local government, the Fengzhi did not dare to risk the disapproval of the world to eat these few warships that although they seemed to have weak backgrounds, they were not small.  Because the navy is the symbol of the country.  Moreover, the Chinese navy has long been dominated by the Fujian clique, which is in the EastIf the command of the North Navy wants to change hands, it depends on the wishes of Navy Chief Sa Jinbing.

    At this time, after more than a year of hard work, the Jiheijiang Defense Preparatory Office has built an administrative framework, and the Jiheijiang Defense Headquarters is ready to be launched.  As the founder, Wang Chongwen was the natural candidate for commander. When setting up the staff team, Shen Honglie took office as expected.

    Before the northbound fleet entered, Wang Chongwen reported to the Navy Headquarters to change Maotong Company's merchant ships "Jiangning", "Tongchang" and "Jiangjin" to shallow-water gunboats "Jiangping", "Jiang'an" and "Jiangtong" respectively.  No. 6 was borrowed from the China Eastern Railway Administration and was renamed "Liji".  Together with a coastal defense gunboat, two shallow water gunboats and an armed tugboat from the fleet heading north, they form the core of the Jihei River Defense Fleet.

    But the construction of the navy is not just about buying a few warships. Its shore facilities, communications, logistics supplies, equipment maintenance, etc. all require money.  The government of the Republic of China must be poor. It has already provided sufficient resources to convert several merchant ships into shallow-water gunboats, and subsequent investment will inevitably be stretched.  Moreover, with the subsequent evolution of China's political situation, Anhui, Zhili, and Fengcheng successively took over, and the navy, which was originally one of the symbols of national sovereignty, also began to divide internally. Naturally, it lost interest in the poor "fleet" of the Kyrgyzstan-Heilongjiang Defense Fleet.  focus on.

    So Wang Chongwen faced pressure from Zhang Zuolin from the beginning.

    His pressure was invisible: Zhang Zuolin proposed to use generous treatment and increasing capital investment to grow the fleet in exchange for its loyalty to him.  On this issue, Wang Chongwen, as the fleet commander, was opposed to Shen Honglie as the staff officer from the beginning.

    Wang Chongwen insisted on the view that the fleet was a navy and tried his best to resist Zhang Zuolin's intentions. However, the well-being of his men depended on the three eastern provinces.  A group of people represented by Shen Honglie believed that the Jiangfang Fleet, as a local fleet, naturally cannot emphasize autonomy like the Yangtze River Fleet. It must accept the dual management of the navy and the local government, otherwise its life will be very difficult. This  This view is supported by many people.

    Shen Honglie was favored by the Zhang family and his son, and he was able to establish a good relationship with the original four ships of the northward fleet by providing them with a 500,000-yuan certificate of nomination.  In addition, Chen Shiying serves as the consultant of Zhang Zuolin's newly established "Water Security Brigade" Preparatory Office and the "Director of the Northeast Aviation Police Preparatory Office". Chen's prestige and connections in the northbound fleet are enough for Shen to gain a foothold.  Therefore, although he was a staff officer, he was able to control half of the Jiangfang fleet, competing with Wang Chongwen as the commander.

    It is expected that the jurisdiction of the "Water Security Brigade" will almost overlap with the waters of the Jiang Defense Fleet, and it was destined to deal with the Jiang Defense Fleet when it was first established.  Zhang Zuolin was now rich, so he ordered twenty 50-ton frigates and gave them to Chen Shiying to train Northeast China's own naval talents.

    Because Zhang Zuolin had to pay attention to the impact if he wanted to join the Jiang Defense Fleet, and the scale of this fleet was too small, far from the scale that Zhang Hanqing expected to be on par with the army, so Zhang Hanqing repeatedly asked Zhang Zuolin to start a new one.  The "Northeast Aviation Police Office", the leading organization of the "Northeast Water Security Brigade", was established under such circumstances.

    Zhang Zuolin, who was deeply harassed by the Japanese, had long hoped to have a natural buffer to block the Japanese from penetrating into the Fengcian territory. After the Tumen River Estuary was controlled by the Fengcian, the situation had improved for him.  Through the blockade of the Tumen River, the Japanese, who were once all-pervasive, can now only enter and exit through Anton and a few other places that are actually under Japanese control.

    After the establishment of the Jiang Defense Fleet, the possibility of entering the Northeast from the long river boundaries of the Heilongjiang and Ussuri Rivers was greatly reduced, and there was no need to worry about the Japanese using any excuse to stir up trouble within Jilin. This made Zhang Zuolin begin to pay attention to the development of water power.  He originally suffered from lack of talent, but now that Chen Shiying is under his command, and he suddenly has almost endless money to spend, he suddenly wants to do something big.

    Therefore, he added a "Northeast Aviation Police Office" in addition to the eight major offices of the patrol mission, responsible for the management of the "Northeast Water Security Brigade". Its essence should be similar to today's water police station.  However, the power definition of the "Northeast Aviation Police Office" is very large. Marine police, fisheries, shipping, and ports are all within its jurisdiction.  Chen Shiying, who was born in the navy, serves as the director of the aviation police department and the consultant of the "water security brigade", so he naturally turned this water police station into an organization similar to the navy.

    "But the navy is a money-spending service. Just the docks, the operation of machines, the supply of logistics, and the training of technical personnel are a bottomless pit. Not to mention that the Northeast is so poor that it has never even seen a decent warship.  There is a long way to go to build a decent navy.

    But since then, Chinese warships have entered the inland rivers of Heilongjiang and began to patrol and protect the northern boundary river, which is a qualitative improvement compared to before.  Between the white mountains and black waters in the northeast, steam-armored Chinese naval ships began to appear, and the system entered an era of having rivers and defenses.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com)ww.hlnovel.com
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