Rebirth of the National Marshal

Now that we have the order from above, we can just work hard. It is very difficult for ordinary people to get into bank vaults, and there are usually guards on duty. Even if you want to rob a bank, you need the right tools, right?

But for an army armed with live ammunition, the bank's vault was nothing. It was very easy to get in. Not to mention that the bank managers were pointing guns at him to open the door. Even if he was not there, they could just pull a cannon over and fire it in to blast it open.

Because the Soviets had no trade relations with other countries in the world, their foreign trade was basically traded in gold. Precious metals were the most important things to the Soviet Union, so the banknotes in the bank were useless to the occupying forces. Even if the entire bank was blown down, the gold and silver would still be there. These were what we wanted. As for the banknotes, they were useless.

"Stop, stop, take back all these banknotes. This is the order from the commander-in-chief. It seems to have some effect. We soldiers just have to obey. Our commander-in-chief's brain works several times faster than anyone else's." After all, the Soviet Union was a relatively poor country, and it was in the Far East. If it were in a big European city, there would definitely be a large amount of gold and silver in a bank, but in this place there was basically none. There were only some banknotes, and the amount of gold was pitifully small. There were only a few hundred kilograms of gold in the whole city.

Mao Yuanshan had his own ideas about how to occupy the Soviet Union. In his opinion, blindly acting recklessly and levying heavy taxes would not work. It was necessary to carry out some repressive activities at the beginning, but a conciliatory policy had to be adopted in subsequent actions. If the supply lines in the rear had not been cut off during the Second World War, the Germans would not have been defeated so quickly.

The reason their supply lines were cut off was because of their wanton slaughter of the Soviets. If they had been a little nicer to the Soviets, this would not have been the result.

According to records, when the Germans entered the Soviet Union, many Soviet people lined the streets to welcome them. Because Stalin's rule was unpopular, these people believed that the Germans were coming to liberate them. If the Germans could cooperate with them at the time, their rear supply lines would definitely not be like that, and they might even have defeated the Soviet Union. So Mao Yuanshan learned this lesson. When it comes to ruling the Soviet region, he cannot just act recklessly like the Germans did, nor can he pamper them to the sky. He must let them understand the sense of crisis on the one hand, and on the other hand, they must work hard for him. This is the only way.

Soon the instructors in the army came in handy. They told the Soviet people that your previous government was unpopular. Those high-ranking officials and their families could eat beef stew with potatoes every day, but what did you eat? All black bread, which was hard and unpalatable. Even if it was such a thing, it was not guaranteed that you could eat it every day.

Although we Chinese are not of the same nationality as you, we feel really bad seeing you living like this, so we are here to help you. We will let you help us with work, but we will pay you very high wages. For example, we will give you some food every day. Although this food cannot feed your family well, it will be enough to make them full, at least 80% full.

Just like the work of building the railway now, the Mongolians who work for us can get 5 kilograms of white flour every day, and you Soviets who work for us can get 2 kilograms every day, which is already a lot. You should know that this is very good white flour. The black bread we give you is different. You can bake sweet bread with our white flour. We have been very good to you.

At the beginning, these Soviet people were also very disgusted with this matter, but when someone came back with 2 kilograms of white flour, and when some people had sweet bread on their tables, the rest of the people became restless. They also wanted to go to work. It was a pity that you came too late, and you can only get 1 kilograms a day. If you want to work, do it quickly. If you don’t want to work, I’m afraid you won’t even get 1 kilograms a day.

Two days after the occupying forces occupied Ulan-Ude, a strange situation appeared on the entire street. The women rushed to wash clothes, cook for the soldiers or do other things within their ability, and the men helped to dismantle the factories and transport supplies, because they could get 1 kilograms of white flour every day, which they could go home to bake bread, and if they were lucky, they would even give you two cans of beef, but of course it was only a small amount.

Most people could only take the one and a half kilograms of white flour every day, which was very good. They had never seen such a thing under the Soviet rule. The government gave them black bread every day, which had all kinds of things added to it and tasted harder than stone.

By the third day, all the resistance forces in the entire city had been basically eliminated, because the Chinese occupation forces issued an order that as long as you could pull the resisters over, 20 kilograms of flour would be yours, and this area would be under your jurisdiction from then on, and you would have the final say in all matters. At the beginning, no one was willing to do it, after all, it was not easy to be labeled a traitor, but then many people did it.

The reputation of being a traitor is not very good, but it is better than being hungry. Many people are hungry now. The factories have been relocated, they have no place to work, and the farmland is also abandoned. They must eat. Even if they don’t eat, the whole family at home must eat. If they work every day, they can only earn 1 kilograms, which is not enough to support the whole family. They can only receive those resistance fighters. This is a good way to support the family.

So a strange situation has occurred in this city. The resistance fighters were originally fighting for their motherland. They should have been inspired and supported by the people, but now they are like rats crossing the street. As long as you enter a block, the people in this block will unite to resist you and tell you to get out of this place and never come to their place again.