The sun never sets.

The wooden door closed, isolating the prison from the sunny world outside.

The Union's rule over Poland encountered great resistance. Nationalist sentiment had been spreading in this land for a long time. In the past, it was full of hostility towards Tsarist Russia, and now it was full of hostility towards the Union.

After the Polish intelligentsia and ruling class were swept away and land reforms were introduced, resistance gradually subsided.

After Rokossovsky became the Governor-General of Poland, his main task was to combat the resistance forces in Poland, while other matters were directly controlled by Moscow. The capital of the alliance was in Chang'an, but the European part was too far away from Chang'an. If everything had to be consulted with Chang'an, it would inevitably be slow to respond.

Therefore, the League had to establish Moscow as its second capital and retain a full leadership team in the Kremlin to handle most of the League's affairs in Europe.

In prison, Piłsudski got the newspaper he had always wanted. He learned about how the People's Army had conquered the entire territory of Poland with great force, and how the German army was on high alert on the border but had not set foot in Poland.

When the People's Army was advancing rapidly in Poland, the huge army of the French Commune moved towards the Franco-German border, seemingly intending to attack the German army with the alliance, but the war did not break out in the end.

After the fall of Warsaw and the occupation of the entire Polish territory by the People's Army, Britain and the United States also stopped their activities. Rokossovsky was not lying, Piłsudski and his accomplices were no longer of any use.

Chapter 711: Roll Call

Piłsudski spent a week in jail, reading many old newspapers. Until the last day, he still believed that he could get out of danger again and get back on track.

But it didn't happen. The prison guards pulled him out, tied him up with ropes, stuffed him into a truck, and then took him directly to the execution ground. There, there was already a circle of soldiers with live ammunition. Without much discussion, after a simple identity verification, Piłsudski was pinned to the ground by two soldiers, and the executioner put the barrel of a gun to the back of his head.

There were four other people kneeling on the side, with guns pointed at the back of their heads.

"preparation!"

"Crash!"

After the sound of the bolt being pulled, there was the command to "fire".

"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"

The five gunshots sounded like only one shot. The head hit by the bullet shook violently, and red and white splashed out. A second before the bolt sounded and was about to fire, Piłsudski was still convinced that it was just a scare. He had gone through so many storms, how could he die on the execution ground?

Then, he heard the command "Fire", and the bullet shot through his head. Everything happened so fast that before he could feel the pain, the whole world had already fallen into darkness.

Piłsudski died, just like the four other death row inmates beside him. It didn't matter that he was once the leader of the Polish Legion. People died when they were killed. It always has been like this.

Konstantin Rokossovsky's cleansing of Poland was ruthless but effective. Perhaps the Poles were still unwilling to see their country disappear again, but there were fewer people who dared to attack and launch rebellions.

Alliance to local

There are many experiences in governance, such as the baojia system and the joint responsibility system. If there is a problem in a certain place and it cannot be found, the nearby residents will be gathered together or simply exiled to Siberia, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and other places.

Chang'an, Taiji Palace

Lin Yongchang was doing his daily office work. Although the Hungarian soldiers had not stopped fighting, with the large amount of weapons and officer guidance provided by the alliance, the Hungarians had the upper hand on the battlefield. As long as the German army did not personally take action, Austria would not be able to defeat Hungary.

Because of the agreement with the alliance, Germany could only help Austria by providing weapons, equipment and officers, and the civil war in the Austro-Hungarian Empire had to continue.

"........Influenza broke out in the United States, and infected patients can be seen everywhere in Kansas........"

After Lin Yongchang reviewed several documents, he suddenly saw this and immediately thought of Master Wang’s glorious deeds. So he picked up the phone and turned the dial a few times, “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs.”

After a while, the call was connected, and Lin Yongchang said into the microphone: "Please ask the comrades in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to pay close attention to the flu situation in the United States."

He then called the Ministry of Health and asked the health system to carry out another round of health education activities in the next month and to launch a campaign to "eliminate the four pests" throughout the alliance.

The so-called "four pests" are flies, mosquitoes, rats and bedbugs. These creatures reproduce too quickly and move too widely, spreading diseases. It would be best if they were completely eradicated, but this is impossible.

In order to "eliminate the four pests", many departments need to work together and distribute large amounts of chemical agents for killing insects and rodents. Most of these chemicals are toxic to humans and may cause poisoning, either accidentally or intentionally. This also requires the ideas of comrades at the grassroots level.

Every time we launch a league-wide campaign, we are adding burdens to our grassroots comrades. It is easy for the central government to issue orders, but when they are passed down layer by layer, and it reaches the village and street offices, we don’t know what they will become.

Lin Yongchang is well aware of the fucked-up nature of the civil service/bureaucratic system, but sometimes it’s necessary to launch a campaign. The “history” of the Americans deploying biological and chemical weapons around the world is too unforgettable.

In addition to carrying out "eliminating the four pests" and "health publicity", densely populated cities along the coast and borders, as well as vast rural areas, must make plans to respond to the spread of large-scale infectious diseases.

In another historical context, the "Spanish Flu" was the deadliest infectious disease in human history, infecting about 1918 billion people worldwide in 1919 and 10, with at least 2500 million deaths worldwide (the world population at the time was about 17 billion); its global average mortality rate was about 2.5%-5%, which was dozens of times more lethal than the 0.1% of ordinary influenza.

Although it was called the "Spanish flu," it actually spread from the United States. This highly contagious and lethal infectious disease is different from the influenza of the past. The mortality rate is particularly high among young and middle-aged people aged 20 to 35. In addition to high fever and headache, its symptoms also include blue face and coughing up blood. Flu often causes complications and leads to death, with pneumonia being the most common.

This could not help but give Lin Yongchang a strong sense of déjà vu. In his original time and space, the Americans were famous for poisoning the world, and the US government could lie flat because the United States had the advantage of low human rights, and the alliance could not learn that approach.

"......We must take this flu seriously. All health centers and hospitals across the alliance must be prepared to isolate patients. War reserve warehouses in various places must stockpile masks and..."

Comrades at both the central and local levels were puzzled by Chairman Lin's decision to mobilize so many troops. Influenza had occurred every year, so why was it treated specially this year?

".....Especially in Shanghai and Shenzhen, patients with high fever and cough must be isolated, and medical staff must wear masks to prevent infection..."

Shanghai is an important city in China. Since the previous dynasty, the name of the foreign concessions has spread throughout Asia. After the founding of New China, the people's government reformed the foreign concessions, liberated tens of thousands of prostitutes, cracked down on local underworld and feudal secret societies, banned all opium dens and casinos, and changed the atmosphere of Shanghai. Later, large-scale investment was made in Shanghai to develop light industries such as textile mills and flour mills, as well as heavy industrial facilities such as shipyards and ship repair factories.

When the People's Revolutionary League was established, Shanghai was still a municipality directly under the Central Government and an important financial and commercial center. This gave the Shanghai Municipal Government a high degree of autonomy, and the local cadres were different from those in St. Petersburg and always had a high opinion of themselves.

Lin Yongchang was worried that Shanghai would pretend to obey the central government's orders but actually disobey them, so at the All-Alliance Health Work Conference, he specifically mentioned Shanghai's name, hoping that local comrades would pay more attention to it.

Chapter 712: Criticism

[The Sun Never Sets in the Celestial Empire] The system will prompt for plagues and malignant infectious diseases. Whenever a large area - about a county - is infected in a certain place, a pop-up window will appear on the system. With the plug-in in hand, it is believed that there will be no large-scale infection in other provinces.

The league's newspapers had already begun to introduce the flu in the United States and reported in detail on the spread of the flu.

The world should no longer be able to pin the blame on the Spanish for the “American Flu”.

The focus on the other side of the ocean will stop here for the time being. The alliance has various things to deal with and cannot focus all its energy on preventing the flu in the United States. The central government has decided to focus on economic construction for a long time to come, and to complete the preparations for the "Second Five-Year Plan" in the second half of this year.

Formulating the "Five-Year Plan" required the joint efforts of the Planning Commission and many departments, and required a large number of experts to conduct scientific argumentation. Lin Yongchang usually just had to review it and talk to people, but even so, it took a lot of time and energy.

In addition, this year's industrial and agricultural production also needs continuous attention. There is also the reconstruction of Russia's railway system, the construction and maintenance of water conservancy systems in various places, the training and selection of cadres, etc. Although there are people in charge of each task, they all require him to devote time and attention, and he cannot be said to be a hands-off boss.

As the chairman of the Military Committee of the People's Revolutionary League and the chairman of the People's Party, Lin Yongchang can live an easy life. He can read newspapers and documents every day and spend three or four hours on official business. If he wants to work seriously, he can also be busy every day.

Lin Yongchang would occasionally give himself a break, but most of the time he would work hard, either handling government affairs at the Taiji Palace or going on inspections. No matter what kind of work it was, he could handle it with ease.

Just when he was immersed in his work, a report from St. Petersburg made him a little embarrassed.

The report was sent by the military district commander Liu Chengxiang. In addition to introducing the expulsion of the Finnish Bolsheviks, it also contained some confessions. The general meaning was that the Finnish Bolsheviks had some connections with the Bolsheviks who had joined the People's Party, and the secret transportation of weapons and ammunition to St. Petersburg was related to some former Bolshevik members.

Although there was no clear statement in the report, according to the confessions, comrades such as Dzerzhinsky, Sverdlov, Bukharin and Lenin were all implicated, and Trotsky in Paris also seemed to be involved.

This matter is not a small matter. If it goes wrong, it will set off a political struggle and trigger a new wave of purges. In the political landscape of the People's Revolutionary League, there are many comrades who used to be in the Bolshevik Party. They are a big faction within the People's Party, but they do not have much military power.

If the purge was launched by taking advantage of the Bolshevik rebellion in Finland, Lenin and Dzerzhinsky could be killed directly. Lenin became a member of the Central Committee right after he took office, and Comrade Dzerzhinsky was ruthless and had offended many people in Moscow and Russia.

In addition, Zuluk, Sverdlov, Bukharin and others were capable of doing practical things, and doing practical things would offend people. Lin Yongchang carried out drastic reforms in Russia, forcibly confiscated all the land of the nobles and distributed it equally to the peasants, which attracted a lot of hatred. Those people could not do anything to Chairman Lin, so they transferred their hatred to Sverdlov and others.

After seeing the report from St. Petersburg, Lin Yongchang had already guessed what would happen next.

Things turned out just as he had imagined. Soon, his desk was filled with criticisms from other factions. The cadres of the Tsarist Russian faction had long disliked Dzerzhinsky and his people. The two sides had once been in a life-and-death relationship. As a result, only a few of the Tsarist aristocrats were left, and the defeated Bolsheviks began to tremble. Who could tolerate this?

Now that we have found an opportunity, we must of course attack Sverdlov and Dzerzhinsky. In the civil service system, positions are assigned to each person, and if we want to regain our political niche, we must get rid of those who have occupied the positions.

Whether it is out of hatred or for profit, the target must be killed.

In addition to the Tsarist aristocracy, many people in other factions also wanted to overthrow Dzerzhinsky and others. Some of them were worried about the Bolsheviks. According to some news, the Bolsheviks had not given up their plan to seize power by force.

There is a precedent for this. During the Provisional Government era, the Bolsheviks overturned the table after they failed in the parliamentary struggle. Who can guarantee that they will not do it again in St. Petersburg?

It certainly won't work in Chang'an. Although the People's Revolutionary League promotes ethnic integration, there are many differences between Russians and Han people. Lenin was able to launch an armed uprising in St. Petersburg, but he couldn't do the same thing in Chang'an. The workers here must trust Chairman Lin more than the half-bald mentor. Even if Comrade Vladimir Ilyich Lenin had other ideas, he couldn't do anything in Chang'an.

As more and more people criticized the tutor and Dzerzhinsky, Lin Yongchang temporarily withheld his comments, meaning he would not comment. This attitude frightened some people, while others felt that they understood Chairman Lin's intentions and attacked more fiercely.

When the news spread, Comrade Vladimir Ilyich Lenin seemed to be unaware of the incident and continued to work as usual. Comrade Felix Dzerzhinsky was the same, indifferent to all the attacks and continued to work.

However, Bukharin, Stalin and others did not have the same determination as the mentor and Comrade Dzerzhinsky. After hearing about the recent events, they had to go to Chang'an to meet Chairman Lin. Of course, the reason they used was not to explain that they had nothing to do with the events in St. Petersburg, but to report their work to Chairman Lin.

Lin Yongchang met with Stalin and other comrades, reassuring them and telling them to go back to work with peace of mind. "The Party and the country will not let a bad person go, nor will they wrongly accuse a good person."

Is this really the case? Lin Yongchang himself did not believe it, but he had to do it. "If you follow the best, you will get the middle; if you follow the middle, you will get the bottom." If he did not set the tone higher, the bottom would definitely be rotten.

Stalin was a man of action, Bukharin was a theorist, both were rare talents. Lin Yongchang attached great importance to them, not only because of their great reputation in another history, but also because they were indeed talented.

Chapter 713: Naval Arms Race

Germany's strategic environment remained bad. Although the French Commune did not form a military alliance with the People's Revolutionary League, and the leadership of the French Commune, such as Sebastian and Trotsky, had many criticisms of Lin Yongchang, there were inextricable ties between the two regimes, and there seemed to be some kind of tacit understanding.

When the Allied forces were advancing rapidly in Poland, the French Commune deployed its troops on the Franco-German border in response to the Allied forces, making the German Empire feel like a thorn in its side.

Previously, the People's Revolutionary League had also carried out partial mobilization for the French Commune, forcing the German Empire and the French Commune to reach an armistice clause that was almost a "white peace". Many people believed that there was some kind of secret military cooperation treaty between the French Commune and the People's Revolutionary League.

On land, Germany still faced the danger of being attacked from both sides. In terms of the navy, the combat efficiency of the German High Seas Fleet had surpassed that of the British Royal Navy. The British Navy had to take into account the huge colonies, so it had to sacrifice "armor" and strengthen "speed". German battleships were different, and they only needed to focus on combat. This is why the High Seas Fleet was more efficient.

However, high combat efficiency does not mean that the High Seas Fleet can defeat the British Royal Navy. During the World War, due to its numerical disadvantage, the High Seas Fleet was blocked in the port after the Battle of Woodland.

Past battles have shown that the High Seas Fleet must have more battleships to defeat the British Navy and the US Navy, which is likely to join forces with Britain again. Or it can cut off the huge surface fleet and focus on developing submarines. "Unrestricted submarine warfare" once achieved very good results, making the British Isles starve.

However, Tirpitz was not willing to give up his huge surface fleet. The main reason was that after the emergence of sonar and depth charges, the survivability of submarines became very low, and many submarines disappeared silently in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean.

After much debate and manipulation, Tirpitz got what he wanted again, and the German Empire was ready to continue building battleships. The increase in German naval power forced Britain to keep up, and the United States, Italy and other powers also gritted their teeth and continued to follow.

Logically speaking, the United States is much stronger than Italy and can also get $200 million in goods from the Alliance every year. It should not feel tight because of building a few battleships. However, after joining the war, the United States produced too many military supplies and issued too many bonds, causing the domestic debt of the United States to rise all the way to an astonishing figure.

The United States paid off its foreign debt, but its internal debt soared from more than a billion dollars to 167 billion dollars, which was really too much. The Rockefeller, Morgan, DuPont and other financial groups made a fortune in the war, but the price was that the United States was burdened with heavy debt.

If the United States could win the World War and gain access to a larger market, the debts would be a minor problem. However, the World War ended in a draw, and the U.S. government's plans were completely dashed.

With such a huge debt, the US government had to issue more currency to reduce the burden, which led to the depreciation of the dollar and caused a series of problems. The US Navy also had to continue to build more battleships to cope with the ongoing international naval arms race, which made the contradictions in the United States more intense.

If it weren't for the ability to suck blood from Mexico and South America, various armed uprisings might have broken out within the United States.

The major powers in the world are tightening their belts to build warships, and the People's Revolutionary League is no exception. The growth of the coastline means that the alliance needs more warships. Whether it is the Baltic Sea, the Black Sea, the South China Sea or the Pacific Ocean, the alliance needs a strong fleet to defend the interests of the alliance.

After the war, the British government turned its attention to the whole world. Australia's iron ore became one of the conflicts between Britain and the Alliance. In addition, there were also South Pacific, Southeast Asia, Afghanistan, Qinghai-Tibet and Central Asia. In these places, the Alliance and Britain had deep conflicts.

The alliance would not fear any country on land, but in Southeast Asia and Australia, that was another matter. The British and Australian governments pressed forward step by step, and the [People's Revolutionary League] had no good solution.

Australian iron ore is an important strategic resource for the alliance. Steel mills built along the coast use Australian iron ore for smelting, which can greatly reduce the cost of steel production. Those steel mills can only use Australian iron ore. If they want to use iron ore from other places, they must spend a lot of money and time to transform.

However, the combined fleet is not as powerful as the British Royal Navy. How can the alliance's overseas interests be guaranteed?

The Alliance had no good solution but to use Southeast Asia and India to scare Britain while continuing to build more "super-dreadnought battleships".

If someone intends to break the contract, the alliance will have no choice but to strengthen its own naval strength.

The World War was over, and the economies of all parts of the Alliance were affected to a certain extent, especially in Japan. The end of the war had the greatest impact on Japan, and a large number of workers were unemployed. It was just right to start building a few more warships, which could effectively reduce the unemployment rate in society. The Alliance did not have the term "flexible employment" or the term "negative growth". The increase in unemployment was clear.

The major powers in the world are all exploding battleships, and all the countries involved are feeling the pain. The economy is already bad, and the huge amount of money spent on building battleships has added to the pressure.

Even the alliance felt the pressure.

When the second "Five-Year Plan" was about to be implemented, the central government tried every possible way to raise funds. However, now the precious funds had to be invested in naval construction, which would inevitably lead to the implementation of the "Second Five-Year Plan".

Lin Yongchang informed the Planning Commission that when compiling a new "Five-Year Plan", the investment in the navy must be taken into account. Britain and the Alliance are negotiating about the Australian iron ore. It is highly unlikely that a full-scale war will break out, but there is a high possibility that a greater price will be paid to continue mining.

Once it happens, it will happen again. Once blackmail starts, don't expect it to stop. The Australian government has imposed high tariffs on the export of Australian iron ore, causing the price of iron ore to rise by 30%.

According to the report submitted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this is just the beginning. The appetite of the Australian government and the British behind it will continue to grow, and they will continue to increase the price of iron ore in the next few years until the coalition can no longer afford it.

Comrades in the Alliance Navy Department have called for a temporary suspension of the "Second Five-Year Plan". They believe that now they should focus on developing the navy to protect the Alliance's Australian lifeline.

Well, most of those who called for this were Japanese comrades, who had been preparing for a possible war in Australia a few years ago. Then there were the comrades in the Navy Department, a considerable number of whom believed that the Union was the second most powerful country in the world and should have the second most powerful navy in the world.

Fortunately, they did not say that the alliance is the best in the world and wants to be the boss in everything.

Chapter 714 Proportion

The Alliance actually does not lack iron ore. Both Asia and Europe have rich iron ore reserves, but there are very few places with high-quality and huge reserves like Australia.

After the British Empire learned about the quality and reserves of Australian iron ore, it only wanted to gain more benefits from it and had no intention of going to war with the Alliance. It is true that the British Royal Navy could defeat the Combined Fleet, but Southeast Asia and India are both in the Old World.

If the alliance is pushed into a corner and attacks Southeast Asia and India directly, what will Britain use to resist?

The Alliance mobilized 120 million troops in two weeks and crushed Poland in 23 days. Such a fierce record not only frightened Germany, but also frightened the British Empire.

Downing Street did not want to go to war with the Alliance, at least not alone, but just wanted to gain more benefits. The benefits were gained, but the Alliance was stimulated to expand its navy at the rate of two super dreadnoughts and one battle cruiser per year.

Compared with the naval arms race in Europe, three battleships each year is nothing, but Britain still needs to suppress the German Navy in Europe and remain vigilant against the US Navy. It is impossible to transfer all the battleships to Southeast Asia.

Moreover, the Alliance was strong, with an annual steel production of more than 3200 million tons, which was only slightly less than that of the United States. Because of the end of the war, the annual steel production of the United States fell from 4200 million tons to 3500 million tons.

For the Alliance, building three battleships every year was not a big burden. On the contrary, by expanding the navy, unemployment was effectively reduced.

The UK is different. Its finances are not on the verge of collapse, but have already collapsed. Under such circumstances, the UK Labour Party is very dissatisfied with the fact that it is still carrying out a naval arms race. Strong military pressure and increasing military expenditures have caused a surge in social contradictions in the UK. Perhaps, just a spark can detonate it.

The "Continental Balance Policy" that had worked so well in the past had lost its effect, and the British Empire could not find a reliable ally on the Old Continent. The French Commune and the People's Revolutionary League could not form a military alliance with Britain, and Germany would not do so either, unless Britain made huge concessions.

Britain is in a situation of internal and external difficulties. It is no longer the world hegemon. Germany, the United States and the People's Revolutionary League have all lost their awe of the British Empire. Britain is still very strong, but it is impossible to defeat any of the above powers on land.

In order to deal with the current strategic dilemma, British diplomats have made a lot of efforts, but the results are not very effective. This world is very realistic. If you can't reach a place with cannons, others are likely to not reason with you.

Therefore, it is commendable that the Alliance is willing to resolve the issue with the UK through negotiation. Downing Street responded to the Alliance's goodwill and took the initiative to suppress the Australian government and did not cause trouble for the Alliance's mining sites in Western Australia. Of course, the money that should be collected must still be collected, this is a principle.