After receiving reports from the Epidemic Prevention and Control Management Committee and the Heilongjiang Provincial Government, the Qingdao Executive Yuan immediately held a discussion. After all, lockdown is different from closing the border. Lockdown is internal affairs and other countries do not control it, and closing the border will involve diplomatic disputes. Because of this, the relationship between the East China Government and Russia is not good now, so once the China-Russia border is closed, it is easy to cause conflicts between the two countries.

However, in the current situation, epidemic prevention is the most important thing, so closing the border is also imperative. If Bijing does not cut off the import from abroad, it will be useless even if the domestic epidemic is completely extinguished. As long as the epidemic continues to spread to the domestic country, it will not be possible to truly cut off the epidemic. What the East China government needs to do is to communicate with Russia at the diplomatic level and avoid conflicts as much as possible.

In fact, although the relationship between the East China Government and Russia is not harmonious, Russia has not yet recovered after the defeat in the Far East War. Moreover, Russia's focus has turned to the European side, so naturally it will not hope that the two sides will have another conflict in the Far East at this time. The current focus of the East China Government is also internal, and naturally it is unwilling to conflict with Russia. Therefore, neither side has the will to conflict. As long as it is handled well at the diplomatic level, there will be basically nothing wrong.

Although the data on various epidemics are still rising, the overall trend is under control. First, the road to Heilongjiang and Jilin entering Liaoning is closed, which proves to be a very correct and extreme decision. Although the epidemic in Heilongjiang and Jilin is now severe, Liaoning Province has been well controlled. So far, there are only 153 plague patients identified, so the epidemic is basically controlled in Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces, but it has not spread to Liaoning Province. It is much better than the situation in the old time and space. In the old time and space, the plague spread throughout the three northeastern provinces.

To control the epidemic in Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces is of course much better than to spread throughout the three northeastern provinces. Now Harbin has been locked down and Manzhouli will also be locked down. At the same time, antibiotics and serums are proven to be effective, so it is not difficult to extinguish the epidemic. The situation is actually much better than expected.

In the past few days, the Executive Yuan has been discussing that after the epidemic is over, it will provide subsidies to Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces. After all, this epidemic has hit the social production and economic activities of Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces very seriously. Even if the epidemic is over, it will take a long time to recover. Therefore, it is necessary to provide certain subsidies to the people, enterprises, factories and other places in Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces to help them overcome this difficult period as soon as possible and restore economic activities and social production as soon as possible.

In addition, under the rule of the East China Government, donations were launched to support Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces and fight the epidemic. People, students, factories, farmers, and merchants from all over the country all gave up their help, donated money and materials, or organized charity buying and charity performance activities, and raised funds. In places with conditions, they also organized medical personnel to come out for support, which was also very loud for a while.

In fact, after the end of the Far East War, the East China Government relied on the dividends of the Far East War to vigorously develop the economy and establish strength, and its fiscal revenue increased significantly every year. Therefore, it has indeed accumulated a lot of wealth in recent years, and it can provide subsidies to the people, enterprises and factories of Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces. At this time, the Finance Committee had initially formulated a subsidy plan and was still supplementing and improving it in one step. There was no need to raise donations from the private sector, but the East China Government still actively promoted donations from various places. In fact, it was hoped to use this epidemic to cultivate the people in the territory to share the same hatred of the enemy, establish national consciousness, and realize that everything that happened in this country was closely related to itself.

Moreover, this time, the performance of veterans and metric enterprises has become eye-catching. On the one hand, they actively donated money and materials; on the other hand, they also vigorously promoted the concept of "every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the world". It also played a good demonstration effect. Therefore, in this anti-epidemic campaign, the East China Government received a large amount of donations and materials. At the same time, the East China Government also made public and explicit statements on donations and materials, and indicated the purpose, indicating that everything is open and transparent.

In addition to the donations within the East China Government, there were also donations from overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia and Siam, expressing their support for the East China Government. In addition, even Yuan Shikai donated 100,000 silver dollars and some materials. There were also the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi Zhang Renjun, governor of Guangxi Zhang Mingqi, and governor of Guizhou Pang Hongshu, who also supported some money and materials. Only Pu Wei's Deyou court and Pu Jun's Fengde court ignored it. On the contrary, it was actively mobilizing the army and preparing to start another war.

It turned out that after the news of the plague in the northeast spread, Britain, France, Japan and other countries, as well as the Deyou court, Fengde court believed that the plague would never end in a short period of time, and that epidemic prevention and fight against the epidemic would inevitably involve a lot of energy of the East China government, and its support for Yuan Shikai would inevitably be greatly weakened. Therefore, it is a good time to send troops to eliminate Yuan Shikai. So the two courts immediately began to take action. At the same time, Britain, France, Japan and other countries also put pressure on the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi Zhang Renjun, Governor of Guangxi Zhang Mingqi, and Governor of Guizhou Pang Hongshu, demanding that they surrender to Erpu and send troops to participate in the war to attack Yuan Shikai.

Originally, Zhang Renjun, Zhang Mingqi, Pang Hongshu and others had made up their minds to separatist one side and never surrender to Erpu. In the battle between Erpu and Yuan Shikai, they remain neutral and survived in the cracks of many forces. Once the East China Government rushed to the south, they raised their hands to surrender because Zhang Renjun, Zhang Mingqi, Pang Hongshu and others were not optimistic about Erpu. Now they surrender to Erpu and will still lose to the East China Government in the future. Moreover, they were also fearless and determined that Erpu would not dare to break up with him. If Erpu really sent troops to attack him, they would immediately form an alliance with Yuan Shikai.

However, the East China Government's plague was greatly reduced, and Zhang Renjun, Zhang Mingqi, Pang Hongshu and others' confidence in the East China Government was greatly reduced, because according to their experience, a plague will last for at least several years and will consume a large amount of national strength of the East China Government. At the same time, the East China Government's support for Yuan Shikai will definitely be greatly weakened. If the East China Government loses the support of the East China Government, Yuan Shikai is definitely not an opponent of Erpu. Therefore, facing the pressure from Britain, France, Japan and other countries, several people began to shake. Although they all knew that after the epidemic ended and the East China Government restored its national strength, even if they integrated the South, Erpu was most likely not an opponent of the East China Government, but that was at least five years later. In these five years, the East China Government probably did not have the ability to threaten the South.

In the past five years, the East China Government was lost, and Zhang Renjun, Zhang Mingqi, Pang Hongshu and others were obviously unable to compete with the second Pu who had foreign support. Therefore, first of all, the Guizhou Governor Pang Hongshu said that he could submit to the Deyou court, and Zhang Renjun and Zhang Mingqi also said that he could discuss the conditions for submitting to the Deyou court, and delaying the time. At the same time, he also tested the attitude of the East China Government in the name of donating money to the East China Government to fight the epidemic.

Of course, if there is no way out, Zhang Renjun, Zhang Mingqi, Pang Hongshu and others can eventually submit to Erpu, but only Yuan Shikai cannot, because Yuan Shikai knew very well that he and Erpu had too deep resentment, and submitting to them would be a dead end. It is useless to guarantee Britain, France and other countries. However, without the support of the East China Government, Yuan Shikai would not be able to defeat Erpu. Of course, Yuan Shikai also calculated his own way of retreat. If he really lost to Erpu, he would surrender to the East China Government immediately and would never submit to Erpu.

Now Zhang Renjun, Zhang Mingqi, Pang Hongshu and others still maintain independent southern governors and governors cannot withstand the pressure and began to negotiate conditions for surrender with the Deyou court. The Deyou and Fengde courts are all mobilizing troops and dispatching generals, obviously to launch another Southern War. Therefore, Yuan Shikai was also a little impatient, so he also used the name of donating money to fight the epidemic, hoping to understand the attitude of the East China Government, and whether he could support himself like the Southern War in the case of the Northeast epidemic and provide himself with enough weapons and bullets. If he could, then Yuan Shikai would have the confidence to fight with Deyou and Fengde court again. If the East China Government could no longer support him, then quickly negotiate the surrender with the East China Government.

In fact, the East China Government is very clear about what happened in the south. Because the East China Government sent a large number of intelligence personnel in the south, he can understand Yuan Shikai's mood. Of course, the East China Government will not sit idly by and watch Yuan Shikai's demise and let Er Pu integrate the south. Moreover, although the epidemic in the Northeast is serious now, it is still controllable overall. The East China Government is not the Qing court. It has a strong organization and execution ability that the Qing court does not have. It cannot affect the entire country due to a local epidemic. Now, other regions except the Northeast, social production, economic development, industrial construction, etc. are still proceeding in an orderly manner as planned and not affected by the epidemic. It can provide Yuan Shikai with enough weapons and ammunition. Of course, the premise is that Yuan Shikai has enough funds, and the East China Government will not give it to Yuan Shikai for nothing.

After receiving the promise from the East China Government, Yuan Shikai was also very at ease and hurriedly placed a batch of arms orders with the East China Government. Then he immediately sent someone to contact Zhang Renjun, Zhang Mingqi, Pang Hongshu and others, telling them that the East China Government still has enough ability to support him and ask them not to make a decision rashly. Although Zhang Renjun, Zhang Mingqi, Pang Hongshu and others were half-doubted about Yuan Shikai's attitude, they all thought that they could wait and see, so they deliberately put forward various inappropriate demands in the negotiations with Deyou court in order to delay time.
Chapter completed!