Chapter 1021: The Deal Gets Done
Cherev said: "I suspect that this top-secret information is likely to be related to the Kwantung Army's Blade Project!" ”
Blyukhel said: "This is not what we should care about, as long as Xu Rui really has top-secret information about the Kwantung Army in his hands, then the Soviets should get this information at all costs, not to mention, Xu Rui's list of supplies worth five million US dollars is indeed not expensive, isn't it?" ”
Blyukhel is telling the truth, for a country, five million dollars is really not much. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
You must know that the economic aid given by the Soviet government to the national government is as high as hundreds of millions of dollars at a time, and what is a mere $5 million? What's more, these materials were all produced by the Soviet Union itself, and when converted, the actual value was one or two million dollars, which was really a drop in the bucket for the powerful Soviet Union.
However, the intelligence returned with this $5 million worth of supplies is very likely to help the Far Eastern Front win the first opportunity, which cannot be exchanged for ten times the money.
Cherev agreed, and the two of them immediately jointly forwarded David's telegram to the Military Council.
Just as Xu Rui thought, after learning the news, the Soviet high-level sent a strongly-worded telegram to the CCP through the Comintern, asking the CCP to exert pressure on Xu Rui to obtain top-secret information about the Kwantung Army, and then forward the information to the Comintern free of charge.
After receiving the telegram from the Comintern, Vice Chairman Zhou immediately approached Chairman Mao and President Zhu to discuss countermeasures.
After reading the telegram, Mr. Zhu sneered and said: "Old Mao, this telegram from the Comintern reminds me of an old friend of ours, guess who I think of?" ”
Chairman Mao smiled and said, "It's Li De." ”
"Not bad." Mr. Zhu said, "If it weren't for Li De's blind command, the Central Red Army would not have lost the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression, then today's revolutionary situation is a different situation. ”
Chairman Mao took a deep puff of his cigarette and said: "The boss said well, Li De in those years caused great harm to our Central Red Army and our revolutionary cause in China, so we must learn a lesson, we must no longer be at the mercy of these foreigners, and we in the Communist Party of China must make our own voice." ”
Vice Chairman Zhou asked, "What does the chairman mean by not sending a telegram to Dameishan?" ”
"I don't think there's a need for that." Chairman Mao said with a smile, "I can probably guess the reaction of this little guy Xu Rui, and it must have been pushed away, so I think I will call the Comintern back in the name of Dameishan, and say that Dameishan did not have top-secret information about the Kwantung Army, and it was the David Arms Trading Company of the United States that had the intelligence and proposed a deal with the Soviet government. ”
"Okay." Vice Chairman Zhou said, "I'm going to call the Comintern back." ”
Seeing the figure of Vice Chairman Zhou leaving, Mr. Zhu asked again: "Old Mao, are we offending the Comintern too badly by doing this?" ”
"It doesn't matter." Chairman Mao pressed the leftover cigarette butts on the broken holes of the big-toe troops, and snuffed out the soles of cloth shoes, then waved his hand and said, "Peace is never sought, peace between countries is made, and peaceful coexistence between parties is finally achieved through continuous struggle and compromise." ”
Mr. Zhu snorted and thought so.
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Dameishan, Meixian.
Not long after Yan'an replied to the Comintern, the Soviet leadership finally made a decision to agree to the deal with the David's Arms Trading Company, because the $5 million worth of supplies was nothing compared to the security of the entire Far Eastern Front.
Sometimes, the value of intelligence is really immeasurable.
If this information of David's company is really related to the Kwantung Army's blade plan, then this transaction is very likely to recover billions of dollars in huge losses, compared to billions of dollars in losses, what is a mere five million dollars? Not to mention the supplies, not the dollar cash.
After receiving the reply from the Soviet government, David's company immediately entrusted the US minister in Moscow to finalize the cooperation agreement, and then sent a transoceanic telegram back to Xu Rui, who was far away in Dameishan.
"Lao Xu, it's done, the deal is done!" Wang Husheng waved the telegram, walked into Xu Rui's office excitedly, and shouted to Xu Rui, who was burying his head in the office, "The deal is done, Lao Xu, it's done!" ”
"Lao Wang, are you happy to be like this?" Xu Rui smiled, "Isn't it just five million dollars worth of materials?" ”
"What? Isn't it five million dollars worth of supplies? Wang Husheng didn't have a good breath, "It's a big breath, do you know what this material worth five million dollars means to us?" ”
"Yes." Xu Rui said lazily, "With this batch of industrial and military materials worth five million US dollars, at least in two years, there will be no need to worry about the blockade of the little devils, as for what will happen after two years, I am afraid that the little devils will not be able to block it if they want to." ”
Wang Husheng snorted and said, "Do you know that you still said the just now? ”
Xu Rui shook his head and said: "Lao Wang, it's not me talking about you, you are thinking about the problem in the wrong way, you shouldn't think about how important this batch of materials worth five million dollars is to us, you should think about how much damage we can help them recover with the information we provided to the Soviet government." ”
"I'm worried about that." Wang Husheng said, "Just that information, is it worth so much money? ”
"Lao Wang, you have also worked on the secret front for a while, but you still don't know the true value of this piece of information." Xu Rui said, "Let me tell you this, just this piece of information we provide can at least help the Soviet government recover billions of dollars worth of losses!" ”
"Is that an exaggeration?" Wang Husheng was dumbfounded.
"It's such an exaggeration." Xu Rui snorted coldly and said.
Xu Rui really didn't say nonsense, although the Soviet army won the Battle of Nomenkan in history, it was very lucky, and it was a tragic victory! During the battle, the Kwantung Army showed a tactical quality far superior to that of the Soviet Army, whether it was rapid intersperse, detours, infantry and artillery coordination level, or tactical execution, the Kwantung Army was far stronger than the Soviet Red Army.
The Soviet Red Army was able to win solely because of its powerful mechanized clusters.
It is no exaggeration to say that the victory in the Battle of Kanmenkan was piled up by the Soviet Red Army with huge mechanized clusters, but now the Kwantung Army is about to be equipped with bazookas, and the threat of bazookas to tanks is deadly, even the most advanced T-34 medium tank in the Soviet Union at that time cannot stop the frontal attack of rockets.
Therefore, it is completely conceivable what it would be like when the soldiers of the Kwantung Army, who have a high level of individual literacy, carry a large number of rocket launchers and attack the armored clusters of the Soviet Red Army. It is foreseeable that the battlefield will not be a one-sided massacre, and the outcome of the Soviet Red Army will not be much better.
Then, once the Soviet Red Army lost the Battle of Nomenkan, the armored clusters of the Kwantung Army could drive straight in, go west into the Mongolian hinterland, and then bypass Lake Baikal to cut off the Far Eastern Railway, once the Far Eastern Railway was cut off, the Soviet Red Army in the entire Far East would be in a desperate situation.
And how much is the entire Far Eastern Front worth? I'm afraid it's more than 10 billion dollars!
Therefore, Xu Rui said that this piece of information could help the Soviet government recover at least billions of dollars worth of losses, which is actually a very conservative estimate.
Wang Husheng suddenly became worried again, frowned and said: However, Lao Xu, the information we provided can be sent to Moscow in an instant, but the materials promised to us by the Soviet government cannot be shipped over so quickly, let alone at one time, damn, the Soviet government should not change its mind, right? “
"This is not true, because the David Trading Company has the endorsement of the US government, and the Soviet Union will not easily default." Xu Rui shook his head and said, "The Soviet Union will never default for at least two years." ”
Wang Husheng asked blankly: "Why won't the Soviet Union default in two years?" ”
Xu Rui snorted, he didn't know how to answer, he could say that the Soviet-German war would break out in two years, and the Soviet Union would already be able to take care of itself by then, and even he would begin to accept supplies from the United States, so where would there be excess supplies for the Dameishan base area? But he couldn't say that.
"Can't tell, can you?" Wang Husheng said: "I think this matter is quite hanging. ”
However, it turns out that Xu Rui's judgment is correct, and Wang Husheng is indeed too worried.
The day after the deal was concluded, the Soviet government, at the request of David's company, sent the first batch of materials urgently needed by the Dameishan base area to Xinjiang, including 20,000 instantaneous and delayed fuses, 2 tons of industrial lubricating oil, 500 sets of lathe drill bits, planer cutters, and milling cutters, and a number of water pumps, motors, and cables.
Of course, in addition to the above, there are also a lot of medicines and communication equipment.
These medicines and communication equipment were gifts from Xu Rui to Yan'an and the Eighth Route Army.
Xu Rui originally wanted to add some weapons and equipment to the list of materials, but considering that this was likely to cause a fierce reaction from the Nationalist Government, Xu Rui finally crossed out the weapons and equipment from the list of materials, but Xu Rui did not expect that even if the weapons and equipment were crossed out, it still triggered a fierce reaction from the Nationalist Government and Chairman Jiang. (To be continued.) )