Chapter 18: Serious Stalin

In fact, Ludendorff's request was completely superfluous, and Zhang Chengtian, who was in a hurry to run away, hurriedly applied to Sickert to go to the Soviet Union early the next morning. In order to cover up people's eyes, Sickert also signed a transfer document to nominally transfer Zhang Chengtian to the Army Transportation Department. In fact, Zhang Chengtian only symbolically went around his nominal department. When leaving, he took a major named Guderian from the transport department with him and went to the Soviet Union with him.

At 12 o'clock in the afternoon, Zhang Chengtian and his entourage, who were in a hurry, did not even eat lunch, so they got on a secret plane to Moscow. Zhang Chengtian was accompanied by Major Guderian who was arrested by the Ministry of Transportation, Major Kesselring who was sent by the General Staff to supervise, his girlfriend Bonna, who had been secretly in love with Zhang Chengtian since the fierce fight with Schmidt's bodyguards, and two translators transferred from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Moscow, as the red heart of this era. Early in the morning, there was a guard of honour of beautiful women ready to welcome guests from Germany. Although Zhang Chengtian's travel plan was decided on an ad hoc basis, Moscow was only notified last evening. However, this did not prevent the Soviet Union, a centralized state, from quickly assembling a high-scale welcoming ceremony. In fact, the Moscow side not only selected a guard of honor composed entirely of beautiful women. It also made everyone in the honor guard suddenly learn a few words of German, "Welcome, welcome, warm welcome." Soviet-German friendship endures. ”

Where has Zhang Chengtian, who was a standard dick in his previous life, seen this formation. As soon as he stepped off the plane, he felt flattered, if it weren't for Bonna walking with him. Zhang Chengtian's gaze couldn't even take his eyes off the beauties of the honor guard.

Unfortunately, happy times are always short-lived. Zhang Chengtian's vision was blocked by a bearded man who did not know the current affairs. The angry Zhang Chengtian suddenly had an urge to pick up his fist and smash it up. finally had the opportunity to accept the welcome of a group of beautiful women, but was blocked by a rough-looking old man. Look at this beard again, it's just...

Of course, Zhang Chengtian did not make a joke about the airport brawl in the end, he recognized the Soviet representative who came to pick up the plane - Stalin, who was the political commissar of Tukhachevsky at the time! The face of Zhang Chengtian, who was an acting school, quickly faded away from the haze just now, but was replaced by a bright smile: "Great Comrade Stalin, it is really an honor for us to be picked up by you." Without waiting for the interpreter accompanying Zhang Chengtian to speak, the Soviet translator next to Stalin preemptively translated Zhang Chengtian's words for Stalin.

Comrade, who is gay with you? Stalin, apparently surprised by his recognition at first sight, replied: "Dear German friends, the word great is used to describe Comrade Lehrin most of the time in our country. It's a little inappropriate for you to call me that. Once again, the Soviet translator preempted the Germans and translated Stalin's words to Zhang Chengtian.

"All the same, in our opinion, Comrade Lielin's successor is none other than you." Zhang Chengtian smiled and played his true nature, complimenting Stalin. However, when the Soviet translator listened to it, his face changed instantly, and Stalin's face after listening to the translation also became not very good-looking. After all, now that Stalin has just experienced a defeat, the most important thing to do is to silently do something to improve the position of the country, instead of staring at Lielin's position with great fanfare.

Stalin, who was slapped in the wrong position by Zhang Chengtian, was already a little annoyed at the moment. Obviously, the person in charge from the German side left an unreliable impression on Stalin. This made Stalin, who was bent on improving his image of defeat by relying on this cooperation, a little worried.

However, before Stalin could show an angry expression, Zhang Chengtian on the other side suddenly became furious. Seeing Zhang Chengtian angrily yelling at the German translator beside him.

This time, the Soviet translator finally did not rush ahead of the German translator, and the scene suddenly fell silent.

"Hurry up, translate for them," Zhang Chengtian kindly reminded a translator he had brought.

The German translator couldn't help but laugh and translated, "What did you two translators do, you let someone else's Soviet translator speak." It's like we take advantage of others, look, Comrade Stalin's face has changed. Don't hurry up and behave well! After a pause, the German interpreter continued, "Hurry up, translate for them."

Stalin did not dwell too much on the matter of blaming the translator for his anger. Now Stalin no longer has the mood of being at home with the Germans at the beginning. Stalin, who was a little worried by Zhang Chengtian's big nerves, only wanted to do was to agree on cooperation as soon as possible, and then drive out this unreliable German colonel.

With Guderian, Kesselring, Bonna followed. Stalin immediately arranged for several of his subordinates to drive the German guests to the prepared conference room. Apparently, Stalin lost patience to go around the bend, and he was going to get straight to the point.

The people on Zhang Chengtian's side got into the car arranged by Stalin. The enthusiastic Zhang Chengtian suddenly rushed to Stalin's car in confusion, claiming that he wanted to deepen the revolutionary friendship with Comrade Stalin.

Along the way, Zhang Chengtian, who did not feel annoying at all, kept trying to talk to Stalin: "Our socialist construction in Moscow is really good, and the scenery outside is really good", "I found that the comrades here are quite enthusiastic", "I just want to stay for a while".

Hearing that Zhang Chengtian, who was originally planned to be only in charge of negotiations, was going to stay, Stalin felt sweat in his head. He didn't want to see the reckless German colonel at all, "If you like, you can see more, but I'm usually very busy, and I don't think I will have time to see you again after discussing the cooperation project." Stalin replied perfunctorily.

Zhang Chengtian, who was bent on hiding from Ludendorff in Moscow, did not think of looking for Stalin often. After reaching a consensus, I was much more satisfied.

Next, the two sides who arrived at the conference room even skipped the greetings and went straight to the formal talks.

In this kind of scene, Zhang Chengtian still knew that he was serious, and after putting on a serious expression, he mentioned seriously: "Our German delegation went to the Soviet Union with great sincerity this time. After domestic discussions, we are willing to provide the Soviet Union with machine tools for precision machining to fill the shortcomings in your country's production field. ”

Stalin still had a good impression of Chang's solemn performance at the negotiating table. On the way here, he was really worried about what the colonel would do if he made an indiscriminate offer or negotiated indiscriminately.

But now everything seemed much easier for Stalin. At least Zhang Chengtian took out what he wanted at the beginning. The great Comrade Lenin has more than once lamented the lack of precision machine tools in Soviet industry. If he had imported some from Germany, Stalin would have gained more weight in Lenin's eyes in the future.

"We are very grateful for the generosity of our German friends. So what do German friends want from us? Stalin, who was in a good mood, decided to test the other party's asking price first.

The unceremonious Zhang Chengtian did not follow common sense and threw out his asking price: "We hope that the Soviet side can help us secretly train the air force and armored forces prohibited by the Versailles Treaty." There is also the import of iron ore, oil, and various other mineral resources from the Soviet Union. ”

Bonna, who was sitting next to Zhang Chengtian, frowned at Zhang Chengtian's unskilled negotiation. How can you negotiate all the demands as soon as you come up? This is completely contrary to the basic model of the two sides in talking one by one. It is not convenient for your next negotiation to extend, and it is inconvenient for the other party to increase the price.

However, Guderian and Kesselring, who thought differently from Bonna's merchants, thought something else entirely. On the plane to Moscow, Zhang Chengtian exchanged a lot of novel ideas with the two of them on the construction of future armored forces and air forces.

At that time, Guderian and Kesselring were only deeply surprised and admired by Zhang Chengtian's novel and unique ideas for the construction of future services.

But now, Zhang Chengtian brought up this matter again at the negotiation table. The two of them suddenly had a heart-pounding thought, and they were out of control!

Sure enough, Zhang Chengtian continued: "I brought the specific person in charge. It's Major Guderian and Major Kesselring on my right. ”

Before Guderian and Kesselring could be happy, the cold water from Stalin's side was poured over: "The German friends are inevitably asking too much." With such a deal, the USSR did not lose too much"