Semychasny went to France one step earlier than Serov, the purpose was to go to Paris to communicate with the French, to see if it was possible to bring back the officers of the Polish Advisory Corps who had been captured in the Algerian War, and there were not many of them, probably more than a hundred people, and the Minister of the Interior of Poland, Koltzinski, went with Semychasny.

After Serov left for India in two days, the security work in the Soviet Union would be handled by First Deputy Chairman Itvasov.

"We want to suggest to the central government that we must find a way to establish a standard for grain reserves, the climate of the alliance is too unstable, this year's bumper harvest may reduce next year's production, we also need feed grain to support the huge animal husbandry livestock, if there is no accumulation every year, it is easy to disclose because of weather problems." In the conference room of the KGB headquarters, Serov began to think of a more reliable proposal, the previous one had already been rejected by Sherepin, and now he was ready to do something really good. When I first became a member of the Central Committee, I always had to make a proposal, and if I passed it, I would say another thing.

Grain imports in the Soviet Union grew rapidly, in some years in the tens of millions of tons. The main purpose of the Soviet Union's large grain imports is to solve the serious shortage of feed grain, and at present the Soviet Union needs 50 million tons of grain every year, and the total amount of grain used in seeds, industry, and so on is less than 100 million tons. Despite the poor harvest, the Soviet Union's grain output in recent years was still around 120 million tons. Clearly, there is no problem that these foods meet these needs.

However, the actual annual fodder needs of the Soviet Union are no less than what people eat, so most of the grain imported by the Soviet Union is actually used for fodder (corn and beans). Although the Soviet Union had 230 million hectares of arable land, the natural conditions were extremely unfavorable for agricultural production, and only 1 percent of the country's cultivated land was located in areas with rainfall of more than 700 millimeters, while more than 60 percent of the cultivated land was located in areas with annual rainfall of less than 300 millimeters. Periodic early disasters have seriously affected agricultural production and made food production extremely unstable. Therefore, this situation is difficult to cope with without large reserves. 3. To meet the needs of grain exports and the eastern regions, the Soviet Union has to export part of its grain to the outside world every year, and the countries that export to the Soviet Union are often far away from the grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union; In addition, the USSR was going to the east every year from the production zone of its European part? More than 10 million tons of grain were transported in the region.

"If our alliance is only satisfied with feeding the people, then we don't need to think about this problem, from food production to the reserve system is completely sufficient, but in fact, if there are many places that need food, alcohol and animal husbandry need food, especially according to the reports of the past few years, the food gap in the livestock industry is gradually rising!" Serov, who was holding a pen, focused on the food problem in his report, yes, again the food problem, always this problem.

The purpose of this report, that is, the Soviet Union must establish a grain reserve system under favorable environmental conditions, and the Stalin period ordered the formation of a reserve committee, and the strategic materials stored within a few years are the basic guarantee for the Soviet Union to get out of the predicament of World War II. Even in the most difficult period of the Gotu reforms, when the Soviet Union was mired in a full-scale food deficit, the Soviet Union did not dare to use its strategic reserves.

Considering that Stalin's strategic reserve of materials began in the thirties, it can be imagined that this reserve system actually had a very serious military color, and was actually used for war. At that time, there was only one lonely socialist country in the world, the Soviet Union, and everyone but itself was an enemy. Reserves in this environment had little to do with civilian use, and Serov's proposal was to create a system of grain reserves that were relevant to Soviet society, which was simply civilian.

Serov didn't dare to fight the idea of those strategic reserves, those things are honest, as long as the war does not come, the Ministry of Defense will not agree to be used, so those reserve materials that belong to the war are basically only in and out of the state.

The Soviet state storehouses were scattered over the territory of the Union like small islands, and they were generally relatively hidden and difficult for outsiders to detect. Some of the warehouses are even in underground caverns more than 100 meters above the surface, where enough supplies are stored for the inhabitants of a medium-sized city to survive a nuclear winter.

As for the reserve base of the USSR that is closely related to the people, it is not the military kind, and it can be said that it is weak and pitiful. Serov didn't know if it was true that he saw a report in his previous life, saying that when the Soviet Union collapsed, Moscow's food supply was only enough to eat for two or three days, and it may not be so weak, but it is estimated that it will not be much stronger.

In the past ten years, Serov has been corrected the most, that is, the Soviet agriculture, he has always thought that the Soviet agriculture is very weak, now it seems to be a misunderstanding, his thinking from the Soviet agriculture is very weak to actually not very weak, in the concept that it is already very good, it is completely the level of cognition is gradual. Because he now knows more and more about what the Soviet food is used for.

In order to refine his report, Serov left Moscow for Tula, where he entered a reserve built in a mountainous area in Tula Oblast, where gypsum was once produced, a suitable place for the preservation of strategic materials. The entrance to the reserve is located in a very flat field, and the concrete fence covered with thorny power grids hides the curious gaze. The only means of entering the reserve is to enter the military passage, which can be reached in a minute or so. All persons entering the warehouse are required to go through a strict registration process and wear special clothing and helmets. A few minutes later, the elevator went underground, more than a hundred meters above the surface, which was a sub-depot of the Soviet State Reserve.

The head of this reserve is Colonel Vasily, the name Vasily is a common name in the Soviet Union, the reserve looks ordinary, but from the point of view of human survival, these reserves are far more valuable than those treasures, and the amount of storage is incomparable to that of the treasure cave. These reserve caves are ten meters wide and eleven meters high, almost a kilometer long. In a cave where sugar is stored, there are stacks of neatly stacked sugar bags that can not be seen at a glance. In the cave next door is a long wall of canned meat and fish. There are dozens of such caves for storing food in this sub-warehouse. Each cave has its own code name and stores different supplies.

"General Serov, did you security cadres come to investigate our Tula reserve? Rest assured, these cans, sugar, and grain are safe, and the underground passages are guarded by Red Army soldiers, so there will be no problems. Colonel Vasily gave an account of the situation and tested Serov with his words.

"I'm looking at the way the reserve is built to see if there's anything to learn from!" Serov didn't come to trouble the Red Army, and if the old men of the Ministry of Defense knew that he was working on the idea of the reserve, they would probably strangle him. Only those who went through the hardships of the Great Patriotic War know what a serious problem the food problem is.

Serov was also aware of this problem, and was ready to propose the strengthening of civilian grain reserves at a time when both Sudan and India had a good view of the Soviet Union, but he did not have the courage to attack the idea of these strategic reserves built underground.

"Is there a problem with our food? It seems that there will be no supply difficulties! Colonel Vasily accompanied Serov back and forth, sometimes going to the nearby wall and instructing the guards of the various caves on the phone, so that Serov could visit them well.

This phone on the wall is very chic, huh? It is very Soviet, because the telephone is directly embedded in the cement wall, and it looks like when the cement is not dry, press the telephone directly on it, and the cement solidifies and becomes one.

"A cow, a pig or even a sheep eats more food every day than we eat, and if our population only thinks about how to eat, in fact, five or six million tons of food is enough for the people of the alliance to eat, but do we eat beef? What about pork? Now the food consumed by the animal husbandry industry of the alliance has almost equalized the food consumed by the population, and at the current growth rate, most of our food will be given to livestock in a few years! When Colonel Vasily came back after answering the phone, Serov looked at the flour in the entire warehouse and said, "The civilian reserve system is far from your strategic reserve, I know that the Ministry of Defense will not agree to use these life-saving reserves in difficult times, so I want to strengthen the civilian reserve system, this time I came here to see how your reserve is built, and then we will start to build a grain reserve base on the ground......"

The experience of visiting the reserve depot was also written in the report during the trip to Tula, and this prediction was reasonable at that time, and it was naturally impossible for people to see the future, but some trends in the future can be seen that the animal husbandry industry in the Soviet Union was constantly developing, and the consumption of grain would definitely be greater and larger, and the Soviet Union lacked human food. The biggest gap is fodder grain, so during the Cold War, the Soviet Union was importing grain on a large scale, and at the same time, it was still providing food support to third world countries, because the Soviet Union did not lack food for people to eat, but it was not yet luxurious enough to feed livestock with flour.

After handing over the report to the Central Presidium, Serov began to prepare to go to India, and with his common sense and life experience as an ordinary person in his previous life, he had some basic understanding of what to eat. On the contrary, although the yield is average in the climate of one season a year, the crops grown taste very good. Climatically, India belonged to the former, and the USSR to the latter.

"General, the Grand National Assembly and the Senate of Turkey have made a resolution to expel the Greeks from the country, a total of 18,000 people!" As soon as Serov returned to Moscow, Lukani immediately broke the news.

"Yes, it's very Turkish, I don't know what the reaction of Greece and Cyprus is?" This is really good news for Serov, but the Soviet Union is not in a position to take a stand at this time, because the American nuclear missiles have not yet left. (To be continued.) )